My Little Pony: Will Of Fire

The Fire Element Alicorn

Chapter 7

Dare To Mare

They say that every man has a feminine side, even if they don't realize it. Some actually refuse to admit they have one, while some others aren't afraid to hide it. Flareon was about to experience his feminine side in a way he never expected. It all began one, normal morning in Ponyville. Flareon and Twilight had invited their friends for breakfast and took them to Ben's Breakfast, a small outdoor restaurant that is only open from 6am to 10am everyday. After everyone finished their meals, the girls began to gossip about the physique of stallions passing by. "Hmm...the muscles on that one. Easily a rated 9 out of 10," Rarity said. "That one was 7 at best...now that one there is a perfect 10. The beard only makes him cooler," replied Rainbow Dash. "Not bad, but...oh...that one there, the guy with the bulging muscles and cowboy hat. Now that is a stallion!" Applejack commented. Flareon, who was beginning to feel diminished, started to flex his arms trying to impress everyone and said, "How about these muscles...don't they make you go wild with excitement?" Unfortunately, he didn't get the response he wanted as everyone began to laugh. "You actually have muscles Flareon? Who would have guessed?" Rainbow Dash replied as she tried to stop laughing. "Oh Flareon...you don't need to have muscles, bulk, or an amazing fine-tuned body, you're fine the way you are," Twilight said. For some reason, her words were more hurtful than helpful, and only made Flareon feel worse. "Oh ok...I see how it is. Well then...I guess I'll be going," Flareon replied as he got off his chair and went back home to show everyone that he too could be a perfectly physique stallion, but instead of going to a gym, Flareon decided to make a potion that would give him a perfect, muscular body.

After going inside the house to get a book called "Spells and Potions for your Body and Mind", he opened his garage and went inside. Flareon sat at the table, opened the book, and turned to the section called 'Body Transformations'. "Let's see...here we go! This should work perfectly," Flareon said as he began to look at the instructions and ingredients, "Wow...this is pretty complex and hard, but I think I can pull this off without any mess-ups." After going to get the ingredients, he began to put them in the small pot and began to follow the instructions. A few minutes later, the potion began to turn pink. "What the...pink?" Flareon said as he frantically searched through the book, "Shouldn't it be red, not pink. I mean...pink isn't exactly a manly color. Well...I did follow the instructions perfectly and it does look like red...kind of. Ah well, close enough. I mean...what can possibly go wrong?" After pouring it into a small vial, Flareon drank the potion in one gulp. Shortly after, pink smoke started to envelop him and the entire garage. Meanwhile, Twilight and Spike returned home together and noticed the pink smoke coming from their garage. "Flareon...are you in here?" Twilight said as she tried not to cough. Soon after, the pink smoke cleared and Flareon said confidently, "Well...how you guys like these muscles? Are they not the best, most fine-tuned muscles you have ever seen in your life?" Twilight and Spike were rendered completely speechless, just as Flareon had anticipated.

Unfortunately, the following reaction was not what he had expected. Twilight and Spike immediately fell on the ground laughing as hard as they could. As the seconds of their laughter went by, Flareon was starting to become worried. "May I ask what is so funny?" he yelled at them. They tried to respond, but they couldn't stop laughing. It was at that moment Flareon was starting to realize that something was very wrong. "What a minute...why does my voice sound higher pitched?" Flareon said under his breath. He then moved his hoof towards his head and noticed his mane was significantly longer. "High voice...longer mane...oh no!" Flareon yelled as he rushed over to a nearby mirror to look at his reflection. It turns out, Flareon had successfully managed to alter his body, but not in the way he wanted. Flareon had somehow swapped his own gender and became a mare. Just as quickly Twilight and Spike laughed at him, Flareon let out a yell loud enough to scare away the birds that were resting on the top of their house. "A mare...are you kidding me? This wasn't supposed to happen!" Twilight had finally stopped laughing and was able to get up. "Sorry Flareon...its just you're...never mind," she said as she walked over to look at the book Flareon had used. "Let's see...'Body Transformations'...so this is what you tried to do. Flareon, I told you before...you were perfectly fine the way you were." After reading the book, she looked at the vial that contained the pink potion, and then looked at the ingredients Flareon had used. "Ah...I see what went wrong. Flareon...you were accidentally reading in the female section of the book. The male section is the one after it." Flareon couldn't believe what he had just heard, the female section? He was reading from the female section the entire time! How could he have been so stupid? He had been in such a rush that he didn't even notice what gender section of the book he was reading from.

