Hey guys it's me again and I'm back for the ninth chapter of Soul Swappers. Like I said last chapter I've been swamped with school and sports and I haven't been able to post many chapters or write for that matter. Now I'm writing this days before I go on my trip, I'll be gone for a short time and won't be anywhere near my laptop. Anyways I'm trying my hardest so just keep your patience. Now let's begin.
Disclaimer:
I do not own the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic or the characters of the show.
"Oh god my head, I've got to stop staying up so late." I said as I sat up to see I was in a dimly lit forest. "Please tell me it didn't happen again."
I checked my pockets only to scrape against the sides of my legs. I quickly realized what was wrong, I was naked. Something didn't seem right and I looked down. I was fucking green! I began crawling backwards in utter shock as I got a glance of my legs, they were green, I wasn't wearing any shoes and I didn't have any toes. I kept backing away from where I was originally until I was stopped by a tree that was behind me. I quickly looked around and saw a path leading out of the forest. Standing up normally was impossible, my third attempt lasted the longest until I leaned to far forwards and started to fall. I landed on my hands and feet but for some reason it was easy to stand like this. Now standing on all fours I began to stagger onto the path, I looked back and saw a large statue that was broken to pieces. Did I do that? I thought as I stumbled down the path.
"I've been walking for forever and I've seen nothing, great." I said as I walked down the worn down path. After awhile I started getting the hang of walking and began to pick up the pace. I kept on walking for about 10 minutes until something sent chills down my spine, off in the distance I could hear something roar: it was loud and it sounded big. I definitely didn't want to meet whatever made that sound. Unfortunately because of my great luck I could hear it getting closer and closer. My heart started to beat rapidly as I ran faster to the end of the forest. I checked behind my back to make sure nothing was there, there wasn't. A smile grew on my face as I faced forward to find a rather large monster. I froze in my tracks as I stared at the beast in horror: it was a large lion with wings and a scorpion tail.
"This isn't real, it can't be."
The beast roared as his hind legs launched it forward. It trampled its way towards me with its claws at the ready. I for sure wasn't waiting around to see what happened next so I bolted through the edge of the forest. I dodged and weaved through the bushes and trees that supplied the forest. I ran and ran and ran until I couldn't hear the roar of the beast anymore, I ducked into a hollowed out tree and hid there for a minute or so.
"What in the god's name was that thing?" I said as I panted to regain my breath.
I sat in the hole for only a little while staying completely silent. I leaned my head out of the tree and surveyed the area. I looked around for the monster but didn't find him. I sighed in relief but quickly shot out of my hiding hole when the upper half o the tree went flying, I looked up to see it. The monster was back and it looked even bigger up close: Its eyes were filled with rage and its mane was a dirty red that was mangled into large clumps. It was ten feet away from me and it stared right into my eyes as its tail whipped from side to side. Once again my heart sped up and I wasted no time running away, this time it followed and it was gaining one me fast.
" .NO. Not again!" I yelled as I tried to evade the monster's rampage.
The monster was getting closer as I trampled my way over the foliage and into an open area. The light that wasn't shining through trees was now right in my eyes, I squinted my eyes as I tried to block the light. Not thinking at all I completely stopped as my eyes adjusted to the light. The roar from the thing chasing me snapped me out of my trance as I tried running once again. I was too slow because I was flung through the area like a ragdoll do to the beast's massive paw swiping across my ribcage: its claws left three wide gashes horizontally on my side.
I landed on my back with a deadly thud as the air was knocked out of me. I rolled back 20 feet when I was stopped by my back hitting a tree. I gasped for air as a stream of blood ran down the middle of my face. I fell to one side with a wave of pain coursing through my torso for every breath I took.
Out of the corner of my eye I could barely make out the large monster as it slowly walked towards me. I started panicking as it drew nearer. When it was just standing over me I shut my eyes and leaned my head away for my fate. I could hear it. The monster leaned down and growled as it sniffed my near lifeless body. Just as I was going to give up everything was silent, I rolled my head and opened my eyes to meet the night sky as the stars glittered all around. I looked around and saw nothing, everything was still and calm as the wind rustled the tree's leaves.
