She stopped struggling after 5 minutes in the burlap sack.
'Well… this is my fate now isn't it… it's not even my first day and I'm already being kidnapped… ah. C'est la vie…'
"Heave Ho! Heave Ho!"
As they kept moving she heard a voice and a door opening.
"Where were you all! We've been waiting for an hour to start the meeting!"
Nobody else spoke and so the man kept complaining.
"I expected this from Gold Ship, but from you guys as well! I swear… the last time something like this happened was when you guys kidnapped Special Week…"
He paused for a moment before speaking again, his voice was heavier filled with a sense of, dread, oddly enough, "Who… who is in the bag?"
She heard somebody all but puff out her chest as she was set down on a chair.
"Well, Torenah, the person in the bag is the person my uncle was speaking about."
The person who she presumed to be an uma said with a hint of smugness as they pulled off the sac from her head.
She couldn't help but look at the ground.
"Ah… I'm going to die…" the eccentric uma's trainer said.
"Eh? What do you mean trainer, you're not gonna die!"
"I AM! THAT'S MY SENPAIS KID!"
"You'll be fine."
"NO! I WON'T! If anything at least I'll be in the hospital for a different reason than usual… at the very least."
She gained the courage to look up and look at the trainer who seemed to be in a state of… acceptance to his almost guaranteed fate.
"Uncle isn't somebody who would do that though?"
She looked up at the person talking it was the white haired uma from before, if she remembered correctly her name was Goldship or something.
"Huh… you wish."
As the trainer and Goldship kept talking she looked around her surroundings and saw two other uma's who weren't there when she was kidnapped.
One of them was looking at her with an expression that was almost apologizing for her fate, she had light purple hair and eyes of the same shade.
She looked to the other one who seemed to be a little more exasperated at the situation in a comedic sense, before she also looked at her when she realized she was being stared at.
She had brown hair with a streak of white mixed in.
She smiled and spoke, "My name's Tokai Teio! You've probably heard it, but what's yours?"
She didn't have the heart to tell her that she had never heard of her but she still answered.
"My name's Hope for Tomorrow, nice to meet you Teio-san."
Soon enough the trainer stopped arguing with Goldship and decided to talk to her directly.
"I'm so sorry!" He clasped his hands together and bowed almost instantly, "I didn't know they were going to do this, I assure you they'll be punished one way or another, but…" he removed his hands together and stood back up allowing her to get a good look at his face. He was sporting a stubble, had light green eyes and for whatever reason had one side of his head shaved and what she thinks is a rat tail.
He rubbed the back of his head as he spoke.
"I'm going to be frank with you here, your old man asked me to ask you to be my trainee and join my team, I had planned to do it tomorrow," He looked at the collection of umas who were looking away guiltily with the sole exception of Goldship who just grinned and did a peace sign.
"But… it looks like that won't be a luxury I'll be able to afford, so I know this will be sudden but, would you like to jー"
"Why not," she cut him off, "Seems like it'll be fun."
He looked at her in a state of almost dumbfounded shock, "A-are you sure? I mean we didn't exactly get off on the right foot!"
"… I'm not really sure about the importance of this all but it seems like you're not bad people."
Suddenly Goldship draped herself on her new trainer's shoulder, "She trainer? I told you it would work! Has this ever failed us?"
"It should have plenty of times!"
"But it hasn't," Goldship stated almost smugly.
"Yeah because the people you do it on lack common sense!"
While Goldship kept arguing with her trainer she was soon approached by the other members of the team.
And she soon learnt their names and got to witness a small conflict between Daiwa Scarlet and Vodka as they banged their heads together and started arguing after she had asked a simple question.
She looked to McQueen for an explanation on their behavior, "Wh—why are they arguing all I did was ask which one of them was the better runner?"
In response McQueen explained that they do it all the time and that it was regular behavior for them.
"So… you're telling me that… arguing for them is their love language or something?"
McQueen only nodded, "They are roommates…"
…
She soon left the training room to go back to the dorms as she wanted to set up her side of the room and give a good impression to her roommate.
But as she walked along the track to get to the entrance she saw a pink haired girl collapsed in a bush with a nosebleed still running as she twitched every five seconds and muttered… something. She was going to go and take her to the nurses office when a brown haired uma came, picked her up and put her on her shoulder and walked off.
…
After a bit more walking she finally reached the dorms just before it closed.
With a sigh from all that happened she entered the building and went to find the dorm leader.
…
After a bit of searching she did find her, well… it would be more accurate to say that she found her.
"Are you lost, pony-chan?"
She stiffened at the remark.
"P-Pony chan?"
She slowly turned around only to be faced with a playboy esque smile from a rather tall, in comparison to herself, umamusume.
"Hmm, whatever it is speak your heart out, for whatever your desire, or your question I assure you, pony-chan, I can answer it."
"Umm," she stuttered, feeling a slight blush build in her cheeks, "Do you know what my dorm room is, I'm new here…"
"Ah! I see, you are the new student, yes I was told about you from a certain someone, in fact you will be using their dorm room. I hope that is satisfactory?"
"O-Oh it's no big deal, but… ummm what's the room number?"
"It's room 145, have a nice night sleep."
"Thank you —! Wait… I didn't get your name?"
"Ah, well if you asked, my name is Fuji Kiseki, nice to meet you Hope for Tomorrow, now go to bed."
"Y-yes!"
…
She quickly made her side of the room making sure not to touch her roommates side, quickly took a bath and a shower and started to get ready to go to bed.
When suddenly…
BAAM
The door flew upon and on instinct she jumped in fright.
She looked to see who could have made that noise and she saw the culprit.
"G-Goldship!"
"Oh! Ahoyo Hope-chan! So you're the person who pops said was going to be taking her spot!"
"Pops?"
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Authors note
i forgot to put digitan dying in an earlier chapter so I included it now.
Oh if you don't know Goldship does canonically call Stay Gold and I quote Golden Pops, so… yeah.
I also realized I forgot to put this in earlier chapters after a certain point, but for every 50 powerstones I will make a bonus chapter.
They will probably shorter story chapters with omake plots I want to write, like for example I want to write one on Orfevre meeting Hope but I'm not sure if I can make it fit properly, in a actual chapter so yeah…
I don't really think I did that good of a job on this chapter tbh but what are you going to do. C'est la vie.
Either way, Greek Antrielos, signing off.