I groaned as I woke up, slowly opening my eyes. Alien sensations greeted my mind, most likely thanks to my pony body, and I ignored them all as I focused on simply opening up my eyes. I was met with a field of pink and dark blue, streams of light slipping through my mane. It seems that its impressive volume hadn't diminished as a result of the change, as it managed to block out most of the light in the room.

As my awareness continued to come back, I took a deep breath. The feel of my mane against my nose was a bit odd, I could acutely feel the strands that dangled on the tip of it. Throwing all pretense to the wind, I leaned my head forward until my nose touched the covers of the bed I was in, then threw it back as quickly as possible.

My mane went from being in front of my face to behind my head, and at last I could see. At the same time, a voice greeted my ears as they turned towards the pony who was behind me. "Elam, you're awake! How are you feeling? Can you feel your wings yet? I tested your magic and it appeared that you're a hybrid of earth pony and pegasus, isn't that good to know?"

"Twilight... Slow down, would you? I just woke up and had my body rearranged, gimme a minute or two, please?" I blinked my eyes a few times, noticing just how much I could see. At the bottom center of my vision I could see my dark lavender muzzle and nose, and l couldn't help but let out a loud yawn. My tongue accidentally stuck out when I did so, and holy hell was it long. Smacking my lips a few times after yawning, I moved my focus elsewhere.

I actually felt pretty good, all things considered. Twilight had mentioned wings, and I had seen some weird thing that reminded me of Jeff Goldblum's ill-fated role in The Fly thanks to Luna. However, as I moved my head to the left, I saw tucked against one of my sides a folded and feathered wing. It matched my new coat color, although it looked like the tips of them were dusted in the pink color of my mane, just slightly muted. Uuugh, curse you, pink! You shall not win!

My head ached a little though, and I paused my pursuits of looking over my new body as I let it slump down against the bed. My eyes settled on Twilight's backside. She was seated at the table, a veritable mountain of books in front of her. "Twilight, are those books what I think they are?" I groaned, already tired of her love of literature.

She finished jotting something down before turning around to face me as she began speaking. "If you think they are flight manuals, how to learn to use your–" Twilight trailed off, her eyes widening further than should be possible in shock. Her mouth opened and closed a few times, but no words came out.

"Twilight, I know I'm good looking, but there's no need to look at me like that!" I winced as another stab from the headache hit me; I was always prone to them when I'd slept for too long. Luckily, at most they were gone within hours, but mere minutes was the more typical lifespan.

My words didn't even phase her, although she had abandoned trying to talk and had jumped out of her chair, trotting to the bedside. She reached out with her hooves, holding my head still. I began to open my mouth to object, but I decided it might be better not to. Twilight ran her hooves through my mane around my forehead, parting it and what I assumed was looking at my scalp. She pulled one hoof back into my vision as the other disappeared between my eyes.

"Twilight, what the hell are you... doing...." I completely forgot to even phrase my question as one when I felt her hoof connect with my head, sending sensations to my brain that definitely was not from my scalp. "Twi... is that?"

"You... You have a horn. That's impossible!" She sputtered out at last, poking it once more.

"Uh, Twilight..." I slowly began, not believing it myself, "if a pony is pegasus, earth pony and unicorn, does that make them..." I trailed off, letting her infer the question. She mutely nodded, poking it again, causing me to reflexively swipe a hoof at hers. "Knock that off, would you? It's kinda sensitive, and not in a good way."

Twilight grinned sheepishly at me for all of a moment before panic replaced it. She jumped back and began to pace in a circle, her words coming out faster and faster. My brain understood the following: "Oh no, what do I do? This is supposed to be impossible! I'm a crazy mare who can't keep her thoughts coherent." Okay, so I made up that last one, but hey. She was rapidly approaching levels beyond mere crazy.

She stopped completely still in place, before winking out in a flash of purple. "Uuugh." Deciding I didn't want to deal with this just yet, I closed my eyes and got comfortable in the bed again. Sleep, yes, it was a good idea for now.

However, moments later I felt something bouncing up and down on me. It was light enough not to cause anything more than mild discomfort, but it was annoying nonetheless. "What the hell?" I was genuinely confused as I turned my head and saw what, strike that, who was bouncing on me.

