Staring up at the ceiling in my room I let out a semi-content sigh of relaxation and dismay as I am pressed on both sides by two females who I dislike at the current moment. On one side I had a griffon holding onto my left side, her beak was resting above my head as half of my face was buried in her chest fluff, and those feathers are tickling my nose and I am deeply afraid that if I sneeze now I will run the risk of getting clawed severely. Shuffling a bit in place I unknowingly nuzzled into her chest tuft and earned myself a pair of talons wrapping around me and pulled deeper into her chest to the point where my head has made contact with her soft fur and I could feel the warmth she is radiating and hear her heart beating.
When I was pressed into Gilda's chest I felt Barb from my right cling on tighter to me and was dragged along with me, the warmth being made by the two girls was enough to forget about the blankets but when I felt Gilda's tail slowly wrap around my waist and tugged at me even closer to her before I felt Barb's tail do the exact same thing but with one of my legs.
'Great, the one time I get two girls to be in the same bed with me are from another realm, different species and their both jealous of the other trying to claim me...'
Turning my head to Barb I saw that she was drooling on my shoulder and hugging my arm, she looked cute while she is sleeping like this but it puts me on edge that she was actually jealous of someone I just beat the living shit out of in front of not just her but pretty much all of Ponyville.
'I wonder if they are going to have me arrested for not only having a fight in the streets but also for nearly killing another being in front of both adults and children...'
Shuffling again I sigh again before reaching around with both my hands for a means of getting both of them to let me go so I could go to the bathroom and use it but at this rate I might just soil the bed.
Reaching around again I moved my right hand to grab Barb's tail which earned a quiet yelp from her and when my left hand grabbed something wide, a bit plump and warm and that when I gave it a squeeze I felt Gilda latch harder onto me and let out a bird-like chirp but when I turned my head up to face her I saw that there was a fairly faint blushing followed by a light piercing glare coming from her. I had no idea what I was grabbing but when I gave it another soft squeeze and earned yet another chip and another body squeeze from Gilda, and when she glared even harder at me I realized that my hand was touching something I shouldn't touching unless I don't value my life.
"I uh....sorry..."I whispered out since I rather not have a fire breathing dragon awake to roast the two of us, and Gilda seemed like she wouldn't be able to do much harm to me but things have been to known to not exactly go exactly as planned.
What I didn't expect Gilda to do was to grab the hand that was grabbing her haunch, and placed it back where it was and held it firmly there. When I felt that it was back where it was and that Gilda was still blushing faintly but it was steadily increasing in color and that there was a steady odor of something else forming underneath the sheets that I can't exactly put my finger on.
"If you t-try to move your hand again....I-I'll break it off...you understand twerp." Gilda whispered back but some of it was stuttered out, she had averted her gaze away from me as I felt her talon ease up on my hand just a tad bit but it was still there so if I tried to move it away it would be there in an instance to crack the bones.
Right before I had a chance to try and formulate a plan to get out of this situation, Barb has decided to make herself known my mumbling a few words before yawning, waking herself up in the process and tilting her head to see mine underneath Gilda's and the both of our cheeks a tint of red from blush.
Lets just say things started to escalate rather quickly for a misunderstanding.
"Tatalito...Gilda...why are your faces red?"
"Well Barb...you see its rather hot under the sheets and well...since your a dragon your used to the heat and can't feel it so...yeah....lets go with that."
"Y-yeah dweeb, just listen to the little chump for once."
"Hey!"
"Don't call my friend a dweeb your rat with wings."
'Oh shit...'
"What did you just call me you lizard!"
"You heard me you featherbrained fool!"
"Oh you are so going to get punched you little-" Gilda shouted but that was when I grabbed her by the beak, although I healed it up so that it wasn't broken it still hurt her when I grabbed it, and I knew it caused her pain cause she whimpered out and before Barb could laugh at her I grabbed her by the snout and squeezed it a bit to make her whimper out in pain also.
"Alright that is enough you two, it seems that neither of you are willing to stay in the same bed with me so I am going to have to leave this bed and sleep on the sofa in the lobby, until both of you can get along then I will resume sleeping their. If I find that either of you tried to move me back in my bed then I will move to my botany chamber. Do I make myself clear." I said as I let go of both of them and crawled out of bed, grabbed my patched up robes, pants, gloves, boots and hat before leaving the room, closing it behind me as I ventured down into the lobby and found the sofa, now moved to a different spot on the wall that left me wondering who is moving all of our furniture around while we sleep.
