Chapter 10: Faded light
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... (Radio static)...
"Talion Drust?" I heard someone call my name.
I turned away from the poster covered wall to see the army enlister standing in the doorway of his office and holding a clipboard.
"Sir." I said, approaching him.
"Please, come in." He said and walked back into his office.
I followed him in and took a seat on a chair in front of his desk.
The recruiter set the clipboard on the desk and opened a file cabinet, where he pulled out a document labeled: TOP SECRET.
He opened it and looked through it while picking up a pen. He then turned to my document and wrote something down before closing it.
"Wait here please." He told me before stepping out of the office and leaving me alone.
I desided to take this time to look around the office, although there really wasn't anything of interest in the boring windowless room.
Nothing but the file of information they had on me, left on the desk. So finding nothing better to do and being driven by curiosity, I reached over to grab it.
"I vouldn't touch zhat if I vere you. Not if you value your freedom and clean record." I heard someone say in a German accent, behind me.
I quickly turned around and saw three men entering the room.
The first was the recruiter, the second a MP.
The last one an older man in his fifties, wearing glasses, a brown suit and he walked with a cane for support.
The MP stood at attention next to the door, while the recruiter handed the older man the file labeled: TOP SECRET and left, closing the door behind him.
I was about to get up when the older man spoke.
"No, no. Please sit." He said while looking through the top secret document.
"Your name iz Talion Rydik Drust, social 123-45-6789, age thirty and born in Coeur D'alene Idaho on November 24th 1909, correct?" He asked after he took a seat on the opposite side of the desk.
"Yes sir." I said, a little uncertain about these questions.
"Huh. A little old to be enlisting into zhe army, aren't you?" He asked me.
"Last I checked sir, age restriction isn't a concern here." I told him.
"No? A man like you ought to be vith a family. Raising children to become zhe next generation of freedom fighters. But here you are." He said.
"Here I am.
I have no family other than my older brother, Aden Drust, who has also enlisted and joined." I said before leaning foward a little.
"So why are we here, sir? Who are you?"
He smiled and also leaned foward a little.
"I am doctor Lorentz Jürgen Giselher. Vhat you are here for iz further questioning, Talion." He answered.
I raised an eyebrow.
"Why?" I asked him, taking a quick glance at the MP.
"Zhat I'm afraid Mr. Drust, I cannot answer. Not yet at least." He said and opened my file.
"Talion Drust, son of Aravel Drust who served in the American Expeditionary Force tank corps, during zhe Great War.
A highly decorated officer, who served alongside Captain George Patton, at zhe time.
You must have alot to live up to, Mr. Talion." He said.
"Is there a question sir?" I asked him,MN getting a little impatient.
"Please, call me Lorentz or Giselher." He said.
"Can you tell me vhy you're enlisting today, Talion?" He asked.
"To join the army." I answered.
"But of course to join zhe army. Vhat I mean iz why are you joining the fight?
To serve your country? Revenge? To kill Germans, Russians and Japanese? Vhy do you vant to go to war, Talion? He asked.
I wasn't really prepared to answer these type of questions. I was under the impression that they didn't care why anyone wanted to enlist.
"It's okay, Mr. Drust. Zhere are no right or vrong answers. So take your time. I just vant to know vhy you vant to fight." He said.
I let out a sigh and looked down at the desk before answering.
"To win a war..." I answered.
Lorentz waited silently for me to continue.
"My father once told me that, when you have the power and the chance to stop evil, but choose to do nothing, then it is your fault when others suffer because of it.
I'm not going to war for revenge or to kill Nazi's and Japanese. I'm going to fight every day, to save lives and fight for peace." I said looking back up.
"All I want, is a day without death. And If I have to lay down my life for that day, then so be it.
I will do my duty to protect others, until the day I die. Always." I finshed.
"Vhy Talion?" He asked me.
"Because no one else will.
Men and women from all across America have taken a stand to take up arms and fight for freedom. But not many truly know why they fight." I answered.
"And you do?" Lorentz asked me.
"War is a tragedy faced by humanity every day, Mr. Giselher." I begun.
"It takes ahold of every man woman and child from all walks of life in an attempt to destroy us.
In war, no one is spared. It takes what it wants and destroys what it cannot have.
Because of it, neighbors, friends and families are torn apart then turned on each other, in the name of their country. And what you're left with is another man who was selected to fight and die for a cause, weather he approved of his leaders decisions or not.
Those of us who survive are left with nothing but the corpses of our enemies and brothers.
Their sense of duty was no different than ours. Sometimes you'll wonder who they were and what their name was. Where they came from and what lies or threats had led them away from their homes. And if they truly were evil at heart.
Maybe they would have stayed there... Stayed home." I paused and let outa a sigh before continuing.
"I'm not going to pretend to know why others choose to follow and fight for tyrants, Mr. Giselher. But what I do know is that behind every gun sight, is a human being. And every single soldier, no matter what banner they follow, is life worth saving. Because no life is worth more than anothers." I finshed.
Lorentz seemed to have been studying me as I spoke.
He then turned to the MP behind me and noded to him and the MP left the room.
