“That was amazing! Thanks for taking me to this years video games competition mom!” Said Button Mash hugging his mother in excitement for letting him go to a game competition that was hosted in Downtown Maretropolis.

“No problem, buddy. Hunh? What’s that?” Said Milano.

“M...must……… feed.”

“Mom, that thing is scaring me.”

“Hunger…… Pain……… FOOOD!!”

“BUTTON, RUN!!!”

“MOM-!!”

*CHOMP!!!*

(Maretropolis abandon hotel)

   Kaoru woke up from her binge induced slumber, as she found herself in an abandon hotel on the floor. She pulled herself up and began to groggily walk towards the sink in the bathroom. Kaoru was looking at herself in a mirror. Seeing the new body she had while trying to wash the blood from her face and mouth. The girl looked in her hands. Horrified and scared.  

“W-what have I become?”

(Baltimore, Maryland 3 months ago)

“June come on! Stop stuffing your face with sweets and let’s go!”

“I’m coming, I’m coming geez your such a pain in the ass you know that April.” Said June munching on a donut.

“Not as much as that donuts gonna be when it hits your thighs.”

“What did you say?”

“Nothing,” April said in an innocent tone. “Now come on we’re gonna be late for the convention.” She said pulling on her friends arm.

“H-Hey stop pulling on me you’re gonna make me drop my donuts.”

[Inside Sakura Con]

   The duo made their way into the convention passing by most of the shops that were either still opening up, or were already up and running. April was excited to be here seeing how this was her first if ever time being at an actual convention. June on the other hand was pretty much not so excited, not that she didn’t mind going or anything but she pretty much was hoping for their to be food available.

“Dammit doesn’t this place have any food or anything?”

“Don’t you think of anything other than food June?”

“Normally yes. But seeing how you brought me here early in the damn morning, and didn’t eat anything before we left. So yeah right now I’m hungry, and that pack of donuts I had stash away in your car didn’t help.”

“Look I’ll buy you some food after we buy ourselves cosplaying outfit from the shops here.” April pulled out a bag of gummy worms, and handed them over to June. “Just eat these and come on, we need to see if they have any outfits from tokyo ghoul.”

“Why would I do that?” Asked June munching on a few pieces of gummy worms.

“Well you do love to eat a lot, and ghoul do eat a lot as well so……”

“Wait are calling me fat or something?”

“N-No I’m not calling you that, I’m just saying that you eat a lot.”

“I do not eat that much.”

“Remember the time your aunt bought you that gummy bear that was the size of your doorway?”

“Oh yeah I remember that, took me 5 hours to finish eating it.” June looked at her friend who was giving her a ‘case in point’ look. “Shut up and just look for the stupid outfits.”

April looked around to see if any of the stores were selling said outfit. After a few minutes she saw the outfits that she was looking for, and again pulled her friend by the arm. As they made it to the store that had what she was looking for, they saw the vendor who was dressed up as Exotic Vendor Xur from Destiny.

“Welcome to my store ladies, how can I help you today?” The Vendor asked.

“Yeah my friend and I were wondering if you have any cosplay outfits from the popular anime show Tokyo Ghoul?”

“I’m not dressing up as kaneki stupid, he’s a boy and I’m a girl.”

“Then we’ll dress you up as the rule 63 version of him. Anyway mister vendor dude do you have any?”

“Hm…..I might have something like that, give me a second.” The merchant walked back behind his store to see if he has what his customers are looking for. “No, no, no…..Ah ha found it!” He said as he returned with the outfits. “You’re just in luck, these are the only two I have left in stock.”

“Sweet how much are they?” April asked pulling out her wallet.

“Well seeing how you’re my first customers, I’ll give you half off it for ten dollars each.”

“Double sweet, you have a deal.” April handed the merchant the money, and in return he handed her the outfits.

“Are we done here?” Asked June who had an annoyed look on her face. “Cause if we are then let’s go, you said that you would buy me food after this.”

“We will after we put on the outfit.” April handed her the outfit to try it on. “Hey you wouldn’t happen to know where the changing room is don’t you vendor dude?”

“Down the hall to the right.”

“Thanks.”

(one quick change later)

“This is stupid as hell, I mean look like a jack the ripper if he was a goth kid.” June said walking out of the change room.

“Yeah if jack the ripper was a ghoul,” Said April as she walked out of the changing room. “How do I look?”

“Like a horror version of the white rabbit from alice in wonderland.” June said Sarcastically. “Is it too late to dress up as Touka huh?”

“Sorry but I called dibs on this outfit.”

“Fine but I’m not taking the jacket off until we get back home ok?”

“Yeah like we would want to see how fat you thighs are.”

“Fuck you bitch, just take me to where the food is.”

“Fine, fine I’ll take you to cafe. God you can be real bitch when you’re grumpy.”

“I’m only like this when I skip breakfast,” June grabbed Aprils arm. “Now take me to the cafe, and buy me some food.”

(Sakura Con Cafe)

“Finally Food!” Said June as she started to devour the food on her plate. At first when April met her friend June a few years ago she was surprised at how she ate her food. But as time went on she gotten used to this kind of thing coming from her. Normally June would take her time to eat her food savoring the flavor and mouth watering goodness. But then again this was June we’re talking about, the same girl that ate a giant gummy bear the size of her bedroom’s doorway.

