Author's Notes:

Here is my Christmas gift to yall, part two of the previous chapter.

Merry Christmas.

On a side note, it'll be a while before the next chapter. Hopefully not too long. Enjoy ya'll's vacation.

Night had fully settled by the time I made it back to the library. The populace of the village had all retired into their homes for the evening activities. Yet despite the calm environment, something was bothering me. There was something that I was forgetting and it was clawing at the very edge of my mind. I had arrived at the library when the hairs at the back of my neck began to stand up and I spun around and only saw an empty road and the thatched roof houses of Ponyville. Dismissing the feeling I entered the library.

With a grunt, I straighten up and saw that Twilight was studying one of the Luna's arrows. A quick glance on the floor showed that my bow and quiver were also in front of her. She blanched at the cruel edges. "Why would Princess Luna allow the creation of these?" she wondered out loud.

"To break the enemy's morale," I answered which caused the pony to jump in shock.

"Sweet Celestia's flanks!!" she cried out before she landed on her tush and her head snapped to my shocked face.

"Don't sneak up on me!" the irate unicorn yelled at me and her peeved face might have made me a bit concern but I just couldn't get over the fact that...

"What?" Twilight said her expression downgraded to miffed.

"...did you just Celestia's rear end as a slur?" I asked incredulously and boarder line laughter.

Twilight's face began to turn into a lovely shade of pink before she turned her back to me. My lips split into a grin.

Oh no, no, no, no, no, no~! I'm going to take full advantage of this.

My smile got even bigger as I swaggered towards the distraught pony. "My, my, my Twilight Sparkle," I said with an empty chiding tone as I got to her level and swung an arm around her neck, "do you kiss your mother with that mouth?"

I watched as Twilight's face heated up even more. My eyes went to my pony arm as my pretty much non-existent fingernails probably needed a good cleaning. "I can't help but wonder why her flanks hmm? Copping an eyeful, eh?" I asked as I felt her tremor. Before my mind could send the signal to my mouth to shut up it spout out, "She does have a nice butt."

Twilight let out a battle cry before she launched into me and we tumbled on the ground for a few rotations before we came to a stop. Twilight was on top of me her angry muzzle inches from mine. her warm breath breathing on to my face, her violet gaze drilling into mine.

"I. Don't. Look. At. Her. Like. That," Twilight punctuated every word with a heavy breath.

Any logical person would have stopped, maybe even apologized, then there's me

Oh, you don't play for the home team then?

"So like being on top then," I said with a shit-eating grin, "Kinky," I added a wiggle of my eyebrows. "but at least buy me dinner first."

That seemed to snap Twilight back to reality and she realized where she was at, or on

"Sorry!" she screamed before she scrambles off of me and ran to the other side of the room.

As a sat up I did a quick mental check of myself. I waited a few moments and once I was sure that I wasn't going to have a panic attack I stood up. Once I was on my feet I looked over to Twilight to see that she had her head covered by her front hooves. I could hear her muttering, "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I just assaulted a stallion! The princess is going to throw me in the dungeons.

"Twilight," I called out only to be ignored.

"No, its worse than that," Twilight continued. "I sexually assaulted him."

"Not really," I chimed in, "it was more of a light tussle and I was the one who made it sexual with my comments."

"I'll be exiled to the badlands!" the unicorn cried out once again not listen to a word I said.

Okay, this needs to be stopped now before she goes all Lesson Zero.

Walking slowly towards Twilight I went to my knees and crawled towards her until I was over her. There was a moment's hesitation on whether this was appropriate or not, but then I remember how well this worked with Celestia. After the passing thought vanished I laid down next to Twilight and wrapped her into a hug.

I rested my head close to her's so I could whisper to her, "It's okay Twilight," I began to rub her sides and she began to relax. "I'm sorry for pushing it too far."

Twilight removed her hooves from her head and I saw some of her fur had been mated and stained from a few tears. The feeling of protectiveness overwhelmed me and I pulled the pony closer to me.

Jesus fucking christ, I took it to far again. When will I learn that not everyone can handle my humor.

"I'm sorry too," Twilight said suddenly.

"What for?"

"I shouldn't have yelled at you," Twilight explained, "and attacked you like that."

"Well in your defense I was pushing your buttons," I defended, "I know you care deeply about Celestia..."

"Princess Celestia," Twilight cut in.

"..."

"We really suck at this friendship thing don't we," I said.

Twilight raised her head and look me dead in the eye and spat out, "We suck?" she poked me in the chest, "I have six friends while you have, one."

My mouth dropped as my mind went crazy.

Damn~ you got roasted.

Someone call an ambulance we got a burn victim.

Get that man some milk!

I just looked at her with my mind completely blown.

