It was my 21st birthday. It was a great day. Several of my buddies came over and we went drinking and gambling for the first time in my life, well the first time legaly.

Its nice in the casino's. These sexy waitresses bring you free drinks all night just so you keep gambling. It was getting on to 3am and my funds started to get a little low so I went and hit the nickle slots. I spotted one that looked very out of place. It was alone tucked into the corner, digital screen, and some cool video like something you would expect out of a Brothers Grim tale.

I got very lucky on this machine. It was broken. I put my nickle in to get it going but it never took my nickle away, even when I lost. My winnings just kept piling up. Occasionaly, the machine would laugh like that stupid clown from Slingo, did this about everytime I won. I thought it was a bit creepy.

My winnings just kept piling up. I started to think that my Birthday was really special. My mother didnt even want me to go out, she said it was too dangerous, but what did she know, I was going to come home a millionair and the Million mark was getting closer. I couldnt wait until it was time to cash out.

At just short of One Million I got a messege on the digital Screen with that stupid Slingo Clown Rotating in the bottom corner. It said, Cash out now or Continue. What the hell, must be part of the fantasy part of this games theme, the casino wants to scare you away before you cut in to their quarterly profits. Well, Im not a fool this game was playing so well and giving me too many jackpots to walk away. I hit continue. That stupid clown started laughing again, the screen became very bright and I passed out listening to the words, time to pay your debts. Stupid bouncers must have snuck up on me.

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I woke up in a horse stable in what looked to be a farm. Or maybe the pussycat ranch, the night may have turned out much better than I thought. I was alone in the stable with fresh straw, two horses and a cow were my neighbors in the other stalls. I got a bad feeling when I spotted a sheep roaming free nibbling on some grass growing on the floor. Unfortunatly, the headache was preventing me from doing anymore investigation. All I knew was that I was in too much pain and the owner would just have to find me laying here. I'll worry about that grinning sheep later, God I hope I wasn't that drunk.

I don't know how much longer I passed out, but when I woke up I saw a young woman moving about tending to the animals. "Oh, your awake," she said.

"Ya sorry about that, I guess I was pretty tired to have fallen asleep here. You wouldnt know why I'm sleeping in straw do you," I said.

"Well, you arrived very late last night and father said he didnt like the looks of you. He didnt want sleeping inside with me and my vaunerable sisters." She said this with a michivious smile that told me her and her sisters wernt as vunerable as daddy thought. "so we put down some fresh straw and put you in here with the other animals."

"funny" i said, trying to laugh with her. My head was clearning a little but I was thirsty and hungry, I was ready to start moving around and find a McTasty's for breakfast.

"Breakfast will be ready soon, before then would you give me some help with this hay while I fill the water troufs." she said.

"sure thing, how about your name first" I said with a groan as I got to my feet.

"oh I should have known your like any other man, forgetting my name after only one night." the blush on her face gave me the impression that daddy may not have been very succesful last night afterall. It made me second guess breakfast. "My name is Linda, dont be so serious"

"Drake" I told her as she walked outside to the watering pump.
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Breakfast had me wishing that I had found the Pussycat Ranch. The father sat there quietly, giving me looks once in awhile. Linda and her four other sisters Darla, Trisha, Morgan, and Robin all just sat there and chatted like noisy birds. Way to noisy for my hangover.

And the things they talked about gave me some insight to why the father looked so defeated and barely said a word unless it was, huh, and Ok. I could tell I was the main topic of conversation, but the booze must not have completly worn off since I didnt understand half of what those girls were saying.

"oh, he's so cute"
"ya, you think we can keep him"
"sure if the wraith dont find him first"
"I wonder how big his .....is"

"um...thanks for the breakfast, but I really should get going....do anyof you know where my car is...." I said this with my growing feeling of being someone's next meal and the girls looked at me very confused.

"Drake, we really dont know what a car is, but its probably best you dont go anywhere for now" Morgan chimmed in.

"I dont get it," I said. "why cant I leave"

"Its not that you cant leave" Linda said. "Its probably best that you just dont leave, at least not until father has given you some training,"

"Ok, now your all really confusing me, So I'm just going to find the highway, this has been nice but.."

"Sit down" the father said. The first time he really anything to me. "Girls leave the room, I need to talk to our guest"

The girls took off pretty quick as for the first time that morning they were taking something seriously.

"Look mister, I dont want any trouble, I appreiciate your hopitality, but I'm getting a weird feeling and I just dont feel like I should stick around anymore" I said while trying to sound more serious than freaked out.

"My name is Lars and I understand why your freaked out, but there are somethings your not aware of with your current situation that need to be explained before you go wondering off" Lars said.

"ok, but I'm trained in judo and if you make any sudden moves I will defend myself"

Lars gave me a look and laughed. "First off Drake, you dont know shit until I've trained you. Second your no longer on earth."
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O_o That was crazy. I really hope you plan on continuing this since you left it off on such a cliffhanger, I'm interested to see what happens next.

Yeah, I said something like that a week ago in the Cannon, when you gonna give us a second part?

yeah lilbit more please. <- ambiguous huh.

holy shit, i forgot about this story.