Nightmare Moon survives the Elements' power and takes Twilight as her prisoner. Now, the alicorn queen must establish her monarchy and defend her rightful place as queen against those that oppose her.
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That was fun.
Oooo, Twilight joins the training, sounds great!
I found this chapter a joy to read .
The sparring session with Gilda and Cloudy was well executed, Gilda having the drive to best Cloudy and trying new tactics was a nice touch. But showing Cloudy isn't so easily fooled harkens back to her years of combat experience. A Polearm is also a good weapon for Gilda, it's everything Peppy described it as, in this chapter. I wonder if we'll get a samurai-esque scene of respecting their weapons, with Cloudy teaching Gilda how to properly care for and maintain her Polearm.
You also explained Twilight's visions , and shown Nightmare's concern regarding Twilight's feelings towards her. Also indirect affection via training so Twilight can defend herself is a great Idea. Having Twilight trained in armed combat is an interesting idea to explore. I typically imagine Unicorns rely on their Magic way too much. But since Twilight's powered down just now, I can imagine her learning how to fight like Cloudy, and perhaps later on mixing in some combat magic. Like a battle-mage or Arcane Warrior.
23 chapters and 100,000+ words in, I still find myself wondering where this story is ultimately leading.
I still wonder if Twilight's influence will eventually draw NMM away from her angry and sadistic emotions and maybe eventually even get her to release Celestia from wherever she's locked away.
On the other hoof, maybe the whole point of the story is that you can have a happy ending where everypony learns to love Eternal Night and serving the magical equine counterpart of Muammar Gaddafi.
153371 Pretty much exactly what I was aiming for. Twilight may not like killing, but if she's going to be in the line of fire then she'll need to be able to save herself the trouble of dying over 9000 times
153404 Ninja posts popping up every time I reply. I'd tell ya but that'd ruin the ending. Kinda. Somewhat. The main thing that matters is the MoonLight. And a happy ending of course.
153417 This had me thinking of that one Mulan song. Make a man out of you .
Great lyrics, I hope someone makes a song out of this, there's already a Nightmare Night and two Rainbow factory songs. SOMEONE MAKE THIS AWESOME SONG A REALITY! That is, if you wouldn't mind too terribly
There are a couple of places where a new paragraph begins in the middle of a sentence. Should be easy to find as the offending new paragraphs start with a lowercase letter.
I wonder if Twilight will be learing to use a weapon or learning basic unarmed self defense?
Nicely done but I am dissapointed at the lack of kamehamehas(You had a break from it now it's back)
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I see it now. Though my personal copy of the chapter is just fine. I can't fix it on the site. Only Peppy can.
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What?
Halberd--well detailed. However, before you described anything beyond the bladed side, I thought it might've been a yari. xD
Yay! AWESOME!!!!! I HOPE comes back
Hmm, time to get down to work.
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So a bit of prespective from Cloudy, that was a nice treat. We get abit about how she feels about Moon Beam. Then we got to see her and Gilda interact some more, I love how she dopeslaps Gilda on the back of the head something tells me that these two's upcomming intreactions will become quite intresting as things progress.
Speaking of Gilda I think it was a nice touch to have her be basicaly untrianed in combat. Though I would think she has more expernce then she give herself credit for. Griffons are preditores and unless Gilda restricted herself to fish for whatever reason she should have some skill in tracking and hunting. Also I got a grin out of her falling because of that axe being too heavy for her to use, I agree that she did end up choosing a great weapon for herself in the end though.
So, not only did Nightmare not intend for twiligt to see those memories she can't really do anything to stop it without damaging Twilight in the process. I wonder how this will affect the relationship between the two of them. While Twilight is beyond devoted to her queen Nightmare seems to not only be new to the feelings she is developing for her but also abit afriad of said feelings. Witch i can understand given the implied orgigins of Moon beam and her isolation from the greater populas of Equestria both 1,000 years ago and now.