What the absolute fuck is this?

Twilight's smug face began to change into worry.

Ever so slowly I turned away and unfurled from the hug. Twilight let out a worry ooh before I cut her off, "You really are Celestia's student."

There was a loud roar that snapped us back to the real world. A cold chill ran down my spine as I remembered about the key plot point of this episode...

...the Ursa.

I laid there as I began to shake in fear.

Well, what are you waiting for dumbass, get a move on!! Spike is out there!

Right!

I stood up and ran over to pick up my bow and slung the quiver on. Twilight yelled at me, "Wait SEAN!" I didn't listen to her and I ran out of the library into Ponyville. Some of the residences had poked their heads out to see what the racket was about there were some who like me had left their homes. There was another roar that came from the outside of town and I ran towards it.

Three steps later I was tackled and yanked in an alleyway. I spun around and saw that BonBon was standing on top of me. "What? Bon Bon? What are you doing?"

With a steel gaze, the earth pony replied, "I've been ordered by Princess Celestia to keep you safe," there was another roar that sounded much closer. "You running off to the Usra minor is countermands that order."

I shook my head, "Whatever," I said and move to push the earth pony off of me only for me to run into that famous earth pony strength as the BonBon refused to even budge. "We need to help them."

"Don't worry about that," Bon Bon said dismissively, "We have it taken care of."

There was another roar that one was much closer. "And how many will be hurt or die before the Ursa is stopped!?"

The earth pony said nothing as she reached behind her for something.

I don't have time for this. "Sorry about this," I said and when she turned to give me a questioning glance my hand shot down her chest and gripped her legs. Without further ado, I pushed Bon Bon over me and got to my feet. I turn my head long enough to see a red face BonBon sprawled on her back. As I ran towards the roar I picked up my bow that had fallen from my grip.

It became easier to find where the Ursa as the ground began to shake the roars got louder. Ponies began running past me, "GO TO THE TOWN HALL," I yelled out as I pushed through crowd-drawing and notched an arrow. I found it just right on the outskirts of Ponyville chasing down Trixie, Spike, Snips and Snails.

The size of the beast horrified me to no end. It stood well above any of the houses in Ponyville maybe even the Town Hall. Its translucent blue fur twinkled with stars. I took one shaky step forward as the same fear that took me before Nightmare Moon grasped my heart. "Help!" Spike screamed as his group ran towards me.

That fear was crushed as the music began to play in my mind. It drowned out almost everything and replaced it with a feeling of...power. 'You Say Run by Yuki Hayashi' began to pick up and I released the bow at the same time as my breath. The arrow soared through the air as it sliced through it and left a wind trails behind it. My lips pulled up in a smirk as I found my mark. The bear stopped its chase as it let out a grunt of pain before he looked around to find the source of its pain.

“SEAN!” Spike yelled as he ran towards me with the trio followed him.

“Get to the town square!” I told him as I ran past him, “Get Twilight! She is the only one with the power to stop this thing!”

I didn’t wait for Spike to say another word as I zoomed towards the Usra, now that its gaze right on me, “COME ON MOTHER BEEP-ER FRESH MEAT!!!” I roared at it as let loose another arrow this one aimed at its shoulder.

The Ursa released an angry roar as he tried to stomp me into the ground. I saw this jumped to the side where there was a stack of boxes. The boxes were stacked in such a way that it looked like a pair of stairs. Without a second thought, I jumped up and ran up the boxes. When I reached the top, I spun mid-air and readied another arrow and aimed at Ursa’s face.

I released the arrow and completed the spin to land onto the ground with enough time to roll. With a laugh, I sprung back on my feet and ran towards the direction of the exit of the village. “HAHA LEGOLAS DON’T GOT BEEP ON ME!!” I cried out as the stomps of the beast got stronger. My hand flew up to my quiver and I did a quick count.

Five. I have five arrows two of them are Luna’s.

There was a scream behind him and I turned around to see a horrifying sight.

The Ursa minor had lost interest in me in favor of a small filly. A filly with pale yellow fur, light crimson hair, and gamboge colored eyes. I made a wide turn to keep my momentum before I shot like a bullet to Applebloom.

“SOMEPONY SAVE ME!!” Applebloom cried out as the Ursa Minor slowly crept its head towards her. Her cry for help pushed me to go further, faster. My body tilted downwards as I got closer to her.

The beast opened its mouth and the filly curled up into a ball to wait for the end.

Not on my watch.

“HANG ON APPLEBLOOM I’M COMING,” I yelled out to her as the Ursa pulled its head back.

