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- Ol_Dirty, April 13, 2012 / PB 166322
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- >You are the unicorn leader of a herd feral fluffy ponies
- >In order to survive the coming winter, you decided to follow a domesticated fluffy named Wiggly and to live in his human home
- >Wiggly is now dead by your horn
- >In killing him, you liberated him from the indignity of living as a pet to a human and saved your people from becoming like him
- >Wether intentionally or not, Wiggly would have found a way to rot the herds' brains and turn them into stupid weaklings
- >The others don't even notice he is gone, except for your friend and advisor Rustle
- >But Rustle knows better than to bring him up in conversation
- >To the rest of the herd, there never was a Wiggly
- >In the two weeks you've been living in your new home, there's been no sign of humans
- >Maybe a bear really did maul Wiggly's owner to death
- >You can just imagine it: a wicked human dead in the paws of a raging grizzly bear
- >The mental image is glorious
- >You should totally draw it on the "story wall"
- >You found some crayons in the house
- >The herd uses them to draw pictures of your journey on what you call the "story wall"
- >There's no Wiggly there
- >It better stay that way
- >As much as you hate humans, you follow some of Wiggly's "daddy's" rules
- >Such as no shitting around the house, except in the litter box
- >There's also the "every other fluffy poops outside" rule
- >It not only keeps the litter box from filing up too often, but it also keeps the herd from growing too used to the "comforts" of living in a human house
- >You have a similar rule for sleeping on couches and beds
- >Like a good leader should, you follow all of your own rules
- >You also found a way to use the sorry stick
- >What you did is you had the stick propped up against the kitchen table with the bristled end pointing down
- >Atop the kitchen table is where you "judged" the bad fluffies from
- >If they were found guilty, you just tipped the sorry stick over and let it come crashing down on their head
- >You had to stop this practice after cracking open the skull of a foal who shat on the floor
- >Now you just smack bad fluffies on the head like you used to
- >All in all, the 26 of you who are left have lived a good life for the past two weeks
- >What the hell? That's not the kind of thought you should be having!
- >You shake your head to snap out of it
- >Gotta watch yourself, you're starting to get too comfortable with this new way of life
- >Yet you can't for the life of you remember how you survived past winters...
- >As you're lying down on the table of the upstairs office, the brown unicorn Hayseed approaches you
- >"Smawty Fwiend, can fwuffies ea' tube food now?" he asks
- >You've been over this a hundred times
- >"No. Metaw tube human food is no good fow fwuwwies, make you go dumb" you say sternly
- >Hayseed turns and leaves, hanging his head in dissapointment
- >You look out the window to see the weather
- >You're not too far into winter yet, the stream where you dumped Wiggly's body has frozen but there's no snow to be seen yet
- >The herd has already eaten a whole lot of food
- >Hopefully it'll last, you don't wanna have to resort to eating the food in the cans out of fear of becoming a dumb pet pony
- >From the window you see members of your herd playing outside, running in circles, hugging each other, digging in the mud and such
- >Wait a minute...
- >Digging?
- >Digging...
- >OH SHIT!
- >Suddenly you remember
- >You remember how you survived winter before: digging!
- >You dug a hole and hid a big bunch of nuts and berries inside so you'd have food throughout the winter
- >You did so this year too
- >How the fuck did forget that?
- >How *could* you forget that?
- >Were you always this dumb?
- >Has this place changed you?
- >Or were you just so wrongfully optimistic of the prospect of living in a human house that you forgot?
- >You're the smarty friend, this can't happen to you!
- >You're panicking
- >You're turning into a dumbass!
- >Gotta get that food out of the ground
- >You get up and start running
- >In your fearful state you trip and fall down the stairs
- >You stagger up and run into the kitchen
- >Do you send Rustle to retrieve the food?
- >No
- >Can't
- >Rustle's not as smart and strong as you, he could get hurt or lost
- >You have to do this yourself
- >Besides, you need to get out of here and get your head straight again
- >You need to work for your food, remind yourself of who you are
- >You take two pegasi with you, Sunbeam and Leafwing
- >You grab one of those plastic containers that are laying around, bags or whatever they're called, and get outta there
- >There's a cold breeze outside
- >Already you feel your head clearing
- >"Fwuffies go ge' food outta gwound" you exphin "Fowwow Waindancew, 'kay?"
