Melancholia - Chapter 5: Melancholia Carnival Circus (Part 7: Pony Ride)

"Where is everybody? I can't find a single one of my friends," Judy muttered to herself.

"Alicia! Mary! James! Where are you?" she called out.

"No, I give up. I just can't rely on them anymore," she said to herself while walking to the arcade area, hoping to find Ben.

"Huh. Even Ben is not here. Where is everyone? All that is here is a merry-go-round," she said. "Oh well, I might as well take a ride on the merry-go-round to take my mind off of things for a while," she sighed.

She walked to the merry-go-round but couldn't find anyone there.

All she found was a control panel.

"Insert a dime to run. Choose time and speed to start."

"Time?" she thought. This was the first time she saw a merry-go-round that let you change the time.

"Oh, well, I have five dollars, so riding this won't do any harm."

"Hey, what does this lever do?" she asked herself after noticing a lever on the control panel. She looked closely and found the word "TRANSFORM" written above the lever.

"Might as well try this special feature out," she said as she pulled the lever down. "One ride will do." She set the timer to normal and put a dime into the coin slot. Then, she rode on one of the ponies and pressed the start button.

The merry-go-round started to spin and it played a song. "Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better, remember to let her into your heart, then you can start to make it better..." the song played.

"Hey, it's my favourite song!" exclaimed Judy. Soon, Judy started to sing along. "Hey Jude, don't be afraid. You were made to go out and get her, the minute  you let her under your skin, then you begin to make it better," she sang.

After about five minutes, the merry-go-round stopped, but the song continued on. Judy got off the pony but found herself walking around the merry-go-round while still singing the song.

Suddenly, Judy saw that her legs and pants had turned pink.

"What?" she cried out.

Soon, she felt that her shirt was merging together with her pants and becoming one. Then, her feet and hands started to change into hooves.

"What is happening to me?" she asked herself while looking at her hands, now completely turned into purple hooves.

She was shocked by her transformation. However, after a short while, she continued to sing the song, "Hey Jude, don't let me down. You have found her, now go and get her, remember to let her into your heart, then you can start to make it better."

In an instant, her merged clothes had turned pink and her face had too. Her clothes were expanding to cover her entire skin, not leaving a single part of it exposed. All of a sudden, she felt a weird feeling coming from her gluteus maximus. She turned around and saw that a strand of purple hair had grown out from her gluteus maximus. Also, her hair had turned purple.

Then, she lost her balance and fell down to stand on four legs. Up ahead, Judy, now a pink and purple pony, saw a pink light. In her mind, she was in a field, running with her friends, singing her favourite song while doing so. In the real world, she galloped towards the pink light and jumped towards it.

Suddenly, two poles came out and held her in place. As her body became stiffer, a saddle emerged on her back. Although she was turning into a merry-go-round pony, she just couldn't care. All that she thought was that she was in a marathon, running around in a never ending marathon. "But why," she thought to herself, "Why does it feel like we are running in circles?"

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