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- On the Rocks, Part 8
- >You are Honey, a Good Fluffy who Raids for Mares, gives Good Special Hugs and always loves his friends.
- >Right now though, you’re not sure you love Tricks as much as before. He’s heavy, and keeps hugging you because he’s scared and has bad owies from where his fluff was torn away by the Bad Fluffies at the Park.
- >Tricks is a Friend, but you have to carry him and help roll Fluffy Mummas.
- >It’s tiring. And you have owies too.
- >It seems almost everyone in the Herd has owies. Everyone is whimpering or crying or limping.
- >Even No-Lips.
- >You always thought No-Lips was invincible. Him be Unbeatable Fluffy that scare the poopies out of any Fluffy who get on his bad side.
- >It make you scared to see him like this. Small. Beaten. Having to lean on other Fluffies just to limp back to Haven.
- >He always be invincible, make all Herd feel brave, feel like they Biggest Fluffies in Underground.
- >Just saying you are a part of No-Lips Herd gets you instant respect and Hugs from other Herds.
- >Beat the Bad Herd in the Park so badly, Bad Fluffies who tried to keep all the grasses to themselves ran away, and the Bad Herd broke up.
- >But why does it feel like your Herd lost that fight?
- >”Twicks sowwy. Twicks sowwy Honey haf cawwy Twicks.” Twicks sobs, burying his face in the fluff on the back of your neck.
- >”Twick no heavy. Honey no mind.” You murmur as you feel the tears start to touch your skin.
- >You feel bad for not loving Tricks so much a few moments ago.
- >Tricks is silly Fluffy who always playing games and being small, but he also Friend.
- >Always giving Hugs to sad Fluffies or doing hoof-walking-thing to make the Herd laugh when it not safe to go out to Overground.
- >Maybe it not so bad to carry Tricks for a few more minutes.
- >You are very glad that the New Way to Park not go past Metal Train Munstas. No be able to hold Tricks down if they come.
- >Remember how Tricks cried and cried and hit himself with his hooves, because he too small to hold Greenie down.
- >.........
- >You think you are strong enough to carry Tricks back to Haven.
- >Be Strong Fluffy for Friend.
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- >You are No-Name, Fluffy Pony who currently has terrible owies on your throat.
- >Meanie Bad Smarty Friend bit your throat, tore away all the fluff and lots of skin.
- >Blood keeps dripping down from the bite-marks and into your Fluff.
- >Little Foal keeps bumping you, telling you that “Fwiend No-Name is wobbly!”
- >Wed and Clover are arguing behind you. Both White Foals are trotting at Clover’s side, away from Wed, who is a meanie to them.
- >Tried to bite one when it asked for a Ride, because its legs were tired.
- >Need to have a talk with Wed when you get back to Haven. No do that to Foals, they cute, they Friends, they needed so Herd stay strong.
- >You would stop and give her a Hoof-Smack like Older Mares say, but you are worried if you don’t have four hooves on the ground right now, you might tip over and fall into the Bad Water. Then you be Dead No-Name, and not get to tell Wed she being a Meanie Fluffie.
- >But .... No-Lips say you not be No-Name long.
- >Says he give you proper Herd Name when the Herd gets back to Haven. Says you are very brave for fighting so hard, and that you saved a Fluffy Mumma, so you get to sleep in Papers again tonight.
- >You are so excited, you want to run back and get a proper name now, but your legs disagree, they want to fold up and sleep.
- >Looking at No-Lips, the way he is sandwiched between Bandit and Wumm-wumm, you think that maybe all of No-Lips wants to sleep.
- >”Stuupid fwuffie, Special Hugs no gud for yuu,” Wed is saying in a nasty voice. “... Dumb Fwuffie haf baybehs naow, no haf moar baybehs till baybehs eat gwasses. No-Name no gud wit yuu!”
- >”Special Hug nu just for baybehs, you is stupid fwuffie if yuu nu know dis.” Clover replies angrily, puffing out her cheeks and glaring at Wed.
