August Rush's Log Entries

Now….where should I begin…? No idea. I'm not sure what Twilight meant when she said to start from the beginning.

"Just write down anything! Try to remember from the beginning and start there!" Thats what she said. What she said to do.

But did she mean my past life? Before my..... transformation? Or, now, my current state? It was her idea for me to start this 'log'. Or thats what she calls it. I hope I'm doing right...

Well, let me begin from a few days before now:

I awoke.

There's not much else. I literally woke up in a field of grass. The air was sweet smelling and fresh. No pollution. Nothing that I had ever recognized before. It wasn't anything like I was used to. Back home I mean. You see...

Aghhhhh..!!! Why is it so hard to explain everything!?

.....

Ok... I've got this...

I'm not from here. Equestria, I mean. I'm from... Earth.

Huh. It's really weird saying it like that... I don't know how I got here. The only thing I can recall is laying down in my apartment. It was raining and cold. Very cold. And I had another fight with Susan...

Oh man... Susan. What will she think of me now?! How will she react to seeing that I've disappeared?! Oh man! Oh man!

.....

Sorry. Twilight just slapped me across the face. And now she's telling me not to have written that. She just gave me a glare and walked out. She'll be back.

There's nothing I can do now for Susan... I hope she's not mad. I hope she's okay. Not worrying about me. I'm safe here. In Ponyville. And I've made lots of new friends.

Let me back up and say again I literally had woken up in a middle of a field. It was a bright afternoon, the sun in it's highest position. I remember flinching at it for the first time. Back home the sky is almost a black. And that's if we're lucky. I opened my eyes slowly putting up my han...

This is where I started to freak out. I remember screaming at the sight of my...arm. It was a slick grey and had no hand on the end! It was as if my hands had just fallen off! I jumped up from the ground in mere shock and tried to stand, but I couldn't find my balance and fell back down with a small thud.

I started to calm down a little, but only for a moment for I began looking at the rest of my body: No clothes. My entire body grey. My hair was still on my head, the brown its ever been. And I had a tail. What a great thing to wake up to! WRONG. I must've blacked out after because I don't remember much after that.

The next thing I knew, it had grown a bit cold. Thinking I was back in reality, I grabbed for my bed sheets. But there was only grass. My eyes flew open and I shot up to look around. The same field as before. The sun was just beginning to set.

"What now?..." I said to myself. I had come to realization that I was stuck here. Stuck in this... form with no way out. I tried to get up and balance again, and after a few frustrating falls, I managed to balance myself on my four.....legs? Really, after a short few seconds of this balancing act, I came to figure that I probably became some kind of four-legged animal. Maybe a horse. A small horse. A pony.

'Cause, that's what a small horse is, idiot.

The sun had just dipped under the horizon and the light was just beginning to fade, now. I took a deep breath and started to step forward. It was hard to walk in this new state, but after a few practice steps, I quickly got the hang of it. I did a few practice moves to that were common in my life: Running, jumping, tip-toeing... Back home, the city I lived in had crime rates through the roof, and not a day went by without at least an act of murder. I tried to keep my distance from most of everybody, but I have gotten ambushed a few times. What I was doing now, common procedure every morning: making sure I was still agile.

The sunlight was completely gone now, and the moonlight took its place. The night was alive with many sounds of insects and hoots from owls and a slight howl from an occasional breeze.  As I began to walk, God knows where in what direction, I took in every aspect of the night. It was glorious. It was nothing like I had ever experienced before! What a joy it was to be out there! I had heard stories and read books on what nature was like in the past, in my world, but experiencing it was indescribable.

Nature. The word back home was almost non-exsistent. Sure, their were a few parks and if you wanted to see animals, there was always the zoo. But, anything that was green and covered in forest, was now covered by skyscrapers and roads and factories. If there was any green land left, I lived nowhere near it.

The next thing I can recall from that night, even though hypnotized by the beauty of the night, was seeing small specks of light. They were far off, but I could make out the shapes of some small buildings. A town!

A town...

Thoughts ran through my mind, thinking I was still in my world, how the townspeople might react to now my current state. I hesitated before taking another step towards the far-off lights.

"Might as well. What have I got to lose?"

I continued through the landscape, which quickly became a rugged path. I stopped.

(Odd…) I inspected the ground in front of me, bending down as far as I could without falling over. (These aren't any kind of footprints I've ever seen…)

I thought about it the whole way down the path. It winded through trees and over a few hills before it came to something I had never expected to see. Stone.

(Stone? Not concrete or.. or clay bricks?) I looked up along the path and it lead over a small bridge and into the town. (Where am I?)

I had never seen stone before. And before you think, 'this guy is weird', let me just say that where I grew up; Where I lived, we had no stone. We had concrete sidewalks, buildings of steel and glass, and other structures of more concrete and clay bricks. Let me clarify before going further: The 'stone' I'm talking about is almost a medieval stone. Like cathedrals and stuff. The type of stone used in the Renaissance. Get it? No? Oh well.

The 'stone', as I entered into the town, acted as its road and building material as I saw most of the buildings had a lot of it as a base. (All right I'll get off the topic of 'stone')

Lanterns, hanging from posts and hooks among the structures and the streets, lit up most of the town. The buildings were very peculiar. It was very strange architecture to me. They were made from different shades of wood. Or perhaps they were painted? Back home almost all of the buildings that weren't torn down already were a fiendish shade of grey or red from the bricks or concrete. There were no wooden buildings anywhere throughout the city I lived in.

However, most if not all of the buildings I walked around throughout this strange new place I was in, were made out of just wood, with different shades of white and red. The roofs had straw or hay upon them, giving them that 'Renaissance' fell to them. It was odd. It was almost if I had been sucked into one of my history books; as if I was actually living in the time era.

