Side Chapter 2 - A shoulder to lean on
Pyre was a little befuddled at the moment. The reason as to pertaining why, was the quite large (and of course) raucous party going on in the recently established inn/tavern.
Multiple ponies were going about having a blast. Common Grounds was dancing and jumping from table to table, quite happy with his first case, Kajex was dancing along with him, darting about trying to keep up with the slightly intoxicated lawyer, now judge. Pyralis was quite drunk and was incessantly going on and on about his lordliness (whatever that means) to whomever was near. Which at the moment had been Dreamer and Lore Keeper, who were previously trying to hold an intelligent conversation over the din of the tavern. Aboyami and Scarves were sitting together. The zebra mare was talking to Scarves about the culture and traditions of her tribe, while Scarves was nodding along with the similarities that his own teacher's clan shared. Flowing had decided to join in the revelry midway, leaving Irish to tend the bar. He was currently having a drinking contest with Cross, surprisingly.... and even more surprisingly losing to him. Even the local manticore, Fluffy, was lapping at a rather large bowl of alcohol contentedly, letting out an occasional purr. While Pyre himself sat at the bar, where he had been a good thirty minutes before the party started, passively drinking and watching the festivities take place.
Pyre wasn't quite surprised that a party started up, but rather who was leading the festivities.
Amber, the solitary Diamond Dog of the community was going around being as absolutely random and carefree as possible.
She'd go around acting either as a fool, or surprisingly intelligent. She had joined in Common's dance midway only to hop off the table at the end of a strange song dubbed, "Cuban Pete". She poked a little fun at Pyralis, bowing deeply to him and somehow convincing the 'lord' that the raccoons (or plebeians) outside were huge fans of his and would like to thank his lordship for his kind rule, causing the pony to attempt a regal canter out of the tavern, only to stumble and fall on his snout halfway through. Making the usually stuffy Dreamer laugh uproariously, alongside Lore.
It was at this point that Pyre turned back to his drink beginning to get a little angry with the dog. He could not understand her, so he decided to remove her from his sight.
This worked for an entirety of five minutes until Amber plopped down next to him.
"Hey there, Flare! How ya doin'?"
Pyre, turned to face Amber, a little irked that his personal bubble had been invaded, he gave the Diamond Dog a scowl, and let loose a single word, "Fine." Letting it convey that he wished to be left to his drink.
Amber did not take the hint.
"Really Flare? Cause your muzzle says otherwise."
"Pyre."
"What?"
"My name is Pyre."
Amber shrugged, "Suit yourself Pyrie," Pyre's right ear twitched, "but you still don't look 'fine' to me. So what can good ol' auntie Amber do for ya to turn that frown upside down?"
"Nothing."
Amber pouted, "Now don't say that, surely something could cheer you up.... Oh, I know, why don't I list the things that cheer me up! I bet one of those will make ya happy again!"
"That's not real-"
But it was too late. Amber let loose a stream of words, strung together to where it became practically inane rambling. The most Pyre could pick up was something about emeralds tasting like watermelon, and the many, many, many wonders of books.
......This went on for about an hour.
Until it was broken by the sound of Irish accidentally dropping a mug and shattering it followed by a quick exchange between Flowing and Cross going along the lines of Flowing yelling out, "MAZEL TOV!" Followed by Cross, staring at him with a raised eyebrow asking, "What does that even mean?" Ending with Flowing stating, "You're not even sspst ch with the panda hat." Followed promptly with Flowing falling over, hitting the ground unconscious.
This went unnoticed to Pyre however, as he used the sudden silence to voice his anger.
"How can you act this way?"
Amber blinked, surprised, "Whaddaya mean?"
"I understand that you're happy that justice is served, but what about the rest of us? What about the ones that might not see justice done?" Pyre's voice began to rise in volume. "What about the ones who can't receive justice?! What about those of us, who had to take justice into their own hooves?! What about me, who burnt his own father to death?!" Pyre's voice didn't rise all that high, but held a cold intensity to it that made it seem to dominate the whole room. "And yet, you go about all happy go-lucky, uncaring for the plights of others! Have you no respe-"
Pyre, suddenly caught himself when he actually took notice of the tears beginning to form in the corners of Amber's eyes, and then looked around the rest of the tavern.
While there were indeed a few ponies... and even the dragon, that seemed to share his sentiments, most looked at him with an expression of anger or shame. Boring down on him for the slight that he had just carried out. Fluffy even had the hairs of his back standing straight up, glaring menacingly in his direction.
"....I'm sorry, I need to go." Pyre croaked out, slowly getting off his bar stool and making for the door. As soon as he got out the door, he galloped away from the tavern and took flight towards a small hill near town.
Pyre alighted himself onto the hill, and let out a sigh as he sat on his haunches, looking down at Newvale morosely. He had done it again. Pyre tended not to let anything get to him, to be calm and collected, yet still, there were always certain buttons that if pressed, made him angry, then he would just simmer and simmer, until finally, he would blow up, (though not in a large commotion) at the nearest pony. It's why he'd move around so much. Being slow to trust others and letting the one bothersome pony get to him.... that and staying away from the foster care ponies that were probably still after him.
