//------------------------------// // Scroll 11 "monster attack" // Story: Shadow of the Crusaders // by Spore Harvest //------------------------------// "Okay what is that?" Asked Sweetie. "That my friends is a draugr overlord. These guys are difficult too take out especially if they are ten meters tall. Now get into position and take him down." With that said I went back into Apple Bloom and took over one of her eyes. "Hey what happened to my eye." She said. "Don't worry AB I only took over your eye to see. Now get to fighting." With that said the draugr roared and finally charged at us. Scootaloo went into the air and started shooting while Sweetie shot a fire spell at it. "Well Mike you got any tips?" Asked AB While dodging the draugors axe. "Well use fire spell to burn it and if you use brute force make sure that you attack the joints. Oh and watch out for that fist." And of course I was right, but thankfully she dodged before he hit her. "Okay then lets see what I can do." Said AB. Then she jumped into the air and attacked his knee. When she struck there was a sickening crack and the lover part of his leg completely fell off. "Okay Scootaloo, Sweetie burn him." They both nodded and attacked with their own fire attacks. After those I delivered the final blow by striking his head. When the hammer struck his head there was another crack and the head completely caved it killing the draugr immediately. Then he fell on his back and stayed down. "Okay crusaders you did god now get your stuff and lets go before someone decides to search this place. I'll tell you more about this thing at the farm." With that Scootaloo picked us up and we flew to Sweet apple acres. *** When we finally got to the club house. We got in and sat down then I said. "Okay crusaders god job." They were all tired out. "Okay we need to work on our endurance because you guys look pooped." "You think. We just battled a ten meter tall draugr or whatever he is." Scootaloo breathed out. "Okay then. Does anybody have any questions?" After they finally calmed down enough to talk Sweetie asked. "Can we expect more of them?" "No not at least for a long time, but until then I have to ask you which one of you has the best memory?" "Uhm that would be me. Why?" Asked Sweetie. "I need you to study the beastiary so that when we do get attacked we are prepared." With that I handed her the beastiary. "This is going to be your homework until next time." "Yeah sure I'll do my best, but don't you know more about them then I do?" "I would, but my beastiary is kinda outdated. So you can understand now does anybody else have any questions?" Then Apple Bloom raised her hand. "Um why did we kill that monster? Why didn't we reason with him?" That made me think and after some time I finally figured out my answer. "Well that my friends is because that was not a born draugr he was made by a necromancer." "How could you tell the difference." Asked Sweetie. "Well mostly the eyes, but he also had a distinctive aura about him." "Oh great now we have a necromancer as well." Said Scootaloo. "Now don't be like that it's not that bad and besides if we do run into him then I have the perfect way of taking him out." "And that is?" Asked Apple Bloom. "Confuse him and annoy him. If you do that then they can't concentrate and if they can't concentrate then they can't preform their magic, since necromancy requires large amount of concentration." "That... that actually makes allot of sense." Said Sweetie. "Okay then I think we all had enough excitement for today. Why don't we go to Sugar cube corner and get ourselves something sweet to eat. How does that sound?" Then Sweetie said. "That actually sounds quite nice. Lets go." With that said they changed back to their normal modes and we all went to Sugar cube corner. *** When we got into town we noticed that it was under attack by werewolves. After some time of us watching Scootaloo asked. "Okay should we intervene now or should we wait for the guards to do something and fail?" "Eh lets wait. I want to see what they do." With that said I sat down and watched. Then Apple Bloom asked. "Um shouldn't we do something before someone gets hurt?" I gave it some thought and then I said. "Look AB we have to see how capable the guard is so that we can see what they can handle. So with that said sit down and enjoy the show, if someone does get hurt then we have magic to heal them up." After that the rest of the crusaders sat down and we wached. The guards finally arrived and tried to surround the werewolves, but that tactic proved to be their downfall, since they only used unicorn guards. "Okay girls can you tell me what they did wrong there?" Sweetie then answered. "They only used unicorn guards, which are not supposed to be used for up close and personal combat. They should have used earth ponies, but since the guard is mostly made out of pegasus and unicorn guards that would not be possible." I was impressed and I made sure to voice it. After that we returned to the show. The guard tried a different tactic that basically consisted of them shooting at them. That is not smart only because they are magic resistant, but also because they get angry. "Okay girls I've seen enough to give my verdict on the guard. They are a bunch of rich posers that have never even won in a sparing mach against a colt. With that said camouflage on, weapons out and lets go." Then I returned to Apple Bloom and watched. When they finally camouflaged themselves and released their armour and weapons we all charged at the rampaging monsters. The first ones to deal any damage were of course Scootaloo and Sweetie since they had ranged attacks so it was no surprise that they already took out two wolfs. After that we were already in range of one of them Apple Bloom pulled back her hammer and struck the third one right in the face, killing it instantly. "Okay crusaders we have five more of them to go and they are all in the town square and are heading towards the castle. Scootaloo you go on ahead and try to delay them and if possible neutralise. Well attack from the back and take them out. Got that?" She nodded and flew off. With that done we quickly sprinted to the town square where we found four little werewolves and their pack leader which was substantially taller then the rest. Standing at around seven meters. Scootaloo