Everyone had woken up rather early today seeing as fluffy had roared in the morning to wake everyone up.
"Stupid pink raptor thing." mumbled Rainbowdash.
"Okay everyone listen up, I need to divide up the jobs for today." Rex got out the quests that twilight and rarity had gotten yesterday. "We have hunting a royal ludaroth on this island here, saying it attacked some pony's boat. Rainbowdash I’m giving this quest to you." Rainbowdash got her sword and went off to hunt some ludaroth.
"For applejack, you have to capture a Qurapeco. rather easy this one, just beat the hell out of it and then use these shock traps and tranquilizer bombs to capture it." applejack was slightly confused.
"What the hay is Qurapeco?" asked apple jack. "It’s a giant bird basically. This quest takes place in the sandy plains, so take these cold drinks to keep you from drying up. Just go to town and they'll take you to the sandy plains in no time." applejack got her great sword and went off to the sandy plains.
"Excuse me Rex but what can I do?" asked Fluttershy almost in a whisper.
"Hmm... well there's a quest here to gather some herbs and such so it should be easy enough for you but just in case, pinkie pie can go with you if you want to." Rex rolled his eyes a bit. "Okay dockey, come on shy!" pinkie grabbed Fluttershy and went off. "Okay let's see here... the last quest is to check on the top of that mountain there to see if a ruthian has nested there."
Twilight and rarity were rather worried. "You want use to go to the top of a mountain and spy on a dragon that would kill us on sight?!" exclaimed rarity. "No of course not... I want you two to go with me and fluffy to spy on the giant dragon of death."
Rex laughed a bit and got on fluffy. "My lady's, your carriage awaits." twilight and rarity rolled their eyes.
"Is that monster clean?" asked rarity. Fluffy looked insulted. "I’ll have you know miss marshmallow that I’m a clean little raptor!"
Thought fluffy. "He’s clean don't worry, now hope aboard already and lets go." rarity and twilight got on and headed off.
With pinkie pie and Fluttershy...
Fluttershy skipped through the forest, humming a soft tune that made pinkie pie smile and start hoping next to her.
"I love it here! It’s so exciting and super cool with the giant monsters and dragons." exclaimed pinkie pie, looking upwards into the sky and seeing a flock of passing birds. "Oh there are a few swirly birds flying away."
Fluttershy was just looking around for what was on the list, coral stones.
They made it to a beach and looked into the water. "So who's going to swim?" asked Fluttershy meekly, scared of what might be under the water. Pinkie grabbed her bowgun and jumped into the water.
Pinkie dived deeper and deeper under water a looked for the coral stones. She saw a few and gathered as many as she could and then swam to the top and waved to Fluttershy. "Hay Fluttershy! The waters okay and I got the coral." pinkie saw her smile and went back to the coast. "Are you okay pinkie? Did you get hurt?" Fluttershy asked in concerned tone.
"I’m fine Fluttershy. jeez you worry to mu-" before pinkie could finish, Fluttershy hugged her tightly.
"I don't want my friends getting hurt that's all." Fluttershy started to tear up a bit.
"stop it shy! look I pinkie promise I won't get hurt." pinkie moved her hooves around to show the pinkie promise routine.
"sorry. it's just this place is so dangerous and I’ll probably hold everyone back and I don't want to do that. I want to help in any way I can. but I’m too scared to do anything." pinkie thought about this.
"I know! you and I can be bow gun buddies! I have trouble with putting shots in this so you can help me do that."
"and I can help make special shots as well... if you want me to of course." pinkie got out a little book.
"Rex said that fluffy said that this book has a lot of recipes for shots and talismans or something like that." Fluttershy smiled.
"at least I’ll be helpful." pinkie gave her the little book. "now let's get our reward all ready." pinkie and Fluttershy went back to town to collect there award.
with applejack in the desert...
"stupid bird..." applejack grunted while going through the desert looking for the creature.
