Becoming one with the Moon
Prologue (Rewrite)
My name is David Hakarov, i'm 32 Years old, I Live in California with my room mate, Carl Newton A- Wait a minute.... Why the hell am I Telling you all this? You probably don't give a rat's ass about who I am, Well since you're already here, Wanna hear a story? no? To bad, i'm telling you anyway.
So it all started wen I was at work, Typing away at my computer and drinking some nice, warm coffee at my side, Looking around, I spotted my friend, James, Head into the bosses office, curious, I decided to go and check what was going on, I've seen almost 5 people go in there in less than half an hour, I got up from my desk and headed over to my bosses office and laid my ear against the door.
"B-b-but boss! I have to feed my family" James cried in despair, hoping that the boss will give him another chance.
"No but's James! every single day you arrive late and proceed to do nothing!" He said as he shook his head, at that point, James was on his knees, begging to be given another chance, I looked around and noticed almost everyone in the office were all around me, they probably had heard James screaming and decided check, not that I blame them, I was here for the same thing, turning my attention back at the conflict James and the boss had going on, I noticed that the boss was on the phone with a worried worried expression on his face, even though I could not hear then clearly, I could hear what he was saying,
"What do you mean that he could not make it? I though he was already in California?" He said as he stood up from his chair and made his way to his office door.
" I'm sorry to hear that, i'll get right on it" He placed his phone on his desk and opened the door,
"James, I need you to exit my office"He said in a stern voice,
"B-b-but sir! I cant get fired! I have a fami- " James has Interrupted by the boss as he said,
"Due to a turn of events, You're replacement will not be arriving, consider your sell lucky" He pointed out the door and said,
"Now get out of my office" James scrambled up to his feet and made his way out of the office, Sobbing and softly crying as he went back to his desk.
"Hey dude, what the hell happened to him" I jumped, slightly startled at his sudden appearance.
"Shit Carl! How many time have I told you not you sneak up on me?" I said with an angry expression on my face.
"Sorry, didn't mean it. Anyway, what happened to James" He turned around and looked at James, who had stopped crying and now lay motionless, staring at his computer screen like his life depended on it.
"He almost got fired, poor guy didn't take it so well" I said as I turned around to look at Carl, Who had an eyebrow raised for some reason.
"Why was he about to get fired?" He asked in a curious tone.
"From what I've heard two minutes ago, he is apparently always late for work" I said as I headed over to my desk and sat down, Carl, who had apparently more questions, walked over to my and leaned over the small wall that separated me and someone else's workplace.
"That's a load of bullshit" He said as he shook his head " Everyone Knows he is the first one to arrive when the opens!" He said as he looked back at James, who had begun to get back to work, If you were to look closely, you'll see faint tear marks across his face
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"I dunno, maybe it's because the boss doesn't like him?" I said, in more of a statement than a question, him and the boss never got along, but since he was the top employer, he didn't fire him, but looks like that changed today.
"How the hell could he not like him!?" Carl said in a voice of disbelief "Everyone likes him! Plus, he has the highest sales record around here" He stated as a matter-of-factly.
"As I said, I don't know, maybe its because his background" I said as Carl looked at me with a surprised face.
"Oh? was he a criminal or something?" Carl looked back at James For what seemed like the fourth time in the last 10 minutes.
"That's a story for another time" I said as I looked at my watch, I had quite the surprise wen I saw what time it was. I turned to Carl and said,
"Looks like it's closing time" I stood up from my chair and picked up whatever things I had in my desk that I had brought from my home and made my way to the exit.
"Hey David! still up for that game we were going to play at you're house tonight?" He said as he got in his car and started the engine.
"Hell yeah dude! See you later tonight" I replied as I did the same and pulled out of the parking lot and began to make my way home.
It was beginning to get late as I drove down the empty streets, There was a large forest that surrounded the street. I began to grow paranoid as I thought I saw shades of some sort of animal just inside my field of vision, having watched to many horror movies, I had every right to be paranoid.
As I was distracted by the shade dancing around just inside my field of vision, I did not notice the dark, creepy thing that was in the middle of the road.