Flareon then decided that they had to fix this mess as fast as possible. "Ok Twilight...please tell me that there is a way to turn me back to normal." She looked at him seriously and replied, "There is, but to fix something like a gender swap. Well...let's just say it's going to take quite some time. At best, I'll have a reverse gender change potion by tonight." Flareon quickly replied, "Thank goodness...no wait! Tonight? So...you mean that I need to..." but Twilight interrupted him and said, "Spend the entire day as a mare? Looks that way...I'm sorry Flareon." Spike who was finding all this hilarious began to speak up and said, "Flareon...more like Flarena to me! Get it? Flarena?" Spike then bent over laughing and slapped his knee. "Very funny Spike...Ha ha ha...I'm Flarena now, I get it. I'm glad you're taking this seriously," Flarena replied. Soon after, Flarena had both of them promise not to tell anyone that she was actually Flareon. Eventually, Spike went off somewhere and Twilight went inside the house to began making the reverse gender change potion, so Flarena decided that waiting around was pointless and headed into town.

While walking through Ponyville, Flarena was noticing she was receiving some strange attention. Every stallion she passed either whistled at her, or said stuff like 'What's cookin good lookin? Hey beautiful! Wow...check her out!' "This just feels wrong," Flarena muttered to herself. Meanwhile, at Carousel Boutique, Rarity was standing in front of her house and trying to find a special, unique pony to model her dresses. "Hmm...no, she won't do. I need to find that special someone...a pony that will bring out that pizzazz factor in my new dresses," Rarity said as she sighed deeply, "Where am I ever going to find someone like that?" Suddenly, she spotted Flarena walking by, and her eyes began to glow with excitement as she yelled, "You...you're perfect!" Flarena turned her head to see Rarity waving at her and said, "Rarity...oh no! I can't let her see me like this!" Flarena tried to run away, but Rarity used her magic to lift Flarena into the air and brought him insider her house.

After she set Flarena down on the ground, Rarity went into another room, and then came back with a mobile rack with dresses hanging on them. "Somehow...this feels very familiar, but at least last time, they were outfits for guys," Flarena said to herself. Suddenly, Rarity lifted up a dress and forced Flarena into it. She then put a mobile mirror in front of Flarena and said, "How do you like this one?" Flarena just gave Rarity a blank stare which forced her to take the dress off Flarena, only to have Flarena forced into another one. "This one is perfect! What do you think?" Rarity asked. Flarena was already annoyed by getting forced into girly dresses and quickly replied, "Why don't I get those dresses and shove them right up your..." but he was soon interrupted when Rarity forced him into another dress. "You know what?" Rarity said, "Your cutie mark kind of looks familiar. You remind me of my friend Flareon." Flarena suddenly began to panic at the thought of Rarity finding out who she really was. Just being a mare wasn't going to hide the fact she was actually Flareon for long. "Oh...my cutie mark? It's not a fire emblem, its a...tip of a candle. Yeah...I specialize in...lighting candles with my magic and stuff," Flarena said. "Oh...is that so?" Rarity replied, "That's nice. It's good to see a beautiful mare like you have such a wonderful job. Who knows? With a body like yours, you could seriously have a job in modeling, because you are bringing out the best in my dresses like no one else could!" Before Flarena could even comment, Rarity once again forced her into another dress.

As if things weren't looking bad for Flarena, things went from bad to worse when Rainbow Dash and Spike appeared with bags on their backs. "We brought the gems you requested Rarity," Spike said as he was eating some of them he kept for himself to eat, "Sorry...but I ate some along the way here." He then turned to see Flarena wearing an elegant purple dress and said, "Hey Flareon...cute dress." At that moment Flarena thought to herself, "You...little...bastard!" She couldn't believe it, even after Spike promised not to tell anyone, he still managed to spill the beans without any regrets as Flarena could see a smirk start to form on his face. Rainbow Dash and Rarity looked at Flarena confused as they were trying to figure out what Spike had meant. "Wait...you mean that girl right there wearing that dress is actually Flareon?" Rainbow Dash said as she pointed towards Flarena. "After Spike ate another gem, he replied, "Yep...that's Flareon alright. He turned himself into a mare after he accidentally drank a potion he created from the female section of a book. Now Flareon is stuck like that until Twilight finishes making a potion to change him back. I decided to nickname him Flarena for the time being." Similar to what happened before, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Spike fell down laughing. "My ribs...my ribs. I cant...stop laughing!" Rainbow Dash giggled. After Rarity got up, she pointed to the dress rack and said, "Oh Flarena dear...want to try on another dress. I had no idea you wanted to be a model. You should have asked me sooner!" Soon after, Rarity fell down laughing again. "Gonna kill them," Flarena said under her breath. Unfortunately, the laughing did not want to stop. It didn't take long before Flarena couldn't stand it anymore and she unleashed a huge, blazing inferno of fire that managed to blow out all the windows in the house. The Ponyville residents were in shock as they quickly backed away from the flames emitting from the house. Shortly after, Flarena was seen walking out of Carousel Boutique with an angry look on her face. Meanwhile, back in Rarity's house, she along with Rainbow Dash and Spike, as well as everything in the room, were all black as coal after being burnt to a crisp by Flarena's fire.