"Vell, I am glad to hear zhat zhere are still people in zhis vorld who care about others, like you Mr. Drust. But I am sad to say zhat people like you are not enough to win zhis war alone." He paused to take off his glasses.
"But, perhaps I can help you take zhe first step towards achieving your goals in a different vay." He finished.
"What do you mean?" I asked him.
"Vhat I mean iz, if you vere to go to war now, you vould most likely only be able to save a few live until you yourself may be killed in action. But vhat if I told you zhat zhere iz a vay and a chance for you to save every life?" He asked me.
"Then I would say you're crazy.
I know what I'm capable of Mr. Giselher. And no amount of training can help me or anyone else for that matter, save every single soldier on a battle field." I told him.
"Maybe as you are now, but I am not just talking about training Mr. Drust, but also transformation." He said.
I scoffed.
"Whatever you're talking about is madness, doctor. It's absurd. Down right impossible to think that every life in a battle can be saved.
I more than anyone wish to save every life out there, Mr. Giselher. But I also live in the real world and know what's possible and impossible.
Saving everyone is impossible." I said standing up.
"Do you know, Talion? Do you truly believe zhat?" He asked as I walked towards the door. But what he said next stopped me in my tracks.
"Zhe scar on your vight wrist you've had since you vere five years old. You thought you could fly if you just vanted bad enough, so you jumped off zhe roof of your home.
Your wrist was broken in five places." He finished.
I turned back to face him with a shocked expression.
"That's impossible... There is no way you could have known about that." I said.
"Once you eliminate zhe impossible, vhatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be zhe truth." He quoted.
I slowly walked back to the desk and sat back down.
"And what is the truth, Mr. Giselher?" I asked.
He leaned foward again.
"Truth iz stranger zhan fiction, Talion. Anything iz possible." He answered.
I looked at him with a questionable expression.
"How?" I asked him.
Instead of answering, he opened up my file and turned it to me before pointing at a square box on the paper with a few words that were underlined red.
BLOOD TYPE: RH - NULL
"Tell me, do you know vhat zhis is, Talion?" Lorentz asked.
"I'm afraid not." I answered.
"It iz your blood type. Rh - null or as ve doctors like to call it, "Golden blood"."
"And why is that?" I asked him.
"Tell me, vhen vas zhe last time you've ever been sick, Talion." He said.
I leaned back into my chair.
"I don't know... Somewhere around six years ago during winter when I was out to long in the cold." I answered.
"Have you ever contracted any sicknesses growing up?" He asked me.
I raised an eyebrow as I thought about it.
"No, I haven't." I answered.
"What does that have to do with my blood type?" I asked him.
"Everything, Mr. Drust." He answered and put his glasses back on.
"Your blood type is an extremely rare type. Less than fifty people around zhe whole vorld have "Golden Blood".
Less than half of zhat know zhey even have it.
You see, zhere are millions of different blood types out there. Each classified on a multitude of antigen combinations.
But zhe reason why Rh - null is so rare is because, zhe RhD protein only refers to one of sixty-one potential proteins in the Rh system. Blood is considered Rh-null if it lacks all of zhe sixty-one possible antigens in zhe Rh system. Zhis not only makes it rare, but zhis also means it can be accepted by anyone with a rare blood type vithin the Rh system.
Another interesting fact iz zhat zhe blood also provides increased resistance to foreign cells like poisons and unnatural growths, to zhe carrier." He finished explaining.
"It iz vhy ve know so much about you, Talion. Ve have been vatching you since zhe day of zhat accident, because you and everyone vith zhis blood type are of great interest and value to zhe future of medical science." He told me.
"So what are you saying? You want me to stay here and become a blood donor for the development of something like the cure to cancer?" I asked in annoyance.
"Your blood izn't just zhe key to cure cancer, Mr. Drust. It iz zhe cure for everything." He said and removed his glasses again.
"And I am not here to ask you to stay in America and become a blood donor. No. I am here to offer you a deal. A chance, if you vill, to become something greater zhan yourself. A vay to save countless lives in zhis war and possibly many others." He told me.
"How?" I asked him.
"In order for me to explain zhat in a vay you could even understand, vould take much more time zhan ve both currently have here. But I can tell, you really do not care how it vorks, Mr. Drust." He said.
I leaned foward over the desk and spoke with determination.
"You're right. I don't really care for how it works. But if there is a chance for me to save countless lives on a battlefield, I will take it, Mr. Giselher." I told him.
"Zhen, ve have a deal, Mr. Drust?" He asked while standing up and holding out his hand, with a smile.
"All I want to do is save lives, Lorentz. If you can help me save people from death, then we have a deal." I told him and stood up as well to shake his hand.
"After all, what do I have to lose to save lives?" I asked him.
"Everything, Talion.
Now, allow me to be zhe first to velcome you into "Project: Wraith."
"Talion?" I heard Anya call me.
"Yes?" I asked her.
"You dozed off for a bit there. I've called to you three times." She said while walking over to me.
"Sorry. I was just thinking." I told her.
"Are you alright?" She asked me.
"Yes." I answered.
