//------------------------------// // Seven // Story: Fallout Equestria: Wasteland's Beauty. // by D1scordant //------------------------------// Chapter Seven I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. We had slept in shifts that night to make sure no more slavers decided to show up. Luckily none did, so for the most part we’d slept pretty good. We were trotting towards a small town not too far from Las Pegasus, so at least we wouldn’t be too far from where we were headed afterwards. The small town was called Shady Dunes, and was run by a pony named Arrow Dash. The tan mare had told me that it was relatively peaceful and usually un bothered by raider or slavers. We had been walking for about an hour, when I saw dozens of massive monolithic spires shooting into the sky. I had seen my first sky scrapers. I stopped walking in awe, I didn’t know ponies, even unicorns, could build things that big. I was simply amazed. Then I looked down and saw a bunch of raiders, or slavers, couldn’t tell. Either way, has much blood as they had in their coats, I could tell they weren’t good ponies. “Guys,” I said pointing with my hoof,”We’ve got company.” I levitated my rifle and looked down the scope. I put the cross hairs on a red pony that had spotted us. I fired and a large red flower appeared on his head. Two more went down the same way. Chip’s minigun roared to life, slinging hundreds of rounds hot lead into the raiders, reducing them to mincemeat. Our Changeling friend fired a magical energy bolt from his horn. The bolt struck a raider, she turned black and crumbled to dust. The raiders were still coming. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We had taken out the raiders, Chip had been shot full of holes again, and had drunk our last healing potion. Winter informed me that we were running low on supplies. We would have to pick up more at Shady Dunes. We were walking again. I glanced at Chit “So you’re a Changeling?” He nodded “That means you can shape shift, right?” I asked. He nodded again “So I guess you want me to show off?” I nodded this time. The Changeling nickered, then there was a flash of green light and arcane fire, and I was walking next to myself. Me and Blaze chuckled. The orange filly was smiling, That made me feel warm inside. “Do me!” She said happily, “Please!” Chit grinned, it was the first I’d seen him do so. He then shape shifted to look like the filly. She sat down, laughing. It was really a heart warming scene, that little filly was in joy, despite the horrors she had to have been through. I even saw that Breeze was smiling. After a few more minutes of horsing around, we were back on the road. We had trotted over a hill , and at the bottom was Shady Dunes. I smiled towards Desert Blossom and her two daughters. Chit had turned into a generic pony, he explained it was so he wouldn’t get shot at by any freaked out ponies. That made sense. Most would probably think he was a demon or something. We walked up to a buck standing near the gate, he lit up when he saw the tan mare. “Desert Blossom, you’re OK!” He said smiling “Thanks to these four nice ponies.” She turned toward her girls, “Come on, let’s get you two washed up for dinner.” My stomach grumbled at the mention of dinner. I realized I hadn’t really eaten for two days, I was very hungry. She turned back towards me. “Y’all can stay at my inn, if you want”, She offered,” Free of charge.” “Thank you.” I replied. I started to enter the town, when the buck cleared his throat. “Sorry miss, you’ll have to holster your gun,” He said, “I dunno about you though, sir. Can you even get that thing off?” Chip started struggling with his battle saddle. It took him several tries, but he finally managed to get it off. We then entered the town of Shady Dunes. Chip leaned in close “Ah feel naked with out mah battle saddle.” I chuckled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was touring the town, trotting behind a young earth pony filly, named Holly Leaf. She had offered to give me a tour, I excepted the offer. But now I was regretting it, this little filly could talk anypony’s ears off. Not only that, but her tour, didn’t just show of the more important parts of town, took me to exciting locations, such as the large restroom building, or the random chunk of brick she broke her leg on once. But I humored the little girl. This town didn’t get many visitors, and anything I could do to make this girl’s day, was worth a few hours of torment to me. “Aaaand, this is the Desert Rose Inn,” She sad exuberantly,” This is where my big sister from another mother, Desert Blossom lives, it’s also where weary travelers spend their nights as they travel the wasteland. It was built a long time ago, so ponies could spend the night at the Las Pegasus wild life reserve, and look at all the animals that used to live there. I bet ponies loved this place!” She gasped for breath for few seconds, “ And that concludes the tour of Shady Dunes, have a nice day!” I sighed in relief, ”You too, Holly.” Walked into the inn follow by the hyperactive filly. my friends were already sitting in the lobby/dining area. Desert Blossom looked at me from the bar. “Looks like you met Holly.” “Yeah,” I sighed, ”I always like making kids happy, even if it kills me.” She chuckled. “Dinner’s in five minutes, by the way.” As I walked toward the the bath room, I noticed a lot of ponies walking into the inn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All of the towns adults were in the dinning room, sitting at the table, or on the floor, or where ever there was room. The foals had all been put to bed, and almost everypony had eaten a little too much. After all the pony that seemed to take care of everypony had made it home safely. A buck walked out of the kitchen, pushing a large cart full of alcoholic beverages. Ponies started cheering. The party had gone up a notch or two. After a few minutes everypony was getting drunk. I had never drunken alcohol before, but I liked it! It made me feel good. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I shambled up the stairs to my room. I was drunk as shit. Drunk and tired and happy and drunk. I bumped into the door then opened it. I then stumbled over to my bed and with an unceremonious flop, I plopped onto it. I hadn’t been laying there five minutes when somepony knocked on my door. “Who ish it?” I groaned, slurring the words. “It’s meh, Deshert Bosshen!” came the drunken reply. ”Can ah come in?” Before I could answer, the tan mare stumbled into my room “Diamon’, do ya wanna have shex?” “Huh?” “Do ya wanna make love?” I sobered a bit at that up at that. “No.” I replied. “why you no wanna have shex?” I said the first thing that popped into my head. “Cuz mah barn door doesn’t shwing dat way!” “Okey, Dokey, loki!” she replied, bouncing out the door. I laid back down and drifted off to sleep.