You count me as part of the group that was pleased to here that Twilight's well being is important to Nightmare. I was also plesently surprized to find out that Twilight will be undergoing traiing as well. I wonder what if any type of eapon she'll use? If it was me I'd have Nightmare present her with two daggers, one from the armoury or Cloudy's collection, and the other being the one that Brook used. Part of the reason for Broks dagger is it's ability to be hiddon, but also for the symbalic value of just how much Nightmare trust Twilight by giving her a dagger that was ment to end her queens life now being used to saf guard both her and twilight herself. As was pointed out above me twilight's real streingth though would be in magic be it combat spells or the weaponising of everyday magic. I could see her using shards of a broken window to give her foe the "death by 1,000 cuts" treatment. Really though with Twilight her one big obsticle is going to be getting around her empathey for others that only happened once and that was about by some very specific triggers, and even then her subconous mind gave her hell for it afterword.
Now I wonder just what this soulbinding that happened between Nightmare and twilight entails. So far it's changed her apprence, given her limited acess to Nightmare's intimidation ability, and apprently acess to her queen's memories. However Nightmare has said twice now that she can't be sure what all the side effects of her spell will do to Twilight. We first learned this when her physical changes started and it was cofmed both when Twilight's parents visited, then later in this chapter when she tried to view twilight's dreams and was totaly unable to do so. I wonder, if over time the two of them couldn't work this to thier advantge and develope a type of mental link that would allow for privet comunication for the two of them. if this happens they could work together on concert to a truely incredible degree. They could share information at blinding speed, weave spells of truely masterfull nature and even simpaly stay in touch while working at diffrent ends of the castle quite the usefull feature don't you think?
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That was fun but I've got to go read the next chapter of The Quite Place now.
153407 I think Twilight HAVE to get used to killing at some point of this story even though if she doesn't like it, of course thats me thinking. There's no avoiding that in a war.
153371 I think it would be SO cool if she learn how to flow her magic through inanimate objects like swords or something, so if she takes a swing. A large dark purple crescent moon-shaped slices through few enemies in one swing. Or point her sword skyward, then takes a powerful down-stroke causing a large lighting to crash at where she wants it to be causing a painless and instant deaths for receiver or receivers.
153404 There's so many happy ending this story can have. Like Twilight and Nightmare finally ends up together, NMM's kingdom is flowing and peaceful with itself as well other countries. Or Celestia would come back somehow. Or few others I just thought of but just disappears (haha)
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I just read chapter 13 and found the shout out, it was a pretty good one too, and subtle. Adds a bit of tension in the air around Ponyville. I'm also going to mess with all your heads a bit in chapter 5. I won't spoil it for you though
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Why two daggers? If she does not have her magic then she would only be able to use one as based on Brook's assassination attempt she would have to hold it in her mouth. With it being so close to her face a weapon with some reach would be prefered for use against an enemy that can resist, so something more in the short sword range would be advisable.
The exception would be if the weapon attaches to her hooves/legs via a bracer or something.
However we do not even know (yet) if she will use a weapon or just be trained to have proper reflexive actions that make her not go about defending the Queen in a foalish way when she does not have time to think.
ok well you've got me interested, havn't heard of this story till today and im already interested.
can't wait to see where Twilight discovering NMM's background will lead, nor where gilda fighting with them will go.
And as weird as this sounds i both wish Celestia would and wouldn't return, i mean if she does it'll return balance and really NMM has no reason to banish her other then to make sure she doesen't defeat her again. But if she does come back Twilight an NMM can't be together... you know barring any Deus Ex Machinas...
Way to go writing this, i'll keep tabs on it.
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I like the mind link idea. Reminds me of Synchronicity, which is buckin' funny.
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It was fun getting that to blend well with the scene. Thanks for the compliment.
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The daggers could be like Cloudy's sword.
"She reached back and drew her sword, clasping onto its handle with an enchanted metal band around her right fore-hoof."
'Magic Sticky Hooves', Patent Pending.
Gwenio, She's only barred her magic for roughly a week or so, though I'll admit I hadn't really thought about her weilding said daggers with her mouth and here's why. Cloudy's sword is weilded with a hoof, so why wouldn't other bladed weapons built for quines be built that way?
