Would you believe me if i told you that the world was a kind place? well... i would say that it isn't...some would agree, others would disagree. the answer to that question rests upon the way you look at the world. some people go through life all sunshine and rainbows... others are made to suffer. and those who suffer usually are made to suffer for good reason, simply because they are scum, and they made the wrong choices in life. but what about those who suffer and have done no wrong? how can such a thing be... the kindest of people... brutally murdered, raped, tortured... for what? pleasure? money? power?
believe what you want... but the world is not a kind place. oh no... this world is a festering swell of hatred and evil. hatred and vile intent lurks around every corner. people fear the dark... like they should, because that's where the monsters are. i'm not talking about the dragons up in the mountains... or the undead walking the marshes... or even the creatures stalking the dark forest. i'm talking about the real monsters... the ones wearing the faces of people and ponies you pass on the street. the ones who can fake a smile and then stab you're back the second the lights go out. i'm talking about the people who ruin the lives of other for personal gain. but before you should decide that... you should know the world we live in...and what its done to me personally.
in this crazy...crazy world we live in, where humans and ponies co exist. humans have their vast understanding of sciences...and the ability to use most tools other cannot with our opposable thumbs and nimble statures. pony shave brought something just as deep and complex as science and tools, but vastly different... they offer us magic. science is mathematical and understandable... magic is the opposite. magic is irratical and spontaneous... unpredictable...but at the same time very predictable. when both are used for the right purposes they can create wonderful things... but when used wrong... people will die... in the flash of a light, a wave of magic or radiation countless lives can abruptly end before they had a chance to begin. and although i live... my life was over before it could begin.
my name is Zachary Miles. and i'm a freak... and outcast... why? because technically my entire existence shouldn't be a possibility. my mother...was human... my father however... was a unicorn. in this world relationships between ponies and humans isn't all too strange. it happens, and while most people disagree its still there. its not the fact that my mother married a pony... its just the fact that i've been born. many marriages like that have been made... but none have ever produced a child until now. you would think that something like this would be a miracle... but its quite the opposite. i learned at a young age that people are afraid of things they don't understand.
all through my childhood i was treated as an outcast, bullied, and beaten. i had to learn how to fight just to protect myself, and i always carried a pocket knife around with me, even to school. but that something like that wasn't too much help, but it made me feel better. i grew up with almost zero friends, any friends i did have didn't last. by the time i was 20 i moved away from my hometown of . i moved to ponyville to begin a new start, took everything i had, which wasn't much. i have 3000 bits to my name, a bunch of old stuff from my childhood, and my name, which also wasn't worth much. i moved to ponyville... and i can tell you, that life didn't exactly get better... but it wasn't as bad a before. were nopony knows who, or should i say...what i am.
i'm not at the young age of 22, i live in a shitty apartment in the bad parts of town, i work in a dead end job, and i smoke like a chimney. and still people hate me. my co workers hate my guts, buy boss barely notices i exist, my landlord is an asshole like 24/7. the only person who's ever nice to me is , the sweet old lady living under me who sometimes bakes me pies. i live at an apartment building, which is rather cheap, but comes with only 3 rooms. bedroom, bathroom, and livingroom/kitchen. the rent is 350 a month and i have to provide my own heat and air conditioning. so in the winter i plug in my space heater...in the summer i have a fan... that's it. its not that bad... except for the people that live next to me. other than , the rest of my neighbors are all scum. the girl next door, Noel, is a whore, and that's not an insult... i see her bring new men in every other day... and i hear what goes on. the apartments are shitty, so of course they've got thin walls.
one of the tenants, Sam, is a pothead drug dealer. i can tell because he smokes more than i do, and it's certainly not tobacco. they guy living on the very end of the second floor is bruce, a good for nothing lowlife that beats his girlfriend and drinks constantly. but of course this part of town would be like this, its not the cleanest. i read before that ponyville used to be a nice place... and parts of it still are. the half i live in the human district... then there's the pony district. the two districts intermingle, but the housing is different. i work at a shitty little corner store at the edge of the human district, it doesn't see much business, but enough to keep it going.
Before i said that the world is a vile and corrupt place... this is true. and the people who say it isn't are simply blind to the real world. the world is like this simply because of the people that live in it. the kind that take advantage of the weak. the kind that lie cheat and steal their way to the top. those who rape kill and brutalize others to get what they want, those kinds of people are a cancer to this world... and i'm certainly not helping to stop them. people, by nature, are greedy and evil... but what if i told you that people can change? they can become something greater. well it turns out they can...believe it or not. people can change... and all they need to change is a little bit of love.
i never believed this either... until i met her, until i made a friend, and until everything about my life started to unravel and take form simply because for once in my life somebody was kind to me. i was always told i was special, that there's a reason i was born. i never believed a word of it, i thought it was all crap. well i take it all back... sometimes people are made to suffer only that they can become stronger. all my life i've lived in darkness...wondering if i'd ever escape... and that's when it happened... i saw a light... it was faint... a small flame. but when i saw it i knew that if i cared for this light, and nurtured it, the fire would grow, and give me light and warmth. and it all began on that one day after work.
