I awoke with a groan as I got out of bed. My eyes were trying to stay closed as I was still tired, so I had to act fast. I looked through my right eye as it was completely open to try to find my Beats case for my ear buds. I reached over and unzipped the case and put them on my ears, making sure I press the button to turn them on. I heard the noise they made that meant they were on and grabbed my iPhone to open the music app. I went straight to my playlist and selected a song by Imagine Dragons.

It took a bit, but my fatigue was going away. Knowing that I was still tired, I sat straight up in my futon and waited until I was fully awake. (AN: For those of you that don’t know, a futon is a bed that can fold itself into a couch. Though it’s kinda a pain to change it from a bed to a couch.)

After a few minutes of listening to music, I turned my ear buds off and put them in the case, closed the music app on my phone, and got up from my bed. I checked the time to see that it was 8:37 in the morning and sighed as I had to do some work. I went straight to my closet and pulled out some clothes. I changed from being a shirtless man wearing Deadpool PJs to a fully clothed man with a green jacket.

I walked into my bathroom and looked in the mirror to see I had some facial hair and groaned. “I just shaved a few days ago. How does hair grow so fast anyway?” I asked myself as I put my shaving cream on and grabbed my razor to shave. After I finish, I take a look at myself to see if there’s any differences. Nope. I’m still the same slightly tanned Caucasian man with short hair and light blue eyes with a bit of silver coloring in them. And I’m a bit pissed off about how I look. I’m 18, but I look like I’m fucking 25 or 26. And my pretty deep voice does nothing to help. “Heh, by the time I’m 30 people are going to say I look 50.” I chuckled leaving the bathroom.

I walked over into the living room of my apartment and see my best friend slash roommate Jason sitting down and watching Designated Survivor on Netflix. “Morning Jason.” I said to him.

Jason was the same age as me, but he’s younger by a few months. He’s also a few inches shorter than me as I’m 6ft and he’s 5’8”. He is an African American man with glasses, puffy short hair, and a long sleeve shirt under his black and white jacket. He’s been my best friend for nearly a decade and he and I decided to share an apartment together. Something that actually makes me laugh from time to time is that he and I are opposites. I’m tall, he’s short. I have good eyesight, he has poor eyesight. He’s faster, I’m slower. I’m stronger, he’s weaker. He’s a bit smarter than I am. And to top it all off, he’s shy and I’m outgoing. But he does hard work while I’m pretty lazy.

“Hey Orion.” He said as he continued watching the show. Another thing, he doesn’t talk that much unless someone speaks to him first.

“I thought you finished the show already.” I said to him as I went over to the kitchen and made myself a bowl of cereal and sat next to him.

“I did, but since the show was cancelled, I decided to rewatch it.”

“Ahh.” I said taking a bite from my breakfast. “So, I talked with Shyla last night about what I want her to draw for the comic.”

“What is it this time?” He asked pausing the show to look at me. I wrote comics. Stories really, but a friend recommended me to turn them into comics, so I did. Jason was the guy I would tell my ideas to and he would help me with what I should and shouldn’t keep.

“I told her to draw an Arctic base at an aerial view with a helipad near it and a silhouette walking from the landed helicopter to the door to the base. That’s gonna be the first page of the comic.” I explained.

“Cool.” He said resuming the show.

“Hey Jason, it’s your turn to get groceries tomorrow.” I reminded him. He and I had a system in place where we would each take turns dealing with stuff. Like one day I would take out the trash and the next day he would take out the trash. But there were things that were specifically our chores. Like I would be the one cooking food while he pays the bills with our money and makes sure we don’t miss any payments.

“I know. Anything you want me to get?” He asked me as I took another bite of cereal.

“We could get some more Ginger Ale. But we need broccoli, cheese, rice, and chicken for tomorrows dinner. Also try to pick up some pasta stuff.” I told him. I saw him take out his phone and go to his notes app to put in the list. “Also we need more milk. I just used the last bit of it.”

“Alright that’s done.” He said. We continued watching the show for a couple more hours until I checked the time.

“Hey man, I’m going to get back to writing the comic and making designs.” I said getting up to put my bowl in the sink. What I failed to see though was a small smile that Jason had made when I said I needed to get my comic done. I walked over to my desktop in my room and turned it on. When I saw my wallpaper I got furious. Jason changed my wallpaper from a galaxy to My Little Pony. “Aw cmon man what the fuck?!” I yelled from my room. I heard nothing but laughter from him. “You know I hate that series man, come on.”

He laughed more as I changed my wallpaper back. “Not cool man. Not cool.” After a bit he stopped laughing. I got to work on my comic stuff for a couple of hours until I heard the front door open and Jason call out to me.

“Alright I’m going to get some snacks. You want anything?” He asked me.

“Yeah can you get me some M&M’s? The kind that has peanut butter in them?” I asked him.

“Alright.” After that, he walked out the front door and locked it behind him and left. I was alone in our apartment.

A few minutes later I went onto my social media account and saw that a politician was being charged with sexual assault to a young lady. I groaned and read the article to see what this was all about. “Why does everyone with power have to be corrupt? Better yet, why do people fight over stupid shit. If we all actually stopped trying to see who’s better, we could have already started colonizing Mars.” I complained to myself closing the article. “I wish to go somewhere that doesn’t have so much corruption.”

That’s when it happened. The ground started to shake underneath me making me fall out of my chair while my computer screen was glitching. I tried to get up, but the moment I stood up, I got hit in the head by something and was knocked to the floor. My vision was slowly fading as my eyes were closing. After what felt like hours, which in reality was a few minutes, I blacked out.

I awoke to the sound of a very soft and warm voice. “I just found him in the Everfree Forest is all. He was asleep so one of my bear friends carried him for me.” She said as my eyes slowly opened.

“Hey he’s waking up.” A raspy feminine voice said.

'They must be talking about me.' I thought as my eyes opened all the way to see the banes of my existence. Six ponies. One was a purple unicorn with wings and a pink stripe going down her hair. One was cyan with a rainbow mane and wings as She was flying. One was a white unicorn with purple hair. One was a regular orange one with a Stetson hat. One was completely pink with a poofy mane and tail and she had a grin that would rival the Joker. And finally one was a yellow Pegasus with pink hair. I groaned out both from annoyance and exhaustion as my body felt like it went through a lot. I tried to get up only for the yellow one to stop.

“Please don’t get up sir, you need to rest.” She said putting her hooves on me to push me down slightly. I wanted to resist, but I felt too weak to do so. I looked around and saw my phone and Beats case nearby and pointed to it. But what I saw next horrified me.

When I tried to reach for my stuff, instead of my hand, I saw a coal black hoof. “No. No. No no no no no!” I yelled I’m shock and fear as I looked to see another hoof. “This can’t be happening! I must be dreaming” I said in a panicked state as I felt my face. It felt different. “Mirror. I need a mirror.” I said to one of them. They looked at each other in confusion before the purple one had an aura envelope her horn and bring a mirror to me. In a haste I grabbed the mirror with my hooves and looked at my face. I became what I didn’t want to become. A pony, in the world of My Little Pony. “Son of a bitch.” I said before fainting back onto the couch. I hope this is just a horrible nightmare.

Alright so here’s my rewrite of The Alicorn Prince. I had to revoke the submission of the previous one because I was illiterate and the first few chapters were a bit cringy to me. I know a lot of people liked the old one, for reasons beyond my comprehension, and I hope everyone likes my rewrite. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this first chapter and I’ll talk to you all later.