The Stars in the Sky

The Stars In The Sky
Note: This story contains Ponies, TF, and TG, if one of the above does not interest you, don't read.


Leroy was troubled. His inventions had hit a slump, he hardly felt the need to go outside, and overall he was just... tired. Really, he'd just been having an off day. Well, more like an off week. Or two. He didn't know what he was doing with his life, and just started doubting himself.

The young man held his head and sighed, staring out his window at the night sky. The moon was a waxing gibbous, piercing through the shady city sky and clouds. He just couldn't get to sleep. He felt drained and tired for the entirety of the day and now that he finally got to bed, nothing.

Leroy groaned and sat up. A hand went over his mouth as he yawned. He got out of bed, shivering as his feet touched the cold floor.

The young boy scratched at his head as he went over to his kitchen preparing a glass of water. Under the bright kitchen light he sat at the small table and drank the water, letting his mind wander.

There was a quiet knocking at the door. Leroy frowned, glancing towards his door and then to the kitchen clock. "1 AM...?" He sipped his water more. No sounds. Just the hum of the light above. Maybe he imagined it.

He felt an odd feeling. That sense of someone watching you. He gave a conspiratorial glance towards the window.

He could have sworn he saw something white move at the corner of his eye, but that might have just been the blur of the rest of the brightly lit room.

Leroy turned his seat to face away from the window, grumbling to himself. As he took another sip of the cold liquid, another knocking sound hit his ears. This time it was a bit more impatient, it seemed, but nevertheless it was still a gentle knock. Leroy frowned and headed towards the door.

The knocking stopped by the time he reached his door. Leroy heard an odd set of footsteps. More than one person outside...?
He stood still, ear pressed to the door. A set of wings? Too loud to be a simple bird. What, then?

The noises stopped. Leroy looked through the peephole on the door. Nothing. He cautiously opened the door, grimacing as the cold night wind hit him. With a shiver he looked around. Just the darkness of the night and the usual scenery. Leroy noticed something different though, just under his vision. He looked down.

A simple brown parcel, atop his welcome mat.

Leroy frowned and looked about in suspicion, before bending down and picking up the parcel. It was fairly light, and there was a note attached.

With a shut of the door and a few steps through the quiet house, Leroy was back in the brightness of the kitchen. He picked the note off of the parcel, looking at it. Obviously there wouldn't be a return address considering someone felt the need to personally deliver... whatever this is. Leroy sat down and read the note. "Handwritten in cursive. Fancy."

"To my beloved sister, lost in this world..." The young man frowned. Looks like they got the wrong address either way.

"To my beloved sister, lost in this world.
It has been so long. So long since I've seen you.
But I have finally found you, but watching you, you are so different from what I remember.
It brings me pain just seeing you like this.
Please, take this, and return to me.
You'll understand everything afterwards.
With love, C."

Leroy scratched his head. He knew quite a bit of people, but he didn't remember anyone this could have possibly been. He looked back towards the door.

There wasn't really any way for him to return whatever this was. What WAS it anyway? "You'll understand everything afterwards..." Leroy repeated to himself.

He glanced around, as if expecting someone to pop up and catch him in the act, before carefully opening the parcel. Inside the wraps was a ball of cloth. Soft, looks pretty expensive... He unrolled the ball and watched as a dark blue crystal fell out onto the table. He stared at the crystal, putting the cloth aside.

The crystal was a midnight blue, white specks glowing on its surface, like the night sky itself was on Leroy's table. Fittingly, it was shaped like a crescent moon. "Whoa..." Leroy's eyes were drawn to the beautiful, impossible jewel, the man captivated by the artifact.

He reached a hand out to pick up the crystal, thoughts cloudy. The instant his fingers made contact with the moon-shaped object, he fell back, head suddenly struck with the most intense migraine he had probably ever had.

He looked around his room in a daze, green and yellow mismatched eyes now a lovely blue. "Wh-what? Agh, magic?" He got up and shakey legs. His limbs felt stiff and numb, and he felt a sharp pressure on his face.

Leroy gasped and put a hand to his face as it began to push out. His nose lost its definition as a dark blue muzzle pushed out into his vision, blue fur creeping across his changing face, invading and changing every bit. The man went deaf as his ears squishily shifted and altered, moving upwards and pointing out in dark blue fur. "What is-gah!" He grabbed his throat as he heard his own voice. Feminine. Very, very feminine.