With a cry that that reached the heavens, I leaned down to grab the filly. Once she was within my arms, I jumped to get out of the way of the Ursa's open maw as bit into the ground. Curled my self around the filly we rolled into the ground I protected her from most of the damage. When we stopped I got on to my shaking feet and ran into town with the filly in my arms. “Hang on tight,” I told the filly before I looked down into her fearful gaze. “Have no fear little one,” I said with a heaving smile, “For I am here.”

Why the fuck did you say that?

Shut up and MOVE!

I can’t go back into town with this Ursa on my ass, but I can’t run with this filly in my arms! God damn it what should I do.

As if to answer my prayers Applejack and Twilight were running towards us.

Perfect.

When we were in throwing distance, I took the filly in my arms, “Catch!” I said throwing Applebloom to her sister. Applebloom screamed as she flew into the air into a surprised Applejack who managed to stop in time to catch the air bound sister. With the filly out of harm’s way in and into safety I stopped running to turn around.

“Wait, Sean!” Twilight called out to me.

“No time!” I yelled at her, “I have to get the Ursa away from Ponyville!” I reached for my bow only to find that it wasn’t’ there.

Fuck! I must have dropped it when I grabbed Applebloom. Welp time for hand to hand then.

“It's too dangerous for a stallion!” I heard Applejack yell at me.

“Doesn’t matter,” I said before I reached into the quiver and pulled out two of Luna’s arrows. “I have to protect the town.” With the arrows in my hands, I ran towards the furious Ursa Minor.

I can’t believe that I’m actually doing this. How? Where is this music coming from? Is it giving me the power to fight?

With a shake of my head, I put those thoughts away. I need to concentrate on the task at hand. I’ll worry about this later, for now, we need to deal with this monster.

The Ursa let loose a roar and instantly my face was slammed with the foul smell of rotten eggs and flesh. It began to burn my eyes but I had to keep going. So, with blurry eyes, I continued my charge. As the beast closed his mouth I changed my trajectory and aimed for the side. The bear opened its mouth to try to gobble me up but before it could I had reached it.

My arms pulled back and with every ounce of strength, I could muster, slammed the arrows right into the beast’s paw.

The sound of pain that the Usar released that day will forever haunt my dreams. I gave the arrows a good twist before I ran past the bear, confidant that I would be its sole target, but then I began to run into my body’s limit. My movements began to become sluggish and slow; my legs began to burn and my feet pulsed with pain.

There was a loud bloodthirsty roar right behind me.

No! Ignore the pain I have to bring it out of Ponyville.

And then what…

Horror struck me. I didn’t have a plan on dealing with the Ursa at all. Fucking god damn it. I just ran all gun-ho without a plan. Twilight, I hope you can help me out here. I’m in way over my head.

I looked around me to see that I was out of Ponyville.

Okay, now what do I do?

There was a rumble and the ground beneath me shook violently. I lost my footing a bit and that is when I saw it.

A giant star paw heading right at me and time began to slow as it flew at me. With no time to move, I just stood there and watched it.

This is it then.

I’m going to die in a magical pony land by a giant star bear.

I hope everyone will be alright.

In a futile attempt to protect myself I brought up my hands and I was about to close my eyes when something strange happened.

A white circled appeared before me as white lightning crackled around my hands. Inside this circle were lines that drew what looked like a Star of David inside a hexagon. The lines made of red and gold, with the left half being gold and other red. These colors met in the center where they meshed around in a circle that was in the center of the star. In it was Celestia's and Luna’s moon meshed together in perfect harmony. Outside them where six smaller circles each one of them having the same symbol of a star-shaped gem. On the outer ring of the circle, there was writing of what looked like runes.

The Usar’s paw hit the circle and it pulsed with magic before I was flung into the air, my body flopped around as I lacked control and my mind not present.

Was that magic?

Vertigo set in and the pain of the distortion pulled me into my current situation. That pain was overwritten by my back hitting something hard. I felt something give and I began to sink. It took me a moment to realize that it was water.

I must have fallen in the lake. Huh…I can’t feel my legs.

Water-soaked my body as I became completely submerged under the water. Flickers of light danced in my vision as the world became dark…there was a flash of orange before the abyss took me.

Applejack swam as fast as she could in order to reach the drowning human. The water burned her eyes and distorted her vision. It made the rescue difficult especially with the human wearing such dark clothing. Despite the complications, the farmer managed to sink her teeth on the back of the human’s shirt and pull him upwards.

If Applejack hadn’t spent years working on an apple farm the earth pony might have had trouble hauling the human up, might even have failed, but with her strength, she managed to break the surface. With a grunt, the orange mare dragged the unconscious human to the shore.

Once the human was deposited on the sandy ground Applejack shook the water off of her and went to the human. The mare had to force the bile that was threatening to come up at the sight of the broken human before her. After she had left Applebloom with Rarity, the earth pony chased after the foolish human as he took on the Ursa.

