"OH MY GOD WAT IS HAPPENING-"
"STOP HITTING ME-"
"I CAN'T SEE!"
"LUNA? LUNA IS THAT YOU?"
"WHERE AM I!?"
"CREEEEEEPEEERRR!!"
boom.
*
Earlier...
"So it's been a while." Luna said, wriggling the control stick. Then she caught Celestia and Cadence's glares, and pulled on a straight face. "And that was due to no one's fault. At all. No one's." she said with a huff.
"So technically we did find a dungeon. We just didn't do anything." Celestia said, once again giving Luna that glare.
"We still gotta explore it." Luna noted. "Lead zee way!" She hit her sister with a pickaxe.
"Oi!"
Cadence stood under a tree some fifty blocks away. They were on the surface, in an open area with a small forest off to the side. It was quite a peaceful scene as she panned her view around the grassy plains- cows and sheep here and there, with a few chickens running about. The sun shone down over the few trees growing in the vast emptiness, with the odd cactus in a small circle of sand. She kept panning, taking in the full view.
Then she spotted the two sisters fighting it out with wooden pickaxes out in the distance, each trying to score critical hits by jumping up. It looked kinda peaceful, oddly enough, since she couldn't hear the 'OOMF's from over here.
She held down the left trigger and gobbled down an apple with a satisfying series of crunches.
Finally Celestia's form fell, and Luna was seen swinging her axe at the sky in triumph, running in circles around where Celestia dropped her stuff. Just a few wooden blocks and the pickaxe that she tried to slay her sister with.
"Goddamnit!" The goddess of the sun cursed. "I thought we were going to the dungeon!"
"We were! But you hit me!"
"YOU HIT ME FIRST YOU MOON-HEADED PRICK!"
The argument and tension was starting to seep into real life as the two waved their hooves threateningly at each other, yelling insults.
"GuuUUuuys..." Cadence groaned over their consistently rising amounts of yelling. "Are we gonna go explore the dungeon or what?"
"Yeah, sure; but Luna has all my stuff!" Celestia finally stopped making gestures at her sister and pressed respawn. Her name tag popped up a little behind the forest.
"You have three wooden blocks and a wooden pickaxe." Luna said, opening her inventory.
"Just- GIVE THEM BACK!" Celestia came charging out of the woods.
"WAAIIT wait wait..." Cadence stepped between the two, just to avoid them killing each other again. The two stopped either side of her, growling menacingly at each other. "Okay. Luna, put her stuff on the ground and back away."
"Grrrrr..." The moon princess spat out the three wooden blocks and pickaxe, crouched, and slowly backed away- swinging her pickaxe at the air a few times with menace. "Grrr..."
Cadence made way for Celestia as she retrieved her items. Once she did, Luna stood up and tucked her pickaxe away, the tension seemingly floating away.
"Lead. The way." She growled, then waved her fist around for a bit.
"Hit me again and I'll shank ya mate-" Celestia started.
"Oh for-" Cadence groaned. "Wait, it's dark now?"
"...Crap."
*
"Does NOPONY have a torch? Like, really?" Luna remarked, following Celestia's name tag. She could barely see anything in front of her, and since no one thought to bring a source of light with them- they were left stranded in the night.
They followed each other's tags, running about and waiting for the night to pass.
"Man... I hear things." Celestia muttered, the soft growl of a zombie echoing in the night.
"AH!" Luna cried out as her character was struck. She lost a few hearts, and quickly looked around for her attacker. Her sights rested on Celestia. "How dare you attack me when my back is turned!"
Cadence whistled a soft tune to herself as she tucked away the bow.
"Ack! Luna! Stop hitting me!"
"YOU HIT ME FIRST-"
"Okay, okay! Just... STOP!" Celestia ran around in circles. Luna tried following her tag, but kept running into trees.
*
The two sisters and their cousin continued on, the two main monarchs of Equestria having lost most of their hearts in a brawl. The night still remained, however.
"AH! CELESTIA!" Luna lost another few hearts.
"What? I'm over here!" Celestia cried out, ten blocks away and searching for anything that could be of use. "What happened?"
"Someone hit me..." The moon princess pouted. "Wait, if you're over there; and Cadence in behind me... Who the hell is this?"
"Grrrrrr." The zombie said.
"OH MY GOD ZOMBIE-"
"WHERE? WHERE!?"
"KILL IT WITH FIRE!"
"I DON'T HAVE MY HORN!"
"DIE ZOMBIE SCUM!" Luna cried, swinging her pickaxe as hard as her character possibly could. She was taking hits as well. "AAAH I'M GONNA DIE!" She mashed the right trigger furiously.
"Where the hell did all these zombies COME FROM!?" Celestia cried. Then her screen turned red and the two oh-so-familiar options popped up. "Phuck, I'm dead."
"Huh?" Luna looked at her pickaxe in confusion, then at the words 'Molestia5000 was slain by NightmareMoon0102' by the side of her screen. "What?"
"Grrrrr." The zombie repeated, giving the half-hearted Luna a soft nudge. A number of wooden blocks, stone, and other items exploded across the night.
