//------------------------------// // What strange creatures // Story: She was a mystery // by ThatsRealLifeBadabum //------------------------------// I don’t remember anymore…… Who I was…… Where I was from…… nothing. I just kept on walking, walking till I wasn’t able to anymore. I came across many strange creatures, but the one I remember the most are those with the hoofs. There were so many of them and they looked all so different. There were some with horns, some with wings, and some without anything. And they came all in different sizes. I think they call themselves “Ponies”. Was I one too? I didn’t see any wings when I looked at my back. But I felt a horn when I touched my forehead. Maybe I was one, but they looked all so strange, so colorful, all so…. crazy. Yes, crazy. Some of them were walking on the walls of buildings; some were haunted by giant cakes. Those giant cakes and the candy bars that flew by me were totally normal… I think. But those “Ponies” or however they call them weren’t. Because it’s not normal to cry, laugh and scream at the same time… right? One Pony ran towards me and said with a worried looking expression “What are you doing outside?! Go home and hide, before this monster comes and does something to you!” Monster? What monster? And what's a home? That “Pony” didn’t make sense…. and that was interesting. I thought that maybe I should take some part in that conversation, even if I usually don't like to talk and just pass those by who try to talk to me. “Why should I hide? It seems like a pretty nice and normal day.” I answered. The pony stared at me, not believing what she just heard. Yes I think the pony was a female. She had a high pitched voice and a feminine form, but I wasn’t hundred percent sure. Her features then changed from worried to frustrated and her voice got louder as she spoke “Are you crazy!? Please, go home and stay there till this nightmare is over!” I watched her getting frantic and looking from side to side. I then saw that her fur changed its color from a soft blue to a mishmash of all colors and it looked terrible. “Your fur is changing.” I simply stated. She stopped her rant and looked down at her body, her eyes dilating and her mouth opening. She screamed very loud and started to run in circles, tears streaming down her face and she kept saying like a mantra “Please make it stop! Please make it stop!” I heard a laugh from above me but ignored it. I kept watching her for awhile and decided after about five minutes or so to just go on. If that was heartless or something than that'll be it. I didn't care. It wasn't my problem after all. I walked away from this place. I walked towards the normal cotton candy woods, I felt better between all those pudding bushes and toffee stones. I had a strange feeling in my stomach when I saw all those things, something like a craving, but for what? I ignored it, even if it made me feel bad and I started to lose my focus. I needed to keep on walking… After a while I felt like being watched, I don’t know who or what was watching me and I didn’t care, but it still made me feel uneasy. While my always heavier getting feet dragged me onwards the road, caught my tired eyes the sight of something growing out of the floor, that wasn’t something new, but still I stopped and watched what it was. It was a horn. No, two horns, both looking different. One blue and one a cream white color. Then there came ears, a forehead, bushy eyebrows and two red glowing eyes, one a little bigger than the other. When I saw the strangers’ mouth and its one tooth, it suddenly said a creepy “Booooooo!” I think it tried to sound scary and expected me to be shocked or something, because when the creature stopped it’s hollering laughter, it looked me over and changed its expression from a mean grin to an unpleased frown. Suddenly there came a whole body out of the ground along with its head. I looked the creature over and saw its many details. It had a lion paw and an eagle claw, a lizard and a goat leg, a bird and a bat wing and a basilisk’s tail. It looked interesting…. “-away?” I snapped out of my thought’s when I heard it talk to me, I blinked several times and asked “P-pardon? What did you say?” It huffed and got an annoyed expression “I said, why aren’t you screaming or crying or running away?” “Why should I?” I asked without thinking. “Because!- ugh! Nevermind. Why are you in the woods on your own anyway, little filly?” he asked but sounded rather uninterested. “Better go back to you parents, or they’ll be worried.” That sounded very sarcastic. And what’s a filly? Am I one? And- “What are parents?” I couldn’t stop the question anymore, it just slipped and I don’t know why. I think I really shouldn’t talk to a stranger that tried to scare me, even if he didn’t succeed but I really wanted to know what parents are. He looked rather surprised when I looked him in the eyes. “You mean you don’t know? You don’t have anypony that takes care of you?” he asked. “No, I don’t.” I answered. “Sooo….. you’re all alone?” he asked again. He now wore a strange look on his face, I couldn’t quite define it, but I put my thoughts back for now. “Yes.” I said. I looked down, that word….it stung. No, it hurt. I lost my focus again and wobbled a bit, but I was able to catch myself and the strangers’ next question. “What’s your name?” he said. I was puzzled. What did he mean? What’s a name? Should I have one? My brain started to process again and started to think off all the possibilities of what a name could be. My eyes lost focus again and I started to hear everything like it was far away, even when it was right in front of me. My body started to hurt and my stomach felt terrible. I heard the stranger very quietly say “Nevermind” and looked up at him again. My legs ached and started to wobble again. I tried to keep on looking at the strangers face, but my eyesight kept on getting blurry. I saw the strangers’ features taking over the look of worry and heard him ask “Hey, you okay?” I tried to answer but suddenly my legs gave out and everything went black.