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[Aqua Fire]

Illusion was confused and hurt by what the two ponies said. After the pegasus said that sentence, she yelled, "IM NO LONGER EVIL, SO DONT JUDGE PONIES JUST BECAUSE OF HOW THEY LOOK(couldn't think of anything else that signaled that she was once a prisoner from Tarturus)!!!" Tears started to form, but were quickly wiped away. "Um.. I mean.. The princess, Luna, talked to you in your dreams, she told you to tell no pony else what happened, and that I, Illusion the dragon, will help you in your quest to retrieve the prisoners of Tarturus." She quickly said, hoping no one noticed what she said.

[Peace Keeper]

*- I am kinda good on how it is, but I do get what you are going with this. There are situations to where we were to take turns posting, but we would have to improvise on our approach to the situation as the story already is progressing. I been in 2 dilemmas in RPs: This one, where we all would post in turns, but miss out an opportunity, and the other being all of us posting at once to one certain thing, making a traffic jam of responses. I think it is good we can make a discussion of this so we plan things out.

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Shadow flinches as the dragon known as Illusion screams with a roaring sound. He can make out the words of Illusion and watches from the branch as she tells the group her offer to help out.

So you must be the help Luna was talking about. The one with Tartarus experience. Will be a great help to have someone like you. Just try not to do any funny business. Not to say I don't trust you, frankly I hardly trust anyone, but we will need all the help we can get if we are to succeed in returning the prisoners to Tartarus.

[Aqua Fire]

"Alright, as long as none of you make me mad. Also, don't tell your guide about this, just say, um, that I wanted to help you, which I do." Illusion said.
(If you want me to edit that part out, I will.)

[Melancholia]

((I tend to wait until there's been three or four other replies before Inreply myself, so you guys get a chance to post XD but I'm pretty flexible.))

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Melancholy was still studying the dragon excitedly and she glanced in the direction of their guide, Blazing before biting her lip.

"Soooo.... can I have any scales you shed?" She asked hopefully. "Alchemy is kind of the only thing I'm good at, and any rare ingredients are incredibly useful floor my research and experiments..."

Her yellow eyes moved to her saddlebags,which were still next to the, now dead, fire. Some of the things she carried with her had the potential to be catastrophic when mixed with certain reagents, which was why she kept some ingredients separate.

[Aqua Fire]

"Um.. I don't shed often.. Only once a year." Illusion said.

[annosrules]

Rustling shrubbery signals the return of the guide as the burgundy stallion emerges with saddlebags once again filled with nature's bounty.

[Space Ace]

//my replies depend on how long it's been since I've replied to this rp and any others, really. And I'll only add anything when I feel it's at least a little bit of a contribution. I'm alright with how things are going.

Aurora had been watching wuth some caution since the dragon had stepped out, but they seemed nice enough.  They hadn't attacked, or done anything else. As their guide reappeared, her attention turned to him. She nodded in greeting.

[Irroro]

///OOC: Good to know that most of you are fine with it all. Guess I'll delete that post then. But after I get LunarDusk's input.

"Oh thank Celestia." Honest finally sees their guide as he enters the camp, and, with a quick wing flap, he flies over to the cowpony, armor clinking a little as he touched the ground beside the stallion. "So..." Honest began without haste, "Do you know where I can get some breakfast or..." Honest noticed that the stallion's saddlebags were full of something, but didn't say anything about it. Instead, he looked to the stallions forest-green eyes for a response with a smile.

[Aqua Fire]

Illusion spotted the guide. She walked up to him, but not to close, and said, "Hiya! I'm Illusion! I overheard that ya were looking for escapees. Mind if I join in on the fun?" Her accent changed a bit to avoide suspension.

[Irroro]

Honest's smile turned upside down when Illusion spoke to Blazing, and he nearly glared at her before remembering his manners. He then cleared his throat before he said with an unnaturally polite sounding tone, his expression that of a typical nose-up noble's when speaking to commoners, "Excuse me Illusion, but I'm currently talking to this pony right now, not you. So why don't you wait your turn"--He looked over to one of the fallen trees to his left.--"somewhere over there, yeah?" before he turned back to Blazing. "So, about that breakfast."

[Aqua Fire]

Illusion stepped back, then said, "Why, who put ya in charge, here? Pretty sure the guide is in charge." She then glared at him, as if saying, "You don't want to make me mad..."

[annosrules]

Whatever Blazing Legend was going to say about breakfast, the appearance of a new hero (and a dragon one at that) had him more than a little upset. "What on Gia's sweet earth is a dragon doing here!?"