Though to be honest the main reason i thought that two daggers would work well for her was so that she could se one to block and parry awhile using the other to attack. Plus as I said before the symbalic value of her taking up Brook's dagger. Also twilight is a consort her job is to be by her queen's side and server her as such. Having a weapon that she can conseal easily yet still get to quickly is what would serve her best in her duties to Nightmare. As for the symbalic value there is another way to go about it with a difrent weapon. That would be have her make use of that scimituar that she took to the chest the other day. granted these are just my ideas it's not like I have any real say in what goes on in this fic that's Peppy's department.
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That would be a "bracer or something" for the weapon to attach too.
153722 I assumed Ponies could hold things in their Hoofs, I've seen ponies with their hoofs wrapped around things like Lyra holding a coffee cup, a bunch of ponies holding snow shovels in winter wrap up, and the mare of liberty statue in Manehatten was holding two things and keeping her balance.
I assume it can be tricky for Unicorns who don't normally hold items with their hoofs to do so, hence Twilight struggles for the first few weeks to adapt to using her hoofs instead of Magic.
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The point about magic is if she needs a mundane weapon then she likely is unable to use magic at that time (anti-magic).
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I see your point. I would personally like to see Twi' just use magic to wield a blade (if she's even trained to use them, anyway). I'm more inclined to believe the 'instruments' that Nightmare plans to use in training Twi' are more along the lines of magic amplifiers, so that even with the vary small amount of magic she has right now, she can still train it.
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And then they write using their mouths. The show just seems to ignore the difficulty when it needs non-unicorns to hold things that would not work well when held in a mouth. It is a matter of how serious the writer wants to be about realism.
@Everypony
Need to get to work on the unedited chapters now.
Gwenio, I see your point about her needing a weapon, but if I'm recalling right pulling off antimagic takes quite a bit of set up. Either you eed to be a very talented amgic user who can create and apply antimagic binding devices like Nightmare Moon did, or you have to go the hard way and set up an antimagic field something shown to take five specialy trianed unicorns and even then if one such unicorn fails the barrier drops instently.
our also mostlikely right in that aside from some basic physical training twilight would most likely be drilled in magical combat given her striength in that field and her position by the queen's side. However i still think it would be a wise choice to have her trained in non magical combat to some degree incase she and Nightmare get hit by another antimagic field. Though really the more I think about that insodent the more I wonder how exactly Moon beam was able to use her abilities within said field.
Blah, My guest comment didn't go through. sadness.
anyway, I don't have time to post the ongoing adventures of a legion of Dwarves and their quest to find The Holistic Detective (or something, those poor bastards.)
Huzzay! new chapter, new editor, halberds, and a Soul Bond. There can be no going back now.
I wonder if The Queen is going to make the Equestria version of The Painkiller out of those dragon remains (check the lyrics for details).
Love and muffins,
-Rebelfire
Oh... where do I start...?
Okay. I expected Twilight to be trained for the fight, but I expected her to stand up for her queen herself, demanding the means to protect the ponies she loves the most. Though, Queen Moon training her of her own will, for Twilight to be safe during the war is an interesting idea as well. I'm okay with that ;)
Regarding how Twilight will be trained; Usually I think that some kind of strong fighter characters (regardless of them being magicians, knights, or enchanted snowflakes) don't fit into the MLP universe. Howver, since this story completely runs riot in many ways, I don't see a problem with Twilight getting an awesome training ;)
The same goes for Gilda. First, I expected her to get a claymore, or maybe a scythe, but a halberd is just classic, fits her really well. Also, I'd like to see how the relationship between her and Cloudy will develop. I mean, the rebel, and High Commander Stick Up Her Ass, the perfect pairing xD.
It's interesting to see how much NMM has changed. I'm already a bit tired, so I could've misinterpreted her reactions, but she seems to be worried about burdening Twilight with these dreams, and I want to go even further and say, she feels guilty, even though the whole dream thing only happened because she had to use this magic in order to safe Twilight. She doesn't even seem to be angry, that Twilight knows of some of her most personal memories.
