//------------------------------// // World 1: New Beginnings // Story: New Equestrian Online // by The Lutece twins //------------------------------// Jack winced as blinding sunlight shone in his eyes as he felt his feet touch the ground after falling for who know's how long. He rubbed his eyes as he opens them slowly. He gasped as he was standing next to a large tree like fountain, golden orbs floating around the base of the tree as three large crystals, one gold, one red, and one cyan color floated on top of the tree, spinning slowly around it. "This is beautiful." he said as he was in surprise at how beautiful everything was as he noticed ponies of different sizes, races and classes walking by him. Some ponies having horns, wings, or even none at all walked by him. He did noticed one thing about them, they where giving him a weird look, causing him to blink as his eyes widen at a revelation. "What the heck, I'm shorter than everyone else!?" he muttered to himself as he finally got to look down at himself in the water's of the fountain, to see that his body was covered in small purple scales with a lighter shade of green scales covering his belly area and underside of his tail. Small wings protruded from his back as green fine like scales protruded from his head down to his tail. A arrowhead tip ending on the end of his tail. "I'm a dragon!?" he almost yelled out as he leans against the wall of the fountain, rubbing his head "That's just great." he said in slight annoyance, than stopped as he blinked. "Wait, what are my stats?" he asked himself as he opens his character's menu. 'Alright, let's see here.' He thought to himself Name: Spike HP: 50 MP: 50 EXP: 0 Level: 1 Race: Baby Dragon Class: Dragon Gunslinger Jack closed the menu as he blinked as he looked at his claws. "So, I am a dragon, this....feel all to weird." he said to himself as he began to think "It also said I was a gunslinger as well." He looks down at his sides and sure enough, on his right side there was a holster with what looks like a flintlock like pistol in it as well as a dagger on his left side. "I wonder what skills I have." He mutters as he opens up the skills menu. Skills: Shoot Aim Status Shot (LV 1) Fire Breath (LV 1) Dragon Scales (LV 1) Slash (LV 1) Status Ailment Resistance (LV 1) Jack blinks as he moves a claw over to the status shot skill and touches it. Status Shot: Infuse your dragon's breath into a shot that when fired, inflicts a random status ailment (Poison, Paralyzed or Burned) "That skill can come in handy." he said as he moved his claw over to the Dragon scales skill and touched it. Dragon Scales: Hard dragon scales cover your entire body that reduces incoming physical and magical damage by 25% "That, seems to be a little overpowered, but handy to get out of a bind if I'm in a pinch" He said, turning the menu off and began to think "In these types of games, I better start grinding and leveling up if i am going to survive out there." He said softly as he was becoming confused "Question is....where is the front gate..." He muttered as he looked around and noticed a unicorn mare walk by him as he got an idea as he rushed over to her. "Excuse me!" he said out to the mare, but the mare seemed to not hear him. "Excuse me!" he said louder as the mare this time heard her and turns to him, and jumps a bit at his small stature. "Do you know where I can find the front gate of the town?" he asked the mare as the mare blinked. "Oh, um it's over there." she said pointing a hoof towards the west side of town. Jack smiled and nodded as his wings gave a little flap. "Thanks!" he said as he hurries towards the direction the mare pointed. The unicorn mare blinks as she stares a the small dragon rush off, before a voice snapped her out of her out of her stupor. "Hey Velvet!" a gruff male voice rang out, causing said mare to turn and smiled, seeing a large stallion wearing bulky armor and a large shield on his back and a large smile on his face, along with a mare, a pegasus, wearing engineer gear anda calm smile on her face come walking towards her. "Oh! Iron Shield and Wind Hammer, nice to meet you two, what brings your both here?" She asked them with a smile. "Well, me and Wind here though about bringing you with us to a new bakery that opened in town not to long ago." Iron said as he stretched. Velvet smiled at that as she nodded. "I would like that, but I had to help out a weird new player first." She said to them, which caused both ponies to look at each other in confusion than back at Velvet. "Weird how?" Wind asked as her wings twitched. Velvet looks toward where she had told the small dragon where the gate was. "Well, the character the player was using, was a small dragon." She said. Meanwhile Spike was smiling as he got near the gate of the town, trying his best to ignore all the stares he was getting as he made his way. He stopped in front of a item store to stare at some new gear that had been put in front of a viewing glass as he looked at them in awe. "Dang, these people really know how to make things in here, I wonder how long it took them to get these hammers and swords like that." He said looking at a large great hammer and a curved cutlass like sword with a blue jewel embedded in the sword as he took out the small dagger on his hip and sighed. "Yea, there's no way I can afford any gear in here with my current level and money." He muttered to himself, a bit irritated as he opened his inventory and saw he only had 5,000 gold in it as he looked back to the gear in the store and saw that some are selling for well over 100,000+ gold, causing him to wince a little at how expensive they where. "Cheapskates." he muttered softly as he turns back towards the gate where he saw ponies entering and leaving as a couple of guardsponies where standing guard, scanning out into the forest in front of them and looking at each pony that enter and leave the town as Spike smiles. "Well, there's always a good start for everything, so, let's get this level grinding a go." he said as he walks towards the gate and feels the guards eyes on him as he leaves the town and walks on the road towards the forest, a little nervous as this will be the start of his new adventure in the game he has never played before. TO BE CONTINUED