//------------------------------// // Chapter Four: Travelling and Glimpses // Story: Ride in the Fright // by TheBigNerd //------------------------------// Manehattan _________________________________________________________________________________________ A foal bolted out of an alleyway, from that alleyway came a sound almost human ( I mean pony, sheesh I really need to adapt to the language here.) the sound was steam and creaking but if you listened you could hear a voice whispering forge. A Forest _________________________________________________________________________________________ I walked along with Cacnea and Flame Spitter, as it turns out, they don't like each other, so I had to put up with their nonstop bickering. "Cacnea, seriously you shouldn't act like you're going to rob every thing we meet." "Flame Spitter it intimidates them so that we can make a quick getaway." "Why would we need a quick getaway?!" " Just in case we're being chased." "The only thing that knows we're here is Kronos and his army so far consists of pathetic pokemon, stupid ponys, and some dumb trolls. WHAT IS GOING TO STOP US!!!!!!" It kept going like that for a while, until I jumped off my bone ostrich, turned to face them, and yelled. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW *bleep*ING ANNOYING YOUR *bleep bleep bleep bleep* BICKERING IS TO THE REST OF US, YOU GUYS HAVE PROBABLY ALERTED EVERY *bleep*ING MINION OF KRONOS IN THE FOREST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I was promptly hit by a fire spell and pin missile. I sat up and groaned, "really guys? Cacnea looked nervous " um, Fright Rider? That wasn't us." I looked around we were surrounded by unicorns, and pokemon. you have GOT to be kidding me. Manehattan _______________________________________________________________________________________ It had been several weeks and most residents of Manehattan knew to avoid the alleyway , the alleyway scared the populace with strange sounds and lights, but if you listened close, you could hear the whispering, an endless forge. A Forest _________________________________________________________________________________________ I was fighting for my life, I slashed a geodude in two turned around and decapitated a unicorn, none of them bled, they simply dissolved into bubbles which I then absorbed. Cacnea blasted a trio of milotics with a solar beam, Flame Spitter incinerated a line of unicorns. I was slightly surprised to discover that we were winning. And then reinforcements arrived, trolls and rocket imps burst out of the trees followed by jet black pegasi and unicorns, a battalion of pokemon, and some strange mechanical creatures. I slashed down all that were near me. Cacnea used pin missile on a group of unicorns, and Flame Spitter encased himself in a shell of flame to block the relentless attacks on his person. We were now back to back, sometime during the fight Persephone had upgraded my glaive into a halberd which I was using to destroy our opponents. But we were losing, our enemy's saw it too, they knew they were wearing us down slowly but surely, and then something happened. When I backed into Cacnea (which was painful an account of his spines.) his spines and my halberd began to glow. The glow collected and poured into the ground . Axe blades burst out of the ground slashing our enemy's into nothing. The blades destroyed any foes that tried to escape. The monsters were either turned into bubbles which I absorbed or simply vanished. Manehattan __________________________________________________________________________________________ The creature looked in the flames. As always they gave the same message, the message it had to follow, Wait for them Forge. The Same Forest __________________________________________________________________________________________ I looked at Cacnea, "what was that?!" Cacnea looked at me as if I was an ideit " how am I supposed to know? Just because i was the first one called to fight Kronos does not mean I know everything that we can do." I groaned, "great, we have incredibly awesome powers, and no idea how to, wait a second, PERSEPHONE!" Persephone poked her head out from behind a nearby tree. "Yes master?" "what did we just do?" Persephone looked nervous. "well, I wasn't supposed to tell you this yet, but in times of peril, you can combine your individual magical powers to create massively powerful spells. You see, you need to collect the other four chosen, and use that power to destroy Kronos." Flame Spitter had a disturbingly happy smile on his face "so if we have a moment where we might, you know, DIE, we can just use this power and obliterate them, right?" Persephone shrugged "it is not that simple, you see, it takes about a day for the energy needed to use that spell to recharge, so since Cacnea and Fright Rider (I bet you forgot my name huh.) just used it, you need to wait a day for the energy to recharge enough for you to use it." I grimaced ( grimaced is an excellent word if I do say so myself) " great we have incredibly awesome powers, but we have to wait a day before we can use it." Persephone smiled " actually, you might not have to, I flew up and looked around, Manehattan is just about a couple of miles away, we should be able to get to it by the time night comes." I grinned, finally something was going my way, "what are we waiting for, lets go!" Manehattan __________________________________________________________________________________________ It knew they were coming, the flames had changed, this was the first time it had been on the street, so all the species around him. "not surprising." it thought "I am a giant locomotive robot, but whatever, the flames told me that i need to go to the west gate into town to wait for them, and finally I can start my fight against Kronos.