Apparently, many metals that exist back on Azeroth did not here. Normally that probably wouldn’t be a problem, but of course it had to be the metal I wanted to use, Elementium.
“Fine if you don’t have no Elementium, what is the strongest metal you got?” I asked the blacksmith.
The blacksmith was a large pony. He was taller than me, very brown, and looked like he could rip me in half with a sneeze. The voice repeatedly expressed that it really wanted to control that body and go on a rampage. It liked a bloodbath more than a fiery explosion into ash it seems. I ignored the voice as fire is way better than a bloody mess.
“The best I got is Mythril” The smith states.
“That’s it? I have screws stronger than that! Do you at least have Cobalt?”
“Not at the quantity you’re asking. That material isn’t cheap, so I don’t order much of it.”
“Can you mix it with the Mythril?” I pleaded.
“It would cost you most of the bits in that bucket of yours and I will charge you more if you don’t collect the results in a day.”
“How long would this even take? I don’t know if I’ll even be in town tomorrow.”
“Heh, I forgot that you normally get ran out- oops... I mean leave town within a three day period.”
“Hey! I been doing better since I got rid of you two years ago. It is your fault, all you do is taunt me and taunt me. Shut up so I can conclude this deal” I say to the demon voice.
The blacksmith just kept a neutral face the whole time and when I concluded my short rant, he then spoke up “ignoring whatever that was... It will take me a day to complete the order.”
“Deal.” I hold out my hand for a… he doesn’t have hands…Before I could lower my hand back down, the big pony grab it with a hoof and shook my hand. I ignored how strange that felt and decided to just leave the shop.
I greeted Midnight whom was right outside the door, she simply nods in return. Before I could do anything more, I felt a snap in the back of my mind. This wasn’t like some random pain I felt some times when some other caster messes with my mind to stop my casting ability , this was a full on snap. It was like a wall getting destroyed and my body starts to feel stranger and stranger.
“Yes!” a voice that was not my own came out of my mouth. I think there was a little bit of black smoke too, but I couldn’t move my eyes to be sure.
“Korrxx?” Midnight said with a hint of concern.
“I’m not that idiot, you foolish animal. I have been trying to take control of this body for a long time. I had tried cloning this body, but its power ended up being pathetic comparing to this one.” It said holding up my hand with a burning fireball with black mist emitting from it. “The fool had no idea just how much power he had; and he use it for street performing? Idiot.”
“Hey!...Wait I can’t talk out loud… Beat this thing senseless Midnight!”
Midnight flared her wings. “What are you? Who are you?”
“Ha! I know what you are trying to do, getting me to rant about myself so you can destroy me while I’m distracted. I learned my lesson from last time. No, I am going to get rid of this nuisance” It started to cast a spell.
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Now hold on there, I get that this maybe confusing. I know, I had no idea what happened other than that something took control of my body at the time. Clearly I got better, but thats besides the point.
This…thing, I’ll call it that for now cause I’m not spoiling it for you, was ranting already you see, but because of Midnight, it stopped. I hope you learn a lesson or two from my story, the number one lesson so far is that you do not rant to those who wants, or might end up wanting to kill you. That rant will get you killed and it did get you killed in this case.
Now where was I? Oh yeah the thing was going to cast some spell.
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The spell, whatever it was, started to affect me. It was like I was getting pulled from my own mind and getting crammed into something else. Oh, he got a gem in his hand. How did I miss that? Must be what he is cramming me in.
Midnight beats her wings and charged at my body with her hooves out front, but before she could reach it, the thing blinked out of the way. Unfortunately for it, it dropped the blue gem it crammed me in along with the black hole bag and they wonder why I hold on the bag when I blink.
“I thank you for the little bit of fun I managed with you around pony” it said, “but I gotta run.” My body disappeared, I assumed it used an invisibility spell.
This stinks, I am completely aware of what’s around the gem, but I cannot interact with anything. Wait! An idea popped in my metaphoric head. Maybe I can send out a burst of energy or something, but… I don’t have my body anymore, I can’t use its mana. Ah whatever I can still try.
“Hey! Someone over here!” I managed to get a sound out apparently, wasn’t that much effort really… was this my mana gem? “Who’s the idiot now? You used a mana gem, sure you have my body… and I’m just… this.”
Midnight took notice of my voice, but at this rate she probably can’t understand me anymore, the thing took my translator too. The blue mare walks up to me… the gem version of me, mana soul gem? Ummm I’m thinking too hard aren’t I? I’ll just use “me”. Anyway she walks up to me and pokes me. I actually felt that!
“Midnight! Do you understand me? Please let some strange whatever magical property let you understand me. I’ll go insane if I can’t talk to someone, like demonic ranting insane! Like really, maybe bad as that warlock I ran into years ago. Oh no I’m already ranting. Help me! I’m ranting!”
