//------------------------------// // Side Mission Smithed and Apples // Story: Castle crashers Elements of magic // by Flip_The_Table //------------------------------// Logbook Okay! So having my first mission with the crew was awesome! Me and Forgor have put a good number in the team, and now I’ll be make everyone there own weapons now as well, I’ll get paid for everything! I can respect both Rai and Tim’s choice of maces while Zane and Steven get the swords but ah Patrick, ah I’ll give him some credits for an axe! I’m now officially part of the crew after helping with the troll beast attack, Gabriel Ironhide Blacksmith of the Castle Crashers signing off on May 15 The birds all slowly begin to chirp as the sun slowly shines on their nest, some hop out and then flies out towards the farm called Sweet Apple Acres, where the farmer Applejack and her human guest Gabriel the weapon smith. Today was going to be a day of introduction of meeting the Apple Family! And the tall man is very excited to meet them finally. The farmer mare had told the human some stories of her family. She has two siblings, her being in the middle, Big Mac being the oldest while Apple Bloom is the opposite. Then was the elderly mare, Granny Smith being the keeper of the farm for decades will have the strong judgement on the blacksmith and his deer frog. Gabriel groans as he stumbles out of the barn with his helmet off, he scratched his beard and then yawned loudly “AHHHH!” And scares the birds all away from the barn house. He soon laughed to him self and stretched his back hearing the pops all over. Soon he then looked back inside the barn looking at the pile of hay all sit there, it was his temporary bed for now. Forgor hops out of the pile and blinks as he eyes his owner slowly reach down to pick his helmet up. “And good morning to you Forgor!” “Ribbit” Gabriel chuckled as he picks his pet up and has him rest in his shoulder. His spirit creature blinks at him and slumps on his shoulder pad already trying to sleep again. Gabriel soon walks back out but stopped to be greeted by the orange farmer Applejack, her eyes are narrowed “Gabriel…” she said slowly. “Oh! Hallo Jack!” The smith greets waving a hand at the mare, he leans down to be at a good eye level as the mare keep her frown on him. “Why did you scream? Y’all woke my whole fam!” She growled before stomping a hoof in the ground to show her anger. Gabriel rubs the top of his helmet with a brow furrowed under his helmet. “Screaming? I did not scream” he said Bonk! The 7 foot tall human now on the floor rubbing the top of his helmet as a dent was made there from the strong farmer. Man getting hit on the top of the head sucks… that one bad thing about wearing helmets. Gabriel growled as he frowns at Applejack trot away from the door, leaving Gabriel to himself as he gets ready more. Castle Crashers Elements of magic “So! What’s on the agenda today Jack?” Gabriel asked, he started calling Applejack “jack” last night and seamed to have the free card to get away with it. The orange mare snorts for a second and adjusts her hat “well, we got some apples that need some bucking of course! Ah howdy Mac!” Applejack greet over to the big stallion who trots over to the pair, Mac eyes the tall human and chuckled at him making the blacksmith cross his arms “and what so funny pony?” He asked leaning down to look at the pony at eye level. “Big deer golem” Mac said before he chuckled again, Gabriel stands up and give a questioning look shrugged at that, Applejack on the other hand was frowning at Mac “now Brother, Gabriel is not a golem. He is a human” She corrected lifting a hoof towards the purple knight. Gabriel then chuckled lightly as Mac rolled his eyes at his sister. “Tiny pony” Now the two were puffing out their chest as they gets close with each other, Gabriel gets on a knee to be eye level with the stallion, his damaged helmet glairs at the pony as smoke slowly puff out of the smiths helm, but then the two both laughed. Mac punched Gabriel’s shoulder and Gabriel does the same, Applejack snorts while rolling her eye ‘stallions’ “Okay Colts! Let’s get back on the point please?” The mare said stomping a hoof to making the two stop and walk over to her as they eye the valley of trees. “Okay so now that we have a extra helper we should be able to complete this harvest in about 6 hours” the farmer said but stop as Gabriel walks over to the tree and places a hand on it, both farmers look at each other before Gabriel then lifts a hand up charging his magic. “Hey now partner, don’t go braking our trees now!” She said before Gabriel slowly starts yelling “Iron…. Punch#1!” And swing a magic fist at the tree sending the breeze down the direction of tree, and soon the apples all that sit on the tree all tumble down on the ground. “BWA HAHA! 10 trees, my record has been set!” The human said before looking over at Applejack and Big Mac who have there jaws dropped. Forgor hops off Gabs shoulder and bites the apple, Gabriel then rubs the top of his helmet “is something all—“ Bonk! “You rotten apple! We apples don’t use magic!” Applejack said now standing over the purple knight as he has a single tear fall out of his helmet, while rubbing the top of this helm ‘gods… why the top of the helmet?’ Gabriel whined as he slowly gets up to look at the farm eye the tree that the human punched. Lifting a hoof she feels the tree’s body not at all harmed one bit. “You… you didn’t damage it?” She said as Gabriel picks his deer frog up, Mac quickly trots out with buckets while picking apples too. “Of course! Why would I damage nature?” He said before dusting his body armor. “Sis…” Mac said making Applejack trot up and drop her jaws as she sees how far the apples fell, Applejack then whistles and slapped Mac’s shoulder “Mac! Get the wagon, have Bloom help too! I have a Golem to talk too” she said before now narrowing her eyes up at the tall human. “Gabriel, I’ll need you explain on what and how you did that? Cus if I see you use magic again I swear—“ “I didn’t” Gabriel interrupted smirking under his helm as he lifts Forgor up with a hand. “He did” he said simple before he tossed his deer frog up high and soon poofs away. Applejack gasped at the frog’s disappearance, she then sees Gabriel get on a knee and look down at Applejack still. “Forgor and me are connected, he is… not just an average animal… he is a spirit creature, my family’s spirit creature” he said before taking his hammer out to point at the top of his bludgeon. Indeed the symbol of the deer frog sits well, the mare sits on her rump as Gabriel puts his hammer down in front of the mare to see it. “I don’t usually share my past of my power… but you make me laugh, so your good, can you keep a secret?” He asked making Applejack snort and crossed her chest with a hoof, Gabriel nods and takes his helmet off as he eyes Applejack with a warm smile. “I’m a Blacksmith, who has been part of my family’s legacy for generations… and the legend of the deer frogs… are descendants of an old smith god… and the Ironhide were the nails to them… and the frogs are the hammer” Gabriel said before Forgor then poof on the grass In front of Gabriel. “Now my magic is completely different, I’ve had Forgor with me and we saw… a wave of magic hit us… I though we were going to die… but when I felt Forgor carry me… I was saved… and then” Gabriel picks his Frog up and tossed him in the air. His magic charges and shoots a beam of smoke out and hits his frog. “Ribbit!” And the tiny frog grows big and bigger before Forgor was big as the barn. Applejack yelps and stands back up with the human as he barks out laughing loudly. “He and I work well together!” Gabriel said pulling a dagger out his pocket. He tossed it up high and a big tongue shoots and eats it quickly. “He… he ate it!” She said as the frog burps and then shrinks back into a ball and floats around the human again, Gabriel laughed again but this time he pull his helmet back on and lifts a hand up. The smoke aura surrounds his hand as a smoky hammer takes form “My magic is an odd on… when Patrick saw it he called it “the most useful spell” and he was right, and that when this Ironhide became… the blacksmith knight of the Castle Crashers!” He beamed before picking his hammer up high. Applejack smiles lightly but then eyes her sister and brother trot by with the wagon full of apples. “That does not explain the apples that all feel off, if it’s not magic then what is it?” She said frowning lightly but the smiles stayed. Gabriel then chuckled as he looks back at the trees. “Ah that… that’s my uh… my body’s doing that” he lied making the mare frown a little at that. He sees it and sighed and slumps down a bit “okay, the magic may have enhanced my body” he said honestly, Jack looks closely and then blinks for a second ‘he’s not lying…’ “You’re not lying…” she said as the human stands tall, the mare looks at the trees and then the human, then back. She then nearly runs back to the human and grabbed his chest armor “can you teach me?” She said making the smith blink for a moment, the smirks did not leave his face under his helm. “It won’t be easy… strength means more then changing the body Jack, it’s your soul too” Gabriel said as he eyes the trees. He looks back and claps his hands together “but I say we should get to work first” he said before he then picks an apple. Applejack nods and picks some buckets up and both quickly starts picking Apples up. After getting the proper introduction out of the way, with also having the fields be done surprisingly 3 hours breaking the family record, Gabriel of course did not use his powers but shows a trick that human have then ponies don’t. Picking apple is a trick that can have the human know if apples were f Good or bad quicker and plus with his brute strength, he can get trees down in a flash. “So I take that your family has rules with Apple bucking?” He asked while holding some piles of hay, Applejack nods at that while she drops the pile on the ground to talk “we do. Magic is nothing special unless you can pick something up, magic can do that too… but why use magic when you have hooves dang nab-it!” She said making Gabriel laugh loudly “spoken like a true worker! I get the pain too!” He said making her laugh along with the human. “Heya Applejack?” Apple Bloom says trotting over to the man and mare with a hopeful smile on her face, the two look down to her as she starts hopping around for a moment “I think I got it, I think I got it!” She says making the two chuckle lightly as the filly stops and snorts at Gabriel “Mr Gabby! Can you help get my cutie mark?” She said making Gabriel laughed and slowly picks