New life

when the two finally awoke a similar thing could be heard in both rooms. "Aww fuck" they said simultaneously, they both had a hangover for what they did last night. When Gilda arrived she asked Zach how to fix it.

"Get a lot of water down your system and you will get over it." Zach said in a raspy voice.

She then got a tub full of water out, and started chugging it down. when she was finished, she plopped down on the couch next to Zach and handed him a gallon of water. After they both stopped drinking, they started talking, to get their minds off of the pain.

"Why did that unicorn want you for his freak show?" Zach asked eventually.

She responded darkly, "they took me because I'm a griffin."

"But why would they take you, just because your a griffin?" Zach asked, "and why would anyone even go to a carnival if there are people there that can talk!"

"If you are surprised by that, just realize, we are carnivores. That and Griffins are rarely seen in equestria, we are outsiders in the population." She said, answering his question.

"Do they think you to be lower than them as well? Just because you are a griffin." He said, and she nodded. "That's some messed up shit!"

She scoffed, "how was your precious life then. You wish you could've stayed home." She said sarcastically. Zach then lifted up his shirt, to where he was shot in the back.

"This is what my people did to me. I almost died, and I would have, if the MC's didn't arrive." Gilda stared in disbelief as he put his shirt down.

"Your kind, did that, to you!" She was at a loss for words, "how di... But... If..."

He raised a finger up to her beak "shhhh " he commanded, "I am safe now."

After her break down, he went over to where they where the night before. "What's all this?" He was looking at a piece of paper that read: 'destroy the beasts with our brothers'

When Gilda looked at him she said, "I have no clue what this is but I like the sentiment it has." She looked at the paper impressed.

"Remember, we were drunk last night. " Zach said. "So let's not get any ideas."

"Are you sure, what if this is a message telling us to save the less fortunate from the hooves of ponys. Like me, you saved me, you could probably save others." She started saying, "there was a few others at the circus. I remember that there was a Minotaur and another griffin where I was held."

"Are you proposing that we attack this camp and free them?" Zach asked, unsure what Gilda meant.

"Why not," Gilda said, "if we free them they might have a chance to see their families again. Like how you gave me that chance."

"Ok, but we have to get ready and get there." Zach said, "and where is this camp. Because I can fight and I'm fighting for a good cause."

After a while of digging through what he had, Zach laid out his weapons and ammunition on the table. "This is a shotgun, it's what I use to hunt birds and the like. I also got a glock.45, This one is a 22. It is what I used to get the unicorn off of you. And this is my sniper, a Remington 700. That's all I got, but I also have a good 6" knife. I'll just use the knife to threaten them while you go in back and unlock all the cages."

"Are you sure your good with doing that, they might seriously hurt you." She said, concerned. "I don't know what I would do."

"Don't worry about me, they will want me to get in one of those cages anyway, so they won't start with violence." Zach was saying. "And plus I will just shoot them if they attack me."

Zach and Gilda walked, because it was only one mile away, and the car would have attracted attention. When Gilda was in place at the back, Zach walked up and pretended that he was a tourist. As he expected, the two workers were  overjoyed to see a 'new face' around and asked if he wanted a look around.

"That won't be necessary. I am just on my way to town." Zach said while walking away.

"No please, we insis." The two said simultaneously, "we want to show you a new attraction."

Zach pulled out his knife and said, "look I don't want any trouble, but if it's trouble you want, it's trouble you will get." The unicorns just laughed.

"So you know our game," one said while walking forward, "then you know your not getting out of this." They took the knife out of his hand using magic, and prepared for a fight. He saw Gilda working hard trying to open up the locks. So he reached into his holster and aimed it at them.

"Steve," the first unicorn said, "take the, toy-thing, from him so I can tie him up."

"I'm trying but it's not work-" BANG! a loud gunshot cracked through the woods, hitting Steve.

Zach turned the gun towards the first, raised it up, and shoot the second one twice, in the head, creating a nasty hole in his muzzle and eye socket. He fell, blood being emitted from his face. Zach picked his knife back up, sheathed it, and checked the pulse of both of the unicorns. Both dead.

"Zach! What was that!" Gilda said, looking worried, "are you ok."

"I'm fine," he pointed towards the pony bodies, "but they aren't."

"Zach are you ok," she asked, curious this time, "you are glowing."

"What do you mean," he looked at his arms and realized, "AHH, I'm glowing!"

He then started to spaz out, and feel a tingling sensation all around his body then passed out.

"Princess, something peculiar has showed up on the magic map!" A guard told his princess.

"Send some troops out to investigate." She said, "and catch this anomaly." She said with a smile on her face."