I'm a loli?!?

by aterriblewriter

First published 20th of April, 2015

I didn't expect this in the morning..... why the hell do i have tentacles, and why are there talking ponies all over the place here? i'm just gonna try to stay home.

Sigh.... Great. Just great! I get sent into ponyland as a loli. Not just any normal kind of loli. Noooo! I'm a loli with tentacles growing out of my back. I can't even control these things! At least they somewhat listen to me, and I kept my house though...

Follow Dakota as he/she/it goes through the MLP FIM episodes, changing things as he tries to live his life. He appears around a few days before the events of Ticket Master and the CMC has already formed, if you want an exact date.

The cover art was made by InvaderIka. Here's the link.
http://invaderika.deviantart.com/art/TRADITIONAL-Okage-The-Shadow-King-Styled-Ally-487246142

Meeting the Locals

“Beep! Beep! Beep! Click.” I turn of the alarm and rub my eyes. It’s around 10:00 A.M. I hop of my bed and stretch, yawning quietly as I do so.

After stumbling my way downstairs to the living room, I noticed something strange. neither of my parents were up.

“Huh? They are usually up by now……. Eh, probably sleeping in.” I thought to myself.

Still half asleep, I walk into the kitchen. When I reached for the cabinet, I Found I couldn’t reach it. waking up slightly, I look up.

“How did I get shorter? ….. What the hell happened to my voice!?!” I yell out. My voice sounded like a five year old girl! I made a mad dash to the nearest mirror, which was in the downstairs bathroom.

When I looked into the mirror, I gasped. Staring back at me with light blue eyes was a little girl with the whitest hair i’ve ever seen. Her skin was a deathly pale. she was wearing a red and black lolita dress. all in all, she was adorable and creepy at the same time.

“What is that? ….. oh my god!” moving out of her back were four dark grey tentacles. one of the tentacles were holding a doll.

The tentacle holding the doll dropped it into my hands. I don't know why, but I could feel them trying to calm me down. The doll appeared to be a homemade one. It kinda looked like Lilo's doll from lilo and stitch...... kinda cute, actually

After pinching myself a few times, I realized I wasn't dreaming. Staying calm, I went to my parent's room. Upon opening the door, I was greeted with the sight of an empty bed.

"Okay..... Stay calm, just stay calm. They must have left to get some groceries." Walking out of the room, I went back to the living room. I turn on the TV and find that there is no signal. Sighing, I turn off the TV.

*knock knock knock.

"Huh? Who could that be?" I think to myself before walking to the door. I open the door and find three....... ponies? The one one the left was yellow with a red mane. It was wearing a red bow. The one on the right to it was white with a two toned lavender and pink mane. On its forehead it had a ..... Horn? Moving on, the last pony in the center was orange with a purple mane. On it's sides, I've noticed, were wings. All three of them were bigger than me

".... I don't even..." My right eye started to twitch. I slowly closed the door. After a minute to regain composure, I reopened the door and they were still there, just sitting on my porch in shock. All of us silently stared at each other for a few minutes.

I eventually broke eye contact and looked around to see if I can find where they came from. What I found the most disturbing, was that this wasn't even my town anymore. I did not have a giant tree/house down the dirt road and I did not have ponies running around anywhere near my town. Scarily enough, everypony nearby was staring at me with various expressions.

With wide eyes, I slowly closed and locked the door. I then made a mad dash up to my room and did the one thing that felt appropriate, hiding under my blankets, curled up in the fetal position, and hold the doll tight. Within moments, I heard a panicked shout outside.

"- What was that thing!?! -"

"- Ah don't know girls. Maybe we should get Fluttershy? It seemed kinda jumpy. -"

"- Whatever it was, my sister would love it. Did you see the clothes it was wearing? -"

"- Maybe we can get our cutie marks in helping it? -"

"- I don't think so, Scootaloo. Do you remember what happened when we tried to get our cutie marks in taking care of animals? I'll never look at bunnies the same way. -"

"- Point taken. We'll leave this to the expert. Let's go get Fluttershy.-"

"Strange, that almost sounds like ..... talking?" After the noises stopped, I realized what I was doing.

"What the hell am I doing? I am a grown man.... Who still lives with his parents.... What the hell is wrong with me?" I chided myself, throwing my blanket off me.

"Maybe its the body I'm in. New body, new feelings.....Right?" I sigh. " How did this happen? Eh... It's happening. Just go with the flow and hope for the best."

I take the blankets off me and get up and walk to my bedroom window, leaving the doll on the bed. Looking out, there were many ponies moving around. I blinked, off in the distance, a castle built on the side of a mountain. Across the street, on my right, was a giant tree with windows on it. On my left was a building that would make Hansel and Gretel have nightmares. Other than those houses, there was old style houses, like the ones you would see in villages in my fantasy books.

Looking back at the treehouse, I could see telescope pointed directly at my window from the balcony. Looking through the telescope, was a lavender unicorn with a dark purple mane and tail. Me being the weirdo I am, waved at the pony.

"- What! -"

Damn! I heard her from all the way over here! Next thing I know, there was a flash behind me then a scream. After slowly turning around, I see her held in the air by her legs by my tentacles. She gave me a dirty look and teleported to my bed. My tentacles made another move to get her, but I grabbed them before they got her.

"No! Bad! Be nice!" I scolded them. I don't know how but I felt that they were sorry.Letting them go, I look back at her and smile, scratching the back of my head.

"Sorry about that. These things move on their own and.... Uhhhh.... You don't understand what I'm saying do you?" I ask, seeing the confused look she was giving me. I sigh. Tarzan don't fail me now.

I put my hand on my chest. " Dakota." I point towards her, giving her a look. She looks thoughtfully at me. I do it again. I could almost see the light bulb above her head. She points a hoof at herself. "- Twilight -" she points at me "- Dakta -" well, at least she tried. I smile a little and nod. I point at her, " triwife." Her ears go flat against her head and she gives me a shaky smile.

"Grrrrrr....." My stomach lets out a fearsome growl. I look back and notice she's giving the universal, don't eat me, look, that I return with a blank stare. I shrug and walk downstairs.

"I knew I forgot something in all this 'excitement.' Breakfast. Now, what am I going to make? I've got a pony here so, most likely no bacon." I thought to myself

"- Where do you think you're going? Hey! -"

Ignoring her, I go back to the kitchen with her following. As if knowing what to do, the tentacles get to work. One opened the fridge, while the other pulled out the eggs. The other set pulled out the skillet. Next thing I know, there was a breakfast fit for a family of five.

"How did they make chocolate chip pancakes? I don't even have the chocolate for them. Probably don't want to question it, I want my sanity semi intact by the end of the day." I thought to myself, picturing me, held down in a straight jacket while the guys in white put a needle in me. Shuddering at the thought, I look back at Tri.

It would appear that she was amazed at how fast I made breakfast. Noticing I was staring, she levitated a pancake to her and eyed it carefully. After her horn flashes a few times, she takes a small bite, her eyes close.

"Is she.... Moaning?" Indeed she was. ignoring that weirdness, I grab a pancake and was about to take a bite when....

*knock knock knock

"Why god? Of all the guys in the world you chose me." Sighing and putting down the pancake, I walked to the front door and look out the window. Waiting on my front porch, was a butter yellow pegasus hiding behind her pink mane. Behind her were the other three ponies that showed up earlier.

"- You think it is still here? -"

"- ah think so. Why would it leave? -"

"- Girls, are you sure it is here? I think the pony who lives here would have come to me if some critter was in her home. -"

"- Fluttershy, the house wasn't even here yesterday. I think it lives in the house.-"

"- Maybe some unicorn magicked the house here. Remember when Twilight turned an apple into an orange? -"

"- I don't think it works like that Scootaloo, and even if it did work, how does that explain the creature inside? -"

After a quick internal debate, I open the door and was met with stares.

"-G...Girls? Is this it? -"

"- Yes, yes it is. -"

"- Do you know what it is Fluttershy? -"

"- Girls, I don't know what it is. I know all of the critters in Equestria, this isn't one of them. -"

After waiting for them to stop talking, I went up to the yellow one. She seemed to shake harder the closer I got. Noticing this, I just turn around and walk back inside. I went back into the kitchen and saw Tri still eating the pancakes, I grabbed a pancake and went back to the porch.

"Here, take it. The best way to gain trust is through the stomach, is what I always say." I ripped up the pancake into fourths and give them each a piece. The orange one didn't even attempt to examine it, it just devoured it right on the spot.

Everyone gave her a shocked look. "- What? It was my favorite kind of pancake. -" She said defensively

"- You ate it like it was the first meal you had all week. "- the white one deadpanned.

"- Hey! If you loved them as much as I do, you would have done the same. -" orange countered.

"- How good was it? -" The little yellow one questioned while poking her piece.

"- It tasted like love.... Mmmm -" the orange one drooled.

The other three gave her a confused look and looked back at me. I just shrug, It wasn't the weirdest thing I've seen all day.

"- okay, on the count of three, we take a bite. -" the white one announced.

"- One. -"

"- Two. -"

"- Three! ..... Mmmm -" they all let out a chorus of moans. Apparently, my tentacles can make a mean pancake.

"Come on, I've got too much to eat, even with my guest." They seemed to get the gist of what I said and followed me inside. Once we got inside the kitchen, they saw my guest. She was still chowing away at the stack of pancakes.

"- Oh, Twilight, what are you doing here? -" the yellow one asked as she was walking up to her.

"- Well, First, I was examining the magic burst that occurred this morning. But, at the center it was this house. Second, I saw this little thing inside. When it saw me, it just waved like it was a pony. I teleported inside and within seconds it made breakfast. -" Tri recapped. "-I kind of like it already.-"

I just tuned out their conversation, as I couldn't understand them anyway, and went to the dinner table. It seemed like the other three had the same idea, and followed me. I don't know how, but they each took a seat at the table.

"Okay, I'm definitely insane aren't I? It would explain sooo much." I thought while sighing. I was broken out of my musings by a plateful of pancakes and scrambled eggs the tentacles brought me. In the back of my head I could feel that they were trying their best to assure me I'm not insane.

"And these things are kinda cool. Though, why are they acting of their own free will? I don't want a Doctor Octopus incident in the future." I thought to myself.

One of the tentacles opened a drawer and brought me a fork. "Oh, uh, thanks." All it does is bob up and down.The other three tentacles moved to get the other three ponies' plates. The orange one, once she got her plate, just kinda... Dug in with just her face, moaning the whole time.

"- Ohhh, sweet Celestia! I don't know what you are, but you are about as awesome as Rainbow Dash in my book for sharing these. -" the orange on praised. Her friends giving me another look.

"Huh, OK? I don't know what she said, but it sounded like she was in love with me..... What the hell is in these?" I just smile and nod.

Taking a bite of pancake, I am hit with the taste of the gods and all I could think of is, "More. Good! Moar!" After mindlessly devouring the pancakes at a speed I thought only the flash was capable of, I woke up from the mindless haze.

"Whew, those things are dangerous.... Dangerously good!" I mentally cheered. I had tentacles that could make heavenly pancakes. I reach out and pet a tentacle. They seemed happy that I was happy. If they could keep cooking like that, I won't have as many problems here.

It's strange having tentacles that work separately from yourself. Its like having a person on your back and she can only communicate by her feelings. But these tentacles are acting like a mom that I've never had.

"Strange... I can't remember my parents..... Uhhh.... Don't panic, you have some photo albums in the living room,stay calm, you don't want to freak out the magical unicorns in the house. I'll just check them in a minute." I internally panic while on the outside I have a PokerFace. I walk into the living room, get the album and walk back into the kitchen, taking a seat behind the table.

Opening the album, I was met with pictures of a different family with the little girl I am in front smiling. She didn't have the tentacles in the first few pictures. As I went on, I noticed the other members of the family disappearing one by one. In the second to last picture, was just a woman lying in a hospital bed with the little girl on a seat beside her. The woman had no hair and was looking at the little girl with a weak smile. The little girl was giving the woman a small smile of her own, but her eyes, they told a different story they told of a girl who lost everything and was accepting it like she had no will to go on. On the bottom was writing.

Goodbye Moma.

Not liking that one bit, I move to the last picture. It showed the little girl standing in the same spot for all the other family photos. It was just her standing there, but she had the tentacles in this one. In her blue eyes I saw a happiness like when a survivor on an island was just been found and is being taken home. The tentacles were out and it looked like they were the ones taking a picture judging from them being out of the edges of the picture. On the bottom said, Mamas back. Shocked, I slowly closed the book.

".....Okay, what was that I just read? That was some dark stuff in this album. Why wasn't I in there? Am I really insane? I'm really losing it aren't I? "

"- Uhhh, Fluttershy? Ah think somthin's wrong with the critter. -" I was broken out of my reverie by the yellow one's worried tone. I didn't notice her get closer to me. I then noticed my face was wet, I was crying.

"- Really? what happened? -" the bigger yellow one trotted over to us with the other three.

"- Ah don't know. All it did was look in the book it was holding then it started crying. -"

"- The poor dear... Come here little fella. I will make you feel much better. -" the bigger one beckoned in a motherly tone. A tentacle stretched away from me and left the room only to return with the doll from earlier. I quickly grab the doll and hold it close, briefly realizing again I'm a kid.

"I'm fine...." I sniffle. "Really? You are a grown man, get it together! Besides, they can't understand you anyway." I mentally chide myself.

One of the tentacles moved to grab the album, only to be stopped by the purple one. "- You were reading this, right? If you don't mind... -" She says as she levitates the album over to herself.

The others surround her, trying to take a peek at the album. After a few minutes she was in tears. "- I.... I.... I need to send a letter. -" Says before teleporting away with the album.

"I guess that she went home?" I ponder out loud, my unexplained tears forgotten. "This is gonna be one of those days, isn't it?"

Author's Notes:

Did you like it? I think I did pretty good for my first time writing. I even wrote this thing on my tablet. Also, special thanks for my editor, Silver Spoon.

I'll just brace for the comments.

Edit: I uh.... Kinda went back to fix this up. Dang, I was bad....

Eh, I just cleaned it up some. It is just the lazy kind of fixed, you know the kind.

Meeting The White One

Shortly after Tri teleported out of my house, the little ones decided to drag me outside.

"H-Hey! Stop that! Don't bite there!" My yells were going ignored by the little ones. The big one heard me though.

"- Uhh... Girls? I don't think she wants to go out... -" she said in an almost whisper, almost unheard by the trio of little monsters.

"- It's okay Fluttershy, I'm just going to take her to meet my sister. -" the little white one replied, letting go of me.

"- Well...okay.... Just try to be careful. I don't think she is used to be dragged around.... -"

"Okay guys, if ya want me to go with ya it better be somewhat important. Just please, no dragging." I conceded with my irish accent leaking through.

"- Did ya hear that? It sounded like she wants to go with us.-"

"- Yes, I heard Applebloom. Now, let's get moving! -" The white one exclaimed, starting to trot away in the direction of the candy house.

Within four minutes of following the group, and gaining various looks from the residents of the town, we were in front of the building. As soon as I walked in front of one of the windows, I heard glass shatter and, not wanting glass in my eyes, closed them. Next thing I know, I'm on my back and missing the doll I was holding with something heavy on my chest.. Opening my eyes, I am greeted with an insane sight, a pink pony with a wild cotton candy like mane staring into my eyes with her deep blue ones.

Sensing my panic, two tentacles wrap around her and pick her up off of me. That action earned a few gasps from my audience. While she was suspended in the air, I took my time getting up and brushed the dirt off of my clothes. I turn to my group and point at the pink one in my tentacle's grip with a confused look on my face.

"Do ya know 'er? If ya don't, I'm chuckin 'er back where she came from." I promise. The message seemed to come across the language barrier and they nod. "Okay, now, you..." I point to the pink one. "Don't do that again, you could have hurt someone." I say while giving her a light glare.

"- Okie dokie, not gonna happen again.-" she says while giving me a mock salute.

"Okay, tentacles, put her down." I command while giving a tentacle a pat, sensing a lot of love from the touch. "I really gotta get a good name for these things...." I think to myself. " Wait.... Where's the doll?" The moment I thought that, I sensed a feeling from the tentacles basically saying, 'don't worry I got this.' One tentacle moved and grabbed the doll from inside a nearby barrel. "Who the hell leaves an empty barrel in town?" That thought was immediately silenced once the doll was gracefully dropped into my hands, feeling love radiate from the tentacles. Smiling a little from the feeling, I give one a pat on the side.

When the pink one was safely on the ground, the crowd watching this gave a synchronized sigh of relief. "Seriously? What am in? Some kind of 80's sitcom?" I look at my group and point in the direction we were going. "Let's get moving! I don't like being stared at by everyone like I'm the town freak!" They got the hint and we continued on our path, the pink one following.

3 minutes later

"Wow.... What is this place? The circus?" I thought when I saw the circus tent like building in front of me. The little white one seemed to get more excited when we got closer. Looking back at the others, I see the pink one talking to the yellow one. "More like being talked at. " I giggle in amusement, then stop in wonder. "Of all of the adorable things I've heard, one of the top six in my list. Am I really that adorable now? Sigh... Just go with it. I don't wanna go even more crazy." I sigh and look back at the pink one.

I had just got her to get the message to go talk to someone else. For a little bit, she just hopped around me asking me questions at a pace I thought possible. When I pointed at my ears she had something akin to a seizure for a split second, and when that was done she just looked at me and smiled so wide I thought she was the joker incarnate for a second and, with surprising bounciness, she hopped off to the yellow one.

The little white one opened the door, a green aura wrapped around the handle and her horn, and I heard a chime of a bell on the inside. We walked inside and I instantly noticed the dresses on the walls and mannequins, if you could call pony shaped ones mannequins. Feeling dread, realizing I was wearing a dress and that I was a girl inside of what could be described as hell, or heaven if I were girly, I gulped and resigned to my fate.

"Of all the places they could have brought me, they brought me to a dress store.... Dammit! ...sigh.... I probably can't even run even if I wanted to, seeing as the little unicorn can lift things with her mind." I think in despair.

"- Welcome to Carousel Boutique! Where everything is chic, unique, and magnifique. How may I help- ahhhhh!-" the loud scream broke me from my thoughts. Looking around, I see a snow white pony with a deep purple mane. "Huh... How did she get her mane to do that? It probably take too long with those hoov-" That thought stopped when I noticed her horn. "Ahh, more levitation. So that's how she does it." After a few seconds of starring, she regained her composure and blushed a little bit.

"- I'm dreadfully sorry about that dear, but your appearance caught me off guard. And I must add that the dress you are wearing has one of the more... unique themes I've ever seen.-" she apologized. The little white pony trotted up to her.

"- Hi sis! Meet my new friend.... I didn't get her name.-" she looked back at me. "- What is your name anyway?-"

The yellow one joined in. "- Sweetie, I don't think she can understand us.-" She looks back at the bigger white one.

"- Rarity, you work with visitors from other kingdoms. Wouldn't you know a translation spell?-" She asked, looking hopeful.

"- I think I have one dear, just give me a few moments to see if I can find the book. Though, I haven't a clue why you wouldn't go to Twilight for this.-" the white one admitted, walking out of the room with the yellow one.

"-We'll help too!-" The little white one yelled running after them

"- CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS BOOK FINDERS! YAY! -" The other two yelled chasing their friend, leaving me all by myself with the pink one nowhere to be found.

"Well... That was unexpected." I think to myself, looking at where they went. "Just gonna follow them I guess.." I shrug and walk over to the doorway leading into a hallway. Following the noises of yelling and crashing around, end up on the third door on the right. The door was open and the sight I was greeted with was complete chaos. In the room was a queen size bed and two little bookshelves. The little trio apparently made the bookshelf on the left side of the room fall over. They were just throwing books left and right, taking a small peek at the cover and just throwing them in a disorganized pile. The big white one was looking through the opposite bookshelf with the yellow one at a slower, more organized pace.

