Chapter 1. Strange Beginnings

Story by Descrit on SoFurry

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#1 of Chance Encounters


Hello, this is the author of this story. My name is Descrit, and it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance! I am new to this strange land known as SoFurry.com and by sheer dumb luck happened to find this place. I am making my first story on here and my first EVER My Little Pony story. I hope you enjoy it. Please feel free to comment on my work at any given time, whether to express your opinion on it, what you the reader would like to see next, or just to tell me what I am doing right or wrong within the story. Happy readings! ^-^ Oh and by the way, sorry for the shitty intro for the story, I had thought of no other way to start it off at the time. Oh and p.p.s., I usually listen to music pertaining to whatever I write. The song I listened to on repeat the whole time was this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIaimKkgGv0

_Disclaimer: I do not own My Little Pony. I also do not own the song I listed above ^ the only thing I own in this story is the character Mark. _

Boring. That's all today seems to sum up as. Just plain boring. I have nothing to do and nobody to see. "Ugh, this is such a drag, all my friends are busy and my girl dumped me last week for Vlad Price," I said to no one in particular. "God, I wish something would happen, anything!" I probably should have specified what I meant by anything. Suddenly, a flash of... Well I could't really describe the color, if anything, it was some bright shade of blue I have never seen before. Whatever it was, it flashed and I was blinded, I held my hands in front of my face and fell back, attempting to sit down on the couch so I wouldn't hurt myself in my moment of blindness. But as I prepared to feel the soft, velvety feel of my couch under my body, I kept plummeting. For a moment I had a mini-heart attack and once again, prepared to feel my hardwood floor bruising my tailbone. But just like the couch, that feeling never came!

"Okay what the fuck?!" I thought as I continued to fall. I still couldn't see well but I sure as hell could hear and feel what was going on. I heard the violent sound of the wind whipping upwards past my body and felt the cold air and rush of gravity as I spiraled downwards. As I opened my eyes, I immediately wanted to shut them once more. I was rushing towards some big ass field from like a thousand feet in the air! "Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!! HELP! WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT THE FU-," _ *WHAM!!*_ My terrified screams were ceased by the sudden impact of hard ground against soft flesh. I soon blacked out. But before I did, I could hear two things and see just a bit. The sound of my heart beating in my ears as if someone set up a bass drum right next to my ear, and the sound of voices. I couldn't really hear what they were saying but only caught warbled words. And before darkness over took my sight, I saw a mix of pink, purple, rainbows, white, orange, and yellow..

~o~ The next week....

When I woke up, I had the most excruciating headache in my entire life! My chest hurt every time I took a breath and my wrists were on fire. As I opened my eyes, I had to blink a few times on account of the brilliant light just above me. As I heard the whirring and beeping of machines, I could tell I was in a hospital. But I could also tell something was different As I reached my hoof up to rub my head- Wait a fucking minute!! HOOF?! I had a hoof? "Gah! What the heck?!" I screamed and looked myself over as best as I could without a mirror present. Suddenly, a white pony with a pink mane done up in a bun and pink tail burst into the room. I also noticed she had a red cross mark on her flank just like the one she had on her hat. I looked at the pony as she stared at me.

"Hold on, easy now. You just woke up after a week and you have a concussion, broken ribs, and sprained hooves, you need to take it easy.." She spoke. The pony, just fucking SPOKE! At the time I didn't know whether to be scared, shocked, astonished, or a combination of the three. All that could come out of my muzzle was, "How are you.. But you can't... and what am I... Wha..?" I stared at the talking pony in amazement. Ponies cant talk! and humans can't turn into talking ponies! "That's it, I am probably dreaming! If I just close my eyes, count to three and open them, I will probably be knocked out on the couch or something." I thought as I closed my eyes. "One..Two..Three!" I opened my eyes, still in the hospital room and that same nurse pony was staring at me, this time as if I had asked her to tell me every single digit of Pi.

"Um, are you okay?" She asked me, daring a step closer, in turn causing me to step back, my back hoof bumping into the hospital bed. "D-don't come any closer!" I looked at her, wide eyed and scared out of my mind. "The nurse stood still and held out a hoof slowly. "Listen, nobody is going to hurt you, I am Nurse Redheart, what is your name?," She asked. I didn't know if she was plotting anything or not, but for some reason, I felt as if I could at least trust her with my name. I mean, I was still a pony just like her, and could probably hold her off just as easy as I could a human woman, right? "M-my name is Mark.." I looked at her, calming down, just a bit.