- >Clover’s Foals whine and ask why ‘Meanie Fluffy’ is being mean to their Mumma.
- >”Wed, yuu stawp.” You grunt, staggering against Little Foal and making her squeak in protest. “No-Name wuv Cwover, No-Name be good Daddy to Foals. Yuu have Foals soon, I be good Daddy to yuu Foals too. No be Meanie Fluffie to Foals, pwease.”
- >”My Foals be bettah!” Wed snorts in disgust, aiming a kick at Clover, who snarls and bares her teeth.
- >”Wed stop being stupid Mare an’ learn pwace!” Bwun yells loudly, making several Fluffies around her squeak in alarm at the echoes. “Wed an’ Bwun be New Fwuffies, haf be nice to Hewd!”
- >”But Cwover is awld fwuffy! Miwk-Tings hang so low they tickle gwasses!” Wed protests, stopping to glare at her very-pregnant friend and causing several Fluffies to bump past her and give her dirty looks.
- >”Bwun’s Miwk-Tings hang so low they drag on gwasses,” Bwun points out, rolling her eyes as two Stallions grunt and strain to push her onwards. “... but Bwun onwy two weeks owder dan Wed. Wed is Stupid Fwuffy, Stallions have many Mares, make many Foals, Hewd stay stwong dat way. Now be nice to Cwover’s Foals or I no Hug you again.”
- >That seemed to sort Wed’s problem with Clover’s Foals, at least for the time being. The last time you saw a Fluffy cry like that was when Zodd gave Bad Special Hugs to a Foal in front of its Mumma.
- >Clover was a little uneasy, but agreed when Wed begged pitifully to have the Foals ride on her back.
- >Also it was slowing Herd down, and Wed was either going to get the foals or get bucked into the water, and the Herd needs all the Mares it can get.
- >It seems like forever, but the Herd finally reaches Haven.
- >Everyone is sighing in relief.
- >Whatever Munsta knocked over the Fluffy Markers didn’t come this way, all the Markers are safe.
- >Drips and Stumbles are passed out in the middle of Haven, drooling and twitching.
- >You can smell the Black-Water smell coming off them, and the puddle in front of them, from the entrance to Haven.
- >Silly Fluffies drink Black-Water, no sleep, run around and around till they get dizzy, make sickies with their mouths and then pass out.
- >Gnaff shuffles down from Old Fluffy Corner, grinning with a piece of moss hanging out the side of his mouth.
- >He stops grinning when he gets close enough that even his old eyes can see the state everyone is in.
- >”No-Lips to Old Fluffy Corner, naow!” He demands, butting Bandit and Wumm-wumm in their hind-quarters to make them move faster. “Every Fluffy, get Foals to Papers, den lick each other.”
- >”We do that a’ready!” Somebody whines.
- >”Lick Owies, put awn Gween Wall, make Owies get smawwer!” He shouts back as the Old Fluffies, those that can move about, shuffle out and start to shout questions at Bandit, Wumm-wumm and No-Lips.
- >Guess you aren’t getting a new name anytime soon.
- >That’s okay, you are so tired.....
- >Tell Little Foal she is a very good Fluffy for helping you walk back to Haven.
- >Not make it to Papers, collapse just a few feet from it.
- >”No-Name!” Clover and Little Foal whimper, nuzzling you.
- >”No-Name ... tiwed. Weggies tiwed too, no can cawwy No-Name no moar.” You grunt, trying to crawl forwards but failing to do more than make yourself even more tired.
- >Wed shuffles past, looking nervously at you, and then at Bwun, who is slowly being rolled into the Papers by the Stallions.
- >Owies. Clover has grabbed your fluff and is rolling you over onto your side.
- >More owies as Little Foal starts to lick your sore neck, and then Clover helps.
- >It owies, but they trying to help, so you not complain much.
- >White Foals hug your head from behind and tell you that they love you, that they want you to play with them when you feel better.
- >You want to say something, but everything gets so heavy, and you can’t tell your eyes to stay open anymore.