I didn't know what to do so I stood up and without saying a word I hobbled down the dirt path to anywhere but here. The wound on my side started to spew blood profusely. I took a few more steps before falling onto my knees. "Man, why won't this stop bleed, I wish it was gone." I said as I closed my eyes and began to pass out. Through my eyelids a gray light shone through them as I forced myself to open them up. When my eyes were fully open a glow disappeared from my ribs. I looked down to see my side was completely healed, no trace of the cuts were there or any scars. Blood still soaked my side as it dried in the process. "Did I miss something?" I asked while extremely confused about the incident.
My energy came back a minute after the light disappeared. I was now fully awake and picked the pace up as I saw a glowing light shining over the horizon. "Finally!" I yelled as I began to the source of the light.
I ran for ten minutes until I got a good look at the source, it was a town. I ran towards the town's edge and stopped when I saw what was there: ponies. I quickly scanned the town and saw nothing else, bright colored ponies were walking everywhere. I turned my head around to see the forest still there. Do I really want to go back there? I turned back to the town, took a deep breath, and walked into the town. Nothing bad happened: no one attacked me, no one looked at me, and no one yelled at me. They all acted like everything was normal, well for them it was. I've never been more freaked out in my life, I don't know if I could've lasted any longer in the town. That was until I saw him. I thought I'd never see something like that again.
Nick's Point of View:
I was walking through Ponyville because Twilight kicked me out when she saw the disaster after the party. She said she needed to clean, I tried to help but she just refused. Listening to music while walking was getting boring until I saw a green Unicorn running towards me, not being the wisest I stood there with a confused look as he got closer to me. He nearly tackled me to the ground as he tried to stop. He was trying to speak but was completely out of breath.
"Please…help me."
"Dude, are you ok?" I asked.
"You're…a human."
"Thanks for stating the obvious. Now what do you need?"
"I'm one too."
"Let me tell you why that's bullshit." I clearly wasn't buying this because he's a Unicorn.
"Please let me explain."
"Alright, fine."
He explained to me what he went through and how he got here. He told me about the waking up and walking on four legs, seeing the statue, and running from the monster. I still didn't believe it.
"Ok if you say you're human answer three questions. What's your name? Where are you from? What country are you from?"
"My name's Jeremiah or Jeremy for short, I'm from Minnesota, America."
"Son of a bitch, you're a human. You definitely don't look like one." I said. "By the way the name's Nick?"
"What do you mean 'don't look like one'?"
"You'll find out soon enough, follow me." I said as I mentally laughed to myself for what he was going to find out about.
We were outside Twilight's house when I knocked on the door. The door opened to reveal Twilight with a feather duster hanging in the air from her magic. "Nick I said I was cleaning." She said as she set down the duster on a nearby table and we all walked in.
Twilight turned around to be face to face with Jeremy. "And who is this, Nick?" Twilight said.
Jeremy sighed as I interrupted him. "He says he's a human. So far his facts are all straight."
"Well let's just see about that." Twilight said as her horn began glowing. "Hold still." Her horn touched his head as a purple light filled the room, it quickly faded and Jeremy was on the ground with his eyes closed.
"So is he telling the truth?" I asked as I bent down by Jeremy and tapped him on the forehead. He started to stir and groaned a bit. "Wake up, dude."
"Yes, he is telling the truth." Twilight said as she took a paper and quill out of a drawer and started to write on it.
"I told you I was telling the truth." Jeremy spoke up as he stood up from the ground.
"Well I'll have to write to Princess Celestia about this." Twilight said as the scrolled was rolled up and sent away.
A scroll appeared in front of all of us with a flash of pink light. Twilight grabbed it and read the scroll. She set it down and looked at us. "All right you guys it looks like we're going to see Celestia." She said in an excited tone.
"Wait, before we go let me do something first." I said as I raced upstairs and grabbed a small mirror. I held it up in front of Jeremy and his eyes widened. I was silently chuckling, waiting for what was about to happen.
2 Hours Earlier. Fluttershy's Point of View:
I stepped outside of my home to see the sun was almost directly above me, I closed the door and started to walk to Ponyville. I had my purse of bits with me so I could buy my little critters their food. The birds chirped from the tree braches as the sun's rays warmed the ground. It was a nice day and it seemed everything was going to go just perfect. The day was starting off so great until a monstrous howl pierced the air. I leaped for the nearest bush and hid there, I made a small opening so I could see through it. Nothing was there, I looked left and right but everything was normal. I slowly crawled out of the bush and looked around one more time. Something caught my eye and I turned back to get a better look, it was a stallion and he was running at me fast. Behind him was a pack of Timberwolves, they were gaining on him fast. The stallion stopped in his tracks and turned to face the pack.
