PREVIOUSLY...
I groaned angrily at whatever shit some ass was trying to pull and reach down to the box and open the top.
And let me just say… Shit. Got. UN-real.
Part 2
There was something inside of it. Something alive that was curled up in a little ball and trying to block out the noise of the storm with mix-matched little arms of a whole god damn bunch of animals. I just stared at it. Honestly I was adamant I would snap awake in my bed or even in someone else’s bed about to be raped or killed. But as the seconds ticked by and the creature looked up at me, I realized that this was either a very long dream, or I was god-damn-fuckin’ awake. The little ‘thing’ inside the box was absolutely crazy. It had like one talon of a bird but it was working like an arm, a lion’s paw that was also like an arm, a shagg-ish brown body, a lizard’s leg, a goat’s leg or maybe a deer leg, A long and very real red tail with a white fur tuft at the end, a gray… equine head maybe or something like that, a small shag of white hair on its head, a blue feathered wing, a dark blackish-purple bat wing, a donkey like mane on the back of the neck, a blue goats horn still growing, an antler still budding, two pointed gray ears that were just going up and down against its head due to mood, and its eyes… two seas of yellow with two different sized dots of red for pupils.
I must be out of my wacked and abused bitch of a mind…. but I wasn't going to leave it out in the storm.
I set down my bag and got down on my knees and took off my hood to look less intimidating to whatever it was. It seemed to cower at the huge advantage I had in size. “It’s ok little one,” I tried sounding as sweetly as I could.
It got closer to me by one little step it took on all four of its limbs. I held out a hand to the edge of the box and let it sniff me. It seemed less scared by how I wouldn’t make a single move without making it very aware of it first. Then another bolt of lightning hit and the sky both lit up and it sounded as if God had just bowled a perfect strike. The little creature whimpered and sprung out of the box and into my lap and dug its face into my shirt and put its little paws on my chest as if trying to hug me.
Unsure of what else I could possibly do since I was likely just going crazy and seeing weird animals on my porch, I put one hand over its little back and the other underneath its feet and hugged it gently to my stomach and let it hide in my embrace. It clearly was a sentient enough being to have fears and understand basics if it knew what hugging was. I realized if I ever wanted to get it to stop being scared, it would have to get out of the storm. And that meant it had to come with me inside my house.
I unwrapped one arm around it and picked up my purse back on my shoulder. Then, I slowly got to my feet and picked my keys back up into my hand before looking down at the little creature in my arm and saw it scared once more.
“Hey, it’s ok. I’m not gonna hurt you. But we need to get out of the storm.” It seemed to stare at me, questioning if it should trust me. Then another bolt of lightning hit and thunder crashed and it cried out and hid its self into my waist and clutched my arm again.
Ok, I’ll admit that was adorable and heart melting.
I unlocked the door and flicked on the light to see my living room light up. Now what? I have a strange creature in my arms and no idea what to do with it. Well it must be cold, I should wrap it in a blanket first then see if it’s hungry. That’s plan A… and plan B is still in the work shop. I dropped my purse and keys on the coffee table and set the little animal on the couch.
“Do you want a blanket?” I asked it.
It blinked its yellow and red eyes at me and tilted its head. “Eh, I’ll take that as a yes.”
I went around the corner to the closet and picked out a very smooth and soft pink blanket I had. Don’t you dare judge me because it’s pink, it is like sleeping on a cloud!
Heading back I saw the little thing still on the couch and starring at all its new surroundings. I just sighed and walked over to it and wrapped it in the blanket with a gentle tuck.
“There, is that better?” I asked.
I didn’t get a verbal response, but it did smile at me. And that’s when I saw it had one giant fang and all other regular teeth.
Dafuq is wrong with my life?
“You know… I feel like I’ve seen something like you before,” I told it “but where? What? And I’m talking out loud to an animal on my couch. Yep, I’ve lost it.” My only response was a blink and a head tilt.
I sighed. Where have I seen something like this before? It’s a mix of different animal parts. And something made-up of different animal parts is like a chimera, right? Yeah, I always loved mythology… or what was mythology to me. Now it’s reality… I think. “Ok, I’m going to try and find out what you are ok?” I asked it. It just stared at me. I don’t think it can talk yet if it can talk at all. It does seem rather young.
I grabbed my laptop from my desk and sat down on the couch next to the animal wrapped in my blanket. I typed in my search engine ‘what is a creature made-up of different animal parts called?’ and I got the results of a chimera and monster. I glanced down at the little innocent looking creature cuddled up in my pink blanket and was now leaning up against my side and snuggling me with a smile. That is not a monster. So it’s a chimera. That’s a start. I then looked up chimeras and got tons of thousands of different legends and stories from different past cultures about chimeras. “Oh boy, looks like I’ll be researching you all night,” I sighed again for the twentieth time that night and pet the little creature on the back of its head.
“It’s a good thing I have Sundays off at work then.”
I spent an hour and a half looking up what this chimera was. “Ok, come on god. I’m trying to do something nice here for a poor little thing and I would love and appreciate just a little bit of help. Please?!” I clicked a file link about some TV show character that people said was a chimera too and then… I gasped. There was something just like this little creature that was now asleep at my side, except it was much bigger and older. I mean it had a beard and a long snake body. Seriously. I felt my eyes widen and I immediately scrolled to read the caption. It depicted this creature as ‘Discord’ the ‘God of Chaos’ from the children’s television show ‘My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic’.
Holy crap on a cracker…
I glanced at the little animal snuggled into my embrace at my side. He was from My Little Pony? Really? ‘God, if you’re fucking with me- STOP!’
“D-Discord?” His ears flicked to the sound of my voice. He looked at me and I looked at him. Was this really a TV show character? And why the hell did it have to be My Little Pony?!
"Ok, I really hope that you're real or else I'm officially going crazy."
He just stared at me, he blinked, then he snuggled his little face into the blanket and my side and made some sort of happy sighing sound.
I couldn't stop the small smile that formed on my face.
I rubbed the spot behind his ear and he purred some more like a cat. "You may be odd and impossible but you sure are cute."
Then there was a little rumble. Discord looked up from my side and then down at his little, fuzzy stomach and there was another rumble that came from his tummy. He was hungry.
"Are you hungry little guy?" I asked sweetly and only got a head tilt in return. "How about some food. I'm sure I've got something that you'll eat."
I picked him up in the blanket and carried him to my dinning table. I set him down on a chair and made sure the blanket was still nice and snug around him.
Turning away to get something from the fridge, I spied a few things I thought might work.
I was never a brony, or really a pegasister actually since I'm a girl, but when I was still a kid I saw an episode here and there and played with the little pony toys. But really when I was still expecting Erica I had done a little looking into shows to have a hold on my future daughter's entertainment.
.....god I wish she was here.....
I grabbed lunch meat, pickles, milk, pink lemonade, applesauce, some apples and oranges, cheese, jelly, and some fruit salad. In the pantry and on the counters I grabbed bread, bananas, cereal, some chips, and a bag of marshmallows.
I brought everything back to the table and set it all out in front of Discord. He seemed intrigued by what I was doing as I set up all the food in front of him for him to select from.
"Choose what you like sweetie."
He sniffed at the buffet before him. His little nose crinkling and smelling what it all was. He devoured the applesauce and apples and oranges first. Then he finished the bread, bananas, he tore open the cereal, ripped open the bag of marshmallows, crunched the chips, and finished off the fruit salad.
Surprisingly, he did seem to eat meat. He ate half the ham lunch meat and half the turkey lunch meat I had and then finished up with the pickles and jelly before he drank the pink lemonade and then switched to the milk which I had poured into a small plastic cup for him.
"Oh wow, when was the last time you ate?" I asked as I picked him up and set him in the parallel seat across the table. I then went on to grab a washcloth and start cleaning off the mess and trash from the table he had left behind.
While I cleaned, I saw Discord watching me. His ears kept switching from up and down in sync with one another from time to time, as if he were thinking while observing me. 'Now what could he be thinking about?' I wondered to myself.
Finishing up, I put the rag in the sink and the trash in the garbage-can and picked up Discord in my arms. Ok, now where does he sleep? Well, the couch is pretty good. It ain't no king sized bed but it's better than out in the storm. Just then another loud crack of thunder followed a flash of lightning and Discord gave another tiny scream and squirmed his way deeper into my chest for safety.
Damn I am getting way too comfortable with this.
I got him back to the couch and set him down, spreading out the pink blanket over him this time, and propping his head up with some couch pillows and a normal bed pillow I keep for when I want to nap and I'm too tired to make it to bed.
"All set?" There was still no verbal response, but he seemed to snuggle into the pillows and couch while tightening the blanket around him. And once again I found myself smiling from this. "I'll be right down the hall if you need me. I'll even leave the door open."
And with that said I turned on the small reading lamp next to the couch, turned out the lights in all the rooms, and walked down the hall to my bedroom on the first floor. I saw my bed there, staring at me, calling to me. I was so, so tired. I wasn't even sure if when I woke up Discord would still be there on the couch. But I could worry about my sanity in the morning. Now was the time for sleep, for relaxing.
I didn't even bother fully undressing. I just exchanged my jeans for sweatpants and kicked off my shoes. Then I tiredly slipped under my lilac, color and flower, sheets and dropped my head dead center of the white pillows and cuddled into the safe embrace of my bed.
Soon I started drifting between the states of reality and dreams. But then another bolt of lightning struck and I heard the all of thunder that accompanied it.
I heard a whimper from my living room. Discord. Well... my door is open. I rolled away from the open door and towards the wall. I could hear little feet hit the ground, the scamper of tiny limbs going from one room to another, the crossing over from the hall to my room from feet hitting wood to feet hitting carpet. I knew Discord was there in my room, hoping I would comfort him and tell him I wouldn't let anything hurt him. And the weird part, I kinda wanted to.
I felt the covers shift, a little nudge at my back, and I sighed. I turned back over and was met with Discord, his head and body covered in my sheets like a cloak and tears in the corners of his eyes accompanying his whimpers of fear. Oh god he's cute, WHY did he have to be CUTE?
"Come here baby," I cooed. I wrapped him in my arms, his face digging into my chest again as he wrapped his little arms around me as far as he could get them. He snuggled into my embrace, suddenly sighing happily from my comforting him. Until more lightning and thunder came through, and another little scream came from my little house guest. I put my arms around his back and head, pulling him closer, like he were a baby... my baby.
He started calming down, I think he listened to my heart beating in my chest, and his eyes drifted off and closed with a tiny smile on his face. I felt a grin on my lips from the fact that I had caused this bliss and peace to another soul. It was incredible. To be a care taker for another. The best feeling in the world.
I closed my eyes, pulling Discord close to me like a teddy bear, and slowly fell asleep... for the first time in a long time... with a smile.