Mighty Mane...that's the name of the pony who ended up being dead after encountring me, well to be perfectly honest, he forgot to enable friendly fire.
Dolorossia Parks, the one pony that I will have to beware of. Her observation skills and accurate aim is what surprised me, yet, she killed her former teammate leaving me with no clue about her or anything similar. Dang it, I really should formulate a plan on how to defeat her, unfortunately, I have little information about her fighting style.
I guess analyzing her with what I have right now will be better than heading into future battles unprepared. First of all, she is a unicorn, which means that she may know some deadly spells to use against me, like the fire spell she casted at the giant. But I wonder if she knows any other types of elemental spells alongside fire, hopefully not, but I cant rely on pure hope and luck to get me out of this mess that somehow I got included in. There should be a way to defeat her, and I am going to find it.
Second of all, from her recent actions, I could easily tell that she is very good with daggers or maybe sharp objects in general. I would'nt call myself a professional but atleast, Im better than most of the ponies here on ponyville. The way she intercepted my attack made her even more dangerous due to the fact that I was going full speed, If that's true then, she would have monsterous instincts alongside her talent with daggers and her magic.
Third of all, she mentioned something about "Team" does that mean there are more dangerous ponies or creatures that work with her? More dangerous than the giant? Normally, anyone with a sane mind would think of the best possibilities, but for me, I think of the worst possible scenario so I can get ready incase something off goes on. Putting that aside, the possibility of her having a dangerous team is pretty high...for me atleast.
Which means that I will have to get ready for more surprises she throws at me. When I met her at first, she gave me the impression of somepony who always prepare three battle tactics before engaging in any physical or mental combat, Battle Tactic A (as I would like to call it) could be the main Tactic or pattern of the attack, Battle Tactic B and C are just alterantives if A failed.
Now, I really have to step up my game if I were to play with her little game of hunting. But for now, I will go into a safer place more than the everfree, dont want another cloaked ponies to show up around here. I took my time as I strolled through the forest with the feeling of dread at every corner of the everfree. I guess its not their fault for feeling scared from this forest.
Now, that i cleared my mind from those two ( only for a while) its time to focus on my next goal, acquire a healing potion.
And yet, the only one who knows how their stuff with herbs and potions is Zecora, locating her hut is not something hard to do as I easily found it near the orchard. I went up and knocked at the door, I waited patiently for Zecora to open the door only for no answer.
Huh, guess she's away at the moment, well that's disappointing, I really needed that healing potion from her if she does have one. I started walking back to ponyville with a really disappointed mode, maybe I can find her tomorrow? who knows?
While I was walking back to ponyville, I noticed how calm the everfree forest is, too calm. From the books about the wild life and predators I read in my past life, I learned that once you are in a predators territory, everything goes silent which means that you are now the prey. Using that logic, I slowly drew out my cutlass blade, ready to slash anything that comes at me.
I could hear the rustling in the bushes as my eyes shot to the origin of the sound. An adult manticore emerged from the bushes as it was gazing at me with a predator gaze.
The manticore got into a hunting stance ready to pounce on me and eat me as a snack (due to my small size), but unlucky for it, Im hard to obtain.
General Pov:
The manticore decided to start the attack as it pounced on the little dragon only to find that spike was gone from his original position, it looked around for its prey and took a glimpse of Spike, standing atop of a tree branch, observing it coldly, Spike jumped from the tree branch as he began circling the manticore who in turn, did the same.
Without a single second wasted, Spike threw a dagger, aimed towards the manticore's skull instantly killing it. He grabbed the dagger and stabbed the manticore twice in the skull to make sure its dead.
Spike's Pov:
I picked up my dagger as I set it back in my inventory before a new notification popped up.
[ A new quest had appeared! ]
Quest: Defeat 3 Manticores!
Rewards: 120 bits, 90 exp!
Failure: Death by the manticores.
I immediately accepted the quest, finally something I can gain from. I started my hunt for the manticores. Now with the exp Im going to get, I will finally be level 21, which means that I will get around 15 points to use. I will spend them all on luck, that would increase my chances of getting more unique stuff from the gacha and may as well help me with battles.
While, I was looking for manticores, I noticed exactly 3 manticores in the sky, flying in circles. Now, from my limited knowledge about mythical creatures, Manticores fly in a circle above their prey in order to wait for a better time to strike. With that in mind, then there must be a creature down their that is trying to defend itself. Good, while the creature or whatever that is, distracts the manticores, I will launch an aerial attack at them. 3 giant birds with one dagger.
