Hi. My name's... well, it's kind of funny, what my name is. You see, it used to be something else, but that changed. I didn't have my name legally changed, if that's what you're thinking. No, the truth is weirder. MUCH weirder.
See, I used to live in a city where weird is normal, so I didn't think anything about the green-haired girl I saw one day. The thing is, I saw her the next day as well. She waved at me, then walked down an alley I hadn't noticed before. I was on the city bus and late for work, so I had to go to work. Luckily the next day was Saturday, so I took the bus to the alley where I saw her. Not surprisingly, she was there. I got off the bus, walked the two blocks back to where she was, and I said hello. She just smiled and walked to an old-fashioned red door about three quarters of the way down the alley. She opened it, and there was light coming from the inside. Before I knew it, she had vanished, the door shut.
I went to the door and tried the handle. It was locked.
I thought that was most peculiar. I left to go home.
After about a month, I had almost forgotten about the door and the mysterious girl. That is, until I got a letter in the mail...
The letter came to my apartment. It had my address on it, but it was addressed to "Yarn Purl". The return address was even stranger.
Lyra H.
157 Hoofington Lane
Apt. 209
Ponyville, EQ P0V 0A6
I opened it up. It said
"Dear Mr. Purl,
You haven't heard of me, but I've heard of you. I'd like to meet you again and show you what's on the other side of that door. It's like nothing you've ever experienced before. Trust me, I think you'll enjoy it.
∩∩,
Lyra"
Intrigued, I took the bus over to the alley. It was another Saturday, so I wasn't working. She was there.
Before I could ask her about the odd ending of her letter, we were through the door.
The first impression I had after coming through the door was of coming out of something. I looked behind me and saw a closet.
"Oh good, it was a unicorn this time! I was starting to get tired of all those Earth ponies. No offence, BonBon." A feminine voice came from off to my left, behind a wall. I couldn't help but wonder what she meant by unicorn and Earth pony, not to mention that BonBon is a weird name, no matter what sex you are. Then I saw them.
The first pony I saw was a mint green pony with kind of a butch haircut, and her mane's more blue than her coat, aside from the white stripe down the middle. The second pony is an off-white, almost kind of a cream color with navy blue and pink in a swirly mane. She said "None taken, Lyra," and she then went to sit down on a sofa. Don't ask me to explain how she sat down, it was weird. Then she said "But shouldn't you ask their permission first before you take them here? And I'm sure that's not how they were where they're from!"
I looked down at myself for the first time since going through the door. I gasped, as I was no longer 6 feet tall, white-skinned, or wearing clothes. I was now about 3 feet tall, I had a short coat of orange fur, and I felt like something was poking up from my forehead between my... ears? First of all, I was pretty sure that my ears didn't belong at the top of my head. Secondly, what business did anything have to stick up between my ears? I ran to a mirror. In it, I saw an orange unicorn with a brown mane and green eyes.
I did the only sensible thing I could think of then.
I fainted.
Author's Note
The deviantART version can be found at The Alley. I'll try to keep the two versions updated simultaneously.
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I woke up with my right arm over my head, and my left arm down by my side. I started to get up, then I noticed that I couldn't feel my fingers. That's odd, I thought. Did I have an accident? I opened my eyes and got a glimpse of a deep red velvet-covered couch. I don't remember having THAT in my apartment, I thought. Then I looked at my arm. It was orange. Suddenly the events from the past few hours came back to me. I was in another world and apparently another body.
I looked around to see what this... place... was like. I saw musical motifs everywhere, and I swore I saw some sheet music from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in a frame.
Think, I thought to myself. This has to still be a dream. You're from Ashefilly, and you've seen stranger stuff before. I paused, confused. Ashefilly? Where did THAT come from? I tried again. You have an aunt who lives in Whinnyngton, the Flight Brothers made their first flight in the Outer Flanks, and all that happened in North Canterlina. I stopped again. Something is OBVIOUSLY messing with my mind, so I'm just going to roll with it. I finally realized that I was still lying on the couch, so I got up. It was a bit difficult, as I still wasn't used to my equine form. Finally, I walked into the other room, where the two other ponies were.
"Oh, hi, Yarn Purl. We were just talking about you," the green pony said. "Oh, by the way, my name's Lyra Heartstrings, and my friend here is BonBon." BonBon waved. "So I guess you're wondering about how you ended up here?" I nodded. Lyra continued. "Well, this apartment used to be rented to a unicorn who was doing experiments having to do with other dimensions. One day he disappeared, and nopony knew where he went. Since we found out, I've been trying to find others who might know him. So far I haven't had much luck, although this was the first time I found a unicorn..." She glanced at my horn and winked at me. "Anyhooves, I hope you'll meet with the other ponies I've brought here?" I had to say yes, how could I not? I had to meet with other people who had been brought here thanks to Lyra and the mysterious unnamed unicorn.
"I see that you're pretty much all set, I'll just let you talk with the others to see what they know." With that, Lyra left the library where she had all of us meet. There was a tan Earth stallion with a brown mane and an hourglass on his flank, a yellow coated Earth mare with a curly orange mane and carrots on her flank, and there was even an older white Earth stallion wearing sunglasses. He had a black mane that looked familiar, as well as a microphone on his flank. Finally there was a blue Earth stallion with a black beard and mustache with something that looked like a television on his flank. The white stallion and the blue stallion seemed familiar somehow. Maybe I had seen them as humans?
Author's Note
On dA: A New Beginning
Asheville, Wilmington, Wright brothers, Outer Banks, North Carolina. I had to work those in.