"Come at me, Bro!" The stallion yelled as he charged at one of the wolves.
He ran up and tried to punch one of them but the Timberwolf jumped out of the way, he kept wildly swinging at them but only managed to hit them a few times. The largest one of the pack raised its claw and swiped at the stallion, he flew backwards and rolled until he was sprawled out in front of me unconscious.
The three were slowly walking towards the knocked out stallion as their fangs stuck from their mouths. I walked in front of the mysterious stallion and stood there waiting for the Timberwolves to get closer. Once they were right in front of me the all stopped.
"O-oh my…um please can you leave him alone? Please."
All three of them began growling and bared their fangs as they took a step forward. If being nice wasn't going to work plan B would. I looked at the alpha of the pack and gave him the stare. He took one more step forward ready to attack but then stopped and lowered his head. He began whimpering with his tail between his legs and backed away.
"Now you're going to leave us alone, got it."
The three turned around and slowly walked away from the two of us. I turned around to see the still unconscious stallion lying on the ground. He was a dark midnight black and his mane and tail were a blood red with a black stripe down the middle. I sighed and proceeded to carrying him back to my place. The animals would have to wait.
It took me awhile to get him home but I did. I got him upstairs and laid him down on my bed. I walked downstairs and got a wet towel to put over his forehead. With the towel with me I went back upstairs and placed the towel on his head, he began to toss and turn around in the bed. I walked next to him and tried to calm him down. I stayed there for a long time until he started to finally calm down.
Mysterious Stallion's Point of View:
I opened my eyes as I found myself somewhere where I shouldn't be. I looked around and I saw I was in a room and I was lying on a bed. Ok this was starting to get weird, I remember fighting some weird wolves and then nothing. To the right of me I saw something that made me do a double check on, it was a small yellow horse with pink hair. Its eyes were closed and every breath it took a high pitched whinny.
"What the hell is that?" I whispered as I leaned in closer. I must have been a little too loud because it woke up and scream quietly while sinking down in its spot.
"O-oh I'm sorry. Are you ok?" It answered as it straightened itself upright.
Ok so it talks, like that's very normal. This horse thing talks and I'm in an unknown room. Well this is great. As I processed this through my head the yellow horse grew a confused expression on its face.
"Are you ok?" It asked again in a quiet tone.
"Uh…what are you?"
"What do you mean?"
"You're a hoarse that talks. That's not normal."
"I'm human, where I'm from horses…don't…talk." I said starting to get annoyed.
We argued about this for a few minutes, each of us going back and forth. I started getting pissed off because the horse just didn't believe me.
"Please listen to me, I'm not from here, I'm from Earth." This got their attention because their ears perked up.
"I-I know someone from their, maybe they can help."
Since I didn't have anywhere else to go I just went along with it. I doubt they knew someone from Earth and I doubt they knew what Earth was. Still, I couldn't hurt to try. I agreed and we headed out the door.
As we were walking the yellow horse thing got curious and started to ask questions. They asked question after question and I answered them one after another, when they were done I was the one who started to get curious. We talked for awhile and I started to learn a lot about her. It turns out her name is Fluttershy and she is a Pegasus that lives here, in Ponyville. She told me everything that happened when I was unconscious, how she stopped the three wolves from getting to me and bringing me back to her home.
As we walked into the town my eyes widened as I saw dozens of those ponies walking around, I definitely wasn't home. Some walking later we arrived in front of a large tree that had windows and a door on it. Fluttershy knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer.
The door opened to reveal a tall man holding a mirror. When he opened the door he seemed to try to be suppressing his laughter. So Fluttershy did know a human.
"Hey Fluttershy, how ya been?" He asked.
"I-I'm fine Nick, can we come in I have someone who'd like to meet you."
He agreed and the three of us walked in. On the couch I saw another pony, this time it had a horn so it must've been a Unicorn. The Unicorn was purple with a light purple stripe down its hair. She was sitting next to another Unicorn who was completely in shock. The other Unicorn was green and wore a gray vest and monocle. He seemed to be muttering nonsense as the purple Unicorn patted his back and tried to calm him down.
"Jeremy, it's ok, Princess Celestia can get you back to normal."
We walked in Fluttershy explained to Nick about my current status and asked if he knew anything that could help. He said yes he did know but he had to ask me three questions. I agreed and he started to ask the questions.
"Where are you from?"
"Minnesota."
"What's your name?"