- >The pegasi nod and you're off
- >You've never been this determined in your life
- >As you run, you look up and see snow
- >Winter
- >It's finally here
- >Fluffy God dammit!
- >You pick up the pace
- >You run faster than you ever have
- >7 miles per hour
- >You can hear your fluffy little heart beating in you chest
- >Sunbeam and Leafwing follow as best they can
- >You still remember the way came to the house
- >Can't afford to stop
- >Can't afford to get stuck
- >Can't afford to get lost
- >You run for what seems to you like hours
- >Finally you arrive at your destination
- >This is the field where you used to live
- >It's already covered in snow
- >Now where the fuck's that food?
- >WHERE THE FUCK IS IT?!
- >"Dig!"
- >Sunbeam and Leafwing comply
- >The three of you start randomly digging, scooping up snow and dirt with your hooves
- >This is taking too long
- >You start doubting yourself again
- >How could you have forgotten?
- >How could you be so stupid?
- >"Foun' food!" Sunbeam cries
- >You and Leafwing run over to him
- >That's a lotta nuts
- >Most look like they're still edible
- >"Good job, Sunbeam! Now ge' dem ou'!" you command
- >You open up the bag you took with you
- >Sunbeam and Leafwing start scooping the nuts and berries in with their muzzles
- >Your brain is full of self-doubt
- >No!
- >No time for that!
- >You help gather the food
- >Soon the bag is full
- >Leafwing grabs it in his mouth
- >"We go" you yell
- >You run back as fast as you came
- >Need to be more careful or thorn bushes might tear the bag open
- >Once you get back to the house, it's been two hours since you left
- >Leafwing struggles to get the fat bag of food through the pet door
- >Mission accomplished!
- > You're filled with pride knowing you're still you, knowing you're still in control
- >Sunbeam and Leafwing are panting from exhaustion
- >You triumphantly lead them to the kitchen...
- >Only to be greeted by a pile of dead fluffies
- >Fluffies lie motionless on the floor, on the table, on the chairs
- >You turn and look at the mini-river on the counter
- >It's running
- >Six fluffies have their heads stuck in the water gathered in the pool below it
- >Fluffy ponies drowned
- >There were 26 live fluffies in this house before you left
- >There are now 13
- >Some still live
- > The few who aren't in too much pain to move are crying their eyes out, trying to bring the dead ones back to life through lugging
- >What in Fluffy God's name happened here?
- >"Waindancew!" you hear a familiar voice cry out
- >Rustle runs up to you, completely unscathed
- >"Wha' happen to fwuffies?" you demand to know
- >"F-fwuffies weve h-hungwy! T-they e-ea' da human food!" Rustle struggles to speak, clearly in shock
- >"WAH!? WHY!? They know is no' fow dem!" you yell
- >"Fwuffies won' wisten to Wustwe! They jus' bang open tubes and ea'! Rustle says
- >There are battered tubes of human food all over the kitchen
- >The food gate is open, you look inside
- >There's still fresh food there, perfectly good for fluffies to eat
- >You take a look around the room
- >Every square inch of the kitchen is covered in either shit, piss, blood or that flithy human food
- >You see Hayseed lying in a corner, still alive
- >"Hayseed, why do dis?" you ask, your voice echoing with anger and dissapointment
- >"Smawty fwiend was no hewe, fwuffies fowge' wha' food to ea'..." he utters
- >They didn't remember not to eat the human food? Should have forseen that
- >"Pwease..." Hayseed continues "Human food so tasty... We fight othew fwuffy fow numnums..."
- >Human food? Tasty? This is un-fucking-acceptable!
- >"Human food so hot, need wotsa wata..."
- >That explains the ones who drowned
- >Look around
- >Rustle is trying his best to help the injured fluffies
- >Sunbeam and Leafwing are just hugging them, only making their pain worse
- >Hayseed manages to get up on his own
- >"Why smawty fwiend weave us?" he asks with unbecoming assertiveness
- >"Yeah! Why Waindancew weave hewd wike dis?" other fluffies are starting to get up as well
- >Their blaming you for their own stupidity?
- >The insolence of these idiots!
- >"Smawty fwiend is no smawt!" "Yeah! And smawty fwiend is no fwiend!" Sunbeam and Leafwing join in
- >What the fuck!?
- > They were out there with you!