Crawling on top of the sofa I laid down before placing my clothes beneath me, my hat resting above the lampshade as I placed my head on a sofa cushion and closed my eyes again, the sun was just barely coming up over the horizon which gave me at least two hours before I am required to wake up.
Morning
"Okay Twilight....remind me again why you are trying to make a spell that creates facial hair again?" I said with an eye brow raised as I munched on a piece of buttered toast, Gilda and Barb were glaring menacingly at each other while eating their breakfast, Gilda had cold cereal while Barb had some gems.
"Well Tatalito, this spell is just one of many I have been practicing on and well, I heard that the mares do love a stallion with some facial hair, just look at Big Macintosh, even though his beard is short at the moment a few of the girls in town turn their heads to ogle at him."
"So that is why whenever I walk with Big Mac that they were looking at him instead of talking about me behind my back." I mumbled as I finished off my toast bit, my eyes downcast slightly before I perk right back up at the thought of finally being able to keep my facial hair instead of having to cut it short due to Immortal Flames regulations on being able to see your face if your wearing a mask or a helmet.
Without further ado Twilight clapped her hooves together when I told her that I would allow her to use her new spell on me to grow facial hair on my face, and hopefully it creates a good moustache and beard combo.
With a flash of her horn and the look of utter concentration on her face, her horn glowed a magnificent purple before it erupted into a bright flash, blinding everyone in the room but her. When the sparkling lights in my eye were gone I felt something brush against my nose and as soon as I could open my eye without seeing stars or blue dots I looked down to see the upper half of my new moustache.
Moving my hands to my face I felt a moustache and as I moved my hands down my face I felt it go around my lips before ending slightly above my chin, and just below the center of my bottom lip was a patch of fuzz, a combo was created from that spell.
Reaching for the small mirror that Twilight had waiting for me I grabbed it and brought to my face, my eye widened with glee as I leapt in the air in joy as I started to rub and mess with my new moustache and beard, I was acting like a child again but I couldn't give two shits on what other ponies thought of me at the moment.
"You really outdone yourself this time Twilight, I am here barely for nine days and you have already taken a few of my ideas on thaumaturgy and arcana into practice and made a few new spells. You make this teacher so proud." I said with a fake sniffle, all of my miniaturized lessons on the basic fundamentals of thaumaturgy and the arcane have finally sunken into that thick skull of hers and she put them to actual use.
As I felt up my new facial additions I saw Gilda eyeing me a bit, a grin forming as I saw her wings ruffle a bit before that grin turned into a slight wince of pain but she managed to hide it to resume eyeing me up as if I was some sort of pastry. Wait, that is the same look I give to candy and muffins.
Fuck.
"Well Twilight, lets go show off your new spell to your friends but I can safely bet that Pinkie and Rainbow Dash will find a way to get you to make it into a liquid form to be used as water balloons to be tossed at unsuspecting ponies. But back to the topic at hand, lets go show this bad boy off and see the reactions." I said with a smug grin and I was already halfway out the front door before I was yanked back in by Twilight's magical grip. I struggled for a few minutes before I reluctantly eased up on the door and let myself get taken back inside to the lobby and Twilight worked her magic and removed my moustache and beard from my face.
I let out a sad sigh as she puts me back down and walked over to me and nuzzled the top of head, bending my hat a bit to do so but we were at least happy to know that her spell worked.
"You looked pretty awesome with that mustache you nerdy dweeb, maybe if you had some muscles and was a griffon then I would be all over you like a diamond dog on a cart full of gems." Gilda said with a waggle of her brows and a blowing of a kiss before she started to laugh at my expense while Barb is glaring again at Gilda while Twilight is just shaking her head in shame.
As Gilda laughed at me and the other two voicing their anger at her I just stare curiously at them, wondering what the hell is a Diamond Dog and why it would want gems, furthermore what does she mean that if I was a griffon that she would be all over me? What do I have that would make myself viable as a prime target for this female griffon? What is the griffon culture like? And why is she still eyeing me like that?
