“If Equin was to descwibe Nickew City it wouwd be confowmity, not wike dah confowmity I descwibed in my jouwney to dah changewing hibes. Whewe one am woyaw to dah hibe dey wewe hatched in. Buh dah type of confowmity whewe if 'ou am seen as diffewent, am considewed an outcast, seen as wess den nothin.”
[An excerpt from the book, Book Of The Known World. Authored by Equin “The Adventurer”]
Once we were all down in the sewer Ix spoke with both a tone of excitement and admiration.
“Wow a pre civilization Sewer! It’s a bit sad you don’t see architecture like this anymore.”
Dar speaks yawning.
“'Ou am such a newd… Hey Kwistof since 'ou am coming, what am Vampiwe’s?”
Kristof speaks as Ix give’s an annoyed expression at Dar’s comment.
“A howwibwe gwoup! fwom what Kwistof knows, dey came hewe fwom out east awound 5 yeaws ago. Stawted out as just a smaww gang on dah suwface, buh soon aftah quickwy stawted gainin’ numbews especiawwy amongst outcasts, an’ those without famiwies. It was pwetty weiwd, fwuffy heawd dah weason many joined was somethin’ about dewe “cuwtuwe” ow somethin. Buh aftah dah fiwst yeaw of them bein’ hewe, we caught one of dewe membews committin’ a muwdah. Wiff hew dwinkin’ dah boo-boo juice of dah bictim an’ genewawwy fweaky stuff. Su aftah that we twied to get them out of dah city, an’ dey fwed undewgwound. We wewe about to go down dewe ouwsewbes, buh I guess house Bwuin saw an oppowtunity an’ awwied them. An’ dey hab been untouchabwe ebah since. WeeBee cuwse them!”
Drinking… Blood! I almost feel myself get sick as Charles speaks.
“WeeBee cuwse them? What? it doesn’t go wike that Kwistof, it’s Anu.”
Kristof looks confused as he speaks.
“Why wouwd Kwistof say Anu? WeeBee ouw most mighty patwon, an mummah of aww bat ponies am abobe him in ebewy way. am it diffewent in Motow?”
First there’s fluffies that drink blood and now they even follow a strange version of our religion! I have to stay strong, do this, get Enoch, and get out! (I have no idea how long I can last in this upside down place!)
Kristof and Charles continue to argue about religion as we pass through the sewer. Looking around the sewer was pretty dark with the little I could see being rusted jagged pipes, and large murky puddles of water that looked like they had been in that same location of years. After a few minutes we made it to a crossway with each path being in complete darkness. Thinking of where we were going to go, Ix spoke.
“You see any sigh of them?”
I speak looking at Kristof
“Yeah, whewe am dewe hideout?”
Kristof looked a little confused at our questions, eventfully speaking.
“Wook whewe not awwowed down hewe, su Kwistof doesn’t exactwy know otay’! twy findin’ some sowt of sign maybe.”
Looking we saw absolutely nothing, just empty damp sewer with only drips of water being it’s only movement. Walking the center of the crossway I tried to get a sense of if there was anything that could lead us in the right direction or give us a clue. Dar speaks.
“Spwit up maybe? Do that it be a wot wess gwound to cobe-”
Dar stopped as we heard something coming from the left with us being completely quiet. The sound was of something falling over than after a few seconds we heard another sound, the sound of, jiggling? We began to make our way over there with Charles yelling.
“WHO GOES DEWE, WEBEAW YOUWSEWF!”
There is now even more jiggling, with this time coming from multiple voices and directions. Than trying our best to see where all this noise was coming from I head IX yell.
“Look over there, follow them!”
I turn right and see a glimpse of a silhouette that was running. We all start running at it as fast as we can, sometimes tripping as we do. After turning a few corners it seemed we were losing them, but just than as we turned another corner we entered a area of the sewer unlike any other.
The place was well lit up, with wooden furniture laid all around like this was somebody’s home and wooden walls that hid the concrete. And than you also had the fact that…. There was dozens of fluffies all around us. We were in complete silence were these people the vampire’s? All the fluffies here wore brightly colored masks and outfits, and were all looking at us. Than finally Kristof shouted.
“Aww of 'ou! by my owdew’s fwom abobe, 'Ou must weabe NAO!”
Kristof’s threat had no effect on them as some started laughing and others came up trying to get a better look at us. Than they stopped suddenly, taking some steps back. I was so confused, why were they doing this? Than finally we realized, as we heard a voice behind us.
“Wooks wike we got us some fwesh meat! An’ on Daddeh’s big day nu wess!”
We turned to see who said that, it being a normal fluffy unicorn stallion. With him having a purple coat and dark yellow mane. He was wearing what looked to be some sort of black leather clothing with only the top half of his face covered by the same type of material with his eyes visible. He began to walk towards us and we moved away, he continued to walk reaching the crowd. Suddenly some started to speak, with me hearing one.
“Daddeh am home!”
Daddy, what? Some of them now started taking off there masks with this “Daddy” speaking again to the crowd that now surrounded him.
