//------------------------------// // 17 Fighting in the Friendship Express // Story: Hard Landing // by Flash_Game //------------------------------// Chapter 17 Fighting in the Friendship Express They throw their cloaks on their seats, The unicorn has waaayy too many daggers... The earth pony stallion is a dark blood orange colour with a black mane mohawk. He's wearing black padded armour and a skullcap helmet, with swords on his sides. The unicorn is wearing leather armour that has little rectagles all around- Bohemond I believe it's called Thanks? With similar leg/shin armour. On his person, pony? On his self he has two daggers on his chest and on each thigh, and one on each calf and on each shoulder, totaling ten daggers I snap my fingers and equip my armour and sword, but skip the helmet. "Hello, gentleme- colts. Gentlecolts, how may I help you today?" The Earth pony dual-wields his swords, while the unicorn uses his magic to levitate and surround himself with the daggers pointing at me, "Not the talkative type" I unsheath my sword, "Ok, I can do that. But one question before we start" I take a pause and grin, "Why is it that in fanfics that have fight scenes it's always with swords?" They look at eachother, Not the question you were expecting, is it? I take my chance and charge at them The unicorn is the first to react, launching a dagger at me. I deflect it with my sword and follow up with a slash at the mage, but his buddy jumps in and blocks my attack, This is out of my league... I get feeling of something aiming at me from behind, I jump back, keeping my body low, just in time to see the dagger go over my head, joining the rest with the mage, Just like in AC... good, I can sense attacks I stand back up, If I had a gun... I lift my sword and take a stance The earth pony launches himself at me ready to slash at me from above, I jump back a bit surprised. He then begins to swing his swords and deliver slash after slash, I'm doing my best to parry. My back hits the wall, Shit! He gets ready for another overhead slash and jumps back, I immediately jump to the side barely dodging the daggers, That was too close. I stand back up in time to see them nod at eachother, Fuck... The daggers beggin to float to the sides of the cabin, What are you plotting..? The daggers beggin to glow a bit stronger as they separate down the middle, Motherfuck-WHAT THE HELL!? Now I have to deal with twenty!!? The earth pony puts a hand behind his back and extends his other, giving me a 'come here', This is definately a trap. I ever so slowly make my way to the earth pony, all the while thinking of what the trap might be. They're definately going to surround me with them A While Later Not the best time, dude Right now the unicorn can barely lift five of his daggers, the rest are scattered across the cabin, some stuck on the wall and a few on the ceiling, and he's bleeding from the cut I gave him on his arm. The problem is that I have one dagger stuck on my side and a couple somewhere on my back, and it FUCKING HURTS! Other than that I'm fine, minus the crippled leg, the bleeding damage stopped and I'm still over 50% HP. The earth pony is not doing so well, I drew blood on a slash across chest and left him half blind as well, and his swords are all banged up as one actually shatterd, the other one is all dented and bent in a few places. This demonstrates how well enchanted my sword is, it looks just like new. The armour in the other hand... A few of the chain links are broken, with some tears and holes here and there, the chest piece is dented and one of the gauntlets is chipped. Cutting is going to kill me... The earth pony charges at me ready for an overhead attack, but drives his sword into the floor and uses it as support to drop kick me square in the chest, FUCK! I fall with a heavy thud and some clanking of my armour, and extreme pain from the daggers still in my back. The unicorn takes his chance and jumps at me, daggers in hand, ready to pierce my head. I stop his fall with a powerful double kick to the stomach, sending more pain through my back, GODDANM IT!!. I sit up to see the earth pony on one knee supporting himself with the the sword, panting, while his friend is unconscious in between us, No more flying daggers. Good "We could've had a civilized conversation, and none of this would have happend" His enraged stare strenghtens, "Don't blame me, you attacked me. I only defended myself" We both start to stand up, but his legs fail him I walk up to him, limping, and stop infront of him as he continues to stare at me, Great. I'm being attacked with a different type of daggers... He punches me in the stomach, but I barely feel it, "They fight is over. You can't even hit properly. Give up" "Just *pant* just kill us already!" He demands, That is not the reaction I expected... "What are you wating for! DO IT!!" I raise my sword "Nobody deserves to die" I bring my sword down and hit him with the pommel knocking him out, "Not without a second chance" I look back at the unicorn, "And I need some info from you both." I turn my attention to Noctis, I managed to keep the fight away from her. That's good I then begin to search for anything useful on the assassins You could use you game abilities to loot them with out touching them How? Put your hand above him I do so And think that you want to loot his body Wait! Don't they need to be dead for me to loot them like this? Not in this case, there are no scripts protecting them like that If you say so... I think of looting him and a dim gold-ish light beams from my hand onto him. I now know what he has, This is very weird... I then proceed to take two lengths of rope, twenty-seven bits and a berserker potion from him. I turn to the unicorn and take a sleeping potion, four needles, another rope and a teleportation crystal, What's with this world and power crystals? Don't ask me I didn't make this world It was a rhetorical question... No note or anything, danm Note? For what? To know who send them, duh I use the sleep potion and the needles to make sure wanna-be assassins don't wake up any time soon, I then take the rope and tie their hands together on the front of their bodies, then tie their legs and, with the third rope, I tie them to one of the seats I make my way to Noctis and check her pulse, "Good, but just a little weak," Probably because of the potion... I sit down next to her, "I survived..." I still have the nuka-cola, "I could drink it, hmm..." I take it out and look at it in my hand, "Fuck it" I open it and raise it, "Cheers"