By the time I did notice it, It was already to late to try to maneuver around it, Thinking it was a person I quickly turned the wheel of my car as fast as could, by sheer luck I managed to evade the shade but I quickly looked in front of me fast enough to see a tree smash into my car's bumper, If I had not been wearing a seat belt at the time, I swear I could have flown for about ten seconds before I had hit the ground and died on impact, But I had no such luck as I was I was violently thrown around my car for about four seconds. As I began to lose consciousness I could had sworn I saw the very same shadow that was standing in the middle of the road tree minutes prior right in front of me.
Becoming one with the Moon
The first thing I noticed when I awoke was that I was lying over 15 feet away from my car, the second thing I noticed is that I was in the middle of a large, opened field, the first thing I thought is that I had flown right out of my car's windshield and I had landed here, but I dismissed that thought as I noticed a large track coming from my cars door.
"Huh" I thought as I looked around "Looks like someone dragged me over here and left me here" I began to scan the area for any evidence of the person that had dragged me out of my car and left me to die here.
"Wait a minute.... why the hell am I not in any pain? I just crashed my car for fucks sake!" I tried to stand up but I fell flat against my face, I grunted in pain as I picked my face from the ground and lifted a hand over my nose,To my surprise, it wasn't a hand that came into view. It was a hoof, a fucking hoof, It was covered In a midnight blue coat. panicking, I tried to get away from the hoof, but since it was attached to my body, I had little success.
"What the fu-" I stopped as soon as I heard my voice, It didn't sound like my voice at all! It sounded a lot more feminine than my original voice, as I began to inspect my body I noticed that I had a indigo-like coat that covered my entire body, as well as two wings on my back and a long, spiral horn that came out of my head. taking a few deep breaths I looked around and tried to stand up, after the first few tries I managed to stand up on all fours, now comes the real challenge: walking.
As soon as I took my second steep I tripped and tumbled down a small hill that for some reason I had not noticed before, after a few seconds of me tumbling down the hill I reached the end and slid across the ground with my mouth oped, I stood up and spat the dirt out of my mouth.
"This is going to take some time to get used to" I muttered, "What the hell am I supposed to do know? maybe I can try to get home, its only like a 10 minute walk from here to my home," I said as Tried to walk again, thankfully, I didn't fall this time, I walked up to my car and began looking for my phone, after a few minutes of searching I found my phone, but sadly, It was broken beyond repair, with a sigh, I made my way to the road and began walking in the direction of my home, thankfully no cars passed by as I made my way into town, now comes the tricky park, I had to make it to my home, and said home was almost right in the middle of town, normally I didn't have any actual problems walking through the town, but due to the current situation of me being stuck inside a weird horse/unicorn/pegasus thing, walking casually through town was out of question.
"What the fuck am I supposed to do then? maybe if I walk through the alleyways no one will notice me!" Satisfied with my foal proof plan, I began walking to nearest alleyway, luckily, since it was night out no one still in the street will notice me as I hide in the alleyways.
"Okay.... This should work.... nothing can go wrong with this plan!" You're probably screaming out loud that I had just jinxed myself, and your right, I did.
Yep.
Anyways, I began to slowly walk in and out of the alleyways that separated the buildings, after about 12 minutes of walking in and out of the alleyways I turned my head around to see how far I had actually made it, and it turns out that I had only traveled about 300 to 400 meters from were I had begun
"This is going to take a while" I said as I turned my head around and resumed the painfully slow method of, you guessed it, walking in and out of the alleyways to avoid being detected.
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"Oh for fucks sake! If I had known it was going to take this much time I would h- wait a minute.... whats that sound? it sounded like it came from the alleyway across the street" I said as I decided to investigate further, I began to rapidly walk to the other side of the street, once I was on the other side I slowly began to walk over to the alleyway, as I got closer I could distinguish the sound, it sounded like someone was crying.