"How was the hunt?" I asked her as she laid next to me in front of the lake.
"It was fine. But the animals in this valley are becoming harder to find. Now that winter is here and all." She told me.
"So what were you thinking of?" She asked me.
"Days of long ago." I answered as I chucked a stone into the lake and watched it skip across the water.
"You sure seem to do that alot." She said.
"Yes well, when you have as much time as I do and live as long, sometimes all you can do to spend it is thinking." I told her and threw another stone across the lake.
"What do you mean, live as long?" She asked me.
"You don't look that old to me."
I laughed.
"You'd be surprised." I told her and took a seat on a bolder.
"Are you forty?" She asked.
"No." I said.
"Sixty?" She asked again.
"No." I said again.
"Eighty?" She asked a third time but I didn't answer.
"Well, you cannot be older than that unless..." Her voice trailed off and she suddenly looked suprised.
I tilted my head to her and noded.
"You're... immortal." She said.
"I am one hundred and thirty years old. Yes Anya. Time has no effect on me." I told her.
"Than that would mean you're much older than I am." Anya said.
I turned to her in surprise.
"What? How old are you?" I asked her.
"I turned fifty last spring." She answered.
"I was under the impression that you were decades older." I told her.
"Excuse me?" She asked looking insulted.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like that. Its just, my kind doesn't know really much of anything about dragon kind. And for that matter, neither does any other race." I told her.
"Well, I guess I don't know a whole lot about your race either. I didn't even think your kind could live as long as dragons." Anya said.
"We usually don't, but there are a few exceptions like me." I told her and turned back towards the lake.
Because of the storm, me and Anya had been forced to use the cave as shelter for a little over a week until it finally passed, leaving the valley covered in four feet of snow.
During our time together, Anya and I had opened up a little more to each other. Although we haven't really said much of each others past, we seemed to have been content with what we knew and were really just glad to share each others company.
For some reason though, Anya always attempted to pull a little more information out of me every day. But at times when we would come across subjects neither of us wanted to talk about, we were both quick to change the subject.
Anya seemed to enjoy my presence around her all the time now. When ever she would go off to hunt, she would always hurry back and try to stay close to me as if she was scared to lose me.
We both had also slept together for every night during the storm. Anya never seemed to want it any other way and she wasn't afraid to admit it anymore either.
Speaking of Anya, she had been silent for a bit now.
I turned to look at her and saw she was smiling at me.
"What are you so happy about?" I asked her.
"I'm just glad to know that you can live as long as I can." She answered.
"Any particular reason why?" I asked her.
"No." She answered still smiling.
I turned back to look at the lake.
"Well, at least you're happy about it." I said.
"Are you not, Talion?" She asked.
"You have the chance to live forever. Not many race's in the world have that privilege."
"There is no privilege to watching your friends and family die to the passage of time, while you continue living on, Anya.
And weather you can live an infinite number of years or not, never truly matters.
Sooner or later, death comes to all." I said, grimly.
*All but me.* I thought to myself.
"You mean, not all humans live as long as you can?" She asked me.
"No. Humans usually just live as long as ponies in Equestria do. We are not naturally immortal." I told her and explained.
"Although many humans wish to live forever, most only just live as long as sixty to eighty years. Sometimes up to a hundred, but not really much longer than that. And it's a good thing too.
"Lucky bastards." I whispered the last part to myself, but Anya heard it.
"How could you say that about people, Talion!?" She asked in shock.
I chuckled and shook my head before explaining.
"Because they are lucky to even have the privilege of life and death. People have it set in their minds that immortality is this wonderful thing. That if you could live forever, you could do whatever you wanted. Go anywhere you please and live however you wanted to live.
They believe immortality is this grand adventure where you can grow more wise, intelligent and do more than you could have if you were mortal. But they're all wrong.
Even if you could live forever, you're still human and nothing else really changes. You can't go and do whatever you wish. Whenever you wish. Your skills and talents are still limited to what you can learn. And even if you have the chance to accomplish everything you ever wanted to, when it's all said and done, you'll lose the drive, the want and need to accomplish anything.
You don't become more wise and intelligent with time. You just keep going on living, while those around you pass away to time." I paused and let out a sigh.
"Its not just humans, Anya.
People waist alot of time and then wish that they had more. More hours in their days. More days in their years. More years in their lives.
But heres the thing about time though. If you can't learn to make the most out of every given moment, then you don't deserve a single extra second." I finshed.
Anya was silent as she watched me in shock.
"I don't understand, Talion." She said.
"No, of course you wouldn't. Your whole race is blessed with immortality. You quite literally have all the time in the world.
You don't have to live as one of the few ageless people in your own race... Like me." I told her.
Anya looked down when I finished, for a moment.
"But how is that possible, Talion? Why are your years extended and not others?" She asked.
It was my turn to look down.
"A long time ago, I gave away everything to fight for peace. Including my own life.
Now, there is nothing left, Anya. Nothing but an empty soldier lost to time." I answered.
We both watched the lake in silence for awhile, until Anya moved close and begun to nuzzle her head against me.
