The Goats
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MatureOngoing2h 19m
Last published Tue, Sep 3, 2019
*I have archived this story. I don't think I will be editing it or adding more unless people like it and want more. Then maybe*
Zangar, a myotonic goat, lives at goat academy with all the other conscious and intelligent goats. He and his best friend Asglor, a buff boer goat live at goat academy with few worries other than a violent death in the weekly arena brawl, the great rams catching on to their hacking, and the soda machine running out of spritz. Their simple lives change completely when they are drafted to begin the conflict between humankind and goatkind that will determine the dominant species on the new world.
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