Chapter Sixty Seven, City of the moon:J.
-The next day, Airship Mauled, Fluttershy-
Jade looked much healthier this morning, snuggling in bed with Fizzle and Maries really seemed to have improved her mood greatly over the last few days. What also helped her mood is going through a nice round of Ogres and Oubliettes last night, she stopped her story at lunch and enjoyed the rest of the evening saying she’ll start up again the next day.
I’m still quite curious as to what happened to Jade’s tree Icky Dress, there’s also the strange fact that the friendship mission hasn’t been resolved yet. I wasn’t about to leave it unsolved, but I had a few ideas as to what I needed to solve despite things seeming to be okay.
Letting out a soft sigh, I moved over to Baast who was awaiting breakfast this morning. I too was waiting for Kuril and Fresh to get my breakfast out as well.
“Can we talk about things?” She gave me a look that told me she tolerated my existence, which was mostly a good thing.
“What’s there to talk about? Jaded will tell everything that happened, I believe she left off with coming back into the time stream missing her only companion in that twisted place outside of time and space.” Baast didn’t seem particularly willing to talk, but I still wanted to make an effort to befriend her.
“Are you angry that I’m friends with Discord?” Seeing the snort she made, I was wondering if what I said was funny. I knew she was in love with Discord when we met in the distant past, she wasn’t exactly hiding her feelings and Discord seemed very nervous around her.
“Oh I’m not angry, in fact I’ll just be completely honest and upfront with you.” There was a slight glare in Baast’s eyes to go with what she said next. “I’m actually quite jealous that you have such a close friendship with Discord!”
“Oh… do you want to be friends with me too?” Please at least attempt to meet me halfway here Baast.
“Maybe.” Baast seemed a little reluctant to try, but she didn’t say no. I thought we could be great friends and she wasn’t as aggressive as she was the last time we met. Baast did help us out when the jackals captured us when we were doing that field trip with Discord. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I believe Jade is going to start telling the next part of her story in a few minutes and I wish to talk with her on what she’s going to divulge.”
I watched as Baast walked away feeling a little upset, but the fact that she could tolerate being around me left me fairly hopeful that we could eventually have tea together. I don’t think goddesses like Baast had the same allergies that Abyssinians or Diamond Dogs had to caffeine or theobromine.
“My sister is annoying and also a bit stubborn, she likes causing innocent forms of chaos and loved Discord. She always made Discord quite nervous, but he still got her to take a stand against King Anubis and the chaos from that was impressive… considering that I now know Jade got involved in it.” Sekhet stretched out and made her way over to me. “Given what we saw in Cow-ro with the jackals and flail-tails being good friends, I think my sister made the right decision to kick off the war by stealing the death god’s bone. If Anubis had that bone at the start, then things would have ended a little bit worse than they could have. I think that Jade’s interference played a role as well. I’ve never actually heard the story in full, so this should be fairly entertaining for me. I believe you can be friends with my sister as well, just don’t push her too hard and stick with your soft touch approach.”
I watched as Sekhet turned from me and sat down to her meal as Jade stumbled into the dining area yawning.
It would take about thirty minutes for everyone to gather and Jade would start telling us about the second leg of her journey, starting with being held prisoner in a pyramid.
-Ancient Anugypt, several thousand years in the past, prison pyramid, Jade-
“The heron is calling out to the sun for a friend, she became fire and then her feathers were the stars.” I still wasn’t in my sane mind upon waking up in the cell, but I was speaking like a prophet for a reason.
“Do you suppose she’s a seer?” The male jackal said to the female one staring at me with contempt. “She speaks in strange tongues.”
“The heat may have gotten to her, but it’s been several days and she looks no worse or better than she did previously.” The female jackal walked up to me and jerked my head upwards to stare me in the eyes, the faintly glowing green eyes were signifying some kind of possession. The possession likely wasn’t as powerful as the main host, because these guys still acted like they had their minds for the most part. “Can you speak normally cat?!”