After that disastrous debacle, Flarena was still fuming with anger after being betrayed by Spike. "I still can't believe he did that to me. He sure loves to get his sick kicks," Flarena said to herself. Suddenly, Flarena realized she had to go to the bathroom...bad. She then ran to a nearby public restroom, but when Flarena got behind a pony in line, he turned around and said, "Excuse me lady, but the girls side is over there." Flarena accidently forgot she was still a girl, and turned around to go to the girls' side, but was shocked to see how long the line was. After she got behind a pony, Flarena asked her, "Is the line for the girls' bathroom always this long?" The mare turned around and replied, "Always? Well of course it has been." Flarena right away realized that she had asked an obviously dumb question. As the time went by, the guys' line went along smoothly while the girls' line didn't seem to be moving at all. Flarena had just about enough of this nonsense. She then ran towards the guys' side at full speed and knocked every stallion out of her way and went right into the guys' bathroom. After that, some screaming could be heard from inside the bathroom and soon after, a couple stallions were seen being thrown out of it. After Flarena was done, she walked outside, looked at the stallions staring at her and said, "It's all yours now guys!" The stallions, still stunned, could only watch as she walked away.

Flarena then decided to stop at a nearby restaurant for lunch. After she sat down at a table, immediately a bunch of stallions sat down near her and demanded they buy her lunch. One pony looked at Flarena and said, "Hey there...you're cute. I've never seen you around here before. How about I buy you lunch? It's my treat." He then winked at her which made Flarena almost puke with disgust. There were stallions...hitting on her. It was so disturbing that Flarena thought she was literally living a nightmare. Suddenly, Flarena began to feel a weird sensation. It was almost as she actually was beginning to enjoy the thought of getting hit on. After a while, there was a bunch of food all around Flarena as she had accepted every request from all the stallions around her. As Flarena was downing another drink, she said, "Oh...come on guys. Why do you have to be so nice to me? I'm just a girl, that's all. You guys are so funny." Soon after, Flarena realized what she had been doing this entire time, and shook her head vigorously. Flarena then looked around strangely as if she had just snapped out of a trance and quickly flew away as quickly as possible. Flarena stopped after a while to catch her breath. What had just happened? Why did she suddenly like being hit on and accepted all the stallions requests? Then it suddenly hit Flarena. It was because she had been a mare for so long it. she was now beginning to think like one. "What is happening to me? Oh that's right...I almost forgot! I should get back to Rarity and buy that purple dress. It was absolutely beautiful and went perfectly with my mane!" Flarena then suddenly realized what she had just said. "No...wait! What am I saying? I need to get back to Twilight...now!" Flarena then rushed back home to see it Twilight had managed to finish that potion.

When Flarena made it back home, she rushed inside, and flew upstairs to find Twilight sitting near a table. "Twilight!" Flarena yelled frantically, "Please tell me you finished that potion!" She turned around and said, "Oh Flareon, you're back. Great timing...I just finished the reverse gender change potion and was going to bring it to you. So...how did you like being a mare?" Flarena then began to lie because he didn't want to tell Twilight how bad her day went. "Oh...great. No problem at all...being a mare was awesome...yeah." Twilight began to smile and replied, "I see...so I'm guessing that you don't want to drink this potion then." Twilight then took the potion and was preparing to dump it out the window, but Flarena quickly began to desperately beg in front of her. "I hate it...so badly! Being a mare is terrible. Guys are always hitting on me, the waiting time to use the public bathroom is insane, and I keep thinking about stupid girly things like getting pedicures, having my mane done, and buy new dresses. I can't stand it anymore!" Twilight then put the potion on the ground before her and replied, "That's what I thought you would say." Flarena quickly grabbed the potion and drank it in one gulp. Suddenly, blue smoke began to envelop him and after it disappeared, Flarena ran to look at herself in the mirror and was relieved to find out he had changed back to Flareon the stallion. "I'm finally back to normal," Flareon said as he turned around to face Twilight, "Thank you so much." She then walked over to him, grabbed his right hoof, and smiled. "Flareon...you're fine the way you are. I love you!" After they shared a kiss, Flareon promised Twilight that next time, he would just visit the gym.