After a minute or two of watching this, I decide to look for the pink one. Walking out of the room, I see a flash of pink leading into another room. Following it, I walked into a kitchen. "Huh? Its surprisingly modern for a village of ponies. How would they use the stove, let alone make one? They don't even have han- ooohhh! Gotta stop forgetting that they aren't ordinary ponies." Surprisingly enough, I found the pink one digging in the fridge. After a few seconds of internal debate, I decide to walk up and get her attention by poking her.

In the middle of my walk over to her, she just kinda... vanished, leaving a dust cloud in her shape behind. "Well.... I think I'm in cartoon land, judging from what I just witnessed." I think to myself with a twitch in my right eye. "Now... Where did she g-AHHH!" That thought was stopped by the pink one suddenly dropping from the ceiling onto the unfortunate cushion below, which was me. "What is she?!? A ninja?!?"

My tentacles quickly got her off of me, feeling annoyance from them all the while. Looking at her, I saw that she had a layer of what appeared to be white frosting on her mouth. "Ah, raidin' the fridge are we? We really gotta stop meeting this." I say to her with a playful glare. "But really though, not cool, your friends need a little help looking for somethin'." I say while carrying her into the other room unnoticed by the other occupants.

Once I got the tentacles to drop her, a little roughly I might add, she quickly wiped her mouth with one of her hooves and bounced off towards the older group. "- Pinkie? Where did you run off to?-" the white one questioned while glancing at the cover of a book wrapped in a blue glow. I, deciding I probably be in the way, decided to take a seat on the bed.

"-I was looking for the book in the kitchen!-" she all but screamed.

"-Oh really? The last time I remember you being in my kitchen alone was when you ate all my special marshmallow frosting.-" the white one deadpanned, sniffing a few times. "-You ate it all didn't you? I can smell it.-" she gave her a small knowing smile.

The pink one smiled back. "-I may have... But I found the book!-" she dug into her mane with a hoof and pulled out a book. "-Isn't this what you were looking for?-"

"How did she even hold onto the book? She doesn't even have fingers!" I think to myself, wondering about the implications of how that would even work.

The white one gasped. "-Where was it? I thought I put it on the shelf somewhere...-"

"-I can find just about anything with enough frosting on hoof!-" The pink one declared with a little bounce. The white one just looked at her and shrugged. The little ones, hearing the commotion, join our group.

"-Okay Pinkie. Just wait a little bit and we'll be able to understand our guest.-" she said quickly looking for the right passage in the book. "-Girls? I think we have a problem with the spell. It will grant any two ponies the knowledge of the target's language, but it is very magic draining... Also it works for only six hours, so its not a permanent spell.-" she said with a little sigh. "-I don't trust any of you to not rush her with questions, excluding fluttershy. Sorry Fluttershy, but I think you'll be rushed with questions too. so I'll be the translator for the dear.-"

"-Well then, go on sis! I want to know what her name is! We can worry about the time limit later.-"

"-Yay! I can finally know what to do for her Welcome to Ponyville party!-"

"-Do you think you can ask her if she has any pets, if you don't mind?-"

"-Sweet, now I can thank her for the pancakes!-"

"-Hey girls, yah think that after this, I can take her to meet mah sis?-" the little yellow one asked.

"-We'll see, Applebloom. Its up to her or her parents.-" the big yellow one said with small smile. "- judging from her size, I'd say she is as old as you, if not younger. So she may need some friends her age.-" The little yellow one's eyes grew distant. "-Fluttershy... I don't think she has any parents...-"

The white one blinked. "-What? Why would you think that?-"

"-Scootaloo, didn't you notice that the house didn't even have anypony else inside, besides her?-" the little white one asked while turning towards the orange one.

"-Come to think of it... No, no I didn't see anypony else.-" The orange one said, looking at me with an unreadable expression.

"-Well... I suppose we could ask the dear what happened.-"

"- I don't think that's a good idea Rarity. I saw her cry when she looked inside of her photo album. Maybe once we are done with the spell, we'll run over to Twilight's. I saw her leave with the album.-" The orange one said while still looking at me with that same unreadable expression.

I yawn and stretch a little, suddenly feeling tired. "Must be the body..." I think before yawning a little louder, gaining the attention of the others.

"-Aww... The poor dear must be younger than we thought.-" I heard one say, my eyes straining to stay open. My tentacles shared the drowsiness, retracting into my back with a small squish. "-must stay awake... Bed so soft.....zzzzzzz-" was all I thought before I felll over on the bed.

Author's Notes:

Hi guys just going to repeat that I am doing this all on a crappy tablet, as I don't have access to a computer. And if you want another chapter, I'll try to upload at least once or twice a Month. ... That's about all I got so...

Going With The Flow.

Poke.

"Zzzzzz... Oh, I can't eat another bite Taokaka...zzzz" I mumble, still in a dream where I'm having dinner with a certain cat girl.

Poke. Poke.

"Zzzz... Okay maybe one more...zzzz" I start to gnaw on the pillow\giant dumpling.

"-U-um, maybe we should let her sleep. She seems to be having a good dream.....-"

"-Sorry Fluttershy, but we gotta wake her up. Remember what Twilight said? The princesses are gonna show up in a little while to meet her.-"

Shove! Slam!

"I'm up!" I yelp, quickly getting off the floor and rubbing my eyes."Did ya really have to push me outta bed mo-" I quickly stop, realizing that I'm still in cartoon ponyland. Blinking rapidly, I look at the one who pushed me off. "Sweet! Another pegasus.... Why is its mane rainbow colored? And why is it flying indoors?" I think, still half asleep.

"-Good morning sunshine! Come with us!-" she says, picking me up with her hooves and flying into the main room, leaving the yellow one behind.

When she entered the room, I saw the other ponies from this morning, minus the little ones, and one other one that I haven't met before. She had a orange coat with a blonde mane done up in a ponytail. "Okay, a ponytail on a ponytail.... Nothing strange about that. Oh look! She's even wearing a Stetson! Can I get a yee haw!?!" I thought to myself about the obvious cow girl. "Or is it a cow mare? Sigh... I'm too tired for this..." Skittles the pegasus decided to plop me down onto a pillow in front of the two unicorns.

The bigger white one turned to Tri, who was looking through the book the pink one found. "-Are you ready to cast the spell?-"

"-I'm ready. Let's get some answers about our mysterious new foal in town.-" The Tri nodded, horn flashing a little.

A bright, pinkish, semi-transparent orb about the size of an orange sparked into existence near the tip of Tri's horn, making me freak out internally at the slight chance it could be deadly. Looking closer, I could see some symbols akin to runes floating around on the inside. "Huh... Seems familiar.... What were they called again? Runes?" I thought with a small yawn.

Within moments of me yawning, Tri pointed her horn at me, the orb launching at my head with insane amounts of speed. I didn't even have time to dodge before I realized it was coming. Next thing I know, I tasted purple, and my ears popped.

"Anyone care to explain what just happened?" I say out loud, looking at the others with a raised eyebrow. "I mean really, I just tasted a color and I don't think that is a normal thing here. Even if it is, I'm pretty sure it isn't good for me."

"Oh, it's nothing dear. It's just just a simple translation spell that'll let us understand you, that's all." The white one said, making me jump at the sudden comprehensible explanation. "Though, I don't think tasting a color is normal....." She trailed off, not inspiring confidence in that statement. "Sorry, where are my manners? I am Rarity and the one who cast the spell is Twilight." She introduced, giving a small nod towards Twilight. "The one hiding in the corner is Fluttershy and the other pegasus is Rainbow Dash." She said, giving a nod towards the two who woke me up. "And the last two over there are Applejack and Pinkie Pie." She points to the pink monster as she pulls out a cupcake from her mane and the cowpony.

"Guess who Pinkie Pie is." I think to myself with a giggle.

"Okay then.... Might as well introduce myself, I am Dakota." I reply, noticing her posh accent. "Pleased to make your acquaintance, lady Rarity."

"Oh, just call me Rarity, dear." She says with a smile.

"Probably best to lay heavy on the manners around her, if I want to keep on her good side."

"How about we go straight to the point?" Twilight interrupts. "What are you?" She questions, giving me a look like she is going to dissect me.

Rarity gave her a withering look. "Didn't you hear Fluttershy when you got here? She said that she is around Sweetie Belle's age, so we should try to ease the answers out of the poor dear."

Twilight visibly winced. "Oh.... You're probably right about that...I was just in a hurry to learn about her."

"So... They think I'm a kid,huh? Hmmm.... Why do I have the feeling it'll be damn near impossible to correct that misconception?" I think with a small feeling of annoyance. "Also, can't they tell I am right here? Not the best idea to talk about the person DIRECTLY IN FRONT of said person."

I cough slightly to get their attention. "I AM older than I look."

Twilight gave me a curious look "Oh, is that so? Normally Fluttershy's guesses on animals are spot on...." I raise an eyebrow. "Then again you are no ordinary animal." She finished hastily.

I cross my arms over my chest, unknowingly giving off a pout that could have possibly give a certain purple dragon a heart attack from cuteness. "I'm not an animal..." I murmur, feeling a little hurt. "I'm a human..." I stop pouting and looking down in thought. "At least, I think I am." I say a little unsurely, remembering the tentacles.

"Huh... I wonder where they when- OW! OW! OW! OH MY GOD THAT HURTS!" I was broken out of my thoughts by my back exploding in pain. Crippled by pain and unable to scream,I dropped to my knees with my hands being the only thing keeping my face off the floor, earning a few gasps from everyone in the room. The next few moments were agony, my back felt like something was digging its way out. This seemed to take forever and then, finally, with a loud ripping noise and something wet running down my back, the pain became bearable enough to get back up.

Silence engulfed the room, the only thing that could be heard was my labored breathing. I slowly moved my hand to my back to investigate the wet feeling. The dress I was wearing was torn open in the back, from what I could feel. Once I smeared some of the liquid on my finger, I held it up to my face.. "Uhhhh.... I don't suppose someone has anything to clean up blood?" I ask, still in disbelief. I take a small look over my shoulder and see one of the familiar tentacles covered in blood, feeling guilt radiate from them the moment I saw the one.

My question broke the silence like a wrecking ball, causing all the ponies in the room, except Fluttershy, to go into a screaming frenzy.

She moved to look closer at my back. "-hmmm... Minor bleeding coming from around the exit points... Bleeding slowing...-" she murmured quietly to herself, and smeared off some of the blood around the base of one of the tentacles with her surprisingly soft hoof, making me hiss in pain.

"Watch it, please. It is still a little tender, ya know?" I inform her, knowing she's just looking to see if anything's wrong. The tentacles, feeling a little nervous, kept twitching every now and again. She turns back to the still panicking group.

"-Girls! Calm down! It is nothing serious! She'll live!-" she yelled to them, effectively causing the same

"-Fluttershy, what happened to her? Ah mean, she was doing just fine a moment ago.-" The Applejack asked, a frown on her face.

"- I think, while she was asleep, her back healed over where the tentacles retracted, thus when they came out, we came to witness that little 'show.'-" she said in a professional voice, then the confidence was lost in a moment, causing her to try to hide behind her hair. "- T-The bleeding should stop in a few minutes. All she needs is a good washing... I-if you don't mind.-"

"Thank you Fluttershy." Twilight then looks at me with relief, while Rarity looked crestfallen at the now ruined dress. "Why would you bring out the tentacles if your back heals over them?" Twilight asked me.

"First of all, I didn't even have these yesterday. How would I know that? Secondly, I can't even control these things. They kinda do their own thing, haven't you noticed." I deadpanned with a shrug, a tentacle poking my hand while emanating feelings of gloom coming from my back "As far as I know, they have a mind of their own." I stop briefly, petting the one tentacle that kept nudging my hand, feelings of pleasure geminate from it. "I can kinda feel what they feel..." I trail off, amazed at all the emotions I can feel from them.

"By the way... Can we please wash off the blood?" I change the subject, not really wanting to walk around with blood all over my back and on the tentacles." I don't think having blood on me is going to end up well-received outside. On the matter of the dress, isn't all that bad. I can just wait till I get home to change." I inform them, hoping that the supposed dressmaker won't get too excited and make me the model for some dresses.

"Oh no dear! I'm not going to let something adorable as you run around in rags. Just a moment dear, I'll fix something fabulous up for you right now, just wait a few and I'll be back to get you cleaned up and dressed." Rarity tells me while running to the back room, making me scream internally at the thought of me wearing something too girly.

I gulp loudly, my fears went unnoticed by the others "Just to make sure here, but she is a dressmaker, right?"

"Actually, she is one of the most famous dressmakers of all of Equestria. So you don't have anything to worry about." Twilight says with a big smile

That answer didn't calm my worries at all, it only caused more internal screaming then depressed acceptance. "Sigh.... Look on the bright side. You'll get something fancy out of this." I try to be optimistic about the dress.

"Ah.... Cool... Moving onto the spell.... You said it makes you understand me, right? Can't you... I dunno... reverse that? I mean if I can understand you, I can understand the others in here, right?" I take a shot in the dark. "Let's hope it'll work like I think it will."

"Why didn't I think of that?!?" Twilight... Facehoofs, I think that is what its called, at the sheer simplicity of the matter. "Doesn't that hurt?" I thought as I heard a dull crack as her hoof met her head

"Just a second, and I'll have it reversed." She said as her horn lit up, her mumbling all the while. "Great, I taste green now."

"Aaaaand... Done!" She exclaims.

"Twilight, what did you do? We thought you already cast the spell." The rainbow maned one asked, finally having her hooves on the floor.

"Well, she-" I start, only to be interrupted by Twilight. "I reversed the spell, so thanks to her for giving me the idea." She explained, ignoring my unamused glare burning a hole in the side of her head.

The room immediately went quiet, so quiet I could hear what's going on outside. "I gotta bad feeling about this..." The room erupted into a chorus of questions.

"Everyone, would you just shut up!" I yell with my tentacles slamming into the ground, effectively shutting up everyone in the room. "Alright! Here's the deal. My name is Dakota and I'm going to answer your questions one at a time. Now, I'll choose who goes first." I announce, glaring the whole time. Pointedly ignoring the pink one with her hoof in the air yelling,"Ooh! Ooh! Pick me! Pick me!" I settle on the shy one hiding in the corner of the room. I point at her raising my eyebrow. "OK. You go first. What do ya wanna know?" I ask, making Pinkie's mane deflate slightly.

"I-I w-was wondering if you had any pets." She stammered out, trying to hide further into her mane. I blink.

"Well... That was unexpected Ms. Fluttershy..." I ask, a little put off by the question.

"J-Just call me Fluttershy. I-I mean, i-if you don't mind."

"OK Fluttershy. Just to answer your question, I didn't have any pets because my parents were allergic to fur. Though, I secretly did have a pet snake way back when." I tell her with a smile, thinking of cuddles, unknowingly having tears flowing down my face.

"Ahem!" Twilight choughs, getting my attention. "Speaking of parents, where are they?" She asks in a low voice, understanding in her eyes.

"Hmm... I can't remember... But, judging from the photo album... And the feelings from trying to remember them..and when I didn't see them at home..." I assume the worst. "T-they are gone..." I say quietly with a sniffle. "Shouldn't you know anyway? You have the book." I say with a little irritation at her taking my things.

She visibly winced at the question. "I... Uh, my have wanted to make sure what I saw in it was accurate."

"Well, it might be... Though the last thing I remember is them being alive when I was going to bed and ..." I point at the tentacles "These weren't on me back then." I finish with a shrug. one of the tentacles, deciding to want to get pet, moves to prod at my right hand. With a smile and completely losing the tears, I give it what it wants, feeling more love radiate from them. "These guys are pretty cool, once you get used to them." I add as an afterthought, deciding it would be less complicated to leave out the whole, 'I was a guy!' thing.

"It probably would cause more trouble than it's worth." I thought to myself before hearing a loud cough.

"Ah don't wanna burst your bubbles, but can ya tell us what in tarnation is going on?" The Applejack asked, looking as lost as Skittles on the cushion beside Fluttershy.

10 minutes of explaining later

During the explaining session, the moment she finished the outfit she was making, she ran in and I found myself engulfed in a blue aura. All in all, it made me feel embarrassed with how fast she cleaned me up and put it on me. She just dragged me into the bathroom! I barely had time to put up a struggle, before she tore my clothes off of me and threw me into a tub full of warm water, viciously starting scrub me down. Once she got done, practically drowning me in fancy looking soaps in the process, she dried me off with a simple flash from her horn. Another flash and an outfit, I kid you not, suddenly materialized. The outfit was a black with purple trim maid outfit similar to the dress I was wearing before my tentacles tore it up. I say similar because it was more lacy than the last one. Rarity even took the tentacles into account and made holes in the back for them to go through. To go the extra mile, she added the maid hat thing to complete the look.

"Did you really have to drag me into the bath? I would have gladly went with you." I ask, still kind of reeling from the insanity I just went through.

"I just was in a hurry to see you in the dress I made dearie." She says while giving me a once over, seemingly pleased with her work. "Do you like it?" She asked, looking at me expectantly.

"Yeah, but you could have been a little more gentle back there." I shudder, it wasn't to pleasant being scrubbed raw. "You're lucky that I'm a pretty laid back gu-girl." I save myself from a disaster. Hoping she didn't catch that, I use my newly acquired cuteness to pout up at her.

"Awwww dearie, it won't happen again." She gushes, giving me a soft pat on the back with her hoof. "Now come on. We have a princess to meet and she'll be here soon." She walks out of the room with me close behind.

"There's a princess? Where in the world did I end up?" I finally ask. looking at her with puppy eyes, I smile on the inside when I see her break under the act. "I am sooo glad that I got cuteness working for me. If I am stuck here, I WILL milk this for all it's worth."

"It's nothing to worry about darling. She is just coming to welcome you to Equestria." She said reassuringly. "Actually, Twilight is her personal student." She added, making me raise an eyebrow.

"Anything else I should know?"

"Well.. She is pretty tall.... And I guess from your size, it would be intimidating." She acknowledged my height, making me feel like a certain alchemist. "You are one of the smallest things I've ever had to make clothes for." She admitted, blushing a little. "No offence dearie, but how old are you?"

"Let's go with the kid act. Who knows? It could be fun." I think to myself with a big grin aimed at Rarity. "I am twelve and a half years old!" I proudly exclaim.

"Really? but you're so small..."

"The doctors said something about me not growing right... But they said I'll be just fine!" I lie, completely pulling that explanation out of nowhere and making me sound like an innocent little kid.

That got a reaction. The moment I said that, she looked at me like I was the saddest thing she ever saw, complete with teary eyes and sniffles. "You're an optimistic little one, aren't you?" She asks, a little disbelieving at my optimism.

"It's what I have learned from my mom. you can't be held up looking at the past. You have to look forward to the future and see the good things." I say with a mock serious face and sagely nod.

She brightened up at that. "You stay strong no matter what and don't let anypony bring you down.... I think I would have loved to meet her."

"Yes, yes you would have..." I murmur lowly. After a few moments of silence, we realized we stopped just in front of the main room's door. We both looked at each other and blinked. "Hehehe, everyone loses track of where they are when they are having a good conversation with someone, huh?" I ask with with a smile as the tentacles opened the door.

"Indeed they do." She replies with a wink.

We pass by the front door, only to stop halfway when we heard the bell. Turning around, we both see a purple and green... Lizard thing? The green spines on its head were like a green Mohawk. He looked like a young spyro, minus the wings and gold trim.

"Rarity? Is Twilight here? I got a letter for her." He asks holding up a fancy looking scroll. Finally noticing me, He turned to look right at me and I could have sworn his pupils turned into hearts and Styx's song, "Lady," started to play.

"Who is she?" He asks Rarity, somehow getting dark purple hearts to float around him. He blinks at Rarity, gaining white hearts. He looked confused for a moment as the hearts had a dogfight, the purple hearts versus the white hearts. Both colors hearts were flying around him, shooting smaller black hearts at the opposite team. In the end, the purple hearts won while the white ones were thrown onto a pile and set on fire.

"I am Dakota." I introduce myself, getting creeped out by the Spyro wannabe staring at me.

He still has the hearts floating around him, including the burning pile of white hearts.. "Sorry about that. I was distracted by your...." He trails off, making me blush.