"Isaac."
"What country are you from?"
"The U.S."
Ok, Twilight care to do the honors?" He asked the purple Unicorn. The purple Unicorn who was addressed as Twilight walked in front of me and her horn began to glow, her horn touched my head and everything went black.
My eyes opened and I stood up to see everyone was standing around me. Nick walked up and extended his hand towards me, I shook and smiled.
"Looks like you're telling the truth, Isaac. So anyways do you see that guy over there," Nick said as he pointed a finger towards the green Unicorn. "his names Jeremy and he's also from Earth like us two. He was turned into a pony like you, for me it was different but that's not important. Anyways Twilight, Jeremy and I were going to get him back to normal and I'm guessing you want to come with us."
"Dude, that'd be amazing. Fluttershy, do you want to tag along?" I asked.
"Y-yes please."
"Alright everpony gather around, let's go see Celestia." Twilight said as her horn glowed once more and the room was filled with light.
As the light faded I opened my eyes to see that we were now in a large room that had stained windows and banners everywhere, at the end were to thrones: one was slightly smaller than the other. On the larger throne sat a large white Unicorn that had wings. This must have been the princess they were talking about, she looked up and smiled as she set down a piece of paper she was holding.
"Ah, hello Nick and Twilight, you too Fluttershy. Who are these two?" She asked.
Nick stepped up and started to talk. "Hi Celestia, well you already know what Twilight sent you but we now have another one who claims it."
"I see, well would the two step forward, please."
Jeremy and I stepped forward as Celestia gave both of us a warm smile.
"So both o you claim to be from Earth. Is this right?"
"Yes." We both answered in unison.
"Well then, close your eyes and brace yourselves."
We both closed our eyes, the light from Celestia's horn lit up the room. I felt myself start to float and then everything went black.
I fell back down to the ground with a loud thud. I sat up and raised a hand to the back of my head from where I hit it against the ground. I opened my eyes quickly to see I was back to normal. Jeremy also was back to normal except for one thing...he was naked. I looked down and saw I was too.
"Take it all in everyone!" I yelled as I sat on the ground naked. "Celestia could Jeremy and I get some clothes?"
"Of course, one moment." Her horn glowed and I shut my eyes. I opened them up to see that I was wearing faded jeans and a blue T-shirt on. I looked over at Jeremy to see he was wearing Black skinny jeans, a gray T-shirt, and a dark gray jacket on.
We stood up with smiles on our faces and thanked Celestia for the help. She returned our thanks with another one of her warm smiles.
The two large doors behind us creaked open and in walked in another Unicorn with wings, this one was a dark blue with a flowing blue mane.
"Hey Luna, long time no see." Nick said as he waved towards the blue pony.
"Hello Princess Luna how have you been?" Twilight asked.
Luna looked at us with a confused look but once she turned to face Nick a smile grew on her face. A shade of red started to show as her eyes darted away and towards Celestia.
"Hello everypony, I'm just fine."
"Well now that you're here I'd like you to meet…" Celestia paused because she didn't know either of our names.
"Jeremy and Isaac." Nick spoke up as he motioned to the both of us.
"Well now that we've been acquainted- Tia, don't you think it's time to head to our rooms?"
"I agree, Luna." Celestia said as she walked out of the room and closed the doors.
"Nick, w-would you and the others like to spend the night?" Luna said as she looked to the ground with her cheeks completely red.
"I'd love to Luna. Is everyone else ok?" Nick said as he looked around the room to make sure we all were ok with it.
We all agreed and headed out the doors to each of our rooms. A white stallion horse with golden armor guided each one of us to our rooms: first Luna, then Nick, Twilight and Fluttershy, Jeremy, and finally me.
The room was very large with a king-sized bed on the far left wall, a door was on the opposite side of the entrance with two thin curtains that hung over it, on the right wall was a door that led into the bathroom, next to the bed was a small dresser with a vase of flowers on it.
The guard behind me closed the door and headed to where ever he was going. I finally had a bed to sleep in and it looked really comfortable, I took my shoes off and climbed right in. In less than 1 minute I was fast asleep with a dream that would confuse me when I wake.
There you go! I finally finished the chapter and I'm going to say that it took a lot longer than expected. It was worth it though. To make up for me not uploading in the future for awhile I made this chapter a little longer than usual. I'm going to upload this chapter the day before I leave so remember to Read and Review. Also if you have something you'd like to tell me about the story then PM me about it and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.