"I do not believe that, Talion. You are so much more than what you believe." She told me.
I let out a sigh and placed a hand on Anya's neck.
"Getting affectionate again, are we?" I asked her.
"Is it not preferable, Talion?" She asked.
"Maybe." I said with a smile.
"Maybe?" Anya asked, looking at me with a mischievous smile.
"Well- hey!" I shouted as Anya suddenly knocked me off of the bolder and onto my back.
Before I could move, Anya pinned me against her chest to the ground and continued to nuzzle me, affectionately.
"Anya get off of me." I said while trying not to laugh.
"Make me." Anya told me, playfully.
"Well then, you asked for this." I told her before I reached my hands underneath her and started to tickle her chest.
"Ah! Stop! What are you doing!?" Anya shouted before bursting into laughter.
"AHAHAHAH! Okokok!" She said and quickly jumped off of me.
"Don't say I didn't warn you." I told her as I stood up.
*She sure has a talent for quickly changing the mood.* I thought.
"You said that you wouldn't do that to me." She said.
"Well, maybe you shouldn't have told me how sensitive your stomach scales can be to small things." I told her as I wiggled my fingers in front of her.
"You were the one who tickled me in your sleep the other morning! How could I have kept it a secret after that!? Honestly, you're starting to move around at night alot more." She told me.
"It was an accident. Besides, you didn't find it unpleasant then, so why now?" I asked her.
"Because a mighty and beautiful dragoness such as myself shouldn't have such a weakness as silly as being tickled." She said walking over to the lake to drink from it.
"Beautiful, yes. Mighty? I have yet to see you do anything worthy of that title." I said smiling at her.
"You would call a dragon unworthy of a deserving title such as that?" She asked me with a shocked expression.
"Titles are earned. Not given, Anya. Who you are and what you are, is of little consequence." I told her.
She walked back over to me with a smile.
"Than I guess that I will have to prove to you that I am worthy of being called mighty." She said and started lowering herself close to the ground.
I noticed the look in her eyes and knew what she wanted.
"I don't think fighting me is an ideal choice for proving that, Anya." I said.
"Well, you showed me that you are strong. So let's see how strong." She said to me.
"I'm really starting to regret opening up to you." I said sarcastically.
"Oh please. You've barely told me anything about yourself for the past week." She told me.
"That goes the same way for you, Anya." I told her.
She chuckled.
"Well then, how about whoever loses this fight, has to answer any questions the other has." She told me.
I put a hand to my chin as I thought about it.
"And if I say no?" I asked her before suddenly she leaped at me. I barely had a moment to duck as she missed me and flew over me.
"Hey! You didn't even say start!" I shouted.
"Start!" She shouted at me and charged again.
"Aw, hell." I said and crouched while raising my fists.
Anya wasn't really trying to hit me. More like trying to tackle me to the ground again.
As soon as she leaped at me again, I did a back flip to stand on my hands and reared my legs back until Anya landed on them.
As soon as she did, I used her momentum to launch her over me with my legs.
She was visible shocked by this as she was flipped upside-down and landed on her back behind me.
"If you're not going to try and attack me, then you might as well give up now." I told her and readied myself for another attack.
I was actually interested in seeing what Anya was capable of.
"Ha! Never. A dragon never backs down from a challenge." She said as she stood back up.
"Well then, do not hold back. If you do not treat me as an enemy, you will not win." I told her.
"What? No. I don't want to hurt you!" She said.
"If only it was that easy." I said before suddenly lunging foward at her and delivered a punch to her chest.
Because of how strong Anya's chest scales are, the blow wasn't enough to hurt her, but it did cause her to stumble backwards from the force behind my punch.
I wasn't really intending to cause her any damage. So I just applied enough force to my attacks to knock Anya back.
She looked completely shocked about how fast I moved and that I was actually able to forcibly reposition her.
"Well come on now. Let's see how well you can fight. Don't tell me all that talk of strength and might was only just talk." I playfully teased her.
Anya then suddenly leaped at me and swung her right claw at me.
I punched it away with my right arm and spun around to kick Anya in the chest, before delivering another punch to her chest.
Anya was once again knocked back, but this time I leaped to her side and kicked her front leg and punched her shoulder twice to knock her over.
Anya quickly recovered by rolling over to stand back up.
"Give up?" I asked her.
"Never." She said, determined. Finally over her shock.
"So then... Shall we begin?" I said and raised my fists again.
With that, Anya leaped at me again, but this time she swung herself to the side and attempted to hit me with her tail.
I leaped over it, but Anya had expected it and struck me with a claw, mid air.
I yelled as I was thrown into a large pile of snow, which exploded when I landed in it.
Anya suddenly realized what she had done.
"Talion!" She yelled in worry.
Anya rushed over to the pile and tried to search for me. But as she looked through the pile of snow, I had just quickly crawled out of, I punched a tree down towards her.
Anya turned her head towards my direction just in time for the pine tree to hit her head.
I then ran towards Anya and leaped up to kick her side with both my legs.
"AHHHHH!" Anya screamed in surprise as she fell over on her.
