Chapters PaP: The last pony of Europe
Hi? This works? One two one two is the microphone working? Yes. And the program? Yes.
Okay, ahem. Hello, my name is Marc Antoni but I prefer to be called Kiwi. If you find this journal in one of the files on my computer or wherever I end up storing it, read to the end, it may save your life.
I am going to start from the beginning, today November 6, 2020, Humanity has disappeared from the face of the Earth. And as far as I know,I am the only one left and I'm no longer human.
(heavy breathing sounds)
It was ... hard to figure out the situation. Yesterday I went to sleep like any other day, full of back pain from the rain and cold. For the reader to know, I am not a rheumatic old man, I am a young and handsome twenty-something with the bad luck of having broken my back by 2 places when i was 16 years old..
Well, still. When I woke up this morning I was feeling fucking awesome. So much so that i didn't even want to open my eyes. So I stayed warm and comfortable under the blanket until my mind started to wake up. Little by little I began to notice strange things. I was very warm under the blanket, too warm for the thin blanket I usually sleep in. Today was Friday, a school and work day and I couldn't hear my sisters or my father getting ready to start the day.
But the strangest thing of all was that my back didn't hurt, and that constant pain had been my companion for almost 5 years. What happened next was the predictable in my situation. I opened my eyes, tried to get up, and had an anxiety attack as I realized I was no longer human. A lot of screaming, broken pijamas, tears and more of that shit.
I am rereading what the Voice to Text program has written so far and I still have not said what happened to my body. I thought if I had said it, well, I say it now.
I am a horse with wings. A pegasus to be more precise. And i'm green.
If you don't believe me, I'm glad, that means this is all a nightmare or I've gone crazy. Either or I am in a simulation, or I have died and this is hell. The truth is that as an infernal punishment it is quite hardcore. Transform yourself into a disproportionate animal and see how the city you love is reduced to ruins, crying alone until I die. But I'm already dead.
As I have not yet managed to handle the camera of my phone with hooves, I will describe how I am now. I am a tiny horse, or what a 6 year old who has never seen a horse would think a horse is. I have grass green fur and the hair on my head and tail is reddish brown. My eyes are the same color as my hair and they are huge, bigger than is biologically possible. I have the same proportions as a Sailor Moon character but without magic and cool dresses. I don't know how such big eyes fit on such a small head. But the rarest are the wings. Yes, I have two new limbs and it is very unsetling. As I dictate this to the computer I am trying to move them and it is a strange feeling. Worst of all, they are tiny. And that sucks because flying is impossible with this tiny things!
This is like a wish from the Monkey hand, you give me wings to fly but they are tiny for my body.
Another thing i notice is im still able to talk! That mean im not a dumb animal.
The good thing about this whole debacle is that I don't need glasses anymore! And my back doesn't hurt anymore! And I'm alone, all alone.
I'm scared, no, I'm terrified. If only I had transformed I would be a bitch but I would have survived. But that all the other people are gone not fills me with anguish. I am a person who needs people around him, I need to love and be loved. I'm gonna go crazy!
Breathe Kiwi, one two… ..
Okay. It's not all that horrible. Although my family is gone and I have not seen anyone in the 5 hours that I have walked all over Valencia, it does not mean that I am the only one in the world. When I'm done with this I'm going to take advantage of the fact that the Internet still works and search. Surely there is someone else …….
Now the sun is setting over the city of València, a mediterranean urbe with big gardens, beautiful arquitecture , old and new , surrounded by rice fields, orange trees and apartament buildings in the medium of construction. Wait, im the last valencian? No, i hope there are more people in the rest of the Valencian Country. Maybe in Alacant or Benidorm ....
I dont know. Im gonna end this here, tomorrow im gonna start to work in making a plan of life. Burt firts im going to download all the singleplayer games i have. The Fallouts, all the Paradox games, Skyrim, The Binding of Issac Wait wait wait, i dont have hands. This sucks! And thats only in my Computer, the Switch is usseles to.
And i dont have my meds! The antidepresants and the adhd pills ! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
( a sound in the distance, like something scraching in a door..... silence)
Something is in my house. Im gonna see
(clops of hooves in the distance , a dog barking)
My dog is here!! Say hi to the computer Lucario!
(the barking of a dog)
My little and dirty dog.Yes you are , yes you are. Im really surprised really. Lucario recogniced me and thats is something. He is still my little brown old dirty dog. I love him so much.
Tomorrow is gonna a be a really hard day, time to go to sleep
Kiwi out
PaP: The last pony of Europe
Hello, Kiwi here.
