Wave became curious at the behavior of the two even as she warmed from the affection. "Y-you are pretty," she agreed though with an uncertain tone to it. "I think we all are." She pointed at Pyrite. "You're a unicorn, and a tall one, and so slender. It's good, and then we have you." She pointed at Ocean and leaned in to nibble at her. "You're mine, and that's all we really need to know, but you're a great, uh, lunar sea pony."

Pyrite blushed hard as she returned Ocean's kiss awkwardly, one ear pivoting to listen to Wave. She giggled as she broke off the kiss. "You know... alone time can finally include me.~"

“You must have had one hell of an active sex life before coming here, you jump to innuendos and sex so quickly,” Ocean muttered, shaking her head slightly before walking over awkwardly to the bed and climbing up onto it equally so. “Wave, thank you dear for changing us. And a lunar sea pony, it works well enough~ How’s about we all just cuddle for a bit, hmm? As a family?”

“Well we were down to every seven to ten days, due to pregnancy. .. anyways, I think cuddling is about all i can physically manage right now," Pyrite conceded.

All the conversation of sex and such were beyond Wave's complete understanding, but she knew they were discussing intimacy, and together. The walls that were between them as human males were nothing as pony mares, and she delighted in it. "I still want to do that slowly, but yes. Oh! We can tell hi-her all about it now, right? We're all together."

Rolling her eyes with a playful giggle, Ocean conceded to Wave. “I suppose so… and yes, I don’t plan on pushing you into anything quickly in regards to sex, Wave, but Pyrite here seems a bit starved for it,” she teased her friend, holding her hooves open as she found a decently comfortable position on the bed. “But first, hugs and cuddles, I declare it so! Then you can tell Pyrite about it all.”

“If it helps, Wave, none of us really know what we're in for, anymore. We’ll just have to learn it all together,~" Pyrite said with a bit of a sing-song. "Mmm, I like my new voice. One of the perks of being a mare, i guess."

Wave drifted into the air to move over Pyrite and squeeze her lightly around the neck. "You had a nice voice before, and a nice one now. It's different.. Before we do any of that, I think you two need to be ponies, I mean, learn how to be." She waggled a hoof. "Can you even walk across the room?"

"Honestly? No," Pyrite admitted, leaning into the squeeze. "Being a quadruped is a whole new challenge. Guess we should get back to toddling?"

Humming quietly, Ocean nodded. "Yeah, a mare's voice is much more... softer? Smoother? It's got a nice appeal to it, either way," she finished, turning to Wave. "Does stumbling around like a fool count?" Ocean joked, grinning a bit. "We can probably walk, you know, with all of our focus on it." Carefully, she got off the bed, landing in a pile of splayed limbs. "Yeah... not so great," she groaned.

Wave crossed her hooves with a bit of a pout. "Now if this were swimming, or I guess floating now, I'd be glad to help out, but I never had four hooves to try crawling on, so I won't be a lot of help. For tonight? Some sleep, then tomorrow, we can find someone who will help." A hoof suddenly raised. "We could go to Baltimare! Find that siren, and someone to help, all at once. It's a big city, right?"

“I… don’t think going to another city is a good idea while walking is hard to do,” Ocean admitted as she untangled her limbs, sticking her tongue out at Wave to blow a raspberry at her. Pausing afterwards, she stuck her tongue out a bit further, until it couldn’t extend anymore. “This is long,” she said rather muffled, tongue still outstretched.

Wave kissed the nose above that long tongue. "Now you're just showing off. Come on. Sleep now, we can decide for sure tomorrow." She landed gently on the bed and snuggled up with her circle of mares. Herd or not, they were surely her family, and she looked quite comfortable with that.

The next day found them welcomed with a hearty breakfast, and a polite reminder that they were needed in the form of invitational cards that appeared in their eggs, despite Pinkie Pie being nowhere in sight. Apparently the party had been finalized to be that very night, at Sugarcube Corner,

Wave nudged the card out of the way before resuming her meal. "I don't know who that is. Why are they so eager to have a 'welcome' party? I'm not sure I want to meet all those strangers at once."

"You neither, hmm?" Pyrite responded. "I hate crowds... they make me extremely lonely. Especially strangers." She poked at the eggs with a hoof, frowning at them as she tried to figure out how to eat them, short of just shoving her snout in the plate. That remained an option, however, if her hunger got too much worse.

“Pinkie is, from the show anyways, pretty big on parties,” Ocean explained a bit, finding it an odd experience to be eating without the aid of hands. “Personally, I’d rather deal with us first, and getting used to being on four legs now. Maybe we can ask Twilight to keep it to the bare minimum?”

Spike twirled a claw. "If you say no, she'll find you. She's pretty insistent. She's pretty nice overall, you'd be better off just telling her how you like your parties. She'll make it smaller if you like it smaller, but she doesn't deal with 'no' all that well." He hopped down from his seat and toddled off with his plate.

Wave looked over at the only human at the table. "You had one of these?"

Jake waved a hand. "Yeah, sure. I loved it. I like Pinkie, and most of the other ponies, even if Rainbow became best pony over time."

"Smaller sounds better. It’d be nice to keep it to a dozen or less, including us," suggested Pyrite. "Preferably mostly those who already knew we were human literally yesterday." There was a fork nearby, so she poked at that with her hoof, repeatedly. The fingers weren’t completely gone, just completely reconfigured. There were multiple bones, and the muscles to manipulate them, but they lacked the joints and independance from before. In truth, that was part of the trouble with walking: simple peg feet would have been easier to master, but these changed their shape with poorly controlled impulses.