I just love where this is going. May you write fanfiction until the day you die. (that means you better shouldn't stop writing )
Luminous, You bring up some intresting points here. I hadn't even thought of that possible reaction to Twilight's confession about those memories. However one thing in your post is sticking out to me right now and it's going to drive me nuts if i don't get this cleared up so please tell me you mean and actual combat scythe and not the horribly inaccurate prop that most depictions of the grim reaper show him holding. If you ment the former that's an intresting choice if you ment the later, then you just broke my already fualty brain so bad it fixed itself then broke again.
I admit I'm no expert in combat, or even in farming equipment but I thought about having a character using a scythe in combat awhile ago and did some digging, ever sence then I wince evertime i see the grim reaper weilding a straight hafted scythe because I know just enought to know that it just isn't in anyway combat useible. I'm going to go wander round the net for a while so i can think about other stuff before I make myself come off as even more of a smug prick then i made myself out to be already.
I believe that while gripped with the hoof items are actually held in the wrist odd but for them doable.
153458 I thought I made sure to fix that as I was going through. Guess I missed it. It happens cause of a break in the document when I copy paste. Such a pain.
153704 Thanks! Glad to have ya with us~
153832 Moon Beam's powers aren't based off the same magic that unicorn's call on. It originated from Nightmare but it's now more of a physiological magic than magic magic
154046 The problem with gripped in the wrist items is that you are fighting. I HIGHLY doubt their ability to hold on to items will stand up against the force of another weapon.
Hmm.... I can't clop to this scene..... or can i?
Peppy, that's an intresting concept. Will she become more awear of her powers over time? If so I hope that she doesn't get a rush of memories of what she used them for in the past. I can't see her taking those memories well epsecaily not her introduction to Twilight.
glad to see another great chapter
153949 But what better pairing is there than a half-blind flightless commander and a pegasus with two useless hind legs?
It appears nobody caught the dwarf reference. oh dear.
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"Better not keep The Queen waiting." Peppy murmured to himself. he reached up and gave the doors a good knocking and waited a moment for the response to enter. He didn't have to wait long for that response, and pulled open the heavy obsidian doors. As he walked down the carpet he marveled at the artistry in the throne room. IT also had interesting acoustics, as he heard speaking coming from the throne "...And have you seen Moon Beam anywhere? She was just sitting here a minute ago!" this was responded to with a sigh and "No, but you may go look for her after we have dealt with....him..."
Dealt with? Peppy knew he was a few days late, but surely The Queen would still be expecting them... Approaching the throne, he bowed low and said, "Greetings, my Queen. We, er- I am the scribe that you had called for." The Queen stared down at him, causing Peppy to shift uncomfortably and said, "You are the Scribe I called for? Not only are you days late, but you are also alone. Where is the other scribe that was supposed to be accompanying you?"
"Er, he got a bit sidetracked by one of your scouts. He should be back soon enough, though!" The Queen continued to glare at him as he continued, "And, Er- there was the spaghetti..." He faltered. IT felt nearly impossible to do anything with those eyes boring into his soul. She eventually looked up, as if thinking.
"You expect me to believe," She started, "That you are several days late, and alone, because of Spaghetti?" Peppy responded, barely above a whisper, "That Spaghetti... its probably best you don't know..." The Queen turned to Twilight, who was sitting on her left, and asked, "What do you think? This all seems.... suspicious..." Peppy looked up at Twilight, who was staring at him now, although her eyes seemed... softer.
"It does seem somewhat suspicious..." she responded. "We'll have to hold him here until we can discern whether he is telling the truth or not." Peppy responded, "Wait, what? I-" Anything else he might have said was cut off as a deep purple glow surrounded him in a magic mesh and pushed him against the wall, somewhat painfully as it had caught him at an awkward position. So Peppy hung there, pressed against the wall, with his hoof firmly held in his face by the magic mesh.
He heard The Queen speak at this point, "You purposely have him in that position, don't you?" Twilight blushed a little and with a little smile she said, "I thought it would be funny..." The Queen chuckled at this, just a little. Peppy, however, could only sigh and hope that somepony would be by soon to help him.
That help came sooner than expected, in the form of two small ponies carrying trays piled high with pancakes, giggling and scampering towards the throne.
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short tonight, as I am both tired and distracted. Curse these distractions, they drive me to write somewhat poorly!