was already taking shots at the big one from up above while the guard was busy with the small ones. "Okay Sweetie freeze the ground." She did as I asked making all of the wolves stuck in place. "Okay then AB you go for the alpha while Sweetie you go help the guard with their batch." They both nodded and were off. Apple Bloom didn't waste any time in dealing damage to the alpha. First she went for his legs. When she struck the first one you could hear a sickening crack and after that the tearing of flesh and finally we heard the sound of a wolfs howl. It was very loud. "Ouch I didn't know that they were that loud." Said Scootaloo. After his haul his leg started to regenerate. "Oh fuck it's one of the regenerators. Sweetie did you finish your task?" I asked. "Yeah and now I'm being chased by the guards." She screamed back in a high pitched tone while dodging the guards. The wolf did not like that. Then I snapped my fingers. "Scootaloo pick up Sweetie. Sweetie scream as loud as you can. The wolf seams to be vulnerable to high pitched noises." Scootaloo saluted and went to Sweetie belle and picked her up right before the guards would have captured her. "Okay Sweetie let her rip." After I said that Sweetie let loose the loudest scream that you can imagine and I swear that I saw a couple of windows crack. As for the wolf he simply laid down on his stomach and cowered his ears. After that Apple Bloom took the shot and struck him right on the head. Smashing it to a bloody pulp. "Okay then Scoots now get AB and lets skedaddle before the guard gets their bearings." With that Scootaloo picked up Apple Bloom and we flew off towards the spot where we started. Once there they quickly transformed back and we started walking towards Ponywille like nothing happened. *** After we got our celebratory milkshakes we approached our crime scene. Twilight, her friends and a couple of guards were there checking it out. Apple Bloom stepped towards her sister and asked. "Hey Applejack what happened here, did we miss something?" After that she looked towards us and said. "Apple Bloom what in sam hill are you doing here?" "Well I saw ponies gathering around here so me and my friends decided to investigate." After that she took a sip of her drink. "Smooth AB. Smooth." I said. After that applejack sighed. "Your not going away until I tell you are you?" She and the other crusaders all shook their heads. "Okay then there was an attack on Ponywille conducted by some werewolves. Fluttershy says that they were searching for something, but we were sadly too late because when we arrived they were already defeated by the Teenage attackers as the guard started to call them." Then I said to the crusaders. "The Teenage attackers huh well that's an interesting name. We'll have to remember that." "Really they are that powerful to defeat those monsters." Said Scootaloo. "Yeah, but that is due to the armour that they stole from Canterlot. But I'm not complaining as long as they're helping I don't have any problem with them." Said Applejack. After that Sweetie asked. "So what's going to happen with the corpses?" "Oh nothing much Twilight is just going to take some samples to study and the rest will be taken care off by the guards. Now you girls better git before you get in trouble." With that she shooed us away. Then we went towards Sweeties house to discuss what we found out. *** Once in Sweeties room we finally started to talk about what we found out. "Okay then crusaders or should I say Teenage attackers. Man that's a stupid name." I said. "Yeah I guess we have to figure out a new name for us. Does anybody have any ideas." "How about the lich warriors." Said Apple bloom. "Nah how about team awesome." suggested Scootaloo. "No." Said Sweetie. "That's just stupid." After that they all quieted down and thought. Then after some time it hit me. "How about the Artifact hunters. How does that sound?" After that they just smiled and said in unison. "Yeah that works." Then a thought occurred to me. "Hey how come you can speak in unison so much." After that they looked at each other. "Why is that weird?" Asked Sweetie. "No it's just... you know what forget I asked that?" After that we went to playing some more card wars. *** After a couple of rounds of us playing the game it was finally time for each of the girls to go home. I decided to go with Scootaloo this time since I still haven't seen her house or her parents. With that thought in mind I went with her to her house. "Okay Mike I know you're going to be coming with me, but you have to be at your best behavior. I don't want my parents to think I went crazy. Did I make myself clear." I simply saluted and said. "Crystal." With that said we arrived at her house and entered. "Hi mom, hi dad." "Oh hello there kiddo what's up?" Said a male voice presumably her father. "Is that Scootaloo? Tell her that she needs to clean her room, before I blow a gasket." A female voice said definitely her mother. "You heard her kiddo go do it. For both our sakes." Said her father. "Okay I'm going. Make sure to call me for dinner later." "Will do." With that we both went to her room to clean it up. When we arrived I saw a room that was a complete mess. "Okay I didn't expect this from you at least not to the degree of actual pizza slices being stuck to the freaking roof." After that she looked embarrassed if the colour of her cheeks had anything to say about it. "Look I may or may not be a lazy slob when I'm at home, but I am going to clean it this time." With that said she started on the task and since I knew this was going to take a long time, I decided to pitch in and help her out. After about ten minutes of us cleaning the room we finally heard Scoots dad calling her down for dinner. "Okay then I've got to go. You make your self comfortable and I'll be right back." After that she went down stairs and I was left alone with my thoughts. "Okay we are definitely going to have to speed up our our armour hunting if the monsters have anything to say about it. We'll have to go in about two weeks instead of a month to get one armour piece for Sweetie then well be at least able to fight these monsters at full power. I'm going to sleep on this and hope that I can finalize the plan tonight." With that said I simply knocked out and went into the thinking corner of my mind.