Today I learned how uncomfortable it is to sleep with wings, in the end I had to get like a dog on the sofa in my living room to get some sleep. Although I am surprised that I managed to get some sleep, especially looking at the situation in which I find myself.
To start the day, I have started rereading a novel. Yes, it seems weird but it makes sense, let me explain. The novel is titled Mecanoscrit del Segon Origen and is about a boy and a teenager surviving the end of the world after an alien attack that kills almost the entire population. I don't know if what I am living in my flesh is also an alien attack or a cosmic event, but the novel can give me advice on how to survive.
The first thing is to get food, water and a roof.
Food is not going to be a problem, I am a horse and I can eat grass, but I will try not to get to that. First there is the food from the supermarkets. I'm going to assume that I can't eat meat anymore so I don't have to worry about meat rotting away as wasted food. Fruits and vegetables will rot if I don't keep them in some way. I can try to take all the perishable food from the supermarket to the cold storage but I don't know when the electricity will go out and stop working. I have to get generators and I think I know where there could be.
I think I forgot something ... yeah! Canned food! Food problem fixed. If I can use a can opener without hands, of course. But I also don't want to never eat fresh food again, I have to learn to produce something. I can eat from the orchards near my house, where melons, artichokes, cabbages, potatoes, onions and oranges grow .But I don't know how to grow those crops efficiently so that food source will run out too. Let's mark this problem as almost solved.
Next problem, water. There will be thousands of liters of bottled water all over the city so that's all. In the end I'm going to have to give thanks to the capitalist trick that made us buy bottled water with the tap water 100 times cheaper And to bathe or clean things I can use the orchard irrigation systems. That water comes from wells and from the Turia river, so it will not run out.
Last ,roof. Right now I'm in my house, an attic on the seventh floor of an apartment block, with a large terrace and views of the sea , the city and the mountains. The main problem is that I am on the seventh floor and the elevators will stop working soon so as much as it hurts I have to find another place to live. I don't have to move now, but it's something I'm going to have to do.
The simple thing would be to look for a two-story single-family house with a garage and storage but it is not that easy. And why is it not so simple, you ask? Two words, Gota Freda. If you do not understand what those two words mean in my language (after doing this I will copy and translate the text into English and Spanish, so that if someone finds it, it will be easier for them to read it or decipher what it says, like the stone Rosetta) La Gota Freda is a period of torrential rains on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula. It usually happens between October and November and leaves the city flooded. Living in a river plain by the sea with a river and a freshwater lake next to it has its disadvantages.
As you will understand, a first floor is not a good idea to live in. What I could do is keep living in my house but store my food on the second floor, so I have to climb fewer stairs. Or i could also learn to fly. Hahahahaha, as if that was going to happen.
With those three problems solved I can move on to other less important things.
I have talked about electricity before, I can get generators from the construction machinery in front of my house. If those hulks can power a crane, they can power my computer. For now there is still electricity in the electrical grid but when the fuel is out in the thermal power plants and the solar power plants break due to lack of maintenance…. O mare meua, I just remembered something and I don't know if it's good or bad. It is really very bad that I am going to fool myself. Nuclear power plants. With no one at the helm, each and every one of them will become a Chernobyl. Fuck fuck fuck, this is bad. The nearest nuclear power plant is Cofrents and it is only 100 kilometers away if the map does not fool me.
I'm so screwed. I'm going to finish this and go eat my last ice cream. then I continue.
Hello, 3 hours have passed and after an ice cream, two withered bananas and a nap I realized that I am an idiot. Well, I already knew but I confirmed it again. The nuclear power plants have a cascoporro of security systems, I am not going to die mutated into a monster. Well, technically I already am, but you know what I mean. As much as I like Fallout I'm glad my end of the world is not one with radiation.
One thing I have come to realize is that I need a weapon. Even if there is no one left in the city who can attack me to rob me, kill me or worse, there are still dangers. The dogs are going to go wild and in a few months they will run out of cats, rabbits or garbage to eat easily. And I will be a desirable prey and i don't want to think about the zoo animals.. I cannot count on Lucario to defend me, he is a small and old dog, he has hardly any teeth left and I am sure that if it weren't for me he would starve to death or be eaten by other dogs.
A firearm is out of the equation for three things.
First, here the only ones who have guns are the police and the hunters, we are not like in the USA that it is easier for a teenager to buy an automatic rifle than a beer. I wonder who would have won the election, the old pedophile rapist number one or the old pedophile rapist number two? I'll never know, and I'm glad.
Second reason, I have no fingers, easy and simple. Third and most important reason, I have a panic about firearms. I can see them on TV, in a video game or a book, but having them close to me physically gives me rejection and terrible nausea. Having the power to end the lives of others in such an easy, simple and safe way disgusts me. I know that all weapons are used for that but swords, bows and other weapons give you time to think about what you are doing, about the fact that you are going to kill someone.