Rebel, If I'm guessing right part of the refrences was to Dirk Gentely, not sure about the Dwarves though. Also this is intresting, it seems that Nightmare is rubbing off on Twilight to a degree given how she pinned Peppy in place also food cooked by yourself and Moon Beam, this bodes ill for our cuase,
Well seeing as reble was kind enough to update I'll try and have something out tomorrow.
155198 Yay small Ponies to the rescue
On topic with the story, I paid attention to the last few episodes of the show regarding trains and finally thought of a good excuse for why Stallions seemed to be pulling the train in that one episode. The answer is protection, they were probably there to stop the train being tilted over by the angry Buffalo herd. Hence why every other time we see steam trains they work... like regular steam trains. Anyway's I was wondering if NMM will have a train yard built to bring in supplies and ponies? probably when things calm down a bit.
Also my latest story chapter is coming along slowly but surely and it is really long. It's almost as long as chapter 3 and I predict it will only get longer, because I have a lot of story to cram in. And I haven't even gotten to do the chapter I really want to do yet. But I won't let that rush me and ruin the chapter I'm working on.
155248 I'll just go ahead and say Headshoots, and that you are warned to not read that unless you have played Dwarf Fortress and/or want to keep your sanity! I'll probably write up something to make up for this ones shortness. because entertaining you all is now more awesome than sleeping.
154867 Can't really say much, but as I said before, she is not and will not be aware of what she does other than convoluted snippets. She has no idea that she's horribly mutilating and killing ponies.
155198 Poor me, having my hoof smushed into my face. Oh, well. Torture by Twilight is definitely not not gonna give me a raging wingboner with wings I do not have. I fear those pancakes though.
@ janushyde
If you mean those
http://konachan.com/image/0d4acfdd955e52af3a5cdd08581b96b5/Konachan.com%20-%2045690%20animal_ears%20blue_hair%20city%20peach-pit%20scythe%20short_hair%20shugo_chara%20snow%20tsukiyomi_ikuto%20weapon.jpg
Yeah, that looks rather useless. What is she going to do? Stab them in the back when they want to hug her?
This could work
http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee359/DivineDarkEvil/Scythe-1.png
But it would afford some kind of hit and run aerial tactic, where she just mows through the enemys. Or anything else that's reckless and would get her killed quickly.
I mean something like this
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs48/f/2009/178/c/3/war_scythe_by_tyrantwache.jpg
Luminous Shot, I was the one spazzing about scythes not Reblefire. Of the three you linked two the first is the type I was griping about it's the way the blade is positioned if it were mounted so the blade sat more like a Naninagta it would work fine. The second looks like it would work if only because it looks like a heavily customised halberd, The thrid would probily work fine though I'll admit I haven't seen the like of it before. Really though if ou want a better explenation for what kinds of scythes would and wouldn't work I'd recomend the Wikipedia article on warscythes, and the TV Tropes page called sinister scythe.
Peppy, I'll take your word for it, I can understand the whole thing about brook after all had to keep the plot a secret.
Also don't worry about the pancakes, the three of use put the Spagitie Demon down i think we can handle the horads of Pancake monsters to come. Hell this time should be easier given that Nightmare and Twilight are there for added firepower.
Hey guys. I'm now Tonto's editor as well. So go check his story out (later, it hasn't updated with the edited chapters, yet. And I've only edited the prologue so far.)
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Sorry Janus, was in a hurry because I had to leave. I searched for the pics, returned and saw rebel with the link at the beginning ;)
The first one won't hit anything like that, even if you swing it overhead, the person almost has to be in arm reach for the edge to get behind him, or else it would just hit with the blunt side and only do little damage. Pardon, but I don't know what a naninagta looks like, couldn't find anything with google either.
The second one works better, the range is rather short as well, however, you can actually hit things with the point. It also has spikes at various places that seem rather useful, and what I only noticed later, it also has sharp edges on the blunt side (not deadly but useful).
The last one is what I found as actual warscythe. TV tropes is always a good idea, I'll look at that
156403 The second is the scythe haseo uses in .hack//G.U. As for what a naginata is, here you go: trueswords.com/images/prod/c/TS-DRANAGINATA22_540.jpg
Well here's what I've got for the second installement hopefully you all will enjoy it. Also how does "Sounding in the Dark" work as a title for this?