“Seriously June, how can you eat all that without gaining any weight or getting sick?”

“The hell if I know, could be because of my high metabolism or something like that.”

“High metabolism my ass, that the same thing you said to me a few weeks ago.”

“Your point?”

“I’m just saying that you might want to be careful Ms. Ghoul girl, cause sooner or later they’ll come a time when you won’t be able to eat any of your favorite foods.”

“Yeah right.” She said taking another bite from her pepperoni pizza. “The day that happens is the day I really turn into a ghoul.”

“That or when your thighs get big.” April mumbled. Just as she looked back a June, she ducked the oncoming spoon heading towards her. “Geez you’re really touchy about that huh?”

“I get that enough of that from my foster mother, I don’t need to hear that coming from you.”

“Fine, fine sorry I said that. But seriously you gotta stop doing that whole devouring food thing.”

“I’ll stop when you stop talking about my-.” June couldn’t finish her sentence as she felt a bit drowsy. “Ugh….say do you feel sleepy….or anything?”

“A little bit yeah….what the hell did they put in this stuff…”

  Before June could answer her friends question, she felt her body getting heavy like lead as she collapse to the ground. “June?....June!?” Just like her friend April to collapse to the floor of the cafe unable to move as her vision started to fade to black. The only thing she saw was the same merchant that sold them the outfit standing right in front of them.

“Sorry but I don’t take refunds ladies.”

(Present Time)

  Kaoru continued to look at herself in the mirror still trying to get blood off from her mouth and face. “Going three months without food, and drinking nothing but water and coffee is not a way to live or survive.”

“Trixie would have to agree with you on that.”

Kaoru turned around to the doorway to see a light blue color unicorn wearing a navy blue with a mix of purple outfit standing there. At first she thought it was someone that saw what has happen and sent someone to hunt her down. But it was just Trixie. “You know you shouldn’t do that, remember what happen two months ago right Trixie?”

“That Mare Do Well to you, and yes Trixie remembers that day we met. If she hasn’t have ducked in the last second, then she would be dead.”

“You were screaming and running around like a little girl.”

“Trixie does not remember that happening. Anyway before we lose track of what going on, I told you to go out and eat evil ponies not innocent ones.”

“It’s kinda hard to do so when there’s not that many criminals in the city, not to mention that the power ponies keep steal my food supply away from me. And I can’t go to the city morgue or go grave robbing without having them investigate and wondering where the bodies are.”

“Good point, anyway you might want to look at the news.” Trixie levitated the remote turning on the TV.

“In todays top story. There has been a murder in Maretropolis tonight as local investigators Dr. Whooves , his wife Detective Ditzy Whooves, and the up and coming new hero; the Azure Striker are here on the scene of the crime scene.”

“Well shit.”

“There’s more keep listening.” Trixie turn the volume up on the TV for Kaoru to hear.

“Apparently from eye witnesses the boy’s mother Milano Mash got devoured by a creature with white snowy mane, with one green eye and one red eye, and she was wearing black dress that you would find a goth pony would wear. We have an artist rendering of it.”

“Oh come on I don’t even look like that at all!”

“But Trixie does like the way you look as a pony, no offense or anything.”

“None taken I guess.”

“Ponies are to be on the look out for this creature, and are to stay away from it if possible. If you do see this creature please call the royal police as soon as possible.”

Trixie changed the channel to the TV and looked at Kaoru with a disappointed look on her face. “You ate a childs mother?”

“I wasn’t thinking straight at the time dammit!” She yelled summoning her kagune and hitting a chair next to them. “I haven’t eaten anything in the past three months, and it pretty much hell on earth for a ghoul like me who can’t eat any of her favorite foods she used to eat!”

“Trixie is not angry at what happen, and was hoping that drinking water & coffee would help take care of your hunger. But I guess she was wrong about it.”

“Really?” Kaoru said with a sarcastic tone in her voice. “Cause because of that I’m now gonna be hunted down by the power ponies and the Azure Striker.”

“Ok ok, Trixie can see how this is a bad thing for you.” She said levitated her hood back onto her head along with her hat. “But hey look on the bright side, things could be worse right?”

“....I guess you’re right it could be worse. But damn I feel sorry for the kid, having to see his own mother getting eaten right in front of him.”

“Yeah Trixie wouldn’t be surprise if that kid wanted to seek revenge upon you. But we can’t dwell on the mistakes we made, we can only learn from them and try our best to move on and help out those that need it.” Trixie starts to walk outside the door. “I’m going contact the League of Vigilantes and see if they can tell us where the new HQ location is. You try and get some rest for the time being.”

  “I’ll try.” Kaoru said as she changed the channel on the TV. Trixie teleported off to lord knows where, leaving her friend to relax before they had to leave. But little did the ghoul know someone was watching her from the rooftop. A human that was wearing a somewhat same outfit as the Azure Striker, but his outfit was white and had a hood. He had watched Kaoru and her powers that she had little to no control over. He knew what he must do as he removed his specialized revolver from his side.

It was time to hunt her down and punish her for what she did.

End Chapter 1