I've been wandering around for three days since I managed to escape Ponyville. The reign of a pink alicorn named Pinkie Pie. Where the citizens apparently altered into a state of... well, fun, happiness and laughter. But it seems this event that transformed them didn't affect everyone in the town, there were some people or rather ponies... or donkeys, who weren't affected by this. From what I was told, they didn't notice the change until they woke up the next day.

It seems the change was made overnight, on the same day I arrived, I don't want to jump to conclusions, after all it could just be a coincidence.

There is quite a bit of information I want to reflect on as well as many more questions I want to find the answers to.

However, while I was trapped in Pinkie's kingdom, I couldn't think of anything else but trying to escape, it's totally crazy that place. At least I managed to escape and got some time to finally think about the things I have in my hands… which one of those is the fact that I no longer have hands.

The fact that I am no longer human still disturbs me. Just having hands is a great advantage that allows me to manipulate objects with ease, on the contrary, I have… , I already got a little used to them with an irrefutable technique. I tried to pick up little things over and over again, did I look ridiculous trying to hold rocks in the short breaks? Yes, without a doubt. But it worked and now I only drop them a little more than three times to grab it firmly.

Although it only gives me an existential crisis, I mean, how is it possible? Sure I can use it as stumps, but I can also use the hooves to grab things. Every time I use it it just makes me question it, I think it is better to say that it is magic simply.

Luckily, despite wandering around forests, rivers, and grasslands, I managed to survive this long which is a great achievement for me. I have never been able to go on a camping trip in my previous life, something I have always wanted to do but never had the means to do so I have no experience of being in the forest. But despite that, having a new body has helped me in my survival.

A human's body is very different from a pony's. A human is omnivorous, meaning they need vegetables and meat in their daily food, but for a pony, I just need to look for tall grass and flowers and that's it, I don't have to worry about hunting animals for food. I just have to find a clean enough water source and a decent enough shelter to spend the night. This is good. Although when I think about it, I wonder if I'll still be able to eat meat, I mean, I'm not that big a fan of meat, but I wouldn't want the list of what I can eat to be reduced.

I managed to create an improvised camp, gathering several loose twigs together with many dry leaves to build an improvised tent in the shape of an inverted 'v'. Unfortunately I was not able to create a campfire in these three days, even if I had hands, something like that would be impossible for me, now with hooves I am less lucky. Without fire, I have not been able to cook the few foods I have gotten like the carrots that a rabbit gave me after doing her favors.

To my surprise, I found the automatic guitar that Turner gave me at the show, it was brought by some animals, I am not going to question it and I will just go with the flow, it is right next to me so I don't lose sight of it, it may be useful later.

Right now I am in my camp resting for tomorrow. It is night and without any source of light beyond a few fireflies that illuminate only a small part next to me, everything else in the forest is dark. I can only hope that no dangerous animal suddenly appears or it will be my game over.

My camp is based in a tent right next to an oak tree, in front of me, a few steps away is the mountain of sticks and leaves, surrounded by rocks. My campfire except that I didn't get a single spark so it's just piled materials. Luckily I'm surrounded by trees, bushes and plenty of natural foliage around me, a good thing if I want to go unnoticed by predators who want a late night snack.

With no problems other than the worry of wild animals, it's pretty quiet here without having to listen to party music all the time.

Quiet enough to think, mostly.

It's been six days in total since I was transported to this world, in a new body. On the first day I had the bad luck to stumble upon a village ruled by a pony with too much enthusiasm.

From what Turnet told me, Ponyville wasn't like this the day before I arrived. Someone or something made them become extremely happy ponies, but it didn't happen to all of them as you can see with Turner and Cranky who weren't affected. We couldn't check out all of Ponyville so I have no idea if there are any more who weren't affected, if there are any more, they didn't leave their houses or they were able to blend in with the other party-goers so they wouldn't end up like the three of us did and get waxed. Which is an option because we put on a show.

We have an idea of what caused it, though I'm not entirely sure, namely, we found a pink gem embedded in Pinkie's mane that seemed to be the source of the change. Turner's artifact showed us that it was the source of the most magical energy in the entire town, but just because it was the largest source of magic doesn't mean it's the culprit of the change they suffered. It could have been the gem, or it could have been someone else.

Speaking of the gem, it looked more like a shard because of the barely visible cracks you could see if you squinted. If it's a shard of something larger, this only gets more complicated. Are there more shards scattered around town? Or are they further away from the site? I can only hope I'm wrong and it's just one piece. Having to go after collectibles wasn't my preferred goal in video games.

It's a shame Pinkie snatched the shard from us after we snatched it from her. If I had it in my hands-hooves, I could have studied it or given it to that typical sage on top of a mountain. At least we know it was a source of Pinkie's power, though without its source, it was still powerful enough to break the laws of physics. And for some reason, the pink alicorn seemed pretty concerned about getting it back for what it's worth.