Ocean nodded her agreement. “Yeah, that’d be best. It’s awkward enough trying to eat in front of y’all right now, and it was a trip getting down here. I’d hate to have the entire town be there to see me eat the floor repeatedly,” she mumbled, shaking her head before turning to Jake. “What’re your thoughts on all this, by the way? Twilight says that she’s seen a fair bit of humans, but you’re the only one who hasn’t ‘gone native’ as they say.”

Jake lifted his shoulders lightly. "I like being what I am. Ponies are cute and all, but I don't want to be one. I mean it's like having a pet dog, they're adorable and you like them a lot, but you don't want to be one. No offense, right?" Without asking he reached to muss the head of the pony named Ocean and scratch into her scalp a little bit.

“I can get that,” Ocean started to reply before relaxing a bit at that scratching. “Now I see why Wave loves this so much, wow,” she muttered, looking at Wave for a moment and sighing quietly. “I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I came here, but I don’t think I have any regrets so far, and it’s definitely been the most interesting thing to happen in my life… you think Rainbow would be up to helping me see if these things work?” Ocean asked Jake, nodding towards a wing.

Jake barely restrained his laughter, trying not to sound mocking and mostly succeeding. "I think she'd make you cry before the day's over. Just ask Twilight what it was like to learn to fly from her. You may be better off with a more timid flyer, like Fluttershy, or one a little more disciplined, like a real instructor, or even Night Watch, when she isn't, you know, expecting."

Wave became curious at the back-and-forth dialogue. "You have a lot of choices for flying ponies it sounds like. I think walking should come before flying, right?"

“Of course, I’m just figuring out some future plans, Wave. Like, I want you to teach me to swim. It’ll probably be a little different and all that, but that’s something that should also come after learning how to walk. Doesn’t mean I can’t think about it~” Ocean remarked with a small giggle, ignoring the bit of laughter from Jake as she turned to Pyrite. “Just like I’m sure you’re already thinking about magic, yeah?”

“Of course,” Pyrite answered. “I’m planning to keep poking at that book even later today, when my hooves need a rest and I’m tired of faceplanting. Eventually I’ll need a proper tutor for the basics, though, or I’ll never be able to put what I learn into practice, or even fully contextualize it.” Even as she said this, she managed to lift the fork triumphantly, until it dropped from her hoof with a clatter. Progress!

Jake had precious little advice on the walking of pony bodies, so he excused himself. As luck would have it, Twilight was not entirely without a plan. She came in with a broad smile and three cards and placed all three on the table. "I have three perfectly suitable candidates to get you on your hooves as soon as possible!"

The first card had a picture if Cheerilee. "She's a local schoolteacher, and great at, well, teaching. She's patient and kind and she won't pressure you too much.

The second card had a picture of Fast Change. "You already know her and she can be a good teacher, just watch out for her playful side. She's not above playing a prank if she thinks she can get away with it or she gets bored."

The third picture showed Bulk Biceps. "Don't let his appearances fool you. That stallion's been around and is very physically active. If he can get off the ground with those little wings of his, I'm sure he can show you two how to move, and maybe even fly."

Ocean glanced over all three cards, giggling for a few seconds at the silliness of the presentation before looking over to Pyrite for a few moments. “Fast Change seemed really nice, and she’s already here?” she questioned, shrugging her shoulders. “Plus, if we can stay on our hooves after being pranked, then I’d say it’s a win. Whatcha think, Pyrite?”

“I don’t think I met Fast Change. A unicorn, I see… she a shapeshifter then? That’s actually toward the top of my list of what I want to learn,” Pyrite replied, looking over the cards with interest.

Twilight shook her head in denial. "Calling her 'a' shapeshifter is a bit of an understatement. In fac,m she's not here this morning because they needed her to cover for another pony and she could play the job well enough to not be caught, but she should be back later, if you pick her."

Wave glanced between her friends before pointing at Fast Change. "They obviously want her. I met her before, didn't you, I mean, she's married too, right, like us?"

Twilight bobbed her head quickly. "She sure is, so don't let her get too naughty, even if she invites it." Twilight softly snorted. "So which will it be?"

“We did, and shapeshift she can… even if the prank didn’t quite go as planned,” Ocean mumbled at the end, rubbing her neck, only managing to hit it hard enough for a bit of discomfort. “But yes, Fast Change seems like she’d be able to get the two of us on our hooves and then some with a bit of time, and perhaps Wave could even learn something, too?” she questioned, looking to her.

“Well, Fast Change is the obvious choice for me. She knows most of the things I want to learn, and should be able to get me far enough to research the rest eventually,” Pyrite answered. “Would it make sense for us to split up? Or is that even an option? I don’t know if Fast would be much help learning to fly, for example.”

Wave waggled a hoof at Pyrite in a scolding manner. "We're learning how to walk, not how to fly or use magic or anything else. One thing, then the next. Sheesh, you think you'll have that down in a day now?"

Ocean giggled a bit at Wave’s scolding. “She is the one who seems to think longer term than us. But still, I think Fast Change will be a good pony to teach us how to walk, and once that is done, if we have the time, perhaps after our trip to Baltimare, we can learn more from her. I promise, we won’t delay that anymore than we need to, Wave,” she softly spoke, smiling at her.

Pyrite lifted her fork in a hoof and waggled it at Wave. “I learned the basics of how to program computers before I learned algebra. I need to know the basics of magic as soon as possible, even if I’m still mastering these hooves at the time. And studying each will help distract me from the frustrations of studying the other. So there.”

Twilight pulled the cards off the table with her magic and tucked them away. "Well don't worry about that. Fast Change can show you all of those things. She's had wings, horns, flippers and paws at different times, and learned how to use all of them. I'll let her know you want to talk with her when she gets back." And off Twilight went with a happy whistle, another check on her list marked off.

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