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From Brony to Pony?!

by Fictional Fanatic

Chapter 8: Chapter 8. Ponies mean Magic

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After Glimmer had calmed down, it was time we finally got serious. Tomorrow was the day of the convention and we would have to be prepared. My sister and I had done some research on the internet per Glimmer's request and found out that most people were transforming at different rates. Glimmer guessed this had to do with space time displacement or something, meaning that worlds farther away from ours and Equestria effected the transformation times, making them slower, while closer ones had faster transformations. At least that was how I understood it.

"How come you know all this stuff Glimmer? A lot of this just goes over my head." I asked, curious as to how she could be so knowledgeable about something that had never happened before.

"Well, I kind of have access to some parts of the royal archives, I found some material on portals and texts discussing the possibility of visiting other worlds. The records show that whatever they were doing was successful, unfortunately I couldn't find out anything more. But I got interested and began doing some research of my own before all this went down. Good thing, huh?" Glimmer explained.

"I guess. I think I know what it was the research notes you found were about, but I can't be entirely sure. But would I be correct in assuming you used the notes to come up with the mirror we're making?" I asked, comparing the mirror we made somewhat with the mirror from the Equestria Girls movie.

"Really? And yes, I based the mirrors we're making upon what I learned from those research notes. I still have a copy of them if you're interested." Glimmer offered.

"No thanks. I don't get any of the magic stuff. It wouldn't really be something I would understand." I replied. I had yet to gain a horn, and without a horn, I was unable to do any magic. Meaning I had yet to learn anything about it.

Glimmer Thorn groaned and facehooved.

"I knew I forgot something. Come, we're starting your magic training." She stated as she turned around and began leading me.

"Wait, magic training? I don't even have a horn yet!" I protested, not too keen on the prospect of going back to studying, as well as pointing out the flaw in her plan.

"Doesn't mean you can't learn the theory behind magic beforehoof. And once you get your horn, then you should be able to use it as soon as possible, that is, if you want to get that mirror up and running." Glimmer explained to me.

"Fine." I groaned as I followed her towards a small building I hadn't noticed before.

"Was that always there? I don't remember it being there." I said as I pointed towards the cottage at the edge of the clearing.

"Yes, it's always been there, ever since you decided that the universe got to decide for itself." Glimmer Thorn explained.

"After all it's my house. You better wipe your feet before entering." Glimmer said.

As we entered, I saw the inside of a cosy little cottage, in contrast to how I had imagined it, it was all clean and looking rather modern.

"It's not like I expected it to be." I commented.

"Well, it was a compromise between me and Wild Vine. She wanted us to have something we were both comfortable with, this was the result." Glimmer explained, gesturing around with one of her hooves.

Looking around, I noticed the mirror she had made earlier hanging on one of the walls close to the middle of the cottage. It really was a nice place, more modern than anything I had imagined Equestria would have had. Funny that, I just kept getting surprised today. Glimmer led me into a room that seemed to have an older feel to it, seeing as how everything seemed to made out of wood, bookcases lining the walls, a few cabinets and a table in the middle of the room filled with a few parchments full of writing. A blackboard on wheels was standing in one of the corners.

"Welcome to my office. Here you can find anything and all that is known about Changelings," she gestured towards the books lining the walls. "and anything else that caught my interest. And over here," she gestured towards the table filled with papers. "is where I write down my own findings and such." She explained as she levitated a few papers for me to take a look at. It took me a moment to realize what it was I was looking at, but in the end I realized it was what she had used to make the mirror. To be honest, a lot of the expressions and terms were unfamiliar to me, and there seemed to be a lot of mathematics involved.

I somehow understood the mathematics, but many of the words used flew right over my head. I was about to ask Glimmer Thorn if she expected me to understand it all, but never got the chance.

