//------------------------------// // Episode 16: Frustrating the Spirit of the Everfree // Story: Life of a Wanted Changeling Season 4: At Luck's End (Comment Driven Story) // by BrownDog77 //------------------------------// Zapper frost’s Comment You run like the freaking wind on your weirdly bent human legs from the lake and it’s pissed off goddess, screaming the whole time. “I SWEAR IT’S FOR A GOOD CAUSE! PLEASE DON’T FOLLOW FURTHER CRAZY LAKE AND FORREST LADY!!!” “GET BACK HERE!!!” is the only response you get from the entity you punched in the nose. “EEEEEE!!!” you shriek as you enter the trees and start weaving in and out of them. You hear the snapping of twigs further back as you sense Gaea chasing you. Quick Selly! Use your mind manipulation powers on her! What? Selena says in confusion, but you don’t explain as you turn around and point your finger at the plant lady. Kichi’s Comment "You didn’t see anything! You broke your own nose!" you yell, hoping the Jedi mind trick works. Guess What? It doesn’t. “What are you talking about?! Of Course You Did!” she shouts back. "Crap, why didn’t that work?" you shriek and dodge around a big tree. Oh I don’t know, maybe because I don’t have mind manipulation powers outside of the dream realm? Selena smarms. I could have sworn we did! I can manipulate one’s fears, but I require dark magic and crystals which are sorely lacking in this world, Sombra says matter of factly. "Oh yeah…” you mutter as you jump over a log and immediately lose your balance on something slimy on the floor. “Whoa, whoa, AAHH! OOOMPH!!!” you yelp as you fall to the ground. “Ugh, what was that?” you say as you look down at your shoe and see it covered in something dark and smelly. Your eyes bulge out of your head as you remember the night before. Oh Buck No! You look up to the trees above you and see several crouched forms with glowing eyes. As if that’s their cue, the filthy creatures begin hooting as several jump at you, grabbing at your hair and clothing with their claws. “AAAHHH!!! STUPID MONKEYS! GET THE BUCK OFF OF ME!!!” you shriek as you scramble to your feet, throwing several of the primates off of you. They then begin throwing their poo at you, and just like last night, you know they’re aiming for your eyes deliberately. “Oh You Little Buckers! If it weren’t for humans, you’d be my most hated things with opposable thumbs!” you yell as you run out of the edge of their territory…only to run face to face with Gaea Everfree. “There you are!” she yells. “AH!” you yelp and back up into a hard flat surface, which turns out to be one of the cabins. I ran in a circle?! Crap, I AM bad at directions! “Give me back my stone you miserable wretch!” she demands as she advances on you. “Buck You Lady Luck! Even in this other world you screw me over!” you yell to the heavens, which momentarily confuses the forest monster. “Huh? I’m not- I’m Gaea Everfree!” “I know!” you yell back in fear. OK, Options guys! What the buck do I do? Run! Obviously! Selena instructs. Can’t, Monkeys! Punch her again, Sombra suggests. I caught her off guard last time, she’ll be expecting it! Well Do Something instead of just shaking Bugze! Selena yells. Right! I…Uh… As you look around, on a wood pile next to the cabin, you spy an avian form. Gorgeous Freeman’s Comment Baraka Obama’s Comment Aha! The Joto region be praised! You think in delight as you reach over to what your panicked mind assures you is a legitimate Pokemon. “Now, give me the stone now or I’ll-“ Gaea begins, but you interrupt her with a shout of, “Pidgeoto, I choose you!!!” and throw the “Pokemon” at her. The projectile hits her in the face with a squeak, revealing your Pocket Monster to be nothing more than a rubber chicken. “WAH!” To your surprise, the suddenness of it actually manages to startle her and cause her to fall backwards. Seeing your opening, you run in the only direction you can, right over her. In doing so, your foot stomps right on her stomach, causing her to gasp, but you keep running in a direction decidedly not towards the monkeys. “Sorry! Keep the Chicken!” you yell back. From behind, you hear her grunt and get to her feet and throw the squeaky toy the ground with a grunt of, “Damn it Timber, you and your stupid toys!” Oh Right! Timber and Gloriosa! You think in worry. I gotta warn them! “TIMBER! GLORIOSA! