Freezing Dawn

by Necro Atom


Prologue Chapter 4: Sour Sweet

It was a bit foggy as I was walking down the street, not quite the slums of New Cantorlot but fuck the place was still pretty shitty. Most the cars in this area are old and broke down. Rounding a corner I see a group of ponies taking the wheels off a car. I look at some cinder blocks and come over, helping them get the blocks under the axle.

"Ah shit man, thanks. Here, take this." The pony tosses me 2 break pads to sell. A pony walks out of the barber shop. A large stallion. He looks at the car then at me and the 3 other stallions.

"The fuck you do to my ride!?" I am pretty sure I see a vein pop out of his forehead.

"Oh fuck, scram! Every pone for themselves!" I turn around and jump onto the hood of the car, tossing the break pads into my satchel and taking off across the road, hopping onto a parked SUV and then over a Barbed-wire fence of a enclosed Gas station. I climb up a ladder on the side of the building and look back. The pony is sitting in defeat, looking at his wheel-less car. I turn around and run across the roof of the Gas Station and hop over the fence, into the sewers on the other side. Walking down and looking around then going to one of the sewer tunnel. I pull it off and climb through then replace it. I head down the tunnel and make a left.

I enter my little heaven. A pipe control area or something. I set the satchel on my sleeping bag. I look at my mirror, brushing my mane a bit. Smiling a bit. Damn I look hot. I frown. Who you kiddin' girl. Sighing, I turn around and opens a minifridge. Pulling out a chocolate bar and eating it. Thinking about what I should do tomorrow. Oh wait, I got that date tomorrow! He won't go for me... Eh.. At least just until I can drink some of his blood... Eh... We'll see. I put half of the chocolate bar back in the fridge. Getting out some peanut butter and a spoon, licking the peanut butter off the spoon to fill up on protein. I sigh, looking around a bit.

Biting my lip a bit I reach into the satchel and pull out 4 black leather socks, putting them on and sitting against a wall. I start to rub myself, moaning a bit. My ears lowering as I breathe carefully. Rubbing myself a bit more. My leg twitches a bit. I look around for something to assist me in this wonderful action. I moan happily as I feel my self climax. Resting a bit then cleaning my sock and pulling it off. Tossing them into my satchel again. I.. Hear a strange noise coming from one of the tunnels. I follow along it and see a pipe near to bursting. I gasp a bit but it's too late, the pipe bursts, launching shit all over me.

"S-son of a bitch!" trembling a bit I carefully go to my satchel and take out a sheathed knife and belt. I put it around my waist and head out of my tunnel. My eye twitching a bit I go to the water and start to roll around it. Doing my best to clean the shit off of myself. Literally. I sit up in the water. Wet and cold. I look around. I forgot to take a towel. I must of been pissed. I mutter in high pitched, bat-pony squeaks and starts heading back to my tunnel. I stop dead into my tracks as 2 large stallions pull the grate off. Starting to climb through. Those guys are loan sharks. And... I totally owe them like... 2,000 bits. I start to slowly back up then spread my leathery wings and take off.

I start flying as fast as I can. Trying to stay low so the Sky Guard don't spot me and get suspicious. Looking around I notice I am in a newer part of town. A few ponies stop and stare at the wet bat-pony mare with a knife around her waist. I blink at them. Carefully making my way along like I don't notice anything is amiss. I then swing into a clothes shop. The pony behind the counter's eyes widen when he sees me.

"Hey I need like some clothes now." He looks at me, then seems to be looking over me for anything that holds money. "Err... I don't have any money on me." That seems to settle his decision. He straightens up a bit and looks at me. A stern look in his eyes.

"This isn't a charity. Get out." Damn. I frown and turn around, walking out of the shop and looking around. I fly across the street and look at a sign on the coffee shop. 'Free Coffee for the homeless.' Hey, I technically count as that. I don't have to pay any sort of rent so I am most likely homeless. I walk into the coffee shop. Making my way over to the counter.

"Err.. Hello. I heard you give coffee to the homeless." I'm not sure if the barista is just stoned or really tired. He is just kinda looking off into space. He blinks a few times.

"Oh hey. What'chu want? If it's sex it's the wrong place sweetheart." My brow furrows with that. If I didn't have self control I would smacked a bitch. Might still do it matter-fact.

"I want a coffee. Sweetheart. I'm homeless." The barista looks me up and down. Sizing me up.

"I believe it." Bastard. He starts making me some coffee. Giving me the cup. "Now fuck off please your stinking up my working environment." I don't even smell. I take the coffee and take a sip then turns around and heads out back onto the street. Looking around then heading over to a dumpster in an alley and leaning against it, taking another sip.

"Alright... There are two loan sharks at my home... They are clearly looking for me... And I don't even have any fucking clothes... I am wet, not in the good way, and cold. Fuck me..." I start to pace a bit, looking around. Unsure what to do. I drink another sip of coffee and walk out from the alley way, turning onto the side walk and I just start walking. Muttering to myself a bit as I do so. "What will these bastards do if they find me... Oh fucking hell.." I just walk, not really looking where I going. A pony i'm walking past, also homeless, gives me an old hoodie. Old black hoodie. I thank him and put it on.

I get pulled into an alley way, a clearly surprised look on my face. A stallion throws me onto the ground and I look up, grunting in pain. My eyes widen at the two stallions above me. The same two that broke into my 'home' a little while earlier.