"Anyways...Twilight, since you have managed to master the basics I guess I could teach you some of the more base line mechanics of thaumaturgy...but first lets go outside, I got a feeling that if we do it indoors you might accidentally burn somebodies orange juice again like last time." I said the last part with a snicker as I clearly remembered the time when Twilight tried to make breakfast for me after the second day here in Ponyville, how she burned the orange juice will have me questioning her cooking skills for the rest of my life.
"Fine, but your doing the dishes when we get back."
"Oh lame..." I muttered as we walked out, Barb was happy to see that she wasn't going to be doing today's dirty dishes.
Ponyville
As I now know, Ponyville is a place where many different farming ponies come to sell their various wares to others at a reasonable price of one fruit or vegetable for a haggle able amount of bits or in my case, gil and boy do these farmers know how to haggle.
"That would be six bits, sir."
"Six? Are you bloody around the bend? These mangoes are easily worth four bits." I said as Twilight watched from a safe distance away from me, Barb was messing with her mane as I tried my hand at haggling, my lesson from Pinkie Pie about to pay off.
"Four? Whatever your huffin little boy but the price is six." the stallion behind the counter said in a gruff voice, his voice alone made me want to bash my head against a wall, it was annoying, overly rough and he was trying to rip me off.
"Four!" I shouted as I brought my face closer to the stall, the stallion on the other end moved back a bit before regaining his composure and moved back in my face to shout back.
"Six!"
"Four!"
"Six!"
"Six!"
"Four!"
"Alright then, four bits it is." I said with a hidden smug grin, quickly placing the bits that Twilight gave me on the table and swiping the mangoes into a small bag and quickly running off into the crowd of ponies, disappearing from sight almost immediately.
"Good, now get on out of here you little-....aw buck." The stallion said as he crossed his hooves in a shit-eating grin but as he realized that I switched the prices on him without the poor fool even knowing did he notice that I was already gone and he was down by two bits on that sale.
Walking back to Twilight I smiled and gave her back her bits and with the bag of mangoes I opened up the bag and passed to them one each. They all took a bite out of their mangoes and they all had a pleased look on their faces, something inside me said that they will be wanting more soon enough later on in the day.
As we continued to walk through the market district of Ponyville I saw that there was plenty of stalls selling various wares such as chocolate, flowers, corn, apples and other various fruits and vegetables. What I didn't get was that there are no armorer or blacksmith stalls here and that made me wonder what exactly do they use to protect themselves from the outside world cause the only time I saw a pony wearing armor or holding a weapon was Nightmare Moon in her pretty awesome looking armor, the normal looking ponies in their guard armor, and I think 'Princess' Celestia in her little hoof shoes, that tiara and necklace don't even count as armor.
Smirking a bit at the thought of a pony wearing real armor, the errant thought that they would be able to make mithril or even dark steel humors me, not once have I seen a single sign of mithril but from what Nightmare Moon was wearing, it could be dark steel or just a really dark shade of steel, either way these ponies armor is construct their armor is weak, hell I bet my staff could leave a nice dent in it with just a whack.
"So Twilight...any news from your princess about finding a way to return me back to Ul'Dah? I need to report about this back to the sultan and to the Immortal Flames about this discovery, and if we can replicate the means to re-create this portal and send diplomats through to talk about means of trade and peace." I said with a small grin, the thought of other Lalafell's, Hyur's, Elezen's, Miqo'te's and Roegadyn's seeing this I bet they would all flip their shit about this land.
"Well Tatalito, Princess Celestia hasn't reported back to me about how the portal to your home was created but she can safely say that she is trying to find every means there is to find a way to get you back home."
"Good, cause if I have to see one more impossible feat from Pinkie Pie I just might lose my last handhold on my sanity cause there is no way she can just stay floating in the air for a solid two minutes without any means of levitation and then magically vanish in a puff of smoke to only leave a solid black outline of where she was before that too left after her. She is breaking every single known law of physics and probably every law in the universe by defying gravity like that." I said with a hint of my sanity slipping away.
In the past few days I have been here I have witnessed Pinkie Pie disappear from plain sight, pull a cannon out of no where, pop out of mailboxes, out of potted plants and even from underneath a piece of rock from the road. How she can do all of that without magic or even without a horn is beyond me, I might need to bring in Mr. Rodgers to scan Pinkie for any hints of latent magic in her system.
"Pinkie?" Barb asks while still chewing on her piece of fruit, laying on Twilight's back while said mare was busy trotting at a steady pace to whatever our destination is at the moment.
