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>Click-click… Clack-clack…  
>it’s…  
>An egg? with… Legs?  
>Click-click  
>Legs with rather large claws  
>Clack-clack  
>It steps towards you.  
>You step back in turn.  
>It’s steps are quick and precise, with pauses in between.  
>With each step it takes forward you take one or two back.  
>You realize you backed up past your apartment door.  
>You turn to the closest door and slam your hooves against it repeatedly.  
>“HELP!!!”  
>“LET ME IN!!!”  
>No reponse.  
>The… Egg… draws in closer.  
>You back up more  
>You try once again on another door.  
>Again, no response.  
>Surely somepony has to have heard you knocking and screaming.  
>It isn’t long before you are backed into the end of the hallway.  
>What can you do now?  
>You size up the creature  
>The gap between the floor and the body seems big enough to run through.  
>Not like you have any other options.  
>Eyes closed you charge.  
>You must have angled yourself wrong as you feel yourself knock one of it’s legs aside.  
>After what you believe to be a few feet away you open your eyes and look back.  
>Just as you suspected you hit one of it’s legs.  
>The creature was trying to regain it’s balance, however it’s form would not allow to do so easily.  
>With a sharp misstep it’s body slammed into the wall which only further put it off kilter and pushed the base of it’s leg into it’s body with a wet crack.  
>Too damaged to maintain any balance it falls to the floor and breaks open.  
>It’s legs briefly jerk and muscles spasm as it’s contents spill out in front of you.  
>The urge to flee is overridden by curiosity.  
>You approach the body.  
>It really is just an egg  
>You Look at the yolk but quickly turn away  
>It was that same feeling you get when you accidentally look another pony directly in the eyes.  
>but it was just a yolk… wasn’t it?  
>Another sound is heard from upstairs  
>A soft gurgling  
>Nope, nuh-uh, nah, not dealing with that.  
>You stop in front of your door.  
>Perhaps… Maybe you shouldn’t trap yourself in your apartment if right now.  
>Not with something else in the building.  
>You run down the stairs and out into the streets.  
>They are completely empty  
>Not a single living thing is visible  
>Not a single sound to be heard beside your hoof steps  
>Where do you go now?  
>Taku…  
>Maybe… just maybe…  
>You have only been there twice but you’re pretty sure you know where to go.  
>As you walk down the streets you look into buildings to see if anypony is in them.  
>Nopony is there.  
>The lights in the buildings are out but the street lights seem to be working just fine  
>What’s going on?  
>Where did everypony go?  
>What was that creature?  
>Where did it come from?  
>Were there more?  
>Maybe Taku can help figure out what’s going on.  
>Assuming she didn’t disappear with everypony else.  
>Why didn’t you disappear?  
>You stop in your tracks.  
>“Why didn’t I disappear?” you ask yourself aloud.  
>That question bothered you the most.  
>why you?  
>If you can’t find Taku, or anypony else, answering that question will be your main goal.  
>Although you have no idea where to go to find that out.  
>You start walking again.  
>Probably about halfway to her place at this point.  
>something in the distance breaks the silence  
>A faint ringing  
>It doesn’t seem to be coming from your intended path which is a relief.  
>You’ll deal with whatever that is later, or ideally not at all.  
>As you walk you notice the ringing seems to be moving.  
>When you first heard it, it was coming from the west.  
>Now it’s coming from the south, where you just came from.  
>Was it following you?  
>You listen for a while.  
>It doesn’t seem to be getting closer.  
>After a bit it seems to be going east.  
>At least it’s not following you.  
>but the fact it’s moving is a bit worrisome  
>another sound suddenly breaks the silence.  
>“H-hello?!”
 
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