Life Amongst The Rest

Chapter 1

I step outside, my eyes squinting trying to adjust to the painful brightness that has waited for me. I in hale my deep breathe for a soothing sigh, but before I can even let it out, bam! The splatter of blood and cries hit my muzzle within milliseconds. I flinched and flutter my eyes to see if I can process what just happened.

Looking down I notice, a mare of teal fur coat, and a baby-blue mane, just lying on the floor in a pool of blood. I didn't notice instantly what happened, but the sound of ringing in my ears blocking every other sound out just gave me a clue. THIS PONY WAS SHOT!

My legs gave a weak wobble and I fall to a sit; my hind legs spreading out and my jaw just dropping in horror as I feel the mare's blood drip down my face. Looking closer at her, I realized that there was a nice clean hole straight through from her ear to the bottom of her mouth. The ability to actually see what's through a pony’s' entire head at that moment made my jaw just shut as I feel my stomach just wanting to turn inside-out in my mouth.

I swallow down the feeling, and I let out a large gag as the colt with purple fur coat is running right passed me. But he stopped in his track and walked back in front of me and the dead mare. He looked at the dead mare on the ground and looked up back at me and just started laughing.

His laugh made me just to want to wish I didn’t exist. How could somepony just laugh at a dead pony? Before my mind could even come up with an answer; he looked straight into my eyes. Unable to even move, he spoke, “If I were you bud, I keep movin’, otherwise you’ll end up like that poor thing”.

The sound of his horrid voice appears again. With every bit of fur on my body standing up, I give my throat a hard swallow and stand back up and look behind to see that the box I dropped had broken open. “Well shit...” I look around to see if I could find anypony to help me. Then I jumped to a sound of another gunshot.

Falling over the open box, I look behind me as where I was just standing a mark of a bullet was left. That would have hit my back left hoof if I didn’t move at all. My eyes just stare right wide open looking at the mark on the ground, wondering how I was even able to move so damn fast.

Granted I probably wouldn’t have done it without my wings for they are fully spread out and far back as if it had pushed me on a wall made of air.

Turning my head slowly back in yet another shocking moment, a yellow-coated purple-mane mare stands to my side. Her mane is an extremely long, almost to her hooves and covers most of her face, but there is a crack in her mane that’s on the right side (my left) so I can see her eye. Easily you can tell she saw what just happened and has no clue how to respond but does so anyways. “Damn… what are you? A robot? What kind of a pegasus just dashes for no reason before getting shot? I mean you didn’t even see the damn thing coming after you.”

“Look lady, your guess is as good as mind… but before I can show off any more surprising tricks, can you help me get this box to where it needs to be?!” My words just get thrown out as if I had to speak the fastest anypony has ever had since I’m in so much shock right now. I wobble to my feet before the mare could respond. Once I do though, she speaks.

“Well no use in trying to save the whole thing… just grab the shells and the blanket. But hurry and follow me quickly” The yellow mare quickly runs past me, but stops not too far from me and looks back my way as I look at her “Well lets go!” Her yell makes me scrabble at the ground grabbing a few shotgun shells that I think is what she just meant by “shells” and a red blanket.

Putting the shells into the blanket, I wrap the corners up and spin from them a few times and grab half way down from the corners to the bagging of the blanket with my teeth to ensure the shells are safe and won’t fall out, I look up and I start running after the yellow mare which to have already taken off before I could finish the task.

Hopefully, by the time I get to where ever these ponies are leading me, I’ll be able to understand what exactly is going on.