"Don't you have something to give to twilight?" I ask, knowing what he was going to say and snapping him out of the creepy cartoon love scene, the hearts disappearing.

"Oh yeah! Rarity, do you know where twilight is?" He asks.

"We were going to get back to her. She's just through this door." She tells him. She yelled in said door, "Twilight! Spike's here with a letter for you!"

With a flash, Twilight teleports right in front of me, startling me which caused the tentacles to pick her up by the legs upside down.

"Hey! Put me down!" She yells, thrashing in their grip.

"Well you shouldn't freak me out like that! Remember what I said earlier? They do what they want!" I yell back. By this point, all the others came into the room to see what the commotion was.

"What in tarnation is going on here!?!" Applejack exclaimed.

"She startled Dakota's tentacles, and they took action." Rarity explained.

"She's sooo awesome!" Spike cheered, regaining the hearts in his eyes.

"Not as awesome as me, little guy." Rainbow dash said smugly.

"Ooh! Ooh! Can I be next? I wanna be picked up!" Pinkie pie asked excitedly.

"C-Could you put her down? I-I mean if you don't mind." Fluttershy hesitantly asked.

"Okay, I think she learned her lesson. Put her down." I tell the tentacles. They send feelings of annoyance and dropped her on her face.

"Owww! Why did you do that?" She yells from her spot on the ground.

"What did I tell ya? These things do their own thing." I deadpan, tired of saying the same thing. "Just read the letter Spike brought for you. It could be important." I suggest as she gets up, rubbing her head and giving me a glare.

She levitates the letter to her and opens it. After a short while of reading, she gasps. "The princess is on her way! She'll be meeting us at the town hall in a few minutes!" She exclaims before teleporting away, leaving us behind.

I point at where she stood. "Is she usually like this?"

"Only when the princess or a new book is involved, dear."

"Well then... How long do you think it'll take before she realizes she left witho-" I was interrupted by two flashes. One where she teleported in front of us, then another flash and I felt a wave of vertigo and saw the event horizon for a second, all before blinking and seeing a big building in front of me. Then my stomach caught up with me, making me end up on my knees, throwing up on the ground. "Uuurrp!.... Never take me teleporting again! Uuurrpp!" I throw up again, silently begging whatever force that brought me here to make it end.

Fluttershy trotted up behind me and patted my back. "Oh dear... Um, girls? I think Dakota's sick." I hear her tell them during a break in the hurling.

"Huh? She must not be used to teleporting. Sorry Dakota." Twilight apologizes as she trots up beside me. Once she got up to me, both Rarity and hers horn flashed, causing them to gasp. "She's coming! And she's using a lot of magic to get here!" Twilight exclaims.

Within seconds of Twilight yelling that out, the sky turned dark, only a pillar of light right in front of us with a silhouette of a pony with wings and a horn directly in front of the sun. It seemed as though the whole town was holding its breath. The figure slowly descended from the sky and I was able to make out some features. She was wearing some kind of golden chestpiece with some jewels embroidered on the front. On her hooves were golden... Shoes? I didn't know what to call them. On her head was a golden tiara. Her coat was an almost snow white, upon closer inspection, I could see a very slight tinge of gold. Her mane was kinda weird, it kept shifting colors and it was moving in a nonexistent breeze.

Once she touched the ground, four white ponies decked out in golden armor appeared in a flash, flanking her on all sides.

All was silent, until I broke it by saying one phrase I will come to regret.

".... Showoff....urrrp!"

Author's Notes:

Hi guys! I just applied for college and I might be a little slower on the updates.... Moving on.

If you guys are wondering why he went with the kid explanation, he has one saying he lives by.... "If you're stuck in crazy town, you might as well have fun while you are there."

Up next: Celestia's reaction and the pony taking care of Dakota is decided.

Makin' Plans & Big Disappointments

"Well then... I hope nobody heard that." I think to myself, with growing fear of the giant pegacorn now standing a few feet front of me with her guards. "She really is a big one, isn't she?"

Twilight and the others gasp while the guards glare at me. One unicorn guard on the left stormed up to me, horn glowing and spear pointing at my neck.

"What did you call the princess?" He asked in a venomous tone. Looking closer, he had a familiar crest on the chest piece of his armor, a sun with a face on it and an, even more familiar, bucket-like helmet.

I gulp. "Nothing! Urrrrpp!" I raise my hands in surrender and promptly throw up on him, feeling amusement and concern flow from the tentacles. "Uhhh... I'm sorry, mister.... Anyone got any spells to-uuurrrpp!" I throw up on him again. "Cure teleportation sickness?" I beg, tears running down my face. "It's starting to hurt!"

"I'll show you what hurts, you little-"

"Solaire, please stop harassing the little one." The princess commands in a motherly tone and Solaire immediately moved back into position, still glaring at me through his bucket helmet. Walking up to me, the princess's horn flashed and I immediately felt less nauseous. I look up at her and panic. The tentacles wrapped around me like a protective blanket, making me feel a little better. "What's your name, little one?" She asked lowly, crouching down, as if to make herself smaller.

"....." I was at a loss at this giant in front of me. "Rarity wasn't kidding, she is pretty intimidating up close."

"I am Princess Celestia." She introduces herself with a gentle smile. "Who are you little one?" She asks again.

"D-Dakota...." I say low enough for only her to hear. "Seriously? Scared of a pegacorn? Sigh.... Well, just lost whatever remains of my man-card today....." I think to myself, crying over whatever is left of my tattered remains of my masculinity. "I-I don't want to sound rude, but, w-what are you? I-I've never seen anything like you before..."

The princess only smiles at my curiosity. "I am an alicorn, one of the rarest races in the world, in fact."

"Alicorn? Never heard that one before." I think back to my Greek mythology.

"C-Can I go home now? O-Or maybe we can continue this somewhere else? I'm not liking the audience." I gesture to the crowd that gathered during Celestia's entrance. "Seriously, I'm not liking the stares we are getting."

Flash! Flash! Flash!

"Oh, great! The paparazzi is here!" I yell out, scared at the amount of ponies with cameras.

"ENOUGH!" Celestia roars, stopping the advance of the crowd and making me shrink behind Fluttershy while she tried to hide behind Rainbow. "Can't you all see that you are scaring the little one?" She points towards me. "I expected better of all of you, to not scare helpless children." Most of the ponies in the crowd winced before Celestia addressed Twilight next. "Twilight, I trust you know where her house is?" She asked, gaining an eager smile from Twilight.

"Y-Yes, Princess, I can take you right there." She confidently answered, horn glowing. I panicked. Not wanting to go through the unpleasant experience of teleportation, two of the tentacles went for her horn.

Too slow.

"Urrrpp! Why! Urrrpp! God! Urrrpp! Whyyyyy! Urrrpp!" I cry out from my position on the ground right next to Fluttershy. Surprisingly enough, I was just dry heaving this time around.

"O-oh my... G-Girls?" She gets their attention while rubbing my back, making me feel a little better about this.

Twilight trotted up to me, confusion on her face. "It usually goes away the second time.... Maybe...." Her horn flashes, making me feel more lightheaded. "Ah!" She recoils.

"What is it?" Celestia asked, quickly moving to her side.

"I tried a scan spell to see if something was wrong and...."

"What?"

"She has a weird magic field....There are four different magic fields making coming from her and they seem to originate from the tentacles on her back, not her heart." Her horn glows again, a look of intense concentration on her face.

"There is a heart inside each tentacle! This is amazing!" She exclaims, thoroughly excited.

"Can you explain that to the non-eggheads in the group?" Rainbow Dash confusedly asked.

"It means that they are two separate beings.... A symbiotic bond if you will. One supplies the magic and protection, the other gives a home and nutrients."

"A symbi-what now?" Applejack confusedly asked.

During the explanation, I recovered. "Wait, wait, wait.... I have magic?" I ask, more interested in the magic. "I SOO wanna be a wizard.... Yer a wizard, Harry. Heh,heh,heh" I giggle at the thought.

"Yes, though it is strange for a being having to have a symbiotic relationship to have magic..... Normally everything has magic, including inanimate objects." Twilight confusedly explained.

"Sweet! Let's continue this inside, I can see the paparazzi catching up and I reeeaaaallly don't wanna deal with them right now." I point in the direction of a crowd speeding towards us.

I open the door and let Celestia and the others enter. "Well... Welcome to my place. Just follow me, please." I say after locking the door, not wanting anymore unwanted visitors.

Leading them into the living room, I gesture to the big L-shaped couch in the corner. "I guess most of you'll fit on that... Or would you rather I put some cushions on the floor for you all to sit on?" I ask with a shrug. "I'm not sure how you guys use couches yet, so please bear with me." I inform them, noticing that Solaire is guarding the front door while the other three guards are moving to guard the kitchen doorway.

"It'll do just fine little one." Celestia assures me, taking a seat on the center of the couch.

"Okay then, just gimme a sec...." I try to move the Lazyboy recliner, my favorite seat in the house, so that it's facing them, only to find I can't. "Hnngg! Hnnn! Come on!" A golden glow wraps around the chair and moves it over to them, making me look at its source, Celestia. Everyone laughed while I blushed, embarrassed at my failure.

"T-Thanks....." I hopped onto the seat. "Alright, here's the two questions I've always wanted to ask since I got here.... How did I get here and can I go back?" I question them, getting to the point.

Celestia clears her throat. "As you may not know, there was a massive magic anomaly right where this house resides. Rarely, when enough magic gets destabilized, by somepony miscasting a spell, or by enough magic condensing into a certain area by natural means, it does rarely pull things through other worlds... Normally, it either explodes or form a crystal." She explains, me getting the gist if it. "....Currently, none of those things can be sent back... It only works one way. I apologise, but I can't send you back to your world.." She hesitantly finished, confirming my fears.

The room was silent, for a moment, until I got up from the chair. "I-I... I'm sorry...*sniffle." I say before I run away, in the direction of my room, before being stopped by Solaire.

"Halt! Where do you think you are goi-" I didn't let him finish. I ran past him and ran upstairs and took the first door on the left. locking the door behind me, I slump down, my back against the door, keeping enough mind to not crush the tentacles. I took in the familiar sight of my room, slowly accepting the fact that I was going to be stuck here, without anyone I know, without T.V, without the internet, FOREVER! I let out a small sob.

"Why... Why would this happen... To me of all people.... God, Loki, Sheogorath, whoever the hell it is, if this is your idea of a joke, please stop. It's not funny!" I finally break down. Getting up and climbing my bed with some difficulty. Sparring a moment to curse my new shortness, I finally get up there and scream into a pillow.

"Mmmmmmmmpppphhhh!" I scream, thankful that the pillow muffled most of the sound.

A half-hour later, I was trying to cheer myself up by playing the numerous games I have in my room. Currently, I was playing Mortal Kombat with the tentacles.

"FINISH HER!" A familiar voice commands from the T.V. A certain purple kunoichi, with a winning grin, grabs the blue girl near her and rips her head off, taking a few chomps from it before discarding it on the ground. "FATALITY! FLAWLESS VICTORY!"

"Awww! Come on! How can I lose to you? I used my best character!" I aggravatedly ask the tentacles Upset over losing EVERY match against them, I drop my controller in aggravation. They pat the top of my head in response, feeling smugness from them. I sigh. "Well, at least I am not crying anymore, thanks." I thank them, feeling joy emanate from them.

As I turn off the system, I hear someone coming up the stairs, whoever it was, it was big. "Hello? Are you feeling better, little one?" I hear Celestia ask from the hallway. I sigh. "What do you think? I got torn away from my family, who I can barely remember anymore, get put into a little girl's body, who is possibly some kind of human\slenderman hybrid, and am stuck in some weird pony world.... All in all, I should be insane right now." I sarcastically thought to myself.

"I-I'm alright." I say as I open my door. "W-What's going to happen now?"

"Everything's going to be just fine, don't worry." she tells me as we walk back downstairs to the living room. Once we got there, I stopped for a second, noticing everyone else was gone.

"I talked with Twilight and the others while you were upstairs and I learned a few things that disturbed me...."

"W-What did you learn?"

"Twilight showed me the photo album." She explains, magic holding up said book. "It doesn't leave much to the imagination." She tells me, melancholic understanding in her eyes.

"Which leaves me to this question... How would you feel if somepony lived with you?" She purposes with a smile as she took a seat on the couch.

I quickly got on the recliner, not liking where this is going. "Well.... That depends.... Is it going to be Twilight or one of her friends?" I ask, hoping it might be Fluttershy. "She seemed nice..."

"No, they have other things they have to do. Though, I do have somepony else in mind for this. Her name is Ashen Glade." She says as a pegasus walks in through the kitchen doorway. She had an ash grey mane that hung over one eye on the left. The only eye I could see was the brightest green eye I've ever seen. Her coat was a dirty hue of green that looked like she was living near an active volcano. The dark grey edges of her wings looked a little singed.

"Hi there." She introduces herself with a small wave and I suddenly get feelings of recognition then distrust flow from the tentacles. "Huh? That's new."

Hesitantly, I wave back. "H-Hi...." I look back at Celestia. "D-Does she have to stay?" I ask, earning a look from the princess.

"Only if you want her to."

Ashen Glade spoke up. "Hey, look at it like this, I'll help keep you out of trouble. I'll even let you choose the bedroom for me."

"....Fine...She can stay." I give up, knowing I'll lose this argument. "Anything else I should know?" I ask, earning a simultaneous wince from the both of them.

"Well.... Celestia looked at the translation spell that Twilight cast on you...." Ash trailed off, rubbing the back of her head with a hoof.

"It would appear she made a small mistake..." Celestia finished with a grimace.

"And... That would mean...?" I trail off, not liking where this is going.

".... When the spell wears off.... We can't cast another..."

"How does that work? I-I mean can't you just recast the original version?"

"It doesn't work like that. The modified spell had a hastily made base that gave you an immunity to those spells, a very unexpected side effect."

"So, that means I'll be back to not understanding you guys?"

"Well, not for too long. We'll be sending you to a school near here that will help you learn Equish. Though you'll have to wait a week or so, paperwork and all that jazz." Ash, oh, so helpfully adds.

"Great, school again...... If it's anything like back home, the different kid will be picked on.... Oh, and learning the language....son of a-! I barely even learned Spanish after a few years of classes, how am I going to learn this!?!" I think to myself, internally dreading the day I start going there.

"....sigh.... Is there anything else you wanna tell me? Anything you wanna know? Might as well lay everything out on the table before I go back to not understanding what you are saying." I say with resignation, not liking this at all.

"I want to know what you can eat... We are going to have some issues if I don't know what you are allergic to." Ash tells me.

"I'll eat just about anything you'll give me, though I don't think I can eat hay or flowers." I inform with a shrug. "What? There any unusual diets I should know?"

"Can you eat gems? Spike could eat those." Ash questions, pulling out a scroll and quill.

"......Gems? You mean like, rubies and sapphires?" I ask, perplexed at the thought.

"Yes, exactly like those."

"Screw it, let's get some gems. Might as well get a collection going." I think with a smile. "Sure, I can go for some of those."

Celestia gets up off her seat, happy that we're getting along, walks towards my front door and turns around. "I must go, little one, don't worry I'll be checking in once in a while. The spell, from the looks of it, it'll wear off by around..." She looks outside. "... Sunset, so, if I were you, I'd be sharing as much as I can, so as not to cause misunderstandings later." She turns towards ash. "Ash, I'll be sending you a monthly allowance of bits for anything you might need." She informs before opening the door, stopping again. "Oh, and Little one?"

"Y-Yes?"

"Some leaders of nearby nations might want to meet you, it's not everyday some being is brought over with its whole house. I'd advise caution when meeting them, they can be a little.... Intense at times." With that warning, she left, leaving us in an awkward silence.

"Grrrrr!"

The silence was broken by my stomach growling. I blush and rub the back of my head. "Ya hungry?" I ask, looking at the clock by the T.V., it says 2:47 P.M. I get up and walk towards the kitchen and stop at the doorway, looking at her expectantly.

"Nah, I'm good." She shrugs and I continue into the kitchen.

I take a seat on one of the chairs in there and look back at the tentacles. "Sooo...." I trail off, almost scared to ask. "Show me what ya can do." I tell them, earning feelings of excitement flood from them.

One quickly and gracefully make its way to the bread cabinet and pull out a loaf of bread, the cheap stuff, and another makes its way to get a small plate. The bread one put a slice of bread on the plate and, I dunno how it works, looked at the other one expectantly. The other tentacle glowed blue around its tip, a small ball of what appeared to be peanut butter formed a few inches away from the tip. It gently spread the peanut butter evenly on the bread while the other tentacle did the same to another slice, only it was grape jelly for this one and this tentacle glowed green. They both put both slices together on the plate and put the bread back, leaving me sitting there with a giant grin on my face. I look back to the tentacles.

"Can you do that with things other than food?" I ask them, gaining feelings of cockiness from my back from the question.

The two tentacles tips glowed and clapped. Slowly separating, a thin black mass stretched, forming what appeared to be a blade. They finished, tips inches away from a familiar sword that floated between them.

"Ooohhh, yeah. I'm going to love you guys." I say, excited at having tentacles that can make things appear out of thin air. I grab the sword, looking closer at its details.

"How you made Zangetsu, I won't ask..... But I do have to ask one more thing, can you put it away? I don't think that anyone will like a small child holding onto a very sharp blade." I ask, holding out the sword. Within seconds, all four tentacles moved in front of me, a few inches apart from each other sparks arcing between them for a second before a small rainbow ringed hole in the air formed between them. They slowly maneuvered the hole until it was directly in front of the sword. Feeling a small tug, I let go, seeing it disappear inside.

"Sweeeeet." I hum with a big smile on my face. "I will want to see more though. Maybe tomorrow, when I get semi-comfortable with this situation." I tell them, earning more excitement to flow. I grab the plate with the magically made PB&J sandwich and made my way back into the living room.

When I walked back in, I saw Ash away from the couch, looking curiously at the various movies I have on a shelf. "Hmmm... What are these? .... Some kind of book?" She mutters to herself, somehow taking a movie off the shelf with her wing.

I quietly put my plate on the table and walk up to her. "Kinda." I answer her question, making her wings flare out and throw the movie. Luckily, it landed on the recliner, I got one of the tentacles to get the movie and I looked at the cover. "The Lion King, huh? Nice choice."

"Don't do that!" She yells, not liking the jumpscare. "I almost had a heart attack!"

"Pfft, you'll be fine." I wave her off. "Now, didn't you want to know what this is?" I ask holding up the movie. "I think you'll really like this."

"Yeah, what is it?" She looks at it like it is some kind of trap.

"Just think of it as a special moving picture book." I over simplified.

Quickly walking over to the T.V, I put the movie in the DVD player, humming the whole time and walked back to my seat, getting my sandwich on the way back. I pat the spot next to me while taking a bite.

"Come on, I think you'll like this one." I tell her, getting her to take a seat close to me. I grab the remote and put the movie at the main menu. "Are you sure you don't want anything to snack on? This will go on for a little bit." I ask, earning a shake of her head.

"Nah, I've had a big breakfast."

"Okay then... Let's get this started.... Oh, wait..." I realize. "You probably won't understand this..... It's all in my language..." I frown, getting a little upset at the fact.

"It's all right, I'll probably get the gist of it." She says with a smile, motioning with her hoof to start the movie. "Now come on! I wanna check this out!" She states impatiently.

"Okay, okay, I'm startin' it right now." I giggle, liking her attitude and press play.

A half-hour passes, and I start nodding off, leaning on Ash's side, her wing draped over me like a little blanket. Ash just smiled sleepily at me and continued to watch the movie.

"I guess it's been a long day for you, huh?" She asks, shifting into a more comfortable position, taking care to not disturb my position.

"Mmm, hmmm" I quietly agree with my eyes closed. "You have no idea."

"Okay... I'll wake you up in the morning tomorrow. Just get your rest, we'll be going to the school tomorrow." She tells me, wrapping her wing more snuggly around me.