"Yup, Pinkie."
Still walking we came across a few of Twilight's friends, all of them said almost the same thing regarding that there is some sort of magician in town performing magic tricks for a small price from the crowd, but she is also challenging any pony to see if they can best her. This sounds like something I would do to shut her up but since she doesn't know of my existence, hopefully, I could avoid her and enjoy seeing these ponies try their hoof at shutting this pony up.
Squeezing through the crowd of ponies with Twilight and Barb behind me and as soon we got to the front row the rest of her friends were there as well, but this time I can tell that they also want this boasting mare to shut up and as for myself, if I have to hear her say that she can best anypony at anything I am going to gnaw my ears off so I would never have to hear her ever again.
"Does anypony think they have what it takes to best the Great and Powerful Trixie? Does anypony here in this little town have the guts to take on my great magic?"
"I swear if that mare keeps talking about her over-inflated ego she just might get off the ground and go into orbit." I said loud enough for her to hear it but since I am slightly smaller then the average pony she mistook it for one of my friends for my comment.
As she looked over at us to see who said that, I was busy trying to think of a way to shut her up but the means to do it so far elude me, do I bring out my little familiar from my time as a summoner or arcanist out to play, do I just juggle my thaumaturgy spells around to show her that I can do war magic and she can't, or do I just scare the hell out of everyone in town including this show mare by playing with metal and fire?
"It looks like we got ourselves a couple of neighsayers-" I started to laugh at that, I knew that these ponies used the sounds they make as the names of towns or words but that was just pushing it for me, "-out in the crowd, so why won't you come up and show to everypony that you can back up those snide remarks." the magician mare said while wearing a smug grin, said smug grin only grew wider as my friends made up their mind and tried their luck at besting the show mare at her own game.
Shaking my head sadly I watched my friends lose one by one, a few of them were very humorous but I must say that Rarity's was the best, her fur changed to the color green which apparently she doesn't like and she galloped off freaking out and one of the farmer ponies, her name was Carrot Top I think, she just huffed at that and trotted off to parts unknown.
When it was down to just me, Barb and Twilight I had decided to test my luck against Trixie and see if I can leave an impression on every single pony here that I am not to be messed with.
"Hey! Show mare! I can do something that you can't do!" I shouted while at the same time signaling for Pinkie to come over, I need her to help me with this little trick of mine.
"Oh really?" Trixie said as she slowly trotted up to me and from her vantage point on the stage she was taller then me by at least her own height and an additional body length from the stage, "Well then little kid, please regale us with your trick then, show me what you got." and with that she turns around and her tail slaps me across the hat. Now, normally I would just set someone on fire for messing with my hat and insulting me but this mare is about to be upstaged, one-upped, and then set on fire before being sent on her merry way.
"Okay then." I looked at Pinkie who was back to normal but was now standing next to me, "Pinkie Pie, do you know the location of the nearest forge and/or blacksmith store?"
"Yup! Its right behind the stage!" the overactive mare says in her usual cheery tone, and with me and Trixie looking behind the stage there was indeed, a smithy, right here in this town and I never seemed to notice.
"Pinkie, when this is over please give me a tour of this place again, I obviously can't find my way around here without some help." and with a salute from Pinkie I walked around the side of the stage and up the forge, Trixie waved her horn and with that the stage she is standing on moves out of the way for everypony in attendance to see what I am about to do.
Peering around I saw that the forge was in excellent condition, there is already coal loaded into the ore smelter, the billows look to be in working order and the smithing pony, who is standing in the audience, gives me what I can only guess is a thumbs up as I got myself ready for the next step.
"Pinkie, I need you to return to Twilight's home, go up to my room and grab my satchel, you will know if its mine because it smells like moldy paper and stale wine." and before I could blink she is back with my satchel in her mouth. I just stare at her blankly for a moment before taking the satchel from her mouth and placed it in front of me. "Okay, now I need you to work the billows and-" before I could even finish she is standing by the billows, her hooves resting on top of the wooden haft and with a smile on her face.
Turning back to the audience I can see that a few have already lost interest in my act but now was the time to really set the mood and get even more to leave, cause what I have planned is going to hurt, me, a lot.
