It was yesterday when i escaped that beehive, and i am in the desert once again.

I don't know who suggested going in the desert but whoever suggested it, is an idiot.

I have been walking here for hours without end, i was hoping that i would get out of the crazy horse land. I really thought that there would be other countries here but i guess not...

I was walking up a dune and when i got to the top of it i saw a small village a few miles away from my current position.

I sighed and headed there.

Once i was a little closer i could see that there were ponies, some griffons, minotaurs and zebras walking around.

All of the buildings looked the same, as if someone poured tons of sand on every house and just left it like that, i couldn't tell if the houses were made of sand or not...

It took me a few more minutes to get in to the town but eventually i was there, the whole village looked like it was only ment for trading, there were stalls around every corner and every stall was selling different things. From hay to fish. There also was a blacksmith here.

There was a few of the ponies and minotaurs who looked at me but they didn't say anything.

While i was looking around the town i saw that many of the ponies and some of the female griffons had a purse with them. I don't know why they are this far behind humanity in technology but still have purses.

I thought that if i wanted something from here i needed money and i don't think they pay with dollars.

The thought of stealing crossed my mind many times while just browsing the stalls.

Then i saw a pony who had a purse in her hooves, she was talking to a vendor and was so distracted that she accidentally dropoed her purse and didn't even notice.

I walked through crowds of minotaurs, ponies and zebras untill i got a few meters away from her.

I walked past her and grabbed the purse off of the sand, then i just walked like nothing happened.

I saw an alley not that far away from me and i slipped through the crowd of 'people' and walked into the darkness.

"I hope there is some money in here" i thought and opened the purse. My eyes widened as i looked what was inside it.

"They fucking use gold as currency?!?" I nearly shouted.

There was at least 70 coins in there and they were all pure gold. "I'm rich" i thought while smiling.

I stuffed my pockets full of the coins and i threw the purse in a dumpster nearby and walked out of the alley.

I continued wandering around until i found a huge tent in the middle of the town, there was a sign next to it that said "New slaves everyday! Come and buy one now!"

After i read it i really didn't think much of it, i know that if someone else would be in my boots they would have burned down the whole town but honestly... I don't give a crap, so i walked in the 'slave tent'

The coins in my pockets were doing a whole lot of noise so the owner of this place definitely heard it because a griffon ran out of somewhere to greet me.

He wasn't that tall, just up to my stomach and he looked like he sad seen better day's, he had a big scar going down his left eye and one of his wings was missing.

"Greetings" he said. "What brings you to my shop? Food? Slaves? Or just some..." He looked at my eyes "Personal toys" i heard a squeak from my right side after he said that.

"I'm just browsing" i said in my raspy voice

"Feel free to browse my friend, we just got new slaves today" he said, smiling.

It took me about half an hour looking at every slave and deciding if i wanted one. There was ponies, minotaurs, griffons, and a baby dragon, all for sale. It's a shame i can't buy that dragon it's 200... What did they call them again? Oh yeah bits. It was 200 bits, fucking 200 bits you could buy a castle with that amount of gold on earth.

I checked every single cage except one, the last cage was in the far corner behind a few crates, as i walked past the crates i stopped in my tracks and my eyes nearly fell out of my head.

Right there sitting in the cage was a human... A girl to be exact. She was sitting her back towards me and she looked like she was asleep.

She had rags covering her body, ain't that a relief.
She only looked like she was 8 years old but the weird part was that she had dog like ears that were sticking out of her brown hair.

I turned around and shouted at the old griffon "Hey, how much for this one?" The griffon walked to me and looked at the girl. "Ah you are interested in the exotic ones i see? I'll say... about 50 bits sounds fair"

"Alright" i said and gave him the money.

The griffon then reached under his wing and took out a key, he unlocked the cage and said "Wake up! You have a new owner now"The little girl woke up with a jolt and looked at the griffon and then at me.

She looked like she was going to wet herself, well i guess having a creature that smells like fresh blood, wearing dark clothing, a mask and red eyes staring down upon you would be pretty scary.

"Come on get out of the cage and go with you're new master!" The griffon said.

The girl slowly walked out of the cage and walked towards me, but stopped a few feet away from me. I mean i would want to get near myself if i was her.

The griffon then went to take some kind of black powder from... Somewhere. (Seriously where the fuck do they keep their stuff? Up their asses?)

"Put your finger in here and then put it on the middle of her forehead" said the griffon.

I did as he said, i dipped my finger in the black bowder and then got a little closer to the girl and then i touched her forehead with the powdered finger.
The area where i touched her runes glowed red for a second and then they vanished, then suddenly some kind of rune appeared on her neck.

In that time the griffon had put the bowder away again and said "Thank you for you're purchase, it was a pleasure doing business with you" and smiled.

Author's Note

Inspired by "The rising of the shield hero"
And no this ain't lolicon or anything like that...