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! SHE’S REAL!!!” you shout back towards the cabins. “No, SHH! Be quiet!” Gaea tries to silence you, but you keep shouting. “Run for the hills! Run for your li-“ “I Said Shut Up!!!” Everfree yells as she sends a wave of vines out at you, which you dodge, falling to the ground. “Holy Buck that was close!” you shout as you start running again, while Sombra offers counter arguments. Down With Chrysalis’s Comment I still say we should attack instead of flee. We did learn one thing from your idiotic actions actions, she can bleed. If it can bleed, we can kill it. WE ARE NOT KILLING THE CRAZY FOREST SPIRIT!!! WITH MY LUCK THAT'LL JUST GIVE HER A RESPAW- *Crash* While you were responding to Sombra you didn't notice an ivy wall suddenly spring up in front of you. This results in you slamming face first into it ala a cartoon. You dazedly push yourself off the wall as you think, Ugh, who put that wall the-uh oh. You can feel the spirits presence behind you. Falx_of_Lume’s Comment Evasive maneuvers! Sombra screams as Everfree barrels towards you , riding a wave of twisting vines. A little late for that Simba! Suddenly, several vines come out of the wall and wrap around your weak squishy human limbs and you raise up. With nowhere to go, she dismounts her vines and steps up to you, a glint of anger in her eye. Whelp. We're dead. Sombra resigns himself. Of bucking course, You agree. Selena, do you mind posing on a soft cotton bed in lingerie as my last image before I d- Buck Off! You’re Not Dead Yet! Selena shouts in embarrassment and worry. You would think the contrary as the she demon invades your personal space. “Now, you little pest. Give back my stone or I swear I’ll-“ "AH! PLEASEDON'TKILLMEI'MSTILLAVIRGIN!" You shout out in panic and shut your eyes. Gaea's angry gaze turns to one of surprise. "W-what? Ki-no! Why would you think I'd kill you?!" She exclaims in indignation, causing you to peek open your eyelids. "Uh... because you're the supercharged magic alien monster forest spirit lady and I just straight up punched you in the face?" You offer. She looks at you in deadpan, touches under her bloody nose again to look at the blood on her finger, and then looks back down at you. "Okay, yeah, I'm still angry about that, And I'm ticked off that you took one of my stones. Give that back by the way-,” one of the vines attempts to open your closed fist. “No, Never! I need this for somepony I care for! You’ll have to pry it from my cold dead human pointers!” “Look I’m not gonna, just give me the stone already, it’s mine! You can’t even begin to comprehend it’s power.” “It’s magic, what more do I have to comprehend? I’m not giving it up!” WAR GAMES’ Comment You then deftly pull the taser out of the inventory and shock the vines holding your wrists, which sends a current back towards Everfree. “BBBZZZZTTTT” she stutters as electricity courses through. As she does, the vines holding you release and you fall backward on to the ground. With the taser no longer hitting her, she stops shaking and smoke billows out of the top of her head. She pants and gives you the biggest look of hatred you’ve seen in months. “Ummm…Blame a guy for trying?” you stutter nervously. Down With Chrysalis’s Comment She grits her teeth and growls rapidly at you as her eyes glow. “Alright, you know what? Fine! I just wanted you gone, but you chose to be difficult!” she grunts losing her cool. “The spooky spirit act doesn’t work for you? How about more supervillain huh? Will that make you cooperate!!!” she yells as more vines surround you. Oh boy, I’ve done it now, you shudder. No Spit Sherlock! Selena says nervously. “You want the maniacal killer monster act? How’s this?!” Her voice then begins to echo as she uses something akin to the RCV "You fool! You dare take one of my stones! You can't even begin to understand their power! With all six all I have to