I had gone to an audition for a classical band the other day, so today I went to a party with a couple of friends to celebrate my success. “A toast, to Ellz. May your life be classic." my best friend Marcus said as he raised his glass. "Cheers!" said my other friend, Gemma. The bar was lively, it quetened down when I tapped  my glass with a fork. "Thank you my friends for being here with me today. As with all our meetings, I’ll say this: I love you guys" I announced. We all hugged and I set off for my apartment, violin in hand.

As I walked down the street, I saw a woman standing by herself in the rain.  She looked as if she was crying. "Hey, are you okay?" I asked her. The second the words escaped my lips, the woman ran away from me. "Hey!" I called, running after her. "Hey! Wait up! Stop!" The woman dashed down a dark alleyway, and I followed. "Why is she running away from me?" I thought. I turned and went into the alleyway. Almost immediately I realised that the woman had stopped dead in her tracks. I stopped running and doubled over to catch my breath. Still panting, I straightened up and looked at the woman, who was facing away from me. I was about to ask her why she ran away, when she turned her head towards me and her eyes started to glow. I found myself captivated by the glow, unable to move or speak. Her jet black, shoulder length hair started to grow longer and longer, the ends changing colour. A rainbow coloured river of hair spread across the ground, then shot towards me. It wrapped itself around me in a rainbow coloured  tornado. The rapidly moving colours began to grow brighter until everything went white.

I woke up, barely opening my eyes. I felt dizzy, and the world around me seemed to be spinning.“Someone must have put something in my drink last night. That hair and the bright lights...that couldn't have been real..." I mumbled to myself. I decided to get up and take a look at where I was. I saw that there was an open plain as far as the eye could see and, fortunately, a nice lake to get drink from. I splashed water onto my face and looked at my reflection in the water. I saw a pony. I looked left and right and saw no pony. I realised that I was that pony.

My first reaction was to pinch myself, but since I had no fingers, I punched myself in the face. I didn't wake up, so that meant that this was real.

In my life before this, I had watched a show that I had to keep secret from my band, and I was low on money, so I had lived a very hit and miss life.

So maybe this was a sign of a new start.

I found that I still had my violin and my satchel, so I placed the violin into the satchel and slung it onto my back, before heading down the road, hopefully to Ponyville.

On the way I admired the landscape and noticed that it looked just like the cartoon. I was curious to see if I could still play the violin. In the show I remembered Octavia using her hoof to play her cello, so maybe I could play my violin that way as well. I brought my violin out of my satchel, picked up my bow and played the violin. To my surprise, I found that I was just as good as before. I realised I had actually forgotten to check my flank to see what my cutie mark was. It was a violin.

Maybe an hour of walking later...

I was getting kinda bored so I started counting what I could see in front of me. "Let’s see: a couple of clouds, a sun, a flying pegasus coming this way and a- wait..."  The Pegasus was quite high in the air, but it still heard me as I shouted “Hello! Can you help me please?” The grey Pegasus mare swooped down to me, and I noticed that she had a lazy eye and smelled of muffins.

“Hello there Mister. Haven't seen you before around here." She said. I introduced myself.”My name is Elliott but everyone calls me Ellz. Could you please tell me which way it is to Ponyville?”

“Well, if you go backwards you’ll get there in no time. I could go with you if you want.” The Pegasus replied. I smiled.“Thanks. Um, what's your name?" I asked. “My name’s Ditzy Doo, but everyone just calls me Ditzy.” She replied. I remembered Ditzy being a background character in the show and that she was really interesting in Fanfictions.

Roughly an hour and a half later…

Ditzy stopped and announced "We’re here!” Ponyville looked like a beautiful piece of art. “Hey Ditzy, is there any place in Ponyville where I can stay for a night or two?” I asked. “I haven’t got anywhere to go.” Out of either kindness or maybe pity for me, Ditzy offered to let me stay in her house. “Oh, thank you!” I said happily as I hugged her.

Later that evening...

"Well here's your room and bed." Ditzy said, sweeping her foreleg in an arch in the way that you do when you’re showing someone something. It was a nice sized room with a nice view of Ponyville. I thanked Ditzy again and headed off to sleep.