"Where the fuck is our money you little slut." I look up at them, sprucing my lips a bit and thinking.

"Um... Give me another month." I say with a smile, trying to play it off. My nervousness is apparent. They look at each other, they both grab 2x4s and start beating the shit out of me. They drop the 2x4s. One pulling out a Machete and the other one just flexing his mechanical leg a bit. He punches me right in the face, I slide back about a foot with a cut on my face, I grab my face in pain.

"You said you'd have the fucking money bat! Now pay up, or we're taking your damned wings and selling those." My ears lower and I look up at them. Suddenly the one with the machete starts spazzing like a fucking maniac, i'm honestly not sure if he's having a seizure of something. The Stallion falls down and behind him is a... Rather sexy looking zebra. A modified stun-gun of sorts in his mouth. He is light grey with jet black stripes in the shape of lighting bolts. His muzzle is also black. His mane is a bit messy though in a pony tail. His legs fading to a nice jet black and with deep blue eyes. He's wearing a grey suit jacket with a black tie. He's leaning on the wall to the alley way like a badass by the time the Loan Shark turns around.

"You do know that is no way to treat a mare, right?" The zebra asks the stallion, a smug smile on his face. I swear I can see heat waves come off the stallion as he charges at the zebra.

"Shouldn't of done that you striped son of a bitch!" The zebra's eyes open a bit in surprise as the stallion slams into him. This Zebra's taser goes flying and lands on the ground, sliding towards me. I start to walk towards it but then I notice the fact that FUCK MY LEFT LEG FUCKING HURTS!! I look at it and see that it's bleeding. Some wood still in it. I put as little weight on it as possible, leaning down to pick up the taser in my mouth. A absolutely horrific scream sounds out that hurts my ears, forcing them to lower. I look up and see the Zebra rolling, standing up leaning against the wall. Clutching his side a bit. The pony clutching his balls. He gets ready to charge at the zebra again. I quickly pick up the taser in my mouth.

"Go to hell." I say quickly, firing right after 'hell' and hitting him in the side. The pony falls to the ground. Spazzing just like his friend. A dumb look on his face. I look over at the zebra staring at me. I drop his stun-gun onto my wing and shuffle my way carefully over to him. Giving him the taser. He takes it and puts it in a holster under his jacket. I speak in a very soft voice, the only voice that really wants to come out right now.

"Th-thank you sir. I... They would of taken my wings..." I could hear the fear in my own voice. As the adrenaline was disappearing I could feel the absolute fear of my wings being taken. The zebra shrugs a bit, smiling.

"Eh, what can I say. Save a bat-pony was on my bucket list." Even all the cockiness in his voice couldn't mask the pain. I glance at him clutching his side.

"Did he hurt you too much?" I was pretty concerned... This zebra is hot I don't want him to die. I grab his jacket and move it to the side. Underneath is a bandage wrapped around his body, blood stained with what... What looks like... "Wh-what happened? That... Looks like a bullet wound..." I can't help but stare at it, my ears lowering. He shoos my hoof away, letting the jacket fall back down.

"Y-yes it's a bullet wound. And yes, it hurts. No he didn't do much damage to me. I just had to roll out from under him and rolled on the wound. I'm Geskenk. But... You can call me Zap. What's your name?" He has an amazing voice. He sits down, grunting a bit in pain, he leans his head against the wall behind him with a sigh. I sit down in front of him. My forelegs blocking my currently wet marehood.

"M-my name is Sader Sweet... I... Can guess how you got the nickname Zap. With the.. Odd stripes and all..." I try to put it lightly but he just smiles at me, giving a light and pained chuckle.

"Quite the sweet talker, eh Sweet?" They way he asks the question and the look on his face I move my hooves a bit closer to my slightly quivering marehood. Blushing deeply and stuttering a little. His smile widens and he laughs a bit but I get the sense he isn't laughing at me. "I also got the Nick name Zap because my mother was electrocuted during her pregnancy with me but survived. Geskenk is actually Gift in Zebra." I... Actually didn't no that. He must of seen the surprise on my face and he looks out of the alley way, starting to get to his hooves. "I.. Have somewhere I need to be." His eyes look over the currently out-cold loan sharks then turns his beautiful eyes back to me. My tail covering my rear quite tightly. "Why don't you come with?"

"Y-yes please." I nod my head, a bit grateful actually. Then I put my hoof to my chin and I look up at Zap, who's a bit taller than me. "C-can you elaborate a bit on the.. Electrocutiony thing more on the way?" He nods slowly, starting to head out the alley.

"Sure, I can do that." I follow behind him, my tail between my legs still. We walk along the side walk and I catch up to him.

"Before I was born my... Mother was pregnant with me and getting groceries on the outskirts of a pollution zone. The warm areas. A huge storm started when the cold air blew in. It ended up being a huge thunderstorm and she was electrocuted but some how she survived. She was rushed to a hospital. When I was born I was... Well.. Alive. And I had these stripes. They named me Gift. Or... Geskenk. That's pretty much all that happened." I look at him, at a slight loss for words. We continue to talk with each other a bit on the way to what looks like the Air Docks of New Cantorlot. WIth airships n' shit. When we got there we saw a modified Solid Black Peterbilt 379. A black Drive-van behind it. A Griffin was doing something between the trailer and the truck sleeper. A pony mare waved us over.