"I think we are going to get along just fine..... Wait..." I stop that train of thought. ".... Why am I going to sleep so early? I used to go to sleep much later than this! ....... maybe it's because of the tentacles using magic? Ehh... Screw it... I'll think about it in the morning...zzzzz" I fall asleep after that thought, dreaming of a peculiar blue alicorn.

Author's Notes:

Sigh... Still writing on the tablet and am still, quite literally, making this up as I go... What do you guys think of the language barrier returning? And about the gem thing... Yeahhh... gonna make some surprises with those. Dunno how, but I'll do just that.

Cookies for the guys that can name some of the references I made in this chapter.

Dream Hoppin' With The Princess

"What are thou?" Is what I hear the moment I fell asleep.

I take a look at my surroundings, quickly noticing that it is strangely foggy. "Hmmm.... Seems strangely familiar... Where have I seen this before?" I see a silhouette in the fog, whatever it was, it was obviously pony shaped. "Really? I'm dreaming of ponies?" I ask out loud.

"No, we are just merely visiting this early dreamer." A voice tells me, the silhouette coming closer. "We are known as Princess Luna." A blue alicorn walks out of the fog to the right of me, making me jump.

"Waaaahh! Don't do that! Wait.... If you're here..... Then, who's that?" I ask while pointing at the silhouette, almost dreading the answer. "Wait.... Could this be....!" The thought stopped there when I heard a familiar screech. I look to my right, hoping nothing was there, only to be horribly wrong.

There was a familiar sign that almost made me faint right there.

Welcome To Silent Hill

"Nope, nope, nope! Come on, we need to go, right now!" I yell, fear taking control, making me grab some of her fur and try to lead her away from the thing of my nightmares.

Screeeee! thump. Screeee!

"What is it Little one?" She asks me, looking at the growing shape in front of us with a glare.

"Something you don't wanna meet!" I scream "Please! Let's go! Now!" I emphasized each word with a tug, making her look at it with such malice that almost made me stop pulling.

Screeeee! Thud. Mooooooaaaannn!

The monstrosity finally became visible a few feet in front of us. Wearing a blood stained pyramid shaped helmet that covers most of its head, was Mr. Tall Dark and Scary himself, Pyramid head. If it were under different circumstances, I probably would have laughed at him, seeing him as a pony.

"Thou hast no power here! Begone, nightmare beast!" She commands him, earning a loud moan from him. He quickly turned around and walked back the way he came, disappearing into the fog and making a lot less noise than before as if he was scared of her.

"Woah..... You just scared away Pyramid...... Okay, you are now officially the best pony I know!" I exclaim with stars in my eyes.

"No need to thank us. It is all part of our duty as the princess of the night." She modestly tells me. "Now, who are thou? I've never met such a being in my years of nightmare prevention."

"Oh, I'm Dakota." I introduce myself. "You said you were Luna, Right?" I ask to make sure, earning a nod in confirmation.

"Wait.... Luna.... Doesn't that mean moon? Celestia means sun, I think.... So does that mean...?" I think to myself, putting two and two together and, seeing this kind of naming system in cartoons, used cartoon logic. "Are you related to Celestia? I think I can see the family resemblance." I ask, gesturing to her flowing mane that looked like the night sky.

"Why yes, early dreamer. Did thou meet our dearest sister?" She asks me, almost making me ask on the whole, 'ye olde dialect.'

"Yeah, I met her. She came to meet me, didn't she tell you? I-I mean, if you are her sister, wouldn't she would tell you everything, right?" I ask, a little confused that Celestia didn't tell her about me.

"Thou art mistaken, our sister hasn't yet told us about thou. I'll ask her when I see her next." She tells me, her horn glowing slightly. "Wouldst thou like to go to a different dream? More ponies are now starting to slumber and I do not think this early dreamer wants to stay in this dreary place any longer." She asks with a polite smile.

I nod and she opens a .... Tear in the air in front of us and looks expectantly at me. "Follow us, little one."

I gave a small sigh and followed her into the tear. "Hmmm, why can I understand her when I was told that the translation spell ends at sundown? ..... Maybe it is right before sundown and the spell is just about to run out? Yeah, probably that..."

Once I got on the other side of the tear, I stopped in awe. It looked like the world decided to Error 404. We were floating in the air, an endless expanse of crystals floating all around us. If I looked closer, I could see inside them and see ponies doing extraordinary things that are way out of the norm, like a certain pink pony was playing poker with some kind of pony versions of Deadpool and Freakazoid. Judging from the others reactions, she was winning. Turning around to see my crystal, a purple jewel that was shaped like a chaos emerald, I was a little confused to see four other gems linked to mine by bright beams of light.

The first gem, on the far right, was triangular in shape with a green hue. The gem right next to the green one was purple and square shaped. The third gem, the hexagonal shaped one on the far left, was orange. And the last one was shaped like a star and was clear.

"Wait a minute... 1,2,3,4...... Hmmmm." I feel my back, only to notice that the tentacles aren't there. "That explains why I haven't felt anything from them recently."

"Hey, uh, Luna, is it normal to have these connect to one another?" I point at the gems in front of me, a little freaked out at the sight. "Before you ask about why I haven't asked where I am, I can literally see inside these things and tell that they are dreams." I tell her with a shrug. "It is kinda obvious if you think about it. I am dreaming and you took me out of my dream.... This is probably a dream nexus or somthin'..."

She blinks, astonished that such a young being made a spot on guess. "T-Thou are correct about where we are...." She clears her throat, regaining her composure. "The connecting of dreams is an occurrence that doesn't happen too often and is usually harmless. We haven't the slightest of clue as to why this would happen though..." She trails off, before shaking her head and getting back to the task at hand\hoof. "Come along, little one, we have a dream to visit." She starts floating towards a two toned purplish pink gem, leaving me to float in the endless expanse.

"H-Hey! How do I move!" I yell while trying to unsuccessfully swim over. She quickly got back to me, making the floating look too easy. "Sigh.... Can I ride ya over? I'm not really cut out for floating." I ask, now looking at her upside down.

".... Just this once, we will allow this." She tells me, seeing as I wasn't making progress by floating with her.

She uses her wings to move me closer to her back and I wrap my arms around her neck. She smiles mischievously, completely unnoticed by me. She speeds toward the gem, narrowly missing a few of the other gems and making me scream the whole way.

"Aaaaaaahhhhhh! Whyyyyy! Stoooooooop!" I scream and, within seconds of me saying that, she stops suddenly, making me fly off her and land face first on the gem with a loud crack. "Owwww~!" I moan, slowly sliding down the gem by my face, making a loud squeaking noise the whole way.

Luna looks at me with a perfect poker face, no doubt hysterically laughing on the inside. "Are thou unharmed?" She asks with a raised brow.

"Jufft mpphh perrrd...." I say, my face still on the gem. I pry my face off and look at her, unamused at her actions. "Just a little sore... Sigh, let's just get me in the other dream."

She nods, her horn glowing. Within moments of her horn glowing the gems surface started to ripple like water. "Here is the entryway to the dream of our sisters personal student. We believe that thou will enjoy her dream, she dreams of the largest library we have ever seen, in the waking world and the dream world." She informs me, making me internally groan.

"Really? You are going to put me in a library dream? I don't want to sound rude, but, couldn't we find a dream more....." I trail off, thinking about what kind of pony I'd probably find in there. "You know what, imma mess with this one, heh, heh, heh." I think to myself, feeling a little mischievous. "...Nevermind, who's the pony I'm going to meet?"

"Her name is Twilight Sparkle, one of the Elements of Harmony." She informs me, making me smile sinisterly.

"Oh, this is going to be perfect."

"This is the earliest we've seen her go to bed, hmmm...." Luna trails off, a little curious about the late night studier. She shakes her head. "Nevermind that, we have other duties to attend to, we'll be leaving thou in her dream for tonight, have a good night and it was nice meeting thou." She says, horn glowing and moving me into the gem with a regal nod. "We hope we'll meet thou again, in the waking world next time."

And with those last words, my whole body is in the gem, me losing sense of my surroundings for a minute before I land face first on a pile of books. Judging my tasting of more colors, I assume the spell just wore off.

"-Dakota! What are you doing here!?!-" I hear a voice yell, making me jump a little and quickly get up and look around.

I almost fell back down at the sheer amount of books in here. There had to be at least millions of books on shelves that flowed down seemingly endless hallways. I look to my left, hoping that there was a change in scenery. Getting a small relief from the literary nightmare/heaven all around me, I saw a big comfortable looking chair sitting in front of a fireplace a little ways from all the books.

Something pokes me, making me jump and give out a small yelp. I quickly look at the thing poking me and see Twilight giving me a confused look.

"Oh, hi Twilight. Funny to see you here." I say with a smile and a wave. "Ya dun goofed, so imma mess with your dream." I tell her, pretty sure she won't understand me. Judging from the look she gave me, my guess was spot on.

"-The spell must have wore off..." She notes with a frown. "-I thought I had set it so it'll last for a few days...-" She says with confusion clear on her face, misremembering the spell. Her horn lights up, a crazy look in her eyes and a few strands of her mane out of place. "-I guess I have no choice, I'll have to bring out the big spells.-"

I gulp loudly, not liking the look in her eyes. "U-Uh, Twi? Y-You're not planning to teleport again, are ya?" I ask, slowly backing away from the, now surprisingly terrifying, unicorn in front of me that is slowly advancing on me.

"-No need to worry, Dakota. It'll be very... QUICK!-" She shouts as she fires a beam of purple energy speeding towards my head.

I quickly dodge it and run down the long hallway, her chasing after me. "I'd take Pyramid over this! Luna, Help!" I scream, dodging beams the whole way. "Ahhhhhh!" I gave another yell before tripping over a stray book on the ground and scraping my knees on the ground. I tried crawling away, only to be wrapped in a purple ball and slowly levitated towards Twilight.

I slowly turn around in the ball and look at her, tears in my eyes. That seemed to snap her out of the insanity. "-Oh! I'm so sorry!-" she apologizes, slowly setting me down. The moment she set me down, I ran for my life, away from her and down the hallway. "-Wait! I said I'm sorry!-" I ignore the yells behind me and continue into the labyrinth of bookshelves, taking the first turn I saw with her chasing after me, screaming apologies the whole way.

I ran as fast as I could, which was surprisingly fast, but not fast enough. She was gaining ground, slowly catching up to me. I take a quick peek over my shoulder and scream. "Aaaahhh! Just stop chasing me already!" I take another turn and hit my face on a bookshelf, cursing Twilight's dream as I slowly peel my face off of it.

"-Huff, huff, I-I finally caught up.... Huff, huff, I-I just wanted to apologize.-" I lose all hope at the sound of her voice. I did the only thing I could do, curling up into ball with tears flowing.

She gets closer, tears in her eyes. "-I-I know that you can't understand me....-" She starts running her hoof through my hair, trying to comfort me. "-B-But I can try to help you understand.-" Slowly, I stop crying and sit up. "-See? Not that bad.-" I hear her say, making me look at her, quietly sniffling.

"I really don't like what this body is doing to me...." I mutter, not wanting to go through that again.

Seeing that I wasn't crying anymore, Twilight brightened up. "-I am so sorry for scaring you and I hope you can forgive me.-" She apologizes, her ears plastered to her head, hopeful that I could understand that.

"I think I get what you are saying...." I get back on my feet and smile. "You-" I point at her. "-are sorry about freaking me out and chasing me, right?" I say, not really expecting an answer. "I'll accept the apology after one thing....." I quickly slap her across the muzzle and pout, using my newfound cuteness against her. "I won't say sorry for that, you jerk."

"-I guess I deserved that..." She says with resignation, a little smile on her face from seeing the pout of extreme cuteness. "-I promise, I won't do that ever again..... That hurt though.-" She rubs her muzzle and backs up, horn glowing. "-I'll just try to use the spell again so we can understand each other, hold still.-" She quickly formed the rune filled orb and shot it at me, me staying still this time. The orb bounced off of me, blasting through some bookshelves before it finally dissipated.

We both stared at the damage, mouths agape. "-That wasn't supposed to happen...-" I hear her mutter. "-Why did that happen?-"

"Hey." I get her attention and point at her horn. "That-" I point at the wreckage and shake my head. "-won't work-" I then point at myself, still shaking my head. "-on me." I inform her, earning a confused stare from her. I repeat the motions again and all I get is more confusion from her. "Is it me or am I terrible at charades...."

She bounced quite a few spells off of me for what seemed like hours, her mane getting more and more out of whack, until she dropped from exhaustion. "Man, I didn't have to do anything! Ha,ha,ha!" The world quickly turned faded to white around us, making me move closer to Twilight in fear. "This better mean we're waking up...." I think to myself, a little worried. The fading soon engulfed us, making me go numb where the white made contact with me. "Aaaahhhhhh!" All thoughts ended when I was engulfed completely.

Back in the waking world

"Snort! hmmm? Where am I?" I quickly get up and scan my surroundings, noticing I wasn't in my room. In the dull early morning light my living room looked depressing. "Okay, I'm still home." I think aloud, relieved that I'm home. I look down at myself and almost started to cry. "So yesterday wasn't a dream......grrrr!" My stomach breaks me out of my reverie. "Not the time to throw a pity party...." I get off the couch and make my way to the kitchen, unknowingly dragging the tentacles on the floor.

In the doorway, I fumble to find the light switch, one arm rubbing my eyes. I hear movement and within seconds, the lights turned on and revealed the many ponies in my kitchen.

"Surprise!"

Author's Notes:

I dunno if I got Luna right..... .... Anyway, I think I did pretty good! I did most of this in the middle of the night because...

Oh, just before I forget, I am posting this after two days of no power in my town.... Probably gonna lose power again... the weather is going crazier than cupcakes over here!

Party times and School visits

"-Surprise!-"

Not really awake yet, I just blink. The first pony I saw, the pink sugar ball that is Pinkie Pie, warped to my side. "-You were supposed to be surprised! What happened!?! The author had no other idea than this, did he!?!-" She quickly yelled, making me blink again, still not registering what's going on. "-I'll have a stern talking to with him when this chapter is done, don't worry!-"

"-Um, Pinkie?-" Fluttershy hesitantly spoke up from the back.

"-Oh, Right! Here's your 'Welcome To Ponyville' party, Dakota!-"

"......Sorry, I'm not really awake enough for this." I rub my eyes again and walk towards the cabinet that has my poptarts. I was way too short to reach them, so I reached around to grab a tentacle. I pet it and feel it wake up, feeling love flow. "Can ya get me a poptart, buddy?" It gave a motion similar to a nod and quickly got the box. Thanking the tentacle, I get a pack out and make my way over to the table, yawing and being stared at the whole way.

I take a seat and finally notice the amount of ponies in here. There had to be at least twenty or so ponies in my house, they all looked surprised that I wasn't excited.

"Soooo...... Go on, do whatever you're gonna do. It's not like I could stop any of ya." I motion with my hand. In the meantime, the tentacle I woke up started to wake up the other three.

"-I'm sooo going to have a talk with the author after this..... Let's get this party started! Vinyl, hit it!-" Pinkie shouts, music, sounding eerily like something DeadMau5 would play, starting to blast from a D.J booth manned by a white unicorn with cool shades in my kitchen corner. Everyone started dancing and playing party games. "Just don't question WHY there is a party in my house and HOW did my kitchen get bigger, then I should be just fine...."

"-What are you doing sitting there!?! This is a party juuussst for you! Dance or something!-" Pinkie excitedly yells. I think I got the gist of what she said.

I slowly blink and open a pack, just starting to eat. "Yawn...... Imma join in a sec, don' worry." I quickly devour the poptarts and smack my face, waking myself up. "Alright, I'm up!" I hop down from my seat and join the party.

I made my way over to the D.J, wanting to see the setup she had. I eventually made it there, having to duck and weave my way through the crowd. The bass was pretty strong when I was finally close, making me fight my way over like I was fighting strong gusts of wind. "Nice setup! Seriously, I've never had to fight the beat!" I tell the pony at the booth with a thumbs up, earning a smile from her.

I got behind the booth, not wanting to get blasted back anymore and wanting to see her work her magic, no pun intended. She gave me curious look before nodding and magicing me onto a counter next to her that had a good look at her equipment. It was nice, getting to see how she makes her music. She turns a few knobs and the bass drops, making me almost fall down from the force.

"-Whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on here!?! The whole house is shaking!-" Ash yells after rushing through the doorway, making everyone look at her and made the music stop with the cartoonish vrrrp. Everything was silent, except Pinkie, she was still dancing as if the music was still on.

"-Come on, everypony! Shake your groove thang!-" She kept on dancing for a full minute before realizing the music was off. "-Oh! What happened to the music? It was just getting to the good part....-"

Ash coughs, gaining the attention of Pinkie. "-Ahem, what is happening here?-" She asks with a glare, her mane a mess.

"-A-A party for Dakota, M-Miss.....-" Fluttershy stuttered out from the back.

"-A party..... Really? Not even here for a full day and ponies are throwing a party for Dakota.-" She dumbfoundedly asked. "-Couldn't this have waited until we were awake for it?-" She facehooves, making her mane become more of a dishevelled mess.

"-I couldn't wait! I have to throw a party for every new pony I meet within twenty four hours of meeting them, I wouldn't be Pinkie if I didn't!-" Pinkie exclaims with an exaggerated flourish of her mane.

Ash's eye twitched. "-Fine, you can have the party. Just one condition, is Dakota alright with this? She is still adjusting to living here.-" She gave up, too tired for this.

"-Yo! She seems to be adjusting just fine to me, she's been hangin' over here with me since the party started-" The D.J pointed to me, with a smile. "-I think she's curious about my setup, she's been watchin' me work my musical magic since I let her stay with me.-"

"-Okay, have the party. Just, please keep it down, some ponies in town are probably still sleeping.-"

The music started back up, less loud than before. The guests went back to dancing and whatnot. Ash grabbed a drink off a counter with one of her wings and made her way over to me. Pinkie went back to doing..... Whatever she is doing.

"-Hey, good mornin', Dakota.-" Ash says with a smile. "-I guess you got a welcome party, eh?-" She shrugs. "-I'd have waited a few days, but I can't complain, you seem to like this.-" She said and I just nodded with a smile, sort of getting what she was saying. After a little bit, she went off somewhere, I dunno where.

I just kept near the D.J, learning how it worked. "I've always wanted to D.J at least once. It always looked friggin cool, laser light shows, crowds of people dancin' and havin' a grand ol' time."

"-Yo, little buddy, can ya get me a drink, please?-" The D.J asks me, motioning toward the drinks with her head.

"Ah, I got it." I get what she is saying and turn to my tentacles. "Hey, could ya get her a drink from over there? I don't want to fight my way through the crowd." Two of them nodded and quickly stretched over and go two drinks from the counter, feeling love flow from them. They quickly made their way back to us and gave us the drinks. "Oh, uh, thanks, I guess." The tentacles pat my head, giving more feelings of love.

"-Thanks, Little buddy.-"

After a little while of partying, I had the bright idea to see if her setup could play some of my songs. "Hey." I get one of the tentacles attention. "Could ya get my iPod? I wanna check something." I ask, earning excitement from it. It glowed green and the iPod just appeared in its grip, complete with the connector cable. I grabbed it with a thanks and took a closer look at the setup, looking for a USB port to connect the iPod to.

"-What are ya doin' there, little buddy?-" she asks, curious about what I am looking for.

I hold up my iPod and she magically lifts it out of my grasp, looking at it closely and humming. She connects the cable to a slot in the side of her setup and flips a few switches, the music stopping. The crowd let out a simultaneous, "aaaawwww," when the music died. "-It's alright, everypony. Our little guest of honor brought her music to share!-" Everyone cheered at what she said. She passed back the iPod, it still connected and looked at me encouragingly. "-Go on, little buddy, play whatever song ya want.-" She says while motioning to the ipod.

I smile and nod, getting what she was saying. I quickly found my favorite playlist, simply labeled, '80's gold,' and hit play.

