As the sun started to set, I winced as sunlight blared in through the window and pulled the covers over my head again. But as I tucked myself further in I frowned, something felt.... off. So I threw the covers off of my head and sat up, looking around I didn't notice anything in the room with me. I was still in that big sleeping spot with the sun decorations, Nothing had entered the room as far as I could tell. But then I decided to look down, the reason I made that decision being the fact that I was sitting up. Which was something that would be difficult to do as a bird.

I tossed off the blanket and was dumbfounded, like literally speechless. Now I'm gonna be honest, I ignored the hell out of the mixture of genders between my new legs. I did NOT wanna think about that right now. But I did think about my actual legs and the fact that they now ended in hooves. My whole body had taken on the appearance of a pony pegasus! Now I'm not going to lie, I did scream, I screamed rather loudly in fact. I tried to get up but tripped over my new legs and smacked nose first into the ground, and I felt wings on my back flapping wildly. Now normally that would be funny, until the wild flapping sent me careening into the nearest wall.

Pain flashed through my new nervous system as I heard a rather loud and rather graphic Crunch as my wing was mashed between me and the stone wall. Now as I lay there, rather sure I was bleeding onto the floor, I began to think. Why was I suddenly a pegasus when I was a bird earlier? Why had it happened while I was asleep? And why, oh why, did this keep on happening to me?!

I managed to compose myself a while later, okay a long while later. Sunset had long passed, and the moon shone high in the sky. I had managed to figure out how to move around with FOUR legs now and sat frowning at the window trying to take stock of myself. But then I realized something... Why does the moon have a mare marked all over its surface? Okay, that just about confirms that this isn't anywhere near where I came from... Anywho, back to my new configuration. Yes, I had confirmed that I was Both mare and stallion. Now that in and of itself was disturbing, but I had also taken on a rather LARGE wingspan. Well, one of them was long at least, the other was still mangled and bleeding.

Don't look at me like that, I'm not a doctor I'm a professor! And even if I were a doctor none of my knowledge would apply to this stupid horse's body. Anywho, I had ended up with what I could only deem as a female face, judging only by that kid's face I saw earlier. When I tried talking, I was able to but It came out in a raspy girl voice. Before I had gone to the window I had observed myself in the makeup thingamajigger and realized that I had a firey mane, like If someone had taken to my head and dyed my hair as If it was burning. What freaked me out was the fact that it flowed on my head despite the lack of wind!

I had an orange pair of eyes, and the sclera of my eyes seemed to fade from orange to black in a sort of sunset with my orange iris acting as the sun. My pupils were long tall slits rather than round giving me a predator-type look, a far cry different from what I had seen on that cute little filly. When I opened my mouth I had pointy teeth and long sharp fangs that hung from my mouth, and as my gaze trailed down my new body, I realized that my tail behaved in much the same way as my mane. And I had a weird collection of feathers tattooed on my ass.

Now, as I sit with my head on the window sill, finally managing to stop screaming AGAIN about how fucking weird I looked, my throat hurt. And though my stomach was yelling at me about food and water, I couldn't bring myself to move at all thanks to the pain in my wing and the exhaustion that trailed behind my eyes. Now that struck me as odd, why was I so fucking exhausted despite having just slept for... Who the hell knows how long? Maybe some sort of drain from the sudden transformation? Possibly from the boulder that landed on me before I initially fell asleep? Or could I still be recovering from the whole fall from the sky thing at the start of this whole ordeal?

"Fuckin stupid piece of shit mother fuckin..." I sat there fuming. Why did this all have to be so difficult? Why had this all happened at all? What the fuck do I do about this stupid fucking wing?! I sighed... "Whatever!" I stood up and started out of the room, doing my best to ignore the agony in my wing as it dragged across the floor. My legs tripped me up now and then as I walked down the hallway. I just started flinging curses, doing my best to focus on the layout of the building.

