The usual radio program suddenly got interrupted by a very urgent sounding message.
Hello? Is this thing on? ... Listen ponies, griffons, changelings, anything that can think. There's a terrible decease spreading. I don't know what it is, nor where it came from. The infected look normal, just a little too friendly. They want to hug anything that moves! I think i know how it spr... the broadcast got interrupted in this point.
The radio returned to its normal program after this. Was it a joke? Or a warning? Your only clue is the local radio station.
Proceed with caution.
OOC: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=11733.new#new
(Azure Wave looks at the radio, confused.)
Hmm...this has to be a joke...but if it IS real...Chry-...Her Highness, will be mad if I don't tell her. That could be a lot of free love...
Still...wouldn't hurt to go to town and check...
(After thinking, he decides to leave for Ponyville, after several thousand warnings and security checks from changeling guards.)
*BTW Azure is a unicorn, not a changeling. He's just forced to work for them.
A small blue unicorn mare was just off her nurse uniform in the hospitals dressing room when that broadcast was heard. She tilts her head "What? A hugging decease? That has to be a joke... right?" She asks no pony particular. After giving it some though she decided to head for the radio station, just in case somepony needed help.
Sheer Luck changed the station of the radio; not wanting to worry her
costumers at her Barber Shop.
As she rolled her eyes she said,
This is ridiculous. Nothing wrong with a
pony being a little friendly.
She smiles at her costumers and continues her work.
Azure walks into Ponyville (the trip was short thanks to teleportation), the wind sweeping up his messy green mane.
"Now, last I was here, the radio station was..."
He suddenly stopped, realizing something.
"I have NO idea where the station is."
The dark blue teen walks off in a random direction, hoping to find somepony who knew where it was.
Because the streets around him were desolate.
When the blue mare walked out of the hospital she was stunned to see the streets empty, especially at this hour. She looked in every direction, bud didn't see anything moving. "Where is everypony..." she whispered and grew worried. She headed of towards the radio station and saw Azure walking around. "Hey! Hey you!" She called out to him, which she would normally consider too rude and not do, and ran to him. "Sorry, have you seen anypony around?" She asked.
"Hey! Hey you!"
Azure whipped his head around, to see a mare run up to his muzzle.
"Sorry, have you seen anypony around?"
"Huh?!" Azure stuttered, taken aback at the sight of another pony. "Wha-?! I d-don't know!"
He backed up slightly. "I-I'm just looking for the radio s-station!"
"Oh... Sorry to frighten you. This is just too weird for me... My name is Blue, what is yours? I can show you to the station, i'm going there myself." She offered and waited for a response.
"Um...A-Azure." He said slowly: he always got nervous around mares.
"You're going too? Thanks, miss. I just want to see what's happening there. I think they're pulling a prank or something."
"Oh, you don't have to call me miss, you look like you're older than me anyway." She giggled.
"And yes, this must be a joke of some sort." She slowly trotted the way to the station.
//going to bed now, sorry
Post Merge
Quote from: FakeSmile on 2014 May 04, 15:48:10
Sheer Luck changed the station of the radio; not wanting to worry her
costumers at her Barber Shop.
As she rolled her eyes she said,
This is ridiculous. Nothing wrong with a
pony being a little friendly.
She smiles at her costumers and continues her work.
"Indeed. Ridiculous." One of her customers nodded and smiled. In that moment another pony stumbled in, a big wide smile on his face and a somewhat crazed look in his eyes.
Meanwhile somewhere kinda far away but not really that far...
A relatively white stallion ponders what is probably a map although the coffee stains suggests it may have also be used for, other things... He has no idea what's going on in the rest of Equestria and exploring the Everfree forest is starting to seem a like a terrible idea. Seriously, how're you supposed find your way around when you spilled coffee on your map? Might as well use it to wipe your... dirt off your body.
//we need an OOC thread
Sheer Luck smiled back at her costumer, relived no
one is taking the news seriously. Sheer Luck looked
startled by the pony busting through her doors.
She was about to say welcome but stop mid sentence
as she saw the crazed look on the pony face.
She slowly walked toward the pony.
Smiling she said,
Welcome! I'm sorry but we
are booked today. Unless you called
in advanced for an appointment.
She continued to smile, hoping the pony
doesn't do anything he might regret.
(just throwing this out there for clarification: Azure is 16)
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 May 04, 17:11:10
(just throwing this out there for clarification: Azure is 16)
(( Do you have a OC page :? ))
(Yeah, best one was on a page called How Well Do You Know Your OC?)
http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=11712.0
//OOC page made> http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=11733.new#new And Blue is 17, but looks a lot younger do to the fact she is quite small. Oh and i said i was going to bed, but kinda cant sleep X3
(I might be going to bed soon, nearly midnight here in Britain, but i'll stick around untill then. Also if i have to leavr int the middle of something, feel free to have Azure just tag along. Just don't let him get hugged ^-^
((midnight in 10 minutes here in the Czech republic X3))
(( Almost five here in America. Shall we continue or
nah allow you guys to get some shut eye :? ))
(I'm good with going on for a little longer.
Quote from: FakeSmile on 2014 May 04, 17:07:48
Sheer Luck smiled back at her costumer, relived no
one is taking the news seriously. Sheer Luck looked
startled by the pony busting through her doors.
She was about to say welcome but stop mid sentence
as she saw the crazed look on the pony face.
She slowly walked toward the pony.
Smiling she said,
Welcome! I'm sorry but we
are booked today. Unless you called
in advanced for an appointment.
She continued to smile, hoping the pony
doesn't do anything he might regret.
The crazed look pony smiled even wider as he saw Sheer luck, he stood on his hind hooves, raised his front hooves and jumped at her, attempting to catch her in what seemed like a hug.
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2541443/pocket-sand-o.gif)
Sheer Luck acts fast and dazed the pony with her
pocket sand mace.
She tells the costumers to move to the back of the room.
She moves back quickly and picks up a broom.
Now I don't want any trouble.
You can still leave now with your hooves not broken.
(Ok g2g now see you all tomorrow :)
(( Baii ^-^ ))
Quote from: FakeSmile on 2014 May 04, 18:03:12
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2541443/pocket-sand-o.gif)
Sheer Luck acts fast and dazed the pony with her pocket sand mace.
She tells the costumers to move to the back of the room.
She moves back quickly and picks up a broom.
Now I don't want any trouble.
You can still leave now with your hooves not broken.
When hit the crazed pony stumbled backward. He let out a deranged laugh and slowly approached the other ponies.
As Blue and Azure made their way to the radio station the empty streets worried the mare more and more.
"I'm starting to get scared, this place should be buzzing with life this time of day..." She whispered nervously. They trotted around the barber shop and heard some noises from it. Blue looked at Azure with a very unsure look
"Should we check it out?" she asked.
"Why shouldn't you?" a voice asked Blue. If Blue and Azure were to look up, they'd see Tiger hovering over them.
((Oh boy, it's been such a long time since I've roleplayed. Let's get right into it ovO ))
((Unless timezones get in the way, of course.))
Azure looked up. "Wagh!...Don't...sneak up on ponies like that!...Who are you?"
"Ahah, sorry about that." Tiger landed on the ground. "Name's Tiger Stripes, but you can call me Tiger. And you are..?"
"Um...Azure Wave. And this is Blue. We just heard noises from in the barber shop, and since nopony's around, we don't know whether to check it out. The radio station's pulling one heck of a prank otherwise."
"I know, right? Kind of odd how they'd get almost every single pony in Ponyville to participate in a prank like this. Unless it isn't one, which I doubt. Who ever heard of a disease that makes you hug others?" Tiger said.
"Heh, yeah. Sounds like something Her Hi-ACK!"
Azure immediately stopped; if they knew he worked for the Changelings, they might think he's behind whatevers happening, if it is anything at all.
"Um...Anyway, it sounds ridiculous, right? I mean what could start such a-?"
He was interrupted by a loud crash from within the shop.
Tiger quickly dismissed Azure's odd actions when she heard the noise. "Interesting. Let's check it out," she said, walking cautiously towards the shop,
Blue was just listening and nodding. She was about to question what Azure meant but the crash interrupted her, she backed, almost ready to run. "Ok, there's definitely somepony there. Maybe they need help." Blue said with a somewhat shaky voice.
"Um...okay. Guess i'll go first..."
His horn brimming with ready magic, Azure walked around to the front of the shop alone to peer through the window...
"...Oh. My. Ch-...Celestia...!"
"What is it? What do you see?" Tiger asked, trying to look through the window as well.
Blue took a look inside as well. The three could see an unnaturally moving pony with a big smile and a crazed look in his eyes closing in on the customers and the barber at one side of the shop. "What's going on?" Blue said, confused, and went to open the door.
"Whoa whoa whoa! Just think for a second here." Tiger stopped Blue. "Taking a direct approach at this might not be the best idea. I mean, just look at it. Those other ponies look terrified and it's likely we'd just do that to ourselves if we just walk up and say hi. Although I'm not entirely sure why they'd be that scared... Nothing wrong with a pony looking a little different."
"Um, no offense, but that look on his face...I don't want to know what he's planning. And look at the other ponies! They're terrified!...Wait...you don't think...?"
Azure's voice trailed off.
"We can't just stand by and watch!" The little mare protested and attempted to open the door once again.
A young mare with a crimson mane and black coat began to sneak up on the other ponies outside the shop, tripping over as she attempted to randomly hug the group "Hugs, I like hugs."
"WAAGH!!"
Azure spun around as he heard the mare fall to the floor, to see a pair of deranged eyes darting a look at everypony in the group. Out of shock and self-defense, he blasted a small water ball at the mare.
//ok guys, i think we should wait for FakeSmile to make a post before progressing
(( Sorry darlings! I had track meet all day yesterday. ))
Okay you asked for it!
Sheer Luck threw down the broom. She knew she
had to keep that pony and her costumers at a
distance. Using her magic she move the couch
toward the deranged pony, pushing him toward
the door like a bulldozer.
"Okay, I got an idea!" Tiger opened the door, then looked to Sheer Luck and said "Hey, unicorn! Push him out the door with all you've got so that he'll fly out and away from us all!"
Outside the other infected pony was getting up, and looked ready to pounce on the nearest pony.
Tiger used her wings to generate wind, blowing it towards the infected pony outside to keep it away.
The winds did enough to keep the infected pony at bay, but not for long. "Hug me."
Blue was stunned by the situation for a while, when she got to, she frowned and charged her horn. "Calm down!" she tried to use an incapacitating spell to stop the infected pony from moving.
Post Merge
The infected pony in the Barber shop offered little resistance to the levitated couch, it was forced outside the shop for the ponies there to deal with.
Unfortunately for the infected pony, somepony else had chucked a brick knocking the infected pony out, but he was quickly infected himself as several infected began hugging him.
(Well, there goes my 'infected pony flying out of shop' plan lol)
"Sooner or later we'll be surrounded by these zombie-like ponies," Tiger commented. "We gotta get somewhere safe."
"Where did they came from? Just a moment ago there was no sign of anypony anywhere." Blue said and looked around, the infected ponies closing in slowly. "Everypony run!" She cried out and galloped away from the infected ones.
"Stick together! Hey!" Tiger said as she held the infected ponies back with wind before flying to catch up with Blue. "Know any safe place we can go to?"
Blue gallops on. "Yes... um, no. Yes... no." She remained silent for a few steps. "Oh, yes, i do! There's an old abandoned house i used to play in as a foal. It's near everfree forest so ponies stay away from it." She suggested.
"That's perfect. Lead the way, Blu- Hold on, is Azure still behind us?" Tiger said as she looked behind her.
"WAIT UP!!!"
Azure bolted down the road to them, the group of infected stumbling behind him.
"RUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUN!!!!"
More infected wandered in front of the group, one of them looked like they weren't really infected, but wanted to not be seen.
"Don't have to tell me twice." Blue said and galloped full speed in the direction of the abandoned house. After about 20 minutes of running they were at the house. Blue just stormed in through the main door, where she stopped to catch her breath and waited for Tiger and Azure, when they all were inside Blue charged her horn and slammed the door shut. "Any of them followed us?" she asked while panting for air, leaning against the door.
"Huff....Didn't...see......galloping....evil...." Azure wheezed, before realizing something.
"Wait...barber...pony...did she...get out......?"
"It doesn't matter" a voice called from upstairs, bordering the windows up he she continued.
"Those infected are coming!"
Blue blinked a few times. "Guess this place isn't as unknown as i thought." She said and peeked out of the mail hole of the door. "Also, i no longer think that this is some sort of prank..." she couldn't see any infected ponies outside, but she knew they were there, somewhere. She sighed and went to move the cough in front of the door. "Little help here?" she asked nopony in particular.
"One...sec..." Azure took a deep breath. "...Shouldn't we see who that is upstairs first? I don't want to get stuck in here with...whatever the heck's happening!"
Together they pushed the couch to the door, effectively barricading it. "Yeah, you're right..." Blue took a deep breath and then walked upstairs to check the mysterious voice.
Upstairs was a tied up infected, along with a lot of study equipment. "Hello, I'm Starlight Eclipse" a mare pronounced her black coat clashed with her crimson mane, she looked tired, and kinda hungry to.
Blue walked to the tired mare. "Um... Hi, i'm Blue Star. You look tired, are you ok?" She asked and noticed the tied up pony. "Is he one of them?" She asked and walked to the pony. She took a good look into the pony's eyes. "Can i examine him?"
Starlight yawned "He's infected, and so long as he stays tied up you can examine him."
"How did he got infected?" Blue asked, lied her saddlebag next to the tied up pony and started to examine him. Heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, reflexes, everything she could test check she did. "Okey... He has very... um... interesting vital signs..." she said to herself and opened he bag, to pull out a pen and paper and write down what she found out.
Azure decided to check. "Blue?" He called. "Who is it? They friendly?"
As Blue examined the infected pony Starlight fell asleep, her research notes littered the table she was next to.
"Yeah, their friendly. There's an infected pony here too, but he's tied up." Blue called to Azure, than noticed that Starlight was asleep, Blue looked around, she found a blanked on a cough near by and pulled it over Starlight. Then she noticed the notes on the table and started to read them. As a pony who is studying for a doctor, and has a part time nurse job in the local hospital, her understanding of medical terms and research was vastly beyond your average pony's.
"Oh...ok."
Azure sat on the ground and covered his face with his hooves.
"...Are you seriously telling me there's a HUGGING disease spreading...?!"
"Looks like it..." Blue sighed and stacked the documents on a neat pile on the table. "Their motor functions seem to be weakened, i think we should destroy the stairs so that they cant get up here even if they get by the barricades down stairs." she suggested.
"Okay. We're coming up."
Azure made his way upstairs, hopefully followed by Tiger.
((For facts about my Oc, check here http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=11712.msg774155#msg774155 ))
"BUT FOR BUCKS SAKE" Naura screames as there just comes more and more ponies at her, if she kickes one away, two new would jump up at his place.
"No, that's it! You have been hunting me around for ten minutes and you won't tell me why, this is outrageous! I will start kicking harder soon!" Naura screames as she runs closer and closer towards Ponyville with alot of crazy ponies following her, Then she hears somepony calling her on Pegaskype from her pc in her saddlebag.
"Oh, well, great time really" She says to herself. But then she sees a little hut with some other 'Wierd' ponies outside.
"Hmm, they don't seem to get in, maybe I'll check it out" she thinks and pushes herself up to the roof with the help of her vines ((Look up the link if confused)). She hears through the roof somepony saying
"Are you seriously telling me there's a HUGGING disease spreading..?". Just after Naura realized what she have heard she falls through the roof. She looks at the different ponies around in the room, one of them being tied up. She stands up and tries to keep a straight face on and then she askes;
"A hugging disease?"
(http://i.pinger.pl/pgr378/76bd87a6000ee83c50f46364)
Blue evaded the falling debris from the roof and the pony only by inches. "Yup, looks like it, anyway." she said with a sigh and eyed the new pony. She rubbed her head. "Hi, i'm Blue, know anything about this?" she introduced herself politely and asked.
"I'm Naura, and no, I just got hunted all the way around evergreen by these crazy ponies, and I came by this hut, and it looked like a good place to hide" she replied. But then she remembers something from her morning.
"But now when you say, sompony said something about a disease from Saddlearabia that almost took over the whole country, but they used something to swipe out all the bacteria from everypony, then I said she was wierd and we talked 'bout something else" Naura said with a lower voice
"But now, it doesn't seem as stupid..." she added with a faint grin.
"A Wild Hugger appeared out of nowhere!"
"Goooooo confused Player!"
"What will you do?" Attack Item
PoNe Run
Tiger followed Azure upstairs. "I don't know about you, but destroying the stairs seems a little extreme. I mean, what if you guys need to go down and back up, but can't? Also, pegasi infected with the disease will be able to fly up anyway."
Quote from: FakeSmile on 2014 May 06, 21:39:10
(( Sorry darlings! I had track meet all day yesterday. ))
Okay you asked for it!
Sheer Luck threw down the broom. She knew she
had to keep that pony and her costumers at a
distance. Using her magic she move the couch
toward the deranged pony, pushing him toward
the door like a bulldozer.
((I'm just goin' off this.~))
Sheer Luck blocks the deranged pony and yells
at her costumers to escape from the back.
As she watched the last pony leave, she slowly walked
backwards as she kept using her magic to contain the
pony. When she was a few feet from the back door she bolted
out. Too her horror she saw her costumers getting hugged from
other ponies. At first she was confused but she then saw the
deranged look in their eyes. Whispering to her self,
What is this? Is this what they were
talkin' 'bout on the radio?
As she stood their watching her costumers get
infected one pony jump at her. Sheer Luck jumped
back and the pony landed at her foot. Looking down at the
pony and back up she saw that all her costumers and
a few others were staring back at her. Sheer Luck let
out a loud gasp and began to run away.
Tiger looked out the window and happened to see Sheer Luck running towards the abandoned house they were in. She opened the window and shouted "HEY! It's safe here!"
Blue panicked. "Hey, shhh..." she tried to silence Tiger. "If you yell like that it wont be safe here for very long." she urged.
"Ah, s-sorry. It's just that there's a non-infected pony out there," Tiger said apologetically. "And I'd feel guilty if I didn't try to help her."
Blue looked out of the window and spotted the pony fleeing from the infected. "Well... um... we can't just leave her there..." she rubbed her chin. She turned to Tiger "Can you, um... fly to her, pick her up and fly back?" she asked.
Sheer Luck turned in the direction
of the yell. She looked at the abandoned
house and then back at the horde of
infected ponies. Yelling she said,
I don't want to bring
them toward you! Let me try to loose
a few!
Sheer Luck then circled around the tree
and ran back toward her shop.
She looked back at the abandoned
house. Smiling she yelled,
I'll be back!
Blue nodded. "You heard her, let's go down stairs and prepare for when she gets back. We'll move the couch, pull her in, and barricade the door again as quickly as possible." Blue suggested and headed downstairs, keeping low so she wont attract any unwanted attention.
"I'll fly out and see if she needs any help losing the horde," Tiger said before flying out the window. She then flew towards the direction she saw Sheer Luck run to.
"Be careful." Blue advised and lied in the couch blocking the main door. Sighed silently and closed her eyes, giving a good listen to what might be going on outside. I have a bad feeling about this. she thought.
As Tiger flew about Ponyville looking for where Sheer Luck went, she saw a number of infected ponies roaming the streets of the now seemingly post-apocalyptic Ponyville. Good thing I can fly, Tiger thought to herself. But clearly not all of Ponyville has been infected yet as there are more residents in Ponyville than this. The question is... Where ARE the rest of them? Tiger continued.
"Oh, somepony called me on pegaskype before, I should check who, she or he might need some help from me" Naura thougth and opens up her bag and picks up her pc. She looks through the list of past ponies that have called her.
"Hmmm, here it says that nopony have called me in the last hour, did I just think somepony called me...?" Naura thinks as she puts down the pc in her saddlebag again. She looks at the unicorn laying on the couch.
"I wonder what she is thinking on right now" Naura thinks while the mare sighs.
"I think we must find a better place to stay at, this is just in the edge of Ponyville, the infected will find this place sooner or later" she tells herself and the other ponies in the hut.
"Yeah, i know..." Blue whispered and let out another sigh, she opened her eyes and noticed Nauras PC. "Hey, you have a connection here? Can you check if Canterlot knows anything about this? If not, we have to warn them." She rubbed her chin. "Its only been like two hours since that radio broadcast, so i kinda doubt they know anything though." she let out yet another sigh.
((kinda starting to resemble the "night of the living dead" movie, hope it wont end as it too XD))
"Ya, I got connection, here, look if they know anything!" Naura says and hands over the pc to Blue.
"I think I can cook some of what we have up here, do you want anything special?" Naura asks and walks around the table with the supplies.
"Nothing in particular, not really hungry at this point." The little mare said and with her unicorn telekinesis spell levitated the PC in front of her and started to check Canterlots information sites, as well as the Royal Guards main page. "As i though, nothing. I need to do a call, if you don't mind." She asked.
As
Quote from: Tiger on 2014 May 08, 09:39:37
As Tiger flew about Ponyville looking for where Sheer Luck went, she saw a number of infected ponies roaming the streets of the now seemingly post-apocalyptic Ponyville. Good thing I can fly, Tiger thought to herself. But clearly not all of Ponyville has been infected yet as there are more residents in Ponyville than this. The question is... Where ARE the rest of them? Tiger continued.
Sheer Luck continued to run. She dodged and weaved through
infected ponies. She turned around to see how many ponies
were around following. Her eyes lit up as she saw Tiger.
Smiling she yelled,
Hey there! You mind helping me loose these creeps?
"Oh, sure, I don't mind at all" Naura replied as she started to make seven hay sandwichs that she could save for later, or to give some to the others. Then she sneaked down to the mare.
"Could you please tell me everyponys name? I only caught your name before"
Blue logged herself in the ponyskype and started a dial up. "Well, the pegasi that left a while ago is Tiger, that stallion there awfully silent is Azure. The pony sleeping upstairs is Starlight Eclipse, and the infected, tied up, pony i don't know his name." She explained and waited for the call to be picked up. "Come on..." she whispered, a second later a pony in golden armor appeared on the monitor. "Yes, finally. Soldier, i'm Blue Star, commanders Shieldchargers daughter, could you please get my father on?" She asked, the soldier nodded and left.
Azure was sitting at the side of the room, stuck in deep thought: If he's stuck out here, what's Her Highness going to think? He wouldn't put it past her to level this whole town if she thought he pulled a runner.
He just let out a deep sigh, blankly watching Blue use the PC.
Naura left one sandwich next to Starlight and hoped that she would see it when she woke up. Then Naura looked at Azure and said
"Here, have a sandwich, Azure, I bet your hungry" She said with a grin and held a hay sandwich in front of him.
((Writers block, I really got nothing to write about so now I'll stay quiet until something happens))
"Huh?" Azure snapped out of his zone to see the sandwich in front of him. "Oh, thanks." He said, taking it and slowly eating, eyes on the floor.
After a while a white unicorn stallion in golden armor appeared on the monitor with a very worried face. "Blue? Are you ok?" he asked. "Yes, dad, i am. For now at least." Blue answered and continued "Listen, there's something weird happening in Ponyvile..." She got interrupted. "Let me guess, hug crazed ponies?" he asked bluntly, Blue's eyes went wide. "Yeah... how did you know?" she asked and the stallion sighed. "About and hour ago the first case came to our attention. We're already in red alert, evacuating the civilians to the palace and barracks..." An urgent call form the background sounded, the stallion turned his head and yelled a few orders before turning back to his daughter. "Blue, i want you to know that i love you..." the connection got cut. Blue stared at the black call screen, her eyes welded up with tears and she whimpered.
((was supposed to be longer but my browser kept crashing :/))
Quote from: FakeSmile on 2014 May 08, 10:57:09
AsQuote from: Tiger on 2014 May 08, 09:39:37
As Tiger flew about Ponyville looking for where Sheer Luck went, she saw a number of infected ponies roaming the streets of the now seemingly post-apocalyptic Ponyville. Good thing I can fly, Tiger thought to herself. But clearly not all of Ponyville has been infected yet as there are more residents in Ponyville than this. The question is... Where ARE the rest of them? Tiger continued.
Sheer Luck continued to run. She dodged and weaved through
infected ponies. She turned around to see how many ponies
were around following. Her eyes lit up as she saw Tiger.
Smiling she yelled,
Hey there! You mind helping me loose these creeps?
"Sure thing!" Tiger said. She used her wings to generate wind to hold the infected ponies back while Sheer Luck ran.
Sheer Luck smiled wide as she said,
Thanks! Now I hope you don't mind being a distraction for a bit.
Sheer Luck stopped quickly and turned toward the group of infected ponies.
Her eyes glowed dark yellow as she stared down the group. Smiling she said,
I'm gonna change their memory of you and I to those ponies.
Think of it as an illusion but they can only see it. They'll believe they been chasin'
you this whole time because you'll look like me to them. All you need to do
is stand infront of me. Once they get close you tell me and I'll work
my magic.
Her eyes began to glow completely yellow now.
"Got it." When the horde was blown back enough, Tiger landed in front of Sheer Luck. "Whenever you're ready."
Sheer Luck waited till the horde was closer.
Once they were a few feet away Sheer Luck eyes
let out a bright flash. The ponies eyes glowed yellow
for a bit as Sheer Luck was changing all the ponies
memories. Okay, now fly somewhere else.
I'm gonna go back to my place to get some suplies.
I'll be waitin' on my roof for ya'!
Sheer Luck then turn and ran toward her house.
As she ran she yelled,
I appreciate your help!
Tiger just smiled. Then she flew up into the sky, the infected ponies watching her. "Hey! You guys don't look so terrifying from up here! Especially since you can't reach me!" Tiger snickered. She then flew around Ponyville with the trail of infected ponies behind her, trying to reach her.
Sheer Luck smiled as she ran toward her house.
A few infected ponies were laying on her yard but
she contiued to run toward the door. Using her magic
she opened the door and closed it behind her. She
quickly got a large saddle and started putting can
food and a can opener in her saddle. She also got
a medic kit and some flashlights. Running upstairs
she got a jar that look like a weird plant and stuff it
in the saddle. She then climbed the roof and watch
Tiger fly.
Tiger noticed Sheer Luck on the roof of a building. "Hey! Get to the abandoned house outside Everfree Forest first! They're waiting for you! I'll lose the horde!" Tiger flew as fast as she can so that the infected ponies would lose her trail while Sheer Luck would (presumably) go to the abandoned house.
Sheer Luck yelled back,
Alright darling, I'll meet you there!
Come by the roof though! I have some supplies up here
that I can't carry back!
Sheer Luck jump down to the lower roof and
then to the ground. She looked back at Tiger
and then began to run toward the abandoned house.
After Tiger lost the crowd, she entered stealth mode and went into the house Sheer Luck was on. There, she found...
((Tell me what she finds and I'll decide what she wants to take))
On top of the roof there is a small garden with some
fruit and vegetables growing. There is also a pile of
supplies on the ground. It looked as if Sheer Luck
had place a few of fruits and vegetables in plastic
bags but left them there. Tiger finds a pale pink
saddle filled with supplies. There are a few can
foods and a small first aid kit. Surrounding the
saddle are some survival things: a small pocket knife,
a few things of rope, some water containers. The
stuff is scattered everywhere which can make a
pony think she either didn't have enough time or
couldn't decided what to take.
Tiger instinctively took the small pocket knife and rope, then put it in the pink saddle(bag?). As there wasn't any space in the saddle for anything else, Tiger left the other things behind and flew back to the abandoned house.
Sheer Luck ran up toward the abandoned house.
As she raised her hoof to knock, she stop and looked up at
the sky. Thinking to her self,
I probably should walk in with that Pegasus. I bet her
friends would be worried if I walked in without her.
Sheer Luck lowered her hoof and decided to wait for Tiger.
She jumped up to a low branch on a tree and looked up
at the sky.
Naura heard knocking on the door and ran up to look out the window, when she saw the unicorn from before, she ran down and quickly moved on the couch and opened the door.
"Oh, hurry inside" said Naura and scanned the area outside after the infected. She sees no and watch the unicorn again
"What's your name?" she says, waiting for some reaction from the mare.
When Naura started to move the couch Blue wiped away her tears and put the pc down, after which she helped with the heavy couch. She prepared to move the couch again as soon as the pony outside got in.
"INCOMINGG!!" Tiger yelled as she crashed into the branch Sheer Luck was standing on. Clearly she wasn't used to flying with heavy weights on her back. "Probably should've just carried it with my front hooves instead of the way it's normally carried..."
Sheer Luck fell off the branch and hit her head
on another branch on the way down.
Sheer Luck tried to get up but she was too dizzy to
stand. She turned her head over to look up. As she
saw Tiger she smiled.
Or maybe I shouldn't pack so many
canned peaches.
She chuckled a bit before passing out.
A few infected ponies stumbled out of nowhere, still quite some distance from Tiger and Sheer Luck. Blue looked over the couch and through the open door to see what is taking the two so long, gasping at the sight of the passed out Sheer Luck. She jumped over the couch and galloped outside to help as the infected slowly came closer and closer. Blue charged her horn and picked up Sheer luck with her unicorn telekinesis. "Take everything you can and lets go." She said to Tiger and looked to the house, the path to the door was still clear.
Tiger carried the stuff she and Sheer Luck were carrying, with her front hooves this time, and flew into the house.
Blue levitated Sheer luck in front of her as she galloped right after Tiger. As soon as they passed the door Blue kicked it closed behind her and put Sheer Luck down, taking a few deep breaths before trying to move the couch to barricade the door again.
Naura just stood there watching everything that happend, it probably took 1 minute but it felt like 5 seconds. Then she realized that they were inside the house again, and she helped Blue move the couch. She took a blanket and wrapped it around the passed out mare so she could push her onto the couch. Then she looked out at the infected ponies who were coming closer to the house and she did what she always did when mad at somepony, she would fight them. She took a rope and ran up the stairs and jumpedout of the hole she made earlier at the roof, and then she jumped down infront of the house. She took the rope and made sure she got all the ponies attention, and then she started spinning it around her, while moving away from the house. Now when the infected tried to hug her, they would get slapped by the rope.
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/092/d/a/apple_jack_rope_spin_by_faithbringer-d4usfa6.gif)
Blue was sitting down and catching her breath as Naura ran upstairs. "Hey, what are you..." she tried to ask but ?Naura was already gone. Blue sighed and trotted up the stairs, when she didn't see Naura anywhere she gazed up, on the hole in the roof. She charged her horn and used a teleportation spell to get up the roof, walked to the edge and watches as Naura was doing her rope trick. She sighed again and looked at her horn, charging it and discharging it quickly to check her mana levels. "I have enough for a battle, i think..." she whispered and prepared herself to aid Naura.
The infected ponies tried to reach Naura, but the rope did its job, the infected kept coming regardless of how many times they got slapped by the rope.
Starlight woke up hearing the chaos outside "Uh oh... Not good, not good, not good, wha'da we do!" Then she realised the others were up on the roof, but her infected subject was presumably fine.
(I'm still here!)
Azure saw Naura leap out the window, and saw Blue with a "I'm-going-out-there-too" look on her face.
"Wait up!" He said, shooting a small burst of water at the wall to test his magic as well. "I'm going too!"
Blue looked at Azure, trying to convince him and herself that it will be fine with a smile. She took a deep breath and charged her horn again. "Ready or not, here we go!" She said, grabbed Azure by his hoof and teleporting him as well as herself to the ground, in front of the main door. She charged her horn once more, keeping it charged this time, and galloped some distance away from Naura, trying to keep the horde together, getting the attention of the ponies that for one reason or another missed Naura.
((Epic fighting montage http://youtu.be/cC54QqeItro?t=9s ^w^))
Naura sees Blue and Azure coming out to help her.
"Well, now things are getting risky" she thinks and throws the rope so it catches seven of the forty infected.
"Now, this is war!" she whispers with a low voice, then she rushes right into three of the infected and rods them off up in the air ten feet. Then she kicks them to make sure that they pass out.
"Ten's out, thirty left to go" She says to herself as she starts to rush some of the ponies who are sneaking up on Azure.
Starlight popped her head above the top "They broke in downstairs!"
Then she noticed the infected she had tied up was lose "Uh oh... AHHH!"
Blue aimed her charged horn on one infected pony that was close to her. She shot a magic beam at it, knocking it out cold with one blast, the infected pony fell to the ground unconscious. After that she looked at the calling Starlight and sighed. "Nothing ever goes as planned..." she whispered before calling "Can you get to the roof? I don't think they can climb up." While calling, Blue let her guard down, three infected ponies approached her from behind.
Starlight could only be heard fighting, and losing the fight "Too many of them!"
Blue tried to run back to the building, but got grabbed from behind by one of the infected ponies she didn't notice. "Hugs~!" he said in a deranged voice and laughed. Blue cried out and tried to kick him off her lower body. "Hey! Get off!" she yelled and kicked, but to no avail, the pony was holding her too strongly, others started to close in on her, she had no choice but to blast the pony holding her with another stun shot. The pony holding her fell to the ground, Blue receiving some damage from her own spell as well. She stumbled in place a bit as her vision blurred, the other infected ponies were now just a jump away from her.
Azure was frantically blasting everypony he could see with bursts of water, desperatly trying to keep them at bay.
"Um...little help?!"
"Hugs"
"No"
"Hugs"
"Hugs"
Starlight had fallen to he infection, and now she flew up smiling happily and attempted to hug the nearest pony.
Naura saw what was happening to Blue stated to the infected:
"If, you, touch, her, you, die!" Then she ran against them and kicked them with all her might. Three of them passed out, but the other five came back against her.
"Oh, it's ooooon!" Naura screamed and rushed the five stallions with madness in her eyes. After they were taken care of, she pulled Blue to safety behind the house, then she saw Azure having some trouble, and got ready to rush them.
Starlight spotted Naura and pounced on her hugging tightly, too tight to even breath.
When in relative safety Blue sighed in relief. "Thanks." She managed to say before Naura was gone. Blue sat down and tried to recover. After shaking her head a few times her vision wasn't blurred anymore, she could see more infected ponies approaching the house from all directions, coming from the forest. She stood up and charged her horn again, taking about ten down before her mana was running out. "Oh... great..." she said with some restraint, almost slipping out a swear, before she galloped back in front of the house. Seeing Naura getting hugged by Starlight she gasped and fired a for at her, again, because of the strong hugging some of the blast got redirected into Naura. That was Blue's last shot, last drop of mana. She could still use magic if she drained her life force, but it will take some resting before she can use magic safely again.
Starlight had been knocked unconscious, her hoof pointed toward a note clearly labelled "Cure"
Naura felt somepony hugging her so she couldn't breath, but she saw how Blue used some of her last powers to shoot at her direction. She realized the pony that was hugging her was Starlight, and next to her on the ground she saw a note labelled "Cure".
"Well, time for my powers" Naura thought and used all of her powers to make powerful vines come out of the ground, shooting her, Blue, Azure, Starlight and even the passed out Sheer Luck and Tiger up high into the sky, but when she had everypony up there out of reach for the infected, she passed out.
((Note that the vines still stayed up after Naura passed out, and you can climb out of them))
Blue ran to Naura, feeling lightheaded with her mana gone. "Are you ok? Where's Azure? We need to get out of here." She said quickly and noticed the labeled note, without even thinking she picked it up and hid it in her bag, or would have if she had it, just now she realized that her bag is back in the house, a second later she was high up, held by the vine. She looked down and then over the forest, if the circumstances were different she would enjoy the view. She sighed and looked at the paper she picked up, trying to figure out what it was. "Cure?" she whispered as she read it.
The unconscious Starlight began to hug the vines as she slept, completely unaware of her infection, or where she was.
Sheer Luck slowly began to regain conscious.
She slowly sat up but her head began to throb.
Letting out a small groan she began to rub her head.
Whispering to her self,
What happened?
She slowly got up but had a hard time walking
because her vision was blurry. She then
started to stumble around trying to find
somepony.
Quote from: FakeSmile on 2014 May 09, 16:40:51
She slowly got up but had a hard time walking
because her vision was blurry. She then
started to stumble around trying to find
somepony.
((Have you read that all the ponies are pretty much up in the air?))
(( Yeah, but Sheer Luck just woke up so she wouldn't know that. ))
"Guys, i think i have something important here." Blue called out as she lied on the vine, resting and reading, recovering her mana and trying to figure out the notes.
Quote from: Grizzly on 2014 May 09, 15:37:20
"Are you ok? Where's Azure?"
"WAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
That's one thing about Azure:
He's terrified of heights. Apart from that, though, he was fine.
As Sheer Luck was stumbling she tripped on one of the vines.
Confused, she tried to focus on what she was laying on.
All she could see was blurry green. She decided to roll over
and lay on the vines. Rubbing the back of her head she could
feel it being damp with blood. She let out a small groan and
just laid there looking up at the blurry sky.
As Starlight's grip tightened she heard the vine she was on snap, causing her to hug it tightly so she didn't slip off. But now she was awake, and looked slightly like fear had temporarily driven the infection from her brain.
Azure's scream interrupted Blue's reading she looked at him and tilted her head. Is he afraid of heights? the thought before calling to him. "Azure, it's ok. We're safe here, just don't look down."
Quote from: Grizzly on 2014 May 09, 17:30:11
We're safe here, just don't look down.
Guess what Azure did next?
Look down. And see the mindless huggers clawing (or hoofing?) at the bottom of the vine.
"..."
Not a sound left him as he blacked out.
Blue walked and occasionally jumped, making her way to the passed out Azure. When she got to him she sat down and continued in reading the note, keeping an eye on Azure so that he wont fall. After a few minutes she called out. "Oh! I think i got it. Anypony know a fear spell?" she asked.
Starlight kept hugging the vines. "Fear help infected, fear help me!"
Tiger was obliviously arranging the items she and Sheer Luck had brought over before going to see what was happening. She was confused, to say the least.
"Uh... Can someone tell me what's going on...?" Tiger asked.
Sheer Luck turned her head toward Tiger.
Weakly she said,
Darling... Can you bring...
the first aid kit?
She turned her head back toward the sky.
Whispering she said,
I think something is wrong...
But I can't remember... Its something to do...
with ponies?
Tiger quickly brought over the first aid kit to Sheer Luck. "You took quite a hit on the head, didn't you?"
Sheer Luck sat up and chuckled a bit.
As she looked through the aid kit she said,
Yeah... I think I black out?
I'm not sure... Like... How are we on these
vines?
Sheer Luck took some peroxide. Handing it
to Tiger she said,
Here... Pour this on...
The back of my head... But wait till my eyes go
black okay? ... This is going to hurt... And I
don't... Want to be conscious when its happening...
You got only a minute to do this... Before I regain
conscious...
Sheer Luck closed her eyes. As she took a deep breath she
started to concentrate. After a few seconds her eyes shot
open and her eyes looked like a tv that didn't have any signal.
Tiger was a little creeped out, but she did as instructed. What's with these vines anyway? Tiger thought to herself.
After the minute was up, Sheer Luck eyes turned back
to normal. As she pat the back of her head she said,
Thanks darling. After clearing
my mind a bit I feel much better. I might need
stitches though but don't worry I can do that.
She looked through the medical kit and took out
a needle and some thread. As she dipped the needle
and thread in some peroxide she said,
My name is Sheer Luck by the way and I
appreciate the help.
"Cool. I'm Tiger Stripes, but just call me Tiger," Tiger said. "So, what's with all the vines here?"
Sheer Luck levitated the needle.
Before she started she said,
Nice to meet you darling. I'm going "TV" mode again.
But I'll be able to talk this time.
Sheer Luck's eyes turned black with fuzzy white
flickering again. As she begain to stich her head she said,
These vines? I have no idea. I actually just
woke up a bit ago.
...
Do you know what is going on? I mean, why are
someponies acting weird?
"From what I've heard, there's this disease going around that makes ponies want to hug other ponies till the end of time. Or until they're infected. It's starting to be more like a zombie apocalypse by now, really," Tiger said. "I still wonder where all the other non-infected Ponyville residents are, though."
Sheer Luck finished the last stich and placed
the needle down. Tilting her head she said,
Wow... That sounds too weird to be true.
But also too weird to lie about. I saw some of my costumers
get "infected" but I didn't think much of it. When you see ponies
with creepy facial expressions coming after you... You kind of
just run.
Her eyes slowly began to fade back to normal. She stood up and walked
toward the edge of the vines. Looking down she said,
You think some residents are okay? Maybe
we should go out and check. If this is anything like a zombie apocalypse
then we would be better with a small group.
"Yeah, sure, travel through a post-apocalyptic Ponyville in a small group. Then when one gets infected, everyone else is in danger," Tiger said rather pessimistically. She didn't seem to like the idea of working with others through dangerous situations.
As Starlight's vine broke she jumped from it onto Tiger's hugging it tightly.
"Hugs..." she muttered to herself.
Tiger looked down at Starlight. "Hey you! Wouldn't want me to have to slice you up with this, would you? Or would you want me to cut off the vines instead!?" Tiger hissed, showing the pocket knife she had picked up at Sheer Luck's rooftop, hoping that she'd scare the infected pony enough to prevent it from disturbing them.
Starlight cowered and slid slightly down the vine, fear blocking the infection. "I scared now"
Tiger realised that Starlight was now speaking something more than just "Huggzzzz", unlike most of the infected ponies, so she started doubting.
"Wait... Are you infected or not?" she asked the pony.
((I want to keep Naura passed out for just a couple of more posts, so I'll play an infected pegasi in the meantime, notice that their rare, since most of them was in the air when the apocalypse started spreading))
The maroon pegasi saw alot of other infected ponies flocking around around near some vines sticking straight up from the ground, and when he looked up, he saw some ponies on the vines.
"Maybe they're not infected and I can get the first hug" he thought, and began flapping up against them.
Tiger looked up when she heard the wing flaps and saw the infected maroon pegasus.
"Hey you! You want a piece of this, too!? Don't think that I won't think twice about slicing you up during this kind of situation!" Tiger yelled, pointing the pocket knife at the infected pegasus. She did this while standing in front of Sheer Luck, seemingly trying to protect the unicorn.
((I don't know if I want to make Tiger all talk and no real slicing, or if I really want to make her hurt an infected pony with the knife. Kind of would be violence, and we all know that LoE is supposed to be family-friendly.
Darnit FakeSmile, why did you have to have a pocket knife on the roof ovO))
The maroon pegasus saw the pocket knife in the orange mares hoof, but he was clever, he could think clearly instead of the others who just had their mind on hugging everything that moves. He flew closer, kicked the knife out of the pegasus hoof, and then he flew back six meters to make sure that she didn't have any other weapons.
((And there is the knife gone :P ))
((good job lol))
Tiger barely flinched. "Oh, you think you're so smart, don't ya? Well, how would you like this!" Tiger said as she started flapping her wings, generating strong winds which she directed at the pegasus.
Starlight kept on hugging the vines tightly. "Hugs?" she commented when she saw another infected.
The mare began to create strong winds towards the stallion.
"I'm not like them" begins stallion screaming into the headwind.
"I am ..." the voice dies out, and he must let the wind carry him away a bit, otherwise he would not be able to hold on much longer
As the winds began to grow Starlight tightened her grip on the vine, burying her face into it as if she were crying.
((Gtg now, so I'll just let you kill him/let him disappear))
The stallion saw another infected pegasus, but by now, his powers was starting to fall, and his wings wasn't able to keep him up with his weight, so he started falling from 40 meters up in the air.
Tiger blew a little more wind so that the infected pegasus would fall into a bush. At least he won't die if he falls into that, Tiger thought to herself.
Sheer Luck walk over the edge to watch the
stallion fall. Sheepishly she said,
Thanks darling... Sorry I didn't help...
I just... Don't want to hurt any of them...
They are still ponies after all...
...
Sheer Luck contiued to look down at Ponyville.
She began to worry about all her costumers
and friends. As she let out a sigh she said,
You might not agree with a small group Tiger...
But I still need to go and find non-infected residents...
I can't sit up here knowing all my costumers and friends are
down there with these infected ponies.
Starlight slipped slightly "Wahh, stop it!" wacking the vine she realised she was sliping more, causing her to hug it again.
((There is an infected pony up there with you y'know, perhaps you should do something about that))
Blue was lying next to Azure, she passed out some time ago. She shook a bit and opened her eyes, slowly standing up. She rubbed her head and sighed. "What happened?" She whispered, for some reason thinking proved difficult for her at the moment. As she was looking around she saw Starlight slipping, and without even thinking trotted to her, stumbling as she did so. She lied in front of her and held her hoof out for her, trying to catch her so that she doesn't slip, while saying. "You said, fear can help... how? Why fear?"
Starlight looked up to Blue "Fear make irrational decision, hugging not irrational, hugging nice" As she griped Blues hoof she slipped more dangling over the long drop down to the town below.
Blue held on Starlights hoof as much as she could, but she was a small unicorn, she didn't have much strength, nor weight for that manner, she started to slip with Starlight. "Don't let go!" She urged. "i... won't... let... you... fall..." she said through her clenched teeth.
Starlight didn't let go, she lost her grip however. So she hugged the vines tightly again "Put Down!"
"Ughh..."
FINALLY regaining consciousness, Azure slowly opened his eyes to see Blue looking over the edge of the vines.
"Wha...? What's going on...?" He groaned, still disoriented.
No longer being pulled down Blue still lied by the edge, before Azure's call. She stood up and turned her head at him "Starlight is over the edge, slowly slipping. I can't pull her up, too weak..." She explained and sighed. She looked over the edge again and frowned. She closed her eyes, charging her horn while repeating what she said before. "I won't let you fall." The red aura of her magic slowly spreads over her horn, the same red aura enveloped Starlight as she was slowly levitated upward.
Azure gulped, before running to the edge too. As soon as he saw Starlight, he closed his eyes, before using magic to help levitate her up.
Naura now woke up and saw what was happening around her. She stands up and immediately sees Starlight getting dragged up by Azure and Blue and then she looks down at the ground, and sees only nine ponies on the ground below them.
"Guys, I'm sinking the vines!" She says and looks around her to make sure everypony is ready.
As her fears faded the infection in her took control of Starlight again "Hugs?"
Blue lowered her head, letting her mane cover her eyes. "I'm going to kill you now, Starlight..." she said and shifted the focus of her magic, gently teasing Starlights pain receptors. Blue hoped that this would be enough to scare her again.
(lol, Wow, when did an RP about hugs get so dark?)
Azure didn't open his eyes, but held Starlight out away from them, oblivious to Blue's true plan.
"WHAT?! You're joking, right?!"
Tears started to flow down Blue's cheeks. "N-no joke... She's a threat now..." she said, even though she didn't actually want to hurt Starlight, the words themselves were painful for Blue.
((good point, just shows that anything can get dark, i guess X3))
(Ok, OC idiocy powers, activate!)
Azure's heart stopped. Somepony, infected though they may be, was about to die in front of him.
"...NO!"
Using everything he had, he tried to pull Starlight out of Blue's magic grip.
(up to you if he gets her out)
(It was a note)
Starlight paused "Bluff?" she didn't sound sure.
(oh crud :o lemme change my post )
Tiger galloped over to Azure and Blue. "I'll handle this," Tiger whispered to Blue and Azure.
"Hey you. You wouldn't want me to do this, would you!?" Tiger said as she generated winds and directed them towards Starlight. It wasn't strong enough to blow Starlight off the vines, but it sure was frightening when the vines were thrashing about like that.
Sheer Luck hurried over.
As she looked Starlight she said,
Maybe it doesn't have to end like this?
There has to be a cure... Right?
Azure couldn't get Starlight out of Blue's range. After Starlight's bluff question Blue simply increased the magical teasing of Starlight's pain receptors. After a while of silence, with tears still flowing from her eyes Blue whispered. "Do i look like i'm bluffing?" She ignored Sheer's question for the moment.
Starlight pointed to the note labeled 'cure' and smiled.
((question, do you have something specific in mind for the cure? I made Blue read the 'cure' note a few posts back, as well as the research papers back in the house. I was hoping to get an description from you, since they are your stuff, but if you don't have anything in mind i'll just make something up in the next post))
((I don't it's your RP your cure, u just threw it in encase something happened))
((ok, ^-^ now i know what to do))
Sheer's question, although ignored by her, ringed in Blue's mind. There has to be a cure... Blue sharply opened her eyes "Cure!" she called out and looked to the note, releasing her magic and running to it. Picking it up and reading it again. "There is a cure! It's unfinished, won't cure the infection completely, but will allow the infected to retain their mind." Blue said, embarrassed that she forgot to mention, and remember it. She read a bit more. "We need leaves from the poison joke plant, a green flame flower and powder from the spitting plant, mix it together with boiling water and we will get a cure potion." she explained.
"Fear petals, add" Starlight added
"Okay, the vines are going down in threee, two, o-!" Naura got interrupted by a maroon pegasus kicking her so she fell on her back.
"Gaaah" She screams as the maroon pegasus looks as he is going to hug her. But now the plants were falling, but to fast, the only ponies who could have luck to survive the fall was Tiger, Starlight and the maroon stallion, if something wasn't done quickly!
Starlight saw the infected maroon Pegasus and flew at him, in an embracing hug.
one of the notes mentioned behaviour like this... 'Hugs anything that looks like a pony, includes ponies, other infected and dolls'
Blue screamed as she fell from the sky towards her inevitable doom. She was no longer able to use magic, not that it would help much in this situation though.
While hugging the other infected Starlight took no notice of the ponies falling to their doom.
((Tiger has to save the day ^-^))
((oh god the pressure))
"Think, Tiger, think!" Tiger said to herself as the others fell. That's when an idea hit her. Tiger grabbed a couple of clouds and made a big cloud platform below where the ponies were currently falling. "Any unicorns know how to do a cloud walking spell!?" Tiger yelled.
((Probably would have just made her call out for Sheer Luck if I didn't forget whether there were any other unicorns in the group ovO))
Sheer Luck yelled back,
I do!
Sheer Luck looked around to see
each falling pony as she fell. A
worried look came across her face.
She then began to cast the Cloud
Walking spell on the falling ponies.
As she cast the spell on the last pony her
eyes burned out light a lightbulb.
Sheer Luck ran out of magic before
she could cast the spell on herself.
Yelling at Tiger she said,
Okay! Everyone else
can walk on clouds! But I ran out of
magic.
Blue held her eyes shut and screamed, she didn't detect the fact that she safely landed on the cloud Tiger prepared.
Azure did the same, his eyes slammed shut as he landed on the cloud.
Naura heard Sheer screaming so when Naura landed she ran up and catch'd the mare on her back. She let out a happy sigh and said:
"Pheeew, that was close" and layed down.
Still screaming Blue opened one eye, then stopped screaming, opened both eyes and blushed. "Anypony need medical attention?" she whispered.
Sheer Luck was suprised by Naura catching her.
Smiling she said,
Thanks darling.
Starlight didn't seem to notice the group on the ground as she continued hugging the other infected, it seemed like they might endlessly hug.
The maroon did all it could to shake the other infected of himself.
"S-stop, I'm a-also, infe-ected!" He says while the mare squeezes him so he almost can not breathe. He starts to tackle the air to get the mare to let go of him. He starts diving down towards the ground.
"Hugs nice, we both infected" Starlight commented, while giving the maroon Pegasus room to breath, although she didn't stop hugging him.
Now they were getting close to the ground and the stallion knew that if he wanted to survive the fall, he had to sacrifice the other infected be a bounce pillow for him, else it would be the opposite. He turned them both around in the air and said to the mare:
"Well, this is your fault, hope your happy!"
((Please, kill him/let him faint by the fall? I don't like to play a character that doesn't have a name, and I just want to get rid of this prop now))
Starlight sliped, losing her grip and landing on the maroon Pegasus, and immediately went to hug the nearst pony - Sheer Luck
((Thank you))
Naura sees Starlight going for Sheer Luck after her fall with the maroon stallion, and she quickly jumps onto the pegasi screaming:
"Run you guys, I'll be comin' in short, I just need to take care of this mare!" Because of Naura covering the eyes of the mare, she realized the were running away from their landing spot, right against a tree!
Starlight soon realising somepony was on, she reared her back throwing Naura on the ground, before attempting to hug her.
((Remember the note, the infected hug anything pony shaped, including dolls))
a portal opened up and dropped in a dark looking pony
( here http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/058/3/d/ponyized_eclipse_is_not_amused_by_redsnivy-d789xap.png)
she takes a good look around "wat the hey have I been thrown into." (eclipse can't get a lucky break can she? >.< )
Blue remembered about the cure and ran into the forest. "Poison joke. Poison joke. Poison joke." she whispered to herself as she checked every bush and every corner for the said plant.
((almost 11 pm... going to bed now.))
(it's 1:35 pm were I live.)
she gose to the nearest pony (thatisn't infectedmight I say) "what is going on here?"
Sheer Luck looked saw the tree.
She closed her eyes and tried to
focus any amount of magic she had left
into one teleportation spell.
Hold on tight darling.
This might be a rough spell.
Sheer Luck weakly cast the teleportation
spell and the two mares landed hard on the
ground. Weak from the lost of magic, Sheer
Luck lie face down into the dirt.
eclipse sees sheer luck "hey you alright?"
Sheer Luck heard somepony nearby but
her head was killing her. She continued to
lay in the dirt but weakly shook her
head no to answer Eclipse's question.
eclipse sees that this pony doesn't seem so good she facehoofs of course this ponys not okay it's odvious! eclipse studies this pony and notices on crucial detail. this pony is suffrering from magic exshoustion! eclipse knows how to cure this! she grabs a strange blue potion from what it seems from thin air...it's actually just from her own little hammerspace so don't ask. "here drink this it will help."
Sheer Luck shook her head. Weakly she said,
I... Can't... Don't let...
Any ponies... Near us... And don't... Get hugged...
She attempted to reach for her saddle bag but
was too exhausted.
eclipse sighs and rolls her yes. "just drink this it will help.and don't worry about anypony whos infected sneaking up on us right now." she looks behind her "my sheald that comes up for a day everytime I enter a dimension keeps everything that sick or otherwise away very handy if I do say so myself."
Sheer Luck continued to reach for her saddle bag.
As she shook her head she said,
I... Can't... Just pass me...
My saddle bag... Please...
As it turned out Starlight was happily hugging her research notes as she drifted to sleep.
Spoiler: Extra Background Info • show Hours.
It's been hours since the stallion saw another sentient being. With the few exclusions for some organisms interacting with him, he was alone. Of course, he loved being alone. It was an advantage. He always thought about being in a group, where they would always rely on each other.
Some would betray you, others were...worse. Yet there are the few who were innocent, yet at the fault of their trust towards the others, they would...always fail. That was the stallion. A failure. Whenever he tried to recall when he helped someone out, when he tried his best to lead his group to victory, it would always backfire.
Well, not always. There were always those few exceptions, of course. He couldn't recall how those exceptions contributed, though. That was a long time ago.
Time. What was the time again, a small stallion thought in his head. He wore a trimmed grey coat with a darker grey mane and tail. Nothing too fancy, of course. All the short hairs were sticking out everywhere. He bore with him in one hoof a notepad, and in his other was obviously...nothing. He had lost his pencil some time ago.
He scanned through his notepad, scanning some of his notes down. Twelve twenty-three: disrupted radio signal broadcasted - large radius. Source: Ponyville. Curious as his superior mind was, he went to investigate the cause.
"Strange, don't you think." A high-pitched voice hummed out. "Ponyville out of all places..."
The stallion turned around to see his companion, one that he would always bring, and one that he would always have in his group. If he ever made one of course.
He hovered a few hooves of the ground as always. He wore at the front of his face a blue photo lens as one single eye. The rest of his body was made of metal with a slick and smooth exterior. Where a ponies' hooves and legs were, Seven had none. Instead, the joint where they should be were replaced by four disks emitting a soft tone of purple, acting like some sort of balance mechanic.
Seven was, to say, a "robot". Not entirely one, as he had his limitations. He could not fly nor use magic. He was not as strong as an earth pony as well. He was the entire opposite of an alicorn - weak.
Of course that was why the earth pony loved the friend so much. They were so much alike. A thirst for knowledge throughout the whole universe. No destiny, just, knowledge.
Finally, the pony escaped his thoughts back to reality.
"What is it, Seven?" He chirped back.
"I mean, by statistics, Ponyville is one of the most dangerous places to live at this point. Took part during an invasion of changelings. Encountered numerous diseases-" Seven shuddered up and down slightly, remembering one particular disease. "The pink one, included. Harsh weather...may I remind us why we live there again?"
"It is a nice place," the pony said. "Living near all the great cities."
"Let me remind you that those six ponies live there, and those elements. Great power, great responsibility, great destruction."
The stallion chuckled a bit. "Sure. The best destruction there is."
Spoiler: Story-Wise info • show Staring back down at the ground, he stopped trotting. The dirt track that was supposed to lead the duo to an easy path through Everfree was gone.
Then, there was shouting and noises. Familiar sounds, like a pony would make.
"Seven?" The earth pony asked.
"On it." He said, as a blue grid projecting from the lens of the bot appeared in front of the two. It rose, expanding deep into the branches of the forest.
"Right. Detecting movement, right, definitely movement. Slow movement, zero-point-five kilometres per hour. Wait...those are life signs. Confirmi-definitely that of a pon-no wait." Seven darted back and forth through his computer. "Alright. There's a slow pony out there."
"Ponies? Out here?"
"Yep. Just a few hundred meters from out here."
The two moved forwards, until a small clearing was found. There, the two hid behind a few bushes and kept silent.. From there, they managed to see a few ponies, some healthy and some injured, some sleeping and som-.
Then he noticed something. A pony slowly slumbering around, its arms in a unusual position for trotting around.
The grey stallion took the time to observe this pony as the time went by.
((I didn't mean for this post to become a chapter of a story...))
(( I read all that. Bravo friend, bravo. ))
eclipse grabs the ponys saddlebag and hands it to her.
Sheer Luck grab the bag as she said,
Thanks Darling...
Still face down into the dirt she felt
around the bag to find what she was
looking for. After a few seconds she pulled
out a jar. Inside the jar were two weird
plants floating onto of muddy water.
Inside the jar there were a bunch of
herbs and other plants. She pushed her
hair in front of her eyes and slowly got
up. Sheepishly she said,
I'll be right back....
She then began to walk away from the group.
"Ahem. If I may. One of the ponies is heading straight at us." Seven notified. Indeed, a single sole pony was heading towards their direction.
The stallion slowly backed away, but managed to trip and fall on his back. He tried to scurry away, but that just caused more attention to those around him.
He would believe that no-one would be believe that the bushes where he was hiding were moving in a unnaturally way.
In the background, Seven tried his best to cheer on his friend.
"Alright, steady now. Just act natural. Pretend your an animal. A bird is a goo- Now its getting closer- it's not working. Just stand still- Oh ok. I think it sees us now."
Sheer Luck let out a small scream as she
heard something from the bushes. She
couldn't see where the noise was coming
from or anything at all. Still exhausted she
attempted to hide behind a tree. She
slowly sat down, trying not to make any
noise.
Tiger immediately flew over to Sheer Luck when she heard the scream.
"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Tiger asked.
eclipse walks over "I would love for someone to tell me what the situation is."
"Ok...ok it ran away...Uh..."
The stallion curled up into a sphere within the bushes, his natural form of self-defence. Seven stopped in mid-setence, continuing to monitor the situation.
Sheer Luck pulled the two behind the
tree. Whispering she said,
You two have to be quite.
Somepony is out there...
Sheer Luck looked down at the jar and
then away from the two ponies.
Nervously she said,
I have to take this medicine so
my magic will come back....
I'll be right back...
She then picked up the jar with her mouth
and jumped into a near by bush.
Tiger faced Eclipse and said "Well, there's this hugging disease going around that makes ponies infected with it hug other ponies until the end of time or until they're infected. It sounds ridiculous, I know."
After a while Sheer Luck returned.
Her eyes were glowing dark yellow.
Smiling she said,
That's much better. Anyway, I think I'm
going to find who is spying on us...
Tiger, you should stay with her.
Better if one gets infected than three.
Sheer Luck dropt her saddle bag and went
out to look for whoever is out there.
A disease...about hugs!?
"Hm...Another disease as usual...Uh...N-"
The stallion grabbed the robot deeper into the bush.
"Shhhh...for all we know they could be infected too."
"But your research-" Seven realized something. "We should move...now..."
The stallion sighed. "I know...we have to go back home and get it. Just move around the group."
The duo began to silently crouch around the perimeter of the open area.
Tiger just shook her head worriedly. "Trying to be a hero... She'd best rely on Sheer Luck," Tiger said to herself.
((see what i did there ovO))
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Sheer Luck looked back and gave Tiger a smile.
She walked around for a while, looking high and low
for who ever is out there. She saw a group of infected
and duck quickly into a bush. As she was ducking she
saw two stallions crouching. Not sure what to do she
decided to watch and see what they would do next.
"a hugging disease...you know what nevermind I should be used to things like this by now." eclipse looks over "those two over there aren't infected...yet."
Seven chirped up at Eclipse's remark.
"Do not worry, we are no-"
The hovering piece of sentient metal was grabbed down back into the darkness of Everfree by a grey hoof.
"Sh...They'll notice us." The stallion hissed.
"They already have...They don't seem infected. Let me check-"
The same blue emitting grid that was used before shined brightly upon the ponies in the group, before being cut off abruptly a second later.
"Well...Now they obviously do." The stallion rolled his eyes.
"At least they're not infected."
"Oh. Why?"
"The second you gave me shows that..."
The duo kept auguring, and might continue to do so until the end of time...or by something else.
Sheer Luck was surprised by the grid. She
stood up to see whothe two ponies were
and saw them. She rolled her eyes at the
two of them auguring. As she was about
to approach them she heard the group of
infected ponies behind her. She turned and
saw one jump at her. She let out a scream
and dodge the infectedpony. Turning to the
group she yelled,
Run!
eclipse cantersover to the and seperates them "stop arguing you guys will not servive this if you can't get along for until this whole mess is solved."
Tiger grabbed the gray pony and his sentient robot. "No time for arguing, we've got the company of ponies that are ACTUALLY INFECTED!" Tiger yelled before running off, dragging the two along with her.
Sheer Luck caught up to the group.
She grabbed Eclipse, and started to run
toward Tiger. Yelling at Tiger she said,
I counted only five! Lets take
these three somewhere safe and do
the same thing we did last time.
"Wha-" Both beings were interrupted as they were both pulled away along with the group.
"Oh. This is it-We're both going to be silenced. All the knowledge lost." The stallion whimpered.
"Sigh...They are not infected-They are saving our lives right now." Seven replied.
"Sure thing Sheer Luck! But is there even ANYWHERE SAFE by now!?" Tiger shouted.
"I propose going underground." The stallion stated. "I mean...how those dogs with their gems do it...with their caves and..."
"There is the possibility of those things going underground." Seven replied.
"What about that cloud city?" The stallion chirped back.
"Flying pegasus that want to hug you." Seven replied again.
I agree with metal pony. The sky is too
dangerous now.
Sheer Luck looked around for any where
that the group would be safe. Looking back
at the group she shrugged as she said,
I don't think we will
find a safe place any time soon... Lets
just do this as quick as possible. I'll
erase the others from their memory. Then,
they will only be after you and I.
Sheer Luck nervously laugh at the last part.
Forcing a smile she said,
The three can hide and then
we can move them somewhere else.
eclipse looks at sheer luck "my shelds are still up were safe for the time being."
Blue continued to gallop through the forest, looking for the plants needed for the cure. After some time she stood still, panting for air while she looked around. "Great... i'm lost..." She whispered to herself and sighed. "Find the plants first, then worry about being lost." she added and continued to run. She galloped on, then stopped again, she heard something from a bush, she faced the bush and stared at it. A moment later a Timberwolf jumped from the bush, Blue screamed out, closed her eyes, covered her head with her front hooves and ducked to the ground, curled up in a defensive ball. The Timberwolf ran pass the small blue mare and continued, not giving Blue any attention. Blue opened her eyes and watched as the wolf fled, she turned to the bush again and from it an infected pony emerged, then another and then another two. Blue screamed out and galloped in the same direction as the fleeing Timberwolf, chased after by the infected. She looked back These guys can run? she thought, not paying attention to what was in front of her she ran directly into a ravine, she was screaming while she did a few swings in the air, falling in the river on the bottom of the ravine. The infected ponies didn't follow her, they looked for something else to hug.
Blue was carried away by the strong stream of the river, the cold water robbing her of the last bits of strength she had left. As she got to a part of the river where the stream wasn't so strong she got washed up on the river bank. She crawled out of the water a bit more and then just passed out.
Quote from: FakeSmile on 2014 May 11, 23:06:53
I agree with metal pony. The sky is too
dangerous now.
Sheer Luck looked around for any where
that the group would be safe. Looking back
at the group she shrugged as she said,
I don't think we will
find a safe place any time soon... Lets
just do this as quick as possible. I'll
erase the others from their memory. Then,
they will only be after you and I.
Sheer Luck nervously laugh at the last part.
Forcing a smile she said,
The three can hide and then
we can move them somewhere else.
"Nah, just make them focus on me, Sheer Luck. It's easiest for me to lose their trail out of all of us," Tiger said. "I can handle this."
Sheer Luck nodded in agreement. She didn't want to leave
Tiger but in their current situation its their only option.
Sheer Luck took a deep breath and stop running for a bit.
She turned around and flashed her magic at the group of
ponies. She then started to run again as she alter their
memory to only chasing Tiger. As she was doing her magic
she yelled,
Okay, my magic is charged. Now we have to
find a place where we can hide just for a few seconds. You
place those two in a tree or anything close to youand I'll
hide in a bush with the mare.
Tiger tossed the robot and pony into a nearby bush. "Sorry, gotta happen," Tiger said. Then she turned to the infected horde and said "Catch me if you can!" She zoomed off with the infected ponies chasing her.
Sheer Luck dragged Eclipse into the bush that
the other ponnies were tossed in. She peaked
her head out to watch Tiger fly away. Letting
out a sigh of relief she turned and smiled
at the three ponies.
So.. My name is Sheer Luck.
What's y'all name?
((xD Okai, I can't seem to find where I am in the story right now, somepony knows?))
((your last post was
Naura sees Starlight going for Sheer Luck after her fall with the maroon stallion, and she quickly jumps onto the pegasi screaming:
"Run you guys, I'll be comin' in short, I just need to take care of this mare!" Because of Naura covering the eyes of the mare, she realized the were running away from their landing spot, right against a tree!
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so there you are, running away for the place we've landed))
Post Merge
((and i'm planning to have Blue unconscious for some time now))
As it turned out Starlight being infected had her dragged along INSIDE the shield, perhaps it wasn't the smartest move after all, because it woke her up, and she looked ready to hug the lights out of everypony.
(sorry for no reply in a while, school and revision. :l )
"Ugh..."
Azure woke up to find himself still on the cloud platform. Slowly rising, he shook his head. Did he black out again from the fall?
What was more shocking was that there were no infected around trying to hug his brains out.
Or any of the others.
"...Great." He moped angrily. "They ditched me!"
Hopping off the cloud, he began thinking of where to go next.
Quote from: Grizzly on 2014 May 12, 10:21:56
((your last post was
Naura sees Starlight going for Sheer Luck after her fall with the maroon stallion, and she quickly jumps onto the pegasi screaming:
"Run you guys, I'll be comin' in short, I just need to take care of this mare!" Because of Naura covering the eyes of the mare, she realized the were running away from their landing spot, right against a tree!
so there you are, running away for the place we've landed))
((I know that, but Starlight is waaay somewhere else, I just don't know what happend :P))
Post Merge
((Gah, let's see what to do about it, if something turns out one way or another, I'll just tezudnwsaqv this post))
Naura wakes up with a dizzy headand sees Azure some hooves (feets) away from her.
"Hey, where's all the other guys?" Naura asks and rubbs her head.
Not noticing Naura on the floor behind him, Azure almost had a heart attack.
"MOTHER OF THE QUEEN!!!"
He spun around, seeing her on the floor.
"Oh...phew...it's..."
He paused; did he ever get her name?
"hey sheer luck my name is eclipse." eclipse looks at sheer luck
((Maybe you should do something about Starlight, she is infected you know, and in your shield))
eclipse looks at starlight and lifts her up with well eclipse uses her magic. "hmmm so this is a infected.......which way is the everfree forest please."
Starlight began to squirm as she was lifted into the air. "Put down, Hug!"
"no yor not hugging me lets see if this works good thing I always get samples of the plants in every dimension I go to." eclipse takes out the poision joke flower.
Starlight continued squirming, poison joke wasn't the cure, it was an ingredient but not the cure.
"HUGS!" Starlight yelled.
(darn it what are the other ingrediants.) "no no hugging me....here hug this." eclipse gives her a life sized pony doll.
((Grizzly knows))
Starlight looked at the doll and immediately began hugging it.
((yup, i do, can't tell you though, story and stuff, Blue took the cure note with her so you can't find out, spoilers* she lost the note in the river though, but don't worry, she will remember it!))
(oh okay I got the poision joke though XD.)
eclipse just nods and stores the posion joke away. "now while your busy.." eclipse puts starlight into a magic bubble.
Starlight didn't actually notice the bubble as she endlessly hugged the doll...
"well we won't have to worry about this one." eclipse has the bubble follow her as she goes to sheer luck.
"Well, I can't see any other ponies around here,
maybe the others took them away when we were fainted,
we should leave for shelter before any infected comes back!"
Naura says and looks at Azure.
"I know a place deeper inside the forest that is pretty secret
and made for these situations, will you follow me there?" She
asks Azure and takes a few steps and then she glares back at him
waiting for a answer. Then she hears some hooves coming closer.
"We should leave, quickly! Follow me into the forest and we might
get there before night!" She says and starts to skip into the forest.
eclipse notices that sheer luck is gone.... "....really? I mean really? common my friend time to go find them again." eclipse gose searching for sheer luck and the others with the bubble that starlights in following her.
Starlight had gotten bored of her doll now and started kicking the bubble.
"Oh, um...okay."
Azure sprinted after Naura.
"So...what exactly does "made for these situations" mean?"
"It's made if some kind of apocalypse came to Equestria,
for surviving ponies to hide, if I remember correctly there
are plenty of food and room there. We should be safe
there for years without needing to leave, but I bet there
are going to be more ponies than only the two of us, so
we might meet somepony who knows more about
this than we do" She says as they sprint through the forest.
eclipse looks at starlight. "your not getting outa there any time soon.here will this keep you busy.?" eclipse animates the pony doll so that it moves around.
(I feel like I'm trying to keep a little kid from becoming bored lol .)
(( Hey MoonSpiritz, is Eclipse still with the
group or did she wonder off and find Starlight :? ))
((Nope, Starlight got dragged along, and Moon your keeping q hugged occupied.))
The doll did keep Starlight occupied, but not for very long as she saw another uninfected being chased away by a horde, kicking at the bubble to Chase her.
eclipse keeps walking looking for the group she lost keeping an ee onstarlight every now and again.
Tiger certainly thought that losing the crowd of infected would be easier in a forest like this.
She was wrong, though. This horde was more persistent. Finally she lost them and was now sitting on a branch in a tree, exhausted.
She also realised she had lost all sense of direction and didn't know where the others were anymore.
"Okay... Little steps first. Rest up, and then head off looking for them," Tiger said to herself.
eclipse keeps walking looking for a pony who is not infected she ends up at a river.
Once Tiger had rested enough, she started making her way through the forest, being careful not to make any noise while flying that would alert the horde.
Tiger soon came across a river, and saw Eclipse on the other side. She waved at her.
North Wind ran like there was no tomorrow. Eventually, he came to a river. He could've flown over it, but his wing was broken by an infected dragon. He didn't have the time to find a way across, because his assailants were almost upon him, muttering things like "Are you sure you don't want a hug?" and "Come on, everyone likes hugs." North Wind realized his only option was to do something he vowed never to do again. He concentrated hard, and the air hummed with energy. Right when they were about to pounce, there was a flash of blue, and North Wind walked away from the frozen ponies like this happened every other day.
Sheer Luck continued to hide with the
two other ponies. She would peak her
head out once in a while to see if
Tiger was near by. She let out a sigh
and turned back to the group. Realizing
Eclipse was gone she shook her head.
Thinking to her self,
Its seems as if our group is
splitting apart. I guess Eclipse will be fine though.
She got that shield and all...
eclipse notices tiger "why hello there" she waves back.
Tiger flew over to Eclipse. "Do you know where the others are?" she asked.
The stallion, through all this time, was curled up into a ball. Some might call this his defensive stance. He began to murmur to himself.
Seven, as usual, ignored him and focused on progressing the situation. "There are few others, yes. We've seen some smoke signals on our way here, if that is it." The probe stated as he floated off the ground.
