These Maroon Feathers

Once again I sit here in the back left corner of my dimly lit room staring at the computer screen. Slightly scowling I wait for the YouTube clip I’ve waited about an hour for to finish loading, as you might have figured out my connection speed isn't that great. I sigh and hang my head down, letting my long brown hair fall down over my face, thinking back to the good old times when i had a faster connection. My mouth curves up as I start giggling to myself as I recognize my first-world problems. I lift my head and brush my hair aside to get a look at the screen to see if the clip is finished yet only to see that the flash module has crashed, in the blink of an eye I forget the silliness of my problems and smash my face into my keyboard groaning ”Fuuuuck my life”

This is how I spend most of my days as an 19 year old Swedish guy by the name of Robin with 202 games on Steam (375 if you count the mods/dlc's) and still managing to have nothing to do, I know I'm amazing. After getting my face off the keyboard and checking the time, 1:05am I get up and threw myself on the bed deciding it was enough computer for today and that i really needed a hug right now, the universe continuing to taunt me by not materializing anything huggable, I begin bothering the nearest of my 3 cats for hugs instead. Half an hour and 5 scratch-marks later i give up my battle for hugs and get as comfortable you can get in a bed that hasn't been made in 4 days and fell asleep.

I've always had problems with waking up unless someone decided I didn't have enough water or snow in my bed (screw you dad), this time though I woke up to the sound of the wind and the nice breeze that came with it, sleepily lifting my head while yawning, slowly opening my eyes and inspecting the shrubbery that currently housed me wondering what the flying fuck was going on since I was at my mother's when I fell asleep, if I would have been at my dad's I would have just shrugged it off as one of his many ways of waking me up and gone back to sleep just to piss him off, this however not being the case right now I was legitimately confused, the offending shrubbery having an outline did not help my predicament whatsoever, lifting my arm to poke at the strange shrubbery I noticed something was wrong, I couldn't move my fingers, I looked down at my limb examining it for a good 2 minutes before I said “Well there's your problem, you don't have any fingers” thinking about what I just said and earlier noted while eyeing my limb I screamed “I DON'T HAVE ANY FINGERS!!?” scrambling out of my former predicament 'the shrubbery' I struggled trying to properly stand up, after a while of failing miserably I gave up lying in a heap under a tree hyperventilating and after a while slowly calming down.

After getting my breathing back to normal I noted that I was in a forest a nice lush green one aswell, now that I had my surroundings checked I directed my attention towards myself “Now let's see here” I mumbled getting a good look at my limbs “Ok it seems that I have fur or a coat now, maroon in colour in fact” craning my head to look at the rest of my body I noted that I had a pair of wings and a long bushy tail of a lighter red colour with a navy-blue streak in it, after gushing over my wings for a bit I recomposed myself rolled over on my back and started thinking about what I had learned while waving my new limbs around.

A few minutes later I had come to the understanding that I was now some sort of equine if you will, a pegasus if you want to be picky and that I probably had crossed dimensions in my sleep, because I'm pretty sure nothing back on earth had outlines, I also noted that the universe has a really sick sense of humour, I stopped waving my limbs about now having a basic knowledge of where most of my new muscles were located and decided it was time to learn walking, probably get some  bruises and eat some dirt while trying, if it's anything I've learned in my years it's that if you expect bad things to happen you are happier when they don't and if they do you have a reason for saying 'Told you so'.

Getting the 'standing up' part was no problem as was the first step and the unavoidable mouthful of dirt and grass I got after that one, twenty minutes later I was walking like a champ, well by 'champ' I mean slow and shaky as hell, but I was walking. I took a direction by random and started walking more and more steadily after each step, soon I had no problems with my trivial task anymore, though running would have to wait a few days. I reached the edge of the forest sooner then I expected and I spotted a dirt road from where I was in the tree-line, it seemed to lead into a nearby village where I could see more equines of different kinds some pegasi, what seemed like 'normal' horses and even unicorns all doing whatever equines of this world do. I sat down and started thinking over my situation because doing things without properly thinking first is just stupid in my opinion. “Hmm... if Skyrim taught me anything it's that 'observing' then 'doing' is the way to go when finding a new creature” I said to no one in particular and continued to walk towards the village.

Circling the village for a good spot to observe without being detected, I found the most delightful bush to hide in outside a giant tree with windows and proceeded to crawl under it. Now with a with a good spot for observing I did just that. I didn't know studying these equines from the inside of a bush would be so informative, from just looking, listening and putting two and two together I learned that this village was called Ponyville and from that and a few minutes of hearing some of the equines speak (thank god they speak English) I figured out that the equines called themselves ponies, the countries name was apparently Equestria with the capital of Canterlot which was located on the side of the mountain I could see in the distance and that the weird windowed tree beside me was in fact a library, oh can't forget about that this place apparently has magic aswell, though only unicorns could use it “Drat, no fireballs for me then” I muttered, a bit pissed off that the unicorns were hogging all that fun for themselves.

I was about to exit my hiding spot when I felt something grab my tail and yank me out of the bush.

“Whaa-” was all I could get out before a branch stuffed my mouth full of sticks and small leaves.

“What are you doing in my garden miss” I heard an annoyed voice from behind me. I thoughtfully chewed the small piece of bush I currently had in my mouth before spitting it out deciding it didn't taste as good as I expected a well-tended bush to taste.

“Wait, who are you calling miss?” I checked my undercarriage, it was still there “I'm male“ I responded a bit peeved that someone would mistake me for a female. I turned around and discovered that it was a purple unicorn that had interrupted my plans.

“Really?” she replied while lifting an eyebrow “Because you totally look like a mare to me” and that was how I learned that I now looked like a mare, 'Hurray, time to make ponies confused' I thought while trying to hold myself from giggling evilly.

“We are straying from the topic” she continued “I still want to know who you are and what you were doing in my garden” she looked at me with a stern glare.

I panicked mostly because after listening to all those ponies talk I had realized that my name didn't really fit in in this world and that I would need a new one, and my other reason for panicking was my sudden urge to take a piss though that could be handled later, right now however I needed a name badly, so I brainstormed for a moment and found something 'close enough' that I liked.

“Swift Gleam at your service, and I thought this garden belonged to the library miss...” I trailed off.

“Twilight Sparkle” she introduced herself as “And I happen to live in the library”

“Well then” I began “I'm sorry if I ruined your bush and or any flowers I might have stepped on” I said as I looked around to see what damaged I might have caused in my mission for knowledge, luckily I didn't see any particularly flattened flowers just a few minor bent ones “but it's getting late and I'd better get going” I added after glancing at the setting sun that seemingly coated the world in a golden glow, and begun to slowly walk away.

“Wait!” she yelled “You still haven't explained what you were doing in my garden!”

“It's a secret!” I yelled back at her while picking up my pace laughing as I went back towards the forest to find a new shrubbery to sleep in.