"NightmareMoon0102 was slain by zombie." Cadence announced, then put an arrow in the zombie's head. The second one dropped it, and she hid the bow again before any of the sisters saw her.
"Damnit Luna!" Celestia screamed as she respawned and spotted what killed her.
"What? You were hitting me too!"
The two brawled it out for a while at their spawn point, then continued on their path towards Cadence's tag. By the time they made it, the sun had risen again.
Cadence made a few sound effects as she 'dropped' all of the sisters' stuffs.
"BLARGBLEBLARGH-" She ran in circles, her character looking skyward and vomiting up wood and the like. She was reabsorbing some of the dropped items as she ran around, throwing them out again half a second later for the others to pick up.
Having recollected their items, the trio once again sets off to re-find the found dungeon. Celestia leads them to the valley, the one containing their cave which then houses their... House. If that box of miscellaneous blocks could even be called that.
"I'm getting memories." Celestia commented, peering down the hole in the floor that she was once trapped in. The sea of lava was still there, with her bridge made from fence posts and several stone blocks still standing.
"I can see a problem here." Cadence whistled.
Luna looked up. "We have to go down there, don't we?"
Celestia nodded.
The trio stood by the one-by-one hole in the ground, contemplating. How to get down there without getting killed...
"Water?" The sun princess suggested.
"Yup." The other two nodded.
*
"Hey I got sixty-four sand." Luna reported. Their plan to dump water down the hole and ride to safety had been cancelled when Celestia went down first and was pushed into the lava by a strong current. The two others decided to come up with a different plan involving the game's physics regarding sand blocks whilst waiting for Celestia to return.
"Alrighty, take two." Celestia said, now with an empty inventory. "Hey, uh... Guys? Can I have, like, a tool?"
"Hold on." Cadence placed down a crafting table, and began working away. Celestia waited, tapping her hooves impatiently while Luna started chucking sand down the hole. Finally the pink princess picked up her crafting table, slowly backed away, and threw something at Celestia's feet.
*
A few minutes had passed and Celestia was still chasing Cadence around the cave with the wooden hoe provided by her. Luna hummed to herself as she finished filling up the hole in the ground.
"Guys! I'm done!"
The two stopped to look at her. The glow from the lava pit below was sealed off by a block of sand. The trio stood by the one-by-one block, once again silent.
"So... Who's going first?" Luna looked around at the others.
"Let's all go together. Otherwise it'll take too long." Cadence suggested. "Wait, actually; you and Celly go first. I'll go see if I can find some diamonds around here- I remember there was some, I just didn't mine it."
"Right. You do that. Come on sis!" Celestia stood atop the sand block, mining it down a few.
"Bye tia!" Luna cried, giving Celestia a single hit. It knocked her off the sand pillar, flying into the abyss of lava and screaming "LUNA WHYYYY". Celestia could still hear her sister's maniacal giggling as she slowly burnt to death in molten rock.
"Ugh." She sighed. "I had nothing anyway."
It took them awhile, each of them having to go one at a time and reconstruct the sand tower with each turn. Eventually they all made it down however, and Cadence volunteered to stay behind and construct a ladder for them to use later.
"I went collecting resources when you guys were getting down. I'll meet you at the dungeon." She waved, building a stone tower as a base for the ladders to cling to a little to the side.
The sisters simply shrugged, and Celestia started walking across her bridge of fence posts. Luna followed, wary of all the lethality around them.
They navigated the caves on the other side for a bit, mining a few blocks here and there for later. Whilst trying to locate the dungeon, they also got into an argument regarding Twilight's coronation.
"What's the point of promoting her? I thought you already had everything covered." Luna remarked, absorbing a cobblestone block.
"Well, it's kinda lame if you're an alicorn but not a princess. Plus, now that she has wings; she'll have plenty of awkward moments to deal with instead of constantly bothering me. Also, I have less work now." Celestia replied primly.
"Too bad Flash Sentry's in the crystal empire." Luna muttered.
"I can have him transferred! Like, personal bodyguard; maybe?" Cadence called out.
"Well if THAT isn't going to create a rave with the bro-"*HISSSSSSSSSSS*
Luna retorted with her own 'OOOOOOOOOOOOH' and smacked the creeper across the face with a block of dirt. It bounced back to her sister and exploded.
"One heart left. Great." Celestia said, pixelated white smoke fading away around her.
"Hey guys I got the ladder set!" Announced the pink pony princess.
"Then get down here!"
"No! I need to shear some sheep! We still need beds!"
"Fine! Just... Hurry up!" Luna went back to mining.
"You'll be missing out on a lot!" Celestia agreed. "Hey sis I found the entrance!"
"Oh really?"
"Yeah! I can hear skeletons and stuff in there!"
"Alright... Hold on, got mah iron sword out."
"There it is..." Celestia peered up at a large wall made of stone bricks. Moss slithered along some of them, the growling of zombies and jiggling of skeletons ever present as waves of echoes traveling through the wall.
"What treasures do you think lie behind it?" Luna nodded towards the wall.
"Who knows." Celestia whispered. "Gold, diamonds! Armor! Swords! Make it grand... But they won't be easy to get."