"I'll be teaching you everything you'll need to know on the basics of magic. We won't have time to teach you everything, since it usually takes years to learn magic, but I'm confident you'll learn fast," Glimmer Thorn said, smiling with her fangs visible. "and we begin now!" She exclaimed as I was suddenly strapped to a chair fitting my bipedal body and then turned towards the blackboard as Glimmer Thorn began scribbling on it.

I cringed internally as she began writing, I hate the sound of chalk on blackboard.


I woke up with a headache from all of the information Glimmer had tried to cram into my skull. I could probably recite the whole thing in my sleep... I could have phrased that better. You know what I mean.

In the end, I had woken up before Glimmer had been done with her lecture, and I suspected that next time would be even worse. Well, I guess that's what I get from expecting magic to be easy. Magic was anything but, well, except things like telekinesis. But what surprised me was the amount of spells that were in fact just simple telekinesis used to fold space in certain ways to achieve certain things. I hadn't realized beforehand, but apparently there were many different types of spells. A few examples would be direct spells and matrix directed spells.

While I had some trouble understanding a few of the things Glimmer Thorn spoke of, she said I would understand them when I got to actually using magic. At least now I could make sense out of most of her notes and understand how the mirror worked a bit better. Apparently I would have to use a certain spell as we completed the mirror to link it to the one in this world and hope for the best, since there was no guarantee it would connect over the vast distance between our universes, but Glimmer Thorn was optimistic.

Glimmer Thorn also decided to warn me about discussing magic. We could not be entirely sure, but the magic she was teaching me could end up being different from what other humans turned unicorns would learn. Asking her why, she explained that I could have influenced how magic worked for us back when I still had the power to change her universe and therefore it could be far different from any other magic. It was one thing that could be bad, or good. We would find out eventually, but Glimmer Thorn thought it would be best not to discuss magic with other people until we knew for certain how big of a difference there was.

Personally, I couldn't really understand how it could be dangerous, but Glimmer Thorn was quite persistent and I eventually decided to trust her on the matter and not discuss it with anyone else. I even Pinkie Promised her. Not that I was going to go against my own word, but I only realized later that a Pinkie Promise could have been a terrible idea when there was an infinite amount of worlds, meaning an infinite amount of Pinkie Pies connected to our world right now.

As I got up, I remembered that today was the day of the convention and that we would today be meeting a lot of people like us, people turning into their OC's. It was time to finally see how crazy the people of Earth really were, me being no exception. I had a vague idea of what to expect from the convention. The Internet had been swarmed with Vlogs by this point, made by people turning into their OC's. Interestingly enough, it seemed not a single Alicorn OC had made an appearance, either they were hiding or there simply weren't any. I'd have to ask Glimmer Thorn what she thought about it next time we spoke.

But until the convention, my sister and I had some more work to do on the mirror. I suspected it was compressed by now, meaning that we only had to assemble it and then cast the necessary spells to make it work. Those spells having to wait until my horn appeared.

Today I had apparently awoken early, looking at the time informed me of it being 5:13 AM. No new transformation yet, the usual pattern being two transformations every twenty four hours, one in the morning, and one in the evening. Some of them had been in our sleep, while others had been while we were still awake.

Deciding to be productive, I once again turned towards the internet. And since it is the internet, and since there is now a very interesting world-wide phenomenon going on, it was very much expected that there was a lot more pony related content there than there had been a few days ago including yesterday.

Trying to be smart about it, I watched a few videos on pony magic. Fortunately a few people who were turning into unicorns had made videos to help other unicorns out with their magic. There were a few differences, and a few warnings from more sensible people that not everyone worked magic the same way. One of the guys even referenced another video while showing off how different their magics worked. A handful of the things mentioned were similar to what Glimmer Thorn had taught me, but there were also a lot of notable differences.

I left a comment on almost every single one of the videos how people watching them should be careful with following their advice and not to experiment too much since magic can be potentially lethal if used incorrectly. I also got into a forum where I spent about an hour and a half discussing magic with people, weighing cons against pros, as well as pointing out dangers and potential problems. The biggest concern about magic however showed out not to be wherever people were able to control it or not. It was the other way around. The biggest fear was that your magic would control you, many people were afraid of the potential of dark magic.