Leroy stumbled out of the kitchen, leaving the now colorless, dull crystal behind. Fur continued to spread over his body. He heard a few cracks as his torso seemed to shift, taking a large, strong, barrel-like shape, and he stumbled over, onto all fours as his spine seemed to shift to support a more quadroped shape.

The man felt a few tears drip down his new face as he looked down, watching his hands lose their definition. His fingers felt numb as the blue spread down his arm. He watched in stunned amazement as his fingers shrunk into the round looking stump that his blue hands were becoming, arms lengthening and bones shifting.

He fell to his side as his legs altered. His clothes were a torn mess as his feet cracked, knees wobbling as his bones shifted. He turned and looked at his body, alien to him, completely blue underneath his illfitted clothes, from head to... hooves. He stared passed his flanks at a starry... tail? A large flowing tail, reminding him of the night sky, and come to think of it, reminding him of that crystal, was attached to his new behind.

Just as he tried to right himself, he felt a pain across his back. Leroy shivered and squirmed against the floor in his unfamiliar body, turning and staring at his back as two large, blue wings grew into place. Leroy panted, staring at those wings. They twitched and even flapped at his command.

He was brought out of observing his newest limbs when he felt a sharp pain atop his head. He brought a hoof up to his non-human skull, a lump growing out into a lengthy horn that he could see just out of the corner of his vision. "What am I? U-unicorn? No, wings... pegasus...?" He grimaced, looking about in a panic. He felt the soft whip of his 'hair', long, and a perfect match for his tail with its starry blue pattern.

Leroy stood up and clumsily stumbled back into his room, going up to his mirror. A large blue pony, sporting wings and horn, and a magical mane and tail, stared back in agitation with oddly feminine, deep blue eyes.

Before Leroy could voice any sort of thought, he felt a heat. An odd heat over his groin. The pony blushed and buckled his legs, as his sex shifted to the fairer.

Leroy gasped lightly, the new 'mare' staring back at her ravelled, mirror counterpart. She looked at her reflection, who seemed to sport some odd markings over her flanks. Black, with an off-white moon on each side.

"What is this...?" She stared at her reflection, shaking her head. She was reminded of that crystal, and that note.

Her mind felt so fuzzy.

Leroy 'trotted' back towards the kitchen, staring at the dull crystal. She reached a hoof out tentatively and gave it a nudge.

The crystal shook, glowing brightly! Leroy gasped in her lady-like voice and stumbled back onto her rump. She rose a hoof and covered her eyes, but nothing happened.

She peeked over her dark blue hoof, staring at the table. The crysal was gone, and instead was a pile of... metal? Four boots that seemed perfect for her hooves, some sort of chestpiece, and a dark blue tiara. Leroy was confused, yet... felt an odd longing. Why did these seem so familiar...?

With just a thought, her horn glowed, and all of the odd articles floated into place. The light blue boots were a perfect fit, along with the chestpiece. As the tiara was placed on her head, Leroy felt strangely content.

Leroy... that name felt so close, but so wrong. What was it... Le... Lu... Luna! Of course! The name she was given, in another time and another place! How could she ever...

Luna shook her head, sitting, mane and tail flowing in a nonexistant breeze, the alicorn, yes, that's what she was, alicorn, trying to get her thoughts together.

Something sent her away.

Away from her home, and even her body. Thrust into an alien world in the body of another.

Leroy was a good home for her. He wasn't gone, but she seemed to be the pilot at the moment. Or something. Maybe? She was so confused, her head hurt. She needed... she needed SOMETHING.

Luna/Leroy felt something cold on her cheek. A tear. She was alone. They were alone? Whatever!

She needed her sister.

Sister.

C?

That's right! Her sister must have sent her this. To wake her up! Which meant that she was out there somewhere. But where? Why didn't she wait for her?

Another memory hit her.

Others. There were others like her. Other ponies that were taken away from their home and lives. "You'll understand everything afterwards..." Luna repeated to herself, mouth dry.

She had to help, of course! Return their ponies to their rightful bodies. Fix all of this...! She stood gracefully, trotting towards the door.

...But not before turning off the lights and cleaning up the mess she made while flailing around. No need to inconvenience Leroy/herself any more than she/they already had.

...

This was so confusing.

Luna stood in the cool night, door shutting behind her. She never felt so awake.

She looked back at her body. She hoped she remembered how to do this. She flapped her wings gently, and smiled.

She breathed in deeply, and then took off.

Luna had a lot of work to do, before she could reunite with her friends, and her sister.

-THE END-