#askravenfeather

Crayon opened the door to a room. “Auuuuu”, he subconsciously let out as he saw a room full of colorful images and fancy clothes sprawled around. “D-did someone already pick this room?”, he asked himself.

"No. No one lives in here anymore", Dusk said from behind him. He walked into the room and sat on a wooden chair.

"B-but whose stuff is this?", Crayon asked.

Dusk quietly pointed his hoof at a flatcap that sat on the bed. “It was his…..”

"…….. CD………"

The two sat in silence for a bit until Dusk spoke, “How did you last that long on the outside? Its very rare that anyone lasts out there that long, especially for a homeless pony”

Crayon reluctantly answered, “I’ve been living at the dump for a month…… trucks stopped dumping two weeks ago and I kind of ran out of food……. so I came into the city… and then Joen found me….”

Dusk picked up the little bowtie hung up on door, “huh, didn’t know Zombies avoided the city dump……. so listen Crayon, you have a home here, with food. But you have to help out around here if we’re all going to survive”

"We?", Crayon asked.

The one-eyed pony responded, “There’s some ponies who live in this building on the upper floors. Each of them have jobs to do here”

"Oh….. hey Dusk, who was that pegasus I saw earlier?", Crayon asked.

"That’s Raven Feather. She can see ghosts and other paranormal stuff. She was just seeing if you weren’t passively infected. If you were, she wouldn’t be able to smell your soul", he answered.

"My soul?"

"… yeah…. I would avoid her though…. her family was eaten last week and she says she can see them but honestly, I think she’s lost her mind……."

KNOCK KNOCK!

The door opened, “Heyyyy motherfuckers! Do youu know where I put my wallet?”, Joen asked with bottle in hoof.

Dusk facepalmed, “How in the hell did you get hammered?”

"Heah! I found a liquor store before I found this little shit!", the brown pony pointed at crayon.

"If you’re going to be drunk, do it somewhere else", the pony with the missing eye said

Before stumbling out, Joen yelled, “Later fuckers!

"Joen……… where are we going?", Crayon asked the brown pony that was leading him.

"The Goldgrove Apartment building, that’s where a couple of us are making base", Joen answered, keeping a lookout on the street.

Crayon took a look around the city street. Broken windows, smoke coming from crashed cars, bones sprawled into gutters. The little artist shuttered as he looked at this hell of a place.

"Don’t go pissin yourself twerp. Turns out those zombies can smell that stuff from a mile away", Joen told the shaking redhead as he slowly turned a corner.

"U-uh uh-ok", he started walking closer against the pony. He looked up and saw a large pale green building with lights still in it.

"Okay we made it…", Joen quietly said as he pressed a button next to the door. A small camera ontop of the door moved towards both of them. "I got some food and picked up a stray", he pointed at Crayon.

"Come in", said a voice from a speaker. The sound of the door unlocked as it propped open.

The two walked in and opened an elevator door. Joen proceeded to press “Floor 13” on the console.

"…… You have food here?", Crayon asked as the elevator moved.

Joen sarcastically responded, “oh no we’ve developed some way for ponies to go without eating…. of course we have food Twerp!”

"Oh………", he kinda sulked down.

The elevator opened to a large cage around the entrance

"Joen, drop your bag in the chute", a dark unicorn said from behind the cage wall.

"Fine Dusk", he put his bag in a large metal chute.

Dusk came closer to him. “Crayon, to be safe I need you to go through the door on the left”.

Crayon saw dusk with his own eyes. He had a patch over his left eye with a large cut over his face. A necklace of razor sharp teeth adorned his neck, almost like what was in Tootie’s mouth. The twerp entered the left door of the cage and followed a long corridor that led to a dimly lit room.

"You’re the stray Joen picked up?", a pony asked from behind the cage.

"… yes"

"I’m going to need you to stand still for a bit", the almost chocolate looking pegasus said.

Crayon stood there, getting a better look at who this pony was. She was a rather cute dark, haired pegasus. But something about her didn’t feel right.

"You check out, you can go into the next room", she said as she opened the door.

Crayon stepped into a room into the apartment floors lobby. There was Joen sitting with Dusk looking through the contents of his bag.

"Whose were these?", Dusk asked as he held up a 4 teeth with his magic.

"Jazzy, Rodeo, Tootie and………….", Joen’s ears fell a bit, "……. Kalyan"

Dusk carefully put the teeth in a jar of clear liquid. “Shit…… why did this happen to Tootie”

Joen saw the little guy from a distance, “Twerp, pick a room on the left”. The brown pony proceeded to pull a silver flask from his jacket.

Crayon quickly walked over to a nice little room with 1394 over it, “I-I have a place to sleep tonight………”

In the little apartment, beams of sunshine fell through the window. “Huhhnnn”, groaned Ray as he felt the warmth on his. The little pegasus moved only to feel some unfamiliar weight on him. He looked down to see Joen’s head resting on his lap.

"Nmmmgg…….", Joen mumbled in his sleep. His head rocked back and forth rubbing against Ray’s stomach.

Ray moved a hoof over Joen’s face. “He’s real handsome”, he thought to himself. He moved over Joen’s head to see white residue on his mouth, definitely from their “fun” from the night before. Ray blushed, remembering what he and Joen did on the couch.

"Ugghbreah", the brown earth pony stirred as he lifted his head. He sat up and opened his real slowly. "Hey Ray, you hungry?", Joen asked as he rubbed his eyes.

The little pegasus nervously answered, “… y-yeah..”, considering he completely forgot his meal from last night.

The earth pony got up from his seat and reached over to pick up his jacket on the door. “Let me take yaahhhhhh some where”, he yawned mid-sentence.

"…. ok…..", Ray walked over to kitchen and picked up a pair of black framed glasses.

Joen patted down his hair and asked, "You wear glasses?"

"... yeah, my doctor says I need to wear them more...", Ray reluctantly answered.

Joen headed over towards the door, "alright, you know where we can find a place to eat?"

Ray slowly followed him out of the room, "there's a little place a couple blocks away"