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Lost in Translation

By: Atland on Feb 21st, 2014  |  syntax: None  |  size: 7.37 KB  |  hits: 11  |  expires: Never
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  1. Chapter 1 - The Kitchen Sink
  2.  
  3. >The crunching leaves underneath your shoes are the only accompanying soundtrack to your walk from work.
  4. >The shortcut leads through the park's beautiful boulevard, lined with the now golden-brown autumn-leafed trees.
  5. >As beautiful as it is though, seeing it for hundreds of times every day, morning and evening, makes it lose its charm.
  6. >Shifting your coat higher up your right shoulder with a shrug, and finding a better grip on your briefcase with your left hand, you sigh.
  7. >It's been like this your whole life.
  8. >And it's gonna be like this for the rest of it.
  9.  
  10. >Finally, you arrive at your destination.
  11. >A small cottage, near the outskirts of town.
  12. >It's a family home; many of your older generations have lived in it.
  13. >Unlocking the front door, you waste no time dragging yourself in and locking the door behind you.
  14. >The empty home creaks with your arrival.
  15. >You hang your coat on the coat hanger, place your shoes beside the door, and head upstairs.
  16. >As you climb the steps, you look to the wall along it.
  17. >Photos of the previous generations that lived in the home hang along the stairs.
  18. >All of them had big smiles, ranged from couples to 3 generations in one photo.
  19. >All except your photo.
  20. >There you are, putting on a fake smile, wearing your favourite suit, and sporting your signature hairstyle.
  21. >But it's just you in the photo, alone.
  22. >No other photo among your entire family collection had only one person in it...
  23. >You resort to think about something else while you prepare the bath and undress.
  24. >Squatting into the warm cleansing water, you scrub yourself down.
  25. *Thump*
  26. >Sighing in relaxation, you slide into a laying position, with your neck just above the water.
  27. *Thump*
  28. >You close your eyes and drift off into the comforts of sle-
  29. *BANG*
  30. "Oh for fuck's sake!"
  31. >You rise unceremoniously out of the now-lukewarm water filled bathtub and walk towards the open bathroom door fully naked.
  32. >No need for privacy or modesty in an empty house.
  33. "It came from the kitchen, I think...",
  34. >thinking aloud to yourself.
  35. >Hearing cutleries shift and plates move, you cautiosly approah the archway entrance to the kitchen.
  36. >Counting down from 3, you get ready to pounce on the intruder.
  37. >Take a deep breath
  38. >3...
  39. >Clench your fist in anticipation.
  40. >2...
  41. >Turn towards the door, and crouching ever so slightly, to ready a jump.
  42. >1...
  43. >Forcing your legs down, you launch your body right into the middle of the archway.
  44. >Aaand, nobody's there.
  45. >A slap of meat is heard.
  46. >Look down.
  47. >Your dick is swaying in the air, limp after hitting your thigh.
  48. "Oh that's right, I'm naked!"
  49. >Chuckling to yourself at >your freedums, you turn your back to the kitchen and proceed to-
  50. *Thump*
  51. >That came from under the sink!
  52. >If this was Hitman[spoiler]:Blood Money[/spoiler], and if you were an NPC, you would be on yellow alert now.
  53. >You hope this isn't really Hitman, and there isn't a bald albino dude in a suit under your sink, with a silverballer aimed right where your head is right now...
  54. >Nope, totally not Hitman.
  55. >Shaking your head at the thought, you approach the sink.
  56. >You bend down to face the doors under the sink.
  57. >Taking a deep breath, you reach for the doorknobs.
  58. >Sweat beads down your face.
  59. >Your breathing intensifies.
  60. >Your heartbeats overtake any other sound in the room.
  61. >Your hands shiver slightly at the increadibly slow pace you're taking to open a goddamn door.
  62. "What the fuck am I doing"
  63. >Swing the doors open to reveal...
  64. >A yellow shivering miniature pony with wings cowering in the back.
  65. >Sigh in relief.
  66. >Shut the door nonchalantly.
  67. "And I thought something weird was going on"
  68. >Wait a minute... a pony?