"no they disappeared on me but I found this little one." eclipse shows tiger starlight who was still in the bubble.
Quote from: Sarcasm on 2014 May 12, 21:52:32
He listens to the radio. He pulls out his gun if anypony hugs me they die.you guys got that he loads the gun. Somepony tries to hug him and he blows their head off. Man I love my shooting talent
((i sincerely advise you not to use deadly force, this goes to every player))
Quote from: Moonspiritz on 2014 May 13, 00:29:34
"no they disappeared on me but I found this little one." eclipse shows tiger starlight who was still in the bubble.
"Oh, her. She's been following us for a while. However she
has given us some insight into this issue - When the infected are scared, their infection gets held back and they're not as mindless anymore. Although the others probably already told you that and I'm just repeating it. Sorry, in that case." Tiger said.
Quote from: Sarcasm on 2014 May 12, 21:52:32
*violent stuff*
((Just a friendly reminder, it's best that you stick to the forum rules.))
It was starting to get dark and the two ponies were still running through the forest.
"I think we're there in just a few minutes, this was faster than I thougth!" Naura
says with a grin wiped on her face. Then she stops infront of a ordinary rock in the
size of five ponies, and knocks carefully on it. Then she waits thirty seconds and
nothing happens. Naura stares at the rock with a confused face.
"Hmm, are we the first here? Anyway, help me push this!" Naura says to Azure
and turns around and hits the rock with her hind legs.
The little blue mare was lying motionless on the river bank where she crawled up to for several hours now. She moved her head a bit, whimpering as she did so, before finally opening her eyes. Shakingly she stood up and looked around with a confused look. "Where am i? What happened?" She asked nopony in particular. She looked behind her to see the river, then she remembered. "Oh... right... I fell in the river... Lucky to be alive, i guess..." she sighed, then her eyes widened as she frantically looked around, searching for 'cure' note. She couldn't find it, of course, it was taken away by the strong stream, by now its probably in the next country, if not the ocean. "No, no nononono. How could i have lost it?" she paced back and forth, talking out loud about how stupid and clumsy she is, talking to herself always calmed her sooner or later. Her movement and voice attracted the attention of several infected ponies. "Alright, alright. Calm down and think, you've read the note several times, surely you must remember the ingredients..." The sat down and though hard, still not noticing the large horde of infecties that formed behind her. "There was the poison joke, a green flame flower and the spitting plant... somethings missing... what was it..." She rubbed her chin. "Hugs." she heard from behind her. "No, not hugs..." with a blank expretion she turned her head behind her, finally seeing the infected ponies, just in the jumping distance away from her. She cried out loudly and jumped forward and ran alongside the river, trying to get away from the horde.
((um... somepony got carried away X3))
Tiger saw Blue running towards her. "...What did she get herself into this time?" she mumbled to herself. Then she flew over, picked up Blue and put her on a tree branch. "Don't worry Blue, I'll handle them."
She flew back to the horde. "Hey guys! I'm soft and fluffy! You want to hug it? Come and get it!" she teased at the horde before flying off, away from the other uninfected ponies.
Blue held on the tree branch. "Um... thanks, and sorry..." She said as Tiger flew of. The horde that previously followed Blue couldn't resist Tiger's teasing. "Soft~ Fluffy~ Hugs~ Hugs~" they all said in a synchronized fashion and followed after Tiger, joining with the other infecties that were already following her to form a super horde.
Once Tiger had led the horde far enough, she kicked a tree, causing branches to fall and disrupting the horde. When the horde got past the branches, Tiger was already gone.
But once again, Tiger lost all sense of direction. The persistent horde led Tiger into focusing more on leading them away from everypony else and forgetting which way she came from.
So Tiger began to trot through the forest again, picking and eating some berries (that were safe to eat) that she found along the way. Finding an old saddle bag, she decided to store some of the berries into the bag for later, then continued making her way back to the others. Or, at least, she was trying to.
Starlight began to stir in her bubble more and more until she smashed I open and ran after a uninfected pony being chased by a growing horde - more than Ponyville's original population...
"Okay."
Azure charged his horn with magic, before blasting the rock with a stream of water, trying to push it with the pressure.
eclipse looks at the new pony to appear "hey I got something you have been looking for." eclipse pulls out a poison joke flower.
(Can I jump in?)
((Sure))
Quote from: Somebeing on 2014 May 13, 00:01:27
The stallion, through all this time, was curled up into a ball. Some might call this his defensive stance. He began to murmur to himself.
Seven, as usual, ignored him and focused on progressing the situation. "There are few others, yes. We've seen some smoke signals on our way here, if that is it." The probe stated as he floated off the ground.
Sheer Luck nodded as she was lookin' out for Tiger and Eclipse.
As she was watching she said,
We should go help them later..
Hey, can you tell if there is any infected near by?
With both Azure and Naura using their powers to
push the rock, it moved a bit, revealing a hole.
"Hurry! We got no time to lose!" Naura shouted
and started tripping down the hole, when she
got through, it looked like she had enterd
another dimension, and she saw another pony
there who probably hadn't heard her knocking.
"Hey, who are you?" Naura asks.
(I shall use Pixel)
Pixel was trotting along a path in the forest and saw some ponies.
(Starting is not my thing XD)
((heh, how would it be if the pony in the hideout was infected X3))
Blue was sitting on the branch still, suddenly, the branch broke and she fell down, landing softly on Eclipse, well softly for Blue at least. She quickly jumped off of Eclipse and helped her stand up. "Are you ok?" She asked
eclipse had someone fall on her "ooff!" said pony jumped off asking if she was okay "yeah I'm okay I just love having ponys fall on top of me....no I'm okay nothing broken."
Starlight had managed to hug her target until she was satisfied, but she had gotten lost in the horde of infected ponies, and she had all her notes on her, except the one on the cure.
As of the cure, it turned out the potion would only last temporarily, something else was needed for a permanent cure.
Pixel noticed a large group of ponies "Hey, what is going on?"
"Of course I will. On the other hand...he'll..." Seven nudged over to the shivering pony, scared to death. "...I'll do my best."
Luckily for Eclipse, Blue was a very small mare, and very light. "Oh, i'm so sorry. Let me check you, i am a doctor... well will be one day." She blushed and examined Eclipse briefly. She heard Pixels voice and turned her head "Don't you know? There's a hugging outbreak." She whispered
"A what?" Pixel looked confused.
"Um... An infection that forces ponies to hug everything that moves. And no, it's not a joke, Canterlot already most likely fell..." Blue whispered and turned her head away, so that nopony of the group could see her face, as she remembered the call with her father back in the abandoned house.
"Oh my..." Pixel looked around wildly "And how long has this been going on?"
Blue was silent for a moment, before rubbing her eyes with her hoof and answering. "Don't know, really. Today we heard a weird radio broadcast that warned about it. I didn't take it seriously, nopony did. About an hour later we were running away from them..." she explained, occasionally whimpering.
"Well I don't think I heard about it. I was looking for berries" Pixel looked deep into the forest.
Quote from: Somebeing on 2014 May 13, 15:30:50
"Of course I will. On the other hand...he'll..." Seven nudged over to the shivering pony, scared to death. "...I'll do my best."
That will be great darling. That will
be helpful for plannin' out our route.
Sheer Luck turned around to get her map out of her
saddle bag. When she turned around she notice
Seven. As she tilted her head in concern she ask,
Is he going to be okay? . . .
"don't worry abot me I'm fine." eclipse keeps lookout for any infected. "that infected pony I had temporaily trapped had dropped this." eclipse shows them a paper she recovered from starlight.
((By the way FakeSmile, I don't actually have any intention of Tiger bumping into Sheer Luck and the other two again, just for tension and stuff ovO Better make a move on lol))
Quote from: Sakura_Blossom on 2014 May 13, 15:50:19
"Well I don't think I heard about it. I was looking for berries" Pixel looked deep into the forest.
"You should've just gone East, then. There's always a bunch of berry-bearing plants there," Tiger said as she approached Pixel and Blue. "Blue! Where the hay have you been!? I've been looking all over for you! ... And maybe I've been looking all over for Sheer Luck too. For anypony I knew, really," Tiger said.
Seven, the robotic floating drone, replied.
"Per usual with all dangerous tasks...It takes some time for him to adjust to things. To answer your question, yes, he will be fine." He said in his high-pitched programmed voice. "Truth be told...He made it pretty far in his life. Too far, at some points."
The stallion continued his position. On the ground, in a sphere, shaking.
"Anyways...I have-er. Where is everyone else...My recent data statistics show that I've detected more pony-like signatures than expected...Could they be contaminated..." Seven pondered.
"It will still take time to analyze and research more about this...infection, to say. I still have not figured out how this corruption spreads or what symptoms a being would have when brought into contact..." Seven sighed.
"We should move...soon. I've had my recent experience with all kinds of scenarios such as this. To be quite honest, this isn't as widespread as I believed it was. For now, at least. Still, doing something is better than nothing."
(( Yeah, I figured. After Somebeing replies I plan on moving
things along. But thanks for letting me know. ^-^ ))
Sheer Luck looked down at the stallion then back at seven.
Nodding she said,
Yeah, staying put too long isn't the
best idea... Should we venture to Canterlot? I'm sure
we will find answers there!
Sheer Luck smiled tryin' to stay hopeful.
As she looked at her map she said,
We can either go around ponyville or through...
Which one do you think sounds the safest?
Seven pondered for a minute. Going through Ponyville is a risky, yet fast way to Canterlot. He also thought that going around was even more so. If every pony in Ponyville was infected, they would move away from the town in search of new hosts.
Why Canterlot though...It took Seven another processing core and minute in order to figure this out.
"...I honestly do not know. We can decide once we are out of this forest. Anyplace is safer than here..."
He looked back at where the duo came from. Just a few minutes ago all was easy and all was well. Now...well, they where in plain haystacks.
"I hope."
"What!?" The stallion managed to reply towards the robot's statements. "We're moving closer to the possible source of the infected!?"
"Well. It was your idea in the first place."
"I didn't know there was a disease."
"Now we do, and we're going to figure it out."
"No. We are not. I bet the Princesses or those Element Ponies have it all covered. We just run and hide as usual, and they'll take care of it."
"Well...It's been a while, I mean. For those in Ponyville, they could have suffered for an hour or so. All we got was three minutes and forty-five seconds taste of that carnage. We have to...do something."
The stallion rose from the ground.
"...We're all going to perish, anyways. Might as well..." He sighed. "So. Canterlot then. Let's move to Ponyville and decide our course there."
Quote from: Moonspiritz on 2014 May 13, 17:22:17
"don't worry abot me I'm fine." eclipse keeps lookout for any infected. "that infected pony I had temporaily trapped had dropped this." eclipse shows them a paper she recovered from starlight.
"Oh, You met Starlight?" Blue asked as she took the papers.
Quote from: Tiger on 2014 May 13, 19:24:15
"Blue! Where the hay have you been!? I've been looking all over for you! ... And maybe I've been looking all over for Sheer Luck too. For anypony I knew, really,"[/color] Tiger said.
"Um... I was right here, on the tree you left me on..." Blue whispered.
((2 am... somepony shouldn't be here X3))
Sheer Luck nodded as she said,
I agree. These woods are dangerous
even without the infection. I'm sure once we get
to Canterlot the Princesses will have answer! I bet
its the safest place right now.
Smiling as she placed the map in her saddle bag, she
then began to walk in the direction the gang came from.
As she looked around she said,
If my memory is right, which it normally
is, I can backtrack our way out of the woods.
She then turned around and smiled at the two.
Happily she said,
Looks like we're goin' on an
adventure!
Quote from: Grizzly on 2014 May 13, 19:57:24
"Um... I was right here, on the tree you left me on..." Blue whispered.
"Well, sorry, but some ponies around here are too busy losing the horde's trail to remember where everything else is," Tiger said with a slightly annoyed tone in her voice. "We should probably regroup with the others, wherever they are."
Upon hearing Tiger's annoyed tone Blue's ears flop down. "S-Sorry..." She whispers and turned her back to the group. "This way, i think." she whispered again and though Maybe it would be better if i'd drowned in that river...
Tiger followed Blue. And she thought to herself, I don't even know why I'm still with these ponies. I guess its just my second nature to make sure the ponies I know are safe, but still... I'd be much better off alone. Why do I have to be so kind like this...
Seven began to hum to himself an enjoyable tune as they traversed through the forest. The stallion, on the other hand, was a few hooves behind the others. He began to wonder how only one communication brought him here to this...disaster.
So many. He had lost count of all the horrible experiences he went through...
"...Hello! Asking a question here." Seven said, bringing the pony back to reality.
"Oh...yes. What was it."
"How did it start." He began. "All diseases have their sources. Could be Ponyville, but who and where and when and why? I mean, I know we are going there right now to figure this all out but...any ideas?"
"Nope. We'll figure this out."
((Chroma, you've seen this right?))
Quote from: Naura on 2014 May 13, 14:58:55
With both Azure and Naura using their powers to
push the rock, it moved a bit, revealing a hole.
"Hurry! We got no time to lose!" Naura shouted
and started tripping down the hole, when she
got through, it looked like she had enterd
another dimension, and she saw another pony
there who probably hadn't heard her knocking.
"Hey, who are you?" Naura asks.
With her ears folded, almost dragging her hooves, Blue led the ponies along a path she knew, hopefully they'll find somepony. "Please, keep an eye out for the poison joke, green flame and spitting plant herbs. We need them for a cure..." she whispered and looked around.
Sheer Luck contiued to follow the trail that she once
came from. The group was half way to Ponyville
Sheer Luck ran her hoof through her mane, she
usually does this when she is trying to remeber
a past event.
Well, there was a radio broadcast about this disease...
It was so absurd... But one walked into my shop and came after
my costumers and I.
Sheer Luck looked down, remebering what happened
to her costumers made her feel sad and guilty.
eclipse looks at tiger "you made her upset...just so you know." eclipse gose and trys to cheer up blue.
Quote from: Naura on 2014 May 14, 01:39:10
((Chroma, you've seen this right?))
(Yeah, sorry, school. :l)
The pony just stood there, facing away from the two.
"Hey!" Azure shouted, patience with this whole thing finally wearing thin. "Who are you?" he echoed Naura.
The dark gray pony turns around and looks Azure with a happy mouth but sad eyes.
"Don't cry, they said. Everything will work out, they said" The dark unicorn says. Then it starts to glow and disappears.
"What?" Naura says with a confused face when the pony have disappeard. She then looks at Azure.
"Did you know that pony?" Sha asks with a low voice.
(http://sierraclub.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b96069e2015392f9936f970b-pi)
((This except no cape and its dark gray and got black mane, no cutiemark))
"No...I don't know anypony at a-...I mean, who looked like that."
(He always slips up like that X3 )
"Well, that was awkward" Naura says and starts galloping
up to a hut on the field and opens the door to the house.
"Hey, come look at this Azure!" She says with a low voice.
((You shall now decide what we find in the hut))
Blue walked on, still dragging her hooves, still ears down and very silent. She was looking around for the said ingredients for the cure. Suddenly she stopped and walked off into a bush, returning a moment later with a green flower in her mouth, the its leafs looked like flames. Those that knew herbs knew that the plant tasted disgusting, never the less Blue kept the plant in her mouth and walked on.
Inside the hut was what seemed like an alchemical laboratory; alembics, vials, pestles and morters, and multiple bottles with differing colors in them.
"What the hay?" Azure gasped, stepping in and looking around. "Just where the heck are we, Tartarus?"
(I'm trying to set up a base for the group if we ever get back together all at once. 0:) )
((well, we could say Blue knows where the hideout is, and lead the second group there X3 i'll wait for Tigers and moonspiritz's post though))
Naura walks inside the hut and looks at the different things in there, cleaning/moving stuff on the tables and she took away some dust.
"Have this been a medical lab or what?" Naura asks herself and Azure. She manege to move a empty rusty barrel out of the house which gave them more space.
"I don't know; I've never seen anything like this before..." He said, prodding one of the alembics lightly. Being forced to work for the Changelings, he didn't have that much knowledge of things outside the Hive, save for the one or two trips he was allowed to make to Ponyville.
(Ok g2g now, see you all tomorrow ^-^ )
"Hm. That could be the radio signal we have managed to intercept before arriving back home." Seven stated. "Then the infection must have started around that time..."
"Wait...Where are the others...shouldn't we regroup?" The stallion said. He hated being with others, but if he was forced to, he would enjoy some more company. "I mean...we can't hold off if we're surrounded, going through Ponyville or not."
Seven pondered. "I believe that the possibility of our survivability based on the lethality of this toxin with our current status being 54.5192%, if I calculated correctly."
"Only half, practically."
"Practically, yes. I suppose we should-," The floating bot realized something. "Oh yes. I have completely overran this program. I am R-TYPE-7, built for reconnaissance and for research by this fellow pony here. I have adopted the generic name 'Seven', if you wish to recognize me by such way."
"I'm..." The stallion started, but stopped for a second. "I...build things, as you can see."
((Seven is my profile picture, but without all the weapons and about the size of a pony's body. He has a scan function, for now...))
"Anyways. I suppose we should find the rest of your group. When we were 'scouting', my frequencies picked up a particular sound wave. In your language, there should be a bunker of sorts nearby. Do you know it's whereabouts?"
Quote from: Grizzly on 2014 May 14, 11:47:55
Blue walked on, still dragging her hooves, still ears down and very silent. She was looking around for the said ingredients for the cure. Suddenly she stopped and walked off into a bush, returning a moment later with a green flower in her mouth, the its leafs looked like flames. Those that knew herbs knew that the plant tasted disgusting, never the less Blue kept the plant in her mouth and walked on.
"Well, nice find, I suppose. You okay with having it in your mouth?" Tiger asked, knowing how foul it tasted.
((Ahh, I thought Seven was some kind of android pony. x3))
Sheer Luck stop walking, the group was just a few meters
away from Ponyville. She turned around and looked at the
two. Worried she said,
I agree, we should regroup with the rest...
But... I'm just worried I guess. All my family
lives in Canterlot...
She let out a sigh. Looking down at the ground
she said,
I want to hurry up and figure out
the stupid cure so this can be all over
and we can go back to our normal
lives...
Sheer Luck levitated her map from
her saddle bag. As she looked it over
she said,
We are right here...
Where did you pick up the sound waves?
...
Also its nice to meet you Seven and... friend
... I'm Sheer Luck..
A cream Pegasus with a blue mane runs into [Insert character here], trips, andd says, "whoops, sorry about that."
"well I got the poison joke.." eclipse says.
"If somepony has somewhere to store this i would be most grateful, i can take it if not." She mumbled through the plant. "Poison joke? great, all we need now is the spitting plant, and one more ingredient i can't remember." She somehow managed to sigh through the plant in her mouth.
"I got this old saddlebag I found. I suppose it could make itself useful apart from carrying this food supply of berries," Tiger said as she ate some of them. "Want some?"
Blue used her unicorn telekinesis to levitate the green flame plant to Tiger. "No, i don't." She sighed and walked on.
"Hey, if I hurt your feelings, I'm sorry about that. I have a tendency of saying what I think without considering the other ponies' feelings first, so that kind of makes me seem a little insensitive," Tiger said as she threw out some berries to make space for the plant.
"Lets just move on." Blue said, not even turning to Tiger. She kept silent as she led them along the path.
"Hey, wait for me!" Pixel trotted to catch up.
Tiger was starting to get a little irritated with Blue's new attitude, although she didn't show it. Tiger stopped walking, though.
"Hey, if that's not the reason you're acting so grumpily, my second guess is that you don't want me here. And I can just trot off right now if you really want me to," Tiger calmly said.
Blue sighed "You're not the problem." She whispered and walked on.
Emerald falls out of a tree near blue and tiger are, a few twigs hit the ground loud enough for them to hear it "o-ow... why do I keep falling.. ugh" she tries to get up but it seems she injured her leg "ow ow ow... well looks like I'm stuck here for a while...
Blue turned her head towards the sound and quickly galloped to the injured pony. "Are out ok?" She asked caringly and checked Emeralds leg, then charged her horn and let a reddish aura cover the injured spot, easing the pain and repairing the damage.
"y-yea, I fell from the tree" she looks at blue and smiles "I saw a rare bird so I climbed it to get a better view... but the branch I was on broke... she looks up to were the tree limb snapped off
"Well, to be frank, now isn't exactly the best time for bird watching," Tiger said, being cautious while turning to the direction of a nearby horde of infected ponies. The horde hadn't noticed them yet, though.
((i figured there'd be a lot of infected ponies by now, so i hope it's okay for me to do this ovO))
"We should move, not far now." Blue whispered and walked on.
((it's ok ^-^))
can I come with you? I'm not sure were your going but, I'm sure I can help with something she says without disdurbing the horde. She looks at blue and tiger as she trys to stand up
"Of course you can, i insist actually." Blue answered.
((the leg should be fine unless you don't want it to be, blue is a very good healer))
emerald gets up without a problem t-thank you... my names emerald btw whats yours? she started walking next to blue
I'm Tiger Stripes, but you can just call me Tiger. And this is Blue," Tiger said.
"Nice to meet you, Emerald." Blue whispered and led the group on. Soon enough they Blue stopped near a big bolder and knocked it three times.
emerald looks at tiger nice to meet you too she looks at blue knocking on the boulder what are you doing? she examines the boulder with blue i dont see anything strange about it
Blue waited for a bit, then tilted her head. "Are we the first ones here? Kinda hard to believe..." She whispered, then turned to Emerald. "That's the point, it shouldn't unwanted attention attract." she whispered and waited a bit more.
"Let me guess... Some sort of secret hideout?" Tiger asked.
Naura could here knocking on the rock that led her and Azure to the place.
"Hmm, I'll go check it out, wait here!" She says and starts to run off. When she gets there she here Tiger's voice and says
"Hey, Tiger, are you there? Is there anypony else with you?"
h-huh? did that rock just say somthing? she says quitly as she back away from the rock and gets next to tiger
Blue nodded to Tiger's question, then heard Naura's voice "Is that you, Naura? I'm here to, and one other pony we met along the way. Could you open up, please?" She asked.
"Okay, can you use your magic to push the stone from the outside, and I'll try from the inside. Azure is with me,
but in a random hut we found in here!" Naura says and starts to push the rock away from the opening with all her might.
Blue sighed and closed her eyes, making an painful expression as her horn slowly charged with her red magic aura. The same aura slowly appeared on the bolder. With the pressure of Blue's unicorn telekinesis and Naura's hooves the rock slowly mooved out of the way. "Get in." She said, still holding her eyes closed and concentrating, she was still in no condition to use magic safely.
((Let's wait for some others to get online now, so we don't do all the work ovO))
Tiger went in, and was (presumably) followed by Emerald. Tiger turned to Blue and saw how hard she was concentrating.
"...Are you alright?" she asked.
"Just... a little... tired..." Blue whispered, the aura surrounding her horn slowly fading away.
Tiger got Blue into the hut. "Take a rest. You need it."
She then walked over to the boulder. "We should close the entrance again before any of the infected ponies notice it," Tiger said as she started pushing it.
"Sure" Naura replied and started pushing the rock, it took about ten seconds to close the entrance, and then Naura started walking back.
"Come, I can show you were Azure is, we found this strange hut, and he is probably cleaning it right now" Naura says without looking at the ponies.
emerald helps tiger push the boulder and closes the entrance, she turns and looks around, she sees a hole in the roof but theres no light coming from it hey, theres a hole up there, anyone see a ladder?
Post Merge
((dang am i off by timing))
"I don't see a ladder, but I'll go up there and see what's up," Tiger said, flapping her wings to fly up. She took out a flashlight from her saddlebag and looked through the hole in the roof.
ill go to, you never know what you'll find she flaps her wings as tiger shines the light ill go first, just keep the light so i can see she flys up to the hole and peeks in
"Throw me the green flame plant, please." Blue called to Tiger. "I'll go work on that cure..." she whispered and rubbed her eyes.
Tiger got back to the ground and gave the plant to Blue.
emerald goes into the hole, theres a small square window so there is very little light hey tiger bring the flashlight! she calls from the hole and starts looking around
Blue yawned and held the plant in her mouth. "Thanks, and be careful up there, please." she whispered and walked behind Naura to the hut.
She shuffles through the boxes to find something of use she looks through 2 but finds nother when she gets to the third one, she finds a flashlight. She turns it on and puts it in her mouth to use, she shuffles through more boxes and finds a backpask, much bigger then a saddle bag and she finds some survival supplies. A few cans of food, a pair of binoculars, some bottles of water, some clothes, 3 pairs of hiking boots and 8 flashlight battiries
Something could be heard outside, turns out when Starlight had run of she had found her way here.
"Oh, wait here!" Naura says when she hears something that she guesses is from the rock. She runs there and listens after a voice. She knocks quietly to make sure the thing i still there, and waiting to find out if it's infected or not.
"Um... okay." Blue mumbled through the plant in her mouth and waited, as told by Naura.
Starlight knocked again, she sounded like she was crying...
Azure was waiting for Naura's return inside the hut, but he was shocked when he heard Blue's voice.
"Huh? They're here?"
He thought about letting them have a piece of his mind for leaving him on the cloud alone, but he decided against it; the last thing the group needs is a lack of trust.
He let his mind wander to thoughts about The Hive...
And then he remembered who he worked for.
"...AAAGH!" He screamed suddenly. "I GOTTA GET BACK!!!"
Blue turned around, raised an eyebrow and galloped to the source of the scream, well galloped as much as she could in her current state. It was a short run but she was out of breath as she reached Azure, exhaling heavily. "Oh... hi... Azure... Back... where...?" she asked with the horribly tasting plant still in her mouth.
Azure didn't here her, he was pacing back and forth, on the brink of a panic attack.
"WhatdoIdowhatdoIdoWhatdoIdo?!?! What if the plague got there too?!"
He wasn't concerned for them, save a few small friends he made in his time there. He was scared of the fact he could have a manic Chrysalis either moving out to raze the town, or an infected Chrysalis hunting him down for hugs.
He's ignoring me? Blue thought and her vision blurred a bit . She shook her head and sat down holding the plant in her hoof and sighed. "Got where? Are you alright?" She asked, this time a bit loudly.
"WAGGH! DON'T HURT ME!" Azure screamed, caught off-guard, and paranoia making him think the Queen was here for a second.
"Oh...'huff'...B-Blue..."
He tried to look calm again.
Blue gave a tired, quizzical look. "Why would i want hurt you?" she asked.
Starlight had resorted to scratching the rock that blocked the entrance into where the ponies were hiding.
"Help, want out, want cure! Please!"
"Sorry, I..uh..."
He thought of an idea.
"N-Naura was the only mare with me when we got here! I just thought...you were an infected or something, heh...!" X3
He put on a false grin.
Blue was too tired to notice the fakeness of Azure's smile. "Well, i'm not infected." With some efort she stood up. "If i remember correctly there should be an alchemy lab in the hut, i'll be working on that cure..." She whispered, put the plant in her mouth again and walked inside.
"Oh, Starlight, I'll open just soon" Naura said and got a rock doll thingy in a corner of the cave in case she would try to hug Naura. Naura pushed the rock away and sees the mare infront of her.
((Well, I just made a 'map' of this 'cave' (Took about twenty minutes, didn't try to make it detailed))And I'll tell some small things about it
(http://i.imgur.com/8oEZpqw.png)
The dark green on the top of the picture, is supposed to evergreen forest (not all of it) we were running around in and then its the rock, then the dark gray under the rock is the path down, then an extra path leads to a light brown stuffy(a chest), which is me guessing where Emerald should be atm. Then you can probably guess most of it, but I'll tell some. The yellow thing in the roof is a crystal which gives of the light to this whole place (I couldn't make anything more logical up for all the light here) The darkest part with some random lines on it is really thick forest, then its forest on th other dark green too, but not as thick, I was thinking we go to the castle (best.picture.ever.xD) later in this rp, just so we could mabe get lost or find something wierd in there. The road there is not as big as I painted it, then the blue is waterfall and a lake, then that brown/red stuff is the hut, and from now on we can't here the knockings as good when we get to the light green (which is a grass field btw) because it doesn't seem logical, well, guess that's it, got any questions, feel free to ask))
"Um...Blue? Are you feeling okay?" He said, ironic considering his recent freakout. " 'Cause, you know...we IN the alchemy lab right now."
Starlight was indeed crying as Naura found out when she opened the cave, and she didn't seem to want hugs either... strange considering she was infected.
"I burnt self, it hurts! Cure?" then she paused and saw the rock-doll "Hugs doll?" she then added.
Blue looked around. "Oh..." She blushed and walked to the table, setting the plant down. She took the appropriate tools and started to grind the green flame plant into powder. "I'm ok, just a little tired. Cure first, then rest..." She whispered and continued with her tedious work.
"Yeah, if you feel like you need to hug something, hug this!" Naura gives it to the pegasus and tries to lead her to the alchemy lab.
Starlight happily began snuggling the rock doll, subconsciously following Naura to the lab.
Boiling water, tubes and glasses with herbs everywhere, and a blue mare frantically running from table to table. That was the sight they got when reaching the alchemy lab. Blue already mixed up something to keep her awake and is tirelesslly working on the cure. Her eyes were baggy, her mane and tail disheveled.
Naura lead Starlight to the rusty barrel that she moved out before, then she threw the rock doll in there while Starlight were still hugging it, which made her fall into there too. The barrel was not too small for them, so Naura truned the opening to the house wall so Starlight was trapped there, but could get out if kicking the wall.
"I'll be right back Starlight, Just need to get the cure!" Naura mumbled and ran into the house and looked at Blue making a powder.
"Is the cure done soon?" She asked her.
Starlight started kicking angrily as she was trapped in the barrel.
"Want out! Want hugs!"
Blue didn't even turn to Naura, just said as fast as she could. "Not yet...." She jumped to a large pot scooped some of its boiling content to a small glass tube, then she drank a bit only to cry out as she burned her tongue. "Disgusting... But ready." Her eyes were twitching as she gave the glass to Naura, then simply fell on her side, unconscious, her body shut down from stimulant overdose.
"Oh, Blue! I'll be right back!" Naura say and she runs out with the glass to see that Stralight has almost got out of the barrel.
Naura help's her the last bit and then hand's her the cure and says with a warm voice:
"Here you got the cure, may not taste good, but bottom up!"
Starlight hadn't noticed Naura handing her the cure, due to the fact she was busy hugging her rock doll... the doll looked like it was about to be squeezed in two by Starlights hugging
Naura got stress'd when Starlight didn't listen. She felt like she wanted to hit her right in the face, but she calmly told her again
"Bottom up!". Naura felt her body getting warmer, she felt like she was about to pass out. She took deep and loud breathes and tried to wipe away her sweat, but it only came more, she was getting tired and and she felt like she had a hangover.
Starlight still wasn't listening fully, but she did begin gaping as she fell down from a rock comically falling on her head.
Now, that was it! Naura felt how she wouldn't be able to stand anymore, she hurried to drop the cure into the gaping Starlight and
after that Naura picked out some suger cubes of her hair. Every bad feeling she had disappeard in in some shivers and then she
was spirited again, full of life. She forgot that Starlight wasn't fully cured until she swallowed the drink and Naura lifted the doll and
threw it some meters into the air and when it came down she kicked it into pieces, all this so some of her energy wouldn't overflow.
Starlight began to regain consciousness as the cure was poured down her throat.
"Wh-what happend? Where am I? Did you give me the cure? Where are my notes?" She sounded panicked now, her notes were important, and if the group didn't have it the research on a permanent cure was gone.
Naura looked blankly at Starlight. The suger which felt like it never existed was gone. Naura fell onto the grass, passed out from sleep, pressure and stress.
((great, now we have two unconscious mares :D))
((yup))
Starlight frowned seeing Naura fall unconscious... it wasn't something she wanted to see while she was panicking so much.
Blue lie still on the cold floor, her breath gentle and slow, as was her heart beat.
((Lol, let's wait for the other Rpers :P))
((just wanted to put out one last post before going to bed X3))
((My Oc would actually not faint if it wasn't because of me sitting in this room for some hours now, listening to the same song 44 times and it's getting really hot in my room, so I just wrote what I felt when my ears were bleeding, but then I changed song and that is where I got the sugar idea from, but then listening to that song 7 times got me in a even worse mood, but then I went out for some minutes and I felt better, with that said, try to splash some water in my Oc's face xD))
((Welp, Blue will need a little more than that :D Just put her in bed and throw a blanket over her or something XD PS: still cant sleep :/))
((Starlight is still panicing))
((Okay... Enough OOC))
Life.
It has been something my sensors have not picked up for some time. The longer we stay in this uncontrollable forest, the harder it is for me to do anything.
I will not live forever. The sunless area around us cannot power my solar panels. True, I have my own battery power source, but how long will that last for?
Two hours, twenty-three minutes, fifty-fou-er-three seconds.
Time for another scan...
...
...as usual, there are many prints on the ground that match the size of an average hoof print. Measuring the texture of the surrounding area of the hoof print, they were made recently. However, I cannot detect any hairs or skin flakes left on the ground. As usual, they were not made by ponies. However, the quantity of these hoof-like prints is astonishing, making that fifty-two pairs of hooves. Hm. I should be making another process unit soon...
It has been another ten seconds...
...
...Strange. There is an actual being nearby. Make that six-hundred meters straig-...Wait. DNA strains...could be this disease again. Yet, we haven't found another pony for quite some time.
Wait...This is where the sound waves came from? I detect no entity capable of making such a distinctive sound frequency.
It is quite the horrible situation. We are practically alone.
Wait.
Is that a boulder? Unusually placed, it appears that the sediments nearby were shifted...differently.
...Right.
Seven opened up his lens, taking in the view. Once again, a blue light emitted from his single lens, and a blue grid appeared on a nearby stone. Trees continued to block their path...where were they?
"I believe we are at an impasse." Seven stated. "We have not found any traces of evidence showing any life. It is quite hopeless."
The grid disseminated into the air. The stallion sighed.
"I don't know anymore, Seven. I...just want to go home." He sighed, as usual. "We all do...don't we."
"Judging by this stone...it has been moved many times. Of course, that is normal in environments such as this. We need to continue forward."
The stallion sighed again, as the duo passed over the rock and continued their course into the forest, completely forgetting about the other pony.
"Hug me."
...What?
(Good thing my OC has water powers ^-^ )
Having stepped out the room to calm himself, Azure stepped back in to see an unsettling sight:
Naura and Blue, out for the count on the floor.
"Huh-WHAT?!" He said, before running over to Naura and dropping a small globe of water on her head.
As he did, however, he saw something terrifying (to him at this point.)
Starlight was poking her head out the barrel, not holding the doll.
"Oh...CRUD!!!"
Not knowing she was cured, Azure bolted out the door as fast as he could, shouting:
"BAIL!!! EVERYPONY BAIL!!! THE INFECTED'S LOOSE!!! BAILBAILBAIL!!!!!"
He shot out of the hut, not knowing that on the map, there was a castle in the direction he was running.
Naura woke up being scolded in the face with some water, then she heard Azure screaming "BAIL!" and she saw him
looking at Starlight. Nuar let out a little laugh, which grow when she saw Azure's face. Now she was laughing like never.
"OH MY, It was perfect, that face and- hahahah- then you screaming Bail, Oh god, that was hilarious!" Naura says and
almost stops laughing during the time she tells him, but his face expression is stuck in her head which make her laugh even harder.
(Azure's long gone. He ran out.)
((Edited, gonna watch Die Hard now, bb tomorrow))
Sheer Luck followed behind the
duo. She walked in silence as
she listen to the two talk. Beside
the infected pony, Sheer Luck
enjoyed being the forest. Even
in these circumstance, she was
calmed and relaxed. She closed
her eyes, just to take in the
tranquility of the forest.
((geez, i went to bed for like, 3 hours and i missed 2 pages of action... im really of by timing)) She puts the supplies in her backpack and flys down from the hole only to see blue passed out and Starlight as Naura got hit in the face with water. She looks at them confused i was only gone for five minutes... what happened, who are you, and who is she she points at starlight with her hoof
Starlight blushed.
"I am an... erm was an infected, and so long as i can keep enough doses of the cure down me I should be fine."
Starlight looked at the glass that held the cure, her mind seeming to wander, but it went back on track.
"This is Aura... Right? My memory isn't perfect at the moment."
Naura stops laughing and sees Emerald asking who Starlight is.
"Oh, our group met her before in a hut, she got infected but we just got her cured, did you see Azure by the way?"