I don't know how long I roamed like that, fuming so hard I swear I could smell smoke. Until I stumbled across something labeled "Failed Enchantment Experiments". I smiled at that, my mood suddenly improving by a small margin. Something cool like that could take my mind off of this bullshit, So I reared back and gave a quick buck to the door latch. The old rusted thing gave way easily, a small flash of light as some sort of magical lock collapsed. The door swung open and I stormed in, looking about trying to find something cool.

Now there wasn't a whole lot that seemed intact, everything in here was in some way shape, or form rusted, and or crumbled away. Except for one object that seemed to stand the test of time, it was a purple and blue shield with a glowing white crescent moon on the front. It was labeled to be a "Magic Proof Shield", created as an attempt to redirect magical attacks away from regular foot soldiers of whatever time this is from. The shield was labeled as a "Failed Enchantment" because of the failure to redirect enough energy to prevent a lethal buildup of heat in the metal guige on the shield. Resulting in permanent nervous damage and 3rd degree burns in at least 7 test subjects before they were no longer allowed to continue research and development.

Now it wasn't locked behind chains like a few of the other older and more damaged objects in here, so I figured nopony would mind if I... reappropriated such a tool. I took it off of its mount and placed it on my back, wincing as it rubbed against part of my damaged wing, but managing to ignore it after that. I was just about to head back out into the hallway when I heard a massive Crack-BOOM off in the distance.

My head snapped around to the origin point and I found myself galloping towards it, silently cursing myself for running into danger. It took me a good minute to cross the distance, and I even took a shortcut outside and over a wall, and up to the roof. As I approached I started sneaking, peaking down over the broken and damaged roof. Down below I caught sight of a rather large unicorn mare wearing ornate blue armor, her fur a midnight black as she cackled down at a smaller purple-looking unicorn. The larger mare seemed to have wings as well, which made me tilt my head to one side in confusion. And that is when she started talking again...

"You thought you could take me on Alone little foal?!" She started cackling, Her horn blazing into life as she charged it up with what I'm assuming is magic. "Pity you won't get the chance to regret such actions!"

I didn't even know I moved. I don't know what could have possibly possessed me, and suddenly I was silently pissed at myself for such a stupid choice. I landed between the Cackling Pegacorn thing and the purple unicorn, Spiderwebs spread out in the concrete as one of my legs promptly snapped in two. But I ignored the pain, I brought the shield to bear, quickly strapping it to my right forehoof and bracing my good leg on the ground. And then the blast hit the shield, light blazing from around the protective barrier. I winced as I felt the shield already heating up, I could faintly hear conversation in the background but I ignored it.

I clenched my teeth as agony shot up my leg, I could smell my flesh burning but I ignored that too. I thought I could hear myself bellowing a warcry as my shield did its job, Why oh why had I done this again? Who even was that purple mare? What could have possibly possessed me to do such a thing?!

My thoughts raged on as suddenly a bright light appeared behind me, some sort of rousing speech or whatever hit my ears but I couldn't focus on that now. And the moment the magic assaulting me let up, a light so bright it almost blinded me lanced across at the pegacorn, enveloping her in... Rainbow? I winced as I tried to cover my eyes, my legs failing me as I collapsed onto the concrete... The light let up and my eyes felt heavy, I was faintly aware of a sudden gasp from far more voices than I thought had been here originally... And then all I knew was black.

Author's Note

*Cackles evilly* Hello again my friends! I hope you enjoyed that chapter, I know it was kinda jarring, but I wanted it to be. I was trying to portray our ponified phoenix's displeasure at, and I quote. "Why does this keep happening to me?"
I also wanted to portray their exhaustion due to all of said things that kept happening. After all, one does not simply fall from the sky, get smushed by a boulder, and destroy their body in many more ways than one, and simply sleep it off. :P
I'm gonna try and be more consistent with the uploads for chapters from now on, though I can't promise that. If you notice any grammatical mistakes or things that I did grossly wrong, don't hesitate to call me out. I haven't written much in a while and I'm shaking off a boatload of rust. Anywho, I'll stop bothering you now. See y'all in the next chapter!