{"sf1_id":612313,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Scaled Down to One's True Self","author":"StGeorgesHorse","words":3641,"posted_at":"2013-11-10T21:17:00.000Z","tags":["Horse","Human","Transformation","Unicorn"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/612313-scaled-down-to-one-s-true-self","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/612313","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=612313\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"#19 of Robbin Red\n\nFrom dragon to not-a-dragon in one quick thought. How will Alma's presence alter the present course of history? And why is Sybeele being so nice? Guilty conscience?","content":" Jon-Tom\ncouldn't help from staring. His eyes did a little sideways glance to his friend\ncollapsed on the ground. He was breathing, so he was still alive. Alma was apparently\nback to her normal self. No one alive today had seen her as she was meant to\nbe. All they had to go on were the tales told to them by their grandfathers.\nThe tales did her no justice. She was so beautiful that even Sybeele drew in a\nbreath. Alma\ndid a little courtesy, dropping to one front hoof, and dipping her head. Her\npearly white horn caught the light and sent it cascading through the air as a\nrainbow of colors. When Jon-Tom found his voice, he whispered, \"Fairy!\" Alma\nheard him and tittered. \"I ain't, er, I'm not a fairy ape-man. Fairies are\nsmall and humanoid. You seem awfully stupid for a time traveler.\" He\ncleared his head and blinked his eyes. \"No, not you. I mean, no you're not a\nfairy. I was remembering one of my former mates. She belonged to another\nreally, but we had a foal together. She went by the name Fairy Hooves. You two\nlook remarkably alike.\" He was fighting down an erection. As it was, his\npresent wife was giving him some dirty looks. \"You\nhave a child that's a unicorn? We really need to sit down and go through your\nlife detail by detail. I like surprises, but it seems to me there's a lot I\nneed to know. So what happened to this child of yours?\" He\nshrugged. \"There are many aspects of my life that I have never seen to\ncompletion. In this case, I can't really say.\" Alma\ncame forward. \"I don't mean to be indelicate, and trust me, I've spent a good\nportion of my life being just that. Might I connect with you and see the truth\nfor myself?\" Sybeele\nlooked from one to the other. \"Hey now! I've kept myself from being intrusive,\nand I'm his wife. What gives you the right to ask such a thing? The\nblazingly white unicorn shook her head, allowing her mane to flash through the\nair. \"No right whatsoever. But it will help me to decide just what is happening\nhere. He claims to be a time traveler, which any wizard will tell you is\nimpossible. You are something out of place as well. No one in my time had the\npower to do magic with merely a thought. It's only been a hundred years or so\nsince I changed. So there is something significant I need to be aware of.\" Then\nshe looked down at Huntchy. \"And what's wrong with your friend? Has he never\nseen a unicorn before?\" Jon-Tom\nchuckled. \"He's fine. I think perhaps you were sort of idolized by him. The\nshock of seeing you as yourself coupled with the knowledge of what you've done\nmight have been too much. I'm certain he'll be fine when he comes to.\" \"Idolized?\nThere is much indeed I need to catch up on. But back to you. I see your wife\nhas some misgivings about this. I wish not to pry, but it is dangerous to go\nforth without the proper knowledge. I'm sure you see the sense in what I say.\" Jon-Tom\ndid, but his wife was less understanding. \"I'm not happy about this, but your\nassessment is correct. I tried to keep something important from him and it was\nnearly the end of his life. I would ask that you refrain from being nosy as to\nour present life together.\" Alma\nshook her head. \"I have no interest in knowing those things that are none of my\nbusiness. But I do need to know if you're telling the truth, and if so, the\nimplications of that. Your present life seems to have little bearing on\nmatters, though I may be wrong about that. Hence why I need the information.\" Jon-Tom\ndid a little bow. \"I've shared before and I'm sure I'll be doing it again.\nWould you like a horn to horn exchange?\" Alma\nstepped back. \"You seem to know a lot about my kind. But what you ask is foolish\nsince you have no horn...\" She was\nwatching as a small horn grew from his head. It was miniscule, but it was a\nhorn. She whinnied loudly. \"You're not normal ape-man. No one other than a\nunicorn can sport a horn such as you have made appear. We must exchange.\"\nSybeele grunted something unintelligible. Then, with a flick of her fingers,\nher husband was standing there larger than life as a huge black unicorn. It was\nAlma's turn to swoon. \"Oh my!\nI know that the female ape has done this, but what a fine specimen you are.\nPlease allow me to do the exchange before I lose track of what I'm doing.