You were only 15 years old when it happened, your mom had called in sick from work a few weeks ago and she had gotten worse over time. Since it was a day off you were lying down on the couch scrolling through your phone. You heard your mom fall off the bed and started coughing violently, you quickly came to her side as you saw the woman with blood coming out of her mouth.

“Mom!” You say trying to get her up, she stands up and tries not to worry you.

“It’s okay,” She wiped off the blood, “I’m going to be okay, don’t your friends want to hang out?” You knew this trick where parents made you try not to worry by acting fine, but you were no child at this point. But then your phone rang, after picking it up your friends had an emergency on their hands. So you left your mom in her room, alone in the house since dad was at work, she stayed in that old house, where her last breath would take place.

Your mind reels as the day flashes into your mind at the time Pinkie left. You looked around in fear to again find yourself in the library.

“So where is this party going to be?” The unicorn said with a sigh.

“The first time I saw him was when he appeared in the post office, so I think it will be here.” Derpy said in that adorable voice. Twilight groaned and rolled her eyes, she looked at you with a questionable and angered expression.

“Where are you from? I don’t want to have another party in my house.” The unicorn said, you just stare at her, trying to think of an answer.

“I’m….” You trail off, you don’t want to lie but you worry they will not believe you if you tell the truth. “It’s a tough question, I don’t I’m on my home planet anyway.” You say you cover your mouth as your mind slipped and accidentally said that last sentence.

“Great. Just great! You really are stupid aren’t you? What is stopping you from listening!? I am trying to help you out!”

“What?” Derpy said sitting in front of you to focus on you more. The unicorn also got curious and walked up to you as well. You really didn’t want to say it but you thought of a solution.

“Look, I’ll explain after the party. I don’t come from anywhere so the party is going to have to be here. That’s all I’m telling you.

After you said that, you hear a crash from the front door as all three of you look towards the noise. Pinkie came back into the library with a giant cannon WHAT THE-? You aren’t able to finish that thought as the cannon fired right at your chest, the confetti launched at your heart as your chest burned. You flew up and forward with the blast, but instead of hitting the hard wooden floor like you expected, you found yourself on a bed in a different place.

You got up as much as you could with your chest feeling like death and saw a purple lizard notice you and run away while screaming down the stairs. You hear footsteps and Derpy and the unicorn both find you in the bed. The purple lizard hid behind the unicorn’s front leg while pointing at you in fear.

“T-Twilight! What is that THING?” The lizard said while looking at the unicorn Twilight huh? Your mind slowly slips as the pain in your chest slows your breathing down so much you collapse, the last thing you see before blacking out is Derpy running towards you with worry.

You stood in the field, the field of a gray world. Everything was gray, the sky, the ground, everything. You got up and started walking in a random direction, the farther you got the more distorted the landscape became. Eventually the landscape was sharp and rigid shapes all around you. You saw something in the distance from where you stood. It was a bright golden light, floating and glowing in beauty. The light began going away as you chased, the land becoming more and more dangerous as you tried not to cut yourself.

The light stopped in front of you as the gray landscape turned into a gray void. Silhouettes of ponies gathered around you as they started closing in on you with laughing faces. But amongst the empty void and enclosing figures far off in the distance, you saw your mom. Staring at you with a neutral expression. You ran up to her as fast as you could. Right as you got up to her, she started to fade.

“No matter what you do, you need to make a difference.” You mom in front of you said before turning to Derpy but her eyes were all golden, her pure golden eyes staring at you. “Show them who you are.” The figure said before you felt yourself pulled into a black void instead.

You felt your hearing and strength come back, you knew that you were waking up.

Your eyes opened up and you were on the bed again where you last were. You question that as you see that all the lights are off, and it’s incredibly quiet. Where is everyone? You stand up and notice that there are some bandages on your chest from the cannon. As you walk downstairs it gets even quieter somehow. You stand at the bottom of the stairs, looking into the dark. Oh no… you knew what was about to happen.

“SURPRISE!” You hear from many voices as the light turns on and now there are many ponies, balloons, confetti, and lots of desert along with food. You almost fall over as your heart rate increases. You then see all the ponies spread around to talk to each other as the music ringed in your ears. You then see Twilight walk up to you with an annoyed look.

“Follow me to the couch, we have a lot to talk about.” You saw no reason to reject it so you followed Twilight to a big red couch in the back of the room.

“Just remember, don’t tell them anything about where you came from. You need to learn to follow my directions!”

Author's Note

Look, school is taking up most of my time from this story but I promise once I get to summer break I will start posting more chapters sooner. :)