Before Anya could get up again, I jumped onto her chest and held her neck down with a leg.
"Well, it looks like I have won." I said with a smile.
Anya looked up at me in shock at first then frowned.
"That's not fair. You cheated. I didn't know you were this strong." She said.
"Do you think an enemy will be fair and give you a chance to fight back?" I asked her.
"Expect the unexpected. Do not hesitate and do not hold back anything. Show your opponent no mercy until he is defeated. For you shall receive none yourself." I told her.
"Well, if you want to put it that way..." Anya said with a smile before suddenly wrapping her tail around my waist and threw me off of her.
I straightened myself as I spun through the air and landed on my feet.
"Woah!" I shouted and ducked as Anya threw the knocked down tree at me.
As it crashed behind me, Anya charged towards me and reared herself up to attack me with her front claws again.
I smiled before jumping up and doing a back flip kick to her chin, causing Anya to yelp and stumbled backwards while she grabbed the side of her mouth with a claw.
I landed on a bolder and was about to attack again when I noticed Anya was rubbing the side of her mouth before she suddenly spat out a tooth into the snow.
We both stared at it in shock before Anya slowly turned to me with a look of anger.
My shock became dread when I saw this.
"I'm sorry." I whispered.
Anya reared back her head before breathing a hail of ice towards me.
I leaped backwards and ran behind trees and bolders as Anya froze over my cover.
Anya suddenly leaped and landed in front of where I was running, forcing me to turn around and run the other way. She gave chase while swinging her claws and tail at me.
I jumped up to the top of a large cluster of bolders and leaped off the top, doing a few front flips as I soured through the air towards a cliff overlooking the lake.
As soon as I landed, the bolders behind me exploded as Anya smashed her way through them and begun looking around for me.
"Talion!" I heard Anya call me as I quickly crawled away towards the cliff edge, while Anya searched for me. But apparently she didn't have to search long as I heard her land behind me.
I quickly stood up and turned around to see Anya slowly walking towards me with a wide smile.
"Now, there's no where else for you to run." She said.
I looked behind me down the cliff and saw the lake around sixty feet below. Apparently, we had been climbing in elevation a little during the chase.
I turned back to Anya and smiled.
"Isn't there?" I asked her before I leaned backwards and fell over the cliff edge.
Anya watched in shock before rushing over.
"Talion!" She shouted and looked over the cliff edge only to see nothing but the lake below.
"What the?" Anya asked as I quietly snuck behind her.
"Surprise." I said before I kicked her legs.
"AHHHHH!" Anya screamed as she tumbled over the edge.
"HAHA! Victory is-" I was about to finish when I felt Anya's tail wrap around one of my legs.
"Oh, come now." I said before I was pulled off over the cliff.
Anya pulled me against her chest and wrapped her claws around me as we both fell towards the freezing lake.
"Mine." I heard Anya say a second before we splashed into the water.
Although neither the heat nor cold effected me much anymore, the water was still freezing. But I didn't stay in it for long as Anya swam up and continued to hold me against her chest as she floated on her back on the surface of the lake.
I looked up to her and saw she was looking down at me with a smile.
"Now, you are mine." She whispered with a half lided gaze.
"What?" I asked her as I was shaking the water out of my ears.
"Hehe. Nothing, Talion." Anya said as she shook her head.
"Heh. Well, it looks like you've won. Congratulations." I told her.
"Well thank you. It was really fun. But if you hadn't decided to hold back, that might have been a challenge." She said.
"What are you talking about? You were also holding back." I said.
"Of course I was. Why would I intentionally try to hurt you Talion?" She asked.
"If only it was that easy." I repeated and started to rub Anya's stomach as I laid on top of her.
She laid back and started humming at my touch.
"I hope I didn't hurt you to much with the tooth." I said.
"Believe it or not, that tooth had been irritating me for the past month. So you actually did me a favor by removing it." She told me.
"Well, that's good." I said.
"But I think you still owe me for that kick to the face. I bit my tongue because of that too." She said.
"You were the one who threw a tree at me!" I told her.
"Self defense." She said while smiling.
"Self defense my- Damnit. Its impossible to get mad at you." I said.
"Good! That means you won't complain about rubbing me for payment in turn for hitting me in the face." Anya said.
"No, I suppose not." I said as I continued to rub her chest and stomach, while she hummed.
We both stayed silent and enjoyed each others company as we slowly floated over to the shore.
"Talion?" Anya called me.
"Yes Anya?" I answered.
"Thank you for staying with me." Anya said.
"You're welcome Anya." I told her.
"Now come on. Let's get back to dry land."
Anya pushed us towards the shore and let me up when we reached it.
Because of how cold it was, the water on both of us froze when we stepped out of the lake.
I shook the ice off of me while Anya did the same and stretched her wings.
"You missed a spot." I told her as she tried to get the ice off of her back.
"Where?" She asked me.
"Here, hold still. I'll get it." I told her and brushed the ice off of her shoulder.
As I brushed the ice off of Anya's neck and shoulders she started humming again to my touch.
Hearing this, I moved my hand under her neck and begun scratching her a litte, causing her to lean down farther and hum even more.