Naura says and then starts to laugh again, but now she is starting to stand up and she wipes tears of joy from her eyes. She takes some deep breathes, and starts to think on her environment. She checks begin to slowly walk into the house where she puts aside a few things and find a sofa. She lifts up Blue's sore body and put it on the purple couch. She takes the table cloth and put it over her. Then she goes out of the cottage to Emerald and coughs before she starts talking.
"What shall we do now? Maybe we can investigate more about this site, or should we just wait here?"
"I just want some sleep right now! Seriously are there any beds here?" Starlight replied.
"There is a couch inside, Blue is using it at the moment, but you could easily sleep with her, it's really big!" Naura replies and point's with her hoof at the cottage.
Starlight nods, yawning before finding a spot to sit on the couch, and nodding of to sleep.
She looks at starlight hmmm... oh i think i saw something that might help she fly's up to the hole and searches through the boxes more then comes back down with an orange blanket. She covers starlight with the blanket and smiles. She then looks at naura well, i guess its just us to explore the rest of this place
Blue, placed on the couch by Naura, cuddled in the makeshift blanket she had over herself and shook a bit.
Meanwhile, Tiger is nowhere to be seen, presumably exploring whatever else the rock had prevented her from exploring during her adventures through Everfree Forest.
She giggles at the site of Starlight and Blue snuggling up with each other He he he... they're so cute she tucks the blanket under them so they don't get cold. She sits on the floor shuffling through her bag and counts the supplies in case she missed something she found earlier. She finishes and puts them back in the bag then takes out an old cowmare hat from the attic.
((When did we mention snuggling?))
((lol, you two are next to each other so i thought you were snuggling witheach other))
Azure ran for quite a few minutes, finding a dirt path and stumbling along it, out of breath.
"Haah...what the heck do I do now...? Naura and Blue were out cold...did they get infected?! And I woke Naura up...dang it!"
He continued down the road.
((ok, lets go for it.)
Still asleep Blue intuitively snuggled up to the pony sleeping next to her, Starlight.
((XD We're not infected, well I am... kinda.))
Starlight was too busy sleeping to notice but she certainly reacted as she began to do the same.
Naura looks at Blue and Starlight snuggeling for a bit and laughs to herself, then she sees Emerald's hat.
"Nice hat, so, were we going to explore this place now or should we wait with Starlight and Blue..." Naura makes a pause but starts to talk again.
"...so nopony can hurt them." She finishes, now thinking choice two sound like a better alternative.
Quote from: Snowcraft_Pony on 2014 May 17, 09:32:49
((When did we mention snuggling?))
(( (http://iambrony.dget.cc/mlp/gif/488207__safe_solo_rarity_animated_image%2Bmacro_imma%2Bsnuggle%2Byou_subversion.gif)))
Well, we could leave a note for them. Do you have a quill and some ink? she starts shuffling through her newly found stuff
"Nope, sadly, I left my saddle bag back in the house..." Naura replies. Then Naura remembers that Emerald might not know which house.
"...A house me, Starlight, Blue, Tiger, Azure and a pony called Sheer Luck took shelter in at the beginning of the apocalypse" Naura ends
the sentence and thinks back. Wondering were Sheer Luck is, if she is okay, and where all other un-infected ponies might be hiding.
Weakness finally taking his legs, Azure slumped against a tree, as something happened.
GROWL!
"...I'm starving."
(Sorry if this bit seems like a bit of a deus ex machina, I never said he had a satchel before, but imagine he always did.)
He slung his satchel to the ground, before digging out a small cake; he bought is from one of the merchants at the Hive. Changeling Kingdom needs an economy too, y'know.
//yeah, you didn't mentioned it before, i'll let it slide this time
As they continued along the path, the group can hear the faint screaming of their group. Of course, to the duo, they let it slide. It could be any group screaming about the infected. Who knows how many ponies are safe from the contamination? Tens? Hundreds? Thousands?
"So..." Seven said, "Sheer Luck. That is quite the nice equestrian name you have. What talent do you have...if you have one?"
Sheer Luck looked toward the direction
the scream came from. She then began
to wonder about the other ponies from
the beginning. As her thoughts began to
wonder she said,
Thank you Seven. Well, I was raised by a family
of skilled Barbers so naturally I became
one. I don't mind this fate though, I enjoy
the work. I actually had a Barber Shop in
Canterlot before movin' to Ponyville. But
my shop here is bigger than my old one.
Sheer Luck then turned and smiled at the duo.
Happily she said,
Maybe once all this is over your friend
would like to stop by and get a mane cut.
well... i still want to explore a little, i'm sure it'll be fine she says sarcasticly because she knows things like that are never fine ((i would like the stanley parable narrorator to read what im droppin up in here, or cryotic, hes a good narrorator too))
"Canterlot is a nice place, but it can get busy at some times." Seven stated. "Ponyville is more relaxing to some, too. I would prefer living in such an area."
Seven chuckled. "A mane cut would suit you quite fine." He said towards the stallion. "I mean, my scans already indicate that your mane can be comparable to the word 'messy'"
"It must be that bad for her to say it." The stallion said as he blew a piece of his mane out of his eyesight. "Thanks...but I doubt it won't be over for long." He sighed. "You have a map if I recall correctly...do you know where we are?"
Sheer Luck nodded as she said,
I agree, but you got to love
the ponies of Canterlot. Well,
the part I lived in I guess.
Sheer Luck face reddened,
she didn't mean anything by
suggesting a mane cut. Just
trying to get some costumers.
As she looked in a different
direction she said,
I didn't mean anything by the mane cut.
Your mane is very fine. I mean, the long
mane for stallions isn't my cup of tea but
it looks nice on you.
What?
Oh yeah, I got a map.
Sheer Luck's face slowly turned
back to her usual colour as she
levitated the map. Pointing to their
current location she said,
I believe we are right about...
Here! Seven, do you mind doin' a quick scan
of our current location? If possible, number of
infected and non-infected ponies.
The stallion chuckled. "This style looks nice on me? Heh...I don't even care how I look and yet it suits me well. Thanks."
Seven tilted by around 2.51634 degrees to the left. "A scan, here? Where is this variable 'here'? Nonetheless, I shall check any life signs. Although a complete scan will take a few equestrian minutes."
Once again, a blue light emitted from his lens and a grid appeared on the multiple trees in front of the robot as it slowly turned around.
Sheer Luck flashed a smiled at the stallion
before showing the map to Seven. As she
point to there current location she said,
I travel through the Ever Free with a friend
often. So If my memory serves me right,
we are around here.
Seven managed to finish his scans right when Sheer Luck finished talking. "Ah. That knowledge could be quite useful,but for how long exactly..." He paused. "...well. Based off the symptoms of a pony infected with the unknown disease, or diseases, I matched them up with other life signs within the vicinity to see if there are others nearby. That number, within a kilometre radius, is two hundred and ninety-six. Nine have been detected without any of the researched symptoms."
The stallion's ears perked up. "Y'know, I believe we've taken this too calmly." He stated. "We have multiple cities contaminated with hundreds of thousands of ponies infected. Here we are, split up from the rest of the group, talking about mane cuts...even if I really needed one."
Seven restarted one of his programming cores. "The closest infected is three-hundred and two metres behind us...actually, a good two hundred infected are behind us...like a herd. We should move, now."
As Sheer Luck levitated the map back into
her bag she said,
Wow... With those numbers it seems as if
most of Ponyville is infected...
She then looked behind her, imagining the
horde of infect coming toward them.
Imagining them being her friends, family and
costumers. As she closed her eyes tight to push
the thought of away she said,
Yeah... We should get a move on...
Through mid-sentence she remembered something
that lifted her mood. Turning to the duo, her eyes
sparkled as she said,
I remember there is a small hut my gal pal and
I have out here! We stay there sometimes when
we are out late lookin' for herbs. It's the perfect
place to hide out for a bit!
Sheer Luck turned in the direction the hut is.
Pointing with her hoof she said,
Its just a mile or two from here. How does
that sound? Or should we try to find the
others first?
"Others?" The stallion said in a different tone. "There are no others anymore...I mean, by now most of them could be-"
"While I hate to agree," Seven said. "we need to move away from where we came from. The group could find us or we could find them. It is better that we survive than risking our lives to find others who are possibly infected."
"Although, the distance from here to the hut is quite far." Seven continued. "...I guess we should go, before it is quite too late."
The stallion sighed. "I don't know, Seven...I guess so...Sheer Luck, what should we do? Go to the hut, or find your group members?"
"Well, okay, we should look where Azure disappeard!" Naura says and goes into the hut. She find's a dusty saddle bag inside and puts it on.
"I can take some things from your saddlebag so the weight is even." Naura says, smiling. She looks over where Azure disappeard and sees
something light red run between the forest. She closes her eyes, and opens them quickly after, just to see that it disappeard.
´Hmmm, am I getting dizzy? Maybe I should sleep before we go, no, this won't take long´ She thinks to herself and turns back to Emerald.
"So, wanna lead the way? I'll be right behind you!"
Blue, still sleeping, stared to shake and strengthened her hug on Starlight. Apparently she was having a nightmare.
she keeps the things in her bag and gets infront of naura alright, but stay close and dont go too far from the hut she goes outside and looks around to see if theres anything interesting to explore hmm see anything?
When Blue's grip tightened Starlight woke up, the sudden squeeze was quite distressing considering what had happened, but not she was awake she found something else for Blue to squeeze instead of her and went to take a look around, one thing she noticed was plenty of rope, and a magic inhibitor...
"This could be useful in detaining another infected, my last one got away..."
That image of her being hugged in her 'lab' which was no more than an old abandoned building flashed in her mind, considering it was only a hug it shouldn't have been as scary as it was.
"I don't see anything intresting now, but some minutes ago i swear I saw a ligth red pony in the forest over there!"
Naura gestures with her hoof and follows Emerald closer. She finds some healthy mushrooms and puts them in her bag.
Alright, wanna go check it out? ill go first if your too scared She snickers whilst looking at Naura i mean, it couldn't be anything super dangerous right? She says sarcastically as she slowly trots over to were Naura pointed
"No, but I.. Never mind!" Naura says and jumps right after Emerald. She make's a quick
turn and sees the red pony going against the house, by the suprise she screames.
"GAAAAH, EMERALD LOOK!" She screams and turn's to Emerald, but when she turn's back, it's gone.
"But wha-? Am I seeing things, I could swear to Celestia it was right at the house!"
she quickly turns to naura what? what what what's going on? she looks at naura confused. She looks around but sees nothing out of the ordinary. She sighs dang it naura stop scaring me like that
Naura looks back at the cottage, and sees nothing, she sighs and turns towards Emerald again and countinues walking.
Yep, nothing out of the ordinary.
Just Tiger swimming around at a waterfall area for some reason.
Nothing out of the ordinary at all.
emerald keeps walking in front of naura ok, Naura, if you see whatever you keep scaring me with again. Keep looking at it so it doesn't go away or something
"Okay" Naura turns around again, and looks back at the building for some seconds, and when she turns around, Emerald is gone!
´Oh hay! She walked away and I didn't notice!´ Naura thinks as she stumbles upon a dirt road. She looks confused at the dirt route leading into the forest.
´What? Why didn't I see this from the house?´ She thinks and walks a bit on it. She looks up and sees that it get's darker an darker the route goes into the forest. Normally, Naura wouldn't hesitate to run and explore, but during these circumstances, it felt nothing quite right. She wanted to go back to the house, maybe the red pony was there and kidnapped Blue and Starlight! Naura felt on the wet dirt, then she turned to go back. But then stands in front of her red pony, she screams, but her vision gets blurred and she faints.
//you just creaped me out X3 even before i looked at the spoiler
((Lol, my pleasure, checked your sig," Such a cure baby dragon"? xD Also, here to get happy again))
((oh my great celestia! XD
Post Merge
((that made me laugh so hard! oh please help i cant stop!!))
Quote from: Somebeing on 2014 May 18, 01:38:28
"Others?" The stallion said in a different tone. "There are no others anymore...I mean, by now most of them could be-"
"While I hate to agree," Seven said. "we need to move away from where we came from. The group could find us or we could find them. It is better that we survive than risking our lives to find others who are possibly infected."
"Although, the distance from here to the hut is quite far." Seven continued. "...I guess we should go, before it is quite too late."
The stallion sighed. "I don't know, Seven...I guess so...Sheer Luck, what should we do? Go to the hut, or find your group members?"
A few hoof steps could be heard, it
sounded like it was coming toward
the group. Sheer Luck looked back
then back at the duo. As she ran
her hoof through her mane she
said,
I think... Well... Maybe they
are...
...
She let out a sigh as she
continued,
You're right... It's too risky.
It would be a miracle if they
haven't got infected yet. And
I don't want to risk the group's
safety over my guilty conscious.
...
We should head toward my hut.
I know its far but it's the only
option we have right now. Once
we get there then we can figure
out what to do next.
Sheer Luck looked down as
she lead the way to her hut.
Sheer Luck felt a hoof on her back.
"It'll be-" The stallion began to say before being interrupted by a nearby scream. "...It'll be fine, I know it. We can go to the hut and...and..."
"That is our problem." Seven sighed. "We have no idea of any plan once we get there, but our group does. It sounds like..."
Seven turned to where the screaming was. "...they are still non-infected, to say the least. I did say I detected nine non-infected life signatures. They could be them."
"It is risky to find our group, but its riskier to go on our lonesome towards the hut." Seven finished.
"Are yo-you sure?" The stallion asked. "I...er...I mean," The thought of those two hundred ponies infected behind them came into mind.
Emerald looks behind her but she cant find naura N-Naura? were did you go? are you trying to scare me again? i-if so then its not funny she exclaims looking around franticly. She was terrified, she was now all alone in the woods looking around to try to find wear it came from. it sounded so close so it was hard to tell if it came from behind her or in front of her.
Sheer Luck weakly smiled at the stallion.
Her head toward the source of the
scream. Letting out a sigh she said,
Why is this happening? This is disease so
absurd! Yet, it's really happening...
She then began to play with her mane,
something she usually does when she is
under a lot of stress. Looking at the part of
her mane she is playing with she said,
The scream sounded pretty close...
Wouldn't hurt to see if the pony is okay...
Right?
"Of course." The stallion said with a wry smile. "Seven, lead the way."
"There is no need of that." He said, floating off the ground as usual. He nudged in front of him towards a pony walking around scared to death. It was Emerald.
"Is it-" The stallion began to say, but the robot dismissed his current thoughts with new, uplifting ones.
"No. Not at all." He whispered to his group before screaming to the pony. "Hey! Over here! We are not infected, rather speaking I'm a robot which can not be infected at all."
Seven scanned the pony for any injures. "You seem healthy. Do you know of anyone else or are you all alone there?"
she hears the robot H-huh!? she looks at him and stays wear she is W-well, i was with this pony named naura! then i heard a scream and when i turned around, she was gone the pony says terrified as to what's going on
Sheer Luck walked up toward the mare.
Calmly she said,
Darling don't be so scared. I'm sure your
friend is near by. We'll help you look for
her.
Sheer Luck gave Emerald a reassuring smile.
As she looked off toward the direction the
scream had came from she said,
I believe we should hurry and find her.
Her scream might of attract near by infected
ponies.
His cake long finished, Azure was wore out completely. He knew falling asleep was probably the worst thing to do now, but slowly, he felt his eyes shut. All he could do now was hope someone uninfected would find him.
u-uhm... okay... she goes next to sheer luck almost as shy as fluttershy since she was scared
Sheer Luck smiles at Emerald as she said,
My name is Sheer Luck and this is Seven
and... Yeah, well lets start lookin' for your
pal. Do you have any idea where she could
possible have gone?
Azure's sleep was plagued by a nightmare.
In it, he was galloping down an endless hallway, desperate to escape his pursuer: Queen Chrysalis.
"You ran away, didn't you?!" She shouted after him, as Azure mind was filled with fear.
"No! I didn't! I swear!" He shouted at his fears, turning his head to see her, only to see nothing.
Confused, he spun his head back in front of him to see the Queen standing right in front of him, a merciless grin on her face. (along the lines of my avatar's stance)
As he collided with her, he shot back to reality, screaming his lungs out:
"I DIDN'T RUN AWAY!!!"
His cry likely echoed around the cave as he awoke, sweating.
Not really... she was following me and then she was gone she follows sheer luck through the forest
((Da hay? When did you guys get inside the world under the rock? o.O))
(((http://24.media.tumblr.com/fdb08d280361e3e47be8783a21a31439/tumblr_n4wqa4e66m1tw1vhco1_500.gif)))
Weird...
Sheer Luck ran her hoof through
her mane as she was thinking
what to do next. She turned
to the duo as she said,
Any ideas? We can't stay in
one area too long...
((thats what i was gonna say XP))
Azure slowly rose, trying to shake the images of the Queen from his head, and lightly sobbing.
"...I...I didn't run...don't hurt the town..." He whispered shakily, wondering if anyone heard his scream when he woke up. It was loud enough to make an echo, that was for sure.
He had one thought now, even if the idea terrified him:
"I need to get out of here...back to the Hive..."
Chrysalis had always threatened that if he ever tried to pull a runner, she would raze the town until she found him.
"I have to...explain...even if I have to beg..."
With that, he walked back up the way he came, slow as a snail.
As Azure walked up, a laughing, or was it a crying noise, anyhow, it seemed to come closer...
((okey, making it morning now~)
As the sun slowly raised above the everfree forest Blue began to move a bit, slowly waking. She sat up and leaned against the backrest of the couch she was sleeping on, her eyes half shut, she yawned and with a confused expression on her face looked around.
Starlight was up. She was rewriting her notes, she found them important enough to try rewrite at least.
"What happened while I was infected?" she asked herself.
Blue yawned and looked at Staralight. "Oh, did the cure work?" She asked, tried to get up but only tripped ad fell from the couch flat on her face. "Owie..." She whimpered and remained lying for a moment, before sitting up and saying. "I lost the cure note, so had to cook it up by memory..."
Starlight frowned.
"I noticed you lost the note, nut the. Cure is only temporary, found that out back in ponyville before I met you lot."
Blue's ears flop down. "Sorry. It was really crazy when we got out of the house. Got chased by a rather large horde of then, even the Timperwolves were running away. They chased me into a ravine, almost died... She explained, whispering.
Starlight sighed.
"It's not even a fatal illness... Just a weird one."
"Like i said, they chased me into a ravine. I fell about 20 meters into a river, almost drowned..." Blue clarified and sighed. "Going outside now, to get some air." She proclaimed and left the hut, taking a few deep breaths and noticing the nearby waterfall.
Starlight ignored Blue, continuing with her work.
A slate-gray unicorn stallion named Rush sat in a tree somewhere in Everfree. He hadn't heard the original message about the disease over the radio, seeing as he didn't own one, so when one of the infected came up and started to try climbing the tree, he thought nothing of it.
"Um, excuse me." He said to the crazed-looking pony below.
No response.
"Excuse me, but why are you trying to climb this tree? And why do you look like you're on a sugar-high?" He asked, realizing the pony looked somewhat deranged.
"I want a hug!" The pony below randomly yelled.
"Uh, sorry, but I don't think so." Rush said, quite disturbed at the pony's statement. "Go away, please."
"Hugs!!!" The pony yelled like a maniac.
"I'm sorry, but you're freaking me out; if you don't leave right now, I'm gonna have to force you to." Rush said.
The pony simply laughed like a psychopath.
Legitimately creeped out, Rush took a ripe switch from the tree he was in and gave one final warning. "I don't wish to use this, but I will if I have to."
When the pony didn't go away, Rush got irritated. He gave the pony a very swift and hard "wake-up call", which could be heard for almost a mile.
"TWACK!!!"
((geez, you know a switch is a whip right? pretty harsh))
((ouch, poor infected pony))
Quote from: Naura on 2014 May 20, 01:36:40
As Azure walked up, a laughing, or was it a crying noise, anyhow, it seemed to come closer...
((Waiting, not to be rude, but please hurry))
Azure heard something behind him, turning to see what it was.
"H-Hello? Somepony there? If you're infected, you better back off!"
Before him stood a red pony, with blacked eyes and red apple of the eye, it gave away a buzzing pc sound when is breathed.
Save me... Castle, hurry...
"ϟ@√℮ м℮▣▣▣ ¢αṧ⊥ʟ℮, ℌυяя⑂▣▣▣" It sounded like a bad dubbed robot speaking, and the voice felt empty. It then ran right into him, and after the bash,
it had disappeard.
"AAGH!" He slammed his eyes closed as it hit him, only for it to disappear on impact.
He was shocked that there was what looked like a ghost pony following him.
"Oookay..."
He wanted to go to the castle it mentioned, but he never saw the map so he had no idea where to go, even if he was headed there in the first place unknowingly, but he still wanted to head out of the cave; every second he was away from the Hive now was extra incentive for the Queen to wreak havoc.
(BTW I made him scream when he woke up so somepony might hear him.)
Once outside the hut Blue heard the distressed scream, her ears sprung up and she galloped as fast as she could to the pony in deed.
((kay~ joining you guys ^-^))
((Yeah, I know the switch thing was a bit harsh, but it was the only thing in reach besides a branch, and that would've been worse. Plus the infected pony was warned.))
Rush climbed down the tree to to examine the now-knocked-out pony. The pony had a very large red streak going down its side.
Rush winced and said, "I am dreadfully sorry I had to do that, but you forced me to."
He looked around and decided that it would be best if he got away from where he was. Were there was one lunatic, there was bound to be more close by.
He began walking in a direction, hoping he would have no other encounters with ponies like that again.
Starlight had left the safety of the cave, heading back into town to scavenge for food, find survivors, and most importantly for her, find her notes. Of course she also aimed to capture herself a new infected pony for examination. She had also taken the rope and the magic inhibitor, just in case.
"Why must my notes not be here," she sighed, her memory to weak to hold all the information they contained.
((just a question, is Starlight angry at Blue?))
((Nope, just miffed she hasn't got her notes))
Azure was still thinking about what to do; Castle, or risk going outside to find a way back to the Hive?
Just then, a couple of bushes nearby began to rustle. He spun around to them, magic at the ready.
"W-Who's there? Show yourself!"
(Set this up so if anyone wants to find him, they can. If not, I'll put in a new character in the bush.)
Out of the bush emerged Blue with a half scared, half worried look. "It's just me..." She whispered.
(Now remember, Azure wasn't there when Blue passed out, and he didn't know Starlight was cured when she was in the barrel. He thinks Blue could have been infected.)
Azure felt slightly relived when he saw it was Blue, but he soon remembered what he saw in the hut.
He kept his magic ready.
"...Blue?" He said seriously. "What the first thing that comes to mind when I say...apples?"
"Pie... why?" Blue said and tilted her head, when she noticed Azure's magic at the ready she backed one step. "Everything alright?"
"...Really? Not hugs? You're not infected...?" He said, still not lowering his magic, but beginning to trust her.
"Well, hugs are nice... But i'm not infected!" Blue said confidently. "What makes you think i would be?"
"You were out cold back at the hut...well, i think you were. Naura was too, and that infected was loose. I thought she got you, so I ran..."
"I made the cure, she's alright for now." Blue tried to explain.
Starlight crept into the house her notes were in and gathered them all up, she also spotted a saddlebag and grabbed that too, before heading out to find food. She may have been temporarily immunized, but she didn't want an infected horde following her back. She also gathered some more ingredients for the cure while she was there.
On the way back she went through her notes, the one labeled "Antidote" caught her attention, it was a permanent cure!
"Handy" she said to herself before beginning to hurry back to the cave that was being used as shelter.
"Oh...okay." Azure accepted the fact she wasn't infected, and let his mind wander back to his previous dilemma.
"Ugh, what do I do...?" He said unconsciously.
"About what?" Blue asked
Azure didn't realize he spoke out loud. "Ah! Um...It's, um...nothing..." He said, though the tone in his voice clearly gave away the fact that something was very wrong.
Blue tilted her head. "Oh..." She sat down. "You either can't, or don't want to tell me. It's ok, i wont pressure to tell me. But something is wrong, i can tell. If i can help you in any way, just say what am i to do."
Azure was tearing himself up inside; he wanted to tell her about the Hive, but he was almost certain all trust would go to Tartarus if he did. Plus that pony he saw...he didn't want to put anypony in danger, but he didn't want to go find a dark castle on his own...
Then he realized something.
"Wait...how'd you find me? I could have been anywhere in this cave.)
"Um... i just followed the cries" Blue answered.
"C-Cries...? Did you hear what they said? I mean, if they were saying stuff?"
"Um... no. It just sounded like somepony in distress, so i just ran to see if i can help. So... it wasn't you?" She asked and grew a bit worried again.
Azure had a mental breath of relief; he knew he shouted when he woke up, and it caused quite an echo. He was happy she didn't recognize it was him.......But he couldn't take it anymore.
"Okay, well...it might have been me..."
"Oh. And i guess you were distressed about the thing you don't want to tell me about?" Blue just sighed and felt powerless.
"Yeah...I fell asleep, and had a nightmare about something important. I woke up and screamed. I can tell you what it was, but...first I need to know if you and the others trust me." Azure looked at the ground.
"Well... i can't really speak for the others, but i trust you." Blue nodded.
Azure took a deep breath. "Are you sure...? I mean...this is pretty big...but I need to get it off my chest."
Blue gave a comforting smile and nodded again. "I am sure, i would trust you with my life." She said calmly. She was always a naive mare, and easily trusting.
Being sure the saddlebag she had found was Blue's Starlight went to find her, and just so happened to be in earshot, even if she was out of sight.
He took another breath. "Okay let me focus..."
He had a special spell he knew; he had heard about it before he was taken to the Hive.
Something that could turn thoughts into images. (Hey, Sheer Luck could wipe memories. Only fair 0:) )
He began charging his magic, clearly in slight pain as he did; he hadn't much time to practice it.
(Darn it)
Starlight popped out from a bush.
"Hey!" She yelled "Blue I think I found your saddlebag!"
When she heard Starlight's voice Blue put her hoof on Azure's shoulder. "We have company." She whispered and then turned to Starlight with a smile. "Oh, hey Starlight. What you said about a bag?" She asked and walked to her.
"Gah! N-NO! You can't see this-!"
But it was too late. The spell was complete.
A cloud of mist formed just above all their heads, as an image slowly coalesced upon it, the view from his eyes during the dream, yet constantly interrupted by static.
Soon enough, his nightmare was there for everypony to see, the long, creepy corridor stretching on and on.
The view was shaking as he ran, as the voice he dreaded called out again:
"You ran away, didn't you?!"
"No! I didn't! I SWEAR!" As he screamed in the dream, he shouted in real life as well: he was reliving the dream.
The view flashed to behind him, just like when he turned his head only to see nothing.
When he turned front again, everypony watching could see who he was running from, grinning at him with a malicious smile.
Queen Chrysalis.
As he collided with her a second time, he mirrored his waking shout at the dream cloud disperced:
"I DIDN'T RUN AWAY!!!"
Blue just stared at the disappearing cloud, her gaze slowly slid upon Azure, worry and fear in her eyes again and her ears down. "Was that...?" She whispered.
Since his initial encounter with the infected, Rush had come into contact with several others. He dispatched each of the small groups using a specialized knockout spell. After a while, he began to notice that not many of these deranged ponies were pegasus, so he decided that he should travel by tree while he remained in Everfree.
Eventually he came upon a small group of what looked like giant bugs, the likes of which matched the description of Changelings in one of the book he had borrowed from the "Castle of the Two Sisters". Since he was neither fond of bugs or soul-sucking shape-shifters, he thought that he would be better off just avoiding them.
As he went, he began to hear voices. They sounded friendly, so he followed the sound.
Silently moving through the trees, he came upon the small group that was near a cave. He sat quietly while eavesdropping. When the spell was cast, he simply remained silent to avoid drawing attention. (Wow, so active right now... hard to keep my train of thought with all this interesting stuff going on. X3 )
(Its a giant sealed of cave that we are all in, besides you that is)
Starlight looked at the image above her, watching intently.
"Changeling or Slave?" she asked
Azure snapped out of his trance, breathing heavily.
"I...didn't...run..." He whispered, before falling to his side, the mental strain of the spell and reliving that dream too much for him as he passed out.
Blue put her questions away for later and ran to Azure's side, she quickly checked him if he's ok, after which she sighed. "Just passed out, let him rest for a while and he'll be fine."
Post Merge
((i'm interested in what you'll do with the changeligns, cause i didn't want to bring them in ;) ))
(Oh, I was not aware of where exactly all of you were; if that's the case, then please disregard that last part of my post.)
Rush hopped quietly down from the tree he was in and moved towards the sealed entrance of the cave, from which he could faintly hear voices. Curious to see the owners of the voices, he sat, waiting.
(Yeah, might bring them in, but I'm a total newbie to RP, did a bit on World Of Warcraft, but all I did was sit on a bench all day in it lol. The new character I was talking about in the bush was going to be a Changeling, might put in a search party or something. But I'm bad RPing multiple characters, but I'll still give it a go.)
((I can tell you alot of this, first here's a picture I made sometime ago
(http://i.imgur.com/8oEZpqw.png)
go to page 21 for more info about this picture, anyway, you must be at the stone, we are in the forest, we can't possibly here ya, Oh, and notice that when I say "And this is the hut I'm in" I meant what happend in that part of this Rp, my tips is to move this mysterious rock, then go to the waterfall an meet Tiger, she'll be more then happy to get some company, she's at the waterfall swimming around))
((i actually wanted to go to the falls to get tiger back in, but kinda got derailed by Azure X3 ah well))
((Hehehe, Not today))
(http://iambrony.dget.cc/mlp/gif/i__ll_make_a_friendship_problem_by_mezkalito4p-d4ghvnh.gif)
(( :s My brain fried there... Can someone please tell me where the group is?))
Rush grew bored at staring at the blocked cage entrance and began contemplating just leaving.
(( Well, you are the red dot over myeeh, the group is at the blue circle over myeeh, tiger is at the orange dot over myeeh, and the red mysterioues pony is at the yellow dot myeeh!
(http://i.imgur.com/tWHgtPB.png)))
((weres me? :c))
Azure was mumbling in his sleep, most likely having another nightmare.
"Please...I'm sorry...don't hurt them, please...!"
His words sounded desperate.
((I think you're somewhere between the hut and the castle))
((Oh... OH! I understand now! Thank you for helping me get my bearings.))
Rush decided that, instead of leaving, he should enter the cave.
Upon entering the cave, he closed it back, thinking that it was closed off for a reason. He quickly realized that his mind was playing tricks on him, and that there was nopony to be found in the cave.
He sighed as he moved through the cave, taking note of the strange lighting. He continued on until he reached another entrance, which was also blocked off by a rock. He moved the rock from his path and walked out, closing the cave as he left.
As he exited, he heard crashing water in the distance. "That's... odd. Perhaps a waterfall?" He muttered to himself while he followed the sound.
Quote from: Emerald-Bright on 2014 May 22, 16:34:45
((weres me? :c))
((I couldn't really point you out ono))
((darn :'())
Quote from: Emerald-Bright on 2014 May 22, 16:34:45
((weres me? :c))
((It would appear that last time you appeared on the RP radar, you were with Seven and Sheer Luck. Your group was in the southern forest, below the hut, and you were searching for Naura, no? I hope that is where you were, at least; if not, I have no clue.))
Quote from: Rush of MLP on 2014 May 24, 00:17:56
Quote from: Emerald-Bright on 2014 May 22, 16:34:45
((weres me? :c))
((It would appear that last time you appeared on the RP radar, you were with Seven and Sheer Luck. Your group was in the southern forest, below the hut, and you were searching for Naura, no? I hope that is where you were, at least; if not, I have no clue.))
(( Sorry Darling, school is almost over
and I had a ton of Finals.
Spoiler: My Last Post • show [quote author=FakeSmile link=topic=11732.msg777773#msg777773 date=1400444988]
Weird...
Sheer Luck ran her hoof through
her mane as she was thinking
what to do next. She turned
to the duo as she said,
Any ideas? We can't stay in
one area too long...
[/quote]
Again, I'm terribly sorry. ))
Quote from: FakeSmile on 2014 May 24, 09:09:42
(( Sorry Darling, school is almost over
and I had a ton of Finals. I'm terribly sorry. ))
((I can totally understand the pressure))
(Is it okay if I bring in two new OC's? I planned to have Azure out cold for a while.)
((Why not?))
(Ok. Be warned, this'll be the first time I PR more than one person)
"You sure this is the way?"
"Quiet. I'm certain the tracking spell said this way."
Two male Changelings had just wandered into the Everfree Forest, already fully aware of the current epidemic. While almost identical in appearance, they were set apart by their saddlebags, and eye colours.
"Fissure, you better be right about this; that pony's too valuable to the Queen." The one with yellow eyes said.
"I said SHUT IT, Fulmen." The other, with strange beige eyes said, obviously irritated by something.
They both wandered into the forest, their mission still clear in their heads.
"You know you're NOT my boss right? You-" Fulmen started, but Fissure suddenly shouted at him, causing the ground around him to shake and crack.
"I AM WELL AWARE OF MY AUTHORITY; FLAME HAS DECLARED THAT YOU TAKE ORDERS FROM ME! IS THAT CLEAR?!"
Fulmen's horn crackled with sparks, but quickly died down; he knew how sensitive Fissure was about his authority.
After an awkward silence, they both pressed on, searching for any suspicious boulders.
((When you said it was your first time doing multiple characters in an RP, I thought it would be pretty bad (no offence), but that was actually really good.))
Rush continued to follow the sound. Finally, he came upon the source.
"Huh, I was right. It was a waterfall." He said as he marvelled the beauty of the area.
Suddenly he heard a noise from the lake/pond in front of him. He hid himself quickly with a spell.
(Not that I'm worried about, it'll be managing them that'll be the problem. X3)
Fissure and Fulmen continued through the wood, checking every rock, pool and tree for a secret entrance.
As they did, Fulmen's mind couldn't help but wander back to the events that transpired at the Hive. It was a few hours after the Queen's slave requested a walk.
"Which we should never have given him...treacherous pony. What does Our Queen see in him that's so important...? He thought.
They were shocked to find another pony had approached the gates to The Hive. One guard tried to stop him, but the mare just lunged at him and...hugged him. However, soon the guard turned on the others. One by one, the whole Hive began to turn, soon only him, Fissure, and the Queen backed into a corner. She managed to throw them over the hoard as the infected dove at her.
Fissure was watching as she turned, Her Highness giving one last order before she did, which he is determined to carry through:
"Find Azure."
((Ah. I see.))
(Hello? C'mon, we can't let this RP die!)
"HEY! I found something!"
Fissure had found a large boulder, with tracks underneath it. Obviously, it had been moved several times.
"'Bout time." Fulmen sighed; all this searching was boring him.
With a glow of his horn, Fissure moved the boulder in a few seconds, revealing a tunnel.
"...He's down there?" Fulmen groaned.
"Yes. And we are bringing him back with us. No matter what. Need I remind you that-?"
Fulmen cut Fissure off. "Yeah, yeah: It was Our Queen's final request. I know that as well as you do."
"...Then stop wasting time and let's go."
"Right."
((i have no idea what my char is doing right now, and don't really have time to be reading up right now, sorry))
((I can't do anyhting until someponies start to explore the castle))
((I've gotten lost))
((Everypony who's lost, take your time and read the pages. I can't possibly do anything at the moment, since the red evil pony is hiding at the castle (won't do anything with it until somepony comes by) and Naura is trapped in the castle, if I'm right you're with Azure, snowcraft))
((I was hoping that Tiger was at the falls, but I dunno. I don't know if I should continue on, or just wait.))
(I can't do much right now; Azure out cold, and I want him to to go to the castle, but I was waiting until they all got back to the hut. Plus I can't use Fissure and Fulmen because if they keep going, they'll find Rush.)
((wasn't Blue with Azure? :c i have no idea what's going on anymore...))
(From what I remember, Blue, Azure and Starlight were together. Azure just passed out.)
((Just do some talking or wake him up :P))
(Ok I'll just wake him up. I don't want this RP to die cause it's the first one I've actually been with from the start ^-^)
Azure's eyes slowly lidded open.
"What...happened...?"
Then his memory returned of the last few minutes, and what he had shown them.
"Oh no..." He gasped, scrambling to his hooves and looking at the others, waiting for a response.
Blue sat by his side. "You showed us some... nightmare... and then passed out." she whispered.
