You remember when you had all of those moments where you regret making bad choices? Of course you don’t, because apparently you can’t remember a thing. Neko was running alongside you as you were sprinting down the hall. She was no bigger than your upper torso, but she was growing almost too fast.

What you were doing is that since Neko was bigger, you wanted to teach her some new tricks. For the most part, Neko was really lazy, and didn’t do all that much but cuddle up next to you whenever you were on the couch watching TV. She was a very defensive tiger as well, the only other people she trusts were the friends that you hung out with. She could smell your scent on them, and that’s probably the only thing that’s keeping her from mauling them to death. The only other one that she wouldn’t try to kill was Fluttershy, nobody could ever hurt Fluttershy.

Neko was pretty much just a big soft ball of energy, like she was when you were first introduced to her by Fluttershy. The only problem is that you had to put away all of your precious things in hope that they wouldn’t be destroyed, and the only thing that happened to be shredded to pieces were your curtains, and now the only thing that’s keeping your privacy from the open world were the shutters.

“Neko, jump!,” you flicked your hand in an upwards motion, which also caused Neko to leap in the air.

“Good! Now roll over,” she did that as well.

“Alright, now… uh, now sic ‘em!,” you pointed over to her scratching post, and Neko pounced on it without hesitation. She started to shred it with her claws, and biting it with her razor sharp teeth.

That scratching post was the fourth one she’d gone through that week. It was hard to keep her fed, you had to make a deal with the local zoo if you could use some of their tiger food, as well as to keep Neko vaccinated. Celestia had to hook you up with those connections, since you had none, except for Celestia herself.

In speaking of Celestia, you haven’t visited her for a while now, and you were starting to wonder how she was doing. Since Molly was gone, you were left without an overly sexualized friend that constantly harassed you. You hoped that normal Celestia wasn’t wearing herself out, not to mention that she does it way too often.

“Alright Neko, let’s go.,”

Neko was able to travel with you because nobody really asks why you have a traveling tiger companion with you, but they did keep their distance from you. Besides that, Neko wasn’t a fully grown tiger as of yet, she was about as big as an Ocelot. Just so people out there know, an Ocelot is just a tiny bit bigger than a modern house cat.

Even though Neko couldn’t rest herself on your shoulders, she was able to fit in your backpack, which was good enough for you. You had about three backpacks, well, one was a bookbag, but aside the fact, you had a lot of shit to carry from class to class. Luckily today was the weekend, so you didn’t have to do anything, studying was already done, you just had lunch, and everyone else seemed busy today.

As you walked down the halls, you already had a destination in mind, which was straight for Celestia’s office. Luna told you that she got the PS4 already, and you were kinda excited to see how it plays. Other than that, Celestia had a pet Quetzal that she calls Philomena, and maybe Neko just might like her company. Either that or she just might try to eat the poor bird.

Walking down the hallways gave you some thought about what you could be thinking about: your love life, your love life of video games, or the fact that nobody really thinks that highly of you. You’ve always known that, you’re just there to be there, no real reason is needed. Neko glared at any student who got within five feet of you, which was nice since you didn’t really wanna be disturbed as of right now.

Neko started to claw at your back, which was a sign that something was about to happen. Whenever Neko tried to bite you or intentionally harm you, something always happens right after. There was one time when Neko bit your ear, and Pinkie came into your room with the school’s marching band, saying that you needed to be cheered up. Another time, Neko clawed you in the shin, and Applejack and Rarity somehow managed to fall through the ceiling, probably using magic to some extent.

“What is it this time, girl?” You looked up and saw a girl falling from the ledge above you. You couldn’t see who the girl was, and you surely have no idea why this only happens to you, but shit happens, right?

You dove and managed to catch her in your arms, or at least that’s what you hoped would happen. Instead, she fell straight onto your face, and the worst part is that she was wearing a skirt. Your face caught a mouthful of panties. Your face caught a mouthful of panties. At that very moment, you were thinking to yourself, “How the HELL does that even work?!?!”

The next thing you know, you were flat on your back, with a girl laying down on top of you. What happened next surprised you, as it turns out it was none other than Twilight Sparkle. The amount of facepalms you would be giving yourself tremendous. You were about to literally go cry in the corner now, because you can’t get married anymore. Of course, you didn’t plan on getting married until after college, but that wasn’t the point.

