Bronies of Equestria
Chapter 2
The tree of unrelated ancestors
Goden appears smiling wearing a directors hat. "Welp farewell for now fellow readers and writers. ON TO THE STORYYY!" He said busting out a window and fell.
"Hello everyone and welcome back to Bronies of Equestria. As of the first chapter we already have a nice line of OC's waiting to come in." He said smiling showing the line.
"Thank you all for popping them in. However I haven't gotten any neutral or evil OC's yet." Shows a picture of Wolvesbane and Simon.
"Come on these broods are lonely." He said chuckling as the picture of the pegasus and kitsune vanished.
"And of course the neutrals." He said showing a picture of a female griffin, a male unicorn, a female pegasus, a male earth pony, a female lupis, a female dragon, and male kitsune kit who was still an infant. Golden made the picture vanish.
"I'll have names for the neutrals later on. But so far the lupis is Libra, the dragon is either scale tipper or clarice, the unicorns' name is balance, and the lil' baby kitsune is Equilibrium." He said smiling.
"I forgot to flyyyyy! 'smash'"
Solar looked at the tree… let me rephrase that. It was a giant tree, a spruce to be specific. Standing tall and proud at the edge of Everfree forest and was as thick as a middle class home in Canterlot.
"Sowhy am I getting this again? I mean not that I'm complaining, I love the house inside the tree thing, but why?" He asked as she smiled.
"It belonged to a few old Kitsune, before they went extinct. I'm giving this to you because only someone who could open that book can actually open the door." She said as Solar blinked.
"Wait why couldn't you open the book? Aren't you like, the ruler of all of Equestria?" He asked as she blushed embarrassed and her pride took a blow.
"Yes well, even I can't do certain things for specific reasons." She stated.
"Like opening a book?" She smacked Solar upside the head with her hoof as he blinked and Celestia huffed.
"I can't because only someone with Kitsune blood can open the book." She stated clearly irritated. Solar just rubbed his head and groaned.
"That hurt." He said as he felt a bad headache coming on as she huffed.
"You deserved it." She said with a small shred of dignity as Solar blinked and shrugged.
"Fine, whatever." He said and began searching the tree for some kind of crack or small opening like in the movies and games he'd watched and played. Celestia watched and blinked not knowing what in Equestria he was doing.
"What are you do-ssshhh, I need to concentrate." Solar interrupted shushing her as she blinked and felt a little more annoyed.
"Did you just shush me?" She asked as he blinked and facehoofed.
"Um… unfortunately yes." He stated as he kept going and went to the other side of the tree to keep some distance between them. Celestia just blinked and sighed sitting down.
"Alright, would you like some help?" She asked as Solar smiled.
"That would be lovely." He said with a British accent as Celestia smiled.
"Get your kitsune book, maybe it can help you find a way to open the house if you know a little more about it." She reasoned as he blinked and smiled.
"Rigt, that would've helped." He said chuckling as she nodded and got up.
"So where would that book be again?" She asked. Solar went over to his saddlebag.
"Still here." He said pulling it out and opened it looking at the index and flipped to how to disperse a kitsune illusion.
Solar blinked and sighed turning to another page and looked at Celestia handing it to her.
"Back in a sec." He said as he bounded into the forest to have some distance from her for the transformation. Celestia blinked and read the page he was reading and blinked sighing.
"Joshua, one day and you're already taking risks." She said. If you looked at the book it said that the transformation to become a kitsune for the first time for any other race was extremely painful and in some cases fatal, say someone in their fifties tried to transform for the first time. They'd suffer from cardiac arrest, then death.
Solar got a good distance away and sighed.
"God I hate pain." He said before taking a minute to push his fears down.
" you know what, fuck it." He said and started a small chant that he memorized from the book as he slowly began glowing crimson.
Solar looked down as he finished the chant and saw his body glowing more and blinked as he felt sharp pains begin to shoot through his body and began transforming and gritted his teeth as he changed. He felt a tail growing out of his hind end and his ears changing. His entire body's bone structure was being recreated. He felt his tail finally finish going as the tail of a pony was replaced with a bushy fox tail that was so long the tip could go past Solars face and wrap around his head a couple times, his snout, now muzzle replace the flat pony teeth for sharp fox teeth, the whisker marks on his face, the new fox ears, the new fox body and finally. He paled.
