The Defender

"Hey this is my story my name is Fox, but my friends call me Drew, and this is where my story begins. It may be choppy but it's the best I can do so here we go". I'm at my computer taking a break from my job at the construction site. Finally I can take an hour break from work, every day it's work, do the bills and go to bed, get up the next day and go to work again.

No break time in between. See with my job I don't get any breaks and only get 6-7 hours of sleep a day. I work all seven days of the week. That's why a break for an hour is soo good. And I get paid about 8$ an hour.

So I make enough barley to eat. Let alone I'm bound by contract to work for the company. I also live in a three room house with my bedroom, the kitchen, and bathroom. Right now I am watching the first episode of My Little Pony. In my room there's a mirror behind me and to the right near the door.

My room is in a L shape. The door is at one end of the L with the mirror next to it, The bed is in the corner where the two parts of the L connect. With a book shelf up against the desk for the computer. Where the empty space of the L is is a closet. I'm in the middle of the video watching the series for the third time, to see the finer details in the show.

when I get a text on my phone. “What's this?” I reach for my phone and look at the text. (hey we need you at the construction site.) "Aww come on i've only been off for freaking 14 minutes. Man can they do anything without me there I mean there's other workers that can be supervising. I need a break. I barely get any as there is".

I get up and out of my office chair and turn off the computer. I then walk over to my dresser and get my gear on. which is two jackets, with the first being camo with 5 pockets. one pocket being on the inside of the jacket. This first jacket is ripped where two of the bottom pockets are useless because they have massive holes in the bottom. And the top two pockets on the outside have holes where they can't hold any change. And the arms of the jackets, the right where the wrist is, has a hole going half way across all the way to the other side. And where the elbow is there's a massive hole patched up with fabric on the inside. The hole goes from the elbow to ¼ of the way in both directions. While the left had a small hole where the wrist is.

I then put on the second jacket that doesn't have sleeves and has four more pockets. With one having a zipper this pocket is on the left side near the heart. I'm also wearing blue jeans with two pockets in the front and two in the back, and wearing a belt with a pouch on the side that's camo for holding some cash and tools. The pouch has two pockets, one used for cash, the other used for batteries and other things.

I head to the door to leave my room, and I glance over at the mirror to check if I look alright for work. but the mirror on the wall isn't showing anything like a black void. See I got this mirror from my parents because it is a family heirloom and they wanted me to hold on to it for a while.

"Huh that's weird it isn't supposed to be black".

I go up to the mirror to get a better look and place my hand on it to see if it's spray paint. When my hand touches the mirror it gets dragged in. I try to escape to pull my hand out but end up getting sucked in. Blackness and pain that's all I felt and saw. I groaned and tried to open my eyes but everything was fuzzy. My body felt all weird like parts of my body are in places they shouldn't be or shifted from one place to another. I laid my head back down to think.

"What happened to me?"...

Lets see I was in my home and going to work when, the mirror. The mirror……?

"THE MIRROR SUCKED ME IN!"

When my eyes finally clear I can see I'm in a dark forest. I look at myself to see why I feel so weird. When I look down I can see that I have orange fur… I look at my hands to see hooves.

"Why do I have hooves? And why do I have fur?"

Starting to freak out I quickly look back at the rest of my body to see wings with blood red feathers. When I looked closer at the feathers. going thro the center of feathers are light blue lines curling back five or six times. The lines looked a lot like the wind symbols. The blue lines were glowing slightly. When my eyes go further back I can see a fox tail that's slightly darker orange than the rest of my fur.

‘Have I become a horse? If so, why do I have a fox tail?’

I felt an itching feeling on the top of my head, and when I looked up I saw a horn. but there was something wrong with the horn. It looked broken. But I couldn't tell because it was hard to see. I looked around at my surroundings again and looked for anything that has a reflective surface. When I didn't see anything I tried to calm down. When I was calm I closed my eyes to see if I could hear anything.

I heard a faint sound of a stream nearby, so I tried to stand on all fours. I managed it but when I took a few steps I fell down and hit my head. I got back up and slowly made my way to the stream going into a lake. But not without falling six or seven more times. When I FINALLY got to the stream I looked at my reflection.

