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A few minutes earlier...

Spike felt funny as he woke up. And it was wierd he woke up so early. A few minutes before Twilight even; a mare he considers his big sister. He groaned as he walked over to the mirror; too tired to notice his center of gravity had shifted. But when he looked into the mirror, all that tiredness vanished as he made sure he was seeing what he was seeing. And sure enough, he was. He was no longer a dragon, he was a Unicorn colt, no older than the Cutie Mark Crusaders if he had to guess correctly. This is what lead him to yell out right then and there.

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"Spike? What's going..." Twilight woke up and saw Spike's new form. "Spike...is that...you?!" She exclaimed.

"Help me..." Spike said.

"Oh dear...I need to get a message to the Princesses. But how?" Twilight said. "I could try and teleport it over I suppose." She added. She wrote a letter to the Princess and was ready to teleport it when Spike in his panicked state, used a magic spell and it vanished.

"Whoops...sorry Twilight." Spike noted.

"It's fine, I'll just make..." Twilight said before suddenly both Celestia and Luna showed up. "...Whoa...how did you two know to come here?" The purple unicorn asked.

"You sent us a letter somehow. It wasn't through Spike's normal sending. Whose the young colt?" Celestia asked.

"Princess Celestia..." Spike said. This caused both royals to blink.

"Oh...maybe we should have read the letter." Celestia noted.

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A few minutes later...

"So...anything?" Twilight asked.

"I'm sorry my dear student; no matter what spell I try, I cannot seem to make Spike go back to being a Dragon." Celestia said.

"The same applies with me I am afraid." Luna said.

"This sounds like something Discord would do just on a whim." Twilight said.

"But we felt no disturbance like him." Celestia said.

"Better to check..." Twilight said.

"Very well. Discord, your presence is required." Celestia said. Suddenly not only did Discord show up, but Fluttershy too.

"Okay come on, I was just enjoying an early morning tea with Fluttershy here." Discord said.

"Hello, am I invisable to you?" Spike asked.

"Spike? Is that you?" Fluttershy asked.

"Oh my, seems your little dragon friend has become your little pony friend. Hah! I've always wanted to say something like that." Discord said.

"Wha-what are you talking about? You mean you didn't do this?" Twilight asked.

"Please Twilight, even though I can rip the fabric of reality as I so choose to do so, tinkering with species is something I refuse to do intentionally or otherwise. Besides, I think seeing a dragon living amongst ponies is much more chaotic anyways." Discord said.

"I see. Well, perhaps you can change him back then?" Celestia asked.

"Consider that done." Discord said and snapped his fingers. But nothing happened. Discord tried some more. "...Now that's peculiar..." Discord said.

"Explain yourself, Draconiquis." Luna said.

"It seems my ability to effect Spike's species has become, as one would say, impossible. Not even my powers to effect reality as we know it seems to not effect his shape any more then the powers of the elements could." Discord said.

"But if Discord can't change Spike back, then who can?" Twilight asked.

"I suppose this will have to be something you will have to figure out on your own I'm afraid. Meanwhile, I will do some searching on my own." Celestia said. "If even Discord's powers can't change Spike's body, then we are dealing somepony or something with power much greater than even the elements of harmony." She added.

"But what on earth could that be, dear sister?" Luna asked.

"I don't know. I've never even heard of such a being. Whatever they may be, they are strong indeed." Celestia said.

"Guess I'll have to get used to living as a colt then. Unicorn and all." Spike said.

"Well there is some good news at least: Whatever you did with that spell can still teleport scrolls so you at least have that still." Twilight said. Spike decided to check his flanks just to be safe.

"Huh...speaking of scrolls..." The former dragon said. His flanks bore the cutie mark of a scroll.

"He already has a cutie mark? Then perhaps his form is tied to both that and the magics that caused this." Luna said.

"Agreed." Celestia said before the sisters left.

"Well, I guess I'll have to talk with Cherilee about this." Twilight said.

"Well...then I suppose I'll go hang out with the Cutie Mark Crusaders. I'm sure they'll understand things. Besides, I'm not even sure what this mark is even meant to symbolize." Spike said and then left.

Outside the window, Rarity gulped and then went back to her house.

"Oh dear...this is not good. When that creator thing said he'd grant a wish of Spikes, I didn't think Spike had a wish to be a pony period. I just hope nothing bad happens. I couldn't bear the thought of causing something bad to happen to Spike all because of my own selfish desires." Rarity said to herself. She resigned to herself to never mention this to anyone at all. Especially not Spike.

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