Day 8
It was a dark and stormy night. You know, i have written many books but I don’t think I have ever used that one before. But this time it’s fitting.
We reached the stormfront just after nightfall and the Captain had taken us as high as the airship would go. We’re above the clouds, but the winds are still heavy and we’re experiencing a lot of turbulence. Luckily we had plenty of warning from the weather scouts, it gave us plenty of warning to secure our belongings for a bumpy ride.
That didn’t mean that we were’t buffeted by it however and-
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A tendril of cloud drifted past outside my cabin window and lightning flashed through the dark cloudlayer beneath us, lighting the clouds.
I glanced up from my journal as there was a loud rumble, the ship actually shaking slightly at that one. That was a big one.
So, so glad this ship was held up by magic floaty stuff instead of hydrogen.
Because that would have been bad. Explosively so.
Not that I was very happy about it in any case, but it’s not like there was a lot we could do about it anyway. We had maybe thirty pegasus onboard that could work clouds. Not enough to affect a storm of this size.
There was another rumble and the ship shifted beneath me slightly before straightening again and I quickly caught my inkwell with my magic before it slipped off the table, putting a cork in it before putting it away.
“You okay, Amber?”
“I’m fine, sir,” a voice answered, drifting out from beneath my bunk. I could just about see a pair of luminous eyes from the darkness there when I leaned down to peer in beneath it. Even with my eyes I could barely make her out in the pitch black darkness compared to the rest of my small cabin.
“You sure?”
“...Don’t like this, sir.”
I nodded, “I know. Don’t worry, we’ll be okay.”
“...Yes, sir...”
Changelings didn’t like open spaces in general and were the most comfortable in cramped underground spaces. Amber didn’t like this. Like, at all.
Moving, dangerous, waaaay above ground, constricted rooms and way too many things that could go wrong and absolutely nothing she could do about it.
Basically a nightmare scenario for her and at the first thunderclash, she had retreated to beneath my bunk.
The ship shuddered beneath my hooves again and Amber kind of twitched in the darkness, her eyes retreating a bit further back into the darkness. She had to be pressed hard against the wall behind her at this rate or possibly having clawed her way halfway through it.
I frowned slightly, “You sure, Amber?”
“I-I’m fine, sir.”
There really wasn’t anything I could do to help either, instead I laid down on the floor just outside the bunk, “We’re not going to be passing anywhere close to the old Jungle Hive,” I commented, “That was much further east from here. Not even sure it’s the same stretch of jungle.”
“It was,” Amber agreed after a moment.
I shifted my wings, “Is that’s part of what worries you?” I asked her.
Amber shook her head, “...No, sir.”
“There really is no danger, Amber. We’re safe.”
“We’re in a metal box in the sky above a zzzeeetazz,” Amber answered, slipping into old changeling for the last word.
That was one that I knew. It meant basically, ‘sky ripping storm’ or possibly ‘hive killing sky’ depending on context.
“...Okay, fair assessment,” I admitted and shifted my wings, “But this ship is well built and Captain Jetstream and his crew know what they are doing.”
“Don’t trust them.”
I frowned at her, “Why’s that?”
“Don’t know them, not of The Hive.”
I flicked my ear, “A lot of ponies aren’t. The other ponies onboard aren't either. Is Midnight or Moon Dancer? The Guard?”
“No. Don’t trust them. But they belong to you.”
“Amber, I’m not ‘of the hive’ either.”
Her eyes blinked at me once in the darkness, “Yes you are.”
Awww
I smiled at her, “Thank you,” I said and shifted my wings, “Come on, let’s see if we can’t find someth-”
There was a crashing sound of ripping metal and I suddenly found myself slightly airborne for a split second before sliding sideways across the floor to smash into the legs of the table as alarms started to blare.
"Everything will be FINE" - Famous Last words!
Just found this series and I have to say I am enjoying it quite a bit. *Sips Tea* I have basically binged the entire series over the last three or four days.
Page, she's not just saying that, Chrysalis probably made you "of the hive" a while back
Man, at some point hes just gotta say "Fuck this" and throw some insane amount of magic at the problem to fix it.
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he made them a princess, he's of the hive
see Page, this is what you get for using a second hand airship built by crazy monkey people. Next time do the right thing and force Equestria to invent proper planes, or bring celestia along so she can nuke that hurricane to death
$10 bucks that this story will end in a chapter or three and the next one will be about Page and the gang trying to get back to Canterlot.
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Nah, I'm betting that Page will become Thestral Tribe Chief by right of conquest via rightful application of his hoof up the previous chief's arse--oh, and using his magic to inflict the classic 'stop hitting yourself' as he wields the chief like a club.
