//------------------------------// // Love // Story: Pup: The Kind and Hated // by brony laughsatme //------------------------------// Chapter 2 I had been following the noise I'd been hearing for about a minute, when I finally came across the owner of the very loud snore. It was a pony of some sort I wonder if waking it for a stupid question would be rude. I gently sat beside the bench and waited for it to wake up. I didn't have to wait long for 'something' to wake up though. A sharp pain went through my back. The snow white kitten slid down my back, her claws extended and latched like a zipper on my hide. Her claws were to small to do anything except inflict a series of shallow scratches to my back though, and she fell to the ground. The lazy albino kitten was just milking me for a free ride/napping spot, while I was busy trying to find somewo- or "some-pony," (in this case) who would be willing to help me find food for her. And the thanks I get, is the luxury of being used as a scratching post. I looked towards the pony again. She was looking at me. We sat there awkwardly staring at each other for a moment before she spoke up. "What do you want, Dog?" She said with a venomous tone. She had a scratchy voice. She was black, with a horn and bug like wings. I noticed some holes in her legs, but they didn't seem to be bothering her at the moment so I didn't ask. She stood up and jumped off the bench, landing in front of me with an audible thud. I had never been the tallest, well I had never been taller than any-wolf. I was a runt, and wouldn't grow to be as big as my siblings. But she stood at not even eye level. Her head could probably reach my lower jaw and that's about it. So she was either a runt, or just to young for her age. "Oh, are you a runt, too?" I said my tail wagging a little, anticipating the idea of having something in common with some-pony, would lead to me making a friend. She looked confused then she smiled and pointed a hoof at me and burst out laughing. "And whats so funny." After she was done laughing she got up and punched me. I fell to the ground with a soft thud and blacked out. I vaguely remember something about an insult being directed towards her. ~~~~~~~ I was surrounded by darkness. I couldn't see anything. But I heard voices. "But Tavi, we promised her we would take care of him." "Vinyl..." another unfamiliar voice sighed, "very well but we have to get the cat out of here." My eyes suddenly shot open and I leaped up, I landed on three paws in front of the grey one's hoof, before she could touch my cat. I growled at the grey one... 'Wait was that pony growling back?' I thought very confused. She looked very intimidating when she did that, even for something without claws or devoid of sharp fangs. The white one just stood there grinning at us. There was always an alpha female and this must have been the one here. "I'm sorry, I-I d-didn't know... please don't hurt me." I said, very afraid I was going to be hurt like my mother did when she found me trying to run away. I always steered clear of the adult wolves. I would always get in trouble for nothing, but seeing how I just growled at what I supposed was an alpha female, my future really didn't seem good. "Didn't know what, dear?" She said, her expression almost going softer than my kitten's. "That you were the matriarch," I said, carefully choosing my words. A few seconds of her blankly staring at me and I got the feeling she wasn't going to hurt me. The grey pony got a smile and snootily stuck her muzzle in the air, striking a pose. "You hear that, Vinyl? I'm the matriarch," she said, while the white one just snickered at her. "I don't even know what that means," she smiled, as if she was proud that her lack of wit had saved her from being the ass end of a joke. "Hey, may I ask the weird pony a question?" I asked the grey one. "Wait I am not Wei-" the white unicorn retorted before the grey one shoved her hoof in her face covering her mouth. "You may," she said, snickering at the white unicorn. "Well your name is, Vinyl, right?" I asked hopefully. "Eeyup," she said growing a massive smile, "Why" "Um... As in Vinyl Scratch?" I asked hopefully "Yea, the one and only," she said giving a small bow. "Aww sweeet! I thought I would have to travel the world to find you!!" I yelled, leaping off of the fluffy couch I realized I'd been laying on. I went back up to grab my kitten. I grabbed the skin at the back of her neck in my maw and put her on the ground. I laid down beside her so she could climb on my back. When she was on my back and I could safely stand up, without knocking her off her perch I looked towards the ponies. They were staring at me in shock. I decided they should be asked 'what the fuck they were so amused by.' "What?" I nonchalantly stated. "I thought you were going to eat the cat," the grey one stated. I looked down in shame and decided to tell them. I mean they were both nicer than my mother. She never let me talk about it. And these ponies didn't eat meat either, so I figured I'd tell them. "Well..." "Yes?" I sighed. "I can't eat meat... I was born with a rare condition known only to blood wolves. I can't digest meat properly and I was rendered a vegetarian because of it. My mother a-always said she h-hated me for it... Every-wolf hated me for it..." My eyes began to water. I couldn't take it, it felt like I just realized everything hated me, and wanted me dead because I was stupid and a freak. I looked down in shame and sobbed thinking of how mean the others were to me because of my condition. I felt almost as sad as I did when my sister left. Like I was the most worthless thing to set a paw on dirt. I broke down and laid on the ground violently crying to myself.I cried to myself for a few second before something happened that hasn't happened to me my entire life. Both ponies ran over to me and wrapped me in their hooves. At first I tried to wriggle my way out of it, thinking they were trying to choke me. I stopped resisting when I realized they would've done that already if they wanted to. It was weird they just stayed there. I hardly even noticed when my kitten jumped down and went somewhere else in the house. It was as if everything felt so... Warm, and safe. There in that embrace I felt something I had only felt with one wolf.... love. I shoved my snout in Vinyls chest sobbing very loudly. It was so soft and comforting I couldn't help but feel completely safe around Vinyl and 'Tavi' I think her name was. It felt like an unspeakable amount of time, before I stopped crying. By the time I had stopped I was so tired from not eating in a good few days, the knock out blow I took. Being beat senseless before I had the pleasure of seeing my mother killed, was the only sleep I had gotten for at least 3 days prior to and the mental breakdown I was experiencing. I fell asleep in their embrace. One last word escaped me before I drifted into darkness. "Snowflake."