A Long Way Home

Chapter 1

You come to, in a grassy area, around you is nothing but dark, eerie figures coming from the trees around you. You hear a twig snap, at this point your eyes shoot open and you look left, but what you noticed wasn’t the sound but what your hands looked like. They weren’t hands, you had hooves. You start to feel yourself breathe heavy now like your about to pass out. You decide to look at yourself, your body fur is a light gray, and your hair has streaks of blue on brown, and your hair is like you just flipped it back while drying it, and wings, you have WINGS!

Your mind snaps back to reality and you remember you’re in the woods. You decide call out who was there, but no one responds. Your starting to think to yourself that being in this forest is starting to get to you, and that you had to find a way out. You call out to them again.

“Is anyone out there?” but this time you get a response, you see three little ponies,  "Ponies” You thought to yourself, but not just any ponies, the orange filly had wings, and the white one had a horn, the light yellow one was just like any other normal pony.

“Unicorns, Pegasus, and Technicolor ponies too, this isn’t weird.” They look at you like you with scared eyes, not knowing someone while you’re in these creepy woods wouldn’t make you curious as well. As they stare you ask where you were; “great now I’m talking to ponies.”

“You’re in the Everfree forest” replied Scootaloo, you look at the pony, “did it just talk? Or her?” you look around your surroundings; you’re getting a weird and eerie vibe just from looking around, like you just want to run out and hide.

“Do you know a way out of here?” You ask. The white unicorn replies with a scared tone,  “Y-yeah we were just about to, when we heard somepony call out.”

“Heh Somepony.” For some reason you found that amusing. You obviously don’t know any of them so you asked them who they are.

They replied altogether, “Were the Cutie Mark Crusaders, we try to find out our cutie marks and help others find theirs. The yellow pony pointed to herself and said in a southern accent, “Ahm Apple bloom, and she’s Sweetie Belle. She points to the white unicorn she had light purple hair and a little pink streak, like yogurt. “And I’m Scootaloo.” The orange filly says proudly

You tried standing up, but you lose balance and fall flat on your face. You tried again. You wobbled a lot but you’re getting used to your new body rather quickly. Considering you’ve never been a pony before.

Right as you start to wobble around, the ponies yell out loud,  “YOU DON’T HAVE A CUTIE MARK?”  “A cutie what now?” you ask. Sweetie Belle tells you exactly what a cutie mark is. “When a pony finds out his/hers special talent and her destiny, a mark appears on your flank to show what you do. You look at your flank, it was blank, as you thought about this, you noticed that neither the fillies in front of you don't have their marks as well.

Your starting to think to yourself, "What am I talented in, what is my destiny? I've never really had much thought into it.” you and the three fillies start to head out of the woods, and towards the town where they lived.  “P-Pineville? Was it?”

You couldn’t tell through the other ponies since they all talk the same time about having a tour guide cutie mark, or an adventurer cutie mark. They said that they would take you to the librarian, Twilight Sparkle.

You start to see an exit through the woods. As you exit, Apple Bloom looked up to be surprised to find the sun starting to rise.  “Ahh, I have to go guys. Apple Jack’ll be mad if she finds out I’ve been sneaking out.” Applebloom says.  “I have to go to.” Scootaloo says.  “I gotta find Rainbow Dash and ask her about how she got her cutie mark.” You say your goodbyes and you are led to a town you see in the distance.

As you come into view of the entire town you notice that the houses are made of wood and have hay on top of their roofs. This is weird to you because you’ve never seen this kind of architecture before. You see more ponies coming out of the buildings. They look at you with curious eyes at you as they have never seen anybody quite like you, but the one pony you seem to catch your eye is the pink blur galloping towards you and Sweetie Belle.

“Hey, Pinkie Pie.” Said the White unicorn. Pinkie Pie, you thought, I should’ve guessed, I mean she is pink.  “Hey Sweetie, how’s it going? Who’s your friend, is he new to ponyville?

Causeifhe’snewthenthatmeanswehavetomakeawelcomepartyforhim!” you’re lost for words as she is mumbling on about cake and you no idea what was going on. You just realized that you’re famished, and your stomach let out a low grumble. You blush in embarrassment as you look down to your stomach.

“Oh, you’re hungry? Why not go to Sugar Cube Corner, and grab a quick snack. So you head towards Sugar Cube Corner, Sweetie Belle had to leave, “Guys I think I should start going, my sister will start to worry when I’m gone this early.” You resume your path towards Sugar Cube Corner with Pinkie Pie, you try catching up to her, since she’s a lot faster than you, you fall over a few times trying to sprint but you’re getting used to your new body rather quickly, and your shock of realization has went away, but its still bothering you.