"Humm. That feels wonderful, Talion." She said before closing her eyes and lowering her head to nuzzle against me.
"Well, this is the least I could do for kicking your tooth out." I told her while she leaned in. But before Anya got to into the rubbing and scratching, I pulled away.
"Why did you stop?" Anya whined.
"Because if I didn't, you wouldn't let me stop until half the day has passed." I told her.
She laughed at my answer.
"Its not my fault that you have magic fingers." She said.
"Well, come on. I need to go get my things before we start moving again." I told her and started walking back where we had camped out.
"You know, I could always fly us around instead of us constantly walking a boring and slow pace." Anya told me.
"While I am honored that you would allow me the privilege of flying with you Anya, I would much rather walk and enjoy the forest around us up close." I said.
"What? I've just offered you chance to fly with me and you turn it down? Are you scared of heights?" She asked me in shock.
"No, I'm not scared of heights, Anya. I've flown before." I told her.
"You have?" She asked me in surprise.
"Yes I have... A long time ago." I answered.
..."This is Cujo 5-1 to any friendly units in the area. "Hammerdown" is in effect. I repeat: "Hammerdown" is in effect...
...Thirty seconds till weapons release....
...Bombs away, bombs away."
"Talion? Are you dozing off again?" Anya asked, pulling me out of my thoughts.
"Sorry about that. It's a force of habit of mine when I travel." I told her.
"Speaking of which, why must you always travel? You don't even have a destination." Anya asked me.
"Well, we could travel to your home in the Dead Mountains, but as you have told me, the dragons there would not take kindly to my presence here." I said.
"No dragon would harm you while I protect you, Talion." She told me.
"I don't think that would stop them from trying." I said.
"Ha! Only over my dead body will they ever touch you." She declared.
"They'd probably find that quite agreeable. But I am deeply flattered though, to know that you would go so far to protect me, Anya. But trust me when I say that you won't have to." I told her.
"Maybe not. Especially since you are capable of fighting a dragon the way you did today." She said.
I chuckled.
"Either way, I do not go around searching for fights everywhere I go. If ever there is a way to solve conflict peacefully, then I will fight for it. Always." I told her.
"I didn't know that about you, Talion." She said.
"As well as a great deal of many other things." I told her.
"For now perhaps." She said while smiling.
"For now." I said.
"Look, Anya I-" I quickly turned my head to the side as I heard a very low rumbling.
"Do you hear that?" I asked her.
"Hear what?" She asked me.
Before I could tell her, the ground suddenly started to shake underneath us.
"Anya, move now!" I shouted.
We both had started running back towards the lake as the ground where we both stood suddenly exploded outward, knocking us both over.
I rolled for a few seconds before I was able to skid to a halt, while Anya had fallen on her side as the ground around us continue to shake.
"Anya, are you alright?" I asked as I rushed over to her side.
She shook her head and and quickly got back up.
"I'm fine. But what-" Anya suddenly paused when she looked up behind me.
"Talion!" She screamed in fear.
I quickly turned around and saw something large and white a few meters in front of me that was looming over us.
I looked up and for the first time in a very long time, I felt fear. Real fear.
It reared back it's head and let out a screech like roar at us.
"Anya, fly now!" I shouted before turning around and leaping onto her back.
Anya didn't even wait. As soon as I grabbed ahold of her neck, she leaped backwards into the air and breathed a cone of ice at the frost worm's head before turning around and flying in the opposite direction.
The frost worm wasn't effected by the blast of ice at all. It mearly reared it's head back again and blew a breath of ice at us in return.
Anya screamed as the ice shards struck her wings, causing her to lose control and start falling.
I was thrown off Anya as we both crashed into a few trees and rolled across the ground before slowly coming to a halt near the lake.
I slowly pushed myself up and crawled over to Anya, who was trying to get up.
She was bleeding across her wings through small holes that were caused by the frost worm's ice breath.
"Anya, don't move yet." I told her.
The ground started shaking again as we both heard the worm rour.
"Talion, we need to get out of here. We can't kill the frost worm alone." Anya said with a fear filled voice.
I turned around and saw the worm slithering towards us.
I stood up and walked forward a few steps towards it.
"Talion, what are you doing?" She asked, worried.
I turned my head to the side to look at her before I answered.
"By my life, Anya, you shall not lose yours." I told her and then reached out my hand towards the forest.
A blue flash of light shown in the forest before heading towards us.
Anya gasped as the blue light flashed towards my out stretched hand.
I grabbed onto the energy and the light dissipated to reveal a glowing blue spear
I pulled back my arm and threw my new weapon at the frost worm.
A sonic boom exploded outward from me as my spear seemed to flash in a blue blur towards the frost worm.
In the instant my weapon pierced deep into the worms body, I flashed straight to it and grabbed onto the spear again.
"Talion!" I heard Anya shout as I pulled my spear from the worm and begun slashing at it's body, leaving deep gashes across it.
The worm stopped moving towards Anya and screeched as I attacked it.
The worm then shook it's body to throw me off.