Suddenly, a loud crunch made Pyre jump and twirl around in surprise.
Right behind him, was Amber, laying back staring up at the stars, upon a newly formed mound. The diamond dog had dug her way from outside the tavern at some point and had followed Pyre.
"..... How'd you find me?" Pyre queried, tilting his head to the side.
"... You use lilac shampoo."
"......... No I do-"
"Yes. You do."
"Well what do you want?"
Amber just continued to stare at the stars, until finally she turned to Pyre and said, "You know, I never knew my real parents. Still, that doesn't mean I understand how you feel . I was one of the lucky ones, I had someone to provide for me, teach me, and care for m-"
"You're not doing a very good job at this." Pyre deadpanned.
"J-just listen!" Amber flustered. "*sigh*My father, he taught me to always laugh in life, to find the joy in what you can. To laugh, and then make others laugh, to spread joy to others with your own happiness." She turned back to look at the stars. "He told me that when you made somebody, not just somepony, but somebody laugh, a new star formed in the sky like the gems underground, I mean how stupid is that?" She laughed a little to herself staring up at the stars again, wistfully. "Still, hammered the idea into my brain, I mean who doesn't like to look at stars? Heh, the old codger even lived by his creed, found his corpse with a smile on its face." She choked a little at that, "Only bit of consolation I had from his death... or maybe he didn't want me to worry, the poor fool.... Still!" Amber jumped up and clapped her paws together, her expression doing a complete 180. "My old man, did teach me, that sometimes making somebody laugh wasn't always the right way to make 'em happy!" She grinned, and waltzed over to Pyre who backed up a step in surprise.
"Sometimes, the best thing someone needs is'a good ol' shoulder to lean on, or an ear to listen to their troubles. So, here I am." She plopped down beside Pyre pushing his haunches down with her, so they were sitting side by side, staring at the lights from New Vale. "Ya wanna talk about it?"
".... Really? This corny spiel?" Pyre deadpanned again.
Amber shrugged, "It may be corny, but it's sure as tartarus cathartic." She smiled toothily.
"............I'm not getting out of this am I?"
"Eeeeenope."
Pyre let out a sigh, "Fine. To begin with, my foalhood, was for lack of a bitter word, shit. My father, was a hero of the guard, and well respected, but when I turned two, he, being his heroic self, faced down a dragon. He then proceeded to actually stall it, until another contingent of guards got to town, but lost his leg." Pyre paused for a second collecting his thoughts, and then continued, "I never knew my mother, and I don't care to know her. I found out later in life that she supposedly left us, due to not wanting to care for me, or a crippled three legged unicorn. So then, father only had me to blame." Pyre gained a bit of a far-off look in his eyes, "He may have been hobbled but his horn worked perfectly fine, as did his mind.... in a way. That thing knew just how to hit me in the right position, and force so as to keep the injuries hidden. When I got to the age of seven, I tried to approach the squad of guards in my town to report him, and to get away." Pyre's face scrunched up into one of spite, "They didn't believe me. My father's status as a hero, and his formerly high rank in the guard assured him to be practically untouchable. I was beaten quite badly that evening."
Pyre grit his teeth even harder, feeling a tension in his chest, "That didn't stop the one or two guards from noticing what was really going on though. When they approached him however, he merely bribed them to keep their mouths shut with his savings and his pension. I don't know why, maybe to keep me as his plaything to vent his anger.
"After a year more of that torture, I- I- " Pyre took a deep breath, then continued his voice wavering slightly, "I tricked my father to fall down the basement stairs. I watched as the bastard fell, broke one of his forelegs, and cracked his horn. After that, I shut the door, locked it, and set fire to all four corners of that hell-hole... I did open the door one last time to say goodbye, to my screaming father. Then I torched the basement..... just to make sure." Pyre had finally calmed down after explaining the murder of his single family member, "The guard found me outside the house, already half-burnt to the ground."
"Heh," Pyre smirked, "earned me my cutie mark." He motioned to the wooden pile of scraps with a blazing fire set upon it. "The guards just threw me into foster care, but it was practically the same old crap as my father, if on a lesser scale. So I ran." Pyre shrugged, "Been traveling around getting work where I could until this." Pyre motioned to New Vale with his forelegs, and then let them fall. Letting silence finally settle over both he and Amber, until finally turning to her and asking, "Are you happy now?"
Amber just smiled heartily, "No, no, no, are you happy?"
Pyre was about to retort, when he realized, "Yeah.... yeah, I sort of am....."
He turned slowly back to Newvale, eyes wide.
Only for Amber to knock him over with a slap to the back.
"There ya go, all better now! Nothing good ol' Amber couldn't handle ya see?"
She reached down and helped Pyre to his hooves who chuckled a bit.
"Yeah, you're right."
"Well then, what are we doin' up here all by our lonesome? Let's get back down to the tavern and I'll buy ya a drink, whadaya say Pyrie?"
"Amber." Pyre stated with a serious look on his face, Causing her to pause and turn to him.
"My friends call me Flare."
Amber stood there for a half second and then guffawed, walking down the slope with Pyre Flare right beside her.
