//------------------------------// // First Day Of The Rest Of You're Life (Maybe) // Story: We're Not Heroes // by BronieMan305 //------------------------------// “God. Damn. Mountain. I really need to work on my aim,” Drake muttered to himself as he climbed the inside of the crater he created on impact, “So effing tall I better not f-craaaap.” He slipped falling towards the base of the mountain again until he pulled out his dagger and plunged it into the side of the mountain. “This is gonna take awhile.” Meanwhile, in the middle of the unknown forest, Jacob and Tim are walking along trying to find a way out. “Sensei, where are we?” asked Tim rather nervously. “I dunno, just keep walking.” Suddenly a ferocious roar could be heard and Jacob sniffed rather crudely, “It smells kinda like cat, like a bird, and like a scorpion. It’s weird it seems to be one creature but sure-” “SENSEI!” yelled Tim pointing to the odd creature approaching them hungrily. With a shine in his eyes and a laugh Jacob told him, “It’s a manticore, a real manticore; I’ve got this Tim stay back.” Laughing, Jacob’s form began to change as he tossed his shirt to reveal his chest and whole body becoming covered in short hair as his face gets a pulled out look with his nose and mouth extending and teeth sharpening, as his nails become claws. He releases a large howl at the end of his transformation. “…I will never get used to that,” chuckled Tim as he watched Jacob charge. Jacob dash quickly and dived under the manticore’s swinging tail and jumped onto its head, “Here kitty kitty,” Jacob taunted as the manticore swung its tail at him. Jacob dived at the last second causing the manticore to plow its tail into its own head. “Heh, stupid cat, can’t stand the things,” Jacob muttered. “Well you are a dog Sensei,” Tim quipped. “Shaddup.” Jacob ran behind the manticore as is swung a paw at him bashing him in the side and knocking him into a tree leaving a huge gash in his side. “Oh, you’re gonna pay for that,” Jacob said snidely as he spat out blood. He charged behind him and bit down hard on his tail ripping it off as the manticore screeched. The manticore began running away as Jacob charged after smashing the tail through the manticore’s neck. “S-sensei?” muttered Tim. Jacob returned to normal and put his shirt back on. “Sorry, got the taste of blood, went a little nuts, anyway let’s get a fire going, we got dinner.” “MRAWR!” yelled Ian as he’s slapped in the face. He stood up quickly and glared at his assaulter. “Bought time you woke up,” said Mary. “What was that for?” Ian muttered indignantly. “You're little ‘cat-naps’ take hours and we need to start moving towards that village I could see while falling.” Ian started going backed to sleep as he quietly asked, “Why go there, I’m sleepy.” Mary kicked him in the side as she began to explain, “Because all of us other than you have the common sense to head towards civilization to meet each other, since it’s the only obvious point we’d all think of.” Ian gets up annoyed as he glares at her with his purple eyes. “Fine I’m coming, though that village better have some damn milk or I’m gonna be pissed,” he replied. Somewhere else in the forest, Hunter is walking towards the village he saw in the aura realm. “It shouldn’t be too far now just need to get out of these woods.” Suddenly a barrage of howls could be heard. “Oh, wonderful, wolves,” Hunter said dryly as a whole pack of thirty started surrounding him. Still in aura vision, he noticed they appeared to be plants, but when he returned his sight to normal he noticed something odder. “They’re made of wood!?” He drew his sword preparing for a fight when the first one charged. He struck hard cutting through it as the wood collapsed. Just then the entire pack attacked and Hunter began slicing and dashing dodging there attacks. Realizing they were overwhelming him he got on one knee as he concentrated, his body glowing a pale blue, the energy moved to his sword. With a spin he sent the energy in a carved circle tearing them apart. Hunter lay still looking at the broken wood. “Glad that’s over,” he muttered barely on the edge of the consciousness. Then he noticed something in the corner of his eye. The wood began slowly creeping together. It began forming into a giant wolf creature that started charging at him. He stood up weakly and held up his sword. “W-well sh-shit,” he stuttered weakly as it slapped him with a wooden paw and he flew 20 feet into a tree and slumped down. It jumped to bite him when it is suddenly sent flying to the left and smashes into the ground. “Wh-what?” Hunter looks up to see Drake standing over him with a smile. “You didn’t expect me to let my best friend get eaten after all the crazy stuff we’ve been through do you? It’s just like Germany,” Drake said. “This is a b-bit different then Germany heh,” Hunter replied. “You’ve got a point there, but I’ve got this,” Drake said as he turned to the wolf beast. In the village, Sam regained consciousness. “Wh-what a dream,” she said to herself as she looked up and saw the unicorn from earlier, “Oh, not a dream.” The unicorn looked at her and said, “Glad to see you’re awake. How do you feel?” Kim looked at it, her, since she could tell it was a girl, and replied, “Well for someone who was hurt by black magic, ripped through a portal to apparently a different universe, and fell hundreds of feet, pretty good.” The unicorn looked at her nervously, “So you were brought here by dark magic?” Sam could see her nervousness and attempted to calm her by saying, “Well yes, it was black magic, but it wasn’t dangerous or evil, my friend Mary practices black magic but she isn’t evil, speaking of which, where’s the others?” The unicorn looked at her oddly, “Others?” Sam walked outside and the unicorn followed. “Yeah there were others, but they may have landed somewhere else,” Sam explained, “So what’s your name?” The purple unicorn looked at her and said, “Twilight, and yours?” “Its Sam,” Sam told her. “And, um sorry, but, what are you?” Twilight ask. “My friends and I are humans; well most of us, Jacob and Ian barely qualify.” They then hear a loud howl in the distance. “Oh no, a howl that loud must be an alpha timberwolf,” Twilight said worried. “No, I’d recognize that howl anywhere, that’s Jacob going dog; I feel sorry for whatever attacked him,” said Sam just as they heard a different howl from another direction “Now that one may be an alpha whatever you said.” She looked in the direction it came from and saw and odd mountain that looked as if though it had been cut in half. “We don’t know what happened to that mountain,” said Twilight guessing her thoughts, “It was fine this morning then there was this loud smashing sound and it split from the top.” Sam smiled with the realization, “Drake must’ve landed there which means he’s probably the one the timberwolf thing is attacking, and Hunter is probably with them knowing those two, hope the wolf will be okay.” Twilight gave her a confused look as Sam began walking forward. “Better go wait by the forest for those guys, they’d make their way here.”