do is snap my fingers and I can wipe off half a town's population in one go! Now give me the stone and I might consider sparing your life!" She then looks to you, assuming you’ve been cowed, but you can feel your panic leave you at her words, as it is slowly replaced with something. It's the same feeling you got from when human Filthy Rich started to bad mouth you, some form of repressed anger yet at the same time not. This crazy chick thinks I'm giving this stone back after telling me that!? Put innocent lives at risk!? So caught up in your thoughts you don't notice the stone in your hand actually...cracking. Nor do you notice some strange purple colored mist come from the stone and climb up your arm. Bugze, something is- Selena is cut off as you suddenly relax, or appear to at least. You pull your hat down slightly as you let out one phrase with such a tone that the spirit shivers. "Good Grief, you sure are something." “W-What?” she says taken aback. "So you want me to give you this stone? After telling me all that? You must be some special kind of dumb, huh?" you chide as you start walking towards her and her mass of vines. The spirit actually begins to back away from you, but her attention isn't on you. It's on something… behind you? But you don't notice as you stop right in front of her and say, "Now...let’s see if I still got what it takes to kick an evil spirit’s flank off!" “Wh-What is that? Is that a horse behind you?” she sputters and points, throwing you off of your tangent. “Huh?” you turn around to look but all you see is the disappearing whisps of something. “What are you talking about?” “There was a dark horse, I swear!” “…Suuuure,” you say unbelievingly. What in the world was that? Selena suddenly gasps in your mind. She’s trying to throw me off my cool speech, that’s what. No you idiot, something happened with me, there was- Selena is again cut off as the godess speaks again. “Nevermind, look it’s late, we’ve all hurt each other, can you just give my rock back already?” “No! You said you were gonna wipe out half a town with it!” “I Said I COULD, not that I would!” she explains. “Yeah, well I still don’t want to. I need this siren stone to make a body, possibly two!” “Wha?” the demon gasps in pure bewilderment. “What are you going on about? Why are you so confusing?” she demands, her voice losing her echo. “I don’t know, how else am I supposed to act with an evil plant goddess?” Falx_of_Lume’s Comment “I’m, I…Ugh, why is this going so poorly?” she groans in frustration, facepalming. “Hey, you know, when you’re not being all spooky and evil sounding, you sound familiar,” you point out, causing her eyes to widen. “Uh, no I don’t!” she says quickly. “Yeah you do…have we met before somewhere on the other side? I swear I know you’re voice…” It's Gloriosa Daisy, Selena supplies in deadpan. "GLORIOSA?!" You exclaim in surprise. Her eyes widen in panic. "How did you- I mean- whooooo~ is this Gloriosa person you speak ooo~of? I~IIIII am Gaia Everfreeeeeeee~ Woo~ooooooo~." She attempts to hide her voice by making ghost noises. You have to admit that it's only slightly more creepy because of the blood on her face. Not by much though. “What gives Daisy? I thought we were cool? We roasted marshmallows together,” you say, your voice filled with hurt. “I SAID I’M NOT THIS GLORIOSA!” she says, her voice echoing again. “I AM THE SPIRIT OF THE EVERFREE AND-“ "GLORIOSA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! AND WHY ARE YOU ALL BLOODY?!" A new voice calls out from behind her as Timber Spruce steps out of the cabins. “I-I….Uh…” the woman begins to falter, so you take the initiative. “Run Timber! Your Sister Was the Monster the Whole Time! She’s Going To Kill Half the Town!!!” “WHAT?!” he bellows as you dive into him, knocking him through the nearest cabin door, and onto the ground dazed. "TIMBER!!!" Gloriosa Everfree cries out in worry as you slam the door behind you and get off of the dazed human male. "You'll Thank Me Later Kid! Start Barricading When You Get Your Wits About You!" you shout as you start dragging a dresser in front of the door. WHAT DO YOU DO?