//------------------------------// // Chapter Seven: They Thought Wrong! // Story: My Little Pony: Minecraftian // by SamMaherGamer //------------------------------// "I can't see anything," Twilight spoke, disappointed at her latest discovery. I had just been speaking to the girls about how the inventory and storage system works, and Twilight had insisted that she see what was inside of my backpack. "Really?" I asked, taking the pack from her and looking inside of it for myself, "I can see heaps of white 'energy' stuff," I said plainly. She shook her head. "Maybe, but I can't see anything at all. I can't even detect any magic inside of it either..." She sadly spoke. I couldn't help but be sorry for her. She was being kind of an ass at the library, but I don't think she's actually half as bad as I thought. At least she was being nicer to hang out with than Applejack, who was annoyed because my prank that I pulled had been so good. Actually, I think she was pissed because I pulled it in the first place, but I reckon my version was better... It turns out that I didn't think ahead enough, in which left the three mares stuck to the ground for almost an hour while Twilight went out to the stores and bought some 'nail polish remover'. I'm still pondering on why they even have the stuff here. It's not like these ponies even have nails or anything, but it turns out that nail polish is used on talons and claws of dragons and griffons. Interesting, really. The answer, of course, led me to think about these dragons. Were they like the Enderdragon, or weaker. If they were as strong, I struggle to think of such a power that keeps them from attacking. That is unless these dragons are small, fluffy and cute, just like the ponies on this world. Normal ponies on Minecraftia would smell of manure and hay. Not the most pleasant thing to get a whiff of, mind you. But here, it seems that those rules don't apply. Instead, the pony seems to smell of shampoo or something. Although it may sound creepy, I've been walking around and smelling each of the ponies while they weren't looking, and I found the results interesting. Pinkie Pie smelt of frosting and sugar, Rainbow Dash smelt of fresh linen, Twilight smelt of lavender, Fluttershy smelt of... Nothing really. Applejack smelt of apples and Rarity smelt of a dark-chocolatey smell. I don't know why I needed to know. Please don't ask me... "Hello?" I heard Twilight say, snapping me from my deepening thoughts. "Oh, sorry," I said, "I was just thinking about stuff," "What about?" She questioned. "Um. The sun," I lied. Well, it was more like a half lie. I was thinking about that earlier, too. "What about it?" Applejack asked, a hint of annoyance still lingering in her voice. "It's going to set really soon..." I told. The sun was going down, and I still don't have my own shelter. I'd better do something about that, "Whelp, it's been nice knowing you," I stated, putting on my backpack and walking towards the door, "but I really must get started on building a shelter," The mares just sat and watched me as I waltzed out the door, until realising what I had just done. Stumbling over one-another trying to get to me, they stepped out of the door. "Well, there goes our plan on keeping him a secret..." Rainbow spoke. I was already out on the street and was casually strolling about as if I were one of this towns residents; I will be pretty soon... The townsponies all stopped and stared, some of them dropping what they were holding. Their reactions only fuelled my smile. Twilight and her friends slowly followed behind, a bit nervous about the current ordeal. I had just gone and pretty much leapt into the situation like a boss, and shocked the fuck out of everybody. If only I still had that tube of superglue. I decided to go up to the border of the town. That way, no one can complain that I've taken already-owned property. The six mares kept bickering at me about the border housing the 'Everfree Forest,' and about how dangerous it is. Yeah... Not listening. "The plants grow," Applejack stated. "The clouds move," Rainbow joined. "And the animals care for themselves," Fluttershy chimed in. "All on their own!" They all exclaimed in symphony. "And?" I asked. Are they saying that 'they' grow the plants and 'they' move the clouds all without the forces of nature? I knew Fluttershy took care if the animals already, so that didn't surprise me. "You're saying that it doesn't work the same on your world?" They asked. You know, if I had to move the clouds by myself, there'd be remains of pillars sticking up everywhere... "Nope," I said calmly. Honestly, it would have been chaos on my world if I actually had to look after my crops. "I guess the Everfree sounds a lot like your own world then," Twilight joined in on the conversation, "but here are many monsters that inhabit the Everfree Forest too!" She claimed. I simply shrugged and summoned my diamond sword, keeping it at hand. "You do realise that you're now probably known by everypony here?" She asked as if I were crazy. I thought I told her not to bring this up again," "I told you that I don't care," I tried to calmly say, but a bit of my anger seeped into my words. Slowly breathing, I tried to calm myself down. I wasn't here to fight, only to troll. "How in tarnation do you expect to build a shelter in only a couple of hours?" Applejack asked, causing Twilight to step up beside her. "That's what I was wondering," Twilight stated, looking me over. I simply threw a disapproving frown her way, and played around with my inventory, summoning and banishing my sword from hand to hand. She simply rolled her eyes and smirked, come get us when you're done," she said plainly. Obviously they thought that I wasn't skilled enough to pull such a feat. They thought wrong... I eyed them as they left, them giving the occasional nervous glance towards the townsponies. I chuckled. Look at them now! I should make a nice area to build the house first. I am going to cut out a patch of trees from the Everfree to make room 'outside' of the town for my home. You know, it feels impossibly weird to be pulled from your old house and your old world, and just go to build another house afterwards. Come to think of it, I wonder how Pixel and Cuboid were doing. It's only been almost a day, yet it feels like forever... Pixel and Cuboid weren't