Changes For The Better

By: MasterBrony Forever

I would like to thank Thomas R for Pre-Reading and Editing!

DISCLAIMER: This is a non-profit fanbased work of prose. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the property of Hasbro, and the reinvention of the lovely Lauren Faust. No copyright infringement is intended, please support the official release.

I had flown myself and Celestia up to the broken stained glass window; as we drew closer to it we could hear the panic from royal guards who had gathered after I broke the window. Celestia giggled at the sound of her guards frantically running around, not knowing what to do. When I reached the window I floated outside for a few moments, allowing the guards to move back in awe. Because of the sun directly behind me all they could see was my silhouette.

The guards backed away as I made my way through the window. I landed and tried to let go of Celestia, but she had other plans. She held on to me not wanting to let me go, nuzzling into my chest, but after noticing the guards were still staring, she pulled away and blushed in embarrassment.

She dismissed the guards, turned back to me and smiled, "Brother...You have your memory back." She began to tear up again, "Now, " She began clopping her hooves together, "we shall throw a party in celebration of your return."

"I don't think that would be need..." I was stopped as my wings began to retract instantly back to my body. I unleashed a blood curdling scream which brought Celestia to my side, as she watched my eyes widen to the size of dinner plates.

Then, I cried blood. My eyes began to glow deep sinister red, as I continued to bleed my eyes out. But all went silent as I collapsed to the ground, the last thing I heard was Celestia screaming "DRACO!?!," and everything going red.

"Come on Tavi, you're gonna make me late!" A white unicorn with a dark blue mane with light blue neon streaks said.

"Vinyl I have practice tomorrow, I need to be well rested," a gray earth replied tossing here black mane back to clear her vision. She clawed at the ground trying to get a grip on anything.

Vinyl Scratch, local DJ for PonyVille, and Octavia a Bass player for the Royal Canterlot Symphony, had been strolling through the streets late that night, or rather, Vinyl was walking while dragging Octavia late at night, with the help from her magic. Vinyl and Octavia were close friends, even though nopony knew why, they were complete opposites. Vinyl was loud, rude, messy, and was the definition of a tom-colt. Though she never showed any emotion what-so-ever. Octavia was quiet, polite, clean, and a acted like a normal mare. Whatever brought these two together, well, nopony ever knew.

That night Vinyl had to get to work at a club just outside of PonyVille, and she had brought Octavia to give her a taste of her night life. "Come Tavi, I went to that dumb Orchestra Concert with you last week, so the least you could do is come to one of my gigs," and maybe a bit of revenge as well.

"Hey, I took you so you could experience some relaxing music instead of those annoying...what were they called again?" She tapped her chin as she thought.

"Wubs?" Vinyl answered.

"Yes... that 'wubs'."

"Well those 'wubs' are what keep food on the table. You forget you only perform and get paid a few times a year when there is a huge event in Canterlot."

She sighed, she hated when Vinyl was right. So she quite struggling and just let Vinyl drag her to the club.

When they arrived they were at a rather plan building, which would have looked abandoned if it wasn't for the extremely large, bright green neon sign, which simply was an 'X'. Not only that but the line into the club wrapped around the building, and several surrounding it. Octavia state of shock at the sight of her very first club, Vinyl was still wearing that blank expression she was known for while not behind the mixing table. Her purple sunglasses hid any reaction she might of had, she hardly ever removed them so nopony could read her.

As Vinyl walked to the entrance, two of the biggest stallions Octavia had ever seen moved aside to let her in, Octavia followed suit. When she entered all she could hear was the music with the volume cranked up to the point if they could cause your ears to bleed if you were to close to the speakers. All she could see were all young mares and colts dancing, and jumping around without fear in the world. Everpony's mane and coat were glistening with sweat from the constant movement and closed spaces.

Bright strobe lights had been the only source of light, otherwise she wouldn't able to see her own hoof in front of her own face.

"AMAZING ISN'T IT?" Vinyl shouted over the music.

Octavia reeled back bumping into a colt who was making-out with some random ass mare near a pillar, but they were way too into each other to notice. She had totally forgotten Vinyl was with her.

"VINYL! THIS PLACE IS OUT OF CONTROL!" She shouted back.

"THAT'S THE POINT! OH, AND WHILE WE'RE HERE DON'T CALL ME VINYL. CALL ME BY MY STAGE NAME, DJ-PON3!"

Octavia gave her a quizzical look, but nodded in agreement, for she couldn't scream for fear of voice lose. At this, Vinyl worked her way to the stage, after pointing Octavia to the bar. Vinyl then jumped on stage and stopped the music, and grabbed the microphone and held it to the speaker creating an ear shattering noise to get everpony's attention toward the stage,

Once she was satisfied with the disruption she had caused she pulled the mic away to make her announcement.

"WUB-A-DUB-DUB MOTHABUCKERS! THAT RIGHT EVERYPONY, THE ONE, THE ONLY DJ-PON3 IS HERE!!!!"