I lost track of time when I joined in on the dancing a few minutes after I started the playlist. Ever see a little girl dancing with the assistance of tentacles growing out of her back? Apparently, it was quite the sight. Everyone made room on the dance floor and watched me do moves that came naturally to me. Even Ash came over when I was launched up by the tentacles over everyone, I waved before back flipping and nailing the landing with a flourish, earning cheering from everyone watching.

"Woooooo hoooooo! I don't know how I'm doing this, but it's friggin awesome!" I exclaim during the excitement, just having fun with this and spinning like a top.

The playlist finally ended with me getting launched back up, almost hitting the ceiling and starting to glow white. The moment I landed, my glowing body released a lot of little sparkles that soon were everywhere, making everyone cheer at my show. When the glowing finally subsided, a wave of fatigue hit me, almost making me drop right then and there. With the crowd still cheering, I do a little bow and take a seat by the D.J, wanting to take a little rest.

"-Yo!-" I look at the D.J, seeing her give me a wild smile. "-Sweet moves ya got there!-" She says, holding out her hoof. "It looks like some things are universal." I quickly pound it, internally laughing at the interspecies brofist.

"-Okay, everypony, the party's over! Dakota is tired, time to clear out!-" Ash exclaimed, wanting to get other things done today. "-We both have things to do today!-"

"Awwww....." The crowd whined.

"-Okie, dokie! Don't worry everypony, we have another party planned today!-" Pinkie excitedly yells, earning more cheers from the crowd. "-Just wait till tonight~!-" She sings with a wink.

In a few minutes, almost everyone left, leaving Fluttershy, Ash, the D.J and I in the kitchen. The D.J was sitting near her setup, nursing her drink. Fluttershy was standing by the doorway, looking as nervous as ever.

Most of my kitchen was a mess, empty drink cups on the floor, some splashes of punch over the counter, streamers literally everywhere and a friggin cannon, of all things, sitting by the fridge.

"That was fast..... What are ya still doin' here Flutters? I can understand the D.J still being here, she needs to clear out her setup." I ask, earning looks from everyone. I just shrug and point at Fluttershy, raising an eyebrow.

"-Oh, what do you need, Dakota?-" said pony asks, quickly and gracefully making her way to my side.

"-I think she's asking why you're still here. Oh! Aren't you the animal caretaker in this town? I've heard rumors about you! You're the pony that tamed the manticore when her friends were in trouble!-" Ash excitedly asked, recognizing Fluttershy and making her eep in fear.

"-O-Oh no, I-I didn't t-tame him. H-He was in pain and I-I helped him..... Ohhh, I told Rainbow to not tell anypony....-" Fluttershy timidly murmured.

Noticing Fluttershy's discomfort, I quickly stop Ash's questioning by getting between her and Flutters, shaking my head at Ash. "No, stop scaring her. I don't need her having a heart attack in my house."

"-OK, OK, I'll stop.-" She says, getting what I'm saying and backing off.

"-T-Thanks, Dakota.-" Fluttershy whispered to me, making me smile. "-T-The reason I'm here is so I could, maybe, help her acclimate to her new home, Miss....-" She trailed off.

"-It's cool, the more the merrier. Just call me Ash. If you are wonderin' why I'm here, I'm supposed to look after Dakota and keep her out of trouble, Princess's orders.-"

"-Oh, d-do you have any previous experience looking after children?-"

"-I helped raise spike. Do you think anypony in their right mind let a filly raise a newborn dragon? I was one of Celestia's personal maids before that.-"

"-Oh, you're Ashen Glade? Spike's told me so much about you! How did you get chosen to raise him? I-I mean if you don't mind....-"

"-The interviewing process for being one of Celestia's personal maids is pretty extensive, I even had to go into how I got my cutie mark.-" Ash turned just so she could show the mark on her flank, an ash covered field with an erupting volcano in the back. "Just why haven't I noticed the marks on their buts yet?"

"-Oh, I've never seen one like that before....-"

"-Yep, I got this bad colt after saving most of a dragon clan's young when the nearby volcano erupted... Turns out, dragons aren't invincible against molten rocks and ash.... Not the best of days....-" Ash trailed off, a distant look in her eyes and shuddering for a second. "-That's a story for another time. Let's just say.... After that, I decided to slow down and, shortly after I applied for the position, was hired to be one of Celestia's personal maids. After Spike was hatched, Celestia decided to have me be the caretaker for him, since I was pretty popular in the dragon lands.-"

"-I-It sounds like you've done a lot of traveling.-"

"-Yep, I've even been to the Minotaur tribe lands.-"

They talked for a while, I was cleaning up in the meantime. I decided to clean up the cups first, a little miffed that they couldn't clean up their mess as they left. I sigh. "Well, at least now I know what the hosts of the big parties have to deal with when the party's over."

It took a little bit before the tentacles pitched in on the cleaning, going for the messes on the counters and the streamers first. After that was done, we had to decide what to do with the cannon. "Ehh, let's just leave the thing here. I've always wanted to fire a cannon." I say out loud, the tentacles nodding in agreement. I pushed the cannon into the corner between the counter and a wall, barrel facing the wall.

"Hey, girls?" I spoke up, remembering something. They turned to look at me. "I don't want to interrupt but, didn't you-" I point at ash. "-say we were going to visit the school today?" I try to remind while making walking motions. I sigh at the confused looks I get and walk out of the room, not wanting to play a game of charades. As I walk out, I hear them go back to their conversation.

Bang!

I hear something slam into the front door and I quickly checked it out. When I opened the door, I came face to face with an upside down pegasus at my doorstep. Her mane was a nice shade of blonde and her coat was grey. She was wearing some kind of bag on her side with letters spilling out on my porch. She even had a hat with a logo depicting a letter with wings. What made me nervous were her yellow eyes, they were spinning like crazy.

"Uhh, are ya alright?" I ask, worried about this pony's health.

She shook her head, stopping her dizziness and standing up, causing her eyes to stop spinning and become wall-eyed. She took one look at me with her derped eyes and furrowed her brow. "-I have very important letters for a....-" she pauses and digs in the bag with her left wing, pulling out a few letters in seconds, not before pulling out some muffins in the process. She looks at the names on them. "-...Dakada?-" she finishes, reading the name wrong.

"Dakota.... ." I correct, a little surprised that my name is the only thing I can understand. I think that she hit her head too hard, judging from her eyes, one was looking at the floor while the other was looking at the sky.

"-So that's how you pronounce the name! You're her, right?-" She asks, taking a slow bite out of the muffin she picked up with her other wing and raising an eyebrow, making me shrug and point at my ears in response. "-Ohhh! You can't understand me....-" She thoughtfully murmured, taking another bite. "-Hmmm.... The house and you weren't in town the other day, so.... I think you are her!-" She smiles, finishing her muffin. "-Here, these are yours.-" She hands the letters over, her eyes turning normal for a second. I take a closer look at one letter, briefly realizing I can't read anything on it, seeing that the language was all in pony runes. "Seriously? Is that a horseshoe?"

She turns around, her wings getting ready for flight. "-Well, I gotta go! Later, Dakota!-" She yells, taking off at a lopsided angle. I stood there in silence, until I heard a crash. I ran out into the street, looking for her, only to hear shouts coming from the broken window on the side of the treehouse belonging to a certain unicorn.

"Heh, I like her..... Now, what to call her.... Aha! I'll call her Dizzy, it seems to fit her just fine." I muse out loud with a giggle.

I finally notice that my sudden appearance gained a few curious stares from the few ponies on the street. I wave at them with a smile, internally freaking out. The less afraid ones were nice, they waved back smiling and saying their good mornings. The others, well, they weren't very too nice. One actually threw a tomato at me, to my shock.

"-Go back to where you came from!-" He yelled throwing another tomato at me. "-Get! Out! Of! Our! Town! You! Monster!-" He emphasized each word with a tomato throw, each one connecting. I stopped the tentacles from going after him, not wanting a potential bloodbath.

He kept throwing them until he ran out, the tentacles just emanating hatred at this pony in a strangely anime style, purple killing intent aura radiating from them. I'm just standing there sniffling, feeling strangely distraught at this. "No... Leave 'im alone, he'll get what he has coming soon." I say to the tentacles and point out the few ponies sending venomous glances in his direction, earning a consoling pat on the head from one tentacle.

A piece of tomato slides off my face and hits the ground, the tomato throwing pony finally silent. I slowly walk back inside, the sounds of my footsteps are the only noise heard before I shut the door. I make my way to Ash, the letters in hand and tears in my eyes.

"-Whoa! Little buddy!-" The D.J yells in alarm.

"-What happened to you!?!-"Ash yells, seeing my tomato covered self. "-Who did this!?!-"

"-Oh, you poor dear....-" Fluttershy murmurs, draping a tentative wing over my shoulder.

"I....I'm fine.... Here, I can't read these." I hold out the letters, stifling a sniffle.

Flutters takes them and I slowly work my way out of under her wing, wanting to wash up. "-Oh, I'll help wash you up, I mean, if you want...-" She starts, trotting after me and passing the letters to Ash.

"-Hey, these are from the leaders that the princess was talking about! One of these even came from the Arachnid queen!-" Ash freaks out after seeing a special wax seal in the shape of a spider on the back of one letter. "-Even the Arachnids! Do you know what this means?!?" She excitedly asks, making us back up slowly, Fluttershy staying behind me.

"-I-I don't know..... W-What does that mean?-"

"-It MEANS that the news of Dakota's arrival spread very far, very fast!-" She loudly notes, looking through more letters. "-We have, literally, EVERY RACE'S leaders sending letters to Dakota, it hasn't even been a full twenty four hours!-" She starts hyperventilating, obviously not expecting the letters to be sent that fast.

I, having enough of her freaking out, walk up to her and give her a good ol' slap to the face, snapping her out of her panic attack and earning a gasp from Fluttershy. "Whatever you are freaking out about, it can wait. I-" I gesture to the tomato gunk covering me. "-need to clean up before we go visit the school later. I do not want want to look like Carrie at the end of the movie when I get there."

"-Huff, Huff..... Thanks, I needed that, almost lost it there.-" Ash thanks, calming down. "-Sorry about that, I don't normally freak out like that....-" She apologizes, not meaning to scare us. "-Whew, I'm not used to THIS kind of response. It usually takes, AT THE MINIMUM, a week or so until the more.... Obscure nations hear about things.-" She explains, almost going back into a panic attack.

"-Oh, My.... Maybe those can wait? I-I mean, if you are looking after Dakota, those could wait until after she goes to bed or something. No need to pressure her.-" Fluttershy suggests, making me frustrated at not understanding what's going on anymore. "I'm going to mess with Twi when I have the chance. She seems like someone I'd be friends with... Eh, it'll probably happen, AFTER I get her back for messin' up the spell."

"Hey!" I yell, getting their attention. "You. Said. That. We. Would. Go. To. The. School. Today." I slowly say to Ash, wanting to get things done today and praying to whatever god, that she would get what I'm saying.

"-Uhm, She's saying that you said that you both were going somewhere today......-" Fluttershy says, her ability to semi-understand animals working in my favor.

"-Ohhh, I almost forgot! I told her yesterday that we would visit the school today.-" Ash exclaims, realization in her eyes. "-We need to have her clean before we go there.-"

"Oh, thank god! There we go! Now, imma go clean up....." I turn around and go to in the direction of my room, Ash and Fluttershy following.

I stop. "I can bathe by myself, no need to help." I say, shaking my head.

They both stood in the kitchen doorway, confusion in their eyes. Ash turns to Fluttershy. "-What did she say?-"

"-Uhhh, s-something about cleaning alone..... Sorry, I only get little bits of what she is saying.-"

"-No need to apologize, any little bit will help.-" Ash says with a shrug. She turns to me. "-So you want to bathe by yourself, huh? I guess you're old enough to do that.-" She shrugs. "-Go on, we'll wait for ya.-" She gives me the go ahead.

"Thanks."

I quickly go to my room and open my closet. My jaw dropped. It was a cosplayer's paradise, literally every kind of costume in there, from Tobi to The Doctor. My closet didn't have anything like this before, it wasn't even a walk in closet.

"Ya know what..... I'm okay with this." I quickly accepted this and started searching for a specific outfit. "If I am going to be stuck as a girl, I might as well go all out!"

"Aha!" I exclaim, happy I found it. It was a familiar green bunny-eared raincoat with a little tail attached and a light-blue dress to wear under it.

"Now, what am I missing?..... Ugh, underwear." I shudder, now turning to see my newly-acquired 'collection' of panties and bras. "I'm not sure if I should hate ya or love ya, god....."

I did some digging around and decided on the white and blue striped ones. "Might as well match the clothes..." I say with a shrug.

I go to the bathroom, feeling a little apprehensive about my body. I look at the shower, realizing I'd have to jump to reach the knobs. Sighing, I start a bath and put the outfit on the sink counter. The tentacles magicked up some lavender bubble bath stuff, making me raise an eyebrow. They dump th stuff in and make the bath all bubbly and nice, making me shrug and thank them. "Okay, I want to bathe by myself, without anything seeing me naked.... Soooo.... Could ya, I dunno, retract?" I ask them, not wanting to risk a.... Cough, one of those unpleasant moments. They nod and retract with a audible squish, me feeling them slither inside my back and settle somewhere in my chest, causing me to panic a little at the feeling.

Starting with the dress, I hesitantly removed my clothes, none too enthusiastic to learn about my new anatomy. "Yep, definitely a girl..." I note after getting the underwear off. I walk to the mirror, wanting to get a good look at myself. The pale, white haired girl looking back at me with nervous eyes had seen better days, red tomato trails flowing down her body and red stained hair. Sighing, I get into the water, relaxing instantly.

"Ohhhhh...... This is just what I needed." I moan, feeling the best I've felt in a long time.

For the next while, until a little while after I finally scrubbed the tomato gunk off me, I relaxed with my head partially submerged under the water. "Why does it feel like I'm livin' in an anime today?"

After about half an hour of relaxing in my much needed bath, I got out and dried off, feeling more nervous when I looked at the clothes. There was some trouble putting on the underwear and dress, I've never felt so.... Embarrassed putting on clothes. With an audible gulp, I quickly put the clothes. "Okay, the worst part is done. Let's get the coat on." Murmur, happy I have the coat. I put it on with the hood up and looked in the mirror.

"Never thought I would say this, but I look friggin' cute." I note. "Good to know I can pull it off." I smile

With a little skip in my step, I go back to Ash and Fluttershy, ready to go. Everything went quiet the moment I walked into the room. Fluttershy was the first to break the silence.

"-Awwww, you are sooooo cute!-" She squeals, nearly crushing me in a hug. "-I love you! You look like a cuddly bunny!-"

"-That, she does. I wonder what other clothes she has....-" Ash agrees, happy I picked out something cute. "-The bunny ears are a nice touch.-"

"Can't.......breathe......." I choke out, surprised that the shy one has a killer grip.

"-Oh! Sorry, I couldn't help it. B-Bunnies are my favorite critters in the entire world...-" Fluttershy apologizes and releases me, blushing like mad.

"Gasp! You.... Gasp! ... Have..... Gasp! ... A..... Killer..... Grip....." I slowly say, catching my breath.

"-Okay, girls. It's about time for us to go.-" Ash announces. She turns around and yells back to the kitchen. "-Hey, Vinyl!-"

"-Whaddap?-" I hear the D.J yell from the kitchen.

"-Please have your stuff cleaned out before we get back!-"

"-It's cool! I have another party to D.J later, anyway!-"

"-Thanks!-"

"-later, girls!-" We hear D.J yell from the kitchen.

Ready to go, we leave the house. We didn't even walk for five minutes until we saw something that made me laugh. "Hah! The jerk from earlier was thrown in a barrel!" I laugh at the sight. A seafoam green unicorn was holding him in the barrel with her magic, his but was the only thing jutting out from it.

"-Hey! Lemme out!-" We hear him yell.

"-Not until you promise to apologize.-" She calmly tells him. "-I swear, you have a few screws loose or something. You did the same thing to Applejack's dog last week.-"

"-I thought it was a hellhound!-" He yells from the barrel.

"-Hey, what's going on?" Ash asks.

"-Oh, nothing. Just an idiot getting punished.-" The unicorn says with a shrug.

"-What'd he do?-"

"-He threw tomatoes at our newest resident.-"

Ash looks at me then back at the pony in the barrel, a fire in her eyes. "-Keep him there, maybe for a few hours.-" She says, making the unicorn laugh.

"-Hehe, I was planning on it. Oh! There she is!-" The unicorn exclaims, finally noticing me standing next to Fluttershy. "-Awww, she's wearing the cutest dress, the bunny ears bring the whole thing together.-"

"-I'm Ash and this is Dakota, nice to meet you, miss....-"

"-Lyra, Lyra Heartstrings. Nice to meet you.-" The unicorn introduces, with a wave.

"-Nice to meet you too, Lyra. Well, we gotta get going. Little miss sunshine over here is going to visit the school.-"

"-Good luck. If you need me, my house is right across from Bon Bon's candy shop.-"

"-I'll try to remember that. Have a good day, Lyra.-"

We left the unicorn to her devices and went back to making our way to the school. It was a little bit of a walk, took maybe fifteen to half an hour to get there. The trip wasn't too eventful, nopony had thrown anything at me, so that's a plus. I even had some friendly waves in my direction.

When we finally got there, I was a little unimpressed. The school was a painted red, one floor building, on the roof was a single bell. Next to the building was a playground.

"So that's the school, huh? It doesn't compare to my school back home, it has three floors." I muse, feeling more confident about going here.

"-Well, here's the school. Come on, I've got to talk to the teacher.-" Ash says while walking inside.

"-It's going to be fine, dear.-" Fluttershy assures, grabbing my hand with her wing and leading me inside.
The door we went in lead into a hallway, four doors leading into different rooms.

"-Here it is, Miss Cheerilee's class.-" Ash says, having quickly got to a door at the end of the hallway.

"-Oh, Miss Cheerilee's class? That's the CMC's class.-" Fluttershy says, happy I'm in this class.

"-The.... CMC?-"

"-The group of fillies that first met Dakota. They made their own little club to find their cutie marks.-"

While Fluttershy was explaining, I open the door and walk in, hearing gasps of surprise from the ponies within and my tentacles coming out of my back and through the sleeves of the coat.

"Hello, I am Dakota, and these girls-" I point at the tentacles, all of them were in position over my shoulders. "Uhh, what's a good name for these? .... Come on, think of something, they are looking right at you!" I thought to myself, having a small panic attack. "-are called, in order, Sylphid." I point at one tentacle that glowed green. "Freya." I point at the one that glowed orange. "Jynx" I point at the one that glowed purple. "And last, but not least, Crystal." I point at the last one, it emitting a white aura. The next few moments were silent, even the deep purple pony was quiet.

"Sigh..... I was expecting something else, I dunno what, but it was different....." I sigh. "I have a bad feelin' about this...."

Author's Notes:

Whew! I've had some trouble with this chapter. One of my buddies got a hold of this thing and erased a lot of things, including this chapter....It was easy to get all the other stuff back. I had to redo the chapter all out of memory. Now I learned an important lesson, never leave the tablet unprotected! Especially when they are pranksters!

On another topic..... Pinkie is currently trying to break through my tablet screen.... Can any other 4th wall breakers stop her, please? She is giving me the scariest look....

Pinkie! Stop it! I won't rewrite it!

The Extended Tour

"Uh, hello?" I slowly say to the room full of silent fillies and colts, scared of what's to come. I could see the three ponies I first met. The yellow one had a seat in between a grey pony wearing glasses and a light purple pony wearing a tiara. "Are those.... Diamonds?" The orange pegasus was sitting in the middle row, right next to the white unicorn. The next few moments were a blur of white, orange, and yellow.

"-Dakota!-" The three yell, tackling me into a group hug, making the tentacles panic for a second.

"Nice to see some familiar faces." I positively think, hesitantly hugging back. "I guess I had nothing to worry about.... If only I knew their names."

"-Girls....-" The deep purple pony behind us slowly says. "-Do you know her?-"

Breaking from the group hug, the white unicorn turns to her. "-Yeah, we were the first ones to meet her. You did read the papers, right? She's literally all over them.-"

"-Yes, I did and it's nice to know she already has friends.-" The presumed teacher smiles, looking at me with curious eyes.

