A/N: HEEEEEEREEEEE'SSSSS DISCORD! *creeper face*

[EDIT]: It seems there was a category of Clover the Clever recently added (either that or I'm stupid), so I edited the characters a bit! Also the two princesses may play an important role later on, but wether or not adding them to the roster I'm not so sure. We'll see when that comes along :)

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Star Swirl groaned as he began to come back to his senses. The pony-turned-draconequus was lying on the floor limply as he woke up. The last moments before he lost conciousness were blurry, but he could recall most of the stuff that had happened, including the sudden pain and the way his hooves transformed into animal legs.

The draconequus looked down and managed to see what were formerly his front legs. He tried moving them closer to his face to take a better look at them, and upon closer inspection he noticed both of them had fingers and opposable thumbs. That was... an improvement, alright. But enough gawking over his new hands, Star Swirl needed to stand up and take a look at what happened to his body. He rolled onto his belly and tried to stand up, and when he was on all fours, he realized something. The whole library was a mess, books were scattered around, the floor had a pink checkered pattern and the candles... were dancing?

Star Swirl pushed himself upwards and managed to stand on his hind legs. He'd take a good look at them later, right now he needed to set this place like it used to be. Not the he cared, he found the mess slightly amusing, but he needed to keep this hidden. The draconequus looked at his hands and waved them in front of him. With a flash, the whole library went back to normal, but the spell had also blown out the candles, leaving the building in darkness.

"At least I still have magic..." Star Swirl muttered and looked around, perhaps now it was a good idea to look at himself in the mirror.

He took a step forward towards what he thought was upstairs, but it just culminated in him tripping over some books and falling flat on his face.

"Ugh..." Star Swirl groaned, perhaps teleporting himself to his room was a better idea. So with another hand wave the draconequus teleported himself towards his room.

The window was open, which allowed the moonlight to reach and illuminate the room. Star Swirl reappeared near his mirror and took a peek, which caused him to gasp in shock. His face had transformed beyond recognition, he didn't even look like a pony anymore. Now a creature that looked like a horse with a fang, a snake-like tongue and two different styled horns stared back at him. Even his once generous beard had been reduced to a goatee of sorts. Sighing, he stepped closer to the mirror to look at his body, which was long and serpentine. His alicorn wings had transformed into a bat and bird's wing, and his hind legs were that of a horse and a dragon. His tail was also dragon-like, and he was overall much bigger than he used to be before.

Star Swirl glared at his reflection and turned around to look at the window. How did this happen? Had he written the spell wrong? The draconequus felt sad to know his magnum opus had gone horribly wrong. Well, at least he still had his amplified powers, so that was something. Too bad they couldn't stop his transformation, and it was even worse that Clover didn't help him.

...

Hold on a second.

"Clover-!" Star Swirl remembered, that sneaky mare, she was about to steal his book and didn't do anything to help. She just teleported herself away in his time of need. But since she was so zealous about talking to Celestia and Luna she probably-

She probably already was in her way to snitch on him!

"That unruly mare-!" Star Swirl screeched, he needed to track her down as soon as possible. But could he, really? The only way to reach out to her fast was by flying, but he still wasn't good enough at it, right? The draconequus jumped and began to flap his wings rapidly, and even though they had different designs, they were able to hold him very well.

Star Swirl headed for the window and leaped into the air and began to flap his wings as fast as he could, thankfully they still held him up and didn't allow him to fall down to the ground. He grinned and then zoomed towards the road that led to the castle of the two sisters.

Below him it seemed that not only the library had been tampered with, as some buildings were floating in the sky and some of the dirt roads where checkers and soap...

MEANWHILE

Clover ran across the path that led to the castle in hopes of making it on time. The last thing she saw in the library before she ran off was how her mentor began to transform into something. Under normal circumstances she would have stayed and tried to aid her friend, but one: he was out of his mind, and two: the magic that was irradiating from Star Swirl was beginning to tamper with everything inside the library, and she didn't want to risk getting affected, either.

