Part Two: Only The Brave
In all my travels, there were few places I would not go. I grumbled with goblins, matched wits with wyverns, mingled with minotaurs, sang with satyrs, and danced with dragons. Though what always confounds me is the sheer number of beasts that live off of fear, and in their homes I wished not to go.
As a bugbear would creep like the bogeymare, or the burning nightmares would choke out their prey with deadly smoke, these monsters all inspired terror and dread. We hear legends of how these creatures take a sadistic passion in their destruction and killing. Their reputations can often bring about more fear, making their work all the more pleasant to them.
It’s easy to hear all of the accounts that we give on the horrifying things that there are in the world, to feel as if hope is a foolish notion that only the most naïve of ponies put faith in. But there are those that put that fear aside, and dare to test the truth of the legends.
Our leader was well aware of the pain and death that hung over a place like Reject’s Garden, but if she was afraid I didn’t see enough of it to believe it. Where the rest of us grew weak in the knees, she laughed and ran faster. She would break the weak tales that stood before her and leave her own lasting legend, proving that the bold nature of heroes was worthy of song and story. Whether it was bravery or stubbornness that drove her into the cursed home of the trolls, it will be remembered that if it weren’t for her, we would have never went in ourselves.
Even under my optimism I could feel my skin shudder in the toxic swamp, but if it had been Tartarus itself, I still think I would have followed her. She had bravery to spare when the rest of us had it in short supply.
Let my fellow bards tell of her unending courage, and become inspired themselves. Throw her friends into hell itself and she will overthrow the demons, alone if she must, and drag them back out. I believe she could do it too, flying them all out on her back if she had to.
But of course, as her friend I would praise her. What pains me to say though is that, while her valor was unending, she is still a mortal being as ourselves, and has her own faults. Confusion and doubt proved to be powerful enemies for her, and the memories of her pain put me through my own agony. The fogs of the marsh’s poisons paled in comparison to the green-eyed envy that walked among our own. Perhaps her genes knew this day would come.
It didn’t take pause within that forsaken forest however, as even the stinging gust of the northern land brought less distress than the emotional affair. Too many times do the folk forget that the dangers outside their home do not make way for the unneeded drama of our common life. Petty jealousy and anger exist everywhere, and cause just as much trouble as a fiend or a rockslide, sometimes even more so.
It takes more than bravery and a blade to stand up to issues such as these, but the creatures don’t stop hunting either. We must keep our wits, our blades, and our senses sharp, even when our own problems attempt to dull them. If we don’t, then we can only hope to be remembered as some slightly painful troll shit.
-Lyra Heartstrings
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Okay getting quite dark there than again with the place there going to I'm not surprised. Oh discord better be traveling with fluttershy and protecting her. Fluttershy's stare only works well on living things. The undead have no emotions at all. Really I'm even starting to get concerned. I been a firm believer of the multi verse and that means this is actually happening in another dimension. The group have my mental support through this. Because a new era is dawning and I feel that fluttershy has been altered in there slowly taming the living part of that Forrest. I hope flutterbat is more like fluttershy if I'm right. What flutters is down right able to tame the animals of the ever free on her own. Kinda scary when she's ticked. Why do I have the feeling she's gone and pulled a druid/discord here.
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Brilliant! I enjoy getting people really into the story like this!
Now, as for some of your predictions and guesses, you have very creative and interesting ideas.
Sombra however, is simply that. A piece of him still lives on through his horn, not some symbiotic lifeform. Apologies.
As for inspiration for Reject's Garden, it was taken from one of the Drizzt novels by R.A. Salvatore with further inspiration by the song Gardens of the Sinner by Gamma Ray.
And though that's a brilliant idea, our primary antagonist isn't a dark void, Nickel has seen that he has an eye and claws. Keep tuned.
As for the other party, they are far away from pony or griffon lands, traveling. They're not involved in the coming war at the moment, and even so, Rainbow is working to prevent the event from even coming about. There's no need to bring it up to them.
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Discord isn't with Fluttershy. She left without telling anyone where she was going. As did all the Mane 6.
4174975 wait I just said the guy's name. You know how a ponie's name hints at their talent in the show right. Well my villain is basically what influenced the nightmare even created it. He lost his phisical body and is nothing but living shadows for longer than discord who was born from the chaos he started. Really the guy went from pony to a shade and has been trying to influence the world to revive him back to physical form. Heck I wouldn't be surprised if darkness void was the brother of owayix there. Both seem dragonic in nature there. From what you placed in the earlier chapter owayix must be a storm wraith dragon. Only thing that makes sense to me on why nature's affected.
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Uh, wraiths have nothing to do with it. From the dragon sources I use, they are magical creatures that consistently effect nature anyway, being a sort of 'force of nature' themselves, and they aren't related to ponies. In most cases, not this one, dragons are even known as the creators of magic, and any creature that uses magic has some form of dragon's blood in their familial history.
The storm isn't pony, undead, shadow, or storm wraith dragon related. This story is it's own universe, not drawing from other fictions, and it has it's own explanations that have been written and we will come to when we get to them.
4175801 oh right wait you didn't say anything about flutterbat there! I wonder what you got planned there. Nor that you didn't say a thing about my comment that fluttershy is taking over reject's garden. Well what lives in that place still. With poison fog I'm not expecting most to still be alive. Trolls included. They still need air to breath and poison fog can get atthem that way.
I think I got you there with my logic.
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There was no mention of poison fog, merely poisons. Also, just because something is poisonous to one creature, doesn't mean it's poisonous to another. Trolls are commonly depicted as regenerators, only fire or acid can actually destroy them unless there was a toxin or potion or spell to halt their regeneration. Trolls are incredibly hard to put down.
I don't mention Flutters, because you have to wait and see what happens.