“The echo of being a matter of time, answers to me in a colloquial term that says I cannot answer within the range of a platypus being less than an oddity. Do you believe in beavers? Duck faces you would not conceive.” I was actually being cheeky with this next bit of dialogue. “The verbosity is spilled on ears, as corn they are and like adult mayflies they fell to the soundless locusts.”
“Addled or not, we will get something of interest out you!” She then slapped me across the face with the flail, thankfully the jackal didn’t draw blood or harm me enough to scar my face and left the cell with the male. “Her items are not of great interest, though they do seem to point to her being something akin to a seer. While she has not been very informative about anything, we will eventually get something of importance from her before she perishes.”
At this time Baast was planning to jail break her captured people from this place. The war effort had been going far more evenly on both sides thanks to the Cutie Mark Crusaders telling Baast to get her troops to coordinate better and work on their friendships. Despite the disadvantages of Baast’s army, being made up of mostly flail-tails which are mostly the size of average house cats, they held their own with numbers compared to the jackals being taller, stronger and far better armed overall.
I made my move before Baast made hers to come free the flail-tails trapped with me.
“Hey you, can you hear me?” I looked up and saw a flail tail in the cell across from me. “I don’t know who you are, but hold on just a little bit longer. I heard Baast was coming to our aid and she’ll be here any day now. You just got to stay strong, we need all the help we can get with our war effort… even if you are a bit touched in the head.”
I giggled at the worry, someone was actually concerned about my wellbeing? Well I wasn’t worried, being chained to the wall in a room with no door wasn’t exactly a big problem for me. I had even stolen the short crook off the female jackal that had hit me with that flail using my tail.
I’m surprised that neither guard had noticed the theft or the fact that I now had a weapon.
“Danger is always certain, life is always short on any given day and my sanity can fully come back no matter what occurrence may.” I swung the crook around and caught it in my right hand.
The handheld crook was not a staff, but more of scepter sized handheld defensive tool meant to block and catch weapons. I sustained it and blinked at the sustain effect, that would be useful in helping me get past the guards. I did partial cast to get a read of what that will do when expended and nodded to myself generally understanding the effect it would give me.
Then I cast away the right bracer holding me against the wall, there were no doors into our cells and casting the bracer chaining my right hand freed it up. I returned it to being a bracer without a chain attached to it.
I was keeping it clamped to my arm for defensive purposes, I held no illusions about just walking out of here without a fight.
I soon did the same with my left arm as well and smiled to the flail-tail still chained up across from me as I stood up.
“Albatross’s fly with great wide wings requiring open space, we would learn a lot from them in this instance.” The male flail-tail gaped at me in awe as I walked up to him to free him from the wall, he rubbed his paws once the restraints were off. “I will break the collective, get the raiment and satchel taken from me. I will not fight very well with just a crook by being one.”
“I… right!” The male flail-tail took off quietly to go find my stuff and I made my way into the next several cells over freeing the various felines of both genders from imprisonment.
Eventually I had the seventy or so prisoners free and behind me, when the flail-tail I sent out came back dragging my pack and clothing with him while trying not to make too much noise.
“Thank you.” The foremost sensible thing I have said in a while. I threw on my clothing, cloak, magical alchemy necklace and pack. I also got out my special weapon, the very one I told you about, and attached it to my left hand while I wielded the crook in my right. I tapped the hourglass tied to my waist and sustained it. “Grab needed vitals from here and make marks in the sand, I will take their eyes upon myself.”
“She may be strange, but I think she just said find supplies as needed and run for it.” The blue coated flail-tail followed after me his purple eyes showing hope. “She’ll be keeping them busy.”
I stalked forward and all the flail-tails followed me to the corner, looking around the corner I saw the two jackals talking with one another. Both were armed with flails and only one had a crook.
I leapt out and started charging straight for them, my speed rapidly increased and they were too slow to react to my approach.
Launching my left arm forward, a hand crafted round objected on an extending green string smashed the female jackal in the face. She went down when her head hit the stone wall behind her and she flopped onto her face.