As I fell back towards the ground, I thrust my spear foward and it's blade shot out, attached to a chain from the shaft, towards the worm and embedded itself into it.
I swung on the chain and launched myself up towards the worm's head, where I then spun around mid air and rapidly slashed the side of the frost worms head.
It roured and breathed ice at me, but as the hail of ice came towards me, I transformed into my wraith form and swung my spear hard across the worms open mouth. But I didn't stop there.
After converting back into my physical form and falling towards the ground again, I continued to rapidly swing my spear across the worms whole body, all the way down.
The worm finally having enough of my attacks, twirled and swung it's whole body around. Uplifting earth and trees, forcing me to jump away from it.
Just when I was about to attack again, the worm threw it's whole body against the earth and flung a massive chuck of stone, dirt and snow towards me.
I pulled back my spear and threw it towards the worm again. I flashed just in time before I was buried.
I then continued to attack the frost worm as it repeatedly tried to get me off and was able to get on top of the worm to run across it while slashing all the way.
Just as I approached it's head, the worm suddenly slammed it's own head against the ground, causing me to slip and fall over. But before I could fall off of the worm, it threw it's head up suddenly and smacked right into me.
I only flew through the air for a few seconds before I met the earth again.
"Why do my opponents always keep getting bigger?" I asked myself.
I quickly stood up and turned around to face the frost worm again, which was now rushing towards me.
I readied myself for another attack as the worm reared back it's head and lunged at me.
I was about to throw my spear again when Anya suddenly flew in and tackled the side of the worm causing it to start thrashing about as Anya bit and scratched deep into it's body.
I quickly rejoined the fight by throwing my spear at the worms head and flashing on top of it.
I pulled out my spear only to stap it back in even farther, causing the frost worm to thrash around even more.
As Anya and I continued attacking the worm, it suddenly roared and dived it's head towards the ground again, but this time it dug into the earth. Seeing this, Anya and I leaped off the worm as it dug it's way back underground.
Anya rushed over to my side as we both watched the frost worm disappear. But I waited for the ground to stop shaking before I lowered my guard and turned to Anya, who was slightly panting.
"Are you alright Anya? How badly are you hurt?" I asked, concerned.
"I'll live. These wounds should heal without any problem. I hope." She reassured me.
I sighed in relief.
"Come on. We should get out of here in case it decides to-" Just as I was about to finish, the ground briefly shook before it exploded outward underneath us both.
I was thrown across the ground as the frost worm reemerged and bit onto Anya, around her body. She roared in pain as the worm shook her around.
"Anya!" I screamed as I pushed myself back up.
Anya thrashed around in an attempt to pry herself out of the worms mouth and managed to bit and claw the side of the worm's mouth.
The worm reared it's head back and threw Anya into the ground. It then reared it's head back again and lunged towards Anya.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" I roared as I reverted my spear back into a sword and flashed towards the frost worm. I swung with all my might and cut a deep gash into the worms body.
It screeched and thrashed it's body backwards.
I quickly rushed over to Anya's side.
She was bleeding around her stomach and chest, where the frost worm had bit into her. Her wings were a torn and also bleeding.
She was shaking and breathing heavily.
"Anya..." I said.
"Talion... I-I..." Anya stuttered.
We both heard the worm rour behind us.
I looked over my sholder and saw the worm turning in our direction.
It had taken a lot of damage to itself and was bleeding blue blood across it's whole body.
"Talion." I felt Anya press her head against me as she spoke. I looked back to see she was crying.
"Thank you so much for staying with me."
I placed my sword down next to me as I put a hand onto the side of Anya's head. I looked into her eyes and felt her fear. But I also felt the happiness she had in my presence.
She was ready for death. But I wasn't. Never again...
"Anya... I'm so sorry." I said before I grabbed her head with my other hand and forced my will and power into her.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Anya screamed as her eyes burst into blue flames and her whole body became covered in shadows.
I felt Anya's emotions and memories flow into me. But before I saw to much, I closed off my mind to her memories, so I didn't see everything she had seen and experienced.
~Anya, stop. Breath in. Count to four. Breath out. Count to four. Repeat.~ Anya stopped screaming as I mentally calmed her.
Eventually her breathing steadied as I used my power to heal her wounds.
~"Anya, stand and fight with me again."~ I told her.
She pushed herself up and turned to face the approaching frost worm with me.
~"Send this foul creature into the abyss!"~ I shouted when I raised my hand which burst into blue flames while Anya breathed in as she reared back her head.
The frost worm rushed towards us both before it roured and lunged forward.
~"NOW!"~ I shouted and thrusted my hand forward at the same time Anya unleashed her breath weapon.
A bright blue jet of fire and light blasted out from Anya's mouth, right into the frost worms mouth.
The frost worm was thrown backwards and thrashed it's body around as it instantaneously burst into bright blue flames all over.
It then tried to screech but was quickly silenced as it's whole body started to turn into ice.
The blue fire across the worms body slowly died out, leaving the frozen body of the giant frost worm, which started to brake apart and shatter to the ground.
I let out a sigh as I pulled my power out of Anya and we both reverted back to normal and the shadows left us. Anya then gasped and collapsed when she returned to normal.