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I am so happy right now words can't even.
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.....Sorry.
(Not really.)
Nice little addition to character details. I like it!
So this how's it going to work, huh? Even put it before the previous chapter just to get the chronology right. Very nice. With any luck I'll have an update of my own tomorrow.
4027597 It's a nice fuzzy feeling, isn't it? I'd really like to see one about Flicker too, though that one would probably be extremely sad, and would likely have to wait until after she joins, which will likely be a chapter or two after the wedding. Also, thanks for including Aboyami talking with Scarves. Nice touch. In fact, all the mentions of the other characters were nice touches.
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Thanks, wanted to give an emphasis to the community, so I went through the OC's in the comments, cross-referenced them with the list in the latest chapter (just to make sure) and tried to put them into situations that fit their backstory, personality, and other such things.
The only OC that didn't have much information on him was "Pyralis", but I saw the lord thing, and I thought, "I can use this.... MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"
I want to see who the first person is to spot the reference I made in this chapter though....
........ There needs to be a "devious smirk" emoticon.
You got Fluffy drinking? Great, now all you need to do to keep him in line is give him alcohol laced with catnip. Maybe I'll have to do a side chapter with some of the stuff he would get into daily...
Now to plot a manticore stampede... Dunno how I'll do it, but heck I'm gunna try.
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, sort of wanted to give him sake, since he was drinking out of a bowl. Luckily, I held back my inner weeaboo.
I'll be honest
This is so well written! I need to write my own chapter now just because!
Also, Dreamer was mentioned, yay! :D
And surprisingly in character too...
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So how did you describe the two characters so well personality wise?
Do you own both of them or was it just that convenient?
4027652 I love the character interactions, and the Community emphasis! This really gives me confidence to write a side story.
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The two main characters are mine, yes. I know I did a decent job with everyone else's characters (I hope), but I didn't want to attempt something major with someone else's characters due to
A.) They're not mine and that could upset someone if I used them so thoroughly.
and
B.) I wasn't sure I could do another character's personality justice due to the characters not being mine. While a lot is listed in the comments on back story and personality, a lot goes unsaid by the creators as well. And I would not want to ruin their actual personality as intended by their creator.
Good thing is, most of these characters were drinking, which gave me a good excuse to set a general mood, and let their personalities easily define who they are in that situation..... Just hope I got Pyralis and the dragon, Shiver Spine, right.
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Thank you kind sir!
And now a general announcement for everyone. Whoever can spot the reference/shout-out I made, gets an internetz cookie..... maybe a cookie cake if I can find an appropriate one.
4027652 Hahaha
His Lordliness? Does this mean I don't have a last or first name? Just Pyralis? Oh and sorry about the lack of detail about him. The Lord part of the original name was the name given by his adoptive parents btw.
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Well, I mean it was just Pyralis on the A/N in the latest chapter, and the comment only had:
I figured just do something with the 'lord' thing, I had no idea what it meant.
Glad you like it though.
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Well, I'm glad that worked out then.....
4027759 YAY my guy was mentioned, thank you!
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BLUE!...
Dat reference.
That was sweet… but these chapters are kinda better off being posted in order… for the sake of order. Sorry, I'm kinda OCD like that.
Wait, do i have to write a slice of life about Flowing now? It'll just be him doing stupid stuff while being off his tits drunk.
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You don't have to do anything. However, that would be quite..... entertaining.
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...... But then wouldn't your OCD bother you that the chapters aren't in chronological order?
And Finally,
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WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
Took you guys long enough.
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Here's the video:
Please don't do this. I thought you just did the *cough* thing before because you weren't sure how to type a paragraph interspersed with coughing but I must tell you now that it's not a good idea to use asterisks for actions. In the words of another author who made a similar mistake: "I'm writing a story, not role-playing in the IRC." Please consider formatting sentences like this:
Or something similar.
I don't fault him for what he did. Hell, I'd have let him suffer a bit longer before setting the fire.
.... Lore Keeper is the name of my OC that I created in 2011. I have never seen the name used except in one fic that I gave the author the go ahead to use him in. And now the name has finally been used by someone on their own. I'm proud *Manlytearsofpride*
I've learned talking to someone about your problems helps a lot!... But I'm a dead space marine so obviously no one wants to talk to me anymore...
5755299 hey I'm a CoD Veteran, seen every battlefield WWll had to offer, and I'm here to say, it gets better. Advance Warfare will be on the old systems.
MARS IS THE BEST CLASS OF DJINN
FORGE BEST MARS djinn
5977768 im a jupiter man myself, lot more practical uses in that paragon than aries witch is just primarily used for blowing stuff up
Such dawwww~
Let's see how this little community fares.
*Wrought to sharpened steel
Tool through strife a foughten field
Cut darkness only*
We shall read on.
THE MASK!!! Oh i loved that movie!
If you don't get it,
That was heartwarming.
Snrk, a drunk manticore.
I ship Pyrie and Amber. Ship name 'Burning Dog' or or 'Barking Fire'. I can't decide. Can anyone else come up with a better ship name?
Yikes, that was rough…