//------------------------------// // Why Does Nature Hate Me? // Story: Not Just A Bug // by Bringiton6611 //------------------------------// On the outside, I'm perfectly calm. On the inside, I'm shitting myself. I'm sure you know why. If the leader of the guards around my camp in front of me is anything to go by. When the captain of the guard made no movement towards me, I raised a eyebrow. Okay, that's weird. What's going on? Doesn't he want to kick the shit out of me like he wanted to last time we were together? Then, without warning, blue flames surrounded the guard, and I drew my gun on instinct. Then, I remembered who's the only one with me that can do that. I lowered my gun and glared at Thorax as the blue flames of his died down. "What the hell is wrong with you!? I almost shot you! Again!" I yell at him in a whisper to avoid making to much noise. The real guards are one thing I don't need, and I'm sure Thorax will agree with me. "You said to transform if somepony came over here, so I did." He defended himself. "Into the leader!?" "It was the most I could do. I panicked when I heard you approaching." "...ok, I guess that makes sense. I'll give you a pass, but..." "But?" "I didn't see you when I was coming over here and I had I perfect view. How come I didn't see you then?" "I was the rock." He said like it was obvious. I gave him him a deadpan stare before I looked down. "Thorax, there's hundreds of rocks here." "It made the most sense at the time. Less chance of getting caught.... what's with the hat?" My head snapped back up at the mention of my recently acquired hat."nothing." "I di-" "Lets get out of here." I quickly said before moving over to him to let him on my back. He didn't protest as he climbed on. It's not like I wanted to snap at him, I feel kinda bad now. Wait, what? Where the hell did did that come from? I don't care for him... do I? Whatever, I just want to get as far away from this place as possible. But now that this place is gone. Where would I go? Where would WE go? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We walked well into the night without much success of finding a place to sleep. That is, until Thorax made a discovery that I had missed. Turns out that I had walked right by a cave in the side of a hill. After giving a short praise to Thorax for finding the cave, I walked up with him on my back. Speaking of which, walking around with a big bug pony thing on your back is a hell of a workout. Even when his leg heals I might just kelp doing this. I walked up to the entrance and set Thorax down beside of it. "I'm going to check out the cave." He gave a nod of his head and I walked in front of the hole. It was actually a semi small opening covers by a bunch of brush and plants, how Thorax saw it was beyond me,but it's a good thing that he did. Now we may have a place sleep. I drew my gun and walked inside. "Stay there." I called out to Thorax. "Its not like I'm going anywhere." "Remember what I said about being smart with me." I say in a low voice, but not so low to where he couldn't hear me. ... Good choice. I finally clear the entrance and get a good look at the inside. It's not that good space wise, but it would provide cover from the elem-HOLY SHIT WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!?! At first glance, it looked like a chicken, but then I saw the snake like body, and then I got to thinking "huh, maybe that's not a chicken after all." ( what gave you that idea?) Shut up brain. After the argument with my brain ended, I approached the creature. Like I said before, it's head was a normal white chicken head. Beak and all. But that's the only normal thing about it. The rest of its body was that of a snake with greenish scales. There were small feet right below the head of... oh shit. Its waking up. Nothing like this can possibly be friendly. Well, I say that and yet I have a changeling sitting outside...okay, Thorax is nothing like this thing, so I'll give him another pass. I put my pistol back in my waist band and I pull my rifle off of my back and slightly pull the bolt back as quietly as I can to check if I have a bullet in the chamber, which I did. Right when I brought my rifle up, the things head snapped up and looked directly at me with red eyes. At that moment, I'm pretty sure I shit myself. Again, right when I'm about to pull the trigger, my vision starts to blur, and then It feels as if my eyes have been lit on fire. I snap my eyes shut and let out a yell, and turn and run in the direction I think is the entrance. The problem is that I forgot I needed to duck and ended up smashing my head against the top of the entrance. "David?" Ok hear Thorax ask in alarm as I launch myself from the entrance holding my hands to my eyes and the new hole in my head. The pain is starting to become unbearable and I start to lose consciousness. The last thing I hear is Thorax screaming as the thing from the cave makes its appearance known to him as well.