the mare up with a hand. She yelps for a second but then giggles as Gabriel holds her close “very well little one! What do you need help with this “cutie mark” thing?” He said. Applejack snorts and stands next to the smith explaining that ponies have to earn a mark by finding their natural talents. Gabriel finds it odd but clears his thought with having these ponies having tattoos on there flanks. As the tall human was walking down the path, he follow the filly closely before next thing he sees is his leg then caught in tight ropes “uh… why is there a rope tied to my leg?” He asked looking down at the filly in his arms, Bloom’s ears fall flat and she cursed under her breath while Applejack groans “Bloom how many times did it tell y’all can’t be trying to trap anypony for a cutie mark, and also stop using my ropes too” Jack said as the filly sighed in defeat “I better let the girls know… thanks Mr Gabby” she said as the man puts her down. “Hey, don’t give up. You might have your talent come to you someday. Eat, and stay strong and you just might find one” he said petting Bloom’s mane. She blushed a bit but then hugged Gabriel’s leg before she then bolts down the path. Applejack trots up and stands next to the human with a warm smile on her face. “Hey, thanks for that partner, she has been really trying to get one for awhile now” she said Gabriel nods and stretches his back “understandable, it goes with being young I guess, you ponies are not so different from human” he said “That’s not all” Applejack said making the smith look down at her, brow furrowed now as she looks at the landscape “Bloom and her friends have to deal with, a bully… and she is something, but every time we try to let Bloom’s teach know, she always come back” Applejack then looks down at the ground hiding her eyes with her hat. “Poor Bloom came home one day with tears in her eyes… those… that bully always tries to find someway to make them cry” Applejack said before she then looks up at the human, Gabriel was not popping his knuckles as he eyes the farmer tell her story… but he already gotten the message and has something on his mind to say. “Your all way too similar to us” he said simply before sitting down in the grounds path, he looks down at Applejack do the same and sits close as they watch the sky, “We have humans like that… but more violent” he said, Applejack looks at the human just looks down at the ground “Jack I wish to know who this pony is…” he said changing the subject off of him and looks back at the farmer. “Why… you’re not going too” Gabriel shakes his head “then… what are you going to do?” She asked “To keep your sister happy, no one deserves this kind of treatment, a bully will face me and keep her distance away from Bloom to keep her safe” He said not standing back up as Forgor appears on his shoulder, and soon the deer frog grows big again and has the human on his back “For that’s what a Castle Crasher does!” He said now lifting his hammer up high as Forgor just sits there. Applejack then gets on her hind legs and shouts out too “yeehaw! Thank you so much for your help Gabriel!” She said as the human hops off as the frogs poof again. “Not at all, you have help my team and me, I’ll do just as much as I can to pay my debt to you” he said making the farmer laugh as they soon walk down the path way back to the farm. They say nothing else on the road back to the barn, Mac was finished with the wagons while Granny Smith was sitting on her chair with a big grin on her face. They nod at the two as they sit down on the porch, Gabriel sits on the dirt due for the fact of his hight, he might even be heavy enough to brake the floor, he wished he can see inside but also wishes to not intrude on privacy. So Gabriel sits on the dirt with his dear frog out looking up at the beautiful sky… it felt so calming for Gabriel… he hadn’t feel this in a long time… he smiles under his helmet and soon lays back fixing his back and lays on the side of the porch and soon begins to drift off to sleep. The rest all look at him as he was snoring quietly, Mac was the first one to speak “what did you talk about?” He asked “Oh nothing, just about Applebloom’s situation with school bully's” said Applejack “Ha! He would be the perfect one to show those two not to mess with an apple!” Granny Smith chimed in. Applejack nods and adjusts her hat to eye the sleeping human “he has a good heart… even if he is not from here, he is nice…” “So you us gonna—“ “Don’t even think about that granny, we just met only two days ago” Jack said before getting up to the door “if y’all don’t mind, I’m gonna use it… I’ll be back down for a moment” she said leaving Mac and granny along on the porch, Mac looks at the human again as he slowly he gets up and yawns “I’m… going to rest in the barn, see you all later tonight” he said before he walks to the barn taking his helmet off along the way. “100 bits on he might ask AJ out” Mac muttered “Heh, I’ll buy that… but 200 if Applejack does it” Granny Smith said before the tow then bark out laughing out loud making the birds fly off towards the sky and clouds… today seamed like a perfectly normal day for the smith and the frog… another day will come for them both… but this time they will be watching over a certain filly in yellow. 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