\" She\nstepped closer and knocked her horn against his. Both unicorns froze. Sybeele\nwas less than happy, but willing to do her part. But after about fifteen\nminutes she sat down on the street. She could have gone one step further and\nmagicked them to a private place, but they hadn't asked for it. She would wait\nit out here with the crowd that was gathering to witness two legendary\ncreatures locked horn to horn in the middle of their town. They hardly noticed\nHuntchy. He had often been seen drunk in the streets. That was hardly special. In\ntheir heads, the two unicorns met in a clash. She was unprepared for the power\nof his mind, which on the outside seemed rather dull. Inside his head it was\nall light and fire and blackest cosmos. She saw visions of things that made no\nsense to her. Here and there were snippets of turtles and tigers and foxes and\nwhores and kings and queens and... She was nearly catatonic within the first ten\nseconds of their connection.  Jon-Tom\ncouldn't stop the rush of information flowing into her head. He recognized\nright away the danger this much data might pose for her brain. He mentally\nwrapped himself around her kernel personality core and shielded her until she\ncould get up to speed. She immediately\nresponded. \"Oh my stars above! This is like falling forever into a bottomless\npit. How can you live with a mind like this? Any longer adrift and I would have\nlost my own!\" She\ncould feel his gentle humor. \"I've done a lot, seen a lot, and expanded myself\nwell beyond what nature intended. You were correct in understanding that my\nwife changed me to this form, but what you don't know is that it was once mine\nto inhabit.\" He showed her Dhoov Capell, Lorissa and Fairy Hooves, his son\nRundain and how his help had salvaged a mare's life and had restored the\nfamily's place in their community. She also saw how he nearly lost his life\nbringing two unicorns back into the world of the living. But what she got stuck\non were the tender and the not so tender sexual trysts he had had. She latched\nonto them like they were her own, and added them to her memories. Maarteel was\ngreat, but they had both been dragons. Her life before the war was one of study\nand magical practice. She had had no time to look for a suitable mate at that\ntime. This human may be an inferior species, but he was superior to anyone she\nhad ever met. She\nbegan absorbing some of his other memories, including his dalliance with the\nplanet's life force, someone he referred to as Eve. It was through her that he\nwas here. And again, more sexual exploits passed to her. The more his life\npassed before her, the more she was impressed with him. In real time, he was\nnearly as old as she was. There were very few who lived than long naturally.\nHis was by necessity artificially extended, as was hers. The two of them had a\nlot in common! The\nmemories continued to flow. By the time it was over, she felt as though she had\nlived her entire life with him. He halted when it came to his present life, but\nit was such a brief burp in time that it hardly mattered. He was presently the\nmost powerful being on the planet. The fact that his wife held much of his\npower meant nothing. He could still perform more magic than the entire combined\nwizards of the time. And all he was doing was sitting in a seat of mock\nauthority, overseeing daily problems from unappreciative folk. True, magic had\ncome into play, but even that, while minor, had produced impressive results. A flash\nof light penetrated her brain. She fought against it momentarily before coming\nto the realization that it was daylight entering her eyes. He had broken the\nconnection. She looked around at the crowd that had gathered while they were\nlinked. There was a lot of whispering going on. She felt like she needed to go\nto the bathroom. Worse, she might have done it while she was under, for she\ncould feel the wetness running down her backside. Then she noticed the\ntrembling in her legs. She must have had an orgasm while she was viewing his\nmemories. With a tinge on embarrassment, she noticed too that she was winking\nstill. It was hardly the behavior of a lady. Jon-Tom\nnudged his wife. \"You could have moved us to another location you know. I had\nno idea she was going to react this way. Seems to me she has a lot of pent up\nneed fighting to find its way out. She really needs it bad.\" His\nwife didn't once look up at him. \"What does she need bad?\" Her eyes were\nwatching Alma. He\ncleared his throat. She wasn't getting his meaning. He leaned into her right\near. \"I mean she needs to get laid something terrible. You know; a big cock\nrammed up her...\" She whipped around to glare at him. \"And I\nsuppose you know just the fellow?\" He was\nlooking at Huntchy, who suddenly looked very much afraid. \"Don't look at me! I\nthink she's the most wonderful thing in the world, but the thought of mating\nwith her terrifies me. Besides, I'm already in love with someone else.