The Adventures Begin

by Dragon Shimmer


Collect the orb (2)

Darkness. Darkness around her. Sunset wakes up and sees only darkness and a road of light. She wonders where she is and starts to get up; following the road, she sees many memories, good have, bad have, even despair moments. She suddenly stops when she sees a memory that she killed Black Mist; feels scared at herself, she starts to step backward.

  "Enjoy the memories?" A voice behind her causes Sunset to turn around. She was surprised to see the white dragon.

   "Wh-Whitty?" 

   "Sorry for surprising you, cutie," He says, making Sunset feel annoyed.

  "Anyway, where am I?" Sunset asks

   "This is your memory hall. The place where you hold your memories, of course, there will have some memories that you don't like." The dragon explains.

   " I see... Wait how are you in here if this is my memory?"

  " Well, my power is in your body so I am here " Whitty explains most easily. Sunset glares at him

  "Is this why I have the dragon eyes? I think you like to mess with me."
  
  "And yeah, this is why you have dragon eyes. Anyway, follow me and I will show you something." The dragon waves his claw to direct her. Sunset somehow trusts him about this and starts to follow him. He opens a door to get into a room. The room has nothing just a magic circle. 

   "Wait, what is this magic circle?" Sunset asks while the dragon grins behind her. He pushes her into the magic circle, making Sunset surprised. The magic circle glows and the chain appears, wrapping her around to keep her in place. "Wha-what are you doing?"

   The dragon steps closer to the bound mare. He rubs her neck and makes Sunset feel weird. "Simple," he said as he lifts his finger to Sunset's forehead "I am gonna transfer all of my remain magic to you,"  Sunset tries to retort but the chain wraps her mouth, making her struggle. "What a cute and stubborn mare! But it's time for you to wake up now." Whitty says as he uses one finger to point at her chest and the light appears to blind her.


    Sunset snaps her eyes open, gets up quickly, breathing heavily as she feels pains inside. "I swear that I hate that dragon," she yells and starts to look around. She sees Natalie and Lance is guarding while Matt is somewhere else. 

"Hey, you see Matt somewhere?" She asks to cause the duo surprised

    "Sunset, you finally get up," Natalie rushes at her to hug. Sunset tries to teleport but she feels a headache. Natalie hugs her successfully "I don't know if you will awake or not."

   "What happens?" Sunset askes

   "I don't know, what I see is you fainted after the horn cut. Was the horn sensitive to unicorns or something?" Lance asks.

   "Ah... Yeah. Horn is very sensitive to unicorns. " Sunset signs, "With the horn cut, unicorns, and alicorns hard to cast a spell though."

   " You explained it before in your training. Anyway, we should wait for Matt to talk while you are recovered." Lance explains.

   "Fair enough," Sunset lies on the pillow. " Luckily I learned how to cast the spell without a horn so maybe I don't mind with a horn cut."

   "And walking by two back hooves too," Natalie continues

   "I don't know how Celestia reacts to this." 

   "You shouldn't reveal what you learn to show everyone else though because someone will exploit you as a tool," Lance sasy.

   "I see... Thank you for the advice," Sunset says as Lance nods.


 After resting like 8 hours, Matt finally comes back with a bag of eatable creatures like Ravens, Giant crabs,... He sits near the campfire and checks the equipment.

   "You know, I think you should change your staff, Sunset," Matt suggests

   "I think that is not necessary, my wooden staff is good for me--- " Sunset says but she got cut off by Matt's finger.

   "Nah ah... Your staff is just a wooden staff with no enchantment. I think you should have a fit staff in the future," Matt suggests.

 "Currently... I don't see any staff that fit me though so... I will go with this wooden staff." 

   "Fair enough, you really wanna be an old mare, I get it," Matt says to make Sunset feel wanna retort but she is too tired to deal. Matt starts cooking food and makes soup for the team. After the meal, they go to sleep while taking guard one by one.

  
   The next day, Sunset is fully recovered, except for the horn. The trio asks if she is ok with the horn, she says fine because has a horn or not, she is still herself. The trio smiles at her and continues to claim the orb. They go inside another small stone gate that they have discovered before. Inside the stone, the gate seems like a temple. They go deeper to the temple-be-like.

  "Well, I hope that we don't meet any golems," Sunset says annoyingly.

   "I hope so, I would rather fight a ghost than a golem," Matt said

   "... Well, in my world they have spirits so I don't mind that."

   The team finally sees the orb. Matt is going to go near the orb but Sunset stops him and shakes her head. Sunset picks up a rock and throws it near the orb. The roof is cracked and broken after that, it appears that two brown un-legged creatures, the creature has some dragon-like face with an arm-blade and an arm-ring. They roar at them and fly in front of the orb.

   "Wait, what kind of monster is that?" Sunset asks.

  "Let me scan" Lance takes the scanner to scan the information but the first creature rushes at him and tries to attack Lance. Lance forces to block it with a gun blade, he tries to take out some bullets from his pocket. 

 "Lance" Matt rushes at the first creature and slashes at its chest. It blocks and jerks back to Lance. 

   "I got information. It's "Elemental " and it is the earth one," Lance yells at the team while he loads the ammo to the gun-blade.

   "I see" Sunset rushes at the Second Elemental. The creature tries to shoot her with the ring hand but she dodges it easily. While she gets near it, she jumps, spins around, and uses "Wyvern Slash" at it. The Elemental tries to block but fails. It received the Slash and has a big scar on its body. The second Elemental tries to slash her with a hand-blade, she simply teleports away. The Elemental is surprised and its blade connects to the first one. 

Matt sees the chance and slams the tip of the blade. A moment later an "Iceberg" appeared from the ground and hit directly at the second Elemental's chin. Natalie chants a spell while Lance grabs his big gun and aims at the Elementals. The Elementals try to shoot at them but Sunset uses "Shield" to protect them. 

Natalie slams the staff on the ground. Many many ice shards appear near her and shoot at them. The monsters force themselves to defend themselves. Sunset summons four magic circles and aims at them. Moments later, ice bullets shaped dragons appeared from the magic circle and fly toward them fast. The monsters can't take it and get holes from the spell, they fall to the ground and lay there, dead. The team sighs in relief.

   "Well, that easily compare to the golem," Sunset says

  "Well, to be fair they just make of....rock," Matt teases

   "Fair enough, let's get this orb and go back to the camp."

  Matt goes and gets the orb from the pole. As they successfully collect all four orbs, they are now preparing for a fight with the Guardians.