Chapter three: Button Mash meets Ben Drowned
In Ponyville, a young colt named Button Mash was playing a game. And when he made the an epic fail on it, causing him to lose the game, he said to himself, "How did I lose?"
"You actually shouldn't have done that," a voice said from out of nowhere to the little colt as he turned around to see a tall figure with yellow hair and was wearing a green hat and shirt and brown pants. The figure's eyes were black as the night with small red irises and was dripping blood down his face. "Hello there," he said to Button Mash.
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The little colt back away a little in fright when he saw those eyes of his. "Um... Hi," was all that Button Mash could say to the figure.
"You don't have to be scared of me, I won't hurt you," the figure said to him, "You must be the one called Button Mash."
"W-who are you?" the little colt asked him.
"They call me Ben Drowned, but you can call me Ben if you want," the figure replied.
"Well... It's nice to meet you Ben," Button Mash said shaking Ben's hand as he felt the coldness of his hand, "You're hands are really cold."
"Oh, yeah, I have been living outside a lot," Ben said as he let go of Button Mash's hoof, "Anyways, I see you like to play games."
"Yep, I sure do," the little colt said to him, "You wanna play a game with me?"
Ben thought for a moment before replying to the little colt, "Sure, I'm down with that, do you have chess?"
"Yeah, I do," Button Mash replied to Ben's question as he pulled out his chess game from his bed and placed it on his table, You want to be white or black?"
"I'll choose black," Ben said as they placed their pieces in their proper spots, "I'll let you go first Button."
"Okay," the little colt said as he moved one of his pawns by two spaces, "You're move Ben."
'Let's see,' Ben thought to himself as he moved one of his knights to his left, "You're move." Button thought for a moment before he moved one of his pawns in front of Ben's knight. "Interesting move," Ben said to the little colt.
"I'am to please," Button Mash stated, "So tell me about yourself."
"Well... When I was a bit younger, I had died in a drowning accident," Ben explained to the little colt, "But my ghost was able to curse my game Legend of Zelda and take the form of a freaky Link statue."
"I'm really sorry to hear about that drowning accident of your's Ben," Button said.
"It's fine," Ben assured the little colt as he moved a pawn by two pieces.
"Okay then Ben."
A few minutes later...
The two of them went on playing chess for the next few minutes and Ben was on the verge of winning the game. "You're move Button," he said to young colt after moving his Queen towards Button's King.
'Uh oh, I'm in trouble,' the little colt thought to himself as he moved one of his last four remaining pawns to take out Ben's knight.
"Interesting move," Ben commented, "I admire that."
"Thank you for that Ben," Button thanked.
"Button!" the little colt's mother called to him, "It's time for lunch!"
"Okay mom," Button called to her, "Sorry Ben, I have lunch, maybe you like to meet my mother," he said to Ben.
"Sure, I would like to meet her," Ben said as they left their game where it was and went down stairs. They soon noticed Button's mother was standing in front of them.
"Button Mash, who is this?" she asked her son.
"My name is Ben Drowned ma'am," Ben greeted her using his golden hair to cover his bleeding eyes, "It is nice to meet you."
"It is nice to meet you too," Button's mother said to him as she turned to her son, "Button, how did he get inside our house?" she asked the little colt, "I don't remember letting him in."
"I don't know either mom," Button Mash replied to his mother, "He just appeared out of the shadows of my room."
"And your son is a good colt to be around," Ben cut in putting a hand on the little colt's head.
"Well thank you for that Ben," Button's mother said to him.
"Can he stay for lunch today mom?" Button asked her, "Please."
She couldn't just say no to her own son when he was using those puppy dog eyes of his. "Of course he can Button," she admitted as she, Button, and Ben when to the dinning room for lunch. All that they had for Ben to eat was apples, carrots, and apple juice for now, but Ben didn't mind at all.
As they were eating Ben was thinking about his friends back at his home, wondering if they were looking for him, but his thoughts were stopped when Button asked him, "I something wrong Ben?"
"Oh, I'm just thinking about my friends back at home," Ben replied to the little colt.
"You must miss them, don't you?" Button's mother asked him.
"Yeah I kinda do," Ben replied to her, "Most of them are good friends to me, but some of the others... not so much." Ben said nothing after that, thinking that he should keep his friend's names a secret for he didn't want to be kicked out of Button's house since they just became friends. Once lunch was done, Ben was about to leave.
But then Button said to him, "Come back again anytime Ben."
"I will Button Mash, I promise that," Ben said to the little colt as he left the house and a new friend as well. He was going to see Button Mash again. And he was determined to keep that promise too.
A few years later...
Button Mash was now a teenager and was also dating a young mare named Rose Heart.
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He was thinking about his marefriend, but yet at the same time he was also thinking about his old friend, Ben Drowned. "I hope your still out there Ben," he said to himself as he looked out the window of his bedroom.
All of a sudden, a familiar voice said to the teenage colt, "I'am here Button Mash." Button Mash turned around to see Ben was there, standing in the shadows of his own bedroom.
"Ben?" Button exclaimed in surprise, "Is that really you?"
"Yes, Button Mash," Ben replied to him, "It is me."
All that Button did was hug him before saying to Ben, "I thought I would never see you again and you haven't changed at all as well."
"But you have, my old friend," Ben said to him, "It's so good to see you again." They soon began to catch up on old times, playing games like chess and checkers, and Button even introduced him to Rose Heart, but it actually took awhile for his marefriend to get used to Ben.
End of the chapter...