Fallout Equestria: Wasteland's Beauty.

by D1scordant

Two

Chapter two
Can I help you stranger?

I was standing outside the stable and for the first time in my life, I felt real rain falling on my body. Honestly, I didn’t really like it, it was kind of cold.

I glanced around at my surroundings. There wasn’t much to see, other than barren hills rolling under a dull grey sky. Off in the distance, I could make out the vague shape of an old city.

My two saviors were standing nearby. One was a sky blue unicorn mare wearing a green dress. She had a ivory mane with a bright red bow in it. I could tell she was several years older than me.

The other was a grey earth pony buck. On top of his olive mane sat a dark brown desperado hat. He also wore a vest with a minigun mounted on one side.

The mare walked over next to me, glancing down.

“ What’s your name?”

“Does it matter? It’s not like I have anything to live for.” I replied rudely.

“ Look, darling, I know how you feel...”

“ How could you know how I feel?” I interrupted, tears filling my eyes,” I lost everything! My home, my friends, my-my family! I have nothing left! How the hell could you know how I feel!?”

She sighed.

“I was kidnaped from my home as a filly by slavers. They put me through hell, especially since I was a unicorn. The unspeakable things they did to me...”

Tears started coming to her eyes.

“...I wanted to kill myself, and I tried too, many, many times, but they kept stopping me, they said they needed me.Trust me when I say, I know how you feel.”

The blue mare glanced at me again, smiling slightly.

“But things gets better, they always gets better, you see,”

She paused.

“This world has two sides, one is joy, the other is pain, both can be equally beautiful. that was a lesson learned from another filly I met in my hell.”

I wiped my tears off, and gave her a weak grin. Her telling me about her own pain had helped me somehow.

“Thanks, my name is Diamond Sky, by the way.”

“Winter Darling, it’s nice to meet you,Diamond” She said smiling. “Though I wish we could have met under better circumstances.”

She glanced toward the large buck. He turned and smiled warmly.

“And that is my quiet friend, Chip Boulder. Be a darling and say hello, Boulder.”

He then looked towards me smiling

“It’s nice to make yer acquaintance, miss Diamon’.”

I glanced back at the small barely standing shed camouflaging the entrance to my former home, then towards Chip.

“Why did you two stop here?” I asked, curiously.

Winter looked over at me

“What was that, darling?”

“I was just wondering why you two decided to stop here?”

She chuckled.

“It was raining acid, my umbrella spell doesn’t last that long in those conditions.

My jaw dropped. It rained acid out here, how did anypony survive in this wasteland?

“It was... Raining... Acid!?”

Chip turned towards me

“Eeyup. tends to do that in these parts.”

He glanced back at Winter.

“ I guess it’s a good thing ya didn’t listen to mah warning, though, Winter.”

We walked into the shed. The white maned mare turned glanced at me.

“My, you look utterly exhausted, diamond.”

I yawned and nodded. I was tired. The one thing I wanted To do right now was sleep.

“ Boulder, could you please go into the stable and try to find some bedding? Diamond needs some rest before we head towards New Appleoosa. And I would hate to have her sleep on the dirt.”

“Eeyup.”

After about ten minutes the large buck returned carrying three mattresses and enough bedding for each. We both gave him a slightly shocked look

“Ah thought we should all get some rest. Me an’ Winter here ain’t stopped walking since this mornin’.”

Once we had set up the beds, I laid down. I was so tired, but I didn’t know if I could trust these two ponies. I mean they seemed nice enough, but how did I know if they wouldn’t kill me in my sleep? After all, the first two outsiders I met where homicidal maniacs. I’d be sleeping with one eye open tonight.

Comments

[Liqwidice]

Short chapters with frequent updates sounds good to me.... Keep up the good work and lets see where this ride takes us....

[Noakwolf]

I'll have to read chapter 2 when I get the chance, I might even mention this in DJ-Noakwolf.