While reeling my left hand weapon back with a simple tug, I continued forward. Sweeping in low with the crook, avoided the flail being swung for my head, I hooked it around the males right ankle and leapt backwards while standing up.
The male jackal toppled to the floor, he was awake until the handle of the crook came down on his skull knocking him out. I looked back and motioned to the flail-tails to start moving.
-Break-
“Wait, your weapon was a… a handcrafted yoyo?” Fizzle seemed fairly disappointed. “Really, that was your weapon Jade?”
“Yep, you’d be surprised how useful it was.” Jade said as she loosed a yoyo towards the floor and it rolled along until a tug brought it back to Jade’s hand. “It was quite effective and sustained wood gains a large increase in toughness.”
“I can vouch for that, The Ardent Survivor held up to quite a lot of punishment and is still going strong.” Holding her happy son in her arms, Jacky was cuddling Gavin to herself and spoon feeding him breakfast. “I really need to thank you for that Jade, because of that I got to come home and see him again. Also thanks for looking out for him Savannah.”
“No problem Captain!” Savannah stated cheerfully in a waitress outfit from next to Brenda wearing the same thing.
-End Break-
After the first two the next few jackals weren’t too much trouble, just as long as I could keep my momentum going when I launched an attack. Doing that I could hit them hard enough to put them down so that the flail-tails could get by them.
“I am evicting myself from your premises without pay, the service was lousy!” I made my way by the entrance and attracted trouble to myself from various jackals that gave chase to me.
I was only going to giving the flail-tailed felines five minutes to grab what they could and then I’d make my way out. I took down about ten or twelve so far and had a good thirty or more chasing me.
Soon, more jackals joined the chase as the ones I had knocked out got back up and came after me as well. I had figured by that point that I gave the anugyptian felines enough time to get out of dodge and made my way for the entrance of the pyramid while dodging around jackals at high speeds while trying to maintain momentum, I was moving fast enough to temporarily run along the stone walls.
The entire time I had been abusing the backup hourglass and hadn’t noticed it cracking at all, since I was fairly busy avoiding being captured again.
The prolonged sustainment of an hourglass will always eventually cause it to break. So while I was actually managing to outpace all the jackals with increased speed without getting tired, it wouldn’t actually last forever.
It certainly hadn’t when I made my effort to head back towards the entrance of the pyramid. I heard a cracking sound and looked to the hourglass at my hip, it was badly cracked and looked about ready to shatter.
I exited the pyramid and got about ten feet from the entrance before the hourglass completely shattered and I went tumbling across the sand.
Slowly picking myself up, I looked up to see the first anugyptian feline I set free. He was standing on a hill watching me with worry as a good number of jackals started to surround me, armed with spears, flails, crooks and whips.
This wasn’t going how I expected and I used up the other successful hourglass that Icky Dress help me make. I wasn’t going to face that many jackals by myself.
-Break-
“Is this where Baast comes in and saves you?” Fizzle asked Jade while tilting her head slightly.
“No, this is the part where Jade does something she says she hates to do.” Baast snickered into a paw. “Though I did arrive around that time to find a number of flail-tails were fleeing the pyramid with stolen supplies, my people were already coming in to assist in their escape. I think Jaded did particularly well by herself, considering she was surrounded and there was no way we could have saved her in time.”
“What did she do?” Daring gave Jade a curious glance.
“Why… she sang of course!” Baast grinned and Jade shot her a dirty look.
“Let me guess, did everyone hear the music and rhythm as well?” Mara asked.
“Yep.” Baast promptly answered. “With surprising results too!”
“I have gotten fairly good at weaponizing heart songs.” Jade stated dully.
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Yoyo, the Boomerang Bola.
Can conciously use Weaponised Heart Songs? Even Pinkie is careful with that suff?
Why are you making this story go on for so long?
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That's something you generally need a good reason not to do, especially in a serial format.
A yoyo...A FREAKING YOYO!!!
OK now I'm on the lookout for earthbound references will the self sustain give the yoyo a chance to knock out an enemy instantly while making a loud smashing noise?