Your Human and You: The Nightmare of Gaia

The moon shown brightly over the barren landscape, the light of the moon lighting the way for all of the nights denizens. The sound of the roaming nocturnal predators was a constant companion to our noble hero as he lay under the light of the moon trying with all his might to get a good nights sleep... But alas, sleep avoided him. He tossed and turned and stared up at the moon, his mind racing with the ever wondering thought of what might be out there, hunting him.

Perspective: 1st Person Cornelius

"For the past hour or two I have been trying to come up with a logical explanation as to why I can not talk... No matter what I do it just seems to be impossible... Add that to all the weird sounds that these damnable creatures make I just can't get any sleep! I rambled on in my head, trying to come to terms with my impromptu mutism... Which wasn't all that bad anyway, it gave me more time to think and not be disturbed by my own rumblings.

After a few more hours of staring at the gorgeous sight of the moon and listening to the songs of the night... Sleep finally took me....

Early next morning I awoke with the insatiable hunger for just about anything with a pulse... You all know what I mean by that... Yay morning wood... Bwuahahahahaha! So after alleviating Jr. I went about gathering up all my acquired supplies and knocking away my improvised barrier. Upon inspecting the walls outside I noticed that several areas were missing some of their thorns, which brought me to the conclusion that my barrier had saved my life in the middle if the night.

Walking away I looked at my surrounding s and made sure that I was still going towards the flat top mountain I had seen off in the distance, I was relieved to se that it was still there, if it wasn't I would have just thought I was insane and ended myself right then and there. So upon laying my eyes upon it once again, I started my trek anew. Leaving behind the small for like stricter for any other passerby to use should they need it.

Some of the events that led up to my arrival at the flat top were fairly uneventful, except for this time I had to deal with a seventeen foot long sand snake when it propelled like a rocket out of the sand and tried to sink its fangs into my arm. I deftly pull out my gladius and struck the snake down. It coiled itself up and hissed menacingly at me before springing back into action. I brought my sword up in an under handed swipe and swiftly took the snakes head right off. The body landed about five feet away from me and thrashed bit on the ground and slowly curled up into itself and died, the head however landed less than a foot away and began to bit endlessly at me until I shoved my gladius through its thick head, ending its pain and suffering.

I had taken my boot and pushed the head off and on too the ground, where it lay to this moment, and placed the body of the snake around my belt, letting the little bit of blood drip uselessly out of its body and onto the craggy earth below me.

After that incident I had little to no problem dealing with any wildlife that tried to even look at me funny, cause all I had to do was move the snakes body into view and thy would all just whimper and sink away in fear. But now I stand at the foot of the mountain and look up in amazement at such a wonderful natural marvel. This was something on my world that had been lost to time and the advances of technology... After the tests for certain weapons many of the barren places of the world had been permanently scared for all eternity.

As I looked about for a goo set of hand hold I found a small little walkway that led up into the mountain, it was big enough for me to walk on but it would prove a Herculean challenge to over come as I saw it passed very close to the sides of the mesa. Upon seeing the path I quickly made my way over and up its winding ways, hoping that I would arrive at the top before the sun had completely set, seeing as it was late in the day anyway. I had surprise myself with how cast I had gotten to the mountain and away from the heat of the craggy plains lands.

The pathway was very steep in most places, making me opt for just climbing up the side of the shear cliff and making my way up to the next part of the path that was safer to traverse than the rest. I pulled this off several times, though once or twice I had fallen a few feet when dealing with some very unstable rocks. The red earth of the mountain was soon getting to be a comforting sight when looking over the sides of the shear walls and looking down to the plains below... I was no more than fifty feet from the top when I heard a shrill scream come from above, along with some very menacing shouts and promises of blood.

At that point I decided that taking e path was the long wY and just shimmied my way right up the side of the mountain and face whatever felon was awaiting my arrival, even if he/they didn't know about it. Once there I had rolled myself behind a large boulder and made sure that I wasn't seen. I took out both my gladius and my long sword and prepped myself for battle. Knowing that I might get hurt I placed my over coat and the rest of my supplies down on the ground and stripped out of my dress shirt as well, seeing that it would just get in the way.

I rolled out from behind the rock and found my self face to face with some of huge strangest creatures I have ever seen... They stood about as tall as me and were hunch backed. They carried crudely made swords and clubs as their weapons and they were dressed in garishly colored, and very ripped, clothing. There was about four of them and they each represented, what I could only fathom, a breed of dog, one looked like a pit bull, one looked like a tarrier, and the last two looked like black labs, but they were all more human Esc than what should be possible... Then again I am in a world that shouldn't exist, that being said because I'm alive and all.

The dogs looked at me as they had stopped harassing whatever it was they had cornered and started advancing towards me.

"Oi, muta! It seems we gotta humie ap er wid us... Wha' shu' we do?" The one one the far right garbled out, he was brandishing a large war club... And a rather large snake, if you catch my drift...

"I say we beat the humi Bo's... Save us some time and shiny..." The one in the center, obviously the leader, cackled out, he was holding a shity iron sword and a dented up chest plate... His was also sporting a rather large anaconda as we'll.... Why the fuck these douce bags aren't wearing any pants is.... OH FUCK ME SIDEWAYS WITH A RUSTY HAMMER! They were going to rape whatever the hell it was they had cornered and have their way with it!