((don't really know whats going so i'll improvise, don't want this to die too X3))
"O-Oh...yeah...that...do you know what I meant by it? It's...I really don't want to say what it meant..." He looked at her.
"I don't know... I don't even know if i want to know..." Blue whispered again.
Azure panicked; he thought she didn't trust him anymore.
"N-No! Please! I'm not a bad pony! I-It's...you all are the first ponies I've seen for months! I'm sorry...!"
"I'm going to ask you one question, and if you want me to trust you answer truly." She took a deep breath. "Are you working for... them?" she whispered.
Azure's heart dropped; he'd just met these ponies, and now he had to tell them he worked for possibly his own race's worst enemy.
"I..."
He paused for what seemed like forever.
"Y-Yes......they m-make me...she makes me...work for them...I'm her pet..."
His eyes began to well up.
Blue looked deep into Azure's eyes with a mixture of emotions in her own eyes. Worry, sadness and fear were the most prominent ones, there was no traces of anger though. "Are they responsible for the outbreak?" she whispered again.
He wiped his eyes, looking away.
"No...in fact, I came out here to check what it was all about...I should have been back hours ago, which means..."
Azure's face suddenly got even more panicked.
"Oh no..." He turned to Blue again. "Y-You need to run! Now! If they see anypony with me, they're dead! Oh, by the Queen, they're probably already coming!"
His breathing sped up dangerously fast.
Blue placed her hoof on Azure's shoulder. "Calm down. This place is pretty secret, not many ponies know of it. And even if they do come, i won't go down so easily..." she said with an determined voice.
Azure was still flustered.
"Nonono, you don't understand! These guys are the ELITE! Her strongest! Their magic is so strong...one of them can make earthquakes! (very small ones, mind you.) And...and know Her Highness, she's probably sent all six of them!"
(He's referencing Fissure there.)
"You all...they'll hurt you for even knowing me! Then Ponyville'll....it'll..."
He trailed off, his voice breaking.
(Ok this might have to be my last post for today. Bye :'))
"I have fought changelings before, their magic isn't that impressive. And every one of them has a terrible anatomical flaw in their bodies..." Blue said with a saddened voice.
((going to bed now anyway :') goodnight)
Quote from: Rush of MLP on 2014 May 27, 10:59:44
((I was hoping that Tiger was at the falls, but I dunno. I don't know if I should continue on, or just wait.))
((Well I guess she's been there for a couple of hours by now, considering the number of pages I haven't roleplayed here ovO
Just imagine her sleeping at the side of the waterfall or something))
Rush stood still for a minute as he looked for the source of the sound. It happened again, except this time he realized it was just a fish jumping from the water. He let out a sigh of relief, then a laugh as he dispelled his invisibility. "Dang, Rush, calm down. First you were hearing voices, and now you're freaking out because of fish. I must be losin' it."
After his little freak-out, Rush decided that he should explore around the lake to see what was around. As he explored, he caught sight of a mare sleeping next to the waterfall. He cautiously approached her, trying to determine if she was another one of the deranged huggers that he had seen in Everfree.
Tiger woke up at the sound of Rush's hoofsteps towards her, and quickly got airborne.
"Who are you?" she asked, not quite trusting whether this pony was infected or not.
Rush flinched at this sudden movement, but quickly recovered and was in a fighting stance with his magic ready. He hesitated before responding to the mare's question.
"Rush; and you are?" He said slowly, keeping a close eye on her.
((By the way, Rush doesn't know that it is a disease causing the ponies to want to hug anything in sight. He just thinks they're insane.))
Starlight looked at Azure trustingly "I trust you, I... have a secret of my own..."
Azure was thunderstruck; they still trusted him?! After what he just told them?!
"Ok, but...please! You need to get out of here! You don't want to know what they'll do to you if they find us!"
Meanwhile...
Fissure and Fulmen had just emerged from a tunnel into the vast cave.
"...I'll admit, this is surprising." Fissure gasped.
Fulmen's eyes, however, had trailed to a nearby waterfall...and the two ponies near it.
"What do we do about them?" Fulmen wondered; if they were infected, they'd want to avoid them. If not...free lunch.
"Ignore them." Fissure stated emotionlessly, causing Fulmen to look at him in confusion. "They're talking; obviously not infected, but nothing more than an unnecessary distraction. Every second we waste is a second shaming Our Queen's last command."
Fulmen mentally sighed; he was as loyal to their Queen as the next Changeling, but Fissure...he'd go to Tartarus and fight Cerberus with a twig before he failed her.
"Besides..." He went on. "The tracker spell says he's..."
He pointed a hoof to the far-off forest.
"There."
"Let's go to explore the castle, maybe we can find something that can help there." Blue suggested with smile.
"Oh...but, before I had that dream...somepony found me...they didn't look alive...their eyes were black and red.
Azure suddenly realized something he should have ages ago.
"Wait...where's Naura?! Isn't she with you?"
"Oh, she's... um... i don't know where she is... Nor the others for that matter." Blue said, her voice worried. "Maybe we should go back to the hut?"
"Y-Yeah...ok...but still...they could be on the way here..."
Azure's ears flopped as he got ready to follow them back to the hut.
Blue walked in front back to the hut.
((need to go for a while :c sorry))
(Ok, I'll say they reached the hut)
Fissure and Fulmen had passed the waterfall, but Fissure suddenly stopped them.
"Aha." He said, an evil grin on his face as he looked at a far off hut.
"What is it?" Fulmen asked, answered by a hoof pointing to three figures entering the hut.
One was blue, with a green mane.
"We got him now. And once we bring him back..." Fissure started confidently, but soon trailed off.
Fulmen was about to ask again, but he soon picked up on why he fell silent:
The Hive was taken. The other members of their team lost. Their Queen lost.
What was there for them to bring him back to?
"...Our job was to find that pony." Fissure began abruptly. "And if the Hive is lost, then it's only a matter of time before they find us. But if they do..."
He slammed the ground, making a small shake.
"I swear, that pony'll be the first to get it."
Fulmen knew how much Fissure adored the Queen. So when she got her personal "pet", he instantly hated him. He hated how he, a PONY, was given the honor of being near her, while Fissure, one of her best fighters and undoubtedly the most loyal in the Hive, barely got a glance from her save when she requested an errand of them.
(Ok, i need to shorten these down X3)
((Bwah, I may move the red pony to scare someponies, and because I really want to do something while Naura is gone))
(I really want to go to the castle, but I wanted to sort out the Changeling thing first. I'm an idiot 0:) )
Blue, Azure and Starlight reached the hut, Blue noticed the changelings and grew worried. She charged her horn briefly, to check her mana levels, it let our a few sparks and she smiled. "More than enough for a fight." she whispered and turned to Azure. "Should we hide and wait, of engage them?" She asked, basically making him the leader in this situation.
"Hm? Who?" Azure asked, before turning to where Blue was looking.
He practically shot white once he saw Fissure's evil grin and Fulmen serious look.
"N-No...!" Azure stuttered, as the two Changelings began walking towards the group.
"We are here on behalf of Her Majesty, the fair Queen Chrysalis." Fissure called, the boom reverberating around the cave as he raised a hoof and pointed it straight at Azure. "THAT pony is coming with us. Interfere, and none of you will be leaving this cave."
Fulmen just looked board as Fissure spoke.
Azure turned to Blue. "I'm sorry...I have to go, or..."
He never finished, beginning to walk to them, but slow enough that somepony might be able to stop him.
Starlight jumped in the way, revealing herself to be a changeling, from a rival brood of that of Chrysalis.
"HE GOES NOWHERE!"
Blue bit Azure at the tip of his tail and tucked back to stop him. "No you don't." She then looked at Starlight with a very surprised expression. "Ok... wasn't expecting that... But like she said, we won't let you take him away!"
Azure nearly had a heart attack as Starlight jumped defensively in front of him. "Waagh! What the hay?"
Fulmen's mouth was agape in shock, while Fissure merely raised an "eyebrow".
"And who are you?" He said, only minor irritation in his voice. "Some cast-off reject from the Hive?"
He wasn't one to mince his words.
"Ha, your hive is dead, you tried to encroach on our territory and look what happend!" Starlight replied. She was clearly different from the other changelings, she had four wings, and a different general body shape, she also had a pinkish vibe, apposed to the green vibe of Chrysalis's hive.
"Princeess Chale will be please with me if I end you, I wonder, when was the last time you left your hive?"
(Ok I have no idea about other hives :o but i'll try and roll with it.)
"We left our Hive because we had to. You know that hug-?" Fulmen started, but a smack from Fissure shut him up. Azure, however, pieced together what he said.
"Wait, Ful-I-I mean, Sir Fulmen, you mean the Hive...?"
Fissure saw this as a chance to be cruel for the sake of it.
"Yes, this...plague struck us down; Flame, Fury, Freeze and Frequent have succumbed, and even Her Highness could not fight them off...In fact, I distinctly remember Her Greatness constantly spouting "Azure, Azure, Azure..." after she did. I wouldn't be surprised if she were on her way right. NOW."
Azure froze with fear.
"W-Wait? Chrysalis coming here?" Starlight stuttered partially in fear, partially in confusion.
"Then i guess it's your lucky day. We might have a cure soon, how about you scram and let us work on that? And leave Azure with us, of course." Blue suggested.
Well, THAT was unexpected: Fissure truly had no idea if she was coming or not, he just said it to be cruel to Azure. And now he freaked her out as well?
"...Yes, she is. So unless you all wish to face her with her new...obsession, I suggest that you move out of the way NOW. Azure, you will come with us. Do so willingly..."
Fissure went from cruel to sadistic.
"...and I'll make sure the beating isn't fatal."
He smiled at Azure's terrified face as he waited for a response.
(Yh, might be a bit dark, but it's just to get the point across that this guy's a jerk. After all, you know he doesn't like Azure at all.)
Whilst he seemed to ignore it, he did take in Blue's mention of a cure...and acted upon it.
"Fine then; you give us the Queen's pet AND that cure, and we don't break you all."
Even Fulmen looked disturbed now.
"We- We haven't finished it yet... Fulmen, you know him better than I do, make him shut up and leave!"
(Wait, how does she know Fulmen?)
"We won't give you anything. And if you're Queen really is heading here you are the ones to fear the most. The infected prioritize in targeting those of their own kind." Blue said with a smirk in her face.
(Starlight's hive's territory includes canterlot, they will have learned about each changeling involved and their hive members)
((Soon...))
(Ah ok.)
Fulmen looked at her concerned; he would never admit it, but, being the newest Elite, he honestly didn't mind Azure. In fact, at points...he felt sorry for him.
Normally, Frequent would now tell him that some part of his brain or the other was generating false sympathy and it all linked back to some obscure source, being the brainiac he was. "Seriously, what Changeling wears glasses for the sake of it?!"
Fulmen turned to Fissure, who was glaring the group down. "Fissure. Let them make the cure. Then we can take him back and-"
He was answered by a sharp buck-kick to his side, winding him as he was thrown at the group.
Fissure had snapped.
"LET THEM MAKE IT!? IDIOT! THIS IS MY ONE CHANCE! IF I BRING HIM BACK AND MAKE THE CURE, I'LL BE A LEGEND! HER HIGHNESS WILL HAVE ME AS HER PERSONAL SERVENT! SHE'LL THROW HIM AWAY LIKE ANY OTHER PONY SHE FEEDS OFF! THEN I FINALLY GET WHAT I DESERVE, AND I WON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOUR STUPID QUESTIONS!!!"
The earth was shaking around them from his fury...which wasn't the best thing when they were in a cave.
(BTW Naura, maybe have the ghost show up here; it's a large group, then they all could go to the castle.)
((SOON))
Starlight yelled at fissure angrily. "We haven't got the cure!" she yelled, we have a temporary treatment, that's it!"
After Starlight screamed, a hushing was coming from one of the hills nearby. It was sounding both like a baby and a robot at the same time. Then the hushing suddenly stopped.
Blue was scared from the situation, but tried to hide it and act calm. "You want to become her new food source? Can a changeling even feed for another changeling?" She teased, and charged her horn, preparing herself to defend herself. "And if you think we're going down so easily you eat too many naive fillies..." She said with anger. Anger was something new to her, she didn't know what will happen next, but she was in fact eager for a fight...
Azure noticed the hushing noise.
"That pony I saw...Hold on, I'm coming."
To even his own surprise, he ran over to Fulmen, helping him up, before looking dead in Fissure's eyes, hesitant, yet determined.
"I'm...n-not...afraid of you..." He stammered, trying to clear his mind.
"...What did you just say to me?" Fissure said lethally.
Azure flinched from his glare, but still stood his ground.
"I'm not...afraid of you!" He said, raising his voice.
In that moment, Fulmen suddenly shot a bolt of yellow electricity at Fissure's head.
There was no way he could move fast enough.
"!" Fissure gasped, before he fell to his side, unconscious.
Post Merge
(Eh, what the hay, I'm doing it.)
She was breathing heavily as she stumbled through Ponyville. She didn't know how, but she had a tracking spell to find...somepony. Why she had it, she couldn't remember.
"Where...are they...?" She growled, desperately searching for anypony, or any Changeling, new.
She shambled into the Everfree Forest, following her spell until she found a rock with a large hole next to it. (Fissure and Fulmen didn't cover it again.)
She grinned insanely as she saw it, knowing that whoever she was tracking was down there...
And she wanted to give them a hug.
And when a Queen wants her hugs, she takes them.
(Don't worry, I'm not throwing her in just yet, I'll wait until we're in or done with the castle.)
Now the hushing started again, from the same hill. It got louder and louder, then just like before, it disappeared mysteriously and the whole place got quiet, so quiet they could've heard a feather falling.
((they didn't cover it? O: ok... expect a flood of hugging zombies in the near future))
(Yup, they're idiots.)
Azure picked up on whatever noise was coming from the hills.
"Um, everypony...and Sir Fulmen...do you hear that?"
(I'm planning to have Fulmen be a tag-along 'till Chrysalis gets here)
Azure turned to Blue. "Could you, um...make sure he's alright? Knowing Fissure...he'll blame me for this..."
Post Merge
Elsewhere...
She slowly made her way through the tunnel; desperate to find whoever she was tracking.
Only now, she was starting to remember.
"Azza...Ozzy...Ashura Day...Asoona Way..." She growled, the name just on the tip of her forked tongue.
It was only a matter of time before she stopped for a second, still grinning insanely enough to give anypony nightmares.
"...Azure Wave...
(Remember when we were headed for a radio station to find out what happened? Nah, me neither lol )
Quote from: Rush of MLP on 2014 May 28, 00:19:18
Rush flinched at this sudden movement, but quickly recovered and was in a fighting stance with his magic ready. He hesitated before responding to the mare's question.
"Rush; and you are?" He said slowly, keeping a close eye on her.
((By the way, Rush doesn't know that it is a disease causing the ponies to want to hug anything in sight. He just thinks they're insane.))
"... Tiger. Tiger Stripes," she said. "You know about that hugging thing?"
"All I know about a hugging thing is that there are several strange and seemingly insane ponies running around wanting hugs." He said relaxing slightly, seeing that she was not one of them.
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 May 28, 16:33:33
(Remember when we were headed for a radio station to find out what happened? Nah, me neither lol )
((I do, actually, kinda sad we didn't went there :c had something prepared, but ah well, this works to ))
Blue sighed and trotted to the downed changeling, checking his injuries. She sighed again and pointed her charged horn at him, healing him partially. Enough for him to be alright, but not enough for him to wake up. As the magical aura of her horn disappeared a green lightning bolt flew out of the lying changeling and state into Blue, she had to sit down from the pain.
"Arg... Stupid changeling magic auto defense..." She yelled out in frustration.
((to clarify, in many RPs i was in Chrysalis's changeling had this anti unicorn magic protection on them, basically it shocks the one trying to use magic on them if they're not a changeling. Just thought it would be nice to throw it out here too X3))
Now the hushing starts once again, but now just not form the specific hill, but from all around them, in the whole cave, and then a voice is heard, the baby robot voice, that says:
"Run" then a massive amount of sobs are heard and slowly the voice length is changed back to only the same hill, and disappeard like it wasn't heard by anyone.
((Using anyone since there are both changelings and so))
(Fulmen's still awake, he shot at Fissure 'cause he was going a bit nuts. Leave Fissure where he is, though, got something planned for him *evil grin*)
Quote from: Rush of MLP on 2014 May 28, 19:06:54
"All I know about a hugging thing is that there are several strange and seemingly insane ponies running around wanting hugs." He said relaxing slightly, seeing that she was not one of them.
Tiger landed on the ground.
"Well, it's a disease, apparently. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but it seems to be true from what I've seen."
At the cave entrance...
She had just exited the tunnel, and was looking at the giant cave's vast interior, her grin still not falling.
Especially since far off in the distance, she could she a group of ponies and Changelings. She couldn't tell from here, but one of them is defiantly the one she's tracking.
However...there was one lying on the ground. A Changeling.
Maybe she could wait until the others left...
(You can probably see where I'm going with this. ovO)
Blue suddenly realized something and her face grew worried. "Hey, have you two sealed the entrance?" She asked the changeling still on his hooves. "We have to go..." She whispered and quickly galloped to what seemed like the last bastion for them, the castle.
Rush looked at her as though she were crazy for a moment, but quickly realized she was being serious.
"You've gotta be kidding; a hugging disease? That's the most absurd thing that I have ever heard." He paused for a moment, then mumbled, "But it does explain why the Timberwolves act so nervous around them..."
Fulmen checked that he was ok; a little sore, but that pony defiantly helped.
"Sealed what entrance?" He said sharply; he may not mind Azure that much, but he still was distrusting to ponies.
However, she just galloped off, Azure running with her.
Fulmen took the moment to consider what he had done; he had attacked a superior.
He turned to Fissure's unconsious body.
"...Insane."
That's all he said before running after the group.
...
She waited a few seconds, before beginning to make her way down, her sight set squarely on the unconscious Changeling.
((imminent hugging! XD think we should wait for for snowcraft))
Starlight took her form she met the group in, except her wings were allot larger, causing her to fly faster.
"We need to move quickly!"
Blue galloped as fast as she could, heading for the castle.
//ok, guys, somepony should be designated as the "leader" of this group, i'm voting for Starlight ^-^
((Me?!))
Naura woke up, and stared out into the forest. She chuckled a bit and took a deep breathe. She must have had a crazy dream about that red pony. She starts to giggle a little. 'Wow, I' m stupid' she thinks to herself and starts to make her way to the hut. When she get's there she sees three orange pegasus ponies looking at the hut. Naura get's confused. And as if they sensed her prescencs, they all turn at the same time, and the three mares flys against her with no mercy in their eyes. Naura screams and tries to run away from them but fails. The two first grabs her front legs while the third grips her tail. Then the start to fly up into the air with her. She continues to scream and sees dark blue and lime green clouds form around her the higher they go. One each cloud she sees one of the ponies she have met during her tries to survive the apocalypse, all staring at her the higher see goes. She then looks up infront of her. The three mares who seem's to all be Tiger are lifting her towards the yellow gem stone, with one of it's pointy edge's directed towards her! They are going faster and faster and Naura closes her eyes. She awaits the pain, but, it never comes. She peek's with one of her eyes a little and realize that the mares stopped right under the sharp edge. She gasps, but suddenly feels how the strong grip from her arms and tail is getting lighter. Then they drop her. She falls through every cloud and the pony on it as she screams, no pain is felt but her head is starting to spin. She sees the ground closing in and just before she hits it it turn's into a black void. She falls into it and slows down a little, but not enough. She starts to turn in the air and feels like she is going to throw up. She the feels a pain from her back, and screames as tear's from the pain starts to run down her face.
She wake's up. She feels sweat running down her body. It was all just a dream. Naura gasps a couple of times, and looks in front of her, the room is to dark to see anything, but she can feel in the air that she is in a room. Then white light blinds her.
((What do you guy's think of her dream? ^-^ and don't tl;dr me!))
((sowwy, tl;dr... nah just kidding XD it's good :3 maybe a little error in English here and there, but nothing too serious, it still makes sense, and it is pretty crazy lol good job ))
(Anypony, as long as it's not me. I'm crud at leading.)
"Ughh..."
Fissure rubbed his head as he rose, before scanning for the group.
"...Fulmen." He said angrily. "You traitor. When I find you, I will rip your wings off and give them to-!"
He was cut off by hoofsteps behind him.
When he turned, he was shocked to Tartarus:
Queen Chrysalis, a psychotic grin upon her face, standing over him.
"M-My Queen!" Fissure stammered, scrambling to a bow. "You-you escaped the horde! Oh, this is a wondrous day for the Hi-!"
She cut him off. By lunging forward and grabbing him.
"Y-Your Highness?! What are you-?"
She pulled him close. She was probably at least twice as big as him, and he was a little taller than a pony.
She spoke.
"I just want...need...a hug..."
She gripped him as he panicked; she didn't escape.
That...was his last natural thought.
((Oh sweet celestia :I Plot twist! ovO))
(? Wasn't planning on a twist, tried to make it obvious she was cuddle-crazed.)
((cuddle-crazed queen ovO hehehe))
((If there was a name for the disease, that would be it))
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 May 29, 12:38:31
(? Wasn't planning on a twist, tried to make it obvious she was cuddle-crazed.)
((I just didn't know it until now :P))
(lol cuddle-crazed it is then)
As they made their way, Azure was still pondering Fulmen's actions; he had ATTACKED Fissure! Where did that come from?! He knew that kind of thing could get you banished!
"...He was lying, you know."
Azure suddenly jumped as Fulmen spoke, before bowing.
"Oh, drop the bowing." He moped, surprising Azure. "Fissure's speech about Our Queen following? It was a bluff. We honestly have no idea if she's coming. If she is, however...then we're already dead."
"...Is that meant to make me feel better?" He thought.
"I-I'm sorry, Sir Fulmen, but...why did you...?"
Fulmen turned to him, stopping them both. "Look; we're being hunted down by hug-crazed psychoponies and Changelings. There's no point in "Sir" Fulmen anymore. As for why I just did that..." He knew what Azure meant. "...Not all Changelings are brutes, you know."
Azure processed this; it's true, only Fulmen and Frequent were the only two who never hit him...Frequent had his experiments and "cures" for that.
(Just so you know, the Elite are meant to each have an element; some are obvious, but Frequent is Sound...These posts are getting longer and longer, aren't they? X3 I'm too use to writing whole story chapters in one go.)
((I just realized... Where is Emerald Bright?))
As they reached the castle they were surprised to see the main gate open, they quickly got in and Blue looked around for a lever to close the door. Then she sighed and looked at each pony and changeling. "Um... were is Emerald? And Tiger?" she asked with a worried voice as the wind howled through the old castle, Celestia knows how many holes this castle has...
((there, asked ovO Oh and Chrome, i know how you feel, if you have more than one char at once you can basically fill an entire page alone XD))
Azure was confused as they entered the castle. "Who?" He never met Emerald so he had no idea what she was talking about. "I remember Tiger flying off, but...who's Emerald?"
((just occurred to me that i don't know if Blue and Emerald met X3))
The white light faded and the room was now uplit by it. Naura could see that she was tied to a table that had been flipped on the side. She could not move, but she did not want either. Because before she stood at least ten young foals and stared at her. But these was no ordinary foals, for the first, they all looked like the red pony. And second, all of them was the robots... Naura could see where their knees would sit there instead was robot joints, and the eyes were far from normal. Naura held her breath a few seconds, and soon the foals went back to clean up and keep on with buttons and levers in the large lab they were in. The walls were tact of metal pipes and shiny containers with some blue, luminous fluid in.
((You know one of these table's that rainbow dash is attatched to in cupcakes and when I said robots I meant sweetiebot robots, also, I imagine the blue fluid to be something that they use in the cure))
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/2fgyjYf.jpg)(http://th05.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/160/2/3/sweetie_bot_by_zaiyaki-d52tewu.png)
(lol that moment when an RP about hugs gets themes from cupcakes.)
Fulmen shook his head. "Look, can anypony...or changeling..." He directed a leer at Starlight. "...tell me just what the hay are we doing here?"
"Um... exploring, trying to find something helpful. Preparing to gallop for our mind. Something like that." Blue answered and sighed while looking around.
//yeah, this RP has its grimdark undertones XDXDXD who would have guessed it would go this rout XD
(Lol, plus I keep juggling about five things as I'm RPing; Team Fortress 2, Minecraft, Lightning Returns, and literally right now I'm about to fight Braska's Final Aeon in FFX HD)
Post Merge
(I need to post these in the same post.)
The Queen was satisfied after a few minutes, so she released Fissure, who wasn't himself anymore.
"?" The now-turned Fissure looked at her, confused. After all, when is there ever too much hugs?
She looked at him, before motioning to the way she came.
Fissure's small remaining intelligence picked up on what she meant. "...Others?" He said blankly.
She nodded; being the Queen, she wasn't mindless, yet the burning desire for hugs stayed the same.
"The Hive comes. Go to the waterfall. More are there. They need hugs."
(DUN DUN DUUUN)
Quote from: Rush of MLP on 2014 May 29, 11:02:37
Rush looked at her as though she were crazy for a moment, but quickly realized she was being serious.
"You've gotta be kidding; a hugging disease? That's the most absurd thing that I have ever heard." He paused for a moment, then mumbled, "But it does explain why the Timberwolves act so nervous around them..."
"As I said, it's ridiculous, I know. I didn't believe it either when I first heard it. Anyway, did you meet any other ponies on the way here. It seems like they forgot about me," Tiger said.
((oh mah Celestia! An hug crazed changeling horde? Where did this come from? lol i swear, this RP is getting weirder and weirder, but all the more fun! ovO))
Quote from: Tiger on 2014 May 29, 19:32:11
"As I said, it's ridiculous, I know. I didn't believe it either when I first heard it. Anyway, did you meet any other ponies on the way here. It seems like they forgot about me," Tiger said.
"Sorry, but no. I did see a couple of Changelings in the Everfree Forest just before I got here."
"Wait, changelings? Last time I heard about them, they were banished to the outskirts of Equestria! How'd they get back here? ... Not that I'd think you'd know the answer, but still," Tiger said.
Rush shrugged and said, "I don't, and I really didn't want to stop and ask."
"Yeah, well, for all we know we could be targeted right now by hundreds of infected ponies. We should probably get moving," Tiger said as she grabbed her saddlebag. "The others'll be fine, I guess."
"I suppose." Rush said. He suddenly shivered.
Tiger shivered slightly as well. "Kind of cold out here, ain't it?"
Rush chuckled and said, "Maybe just a bit."
Tiger just smirked. "Let's get somewhere safer than out here," she said as she started walking.
"Good idea." Rush said as he followed.
Blue walked around the first floor of the castle, she found a stair case leading up and down and a few empty rooms. The last room Blue looked into, thinking it would be empty as well, left a small smile on her face. "Guys, i found the armory." She said and examined the armor and weapons, basically searching for a piece of armor that would fit her small size and not hinder her movement too much.
((The waterfall is some distance away from the castle, right? If so...))
After Tiger and Rush walked for a bit, Tiger saw a castle in a distance. "Huh... Looks interesting."
((yup))
Blue managed to find a very light weight armor and bracelets small enough to fit her. She put the armor on, fastened the bracelets and tried to walk in it, it was surprisingly comfortable. She then went through a lot of boxes, other armor pieces, weapons, making quite some noise as she did so. She didn't find anything else useful for her.
Rush seemed to be distracted by something, so he didn't respond immediately to Tiger's statement.
"Eh? Oh, yeah, it does." He said as he drew his attention back to what was in front of them.
Starlight began staring at a full suit of armor, it would completely stop a hug getting her infected, not that it mattered due to her being infected already. But it would mean she couldn't infect the group when the 'cure' wore out, which would be any time soon.
When done with the armory Blue was heading to the next floor, to have a look around. As she passed Starlight though, she stopped. "So, Starlight, is that even your name? Doesn't sound like a changelings name. Anyway, if my calculations are correct you have about three hours before the cure wears off..." She whispered.
"Starlight's my real name, yes. And I have about two and a half by my calculations" Starlight commented placing the helmet on her head. "Do we have any more doses?"
"I made enough to last for five days, but it's back in the hut. You have wings, you could try to fly there, get it and return." Blue suggested and took a breath. "And there is a chance that there's an alchemy lab in this castle, maybe we can make some more if we find it."
Starlight looked out the window, and spotted a horde of infected beginning to wander in. "We have a problem, I'll be fast!"
"Ok, be careful." Blue nodded. "The first floor looks secure, we should be safe for now." She said walked out of the door, to check the cellar.
Starlight nodded and flew towards the hut, her armor weighed her down, but not by much...
When she arrived she spotted a saddlebag, presumably the one she brought over with her notes. Her notes were also inside it. She also saw the 'cure' and grabbed it too, only to turn and realized she was trapped.
"Buck!"
Blue walked to the cellar, it was dark and humid. She charged her horn with a channeled light spell and explored for a while, before discovering a few holes leading to the surface. Her face turned pale as she started at the hole with her mouth open. After a few seconds she quickly galloped to the first floor, her armor making a jingling sound as she ran. When on the first floor she recharged her horn, with some effort and her unicorn levitation spell she destroyed the stairway leading down. She sat down and panted for breath.
(Ok, kinda got a bit lost now, I'll say Azure and Fulmen split up to try and find anything)
Azure made his way up to the castle's higher levels, looking for anything that might be of help.
Fulmen had stayed on the ground level.
What Azure didn't notice was the poison-green eyes watching him from the darkness.
((um... so when Blue destroyed the stairs down, you were down, or went down after she destroyed it? ))
((starlight went back to the hut to get the cure, now she's stuck there. blue went a level up, but she did explore the first floor, almost all the rooms were empty exept the armory. So either say that she missed a few rooms, or get geared up in the armory, first floor and cellar are done. Sorry))
( :I Maybe there's a second floor? X3 Could I do that?)
((its a castle X3 it has several more floors, hehe))
Quote from: Rush of MLP on 2014 May 30, 05:39:11
Rush seemed to be distracted by something, so he didn't respond immediately to Tiger's statement.
"Eh? Oh, yeah, it does." He said as he drew his attention back to what was in front of them.
"Let's check it out." Tiger grinned as she flew over to the entrance of the castle.
(Ok, but I'm putting another twist in! Mwuhahahaha.)
Azure must've gone about two levels higher than where Blue was, so he couldn't help but feel a little unnerved.
He only had one room left to check.
Pushing the iron door open, he looked around inside: a very big room, the walls and ceiling obscured by shadows, containing nothing but a desk with a luminous blue vial of liquid on it.
"Hmm...it's worth a look."
Oh, how he would regret saying that.
He quickly made his way to the center of the room, checking out the vial. It was ice cold.
...After a second, however, the iron door behind him slammed shut, making a very
loud BANG! that most likely echoed throughout the castle.
"MOTHER OF HAY!!!" Azure yelped, before turning to the door in question.
He just caught the green magic aura fading from it.
"Oh merciful Celestia..." He thought, not caring who he was praying to, as he heard hoofsteps from the darkness around him.
Somepony was in here with him.
And that somepony had green magic.
Blue was about to examine one room when she heard the loud noise. She quickly returned to the stairs and went one floor up. She didn't know if the sound was from here, or even more above. She tried to call. "Hello? Anypony here?" She grew worried and charged her horn, just to be safe.
"W-Who's there?! I-I'm warning you, I'll use magic!"
Azure was spinning around and around; whoever was in here was running in the shadows.
Soon he lost any idea of their location.
Still turning, he only had the idea to use magic to light the place up.
Nothing was in front of him.
...
Then...Azure felt two hooves slowly reach around him.
He froze for a second, before seeing the legs were black with holes in them.
"...AAAAAAGHHHH!!!"
Azure screamed, batting away the hooves and turning to face whomever had grabbed him.
When he saw those green reptilian eyes, and insane grin...he lost the ability to think straight.
He was locked in a room, with Queen Chrysalis looking at him with a psychopathic grin.
"Azure..." She said. "You know you should have been back by now..."
Azure lost control of his breathing. "Q-Q-QUE-Q-YOU-OR-Y-!!!"
She laughed, her two-toned voice making it even more terrifying as she walked towards him.
"I should lock you up and cut off your horn for this...but right now..."
She backed him up into the desk.
"You look like you need...a hug."
Azure couldn't take it, and screamed at the top of his voice:
"BLUE!!! HELP!!! PLEASE!!!
...As soon as he finished, the Queen grabbed him, and pulled him into an embrace.
Starlight had burst out of the hut with the supplies and flew towards the keep at an astounding speed, landing into front of Blue, gently... somehow. "I have the... supplies... but there's a... horde... coming!" Starlight panted "Also queen... Chrysalis... breaking in!"
Then she heard Azures scream.
"Uh-oh"
When hearing the desperate calls for help above her, Blue decided that there was no time for the long way. She charged her horn and teleported a few feet above the place she was standing on. It was very risky and irresponsible, she didn't know how the room above looked like, could've teleported in a wall or something, that would really hurt if not killing her on the spot. But she was lucky this time. The place next to Azure lighted up in a reddish aura as Blue appeared from seemingly nothing. She looked around and noticed the changeling queen. She gasped. "Stay away from him you ****" She called in anger and charged her horn. [Aliens reference, yay X3]
Starlight jumped back as Blue teleported, and did the same using her changeling magic.
"Oh sweet Celestia..." grabbing two potions from her saddlebag she threw one to blue and yelled.
"Get that down his throat, I've got this one!" Starlight was referring to Chrysalis.
Azure was looking around as Chrysalis held him close. He already felt his mind being to change.
"C'mon, Azure! You stood up to her mind control before! You can stand up to this!...Then again, it isn't that bad...NO!"
Azure was battling his thoughts as the Queen glared at Blue and Starlight.
"...Not today." She smirked.
With that, she charged a teleport, warping to the room below with Azure.
Starlight, attempted to jump at the queen, but she vanished too early, causing a days worth of the potions to go to waste...
"Buck, that hurt..." Starlight commented.
Blue had her horn still charged. "No you don't!" She yelled out, put her hoof on Starlight and teleported both of them down.
Starlight was still to dizzy to do anything unfortunately, except work as bait that is!
(How'd you know she warped down? Eh, whatever.)
Seeing the changeling from a rival brood disoriented, Chrysalis grinned...
...before loosing a magic burst directly at her.
"Don't worry, Azure." She said to the pony who was slowly losing the mental battle. "These things won't be bothering us when I'm done with them..."
((just a lucky guess XD))
Blue could only see as the bolt came at them, she pushed Starlight out of the way only to get hit herself. She fell to the ground unconscious, her fur being slightly charted.
Naura had been studying the robots working, she could see one other pony in one of the rooms corners, but she couldn't see more than it was a pony. The robots used the blue liquid to make some weird drink, and they looked back to the corner with the pony in many times. Suddenly the ropes that attatched Naura to the table disappeared and she fell down. Two robots quickly dragged her to the side while two others went to get the pony in the other side of the room and started to push it to the table Naura been on. Naura got tied up in another end of the room and could now see the pony a bit more clearly, it was a gray furred unicron mare, but her face and mane colours couldn't be guessd by the light's angle, after she got tied up in Naura's place, they gave her the blue liquid to drink, and after she had drunk it she screamed, and the scream gave a loud echo down in the room, but soon she stopped screaming, she looked like she was having a war inside her body, but then she fell asleep. Then Naura understood why she had that weird dream, these robots was making a drink that could give illusions to your mind!
((kay, edited.))
(I have an idea; while we're dealling with Queeny, Fulmen can find Naura and the robots. That ok?)
Smiling at the unconscious mare, she turned to Starlight.
"I suggest you get out of here. When my Hive reaches here, you'll be just like us."
She then turned to Azure, nuzzling her head onto his.
"H...elp..." Azure grunted; he wasn't going to stay in control much longer.
Starlight quickly pulled out two cures and tried to get one down Azure's and Chrysalis's throats.
"Please work..."
((it is godmoding, sorry, but no...))
((Edited))
((What did she do? :-D Also, the plan is totally fine Chroma))
Chrysalis moved her head away from the vial, before teleporting herself and Azure again. To where, nopony could guess...
She held Azure tightly to her, smiling as she cuddled him, before he fell unconscious from mental strain.
"It's okay..." She reassured quietly. "They'll never find us..."
(Plan on using Fulmen now)
Elsewhere...
Fulmen was looking around desperately for the stairs; he'd gotten lost.
"****!" He swore loudly; he'd heard the screams, yet he had no idea how to find his way there.
