Harmonic Hero: The Twilight Knight

by Warpony


Level One: Super NooB

Axle had just recently left Canterlot with the goal in mind on completing his first quest. Yet first, he first faced a larger challenge. Something so large that not one man, or stallion, could possibly face on his own. "Which freaking direction is Whitetail Wood?" Axle pondered as he looked down on his map. His world map only showed him the small area in front of Canterlot and the city itself. "Well that is great, just great." Axle put his map away and looked around.

The entrance to the city was a large, open gate with double doors. Grey wood with iron bolts around the edges. The grass was rich on both sides of a path. Axle spotted smoke coming up from around the other side of the city. He had the sense to go and follow the black trail due to curiosity.

As he rounded the outer wall, a set of rail tracks came into view. "A train?" Axle quickly concluded in his mind. Sure enough, as he looked to the source of the smoke, a train rested on the tracks. From what Axle could tell, it was ready to depart to the next station. Axle quickly approached the station and turned to Griffin who was sitting on a bench.

The Griffin turned to Axle as well. His chest dawned a simple plate of armor with a black heart with a blue star in the center. Between his wings, an axe rested. He looked Axle over and then asked him, "You need help, noob?"

Axle sighed, discouraged by being called a noob. "Yeah, I am looking for Whitetail Woods. I don't have it on my map so I'm lost."

"Well you're going in the wrong direction." The Griffin informed Axle with a rude attitude towards him. "This train is for Chaos Spire. A mid-level area you wouldn't survive in. Whitetail is about two miles to the west of here. Have fun killing slime and what not."

The train whistled and was ready to depart. The Griffin got up from the bench and walked towards the train without another word to Axle. Yet as he stepped into the locomotive, he gave Axle a seemingly and somewhat hostile glare. The doors soon closed and Axle walked off to the west. "Man, that guy was a really turd." Axle stated as he walked towards his destination.

About ten minutes past by as Axle enters the woods. Near the treeline was a large tavern with a sign hanging from the entrance. It was a white rabbit with a leaf in it's paw. The grey stallion walked through the door and looked around the tavern. Inside was a small array of low level characters, both players and NPCs. Nearby was a quest board with all the the low level quests for the area. At said board were a total of five more quests for the immanent area. He quickly turned down one of the five due to it being an escort quest. "I simply hate escort with a burning passion." And with this, the player set out on his first quest. The first, of many.