While carefully navigating his way home after the night’s preformance Phile began to lose himself in his thought. The same old doubts, and fears began to creep up on him as they always did after a show. Did he preform well enough? Was he doing any real good here, or was he nothing but a hindernce to the others? Would this be the week that the rest of the ensamble desided to turn him lose? All these thoughts and more ran roughshod over his mind as he trotted to his home, with nothing to keep him company save his thoughts and the tapping of his walking stick upon the cobbled streets before him.
As always the performance had gone off without a hitch. The Boxtrot Brigade were known for two things above all else one was how dedicated to their craft they were performing six three hour shows a week. The other was the matieral they performed itself. Of the five ponies in the ensamble four were composers so new material was never in shot supply ever third Saterday they would be preforming an entirly new roster of compositions. This alone would be enough to make them renowned however there was more to it then that. What the Boxtrot Brigade was truly known for was the sound of there work. While they were mainly a Jazz ensamble they were famous for blending in eliments of Swing, Bigband, and even Classical technques to form a sound that was truly their own.
Phile was still amazed at how his coworkers managed to pull this off so consistently. The task of creating new compisitions rotated amungst the four of them. Each had their own style of compisition, Waltz perferred to weave the talents of her coworkers together expertly through clever use of them and veration.
Quarter Note was know for his energetic compisitions that had been known to leave the audince in an frenzy of energy, he also fond of incorpirating improvisatinal solos into his work though to his credit he did distribute them with equality amungst the quintet.
Nate could always be counted on for a melodey that would stay freash in the mind for weeks even monthes after a preformance. It was a testoment to his skill that even now he stil hummed some of the earilest peices from his time at the Boxtrot.
Then there was Trebble, her past exprence working as part of an opra company had given her the talent to enthrall the sense with her work guiding the pathos of her listner through soaring highs, crushing lows and everything inbetween.
Phile found himself amazed by not only the scope of his coworkers talent but also the fact that they kept him.it was only through working himself to near exhaustion each day that he was able to keep up with these talented artists. He knew that he was thrust upon the four back when the manager of the theater had found him playing on the street corner outside of the Black 13, one of the many casions that dominated the city.
His talent wasn’t music even before his accident he had played as a means to take his mind off the complex forumlas he loved to ponder so. This skill had ended up being a saving grace after his accident, for the first year and a half he sustained himself by playing on street corners and by selling off the majority of his lab equipment. It was just dumb luck that that manager of the theater had happened upon him while he was playing one day and brought him forth to meet the others who had agreed to accept him into the group by a three to one vote.
To be perfectly honest he really wasn’t sure why they had voted to bring him into the fold that day. While he may have preformed fairly well he was just someone of moderate ability without much of a background being asked to preform along side those who had been heavily entreached in the in buisness for years before they came together. Trebled worked for the Trottingham Opora Company, Nate was apart of Blue Eye’s ensamble, Waltz from the Canterlot Phil Harmonic, and Quarter Note had been working for the Boxtrot for years befor the others had invited to work there.
Still, it would be best not to keep dwelling on these old worries and focus on the task at hoof. He thought to himself as he turned the final corner that would lead him home. The task at hoof was as it had been for the last four years was earning as much money as he could, for there was a chance that if he could afford the admittidly steep price he could pay the one unicorn would could restore his sight, Copperhorn a former pupil of princess Celestia and something of a living legend, his feats within the field of healing magic were remarkible. Magicaly reattacking wings with little to any loss of dexterity or ability of said appendiges, outright regrowing legs that had been lost in horrible misshaps, and in one case restoring sight to a pony who had been blined ina manner similarly to his own case.
Things weren’t simpal though Copperhorn had been hard to get in contact with as he never stayed in one spot for very long durring Celestia’s rule. Now that Nightmare moon was in charge he’d gone into hiding for fear of his own life. Then there was the issue of cots itself. Four years ago when he had been lucky to get in contact with the renowned medical unicorn he had been told that 4,500 bits would be an acceptible down payment for his services. Phile was just hoping that the old medic hadn’t desided to change his mind about the price.