Unforntualy she was too late to save him from being swiped from the bear. She thought that she had seen a flash of white light before the impact but she couldn’t be sure as the paw had blocked her line of sight. Twilight then stepped up and said that she will deal with the Ursa, which left Applejack free to chase after Sean. She just made it in time to see him hit the water and the resounding crack that followed had sent a chill down her spine.

Applejack put that feeling aside as she jumped into the lake and began to swim towards him.

Now that she had him out of the water she could see the extent of the damage. The cloak that he had been wearing was gone. There was a slight protrusion that was visible under his shirt and she could take a wild guess what it was. Applejack shuddered at the thought but she knew she had to act quickly. She went up to him and using extream care turned him over so that he was on her back. The earth pony then put her head next to his chest to listen for a heartbeat.

She heard a faint thumb-thumb and took a step back. Now Applejack had another issue to deal with.

Should she leave him here and go get help but run the risk of some other creature taken advantage of his dire state or wait here and hope for the best.

Applejack looked around just in time to see the Ursa floating towards the Everfree Forest. A massive earthquake snapped her attention and it was so powerful that Applejack had lost her footing and fell to the ground. She had just gotten to her hooves when there was another rumble.

“What’n tarnation is that?” she cursed as she got back to her hooves and instantly regretted asking. From the forest, a gargantuan bear strolled towards Ponyville. Its purple star-filled fur rippled as it stood just over the trees. Its long yellow stained teeth could easily tower over the houses of the village. Its red beady eyes glared with molten anger as the blue star glittered in the moonlight.

"Ah buck me," Applejack muttered as the beast exited the Everfree.

Before she could fully wallow in her despair three streams of smoke flew by and began to circle around Ursa's head. The beast lazily follows the smoke trails with its head slowly. Then Applejack saw three other ponies run towards the bear the glow on their heads signifying that there were unicorns. "Commence pacification and immediate removal of the Ursa Major," a voice said from beside her.

Applejack's head spun around to see that Bon Bon, the candy store owner was touching some device that was in her ear. "Bon Bon?" Applejack said in confusion.

The earth pony spared the farmer a glance before it returned to the Usra Major just as it wobbled in place its eyes slowly sinking shut. "Hurry we don't have time before the rest of the Elements get here as well as Princess Celestia," Bon Bon said, "I'll handle Honesty."

A chorus of ROGER! echoed from the device in Bon Bon's ear. Said earth pony looked towards Applejack who narrowed her eyes at her. Applejack opened her mouth to say something but before she could BonBon pulled out a pair of sunglasses and put them on. "What's going on here?"

"Just look at this rock and everything will be explained," Bon Bon said as she pulled out a blue rock and held it up to Applejack.

"What n' hay does a rock--" Applejack said before the rock in Bon Bon's hooves flashed blue and her eyes turned dulled and empty.

Bon Bon put the rock away as said, "You did not see an Ursa Major coming out of the Everfree Forest," she droned as if this was just another conversation, "You just found Sean and rescued him from the lake. You are now going to run to Ponyville and get Twilight Sparkle in order to get Sean medical help."

Applejack blinked her eyes before she shook her head and spun it to Sean's down form. "AH BUCK!" she cried out before she galloped towards Ponyville. When she was out of sight Bon Bon turned towards the forest and watched in a bright flash the Usra vanishing from the forest transporting it back to its cave with its young. She radioed her task force to have them clean up any evidence of the creature's voyage through the forest.

Once she was done she made her self scarce and kept an eye on Sean just to make sure no other creature made there move on him. Thankfully she didn't have to wait long before Applejack came back with Twilight and Nurse Red Heart a white fur and pink mane earth pony with sharp blue eyes. Her cutie mark was a red cross and four pink hearts around it. Bon Bon watched from the shadows as the trio fretted over the human. She watched as Twilight closed her eyes and tears began to fall as she charged her horn.

The company didn't notice the white flash that announced Princess Celestia's arrival. With a golden glow of her horn, she used her magic and wrapped the human in hard light. The nurse said something to the princess most likely telling her what was wrong so that Celestia could perform the right magic. Her horn glowed brighter and there was a resounding crack as bones began to snap together. When she was done Celestia released her magic.

When the glow dispersed the human's body began to spasm in place the others began to move towards the human but stopped by the wings of Celestia. She said something while her head lowered.

And for the first time, since working with her, Bon Bon saw Celestia look gloomy and somber. "This human must mean the world to you Princess," Bon Bon muttered as the group teleported away. The princess always had a smile on except with things got serious but even then no matter what Celestia never looked sad. This hurt the earth pony more than anything. You couldn't find a single pony who didn't adore the princess. Especially those of the guard and other organizations that protect the crown. Each and every one of them would give there life not only to protect the princess's life but her happiness as well.