"Heya, human! You're kinda scary in your mind, you know that? I couldn't even have some good old fashioned fun before you got all weird." A little alicorn was resting on my back between my wings, her coloration strikingly similar to my visitor before waking up.

"Nightmare Moon? Dafuq?" I muttered, attempting to process how the alluring mystery mare could be this little filly. It just wasn't possible, it couldn't be. For one, she was just too fucking cute! I wanted to scoop her up and hug her like a little teddy bear, maybe it'd help with all these troubles that were plaguing my mind.

"Yup! Although now I go by Dream. I wanted to have a little fun, and I saw that Lulu had finally let you dream, so I thought 'hey, let's pop into the human's mind, we can have some fun!' Yeah, that wasn't very much fun..." She trailed off, looking downtrodden near the end. Must resist the urge to comfort the menace!

"So, everything you said, about returning me home, making me human and male again... it was all a lie?" Oh, this little filly had hell coming to her, I'll have to decide if it's above or below Celestia later though.

"Yup!" She proudly exclaimed, finding the need to hop onto my head. "Although, I wasn't joking about getting at Celestia. I just love getting underneath her skin. I can't really do anything like try to overthrow her anymore, so I do what pranking I can." She poked at the stub where my horn was growing. "Matter of fact, I can use this! Nice horn by the way, totally awesome that you're going to be an alicorn. You're number seven!"

Okay, so maybe I can put her below Celestia, if only for the fact that she also wants to humiliate her royal sunnybutt. I could get behind that, but not without getting a swing or two in on Dream. "So, you snooping around my head isn't in any way related to my horn, then? And tell me, how do you plan on using it to get at Sunnybutt?" The filly laughed when I used my nickname for Celestia, and continued to improve how I viewed her.

"Oh, that's going to be a secret, but you'll love it, I promise! And nope, not a thing I did, you made yourself horny all on your own!" I couldn't help but groan at the lame pun; just one more to add onto the large amount this world shamelessly and ignorantly used on a daily basis.

The door to the room opened up and I managed to shuffle around to face it without unseating Dream from my head. "Hey Luna, how's it going?" Right behind her came Celestia, to which I was more than a little surprised. Her expression was thoroughly sour, as if she'd just drank a quart of lemon juice. Behind them was a Twilight who looked like lightning had struck her mane... it was everywhere. Okay, now she looked absolutely insane.

"Heya, Celly..." Dream began, and I could just imagine the massive grin that was on her face right now, "you like my new addition to our former human? I saw that she had the wings and earth juice, so I figured we might as well round her off, y'know?" Oh gods, this should thoroughly piss Celestia off; even as I thought that I could see the air around her begin to shimmer with heat.

"Why you little, I oughtta wring your neck!" Celestia nearly screamed, pushing Luna to the side and making to lunge at Dream, and in the process me. I tried to scream but could only muster a squeak as a very large alicorn came flying at me.

Luckily, she never got the chance to pounce on me as Luna halted her with magic. "Dream! What have I told you about goading Celestia? You will refer to her with respect, and I will likewise keep her from turning you into a smear or streak on the nearest hard surface. Understood?" Dream hopped down from my head and sulked, head hung low.

Luna saw right through the act, however, and continued to fix her iron gaze on the filly. Oh man, that's so sexy... Woah thought, where did you come from? I immediately squashed that thought as Luna moved closer to me, humming a little. The barrier in front of Celestia fell, and she began to walk closer to my bedside too.

"So, uh... how's the weather?" I squeaked out, casually waving a hoof in greeting. They both ignored me, so I instead turned my attention towards Dream. "So, Dream huh? Interesting name, when'd you use Nightmare Moon though? It sounds like some silly villain's name."

She huffed as I began to feel hooves running around where my horn was growing, and I just sighed. "Well, I kinda threw a temper tantrum awhile back and possessed Luna, tried to kill Celestia and bring about eternal night... nothing too big, you know? Luckily for me, Luna stuck out her neck for me, quite literally, and kept Celestia from turning me into a smear. Since everypony knew who Nightmare Moon was and they tended to run in fear at the name, well, a change was in order." Luna looked from my head to the two of us, taking more interest in our conversation rather than my horn it seemed.

"Indeed, lucky for you, Dream. I still think you should have let me name you though, I had the perfect one in mind." She chimed in, and Dream's face twisted in disgust.

