The Day My Life Ended (Editing)

Chapter Ten (Revised)

Saying that it was a landing was nearly insulting all other kinds of landing. Plus from how I was- falling?- coming here, there should be a much bigger crater than the one currently there. Meaning, there wasn't a crater there!

For all purposes, I had just appeared in the hall of the Royal Pony Sisters in Canterlot.

"RASPBERRY STARDUST?!"

Looking up, it was clear that the two Royal alicorns had noticed me. To their credit, neither alicorn panicked at the sight of me. So I did the only logical thing to do in these circumstances.

Pushing myself to my feet, I stumbled slightly. My hoof went up to my head, forming a perfect salute. "Princesses! How goes the day?" The salute fell, flowing into a perfect bow.

Luna flew up to me. Her horn was glowing a dangerous blue. "WHAT HATH THOU DONE TO THE BEARERS OF THE ELEMENTS OF HARMONY!"

Her yell was so loud it blew back my mane. Yes- mane once again. A quick check showed it was the same blue and silver curly mess of before. Sweet- this trick hadn't ruined any part of the body. I had to make a note of that if I was ever stupid enough to do this again.

"SPEAK AT THE COMMAND OF YOUR PRINCESS!" Luna ordered.

'Right- should probably focus on this first.' Putting on a bigger smile, I kept myself bowed.

Thankful to be given a chance to speak, I began.

With a gut wrenching scream.

I never said the process of becoming a pony or some other shape was a happy process. Bones need to bones moved. Muscles rearranged. It's the worst as a pony. But usually I have some time to place a small silence spell before screaming my lungs out as the pain of shifting hits me.

After about five seconds (it felt like 5 minutes) of screaming I made sure I was able to talk with the princesses.

"Sorry. Sometimes the process is painful." I explained to them. They were staring at me with wide eyes. "You didn't exactly give me time to use the spell I needed to decrease the pain so I don't scream as loudly."

Celestia seemed to recover her wits first. Luna's horn flared in magic.

Celestia flew up to her sister's side. She stood just a step ahead, to keep Luna from attacking and no doubt to also let me know she was in charge of the conversation now. Luna's magic quieted down.

"Raspberry Stardust. Where are the Bearers of Harmony?" She insisted.

"Twilight Sparkle stumbled on an untested spell- well untested by anypony but me. All of them are fine, including Spike. It shows her credit that she brought them over in one piece!"

"Twilight did what?"

"There was a spell in my house in a box hidden under my bed. To my understanding, the lot of them snuck into my house with the intent to search for me at Luna's suggestion. When they couldn't find me that started searching for a guess as to why. Twilight found the spell I had been testing. She tested it herself, transporting herself and her fellow Bearers as well as Spike to- someplace else." I explained.

"And you returned alone?" Celestia pointed out. "You said they were alright, yes? Are they still?"

A wince wanted to come out. I kept it at bay. "Celestia. I'm in a bit of a tiff with them. As I said, the spell had only been tested by myself. Even then the spell had...side effects I hadn't expected. I was hoping to give it more testing before revealing it. I only wrote it down so I wouldn't use it by accident! Turns out all I had to do was put it in Twilight's path! Then, they all blamed me for it!"