"Oh god no." He squeaked as the transformation started the final most important part of his transformation.
-All throughout Equestria, the griffin kingdom… and I'm pretty sure that the dragons heard a faint sound-
"YIPE!"
-back with solar and a now disoriented Celestia-
Celestia held her ears wide eyed as the ringing in her ears slowly went away. Solar came out wobbling slightly with the saddlebag and looked at her.
"Sorry." He said embarrassed looking down. Celestia blinked.
"WHAT!?" Solar blushed more and sighed just motioning for her to follow… since he sucked at charades and wasn't going to spend half an hour trying to interpret how to say 'I'm sorry' in body language.
He walked over to the house and blinked seeing something he couldn't see or feel before. It was a door handle… in the tree…
"Wow… when kitsune make illusions work so only they can see the truth… they do it pretty damn well." He said still feeling he ache in his muscles bones and joints… and his most precious of parts. He shivered.
"Never again." He said to himself knowing the pain would only happen the first time before transformations became much easier with progression.
He sighed and went over and put his paw in the handle. He tried to open the door but blinked as it wouldn't budge. He did it again, nothing. He looked around and saw a small paw shaped groove in the tree as Solar blinked and examined his own black paw that cut into his crimson red at the wrist. He went over and put his paw in and immediately felt a pinprick that drew blood and Solar yelped in surprise and pain holding it.
"Are you alright Joshua?" Celestia asked still a little louder than normal as he nodded.
"Yeah, just a pinprick." He said loudly as she nodded.
"Alright then." She said as Solar looked at the tree and blinked as the illusion left it. He saw windows, a balcony that apparently still had a telescope on it, meaning he would have furniture. The tree however seemed to look like it was regaining life, looking stronger and taller than before as he saw his new home.
Celestia smiled.
"Kitsune… they definitely are smart. No doubt that they had it set up so that if the home had a new owner they would have the necessities for their race, a nice home, maybe a few things inside of interest for the kitsune who decided that they could live here." She shook her head.
"Absolutely astounding." She said as Solar went over and opened the door and smiled at Celestia.
"No solicitors." He said and slammed the door shut making her gape for a second before Solar opened the door again laughing.
"I was just kidding come on inside Princess." He said chuckling as Celestia smiled and giggled a bit.
"That was a cruel joke." She said as he nodded.
"Yeah, sorry." He apologized smiling as she nodded and looked around before smiling and using her magic to make a branch fall and hit Solar on the head as he yelped in surprise more than pain looking up.
"Damn branch." He grumbled as Celestia smiled and looked around. There wasn't much in the living room for how big it was. It had two couches a love seat and a recliner with a fireplace. There were also a few paintings on the wall and smiled as she turned and went to the dining room that had a table that could fit at the most ten ponies, kitsune, whichever. Along the walls were two oil lanterns and décor made from foliage berries. There were some leaves even and a large painting of a waterfall and lake with a few animals around it.
Solar looked around and whistled.
"Wow, I mean I like space… but this is a lot for just me." He said as Celestia smiled and nodded.
"Quite." She said as Solar blinked and smiled walking over to a painting and smiled bringing it to Celestia.
"It's probably of the family." He said as she smiled. There were seven kitsune in this photo. A man, a vixen, two teenage vixens, obviously twins from a litter, and a teenage boy all of them in were maybe fifteen. She looked at the children and had a sad smile. They were kits, all girls. The parents and the teenage boy held them in the painting and she gave it back to Solar.
"They seem very happy… were, very happy." She said somberly as Solar blinked and sighed.
"Alright you honestly believe the kitsune are extinct, and you're depressed seeing the painting meaning only two conclusions. Either one, you loved someone who was a kitsune and they were killed, or two, the ponies had a part in their extinction." He stated as she became worse after hearing the last part. Solar saw and sighed going into the kitchen for a minute or two and came back with hot chocolate.
"Not real good, I had to use hot water instead of milk." He said as she looked at him and smiled taking a glass using magic.
"Thank you Josh." She said as he nodded and went over to a chair pulling out for her as she blinked and smiled.