"Ladies and gentlemen, for the act I am about to perform I must warn you that if you do not like the smell of baking flesh in severe heat then please leave now, and those with the stomach to stand the smell then stay, and be warned, this is going to be really painful to me." and before anyone could question me as to what I am planning I reached down into my bag and pulled out six large chunks of a brown colored rock before tossing it into the smelter and with a clenched fist I created a ball of fire and dumped it into the pile of coal and on cue Pinkie started to work the billows.
As the bubbly pink party mare started her part I waited patiently for the ore to start to liquefy and just as I saw the rock melt away I took a deep breath, focused my magic on one of my more advanced spells, the Apocatastasis but a modified version that would be allowed to be used on the caster himself instead of being limited to my allies, but at the cost of more mana and fatigue. When I casted the spell on myself I saw the ponies stare at me in wonder and awe, wondering what I just did but when I saw that the ore was in its perfect condition to be shaped and forged I took a deep breath, stripped myself of my coat and gloves along with my hat, letting everyone see the eye patch that was hidden underneath the left half of the face mask, a few gasped at my so called 'missing eye' but I paid them no heed on their sympathy.
With a deep breath and a quick pray to all the gods that this is a success as I make the plunge into the ore smelter. As soon as both my arms move into the molten ore I heard practically every single pony in the crowd, my friends, Barb and Gilda included, let out gasps of shock and fear for my health, thinking I have gone insane but when I took my arms back out they saw that there was barely any harm done to the small appendages.
I saw jaws hit the ground, they were astonished that not only did my arms come out of the fire unscathed but they also had every single hair on them burnt off to reveal silky smooth looking arms, something I now regret because not once have I ever had to wax my body, not even my moustache and goatee I recently had been given, something I will never have ever again because Twilight thought I looked silly in it. As the iron ore started to get to the point where I need it I went to my bag and pulled out an ample amount of bomb ashes, the highly combustible grey ash was then dumped into the smelter along with the iron ore, the two mixing together as I plunged my arms back into the thick sludge of metal and ashes, stirring the two components together and once the two were effectively mixed into one element I started to scoop the stuff into the hollow ingot containers, filling every single one up with the new metal and once it was all gone I wiped my arms off of any residual goop and placed it into a glass jar that I had within my satchel, the glass itself being able to withstand the heat of a pissed off primal and now it held to the brim molten steel.
"Now fillies and gentlecolts, from what I have learned from your resident librarian Twilight Sparkle, the metal being used by you ponies is pig iron, to my people that is considered cheap and readily available metal used for small town defenses or rudimentary plumbing pipes. What I am making right before your eyes, is something vastly superior to that cheap iron in every way possible. What you may think of it as a new brand of steel to be given to all of Equestria, I call it Heavy Steel, and the magic I just used to keep myself safe from the heat of the forge is a trade secret." I said with a smirk as Trixie just glares at me while at the same time be amazed that my arms are not a melted mess of missing flesh and bones.
What the crowd didn't know was that I was going to be making myself something I always wanted to do when I was in Limsa Lominsa for three months.
As soon as the ingots all cooled down I grabbed some of my tools from my satchel and started to work the precious metal into the various pieces I will need to forge my new set of armor, and hopefully by the time I go to the Gala I can present myself in it, maybe even see if I can get Luna to apologize to someone dressed up as a knight.
"Pinkie, thank you for your assistance, you can go back to your friends now." and with that she gave a smug salute with her eyes closed before bouncing off back to Twilight and Barb.
Grabbing the Steel Doming Hammer from the inner satchel flap I flipped through the same section before pulling out some Steel Pliers, the tools of my many hobbies, and when I pulled them out I saw Twilight and Trixie get closer to me, watching me closely, even the smithy pony that allowed me to use his anvil, smelter and forge was pretty much up close to me, watching my techniques in action.
Looking for the nearest ingot box I searched for the one that was already cooled down thanks to the ponies development of a cooling block that fastens the production of ingots when needed, and for my purposes it actually lives up to its name. Popping the casing open I saw that it has completely cooled and was cold to the touch, something that I find amazing and once the bar was laying on the anvil I gripped my hammer tightly in my right hand and my pliers in my left before beginning my pet project.