The four dogs got closer and closer, trying to surround me... And for some reason they knew what I was, but that thought was very far from my concours mind at that moment. I was more focussed on how I was going to eliminate them... Painfully. The first dog rushed me with his war club and was dispatched quickly as I took off both his arms and then cut both ham strings in his legs, making him drop to his knees in absolute pain and horror from my ruthless blows to his body. And then, with some mercy driving my actions, I cleaved his head straight from his disabled form, all before he had even slammed to the ground on his chest. I looked over at the other three dogs I could see their fear, almost even smell it... Nope wait... That was urin... One of the dips pissed himself... Great...

"Get him!" The lead dog yelled as they all rushed towards me, with the lead dog falling behind so he was able to try and escape if he needed to. The second dog to get near me was met with a loss of fingers and a leg as I spun around him lashing out with my swords to decimate his body. Once I had gotten behind him he was missing his right fingers, his left leg, his right foot and had a deep gash going from his left shoulder blade down to the right side of his waist... Or at least they thought it was a gash until he fell in half and gave his blood to the red dry earth beneath him.

The other one sound his sword at my head and found that I was no longer where I was standing. I had crouched down and jabbed out with my long sword and squared him through the sternum and used my gladius to take out the main tendons in his arms and his ham strings, completely immobilizing. Ripping my sword out of the dogs chest I then went for a cross-crossed execution, placing both swords on top of each other I slid them across his neck so fast that his dead was already detached and dead before his body had reached its knees.

When I turned towards the leader I was beholden with a striking sight. The leader was holding a pony up on its hind legs with his sword pressed up against its throat, almost begging for the pony to swallow and slit its throat in the process. But what caught me off guard was what the pony was saying, "Somepony... Please.... Somepony save me.... Please..." The pony pleaded... It sounded female no less, which would explain why this was happening in the first place... After that I had enough and knew I was going to kill this bastard quickly and painfully, just like his friends.

I slowly made my way towards him, keeping my swords down at my sides leaving myself slightly open to any of his attacks so I could lull him into a false sense of superiority. I was slowly walking towards him, shifting about slowly, methodically, waiting for him to make his move. And when he did I was ready.

The mongrel shoved the pony away from himself and lunged out with his sword, over extending his entire body to try and spear me in the chest, which didn't work. I side stepped, slashed up with my long sword, took off his sword arm, and slashed down at his neck as he continued to travel past me. His body landed in a pile of severed limbs and ogre as it came to a stop no less that four feet away. I huffed and looked over to where the pony had fallen and noticed that the small equine was shaking and twitching in fear.

Well, any sane person would shake too if they had just witnessed such a horrendous battle/murder unfold like that right in front of them. The pony, which I now took stock of, had a golden tan fur coat and a red and silver mane and tail, the pony also had a brand like mark on its ass that looked like a book with a quill and ink we'll sitting next to it...

As I got closer the pony would whimper and shake even more, until I was right on top of it and kneeling beside it. It curled up into a ball and tried to make itself as small as possible, but it only served to make itself look adorable and ready to be held, kinda like a cat... A really big fucking cat.... With very expressive eyes.... That were deep sky blue and staring right at me... Until it shirked back and went into super fetal mode.... Oi.... My life, it fucks me over so much.... Eh, who cares anymore, fuck you life!

Kneeling there I reached out and placed my right hand gently on the ponies left shoulder, at first it flinched and recoiled at my touch, though it also looked up at me after a while when I didn't do anything else to it. When it did, it stared at me with confusion and fear evident on its face, note to self... Figure out what the fuck this ponies gender is.... I don't like calling it 'it'... When the pony stopped shaking and just looked at me in fear, I slowly moved my hand over again and placed it gently on the ponies shoulder... This time it only flinched slightly, but did not pull away.

Taking this as a sight of acceptance I slowly started to rub the ponies shoulder and treat it as a child, one that needed consoling and such from someone much older than them... Damn it, I should have been in day care, buuuut nooooo I had to go and get born a prince.... Fuck you universe. The pony looked at me in fear still, but started to come around as I reached over and started to pull the equine towards me, I had laid my weapons off to the side, far from any prying hooves.... Yeah, hooves... Don't need to figure out if they can hold them or not I just ain't taking the chance...

At first the pony tried to get away, but my grasp on it was firm and unwavering, so I was able to drag the pony over and embrace it, which made the golden pony even more confused and afraid. I then picked the pony up and started to cradle it, rocking it back and forth a little as I did so. Then I began to hum...

-you are my sun shine,

-my only sun shine,

-you make me happy when skies are grey

-you're always with me, and all around me

-helping take all the cloudy skies away.....

I repeated the hum several times as the pony, at first did a double take and tried to get away from me... Until it listened closely and began to fall asleep from the calming tune I was humming, granted it couldn't sing it but it sounded nice anyway. Now with my new companion sedated, and unwilling to cooperate, I went, sat her down, I noticed that the pony had teats and no sheath, so ergo a female, or mare, and put all my over garments back on, along with the clubs and the chest armor that the dogs were using. The clubs would be excellent fire wood and the armor was just for some extra protection... Granted I might not need it but it's better to be prepared.