(Now he just needs a way to find Naura)
((I know what Godmodding is, just wonder what she did))
Naura saw the robots going around the mare and watching her reactions, then when she woke up, they all went back and started to work again. Then Naura felt a hard pain in her left hindleg. She gave up a roar. One of the robots had stepped on her but quickly backed away, then it gave off a sound like saying "I'm sorry" and walked past her.
Quote from: Tiger on 2014 May 30, 09:55:36
"Let's check it out." Tiger grinned as she flew over to the entrance of the castle.
"Yeah." Rush said as he began galloping to keep up.
Rush could sense something off about the castle before them, but he couldn't tell what exactly. He did know one thing for sure, though: this place made him more than a bit nervous.
Fissure eyed the two ponies leaving the waterfall. He wanted to give chase, to give them hugs, but he decided against it; if the Hive was coming, then all he needed to do was wait.
Quote from: Rush of MLP on 2014 May 30, 14:41:25
"Yeah." Rush said as he began galloping to keep up.
Rush could sense something off about the castle before them, but he couldn't tell what exactly. He did know one thing for sure, though: this place made him more than a bit nervous.
((And what do we find at the entrance of the castle? I can't find a post about it for some reason X3))
((Back at page 33 there was something said about the main gate being open and Blue looking for a lever to close it, but I don't think she ever found one. I'm not sure though.))
((Let's assume it's closed I guess))
"Guess we'll have to get over this gate. Want me to carry you over?" Tiger said as she flapped her wings more.
"Actually, if you'd rather save some energy, you could fly over quickly and come back and tell me if there's a clear area. If you could do that, I could teleport."
"Ah. Good idea." Tiger flew over the gate. "All's clear."
"Alright."
Rush's horn flashed a light gray light and he appeared on the other side of the gate.
Fulmen heard the sound of teleporting, but brushed it off; infected wouldn't think to teleport.
Quote from: Naura on 2014 May 30, 14:09:35
She gave up a roar.
(Can Fulmen use this to find her?)
((can Blue wake up now, or was the spell too strong for her to get up anytime soon))
(Yh, she can get up now, Chrys and Azure are long gone, but here's a hint: they're still in the castle.)
Blue slowly opened her eyes and rubbed her head. "Ugh... that hurt..." She whispered and stood up, shaking a little.
Starlight was now panicking...
"Wha' da we do?"
"Azure and the Queen?" Blue asked and sighed, realizing that the queen most likely got away. "Search the castle together, we need to find them." She said
"Hello?! Azure?!....Other ponies?!"
Fulmen called, still aimlessly wandering the floor.
It wasn't 'till a few minutes later, that he saw a strange glow coming from one of the rooms ahead.
He snuck up to it, and peeked inside.
(Naura, you pick what he sees this time ^-^)
The room's walls was coverd with different kind of metal pipes, some of them a bit rusty while others was shining. Inside he saw around 20 small red foals, some walking around, some cleaning, and some... was working with a liquid? When he look to the middle of the room, he saw a dark furred unicorn attatched to a table, sleeping. And in a corner, a green earth pony lying on the ground looking at the unicorn mare on the table.
"What the hay am I looking at...?" He whispered, before noticing something about the ponies working; their legs had...mechanical joints? He'd never seen anything like it before in his life.
"Good thing I'm the Elite Of Lightning." He thought.
He took note of the mare strapped to the table, and another lying on the ground.
He needed to get her attention, but how?
Post Merge
Fulmen had a pretty big gamble to make; he picked up a nearby stone, and lobbed it to the far off corner of the room, hoping the robots would notice it.
Lost somewhere in the castle, Zappy roams the halls with the extreme urge to somepony, anypony. It's driving him crazy having nothing to hug. He can't stop twitching and won't sit still for very long.
He hardly remembers how he even ended up down here, let alone when he suddenly got the urge to start hugging ponies, animals and other creatures alike on sight.
// @Everyone Click here and open the "Zappy the Changeling" tab for Zappy's character info. (http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=2515.msg168474#msg168474) \\
Blue didn't wait for Starlight's response, finding Azure and the infected queen was her top priority now. She shook her head and ran out of the room. She ran to the floor above and searched every room.
During Blue's search she came to a room with a small, young changeling inside. He gave Blue a cheery grin.
OH MY GOSH, YES! he happily shouted and rushed towards her to give her the biggest hug he could.
Blue had her horn charged with a light spell, illuminating the dark room. She was turned back to the source of the shout, it startled her and she quickly turned, but it was too late. The young changeling's hooves wrapped tightly around her armor covered body, she cried out as the hug knocked some wind out of her lungs. Stared at the changeling for a second, then rolled her eyes and quickly galloped back to Starlight, with the young changeling dangling on her back. When she got back Blue picked up one cure vial, opened it and tried to force the youngling to drink it.
Zappy resists the drink, turning his head away from the vial. He wasn't able to resist Blue so well though and the cure was forced down his throat. He started to turn mellow and then tired, loosening his embrace on Blue until he let go and fell onto the floor on his rump.
When Zappy let go of her Blue checked herself, it seemed that the armor really did its job and saved her from being infected. She sighed in relief and stood over the young changeling with a frown, thinking of if she should restrain it, or just leave.
Zappy shuts his eyes and rubs his head.
I don't...eeeh....
He takes up a flash he has and takes a sip from it. Mmm...ah. I feel like I just ran in circles for hours with no break.
He looks up at Blue with a worried expression. You...just helped me, didn't you?
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 May 31, 14:54:43
Fulmen had a pretty big gamble to make; he picked up a nearby stone, and lobbed it to the far off corner of the room, hoping the robots would notice it.
Naura, did you see that?
Blue was still frowning, keeping a good eye on the changelings actions. "I did..." she whispered, her voice showing a bit of malevolence towards the small creature.
Zappy starts to grow a frightened look.
Why are you staring at me like that? :s
"Trying to figure out what to do with you, i can't just leave you here running..." She whispered, keeping her malevolent tone.
B-but I'm not like other changelings, you don't need to worry about me. he says, hoping he can coarse her.
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Jun 01, 13:47:22
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 May 31, 14:54:43
Fulmen had a pretty big gamble to make; he picked up a nearby stone, and lobbed it to the far off corner of the room, hoping the robots would notice it.
Naura, did you see that?
((Oh I didnt!))
Naura sees a rock coming from one of the doors to the room, and sees a changeling? The robots react to the sound and all of them run to the corner and flocks around the rock. Naura sees her chance. The changeling is trying to help her, and she must of course take this chance he have given her, but before she runs to him, she trips over to the dark unicorn, loses her from the table and puts her on her back. She also runs over to a saddle bag and puts a container of blue liquid in it, so the others can belive her later, if she finds them. Then she quickly trips over to the door and out, and then looks the changeling in the eyes, and whispers.
"Thank you, know how to get out of here? My name is Naura, what is yours?" and then she lays the unicorn on the floor and replace her spot with the saddlebag, then she weakly punches her so she can wake up, but she continues to sleep. Then she looks back at the changeling with a 'can-you-carry-her' face.
"Even if i did trust you, you're infected. I gave you the cure, but in about a day you'll be again running around and hugging anything that moves." She said, closed her eyes and rubbed her head.
((Not sure if I'm able to continue rping until wednes day, going on a class trip tomorrow, but I don't know if Umbra will come before that though [ I spelled bad, I know]))
But...you can just give me the cure again then, can't you? I don't want to start hugging everything again, I nearly starved myself into extended hibernation. :(
Zappy softly hugs Blue's foreleg.
Please help me.
(Ah, ok. Well, If Naura's free, then Fulmen can head back, and you can try and find another way out. Sorry if that's a bit cruel.)
Fulmen rolled his yellow eyes, before magically levitating the unicorn onto his back.
"...Fulmen." He said. "And no, I'm just as lost as you. But we still need to get out of here before those...things notice you're gone."
Without even waiting for a response, Fulmen turned and slowly jogged back the way he came, trying to backtrack.
Blue pulls away from the young changeling and looks into his sad eyes, she looked away. "I have one more vial of the cure left. And i can make more if i have the ingredients and equipment." She sighed
I can help look for them, I'm not useless.
He sits himself up.
Please, please help me.
It was against Blue's nature to be mean, no matte towards whom. She took a deep breath and sighed. "Alright, i'll try to help you." She realized something. "We're not safe here, there's a cuddle crazed queen running around." She said, stood up and with her unicorn telekinesis spell placed Zappy on her back. "Watch my back, if anything yell. What's your name by the way? I'm Blue." She said and kept her eyes to the front of her, trotting forward, and again searching the castle, this time for the alchemy lab she was sure is somewhere in the castle.
Thank you.
He wanted to hug her but he figured that might not be the best way to thank her.
My name is Zappy, it's nice to meet you Blue.
He rests himself on her back and watches behind her as she requested.
Starlight wandered behind Blue, experimenting with her forms.
Zappy stares at Starlight and tilts his head.
Who's that behind us?
Blue quickly turned her head to look back. "Oh, Starlight. Just another changeling, Zappy." Blue answered and continued in her way.
Zappy wasn't sure what to think. She willingly let Starlight follow but not him?
Is he..infected? he asks shyly.
"Yup." Blue simply said and walked on, not wanting to discuss the subject.
"She!" Starlight spat angrily.
Eep, sorry! he apologizes to Starlight.
Starlight sighed and went back to experimenting with her forms. Suddenly something caught her eye.
um...what's your name? Zappy asks Starlight, hoping to start up a conversation with her.
Blue didn't notice whatever caught Starlight's eye. She walked on, opened another door and looked in before walking in. She charged her horn with a light spell again and let the room be illuminated, revealing a medium sized alchemy laboratory. "This should do." She whispered as she examined the equipment.
Starlight ignored Zappy entirely, instead wandering into another room of the castle. What lay before her simply amazed her, a vast collection of knowledge and stories, a library.
"Cool..."
Hey, where are you going?
Zappy turns towards Blue. That other changeling just wandered off. ono
After examining the equipment she went over the ingredients in the storage cabinets. "She's a big girl, i'm sure she can handle herself just fine." She answered coldly as she prepared what was needed.
Zappy lowers his head, afraid of Blue.
I'm just worried about her safety.
Starlight wandered through the library, many books she had never heard of were there. One called 'Colony' caught her eye, it had no visible author, and looked like a history book from the future.
"United space coalition?" She muttered to herself as she put the book in her saddlebag and looked for some more books. "Cool, a Daring Doo book, and... Ah-ha, a medical section, maybe it can help us..."
Blue didn't have anything else to say, she sat down, letting Zappy slide down her back to the ground. Then she picked up several herbs and started to grind them to dust with her hoof, charged her horn and operated the alchemy equipment, heating some water in one larger vial.
Zappy catches himself and scoots away from Blue, staring at her and watching her work.
He isn't sure what to say or do. He's terrified of the disease he carries now and his surroundings. It doesn't help to not have any familiar faces around to comfort him.
Zappy lies down and curls up. He tries his best to remain silent and not bawl his eyes out as a tear runs down his cheek.
Blue was fully immersed in her work, grinding and mixing herbs, boiling water, preparing the cure potion. She help up a rounded vial of the unfinished cure and stared in the liquid, shaking with its content. As she was doing so, she could see Zappy's reflection in the vial, his curled up form and he looked like he was crying. Blue stared at it for a while, it proved painful to watch for her, she didn't understand why, after all Zappy was just another changeling. Her ears flopped down, she put down the vial and walked over Zappy, gently rubbing his back. "Hey, you'll be alright" she tried to comfort him.
As Starlight gathered more books she noticed something, and it made her scream... Although it sounded more like a squeal...
Zappy seemed startled by her touch, letting out a small gasp.
Turning his head to her, he sniffles and another tear quickly runs down to his chin.
Today...and tomorrow. But what if we can't get more?
He rests his head back down
I'll just go hug crazy again...
Blue smiled. "Don't worry, i'm already making more." Then Starlight's scream/squeek was heard Blue raised her head, picked up Zappy and ran to where she thought was the source of the scream, leaving the cure boiling on the flame.
Starlight had managed to narrowly avoid death by changing into... Something... But was now trapped by a pike, that would kill her in pony form...
Zappy lets out a quick yelp as Blue picks him up. He blinks and wipes his tears away.
What's going on?
"I have no idea..." Blue answered with a worried voice as she ran into the library.
((whats a pike? :c))
// I think Snowcraft ment spike, not pike. But a pike is essentially an enlarged, heavy spear. \\
But you..heard something, right?
"So you heard it too?" Blue asked as she was going through the library.
((Medieval weapon))
Starlight began breath quicker and quicker as the ancient weapon hung above her. "Heeeeeelp!"
I wasn't sure, but if you heard it too then I guess I did.
Blue's ears twitch. "This way." She said and galloped to where the plead for help was heard. She gasped when she saw the huge spear like weapon almost crushing... something. She Quickly charged her horn and tried to lift the pike with her unicorn levitation spell.
As the pike was lifted Starlight took her usual form and climbed out from what she hiding in. "That... was scary..."
That's why I was worried... Zappy says.
I...should have mentioned I found traps in this place.
Blue held the pike up until Starlight was safely away from it, then she let it drop and sighed. "Better stay together from now on, don't want any more surprises like that..." She whispered and remembered the cure on the flame. "O-Oh..." She quickly turned around and ran back to the alchemy lab.
///hmmmmm, should i let it explode, or not, i wonder.
((Gtg))
Starlight sighed and went to find more books.
Zappy held on to Blue to avoid falling.
N-now what? he asks.
// Hmm...hard to say, though it might be more interesting to see what happens if Zappy can't get more of the cure. \\
Blue opened the alchemy lab door just as the liquid on the flame reached critical temperature, it started to emit light and Blue's eyes grew small. A loud explosion shook the entire castle a bit as the blue mare flew away, hitting the wall opposite of the door. She lost her consciousness from the hit.
//ok, lab gone ^-^ and i'm going to bed now, but blue is down and out so you can continue ^-^
// Okay, goodnight Grizzly. \\
Zappy was sent flying off of Blue's back and hit the wall beside her, falling to the floor. He pants and begins to tear up from the aching pain in his back.
He looks to Blue and notices that she lost consciousness.
O-oh no! Somepony, help! he cries out.
Greenish flames stated to spread from the source of the explosion, slowly enveloping the equipment as well as the cabinet with the ingredients, could another explosion happen? Blue was out cold.
Zappy watches the flames spread and gasps. It looks like the building is going to burn down.
He forces himself up onto his hooves and drags Blue away from the lab, down the hall with all his might.
After a few moments of being dragged Blue finally regained her consciousness. She stood up and shook her head, confused a bit. "What happened?" She asked, a thick black smoke was spreading on the ceiling, it was escaping from the burning lab.
The lab exploded and you got knocked out. I had to drag you away cause...I think it was going to blow up again.
//i think we should wait for starlight now
// Alrighty. :) \\
Starlight rushed to the source of the explosion, dropping down and crying angrily at what she saw...
"It's over..."
(Fulmen left Naura, but he still is carrying the other mare.)
He was walking through another decrepit hallway, when Fulmen sniffed:
Smoke.
"...C**P!"
He bolted as fast as he could to find the way down, mindful of the mare on his back. Soon, his luck was favorable, as he found the stairs down.
Once he reached the bottom, he turned a corner to see green flames and black smoke rising from one of the rooms.
That blue pony that was with Azure was down the hall, as well as...a young Changeling?! Fulmen ran over to them.
"What in Tartarus is going on?!" He then looked to the flaming room, then back to Blue. "Where's Azure?!"
The lab blew up. Zappy answers Fulmen. :s
Blue coughed a few times. "The queen has him..." She said as the smoke was getting thicker. "What a situation, the upstairs is most likely filled with smoke and downstairs is probably crawling with infected right now..."
Are there any windows we can open? Zappy asks, coughing sickly.
"Wait, Queen?! As in, Her Highness?!"
Fulmen shook his head.
"Great, now we've got a blown up lab, a castle in flames, a horde of infected, and...whatever those things were upstairs! JUST PERFECT!!!"
He then notices Zappy coughing, before turning to Blue.
"...take him. We need to find a way out of here. I've got this mare."
Starlight changed her form when she smelt the smoke reach her nose. Her mouth and nose were covered up by her shell as she took changeling form. "Lets go, this place is coming down!"
Taking orders from a changeling... Blue sighed, then coughed some more and put Zappy on her back. "Any idea HOW we get out of here?" she asked with a growl after Starlight's question.
((um... i have no idea how we get out of this one ovO ))
(Me neither. Anypony got a Deus Ex Machina?)
Starlight hardened her shell with her magic before trying to smash down a wall... "Help, here?" she panted as she continued trying to bust the wall down, one or two bricks did budge, but not enough to get through the wall yet.
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Jun 02, 12:23:15
(Me neither. Anypony got a Deus Ex Machina?)
// I still never understand that phrase entirely. \\
Zappy coughs up more smoke and squints his eyes.
His horn glows a bright blue with lightning sparking from it. A bright flash envelopes the group and they teleport outside the castle with electrical burns and smoke rising off of them. Zappy looks drained from his spell, looking ready to sleep.
Starlight gasps for air as she removed the plating from her face. "Well, we're outside now..."
Blue was coughing up some leftover smoke from her lungs. "Yeah..." She sighed and looked around. One infected changeling started to approach them, behind him an infected pony, then another and another, an endless wave of hug crazed creatures. "W-We should move." She whispered and started to run away from the infected, but she didn't know where to.
Zappy shuts his eyes, beginning to pass out from exhaustion.
(So where does this leave Naura? :o)
Fulmen looked back at the castle as he ran, wondering what those...things...were doing in there.
"Back to that hut! Back where Fissure and I found you!"
In the castle's highest level...
Queen Chrysalis was holding Azure so tight, he had red marks on his legs and neck. Azure was breathing, yet he might as well have been dead; his mind was at a stalemate with the disease's influence, and as a result, he'd gone pretty much comatose.
Chrysalis was panicked at the heat and smoke rising into the room. If they stayed, they were done for.
"..." She had one option left.
Her horn glowed sickly green, and she teleported herself and Azure to the outside of the castle...
...right next to Blue and the group.
((yeah... naura... ups >.< ))
Blue skidded to a stop. She blinked a few times in disbelief, staring at the queen. She lowered her head taking a defensive position and charging her horn.
Zappy blinks his eyes, barely able to make out the queen.
oh no... >.<
Fulmen stopped too, if only to launch a lightning bolt back at the infected to slow them.
"What the-?! My Queen?!?!"
Chrysalis looked up at him, then back at Blue.
"...I'll be back for him..."
With that, she flashed away in a green spark, leaving Azure's motionless body on the ground.
When the queen vanished Blue stood over Azure and examined him. "He's infected..." Blue said with a saddened voice. She wanted to pick him up, but she was carrying Zappy already, not to mention that she would have problems carrying him because of her own size. She stepped over Azure and turned to Starlight "Can you carry him?" She asked, but didn't wait for an answer as she started to gallop away from the horde.
Starlight tried to protest, but to no avail. Picking up Azure she began chasing after Blue.
The smoke reached the gate of the castle where Tiger and Rush had entered and Rush gasped loudly.
Rush thrust his hoof out and planted it on Tiger. His horn began to glow again with the same light as before and they both teleported back outside, right near all of the others. Rush struggled to keep his balance; two teleports, one of them with multiple ponies, in as many minutes really took it out of him. He remained conscious, but just barely.
((Sorry for moving us without you here, Tiger, but I didn't want the castle collapsing in on us.))
Again, Blue stopped sharply, this time because of Rush and Tiger emerging from a teleport spell flash. "Great, more ponies, nice to see you safe, Tiger. Anyway, if you can run, RUN!" She said quickly and continued in galloping.
Rush quickly regained his senses and look back. He yelled something that was either gibberish, or another language, it was hard to tell. After his outburst, he zoomed by, running at extreme speeds.
Fulmen looked at the pony running like Filly-Second for a while, before charging his horn with electricity.
He looked behind to see if anypony was there but the horde. He slowed down so he fell behind everypony.
When he was, he loosed a discharge behind him, made to stun the horde.
Multiple infected fell, paralyzed, while some kept running.
Naura had wanderd off after the changeling, but in the wrong direction! Suddenly the roof above her falls in, and she starts to run. She sees a little light through the wall, closes her eyes and jumps against it.
(Naura, you know you were on the second floor of the castle right? lol)
Fulmen heard a crash from the castle.
Turning around, he saw what looked to be that green pony he met in the castle flying out the wall of it.
He had to shrug it of and continue running; he could see the hut in the distance.
"There! We're almost there!" He called to everypony.
Starlight stopped suddenly letting the infected hug her as the curing potion's affects wore off. "Hug?"
Fulmen actually stopped this time, trying not to curse with Zappy in the area.
"What the flying feather are you doing?!" He screamed at Starlight.
Not wanting to take any risks since she'd been grabbed, he charged a lightning bolt and fired it at her and any other infected nearing them.
Blue looked behind herself and watched as Starlight got a dog-pile of infected on top of her. She cringed and turned to what was in front of her, passing trees and trying her best not to let Zappy, who was still on her back, fall off. "We have to get out of here..." She whispered as she ran.
Fulmen thought of something.
"Does anypony know how to get their attention?! I have a plan, but we need to get to that hut!"
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Jun 03, 15:20:35
(Naura, you know you were on the second floor of the castle right? lol)
Fulmen heard a crash from the castle.
Turning around, he saw what looked to be that green pony he met in the castle flying out the wall of it.
He had to shrug it of and continue running; he could see the hut in the distance.
"There! We're almost there!" He called to everypony.
(( I thought of it as a hole on the wall right under the roof :P))
(ah ok)
"T-They react to sight and sound. I doubt you can get all of their attention..." Blue explained, then skidded to a stop. "Hey, that's right! Fear!" She looked around. "Anypony know a fire spell? If we set the forest on fire they will at least partially regain their senses from the fear and run away from it" She suggested.
"I have lightning, almost as good!"
With that, Fulmen fired another bolt at a nearby tree, causing it to go up in a fiery explosion that ignited several other trees, the flames quickly spreading to others.
As the forest fire spread the infected indeed regain enough of themselves to flee, leaving the group to move somewhat freely now, their only obstacles being the fire itself. "Alright, now we can get to the hut, grab what we need to make a cure and then gallop for out plots!" Blue said and levitated a flaming branch in front of her as a torch, it should be enough to cause that extra bit of fear to the infected in cause some of them would try anything.
Suddenly, everypony heard a voice. Hmph. Can't believe I was wrong on that strategy. Still, bought me enough time to get out into the fore-....why is there fire?
Naura stood up and saw that the forest around her was in fire, she started running and soon saw Blue, carrying a little Changeling on her back.
'Wow, a lot of nice changelings it seems' Naura thougth to herself, and ran up to them. But not too close, then she justed hoped her heavy breathing would get the them through to quickly burning forest.
Blue noticed Naura and smiled, then she saw the new pony. "Yeah, hi, no time, run!" She said quickly and galloped on, heading to the hut.
Rush sat, breathing heavily, once he reached the hut. He was not used to running so quickly. He hadn't heard what the others had done to the forest, on accounts of him not stopping. He turned back and gasped at the forest, which was now ablaze.
[Color=brown]"What in the name of Celestia is going on there?"[/color]
"There's an infection spreading that causes you to loose your mind and hug everything moving you see. We had to set the forest a blaze to escape this cave." She explained as run inside, throwing the torch aside. She saw a saddlebag which picked up and stuffed the needed ingredients inside it, as much as she could fit in. When she was done she ran out again. "Ok, Now we need to get out through the entrance."
((this all is in a cave, including the now burning forest))
"Okay, everypony after me!" Naura shouted and started running to the hole they came in just a day ago.
((If I understand correctly it have only passed a day, and we have done a lot of crazy stuff here X3))
Fulmen ran with the group, but occasionally looking at Azure, who was still out on Starlight's back.
Then he thought of something.
He skidded to a halt. "Wait! I gotta find Fissure!"
(BTW when i said the Hive was coming, It'll probably take them a few days to reach us; Chrissy just got here quicker because she's still smart enough to teleport.)
((Starlight stopped running... 0.0 that means she took Azure to his doom... Oops.))
"He's gone." Blue said coldly and galloped on, after Naura.
Quote from: Snowcraft_Pony on 2014 Jun 04, 10:59:11
((Starlight stopped running... 0.0 that means she took Azure to his doom... Oops.))
( O:)
Fulmen slapped himself; Starlight had stopped and practically let the infected get her.
"You two...I'll get you out. I swear."With that, he turned and continued after the group.
(Where is Starlight now? I thought of something.)
Starlight ran in panic from the blaze, right to the entrance.
Fulmen saw Starlight running this way, so he hid to the side of the entrance, waiting for her to get close. Once she did, he lept at her with a flying "elbow" tackle.
(Is Azure still on Starlight, or did she drop him?)
Starlight collapsed from the attack, falling to the ground.
((dropped))
"Huh?" Naura expressed as the changeling knocked Starlight. She had just moved the rock and they were free to move out.
Fulmen pinned her down, before charging his horn with lightning power, and hovering it near her head, hoping to scare some sense into her.
"YOU! You had a blue pony on your back before! Where is he?!" He made the lightning spark.
Starlight covered her eyes in fear. "Sowwy, sowwy, I'm sowwy!"
The black unicorn fell of the changelings back and onto the ground.
"Wha- Who- Where am I?" She moaned and rubbed her head with her eyes hardly colsed, showing she had gotten hurt.
Quote from: Snowcraft_Pony on 2014 Jun 04, 12:08:39
Starlight covered her eyes in fear. "Sowwy, sowwy, I'm sowwy!"
(I had to)
"Ok, If you tell me where you dropped him, i'll take the scary sparks away. Deal?"
Blue blinked, charged her horn and used a high level healing spell to treat the injured unicorn. "Um... let's just move..." She whispered and galloped out of the entrance, away from the possibly infected pony.
Starlight just blinked processing the situation. "Hugs?"
Zappy starts to blink, awakening after passing out.
euh....
"Are you alright, Zappy?" Blue asked with a caring tone.
Zappy rubs his eyes and lifts his head a little.
Yeah...I just shouldn't be casting spells like that one.
Blue smiled and caressed his "mane" "You really saved us back there."
He puts on a soft smile and folds his ears down.
I just did what anyone else would have. ^-^
He rests his head back down to relax.
Quote from: Snowcraft_Pony on 2014 Jun 04, 14:26:34
Starlight just blinked processing the situation. "Hugs?"
Fulmen sighed. "Yeah, fine, whatever. If you find that pony you dropped, you can have a...hug."
He had to force that last part out.
"Go ahead and rest, as soon as we can i'll make some more cure." She sighed as she got out of the cave and started to gallop south, where she knew there was a lake.
Ah...okay. Zappy sighs. He closes his eyes to rest a little longer.
Blue gallops on until she reached the lake. She went by the shore of the lake until she reached the river filling it, then followed the river upstream. The surroundings was eerily silent, only real sounds were Blue's pants for air and her hoof-stomps.
Zappy blinks his eyes open again and looks around.
Naura and the black unicorn wanderd after Blue, and Naura decided to ask what it knew about all of this.
"Umm, Hey. Who are you, and what did you do in that lab?" She aks with a steady voice and looks the black pony in the eyes.
"Eh, uh, well, I'm Hazy Rhyme , and that lab place, eh, I don't know how I got there, but I had been there three days, but I don't remember much..." She ends her sentence as her voice gets lower.
((Oh Celestia, why do I keep changing stuffs with my Oc's, well, she looks like the former know Pyx :P))
Blue? How long has this...sickness gone on for? he asks her suddenly, breaking the silence.
"I don't know to be honest, but we've found about it today." She said in between pants and galloped on, down the stream. In the distance they could see a hut and a few boats.
Zappy leans his head to the side to see past Blue's shoulder. He barely makes out the shapes of a hut and some rafts.
What's...that?
"It's a small docking port on the edge of the forest." Blue explained, with a swift jump she exited the forest. "We're gonna borrow a boat and get to Canterlot, that's pretty much our only hope now." She said and stopped about 20 meters away from the hut, to get a breath and look around. "If Canterlot fell, it's over..." She whispered.
Canterlot....I only hope that if it's safe, nopony will mind me. :s
Zappy thinks that he's had enough rest and turns himself onto his back. He grabs the flask he has and tries to get it open.
Rush's burst of energy began to wear off and he was beginning to feel exhausted. He wanted nothing more than to just lie down and go to sleep, but he knew better; he knew that if he fell asleep, he would be left wide open and wouldn't be able to defend himself at all, he still had his trump card, after all.
He wondered which way the group headed, because, by this point, he had realized it wasn't the way he went.
[Color=brown]"I probably shouldn't have ran off so far ahead like that."[/color] He said aloud. He let his mind roam the possibilities of where they could've gone and what could've happened. A worried expression crossed his face as he realized that most of the thoughts were negative.
Blue was panting. "As long as you don't try to suck somepony's love out you'll be fine." Blue answered and panted for air a bit more while looking around. Everything looked calm, there were three boats beached on shore near the hut. "Looks quiet... Should we wait for the others, or set sail?" She asked more herself than zappy.
Zappy drops his flask onto the ground, unable to get it open from how drowsy he is.
I really need to replace that with a simple bottle... he thinks to himself as he stares down at it with a mostly blank expression.
Blue turned her head on Zappy, since he was so silent, and noticed him staring at something on the ground. She focused her sight on what he was looking on and saw the bottle, the same one he drank from before. She tilted her head and picked it up with her unicorn levitation spell, she opened it and sniffed, and cringed from the smell. "Is this yours?" She asked and levitated it to Zappy.
Zappy nods in response.
It's a special love substitute. From a friend. he says, taking it in his hooves. He starts to drink from him.
"Smells pretty bad if you ask me." She just said and walked to the boats, all of them looked floatwordy. "Help me prepare the boat, we'll wait a little longer and then set sail." They were small boats, for 4 ponies max.
Not to me. It's bad for you though so don't ever drink it.
Zappy seals up his flask and sits upright, looking much more peppy and awake than just a moment ago.
Okay, which one are we taking? he asks.
Blue rubbed her chin. "Let's pick this one." She said and started to push the boat on the left to the river.
Zappy hops off of Blue's back and helps her push the boat, shoving his shoulder against it.
Somepony was coming closer, unnoticed by the couple, Starlight.
Together they pushed the boat in the stream, Blue picked up zappy and placed him in the front of the boat, giving him a paddle and holding the ship steady. She still waited for the others. She turned to the forest and whispered. "Come on guys, can't wait forever..."
Zappy holds the paddle out of the water, waiting for Blue to tell him to get the boat going.
Do you think they're lost? Or...they got them?
"It's possible... i mean, things got pretty crazy after i blew up the lab..." She sighed and her ears flopped down.
Everyone was running so much...it's hard to say what happened after we got outside.
Then the pair noticed her, Starlight was less than ten meters away!
"Starlight!" Blue said somewhat happy, her ears springing up. Then realized that she is out of the effect of the cure and her ears flopped down again. She charged her horn and waited.
Zappy perks up seeing Starlight.
Starlight! Come into the boat, we're going downriver!
Starlight stopped five meters away. "Hugs?"
"Yes, hugs." She smiled but her ears were down. She still had her armor on, she dropped her saddlebag in the ship, picked up a rope out and approached Starlight slowly.
"Hugs!" Starlight yelled, unintentionally causing the infected horde is begin closing in. Starlight however began trotting to Blue, unaware of what she had just done.
Zappy looks terrified now, shivering in the boat.
oh no...Blue! We need to leave! >A<
What are you doing?! There's more of them coming!
"I know, we are..." She quickly answered to Zappy and slowly backed to the ship. "That's it, Starlight, be a good little filly and follow me on the ship, then you can get some hugs." She said in a motherly tone.
Starlight began following Blue onto the boat, but her movements became more aggressive and rushed as she got closer to the boat.
Zappy just watches as Blue baits Starlight onto the boat as dozens of other infected ponies approach them from all around. ono
Actually... there were move than dozens... more like hundreds... or maybe even thousands, yet Starlight didn't realize she had called them to her, or that they were there...
Blue closed her eyes and waited to be hugged by Starlight, she counted on the fact that the armor should protect her from becoming infected herself. She prepared a teleport spell, waiting to be hugged before teleporting, hopefully with Starlight around her.
Starlight happily hugged Blue tightly, along with another unknown pony...
As soon as she felt the strong hug Blue teleported on the boat. "Now, Zappy, Row!" She yelled as the second pony hugged a bit too much, forcing air out of her lungs.
O-okay!
Zappy quickly starts to row the boat, although slowly. He just barely manages to get them out onto the water and into the center of the river.
Starlight kept hugging, along with this other pony... A certain element of harmony... and a LOT of trouble... Twilight!
With tears in her eyes, struggling for every breath, Blue charged her horn again, letting the red aura of her magic cover bout Starlight and the other infected pony. Using a very strong anesthetic spell she tried to knock the two huggers out.
Post Merge
// ah... tried to avoid canon ponies... ah well, if we manage to get Twily back to her senses i'm not playing her X3
It worked on Starlight, but only weakened the element of magic... "It's not quite... Hugs..." twilight muttered before truly being lost to the infection.
Blue, are you okay? Zappy asks, panting from desperate paddling.
As Starlight fell limb onto the ship Blue took a few much needed breaths and started to struggle with Twilight, she recognized her, which made it only harder for her. "N-No, but i think i got this." She said and tried to tie her up, her horn was still glowing with the anesthetic spell, but she concentrated it purely on Twilight now.
Naura and Hazy Rhyme sees the boats and turns to hear a roar from some infected ponies just some feets away from them!
"GAAAH, get into that boat!" Naura screams and jumps into a boat with Hazy right after her.
"Row, row, row!" Naura screams while she starts to row out the boat.
"Gently down the stream..." Hazy ends as she stares on the boat's floor. Then she looks up behind Naura and gasps.
"Um, we're not the only ponies who took a boat, look!" She says and points with her hoof. When Naura looks behind herself, she sees Blue, the young changeling from before rowing the boat, and two ponies hugging them, but not any random ponies. Its Starlight, and Twilight?! ((that rhyme :P))
"Isn't that Twilight Sparkle? Of all ponies to get infected I thought she would be the last..." Hazy's voice dies out and she curls up into a ball.
//nice rhyme X3 now lets just hope Blue will be able to tie up Twilight (i'm having a weird dejavu right now X3 ), oh, and both infected on our ship were hugging Blue, Starlight passed out. And i'm now sooo grateful i picked up that armor X3 actually saved my butt XD \\
((Who's going to do what now?))
Twilight did luckily weaken enough to be tied up.
After tying up Twilight Blue sighed in relief, then tied up Starlight, who was still sleeping, and shifted the two of them to the center of the ship for stability. Then she picked up a paddle and started to row. "There, now there's just smooth sailing from here." She said and smiled, then looked behind them and waved at Naura and the other pony in the second ship.
Zappy rows, but stares blankly at Twilight and Starlight. Four words rang in his mind as he watched them.
That will be me. That will be me. That will be me.
Zappy lets out a soft sigh and shuts his eyes.
"Are you alright?" Blue asked with concern and rowed on.
I-I'm just scared...that's all. Zappy replies and looks at Blue.
"It's alright, i'm scared too." Blue whispered and rowed on.
(Sorry i've been away for awhile, exams and Tomodachi Life X3)
A little while ago...
Starlight had thrown Fulmen off of her and booted it away from the electricity, after Blue and the others. (Only explination I could think of.)
Fulmen was going to give chase, but it was obvious she had dropped Azure somewhere in the cave. He was able to hide as the horde in the cave piled out the exit, leaving just him in the whole cave.
"Well, me and those things in the castle..."
Knowing it was quite safer now, he set out to find Azure.
((it's alright, i'll progress a little further, if you don't mind))
Blue was exhausted from the rowing, Zappy was probably as well. They were rowing several hours now, it should be night about now. The moon was in the middle of the sky, as well as the sun. "I have a bad feeling about this..." Blue whispered as they could see the city of Canterlot in the distance.
(Ok, Fulmen's on his own, so I can roll with it.)
Fulmen had been searching for hours non-stop; hug-crazed or not, the Queen gave an order, and he WAS going to see it through.
His stomach grumbled; he hadn't eaten for a while.
After a few minutes, though, he found the castle again, not an infected in sight.
...Save for one dark blue pony lying on the grass.
"...There you are." Fulmen smiled, before walking over and shaking him. His magic was ready in case he was infected. "Hey, wake up."
Nothing.
He prodded him in the head.
Nothing.
He actually smacked him one.