I'm going to put my principles aside and think about it. In my house I have a sword. It is made of steel and I could use it with my mouth but it is not sharp, it is only for decoration and traditional parties . I could build a spear with a knife and a broomstick.
My mouth is dry from talking so much and it's almost 12 at night, I'm going to finish for today.
Kiwi out.
PaP: The last pony of Europe
Yesterday was my birthday, and I totally forgot. So to celebrate I have raided the pastry shop. The pastries were already dry and the bread was hard as a rock, but I celebrated with what I have.
This is not my first birthday that I celebrate alone, when I was 13 no one came to my party and that traumatized me a bit. At least my family was there….
After my breakfast / birthday today I went to the supermarket in my neighborhood for the first time. And as I fear the smell is horrendous. It's only been 3 days and the meat and fish are already starting to rot. I've gone through the rest of the food and the dairy and veggies are on their way to going bad too.
I have realized one thing, how am I going to transport the food to my house? Easy, a cart. One of the charms of València is that although it is a large city, you only have to walk for 2 minutes outside the city to find rural surroundings. And it turns out that I live right on the northern edge of town, where horses are still used for horse riding and horse pull competitions.
I just have to sneak into one of the country houses and steal a cart and harnesses. It will be easy.
An hour, an hour just to be able to sneak into the building and a half to be able to open the door from the inside. I have had to push cars that were parked nearby to jump over the fence and then slam the door down to enter the house as such. But I found what I was looking for, an old two-wheeled draft wagon with its straps. The cart was close to the stables, where there were 3 horses. They looked at me strangely and if they weren't animals I'd say even surprised.
After loading the cart with everything I could find that could be used to care for an equine (me in this case) and eating hay (which is not bad at all) I released the horses and released them in the city. I couldn't leave them there alone, they would have starved.
Now that I think about it, if this Phenomenon is worldwide right now there are millions of farm animals (pigs, cows, sheep, chickens) trapped. Many, many will die. But only in the next few months, not like before when we killed millions a day to supply the butchers. How long will it take to see wild pigs and dairy cows eating my lettuces? I hope that they start appearing soon, better a easy prey for the wild dogs.
I have parked the cart at the entrance of the block of buildings where my house is, under a metal roof next to the entrance. Now I am collecting plastic bags and I am going to do the shopping.
I'm back from shopping and it hasn't been very hopeful. There is less canned food than I thought and I had to go to another supermarket to fill the car, and I have also taken cans of water. It was difficult for me to carry the cart with all the weight, especially when it started to drizzle and the ground started to slip.
One really cool thing that I have realized while putting on and taking off the harness is that I can use the wings as arms, more or less. And if I bend my hooves in a certain way, I can pick things up. Will my body and brain settle into my new body? I don't know but keeping some manual capacity will help me a lot to make things.
I forgot to say it before but Lucario has accompanied me everywhere. When I was human, he didn't pay much attention to me, he only obeyed my older sister, but now he doesn't detach from me. As a reward for his loyalty, I have picked up dog food and treats from the supermarket.
It's 5 in the afternoon, I'm going to have a canned pineapple for a snack and take a nap, which i think I've earned with my hard work.
O Deu o Deu, the Internet still works! I had just gotten up from a nap and without much thought I sat at the computer and accidentally hit the Google search engine and it works! Very slow as when we stole the internet from our neighbor in 2006 but it works! I'm going to spend the rest of the day looking for activity on the networks. There is no way I am the only one left. There must be someone.
In another vein, I no longer have running water and there is a fire in the Serra of the Calderona. It seems small but it could become dangerous if I don't do something. And I can't do anything .
It's weird. Now that I think about it the only cars I've seen are those that are parked, there aren't any in the middle of the road. And if people suddenly disappeared as I thought had happened, there would be small fires everywhere, many people would have left the fire burning while they disappeared or the industrial zone would have to make a huge smoke.
It is like if something or someone has tried to stop the world from burning. I don't understand, well, I don't understand anything but this is something morethat I don't understand. What happened, why is there no one? Why am I a green horse with wings?
Why I'm alone… ..
Damn, it's getting late and the antidepressants are starting to stop working, tomorrow I'm going to double the dose. I can't afford to be sad, I have to survive.
I'm going to close today's post but before I am going to put a link to a song that I like a lot, maybe so whoever reads this in the future will be able to get to know me better. This song just came out a few months ago and is from one of my favorite bands . Then I will try to download it on my mobile just in case the internet dies.
Bona nit
The pink phantom
