//------------------------------// // January 29: The things I do for Friends // Story: Equestrian Legends Online: Tale of the Misfits // by bluemoon1996 //------------------------------// "I was just trying to say hi you ungrateful little prick!" Krieger yelled at Phoenix. The two were practically snout to snout with each other, each glaring at the other with looks that could kill. "Umm... Shouldn't we do something?" Myst said as hovered overhead and I couldn't help but smirk. "Nah, it's about time someone took him down a peg; just gunna say Bubbas got one hell of a right hook." Does that work with ponies; either way, this is going to be good! "I told you to piss off but you wouldn't listen you eyesore of a colt!" Phoenix snarled, "now get out of my damn face or I'll slash you like a goddamn butcher!" His horn lit up and his axe started pulling itself out of it's holder. "Who you calling a kid you ungrateful little shit," Krieg growled as he started to draw his samurai sword, "unlike you, I know how to fight Mr. Hack-n-Slash." "Then why don't we make this official?" Phoenix had drawn his axe, and from the look on his face was looking Bubba up for a weak spot, "good old fashioned duel?" "If it teaches you to watch your tongue, I'll gladly," he replied with a cocky smirk as he gave his blade a twirl with his magic. Phoenix opened up his menu and a few seconds later a popup appeared in front of my brother. He tapped a button and suddenly a counter sprang into the air above them, counting down from 10. 9... The two unicorns took a several steps back from each other. 7... Krieger looked up at me with a glint in his eye and I shouted, "Kick his ass bro!" This earned a glare from Phoenix and a odd look from Myst. What I can't pick favorites? Bros before hoes! 4... "You can do it Phoenix!" Well at least Phoenix has got some support from the Canadian. 3... Oh, dis gunna be good! 2... I wish I had some popcorn. 1... START! The game let out a chime, and the duel begun. "WAAAGH!" Phoenix bellowed as he charged towards him, axe already poised to strike. Yet, Krieg just stood still! "What the hell are you doing bro!? Move damn it!" When Phoenix got about ten feet away from Krieg, the stallion reared up and slammed his forehooves into the ground. My jaw dropped as a literal wall of giant blue crystals erupted from the ground in between them. Phoenix's eyes widened and he tried stopping but he slammed into the wall with a solid thunk. I couldn't help but snicker slightly as he stumbled back, his eye gone derpy, and missing a decent sized chunk of health. "Goddamn it! Face me like a man!" He shouted, shaking his head, making his eyes return to normal. The wall retracted and Krieger stood there, smug as hell with his sword sheathed?! "What the hell bro! Pull out your damn blade!" Phoenix screamed at him again and charged. As soon as the charging unicorn was in range, Krieger hopped to the side and his lit his horn. "Come on, put down the axe and we'll settle this like men." "Like hell I will! Cleave!" Phoenix hollered and charged at Krieger again. And once more, Krieger dodged the charge as easily as the first time. Several charges later, and Phoenix had only managed to nick him. "Okay, are you done with your games?" Krieger said, "I'll still take that apology?" "F-fuck you, I told you I d-didn't wanna talk," Phoenix panted, glaring up at my brother, "t-though could you give me a sec?" Krieger nodded and trotted a few steps closer to Phoenix, drawing his samurai blade. When he was within around ten feet of him, he stopped, blade fully drawn and started tapping one of his forehooves on the ground as he waited. Okay, he wouldn't have gotten that close without a reason; maybe to get in range with a spell? And why the heck let Phoenix catch his breath; that's only gonna make this harder in the long ru- Krieger stopped tapping his forehoof and for a brief moment looked up at me, grinning smugly as his back hooves suddenly encased in crystals. Oh yes, witty one liner time now! He turned back to face the still panting Phoenix and I couldn't help but let out a small squee. Oh this is gunna be good! "You should know one thing about my family by now," he said calmly, causing Phoenix to raise his head up from the ground, "Cass may be hard headed like a son of a bitch, but I got one hell of a punch!" Damn it Tim, you screwed up a good one liner moment! With that, he spun around and bucked. His crystal encased hooves made contacted with phoenix's jaw and I winced. Damn good thing that this game is only around a tenth of the real pain because that looked like it hurt like hell! Phoenix let out a pained yelp