  69. >You throw open the doors again, elliciting a shaking, panicking response from the tiny yellow pony.
  70. >Must've wandered in from the woods or someshit.
  71. "Uh... hey there little guy, er, girl..?"
  72. >You extend an open palm at the pony, and all it does it whimper and curl up more into the corner.
  73. >Rising up from your crouched position, you sigh.
  74. >Memorising the shit you've learn in basic biology, you draw up a plan.
  75. >Animals like food.
  76. >Animals doesn't like humans.
  77. >Animals like humans when they give food.
  78. >Therefore... giving food to the pony is gonna make it like you!
  79. >Of course!
  80. >Giving your brain a pat on the back, you search the decades old cupboards for pet food.
  81. >Nope, not in these.
  82. >Nothing here.
  83. >Don't think ponies eat rat droppings.
  84. >Think, where could something that a pony can eat be around a house?
  85. >The shed, right!
  86. >You recall that in one of the photos, your great-grandfather tamed a wild horse that used to roam the forest.
  87. >Horse = pony, right?
  88. >Horses are big creatures, so naturally they'd be out in the shed.
  89. >Walk out to the back of the cottage.
  90. >Man, it's messy back here.
  91. >The grass is knee-high, wildly growing weeds and shrubs scattered around the place.
  92. >You realise since inheriting this place, you've never been to more than four rooms out of the twelve.
  93. >In fact, you've been to more rooms today than for the five years living here.
  94. >One day you'll make a map of this place.
  95. >But today is not that day.
  96. >What were you doing..?
  97. >Right, the pony.
  98. >Battling through the grass and vines, you reach the big doors of the make-shift stable.
  99. >The doors themselves are covered in layers of dead and live creepers and tree branches.
  100. >Using your sick gainz, you rip the bramble off and shove the door open.
  101. >Huge dust tornadoes wash over you, causing you to succumb to a coughing fit.
  102. >It's dark, damp and dusty in this damn d-room.
  103. >There's plenty of hay scattered all around, so you grab a fairly big haul back into the house.
  104. >It scratches the shit out of your chest.
  105. >Fucking wild animals... making you work and shit
  106. >A trail of hay and dusty footsprints follows you from the shed all the way back to the kitchen.
  107. >Carefully pile the hay on the floor beside the sink doors, and peer in.
  108. >It's still there, phew.
  109. >Grabbing a handful of straw, you gesture to the pony.
  110. "Here, little guy, have some delicious, er, years old straw".
  111. >It doesn't respond.
  112. >Something isn't right here.
  113. >Dropping the straw and moving closer to it, you try to coax it out of its place.
  114. >It doesn't seem to be reacting to your presence.
  115. >The little pony isn't moving at all.
  116. >In fact, you could say it might be... no!
  117. >Panicking, you dive your hands under the fragile thing and lift it out.
  118. >It's small, just slighly big enough to fill your cradled arms.
  119. >Put your ears to its chest and listen out for its lungs.
  120. >Oh thank goodness, it's still breathing, albeit shallowly.
  121. >Looking around for a place to put it, you decide to lay it on the living room couch.
  122. >It lays there, but you're not sure if it's sleeping or passed out.
  123. >You hope it's the former
  124. >Calming down from the surge of adrenaline, you take the oppurtunity to take a closer look at it.
  125. >It's not actually yellow, but more of a lighter shade.
  126. >Pink hair..?
  127. >Tramp stamp on the side of its butt.
  128. >Three pink and blue butterflies.
  129. >Eyes travelling downwards, your eyes spot something interesting.
  130. >It's a 'she'.
  131. >No boner, stop.
  132. >As you look down at your growing need, a waterfall of dust drops.
  133. >All that adventuring, while you were as naked as the day you were born...
  134. >Go to the bathroom and check the damages.
  135. >Your hair is full of cobwebs, chest red from scratches, hay stuck between your buttcheeks.
  136. >Eeeh, you can take a shower again.
  137. >But for now, you've got a pony to care for.
  138.  
  139. END