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Hmm... There may be a good chance... yes, good observation! 👍
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Oh crap.... The word count kinda supports this.
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More than half left
That doesn't sound good... bet ya something happened and they are going down... or they're under attack... one of those!
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So.. This story will more than likely have 80-90ish chapters?
Oh Celestia fucking Damnit.
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To hear that just completely made my day.
Yep. The comments called it. Time for a derailing!
Hiver get to predictable at times
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Also cliche
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Furure seed giver, future king
Take a guess
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Hes no magic powerhouse. Hes brain is his greatest strength. He is respected , loved or feared for it.
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Neat. That why u love the comment section. 1000+ read the same and everyone adds what other overlooked / forget to mention
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You like losing? Hiver give us a rough estimated chapter count already.
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Silly Reader... Page isnt that cliche
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Normaly its to early for that stuff but ...the nature of the story makes it seem so
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He previewsly ones give us a rough estimated cont before...
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At least I didn't ask for $100
Blank Page, you had to tempt Murphy to prove that famous last words do have a magic that very few wish to tempt.
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They don't need magic to work
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Amber: In fact, my Queen and Princess made a shrine of you deep within the Hive back home.
Page: That's swee------what
Amber: Oh yes! It is made out of your old flight feathers way back when! I have collected them under their orders...the shrine is very beautiful~!
Page: WHAT?!
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Hiver's got a few more series going if you check on spacebattles/sufficient velocity.
ok officially caught up after a few days of reading, so that kinda sucks ;-; i was having such a good time just, reading lmao.
Very excited for next chapter, however this one is likely to end shortly based on lengths of previous ones and a like, long break
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well unless I misread it, it sounds like they have a hull breach at the very least...
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Nope, Hiver already said that he isn't halfway done yet.
Y'know, this line is actually fine by itself. It's the rest of the paragraph that got him immortalized as the namesake of a "worst opening lines" contest.
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Do you have any links *sips tea* and if not what is his username there?
The ship may be crashing but dammit you Cuddle that Cuddle Bug!
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Hiver, same as on here.
https://forums.spacebattles.com/search/7472252/
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/search/2239577/
well poo this is not good. or is it?
And so it was that Amber was proven 120% correct about airships.
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I regret to say that those links don't seem to work. *Sips Tea* I will search him out by his username.
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Check this instead, it has all of my stories. Be warned, the older they are, the less... spelling and grammar there is.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nIrG0Ayl9mCnk6kjA6Fy8eE4pMuZ0f6LFqokhvIgkcQ/edit
Lightning struck the ship.
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Your thinking of Skitter, or you didn’t make that clear in your words but you meant that.
At this point i'm just waiting for Page to be set up to be a changeling king, or to have some buggy marefriend since thats how it seems its going...Totally ok with that if it does by the way..
Sometimes paranoia means they really ARE out to get you.
*Sigh* Really Page...did you honestly think that was a normal storm, especially after how badly you humiliated the Storm King.
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Thank you! *Brews more Tea*
While cute bugs are cute, I highly suspect she is being deadly serious.
“Royal Consort taunts fate, gets hit.”
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"Hey Dissy! guess what!?"
"Oh if it isn't my cousin Sgt Murphy, how goes the mechanical things these days and what brings you to this dimension?"
"Oh its frustrating at times, remind me to tell you about this human named Ralph Nader, real bummer for my business, what with making the mechanical things go wrong with perfect comedic timing, anyways, I was passing by and there was like this alicorn talking to a changeling..."
"....uh huh...."
"Anyways they were on an airship in a storm, named after some storm guy, and he was talking about how nothing could go wrong..."
"Um hold that thought, I've got to make a banana-gram to an acquaintance."
Page. You are a writer. How could you tempt the narational timing like that.... again.
Ok that odd... Before the timeskip the ship is OVER THE CLOUDS but after the timeskip they below it while in the same storm? That dont fit at all...
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Awww, that cute ♡
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Actualy that seem to indicate only a hit of a lightnng bolt. Airships normaly are by design can take 1-2 hit without to mutch problems. Its most likely the captain is losing altitude fast but controlled for a break to wait out the storm.
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Indeed
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Paranoia is pointless fear. Its not Paranoia if there are good reasons. Like flying into a weather zone that has a chance to make your day quite... Eventfull
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Cuddlebug scene is always welcome
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Death by nu-snu? Dun-dun-DUUUN ♡
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F-U-N
Well that can't be good.
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Last chapter they were trying to get over the storm. First sentence says they are above it though.
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Agreed!