"I see you're a gentlepony, well fox now." She said smiling as her mood lifted a bit and Solar smiled.
"Just how I was raised." He said pushing her chair in before sitting in his.
She nodded and sipped her hot chocolate and giggled.
"Any whipped cream?" She asked as he shook his head.
"Nope, expired from old time packaging and aging." He stated as she nodded.
"Oh well. Looks like you need to shop for food." She said smiling a small smile as Solar nodded.
"Yeah." He said as he drank his and made a face." Just ain't the same without milk." He said chuckling as she nodded.
"Agreed."
Solar set his down.
"Anyhow, thank you Princess Celestia. I think I'll find a ton in here to do." He said smiling as she nodded.
"I would imagine so." She said standing up.
"I must go for today, perhaps next week I can stop by to see what you have learned?" She suggested as Solar blinked and chuckled.
"Sure." He stood up and bowed.
"Farewell Princess." He said as she nodded
"Farewell Joshua Rave." She said as she teleported to the castle. Solar smiled and sighed sitting down and sipped his hot chocolate and bleghed.
"Okay then, store." He grumbled as he got up and blinked as his curiosity was piqued by the house.
"Actually… exploration." He stated and ran through his house checking rooms.
"Sauna.. library… bedroom… bedroom… bathroom… vault… music room…" Solar stopped and went back to that door and smiled as he pushed the door open and walked in.
Solar whistled and looked around.
"Wow." He said as he looked around. Instruments music sheets and even a few picture were in here… along with a grand piano that was painted black. Solar smiled and went over and picked up a picture. It was the two older sisters. One held I violin the other a cello. He looked harder and smiled seeing the teen boy holding a saxophone and chuckled.
He put it down and looked around.
"By the looks of it the Kitsune were 'wiped out,' about a good two hundred years ago. Clearly Equestria has been stuck in the renaissance time period and yet is mixed with the industrial period to a small extent." He stated looking around and blinked as he walked over and saw an old violin. Solar blinked and picked it up along with the bow used to play it.
He looked at them withered from age and smiled as he set them down on the stand it was meant for.
He looked over and blinked seeing a picture of her in a concert playing a violin solo and picked it up. He smiled and blushed a bit.
"She must have had guys asking her out nonstop." He chuckled setting it down before leaving the music room gently closing the door before walking past a few bathrooms and bedrooms before finally making it to the master bedroom. He opened the door and looked around. The room was a deep red and had maroon waves on the wall.
Solar looked around and smiled.
"Strange how there isn't a speck of dust." He said to himself and shrugged before his eyes widened and he shot across the room finding an old acoustic guitar.
"No way. No, freaking way. I mean you'd think they would have had lute's way back then and violins, and pianos… but a freaking guitar!" He hugged it carefully but it still felt sturdy and smiled looking at the ceiling with a sad smile.
"I shall honor the ones who once lived here by not taking down their paintings and playing this guitar treating it like it were my own, I swear." He said aloud smiling sadly and chuckled.
"Damn it." He said wiping his face as he looked around smiling.
Solar smiled putting it in its case and got up tying it onto his back as he smiled happily.
"Time to explore the town and get some supplies." He said as he emptied his saddlebag onto his bed and grabbed the book so he could learn how to change back. He flipped through scanning pages absorbing any knowledge he came across and smiled as he found out how and focused on being a unicorn again. He felt himself snap his claws out of instinct and felt a painful quick pull and tug on his bone structure this time and blinked smiling happily seeing himself as a unicorn.
Solar looked at himself in the mirror and smiled.
"There we go." He said as he went and put his spare clothes in their respectable places noticing the clothes there was gone. He smiled and went putting his book on one of the half full bookshelves and put his saddlebag back on as he set his spare glasses in the nightstand drawer.
"There, now I can go." He said as he went back down the stairs as he headed for the front door.
Solar smiled as he walked out the door and walked the trail into town. He looked around seeing ponies out doing work and taking care of businesses as he made his way to the market district and smiled watching a few foals play. He looked at his ears and chuckled as they still resembled a foxes so that he could blend in as best he could.
"Alright let's see." He walked up to a random mare.