“Anybody wanna gib daddeh some sugaw?”
Sugar? One of the fluffies came up to him and removed his mask, with him also being a normal fluffy. He took out a small knife from his bag and made a cut of his wrist and as the blood started ripping down "Daddy started sucking it than went up to his face and began tongue kissing him. I was in complete shock when I saw the blood sucking, almost gagging! And I wasn’t the only one as Ix and Dark also gagged, than "Daddy spoke again.
“Oh Wobbie ‘ou awways know how Daddeh wikes it, Fuck am tuwnin’ me on! Buh wet’s not get ahead of ouwsewbes, we hab some guests… Dey nee’ ouw attention.”
“Daddy” and his gang begin to walk towards us with “Daddy” having a big smile on his face, and studying us. Ix speaks
“You’re going to leave this place now, you creepy bastard!”
More laughter comes from the crowd as “Daddy” looks at us and them with a fake shocked emotion, before looking back at us and… Sings?
♫Oh sweeties ‘ou weawwy am fwesh meat, wan’ us to weabe without a taste, on my bewy own biwthday♫
♫Am in my house nao, su come awound, as wewe goin’ to go an… penetwate♫
♫Wewe goin’ go aww night an’ wewe goin’ to… mystifie, as wewe goin’ show ‘ou ouw twuth♫
♫Su put am things down an’ wighten up, as we show 'ou dah time of am wibes at ouw most pwecious… Masquewade♫
The circle of gang members slowly begin forming around us, as one of them goes up to Dar trying to lick his arm, and he yells and pulls out his sword.
“STAHP 'OU PEWBEWT!”
That didn’t seem to stop them through and in a panic Dar swings it right at the persons face. There I a moment of silence as we hear a scream, and the person falls back with a giant gash on there face. We are all in shock as Dar breaths heavily and “Daddy” sings one last time.
♫That wasn’t bewy kind at aww, not at aww. So wiff aww dah vitwiow, I say dis♫
“Daddy” speaks again in a flat tone of voice.
“Kiww them…”
We raised out weapons as the first of the gang members began attacking us, they had only daggers so it shouldn’t be that hard. As they tried to strike us I dodged the first of there attacks, than as I was about to try and disarm the member infront of me, I heard screaming. Kristoff had plunged his sword deep inside the chest of one of the gang members and there blood and intestines had started to get everywhere. Ix speaks.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING!”
Surprisingly I heard Dar speak with him behind her.
“C’mon 'ou made an oath, it’s eithah we die ow dey, choose!”
Hearing this Ix seemed to have stopped talking as we continued to fight, and more and more gang members joined in. One of the Gang members tried running at me and turning they ran past me and I struck there back with my sword causing a giant gash and a scream. It had become clear that despite the number advantage none of these gang members had any experience carrying a weapon or fighting. Charles speaks.
“We hab to dwibe them back!”
The fighting continued and eventually as I had my back turned I felt somebody grab me and force me against a wall, I dropped my sword. It was “Daddy” he looked at me with a face of pure rage, but a deranged smile and spoke.
“‘Ou hab wuined mys biwthday! it’s a shame am goin’ to wip am fwoat out, 'ou couwd hab been quite dah eye candy…”
He opens his mouth and I can see sharp unnatural teeth slowly making there way to my throat. In pure panic I scream and pull him off throwing him against a wall before grabbing my sword and swinging it without care.
When I looked I saw “Daddy” with a stone faced expression before grabbing his throat. It was blood, I kille- I looked to see that I was covered in his blood and looking back at “Daddy” he spoke one last time.
“On my bewy own biwthday, you- you- bastawd…”
And with that he fell to the ground and died What have I done, I didn’t mean to swing it that hard, fuck! Looking at his body I saw something else, behind him water started leaking slowly at first but quickly started picking up in speed. Did one of us break a pipe? As I walked away from the corpse others started noticing he was dead and started to scream and cry that there “Daddy” was dead. And not just that the pipes that were broken started collapsing and more and more water started coming out, running in a panic I got to the others in my unit and spoke.
“Dis pwace am about to fwood, wet’s go!”
The water was now at hoove level when I spoke and seeing this we all had a quiet agreement and we ran out. Running in the sewer more and more of the rusted pipes began to burst open, and I could see gang members also trying to run for it and sometimes getting caught up in the rising water, unable to scream as they drowned. Making our way back to the crossway we decided to ditch our gear as if we wanted any chance of making it out we had to be faster. One I took off my last piece of armor and threw away my still bloodied sword, I could head the sounds of screams and splashing water coming from multiple directions. Making a last dash we could now see the exit and we started to climb with a gang member trying to grab us but stopped after a kick to the face. Once we were back on the surface we took the metal cover and place it over the hole, with us hearing the sounds of tapping, than screams, than nothing. We all now sat near the cover looing tired and fatigued, with me feeling extremely exhausted and we didn’t say anything, I began to lay down resting and soon after I was asleep. Fin
Thank you for reading my story! I hope to have Chapter 1’s finale done in around a week, And of course constructive criticism is appreciated. May you have a good day!