\" That\nwas a bit of news. Even Alma found it touching. \"Oh\ngoody! I adore love stories. Who's the lucky mare? Huntchy\nlooked like he had eaten sour hay. \"It's not that simple. Some of you already\nknow part of my story, and I have no intention of discussing it out in the open\nso everyone can hear it. If you must know, I'll tell it in private. My place or\nyours?\" Jon-Tom\nfigured the horse's house was better suited for equines, since there were now\nthree. But even as he thought this, his wife turned into the prettiest little\nunicorn mare, not quite as beautiful as Alma, but nearly equal in her own\nright. She spoke up first. \"Since we're all now on four legs, I think Huntchy's\nhouse will accommodate us better. Alma may have tapped into my husband's brain,\nbut I feel there is still a lot that needs to be out in the open. I'm sure\nHuntchy won't mind.\" She looked at him and batted her eyes. He\ngulped, eyeing the two beauties standing before him. One was the wife of his\nnew friend, and the other was unattached, but obviously taken in with his\nfriend. Right now he wanted to run away and hide. He was fighting down an\nerection as it was, and the two females weren't the only cause of it. It was\nfrightfully embarrassing. But what choice did he have? \"Please follow me,\" he\nmanaged to sputter out. They\nwalked on in silence, leaving behind a crowd of bemused bystanders. Some shook\ntheir heads, others muttered, but all knew that life in town was not going to\nbe dull for a long time. There was more going on in the mayor's hall than there\nwas in the wizard's guild. Heck, every wizard charged for their services, but\nthese folks threw magic around like it was commonplace. The wiser ones in the\ngroup were nervous, for anyone who treated magic like it was nothing were folks\nto be fearful of. On the other hand, their present efforts seemed on the side\nof good. As long as it remained there, they would be content.  The\nquartet reached their destination and made their way into the spacious room\nJon-Tom had recently vacated. It was sparsely furnished still, but more than\nadequate for the present need of privacy. Alma turned on him, and without any\nreservation, asked point blank, \"Well my unadorned cousin; tell me about your\nlove. Was she as cute and sexy as me?\" Huntchy\nchoked a little before answering. \"Kako was the sweetest little thing in the\nworld to me. She may not have been a unicorn, but she was still lovely to my\neyes. However, she was only half my problem.\" Sybeele\nspoke up. \"Kako? I never met her. The girls at school talked about her a lot. I\nguess she was very nice, pretty and super smart. Are you saying you were the\nreason she left the school and went back home?\" \"Me? It\ndepends on how you approach the subject. She was the reason I quit teaching at the\nschool. You know the rule. Students aren't to be exposed to sexual conduct with\nanyone while they're learning. It's compounded when the one you're caught\nhaving sex with is your teacher. Of course, her sire and dam didn't mind. They\nhappened to like me. But the rules are the rules, and rather than cause trouble\nfor her, I left the school and she left town. And there is where the matter\nstands.\"  Alma\nshook her head. \"Rules are good. It was that very rule that kept me from having\na relationship while I learned magic. It was only after I transformed that I\nfound the rule didn't really matter. As a dragon, what kind of punishment are\nthey going to give you?\" She then looked to Huntchy. \"You said Kako was only\nhalf your problem. Might I ask what the other half was?\" He\nlooked a bit sheepish. \"Kako had a nearly identical twin. The two of them were\nso much alike it was incredible. I had the bad fortune of falling for both of\nthem. Falling for one student is bad enough, much less two. The family\nunderstood, as both siblings felt the same way towards me. But I felt the\nguilds would never forgive such dalliance, and I broke all contact with the\ntwins.\" Sybeele\nwas standing there with a thoughtful look on her face. \"Kako did have a twin.\nKalos.\" Her eyes widened a little. \"Are you telling me you loved them both?\" He\nnodded. She\nshook her head in wonder. \"You picked two taboos to broach you lascivious scoundrel.\nNo wonder everyone had a fit.\" Alma and Jon-Tom were left to wonder what was\ngoing on. She filled them in. \"You see Kako and Kalos were twins from Othralo,\na place not all that far from here. Both were very intelligent, both were very attractive\nand both left after this \"scandal\" broke. I never met them, but the word around\nthe school was they were both eye turners. Kako turned even the most jaded\nmaster's head, and the girls all fawned over the other. Kalos, you see, was a\nyoung stallion.\" Hutchy\nclosed his eyes in shame. Jon-Tom thought about it a moment. He had never\nreally felt much in the way of any homosexual stirrings, but he never judged\nthose who did. He had even engaged in behavior probably considered worse in\nthis day and age; he had sex with most of his kids, including one male cub. The\nmore he thought about it, the more he recalled how much anal sex he had engaged\nin. True, they were mostly female, but one tight hole was about the same as\nanother, male or female. \"So, you fell in love with two sides of one coin;\ntwins of opposing sexes. If they didn't mind, and their parents didn't mind,\nwhat stopped you from forming a permanent relationship?