Author's Note

Ok a bit more to the story now I hope you enjoy

~Chief

(Ugh Been going through these early chapters and noticed so many spelling errors not to mention in the AN I misspelled 'Chief'!)

Ch. 1 A New Body (update 03/15/2023)

I sigh as I toss yet another broken bottle from my open pack to hear it take its pathetic life on a rock near the edge of the crater. This of course got a small giggle from me as it was the last of the bottles that had broken and I got nearly all of them to end their lives on that large rock without even looking. Anyways I lost most of my prepared potions but beyond that everything else survived the drop. So after about an hour of taking stock of my inventory, I repacked my bag and sat down on the dirt to think.

"Ok, now that my bag is cleared out of broken glass I guess it's time to get a better look at myself," I said out loud to get me used to hearing my new voice.

Looking down I see the white feathers of my chest and the edge of my beak, which I found I could soften at will similar to lips to allow me to make facial expressions. That was a rather weird feeling when I first found out, it would also explain the teeth behind the edge of my beak. Looking further down I spot my eagle Talons with three fingers and a thumb on each, well I say fingers but they are really more like claws meaning I will have to be very careful until I get used to them.'

Twisting my neck I look to my rather toned leone backside and sifting my weight on my paws I feel my wings flutter once more, a shiver running down my back to the end of my tail. "Though I'm sure once I get used to having them, I won't notice their weight when I walk, like I do now" I commented as my lion tail flicked about behind me.

That didn't matter as it meant I could eventually fly under my own power which made me giggle in delight at the thought.

With Twilight and Spike, Twilights Point of View

I take a deep breath before looking back to the little dragon on my back between my folded wings to get a nod from him that he is ready. "Ok here we go" I say with forced cheer as we set off into the dark Everfree.

I begin to canter so I can reach Zecora's home before dark as it took a bit for Spike and I to get through my checklist on what we would need. He even made me leave a few things out from our packing, beginning to talk "You know Spike, I still think we would have use for a waffle iron in here." I comment to hear him groan and speak up.

"Twi, you and I both know that besides being very heavy it needs a power source to plug into and while I admit that you could probably power it with your magic it would still be very heavy to carry around." He repeats his point to me and that is the only reason that I struck the item from the checklist along with a few others he pointed out wouldn't be much use to us in here.

Before I can get into arguing the merits of having a waffle iron I am startled from my train of thought by a rhythmic voice calling out "What do I see here? What are two Royals doing with all that gear?" And after a bit of breathing to calm down from the fright, I turn to address my zebra friend.

"Hello, Zecora. How are you? And about the gear, I have a mission deep into the Everfree and wanted to be prepared, not to mention Spike was coming along for this one." I motion with my head to my back where Spike is sitting and waving calling out.

"Hiya Zecoria!"

Nodding the zebra looks up to the sky to find it darkening a bit to show that it was nearing sundown. "While I have no doubt that you are prepared young princess for the depths of this forest. I'll still be remiss if I did not offer to you a place to rest." She motions towards her hut and with a smile waits for my reply.

"Sure I was hoping to set up camp near your hut tonight anyways before heading to the castle." I mention and she nods for me to follow and so the three of us make our way toward her hut.

Meanwhile deeper in the forest. Main Point of View

I grunt as I struggle to get the enchanting table's top up on its stand to finish the setup of my little camp. I have a light cloth tent up which contains my enchanting table and alchemy table while in my other tent which was made of better material was my bed. Well, when I say bed it really is nothing more than a nest of pelts and leathers. I blush as I remember that incident, I was about to make a nice and orderly bed even setting up the cot I had brought when suddenly my body began to move on its own and I quickly arranged the bedding into a nest on the ground for now. I felt like I needed it up higher off the ground but I was able to convince my apparently new instincts that climbing a tree to sleep in would be a bad idea at this time. Well, I say convinced, I mean got my senses together to realize this.

Next, after I leave the small working tent I move about setting up alarm spells around the perimeter of my camp. Using small soul gems to power them so they would remain until I deactivated them. Another thing I learned about this new body is that I can still cast magic but it is much easier than before. Which is a good thing since earlier when I was setting up camp a few necromantic constructs in the shape of wooden wolves appeared and tried to attack me. And figuring that they were wooden I decided to use fire.

And while my fire could still be launched in balls it usually sheathed my wings in flame kinda like a flaming wing sword? I don't know but after the attack and the smoldering remains were put out, no need for a forest fire, after all, I decided to test what spells I could still do. Similar to my fire, the ice and lightning spells sheathed my wings in a shell of said element, after that I tried what little I know of healing and find it concentrated around my talons. Which of course got me to giggle as I called the spell 'Healing Talons' instead of its real name 'healing hands'.

After my little giggle fit, and noticing I've been giggling a lot since I got here. I cast the water-breathing spell and a few other transmutation spells finding they all work as they should. After that was done I moved on to the spells I found very helpful and came very easy for me back on Nirn. A summoned sword which instead of floating in the air was set in front of my wings edge, then finally I cast summon bow which I could do but only once a day if I didn't drink any mana potions. This time the weapon did float before me and leaning up to stand on my paws I grab it and test fire it at a nearby tree with my claws.

Imagine my surprise when the arrow embedded itself up to half the shaft from the head into the tree. So with a rather unsettling grin, I launched a barrage of spectral arrows at the tree before the bow disappeared. Yawning I found myself exhausted from the day and headed for my nest bed which after a bit of circling like a dog I found very comforting.