She looked at me with that confused look again. "Mark? You aren't from around Ponyville are you?" Nurse Redheart asked, daring a few steps to me. I allowed her to come closer as I shook my head no. "I'm not from around here, I don't even know where here is! Until just now, I have never even heard of Ponyville! I wasn't even a pony!" I ranted. "What do you mean wasn't even a pony?" Nurse Redheart asked me. I then took a deep breath and explained my situation, telling about how I was a human just a couple days ago and how I was on earth in my house, when I suddenly came crashing down and woke up here today.

"Wow, sound's like you have had quite a shock! And you said you had no idea at all how you got here?" she asked me. I sighed and shook my head no, silver strands of mane getting in my eyes. "Oh that reminds me, do you have a full body mirror so I can see myself?" She nodded and directed me to the bathroom. When I took a look at myself, my jaw hung. My coat was black, but down my head and neck was a silver mane with gold lightning streaks in them, along with the same silver tail and lightning streak. my chest was broad and my body was just one huge mass of muscle! I could tell I was every body builders dream right then, I didn't look like a pony version of Terry Crews just.. toned. I still looked slim but I had obvious muscle.

My irises yellow. not yellowish green like usual, but completely yellow. "Holy crap.." as I admired my new form in the mirror, I noticed one other little thing. "I HAVE A HORN!"

At that moment Nurse Redheart shushed me. "The newborns are just down the hall!"

"Why would newborns be down the hall, unless.."

"We had a shortage of hospital beds, so we had to house you in the, er... the maternity ward."

I felt every inch of the guy code portion of my brain spazz the fuck out at that moment. I was not supposed to be in a maternity ward! I was a guy!

"Um, anyway, why do I have a horn?" I looked at it again in the mirror, the same black color as my coat. "Oh, isn't it obvious? You're a unicorn," she stated matter-of-factually. I only stared at her, unable to really say anything else. I was so shocked to find out, not only did unicorns actually exist in this world, but I was one! In all the shock, I didn't even notice the pain from my chest, head, and hooves go away. She then went on to tell me about different type s of ponies in Ponyville. She told me about earth ponies, which were regular ponies and known for their tremendous strength Unicorns which used magic, Pegasi who could fly and control the weather, and finally, the alicorns who were able to use all three abilities from each pony tribe, but were far fewer in number compared to the others. And apparently they were all royalty. Princess Celestia, who ruled Equestria, which is apperently this whole country, along side with her sister, Princess Luna.

"Okay, so I am a unicorn who can use magic. But how do I use it?" "Oh, with me being an Earth pony, I really couldn't help you with that. But I do know just the pony who can!" She smiled and I watched her carefully. "Okay, who is it?" I inquired. "She is a nice pony, her name is Twilight Sparkle, she is one of the-" I had to cut her off, holding a hoof as I closed my eyes and bit my lip, stifling a roar of laughter. "Her name is what?" I asked, snickering as I did so. Nurse Readheart raised an eyebrow at me and repeated herself. "Twilight...Sparkle?" I burst into a non-stop fit of laughter, falling onto my back and rolling around, tears dripping down my muzzle as Nurse Redheart watched me as if I were insane. C'mon, your telling me, if someone was to come up to you and say 'Hi, I'm Twilight Sparkle' You wouldn't laugh your ass off? I thought so. But I digress, back to the story!

~o~ Streets of Ponyville....

After a round of laughter, Nurse Redheart told me where to find Twilight. She said look for a library...in a tree? I didn't know if she was joking at the time, or actually serious. I mean seriously, magic flying ponies and rainbow faeries? I didn't know what meant what anymore. I got a couple stares from ponies as I walked by, I guess seeing a new pony in this town is rare. Especially stallions apparently. All I ever seemed to pass was mares, occasionally seeing a stallion or two, but it was rare, for the couple minutes I was on the street. Then I saw it. In a large tree, was a whole library! So that nurse wasn't kidding when she said the library in the tree...