"It seems that this human is that important to you," Bon Bon said to no one as she slinked out of the shadows. "I need to let the others know just how important he is to you so we can adjust our plans accordingly." With that in mind, Bon Bon walked back to Ponyville.

What no pony knew that the entire scene was observed by another pony.

On top of a hill far away a pony dressed in a cloak watched with contempt. "You seem to have the luck of a god," the pony growled out. "I had hoped that at least one of the Ursa's would have taken care of you," he went on with his head cocked to the forest, "I had hoped that the Ursa Major that I brought would have finished you off." He tapped a hoove on his chin, "Although I would have had to move Applejack out of the way, perhaps this is for the best."

"I guess I need to think of a more subtle approach is necessary," the pony let out a snort, "It would be too much to hope that you would get yourself killed would it."

The cloaked pony turn and his cloak fluttered in the wind, "You won this round, but you will be removed one way or another."

Pain.

The pain was the first thing I noticed. Then came the itchiness that was located at my lower back, and it was the annoying kind, you know the kind. The one where it's like deep in your bone level and no matter what you can't scratch it. Yeah, that fucking sucks. My legs are kinda hot too.
Why the fuck does my ass feel weird?

I toss my covers off of me and slung my feet over to the side. There was a clopping sound when my feet touched the ground, but the sound didn't register in my mind as I stood up. Immediately I began to sway side to side. My arms flailed around as I tried to maintain balance, but it was proved un-fruitful as I tilted forward and fell to the ground. I hit the ground hard, thankfully I was able to soften some of the blow with my pony hand.

Unfortunately, I landed on my hand as it was half-closed when it impacted the floor.

I let out a hiss of pain as I rolled on my back and brought up my pony hand.

Why didn't it close all the way?

Upon closer inspection, I saw that my hand had turned completely furry and that my fingers had started to lose definition around the knuckles. With my human hand, I felt around the hand and found that the bones that are located there were not as pronounced but were actually thickening. I let out a steady breath before I closed my hand and I watched as it slowly clenched.

My mind was made aware of the reason why I got up from the bed in the first place as the heat in my legs came back. It was the kind of heat you get when you have to many clothes. There was also pressure on my lower back. I sat up slowly as my back began to crack really bad like I was just broken bones just by moving. When I was up I looked at my feet to see what was up with them.

I let out a gasp as I looked down at my feet. There was a problem with them alight. What is the problem?

THEY WEREN'T FEET AT ALL BUT BLUE FURRY HOOVES!!!!

FUCK MY LIFE!!!

With a heavy breath going in and out, I reached out with my human hand grasped the fur of my feet. Silky smooth tendrils slipped through my fingers. I kept going until I reached up to my boxers, a small sigh of relief there, and with shaking finger I went to the hem of my boxers. Gently I lifted them up and peaked to see how far the transformation went. Let's just say that it was extremely thorough and leave it like that.

There was a pinchy feeling at my lower back that brought my attention back to what began this whole reveal. Slowly, I twisted my back and looked behind me to see a twitching brown hairy mess. Hands-on the ground, I pushed my body up and released my...tail. My whole body began to twitch as it straightened back forward.

"How ya doin' there sugarcube?" the southern twang of Applejack snapped my head towards her. The earth pony regarded me with worried eyes.

I couldn't let her know what was going on in my head, I can't let her or anyone think I was weak.

Closed eyes and a deep breath later I regarded the pony. "I...I will be," I told her.

"How's App-the filly," I asked cutting my self off before I let slip Applebloom's name as I didn't 'know' her yet.

Applejack visibly sagged as if a huge weight was lifted off of her. Her emerald green eyes began to mist before she galloped towards me and lept on to me. With an "oof" I landed on the wooden ground with a teary eye AJ on my chest.

"Thank you," she said through her tear and a hiccup, "Ah wouldn't know ah would've done...if...if ma sister," she tried to say before her emotions got the best of her.

Without a second thought, I wrapped my arms around her and held her close. "You don't have to wonder about it so...yea," I trialed off words failed me again. One of my hands began to rub the mares back as slowly she came down from her fit. With a glance at my side, I could see that Applejack's stetson hat had fallen and landed next to us. There were a few sniffles from the pony and I began to sit up with a strong grip grasped around the pony. She let out a little squeak of surprise and I couldn't help but chuckle at. When I was fully up Applejack pushed herself back a little so she could look into my eyes. There was a twinkle of something within them.

I brushed the thought aside as I reached over and picked her hat before I placed it on her head. "There is no point in worrying about the if's and maybe's," I began as the words flowed out, "she's fine and no one else was hurt...right?" I asked worriedly.