"Excuse me Ms." He said as the brown coated and blonde haired mare looked at him.
"Yes?" She asked as he smiled.
"Which way is the marketplace? I'm kinda new to Ponyville." He said as she took a second to look at his ears before dismissing them.
"Oh uh, go that way for about a hundred hooves then turn right. You'll be there in no time." She said smiling as Solar nodded.
"Thanks Ms." He said as he went.
"You're welcome, welcome to ponyville!" She called as Solar smiled and went on his way.
Solar walked the way she said to before he finally saw the marketplace and smiled as he went over to the marketplace going through and getting the food he needed and wanted making sure he grabbed some milk from a dairy farmer. Solar looked at his filled saddlebags and small bag filled with some ice and the milk as he looked around and smiled as he began his trek home occasionally catching a mare or colt looking at his ears or how tall he was and sighed.
"Man, incognito won't last long." He grumbled as he turned the corner only to bump into someone and fell.
"Oof!" He heard a mare say and blinked seeing Pinkie Pie and quickly got up offering her a hoof.
"Sorry I wasn't paying attention." He apologized as she blinked looking at him and smiled.
"Oh hey Solar, hey what happened to your ears?" She asked as he blinked and flattened them.
"Oh uh, nothing really. Just a few changes." He said laughing nervously. Pinkie blinked and looked at them before tapping it as he squeaked trying to flatten them further.
"They look like some kinda dog ears, or maybe a cats." She said smiling before she walked with him as he tried to quickly skulk to his house.
"Hey how come you're acting like fluttershy? She always acts shy when she's in town." Pinkie said as Solar blushed an unnoticeable blush.
"I uh, I just wanted to take my groceries home then find somewhere to work." He said as Pinkie got sparkles in her eyes.
"Ooh! You can come work at Sugarcube corner! We have a job opening!" She said happily as Solar blinked and smiled.
"Thanks Pinkie that'll really help." He said as she smiled.
"-GASP!- I still need to throw you a party!" She said as Solar blinked.
"Pinkie, can it wait until tomorrow then?" He asked as she shook her head.
"No can do." She said smiling as he blinked.
"But it's my house." He said as she nodded.
"Yup it sure is. Hey do you live next to Everfree forest?" She asked as Solar blinked and nodded.
"Yeah I do." He said as she smiled when he walked up to a tree. Pinkie looked at it and smiled.
"Wow Solar that's a really big house." She said as he nodded and quickly turned a hoof into a paw and slid it in the opening at the bottom before opening the door turning it back into a hoof.
"Yeah I know, oh and Pinkie, there is at least one thing you should know before we walk in." He stated as she smiled.
"Is it a surprise?!" She asked as Solar blinked and chuckled.
"Kinda, yeah. Have you ever heard of the Kitsune?" e asked as she blinked and shook her head.
"No, why is it some kind of food?" She asked as Solar blinked and chuckled.
"No, it's a race of large and intelligent foxes." He stated as she blinked and looked in thought.
"So big foxes right?" She asked as he nodded.
"And I'm one of them." He stated as she giggled.
"No you're not silly you're a unicorn." She said as Solar smiled and snapped his tail as he changed into a kitsune again in a quick glow.
"No, I'm both." He said as Pinkie blinked and smiled as she began poking at him.
"Wow awesome! You can talk!" She said as Solar gave a deadpanned look.
"Yeah Pinkie I can still talk." He chuckled before he began hugging his fox tail and playing with it.
Solar blinked and pulled it to his chest.
"Pinkie it's a tail." He said as she blushed.
"But it's so fluffy!" She said as Solar chuckled.
"Come on Pinkie I'll explain the kitsune race… with a book." He said as Pinkie groaned.
"That's how Twilight explains things." She said as Solar chuckled.
"Come on." He said as she followed.
AAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNND CUT! "Alright everyone that's a wrap on chapter 2!" He called as Solar and Pinkie went out of the video room.
"Alright everyone thanks for reading through. Next chapter will be Solar's party and getting the job. So please review, comment, and send me some OC's… now preferably evil or neutral OC's please." Golden smiled.
"Welp farewell for now fellow readers and writers!" He called as the screen went blank