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// Da helpful Sapian 
// Story: Destitute: A nightmare of the Nothing 
// by The Psychopath 
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Mond's attempts to ask for the location of the two she saw in her dream provided nothing at all. Everytime she used politeness to call for someone, they would ignore her. She's always start with "Excuse me" or "Pardon me", but they never worked. The ponies and other creatures had better to do than respond to a stunning unicorn.

"Is there nopony with any courtesy or manners?" none of the passing characters replied. "Hmph. I guess they are all just impolite ruffians. Hm? What's going on over there?"

There was quite the commotion going further away, near some steps going to another portion of the city. Several ponies, griffons, and such creatures were surrounding whatever was going on. They were all chanting like barbarians. There was a fight going on, apparently. Mond forced her way through the crowd, but forgot to take her luggage with her. At the end of this living barricade, there, appeared two creatures. One, that Luna easily recognized, and another that she thought had died out when she was still a filly. A green minotaur with a buff physique and a whited out eye stood before a strange black creature. This black creature had a very pointed muzzle, making it almost canine-like. However, its arms were extremely huge and long, making its appearance similar to that of a gorilla, a very weird gorilla. These creatures weren't known for being slouched over and using their arms to walk, as, despite initial thoughts, their legs are actually quite long and capable of supporting the weight of their arms and allowing proper bipedal walking.

"You ruined my job, ya bastard!" the minotaur shouted with fury.

"Ehee. Too bad for you. My kind doesn't like your ways. We prefer to find our own way of living without taking from others. You are simply inferior." the creature constantly moved from side to side while smiling and mocking the minotaur, who spioutd smoke from his nose. "What's da matter. Can't take a joke?"

"You're getting it now!"

The minotaur charged towards the black creature, intended on impaling him with his horns. The creature simply laughed and jumped extremely high into the air, causing the charging minotaur to smash into a wall and get stuck there for a couple of seconds. When he was finally out, he looked up to see the creature winging on a cable and laughing.

"Get down from there and fight like a minotaur!"

"If you wish."

The creature swung more time, before throwing itself with tremendous strength at the minotaur. It turned itself into a spinning cannonball, that hit the bull with full force, tossing it far down the stairs and into the fountain in the middle of the pathway there. Everybody leaned forward to see the loser. Mond was impressed by how well these creatures fiught, but she still needed answers on how they still existed. However, as she was going to get back to her luggage, she saw a tall, bipedal figure in a black cowl grabbing it.

"Hey! My luggage! Let go of it. It isn't yours!" Mond shouted as she galopped towards the creature the creature who was now running away.

Despite the spells she cast, which were of pinpoint accuracy, the creature was able to avoid every shot even when it held the luggage under its arm. Unfortunately for Mond, her stamina wasn't as great as it used to be, so she found herself quickly out of breath, and quickly losing her thef, until said thief was smashed into the ground by the creature from earlier. Lots of smoke escaped into the air as they left their old home, which was now a crater. The creature grabbed Mond's luggage and walked clumsily towards the stunned are with a wide smile.

"Here you go."

"Uhh. Thank you very much."

"Just doing my job."

With that, the creature was about to leave by climbing one of the buildings and leaping somewhere wherever.

"Wait."

"Hm?"

"You wouldn't happen to be a Sapien, would you?"

The creature looked at Mond in surprise and turned back around to show a wide smile.

"I didn't think anybody remembered what my species was."

"I thought you had all died out."

"That was a millenia ago. Where were you? We were having trouble with suviving because of a certain incident some time ago, but we found a place unaffected and managed to regrow there. Sure, we have grown accustomed to the magics now, but there are still a few things we can't deal with."

"I also noticed that you aren't walking on your hindlegs. Why?"

"Oh. We sorta adapted to our new environnment, so we grew more accustomed into using our big hands for movement."

"I see. This reassures me."

"About what?"

"Nothing that isn't personal."

"I understand. So...you needed anything else?"

"Yes. I need some information. I'm looking for two particular individuals."

"Mhmm?"

"A diamond dog and a-"

"AH!" the sapien yelled as he threw his huge hands forward." You're looking for Furrows and Pencil Box."

"Huh?"

"A female diamond dog always chewing on a bone and a stallion with a strange cutie mark that noone recognizes?"

"Y-yes."