As I worked on making the steel rings and plates I heard the ponies talk loudly amongst themselves, some saying how is a child even able to withstand the heat and pain of having ones arms in the molten mess that was the smelter and come out unscathed, a few even said that I might be part dragon and I can easily detest that I am not part dragon, I just used a spell that reduced the pain and damage I would receive to my body if it was fire, lightning, ice or water based magic, and lastly there was a quite a few even are planning on setting me up with their daughters. I don't know if they have arranged marriages here but if they do then I am not going to be accepting any kind of offer from these ponies unless there is a contact involved, I am allowed to read said contract, able to modify it so I don't get blindsided by some sort of loophole, and if I can see who I am getting the contract from.
"So Tatalito, I have been wondering for a while now..." Twilight said as she took some notes on the way I am hammering the first ingot into a solid plate, the flat square being perfectly flattened until I was done with it, placing it to the side before grabbing another ingot and repeated what I did to the first onto it.
"What have you been wondering Ms. Sparkle?" I said with a strained tone, sweat falling from my face onto the anvil, the purple unicorn bringing over a small towel and gently patting my forehead before going back to her notepad.
"I have been wondering, just how much stuff is inside of your satchel? Its like it just never ends and a few of the things you pulled out of it seems like it would just never fit in it without causing it to burst at the seams!"
"Well...there is a perfectly good explanation for that." I said as I saw Pinkie sift through my satchel, going 'ooooh' and 'ahhhh', seemingly she found some things she liked.
"And that would be lad?" the smith said, I later learned whose name is Blunt Hammer.
"When you reach a certain rank among Grand Company's, they will enchant your bag, backpack, satchel, whatever it is you use to store your things to be able to hold a quantity that would seem almost impossible for the desired object to hold."
"What is a Grand Company?" and there was the question that I was expecting someone to ask me sooner or later.
"It is basically the military of a nation that are united in common cause to avert imminent doom from engulfing their nation and during times of extreme strife, of all nations from going down under the flames. Each city-state is charged with gathering its resources under their banner of the elite regiment. At the commanders word, the companies all over Eorzea have begun to enlist able-bodied men and women to join their ranks regardless of where they are born and their social standing. After a while the same call that went out to the citizens of the three city-states soon went out to those beyond their borders, to the adventures of the world." I said as the Ul'Dahian was playing behind me and as I stood there looking off in the distance, and flowing behind me was the flag of the Immortal Flames.
As the music continued to play all four of us realized that there was actually music playing and when all of us turned around to see that it was Pinkie playing the music and in front of her was actually the Ul'Dah national anthem and beside me was actually my flag that was given to me for reaching the rank Sergeant First Class, in fact that flag is...the flag that goes on my chocobo's saddle.
"Pinkie...where did you get my flag...and my city's national anthem?" I said as I slammed my hammer down into the ingot, flattening it out before dropping it into the steadily growing pile of flat sheet metal.
"From your purse silly!" Pinkie shouted as a few ponies in the crowd started to laugh but when I glared at them they immediately silenced themselves.
"Its not a purse! Its a satchel! Big difference!" I shouted, in my defense I chose the satchel because its ease of access and the fact that if I was using a backpack I would have fell over backwards every single day.
"Tatalito, its a pur-" Rainbow Dash was about to say before I glared at her with venom in my eye.
"Dash, if you call my satchel a purse, I will freeze your wings solid for the rest of the day." I said before counting how many plates I have and feeling satisfied with how many I got I switched from making plates to making steel rings.
"Don't argue with him darling, we all know what he is capable of doing, we saw a firsthoof example when he almost incinerated Nightmare Moon when she returned, why I am still surprised by what he is capable of doing sometimes." I heard Rarity say as I smugly grinned, that mare really does have an eye for spotting things that sticks out, and if anyone was looking at my back they would see the most obvious thing there is.
"Anyways, now that all of that is out of the way..."I said with a grunt as I twisted some steel around, warping it to the perfect shape of a gauntlet, the metal glove was fully fitted to my hand alone and when I placed it beside me I started to craft the left one, a pair is not the same without its twin. "Is there anything else you ponies need to ask of me?" I said and of course Trixie was still slack jawed at the fact that my arms are not bones and on fire, Twilight and the smith taking notes and Gilda is staring at me with ever increasing levels of interest.
With both gloves now finished I placed them beside me and started to take measurements of my legs from the waist down, the Flanchards being a somewhat complex piece of armor since it integrates leg armor with boots and if I made even a smallest of errors in its construction it would hurt me when I wear it or hinder my full range of motion.