"Shall we see what evils guard these treasures, sister?" Luna readied her sword, putting on her helmet.
Celestia nodded. The cave was dark, lit only by the two torches they placed down. It cast an eery orange glow over the ancient brick works as Luna placed a dirt block against the wall. She then carefully planted a TNT block atop of it, positioned dead center on the structure.
Celestia nodded again, and Luna lit the charge. The two sisters quickly scurried to the sides, Luna switching back to her sword. The bright orange block of explosives flashed, its fuse slowly depleting.
"BREACH AND CLEAR!" She shouted as the TNT charge went off. A loud 'BOOM' rang through the caves, white smoke pouring out from the center of the explosion. Cobblestone dropped from destroyed blocks, littering the floor like debris. Luna lost half a heart in the process, but she had many more.
However Celestia, it would seem; stood a little too close.
"Well now." Luna let out a sigh of frustration, staring at her sister's scattered items on the floor. An arrow whizzed past her helmeted head, and she reverted her attention to the dungeon. "CHAARGE!" She screamed, running in.
Skeletons poured out with their zombie friends to greet her, rounds and rounds of rudimentary projectile fire raining down over the moon princess as she dodged and weaved.
A few quick slashes with her sword knocked the mobs back. A few more killed the first wave. One of the zombies died from friendly fire.
Something exploded off to the side. Must've been a creeper. No matter, it only took away two hearts.
She switched to her secondary- the flint and steel. Celestia arrived shortly, sucking her sword off the ground with a loud 'pop' and assisting her sister in the fight.
Finally they finished off the last of the mobs, and were now standing back to back in an empty dungeon room with bits of bone, arrows, rotten flesh and spider eyes littering the floor. Their horns were strained from repeatedly applying magic to their right triggers.
"Woo!" Celestia cheered after a minute or so.
*
"Damn... It's freakin dark in here." Luna mumbled, slowly proceeding down a hallway. Not that she had a choice, she was kinda stuck in cobble web. And so was Celestia, slowly moving behind her.
"I can't see shet." Celestia agreed, watching her step. You never know when silverfish might randomly pop out and screw you over.
"Hey! There's something ahead. Stairs, maybe?" Luna peered at an area of even darker darkness in front of them.
"Where? Where?" Celestia shuffled past, and the both of them reached that patch at the same time.
Too bad for them it was just a hole dug straight down into the earth.
"OH MY GOD WAT IS HAPPENING-"
"STOP HITTING ME-"
"I CAN'T SEE!"
"LUNA? LUNA IS THAT YOU?"
"WHERE AM I!?"
*HISSSSSSSSSSS*
"CREEEEEEPEEERRR!!"
"Oh my GOD-"
An explosion rattled their controllers. The 'you died' message popped up on nopony's screen, and the sisters were still holding their breaths when the smoke faded.
"Holy shet. What. The phuck." Luna panned her view around the new cave they discovered. She saw nothing but Celestia's tag.
"Are you alright?" Her sister asked.
"Yeah. Yeah I'm good." Luna stumbled around for a bit. "Where... Are we...?"
"I haven't got a clue." Celestia murmured. "Hey, looks like we can go that way."
"Hold on." Luna switched to her flint and steel, making a small fire. They were not expecting what came next.
"Whoa..."
"The hay is this..."
They were inside a large cavern, directly in the center of it. The hole they fell into was right above them. Stone seemed to be the only type of block around here, lining the walls and creating a solid barrier.
"This thing shouldn't have been spawned by the system, right?" Celestia looked around.
"Dunno. It could've been." Luna started mining. "C'mon, let's find a way back up to the dungeon. No sense staying in a cave."
*
Cadence stepped past the hole in the ground that leads to the lava pit. The ladder has been constructed, but going down to meet up with the sisters isn't part of her plans as of now. She was headed to the far wall.
She stepped on a hidden pressure plate, and waited. The stone wall before her rumbled then parted, blocks folding down into the sides to create a clear path over seven blocks wide and five blocks high. As the stones parted, they revealed the hidden pistons beneath.
She walked past them, stepping on another pressure plate and closing the gateway behind her.
She stood on a small ledge, overlooking a pit of bubbling molten rock. Torches lined the sides of the cavern to provide additional lighting.
The crystal princess pressed a button off to the side, and a path of diamond blocks popped out from the pit of lava beneath- piston powered once again. They led to the wall on the far side, where a small two-by-two door of stone popped open.
Cadence made her way across the bridge, the diamond blocks sinking back into the lava after she steps on them. She went inside the doors, and they were instantly sealed shut- closing the secret entrance once more.
Soon... She thought, emerging into a large round room. The room was well lit, pictures hung on the walls, and some trees grew from blocks of grass.
In the center of it all was an enchantment table surrounded by bookshelves, perfectly aligned with the tall domed ceiling above.
She walked up to it, bringing out her precious diamond sword. Words and magical glyph marks swirled out from around a book which hovered above the table, drawing out some experience points from her character. They merged, fusing together and slowly sinking into the sword.
ILuvShiningArmorXOXO picked up her freshly enchanted and quite frankly now overpowered sword, watching its magic glimmer under the torchlight.
Soon.