I dashed through the bushes while not making any sound, to hide my presence as I finally made it to the center of the circle. I saw 2 adult ponies, one was a unicorn stallion while the other was a pegasus mare, though her wing seems to be... sliced off, probably by the manticores. The stallion stood infron of the mare while seeming to be threatning, I can see some claws marks and the blood in his body. Oh well, I oughta thank them for bringing those manticores to me, didnt want to look for them myself.
I noticed one of the manticores got tired of waiting and decided to attack them, right, now's my chance. As the manticore got closer to the two ponies, a loud sound of wind being cut was heard as the manticore's head slowly slipped off his body as it crashed to the ground just near the two shocked ponies. From the nearby trees, Spike walked calmly towards the two while he was holding his bloody cutlass. Though, his appearance wasn't scary but the two ponies felt fear after seeing such a feat for a little dragon.
"Are you two okay?" Spike asked, with a fake worry as he approached them slowly all while trying to emitate a calm aura to calm them down. "Y-Yes.. we are okay.. thanks for your help," The stallion answered as he felt some relief in him before he turned his attention back to the manticores, Spike noticed this as hedrew out their attention to him.
Seeing how small, their new prey was, they decided to land to the ground as they began circling around Spike. Spike made a small smirk before he ran towards one of the manticores, aiming a slash to its wings removing its ability to fly. He quickly threw another dagger at the other manticore to make sure it wouldn't fly away either.
The manticore he attacked before decided to attack him with its claws only for spike to stab its heart with the cutlass. Spike continued on stabbing the manticore to make sure its dead. His hands were tainted with the manticore's blood as the mare looked with horror at such cruelty while the stallion was a bit unused to this but he knew it was neccessary.
Spike rushed the other manticore before stabbing it straight in head making sure to stab the brain, the manticore, without any resistance fell to the ground with a loud and heavy thud, dead.
[Quest Completed!]
[You Have Levelled Up!]
[You Have Levelled Up!]
[You Have Levelled Up!]
I opened my stats as I decided to put the points I was given on luck before closing the stats tab, I looked at the shocked ponies as my gaze met with the worried stallion's gaze. The reason why I was so calm with killing infront of them was because of our relationship, we are both strangers to eachother so they have no idea about my fake personality (Mlp Spike Personality).
"Thank you so much for helping us out!" The wounded stallion said, as I could see some tears leave his eyes. "We are eternally grateful for what you have done for us!" He added before bowing down to me. Dude, Im not some sort of a merciful god that helps anypony around, I just killed them because of the quest.
Well, I wouldn't say no for a reward but I figured, they dont have anything by now. "It's no proble, I like to help ponies around here," Lies, that was all lies, I dont help anyone without something in return, they were just lucky because of the quest I was given. The stallion showed me a smile before he went to his injured friend, he gently picked her up on his back as the blood from her missing wing was dripping on him. " By the way, do you know where the nearest civilisation is? She needs help... if you know," He asked as he looked at me.
" Head north from here, you can find the town of ponyville, there you will find the help you need," I innstructed casually as the stallion seemed to be grateful before approaching me. He levitated what seems to bea small piece of puzzle before giving it to me. "Im sorry, but thats all I have right now, I lost all of my stuff around this forest and only this piece of puzzle remains, if you could visit me sometime in canterlot, i will give you a proper reward. By the way, my name's is Golden Ace, pleased to meet you!" He said as I nodded to him, "Spike, you can call me Spike," I said as I used [Observation] on the puzzle piece he gave me.
[Ancient Piece Of Puzzle (Legendary)]
A Part of a legendary puzzle made by Star Whisper, legend's say that if you collect all of the seven pieces you will be able to obtain Star Whisper's legendary treasure!
Interesing, a legendary treasure waiting to be discovered? Now that sounds like a good side quest I can focus on when I get everything i needed to be ready, Though, I wonder where did that stallion find this? "Sorry, but I gotta go right now, thanks again for helping us out again! I really hope you can visit me in canterlot later so I can give you a better reward," He said as he made his way to ponyville. Guess I will ask him later then.
I silently followed behind them, afterall, Im heading to ponyville as well. I noticed something new on my inbox only to find out that it was another message sent by Gamer's Paradise, curious to know what it is, I opened the message.
[ Congratulations for reaching level 20! You Have unlocked: "Gamer's Lounge! ]
Gamer's lounge? what's that? My thoughts were interrupted with another notification.
[Please Enter Your Username]
Another weird tab appeared but this time there were letters all around the screen, almost like a computer keyboard, that's weird. I decided to go along with it as I inserted a username that doesn't tell much about me, "Greenflame6" {A/N: Thanks again DragonKnife for the username!}
I pressed Enter as the tab disappeared before the whole world turned dark, a few seconds later a light appeared as a new world formed infront of me, lots of ponies and different creatures were seen hanging out at the world where a great giant tree stood tall. Where the hell am I?