"Darling, just what are you planning to do with those measurements you just took?" Rarity asks as she pushed her way to me, her flank bumping into Twilight and the stallion to get through, both are a bit busy with taking notes to care.
"I am planning, Ms. Rarity, to make a Flanchard, it is the lower protective armor that covers the waist, hips, legs and feet in a layer of steel, and depending if I put materia in it then it will have different effects on it." I said as I started crafting the boots, the little booties coming along nicely.
"I never heard of such attire before." she said as I started to work on the shins, welding, shaping, melting and re-attaching metal on metal and when I got to the joints I had to work extremely careful otherwise I would have to start over.
"That is because Ms. Rarity it never came from Equestria or from any of the surrounding area, it came from the realm of Eorzea and that is from where I am from." I said before moving the knee joints around, ensuring that they work flawless and to my surprise there is no scraping noise or sudden stoppage during movement.
Continuing with my work I finished the Flanchard and gloves and soon afterward was the centerpiece itself, the mares and stallions were in awe when I finished it and after putting in the soft aldgoat leather and having it glued into the metal with some dandy horn glue, neither ponies asked what it was since I never let them see it.
"Alright fillies and gentlecolts, from the hair singeing ore processing to the pain staking armor making, I can now show you something that the so called Great and Powerful Trixie can't do, enchant armor." I said and without further ado I grabbed some aquamarine gemstones from my satchel before fusing some of my mana into my hands and gemstones before pressing each one into different sections of the freshly made armor.
As the heavy steel armor set started to glow an ominous icy blue glow I wiped the sweat from my brow before climbing into my new duds, the soft leather was cool to the touch and after fidgeting with some buckles I was fully incased.
"And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you craft armor using steel, using elemental protection magic, and enchanting armor." and as I started to bow I forgot that this armor wasn't meant to bow in and that is when I fell forward, landing with a loud thud.
I felt heat start to burn my cheeks as the applause that was happening in front of me turn to laughs but when I stood up and started to slowly take off my new armor, feeling slightly disappointed that these ponies would laugh at someone that just showed them a new way to forge metal, two never before seen spells, and armor that is vastly superior to theirs.
"Hey stop laughing at him!" I heard Pinkie shout as she went over to me as I put on my wizard attire, my cap was the last thing to put on before I went back to the stage to wait for them to stop, if they wanted to laugh at me for just falling over then when there is a problem that I can solve then they are out of luck.
Sighing I just gave them all the middle finger before walking to the library and shuffled down the stairs until I finally reached my plants and just sat down near my cotton plant, it was already a small bush but with no usable materials.
"I hate this place...back home if I fell on accident anyone that saw me fall would have ran over to me and help me before asking if I am injured. Here they just laugh....freaking jerks." muttering to myself I watered my plants earlier then normal, my thoughts resting on Trixie, that mare practically bragged about how good she is and each attempt to stand her up ends with the pony and now Lalafell to be laughed at.
As time passed there was a knock on my door and it opened up to reveal Barb steadily coming down the stairs and seeing how this was her first time ever seeing all of this she was shocked to see so many plants growing down here let alone growing so quickly and so strong.
"Wow! Tatalito did you do all this by yourself?" Barb said with actual astonishment in her voice.
"Yes, I did, it took me a few days but hey, at least I have proved that you can grow something underground with artificial heat and light." I said light heartedly, my feelings still hurt from the laughter by the ponies but for now it didn't hurt as badly as it used to.
As we talked to one another my friends came in one at a time, talking to me, seeing how I felt, and all this other stuff but I just told them that I was fine, but internally I was mad at those ponies.
My anger only got worse when it finally hit night fall, and there was a perfectly good reason for me being mad.
I was asleep in my bed, on top of Gilda cause she decided to take this time to sleep beside me since I was alone in the bed and eventually she moved in her nap and with me in her talons I was moved around until she was resting on her back, wings fully extended out all over the bed, and with her tail gently and slowly moving back and forth between her hind legs as her front talons were holding onto me tightly. Me being hugged by the griffon didn't anger me, no it was the bloody racket going on outside that did the trick.
At first it was just a single lone thump that resulted in me nuzzling Gilda's chest, the second thumb was slightly stronger and I had to hug Gilda a bit tighter to hold on, but when it came to the third thump my eye snapped open, slightly bloodshot because I couldn't get much sleep and by the time I did manage to catch some z's I get woken up.