What comes into view is what you think is a large ginger bread house. It’s outer walls as brown as oven baked bread and the roof’s vanilla like cream just gets your stomach growling for food. As you step inside you see two other ponies, one being light orange with dark orange hair, er mane, and the other light blue with a mane like Pinkie’s.  “Hi Mr. and Mrs. Cake, how are you doing with Mmmm?”

Mmmm? You thought. Is that supposed to be some sort of baker’s code for good food?

What you thought was Mrs. Cake said,  “ Oh, Pinkie, we just need to deliver it, and instead of making the large cake was such a problem last time, we decided if we make more smaller cakes, so we could make more.” Pinkie Pie stares at awe in their new plan for this cake and the first thing she asks for is a sample of the cake.  “This is Deeelish, you two have really outdone yourself!”

Mrs. Cake caught eye on you, “Who’s your friend Pinkie?” “Oh this is a new pony, I’m taking him to twilight but he got hungry on his way here.”

You look down on the ground, embarrassed to what she says. You decide to ask Pinkie if you could try some of the cake.  “Of course you can! If you’ve never been to ponyville before, than you have to try the Mmmm.” You decide to ask, “What is Mmmm anyway? Some sort of treat or code?”

You listen as Pinkie Pie explains what the treat was. “Well the tastiest treat of all is sure to be the Cakes' Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness. All that rich, creamy goodness of the marzipan combined with the tart and tanginess of the mascarpone, blended perfectly with the smooth silky sweetness of the meringue. That's why I call the Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness the MMMM!”

Pinkie Pie explains this in a way that makes your mouth water for the cake. You take your first bite from this cake and it was like your heart skipped a beat when you ate it. “This Is The Best Cake EVER!” you exclaimed eating the cake some more. You hear some chuckling around you, and you notice your wings are extended. You’re embarrassed because this has never happened to you before.  “I knew you’d like it no one can resist Mmmm!”

You decide it’s time for you to head out and meet with this Twilight character, so Pinkie tags along with you, being a new pony and all. You step out the door to find a white pony with a moderate indigo mane and horn like Sweetie Belles, “Terribly sorry, whoever you are.” She says in a kind of English accent.

“Hey Rarity, I’m taking this stallion to twilight.” Pinkie Pie says.  “Oh why is that darling?” Said the white unicorn, I’m guessing this is Sweetie Belles older sister. “I’m going to Twilight, because I don’t know where I am.” You respond.

“Well you’re in Ponyville silly.” Said the Pink Mare. “No, I mean I don’t know where I am, I wasn’t here before, like I was somewhere else.” You say with a low tone, and your ears droop down. “Well if anything unnatural happens, Twilight is the pony to see.” Rarity says.

You, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie start to head out after Rarity bought some cupcakes for her sister. You see a large tree house hallowed out to what looks like a library inside. Pinkie Pie bursts through the door calling out Twilight’s name.  “I’m coming Pinkie please stop yelling, we are in a Library.” “Twilight I found this new pony that’s lost, and said that he doesn’t know where he is.” Exclaimed Pinkie. “Well that’s easy, were in ponyville.” Said a confused Twilight.

As Twilight says this you explain what you mean. “I’m saying, I don’t know where or how I got here, heck I wasn’t even a pony before.” Twilight and the other ponies look at you in confusion. “You’re telling me that you weren’t a pony before?” You nod your head in agreement. “So what were you before?” The curious Twilight asked. “That’s just it, I don’t remember anything.”

As Twilight takes in your answer she thinks out loud to herself, “Maybe I should send a letter to the princess, she’ll know something about this.” Twilight says.

As she takes an ink and quill to a podium in the middle of the library, she takes an old rolled up paper, and sprawled it across the podium. She quickly writes what she has learned from me and calls for someone. “Spike! Spike! I need you to send a letter to Princess Celestia.” As she says this you hear a door open upstairs.

“Alright alright, I’m comin, but what’s so important that it can’t wait till later?” You jump as you see a dragon come down the staircase. Is that safe? Having a dragon in a tree house? As you ask yourself these questions, the purple dragon takes the scroll and lights it on fire with his breath. Correction, Fire breathing dragon in a tree house. It quickly ignites and the smoke trails out the window.

“And Now we wait.”