That worried was dispelled with a nod from AJ, "Then all of this is unnecessary," I reached up with my human hand wiped away some of her tears.

Applejack's eyes soften some more before they harden to a glare that would have cut through me if they were lasers. "Ya wrong about that," she said in a tone that cutted through me like hot butter. "What'n tarnation were ya thinkn'?!" she began to yell at me. I let out a hiss as her shouting seemed to really pierce my ears.

"Ow..."

"Goin' after an Ursa Minor like that!" AJ bashed through.

My lips pulled back into a frown and I open my mouth to yell back but I was shut down utterly by the earth pony on my lap.

"Yer back was snapped in half! Did ya know that!"

All the color drained from my face and I lost all feeling in all of my feelings. It was as if just by that sentence was made true. Before I could process that Applejack continued.

"Do ya have any idea how worry Twilight was when she heard, how the Princess felt! What do you have to say for yer self?"

My throat became dry as sandpaper and a single word scratched out, "I..."

"Well?!" the farm pony pressed.

"I couldn't stand by and do nothing," slowly my words began to have some force behind them, "everyone was in danger..."

Applejack stepped off of me as her face scrunched up with what I could describe as incredulously, "And ya think ya could have stopped that thing on yer own?"

"No," I said as I reached towards the bed and tried to pull my self up, "I'll admit I should have a better plan, but I won't sit by and do nothing while others are in danger."My feet began to give under me as the unfamiliar structure of my legs began to throw me off. "Not again," I managed to catch my self on my bedside desk and pulled my self up.

Applejack looked like she wanted to say something but this time I cut in. "You have no idea how I felt when I saw Twilight taking on Nightmare Moon. How useless I felt!" I managed to get to my...hooves and stood straight up. With a strong grip on the desk, I turned to look at the pony before me. "Did I know how outmatched I was, hell yea I did! But I couldn't live with my self if something were to happen to her and I did nothing but watch. The same thing with the Ursa, if I didn't draw that beast outside of town how many ponies would have gotten hurt or worse!

"What if you have died?" Applejack said as her wind slowly died.

"Then better my life than then towns," I said and I watched as both her tail and ears drooped.

"As heroic that sounds," Celestia's voice spoke up and both mine and Applejack's head snapped upwards to the stairs, "I would ask if you would reframe from doing such actions."

The force of Celestia's glare nearly buckled my knees and put me back onto the ground, but through sheer willpower, I straighten up and looked right back at her. I felt my tail twitch to the side as I stood there.

'You did nothing wrong’ I kept telling myself over and over to overcome my waining confidence. ‘I did the right thing, remember that.’

Celestia turned to Applejack and said, “Fair Applejack you please excuse us for a moment I have a few things I need to discuss with my friend here.” From the tone of her voice, we knew that I was in for a thrashing.

Before she left Applejack nuzzled my leg, “Thank ya for savn’ ma’ sister,” she said before she went past Celestia and up the stairs. As she did that I sat down on my bed as I didn't trust my legs to hold me up. When I looked up instead of seeing an angry Celestia I saw a teary-eyed alicorn. Without another word, Celestia launched herself at me.

Unprepriaed, I fell on the bed with the princess on top of me. Her head buried itself into my neck as she began to cry. Slowly I wrapped my hands around the pony princess and held her close as she let loose her fear and worry. Unconsciously I began to rub my hands through her mane.

"I'm not going to scold you has Applejack has already done that," Celestia said as she choked back tears, "But I want you to promise me that you won't go chasing danger like that again."

"I...I can't do that," I whispered out.

I felt Celestia shake as she recoiled away from me, "Why not?!" she demanded from me. She poked me in the chest with one of her hooves, it reminded me of my current form. "Do you want to get hurt again?" she continued to rail at me, "Every time we have to magic on you it is going to make it harder and harder to undo the spell. Don't want to go back home?"

"I know all of that but..." the words just slipped my mind before I gasped them again, "I can't just not help..."

"Why? Does it have to do with this?" With a golden glow of her horn, Celestia teleported the stick of Harmony from somewhere, "Or perhaps this," with her front hoof she tapped the bracelet around my pony arm. "It seems that you keep going back to my old home." The princess narrowed her eyes at me, "Please stop going there! Every time you do something happens to you!"

Irked that she assumed that I did something that I actually didn't do I cut in, "Actually that happened last time I was there," I pointed out tersely.

"Why didn't you leave when right after we were done talking," Celestia said with her teeth clenched and her nose slightly flared.

Seeing that she was getting angry I quickly moved to placate her, "I did or at least I tried to." Celestia didn't say anything and just waited for me to continue, "I was about to leave when I heard music in my head. It was...a song from home."