"and where do you think you're going?" asked a woman behind me. jessica. my co worker. i looked back at her and pointed to the clock over the door of the small convenience store.
"6 o'clock..." i said. "my shifts over..." i said zipping up my hoodie as i got ready to head out.
"whatever...see ya later loser..." she said with a snarl.
"love you too jess..." i said sarcastically as i opened the door and left the shop. as i left the shop into the bitter cold of winter i stopped just outside of the door. i reached into my back pocket and pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter... just a quick after work smoke. i lit that cigarette and made my way home. but i didn't make it far in one direction before i suddenly remembered... i've gotta get some groceries. i'm not a good cook... so my groceries consist mainly of easy to cook meals and frozen dinners. its not a fabulous living... but its a living nonetheless. so with that in mind i immediately turned around and started heading the other way towards the local grocer.
the walk doesn't take too long, only about ten minutes and i was there. i like to go to this grocer because its in the nicer parts of town, and its a lot cheaper than most. i made my way inside and checked my wallet to see how much i had to spend. $47... that's all i had on me. its not much... but the food i buy is cheap...so its plenty. i grabbed a basket and made my way down the isles. frozen dinners, and ramen... as well as some milk.. that's all i need. i carried my basket of crap food to the counter and the cashier ringed me up to a total of $25.37. i payed the nice young mare, bagged all my stuff and headed out. i made my way out of the store and took a small detour through the park. the reason i took this detour is because usually its just nicer to walk in the cold, plus my neighbor Noel is probably in the middle of her 6 o'clock "meeting" right about now. the woman might be a whore... but she's very punctual. and in all the times i've actually talked to her, she seems like such a sweet thing. i remember asking her once why she did this to herself... and all she said was. "times are tough... you gotta do what you can to get by."... fucking, amen to that... though i'm not very keen on selling my body anytime soon, not like anybody would want it anyway.
i was walking through the park with my head in the clouds when i was suddenly pulled back to earth by a loss of balance. i was falling... not, i tripped over something. i then hit the ground dropping my groceries and letting out a pronounced" oof. and my "off" was followed by another sound of the same kind. but it wasn't mine, it came from someone else. i turned around on the ground to see that i hadn't tripped over something... but rather ran into someone...or somepony, i should say. she was a purple coated pony with a unicorns horn and purple hair. she shook her head and looked over at me. suddenly a feeling of regret and worry washed over her face.
"oh my god are you alright?" she asked. "i had my head in the clouds i didn't see where i was going." she started saying things out loud and apologizing. i was taken aback, simply because this is the first time anybody has ever acted this way towards me.
"uh... yeah i'm fine no worries..." i said giving her a faint smile. "to be honest... i had my head in the clouds a little bit too." i said. she looked at me and gave me a faint smile.
"oh... you're groceries...i'm sorry let me get them." she said standing up. as i started to get up her horn began to glow and so did all fo the groceries that had fallen to the ground. the hovered up into the air and remade themselves in their bags and then slowly floated over to me. i grabbed the bags and smiled.
"uh... thanks." i said smiling. we just kind of awkwardly stared at each other for a moment until the mare spoke up.
"OK well... sorry..." she said. "i've gotta get going... i'll see you around i guess..." she said.
"ha...yeah, see you around i said awkwardly." then we both turned around and went our separate ways. i didn't realize it at first, but that simple collision, wasn't just the one and only time i would ever see that mare. i didn't even give her my name, and she didn't give me hers... but i had no way of knowing that wasn't the last time i would see that mare... no, in fact i would be seeing her again very soon. the next time it would be more than just running into each other, literally, in the park.
i guess i will see her around...
-Authors Note: Well... you guys really seemed to like this story too... even if it was completely out of control... but this ones going to be different. its not going to be as dark and depressing... more... run of the mill slice of life... now... if you have read the original work, then you know whats coming and that's fine... just, no spoilers please. and unlike the first one... this story is going to be less... crazy, but still crazy enough... because it wouldn't be one of my stories if it wasn't crazy right? anyway... im taking this one more slowly... i dont have a plan exactly on the specific direction i want the remake to have... but ill burn that bridge when i get to it... anyway have a great new years... and i hope you all love this new remake.
-Stay Shady... ^3^~3