In the show, dark magic easily corrupts, only in short bursts and with great will and determination could one use it harmlessly.There were speculations that dark magic doesn't necessarily have to be an evil form of magic. If one was for example able to control it, and resist it's corruptive nature, it could be used for good. I reminded them of the expression "Power corrupts." for that. No one should be playing with dark magic while regular unicorn magic was dangerous enough as it was.

A lot of things were discussed about magic after that, and I quickly downloaded an app for the website, making it so I could access the conversation on my phone without having to go through a browser every time.

While I was discussing magic with them all, I did not mention anything about what Glimmer had taught me. I only used common knowledge, common sense and my own creative ideas for how magic worked. Some of my ideas or arguments were quickly shot down or ignored however, since I had let it slip that I didn't have a horn yet and couldn't actually use magic yet. The humans in the discussion weren't fairing much better, but I listened to everyone I could follow and made note of each idea. I only retired from the forum once someone began bringing up alchemy, potion making, chaos magic and magical affinities into it all. And since my stomach decided to make its current plight known to me right about then, I decided to take a break for breakfast.

Looking at the clock before I went to the kitchen, the clock read 7:05 AM. I had spent nearly two hours watching videos and discussing magic...

Yeah, apparently magic either was my thing or Glimmer had really gotten to me. Wonder if I could be friends with Twilight? I asked myself as I left my room for the kitchen, where I would have a quick breakfast. Nothing beats cheese and honey on microwaved toast.

Yes, that is a thing I came up with somehow and that I like to eat. Sitting down to eat my awesome breakfast with a glass of milk, I noted how the rest of my family was seemingly sleeping in today. They probably had the right idea to save their energy for the convention. But I didn't regret waking up early since I got a lot out of it. Magic would sooner or later be in my arsenal and I'd rather be able to use it. I imagined magic to be one hell of a multi tool for any situation. And seeing how I was currently seated in a usually magicless world, it would be even more useful.

While eating, I once again took a look at the forum, only to get an error, telling me their server had been D dossed by some asshat. Yeah, apparently there were people like that. Xenophobes who were all outright against people turning into ponies. A religious view, I could understand. People throwing out their own children for something they don't have any control over? It made me sick just thinking about it.

Fortunately, the law had been fairly swift in establishing the fact that we were still "humans" and therefore the laws still applied to us. Any assault or such was no different from before. I sighed to myself at that, knowing the convention was going to have people less fortunate than me. People that had no home since this all began and people who had to fight nail for tooth to get here. The world, is in essence an unfair one, and yet, we all strive for a better life. Some making it worse for others just to benefit themselves, not caring that they to were striving for the same things in life, only to complain once someone else does the same to them.

Perhaps, with ponies, it would be different? Friendship is Magic... We'll see about that. Someone is bound to weaponize magic if it's left here on Earth unsupervised... Humans were not meant to wield it for a reason. Had we had it from the start, maybe, but introducing it now could prove devastating.

Pulling myself away from the sadness of reality, I instead considered how I could be of help with my own magic. As the world was now, there were probably a lot of people willing to turn back into humans. That would be a good start perhaps? A way for turning the ones not willing to become ponies back into humans.

And some, most likely would be happy enough just to get their gender back...

I sighed again and caused myself to jolt, Still not used to my own female voice. Speaking of, I would have and get myself some appropriate clothing. I might be turning into a pony, but I would like to keep what's left of my dignity until then. That meant before the convention me and my sister would be going clothes shopping. Yay.

Author's Notes:

Thanks to Acarcion for helping out by editing/proof reading this chapter.

Well, each chapter, I keep believing I'm about to reach the convention... And each time, it gets pushed farther away, seems I'm a bit scared of actually pushing the story in that direction... But don't worry. It will happen, and it will happen soon. But right now, female clothing is a priority.

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