The crowd went from dead silence to a roaring waves of cheers, whistling, and pony's clopping there hooves together. Octavia had made it to the bar at this point and had a cup of water, to remain sober and remain pure for that future special somepony. She looked back toward the stage as she saw Vinyl wheel out her own special equipment and pull out two records fresh and ready for the scratching table.

"NOW LETS GET THIS PARTY STARTED!"

Another wave of cheers were given, but were quickly drowned out by the sudden explosion of sound waves. Octavia had covered her ears to start with so that her eyes drums wouldn't shatter, the music was unbearable but she adjusted to the volume. She sat there for hours as Vinyl performed song after song after song. Octavia had gone through over a gallon of water, which wasn't keeping her awake which is what she need to be right now.

Multiple colts had already tried to take advantage of her thinking that all the glasses we from drinks, and the fact she keep dozing off for a few short seconds didn't help much either. But thankfully the bar tender was a mare unicorn who had kept the bastards off, because she could tell Octavia wasn't used to this kind of scene.

"Thanks," was the only thing she was able to spit out at this point. The bartender only smiled and gave her a shot glass filled with something golden. When she drunk it she was instantly awake, and aware of her senses had sharpened slightly.

A few more hours passed before Vinyl had ended her performance, she had been drenched in sweet from the heat of the strobe lights focused on her. Her mane was even more matted, if that was even in the slightest bit possible, but she still had the same expressionless look. She had somehow managed to keep her shades intact, but the same couldn't be said for the dozens of broken records.

"Okay now that you are done can we go home now?" Octavia questioned.

"No not yet there is one more thing I have to do, then I can get my bits and we can leave." Vinyl replied with a hint of regret and fear in her voice.

"Vinyl... is everything... alright?

"Yeah, this is an average day for me. I will be back."

Octavia wasn't the slightest bet convinced, but she knew better than to continue to argue with her, Vinyl was stubborn when it came down to certain topics. This happened to be one of those topics.

Vinyl walked her way to the back door which lead to an alleyway. Swaying her hips far more than any mare should have, which had gathered the attention of four rather drunk stallions. As she exited out the back door four stallions followed, Octavia could tell this could be trouble, she rushed through the crowd and made it to the door in time to here the shattering of glass and a muffled cry. Then a bright flash of light, meaning a spell had been cast.

"Gag the whore!" A stallion said.

"You like it don't you...uuurrppp...you little slut." Another one said with drunken gusto.

Octavia ran to door peaked out to see an unholy sight taking place before her. Vinyl, her best friend in all of Equestria; was getting raped.

Fury over took her, and with one swift buck Octavia had knocked the door off which collided with one of Vinyl's attackers smashing him to the brick wall opposite. Vinyl looked up from the ground with her glasses slightly cracked, motioning for her that she should run before it was too late. It was already too late, as Octavia registered what Vinyl's signal, she was then pushed against a nearby dumpster and held in place by a one of drunk stallions.

"Well...hic...look what we...uurrrppp...have here boys. A new toy."

Octavia struggled, but she knew it was useless, but she kept fighting hoping to Celestia she could break free and get help. But it didn't take long for the stallions to gag her, yet right before she had been gagged she screamed with all she had. The club music was still so loud that no one could hear her, she began to cry, for she knew she was going to be making out of this alleyway in a body-bag.

"D-D-Draco. Wake up." A voice whispered into my ear.

My eyes snapped open to see Discord smiling and wearing a Nurses cap; lucky for me his body would allow him to wear a full nurses out-fit. But he still had a slight blush on his face, he was just a tad bit embarrassed wearing it. I smiled back and patted him on the head, which caused him to blush even more furiously, as his tail wagging side to side in joy.

"Hey Discord." I said cheerfully, patting him on the head.

It was night so I guessed I passed out or something after landing inside the castle with Celestia. I looked around the room, it wasn't Celestia's room for she was nowhere to be seen. It could have been Luna's room, because of how dark some of the furniture was, but there was an equal amount of while furniture as well, as I looked down to my sheets I saw a Yin-Yang symbol embroidered into the sheets. Upon further inspection I realized the entire room was made to look like same way.

I looked back up at Discord who was sitting at the foot of the bed still staring at me with a slight blush. As I reached to scratch the back of my head, instead of feeling my hand it was a hoof. My brain had stopped all together, I tore the blanket off my body to see a pony's body in place of my own.

I jump out of the bed and on to my hind legs and began to stubble around the room, I was having another freak out, as I remembered a pony can't keep balanced that well on their hind legs. I was about to crash to the floor until discord used his serpent like body to wrap around me for the second time and force me back on to the bed.

"S-s-s-stop! Please!"

I looked into his cockatrice eyes and my body went limp from the worrying gaze he was giving me. I had scared him, apparently this younger Discord was just as fragile as Fluttershy. I stopped my struggle took a deep breath and calmed down.

"Okay Discord, I'm calm now. So can you get off of me please."

Discord wiped his eyes, nodded and climbed off and sat next to me on the bed, his reptile and horse feet dangling off the side. I inspected my body further while Discord just watched. I got on all four hooves, which felt strange yet natural, and trotted over to a near-by vanity to get a look at my face.