- >”Pwease no weave me...” You hear somebody say, but you can’t tell who.
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- >You are Blue-Horn, and you couldn’t be happier.
- >No-Lips looks like he has so many Owies, a Foal could kill him right now.
- >Every Fluffy that went out has bite-marks on their faces and legs or blood on their Fluff.
- >See that wuss, No-Name, lying on the ground with Clover and foals around him, licking him and hugging him.
- >Almost every Stallion is in similar states.
- >No-Lips had to be carried in by Bandit and Wumm-Wumm!
- >Maybe you not need Not-Snake after all. Maybe No-Lips die during Dark-Cold time, and you not have to go near Bad Fluffy Pit after all.
- >Fluffies almost always try to hug something when they get scared.
- >If No-Lips stop being Smarty Friend and hugs you when he goes in, he drag you in.
- >No point in being Smarty Friend if Dragon eats you too.
- >Old Fluffies asleep when you got back, got Not-Snake out and hid it behind Wall between Haven and Bad Fluffy Pit.
- >Then took bag full of Moss back to Old Fluffies and fed them.
- >Be a Good Fluffy, make them like you. Good Fluffies would be welcome in Old Fluffy Corner, so you no have to explain to other Fluffies why you go to them with Bag.
- >If No-Lips die tonight, you take Not-Snake to Old Fluffy Corner, scare Old Fluffies and make their hearts go owies, and then tell Herd that Not-Snake killed Old Fluffies.
- >Then throw Not-Snake into Bad Fluffy Pit, after using it to scare the other Stallions and make them squeal and pee themselves.
- >Be Best Bravest Wonderful Smarty Friend. Be so Brave, every Mare want to be your Special Friend. Be Best Smarty Friend, so every Stallion do what you so so they can be Best Fluffies also.
- >Be so Wonderful, that no Fluffy ever try to question you or ask why you not do things way No-Lips did.
- >You would tell Earth Fluffies to go out and get food from Stinky Waters, follow them out when other Fluffies left behind are playing together and destroy Fluffy Markers so they get lost and die.
- >Make Pegasus Fluffy Stallions go to. Send them to Park and tell them to use Metal Train Munsta tunnels so they get Biggest Owies from the Munstas and never come back.
- >Keep Pegasus Fluffy Mares for Special Hugs when Unicorn Mares are Fluffy Mummas and no like Special Hugs.
- >So busy thinking of how happy Herd be when it only be Unicorns, you not hear Wittles sneak up on you.
- >”Blue-Horn! WISTEN TO WITTLES!” He yells in your ear, making you squeak and jump away.
- >”Wat Stuupid Fwuffie wan?” You demand, trying to stop your heart from being a meanie and pounding on the inside of your chest.
- >”No-Lips wan tawk to yuu, No-Lips say ‘imp-ort-ant’,” Wittles sounds out the new word, looking very concerned. “...says dat no can wait.”
- >”Blue-Horn go. Wittles no make loud noise in Blue-Horn’s ear again, or I gif owies.” You promise, making a spark leap from your horn to the cold stone floor near Wittle’s hoof.
- >Wittle doesn’t even blink.
- >”Wittles haf moar owies than have hooves to count, no scawed of Unicorn who weave Mare and Fwuffy Mummas to Rat-Munstas.”
- >Oh, that bastard! You think to yourself as you trot towards Old Fluffy Corner. Somebody is getting very close to the top of my ‘Get Rid Of’ list, Wittles, and guess who?
- >Smells of old cabbages in here! Phew!
- >No-Lips is lying on a ragged pillow, All-Mumma is licking the owies on No-Lip’s side, while Gnaff and Some-Legs work on the other side. One-Eye has his ear to No-Lip’s mouth, and is nodding slowly.
- >”One-Eye do, No-Lips, One-Eye pwomiss.” The Older Fluffy whispers and shuffles past you, giving you a small bump on the shoulder with his nose as you try to push past him. “No-Lips haf many Owies, need time to make them go ‘way.”