[LunarDusk]

///OOC: Good to know that most of you are fine with it all. Guess I'll delete that post then. But after I get LunarDusk's input.

"Oh thank Celestia." Honest finally sees their guide as he enters the camp, and, with a quick wing flap, he flies over to the cowpony, armor clinking a little as he touched the ground beside the stallion. "So..." Honest began without haste, "Do you know where I can get some breakfast or..." Honest noticed that the stallion's saddlebags were full of something, but didn't say anything about it. Instead, he looked to the stallions forest-green eyes for a response with a smile.

//Meh I've kinda been overlooked/ignored for most of the time since the trip started so whatever you go through with is your call 


"[glow=indigo,2,300]...Its tartarus[/glow]" Virtuous said in a slightly snark manner.

[Irroro]

//We haven't overlooked you or ignored you. I believe that we all in acknowledgement of what your character has done so far. We just haven't done so directly. Yet. 'Cept me. 

"I could say the same to you!" Honest said, losing the nobleness, completely ignoring Blazing and missing the warning. "Here you are in our campsite, uninvited, acting friendly and all while I'm just trying to get some food! So I'd say that this warrants more than just 'getting mad'." Honest's wings flared wide open and his body lowered for battle once again as he glared dangerously at the dragon. "So, do you want to go, scaly? 'Cause I'm feeling like I want to." He let out a snort and pawed the ground in front of her, just begging her to attack.

[Aqua Fire]

"Trust me, you wouldn't want me to." Illusion said, brushing back her scales. "Just 'cause I'm a gal, doesn't mean I can't kick your flank." She continued.

[Irroro]

One of Honest's eyes twitched at her smugness as it reminded him of all the mares he'd come across in his life that he didn't like. His face slowly contorted to one of anger and pain as he glared at Illusion, seeing all of their faces on her as if she wasn't a dragon. It made his blood boil, his teeth grind. If she'd just backed down, he wasn't going to do what he was going to do next.

He yelled into the sky.

And then he yelled some more.

And then he stopped, panting, before his eyes returned to Illusion, the anger from before gone, replaced now by something of a sad look, though subtle, until finally, "Blazing..." He said between his pants, not looking away from her. "Food... Please." He turned to look back at Blazing, and then to the stallion's saddlebags. "Please."

[Melancholia]

Melancholy looked at the distressed Pegasus, then to the irate dragon and back again, her fur stuck up and her ears back. She then sighed softly and pulled herself together. Now was not the time for her to get anxious. She instead turned to her saddlebags and began rooting around inside.

"I'm sure I had some.. hmm... where-?" She then grinned and pulled out a piece of smooth obsidian with some kind of symbol carved into it,a symbol which seemed to glow and wisps of white smoke emanated from it.

She then looked at Illusion. "Do you think you could hold this for me?" She then lowered her voice, so Blazing wouldn't hear. "It's a kind of rune for tracking... it picks up on more...subtle energies...the kind that you'd pick up from a place of potent negative energy...like Tartarus..." she looked away. "If you hold it, it should glow blue and it'll glow brighter the closer we are to one of the escaped prisoners...essentially you'll be our beacon..."

She smiled again before placing the rune in the dragons claws and trotting over to their other companions.

"So... what's for breakfast?" She chirped.

[Aqua Fire]

Illusion was confused by what the pegasus did, and sorta stood there. Her confusion stopped when she was handed the stone, which started to glow when she touched it. Illusion wasn't really hungry herself, so she said, "I'll fly above to look for the escapees." She then flew up high into the sky. She scanned the area. She had met some of these prisoners before, some of them a tensy bit nicer then others.
(Just wondering, what kind of creatures are we looking for?)

[annosrules]

Blaze facehoofs as Illusion flies off, commenting, "Can somepony please tell me that she's not gonna try following us?" Obviously the guide was disgruntled about a sudden addition to the group unannounced and unintroduced. "Celestia, what have you gotten me into this time?"

His saddlebags drop from his side, splashing some of their contents onto the ground, as if Blaze had heard Honest's pleas and carried through even through his obvious torment.

[Peace Keeper]

Well... Sorry to break you the bad news Blazing, but...

Shadow hops down from the branch and lands on the ground with a roll, getting up on 4 hooves and continues.

She wants to help us. I know you don't wanna hear that. Surprised all of us.

He takes a fruit, looks like a melon, and knockes the fruit on a log to break open. He continues, looking to the rest as well.

I'm not an all-trusting pony. Not sure how everypony feels about it having her as a surprise partner. She claims she is reformed, and part of me says she's telling the truth. More allies means better odds in our favor to accomplish. Its a risk for sure if you willing to trust her.

He begins to take bites on the fruit.