//------------------------------// // First month // Story: A Good Share of Lives // by Sea Pony //------------------------------// It’s been a full month since Discord began his twist game, the princesses are still talking about strategy and the guards are searching Equestria at great lenght to find the breach created by the spirit of disharmony. None of the three sides of the game made any big move yet. The princesses and the elements are still planning and searching, Discord dissapear after the first week nopony know where he is. Nightmare Moon took residence in the tower looking around to see if there threats. The only one that did something was Tiritero he transform Manehatan in a veritable zombie city. Most of the resident had escape in another town. But some had stayed to fight the outbreak. Because the ones that was transform weren’t reborn in another body since their old one is still technically almost alive. So ponies that have family in Manehatan often search for their loves ones but they are only allow to do it in the day, in the night the ghouls come in all city to hunt anything that is still alive. Luna have sent all her lunar guards, except her personal body guards, to free the ponies of their curse. The players on their side have not yet come in great number most of them are still grinding in town like Appleloosa and the crystal empire where everything is more peaceful. I heard someponies says that a strange stallion accompany by a mare and her daughter appeared in a strange blue box in the Cantelot castle, I seriously doubt this story is true, that just sound crazy. Oh yeah I had almost forgot strange monsters had began to wander in every corner of Equestria, attacking the poor traveller that dare go in the wild, when we kill them they explode in shard meaning they are created by the game of Discord, the players call them trash mobs. At least they avoid any civilised environement as if it was cursed, the players have also have restricted movement in town. Some of them had tried to be ‘evil’ by killing the ponies in town. But the strange thing is that their swords didn’t do anything to us as long we’re inside the walls of a town or a city, except for Manehatan some strange reasons. Many ponies have to go through phychologic trauma because of all the violence that been around the last month, some even consider cutting their connection to this world and go in the Gaia branch just to forget everything ever happened. But the force field of Discord keep them in the country. Phoebe is out killing monsters and evil players most of the time, that is when she’s not in bed with a stallion or a mare, sometime even both. Of course mom tried to hide these rumors from us. I don’t understand why she’s so embarassed about sex I mean when she explain the birds and the bee she almost faint on the spot yet she have no problem to help her animals to find a mating partner. Of course I won’t deny I was almost as embarassed as her when she had to tell me what was estrus and why my body want to have foal, yeah at least I’m still not attract to colts even in this phase, I heard that some lesbian mares are attracted to males when in heat so I’m happy it’s not the case for me. Oh wait I am rambling here am I? I was talking about a serious war and here I’m talking about sex, sorry for that, anyway me and Meek Sky had nothing really interesting to do, I can’t believe we still have to go in school in all of this I mean who really care about education when ponies around you live in fear? I tried again and again to convince them to let me fight but with no result, not even Celestia or Luna wanted to let a filly fight to protect Equestria, that lame! Oh yeah I almost forgot we have a cat in our house now. But not just any old boring cat, she can talk! She said she was the pet of sis father for a short time before she began to travel through the country. I ask her if that was a harsh life. So she told me a story of how she lived in Griffonya. Everyday she had to fight wild animals and steal to survive after her first master death. But when Dream come along he and a bunch of weirds friends, which I later learn that Brew the ex girlfriend of my lavender aunt was part of, adopt her. But a few months after that Brew, was with Twiligth and later was in the royal guard, Sonata a griffin that like to play the violin, that sound so weird! Became a great musician with Octavia and Vinyl Scratch and Dream himself settle down with mom before he died. So Soft Paw began to wander around when all her friends began their own lifes on their side. But it was a lot different tha in her old home. The pony often gave her free food just like that and she sometime had to steal still but she hadn’t to fight any creatures on the road. Instead of wild untame lands she was great each morning by a bright gentle sun. I never realise how we were lucky of having Equestria, I was born here so I never stop to think how was the other countries compared to us. Sure there the charity that some ponies held sometime but I guess I never personally met someone with a hard life before. And Dream had brave these wild land when he had no whatsoever experience on survival and he fought agaisn’t animal and monsters for a week. That without counting how he defeat Time Skip, I would like to be like him one day and protect the ones I love. - - - - - - - Phoebe flew in circle upside of the now abandon city of Manehatan. ``Mmh I had expect it to be like New York but it look a lot different, excepted for the name. Okay, what do we know about vampires and ghouls?`` She search in her backpack and found a single book alongside a copy of frisky fillies. ``Ok here we go, ghoul are a inferior race of vampires. The pure blood of this race can easily survive in the sunlight but are stronger while the sun is down. But the ghouls instanly die as soon as their skin touch a single ray of sun.`` She smile confidently as she close the book. ``Well I’m the goddess of light this should be easy to get rid of these parasites.`` ``Ma’am`` A destral trot close of her with a serious expression but not as stoic as the guards she saw with Celestia. ``The night is near, captain Shining Armor will cast is shield spell on Manehatan in twenty minutes. You can venture in but we will not be responsible if we can’t open the shield because a swarm of these things is following you.`` ``Don’t worry about me good sir, I’ve been at the service of the council for years, I have been in worse situations than this, I will just see if there any survivors around and maybe free some of these poor souls, if I don’t come back in a few hour you can consider me dead and report to your princesses.`` The guard salute her and the goddess calmly walk in the dark alley of the ghost city.