Nothing.
"...Well, he's breathing, so he's not dead...I'm getting you out of here."
With that, he lifted Azure, and made his way to the exit.
//i'll have to wait for Naura and Teal before i can progress\\
Hazy continues to look at the uptied ponies in the boat before them, like if they were going to break free and jump up on the ponies.
But they didn't.
Soon she saw the blue pony that stared up in the sky, and she was trying to figure out what she was staring at.
At first she just thought of where the blue pony looked exactly, which took all her concentration, but then saw the horrible news.
The princesses was probably infected them selfs and was running or maybe even flying around in Canterlot, hugging innocent ponies...
"Hey, are we going there, there is no way we could survive more than two days up there" Hazy said and pointed, trying to get Blue's attention.
Naura turned around in the boat and stared where Hazy was pointing, then also in waiting an answer.
((They didn't hear what Blue said, they're too far away from them, also, have Naura/Hazy been introduced to Zappy? Or have even Hazy heard Blue's name?))
((Hazy didn't hear Blue's name if i recall and both of them weren't introduced to zappy))
Blue turned back to the ship behind them and pointed to the shore, then she changed course and landed at the shore, got out the ship and stretched her legs. She stared at the city with a puzzled look.
((Hey, Chromastone, do you mind if Rush meets up with Fulmen?))
(Sure!)
Fulmen made his was out of the cave, and wandered the forest until he found the lake with the boats.
He sighed. "...I hate water..."
The horde had long since dispersed, as he approached a boat and placed Azure in it.
((Alright. ^-^ ))
Worried for the others' safety, Rush returned to the cave, only to find a changeling that was carrying a stallion exiting it. He recognised the stallion from before, so he silently followed the changeling to the river.
Rush tripped on a root and fell over, making some racket. Sure the changeling heard him, he said aloud, "Nice job being subtle, Rush."
Fulmen spun around, lightning at the ready.
He glared at the pony on the ground, waiting for him to make a move.
Rush decided to play it cool because of his magic reserves being close to empty. He stood up slowly, careful not to startle the changeling into attacking, then brush himself off.
He looked at he changeling and said in a friendly tone that almost sounded forced, "Hi there."
Fulmen held his ground for a few more seconds, before lowering his magic.
"Well, you're speaking sentances and you haven't tried tackle-hugging me yet. You were that pony running like Tartarus back in the cave, aren't you?"
He glanced back at Azure, the back to the stallion on the floor.
[Color=brown]"I guess so."[/color] Rush said, relieved that the changeling was no longer in an offensive stance.
Fulmen turned away from him, and got in the boat, mindful of Azure.
"Let me guess; you want a ride across?" He said to Rush.
[Color=brown]"It would be better than standing here."[/color] Rush said as he looked around.
Fulmen rolled his reptilian eyes: he may act reasonably nice to Azure, but he'd still rather not be near any other ponies.
"...Fine. Get in. Watch where you step; my friend's in a kind of coma."
// Sorry I wasn't on yesterday. It was a pretty glum day for me. \\
Zappy hops out of the boat, surprisingly not tired from rowing for several hours. He kicks out his legs.
Mm, it's good to be out of that boat.
Blue still stared at the city. "Can't tell if the shield is up or not..." She whispered.
It's pretty late...I think. Do any of you need to sleep?
Blue finally broke her stare and looked at Zappy. "I could use some rest." She said as she popped her neck. "But it's not safe here, and i'm not sure if we should just walk in the city. I mean, it could be full of those things..."
Where should we go then? Zappy asks.
Blue's ears flopped down. "I don't know, Zappy. I just don't..." she whispered and looked to the city again. "I'll go in alone, i know my way around. if it's safe i'll come back for you." She said and picked up her saddlebag. "If i'm not back in two hours, just get on the ships and leave." she said and started to walk towards the city.
Just leave? B-but Blue! You're not infected! I should go! Zappy shouts. I'll just be hugging everything soon anyways.... :s
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Fulmen rolled his reptilian eyes: he may act reasonably nice to Azure, but he'd still rather not be near any other ponies.
"...Fine. Get in. Watch where you step; my friend's in a kind of coma."
Rush stepper onto the boat carefully. He normally wouldn't be getting onto a ship with a changeling and an unconscious pony, but he didn't really want to be left alone when there were probably infected about.
"I need to know if my dad is alright..." She whispered.
What? Zappy asks. I didn't um...catch that.
Naura jumps out while still in the water and drags the boat up on the shore, and Hazy jumps out on the ground and then they walk up to Blue and Zappy.
"Umm, Blue, could you introduce ud to this little guy?" Naura asks and points at the little changeling.
Blue shook her head and smiled. "Sure, this is Zappy. We found him in the castle. Zappy this is Naura." she said and pointed to the said ponies as she was talking about them.
Zappy lightens up a little to the new ponies and smiles.
Hi, Naura.
Fulmen looked at both the ponies in the boat, before beginning to row, noting the distrusting look on Rush's face.
"...I get it, I'm a Changeling. I'm not gonna stab you in the back."
[Color=brown]"I said nothing about that."[/color] Rush said.
"Your face." Fulmen said. "It's not hard to see you don't trust me." He then motioned to Azure. "I didn't do that."
Rush sighed and said, "I'm sorry to say, but that's a bit hard to believe."
Fulmen rolled his eyes again. "Whatever. Just keep an eye on him." He motioned to Azure.
[Color=brown]"Ok then..."[/color] Rush said as he moved up to Azure's side.
[Color=brown][I]'Well this is just fantastic. First I find out that there is an obsurd hugging disease going around, and now I'm on a boat being captained by a changeling. Could this day get any weirder?'[/color] He thought silently.
Fulmen kept rowing. "...Is he still breathing?" He asked Rush about Azure.
"Hi Zappy" Naura says and smiles.
"Oh, I guess you didn't hear my name before, I'm Hazy Rhyme" Hazy mentions and looks up against the town, having her belly giving of a purr.
"Eh, I haven't been eating anything in some days, got some food?" She giggles and pats her dark belly.
How has um...all this treated you? Zappy asks Naura.
Blue just sighed and walked to the city. "Stay here." She said to the ponies and Zappy and galloped off.
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Fulmen kept rowing. "...Is he still breathing?" He asked Rush about Azure.
[Color=brown]"It's shallow, but yeah, he's breathing."[/color] Rush responded.
Zappy looks to Blue as she gallops off.
Blue! Wait!
Blue didn't stop, she galloped straight up the hill towards Canterlot.
"Good. If he kicks it, then I'm dead. Her Highness would wring my neck."
He began holding the oars of the boat with magic, rowing slightly faster then before.
Zappy stares off at Blue as she disappears from view.
...please stay safe.
After a few minutes of running Blue entered the city. Both the sun and the moon in the middle of the sky should be enough warning for her to don't do so, but she had to be sure. The streets were littered with debris, broken off or crushed peaces of armor and destroyed chariots. Almost all buildings were damaged in some way. Blue walked through the eerily silent city with her ears folded and tears in her eyes, she looked around for ponies, or the infected, but she couldn't see none. As she reached the town plaza she stood still near a fountain and looked to the castle. She sat down, closed her eyes and silently cried.
Naura is just about to answer but Blue starts to run, and Naura follows her some meters, but then stops and looks back at Hazy and Zappy.
"Well, I got no food, but what will we do? I have a feeling there is going to start rain soon, and I don't want to be here when it starts, should we seek shelter?" Naura starts to rabble.
"Uh, wouldn't Blue be scared if she came back and we wasn't her?" Hazy argues back with a sweet tone.
"Hmm, you got a point, but what shall we do?" Naura whispers, then she stares at Zappy.
"Do you have any idea Zappy?"
We could try building a shelter. he suggests with a nervous look.
Blue took her time to cry her eyes out. When she was done, she wiped away her tears and took a deep breath, then galloped back to the others. She ran as fast as she could and when she got to Zappy, Naura and Hazy she was out of breath. "The city is trashed, but empty. I think we can go in, get some supplies, rest and then move on." she explained in between pants for air.
Are you sure that was all, Blue? You were running like you just saw a ghost....
"I... just needed to get out of there." Blue's ears flopped down and a small blush appeared on her face, she looked away in an attempt to hide it. "Anyway, i do think that the city is our best bet. If we can get to my house i can even make some more cure, i do have the ingredients here." she pointed to her saddlebag as she suggested.
"Sounds like a good plan" Naura says and Hazy nodds.
Fulmen decided to speak up again. "...May I ask your name?"
[Color=brown]"Rush. And yours?"[/color] He responded.
Blue picked up Zappy and placed him on her back. "You two take those two." She said to Naura and Hazy and pointed to Starlight and Twilight, who were still out, and even if they weren't they were tied quite well. After that she started to walk back to the city, slowly and cautiously.
"Fulmen, Rank #6 of Her Highness Chrysalis's Elite." He said, a hint of pride in his title as he said it.
[Color=gray]"Elite, huh? I kinda just thought there were drones, then the queen."[/color]
Fulmen laughed. "Well, I used to be one, until the Queen requested a special combat team. Though Fissure might as well be a real drone; loyal to a fault is an understatement."
[Color=brown]"Well, loyal to a fault is better than disloyalty, and I'm guessing that's even more so for changelings."[/color]
"Don't get me wrong, I'll serve her 'till the day I fall. That's why I need to look after him." He pointed to Azure.
[Color=brown]"I kinda figured that much."[/color] Rush said as he looked at Azure, then out to the banks.
Fulmen placed a hoof on his forehead. "I swear, Her Highness'll kill me if she finds out her servant's in a coma..."
[Color=brown]"Then all we need to do is wake him up, and she'll be happy, right?"[/color]
He sighed. "That's the thing. I tried waking him up. I don't know what happened in that castle, but it's like his mind isn't there. But's he's still breathing, so..."
Rush poked Azure experimentally, trying to see if he would wake up, but, of course, he didn't. Rush shrugged and said, "Well, I got nothin'. I'm not good with this type of thing."
"I'm just wondering what to do now. You have any idea where this river leads?"
Hiding at the river's side...
A pair of green eyes were observing the boat floating down the river...
[Color=brown]"Nope; I thought you did..."[/color] Rush's eyes returned to the banks, where he saw something that didn't quite match the rest. He pointed at it and said, "Hey, Fulmen, what's that?"
He looked to where Rush pointed; there was a black bush. It looked a little sinister.
"Don't know. Fury was the botanist in the Hive; she'd kn-"
"HEEEELP!!!"
A swamp green mare with a grey mane burst out of the bush. She looked terrified.
"HEEEEY! Please! Stop the boat! Infected are coming! Help!"
Fulmen looked at her, then to Rush.
"Do we help her?"
[Color=brown]"Couldn't hurt, could it?"[/color]
(Ok, this might be a bit long.)
Fulmen nodded, before moving the oars to guide the boat to shore, just ahead of the mare.
"Get in." He called.
Then, Tartarus broke loose.
She ran up to the boat. "Thank you!"
Once she reached it, however, her sight snapped to the unconscious pony in the boat.
"Azure..." She whispered, before turning to Fulmen.
"...Mine."
With that, she lunged and shoved Fulmen off the boat, before exploding into green flames.
"MY Azure...!" She growled at Rush, before grabbing Azure and beginning to hover away.
In shock, Rush tried to use magic, forgetting about his lack of energy, only succeeding in giving himself a headache.
((ehehe, why do i have a feeling that the infection will end before you two unite with the others XD))
(Don't worry, I'm making her fly towards Canterlot muhahahaha)
Chrysalis stopped and looked back at the boat, grinning mockingly at Rush, while Fulmen was frantically flailing in the river; he couldn't swim.
"Nopony will take him again..." She hissed, before bee-lining for Canterlot.
(( O: well thats... O/)(\ O almost spoiled it X3 ))
Knowing he could do nothing, Rush put his hoof over the side of the boat to help Fulmen out of the river.
Fulmen grabbed the hoof and let himself get pulled out of the river. Back on the boat, he spat out the water.
"BLEAK!!!....What...happened...? Where is she....?"
[Color=brown]"She flew off that way with the unconscious stallion."[/color] Rush said, pointing towards Canterlot.
"FLEW....?! How...?"
[Color=brown]"She was enveloped in green fire, then became a rather tall changeling."[/color] Rush said. "I tried to stop her, but my magic isn't working well right now..."
Fulmen's eyes shot wide open.
"Tall changeling?! And she took Azure?!"
Fulmen grabbed the oars.
"We need to get there, now!"
Naura took Starlight on her back while Hazy took hold of Twilight with her magic, then they followed Blue to the city.
"So, well, where do you live?" Hazy asked and looked at the empty city.
"In the students district, its not far." Blue said and lead the way. In about thirty minutes they were in front of a two storey house. Blue opened the door and walked in, she expected it to be raided, or at least somewhat damaged inside, but to her surprise, at least what she saw, looked exactly as she left it. She smiled and walked straight to her kitchen, opening a cabinet and taking a box of crackers. "If you're hungry help yourselves." She offered the box to Naura and Hazy and put her bag on the counter, preparing anything needed to make a dose of the cure.
Starlight began to stir slightly, then unfortunately for the group, woke up!
In Canterlot...
The Queen landed on a flat building, her wings sending an audible hum throughout the desolate city.
She turned to Azure's unmoving body.
"Why won't you wake up...? Did you break...?"
She actually had a concerned look as she hugged him.
"Don't worry, I won't let you break anymore..."
Whatever sanity she had left was deteriorating. Fast.
Hazy quickly ate some crackers and then rubbed her little belly.
"GAH"
Naura screamed as Starlight woke up on her back and she started to panic.
Blue turned her head to the yell, almost burning her tail in the process. As she saw Naura panicking she raised her hoof. "Calm down, CALM DOWN! She's tied up, no need to panic."
Starlight slipped of Naura's back and started wriggling on the floor, causing the ropes to loosen.
"HUGS!" she yelled happily.
"Starlight, calm down. There will be hugs, but you have to be good now. Just wait a little and you can get all the hugs you want." Blue tried to calm her down.
"Hug, now!" Starlight yelled breaking lose.
"Oh, dear..." Blue charged her horn and tried to knock Starlight out again with the same anesthetic spell as before. "Alright, hug." She said, sat down and extended her hooves, wanting to unleash the spell when hugged. How many more times will this armor save me, i wonder...
Starlight looked at Hazy. "You hug." Starlight said as she moved towards Hazy.
"Whats wrong with hugging me?" Blue questioned in a fake saddened voice.
Hazy also started to panic, and when she starts to panic, she pretty much throws anything she gots in her hooves at you, but this time, she threw Twilight right into Starlight with a high pitched scream.
Starlight fell to the ground and started crying, making enough noise to alert the nearest infected horde.
The city was free of any infected, safe for the changeling queen somewhere on a roof. There was no horde to attract.
Chrysalis's ears perked up at the sound of a cry.
Still holding Azure, she began hovering in the direction of the noise; she may have one pony to hug, but the more the merrier, right?
Blue jumped at Starlight and tried to hold her down. "Help me out here..." She said and tried her best, Starlight was bigger and stronger that she was though.
Starlights crying also woke up Twilight, who angrily charged at Blue, not attempting to hug, but fight...
Blue was caught by Twilight's attack off guard, her strong angry hoof kick send her flying and she went through a table. She slowly stood up, her ears flopped down, she looked at the two infected and backed against the wall.
Starlight was still crying, and Twilight turned and hugged her... they looked almost like a mother caring for her foal...
"Shame on you!" Twilight spat. Was she really infected?
Blue's hooves shook, the attack took more from her that she thought. She tried to move back to the kitchen, to the pot where she is making the cure, sticking to the wall as much as possible.
Twilight returned to hugging Starlight. "Do you know what caused this?" Twilight asked worriedly. "What happened to them, us?"
Starlight was still crying slightly, hugging Twilight back.
"It's some disease, or a spell, or... i don't know." Blue whispered, but kept her distance. "There is a cure that works for a while, trying to make it now, but something keeps interrupting me..." She briefly looked away, it seemed that Twilight didn't recognize her.
Twilight started crying to. "We need a permanent one... Please... do what you can..."
((Hint: Starlight's remaining notes back at the warehouse.))
((so we have to get back to get the notes XD or did i pick them up o.O honestly don't remember, but i think they're still lying there.))
"Didn't really have time to study this yet." Blue said with a sigh and moved to the pot, working on the cure. The water was already boiling, so she threw the herbs from her bag in and stirred.
((They were left there, then most of them were retrieved by Starlight, but the Antidote note was attempted to be taken, but ultimately left there))
((WAIT! Blue took the cure note, but lost it in the river... ups))
((Ya know, Rush and Fulmen are still on the river...))
((but it happened even before we were in the cave, i'm pretty sure the note is long gone, if not in the ocean that soaked and shredded))
((Starlight would have kept a copy -_- She's not stupid))
(Ok, one sec)
Fulmen was rowing as fast as his magic could, until a dock was in the distance.
"There!" He said to Rush, docking the boat and jumping out.
"Let's go!"
((We be like in Canterlot like chatting like in Blue's house))
Then Naura thought of something, her saddle bag!
She quickly threw it up on the nearest table and took out the blue liquid and placed it on the table.
"Is that what I think it is...?" Hazy gasped and moved the jar infront of her with magic.
Then a note fell out of the saddle bag that had been under the jar.
"Huh? What's this?" Naura said suprised and look on it on its place right next to the saddle bag on the table.
((Somepony read the note, I don't know what it should say))
Fulmen turned to Rush.
"Ok, if we're going in there, I'll be lost; I've never been to Camelot or whatever the hay this place is called. Have you been here before?"
In Canterlot...
Chrysalis had followed the cry back to a house. There was defiantly movement in there.
She hid just below a window, looking in to see some sort of fight going on.
Blue focused on the cure, several minutes later she extinguished the flame and put the pot aside, taking out a few flask from the counter and filling them up, creating 10 doses of the cure. She took two and walked to Twilight. "Here, drink this, and make her drink it too. It will help, at least for a while." she said while handing the flasks over.
[Color=brown]"I've been here once; I kinda know my way around."[/color] Rush replied with a sigh.
"Good. Do you know anywhere that might have supplies?"
A high pitched siren like noise was heard for a few seconds all over the city. Blue's ears twitched and she dropped the flasks, luckily they were closed so the cure didn't get spilled. She ran to the window and looked out. "But i though... this can't be right..." She whispered and looked on.
Rush thought for a moment, then said, "Well, there's the castle, but that seems like too long of a walk from here. Um... Oh! Right. There's a market about half the distance between here and the castle."
Hearing the siren, he covered his ears and said, "Dang. That was a bit loud."
"NGH!"
Fulmen cringed from the painful noise.
"...What the buck was that?!"
Starlight drank the cure happily, and Twilight just downed hers indifferently
"What..." Starlight muttered.
"Sirens of the guard. That one means 'stay indoors'. Which means the city can't be abandoned..." Blue whispered and continued to look out the window.
Chrysalis gasped, before ducking down below the window, hoping Blue didn't see her.
She held Azure close in anxiety; If he were conscious, he would have passed out from lack of breath.
Luckily for her Blue didn't notice Chrysalis. She looked to the streets for a bit longer, then stepped away from the window. "Are you two alright now?" She asked when noticing the empty flasks.
Twilight nodded, teleported away, she left a note though. 'Stay safe, the guard are trying to figure this out. We will send some guards to pick up Starlight.'
Starlight meanwhile ignored the question, rubbing her head.
"Umm, My eyesight is a bit bad at the moment, could somepony read this note?" Naura sasy and removes her hoovs away from her ears.
Chrysalis peeked back over into the house, seeing those ponies that wanted hugs suddenly...stop wanting hugs. It was terrifying.
Then she saw her. THAT mare.
That stupid lavender pony that wreaked her plans at the wedding.
Her hatred almost tempted her to jump in and maul her, but she thought of something else.
She held up Azure's body, and using a very precise beam, burned a pattern into his fur.
She had no idea she was the cause of his coma, and she had no idea how to help him, knowing nothing about pony anatomy and only thinking of hugs.
The Queen wasn't going to let him go after she just got him back, but she wanted him to hug back, not be broken.
She slowly rose, so she was in full view of anypony looking in the window's direction.
The pattern on Azure said "FIX HIM"
Blue sighed and walked to Naura, picking up the note and reading it. "Want me to take a look on your eyes?" She asked while reading. "Oh. This is the cure note! Where did you find it?" She asked and read on. "Yeah, i know all this, but how do you make it actually cure it!" she grumbled to herself as she read the note.
"Yes please, I've never had bad eyesight before, I hope its just my head being dizzy, I really need some sleep. We'll save the eye check for tomorrow" Naura says and walks to lay down on a couch near by.
"Yeah, me too. I haven't got too good sleep the latest nights" Hazy gasps and goes to lay down next to Naura.
((If there isn't a couch, I can change to comment of them laying down on a carpet or something X3))
((there is a couch, don't worry ^-^))
Blue stretched a bit. "Yeah, resting would be nice. I'll go upstairs, to my room. Goodnight. If anything, yell." She said and waked upstairs.
Chrysalis stared blankly at the ponies, before knocking on the window's side, hoping to get their attention.
"Huh?" Hazy says and looks out the window. She thought it was her reflection and went back to the couch.
(Distant yell) "Hello? Is there anypony out there?!?!"
Starlight decided to read through what notes she still had, before looking through her bags.
"Poison Joke, Tree Sap,Chemical 7B9... Drat I just need some changeling extracts..."
Chrysalis was impatient, now banging on the window.
Starlight spotted Chrysalis's hoof in the window."Bingo"[/color] she exclaimed opening the window. "Maybe we can make a deal?"
Chrysalis looked surprised at the calm changeling.
She tilted her head in confusion, before raising Azure, showing the pattern.
"Huh? Did anypony hear that?" Hazy says and looks around in the room. She looks at Naura to see that she is asleep. Then she looks at Starlight and gives of a high pitched scream when she sees the queen.
The Queen was doing everything she could to not leap in and give the screaming pony a calm hug, but she really wanted help for her Azure.
"You..." She said to Starlight. "...Fix..."
"Shall we make a deal?" Starlight asked.
Chrysalis looked at her. "...Deal...?
"I need changing extracts, and I alone cannot produce nearly enough, you however can.
Give me enough, and I will fix him." Starlight explained.
Chrysalis stared for a second...before nodding.
Starlight paused... "Okay... Pass me your extract..."
(Um...)
Chrysalis formed a small orb of magic and hoofed it to Starlight.
(I honestly didn't know what else to do.)
Starlight scanned the ball of magic with her own "This should do..."
Hazy stood there, cold, and watched the two ponies trade something...
"He-hy-why why a-are you trading with he-her? A-and what is that?" Hazy shakes and points at the sphere.
"Quiet! I need this for the permanent cure." Starlight stated.
The Queen held Azure through the window, with her hooves under his forelegs like he was a teddy bear.
"Fix."
"It will take an hour" Starlight stated, she would fix him, but not the way the queen would probably want him fixing in.
Chrysalis pulled Azure back; she wanted him fixed, yes, but she wasn't letting him go.
Blue happily slept in her room, oblivious to the happenings downstairs.
"Give, or he stays broken!" Starlight yelled.
Chrysalis stared her down; she wanted him fixed, but she'd rather he be broken then she having nothing to hug.
"I keep until you fix...
"Hug this" Starlight told the queen, trying to get Azure.
Chrysalis moved quick, jumping back and hovering in the air with Azure.
Blue walked downstairs, her mane messed up, to get a glass of water. She walked by Starlight. "Hi Starlight, Hi Azure, Hi Chrysalis." She said like it was nothing, then walked to the sink and filled it with water. She took a few gulps of water, before spitting it out and quickly running back to Starlight. "WHATTHEHAYISSHEDOINGHERE?" she yelled, confused, scared and angry.
"Woah, calm down!" Starlight yelled, trying to keep everything calm. "We're trading..."
Chrysalis waited, before hovering back down to the window, still keeping her distance.
"Just pass 'im here, I'll fix him, don't worry..." Starlight told Chrysalis soothingly.
Chrysalis shook her head. "I hold. You fix."
"I can't fix him without getting a better look, and you are not coming in here."
"I have Azure..."
She struggled to say the next line.
"I...not need you to hug."
"Gahh!" Starlight screamed, attempting to knock Chrysalis out.
"Hey hey hey, calm down. I can heal him from a distance." Blue said and stood in between Starlight and the queen.
Starlight whispered in Blue's ear. "I'm trying to get him off her..."
"I can use an anesthetic spell on her before healing, she won't know what hit her." Blue whispered back.
Starlight falsely sighed. "Fine go ahead..."
Blue turned to the queen and Azure, her horn shining brightly with her red magic aura. "Don't worry, i don't want to hurt you. I'm going to heal him." She said calmly and slowly let her aura envelop Azure, then extend to Chrysalis.
(Sorry I was gone, friend came round.)
Chrysalis backed away from the aura, it slowly approaching. She didn't know what it was, and it scared her.
Scared her.
She blinked a few times, before speaking.
"Stay away...Keep cloud aw....wha...? Where am I...?"
She looked around, confused, before noticing she was holding something.
A pony.
"What?!" She said in disgust before throwing Azure to the ground and turning to the window.
"...You ponies have five seconds to explain why I am here."
Blue just facehooved really hard, so hard that the sound echoed. "Oh give me a break. You mean that i've actually scared her? Me? With my 3-foot-nothing?"
"Wow..." Starlight muttered, grabbing Azure. "Alright, lets fix him..."
Hazy just stood there and watched what was heppening before her eyes.
"I, no, I'm tired, see ya in the morning" She just said with a motionless voice and laid down on the couch next to Naura.
Chrysalis saw the changeling grab Azure.
"And just WHO are you? You're not one of mine...What are you doing with MY servant?"
"One of yours? Don't you remember? Your entire hive is lost, victims to a terrible infection, spreading across the whole of Equestria." She frowned. "We are actually your only hope for sanity, and i don't really know if i want to help you..."
She scoffed at Blue. "Did I ask you, pony?"
She paused, thinking for a second...then it all came back.
Her Hive. Her Elite. All lost once...he left.
She came back to reality, staring at Blue.
"...What happened to him?" She demanded, pointing at Azure being carried of by Starlight.
Starlight began pouring some of the concoction she had made down Azures throat, hoping he would remain out long enough to do so, she also drank some herself.
"Infected, like you, and me... Well not me and him anymore... Oh, Blue! I made some more permanent cure."
Chrysalis rolled her eyes. "And do you have any idea what caused this?...I can't believe I have to talk to ponies to get my answer...How long have I been like this?"
Starlight shrugged. "My team have been trying to neutralize this disease for two weeks, we were trying to contain it for months..."
"And did your pwesious pwincesses bother to do anything about it, hmm?" She mocked.
"Yup, all four"
((Whatever happened to Rush and Fulmen? They just kinda vanished.))
((And tiger...))
( O: I forgot him! Fixing NOW!)
Fulmen turned to Rush.
"C'mon! We gotta find him!"
With that, he bolted up the road, not waiting for Rush to follow.
Rush followed after Fulmen, barely able to keep up.
Fulmen stopped at the entrance to Canterlot, turning to see Rush was still following.
"Good. So, where were these supplies again?"
Back at Blue's house...
"And what exactly is it they did to help? Grah, I've had enough; how much longer until he wakes?" Chrysalis demanded. However, she was slowly feeling the hug-lust creep into her mind again.
"Sorry Chrysi, you killed him." Starlight lied, taking a vial of the cure out. "Drink this, or you will share his fate."
[Color=brown]"Around the housing district. I can lead you there."[/color] Rush said, stopping just inside the entrance.
Fulmen nodded, ready to follow Rush.
Chrysalis just looked at Azure, then back at the vial.
"He's clearly breathing. Is this some stupid attempt at humour? And what is this?" She argued, prodding the bottle.
Rush nodded and took off into Canterlot.
Starlight just kept holding it. "Fine, drink it or I will kill you AND him!"
Chrysalis was now glaring at Starlight.
"Oh, I doubt that." (sorry, had to.) "You ponies don't have the guts to kill another of your kind. Yet...you wouldn't resort to poisons. What IS this?"
With a big frown Blue charged her horn and zapped Azure, his vital signs are now gone, no breathing, no heartbeat. "Many has changed since your attack, ponies now have only little regard for the life of your kind, or those that help you." She said coldly and looked at the queen. "Do you believe us now?"
((just to clarify for all players and readers. No blue didn't kill Azure, she just send him into a very deep hibernation, which resembles death))
Hazy was laying in the bed and looking on all things happening before her eyes, thinking of it as a dream, then she slowly fell asleep.
"I said drink it!" Starlight yelled pulling out a kitchen knife, not that she would really use it.
( O: I thought this was about hugs...?!)
Chrysalis only rolled her eyes; Azure was a good slave, yes, but she could always get a new one.
"...You do realize you just killed the only thing stopping me from razing your Ponyville to the hugs? ACK! I meant ground! Ugh, fine, give me that!"
She swiped the vial, and drunk it.
Starlight pushed Chrysalis away from the window. "Go ahead, nopony sane left there"
In truth get organisation had captured everyone infected in the town, taking the remaining uninfected with them.
Chrysalis facehooved. "And just HOW am I supposed to burn an entire city on my own? Fire isn't my forte. I'd need Flame of Fulmen for that. Wait...Fissure and Fulmen!"
Chrysalis suddenly charged her magic.
"Where are they?! If I'm here with my pet, then they had to have found him first."
Starlight shrugged.
"Pff, you probably found them and killed them yourself to get to Azure, you're just the kind of idiot to do something like that. I'm going to bed..." Blue just growled as her frustration reached a breaking point, she turned and left to the stairs.
Something moves withing the ruins under the sun and the moon.
Chrysalis was angry now; she turned to the sky and shouted.
"GRRRRRAHHHHHHH!!! PATHETIC PONIES!"
Somewhere else in Canterlot...
Fulmen was running with Rush, when he heard an echoing shout ring through the city.
"Hold up!" He called to him. "Did you hear that?"
The shout attracted some attention nopony expected. In the sky seven specs could be seen slowly growing larger as they descend from who knows how far above. Blue again turned around sharply with her horn charged, she send a blast of pure magic energy straight at Chrysalis.
"We need to go!" Starlight screamed.
Chrysalis countered the beam with one of her own, and dove through the window, barging Blue out of the way.
She headed straight for Azure.
"Changelings may be merciless, but ponies aren't. It's a trick."
When the two beams collided the resulting pulse of energy tore a huge hole in the wall with the window. After being shoved to the ground Blue just cringed and stood up, her hooves shaking. A loud crashing sound was heard outside, followed by hoofsteps.
(She just ran past you. Like tackling someone when you run past them. She basically knocked you to the ground.)
((thank you~))
Enveloping Azure in green magic, Chrysalis charged back the way she came, bringing him with her.
When in the hole in the wall Chrysalis could see 7 pegasi, 7 earth ponies and an unicorn, armed from hooves to feather tips, bearing the marks of the Royal Guards Special Forces. They stood and hovered in a half circle, surrounding the hole. The unicorn walked forward. "Give up, you are surrounded!" The unicorn yelled.
Chrysalis stopped, looking at the guards, before pulling Azure close.
"Stand down, or this unicorn doesn't wake up again!"
Fulmen turned to Rush.
"I have to go! I think I heard Her Highness scream a minute ago!"
"We do not negotiate, surrender or die. You have thirty seconds." the unicorn stated bluntly and coldly, the rest of the armed ponies slowly closing in. Blue walked to the hole to see what was going on, first she smiled, but then her ears flopped down and she backed. "O-Oh..."
"...ender or die. You have thirty seconds."
Fulmen was hoofing it through the city, following the voices.
After about ten seconds, he found the source of the noise:
His Queen, surrounded by guards.
Hiding around a corner, he charged his horn with as much lightning as he could.
"Let's see if the magic bullet trick is true."
With that, he lept out from hiding.
"SURPRISE, BUCKERS!"
He aimed the bolt at the nearest guard, and let it fly, it made to chain between targets.
The charge went from one guard to the other, not leaving a single scratch on them. The unicorn waved his hoof "Give him a stern telling off when you find him." He said coldly, still staring at Chrysalis. He seemed not to pay any attention to Blue, who backed all the way in the house, out of sight.
Naura wakes up of the strange voices, then she sees Chrysalias infront of her.
(What the hay have I missed?) She thinks and starts to sneak up on Chrysalias, then she bites her in the tail and tries to drag her inside the house.
[spoiler]http://makeagif.com/Mamkfw
Fulmen gasped, diving back into cover. What the Tartarus was that armour made of?! There must've been at least 10,000 volts in that bolt!
Fulmen took off, flying into the building he was next to.
"What do I do...?!"
The five that were sent after Filmen reached the point in which he was just a moment ago and then, keeping in eyesight of oneanother, spread out and searched the area.
Post Merge
((and do say if naura managed to pull chrysie in the house, please))
Chrysalis felt something tug her tail. Turning she saw a green pony pulling it.
She turned back to the guard. "Well? Do I go with her?" She said sarcastically
(ok might be gone for a little while, friend's come round.)
((Naura is thinking of this as a dream, you know those dreams when you just do this random stuff like throwing bananas at a rock or so without finding it weird))
Rush walked slowly in the direction Fulmen took off in. He had no clue what was going on, so he had grown nervous about the entire situation.
Starlight kicked Chrysalis. "Knock her out, I could use her."
Blue came from nowhere with a huge plant pot and smacked it on Chrysalis's head, shattering the pot in the process.
Chrysalis fell to the ground unconscious, dropping Azure out of the air.
(Wait, Chrysalis never attacked anypony, and now she's knocked out? Poor Chrissy)
Fulmen was hiding in the building when he heard the smash of a pot.
With the guards in that armour, he felt useless to do anything.
Naura dragged Chrysalias further into the room when she got knocked out.
Starlight smirked. "Get her to the castle, and keep her restrained," Starlight then turned to Blue. "Blue, I'm afraid I have to go, I must speak with Twilight."
"Castle?" Naura asks as she continues dragging the queen without letting her eyes move from the window with the guards.
Blue nodded. "Say hello to her from me, if she ever remembers me..." she puffed her cheeks and looked away, then pulled out a rope from under her sofa and tied up Chrysalis. "Ok, i really cant carry her..." She said and put Zappy, who was still sleeping, on her back and walked to the door.
Naura continued to drag her, now into a new room, not looking like she would stop soon.
// Oh hey, I was wondering if I was still involved in this RP. :D \\
Zappy begins to wake up....and hug Blue softly.
((DUNDUNDUUUUN!))
Starlight quickly attempted to make Zappy drink some of the permanent cure.
Zappy resists Starlight's attempts, turning his head away and hugging Blue tighter.
Blue stands still and tries to make Zappy hug lighter. "Don't worry, noone will hurt you. Just drink that, it will help you." she said in a motherly tone.
Fulmen found a window, and watched the whole thing play out; he was so angry, seeing his Queen tied up like an animal. Then again, it reminded him of when Azure was brought to the Hive.
"...And here I thought there were decent ponies...they cure her, then knock her out?! She's not the friendliest changeling, out there, but this...?...Changelings aren't the brutes, they are...save Azure."
// I've been summoned to League by a friend, so I'm gonna go play with him! \\
Zappy loosens up his hug a little. He seems calmed by Blue and sips the potion until he falls back asleep.
Starlight whacked Naura and attempted to get the queen of her. "We don't want to tenderize her!"
/9just a quick question: did they give azure the cure yet?)
//yup
Naura didn't give any reaction to what Starlight said.
(Ok, Ill finally wake him up. Can we say the hibernation thing wore off?)
Suddenly, a groan was heard from somepony.
The blue, green-maned pony on the ground.
"Ughhh..." Azure breathed, his eyes slowly opening. "Where...where am I...?"
Starlight kept trying to pry Naura from the queen. "Let her go!"
Blue joined in Starlights effort "This is getting crazy..."
((Since Naura is a earth pony she should praticlly be stronger than both Starlight and Blue ovO))
Naura didn't stop dragging, she even continued but turned a little so she walked into a new room.
((We're now in Blue's house, it has only 2 room in the first floor lol well technically 3, bath room, kitchen and livingroom, what new room did you drag her to? XD))
((Umm, is there a back door? X3))
((nope X3 but for the sake of the RP, lets say yes X3))
"Wha...where...?"
Rising, Azure looked around...and saw Naura dragging Chrysalis off.
"W-WHAT?! YOUR HIGHNESS?!...NO, NO! STOP!"
Azure weakly sprinted after the group, and began trying to help stop Naura.