As I went inside, I called out loudly, "Hello, is anybody here?". After the sound of some books shuffling, I heard a voice, "Yes, just one second!" she called out. After a short while, A unicorn with lavender fur and a dark purple mane and tail with streaks of lighter purple and pink in them stood in front of me. "Oh, your that new pony that came crashing into the ground! Are you okay?" She asked me. I nodded and sighed. "Yeah I am fine but Nurse Redheart said you could help me with a little problem I am having?" I asked her, as she looked me over. "Uh, sure. What kind of problem are you having?" she asked as she led me into the library to a table. "I know this is going to sound crazy but, I need you to teach me how to use magic." I looked at her as she glanced at me with a confused look on her face.

"Teach you to use magic? But you are a unicorn, you should already know-" I interrupted her much like I did Nurse Redheart, with my hoof in the air and my eyes closed. "Yeah I know, I am a... unicorn, but I was not like this before. When you saw me fall out of the sky, something must have happend, because I was a human a few seconds before that," I explained. "A...human?" She inquired. I looked at her slightly stunned. "Wait, you are telling me you have never heard of a human before? Ever?" she simply shook her head no. So I was stuck in a world where magic exists, along with unicorns, pegasi, and god- I mean, Celestia knows what else, and nopony has ever heard of a human! "Look, skipping the long story about how I got here, can you teach me how to use my magic please?" I pleaded with her, I really wanted to learn what this magic was all about! She stared at me as she thought about it for a moment, but then nodded with a smile. "Sure, I will teach you, but first, you gotta tell me your name!" She smiled, If I didn't know better, I would have looked at it as seductive, but I quickly pushed the thought out of my head.

"Oh yeah, my name is Mark, I know it sounds strange to you, but on my world, it's a pretty common name." I informed her. "Hm, okay Mark, I am Twilight Sparkle, but you can call me Twilight or Twi as some of my friends call me." she smiled warmly as she gave her name. I smiled too, not because of her name, which I was over now, but at the generosity she was showing me. "Thanks Twilight, I think we are going to get along fine. But one more thing, how did you know I crash landed here?" I tilted my head, causing bits of silver mane to get in front of my eyes again. "Oh, me and five others saw you crash down here and we rushed to get you to the hospital. you were bleeding from your head and looked like you weren't breathing so we had Rainbow Dash fly ahead to tell Dr. Whooves or somebody to get a bed ready." Twilight told me.

"Rainbow Dash? What is a Rainbow Dash?" I looked at her, flipping my mane out of my face as my tail flicked. Twilight giggled and smiled. "Rainbow Dash is one of my friends that helped save you. Along with Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rarity." she informed me. "Oh, well, I wanna thank them too, when do you think we could see them all?" I asked. Twilight smiled as she nudged me towards the door. Wait here! I will tell them all to meet us at Sugarcube Corner! As she dashed off, I stood their thinking. "Sugar cube corner?"

~o~ Minutes later....

After a few minutes, Twilight returned and smiled. "You still wanna meet the others?" she asked, a grin on her lips. Now, because of that grin I was a little unsure, but hesitantly, I still nodded yes. "Great, then follow me!" she said, trotting off. As we walked through the streets of Ponyville, I noted it was a lot less busy than before. As we reached a small cafe, called Sugarcube Corner, my jaw simply hung open. Everything looked like some sort of candy! From the gingerbread roof, to the cupcake tower on top, to the fake frosting around the building, to the candy cane pillars. It was every kids fantasy land! Twilight simply giggled and nudged me with her hoof, gathering my attention. "The real stuff is inside, and it looks just as good." She giggled again. As I looked at the windows, everything was pitch black inside, you could only see your reflection if you tried to look inside.

"You sure anybody is in there, Twilight? It looks pretty... Deserted" I smirked slightly at my corny pun. Even though she rolled her eyes, I knew she was holding in a laugh as she marched forward. "Yep, I am positive it's open it's just uh... The windows are tainted! Just in case people wanna look out to view Ponyville without being viewed back upon." She nodded. "Oh... Okay then," I shrugged and walked inside, as soon as Twilight shut the door behind us both, We were enveloped in complete darkness. "Hey, wait a minu-

"SURPRIIIIIIIISSSE!!" suddenly, the lights all flicked on and I got tackled.> > > > > To be continued....

Okay, comment and tell me what you thought for my first story! If you didn't like it, give a reason why please. And if it is just because you don't like MLP, it was your choice for reading. Sayonara! *Le Poofies~*