Celestia snorted angrily, "And let me guess you followed it and it led you to the Tree of Harmony," I looked up at her in shock. As if she picked up on my questionable glance. "Yes I can feel the same magic flow through this," she held up the stick with her magic, "That flows from the Tree of Harmony."

"Well yes and no," I began to clarify, "it first lead me to a tomb where I found this." I held up the band on my arm, "And for some reason, it attached to me and I can't get it off." To prove my point I tried to pull the bracelet off with my hand with no change in result.

Celestia closed her eyes and took a deep breath, "I see," she said once she opened her eyes, "I suppose you want to know who that was and what this is?"

I nodded my head as those very same questions have burned in my mind since I first laid eyes on that tomb.

Celestia came over to me and touched the bracelet with her muzzle. Suddenly the air was full of click-click sounds and I watched as the metal band began to transformed around my hand. The bracelet compressed my hand as it crushed my hand and formed a glove.

A metal glove that was meant for a pony with hooves. The pressure tightened as the glove tried to conform to my hand, "Argh! Make it stop," I cried out as my hand felt crushed.

"Just think of it going back to what it was," Celestia cut in quickly.

With clenched eyes, I pushed through the pain and attempt just that and with another series of clicks, it reformed back into its normal shape. "What. The hell. Was that?!" I said in between gasps as I clenched my hand slowly.

"An old piece of technology that was used for only a few," was the ominous response.

That did little to settle the growing anger that was swelling within me. "Than why did it attach to me," I asked my affected hand rolling around. I made note that I still had full mobility of the wrist and the newest round of ponyfication.

"Perhaps it felt that you were worthy," Celestia commented.

"It has a mind of its own?" I raised my arm and began to bang the armor bracelet on the table next to me. Repeatedly.

I was about to smash it when Celestia stopped me with her hoof. "Not in the sense that you're thinking." Gently, she placed my hand in my lap. She then moved to the bed and laid down next to me. "Honestly I don't know why or how myself. There still so much about magic that we don't understand," she said as she tilted her head downwards her eyelids closing halfway. "At times it acts like it has a mind of its own others it's just there and ready to be used as a tool. Sometimes it develops and evolves into something more. "

My human hand reached out and pulled Celestia's head towards my lap. She didn't give any resistance as her head rested on my legs and didn't say anything when I began to run my fingers through her mane. "I don't suppose you can get it off?" I asked.

Celestia let out a moan before she answered with a mumble, "Maybe, maybe not," she then rolled her head around so that she could look at me with a critical glare that had a flash of mischievousness, "maybe I should leave it on a reminder not to go roaming around in places that you don't understand."

My eye twitch, "Well maybe you shouldn't have put so many BEEP trap doors and secret buttons in random places," I retorted my hand stopped its motion.

"They are not random!" Celestia defended as she pulled up her front hooves to her chest. It defused my anger as she looked so damn adorable like that. I mean come on she looks like a damn puppy dog. But I still have appearances to keep up.

"That not the point!"

Celestia let out a snort as she rolled her eyes before she turned to the stick. "I'm curious about that though..."

I looked over to the stick. Lifting my hand I called the stick over to me. It flew into the air and landed in my hand before it wrapped around my arm. "The tree gave it to me," I brought my arm to the princess who looked at it with wonder, "just after it...showed me a vision."

Celestia snapped a shocked look at me, "A vision of what? Please tell me!" her rushed tone took me back and so did her almost manic look in her eyes. It was like she was afraid of something? What is she worried about? Is there something that she doesn't want me to see?

"It was...lonely," I said as I turned to look at the stick on my arm, "it wanted to see the world."

Wind chimes and flutes began to sing in my head as my body relaxed as warmth swarmed me.

"I...I see," Celestia said before she turned her eyes to the stick from Harmony to examine the stick.

While she did that I looked at my pony arm and it was tickled by Celestia's mane as I held it up to my face. I felt my mind began to slip into the darkest corners. My heart began to drain of everything pure and good as the realization dawned on me. "It's not reversible is it," I said looking at the princess who I felt stiffen in my lap.

Celestia turned to me and saw that I was examined my pony part. With a deep sigh, she rolled off of me and the bed before she slowly turned to me. I saw the pure guilt on her face before she said what I have been thinking about for a while now.

"You are correct," she confirmed.

I knew it. Sure I had hoped and prayed that I could be turned back to normal, but there was a small part that whispered in the back of my mind that told me differently.

My head lowered to the ground I couldn't bear to look at her, "Why didn't you tell me," I whispered out.

"Because I had hoped that Twilight might be able to find the counter and I didn't want to doom you unnecessarily," Celestia answered.

"If you don't know or couldn't find it what makes you think she could," I said slowly raising my head to look right into her eyes.

