Life after the Party or Picking up Monster Girls

Life after the Party

Or

Picking up Monster Girls

Chapter Seven

(Nick’s P.O.V.)

I felt the warmth of the body beside me, which was nice considering I had fallen through the ice. It was supposed to be a simple trip to the skating rink. Some ice skating, explaining that I’m not a prize, and of course just relaxing beyond that. The plan changed the moment we walked outside. There were more than a dozen roller rinks in the area, and I knew that there were a couple of ice skating rinks as well. Instead of going to a place like that we ended up a large park with a huge pond on it. The entire thing was covered in ice, and I was worried that it could be a little thin.

After expressing that Yuki walked toward the pond, touched it, and shen smiled, “Nope, the ice is nice and thick.”

With that she walked back to the truck, got her ice skates, and soon Pinkie Pie was joining her. I looked back at everyone else that came, and I realized that they had the good sense not to be going out to an iced over pond. Unfortunately I wasn’t so lucky. I laced up my skates, stepped out onto the ice, and instantly I regretted it. It had been an exceptionally long time since I’d skated, and even then I wasn’t a strong skater. I took a breath, looked up, and I could see both Yuki and Pinkie doing circles around me. Pinkie was jumping and landing with ease, she twirled on the ice almost as if it was as easy to her as walking, and Yuki seemed to be doing just as well. I managed to not fall on my ass.

That was a huge step in the right direction in and of itself. I moved toward the girls, watching them, and then I noticed that their skating was no longer just showing off. The two of them were beginning to cut deep grooves in the ice itself. I stopped as I felt the section I was on flex a little.

“Ummm, girls?”

Yuki landed with a flourish, and in doing so caused the lines cut into the pond to begin to crack. I scampered back in a desperate hope that I could escape, but instead I watched as the section I was on tipped up and I slid down. My eyes widened as I went under, and to my surprise and fear, the section righted leaving me under the sheet of ice. I pounded on the section, some part of me realizing that it was pointless.

I’d heard of dozens of stories with this happening in it. Out of all of those stories there were maybe two that had happy endings. Still, I hit the section of ice, pounding against it, trying desperately to get past it, and I found it just as stuck as it had been. My lungs burned, and my vision began to get blurry on the edges. How long had I been down here? A few seconds, a couple of minutes? How long could the brain go without oxygen… Somewhere a distant memory spoke up saying seven minutes. I needed to breathe, but there was no air trapped down here. I felt the coldness of the pond caress me to my very core, and my determined pounding against the ice became meager scratching. Somewhere I felt something cold touch me. Turning I saw a sad face, a girl’s face to be sure, but sad. She hugged me.

For some reason I felt peace. Darkness began to overtake me, and I took some solace in that I wasn’t alone.

(Pinkie’s P.O.V.)

I smiled as I finished what I was doing. I was the best at scoring the ice, and I was pony enough to admit that Yuki was pretty good, but she hadn’t seen all that I could do. I looked around to smile at Nicky, but he wasn’t there. I moved toward where he had been and I noticed the ice was all wibbly wobbly, kinda like how that nice Pony that owned the weird blue box in Ponyville said time was like… Anyway I couldn’t see him, but I heard something, and I looked down. My eyes widened as I watched Nicky sink into the pond.

“Told ya that I was better at… Where’s Nick?” Yuki asked.

I shook my head, tears going down my muzzle. Nicky was sweeter than frosting, and I was being such a party pooper trying to prove that I was better than Yuki… I slammed my fist against the ice and I felt it give way. I did it again and my hand went through. I began to go into the water, but Yuki stopped me.

“Let me, you might freeze, I won’t have that problem, just keep the hole open.”

With that she dove into the water, and I watched for a few seconds. After a bit I saw Nicky come up and I grabbed him, pulling him out of the water. I helped Yuki up as well, and both of us took him off of the pond. I couldn’t feel him breathing, and I began to do what Dr. Horse had taught several of us. After a few moments he began to cough up water. I looked at Yuki and she looked exactly how I felt. I glanced over at Fluttershy and Josh, seeing them rush over with a blanket, and together we got Nicky to his truck.

Josh got the keys to it from Nicky’s pocket and I just pulled Nicky against me as I held him in the back seat. I’d never been scared like that before, and now that I had I didn’t want to be scared like that again. I held onto him as we left the park. I could hear something outside hitting the truck. Looking up I saw something off. I could see through her, it was as if she wasn’t there, but regardless I could see a girl, and she was trying to get into the truck and trying to get to Nicky. I held him tight as the truck took off, and I closed my eyes.