"-Actually, she's going to be going here next week.-" Ash says while walking in with Fluttershy.

"-WHAT!?!-" Most of the students yelled, some of the students looking at me with fearful eyes. Some of the others looked at me with visible blushes, even the one wearing glasses.

"-YAY!-" The three ponies cheered around me, making me flinch at the volume.

"These reactions are.... Unexpected." I think to myself with a raised eyebrow. "Curse you, Twilight! You had ONE job, make the spell work." I roll my eyes, wanting to understand what was going on.

"-She's correct, class. Dakota be going here as of next week, I expect each of you to be nice to her.-" Teach explains, looking at the tiara wearing filly with a knowing look. "-She'll be learning how to speak equish, as you saw earlier, she can't speak it yet.-"

"-Uh, Miss Cheerilee?-" Glasses asks, holding up a hoof.

"-Yes, Silver Spoon?-"

"-I could help her, I mean.....if she doesn't mind.-" Glasses says, blushing at the looks she's getting.

"-That's nice of you, Silver Spoon.-" Teach says with a smile. "-She might appreciate it.-"

"-Okay, fillies and colts, she's here just to meet her classmates. She's got some other places to visit today.-" Ash announces, earning an 'awww' from the non-scared students. "-Don't worry, starting next week, she'll be coming here regularly.-"

"Nice to know that most of them won't be bullies. I'm not too sure about the tiara wearing one though..... Who wears a diamond studded tiara to school?"

"-Oh, you three.-" Ash points at the three fillies around me. "-Can come with us to help give our little guest a tour around town..... If your teacher is alright with it, of course.-" Ash finishes, giving the teacher a sheepish look.

The group of fillies gave the teacher the puppy dog eyes, unsurprisingly, it was ineffective against her. She pondered it for a minute before nodding. "-They can go....-" She agrees, stopping when the fillies cheered. "-Just remember, you will have homework when you get back.-" She finishes, to the horror of the group.

"-Okay, Miss Cheerilee.-" The three drone, none too excited about homework.

"-Well, let's get going, girls.-" Ash says, opening the door and motioning us out.

We made our way out of the school, I was in the back with the kids and Ash was leading us with Fluttershy. We stopped at my house for a minute, wondering where to go next.

"-Well.... I dunno where to go, I only knew where the school was. Anypony else have an idea?-" Ash asks with a shrug.

"-W-We could show her my house, I-I mean she might like the critters I have there.-" Fluttershy suggests, trying to hide behind her hair.

"-Maybe later, Flutters. How about somewhere else?-"

"-How about the prank shop?-" The orange pegasus suggests, a mischievous smile on her face.

"-I like your style, but no, not gonna happen today.-"

"-Maybe......the library?-" The white unicorn asks, sounding unsure.

"Screw it, I'm naming these guys right now. The white one can be called Lisa. The orange one is gonna be called.....Zoe, she seems like a risk taker. Last, but not least, the yellow one can be called....Jessie, she has a distinct.... Country feel around her." I think to myself, deciding it would be easier to name them.

"-Not a bad idea.....Sorry, didn't catch your name..-"

"-Oh, it's Sweetie Belle. The orange daredevil over there is Scootaloo and the yellow country filly next to her is Applebloom.-"

"-Nice to meet you three. I'm Ashen Glade, just call me Ash. I will be living with Dakota over here.-" She introduces with a smile and points at my house. "-Enough introductions for now, let's get going to the library.-" She says before walking off in a random direction, me, not knowing any better, following behind. She stops after going a few feet. "-Uhh.....-" She slowly turns back to them, a blush and a sheepish smile on her face. "-Which way is that?-" She asks, rubbing the back of her head with her hoof.

They all simultaneously point at the treehouse down the opposite direction we were going. "-I-It's over there.-" Fluttershy stuttered out.

"-Really, there's a library in there?-"

"-Yup, ahm sure.-" Jessie deadpanned.

"-Let's go!-" She exclaims, going towards the treehouse.

The group and I exchanged looks before we went after her.

"-Golden Oaks Library, huh? Seems appropriate, seeing that it's a tree and all.-" Ash notes after reading the sign out front.

The library's exterior was pretty cool. Thick roots formed a small pathway to the front door. The door looked out of place, painted red and it was split in two horizontally. Further up, there was a balcony with a telescope perched up there.

"Sweet, it looks like an elf would make some kind of potion store here."

We go inside, a little bell rung when the door opened. My jaw dropped when I saw the decor. The whole room looked like the tree grew to form it. There were lots of shelves full of books, a little sign above each shelf with pony runes written on them, I presume that they have what kind of genre the books are. The tables grew out of the floor, making me wonder what kind of elven sorcery was going on in here.

I continued to look around, in awe of the house, not noticing the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs.

"-Oh! H-Hi, Dakota.-" The resident dragon, Spike greets, hearts in his eyes. I jump a little at the sudden voice. "-I didn't think you'd be here today. That's a nice bunny coat you have on.... Really, it accents your eyes perfectly.-" He says, not yet noticing the group behind me.

The tentacle called Jynx sent feelings of amusement after seeing Spike, remembering the looks he gave me at the dress shop. I quickly and discretely pinch it. "Stop that. It's bad enough without ya joinin' in." I whisper to it, feeling more amusement from her.

"-Sorry to break it to ya, tiger, but she can't understand ya.-" Ash says, startling the young dragon.

"-Ash! What are you doing here?-" Spike asks with a smile, happy to see her.

"-Yeah, nice to see ya too, buddy.-" Ash smiles. "-We're giving Dakota a tour of the town, checking the sights, figuring out where things are, ya know, the usual.-"

"-I think you need to know the town, long before you start giving ponies tours.-" He points out, earning a glare from Ash. "-You probably didn't know where things were and followed Fluttershy around.-"

"-Name one time I got lost!-"

"-The castle, we ended up in the dungeons.-"

"-I was still kinda new! I thought those stairs lead to the throne room....-"

"-Canterlot, you ended up taking the wrong turn and we were lost for five hours, until the nice clock shop owner pointed us in the right direction.... We were still wandering for another hour after the fact.-" Spike deadpanned. "-Do I have to continue?-"

"-Eh... Fiiiinne, I'm terrible with navigating.-" Ash gives up.

"-Yes, yes you are.-" Spike agrees, earning another glare from Ash.

"-Hold on.... Ya know Ash?-" Jessie asks, the other fillies looking at Spike with confusion.

"-Yep, she was the first pony to raise me.... Until she had to leave me to Twilight when she got old enough. I think she still has my baby pictures.-"

"-Moving on..... You work here?-" Ash interrupts, knowing that he'd ruin his popularity if he continued.

"-More like live here. Weren't you told? Celestia let Twilight have the library after the Nightmare Moon incident. I'm the librarian when Twi isn't here.-" Spike explains.

"-I've really gotta read the papers when I have time.... No, Celestia didn't tell me.-" Ash sighs. "-You've grown a lot since the last time I saw you, it's been... What?.... Six months since I had to leave you to Twi?-"

"-Three, I think you missed me a bit too much.-"

"-Who wouldn't miss the adorable fire breather they raised?-" Ash asks, making Spike blush.

"-Ahem..... So, what do you need? As you can see here, we have quite the selection.-"

"-Well, Dakota and I are just looking, I think.-" Ash says, noticing me getting dragged by two fillies.

While they were talking I was dragged over to the kids section by Jessie and Lisa, judging from the less thick and more colorful books on the shelves. Zoe slowly followed, looking as bored as ever.

When they let me go, they looked at each other and nodded, seeming to agree on a plan. Lisa levitated a few books off the shelves, humming the whole while. Jessie had to bite down on the spine of the book she was getting. They both handed the books over to me, if you can call what they did handing them over. The cover of the book that Jessie gave me had drawings of the three main kinds of ponies I've seen so far and some other creatures that seemed to come from Greek mythology. The other two that Louise passed over some books that, after quick flipping through, seemed to be mostly drawings of plants and animals.

"-Here, you might not understand us, but, we think you'll need to know what all lives here.... Or at least know what they look like.-" Lisa says with a smile.

I blink, a little surprised that they got those kinds books. "I guess their smart for their age, I think. So, I got some picture books showing the various animals and plants, another book on the sentient races here, I presume...... Sweet, I've got some research to do." I think, thanking the fillies with a smile.

"-Can't we go somewhere more.... I dunno, more fun?-" Zoe asks, none too excited about reading.

"-Well, if we're done here, we could visit Sugarcube Corner and grab a bite to eat.-" Spike says, earning some noises of agreement with our group. "-Twi is currently having one of her..... Moments upstairs, mumbling something about the 'spell' and digging through spell books left and right. I'll gladly take a break from that, just let me put the sign on the door.-" He quickly spun said sign around, having pulled it out of somewhere, and put it on the doorknob.

We all cleared out of the library, the books in my hands and Spike staying uncomfortably close to me, hearts in his eyes. I kept trying to shy away from the guy, but he kept on getting closer, making me keep screaming internally at this guy's obvious crush on me. It seemed to take forever, but we finally got to the Hansel and Gretel nightmare of a building, ignoring the stares from the other ponies.

We entered the building without incident. The building probably made my blood sugar spike the moment I entered, the pastry theme very prominent and the smell of cupcakes in the air. There were a few ponies at some booths, eyeing me curiously and eating their food.

"-Welcome to Sugarcube Corner! How may I help you.-" The Pony behind the counter greets, not yet noticing me. "-Oh! Hi Fluttershy. the usual lemon meringue cookies, right? And let's see here..... four large chocolate shakes for the little ones, rubies added to one for our resident dragon, of course.-" He asks, earning nods of agreement from Flutters and the others. "-Now.... What would you want? Might I suggest some freshly baked cinnamon rolls?-" He asks, turning to Ash. "-We've got a two for the price of one deal today.-"

"-That sounds nice, add another chocolate ruby shake for Dakota over here and I think we'll be done ordering.-" Ash smiles, gesturing to me and missing the face Spike gave me.

"-Oh! I-I didn't notice her there..... They'll be done in a little bit, just take a seat and I'll deliver them right to the table.-" He panics a little bit at the sight of me, making me feel a little self-conscious.

With a quick thanks, we took our seats at one of the unoccupied tables near the corner. They all were talking to each other about something while they waited for their food. Meanwhile, I was looking through the animal book, seeing some animals I'm familiar with, dogs, cats, etc.

"It would appear I have hit the Greek mythos section...." I blink, surprised that there's friggin' HYDRAS here. "I hope I never meet one during my stay here." There were some animals I didn't even know, like the tree-wolf things and a snake-chicken. There was a skull and crossbones drawing in the corners of those drawings, probably to specify that they are obviously deadly and, should I see them, run the hell away.

We finally got our food after a little while, I had a cinnamon roll and a chocolate shake with red things sprinkled over the top and a bendy straw placed on the table, confusing me. "Those are too big to be sprinkles, the size of my thumb.... Some kind of candy? Maybe?" I think with a shrug, thanking the pony and earning a raised eyebrow from him.
"-I'm pretty sure she thanked you.-" Ash explains with a smile.

"-Oh, well then, you're welcome.-" He smiles, happy that I'm polite. He turns back to Ash. "-When you're done, that'll be ten bits, just pay up front.-" He tells her before walking back behind the counter, surprising her.

"-That's pretty cheap....-"

"-The owners of this place like us, so they give us a special discounts on the shakes.-" Zoe speaks up. "-Sometimes they even gives them out for free to everyone.-"

"-That's nice of them.-" Ash notes, taking a bite out of the cinnamon roll.

They all started to eat, the fillies slurping their shakes loudly, as if racing each other. Spike just stirred up his shake, the red things mixing into it, before chugging it down.. Fluttershy slowly ate her cookies, a small smile on her face.

I was hesitant to eat the red things on my shake, so I picked one off the top and, not knowing anything better to do, licked it. "Okay, it's strawberry flavored.... A little strange for it to taste like a freshly picked strawberry, but I'll go with it." I threw it in my mouth and bit down. "So, it's one of THOSE kinds of candies.... Who puts these in a shake?" I think with a wince, regretting biting down on it.

I took a quick sip from the shake, kind of wanting to know if these made a good combination. I blink, the flavors mixing to taste like a chocolate strawberry. With a hum of realization, I get why they are in there. I liked the combination, even though the candies were the slow melting kind, it was pretty good.

I moved from the shake, wanting to try the cinnamon roll. I waited for the candy to melt before I took a bite, not wanting to taste a mix of strawberry and cinnamon roll. The fillies right next to me finished. Having won the shake race, Zoe had a victorious smile on her face moments before she dropped out of her seat, moaning and holding her head. "Heh, heh, brain freeze." I laugh, missing the look Spike gave me.

Picking it up with my hand after noticing that there was no silverware for me to eat it with, I took a bite of the cinnamon roll, immediately loving it. "I found the pony equivalent of Cinnabon, Wooooohooooo!" I celebrate a little, happy that there's good food here.

We all finished at almost the same time, Fluttershy had went and got a to-go bag for her cookies and Ash put some gold coins on the counter.

"-So... Where are we going to go next?-" Ash asks, turning to look at Fluttershy.

"-H-How about my place, please? I-I mean it's not too far....-"

"-Okay, we'll go there. Lead the way.-"

We leave the bakery, Fluttershy leading the way. As we pass my house, I realize something. "Wait..........How do I even HAVE power at my house? I mean, I am probably hooked up to the plumbing, but I haven't even seen a power line anywhere." I think to myself, stopping the group and running back inside my house, much to their confusion.

I quickly run to the my basement door, quickly noticing a slight pink glow coming from behind it. I slowly open the door, hesitant to know what the source of the glow is. I hear a creak and turn around, jumping in fear. I sigh in relief, seeing Ash and Co. had followed me. I raise an eyebrow and point down the stairs, showing them the glow, earning a few gasps of awe. With a shrug, I go down the stairs and turn left, only for my jaw to drop.

There was a giant pink gem in the middle of my basement floor, almost reaching the floor above. It had little gems trailing off of it on the floor, almost looking like roots, leading to the fusebox and the water heater, completely engulfing them. The crystals engulfed the all the piping in the basement, almost making it look like a spiderweb.

"This has got to be the crystals that Celestia was talking about." I think, feeling the power pulse from it, eerily like a heartbeat.

I hear a collection of gasps behind me. Turning around, I see the group staring at all this in awe.

"-W-What is that?-" Fluttershy squeaks out, trying to hide from the gem.

"-Yeah, what is it? It's making my magic freak out.-" Lisa speaks up, pointing at her horn, which was sparking green.

"-If it is what I think it is, it'll be hard to explain..... Spike, get away from that!-" Ash yells.

Spike made his way to the gem, ignoring Ash's yells and drooling a little. "We just ate! How hungry is this guy!?!" He opened his mouth and bit down on the gem. For a moment all was silent.

Bzzzzzzzzzzt!

Spike was sent flying into the wall behind us, leaving a crater in the shape of him.

"-Worth........It.......-" We hear him say from his spot embedded into the wall, puffs of smoke coming out of his mouth.

"Yo, Spike...... Are ya alright?" I ask as he passes out. "Hmmm...... He'll be fine."

Author's Notes:

Well.... I didn't think I'd take this long on the chapter.... So, uh, nothing to much to say.... My college semester is starting next month, so don't worry if I take a while.

Ten points to Gryffindor to whoever gets the reference at the end.

Games and Bunnies

It's been about half an hour since Spike decided to try to eat the magical glowing crystal in my basement. We dragged the surprisingly heavy guy upstairs and lay him on my couch, worried about his health. Personally, I think he'll be alright, I am pretty sure dragons are pictured tough for a reason. Fluttershy quickly ran outside a little while ago, probably going to get someone more qualified to look at the poor guy.

We all were sitting at various spots in the living room. Because of Ash's persistence, I was sitting next to Spike, making the fillies giggle and Jynx send feelings of amusement, causing me to glare at them. The tentacle called Crystal was poking Spike in the side, sending feelings of worry. I pat her side, making her feel better and stop poking him.

Suddenly, Sylphid glowed green and moved over to the black marks on Spike's mouth, sending feelings of determination. The glow flowed over his burns, making them slowly vanish. Everyone watched them do their work, awestruck at the sudden magical display. It only lasted a few minutes until she retracted from his face and nuzzled Crystal, feeling her thank Sylphid.

"-Uhhhh.......-" Spike groans his eyes fluttering. "-A-Are you an angel?-" He asks, a little delirious from the shocking experience. "-You're beautiful......-" He murmurs, staring at my face.

Everyone giggled at the scene, making me glare at them, annoyed at the dragon's crush on me.

I hear my front door be slammed open, seeing Fluttershy and some white and pink unicorn levitating a med-kit enter the room in a rush towards Spike.

"I'll take a shot in the dark and say that she's some kind of doctor."

"-Oh, he's conscious, that'll make my job easier. Okay, Spike, tell us where it hurts.-" The pony says, breaking Spike out of his reverie.

"-Nothing hurts.... I taste mint for some reason though....-"

"-That's strange...... I was told you were launched across the room and was embedded into the wall, it should have broken some scales at least.-" The pony thoughtfully says.

"-Dakota fixed him up. He was burnt in some spots by his face, until one of her.....things glowed green and healed him. He woke right up after the light show.-" Zoe speaks up, pointing at me.

"-Is that so? Hmmmm....-" The unicorn trails off, horn glowing. "-Some residual low grade healing magic...... Nice to know she can cast healing magic.-" She smiles, having checked on spike with a small spell. "-Just tell anypony if Spike has any problems, the healing spells are a little iffy when you don't know much about the being you are using it on and, seeing that he is feeling fine, I think he'll be alright to go.-" She shrugs, a little unsure of what to. "-Well, if anything worsens, just let me know. Now, if you excuse me, I have to go back to the hospital.-" She levitates the med-kit and walks out, giving a little over the shoulder wave goodbye.

"-Soooooo........ Can anypony explain the glowing crystal in the basement?-" Jessie asks, breaking the silence.

"-Well, when Dakota warped here with her house, it had massive amounts of magic in one area, meaning, the residual magic from her getting here had to have gone somewhere.-" Ash explains. "-If enough raw magic is thrown into one spot, the effects could be disastrous, but, we all got lucky. The magic formed the crystal down there.-" She points at the basement door. "-That thing currently holds enough magic to give Celestia a run for her bits, if I'm right.-"

"-Woah! How is that possible!-" Lisa almost shrieks.

"-The only gem I saw formed by magic wasn't that big, it was the size of a hoofball and had enough magic for twenty unicorns, not even close to the boulder sized monster down there.-" Ash shudders. "-I guess we are pretty lucky that Spike's appetite didn't make the crystal blow up, those things can get pretty....unstable when fiddled with.-"

"-Hey, it was worth it! It was the best gem I've ever tasted! Granted, I probably won't do it again, I'm not crazy.-" Spike defends.

"Now that everything is all fine and dandy, how about we go back to going to where Flutters was taking us. On that note, sorry Fluttershy, I couldn't wait to check on my basement." I apologize to Fluttershy, remembering that she was leading us somewhere.

She smiles and comes over to me. "-It's fine, Dakota.-" She drapes a wing over my shoulder.

"-What did she say?-" Spike asks.

"-Well, I think it was an apology.-"

"-It's alright, Dakota. Thanks to you, I'm going to be just fine.-" Spike gently grabs my hand and, to the amusement of Jynx and to my horror, I blush.

"-Okay, you lovebirds, now that we had the unexpected 'visit' to the magical crystal downstairs, we are gonna go back to what we were doing, going to Fluttershy's pla--" Ash gets interrupted by knocks at the front door.

I shrug and answer the door, getting Spike to stop holding my hand in the process.

"Oh, hi, Rarity. What are ya doing here?" I ask, surprised that she's here.

"-Good afternoon, darling. Oh, where did you get that coat? I've never seen any design like that.-" She asks, walking circles around me and trying to memorize the design. "-What kind of fabric is it made of?-"

"Uh, hey, I know you're into fashion and all, but could ya take a break from that for, like, fifteen minutes?"