as he was knocked a good five feet backwards and landed on his back. Krieger rushed over towards him and stabbed his sword into Phoenix's belly, earning another yelp of pain from the unicorn. "You should learn to respect your elders," Krieg said with a smug look on his face as he pulled his blade out of Phoenix, but that suddenly was replaced with a shit eating grin when he looked up, "oh and looks like I won." A large window of text appeared above Krieg, proudly proclaiming: Congratulations! You have won the duel! I turned to Myst, "well... That ended quicker than I expected." January 29 2020 The arrival of Tim two days ago still hasn't fully sunk in yet. I keep expecting to wake up any second only to find that it's just me, Myst and Phoenix. But that thought is slowly getting pushed to the back of my head. He seems to be getting along quite well with Myst; Who'da thunk that a dude from Canada and a random welder from Texas could get along so well? But Phoenix is a whole 'nother story. Yesterday, Tim decided to finally be nice and say hello to my grumpy guss of a friend despite my attempts to keep him from doing so; Brad tends to get rather... pissy when he's upset. To put it bluntly, they somehow ended up fighting and Tim kicked his flank to the moon! Phoenix, frankly, needed to get his ass whooped if only to take the pyro down a few pegs. Also, Tim is apparently a crystal Mage... or would spellsword be the better term? Either way, all that seemed to do was just bruise our firebird's ego even more than me screaming my lungs off at him did. Now that the meat of this entry is outta the way, unto the big news of the day. We arrived in Canterlot last night and HOLY CHRIST this place is massive! I know this is probably just the country bumpkin in me talkin' but this place is insane! This has to be as big as Lancaster or Arlington, maybe even Dallas! The trip here was rather in eventful. Myst and I sang the Knight of the Round Table song to keep ourselves entertained. But overall the trip was boring with Phoenix looking like he was ready to stab Tim and there was no fights except for some NPC bandits. Today there is no real goal. We just plan on going about and exploring the city. Hopefully this'll let Phoenix cool down some and stop being such a damn whiner. Cassius01 I hovered my way over the crowds as I made my way through the Canterlot Market. Thank god I was a pegasus, otherwise I'd be stuck in the crowd below. Pegasus master race for the win! I hovered for a minute as I opened up my inventory. Hmm, I got some bits to burn, maybe I ought to do a little spending? But what to buy? My mind immediately shot to Phoenix and his pissy mood at me, and more recently, Krieger. I couldn't help but chuckle as the fight came back to mind. Hmm, maybe I should buy Tim some form of face paint or something so that he doesn't make everyone's eyes bleed? Do they even see that kind of stuff in-game? Well, I'm in the best place to find out! As I lazily floated about over the market, I scanned the shops below. Okay, that's a weaponsmith, no need for new weapons just yet. There's a alchemical shop, that could have some form of face paint? Hmm, maybe I ought to try a clothing shop? That ought to have something to help or I could always try to talk him into getting a helmet that at least covers his mane. Maybe you that'll stop the ch- Suddenly a message popped up in my face, I tapped the notification and blinked in surprise, Phoenix had sent me a PM? Why the heck would he eve- Suddenly three more notifications appeared; all messages from Phoenix? What the hell is going on?? You Okay, why the hell is he just sending me the word you?! Are Oh I see.... A What's next? Dick 8====D I groaned, rolling my eyes. "Oh how mature of you my noble and illustrious companion." With that, I opened up my own message screen and started typing up a response. Really man? I know you're pissed at me and my bro, but please don't spam me with stupid hate mail. Besides, you can do far better than You're a dick Brad. If you're going to spam me; at least do it with some standards. With that, I landed and leaned up against a nearby street lamp waiting for an inevitable reply. Not a minute later, a notification popped up; this time it was a message from Tim? Umm... I don't really know what to say but your idiot friend Phoenix just sent me a message calling me a insufferable cabbage? What? Just what? I sighed; great, now he's making references in his insults. I quickly typed up a message to Tim. Just ignore it; that's his idea of being clever with his insults. And as if on cue, Phoenix sent another message just as I sent one to Tim. I