"What the hell......" I said as I slowly looked over the corner of the alleyway and saw a girl being cornered by a guy with what looked like a large kitchen knife,
"Ohshithshitohshitohshit! what the hell do I do!? I cant just walked up to them! one of them would probably run of and tell people about me! I said as I started panicking, if I help the girl she would run of and tell people that a magical looking horse just saved her like, "wait a minute..... who the hell would believe that! maybe I can help...." I thought as I lowered myself so that I could go unnoticed until it was already to late, I stopped just about 10 feet and went into a jumping position, it was really a miracle that they haven't noticed me by now, probably because they were to busy fighting rather than paying attention to there surroundings.
Without waiting anymore time I pulled my body back to gain more momentum and jumped.
Becoming one with the Moon
Chapter 2
Now, I’ve had some dumb ideas in my life, did a few things I’m not exactly proud of, but jumping a mugger to save someone I’ve never met, and probably will never meet again? Yeah, certainly not one of my brightest moments in my boring, yet strange life.
I collided with the mugger and sent us both tumbling to the ground, as soon as I hit the ground wrapped I a fore leg around his neck and held with tight enough to restrain him from escaping, but not enough to actually hurt him, I could have just easily snapped his neck and be done with it, but considering that the girl was still here, that wouldn’t be a good idea, so I settled with the next best option, to stop the oxygen flow to his head.
He struggled for a few minutes before falling limp, After a few seconds I let go of him and stood up with a sigh, I looked around to see if I could spot the girl, but it looked like she ran away while I was choking that guy, oh well, I don’t blame her, I would have done the same thing in her position.
I walked out of the alley, making sure there was no one around, I quietly stuck to the shadows as I resumed my trip to my apartment .
“there it is! Get it!” Someone shouted behind me as I ran past buildings, ‘ So much for going unnoticed! ‘I mentally screamed to myself as I desperately tried to lose my pursuers as I turned corners, jumped over fences, and threw things at them, hopping to stall them enough for me to get away.
“ Come here you freak of nature!” One of them shouted again as they chased me through some abandoned apartments, Now, you’re probably wondering HOW I managed to fuck up so badly that a group of thugs are chasing me, Well, it’s…..A not-so-long yet complicated story, remember that mugger I knocked out? well, said mugger had friends, and said friends where not happy that I knocked out they’re friend.
I continued running for what seemed like hours, I look behind me and saw that most have either fallen behind, or simply gave up, strange… Oh well, I’m not complaining.
“Oh fuck…This was not what I expected!” I said as I rounded a corner and kept sprinting, I looked back again and noticed they still haven’t gone around the corner, But I can still hear them shouting though.
“ Damn…. For a second, I thought I got away from the fuckers….” I muttered as I look around for a place to hide, and sure enough, there was a wide open dumpster to the far right of what looked like an old abandoned warehouse, as soon as I got within jumping range, I hopped in the dumpster, which was surprisingly empty, for some odd reason, and quickly closed the top, hopping that the thugs didn’t hear the sound of said top closing.
“Wait, where is it!? I swear I saw it turn that corner! “ A thug, probably around the ages of 20, said.
“ Don’t you give me that bullshit kid! The boss is gonna have our heads for this you dipshit!” And older sounding one replied.
The argument continued for a few minutes before I heard them leave, with a sigh, I rested my back against the dumpsters side and started slightly hyperventilating.
“Jesus fucking Christ…. This is not how I wanted to spend my Saturday morning… I was supposed to relax, maybe own some noobs in battlefield… Not getting chased through an alley as a deformed horse thing… Fuck! “ I screamed out in frustration as I punched the side of the dumpster, expecting my han-…hoof to hurt, but instead of pain, I was presented with a fucking hole, I had literally punched a hole through fucking steal, I probably shouldn't have been surprised, considering all the crazy shit that was gone down this past few ours, but It did Surprise me, hell, Surprised is more of an understatement.
“H-holy fucking baby Jesus on a stick…..” I said in total wonder as I switched between the hole and my hoof with eyes as wide as dinner plates.
“ I….I fucking did that? What am I? fucking superman of something?” I said with total confusion as I slowly retracted my hoof from the gaping hole.
“This day is full of surprises……” I quietly muttered to myself as I shook my head and slowly started climbing out of the dumpster with unease, “ better hurry back to my apartment and find out what in the actual fuck is happening to me….maybe Carl will know…” I stopped for a quick second before snorting.