Besides the buildings, the areas I walked through were littered with different carts and tables and chairs all around. Almost like a bazaar, just with less sand.

I'm getting off topic. Where was I?

As I clearly recall, now, as I was still dumbfounded at the buildings and the use of stone, I heard a faint scraping coming from around of the corners in front of me. No… Not scraping, but of hoof beats, clopping down the hard ground.  As if someone was near. Walking down this way. I panicked and darted behind one of the stray wooden carts. I poked my head up to look around and saw her. It was a very peculiar sight. She was also a pony, her coat a deep purple, and an even darker purple mane with other various shades of the for-mentioned color as streaks. My mouth stayed agape, as she past, and when she did, I slowly crept out from behind the cart. My heart was beating very fast, and my breathing was irregular. I hesitated to speak. I hesitated to call out to her. My instincts of my past told me not to, but my curiosity got the better of me.

"Umm... hello, there?" I called out. She stopped and turned around. She was probably about 20 feet away from where I was standing but it seemed a lot closer than that. I wanted to scorn myself for calling out! I didn't want to!

Now what, idiot!? She's going to come over here! What do you do then?! Stupid, stupid, stupid!!!

"Do you mean me?"

I screamed. I was completely horrified that the pony responded! I darted back behind the wooden cart and stayed put. My mind raced with different thoughts of 'only a dream' and 'a really ****ed up dream!' I heard more hoof beats, and they grew louder as I knew they would. She would want to know what I was doing, why I screamed, and why I was hiding. The clopping was louder now. I had nothing prepared to say to her! What do I do!

"Uhhh.... are you okay?"

Apparently, I had been kneeling, shaking, my teeth bare, and mumbling something. Weird? I was the one doing it. How do you think I felt?

I came back to reality and took a deep breath and stood up. I looked at the.... mare and noticed she wasn't a pony. Rather than a unicorn. She had a horn. That was glowing. Glowing. Horn. I'm still surprised I didn't faint from the shock. I just stood there silent, eyes wide, breathing heavily. Like an idiot. I really wish I had a second chance. To change what I've done. To have saved the embarrassment of the situation. I took another deep breath, and somehow spoke.

"Purple."

Idiot!

"Excuse me?" She cocked an eyebrow, trying to make out what I had meant.

"Your purple."

She looked down at herself than back up at me.

"Why yes." She smiled a half smile and looked around, nervously, for a few seconds.

"I'm sorry. I don't know how to handle... this." I gestured at the town, her, and myself.

"What…..? Your very confusing." She said.

"You're a unicorn."

"Yes?"

"Subset of a pony." (That I came to terms a while back sorry not to have mentioned it sooner)

"Again, yes."

"And you can talk." She looked at me dumbfounded. Like I had just answered that 2+2 had equaled duck. The light from here horn lit up the surrounding area. She had been using it to give her some extra light to see better, no doubt. It grew a bit dimmer as a few seconds of silence past.

"You do realize your a pony too?"

"Finally some closure! I was trying to know what I was before. That was my first guess. Thank you for confirming that!" I sighed. Then I realized what she was trying to say. I was a pony too. I can talk too. "Oh. My bad. I get it. I'm also a pony, who can also talk."

She nodded, still a little unsure of how my mind worked.

"Umm... I haven't seen you around before. Are you new?" She asked.

"Yes. I just kinda found my way here. What is this place?"

"This is Ponyville!" She hopped up in her place that made me jump a little. "I'm Twilight Sparkle. And you?" She gestured me with her hoof.

Twilight. An odd name. Especially where I come from. NOBODY has the name 'Twilight'. Although, nobody has the name August either. I hesitated before answering, unsure if I should use my real name. Then again, I'm a pony talking to another pony named 'Twilight'. Geez, this is weird…

"August. August Rush." I answered.

"Nice to meet you, August." She held her.... hoof for me to shake. "So, you just arrived?"

"Yes."

"Do you know anypony? Do you have a house here? Do y..."

"Excuse me, what?" I interrupted.

"What?"

"'Anypony'?"

"Yeah. Anypony."

"Don't you mean anybody?"

"I've never heard that expression before." She cocked her head to the side in confusion. I could've done the same, at the time. A different play on words. It's still very interesting to me. "Where are you from?"

"Chicago." I answered, firmly.

She just stood there. I wanted to know if she knew about it and if it exists (or still exists) in this world.

"I've never heard of that..." She cocked an eyebrow.

"Really?" She just shook her head. I held my breath and looked around, nervously. She leaned into me closer.

"What is it?"

"Well….. Have you ever heard of a place called Earth?" If I still had fingers, they probably would have been crossed. I prayed in the back of my mind that I was still on Earth, or that even still existed. But, of course...

"No, I'm sorry. Earth?"

And then I prayed for this all to be a bad dream…

"Yes...." More silence. I let out a heavy sigh then started to breathe heavier. Not even heard of Earth? This is so confusing…

We stood in the faint light of her horn, the brisk night air sent a small shiver up my spine. I thought hard about what to say next. But in the back of my mind, I knew what I already had to say next. I leaned in close to her:

"Now I know you've just met me and all, but, can I tell you a secret?" With that she seemed to grow even more confused but then……..showed a glimpse of curiosity.

"I….guess…" She drew out her 's' on her answer. I took a deep breath.

"This is the first I've looked like this… I wasn't always a pony. Heck, I wasn't even in this world a few hours ago."

With that, I saw that she became intrigued. By the way her eyes lit up and the slight shift in her standing position, I knew she became interested.

"No? What...What were you?"

It looked as if she was looking for a specific answer. Like I was about to say a word she was looking for someone to say. A word that would define our friendship for eternity. I looked deep into her dark purple eyes and said;

"Human."