Even though she was sure Star Swirl wasn't in condition of chasing her, the paranoia got the best of her and made her regularly turn her head while running to see if she was being followed. All the times she did that had proven she had nothing to worry about, at least not yet.

The mare turned around once more and this time spotted a flying creature coming towards the road in the distance. Clover gasped and immediately dived for the woods surrounding the road. She tried to work her way around the bushes and the like with as little as noise as possible until she was sure she was far away enough from the road to avoid being seen, but to be able to see what was going on herself.

Clover hid behind a bush and peeked out to see the empty road. Her breath was uneven due to her fear, but soon enough she calmed down when she saw that nothing had appeared yet. Maybe what she saw was just an owl or a bat. Sure, why not? After all, maybe her fear had just made her see things and-

The mare's eyes shrank in fear as she saw some sort of creature land in the road with a thud. Clover instinctively hid her head and didn't want to come out. It wasn't until she didn't hear anything happen that she slowly rose her head out of its hiding to see if anything had happened. The creature just stood there, looking around. She had to admit, it looked a tad dopey, and perhaps a bit ugly, but surely it wasn't out to get her- Wait a minute.

Those arms. Those were the arms Star Swirl's hooves turned into. She was totally sure about that.

Oh no.

Clover hid back again in the bush, that weird monster was Star Swirl, and he was out to get her. She wasn't brave enough to face him after what happened at the library, her only option was to carefully tip-toe her way through the forest. And so the mare laid as low as she could and began to crawl towards the direction of the castle. While in that place Clover couldn't see what Star Swirl was up to, for all she knew he could be behind her or just sitting down on the road like an idiot. Though she was sure the former was much more likely to happen.

SNAP!

Clover froze as she looked down to her hoof. A small twig had snapped under her steps. With a gulp, she tried to shrug it off and keep moving, but when she heard the sounds or bushes rustling and twigs moving is when she fully panicked and stood still. She closed her eyes tightly and held her breath in hopes of being unnoticeable.

...

...

Clover popped an eye open and looked around. Well, it seems like Star Swirl didn't notice her. But just to be sure, the mare looked up and slowly peeked her head from the bush she was hiding in. Nobody was around. Clover sighed in relief and hid behind the bush again and kept crawling.

"That was quite the thrill, wasn't it?"

"Yeah...!?" Clover huffed, then froze and looked above her.

Well that was wonderful. Star Swirl was floating on top of her.

It took some seconds for Clover to react to the current situation, but it all culminated in her teleporting herself away and reappearing some feet away, running for her life towards the castle. Unfortunately for her it wasn't long until Star Swirl used the same trick and teleported himself in front of Clover, making her bump into him and fall on her butt.

"Star Swirl...?" Clover eeked, looking up at the draconequus, "I... Well... You see..." she hummed.

"Why didn't you do something about this?!" Star Swirl whined, motioning himself.

"I-I'd would have done something if it weren't for the fact that I didn't know anything about what was happening to you!" Clover replied, "A-And I'm going to tell the princesses about this, we need to get you back to normal and-"

"You are not going anywhere, Clover!" Star Swirl stood his ground, "I think we both agreed that this would stay between us." he hissed, bending down and holding Clover's horn with one finger.

"But look at yourself!" Clover added, shrinking when Star Swirl inhibited her horn, "Sooner or later somepony would notice that! Somepony will realize who you are!"

"I'll take my chances," Star Swirl shrugged, "But until then, we still need to take care of you."

"Care of me?!" Clover gulped, well, she was done, "Can I get a blanket and warm milk then?" she smiled.

Star Swirl tapped his chin, "Mmm... No." he hummed, then the finger which was holding Clover flashed in a magical outburst and caused Clover to drop to the ground unconscious.

The draconequus folded his arms and raised up, looking down at Clover. Finally he got to use that mind-erasing spell he tried to use before the incident. Hopefully the mare wouldn't remember anything that had happened during this day, which thankfully meant getting rid of the threat of the princesses meddling into his business. Star Swirl grinned and jumped into the air, soaring off into the forest.