stupid. They knew that something had happened to their master, yet they were too scared to go into The Nether and find him. The Nether was not a place for wolves at all. The lava would swallow them up the first chance it got. They could always use their teleportation trick. Their master had said that it was only to be used when he hadn't told them that they weren't to, and while he did tell them before he left for The Nether, it had been almost a day now, and the wolves were worried. Maybe just a few more days. Surely their master was gone for a reason, and he needed to do things on his own. I whistled to myself a happy tune. It was one of the songs from the music disks I found in dungeons. I had a jukebox back home and would play this one all the time! Which one was it again? Ah, that's right! It was 'C418-Cat!' That was my favourite out of the few music disks I had found in the dungeon underneath my old house! At least the six mares had left me alone to work. If they were still here, I would be answering questions instead of terraforming. Currently I was flattening the ground so that I had something flat to work on. It was going well, and I was almost ready to start building. Looking back towards a nearby path, I saw a small group of residents watching me intently. They saw me catch a glimpse of them and tried to back away behind a nearby building. I sniggered at their antics. Just wait until they see me start building. I wonder if any of them will be brave enough to talk to me... The area looks flat enough, and the trees have been cut well out of range of the house. Thing about when I cut trees is that I also obtain the stump and roots. The roots can be used in various crafting recipes, and the stump can be used as firewood. Having cut all of the trees down to nothing was the way I did it on my first few days too! I watched the group of ponies passively through my peripheral vision. I was ready for any attackers, but I kept my sword hidden, not wanting to scare the locals. Of course, what worser way to make a first impression on the locals with a long, badass sword in your grip? I crafted and placed a crafting table by the worksite. I already had a house in mind, but I still need to build it. I pushed my hands to the crafting table and turned my logs to planks and the planks to stairs, so on and so forth. I heard the crowd gasp, but payed no attention to them. Measuring out the perimeter of the house, I marked it with a trail of stones. That way, I could see where I needed to place each block. Placing my first block, I heard the crowd gasp once again, this time louder. Turning towards them, I saw that the crowd had more than doubled since I last looked at them. This may escalate real fast... The large group of ponies are starting to make me nervous. I had finished actually 'building' the house, but I need to decorate it slightly. I made the walls out of a rugged stone, ready to paint. The walls of stone actually filled my wooden framing of the house. Many windows lay in the sides of he house. The house itself was an L-shaped storey, above a square storey. The missing sector of the L-shaped story was taken up by a balcony with a rustic, wooden railing. The windows weren't actually filled with any glass panes yet, as I needed to go and find some sand first. Unlike the stoney outside of the walls, the inside of them were made from oak planks layered diagonally. The doorways were already accompanied by several wooden doors and the floor of the house was a sanded 'Everfree' planks. The Everfree planks were a darkish colour, much like the spruce wood I'd find back home. I should run down and find some sand, wool and flowers. Flowers were the easiest to find, and I was able to discover many different colours of them! There was a nice, light, cyan one I planned to use to paint the stoney walls. Obtaining the petals from the flower, I ground them and mixed them with a little water from a stream near Fluttershy's. I also filled all of my other containers with water too! Anyways, I had a paint ready to use. In only five minutes, I was able to paint the whole outside of he house, save for the framework, a nice blue colour. While I was looking for the water, I also noticed a lot of sand on the bottom of Fluttershy's stream, and so I took a bit of it too. Right! The glass is installed and the doors have been painted too. I have varnished the wooden framing with some crushed Everfree tree leaves. They give off a pungent smelling oil that seems to work just like it. I thought I'd use it on the house to give it a more 'refined' look. I also was able to put a roof in. I made it out of stone tiles, and painted them a brownish colour using another type of flower I had found. Since the six mares left, it had only been an hour. Time to get fancy... Okay. I had created a bed from some cotton plants and some oak planks. Even I was surprised that I could make silken sheets from just a field of cotton plants, but apparently it works anyway. Using the sheets and stuff, I was able to make a bed out of said sheets, some iron for the springs, and some wood for the actual bed. I dyed the sheets a light green and filled he pillow with assorted dried plants and flowers. Hey, I didn't have much! Besides, it'll smell pretty nice, right? From the cotton, I was able to make a fluffy carpet! I dyed the thing green too, and lay it in my bedroom, in which was upstairs. Upstairs was also the bathroom and the lounge. In the lounge was a set of stairs that led downstairs to the living room, kitchen, laundry and dining room. The living room would open right up to the front door. Outside, was a small flower garden, and a gravel path leading towards the larger, dominant gravel path that the group of ponies stood on. A couple of them had actually brought picnic mats and had lunch while watching me build. At least these ponies liked what I did, right? A couple of brave equines were able to steel themselves enough to come up and talk to me, and I would tell them what I had told Twilight and her friends: about my world and my life. One of them was a white coated mare with a blue and cyan streaked mane, and a music note butt-tattoo. Her name was 'Vinyl Scratch,' and I could tell we were going to get along excellently! I still have half an hour... Just wait until I show Twilight and the others this magnificent house...