"I think not. I mean, come on! What type of name is Nyx? Hideous and ugly as Tartarus, that's what! Dream embodies what I can do, and my calling." She shoved her ass in my face, and pointed a hoof towards her cutie mark. "See? A moon, embodying the night and ponies sleeping, and the cloud partially covering it signifying the shroud of dreams. Where the heck do you get Nyx from that?!" She finished ranting, her black fur on her face somehow showing a heavy blush underneath.

I couldn't help but laugh as Luna let out a huff. "I still think Nyx was a good name..." She walked back to the table where Twilight sitting, her only in slightly better condition than it was when she had entered the room. Celestia finally let out a sigh and stepped back, hanging her head.

"Well, Elam," she began, a small amount of disgust in her voice, "it seems that fate has a funny sense of humor and has made you an alicorn. A through and through alicorn too, including longevity and everything else. When my former student screws up, she royally screws up it seems..."

I couldn't help but laugh, whomever came up with that joke line was a comedic genius. "So, I take it you don't like the fact that I'm an alicorn too, Celestia?" I said a bit smugly, as I could clearly tell it got underneath her skin.

She sighed again as Luna and Twilight quietly conversed in the background. "There were already enough wild card factors with you, Elam. Everything was mishandled from the start, and I don't very much like disorder. It reminds me of... bad times, to say the least. And now, you're one of only a hoof-full of alicorns. To call it disconcerting would be a gross understatement."

I finally decided to try and move more than a hoof at a time. With her standing next to the bed and me laying down, we were basically eye to eye. I extended both of my front hooves and managed to wrap them around her neck in a poor attempt at a hug. "I promise that I'll bring a lot of disorder, however... I'll try to keep from piling too much on you at any given moment." I grinned to myself, feeling her tense underneath me for a moment or two in response to my words.

"If anything, you'll at least guarantee that it won't be boring around here, although Twilight has filled that role well enough." Celestia muttered, moving a hoof of her own around me. I gotta say, they really make for great hugging, these pony necks. It's perfect to just rest your hooves between the neck and their shoulders.

I spat out a faceful of her mane moments later as it shifted and tried to eat my face. Celestia pulled back and grinned at me, enjoying my brief moment of discomfort. "Oh, and also... if we are to start a prank war, there must be forewarning. Same goes if others are co-opted to join in; it's only good form to do so." She smiled at me and looked to Luna and Twilight.

"Well, Celly, it seems that she is indeed a full alicorn, on the same level as Cadance and Shining, although probably a fair amount weaker, if only because she's new to magic. Time will tell how strong our mini-Twilight is." Luna giggled at the end, and I decided now was as good a time as any to try standing.

Note to self, a soft mattress with a lot of give is not a good place to try standing on new appendages for the first time. I tumbled out of the bed, nearly taking Dream with me, and landed chin down on the floor. Surprisingly it didn't really do anything more than sting when I landed, I guess some sort of endurance was included in this upgrade package I'd gotten.

Wobbling all the while, I managed to get my front hooves up and locked against the harder surface and began to focus on my rear legs. The hoof made a good surface to rest against things at least. A foot could make contact with the floor on the ball, the toes, or anywhere inbetween. A hoof was much simpler. It was either flush with the surface, or it wasn't. No inbetween, and it wouldn't really hold your weight if it wasn't.

On the third try I managed to get a back hoof in place, and from there it was pretty easy to get the last one. My muscles held, and with all of my legs locked in place, I was finally standing. I only got a few chuckles from everyone in the room, so it wasn't that bad. I decided to give myself a good once over now that I wasn't laying in bed.

Another thing that was cool. Pony necks are not only long, but flexible as hell too. My entire fur coat was definitely a dark lavender, just shades darker than Twilight. My mane and tail were still the same colors, no surprise there, and from what I could tell my tail reached to a few inches off the ground while my mane ran to the middle of my legs. I carefully reached a hoof back and felt for it, it seemed to reach almost all the way down my neck, much like a horse's would. I nosed at one of my wings, as I hadn't yet found the muscles to control them, and tried to open it just a little bit to get a better look.