After so very long of sprimping and saving he could see the finish line ahead of himself. While it was true that his lost wages had slowed him down some, loosing 200 bits over five weeks could do that to any pony’s budget though. He was still so close if he could just make that lost money up he’d be at 5,200 bits that would be able to cover the procedure itself and the travel expences as well!
He sighed to himself when his mind was drawn back to the discovery he made today for the fifith week in a row his pay had come up 40 bits short. Whoever was stealing him was being very specific about just how much they took, it was the same amount each week the same amount he’d been setting aside from his 300 bit check each month sense he’d began working at the Boxtrot to save up for his procedure. For whatever reason smeone at the theater was trying to prevent him from seeing Copperhorn.
Once more clearing his mind Phile focus on his jurny home he could tell by smells and sound of the area that he had arrived home, The Red Scickle Railstation. It had been a risky venture to buy the old terminal but considdering how cheap it had been and the fact that the line it was on rarely saw use anymore it had seemed like a sound idea. The Small Railstation had been closed down some ten years ago in part because the line was falling out of use the main reason though was the owner had been using it as a means to smuggle Loco weed across Equestria. So after it had been shut down and left to see for a few years it went up on action and he’d been able to get it on the cheap, as he was the only bidder.
The railstation didn’t consist of much a single line of track and a relitivly small station building made up the property. The station building itself consisted of a ticket booth, a waiting room large enough for 75 ponies and their baggeg, a single restroom and a cramped mangers office with a safe. With some work and a bit of investment he’d been able to turn the waiting room into a fairly decent lab area. Gone were the chairs and lugedge racks replaces with lab tables, counters and cubboreds.The managers office was now a cramped bedroom and the ticket booth was converted into a storge closet. Regrettibly he never had gotten around to tracking down a contracter to install a chemical shower for imergences should a situation arrise.
It was because of that folly amung a few others that he was in his current prediciment. His Bunsin Burners, microscopes, labe tables, and glasswere had been sold off to help make ends meet long ago. Now each night after work he made the same lonely trip. Trudging through the front door, past the turnstyle at the ticket booth, through the now empty lab and past the restroom into the manager’s office where he’d set his trombone cas down by the door the forword the few remaing feet to curl up in his bed and sleep for the night.
There was a comotion outside, someone was beating on the front door to the station building like it was going out of style. He wasn’t especting anyone today, his bills had been paid for the month and today was his one day off for the week whoever was making that ruckus was about to get an earfull! With an irritated grunt Phile rose from his bed, grabbed his walking stick and trotted to the front door to see what all the comotion was about.
156616 Somepony seems to be taking a note from Peppy. WHAT A CLIFFHANGER. My hooves aren't skilled enough to be grappling edges of sheer, dangerous cliffs like this, janus. Shame on you. I'd never do something this mean. .......... .................... Ok, so I lied, but whatever. Nice going. Can't wait to read the next part.
Peppy, Thanks for the complement it means a lot. Like i said before I'm along for the ride on this just as much as you guys are here I have a bit of an idea as to where I'm going with this but it's mostly unplanned. Also your current avatar is kinda weird how is she balencing like that?
Luminous Shot, The links worked fine when I copy pasted them so no big deal. Though I do feel abit like a fool for bringing up this whole conversation about combat scythes in the first place. I mean come on you brought it up as a neat suggestion and i went off on a stupid tangent, granted it might have been intresting and educatinal (If you squint really hard.) but the point remains that i shouldn't have opened my mouth I've got a bit of a habbit of putting my feet in there.
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I never watched a lot of the Hack:// series. Also, okay it's written differently, that explains why I didn't find anything about it. Thanks for the pic.
156832 You mean hooves, right? Also, it's magic. She ain't gotta 'splain shit.
156905 It's a great game/anime. You should definitely check it out. Very hard to find the whole set of three games though.
158154 It was hard to do Fancy's personality. You only see him for one episode and he doesn't talk too much, but Blueblood, however, was easily done. Just had to imagine a giant douchewaffle and BAM. Done.