I begged him to be okay, I kissed his forehead, held onto him, and I hoped that every single moment I had with him wouldn’t be the last. I had expected us to head to the house where we all lived, but instead we ended up at the hospital. We went inside, and I saw the nurse that was working look up at us, groan, and then prepare a clipboard with what looked like several pages. Josh took the pages, and we all sat down. He began filling them, and then I saw him talking to Nicky. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I kept holding onto him, trying to keep him warm.

Saint Francis Hospital

Emergency Room

Nick’s P.O.V.

I shivered as Josh asked me about my insurance. I fumbled in my pocket for my wallet, grabbed it, and when I pulled it out I couldn’t hang onto it. Yuki picked it up for me, and she handed it to Josh. Josh dug around in it for a moment, and then he smiled as he handed the wallet back to me. I dropped it again, but this time Pinkie picked it up, and I felt her hand slide into my pocket with my wallet.

The way she was warming me up felt wonderful. I knew that it had to be cold for her, and most likely I had ended up soaking her sweater through, but she didn’t seem to care. I looked up again and I could see that girl’s face from under the pond. She looked sad, but she was also moving her mouth, trying to say something to me. I felt her press her hand against my forehead, and a soft chill went through me. When it did I heard her voice.

“Why didn’t you want to stay with me?”

I looked at her, “I couldn't, I would have drowned.”

She just continued to look at me, the sad expression never leaving her face. I felt Pinkie next to me, and she seemed to grip me tighter. And then I heard her whisper, just barely loud enough that I could hear her voice right next to me.

“He’s my stallion, not yours.”

I wanted to ask her if she saw the girl too, but soon we were heading into the back. Within minutes I was being seen by the nurse, sent to a room, and then I was being treated for severe hypothermia. I lay there, seeing the girl that was under the pond, and as everyone but Pinkie and Yuki left I could see her becoming more solid. I could still see through her, but I saw Yuki looking at her in what appeared to be amazement and a little fear.

“You should have stayed,” she said. Her voice sounded like a whisper on the wind, but I could hear it perfectly. Pinkie however moved over me, I felt her warm radiating onto me.

“He’s my stallion, not your’s!”

The girl looked at her, “He should be mine, he came to me, where I stayed,” she said.

The doctor came in, looked at what was in front of him, and shook his head, “Call the Interspecies Coordinator, we have another one,” he said.

The girl stood there, watching us, and after about fifteen minutes Jana stepped into the room. She looked tired, and when she saw the girl she sighed. She stepped forward with what looked like an old sheet of paper. It looked odd, but when she touched it to the girl the girl gave out a scream, fell, and suddenly she was far more solid than she had been.

“What did you do?” she asked.

“Name?” Jana asked.

“T...the floor! I can feel the floor!”

“Seriously, name,” Jana said again.

“Pamela Smith, I can feel the floor!” Pamela said.

Jana rolled her eyes, “Good for you Pamela, now, what year is it?” she asked.

“Ummm, 1978, right?”

Jana shook her head, “Okay, it’s actually 2019. What was the last thing you remember, besides finding our friend here?”

Pamela looked at her, “I was with my boyfriend Rick. He got mad that I had sucked off Jimmy. I mean I can understand why, but Jimmy had a killer Trans Am. It was just like the one that Burt Reynolds drove in Smokey and the Bandit. We… we got into a fight, and we were near the fishing pond. He… Oh God, Rick hurt me…” she began to cry, “he… stripped me, and then he… I remember he took me out in the boat…”

I watched as tears ran down her face, “Why are you making me remember this?”

Jana looked at her, and I could see the compassion in her eyes, “Do you remember Rick’s last name?”

She nodded, “Kingfisher,” she said, “I’m dead aren’t I?”

Jana nodded, “You are, and you are a class five intelligent haunting. It means that the Innerspecies bill does affect you. You have rights, and one of them is to face your murder, if he is still alive, and ensure that he faces the justice he deserves. We will ensure that he is arrested if he is alive,” she said, “for now you should be able to wear clothes, walk around, and exist outside of your resting place.”

She looked at Jana for a moment, “Wha.. what does that mean?” she asked as she touched her hand.

Jana smiled at her, “The paper I touched you with is a spell created by a necromancer for us. It basically allows you to take a more physical body. You can’t die, because you’ve already died, but your body can take damage. It’s made of a sort of ectoplasmic material, and for all rights and purposes it is pretty much the same as a human body.”

She looked confused, “Basically, for as long as you want you can live with the ability to touch, feel, eat, sleep, and almost everything else a human can do.”

She looked ecstatic, “but where am I going to live?” she asked, “I mean I was living in the dorms at Northeastern State University down in Tahlequah, but if it’s been that long…”

Jana looked at me, “Well, I suppose for the time being we can temporarily put you into Mr. Cooper’s home. His place is already designed for Demihumans.”

“Umm, What?!” Yuki and Pinkie both asked.