- Chapter 1 - The Kitchen Sink
- >The crunching leaves underneath your shoes are the only accompanying soundtrack to your walk from work.
- >The shortcut leads through the park's beautiful boulevard, lined with the now golden-brown autumn-leafed trees.
- >As beautiful as it is though, seeing it for hundreds of times every day, morning and evening, makes it lose its charm.
- >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.
- >It's been like this your whole life.
- >And it's gonna be like this for the rest of it.
- >Finally, you arrive at your destination.
- >A small cottage, near the outskirts of town.
- >It's a family home; many of your older generations have lived in it.
- >Unlocking the front door, you waste no time dragging yourself in and locking the door behind you.
- >The empty home creaks with your arrival.
- >You hang your coat on the coat hanger, place your shoes beside the door, and head upstairs.
- >As you climb the steps, you look to the wall along it.
- >Photos of the previous generations that lived in the home hang along the stairs.
- >All of them had big smiles, ranged from couples to 3 generations in one photo.
- >All except your photo.
- >There you are, putting on a fake smile, wearing your favourite suit, and sporting your signature hairstyle.
- >But it's just you in the photo, alone.
- >No other photo among your entire family collection had only one person in it...
- >You resort to think about something else while you prepare the bath and undress.
- >Squatting into the warm cleansing water, you scrub yourself down.
- *Thump*
- >Sighing in relaxation, you slide into a laying position, with your neck just above the water.
- *Thump*
- >You close your eyes and drift off into the comforts of sle-
- *BANG*
- "Oh for fuck's sake!"
- >You rise unceremoniously out of the now-lukewarm water filled bathtub and walk towards the open bathroom door fully naked.
- >No need for privacy or modesty in an empty house.
- "It came from the kitchen, I think...",
- >thinking aloud to yourself.
- >Hearing cutleries shift and plates move, you cautiosly approah the archway entrance to the kitchen.
- >Counting down from 3, you get ready to pounce on the intruder.
- >Take a deep breath
- >3...
- >Clench your fist in anticipation.
- >2...
- >Turn towards the door, and crouching ever so slightly, to ready a jump.
- >1...
- >Forcing your legs down, you launch your body right into the middle of the archway.
- >Aaand, nobody's there.
- >A slap of meat is heard.
- >Look down.
- >Your dick is swaying in the air, limp after hitting your thigh.
- "Oh that's right, I'm naked!"
- >Chuckling to yourself at >your freedums, you turn your back to the kitchen and proceed to-
- *Thump*
- >That came from under the sink!
- >If this was Hitman[spoiler]:Blood Money[/spoiler], and if you were an NPC, you would be on yellow alert now.
- >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...
- >Nope, totally not Hitman.
- >Shaking your head at the thought, you approach the sink.
- >You bend down to face the doors under the sink.
- >Taking a deep breath, you reach for the doorknobs.
- >Sweat beads down your face.
- >Your breathing intensifies.
- >Your heartbeats overtake any other sound in the room.
- >Your hands shiver slightly at the increadibly slow pace you're taking to open a goddamn door.
- "What the fuck am I doing"
- >Swing the doors open to reveal...
- >A yellow shivering miniature pony with wings cowering in the back.
- >Sigh in relief.
- >Shut the door nonchalantly.
- "And I thought something weird was going on"
- >Wait a minute... a pony?
- >You throw open the doors again, elliciting a shaking, panicking response from the tiny yellow pony.
- >Must've wandered in from the woods or someshit.
- "Uh... hey there little guy, er, girl..?"
- >You extend an open palm at the pony, and all it does it whimper and curl up more into the corner.
- >Rising up from your crouched position, you sigh.
- >Memorising the shit you've learn in basic biology, you draw up a plan.
- >Animals like food.
- >Animals doesn't like humans.
- >Animals like humans when they give food.
- >Therefore... giving food to the pony is gonna make it like you!
- >Of course!
- >Giving your brain a pat on the back, you search the decades old cupboards for pet food.
- >Nope, not in these.
- >Nothing here.
- >Don't think ponies eat rat droppings.
- >Think, where could something that a pony can eat be around a house?
- >The shed, right!
- >You recall that in one of the photos, your great-grandfather tamed a wild horse that used to roam the forest.
- >Horse = pony, right?
- >Horses are big creatures, so naturally they'd be out in the shed.
- >Walk out to the back of the cottage.
- >Man, it's messy back here.
- >The grass is knee-high, wildly growing weeds and shrubs scattered around the place.
- >You realise since inheriting this place, you've never been to more than four rooms out of the twelve.
- >In fact, you've been to more rooms today than for the five years living here.
- >One day you'll make a map of this place.
- >But today is not that day.
- >What were you doing..?
- >Right, the pony.
- >Battling through the grass and vines, you reach the big doors of the make-shift stable.
- >The doors themselves are covered in layers of dead and live creepers and tree branches.
- >Using your sick gainz, you rip the bramble off and shove the door open.
- >Huge dust tornadoes wash over you, causing you to succumb to a coughing fit.
- >It's dark, damp and dusty in this damn d-room.
- >There's plenty of hay scattered all around, so you grab a fairly big haul back into the house.
- >It scratches the shit out of your chest.
- >Fucking wild animals... making you work and shit
- >A trail of hay and dusty footsprints follows you from the shed all the way back to the kitchen.
- >Carefully pile the hay on the floor beside the sink doors, and peer in.
- >It's still there, phew.
- >Grabbing a handful of straw, you gesture to the pony.
- "Here, little guy, have some delicious, er, years old straw".
- >It doesn't respond.
- >Something isn't right here.
- >Dropping the straw and moving closer to it, you try to coax it out of its place.
- >It doesn't seem to be reacting to your presence.
- >The little pony isn't moving at all.
- >In fact, you could say it might be... no!
- >Panicking, you dive your hands under the fragile thing and lift it out.
- >It's small, just slighly big enough to fill your cradled arms.
- >Put your ears to its chest and listen out for its lungs.
- >Oh thank goodness, it's still breathing, albeit shallowly.
- >Looking around for a place to put it, you decide to lay it on the living room couch.
- >It lays there, but you're not sure if it's sleeping or passed out.
- >You hope it's the former
- >Calming down from the surge of adrenaline, you take the oppurtunity to take a closer look at it.
- >It's not actually yellow, but more of a lighter shade.
- >Pink hair..?
- >Tramp stamp on the side of its butt.
- >Three pink and blue butterflies.
- >Eyes travelling downwards, your eyes spot something interesting.
- >It's a 'she'.
- >No boner, stop.
- >As you look down at your growing need, a waterfall of dust drops.
- >All that adventuring, while you were as naked as the day you were born...
- >Go to the bathroom and check the damages.
- >Your hair is full of cobwebs, chest red from scratches, hay stuck between your buttcheeks.
- >Eeeh, you can take a shower again.
- >But for now, you've got a pony to care for.
- END