Celestia closed her eyes for a moment and opened them up to look at me. "While I have the experience and wisdom," she said, "Twilight has a knack of surprising me when it comes to magic." She then smiled at me in what I had to guess was an attempt to lighten the mood, or perhaps she was remembering something in the past, "it is her special talent after all. Perhaps there is still a chance of you yet."

With no hope in the situation, I let my arm drop, "I don't think so," I said I reached over to pick up my blanket and used it to cover me. "We should tell Twilight to stop looking for the counter. Her focus needs to be on her studies, not me."

A moment later a white furry muzzle invaded my space and began to rub into my neck, "This is why I have such great respect for you," Celestia whispered, "You are always thinking about others," she then snorted, "even when your upset."

"Apparently not enough to tell me the whole truth," I muttered out bitterly and this caused Celestia winced, which made me immediately regret it. "I'm sorry that was too sharp."

Celestia whispered, "It was warranted." She took a step towards me and her wings shuffled.

With my human hand, I reached up and pulled Celestia's head to look at me, "Just promise me that you won't hide anything else from me. No more secrets," I asked of her.

Celestia looked me dead in the eye and said, "I promise."

I rested my head on hers and said, "Thank you. For everything." Not even for a moment did I think about the possibility of her lying to me, she's my best friend why would she hid anything else from me. You know besides government secrets and whatnot, and I have no interest in those at all.

We sat there for a minute and then the thought came to me that since she came forward about the truth with my curse I decided that I should tell her about what happened with the Ursa Minor. " I think I can do magic," I stated.

Celestia pulled her head away from me and looked at me, her expression full of confusion, "Huh?" she said with a cock of her head.

I began to tell her about the final part of my confrontation with the Ursa Minor and just before I was crushed by the beast a magic circle appeared and protected me...well somewhat. When I was done Celestia was quiet for a while and I could see the gears turning in her head. She then looked to my arm where the stick was curled around. "What's going on in that little head of yours?" I asked her.

She then turned to me in the eyes. "I think that is the Tree of Harmony," Celestia began, "What you describe to me sound like an ancient form of magic that was used long before either my sister or myself."

"So the beginning of time then," I quipped.

Celestia narrowed her eyes at me, "I will send you to the moon."

I snorted, "No you won't," I crossed my arms pushed them down, "Becuase you wuv me," I said cutely.

"You're not as cute as you think are," Celestia deadpan.

"Your right," I said with a flick of my hair, "I'm not cute I'm gorgeous, darling."

Celestia snorted at me, "Channinling your inner Rarity are you?" To which I just shrugged and cross my arms. The princess closed her eyes and took a deep breath before she opened them back up. "As I was saying. It seems that the Tree used your body to channel magic. Most likely you won't be able to perform magic without it since your species doesn't normally do so."

"How come it didn't you know," I pulled up my hands and held them up to wiggle my fingers.

The Sun Princess tapped a hoof on her chin, "Perhaps it has to do with the stick," she said before rested her hoof and scrunched her muzzle. "I can't really say this is all new to me," she then turned to me, "I think you and Twilight should look into this, but be very careful. We don't know what the effects are."

I was about to retort saying that the whole point was not to distract Twilight from her studies when a yawn prevented me to do so. With a chuckle, Celestia came towards me lightly pushed me on to my bed, "You should get some sleep."

"Yea, your probably right," I said as my eyes began to get heavy. I laid down and with her magic, Celestia pulled up the blankets and draped them over me. When I was tucked in Celestia leaned down touched her nose to my head before she gave it a lick.

"Good night, Sean," she whispered as she pulled her head back. I was going to return it when there was a crash from upstairs and Lyra's voice could be heard clearly as she screeched, "WHERE IS HE!! IS HE OKAY! I NEED TO STUDY HIM!!!"

Celestia looked at me with a mischievous smirk, "You seem to be very popular with the mares."

I rolled my eyes and started to get out of bed, "Yea as a science experiment and anthropology specimen." Celestia let out a giggle before I scoffed, "Let's go before they start tearing me apart trying to fix me up or something." Celestia forced me back down with a hoof and just shook her head all the while a smile on her face.

"Don't worry," she said, "I'll take care of this you just rest."

Celestia turned around and began to head up the stairs. I was about to close my eyes and head off to la-la land when the most ingenious idea. Unable to keep it down I smiled as I turned my head and looked at the back of Celestia's retreating form. "Oh Celestia, I guess there is something nice out of this," I said.

Celestia turned to face me at the same time she climbed the stairs, "What's that?"

With a shit-eating grin, I said, "I'm hung like a horse now."

I enjoyed the sound of her stumbling over my laughter.

Another point for me.