"of all the places in this whole bucking place, it has to be in the hottest desert ever." apple jack looked around and saw sand, sand and a cactus. applejack looked up though and saw something flying through the air. it was rather large but apple jack couldn't tell what the creature was due to her eye's going a bit blurry.
applejack looked around the area she was in and saw the creature in front of her, sleeping.
"hay you!" apple jack yelled at the creature but getting no response. she picked a stone and throwed it at the creature.
the bird like creature stood about 8 feet tall and was a multitude of colours, a bit like if pinkies rainbow muffins got cross breed to make a giant bird. the bird puffed up its chest and roared at applejack.
she drew her great sword and pointed it towards the Qurapeco. "this is going to be easy as apple pie."
the Qurapeco puffed up its chest and made a loud roar that moved apple jack back a few feet.
"okay shut up now you puffy faced bird!" apple jack picked up her sword and swinged it at the creature how jumped back a bit. every time apple jack tried to hit the bird, it jumped back.
after a while the Qurapeco started to fly off. "oh no you don’t you varmint!" apple jack got out her lasso.
the Qurapeco started to take off but apple jack lassoed the bird by the leg and hitched a ride.
the Qurapeco looked down and saw applejack. "land you varmint!" the Qurapeco rolled it's eye's in annoyance but saw a large creature approaching, a rathian. "on second thought, fly you stupid bird!" the rathian started firing balls of fire at the Qurapeco but the bird managed to dodge them. the rathian got closer and grabbed the Qurapeco and threw it to the ground, along with applejack.
apple jack rolled as she landed to take off most of the damage and saw the Qurapeco on the floor badly injured from the fall.
she walked up to the creature. "don't worry, I’ll be quick." applejack got her great sword and cleaved through the monsters neck, killing it quickly and painlessly. that job was done and applejack decided to head back... until the rathian appeared.
"oh for buck sake!" the rathian roared at applejack and fired a fireball at applejack though she ducked to avoid the attack but got her tail burned off in the process. "my tail!" applejack grabbed her sword and ran off.
she was brave but she didn't want to become lunch for dragon!
she ran off back to camp so she could head back to the village. once she got back she checked her burnt tail.
"ahh great, I've lost my bucking tail! what next, I lose my eye?!" applejack yelled as she headed back to the village, rather angry about the whole thing.
with Rainbowdash...
Rainbowdash flew through the air trying to find the royal ludaroth and to get a view of the area.
she landed on a rock platform in the ocean to see if the royal ludaroth was anywhere, it would be in the sea for sure.
Rainbowdash got bored and started to fish for a bit.
3 hours later...
Rainbowdash had fished and caught nothing. "well I’ve wasted a day doing nothing... wait what was I looking for again?"
Rainbowdash thought and remembered. "oh yeah I’m supposed to be looking for a royal Luda something."
she took off and looked around for a while and saw a beach. she landed and looked around.
"what did this quest say about this whole thing?" rainbow dash took the quest papers out and looked through the sub quests. "chop off its tail and damage it's mane... easy enough." rainbow sat down and was about to take a nap until she heard an eagle screech. "hay an eagle where is it?" rainbow looked around saw nothing. "must be my imagina-" a royal ludaroth jumped out of the water and tried to crush rainbow dash but she rolled out of the way, though her long sword got crushed by the royal ludaroth.
"you broke my sword you yellow puff ball!" Rainbowdash charged at the ludaroth and punched it in the face, doing nothing.
the royal ludaroth fired a ball of water at Rainbowdash and hitting causing her vision to go blurry and sending her back a few feet.
the royal ludaroth pounced at Rainbowdash and she rolled out of the way. she got out her carving knife and stabbed at the creature’s tail, making it roar loudly in anger. it turned around and slashed at Rainbowdash but she dodged the attack.
"great I have a 10 foot puff ball trying to kill me and no weapon to fight it with." Rainbowdash looked at the remains of her long sword and saw that about half of it had stayed intact. she ran over and grabbed it.
"not much but I don't the rest of it to take down a yellow puff ball like you!" every time Rainbowdash called the royal ludaroth that, it seemed to get rather angry for some reason. it roared again and started charging towards Rainbowdash.