- >"Waindancew is munsta!" "Waindance is wowst fwuffy!" the accusations are just piling on
- >"No! Waindancew is no munsta! Waindancew is bwave weadew! Hewd is weak and stupid wike-" you stop yourself from uttering "his" name
- >"Wike Wiggwy?" Hayseed finishes for you
- >How does he remember that name?
- >"We wemembew Wiggwy. Wiggwy weave cuz he know Waindancew was munsta!" Hayseed cries
- >"NO! Wiggwy die! Waindancew kiww him cuz he dumb and weak!" you yell
- >You lower your voice down to the "shut up or die" level
- >"You wemind me wot of him..."
- >Hayseed doesn't respond to your threats
- >None of the herd does
- >Rustle has yet to say a word
- >He doesn't know what to do
- >He would never stand against you
- >But he doesn't want to turn on the herd either
- >"Waindance weave now..." Hayseed says
- >You don't move a muscle
- >"Waindance weave!" the herd yells in unison
- >You don't need to take this shit!
- >You take a look at your opposition
- >Fluffies standing on three legs, foals trying and failing to put on brave faces, pregnant mares with distended stomachs
- >You can take them
- >"No. Make Waindancew weave..." you challenge
- >Most of them immediately start shaking and backing up
- >They didn't seem to expect your response
- >He charges at full speed
- >You step aside as he approaches
- >For a split second he wonders where you went before you bring your head down, crushing what you suspect to be the last one of his ribs
- > *CRACK*
- >Hayseed is out of the picture
- >Leafwing jumps up from behind you
- > *BUCK*
- >He is sent flying against the wall
- >His head stars bleeding profusely
- >Next please
- >Some earth pony you don't even recognise runs up
- >You stand up on your hindlegs
- > *THUD*
- >There's a sickening sound as you bring your forehooves down across his back, breaking his spinal cord
- >Instant death
- >No more ponies step up to you
- >Still high on adrenaline, you smack the nearest fluffy in the face
- >It's Sunbeam
- >He falls over, still alive
- >You're panting madly, like a beast
- >You jump on the table and turn to face the crowd
- >"NO FWUFFY QWESTONS SMAWTY FWIEND!! NO FWUFFY!!" you howl
- >The herd shakes in fear
- >You rage dies down
- >You look at the carnage you've wreaked
- >The crying of foals breaks the silence
- >Maybe you are a monster
- >Your own people will no longer accept your leadership
- >They won't even accept your friendship
- >They're as dumb as you feared they'd become
- >You can't bring yourself to killing them all, yet you can't stay and help
- >You jump off the table
- >The fluffies who are hugging the three new corpses quickly make way as you approach
- >You walk over Rustle
- >He is scared for his life
- >You put your forelegs around him for a final hug
- >"Waindancew sowwy fow evewythin'..." you whisper
- >"Waindancew?" Rustle whimpers
- >"Thank you Wustwe... Thank you and bye bye..." you let him go "Hewd is youws now..."
- >Rustle tries to speak
- >"Don' tawk, Wustwe. Pwease pwomise" you say "Don' dwaw dis on stowy waww. Pwease, we' dem fowge' me..."
- >Rustle stares at you in silence
- >"Wustwe pwomise. Thank you and bye bye, smawty fwiend..." Rustle is holding back tears
- >You nod at him
- >Saying no more, not even turning to look at the herd one more time, you leave
- >It's really cold outside
- >There's 6 inches of snow on the ground
- >You start walking toward your home field once more
- >Along the way, you contemplate all that's happened
- >Where did it all go wrong?
- >Who's to blame?
- >Regardless, your own people will no longer want to see you
- >You've failed as a leader
- >The long journey is complete
- >You sit in the snow in the middle of the field, looking around
- >This is the land your father, the great Windwhisker, ruled before you
- >The snow reminds you of your mother's white fluff
- >This is where your life began
- >And this will be where it ends
- >It rained the day you were born, it's what you were named for
- >And today it snows, it's somehow so poetic
- >You look up
- >The clouds form a majestic fluffy face in the sky
- >"Is tha'... Daddeh? Momma? Who... Fwuffy God?"
- >You blink and it's gone
- >The water has frozen over, you can't drown yourself
- >The snow will break your fall, you can't jump off a cliff
- >There's only one way
- >You stand on your hindlegs and use your forehooves to tear fluff off your body in large tufts
- >The pain is nothing to you
- >After bearing youself, you stay on your hindlegs
- >You utter a final prayer and close your eyes, giving up all resistance
- >You freeze to death within minutes
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