"Hey, Elam!" Luna called, and my head whipped around to look at her. She was striking a pose that was very, very suggestive, and my mouth dropped open. Moments later, Twilight's wings exploded from her sides, and I felt something on myself move as well. Luna and Celestia both began laughing as I forced my head back to my wings and noticed them both erect.

"Wing... boners? Really?" I muttered, finally getting a better look at my wing structure. It was like a bird of prey; fully outstretched it seemed to be about the same width as my body length. The base was the same hue as my fur, but there was definite pink along the last feathers at the bottom of the wing. It actually, dare I admit it, went along very well with the purple.

Anything else would require a mirror at this point, so I stopped looking myself over. I did come to a conclusion though. I was cute, and most definitely a near mirror image of Twilight, with just a few changes. Speaking of Twilight, she had fought to get her wings back to her sides and was walking over to me finally. When she came up alongside me, I realized I was also the exact same height. Creepy.

"So... What shall we call you now, Elam?" Celestia started, a grin on her face. "Dusk, perhaps?" I facepalmed, completely forgetting I had hooves for a moment and nearly socked myself in the eye. Still, that smarted just a bit, and the laughter I heard damaged my pride as well.

"No, no, no! I will not be called Dusk, or anything related to the opposite of Twilight," at this I glared at Celestia, "and I will not be called anything that refers to the moon, either." I finished by looking at Luna, although I didn't glare at her. "As a matter of fact, let's settle this matter right here and now. I shall be called..."

My mind began to wander as I thought what name I might actually be able to stomach. Obviously Elam was out of the question; I'd barely tolerated it growing up truth be told, it was only because of all the paperwork associated with changing one's name that I hadn't done so. I always liked going outside at night and looking into the sky, and there were those rare nights... That's it, I think I could stand that as a name.

All four ponies in the room waited with bated breath as I began to speak. "You may call me... Aurora." I smiled, counting this round to myself. It would save me from god knows what awful things anyone else could've come up with.

"Really? Aurora? Nothing else?" Twilight asked, her head tilted in confusion. Oh yeah, a lot of these ponies had second names. Twilight Sparkle, that's right. I snorted as I thought of all the things once could do with puns and pony names, then stopped myself cold as the sinking realization of where my mind had gone hit me.

"Yeah, just Aurora. I mean, your rulers are Celestia and Luna, they don't have anything else to their names, right?" I looked to them for support, and instead I received mild grins as if I'd caught them with their hooves stuck in a cookie jar.

"Actually, El– Aurora, our names are much longer than two words... Last count mine was seventeen, and Celestia's was thirty-three." I began to open my mouth, but Luna cut me off with a hoof. "Trust me, no, you do not want to know, and just let it stop there."

I took Luna's advice and dropped it... for now. I was very much intrigued as to how one could have so many names, and would Sunnybutt be included among Celestia's? Although, I did have another question that I decided to toss out there. "So, I gotta know. How does one get their butt tattoo?"

Twilight immediately spoke up as Luna giggled. "It's not a butt tattoo, it's–" I finally lost it and began laughing as well, stopping Twilight dead in her tracks. "Oh, I see. You did that on purpose. Just for that, expect written tests. On everything." That killed my laughter very fast, and I sheepishly grinned at Twilight and did my best to put on a 'I'm sorry' expression without being forced to say the phrase.

Luckily, Celestia was the one who kept that interaction from going any further. "If you do not recall, it simply comes with time. It's a representation of something that defines who you are and what you enjoy. It's not something that you should concern yourself over, trust me." Well, she made sense, and it's not like it was really that important to me. It was more curiosity than anything that made me even ask.

"Gotcha. So, butt tattoo comes in its own time. So, now what?" My stomach let out the loudest sound I'd ever heard from it; somehow going so far as to reverberating off the walls. I couldn't help but blush at that, feeling the heat rise to my face.

"Well, I would say food is in order, it is lunchtime and you haven't eaten anything in a full day now. Aurora, would you like to accompany us for lunch?" Celestia amicably asked, a hoof held out pointed towards the door. Gotta say, the way she could flip her character was mildly disconcerting and left me rather confused.

"Sure, I don't see why not. Twi, Luna, you two coming?" I carefully tried my best attempt at walked, eliciting more laughter from everyone. "Well, let me rephrase that. Could you two help me get there without breaking anything?" I asked from the ground, all four of my legs somehow splayed out in different directions.