"-Oh, right! Celestia said that the spell wouldn't work anymore. Here, I have something for you.-" She says after a few moments of silence, levitating a familiar doll over to me. "-I think you forgot this back in my bedroom. Its a dreadful little thing, but I suppose you kept it for a reason.-" She says, giving a little shiver at the sight of the doll.

I take a closer look at the doll, wondering why it seemed so familiar, before remembering yesterday morning. "Ahhh, it's the Lilo and Stitch doll-clone-thing." I realize with a smile, happy to see it again. "I knew I was forgetting something today, but I didn't know what." With a quick thanks, I decide to do the kid choice on how to thank her, giving her a big hug.

I wrap my arms awkwardly around her, not really sure how to go about hugging a pony, let alone one bigger than me. She really knows how to keep her fur in pristine condition, feeling no knots in her velvety coat.

"-Oh, you're welcome, darling.-" Rarity smiles, wrapping a hoof around me in a hug.

"-What are you doing here, Rarity?-" I hear Fluttershy quietly ask, having come to check on me.

"-Dakota forgot her doll back at my house and my work was going slowly, so I came to return it.-"

"-That's nice of you, Rarity. Would you like to come with us? We're all going to go to my cottage in a little bit.-"

"-I suppose I could come along...... Just try to keep your little devil rabbit away from me.-"

"-Angel is not a devil, he's just grumpy about not getting the expensive carrots that Golden Harvest sells.-"

"-He was grumpy? Tell that to my silk supply, he broke in my house and chewed up all of it up, do you have any idea how hard it is to get Arachnid silk? Nopony has ever seen an Arachnid, let alone talked to one. I'm lucky that my source still sells the silk.-"

"-I didn't know he did all that...... I won't give him any more strawberries for a week, that should teach him to not chew up things that don't belong to him.-"

"-I really think you need to do more than that......-" Rarity mutters with a sigh, not liking Fluttershy's idea of a punishment.

"Okay, let's get the others and go, I want to see what you guys were leading me to earlier." I speak up, getting a little impatient.

"-Just wait a little longer, Dakota. We're going to go in a little while, we just have to give Rarity an update on the situation.-" Fluttershy says, patting my head lightly with a wing. "-Why don't you go play with Spike and the others?-" I get lightly pushed towards the living room, feeling Freya get a little agitated at Fluttershy.

"Fine, I'll go.-" I mutter, walking back into the living room.

I see Ash giving me a curious look the moment I walk in the room. "It's just Rarity." I say before grabbing the books and motioning Spike and the three fillies to follow me upstairs to my room.

They entered my room, seemingly in awe at all the stuff I had in here. The first thing they saw was the posters of games and movies scattered about my walls. I have a wall of video games for all the systems I have, organized by the genre of game and system, right next to my queen sized bed. A few chairs in front of my desk with my T.V on it, pretty much all the gaming systems hooked up to it, a mess of wires poking out the back.

"Welcome to my room, please don't break anything." I say, not used to having multiple people in here. "Just take a seat near the T.V, I'll get something we could all take turns on." I point near the T.V, silently hoping they'd get what I'm saying. While they looked around, I threw the doll and the books on my bed.

"-Woah, she's got some cool decorations.-" Zoe notes, not noticing that I was talking and looking at my Gurren Lagann poster.

Spike was walking around taking it all in, being a little weird in the process and sniffing random objects, lingering a little longer on my bed. "Maybe it's a dragon thing? Whatever it is, it's getting kinda creepy..."

Jessie was looking at my wall of games, trying in vain to get a hold on one of them with her hoof.

"-Oh, sweet Celestia!-" A voice exclaims, startling everyone.

Lisa had opened my closet door and was frozen in shock at the amount of clothes in there, making me sigh and the others speed over to see my closet. "This is gonna come back to mess with me later, isn't it? Why does she have to be the one to dig in my things?" I get over to the door and shut it, making shushing noises and making zipping motions over my mouth. "Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone about this. I want it to be a surprise later." I say, earning looks of confused understanding.

"-Okay, we won't tell anypony.-" Lisa slowly says, the other three nodding in agreement.

I smile, relieved that they got it. "I would hate it if the fashionista downstairs learned of my closet." I think with a shudder, knowing she would go crazy.

I motion them over to the seats by the T.V, wanting to play some games with them. They each take a seat and I move over to my game wall, looking for one of my favorite games. "Ah! Here, ya guys are gonna love this!" I say, having found the game quickly.

I pop the game in my Xbox and pull out two controllers, a plain black corded controller and my custom wireless controller I made myself. The controller was white with gold trim, golden tribal wings flowing down the grips and the buttons were silver with black lettering on them.

I turn on the T.V and see the title menu start up, hearing the group gasp in amazement. "Yeah, I can only guess how it looks to ya guys." I say with a giggle, just liking the look of absolute wonder on their faces. I had put in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, one of the games I am better at. I felt like showing off, having played this for a while.

I put it in versus mode and passed the black controller to my tentacles, giving them a slight feeling of challenge. Freya quickly responded with glee, wrapping herself around the controller, eager to beat me again. The others were happy to join in, Crystal being a little more hesitant and being placed at the block button on the controller by Freya and Jynx, much to the annoyance of Sylphid.

I give them a little pat on the side and murmur lowly to them. "What happened to the perfect team I had yesterday? Ya guys wouldn't even let me land a hit on ya. I want that team to come back and try to take my crown away from me.... Or are ya.... Chicken?" That last word got a reaction, all of them took their positions, feeling confidence and challenge flow, making me give a feral grin. "It's been a little while since I had a round against anyone on this.... Let's go!"

I chose Taokaka, one of my favorite cat girls. The tentacles, after some voting, chose my only weakness, Rachel Alucard. She can place lightning rod traps during the battle and can make quick getaways with her wind power-thingy. Freya and Jynx send something akin to evil laughter.

"Just one round, then I'm passing it over to the others." I say, earning a nod from Crystal. I then chose the stage, Taokaka's home, The Lost City.

I skipped the little introductions for the characters, wanting to get on with this.

In the game

Taokaka and Rachel stood on the edges of the screen, waiting for either to make a move. Suddenly, Tao sped over with insane speed, claws extended, Rachel standing still and sipping on her tea with an indifferent look on her face. When Tao got close enough, Rachel's little minion turned into a cannon and fired, just missing when Tao suddenly jumped, a feral look in her eyes.

"Nyaa!"

Metal claws raked Rachel's face, her health bar lowering a little bit. Tao landed, giggling at her pain. Rachel growled, firing another cannon shot and speeding away with a gust of wind. Tao quickly turned around, noticing the two lightning traps and giving a small groan.

"Grrrrrr! I will beat the rabbit lady!" Tao yells, running headlong into the traps. She dodged them with some trouble, glad that when Rachel activates the traps, all of them go off. Rachel was prepared this time, launching some pumpkins into the air and sending a frog out in Tao's path, to the confusion of my audience.

Tao gave another growl at the sight of her next obstacles. "I hate rabbit lady's toys!" She yells, running on all fours, her tail wagging haphazardly.

A sudden gust of wind slowed Tao down, the pumpkins flying after her. Tao tried to jump and dodge, only to jump right on top of the frog and get shocked, losing about a tenth of her health bar. Another gust of wind came, sending the pumpkins back at her, now stunned, self. They made contact, sending Tao into the air and closer to Rachel.

Rachel jumped into the air, her clothes turning into a giant spiked collar and spinning to grind the spikes into Tao's body, dealing massive damage. Tao's health bar is now a little under half way after the barrage of attacks. Rachel was swept further away from Tao by another gust of wind, firing her cannon three times while flying away, each shot landing around Tao and turning into lightning traps.

Tao finally recovered, furious at the little vampire running away. Tao reached into her pocket and threw....a pillow, just my luck. The pillow hit Rachel, stunning her for a second, while Tao ran past the traps.

Tao jumped and landed on Rachel, claws swinging wildly and a cloud of dust surrounding them. The dust cleared and Tao activated one of her specials, making a ghost copy of her follow. She quickly went into action, swinging her claws rapidly, dealing twice the damage. Rachel quickly blocked most of the hits then flew away to the other side of the traps, Tao's ghost double disappearing.

Rachel's health bar had a little more than a quarter left from the punishment she went through. She gave a little, "hmmpf," and sent out more pumpkins and taunted, taking a seat and sipping on tea.

Tao ran towards her, seeing red. She quickly ran into the traps, trying her best at blocking them when they activated. Rachel sent another gust in Tao's direction, slowing her down and hitting her with the pumpkins. Rachel fired more traps at Tao, each one activating the moment they landed, making it look like even Thor didn't want Tao to win. Tao got shocked a few times, lowering her health to a little sliver.

Tao finally got close and hit Rachel with a haymaker, bouncing her off the wall. Tao followed the move by jumping and sending Rachel into the air, attacking from all directions. Rachel quickly lost during Tao's assault, not even able to block the attacks. When all was said and done, Rachel was unconscious on the ground and Tao was doing a little dance.

In the real world

"Winner is.... Taokaka!" The announcer yells, to my happiness.

"Yeah! Good game, guys!" I applaud, giving a high five to each tentacle. Freya gave me a whack on the shoulder, sending begrudging respect. Jynx sent amusement at Freya's attitude.

I turn around checking on my little audience, hoping they liked the show. The Ash and the others came up at some point during the game, surprising me a little. There was a moment of awestruck silence, nothing could be heard, except the winning music from the game.

"-That was..........awesome!-" Spike cheers, surprising me with a bone crushing hug, making me blush like a tomato.

"-That was an interesting little display you put on, darling.-" Rarity smiles. "-The way those two were fighting was barbaric, but I suppose i like the dress the other one was wearing.-"

"-I liked the cat lady! I almost couldn't keep up with her!-" Zoe cheers.

"-I-It was exciting! I-I've never seen something like that.-" Fluttershy agrees.

"-Yeah, Dakota has some interesting things, doesn't she?-" Ash notes, interested in what else I have.

"-I wonder who else she has on it....-" Lisa trails off.

I pry myself out of Spike's grip and smile, happy to show off. "So.... Are we going now?" I ask, Crystal turning off the Xbox behind me.

Fluttershy gives me a nod and turns to the group. "-O-Okay, let's get going.-"

They all slowly made their way out, Spike following close beside me and trying to hold my hand, much to my annoyance. It took a little while to get to where we were going, having taken some turns and ended up following a dirt path that lead around the outskirts of a forest. The path was hugging the edge of the forest on one side and the opposite side was a massive apple orchard, the sight of which made Jessie smile. The strangest thing I've noticed during the walk was that I heard various animal noises growing in volume as we continued.

After walking for a few minutes, we came upon a little cottage built on a hill. I stop suddenly, questioning everything knew in life after getting a good look at the place. The whole cottage looked like nature decided to take over. There was grass growing out of whack everywhere, even the roof wasn't safe. To the left of the house were a few chicken coops surrounded by a small fence. Birdhouses were on every branch on every tree, the resident birds poking their heads out, staring at me with varying degrees of fear and curiosity. The little bridge over the river looked like it was formed from the earth and under it was a little dock leading into a burrow for some kind of animal.

"Huh..... Nice place ya got here. Who lives here?" I ask, looking to Fluttershy, hoping she can give me some limited answers.

She points to herself with a small smile, trying to hide behind her hair.

I hum in response, mentally taking notes.

When we got to her front door, she pushed it open and I immediately noticed the strong.....zoo-like smell. There were even more birdhouses inside, making me blink in confusion, not really expecting there to be more. The rest of the house looked pretty normal, if you ignored the little animals running about the place.

They all stopped and looked at me. A little bunny hopped up to me, giving me a few curious sniffs, before turning to Fluttershy and the others, glaring at them.

"-Angel, this is Dakota, please be nice to her.-" Fluttershy introduces me to the bunny, making me raise an eyebrow at it.

The bunny looked at me, his calculating stare lingering at the faux bunny ears on my coat, before hopping behind me. He pawed at my little tail on the coat, seemingly confused why I have it. Then he looked at my coat sleeves, which had two tentacles coming out of each arm. He poked Crystal on the tip when she got close to him, making me shiver at the contact.

"Nice to know that I can feel what they feel if I try." I mentally note.

The little rabbit, then stared at my eyes, an almost menacing glare in his eyes. "I think I've read about this somewhere..... Something about dominance or respect, I dunno." I think with a shrug, staring back at the almost evil looking bunny in front of me.

The staring continued for a few seconds, neither of us backing down, until the bunny suddenly smiled and hopped into my arms, taking care to not touch the tentacles. That made everyone stare at me in astonishment, causing me to raise an eyebrow at the stares

"-Did he just.....?-" Zoe asks, one of her wings twitching a little.

"-Oh, my.......-" Even Fluttershy was at a loss of words.

"-What's the big deal? It's just a bunny, not a timberwolf. -" Ash asks, not really getting the big deal about this.

"-Darling, that rabbit is the most demanding, evil, outright angry little monster I've ever had the displeasure of encountering.-" Rarity explains. "-The only pony he will listen to is Fluttershy.-"

I give the little fella in my arms a few scratches behind his ears, him leaning into the touch. I guess I did the right thing, seeing that all the other animals in the house flocked to me the moment they saw him become putty in my arms. The various birds had perched onto my head and shoulders, me feeling that childish feeling of absolute wonder at this, I decide to go with the the flow, giggling all the while.

"-Whoa! She's like another you, Fluttershy!-" I hear Jessie exclaim.

Unbeknownst to me, Spike was watching this in silence, hearts in his eyes, thinking that I looked amazing with the giant smile on my face.

"-Oh, that's just amazing! I've never seen all of the critters warm up to somepony that fast, especially Angel!-" Fluttershy quietly exclaims, excited at my apparent skill with animals.

I was surrounded by various animals, dogs, cats, mice and even a bear, the last of which knocked me down by running into me, sending the birds flying in a panic and making me throw the bunny onto a nearby couch to save him the trouble of slamming into the ground with me.

"-What's a bear doing here?!?-" I hear Ash panic.

"-Oh, it's fine. She's Ms. Grizzly, one of the few animals to help me out when I need to lift something heavy. Don't worry she won't hurt anypony while she's here.-" Fluttershy assures.

"Okay, nice bear, no need to eat me, I am too spicy from years of eating spicy foods!" I didn't even catch the reassuring tone in Fluttershy's voice, too focused on the bear in front of me. The tentacles quickly went into action, Freya and Jynx glowing their respective colors, gaining the attention of the bear.

The bunny suddenly hopped in front of me, chittering furiously at the bear and causing Jynx and Freya to retract a little in confusion. The bear looked almost scared of the bunny, like it was familiar with him. The bear broke out in tears after listening to him and ran outside, much to the amusement of Freya and Jynx.

"-Angel! Why did you say that to her! You know she's sensitive about her weight!-" Fluttershy scolds, not liking the bunny's attitude. "-Go out there and apologize!-"

The bunny gave a little huff and ran outside after the bear, glaring the whole while.

"-Why didn't you make him apologize to me about the silk.....-" Rarity mutters under her breath.

The crowd of animals had swarmed me while I was sprawled out on the ground, mice climbing onto my chest and head, birds retaking their place on my arms and cats curling up on my stomach.

"I have a feeling that I'm gonna love this place!"

Author's Notes:

Well.... I wrote my first fight scene ever... I am pretty rusty with Blazblue, so if there are any people who will argue about the moves, I'm sorry.

Here is a little poll for Dakota's pet.

Number 1: The normal-ish pet, a poodle moth.

Number 2: a baby Nibelsnarf.

Number 3: a baby Nargacuga.

And last but not least, Number 4: a Lagombi

Sorry, anyone who wanted the Giggi.... Some new info came to light.... the ensuing gigginox could overpopulate the place.

My First Day at School

The rest of the week passed by slowly. There were a few things that I've learned during the week that blew my mind, the cloud moving pegasi being one of them. I spent the rest of that day trying to figure out how they are able to do that, before chalking it up to magic. Another thing was that there was at least five different town-wide musicals, further cementing my theory that I'm in a world based off of a children's show.

I've spent whatever time I had alone 'discovering' things about my new body, er, not in 'that' way! The first thing I've found was a large metal hole in my lower back that, upon discovery, made me panic worse than Private Hudson in Aliens. Oddly enough, the hole looked like one of those old windup toys' key slots. Another thing I've found was the numerous barely noticeable scars all over my body, most of them concentrated my back, surprising me that Rarity even missed all that, thinking she's probably the type of person who pays attention to the smallest detail. I've tried my best to not think about what happened to the girl I'm in, just wanting to live as normal as I can in a magical pony populated world, as pointless as it was. I have had a few mental breakdowns in the middle of the night, in my vain attempt at trying to keep anyone from worrying about me. The last thing I'd like to say is that the bathroom visits are getting less..... uncomfortable.

Ash has done her best during the week she's been with me. She's a little overbearing, if not protective of me, seeing as she isn't too far behind me if I leave the house. I know she means well, but I would love some time to explore the town on my own. We came to the silent agreement that she would let me do the cooking, after I made some dinner she absolutely loved, some lasagna without meat, if you must know. I've even hid all of the meat in the fridge and freezer, worried about their reactions at seeing it, ya know, herbivorous species and all that. On the matter of the letters that freaked out Ash, I'm pretty sure she sent them to Celestia, seeing that she deals with the other nations all the time. Oh, and I almost forgot! Ash had her own party, courtesy of Pinkie Pie. Granted, she was a little upset that it was at my house in the middle of the night.

Spike showed up every so often, sometimes with a bag of heart shaped candies, and tried to give me a head start at learning Equish. I can't say it was a complete failure, seeing as I learned how to say a few words, even if they may be a little unintelligible at times. There were the few times he, dare I say it, was cute. One time was when he had spent the night at my place one night and...

Flashback two days ago

"Zzzzzzzzzz......" A familiar noise came from the weight on my shoulder, making me almost cry in frustration.

Little did I know at the time that spike was staying at my place that night. I was teaching him how to play some of my games, wanting another person to hang with. I do tend to get lonely when I have a game that has co-op things to do on it, like Portal. I had dragged a small couch to my T.V, Spike and I sitting together with controllers in our hands. I had tried my best to explain how to play the game without using words and ended up satisfied with the results, he was a quick learner. We've been playing for quite a while, passing the various puzzles with relative ease.

"Uh, Spike? You better not be doing what I think you are doing..." I mutter, slowly turning my head to look. He passed out, his head resting against my shoulder. I give a little sigh, having a tentacle turn the game off.

I look out the window and blink. "Huh..... Time flies when you are hangin' out with a dragon." I think, seeing that it had gotten pretty dark out. "Now, what to do........ I don't think I could be mean to him and just wake him up....... Nah, you don't just wake a man up from his sleep, I know that firsthand." I slowly try to shimmy away from him, only to have him mumble and wrap his arms around me, effectively trapping me in his embrace like an overgrown teddy bear.

"I hate my life and everything it has become....." I mumble, letting out a few curses whenever his claws dug into my skin.

Jynx kept silent laughing at my misfortune, making me glare at her. Meanwhile, Crystal sent multiple feelings equivalent to a massive blush, seriously, she was blushing somehow! Sylphid sent pretty much nothing on her side, I could've sworn I felt faint amusement from her at the time. Freya kept trying to attack Spike's face and, to her growing anger, just couldn't do anything to him, Spike kept shrugging off each slap and held me closer to him.

"Freya.... Stop it! Now! His scales are starting to hurt!" I whisper urgently. "You can get him back in the morning, just...... wait until then, please?" Freya glowed red, sending feelings of anger. "Please don't make this anymore worse than it has to be." Freya sent a sigh down her connection, already planning her way of getting back at him.

I smile, happy that she she's stopping her assault. Spike then wrapped his tail around my leg, murmuring something under his breath with a smile and cuddling closer to me, thus making the situation worse. I sigh and resign to my fate, noticing his body practically radiated heat.

A little bit before I fell asleep, Sylphid grabbed a nearby blanket and draped it over us, sending love over her connection. I blush at the feeling, noticing the hidden message underneath, it pretty much said, "Don't deny it, you like him too don't you?"