During part of that umm rant, Midnight picked me up, had her ears fixate towards me and eyes were wide. I wasn’t really paying attention to that much, so what I know? I was too busy panicking about going into a rant about panicking. Oh please, please let this be a dream. I beg to whatever deity is out there.
“Korrxx?” Midnight’s voice sounded uncertain and a bit hard to fully understand, like a faulty translation, but it was enough to rip me out of my spiral.
“You can hear me? Yes! I’d hug and maybe kiss you if I could… umm ignore the last part please” I would be looking some other way if I could, but alas I couldn’t even block out half of what I see.
“What happened? Do you know where what that thing went?” Midnight asked me. I think she is getting some stares from some of the ponies emerging from hiding.
“ Um… it might have been that voice in my head taking over. I don’t know where it went…” my voice trails off into a quiet sob.
“Don’t cry now. As a member of the guard, I’ll make sure you get your body back.” Midnight promises, raising my hopes up a little. “Despite your… issues, I can see that you are mostly harmless against those who are innocent.”
“I’m glad you’re the guard I decided to learn the name of, but what am I suppose to do now? I can’t do anything. I’m going to turn into a bumbling mess, especially when the mana stored in this thing runs out. I wouldn’t be able to talk or even see possibly! On top of that, I think this is one of my pure….” If I had eyes, they be wide open now, “No… no, please no, no, why, why I’m going to die! I don’t want to die, but I’m going to. I never could recharge these. Why me, I really, really don’t want to die.”
“Korrxx, stop!” Midnight yells at me and I shut up. “What is the trouble?”
“This is a pure mana gem Midnight! When it runs out, it’ll just crumble away and I’ll die with it!” I start sobbing again.
“I’ll… I’ll take you to Twilight, she should be able to figure out something. How long do we have?”
“A day… at best.”
Instead of responding, the guard puts me between her warm wing and body and tossed the black hole bag on her back and start to gallop down the path.
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Apparently considering this Twilight pony as a felhound was rather insulting, for the hound. The sparkle in her eye creeped me out to no end, it was like staring at succubus of knowledge. She made a bunch of odd sounds towards Midnight, like she was trying to communicate.
“Twilight, now is not the time to ask about that construct. We got to help Korrxx here.” Midnight said.
I was sitting there on Midnight’s back. I tried adding some comments earlier, but they fell on deaf ears. Like really, it seemed that only Midnight can even comprehend me now. Perhaps that is the reason, only those who hold me can understand each other.
“Hey Midnight, I think only those who hold this thing can understand me now” I state.
“How do you conclude that?” She ask.
“Cause I just said that sentence with bits of three different languages. Hey, don’t give me that look it is common to know at least two languages back home.”
Twilight lets out another incomprehensible sentence, seemed more like a question.
“Yes, I’m talking to the gem. I suppose Korrxx’s theory is sound, only the one who holds the gem can understand him” Midnight replies, “but that fact isn’t important right now. He needs your help so the gem he is trapped in doesn’t crumble away.” The guard gave a brief summary of what is going on
The purple unicorn frowns and says something, but again I can’t understand a word. I asked for a translation, and midnight said that Twilight doesn’t know anything about working with gems.
“I’m going to die… I haven’t even done half of my bucket list yet” I fall in metaphorical tears again.
“Twilight, are you sure you can’t think of something?” Twilight made a reply and midnight translated for me. “Twilight said she found a spot on your construct where the gem might fit in, do you know what it is?”
“Just try it now please! What I got to lose… besides my life.” I mutter darkly on the last part.
Twilight leads Midnight down to some basement of the house inside a tree. Who builds a house in a tree? Besides those Night Elves, they kind of hate me anyway. Where was I? We end up in the basement of the tree. It reminds me more of a laboratory than a basement and there it was, Qira’s inactive form in the middle of the room. Twilight was right about there being a spot in the center of the frame that the gem could fit in. I think that is where the sentry’s energy core was supposed to be. This might actually work, but… would I understand anyone here? I probably can’t make a new translator without having the original to duplicate some of the parts properly. Translator spells are very unreliable and I never bothered to learn any, if I can even perform any magic.
“Midnight, I might not be able to understand any of you when you put me in that. It is a little better than dying, but I’m not sure how long I can go without” I said
“What do you propose Flame Keeper?” Midnight asked.
“You… you used my other title!? No one ever does… Well I think I might be able to umm, leave a little of my essence in another gem for you to hang on to if it works like it does for this. Though that is really dangerous, especially if that gem is destroyed. It would be literally losing a part of myself.”
“It is up to you, I’m not going to make you do it.”
“Get an arcanite crystal out of my bag and have it ready.” I told the blue mare how to actually get anything specific out of the bag.
With the crystal at the feet of the sentry and Twilight standing in a corner cause I asked Midnight to tell her to cause she creeps me out, Midnight inserted me into the gap.