"Then I'll take you to where they live. As an added precaution, I'll stay with you. Their living quarters aren't exactly the best of Duchess."

"Okay. Where do we...put me down. No wait! AHHHH!"

The Sapien grabbed the unicorn mare and started to climb the closest building and began swinging and hopping about as nimbly as posible. Of course, the creature itself seemed perfectly at ease with this, but Mond was practically having a heart attack. When the big handed creature noticed this, he started laughing loudly and performed even more frightening acrobat techniques.

Finally, after a long trip across the city, the sapien landed with a large thud on the muck ridden ground, causing large splashes everywhere. Mond was dropped gently on the floor, where she lost balance and nearly fell every second. The creature found it easier to just hold the baggage and let the mare get back on her hooves.

"They're right there." the sapien pointed towwards two characters who were just fooling around, flicking at rocks to make them skid across the dirty water.

"Hold...hold on. Hmph! Oh. I'm going to hurl."

"Let me just do something that the sapiens learned during the days of peril. Just gotta put this suitcase thing down, stretch my fingers." the crack resonated like a powerful explosion through the slums."Place my middle finger on the left artery of your neck, then my pinkie here on your stomach, and, finally, I push on your chin. Hup!"

"OW! Ow....hey. That actually works!"

"It's great for hunger pains and sickness related to the stomach. It's a dangerous technique, though, as we push on vital areas. Why not go see them now and get to what you need to do?"

"Good idea."

Mond and her friend hopped over to the stallion and the diamond dog. For some reason, both the diamond dog and the sapien started to show some subtle signs of aggresion towards eachother.

"Hello there."

"Hm? Oh WOW! What's a gorgeous mare like you doing down here?"

"I've been looking for you and your-"

"Looking for me huh? Heheh." Box stood side-by-side to the mare and passed a leg over her neck. "I thought so. No mare can resist me. How about we go somewhere quiet and-HAGH!"

Mond punched the stallion with her forehoof so hard that his back literally bent upon impact of the stomach, forcing an "Ooogh" from the other nearby characters. He fell to the floor holding his broken stomach.

"Not for that, you lecher. I need you two to help me with something of utmost importance.."

"And what is that?" Furrows asked as her friend was currently incapacitated.

"This!"

Mond's horn grew with a powerful intensity and a bright white liht that engulfed her, the sapian, and the two chosen ones. They all found themselves within a white world. While, for the first time ever, Furrows dropped the bone in her mouth, Sapian didn't seem surprised at all.

"About time you got her you slow bitch." echoed a familiar voice.

"Oh...it's you." Monde complained as she lowered her head in irritation.




While many parts of a told would end here, there was still the matter of Destitute and the white changeling. While Destitute had actually stopped moving while in the middle of burning city as the sun began to set, the white changeling continued its way through the scorching Sorpian deserts. They were a very far-reaching portion of desert that crossed through the oceans and reached directly towards the southern portion of the Griffin kingdom and the Disirvian mountains. Why would it go so far away from Duchess? Because at a certain point in the desert, there's a close reach to the section of Equestria where the city is, and at the rate it was moving, it would be there at around the same time as Destitute, only, with a few hours of difference.

As the changeling walked through the desert that proved its reputation by being even hotter than the buffalo deserts, the ground began to rumble. You see, in the Sorpion deserts, there exists a close cousin to the one hundred meter tall Nyum-Bunet. They are called Geradins, and the only go so far in their "territory" before giving up a chase. 
As the sand mount grew, the white changeling stopped and continued to stare forward with no sentiment whatsoever. What was in front of it was a pretty big creature made of several different colored stones and compressed sand blocks. Around the wrists of its hands, both which possesed eight fingers, slowly rotated two black bracelets with straight threads boring into said wrists, slowly carving away what stone is left. It was very big, and its head demonstrated its rage and fury. Without hesitation, it immediately pounced on the invader.

The changeling looked like an ant compared to this being...a beng which, when it reached hal- a-hair distance from the unknown, found itself completely obliterated by some sort of invisible barriers protecting the white changeling. It had a miliar sound to exploding plasma erupting on an energy shield. Such a sound effect that would only be left to imagination. As the remaining particles and immense gust of wind slowly dissipated, the changeling began to make chittering locust sounds before erupting in a deafening cacophony. It soon stopped and decided to continue its intended trajectory, making sure to erase whatever else would dare to get in its way.