do what I want (>^^>)(<^^<)(>^^>) I facehoofed. "Damn it, you make me wonder why am I friends with you?" "Because you enjoy my shenanigan and who else would ever be friends with you?" I nearly jumped out of my coat as someone spoke practically into my ear and bef- why is everything upside down? I blinked a few times and realized that everything wasn't upside down, I was. And there was a certain white unicorn laughing his ass off on the ground below. I pulled myself off the pole and made my way back down to the ground as Phoenix finally finished laughing at me, wiping some tears from his eye with a hoof. "You should have seen the look on your face!" He chucked as I finally landed in front of him. "Goddamn it, man. You want to give me a damn heart attack! You know I don't handle jump scares that well!" He chucked and nodded, "I know but I couldn't resist such an ample opportunity." Damn you Phoenix, damn you for knowing a decent number of, and God help me, if you tell any of my future p- "I have a proposal." Say what now? "What? You want me to say I'm sorry? I was totally justified in yelling at you for that and I won't change my stance." Goddamn it, we could die in here. "Oh ha ha," he said flatly, "that's not what I meant genius. I have a proposal that will at least help you on the path of me not wanting to go Grazkull Thrakka on you." "And what might this proposal be? Go do some menial side quest for you? Go buy you a second axe or some other weapon? Give you money?" I swear to god if he says to kiss his ass; I'll jam my gun up his butt so hard he'll need colonoscopy bags till we get out of here. "I was talking to a guard NPC and he informed me that a lot of merchant caravans have been raided along a particular stretch of the road near Whitetail Wood," he said as he opened up his menu and tapped a few buttons. "The guard asked that we go out to that particular stretch of road and see if we can find any clue to what may be attacking the caravans. He also said that if we can stop whatever's causing it, we'll get extra pay." I nodded as a message popped up in my face. Wicked_Phoenix has invited you to a quest. Will you accept? -Yes -No I tapped yes and another message appeared in my face. Along the Friendship Road Investigate the site of the most recent attack. "And let me guess," I said as I closed that pop-up, "you want me to go do it for you?" He nodded, "yes siree, you overgrown pigeon. With those wings of yours, you can just fly out there and be right back in five minutes without a hitch while it'd take me a bit to hoof it out there." "And what if it's spiders?" I couldn't help but shudder a little as I mentioned those damnable daemon spawn. "Don't worry, spiders aren't in Whitetail Wood you big baby," he smirked, "they're only in the Everfree; all that's out there is your generic timberwolf and probably some NPC bandits. Besides if you wanna be that big of a baby, I'm sure Myst will go with you if you ask politely." "So you want to send me out there because you're too damn lazy to go hoof it out there yourself," I said flatly, "we better get a cut of the bits in the end or you're getting a bayonet colonoscopy." "The guard said we'll actually get some weapons if we manage to take out the threat," he quickly stated, "if they're shit; we sell them and bat the gold. Easy as one, two, three." I sighed; damn it, today was supposed to be a relaxing and just look around the city. But this is a chance to finally get the stick out of Phoenix's ass. "Fine, but none of that splitting the money sixty forty crap, we both get fifty fifty even," I glared at him flatly. He shrugged, "fine by me you bird; you're the one doing the work so you can make the conditions." Oh goody, my lazy as hell best friend can respect labour it lets him do nothing. "Good, now get the hell out of here you lazy bum," I said, "before I consider dragging you along anyways." This caused his eyes to widen slightly and I couldn't help but laugh as he hurried off like a dog with its tail between his leg. I opened up my message board and quickly typed one up to Tim. Hey bro, Phoenix decided to pull the stick out of his ass slightly and offered me a way to at least not want him to stab me. He's asked me to go do a quest for him and I'm going to take Myst with me. See ya when we get back. I sent the message and got to typing up one to Myst. Yo dude, Meet me at the main gate in a half hour. Phoenix has asked me to do a quest for him and suggested you come along too because it's far away and the master race can get there faster than if we brought along his lazy butt. Cass And yes I know that's speciesist but I don't care.