With only a little more laughter, Luna and Twilight both helped me up to my hooves, supporting me with their sides. My steps continued to be very uncertain, but anytime I was about to spill one or the other would move closer in to me, effective supporting my weight by squeezing me between them. While not the most comfortable method, it did work, and I slowly managed to walk between them by the time we finally got to the room that was our destination.

I slumped into the seat, flicking an errant strand of my mane back behind me. "Wow, walking is a bitch on four hooves." I complained, my stomach growling once more. Luckily, a veritable feast made its way to the room only a minute later, consisting of all sorts of grains and fruits, much like the lunch I'd shared with Twilight and Luna.

If anything, the flowers were even more delicious this time around, and I gorged myself on them and assorted fruits. Everything was just so much sharper in taste and texture here, even before I was a full pony that held true, and now it was further amplified. I also found out just how useful this longer tongue was with having a muzzle; Luna had thought it funny to drop an orange slice on the top of my muzzle, and my tongue managed to reach it and nab it. While kinda weird, it was pretty cool.

Luna had also sent me a raspberry, sticking her tongue out quite far and causing my mind to drift. I wondered how far down that tongue could go, and the things she could do with it... I should probably be alarmed at how often my mind drifted to sex, but I just chalked it up to the hormones, then let my thoughts continue to wonder.

A polite cough or two reached my ears, and I focused on Twilight looking at me with a slight grin. She leaned over to me and whispered, her face close to mine. "Aurora, your tail is raising itself... You'll find your arousal shows itself a lot more as a pony than it did before." She pecked me on the cheek, and I blushed as I tried my best to force my thoughts back down to something normal and refocused on my meal.

We all finished up the last of the meal; only the cider-filled mugs remained on the table, the rest of the plates having long since been hauled away. Luna spoke, bringing up something very important. "So, now that we know what pony you are, we must decide where to start your training. Magic and flight are both vital aspects of yourself, and your magic has two facets to it. The external application that unicorns exert, and the mostly internal aspect of the earth pony. Any thoughts on what you'd like to learn first, Aurora?"

I thought to myself, carefully weighing each aspect. Flight was pretty cool, I mean, flying around was a dream I'd held ever since I was a little kid. I never expected to be able to fulfill it, but now that I could... it was very tempting. Then, magic. Facets of it be damned, it was mother fucking majeek! And not the Houdini stuff either, this was the real McCoy!

"I'll tell you later? I'm not really certain where I'd like to start first, so no point dwelling on it, you know?" I said, figured that there was no way in hell I could make a decision like that in a short time. Even if it did mean further accepting this as reality.

"El– Aurora," Celestia began, catching herself, "why are you disgusted? I would think the prospect of learning both eventually would be something enjoyable." she sounded genuinely curious, and I made a note to start working on the control of not giving away my thoughts and emotions so easily. Damn expressive body!

"Oh, they're both great, Celestia, don't get me wrong. However, it just means that I'm further caving into this world and my place in it. That's not so hot." I figured she'd understand, afterall I'd done a fairly good job of– well, mostly a good job of ensuring that if given the chance I'd go back home in a heartbeat.

Luna was the one who spoke up this time around. "But, after that night, and with Twilight too, I thought... You haven't accepted Equestria yet?" And now she was confused as well. Wonder if I could go for the Holy Trinity with Twilight being confused too, seeing as to how we'd lost Dream some point along the line.

Sadly, Twilight remained silent, so I went ahead and gave my answer. "There's a difference there, Luna. I'm still not that thrilled over being here, although I have already forgiven Twilight. Call it a moment of weakness if you want, but I did do that. However, just because I enjoy sex as the opposite gender doesn't mean I'm fully accepting of this situation yet." I paused, the mention of sex bringing another thought to mind.

"How the hell do you masturbate with hooves!?"

Author's Notes:

WARNING: The contents contained above were written from One AM to Four AM. You have been warned. Moving on, I had something to tell you. Which I just told you. Also, Saint's Row 4 is awesome.

Credit to those whose comments were funny enough that they ended up in the chapter. At least two made it in, and you two know who you are. Love the humor, please bring more? Counting down to 100 downvotes, kinda backwards, but why not! 13 more folks who have no sense of humor, soon to be less.

Cleaned up 31 Oct 2013