“What are you doing?” were the first words uttered by Sunset Shimmer as she arrived once more to the hidden tower. The process of waking up after dying was starting to become routine now that she had been forced to use it several times since she had arrived in this world.
“Oh, I don’t know, I thought maybe we could have a picnic,” the strained voice of Madeleine answered to her as she dragged the corpse of the heavy-armored Havel. The armor weighed down the corpse considerably and the warrior was right now trying to drag it up the stairs, a trying task that was taking a lot out of her by the looks of it.
“Real funny,” was the only thing that was returned as Sunset began to help her companion in the herculean effort. From the two, the only one that was wearing any armor was Madeleine and even she didn’t have this much weight on her body. Just the idea of moving with such heavy armor on top boggled Sunset’s mind. To think that the guy had been wearing the armor for who knows how long, it was truly impressive.
As they kept dragging the corpse slowly upwards, Sunset saw the door at the bottom, a door that presumably could lead to somewhere else, but right now she wasn’t in the mood to look for strange new locations or more secrets considering what they had just gone through.
Just a few days and Sunset had seen places and creatures so strange that not even Princess Celestia would know what to do with them. That is if she ever deigned herself of leaving her ivory tower. Send her newest student to deal with the previous one, nothing like Celestia to delegate actions and missions. Whatever, at the end it seemed she was right and that she got herself a better student, one that had been capable of not only saving the sister of Princess Celestia, but one that had gained wings.
Sunset grunted as the two pulled Havel’s corpse one step further up, all the while she thought about what she herself had gained since her self-imposed exile. Just the hate and fear of one single high school. Oh, and being sent to another world where she became an undead and had to fight for her survival. Not only that, but she had to be a breaking bleeding heart and promise a dying knight that she will ring a bell, one that could do who knows what!
For all that she knew the thing could cure the Darksign, or maybe even bring the world to an end. Whatever would happen, Sunset didn’t have much to go on, except maybe finding a way back home, as impossible as it may be without knowing the exact way in which she had arrived to Lordran.
The heavy burden of the two warriors would soon be lifted when they, after who knows how long, finally cleared the last step and proceeded to drag the corpse to the top of the stairs that they had used to enter the tower the first time, and it was with a sigh of relief that the two sagged against the sides of the stairway. Taking care of not falling through the missing piece of the staircase, the two enjoyed the next step in their plan to move Havel; that of pushing the corpse down those stairs.
After the danger and death that represented the fight against the now completely dead behemoth, the idea of watching it roll down the stairs may be morbid and dark, but hilarious in its own way.
After a last tumble, Madeleine began the arduous task of taking the armor of the old bishop of the Way of White, all while Sunset watched her with a curious look in her eyes.
“So, the reason why we brought this thing up here is because you want the armor?” She could swear that Madeleine rolled her eyes behind her masquerade.
“Well, this thing is a piece of art, from before either of us was born. You can say it has a lot of value, but no. Think about it, if you are capable of coming back from the death every time, guess what will happen to this guy?”
“Oh no, please tell me won’t have to fight him all over again.”
“Seems we are lucky since he hasn’t risen, but I want to make sure of that, thankfully he seemed to still have the sign of the Way of White,” Madeleine said showing her companion a silver amulet, but there was something else on her hands, a curious little ring that she threw to Sunset. “Like I told you, almost every single ring you will find in Lordran have some kind of magical power imbued in them. Maybe that thing will be useful one day.” With a shrug, Sunset put it inside the multitude of pouches and pockets the robe she had been wearing had. After all, the one ring she kept on using seemed to be working in maintaining a normal human look.
With the task of destroying the body of Havel completed, all thanks to the judicious use of plenty of fire accompanied by some dust that had been maintained inside the amulet, the two began to ascend the tower, ready to face the next obstacle in their journey, one that was an open bridge between towers, one that smelled like an ambush.
Pointing upwards, Madeleine indicated a steel ladder to the top of the tower, a perfect scouting position and Sunset quickly followed the silent command. At the top there were two hollows holding crossbows, so it seemed that Madeleine’s instincts were correct.
Throwing both bodies from the top of the tower and into the very far away ground, Sunset gave the Astora knight a thumbs-up as Madeleine advanced a little across the bridge. Once more, Lordran seemed to have a bigger surprise behind every corner, or every tower in this case, because what appeared was none other than a demon that towered over everything Sunset had met on the Undead Burg, with huge horns and an even bigger battle-axe. As the creature appeared, Madeleine began to run backwards in the direction of the gate.
“It’s a Minos Demon! Use your position to land a jumping attack on him! I’ll lure him to you!”
“Well, never a dull moment in here, right?” Sunset asked to no one as she gripped her axe with both hands and once more jumped into the void, once more into the never-ending fray that was Lordran.