- >”Wat yuu wan’ Blue-Horn do den?” You demand angrily. You were summoned by No-Lips, not One-Eye and his ugly face!
- >”Nu make No-Lips move, he need to have sweepies,” One-Eye grunts as he squeezes past you, and you grimace as you feel the muscles on One-Eye at work.
- >He Old Fluffy, but he also one of No-Lips Friends before One-Eye get told to stay behind and guard Haven.
- >Gave many Owies for No-Lips before lost his eye, and always running around Haven, never just sitting still and talking like other Old Fluffies.
- >Him get the Not-Snake first, you decide, because One-Eye might try to be Smarty Friend after No-Lips die.
- >”Yuu come in naow.” All-Mumma whispers, her face all bloody from where she has been licking No-Lip’s cuts and scrapes clean.
- >Feel sad that All-Mumma have to go Dead too, but she also a Smarty Friend till No-Lips beat her in hoof-wrestling challenge and take her Herd.
- >”Wat No-Lips wan Blue-Horn do?” You ask with as much respect as you can force into your voice. Plan almost ready, no can make it fail now!
- >”B-blue-Horn mus ...” No-Lips stops to cough weakly, and you see a little bit of blood in his spit. “... mus work wit’ othah Fwuffies, get Nummies for Herd who too sick, who have too many Owies, to leave Haven.”
- >”Moar mawz.” You groan, rolling your eyes. You hate that terrible food.
- >”Mawz, yes, good for Fwuffies, wots of wawas, even if taste yikky.” No-Lips grunts, trying to stand up, but Gnaff and Some-Legs hold him down, babbling that No-Lips must rest, must heal.
- >”Dat awl?” You try to keep the contempt out of your voice. You know what happens when the Herd has a fight, the Mares are led by a handful of Stallions to the Under-Lake to gather Moss and bring it back to Haven for Fluffies to eat, or to be put against Fluffy-Owies.
- >”Nuuuu. Blue-Horn take Stallions to surface an’ Raid Hooman Nummies.” No-Lips whispers, and you feel the blood run cold in your veins.
- >Oh Giant Steaming Piles of Fresh Hot Poopies.
- >Hooman Nummies Raids.
- >That be very dangerous. Herd only do that when Park Grass goes all yellow, and Under-Lake dries up.
- >Only happens sometimes, but it happens. Been on Hooman Nummies Raids three times, three times you thought you going to get the Biggest Owies.
- >Most of the time, the Herd just sits in Haven and hugs each other and try to ignore the pain in their tummies. Every Fluffy get so thin and weak, but it only take a few days, and then moss back in Under-Lake, and that help keep Fluffies alive till Park is green again.
- >But with so many Mares, and only a dozen Stallions ... Maybe Bandit and Wumm-wumm and Stumbles and Drips be able to go. Other Fluffies are wusses and have too many Owies to go.
- >Have to store food in Fluff for long trip back, which makes Fluffies smell tasty to everything, including other Fluffies.
- >Have to scavenge food out of Big Metal Things, kick them over and steal the Hooman Nummies, which makes Big Scary Noises and make Hoomans wake up and hurt Fluffies.
- >Have to fight Dumb Herds who eat Hooman Nummies all the time, and are all soft in the head. Dumb Herds who eat Hooman Nummies all the time never want to eat Grass, never want to go Underground, never want to smell not-pretty even if it means they get Owies.
- >And Hoomans not leave enough food for all Fluffies, so it often turn into big Fight and then everyone tries to grab what they can and run away when Two-Leg Munstas or other Munstas come running for their share of the Hooman Nummies.
- >”Haf go now?” You whine, your tail drooping. This is the Worst. Thing. Ever!
- >PLAN IS COMPLETELY COVERED IN POOP NOW! How you scare No-Lips with Not-Snake if you out getting your Fluff pulled by Stupid Fluffies of Overworld?
- >”Nu naow.” No-Lips chuckles softly.
- >Oh Thank the Fluffy Gods.
- >”Not Dark-Cold time yet.”
- >...................
- >POOP!
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