Jailbreak
Rainbow Dash screamed as she fell towards the ground, instinctively flapping her wings to get her bearings. Problem is, she didn’t have them anymore. Her body had changed, becoming human once more as she fell through a hoop similar to the one the zebra colt had used on her. Below her lied a castle, old and decrepit looking as it perched atop a tall mountain. The prismatic meteor couldn’t change her direction as she fell, and crashed through the ceiling of a weakened room, chunks of stone digging into her skin and falling on top of her as her body slammed hard into the ground. She instantly knew nothing but blackness as she felt her mind slip form her body.
When she awoke, Rainbow Dash found herself in a small, dimly lit room. A door not unlike the ones found in a jail blocked the only way out of the room, other than the skylight above her head. A small trough of water was dirtied and sickly from age, and rats scurried here and there in the cell. “Ugh… what happened?” She muttered, rubbing her head with a single hand. The hand looked as healthy as ever, despite the fall she had endured.
Surprised by this revelation, she checked over her body and clothes. Her outfit may have borne the brunt of the injury, her skirt almost completely ruined while her shirt had enough fabric left in the right places to keep herself modest. Her sneakers took a little less beating, and her shorts fared the same way. Her jacket was nowhere to be seen, however. What was odd was that while her clothing surely told the story of what happened, not a single blemish or injury existed on her skin. She couldn’t even feel the pain anymore, when it was so searing in its intensity.
When she felt her neck, she gasped a little. On the left side of her neck was what felt like a wound, and she scurried over to the water trough. Looking at her distorted reflection in the water, Rainbow Dash saw that a small ring of what appeared to be fire was there. It blackened the skin inside the circle, but didn’t appear to be doing much else. “What the hell…” She muttered, looking to the side to get the image out of her head. She did find something else of intrigue, though.
It was a small doll, made entirely of petrified wood, with a tattered cloth dress laced around it. This peculiar doll caught her attention, and the girl picked it up, looking at it carefully. She felt at ease looking at it, as if the doll could convey the kindness its previous owner showed it. Rainbow Dash smiled, holding the doll close. She would never admit it, but if one could see her, small droplets of water would be found outside the trough in the room.
The girl was startled form her quiet musings when a loud *thump* sounded from behind her. A body had fallen from the skylight in the room, covered in nothing but rags. Rainbow Dash looked up, and saw an armored figure above her, who nodded and walked off. “What was his problem?” She asked aloud, before looking at the body. The person it used to be was obviously dead, but she saw the glittering of metal from within a small bag it held on its hip.
She took the bag, careful to not look at the body, and found a key inside of it. Smiling, Rainbow Dash walked over to the cell door and tried it. She found that the key fir perfectly, and the door swung open. The key snapped in the process, rendering it unusable. Cursing her bad luck, she discarded the useless half of the key, and tied the bag around her own waist. Rainbow Dash carefully placed the doll inside, aiming to take it with her if only for comfort.
Dash noticed that a small glint of metal was found outside her cell. It was a broken sword of old, nothing but the hilt and a little bit of blade, snapped off into a rusted point. She grabbed it, as something was better than nothing to defend herself with. As she walked, Rainbow Dash could see other cells to her left, and a grand room full of treasure to her right, blocked by brick and fence. A great monster walked in that room, and seemed to not notice the prismatic teen.
“It’s alright, Dash,” She muttered to herself. “Nothing’s going to happen to you. It’s just like Daring Do! Yeah, I’m an explorer, and I’ve found myself trapped in a ruin. I’ve just got to get out of here.” She kept rambling on to herself, trying to calm her nerves. She saw a human up ahead, crouched low to the ground. “Excuse me, but could you tell me where the hell I am?” She asked.
The human groaned in response, not even looking up to her. “Hey, I’m asking you a question, pal! It’s not nice to ignore someone as awesome as I am!” At that, the person lifted their head, revealing a rotted face, and two pinpricks of orange light where its eyes should be. It lunged forward, attempting to grab Rainbow. “Hey! Knock it off, will you?” Bu to no avail. The creature’s hand slashed at her arm, tearing a gash down into her flesh. Rainbow panicked, and swung her weapon at its face, missing her target but ending up embedding the broken blade in its throat.
The creature gurgled and fell, dead. Rainbow shook herself, getting the image out of her head. “What the heck was that thing…?” She muttered, before noticing the blood on her hands. “I… I killed it…” her eyes widened in the horror of her actions, but she shook her head. “I-It’s okay, Rainbow… it tried to kill you… it… it’s okay that you did that… i-it was self-defense… yeah…” She sat on the ground, looking at the doll once more. It seemed to nod its head a little, reassuring Rainbow Dash that it was indeed alright.
