Ponyville's Gate

by steastritz


The Battle for Ponyville and The First Day ends!

Seeing some poor Guardsman/pony get struck down was horrific, yet oddly hilarious (though I had to hold my chuckle back due to the presence off Blaze next to me.) We did what any normal "Adventurers" would do in a situation like this, Loot the poor Bastard for our beginning loot and save the town. Blaze looked at me with a nod, my reaction was to nod back,we had this communication system back home wen we would be on the same Airsoft team, Nodding meant we had to split up and help our teammates. Of course by teammates she meant the six ponies that helped us in our time of need. The guard pony stirred a little and he exposed a dagger that was jammed in his ribs. I did my best to take it out but promptly remembered that he would bleed more if I removed the jagged metal. I saw his horn light up and pull the dagger out of his side then close it up as he leaned on the wall. "Yer no help pointy-eared human." My eye twitched that was like getting a big middle finger from god himself and then got smitten afterward. I instantly rose and grabbed the dagger and stormed off to get the magical talking space horse away from me.

I knew I had somehow made it to the front lines on this "battlefield" mostly because the ground was littered with crushed Mephit corpses and Pinkie pie yelling something about "Praising the sun" or some crazy shit like that. I instantly put her in the file "Breaks the 4th wall often" in my head. Pinkie seemed to be in normal human guard wear, the only thing that was odd was the sun insignia on the chest area with an absurdly sized hammer. Twilight was with her, she was wearing armor akin to a knight in training, chainmail, leather boots, and she used a quarter staff that froze mephits in the air and shattered when they made contact to earth. I noticed a few got the slip on the two and that was my sign to help. I sliced madly to get the flying arcane summons, but fell short on some, only doing minor cuts and scrapes. They knocked me off my feet and prepared some spells to end my short existence in magical human/ponyland. I then remembered that I had a book and spells, I flipped open the first page and viewed the contents of the "Shield" spell, with a chant and a flick of the wrist an aegis the size of my sternum protected me from the blows of magic missile and fireballs. I got up and wiped the dust off and looked at them, picking the dagger up, I then looked at "Life Drain" and with a flick of my wrist a red dar cam out and made contact with a Mephit, sapping his life energy and give it to me, where I promptly dispatched of him quickly. The form of the flying monster contacting with the ground in a satisfying crunch was exhilarating, it put a smile on my face when I got done with the other one and kicked him aside. With Twilight and the Pink sun menace handling the bulk of them. I decided on picking the stragglers off.

It took them a few hours to realize that they were loosing and decided to run off into the forest when the sun started to set. There was a call to a town meeting which I obliged to check out when Twilight finally noticed me covered in blood. We walked to the Plaza in silence when Inoticed Blaze and came to her. She regaled me on her part of the story on the other part of town, Lizardfolk had helped the Mephits by providing healing spells and crowd control spells, Luckily the cleric Fluttershy and the local magic college student, Rarity used spell reflections to give the Lizards a taste of their own medicine, after her story I began to start mine until a slate grey pony with emerald green hair started to speak up, Twilight standing by her side .

"Thank you, Everyone for helping protect Ponyville from the longest Mephit attack since my administration as Mayor of this fine town. The Court Delegates are about to begin a discussion on the cost for repairs and will start to put notices on the Adventure Board in town for the hunt on whoever is summoning these monsters. Thank you for your time and have a safe night." The mare walked off, Twilight following quickly behind as the door shut, letting everyone go home and sleep.

Blaze and I walked somewhere, it looked like a park, deciding that a break was needed we sat down, the moon above us getting obscured every now and then by Pegasai moving the clouds.

"Our moon is lovely, is it not my good Elves?" A soft voiced cooed between us
I slowly turned to face a horn between my peripherals, which I promptly flipped my shit about my eye getting poked out.
"Who the hell are you? Don't you know that I could've gotten my eye poked out by that damn horn?!" I screeched, my chest rising and falling at a rapid pace.
"Sorry to surprise you Elf, Our name is Luna to whom do we owe the pleasure?"
I got up and bowed. "Zef, My friend here is Blaze."
"Tell us 'Zef', dost thou have a place to rest?" She asked tiliting her head
With me bowing and all I tried my best not to chuckle.
"No, Milady Luna, you mustn't be so kind as to give strangers like us quarter." I shook my head
She lifted my head "My sisteer hath felt your power Elf, we must talk to you..to make sure you aren't a threat."
My eye twitched. "We saved this town and you think of me as a threat?" I glared into the set of eyes before me. "Tch, fine to prove we aren't a threat let us go see your 'sister'!" My voice hissed.

That's how I learned to keep my anger in check from now on. When Ifinished that Quip to the supposed moon controller, I felt a heavy weight on me and fell into the black abyss known as sleep.