Another regret I have is that out of the unlikely group of a calm and logical inventor pony, a grumpy but realistic donkey, and me, only I was able to escape. After our escape attempt, I have no idea what Pinkie plans to do with those two, I guess keep them locked in the endless party cubic prison she forced us into before. I can only hope they're okay, I guess Turner will make sure Cranky doesn't go crazy.

Speaking of Turner, in our attempt to escape and before he was caught, he told me something that still resonates in my head. He asked me to go to Canterlot and find the princesses. Lacking a goal at the moment beyond surviving and finding a way to get home, I decided to do what he asked, although I have my doubts.

First: Ponyville was affected by this change so I don't know if other places are also a fun fair. At least I know that not everything is, being in the forest, it seems pretty normal or at least normal for this world. But something that worries me is that in the village there was something on the ground that was quite suspicious. Some pink stains that increased the closer you got to the center of the village. Is it some kind of infection? Will the laughing madness spread? Or will it stay in the village without expanding?

It seemed as if the event also affected the terrain of the world so if that is so, as long as I stay away from places with those stains, they should be normal places without worrying about finding something affected by this. Like the forest that seems to be normal and unchanged. I hope that this Canterlot guy was not affected.

Second: Where was Canterlot but that was solved recently, I was wandering for days to find it but without luck until I had to do favors for a rabbit that could talk and when she finished she showed me where Canterlot was. Which was somewhat embarrassing not to have found it by myself when I found out that it is in a fairly visible area in the mountain. It is better not to talk about it.

Third: Who are these princesses? Yes, Turner mentioned princesses and because of the rustic medieval style that Ponyville had. That makes me understand that in this world there is a society that is located in the Middle Ages and that they maintain a monarchy with princesses and all that.

But why did he ask me to look for the princesses? Why didn't he mention the king? It may be that it is common knowledge that the king is not so apt to solve conflicts of such a high level as these, making his daughters the ones in charge of managing the kingdom. A bit cliché in medieval dramas, but it's okay.

Something else I have to think about is the information about Pinkie's friends that Turner told me. She mentioned that they were some kind of superheroines that use the 'Elements of Harmony' that are able to bring, as the name implies, harmony to chaos. Something very convenient to solve this problem. But too bad nothing can be easy. While we were looking for the origin of the change in the town, we explored in search of her friends, but there was no trace of them, not even their houses seemed like someone lived there.

From what Turner told me, she also didn't find them jumping around Ponyville when we were trapped by the balloons that wouldn't let us out. So there's a chance that they're okay, but then why did their houses seem to be empty? Did the event erase any trace of them? If so, I'm in bigger trouble.

Without the Elements of Harmony, which seemed to be the simple solution that fixes everything in the stories, I'll have to bet everything on some princesses believing me in this whole problem if it was an isolated incident and not a worldwide one. Although I couldn't confirm the fact that, if they still exist, and I happen to meet them, they can do something. The inventor mentioned to me that Pinkie was also part of these elements. Can the others achieve something, even if they're missing a member?

There are quite a few things that I don't understand and they just make me wonder, but you know what, I don't care. For now I just have to focus on doing one thing first. It won't do much good to think about what I don't know instead of what I know.

What I do know is the following: I was transported to another world by chance on the same day where an event occurred that changed the town of Ponyville. I'm in the body of a pony. There is a gem or fragment that is important and lastly, I have to go to Canterlot and pass on the message and ask the 'princesses' for help.

Once that is settled, I shouldn't overthink what I can't control or find an answer to soon. I've already spent a few hours thinking about this and I have to rest to go to Canterlot first thing tomorrow morning, finally.

I guess that, through progress, everything will become clear and solved. It's just a matter of time. Just going with the flow, it's worked for me so far.

I just need a quick look at the night sky to clear my doubts.

What I manage to see is something... something, god I have no words for this. I'm so used to looking at the sky with only one star, but here, whether it's because I'm in the forest or in this world, whatever the reason. It's a wonderful landscape. A bright night sky, with hundreds or thousands of even brighter points. Thousands of stars lighting up the big sky.

In short, I'm in another world. I've never seen anything like it, but even if I had hypothetically made a trip to the forest before on earth to look at it, I highly doubt it could compare to the sight of this new world. What a wonderful night.

It's something I've always wanted to see in my life…

I fell asleep in just seconds.

Author's Note

A moment for Arthur to think about all the craziness he's been through since he woke up in this new world and a new body. And to reflect a bit.

Hi everyone! In the next arc, it will take place in Canterlot. But I'm going to change the amount of text in each chapter, instead of doing it in long parts of 6,000 words or more, I'm going to make it lighter each chapter.

By the way, I'd like to thank you all for reading my story, it's my first story and it may not be that good or have mistakes here or there, but I'm going to give it my all to do the best I can!

Thanks for reading.