I quickly moved over to Anya and crouched next to her.
"Talion... what... How?" Anya managed between breaths.
"Shh. Don't worry about that now." I told her as I pulled her head into my lap and gently rubbed her neck.
"The.. frost..." She said.
"Its okay, Anya. It's dead now." I reassured her.
She stayed silent for a bit as she tried to relax herself.
"Thank you..." She finished as she closed her eyes and fell asleep from exhaustion.
I let out a sigh as I closed my eyes as well and continued to rub her neck.
"I'm here. Rest now... Princess Anya."
Hello again.
Man that was a long chapter for me to write. It was fun.
So I also would like you all to know that I went back and fixed the beginning chapters of this story.
Now, I added the images of Talion's sword and Luna/Nightmare Moon's.
I changed her weapon to a sword because I had discovered she use to have one in lore.
The one I chose for Talion is the closest I could get to match the one in the story picture.
I hope to read what you all think about all this. Until then, I will see you all up ahead.
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Oh he got himself a special one noice
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~the ship continues~
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Thank you.
First Darius, now Ekko, I wonder what's next?
Epico, los gringos al parecer siempre luchando por la libertad, aunque sea son los únicos de America que al parecer tienen las ganas hacerlo.
Bendito sea Dios!!!!
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Muchas gracias. Espero que sigas disfrutando mi historia.
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Concuerdo 100% con esto. En esta historia se encuentran los valores por los cuales U.S.A. era considerado uno de los mejores paizes en el mundo. Hay personas que siguen cargando estos valores hoy en dia en el paiz, tristemente. El mundo actualmente ve a estados unidos como un paiz donde caos reina. Trump no ayuda mucho que digamos.
This story is beautiful. Thank you for making this, will keep my eyes open for updates.
P.S. Man, those quotes. The one from Ekko was one that stuck deep.
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Thank you for your support.
And as for Trump, try watching this. At least TRY to watch, instead of just saying no as soon as you see it.
https://m.Oh and please speak in English.
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Sorry, the last part tranlated was "The united states nowadays is seen as a country in which chaos rules. Trump isn't really helping much to say at least." Just saying that he isn't really that great at showing that the United States isn't a paradise of chaos and disorder to the world.
Yeah
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Thank you for your input. But let's not make this comment section about politics anymore please. That goes for everyone.
So wait, if he was born in 1909 and is one-hundred-and-forty years old, then that means he left Earth when it was 2049, dude is literally twenty-nine years in the future from now. This would explain a few of my questions but from the way he acts, he doesn't know anything about the tv series MLP:FIM or about the games his form, name, and weapons are heavily inspired from - Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War... so I'm wondering does Talion come from an alternate-Earth, or does his Earth a majority of similarities with IRL Earth?
He's been in Equestria what, between half a month to two months? The story currently takes place just before Luna's return as Nightmare Moon.
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Pero si te pones a pensar, EEUU es la única nación que tal vez tiene un cierto sentido de union, los países latinos lamentablemente se sienten muy divididos, en el caso del mío Colombia esta dividida entre la izquierda y la derecha, y se nota el odio entre los dos grupos.
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Alright
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So, more will be explained about Talion's Earth in the next chapter, which I will be releasing in a day or two.
The thing about the mlp series is that it does not exist.
There is no multi or alternate universe crap in my stories. EVER. God made only ONE universe. One Earth.
The planet of Equss does exist in our galaxy though, in this story. Around 4.5 something lightyears away.
But yes, his Earth is not the same as ours. This IS a fictional story after all.
Oh and I made a slight miscalculation with how old he is. He is actually suppose to be 130 years old.
I set it 19 years ahead from now. Thanks for showing me my mistake.
MORE CHAPTERS PLZ
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So sorry for not posting for a while. It has been a very hard few weeks for me.
A new chapter will be coming out soon.
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Its ok take ur time. To me these stories are a gourmet u cant rush good stories or there not going to be good
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Is nice.
Roar! It's "roar" not "rour".
I like the story and will continue to read it. Keep up the good work.
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It’s a French accent , my friend.
Roúr (I’m so sorry)
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Ya. I fixed it.
The hidden pop-culture references in this story are fantastic
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Thanks. I keep wondering if people are noticing the references.
Coeur D'alene, Idaho..... wow been a while since I've been up there, absolutely gorgeous from what I remember, nothing but mountains, tall pines and dense forest, my favorite kind of area.
Also that reveal at the end, wonder how that's gonna go down.
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It is a beautiful place.
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I agree. I could practically see that German scientist from the First Avenger.
yeah lucky ass BASTARDS!
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Absolutely.
Living forever on Earth. Now that's a hell all on it's own.
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Especially when you consider a few things. For instance, being buried alive is a thing that occurs on occasion, be it from being caught in a mudslide or abnormally large sink hole. If you can't die, then with a long enough span of time, your odds of being trapped underground become 100%. Be it tomorrow, or a few thousand years from now, it will eventually happen.
So unless you can manage to dig yourself out with your arms, and everything else, pinned in place...