"bring it on!" Rainbowdash also charged at the creature. the ludaroth slashed with its claw but Rainbowdash slashed through it. she ran up the creature’s chest, ran down its back and sliced its tail off, reclaiming her carving knife in the process.
the ludaroth roared in pain and steam started to come out of its head in small puffs. it charged at Rainbowdash but she sidestepped, jumped on the creatures back and started stabbing it with her carving knife and what was left of her long sword.
"come on already!" Rainbowdash got annoyed that it was taking so long to kill this thing. the ludaroth rolled over but Rainbowdash jumped off and started to attack the creature again. ludaroth fired a ball of water at Rainbowdash but she dodged the attack and jumped onto its face and stabbed it in the eye. she jumped off to admire her work but somehow was still alive. "come on already!" she attacked again, this time jumping on to its chest and stabbing it several times in a row.
the royal ludaroth started to breath heavily from the blood loss and fell to the ground and died.
"there, done! I’m going to take a nap." Rainbowdash flew to a safe area and fell asleep for a few hours.
with Rex, twilight, rarity and fluffy...
most of the day had been spent climbing the mountain to get to the nest, with rarity and twilight riding on fluff’s back as they climbed higher and higher. "good fluffy, those climbing boots I gave are really paying off aren't they?" fluffy smiled.
"I must say, you and fluffy are a good team." rarity said, admiring the duo. "I trained him to be the best of the best."
"the best of what exactly?" asked twilight. "the best hunter partner of all time of course!" Rex and fluffy laughed a bit.
"you’re just like Rainbowdash, wanting to be the best." twilight smiled. "well different ponies, different goals I guess."
they got to the top of the mountain and found piles and piles and piles of bones from hundreds of different animals.
rarity almost threw up at the sight and twilight almost fainted. "you okay?" Rex asked, looking at twilight and rarity.
"just a bit disgusted by the bones and corpses that's all." rarity said then passed out.
"fluffy, if you would be so kind?" fluffy went over and picked up rarity. "good boy."
they looked around and saw no sign of the ruthian anywhere, no baby's no fire trails or anything.
"well this was a waste of time." said twilight in an annoyed tone.
"hmm... well ruthians prefer hot areas over areas like this, so it probably lives in the magma zone."
"how do we get there then?" asked twilight. "simple. we sail across the sand that's all." Rex laughed a bit.
"and I happen to have my own boat ready and waiting to go, though you guys can't come along." Rex looked at twilight and saw she was angry. "why? is it because we will be dead weight or something?!"
"well if you put it like that then yes, I think you lot would be dead weights in an area filled with lava and magma and some of the most dangerous monsters ever." twilight's anger faded away. "you don't want us to get hurt, that's why?"
"well yes of course. you guys have families to get back. there was more important than some monster."
Rex got on fluffy and picked up twilight. "now let’s head back already." fluffy started to run down the mountain, avoiding any obstacles on the way.
a few hours later...
everyone was back at camp though most ponies had fallen asleep with only Fluttershy, Pinkiepie and Rex were awake.
"pinkie, you’re really good at swimming." Fluttershy said nervously to Pinkiepie.
"ahh it's nothing, I used to swim in the pond when I was little filly, until I discovered ice skating which is way more fun and way cooler. hay you should try swimming you would like it." pinkie looked at Fluttershy and saw she smiling rather faintly.
"are you okay Fluttershy? you seem really quiet, and that's saying a lot because your always quiet." pinkie waited for a response and after a while Fluttershy spoke again. "I’m fine, just scared that's all. I don't want my friends getting hurt that's all but I can't protect anyone." Fluttershy said rather soberly.
"we already talked about this you silly filly, you can be my gun buddy and if I ever get hurt, you can fix me up with love and care, like you do for your animal buddy's." Fluttershy yawned, and so did Pinkiepie.
"well I’m off to bed, see you in the morning pinkie." Fluttershy and Pinkiepie went of to bed and fell asleep.