She shook her head. “That’s what Daring Do would do… I just gotta be strong, and find a way out of here.” She kept going, passing through another door. She found a small room filled with water, and she bent down to scoop some up. It looked clean enough, so she drank a little bit before continuing to a ladder situated in a small alcove. “Not so bad so far…” She said, trying to keep herself calm by talking to herself. She climbed up the ladder rung by rung, heaving herself up at the top.
Rainbow Dash found herself in a courtyard, a great door found at the far end. In the center was a small, metal rod, the last few dying embers of a fire at its base. Curious, she walked towards it, and gently touched the rod. Suddenly, she felt as if part of her was attracted to the rod, and the fire below spouted into flame once more. The fire was small, but warm, and she took the time to rest at it, feeling strength once again fill her body.
When she felt rested enough, she was drawn to the only thing of interest in the courtyard – the gigantic door. With heaving strength, she pushed open the iron behemoths, entering what looks like it could be an entry hall to the place. A door on the other side blocked her escape. She walked out into the room, noticing the pots all around her, as well as another door off to the side. She smiled, and headed over to it, but not before being stopped by a gigantic monster, looking somewhat like the one that was outside her cell. It bellowed in a roar, its greenish skin shaking with it. It carried a giant hammer, one that missed Rainbow Dash by inches as she rolled to the side.
Rainbow let loose a string of profanity as she ran towards the open door, aiming to exit the room as quickly as possible. She managed to exit quicker than she normally could run, as the demon had slammed its hammer into her back, sending her flying towards the door. As she flew through it and down a flight of stairs, a metal grate sealed off the exit. Rainbow Dash didn’t see that, however, as her broken form rolled and plunged into a pool of water at the end of the stairs.
“Fuck… that hurt… like, a lot…” She said, crawling out of the water. She could barely feel her legs through the remnants of pain that flooded her body, and her left leg looked like ti was broken. Pretty obviously broken, too. Resisting the urge to vomit, she hauled herself up onto dry land, noting another metal rod with small embers beneath it. She touched the rod, and the flame beneath started up again, and her body felt better almost immediately.
Her bone was reset in place and any blood lost replenished in a matter of minutes, all while she felt no pain at all. “Magical fire that heals me when I sit near it? I think I could get used to that.” Rainbow Dash said, smirking. She sat for a while at the fire, feeling tis warmth. After about an hour, she got up, feeling no worse than when she first woke up here. “Cool. I’m starting to like this place. You know, without the giant monster being slam-happy.” She turned to the only way out of the room, leading to a small path open to the sky above. A single human shape was at the far end.
It wasn’t long until Rainbow Dash had to duck to the side, as an arrow was launched towards her. She summersaulted into an alcove, where a body greeted her. “Sorry, pal,” Rainbow said, ripping a shield off of its arm. “But I’m going to need this more than you do.” She put the shield, which looked like a badly dented knight shield, into her left hand, gripping it tight as she held it above her face. She charged out at the archer, slamming the shield into its face. The archer rolled to the side and knocked another arrow. Rainbow didn’t let it have the chance, however, as she slammed her shield into its face once more, causing it to go limp and the orange glow fade from its eyes.
With heavy breaths, she walked forward, picking up a discarded sword from another corpse. It was newer in the sense that it was a whole short sword, better than the stub she had, which was discarded in favor of the straighter steel. She came across a gate of fog, and shrugging all the while, she passed through it. She came to be on a walkway overlooking the courtyard from before. Finding a set of stairs, she walked up them, only for a large ball of iron steel to impact her face and continue rolling back down the stairs with her, blowing through a wall and sending her flying into it as well.
“Ah shit… I’m really getting tired of that…” She said to herself, luckily noticing that nothing was broken that time. She looked around in the room she landed in, noticing a person gently breathing, laying against the rubble. He was dressed in high-ranking plate armor, and carried a sword and shield. “Hey, wait a minute… you’re the guy that helped me before!”
“Oh, you… you’re no hollow, right?” He said, looking over to her. She walked over, kneeling by his side. She nodded, and his unseen face smiled. “Thank goodness. I’m done for, I’m afraid. I’ll die soon, then lose my sanity…” He coughed, causing the girl to look more and more worried by the second. “I wish to ask something of you… you and I, we’re both undead… hear me out, will you?”
“Undead? Uhh, pal, I’m no zombie or anything.” Rainbow said. She gestured to her arm. “I don’t even look like one.” He responded by pointing to her neck.
“You carry the darksign. All undead do. But I feel an odd aura about you, preventing you from going hollow… you are a lucky one indeed…” he coughed once more. “The Darksign does not waver, and only is found on the undead… so please, as a fellow undead, hear me out?”
Rainbow nodded. “Sure. But first, your name. I’m Rainbow Dash.”
