Clang
Sparks fly from heated metal,
Clang
Voices three sing to me,
Clang
Short of stature, and tall of power,
Clang
I drop my hammer til late of hour,
Clang
Their song cause my mind to sting like nettle,
Clang
Yet I continue to their glee,
Clang
Though I stair at them with a glower,
Clang
For their might is under mine, like grass to a tower,
Clang
Soon they realize, and down they settle,
Clang
So I won't consume them like zea,
Clang
My payment I desire, so they search and scour,
Clang
So they may grow, like plants on a bower,
Clang
And through blood three amulets are made for thee.
(000)
I shot up in my bed with a start. Inspiration had struck me in a dream, a dream that was fading rapidly. But the inspiration wasn't.
I got out of bed and looked out the window so as to tell the time, moon is setting and I can just make out the sun over the horizon. Early, early morning. Good, that will give me time to work on design and gather money for what I need. I went down stairs and shut myself in my work room, something told me I would want three of these made in less than a week.
A few hours of drawing up designs later and I have the lay out for what I want to make, I have my money I'll need gathered, and it is now late enough in the day to go out and get the supplies I'll need. Making my way out I see Catrina manning the counter as expected and let her know that I'm going out.
Alright, first things first, to the Blacksmith.
Making my way through town is rather easy as most of the people move out of my way either out of reverence or fear. I don't really care which, it makes my life easier. Though it could be the determined and focused look on my face as well. When someone is on a mission they can be quite terrifying.
Arriving at the blacksmith's place I make my way around back as it is quite easy to tell he is working on something from the clang of his hammer. "BLACKSMITH!" I yelled over the noise.
"The names Grover!" He yelled back at me. "If you want to be specific it's Grover Kng."
"I know. I don't care. You are a blacksmith, therefor you are Blacksmith. Now, I need thees three molds made in less than three days." I said while making sure to cutoff the oddly formal griffin before he could get angry with me for being a dick. "How much am I paying you for them."
"Three hundred for the molds and an additional two hundred for the supplies. And I can have them done in two days." He said looking over the three mold sketches I made.
"Excellent, I'll hold you to that. Here's a thousand, now I have other things I need to do. Good day to you sir."
Second things second to the clothing store to see if they have silk, and if not then to the general supplies store or the market.
Making way to the clothing store took a bit more time as I didn't remember where it was and had only been there once. But, I did make it in decent time.
"Why, hello Nox. I trust that my sister is being treated well." The paper colored Abyssinian named Opal-something or other greeted as I came in.
"I haven't touched her if that is what you are referring to." I replied with a dead stair. "Do you have any silk? I am in need of some for something I need to make."
"Silk? Silk is rather expensive and the most we've been able to get is a single spool of ribbon. In other words, you would be paying a rather hefty amount for it."
"Two thousand," I say setting a bag of the local currency on the counter. "And I will take a few years off of Catrina's indentured servitude for the entire spool."
Without saying anything she reached under the counter and set the spool on top. Grabbing it I turned and left, mentally noting to take two years off of Catrina's six.
Now back to the shop for the third thing I need.
As I walked in to the shop I saw three short horse people, or as they are properly known, Ponies. There was one of each of the three 'Tribes'. The Pegasus was orange, orange, and more orange. The Unicorn was blue with the face of a ditz. And the 'Earth Pony,' also known as the basic bitches, was purple and looked like she was trying to hard to be gloomy and intimidating and was therefor failing utterly.
The thing that got my attention the most however was the fact that they where singing some song about getting things for free from Catrina, and the fact that my brain went numb just from hearing them tells me that absolutely no magic is involved at all. Sarcasm intended.
Well, this sets my plans back some. Time to beat the bitch out of some bitches. Then make somethings for them to buy as I am pretty sure they were what that dream was telling me about.
Oh. My. God....why is that dude here!? XD This is awesome!! Haven't started reading it yet but I can tell I'll enjoy it :)
9804803
Yay!
I'm gonna try to ignore my notifications so I can go to sleep. I'm going to fail horribly though.
9804810
Sorry bro :S didn't know
9804826
Not your fault I've got bad management skills and should have been asleep hours ago. That is soully my own stupidity.
make more please
Nice
AWESOME CHAPTER!!
The sirens.
9804976
Yes more
Oh, please tell me he starts to sing something right before he beats them. The opening comes to my mind to use against them.
I can see how it goes down.
The door slams shut on its own with all the light going out.
He shows up out of start to sing; "Don't disrespect me, my little ponies. Don't deceive me or lie. You're in my world now, not your world and I got on the other side. he's got friends on the other side"
That's far I can think as of right now.
9806268
Yesssss... feed me ideassss... hehehehehe
I see what your doing here.... I like it.
Very good almost feel sorry for those three ponies almost.
Are those... the sirens?
9807643
Maaaybe?
9807960
Hmmmmmmmmmm -_-
Okay!
Oh, so we're all the way back to when Starswirl was around. I wonder how Nox will deal with the pillars, or if he may be the cause of the Pony of Shadows. I suppose only time will tell.
Is the frequency of the story updates every 20 days or so? Or is it more/less?
9822065
I try to get a chapter out once a month if I can but things don't always work out that well for me. So yeah I guess that's accurate.
9822288
Ok, thank your for the reply,
Story is looking good. looking foreword to more.
I typically read displaced if I'm bored knowing bad writing is going to be a thing. I was caught of guard with an actually good setup. I also avoid anthro tags like their cancerous (usually its anthro ponies and almost every time I've tried reading an anthro story the "anthro" was just lazy writing..) idk theres something iny mind that says anthro ponies I cant imagine ponies, but cat people are fine maybe it's because I cant see biology going in that direction at all. Anyway I'll be here waiting for the next update. Good job so far
9854896
Well considering I consider myself to be a bad writer, I thank you for the confidence boost and the praise.
Also if it makes you feel any better about the anthro part, there are not going to be a lot of ponies in this for a while. I've more or less brought all of the ponies that are going to be in this into it already. Though I will admit that there are still a few to bring in, that are named that is. I make no promises about unnamed background characters.
Dang. I'm all caught up.
9884004
For now you are, depending on how I feel that might change in a few hours or so.
This story is well written an interesting take on the concept and the characterization felt on point can’t wait for more.
The story is pretty good so far. The writing could use a proof reader or editor, using the wrong instance of a word in a few spots, but nothing too bad. I like how you've got the diversity going on at the border of 3 countries. The ponies are still horse ponies and not 2 legged people ponies, right? Sometimes I don't find out about that until several chapters in, and then forget later when the story updates after 2 months.
Let's see what curse the sirens get.
"Huzzah!! You're a Fish!!!"
9904644
The ponies are anthro like the rest, just not as tall.
Pony average height=4ft/1.2m
Most other races average height=6ft/1.8m
Nox height=Malleable, but usually 5ft 9in/1.7m
OOOOH, the sirens, took me a minute to recognize them.