What caught my attention first was how good my eye sight had gotten, I could always see in the dark but now it seemed as bright as day, so I didn't stubble over anything on my way there. As I examined myself I realized I had a unicorn horn as well as my wings from earlier, I was an alicorn, height and all. My mane was a wild out of random style that just sat on top of my head; it didn't flow like my sisters did, which I was thankful for.

I turned around to take a look at my tail; it was just as black as my mane but had some silvery white streaks in it, and it looked like three different size scythes were jetting out from above my plot; I was Draco, I was a prince, I was me again. I looked back to mirror to get a better look at my eyes.

"Well, now I see one thing father had given me," for I had the eyes of a dragon, which would explain the enhanced vision. My left eye was emerald green, while the other was a deep purple, the difference was interesting but not something I would dwell on. They were extremely large too, I didn't think they could get any bigger.

This caused me giggle to myself thinking about all the Fan-Fiction writers out there, and how they always say, 'their eyes grew to the size of dinner plates', when they were already that large to began with.

"You remember everything don't you?" Discord asked.

"Yes I do. And it feels great to be back home! But one thing is still puzzling me, how did I change in an alicorn? I was a human last time I remembered."

"When you arrived back with Celestia after jumping out the window your wings retracted back into your body," Discord began explain what happened. "You screamed, and your eyes started glowing red and bleeding... then you collapsed."

I shivered at the thought of my eyes bleeding, "Well that must have been terrifying to see," I said as I worked my way over to the balcony.

"It was, but then as Celestia tossed you on to her back and rushed down to royal doctors hoping they could do anything to help. But before she could arrive there, the bleeding had stopped and your body began to change."

I was at the looking out at the amazing land of Equestria. The land I had been part of many years ago, I smiled, as Discord flew over to my side. All was peaceful and quiet during Luna's wondrous night, I reached into my newly reformed memories, reliving everything piece by piece, but that didn't last much longer.

My ears twitched as a high frequency squeal hit my ear drum. Looked toward a small town in the distance where I believed it to be coming from. I looked to Discord who had heard the squeal as well and was cowering behind me.

"What was that?"

"I-I-I don't know but it doesn't sound good."

My spine trembled as the sound rang through my head again. It sounded like somepony was being attacked.

I stepped onto the balcony ledge and prepped my wings for flight, even with all my memory back I still have no clue on how to control them. Discord slithered about my neck and meet me face to face.

"Y-y-you don't plan on going out there do you?"

"Discord," I stated forcefully, "somepony is in trouble. And it is my duty as Draco, The Prince of Equestria, to help anypony who needs it."

Discord didn't argue, but instead just snaked around my neck even more then he already was.

"Well if you're going...then I am going with you."

"Thanks Discord. Now let's go!" I announced as I jumped out the window.

Still having no idea how to control the wings I closed my eyes and tried to tap back into the memories of my passed life.

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"Come on young Draco. You can do it." A rough patchy voice said.

"But father, it's so high. What if I can't do it?" This was more high pitched, that of a foal, me to precise.

"You can Draco, and if not I will be here to catch you." The deep voice spoke to me again.

I looked down from the balcony on which I stood to see my father. He was large and black with a silver underbelly flying around as if her were swimming in a pool. He looked up to me with deep purple eyes, that spoke nothing but words of encouragement.

****

It was a simple heartfelt moment with me and my mother and father. I had translated the old English they spoke into, what I consider now-a-days, normal English.

****

"Draco, if you couldn't do it then why would you have wings." I looked up to see my mother standing beside me smiling. The bright warm sun making her look even more magnificent.

My father was flying belly up at this point. Arms at the ready to catch me if my wings weren't strong enough to support me.

"O-o-okay, I-I-I will try."

I jumped onto the ledge of my balcony an looked down on to my father. My short wings stood at the ready, I closed my eyes a leaped forward. I flapped my little wings with all my might; when I opened my eyes I was flying. I so happy with my accomplishment I forgot to keep flapping, but luckily my father was right below to catch me.

"Amazing work my boy," my father said, tossing me up and down as we flew back to mother.

"Yes amazing work Draco!" My mother said to us as we landed my her side.

I jumped out of my father's grasp and began to jump with joy. My parents stood watching me, their little pride and joy, their personal ray of sunshine.

"Come on for a family hug. How about we shall celebrate your first flight?" My father and mother held out their fore arm motioning for me to join in.

Without hesitation I jumped up in the family hug. Mother nuzzling me closely, and father hugging us both; his wings and tail encased us, showing that no matter what, he would never let any harm come to his family.

****

With this strong feeling burning in my heart I pumped my wings one time, and I had full control over my extra appendages. Discord holding on for dear life as I flew us toward the sound of the noise at a break-neck pace.

As we closed in on the small village, I was puzzled, "Did that sound really come from here?"

"It might have, why?" Discord asked.

I shook my head, "But that doesn't make any sense, why would a squeal of terror be coming from Ponyville?"

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Author Notes: I would again like to thank Thomas R for Pre-Reading and Editing!

And here is my OC, or Draco from my DeviantART: Draco