I sigh and take a closer look at the sleeping drake cuddling me like an overgrown teddy bear, grimacing at the single thought I had at what I saw. "......Cute......"

The next morning was embarrassing for the both of us, we both woke up to the sounds of giggling coming from Twilight and Ash. They both saw Spike was holding onto me like a teddy bear and I was cuddling in return. I swear on my life, I must have done it in my sleep.

End of flashback

Twilight and Ash still joke about that..... I think, still can't understand them.

The three fillies still come over to hang out, Zoe a little more than the rest. I swear, she came every day that week, regardless if her friends were with her or not. She usually came over early, around breakfast, and we both passed time with my stuff. She liked my collection of little gundam figurines, especially gundam Epyon. We both had little gundam wars and the like in my room. I did find it weird that she kept giving me weird looks during those times.

Oh, yeah.... I'm pretty sure they made me a member of their group. They even had a little initiation ceremony that, in the end, they gave me a little cape with the silhouette of a pony on the back. I pretty much just smiled and nodded my way through that entire thing, not really knowing what to do.

Another thing that happened during the week was that I kept changing my clothes to different show themes, much to Rarity's growing curiosity. There wasn't much else on her end to note, aside from her stopping me and taking notes on the clothes.

Twilight showed up on occasion, blasting a few spells that bounce right off me. Towards the end of the week, I presume that is when she stopped altogether on using magic to solve the language problem. That still doesn't mean she stopped coming, she comes over with a scroll and quill to make 'observations.' I guess it's fine, she's not blasting me with magical energies anymore, so that's a plus. Ash and I made a silent agreement to NOT show her the crystal in the basement, seeing as she would go crazier that she already is. Although..... Twilight did freak a little when my tentacles made some candy out of nothing, I guess it is not normal for magic to be used like that.

Well, anyways, today is my first day of school, judging from the school supplies that Ash had gathered yesterday. Today, I am wearing Ia's clothes, having my tentacles come out of sleeves, finding it weird that all the cosplay stuff fits me perfectly.

"-Are you ready, Dakota?-" Ash asks, looking at me with excitement and opening my front door. "-Oh, who am I kidding! You probably aren't!-" laughing nervously, she shrugs. "-I-I mean you are the only of your kind in the whole school, even the whole world! Even I would be nervous.-"

I raise an eyebrow at her attitude, seeing that she is more nervous than a kitten in a dog show. Waving her nervousness off, I pick up my backpack and wordlessly walk out the door, heading in the direction of the school. She quickly sped to my side, giving me the feeling that this is the first time she had to take a kid to school. The whole trip was a lesson in patience, Ash worried the whole way, quite loudly I might add.

We eventually got there, meeting Zoe and her friends out front. I give a small wave and say a good morning.

"-Can I trust you girls to keep her out of trouble for me?-" Ash asks, using one of her wings to ruffle my hair, much to my amusement.

The three nod in affirmative and quickly drag me inside, excited to show me off. We get inside the classroom and I broke off from their group, dropping my backpack off next to a desk on the front left of the classroom and sat down, quickly noticing that the seat was a little strange, It was basically a stool with no back. I pulled out a book that had some Minotaurs and Gryphons on the cover from my backpack and started to look through it, waiting for the teacher to start class.

Unknown to me, some of the other kids flocked around my desk, observing my every movement curiously. Each of my tentacles did their thing, Sylphid trying to help me read by pointing out some patterns in the text, Freya sending annoyance down her connection, Crystal extending and examining the group of kids with excitement, and Jynx doing her best to make me stop looking at the book.

I felt something start petting Crystal, making me shiver at the feeling. I put the book down, to the joy of Jynx, and turn the group with a smile on my face. I notice a scrawny pegasus petting Crystal gently, causing her to send joy down her connection. "What do ya want? Oh, wait, lemme guess, ya guys wanna ask questions?" I almost laugh at the blank looks on their faces. "-I naps wordz goodz.-" I explain in their language, hoping I got it right.

I probably should've said this earlier. To put it lightly, Equish is really hard to speak. It is like trying to combine horse whinnies with an angry German accent, pretty much impossible for me to to even pronounce. It kinda worked like Pokéspeak, different tones meant different words, confusing the hell out of me.

They blinked at my broken Equish, not really expecting me to say anything recognizable. A little filly started laughing uncontrollably, probably at what I said.

"Oh, look, it's the tiara wearing one."

"-Tiara~-" a pony to my left lightly scolds. "-Don't be mean to her. Remember that talk we had?.-"

"-And there's Glasses.-"

"-I'm sorry, Spoon. It's just, he he, I didn't expect her to talk like that.-" Tiara apologizes, still giggling a little. "-I guess she caught a few words here and there during the week. Right, Spoon?-"

"-I suppose so, Tiara.-" Glasses says with a shrug. "-Less work for Ms. Cheerilee.-"

"-Hey! She's our friend! Why are you two so interested in her, anyways?-" Zoe asks, upset that Tiara laughed at me.

"-Not me, blank flank.-" Tiara corrects, pointing at Glasses. "-She's the one who has a little crush on that freak. I'm just worried for her.-"

Whatever Tiara said caused the whole room go silent and look at Glasses, who was blushing at the attention. Glasses gave Tiara a look that was a cross between betrayed and embarrassed.

"-Tiara, could you come with me, please?-" Glasses calmly asks,hiding her embarrassment behind a cool exterior and dragging Tiara away to the corner of the room by her tail, getting in a quiet argument when they got there.

Everyone started to talk amongst themselves, probably about whatever Tiara said. Zoe and her group took their seats closest to me, talking amongst each other. I did, however, miss the worried glances they sent in my direction.

"-Okay class, time to take your seats.-" The teacher announced, having been watching all this from her desk.

I watched as everyone sat at their seats, noticing that Tiara and Glasses seemed to come to an agreement. Glasses took a few nervous glances at me, looking a little embarrassed. We ended up making eye contact, me raising an eyebrow at the look, making her blush and look away. I think I saw Tiara send me a few jealous glares, I can't be too sure.

"-Alright, class, I have an announcement.-" Teach announces, gaining the students' attention. "-As most of you may already know, Dakota will be starting to come to class as of today.-" She says, every student taking a glance at me in response. "-As you all heard earlier, she can barely speak Equish, so I'll be teaching her it, meaning, all of you will get review work until she can read Equish, at the very least.-" The last little bit elicited some stray groans of boredom.

Teach pulled out some worksheets from her desk with her mouth and made her rounds passing them to each student, except me. Once that was done, she pulled out a few sheets of paper with some drawings on them from her desk and placed them on my desk.

"Oh, great. More pony runes." I think after taking a closer look at the drawings. "Let's see here..... At least four different versions of the horseshoe..... Two kinds of pony heads, one with horn, the other without.... Two that look like the sun.... Is this their alphabet? Huh..... Gotta be about ten times the amount of characters in this. Maybe it's some kind of hieroglyphic thing?" I shrug at the thought, none too excited to learn this.

Seeing my confusion, Teach pointed at one rune and sounded it out, making me more confused than I already was. Glasses was watching this with some amusement. "-Why don't you have her write out her alphabet? Maybe you two can make some connections between them.-" She suggests, wanting to help.

Teach smiled at the suggestion. "-Good idea, Silver Spoon. Come here, you can help us with this.-" She says, calling Glasses over to us. Glasses slowly came over, almost hesitant get close to me, blushing like mad.

There were some stray giggles coming from some students, a certain tiara wearing individual in particular was the most prominent. Glasses silenced Tiara with an unamused glare, to which Tiara responding by mouthing something, making Glasses blush even harder than before. Glasses took her spot next to me, smiling nervously.

After some rather creative charades on the teacher's part, I had got the what she was saying. I wrote the English alphabet in pencil and placed it down right next to the paper with pony runes, ready to get on with this.....

One eternity later

"Sometimes, I wish Morgan Freeman could just come and explain things to me.... Seriously, I can't believe this." I blink at the writing in front of me. I had pulled out a notebook earlier and, some help, deciphered some of the pony runes. It looks like each rune represents a word. There were some obvious translations, like the unicorn rune and the sun rune.

Glasses and the teacher had helped out a lot with the translations. We started with the basics, naming some random objects. We started with an apple that the teacher had on her desk. The thing they wrote was literally a goddamn mini drawing of an apple, bear in mind, they don't even have hands! They drew the thing with the old ink and quill, in their mouths!.

We ended up passing around translations of random things in both English and pony runes until a bell rung, making some of the kids cheer. Most of the class ran outside to the little playground, leaving just me, Glasses, Tiara, Zoe, Jessie, Lisa and the teacher in the classroom. The kids ran up to Glasses and I, probably wanting to take me out with them.

"-Can Dakota come play with us, Ms. Cheerilee?-" Lisa asks, putting on her cutest face.

"-Hmm.... I suppose she could... We've made some good progress, thanks to Silver Spoon over here.-" Teach smiles, causing Glasses to blush.

The trio cheered and started to drag me outside, much to my annoyance. I sigh and give a little wave before I get dragged out of the room, getting used to being dragged by these crazy ponies. I zoned out while they continued dragging me, thinking about what my life has become.

"Sigh.... This doesn't help my confidence any, being dragged around my three pony kids......."

My depressing train of thought was derailed after I noticed that we stopped at a swing set, confusing the hell out of me that they can even use them. Lisa sat down on the seat just like a normal human kid. I decided to not question anything in this insane world I'm in after seeing that.

Zoe gives me a little push towards the swing set, looking a little excited to play with me. I hop on the seat, wanting to show off a little, and start doing what I haven't done in a while, gain enough momentum to launch myself into the air and nail the landing. The rest of the kids outside flock to see me, probably wondering what I'm gonna do. I saw some new faces in the crowd, a brown colt with a propeller hat and a whitish-pinkish filly with an almost unruly red mane wearing the most gaudy glasses I've ever seen.

I gave a big smile and launched myself off the seat, having gained enough momentum. I few over the small crowd, feeling all their eyes on me. The tentacles panicked and speared the ground, leaving me suspended in the air. All four of them sent feelings of annoyance at my little stunt, Freya more than the others. The feelings changed to joy after our audience started cheering, thinking it was all part of my plan.

Jynx, feeling mischievous, retracted and made my little tentacle tower fall, taking me with it. Much to my pain and the audience's amusement, I landed on my face. The trio helped me up, looking a little worried. I wave them off, brushing the dirt off my clothes. Feeling a little upset that my plan didn't work, I walk off to a nearby bench with a small frown.

The crowd dispersed, going to do their own thing. I spotted Glasses and Tiara over at a little picnic table, looking like they were scheming something. The propeller hat kid took a hesitant seat next to me, pulling out a small device from his saddlebags with his hooves. I raise an eyebrow at the thing, genuinely curious about what it does. It was controller shaped with an oversized screen in the center and some big buttons on both sides. On the back was a small slot with a cartridge inserted into it, looking vaguely familiar.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say that it was a gam-" I blink, seeing him turn it on with a flick of a switch on the side. The screen lit up, showing some pixelated ponies on some kind field, one of them riding a giant chicken-thing, while the others were chasing after her. Some nostalgic music flowed from the device, making me smile at the memories.

"Lemme guess, that is called Pony Fantasy here?" I muse with a shrug, having learned to accept damn near everything strange I've seen as some kind of norm. "Mind if I watch?" I ask, briefly forgetting the language barrier.

He looked at me with curious eyes, pressing a few buttons with his hooves and navigating the menus out of the corner of his eyes. I gesture towards his game then my eyes, earning an eager smile and nod from the guy. I get a little closer to take a closer look, spotting his little sprite moving through an old castle.

We both sat there, enjoying the little game. He had passed it to me at one point, having lost at one point to a giant dragon thing, looking a little upset. I gave him a look, questioning why he had even gave it to me, It was all in pony runes. Seeing him shrug, I take the thing from his grip. I had some trouble holding onto it, seeing as it was a little awkward to work the buttons. I had even surprised him at how good I did, having beat the dragon. I just relied on my memories of the game's human counterpart, seeing as they were pretty much identical.

"-What!-" He exclaimed, making me flinch at his nasally voice. "-How did you even beat him?!? You can't even read it!-" I shrug at his loud outburst, making him blink. "-You got lucky.....-" He mutters in disbelief. "-Yeah, that's what happened.-" He nods, seemingly pleased with this explanation.

I pass the game back, finishing with saving the progress. He takes it with one hoof, putting it back in his bag. I hold out my fist, happy to find another gamer like me. He bumps it with a hoof, grinning at my attitude.

"Let's see here.... What am I gonna call this guy?..... Gamer will do, I guess."

Glasses and Tiara came over, having finished with whatever they were doing. Glasses looked at Gamer, seemingly confused as to why I was hanging out with him. Tiara looked a little disgusted at the sight of him.

"-What are you doing hanging out with that freak? Nopony else wanted to play those dumb games?-" Tiara asks, sounding like she hated the guy. Gamer looked a little dejected at what Tiara said, his ears drooping like a sad dog.

"-Tiara....-" Glasses sighed, pushing up her glasses with a hoof. "-We literally just talked about this, not even three minutes ago.-" She points out, earning a blush from Tiara.

Tiara shrugged. "-Sorry, won't happen again.-" She apologized, giving Glasses a sheepish smile.

"-Knowing you, it probably will.-" Glasses muttered under her breath, before turning to us with a gentle smile. She waved at me, motioning me to follow her.

"Nice change of pace, not being dragged around." I smile and get up from my seat, giving Gamer a little wave. He looked between Tiara and I, frowning a little and waving back.

I nonchalantly followed the duo to their table, wondering what they want to show me. Glasses pulled out some paper and a quill, starting to write. I look to Tiara, raising an eyebrow and getting a confused shrug in return. In a few minutes, Glasses passed me her note. I blink in surprise at what she wrote.

"Wow...... I did not expect her to learn to write English that fast...."

The whole thing was written in English. It had a few errors here and there, but, all in all, still readable.

(Hello, my name Silver Spoon. My friend, the one next to you, Diamond Tiara. Sorry you can't read much this, It hard to learn you words in little time. Would like to know if you want to be friend and go some place wit us after school.)

"Okay, it's official, this kid is my best friend!" I give my biggest smile at the thought. I look at Spoon and nod, happy to now know her real name. I cheered internally, a proud that I got Tiara's name spot on.

Spoon smiled, looking like she was both really proud of what she did and excited to hang out with me after school. Tiara coughed, gaining our attention.

"-What did you write?-" Tiara asks, looking a little jealous.

"-Oh, nothing, just asking if she would like to go hang out with us after school.-" Spoon says absentmindedly, not noticing Tiara's surprised look.

The bell rung again, most of the kids slowly walking back inside. I look at Spoon and Tiara, giving them a little wave and started to make my way to the classroom, leaving them to their business.

Once I got back to the classroom, I saw the few kids pulling paper bags out of their saddlebags. I slowly come to the realization that it's lunchtime for the school, feeling a little stupid. I genuinely thought that it could be one of those schools with a cafeteria, where they serve some crappy school food. I had made the mistake to not pack a lunch......

"So THAT'S why Ash kept giving me weird looks when I didn't want to bring lunch.... God, I'm stupid." I resisted the urge to hit myself.

Slowly, I took my seat, ignoring the curious stares in my direction. I look at my tentacles, sending my embarrassment down the connections. They all move to 'look' at me, making me laugh nervously and blush.

"Can ya do me a solid and make me lunch?" I hesitantly ask, not quite liking the way they are 'looking' at me.

Crystal bobbed up and down, giving me the impression of nodding. Freya lightly slapped my forehead, sending disappointment down her connection. Sylphid..... Surprisingly enough, sent nothing down her end, glowing a little in response. Jynx just sent amusement down her connection and glowed purple.

They all turned towards my desk, glowing all at once, a football sized rainbow colored blob appearing on the desk. Everyone watched in awe as the blob slowly took shape. In a few minutes, it formed my lunch. There was a can of orange soda and a big steaming bowl of ramen with, of all things, chopsticks. The moment they stopped glowing, I felt the drain, making me pant a little from exhaustion. I couldn't complain, free is free. I thank them and give each one a few good scratches on their sides, making all of them send love down their connection.

My audience did their own version of an applause, stomping their hooves on the floor. Some of the unicorns in the class looked at their horns, probably wondering how I did that.

"Nothing to see here, go back to eating yer food." I say, starting figure out how to use the chopsticks and eat. They all took my advice and went back to eating.

"Mmmm, chicken, my favorite. Thanks, guys." I gave each tentacle another scratch on the side, feeling pretty good about today.

Meanwhile, in the Badlands.

Change to 3rd person POV.

Underneath the desolate wasteland, inside a network of caverns, was a secret kingdom. Inside of the largest cavern, was a massive, chitinous castle-like structure, home to one of the most resourceful queens ever to live..... Her name is Queen Chrysalis, Queen of the Changelings.

Inside the Queen's chamber, lied Chrysalis on a bed made of a gently glowing green jelly, her cerulean membrane-like mane covering her eyes as she slept. The room was silent, while the outside was abuzz with rumors, news of the new creature in Equestria. The love gatherers had finally come back to deliver their weekly harvest of love, bringing with them news of the outside world.

Chrysalis' slumber was disturbed by a loud banging on the door, making her moan in disappointment, she was having a good dream! There was love for everyling, not the rationing out of the meager stores they had now.

"My queen! I apologize for the disturbance, but I bring some important news!" A deep voice loudly chirps from behind the large stone door entrance to her room. The queen sighed in resignation, having heard of this 'important' news before. Tapping into her hive's connection, she allows the guard to enter the room.

He was a big changeling, bigger than most. His frill was torn up, looking like something tried to eat it. He had scars on most of his chitin, souvenirs of him proving himself multiple times in the Pitt, an arena he frequents in the nearby cavern. He was missing an eye from an encounter with one of the creatures in the Badlands. The holes in his legs were more jagged, nowhere near the smooth holes that most of the other lings didn't have. He stopped his entrance at a respectable distance from her bed.

Briefly, she wondered why she had even let him in her personal guard. "He is one of the most capable lings in the hive..... That's why." She thought to herself, remembering his displays of fighting prowess in the Pitt.

"My queen, there is word that a new creature appeared in the neighboring nation, Equestria." He informs, his voice sounded like he ate nails and washed them down with rocks.

"Interesting..... Tell me more, Six Six." The queen commands, genuinely curious about this new event.

"I can only go by what I heard from the gatherers, my queen. It is a pale skinned bipedal mammal, with no fur anywhere, except for the white tuft on its head. The gatherers say that it has some even stranger traits than that, it has four tentacles, seeming to act on their own. Another thing is...... Well....." He trailed off, not really sure how to go about telling his queen the next few things.

"Well? What is it?" Chrysalis asks, confused at Six Six's hesitation.

"Bear in mind, my queen. They say it.... Came to be there from a massive magical surge, the likes of which only theorized by scholars, a week ago."

Chrysalis blinked in surprise, not really expecting that. "Y-You mean....!"

"Affirmative, my queen. The magic ripped it here, with its home none the less." The guard confirms, turning towards the door. "I believe that one of the gatherers had brought a newspaper with a picture of the being, I'll go acquire it." He started to exit, only to stop at the sound of his queen getting off her bed.
"Wait.... Before you go, tell me.... D-Did the gatherers return with a good harvest?" She asks, hesitation making her voice tremble.

The guard, as tough as he was, couldn't work up the heart to turn around to face his queen.

"No...... No, they didn't....."

Author's Notes:

I'm sorry I took so long, guys. I had my first bit of writers block in this chapter. I've even figured out to do some new things with my tablet in the meantime!

So.....I'm never really sure what to put in these things... Meh...

Oh. Right! Uh, the winners of the pet poll!

The Nargacuga won. The next chapter will have him show up sometime soon.... Just have to find that draft I have laying around here....

I want to hear your ideas on what poison joke will do to Dakota. I have one idea where it turns him into a dragoness.... I'll let you guys come up with alternatives for that.

As always, I love all of you guys that read this.

Makes me soo happy.