Chapter 6: A Conversation at Fluttershy’s

Hope: Day 1
Nightfall: Day Unknown

Hope’s POV

After Luna and Nightfall had left, me and everypony else, including Trixie, went to Fluttershy’s house. There we made ourselves comfortable, while Applejack explained to us what Nightfall and Luna had told her. Also not mentioning about my species to anypony else.

When Applejack had finished explaining her story, I asked, while in shock, “Wait, so Nightfall is…?”

Applejack replied, being honest, “That’s what he said.”

I stood up and spoke out to everypony, “So I can’t go to Ponyville while I am a human. That means…” Getting a little excited and worried, “I would have to choose a different form too.”

Rarity, quickly understanding, then asked, “What would you like to be darling?”

I then went deep in thought. After a moment, Twilight asked, being very serious, “Think carefully, you may only get one choice.” I then sat back down and thought.

After almost a minute of thinking, I finally decided what I want to be, so I spoke out so everypony can hear, “I made my decision.”

Applejack replied, “So what have ya chosen?”

Rainbow Dash then shouted out, while in midair, “A pegasus pony right?”

I replied, “Nope.” She then looked down disappointingly.

Rarity then asked, with a bit of charm in her voice, “A dashing unicorn?”

I replied once again, “Nope.”

Applejack then spoke, happily, “That means you want to be a physically strong earth pony, like me.”

I replied, “That’s not it either.”

Twilight then looked at me and spoke in a serious tone again, “An alicorn? You do know that you will have to live an immortal life, if you choose that don’t you? That means that… that we will pass away while you’re still living.”

I was a bit worried that Twilight may have scared everypony else there for a second, but I knew that she was just warning me, of the consequences.

I shake my head and replied, “No.” I paused for a second then looked at everypony and continued, “Who says I want to be a pony?” Everypony in the room stared at me in either shock or surprise.

Applejack finally spoke out, “Ya… ya don’t want to be a pony…?”

Pinkie then shouted out, not having an idea, “What do you ‘really’ want to be then?”

I replied, as I stood to make a decision, “A wolf. But with the ability to still walk on two legs.”

Again everypony in the room went quiet. Then after another brief moment, Rainbow broke the silence and shouted out excitedly, “That sounds so cool!”

Fluttershy finally spoke out with a smile, in her soft soothing voice, a bit like when she tamed Cerberus, “I think you will look adorable as a wolf-fy.” I thought I was going to go red after hearing her say that.

I quickly sat back down and looked towards Twilight, who was trying to hold back a smile or a grin, as she then said, “The only wolfs I know are timber wolfs. I don’t really have much knowledge on them though.”

Applejack then shouted out in her serious tone, “I do. Granny Smith had told me about them. They are supposed to be vicious and that they don’t like loud sounds.”

I then spoke out, wondering, “Okay. There most be some other kind of wolf that I would like to be.”

I noticed that Twilight had gone deep in thought. After a moment she then spoke out, “I remember I came across something called ampwolf a long time ago, when I was younger. But I think it might have been a made up creature. There may be a book in Canterlot that might have information on them, if they do exist.”

I replied, “I guess with Celestia’s permission, we could check up on them in the library tomorrow while we are in Canterlot.”

Trixie finally spoke, in wonder, “What exactly are humans anyway?” Everypony stared at her like she had said something wrong.

She then replied to their reaction, “What? I’m just asking.”

I replied, trying to come up with a good explanation, “Well… I guess we are just like you ponies in a sense…”

Once the long conversation had ended, we noticed that the Sun was lowering in the horizon as we looked outside of the window.

Twilight then says, as she was getting ready to leave, “I better get going, Spike may be worried about me.” She then looked towards the light-blue unicorn, “I guess I got to come up with a good explanation about Trixie, when we get back too.”

Rarity then spoke out in concern, “I better go too. Sweetie Belle could be worried sick about me.”

Applejack spoke out in concern too, “Same here y’all.”

Rainbow also spoke, while taking a stretch and a yawn in midair, “I guess I call it a day too.”

We all looked around for Pinkie and we found her mysteriously asleep, on the floor. I guess she got bored and fell asleep during the long chat.

After waking Pinkie and everypony had gone home for the night, I helped Fluttershy feed the critters which I kind of enjoyed doing.

The only thing that went wrong was that cheeky little rabbit, called Angel, making ugly faces at me. But Fluttershy put that nasty little bugger in his place.

After that we had tea and called it a night ourselves…