“ Yeah right, that dumb ass can’t tell the difference between a toaster and a microwave…” I said in amusement as I hopped down from the edge of the dumpster and look around in the alley, hopping to find a quick way out, and after a few minutes of searching, I found a small path way hidden behind some conveniently placed boxes that seemed to block view of the path perfectly, it’s almost as If someone didn’t want anyone else to go in, odd.
“Ugh… this better lead to an exit and not turn into some cheat horror movie….” I mutter as I step over a few items that were on the ground and enter the badly lit, long hallway-like path that leads to god knows where, totally not a cliché movie scene.
“Oh god…. I should have kept my mouth shut…” I say as my long ass horse ears lowered and I sped up the paste, hopping to get out of there before a clown shows up and starts swinging his hammer at me yelling something about fun… Oh great, now I’ve got that stuck in my head, if I wasn’t paranoid before, I sure as hell an now.
“Come on Dave…. You can do this, stop being a wimp and man up for fucks sake!” I said to myself as I gained some confidence, straightened out my back and walked forward with stride, however, that moment was short lived as I heard a noise coming from behind me, and reacted best way someone would have reacted, Ever.
“AHH! OH GOD WHAT THE FU-“I stopped mid-sentence as I turned around and saw a cute, fluffy white cat.
“O-oh…. Heh, I wasn’t scared… I was just…. Amazed about… T-the… the cat! Yeah!” I said to no one in particular as I nervously turned back and started walking deeper into the small compact path.
“Calm down Dave…. It’s just your fucked up Imagination… Nothing more… “ I whispered to myself and kept on walking, hopping that nothing else came and spooked the living hell out of me, and maybe, just maybe, get back to my apartment in one piece.
“Finally! An exit! “I said as I did a miniature fis-…. Hoof pump and ran up to the exit, expecting to come out on another hobo filled alley, but oh boy was I wrong, So very wrong.
“Yay fre-….. Oh that’s just fucked up…” I said with an annoyed tone, because, right in front of me, was one of those small conveniently placed rives, Hurray for me…
“Of course I had to come across the only river in miles…. Because getting to my apartment was easy enough!” I said as I threw my hooves in the air and started insulting whatever higher power decided to screw me over, half way to my curse filled rant, I caught a glimpse of what was on the other side, and sure enough, peaking out of the top of some houses, was my apartment, If it weren’t for the fact that I was still mad about the Stupid river in the way, I would have jumped in excitement, but unfortunately, that was not the case at the moment.
".....Well, at least I have THAT going for me....” I muttered as I looked at the river, looking for some way to get across it without getting dragged away by the tide, I kept on searching for the best way to get across before noticing a bunch of rocks, placed as If to act like a bridge that I could hop across.
“What the...... Okay, this is starting to look like it was set up.... Meh, whatever, I’ll deal with that shit later, Now, let’s see if I can NOT fail horribly…” I quietly said to myself as I walked up to the first rock, I very carefully set my hoof down on the first one, then the second, third before I could even register it, I slipped on the third one and went down faster than Kesha went timber.
“AH! God damn son of a bi- “ I was interrupted mid-sentence as I collided head first into a rock, then another, and another, and another, that process continued until the current washed me up on the shore of the River.
“Uhg… Never…. Again…… Fuck my spine...” I groaned in pain as I slowly dragged myself away from the river until I was a few good meters away from it.
“Jesus fucking Christ….that could not have gone any worse….” I muttered as I stood up and tried to shake of the water of my coat, just like a dog would do after a bath, never the less, that failed to get me anywhere as I stood there, still dripping wet from that little swim I had in the lake.
I sighed and started walking back to the street up ahead, not bothering anymore if anyone saw me, I was to fed up with the shit that seemed to follow me, I walked up to my apartment, strolled by the people in the lobby, took the elevator, walked out, insulted a few people, and entered my shitty apartment.
“Well, I could have just done that since the beginning……” I said as I shook my head angrily and headed past the living room and straight into my room.
“I need some fucking sleep…… too tired to care about anything..” And with that, I dropped on top of the bed, and drifted up into sleep.