“An odd name… I am Oscar, of Astora. Regrettably, I have failed in my mission… but perhaps you can keep the torch lit. There’s an old saying in my family. ‘Thou who are Undead, art chosen in thine exodus from the Undead Asylum, maketh pilgrimage to the land of the ancient lords. When thou ringeth the Bell of Awakening, the fate of the Undead thou shalt know.’ Well? Will you carry my mission onwards?”
Rainbow was slightly tearing up. “Yeah. I’m on my way out of here, to go back home. I’ll ring that bell for you, don’t you worry.”
Oscar laughed. “Then I can die happy, with hope in my heart for your success. But before I do pass on, here, take this.” He handed her a small key, and continued, “This as well. An Estus Flask, an undead favorite.” Oscar handed Rainbow a small bottle that was slightly filled with a yellow, glowing liquid. “Now, go, Rainbow Dash. I would hate to harm you after death. And thank you.”
“Wait, Oscar, you’re not gonna die on my watch! I can get you help! We can get through this together!” But her words fell on deaf ears, as the man known as Oscar of Astora died, his body crumbling to dust. Rainbow felt water leave her face, and she knelt there, saddened by the loss of the one person who was kind to her here. She swallowed hard, and took a swig of the Estus Flask to calm her nerves. She felt rejuvenated, as if she was next to the bonfires from before.
Task and sword in hand she walked up the steps the boulder fell down, unlocking a singular door at the top. More of the creatures – she presumed they were the hollows Oscar talked about – attacked her, but she easily avoided their clumsy strikes and killed them in return. Another wall of fog blocked her path, and she bravely walked through it, finding herself on a small balcony.
She looked down, and saw the monster that nearly broke her spine earlier. With a battle cry, she jumped from the ledge, and sunk her sword into its back. The demon roared in pain as it felt steel sink into its flesh, and Rainbow jumped off of it, ripping her sword out as she did so. She took a stance she learned from the fencing club at school, modifying it to suit her shield’s use. The demon turned, looking at her with its red eyes.
It roared, swinging its mighty hammer towards Rainbow, who rolled to the side to avoid it. She surged forward, slashing at its exposed skin with her blade. The monster responded by flapping its tiny wings, going airborne before slamming down, knocking Rainbow backwards. “So you can fight, huh!? Well, come at me!” The girl shouted, raising her shield while moving closer.
The demon swung its hammer in an overhead arc, missing the prismatic blur that was Rainbow running to the side. She thrusted her blade forward in response, piercing the stomach of the demon twice before backing off, avoiding a close-range swipe of the hammer. In the time following that swipe, she took a quick sip of the Estus, feeling the injuries from the previous blow fade from its magical qualities.
The demon swung overhead once more, almost catching the girl off guard. Rainbow rolled into the blow, missing the impact zone and attacking with an uppercut slash. The demon actually stumbled from this, and in a blind panic, Rainbow Dash jumped onto its knee. From there, she stabbed her blade into its arm and used that as a leverage point to haul herself up to its face. She aimed her sword at its eyes and stabbed the demon straight through them.
It howled in agony, dropping its hammer and falling to the ground, still and lifeless. As it did so, Rainbow fell as well, impacting the stone below after a good fifteen-foot drop. “Ouch…” She said, getting to her feet. “Well, that guy didn’t put up much of a fight. I’ve had a much harder time playing video games against Applejack.” With that said, she noted a large key sticking out of the demon’s tail. She pulled it out, and looked towards the large door at the end of the hall.
The key fit perfectly, and she opened the large metal doors with relative ease. She saw a pathway leading up, and she followed it, on guard in case anything wished to attack her. The path rose up and up, past a small amount of ruined walls. At the top she relaxed slightly, taking in the sight of the world around her. She was standing on the edge of a cliff, overlooking mountains and valleys that went on for miles. “Whoa…” She said, awestruck. Just then, a gigantic raven appeared, easily four times her own size. It grabbed Rainbow Dash in its talons, and flew off, screaming prismatic teen in tow.
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Now I want to see her reaction when she meets Solaire xD *PRAISE THE F#$%"/ SUN* xD
Adn if she is into girls, Gwynevere, Queelag and Queelana may impress her :3
.... dammit. Another sad and depressing trip into Anor Londo.... I wanted to see Rainbow the Casul.
Is she going to encounter Ornstein and Smough!?
6648076 i'v played all of the soul games and bloodborne but i still don't know what a Casul is
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PRAISE THE SUN!
Can't Wait To Read This When I Plushie On Home..
Will Rainbow Dash be beating anybody up in this story? Will she be reaching Unstoppable Rage levels of anger? Will she be giving out any No Holds Barred Beatdowns?
Come at me scrublord, I'm ripped!
(Internet cookies to anyone who knows where this quote comes from)
When did Dark Souls become God of War?
I can see Human Twilight going to the world from Mana Khemia School Alliance or Professor Layton.
So, how often will she die?
Okay, you got my interest...
2 things I found: