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Chapter 3

'Careful, Careful! Watch out for the horn!'

David watched as the men struggled to get the unicorn into the stable. They had to constantly duck to avoid the horn, which was swinging around wildly. Eventually, they forced her in, and slammed the door shut.

'Where the hell did that come from?' one of the men exclaimed.

'I don't fucking know,' replied another. 'I thought they were gone.'

'Well, it'll definitely get us more customers at the fun fair tomorrow,' said another. 'I bet they will be glad they picked us!'

The men exited the room, still talking as they went. As soon as they left, all the ponies started talking to each other.

'Fun fair? What fun fair?' asked David.

'Last week, they told us about this fun fair that we would be going to,' Alexander replied. 'Apparently it's one of the first since the Great Collapse. We are supposed to be in the "Pony Riding" stall.'

'Oh that makes sense now. Anyway, what about this unicorn?' asked David.

Alexander appeared to be deep in thought. 'Maybe serum error? No that can't be it. Strange, I feel like I recognise that unicorn. Strange, very strange.'

Everybody went quiet as the door slammed open. 'FEEDING TIME!'

Same food as before. This time, David ate slower, to try and savour the taste. It didn't taste as good as the apple, but it was still quite good. Also, there were a few carrots mixed in this time. They tasted strange, kind of spicy, but not at the same time. David decided that he liked the new taste. It was much more complex than as a human, and he found that a good thing.

David felt tired again. He'd been sleeping much longer recently. He guessed it was his body replenishing itself after his conversion. Suddenly he found his legs locked together. He had no idea how he did it, but was too tired to care, and fell asleep standing up.

*****

'Wake up, come on let's go!'

David woke up. He couldn't remember any dreaming. Strange. He found his legs were still locked. He managed to unlock them.

Suddenly his door swung open.

'Come on, follow me.'

David, along with the others, followed the human to an area where their bridles and saddles were put on. David noticed the unicorn had no saddle, and was also looking very frightened.

'Listen up! All of you, except for you –' The human looked at the unicorn '– are going to give rides at the fair for people who pay for it. You have all had basic training, correct?'

David and the others nodded in unison.

'Right. Don't cause any trouble, now get in the carts.' The human directed David and the others into carts, which were connected to vehicles next to a large fair wagon, or at least, that's what it looked like. David was put with the white stallion. The unicorn had one for herself.

The driver started up the engine, and they drove off.

*****

They arrived at the fair. As the stall got set up, David and the others were put into temporary stables, except for the unicorn, who was in her own show-area. Soon enough the fair was in full swing. David could see a lot of people taking holopictures and holovideos of the unicorn. One time there was even people that were recording a holoshow.

Someone came over to the desk near the stables. It was a woman with a young girl, about 5 or 6 years old.

David's stable was opened.

'First customer. Cause, no, trouble.'

David waited as the girl was lifted onto his back. He was then led around a short route a couple of times, and then she was lifted back off again. David could see the girl wanted to keep going, and David felt a little sorry for her. But, unfortunately, they had already gotten as much as they payed for.

David was led back to his stable.

As the day went on David and the others gave rides, mostly to children, but a few adults as well. They also participated in hand feeding, which was where people could hold hay in their hands and feed it to David and the others.

There was on girl which played with his ear, which he flicked back in annoyance. After he was led back into his stable he was startled when he heard a voice.

'Hello. This is a recorded message. Proceed as normal until the stable doors are automatically flung open and the alarm is sounded. When this happens, turn right and then turn at the second left into the alleyway. Make sure the unicorn is following. Press the door handle to unlock the secret passageway. Thank you. Please crush this so no-one can find it.'

A tiny speck of metal fell out of David's ear. He decided to follow the message and crushed it under his hoof. He wondered who it was that wanted him. He decided to wait and see if it was true.

Later that day, still nothing had happened.

'Heh, I guess it was just a pra–' David was cut off by the alarm. The stable doors swung open and David could see a handler with a purple stain on his shirt slowly turning white and doughy. David stood and stared for a moment. He looked up to see a gunfight going on. Some people were shooting bullets that splashed purple liquid. David recognised the new shape the handler was becoming. David started running. He turned back to see the others following him, including the unicorn. He took the second left into the alleyway. 'Ok, what was the instruction? It was... Press the... door... handle.' David pressed his hoof against it and the door opened. Straight ahead a piece of wall disappeared to reveal a secret passage. David and the others went through the doorway, which closed behind them.

The passage way twisted and turned, and kept going downwards. Suddenly, David turned to come face to face with a human. The human grinned and said, 'Welcome to PER headquarters.'

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Chatoyance

Chatoyance #1 · Aug 29th, 2014 · 3 · 2 ·

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Yeah... no. Do you even understand how the world works? Humans socially abhor slavery.

29 million people say you are ignorant. And that is just now, today, and not counting the hundreds of millions throughout history. Humanity is an enslaving species. It's horrible.

You are not merely wrong, you are so far from reality that there is no correlation whatsoever.

http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery

Chatoyance

Chatoyance #2 · Aug 29th, 2014 · 3 · 2 ·

Oh, this is an intriguing twist. I am enjoying your story.

And... ignore the haters. They are beneath you.

staryoshi06

staryoshi06 #3 · Aug 29th, 2014 · 1 · ·

4921843 I also plan to continue the sixth alternate universe. It will be in episodes, just like a TV show.

Chatoyance

Chatoyance #4 · Aug 29th, 2014 · 2 · 3 ·

4921877

Oh, that would be beyond amazing! Please keep me informed!

staryoshi06

staryoshi06 #5 · Aug 29th, 2014 · 1 · ·

4921916 I think I am going to call the universe The Elysian Fields, since as you said that is pretty much what they are.

TerminatorPON47

TerminatorPON47 #6 · Jan 7th, 2015 · · ·

4921949 i know what mlg mean it means major league gaming GOOGLE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok stop hating so much your story is almost as stuped as mine ok and only 10 likes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and 40 dislikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!that means that 16% of those comments are likes and 84% of them are dislikes vs me with 78% dislikes to 22% likes so ha ahahahaha HA there your fic sucks more then mine ok but i quit with my story cuz of all the hate so you win fine ill just go and just friggin DIE u gd hateing bish

(OF COURES NOT FOR REAL) I would die over this

staryoshi06

staryoshi06 #7 · Jan 7th, 2015 · 1 · ·

5474216 The difference is, I don't fall victim to the cliches you do. I try to improve my writing, and listen to criticism, this stuff is stuff you don't do. EDIT: Oh and most of the dislikes are because of the specific genre I'm writing, which a some people don't like

TerminatorPON47

TerminatorPON47 #8 · Jan 7th, 2015 · · ·

5474242 u now what I will now stop being nice and cuss me mouth off u friggin assI've tryed to get an editor very hard and have not got one give a 11 year old a dam break GALL
And your dislike is cuz your story sucks ass u bitch I'm tired of people like u
So delete this comment if u must but now u have 41 dislikes on your story