I could see I have a muzzle that looks a little like a mix with a horse and a fox. My muzzle has a black part that's like a fox's nose but it's shaped like a horse’s. I got a better look at my horn. and it was broken with pieces of it floating in between a gap in the middle, the top and bottom parts of the horn that are like you will see on a normal pony. are connected with light blue magic the gap in between. One third of the horn was the blue see thru magic. Then while I'm looking at my horn. It started to go into my head and disappeared. Like it was never there. I looked back to my wings and the blue glowing stopped and the lines of blue were gone too. I looked back to the stream and I had pony ears. And big pony eyes with fox slits.

"Ok soo is this like one of those my little pony fan fics? If so, I should be near Ponyville right?"

I try to fly and manage to get five feet off the ground. then end up making a mistake falling back to the ground, about an hour later. Finally I got above the trees to see only forest. I tried to turn around and almost messed up but managed to catch myself.

"Man in the show they make it look so easy."

I look and all I see is more forest.

"Is it never ending?"

I squint my eyes and see a mountain with a castle on it.

"Man, so I am in my little pony. I was starting to worry that I wasn't. At least I have something to go off of now."

I start to fly to the mountain when something hits me in the wing and I fall to the ground. "What was that?"

On the ground I look for what hit me and I find a stone with a fox carved into it. The fox is curled up into a ball laying its head on its tail.

"What's this"

I go over to grab it with my hooves. But when I touch it everything goes black. When I open my eyes I'm in a clearing with a rock in it with a fox sitting on it. There's blue wisps circling around the fox on the rock. Leaving little blue trails behind them. ‘Ok what's going on first I get sucked into a mirror. Then I get turned into a fox alicorn, then I lose my horn. Then I get to see that I'm in the middle of a forest. And knowing my luck it's the Everfree forest. And finally I get hit by a stone with a fox carved into it. but there's nothing to throw such a stone. And when I go to pick it up to get a better look. I get transported here wherever here is. and now I'm here....’

"WHAT'S GOING ON!"

I look up to see that a fox is in my face. Mere centimeters from my muzzle.

"Ekk!" I jump back around three feet falling down on my flank.

"What do you want!"

"FoxFire I need you to go near the exit of the Everfree forest. Then I need you to go two miles in the forest. So you could build your home there."

"Why? Why do you want me to do this? Why can't I go into Ponyville and live there?"

"You will see as for now farewell. I'll see you tomorrow. Said the mysterious magical fox staring right into my soul with its Indigo eyes"

I tried to ask why the fox knew my name but everything went dark. I opened my eyes to see I was in the same place I tried to touch the stone. I looked for the stone but it was gone.

“Can this day get any weirder?”

I ask myself before heading towards Ponyville. Time skip 7 hours later It was starting to get dark. I was on the edge of the Everfree forest and I could see Ponyville. Weirdly I didn't run into anything bad on the way. No Timberwolves, no manticores, etc. I tried to leave the forest but when I crossed the edge of the forest I ran straight into a wall and fell back on my flank.

"Oww"

I said while holding my bleeding nose/muzzle with a hoof.

" What's this?"

I bring my hoove up and push Against the bearer, my hoove hits the barrier like a wall.

"Really a wall? Is it just me? That can't go thro....."

I grabbed a rock and threw it at the barrier and it went right through like nothing there. Then I look to my right and see a rabit walk thro the barrer as if its not there. Great, I can't just go to Ponyville. Now that I take a closer look at Ponyville, It's missing most of the buildings from the show.

"Ugggggg"

well might as well do what that fox said. Even though I didn't want to, I turned around and headed two miles into the forest. When I got that deep in the forest. I found a clearing with a tree in the center. When I got close to the tree I found a den of foxes. ‘Now that I went two miles inward, what am I supposed to do now???’ I look around for anything to give me a clue when I get nothing. I sake my head and look for somewhere to rest. when nothing presents itself and the only place to rest is a hole in the tree. I crawl into the hole to find out that there's foxes in the hole sleeping together. I got closer to the foxes. Weird enough foxes didn't even care. They acted like I wasn't even there. I'm not one to complain so I just laid down next to the foxes to rest and fell asleep for the night.