“Twilight? Why the hell did you just fall from the sky?!” You asked, and you could tell that she was bright red as well. You looked around to try and find Neko, and she was just chillin’ a few feet away, licking at her paws and not giving a fuck, like a typical cat.

“Uh, I, umm, I-it was an accident! I’m so sorry, Rainbow pushed me and I fell over the ledge and you were there and then things happened.” To sum it all up, this is what was in Twilight’s head: [WORRYING INTENSIFIES]

“Don’t worry about it, I’ll make sure to scold Rainbow later.” You picked up your backpack, wiped your mouth, and let Neko jump up into your backpack.

You didn’t want to feel like a douche, so you followed Twilight for a little bit, trying to console her over what just happened. You two conversed a little bit about everything, plans about after college, why you had a pet white tiger in your backpack, and even about your uniform fetish. Yes, you had a uniform fetish, in a non-sexual way of course, you loved uniforms: tuxedos, maid outfits, soldier fatigues, formal attire in general.

“So, you have about three suits in your closet, right now?” Twilight asked, and you nodded.

“On a completely different note, where were you headed before you were ‘pushed’ off the ledge?” You emphasized how she was “pushed” off of the ledge, because you didn’t even see Rainbow jump down after Twilight, and she was one of those types of people to do that.

“You make it sound like I did it on purpose!”

“Hey, I never said you did, never said you didn’t.” You said vaguely.

“Jeez, you’re so mean sometimes.”

“I dunno, I am who I am.” As you two started to near your destination, Twilight thanked you as she headed to her next class. You always admired Twilight's work ethic, because you had none, and you were completely okay with that. Knowing that, you smiled as she turned around to say goodbye for now.

“Well, I guess this is where we part ways. I’ll see you later!” Twilight ran off without another word. You waved back, and you turned around, headed back the way you came. When you were walking with Twi, you were going in the complete opposite direction of where you were headed.

You got out your iPod, for musical purposes of course, to try and distract yourself from all the inaudible crowd chatter. Of course, you had it almost at max volume, to drown out the noise of the crowd. As you stroll down the hallway, the lights started to flicker, until some of the lights lost power completely. Some of the lights were still on, but luckily for you, your backpack had everything. Earlier this semester you put an enchantment on your backpack to make it almost endless.

Neko was a special case, she wasn't able to fit all the way in your backpack even if she tried. Anything that's living cannot be put inside of your bottomless backpack, and you made sure of that by trying it yourself. You even had a few other things in there, but you didn't want to mention.

Reaching for your flashlight, you hold it in your hands just in case the rest of the lights go out. Neko started to breathe on your neck, she could tell that something isn’t normal. Well, it’s pretty obvious to you that nothing is ever normal at this place, but flickering lights is never a good thing. You then continued your search for Celestia’s office, maybe she knew what was happening. When you looked outside the weather seemed fine, so it wasn’t a weather related power outage, whatever was going on, you intended to find out.

Your phone started to vibrate, and so you answered it, still walking through the main hall, pushing spooked college students out of your way. When you asked who it was, it was Rainbow. You could tell that she was freaking out by the way she was breathing, she was breathing heavily through the phone, and her voice was shaky. So it wasn't just this area being affected, but the whole school itself.

“Hey, do you know what’s up with the power? None of my shit’s working the right way.”

“I was planning on finding out, I would tell you if I knew, but sadly I don’t.”

“Hey, if things gets worse out there, be careful.”

“Yeah, I got Neko with me, so I should be safe for now.” You hung up the phone, just when the whole building went dark. It was still daytime outside so the natural light lit up parts of the hallway, but the deeper you went, the darker it got.

“This is gonna be one hell of a day, right Neko?” As a response, Neko meowed and bundled up inside of your backpack, probably trying to get a little rest.

As a matter of fact, this was your first time taking her out of your room ever since you got her, she’s never seen the school, but you could tell that she was almost too familiar with everything. Continuing down the corridor, you stopped and heard a sickly moaning sound come from the dark end of the hallway. It sounded almost too cliche, something from straight out of the horror films.

“Please don’t tell me there’s a zombie outbreak.”

Author's Note

Sorry I took so long to update, for better or for worse, things have been getting complicated lately in my life.