//------------------------------// // Floor Tanking 101 // Story: The Light's Chosen (Archived Version) // by The Warrior Of Darkness //------------------------------// Floor Tanking 101 Skye fixed his helmet so that his ears were much more comfortable under the not-so-comfortable Wyrm's Helmet. Today would be the day his team took down the great primal Bahamut again, cause of The Great Calamity, which was caused when he broke from the moon Dalamud's core. Pushing his helmet back into place and pressing it in so the visor went in, he grabbed his relic weapon, Gae Bolg, and began walking to where his team was meeting, so that they could start the attack on the dragon. He never knew that the universe had other plans for him, and he was going to become a temporary tank, and tank the impossible, the floor. Skye ran down to the edge of Revenant's Toll, the town he was supposed to meet at, finally coming into view, seeing the black sword of one of the tanks, Shiro. He picked up the pace, yelling out the Dark Knight's name who in turn, focused on the incoming dragoon. "Hey, you finally made it! Better late than ever am I right?" Shiro said grabbing onto Skye before he could do his signature jump, and tackle the dark tank. "Hey, I'm not the late one, I see everyone here except for one of the healers, what was his name again?" The dazzed dragoon asked, still in Shiro's grip. "You're talking about Alor? He's on his way last time I checked, and that was a couple of minutes ago. Hopefully, he won't take too much longer, I hate that every so often Bahamut shows back up. Why do these primals keep coming back?" Shiro said, letting Skye go, dropping the Miqo'te down on his tail. See, Shiro was another Warrior of Light like Skye was, in fact, he had taught Skye most of the classes he knows, including Dark Knight, he used all of them sparingly but hadn't adjusted to using that one. Last time he did, bad things happened. Skye pushed away the memory, noticing that Alor had finally made it, and they could begin. Timeskip Skye jumped back from the explosion of fire around him, making use of his evasive ability, to get out of Bahamut's way as the waves of flame came crashing down upon him and the team. As he landed, he looked to his right to see his team was preparing to engage the giant primal again, and readied himself to use one of his strongest attacks, Dragonfire Dive. He would use it straight on, hoping that it would knock Bahamut down, and allow him to get more attacks in, as he steeled himself in preparation, the dragon began charging an attack with his tail, one unfamiliar to him, and to everybody else he thought as he looked to see Shiro placing every possible fortification buff under the sky on himself. 'I'll take the hit from Shiro. Worst case, I die and get an earful from the party after we're done, best case is that I live, and still get an earful from them... win win situation to me.' Skye thought as he changed his channeling to cast a modified evasive jump, so that he could jump in front of Shiro. It's better that a DPS dies than the person tanking the boss, so as Bahamut finished preparing the attack, Skye made his move, jumping in front of Shiro, holding out Gae Bolg diagonally, so that maybe the hit would be shared between him and the spear. As the tail connected with the spear, Skye thought of one thing, 'Shiro's gonna kill me if this doesn't'. That's the last thing he thought before his mind went blank, and his body flew back with such velocity, before disappearing into nothingness. Equestria Princess Celestia walked onward, journeying from the throne room to the castle's dining room, so that she may share dinner with her sister before she went to sleep. The clicks of her hooves resonating on the floor as she made her way down the hallway, before she slipped inside the room. Luna was already there, eyeing her pancakes with such vigor that it looked like she was going to eat them threw willpower alone. "Luna, I'm glad that you waited, but it looks like you're trying to eat the pancakes through just looking at them" Celestia voice rang through the almost empty dinner hall, Luna turned to her, her eyes finally shifting from the pancakes to give her a lookof frustration. "You know that I love pancakes, and that I hate waiting to eat them. My look is on you Tia!" She yelled in mock anger, glad that she's able to spend this time with her. Luna watched onward as Celestia slipped into a chair much like her own, before starting to eat her own food. They ate, and talked about various upcoming events, such as the elements coming to visit for lunch within the day, before it was interrupted by the sound of glass breaking. Both princesses ears immediately perked up at the sound, it sounded as if it came from outside, rushing from their seats, they went outside to see a meteor coming down over the sky, it's trajectory seeming to be focused on Ponyville. The princesses both turned to each other, their surprise readable on each other's faces as a wave of magic passed over them, signifying that the meteor crashing was something more than just a meteor. Their faces both turned from surprise to fear, a magical meteor heading straight for Ponyville, that couldn't be good. Not wasting anytime they decided to get a chariot ready, and Celestia sent a letter to her student Twilight, so she could be aware of the danger the meteor posed. Ponyville Twilight tossed an turned, plagued with a nightmare of a dark cloaked figure, wielding a giant sword. She could not see details of the figure, but she noticed that it looked like a pony, at least, that's what it seemed like. Her nightmare broke up as the figure dashed towards her, she jumped up from her bed, fear still radiating in the room. She laid in the bed her thoughts going towards the nightmare: 'Who was that? What did they want? Why did they attack?' these questions plagued her mind before her senses finally returned to normal, hearing knocking on the door she quickly jumped up opening the door, startling the young drake on the otherside of the door. Twilight looked on as Spike got his surprise under control, telling her that there's a message from the princess. She quickly took the scroll from him in her magic, it radiating purple in the dark of the room. My Faithful Student Twilight, I have sent you this letter to inform you that me and Princess Luna have detected a meteor that is radiating magic, While we are currently en route to Ponyville by chariot, I would like you to gather the Elements, as events in this case are usually the cause of another villain. We shall be there shortly, your Faithful teacher, Princess Celestia. As soon as she finished the letter she began getting prepared to grab the Elements of Harmony, she paused as she heard voices at the front of the library, opening the door she recognized her friends and quickly let them in. Rainbow, who was suprisingly the most energetic started off: "Twilight, we heard about a meteor coming towards the town and thought that it might be something bad, we came here to wake you up. Looks like you're ahead of the game." she finished as everyone else came in. Applejack was the first to comment on her lack of tiredness. "Yeah, yeah rainbow. Not all of us got sleep ya' know right?" She said gesturing to the others that all shared her look. Twilight continued on with what she was doing before they had interrupted, speaking as she did so: "Princess Celestia sent me a letter about the incoming meteor, she said that it was magically infused, and likely the work of villains. She wanted me to get the elements out just in case" she said as she grabbed the casing that held them. They gathered around the case, each grabbing their corresponding element, before lining up. Twilight began to pace back and forth as she spoke, she didn't get the chance to before the door opened, the princesses at the door. Springing with purpose in her step, she walked towards Princess Celestia, giving her a hug, which she returned. "Hello there Twilight, as you know we have a meteor coming here. We determined that it will land outside Ponyville, towards the Everfree Forest. We must act quickly she said, turning around before a noise shook the library, they quickly ran outside, the crash sight visible from where they were. Rushing to it, they found not a meteor, but a pony in the crash sight, clutched in each of his hands, pieces of a broken spear. They quickly had the guards on sight, grabbing the black and blue dressed figure out of the crater, making way towards Canterlot Castle