\" Huntchy\nstood up tall, his eyes blazing. \"Those damn guild masters threatened to have a\ngelding spell placed on me if I went through with it. It was bad enough that I\nquit my teaching post, much less that I would lose whatever masculinity I had.\nSo I rebelled in the only way I knew how; by becoming a low life drunkard.\nEveryone in town knows at least part of the story. But then you came along and\nforced my hoof. Now I need to go through life alone and unhappy and sober!\" Jon-Tom\nwas succinct. \"Horseshit! I'm in charge in this town, and I have the power to\nback up my decree. So for one, I would have thought you would have realized\nthat the moment those two foals left the school, the rule no longer applied.\nAnd I am well aware of the fact that there is no rule on the town's books that\nprohibit either multiple spouses, or spouses of the same sex. And while I'm\nhere, there will be no such rule! Look me in the eye and tell me I don't mean\nit!\" Alma\ntittered. \"Believe him cousin. I've seen his mind, and while it may appear dim\non the outside, that's because he has to reign in an awful lot on the inside.If you take him as he is, a time traveler, then throughout all his years he is\nmarried to over two hundred females of all types. Just looking at those\nmemories got me off like I've never felt before. If he's giving you permission\nto marry, I'd not argue and instead make my way as fast as I could to Orthalo\nand get down on your knees and propose. Looking around this house, it looks to\nme like you have plenty of room for a few extras. Though I must say, your taste\nin decorations needs to be refined. She was\nreferring to the shark's teeth, which were still in a pile on the floor. \"That's\nmy doing,\" replied Jon-Tom. \"They came from one of my meals. Everyone seemed to\nwant them, so my best idea was to keep them safe until I could figure out what\nto do with them.\" She\nsniffed derisively. \"Who would want a bunch of shark teeth? Nasty sharp things\nthat are only good for killing! They're almost as bad as dragon teeth. Trust me;\nI'll not miss that body anytime soon. Now that I got my original back, I intend\nto make up for lost time!\" Sybeele\nfrowned a little. This unicorn seemed to have the hots for her husband. She\nwasn't angry. Heck, he had that effect on a lot of females. The question was,\nwould she allow him to dally with this equine hussy or not? She had already gone\nfar to be accommodating. How far would she have to go before her patience ran\nout?\" He must\nhave caught what she was thinking. \"Look dearest; I made a promise to be\nfaithful to only you. I have no intention of breaking it, no matter how\nfetching the female may be.\" What he wasn't saying was that in his present\nform, he could smell the hormones flowing off of Alma like a hot wind boiling\ndown the slopes of a volcano. It was taking his full effort to keep his loins\ncontained. Sybeele\nlooked at Alma. \"My husband is a fine fellow. What he says is true; he has\npromised to be faithful to me. But truth is not fact. So, that being said, I\nhereby grant him permission to spend one day with you. One day. After that, you\nwill need to find you fun somewhere else, with someone else.\" Both\nAlma and her husband looked at her, their jaws hanging and their mouths agape. \"Darling\nwife, what are you saying? If you think about it, I can just as easily have sex\nwith you as a unicorn and still not break my vow.\" \"Shut\nup, you idiot,\" she retorted. \"If you do as I say, you'll be at least faithful\nto my command. Do it. I know you'll enjoy it, and I know full well that she'll\nenjoy it. The only thing I ask is that you limit it to one day.\" Alma\nlooked thankful, but shocked. \"My lady, what you offer is very generous. I will\nbow to your husband's judgment. I will not do this if my fun comes at your\nexpense.\" Sybeele's\nlips curved up into a sad grin. \"Consider it an offering of goodwill. You've\nbeen in his mind, so you know more about him than I do. I give one this time to\nexperience what you never had the chance to do. After that, you must leave him\nalone. I trust him to do the same. He might as well have an affair he is aware\nof.\" The only one in the room who didn't seem to get the insinuation was Jon-Tom.\nHuntchy had inklings, and Alma picked up on it right away. They wisely kept\ntheir tongues inside their mouth. The\nmatter was thus settled. Huntchy would trot off to Othralo and propose to his\nloves, Sybeele would go back home and wait out her husband while he made this\npoor lost soul deliriously happy. And Alma, well, hopefully she would be able\nto walk come morning. Sybeele decided not to tell her some of her husband's\npropensities for the kinky. No point in spoiling the surprise for her. "}