"Oh by Nald'Thal....what in the seven rings of hell is causing all that racket!" my tone slowly rising in pitch as Gilda woke up also, but after rolling off the bed with me below her.
Now you see, at this moment I would be so happy if it was of any race from Eorzea that would be on top of me but seeing that it was Gilda and she being a griffon...well lets just say that I haven't thought of other species in that kind of light yet.
"Get off of me!" I shouted and with a bit of roving hands trying to find purchase to get heavy butt off of me but of course my hands found something that they shouldn't have and in that moment I grabbed it as hard as I could and...
As I grabbed what I don't even want to know, the griffon above me let out a chrip before looking down at me with a rose tint to her cheeks and her tail was starting to thrash back and forth while purring quietly. I just stared at Gilda for a few seconds before immediately letting go and before I could say that I am sorry to her she just throws me out of the room, but not in the sense of being catapulted out, more along the lines of getting pushed out of the room by the top of her head while she didn't utter a single word.
But as soon as I got out of my room the thumping was only louder and by the time I got to the front door and opened it I saw Trixie running by and before I could trip her with an ice spell I saw a mass of stars and twinkling lights chase after her.
When I saw that mass of the night sky I had to go back inside, close the door, open it back up and see if I was just dreaming but unfortunately I was right, it was real, and it was chasing Trixie.
'Of course she would bring in a rampaging monster from somewhere to get the town to like her....well two could play at this game.'
Grabbing my staff I chased after Trixie, barely catching up to the mare and when I did I saw how pathetic her magic really was, I saw her try to shoot lightning at the beast but all she managed to do was form a small storm cloud before failing epically and with a sigh from me I formed my own lightning within the head of the staff, and once the crackling energy has reached its peak at maximum strength I waved it forth, there was a clap of thunder before a loud boom was emitted, the bolt of thunder leapt out from my staff and collided with the star beast, knocking it on its butt, which resulted in destroying her wagon.
"Now that is how you cast a lightning based spell." I said with a smug grin and as she started to back up I thought she was just going to run away for causing off this disturbance but when I turned around I saw why she was moving away, the star beast was back on its paws and as it came down I just stepped to the side and when it came down I was between its toes and just stared up before walking away next to Trixie.
Staring back up at the beast all I can think of at the moment is how in the seven hells did she even manage to bring this thing here and what did she do to piss it off?
Before I could question the trembling powder blue mare I saw Twilight Sparkle suddenly show up and as soon as she did she was levitating a fairly large tower and practically shoved it between the star beast's lips and it started to drink and before long it fell asleep and my purple friend levitated it all the way back from whence it came.
Once it was all over every single pony in Ponyville came out and many were scowling or saying hateful things to Trixie but that was when I saw the dumb dynamic duo and they said that they brought the so called 'Ursa Major' to the town so Trixie could beat it and since she didn't it proved that she is just a great big fake.
"So let me get this straight Twilight...these two went into the forest that screams evil," Twilight gave a nod as I continued "woke up a giant bear made of stars and cosmic gases..." she gave another nod "and managed to bring it all the way here without alerting the wild beasts of the Everfree to their presence and not once receive a single scratch or missing piece of mane?" and with that last nod I just went over to the two colts and conked them on the head with my staff.
"You two, start cleaning up the broken wagon first thing in the morning, then I want the two of you to apologize to every pony in town, and then I want you two to read a book on the dangers of the Everfree Forest, then to stay away from the forest. Am I understood?" I said as they both gave me a sad and slow nod, the two colts, Snips and Snails, trotted off in shame as I shook my head and sighed explosively.
"Twilight." I said as the world around me started to spin, my vision starting to get blurry.
"Yes Tatalito?" Twilight said as she looked over at me, worry was clearly written on her face.
"The next time something like this happens....please knock me out so I don't have to deal with it ever again." and with that I finally passed out from exhaustion, I had forgotten to turn off my elemental barrier as it had continued to suck the mana from me and until it finally caused a strain on my mind forcing me into an unconscious state, making the spell end.
I soon found myself back in my bed but this time I was curled up on my side with Barb trying to act like the big spoon and with Gilda acting like her big spoon.
'I hate my life right now.'