Starlight resorted to stealing Naura's energy.
"H-Hey! Don't do that!" Blue said with a frown.
Naura just kept dragging.
Hazy woke up to the yelling and saw Naura dragging the queen with a motionlass face expression.
"NAURA! Seriously, are you... oh!" Hazy says before realizing what the motionless face means.
"Guys, trying to stop her that way isn't going to help, she is sleep walking" Hazy says and giggles.
Hearing the commotion, Rush sped up. He soon came upon the guards that stood in a hole in the wall of a building.
[Color=brown]"What the hay?"[/color]
Checkmate was walking through the city as he heard shouting. His first reaction was to immediately hate those ponies for attracting attention. His second thought was to spy on them, and so he started following them quietly, making sure he couldn't be seen.
((Blue? Starlight? Could somepony react to Hazy? >.<))
"Wait, sleepwalking?"
Azure used what little magic he had to form a small waterball, which he promptly dropped on Naura's head.
Starlight was ignoring everything at that moment but her goal.
Naura drops the queens tail the instance the water flushes down her muzzle.
"Ugh, what happend?" She says and sees Chrysalias before her.
"Oh, my SWEET CELESTIA! ITS THE CHANGELING QUEEN!!!" She screams and starts running around in circles.
"Hehe, she's back to her senses." Hazy giggles.
The second she dropped her, Azure began looking over the Queen, panicking.
"Ohponyohponyohpony! Um, let's see, she doesn't look hurt...! Er, I think that's a pulse...! Ah, dang it, I'm useless!"
He held her head, looking for anything obviously damaged.
"Calm down! Stay focused and don't hate on yourself" Hazy says with a quiet and soothing voice.
Checkmate sighed and walked out from his hiding spot. Unless you secretly have a plan to all get infected, shut up.
Starlight saw checkmate and looked at him confused. "Don't I know you?"
Nope. Checkmate remarked, stepping out, his white mane stained black with soot.
Starlight shrugged, turning to her team. "Make sure he isn't infected, I'm late for my meeting."
And with that Starlight was gone.
"What, meeting?" Naura says confused.
Checkmate sighed. Do you really think I'm dense enough to get infected?
Blue raises an eyebrow when she sees how Azure was pacing around the queen. She filled a glass of water and poured it in the queens face "Her head is too dense to be damaged by a flower pot." She said with an unamused face.
Azure tried taking deep breaths.
"Huff...What happened...Where am I...Who did this...?"
"Ummm, I can't really say" Naura replies.
"Yeah, me either" Hazy says and rubbs her neck.
The water Blue poured got a reaction from the queen, her face twitching slightly.
"I did." Blue simply said, as if it was nothing.
Azure turned to her. "Blue? Wait, you...? Why?! I need to help her now or Fissure'll...!"
He turned back to Chrysalis who looked like she was about to wake up.
Blue went to the kitchen for another glass full of water. "Starlight said to knock her out, and i don't have to be told twice to bash a changeling." She said as she poured the water into Chrysalis's face.
(Is she trying to wake her up with the water?)
((yup))
(Ok, might be gone for a few hours, going to friends house. I'll reply when I get back.)
Post Merge
The second drop of water woke the Queen.
"Ugh..."
Azure didn't know what to do: keep holding her head without permission, or drop it and risk being scolded for not helping?
Her eyes blinked a few times, before opening and turning to Azure.
"What...? You...?...You can let go of my head now." She groaned blankly.
Starlight was now speaking at the castle, two uninfected princesses speaking, Luna lose somewhere, and an infected Celestia in a cage.
Blue gave no reaction to the queen finally waking up, but she had a big urge to pour another glass of water in her face. She turned and walked to the door. "Alright, can we go now?"
"Go where?" Hazy asked.
"A-Are you alright, Your Highness...?" Azure stammered.
The Queen actually chuckled. "I am fine, your concern is noted. Even after these ponies attacked me without provocation."
She aimed a leer at Blue.
//whats a leer?
((like a mean stare))
(Sort of like an angry glare with narrowed eyes)
Zappy starts to awaken from his rest and blinks his eyes open. He lets out a small yawn and picks his head up, feeling sore for some reason.
How long was I...?
Checkmate's eyes swept over the group, anger immediately visible, although he kept his facial emotion stoic. Again, if you're trying to get infected, then go ahead and keep talking. Or, you can come with me to a safe spot to do this nonsense at.
"Now, Azure; would you be so kind as to untie me?" Chrysalis said.
Azure hesitated for a second, before trying to untie her. Unfortunately, he's always been crud at knots, so he could barely get it anymore loose.
Zappy heard a familiar voice. One he thought he'd never hear again. He looks towards Chrysalis and yelps.
"Hm?"
Chrysalis rolled onto her side, where she could see Zappy. The sight surprised her.
"Oh? Well, well. Just what are you doing so far away from the Hive, dear?"
I ran away. he says, shying back a little. :s
Chrysalis's eyes widened.
"What?! Why would you do that?" She actually seemed slightly hurt.
He turns away from her.
I was treated horribly by every one. I just had to get away... :s
She gained an enraged look.
"WHAT?! Who?! I'll not tolerate any changeling mistreating a foal!"
She may be Chrysalis, but even she has things she won't stand for.
Zappy turns back to Chrysalis, staring at her in a bit of confusion. He feels like he hadn't taken the time to know what she's like beyond the strong, militaristic image.
It was some bullies...and mean magic instructors.
Her eyes narrowed for a second.
"If we manage to sort this ridiculous disease, tell me who they are, and I'll make sure they clean the halls of the Hive for months."
Azure looked from Chrysalis to Zappy.
"Um...how long have you been gone...?"
um.... he shuts his eyes, thinking. ...several months....maybe...6 months? he guesses. ...you didn't send that group of changelings to attack me? he asks Chrysalis.
She practically went white.
"M-MONTHS?!?!"
She span to Azure. "Azure, get me out. NOW! Use magic and hurt me if need be!"
"Oh, uh, o-of course, Your Highness!"
He used a little magic, making a small amount of water and soaking the rope, weakening it.
As soon as it was weak, Chrysalis burst out of the rope, running for Zappy.
"Are you well?! Not hurt?! And what Changelings attacked you?!"
Zappy was incredibly surprised that she broke out of her bonds and was so caring of him.
I-I'm fine! Really! I was...um..I was able to protect myself from them. he says. There was...a bunch of changelings that attacked me, though I remember my magic instructors came with them.
He gives her the names of his bullies and magic instructors.
(Ok, need to go for the night, see you all tomorrow. :))
// See you later Chromastone! \\
"But, where should we be heading right now?" Hazy asks with a confused voice.
//Zappy is still on Blue's back isn't he? O:
Blue turned her head to see Chrysalis 'charging' at her, or so it seemed to her. She charged her horn and covered herself, and Zappy, in a very powerful red shield. "Just what the hay are you trying to pull?" She growled very aggressively.
Chrysalis slammed straight into the shield, almost getting a migraine from the impact.
"Ugh...Drop the shield, pony!" She ordered, after hearing the names.
Azure ran up to them as well.
"Blue, drop it. She won't hurt you. Her Highness is very protective of foals..."
"Than why does Zappy seem to be afraid of her? I'm not dropping it!" Blue answered and backed up.
Chysalis looked from her to Zappy.
"You're not afraid of me, are you?"
"Don't drop the shield! I wouldn't trust her one bit!" Hazy shouts while Naura got the rope in her mouth, ready to do what action she gets told.
Azure saw Naura with the rope, and made a big decision.
He moved between her and Chrysalis.
"Don't, Naura! I-I have to serve her! If you try to attack her, I'll have to...don't make me do this!"
Fulmen was still watching from the building.
"Don't worry, Azure; she makes one move..."
He charged his horn again.
"And zap goes the pony."
Blue backs a bit more, until she has nowhere to back to, as her butt touched the wall.
//think we should wait for Teal now
Post Merge
// btw, what did happen to the 15 ELITE PONIES WEARING ANTI ELECTRICITY ARMOR? Fulmen defeated them? Kinda doubt that
(I thought you were playing them?)
//i was, but then everyone just kinda started ignoring them, so is i actually did something i would have kill everyone in the house, which i really didn't want to do. So lets just say that they got recalled somewhere or something.
(ah ok)
// I'll be on in a short bit, I got a couple things to do but I should be available for RP in an hour. ^-^ \\
//I'm going away tomorrow, and I'll be gone to next tuesday , don't know if the place got internet, so somepony might need to take control of my Oc's in different rp's, Blue, could you maybe do in this, Atala, Pascalo and Ponysona?\\
//first of all i am flattered that you would entrust your OCs to me X3 and second, are you really just asking me to take control of your OCs in 3 RPs? O:
//four X3\\
//oh, right, forgot about the beach one X3
// Longer than an hour, but I'm still here now. :) \\
Zappy looks rather ashamed now, as well as afraid.
I....maybe...a bit... he replies to Chrysalis.
Chrysalis tilted her head.
"Why? I assure you, I will not hurt you. I had no idea any changelings were looking to attack you."
All those changelings I named? They warned me all of the time of how mean you could get. he says, looking down to the floor.
Blue, you can lower the shield. he says to Blue.
"No, i don't trust her." Blue said, still keeping a mean stare at Chrysalis, one could even say there is a hint of hate in her eyes.
Please? Just let me out. he pleads, softly hugging Blue to try and coarse her.
"The only times I'm "mean" is when I am angered, or when my enemies are near. I would never mistreat a young one."
She turned to Blue. "You keep your shield, but let him out. NOW."
"Didn't stop you mistreating me, or any other pony foal in you 'care'." She growled.
Chrysalis was getting mad now.
"What are you talking about? I wouldn't be seen dead with a pony foal. Now look at it this way; he wants to come out, I want him to come out. But you won't let him. You've already attacked me without warrant, and now foalnapping? Tut tut, ponies are darker at heart than I thought."
Blue! Zappy speaks up.
Blue...she can't be anything like I thought she was, or what you think she is too. If she was she'd probably break just your shield and attack both of us. he says with a somewhat stern look, if one is even the least bit intimidating at his age.
But this is the first time I've ever gotten the chance to speak with her and she's nothing like anyone's ever told me and I feel bad about it and.. he says, beginning to cry as he speaks. P-Please let me out! :'(
Blue's ears flopped down and then she looked away. "Alright." She whispered and stopped channeling her magic, the red shield slowly disintegrating. She kept her angry look and walked away.
Zappy jumps off of Blue's back and runs to Chrysalis, hugging her tightly. >.<
(Wait...did Zappy get the cure?!)
// Yeah, he's fine for now. If he wasn't he'd be hugging them...more than he is now and only talking about hugs. \\
//did zappy get the permanent cure?
// Someone gave him something, I didn't know there was a permanent cure. He got something, so he's at LEAST cure for 24 hours. \\
(Phew)
Chrysalis returned the hug, before turning to Blue.
"Now then, how did you cure us? What was in that vial?"
Zappy sniffles and shuts his eyes.
"A powerful herbal mixture combined with the changeling essence." Blue answered without even looking at the queen, she rubbed her left forehoof. "Just leave me alone." she growled, still not looking at her.
"Hmm" Naura mumbles and leaves the room.
"Huh? Naura, where are you going?" Hazy questions and runs after.
((Now in another room, so the others can't hear them))
Naura looks around in the room when Hazy walks in.
"What are you doing? This isn't the time to look for somethi-" Hazy cuts the sentence when she sees what Naura gots in her hooves.
"I think I got an idea..." Naura smirks.
"Hmm, will it work?" Hazy asks.
Azure looked around.
"Hey, where'd Naura and the grey pony go?"
Who? Zappy asks, looking around a bit.
"A green pony." He said. "When I woke up...she was dragging Her Highness. Turns out she was just sleepwalking."
I didn't even know ponies could drag things in their sleep. o.O
"Me neither. But, the only thing now is...where do we go from here?"
(Sorry Checkmate if it seems like we're ignoring you, we're not. X3)
I think we should make more cure and cure Equestria.
Blue stood up. "Why? So that your precious food source doesn't go away?" Blue growled and walked away.
Naura and Hazy walked back into the room, Hazy holding two bottles of apple cider in her magic.
"Anypony thirsty?" Naura asks with a smile.
Blue, that-
Zappy looks to Naura and Hazy with a curious look. um... I am. he raises his hoof.
"I'll pass." Blue said, not even turning to the group and went upstairs, closing herself in her room.
Hazy floats over one of the bottles and a little glass and starts to pouring it in the glass, which she then levitates infront of him.
Zappy stops hugging Chrysalis and takes the glass in his hooves, drinking it down.
A letter suddenly appeared in front of Blue. It was from Starlight.
'Hey Blue, we have good news and bad news. Good news is Celestia, Cadence and Twilight are all uninfected, bad news is an infected Luna is lose in the city. We have cure in mass production now, please be careful while we distribute it...
~Starlight'
"So that's why the guard's elite is out and about..." Blue whispered as she read the note. Then she walked down stairs and put the letter on the table. "The cure is in mass production, and we have an infected alicorn running around the city." she simply said and went back up to her room, not caring for anything at the moment, she left the note there for the others to read.
((Does anypony mind if I go off of this new information?))
//i don't mind, go ahead :)
// I don't mind either. \\
"Which princess?" Hazy asks with a bad feeling.
After his little outburst at the hole in the wall, the guards began to drag Rush off towards the castle.
As Rush struggled, one of the guards looked to him and said, "You keep that up, and we'll have to knock ya out."
At this statement, Rush stopped, but his mind still raced. [Color=gray][I]'What did I do? Where are they taking me? What's up with that blue thing in the sky?'[/I][/color]
As he thought this, the "blue thing in the sky" began to grow larger. When the guards noticed it, they started panicking; so much so that they dropped Rush. The thing landed and was finally able to be identified; it was Princess Luna.
The guards suddenly took up arms against the Princess of the Night, which confused Rush considering a few of the guards looked like members of the Lunar Guard.
Luna's horn lit up and all of the weapons the guards had pointed against her flew off to elsewhere. The princess started to walk forward and spoke. [Color=darkblue]"For raising thine weapons against me, you shall be punished... with hugs!"[/color] Luna then went ballistic, running to each of the frantic guards and hugging them so tightly that some of their armor came off. After she was done with the guards, she turned towards where Rush had been, only to see he was no longer there, but running full speed down the road.
Starlight rushed past Rush accompanied by several armed guards. "Knock her out!" Starlight commanded, only for her team to fail and Luna to escape...
"Alert the citizens, tell them an infected is lose, do NOT tell them it's Luna..."
Fulmen decided it was time to show himself. He jumped out from the building, and hovered down to the group.
"My Queen!" He called, causing her to look up.
"Fulmen! I wondered where you went after that little trick you pulled with the guards. Where is Fissure?"
Fulmen suddenly remembered.
"I...you infected him, Your Highness. He's out there somewhere, mindless. I searched for him, but I couldn't find him."
A flash of anger appeared on Chrysalis's face for a second.
"...No matter. We'll find him once this cure is available.
Azure was silent.
Ominous cracks appeared on the wall with the hole, the whole house gave off unsettling sounds, a few pieces of debris falling from the ceiling.
"Huh? What's that?" Naura gasps.
Azure looked at the new crack.
"Um, I think you should get out of there! The building looks like its about to fall!" He shouted.
Blue was locked in her room, oblivious to the cracks, though she did hear the sounds, which made her nervous.
Post Merge
//Naura is gone for some time and she gave me control over her characters, just letting you know
Zappy gasps.
Blue!
He breaks away from Chrysalis. I-I have to go get her! he says, hurrying up the stairs.
Naura and Hazy ran out the slowly collapsing house. The cracks in the wall expanded, the whole structure started to shake, the stairs started to fall apart.
Zappy nearly trips and falls down as the stairs fall apart beneath him. He barely makes it up to the top and rushes down to where Blue is, banging on her door.
Bluuuue! We need to get out of this building, it's falling apart!
"Then go!" Blue yelled from behind the door.
"No, child, don't!"
Chrysalis immediately took off after Zappy, until she found him banging on Blue's door.
"I'll understand if you respect this pony, but this is suicide! We need to get out!"
Back outside, Azure was in a panic about what was going on.
I won't just leave her in here to get crushed! ono
Zappy returns to banging on the door. Blue, come on! You need to get out of there!
Blue walked to the door as the house fell apart more and more, she was about to open the door as a rather big piece of the roof loosened and fell straight on her head, knocking her out cold.
Zappy hears cracking and breaking inside, then a large thump from Blue hitting the floor.
Blue? Blue are you okay?
He backs away from the door, staring at it for a moment. He charges magic in his horn and then runs into it, jamming his horn into it and shooting magic through the door, causing it to fall apart into pieces.
Zappy moves the pieces out of the way and gasps seeing Blue.
Blue lied motionless on the ground, her eyes closed, her horn cracked and her head injured.
//i'm so getting banned :c
// Then just don't do stuff that would get you banned. \\
Zappy uses his magic to pick Blue slowly up off the ground. Once he has her he begins to head outside, walking past Chrysalis. He's clearly using more magic than he should be. Come on, lets go!
He heads down the stairs carefully, making his way out.
Chrysalis was paranoid with fear for Zappy.
"We are getting out, NOW!"
Knowing he had Blue safe with magic, she hovered with her wings and shot forward, grabbing him and flying all three of them out of the building.
Zappy was surprised to be helped outside by Chrysalis, a little at least. He thought maybe she'd be shocked that he'd be risking himself for her, but maybe she's more level headed than that.
Blue hovers out of the building behind them, Zappy focusing all of his energy in keeping her afloat.
Right as the tip of Chrysalis's tail left the building the building collapsed into a pile of rubble. Blue was unconscious still.
Fulmen ran forward. "Are you alright, My Queen?!"
She nodded, before turning to Zappy.
"What were you thinking?! I could've sent Azure or Fulmen in! Do you know how close you were to being buried in there?!"
Zappy lets out a deep sigh as his magic fades. He looks pretty weak, about ready to pass out.
I-I couldn't leave my friend in there... :c
Chrysalis saw how weak he looked, leaning down and holding him steady.
"You used up far too much magic. You need to lie down. Although, considering where we are, we'd be lucky to find anypony tolerable."
She turned to Azure. "You. Go out there and find us a place to stay."
"Oh! Um, yes, Your Highness!"
With not even a single flinch, Azure began moving into the city.
Azure found the city pretty much abandoned, the buildings damaged or outright destroyed.
Zappy lets out a soft sigh and closes his eyes.
Just make sure she's okay, please?
//dawww
The Queen looked from him to Blue, before sighing.
"While I wish I could help, I know nothing of ponies. We'll have to wait until my pet gets back."
Blue started to move a bit, a few tears flowing from her eyes, yet she was still unconscious.
Zappy blinks his eyes open and looks at Blue.
I kind of do....her head needs to be wrapped.
He closes his eyes again, ready to rest.
Chrysalis rolled her eyes.
"I can't believe I'm going to do this."
She sighed, before spitting a few long strands of silk. (Only way I know they made those cocoons in A Canterlot Wedding.)
Once they were firm, she wrapped them around the damaged part of Blue's head.
"That should do it."
//thats kinda gross =P also, i'm kinda surprised that nopony adressed Blue's distaste for changelings
After having her head wrapped Blue calmed down, but still didn't wake up.
Starlight appeared in front of the group, her pinkish changeling form in view. "Luna, infected, here now!" She exclaimed.
A yelling noise came from close by the group. Suddenly, Rush came running by, screaming like a wild banshee, yelling something like, "NOPE!!![/B]"
He skid to a halt several meters ahead of them, then backed up and examined them. Looking rather confused, he pointed to Chrysalis and said, "I thought you were infected." He turned to Azure and said, "I thought you were knocked out." He turned to Blue and winced, then finally turned to Starlight and said, "All of you might wanna run; there's a cuddle-crazed princess headed this way."
(Azure left to find somewhere safe...he's gonna get it again, isn't he?)
Chrysalis was waiting for some comment about her being free, while trying to understand what Starlight and Rush just spurted.
Blue was still unconscious, with her head wrapped, it will take a while before she's up and about again.
Starlight sighed, she had a tranquiliser of some sort in her grip. "We know, the ECP will capture her...hopefully. But you all need to go, now!"
// I sorta forgot I was RPing after I started playing Tf2. \\
Zappy falls into slumber from his exhaustion.
//Just out of curiosity, is now a good time to jump in? o.O
[Color=gray]"No, I mean she's like right there..."[/color] Rush said, pointing to a blue speck in the sky. [Color=gray]"She's been after me for the past half hour or so. After you didn't stop her, she just started chasing me."[/color]
//we're pretty much nearing a battle, so i would say yes, untill luna actually appears and things start happening
Drawn by the sounds of commotion, a grey unicorn stallion peers around the corner of a nearby house, an acoustic bass strapped to his back. Spotting the group, he immediately dashes over, "Are you all al-". He immediately stops as he notices one of the other ponies pointing into the sky, at an every growing blue dot. "I-is that...?"
Starlight fired magic bolts up at the spec, none of which landed their mark. "Take cover!"
//will you control luna, Snow?
Rush ran into the nearest building.
Looking around, Low Key instinctively followed Rush into the nearest building, searching for any large obstacle to hide behind.
Azure came bolting back, screaming like an idiot.
"LUNA'SCOMINGLUNA'SCOMINGLUNA'SCOMINGRUNRUNRUN!!!"
He ran into the building that Low Key and Rush were in, while Chrysalis and Fulmen followed, the Queen picking up the sleeping Zappy.
Blue still lied on the ground unconscious, absolutely defenseless against the oncoming infected princess.
((Your DM, grizzly, you can control her.))
Starlight hurriedly grabbed Blue and took her inside, barricading everypony in, giving just enough room to fight back, should Luna get in.
Luna landed on the place where Blue was lying on a moment ago and looked around with a deranged smile. "HUGS!" she yelled and laughed, turning around 180 degrees and staring on an empty building.
Starlight peeked through a minuscule hole in the door, hoping she wouldn't get spotted.
Luna turned again and looked at the door, staring at it for a minute or two she just shrugged, unfolded her wings and flew off, demanding hugs as she did so.
Chrysalis nudged Azure.
"Check if it's safe."
Azure could only nod and walk out, looking to see if Luna had gone.
//how far out of the house did he go?
((Make her yell 'The hugs have been doubled' XD))
(He's out completely, and slowly moving to the middle.)
It was at this moment, cowering behind a sofa, that it finally occurred to Low that there were non-ponies in the party. He regarded the changeling queen and her entourage with wide eyes for a moment, stopping to look around at the other ponies. After thinking hard for a few seconds, he simply accepted the fact that Chrysalis was most likely not here to enslave them, yet scooted over to the other side of the couch, keeping his six-string acoustic bass close.
Suddenly, Luna jumps behind Azure and wraps her hooves around him, yelling. "Hugs!" she wrapped her hind hooves around him as well. "The hugs have been doubled!" She giggled. She was hiding on the roof of the building the group was hiding in.
Azure screamed as he was pulled close by Luna, actually cursing for once in his life.
"****! Not again!" (Metal Gear joke. Also, I'm gonna make him pass out again, but for nowhere near as long. That okay?)
Low Key simply stared in horror, too petrified by fear and shock to move, "Th-the p-princess?! N-no way!"
//no problem with me
Luna continued to strongly hug Azure.
((Starlight is also a changeling -_-))
Starlight stared in horror when she peeked again, spotting Luna hugging Azure in the distance, causing her to bolt out and tranquilise the princess... If tranquilisers work on Alicorns that is...
Quote from: Snowcraft_Pony on 2014 Jun 17, 12:29:06
((Starlight is also a changeling -_-))
// Some people don't have the patience to go through 66 pages of story =P Edited my last entry
Chrysalis was about to help Azure, but then she stopped an actually started snickering.
"I never thought I'd see the day; one of the great pony princesses, reduced to a hugging animal..." She thought.
Fulmen wasn't going out there without order.
Azure tried to struggle against Luna, but she was too strong. The huglust was entering his mind again.
"Fight it...fight it...FIGHT IT!..."
Azure's mind countered the corruption again, sending him into another blackout.
//forgot about Naura and Hazy X3
Naura and Hazy were cowering in the house, to stay safe, Blue was still unconscious.
The tranquilizers didn't seem to affect the princess, at least not at the moment. She threw the passed out Azure to the side and lunged herself on Starlight, screaming for more hugs.
The sudden movement of the princess finally moves Low Key to act, and he begins scrambling towards the back of the house, tripping over his own hooves on several occasions.
Starlight took advantage of the hug and tried injecting the princess with the cure. She also gave herself a shot, just in case.
To try and buy Starlight some time, Fulmen ran up to Luna, flailing around.
"Hey! Princess Whatever! I want a hug! C'mon!"
Post Merge
Chrysalis was watching out the building, seeing Luna drop Azure and Starlight running at her.
"Oh, if ONLY I had a camera...this is just too good..."
Luna hugged the poor pony for a bit more, then she noticed him passed out and just threw him away like a broken toy, turning to the other ponies. "We demand hugs!"
Fulmen was bounding around Luna, just out of hoof's reach; he could run if he wanted.
"Hey! Hey! Free hugs! Come one, forget them! Catch me for free hugs!"
Inside he felt so ashamed he had to do that in front of his Queen.
Luna just tilted her head at Fulmen. "We don't want hugs from bugs!" The wind above her started to swirl, along with her astral flowing mane. "HUGS!" her royal voice boomed across the landscape.
"WHAT?!"
Fulmen "grr"ed in frustration, before running around the back of a nearby building, beginning to shift into an orange pegasus stallion.
After he did, he walked slowly out, like he didn't know what was happening.
"Princess Luna?! Are you okay?"
((That was a lovely rhyme Luna just made.))
Rush was staring at Luna through a crack in the wall of the building he was in.
// X3
Luna lunged herself on the orange pegasus in a forceful tacklehug.
Expecting it, Fulmen jumped into the air and began flying away.
"Try and catch me, Princess!" He taunted.
A sinister laugh came out of the princess of the night, a much darker voice than her normal one. Her form started to shine, growing a bit larger, her fur darker and her astral mane completely different. "HUGS!" She turns into mist and starts following the fleeing pegas, her speed about twice as high as Fulmen's current speed.
"WHAT THE-?!"
Fulmen slammed his wings shut tumbling into a freefall in an attempt to avoid her.
(Ok, should we wait for Snowcraft and the others now?)
//yep
Starlight looked up in shock. "I need her down here!"
No longer laughing, Chrysalis ran out to see Fulmen falling through the sky, and...Nightmare Moon behind him?!
Wasting no time, she aimed a small laser burst at the hug crazed princess.
The laser burst went right through the mist form, leaving no noticeable effect, not even slowing it down. Moment by moment it closed in on Fulmen, spreading in what resembled a blanket behind him and trying to encase him whole.
Naura and Hazy stayed by the unconscious Blue.
Running out of time, Fulmen dropped his guise, revealing his true form.
"Really, Princess? I thought you didn't want to hug a bug?" He mocked, charging another lightning burst just in case.
The dark blue cloud of Hugmare Moon's astral form formed a huge question mark, then a few lightning bolts flew from it, almost looking like the former moon princess was cursing. She then turned to the ground, noticing another pony, and flew at it in full speed.
Starlight panicked and held out the syringe full of cure out to inject the princess with it. "This better work this time."
// you know that if she stays in her cloud form than injecting is impossible, right? ovO
((Yup DD:))
Chrysalis saw an opportunity; she charged her magic, trying to encase the cloud in a green aura to hold it.
Just before the cloud enveloped Starlight it was indeed stopped by Chrysalis's magic, though this form proved hard to contain.
"Grr!" Trying to hold the princess in was like having her head bashed over and over again with a slice of lemon wrapped around a large golden brick.
"Give her the cure already!" The Queen shouted, trying to force Luna to turn solid by condensing the magic field.
Starlight quickly jabbed the cloud injecting the cure. "Please work..."
The former night princess formed a physical form as she jumped in a tackle hug at Starlight, getting impaled by the injection as she wrapped her hooves around Starlight's body. The cure flowing through her veins made her come to.
Seeing the cure be injected, Chrysalis dropped the field, before slumping to the ground, only just conscious.
"Princess?"
"Blue! Wake up already!" Naura whisperd and started to shake Blue gently.
((I'mma take control of my characters again Blue ^-^ except for pascalo until we can find a way to bring in Naura in a good way))
Blue was still out cold.
The princess slowly shrank to her normal size, she shook her head and looked at Starlight with a question. "What happened?"
"You were infected with disease Alpha-8. We're calling it the cuddle-craze apparently..."
Chrysalis was passing out. She called to the night princess.
"And...you hugged him into Tartarus...princess..."
Pointing at Azure, she leered at Luna, before falling unconscious.
Slowly peeking out of the house, Low Key takes in the scene before him. Seeing that the princess has been restored, he steps out and cautiously joins the others.
Fulmen ran over to the queen, seeing if she was okay.
The princess of the moon gave everyone a look, then spread her wings. "Thank you for your assistance." She said and flew away.
Blue was still in the house, still unconscious. She was in a nightmare she couldn't wake up from, a memory of her past experience with the changelings, especially the queen.
Chrysalis was also out, having a dream of the past:
It was in the Hive one day. She was having a stroll in the halls when she heard odd noises. Rushing to their location, she found multiple Changelings, teachers, surrounding...a small pony filly, who looked quite in pain.
"Excuse me." She said, slightly irritated. "Why is there a pony here? And a child no less."
The teachers looked shocked at discovery. "Oh, Y-Your Highness! We-um..found this pony in the halls. She was l-like this when we found her...!"
The Queen gave them the eye for a little. "...Very well. Fix her wounds and get her out."
The teachers nodded as the Queen left.
...She should have seen through their lies.
// I know I haven't been here in a bit but that whole luna thing started up and I think I saw it conclude just a page or two ago. x3 \\
Groaning, Zappy finally awakens after having passed out earlier from energy exhaustion. He blinks a few times, trying to unblur his vision. He reaches for a flask he keeps with him that's filled with a love substitute and drinks up enough to restore some energy for about a day, then closes it up and puts it away. He takes a look around once again now that his vision is clear.
Moments later Blue also finally comes to her senses. She sits up and cringes from the pain in her head. She checked her head and sighed, charging her horn and healing her skull fracture, she is still channeling the healing spell, repairing her skull, as she looked around. "What happened?" she whispered.
Starlight smiled taking her natural changeling form and said "Luna was cured and we should have enough cure soon to start worldwide deployment... if there are no other... side effects."
Chrysalis also began to wake up.
"Ugh....what...what happened? Fulmen?"
Fulmen jumped at his Queen's awakening. "! My Queen, are you okay?!"
She sat up, rubbing her head. "Apart from the fact that I feel like I have six love hangovers at once, I'm fine...Where's Azure and Zappy?"
Fulmen pointed to the two.
Zappy turns his gaze over to Chrysalis and Fulmen, staring. He recalls what happened just before he passed out and remains silent from the revelations he had talking with the Queen.
Blue at this point was still channeling her magic to heal her head, trying to move as little as possible, movement only prolonged the healing process. As she was healing herself she tried to recall why is she injured in the first place. She remembers being in her room, the house shaking, her going to the door... and nothing more.
"Zappy?" She said, before making her way over to him, ignoring Fulmen's protests. "Are you alright?"
He nods in response to her, dragging his hoof on the floor.
um...I just want to...
He pauses, unsure if an apology is even called for.
She stroked his cheek. "Want to what? Is something wrong?"
Still channeling her spell, Blue mumbled to herself to help her think. "I wen't to the door and blacked out, waking up with a serious skull fracture. What happened? Did someone attack me? Can't say no, but who? There was noone with me in the room. Perhaps some of Chrysalis's assassins? Why would she waist effort on me? If she wanted me dead i wouldn't be breathing now. What else, something's missing. The house was shaking, why. Oh, right, now i remember. The house fell down on me, how did i survive that?" As she was continuing to channel her spell things became more and more clear to her.
I'm....sorry for being scared of you. I didn't know they were all lying to me. :(
She gave a little laugh. "Well, to be honest, when it comes to military and ponies, I can get like that. But never to hurt a child, pony or not."
Still... he sighs.
I'm sorry.
Blue stops channeling the healing spell, her head now repaired but her mana drained. She still had her other magic source to use if needed though. With slow limbs she stumbled out of the house and looked around, seeing Chrysalis and Zappy in the distance, but limping in the other direction.
"It's okay, just..."
She looked him in the eyes.
"Please don't run away again. I never knew of this. If I knew you were out here, I would have sent the whole Hive out to find you. I couldn't bear it if you or any child got hurt."
"Lies." Blue mumbled under her breath as she heard the queen's last line. With a bitter taste in her mouth she limped away from the changelings. She didn't even know where she was going, her home destroyed, her family and friends possibly gone.
With tears forming in his eyes, Zappy smiles and hugs Chrysalis.
// By the way, what's your interpretation of Chrysalis? Mother and Queen of the hive or just Queen? \\
(Just Queen, not ever changelings mother.)
Chrysalis returned the hug, looking at the grumbling pony that walked by.
// Alright, good to know. \\
Zappy sniffles a little and breaks the hug.
S-so um...what now? he asks her.
Chrysalis looked around, then back at him.
"I think we need to wake up Azure. That is, if anypony has any cure."
I don't. he shakes his head.
But what about Blue? She can make it, I bet she could-wait, she got knocked out, didn't she? Where is she?
"Who? You mean her?"
She moved so Zappy could see Blue.
Yes, her! Where's she going?
Blue! Where are you going? he shouts for her.
The blue mare didn't even flinch as she walked on. The moon now going under the horizon, leaving only the sun on top of the sky. Blue looked to the sky and smiled gently. "At least something isn't totally messed up." she whispered to herself
"Leave her, she's in a bad mood."[color] Starlight commented.
Chrysalis turned to Starlight.
"And are YOU going to give him any cure?"
Blue stood in front of the pile of rubble that once was her house, with tears in her eyes. "At least it's over..." She whispered, and after a few moment walked again. She didn't even know where she was going.
Starligh frowned seeing Blue in such a state and chased her. Blue... Please come back!
"Back where?" blue questioned without even turning to Starlight.
"Look, I know your not fond of changelings, that much is clear, but until we can deploy this cure worldwide, we gotta stay together... Like it or not." Suddenly Starlights communicator went of.
"Help, they're in here the-"
"Uh oh"
"Problems?" Blue questioned and turned to Starlight.
"It seems that the labs responsible for cure deployment were just overrun... we can't deploy the cure!"
"Oh, this is bad. What now?" She questioned.
"Huge infected horde, I think..."
Chrysalis cleared her throat.
"Hello? I knew ponies were thick, but not deaf. What about him?"
She pointed to Azure.
(Didn't Starlight or Blue make a bunch of bottles of cure?)
"Have any back-up plan?" Blue questioned again.
Starlight ignored Chrysalis completely. "No..."
"Any other facilities that could produce the cure?" Blue questioned again, not giving any attention to Chrysalis
(( BLue made a few bottles, in fact Chrys should have them lol ))
(I don't remember Chrysalis taking them...eh, whatever. I'll roll with it.)
Chrysalis looked around, spying bottles on the ground.
"Is this the cure?" She asked, her patience wearing thin.
Blue finally turned to Chrysalis, giving her a hostile look. "Yes, that is it." she said with disgust in her voice.
Chrysalis scoffed as Fulmen dragged Azure over. "Now, was that too...hard?"
Chrysalis paused, staring at Blue. "Zappy, stay here. Fulmen, give him the cure."
The Queen got up, approaching Blue. "I know you. Those years ago..."
Blue's eyes widened, her ears flopped down and she backed, taking up a defensive position. She had no idea what Chrysalis was planning and she was in no condition to fight a changeling queen, but she wouldn't go down without a fight.
Starlight turned to defend Blue. "Back off! You don't belong here! This is Queen Cerena's territory, and you have NO right to be here!"
Zappy remains seated in place, watching Chrsyalis approach Blue.
Chrysalis got fed up with this.
"Just because I approach somepony doesn't mean I'm going to cut their ears off. I just thought I recognized her. You think I WANT to be here? My Hive was lost to this stupid plague, so you really think I'm going to attack the only creatures who know how to fix all this? Besides, somepony here attacked me without provocation. I don't care what continent I'm in, that sounds like assault to me!"
She was glaring at Starlight as Fulmen gave Azure the cure.
"I'm not entirely sure you're not responsible for this whole thing in the first place." Blue whispered and teared up, backing away a bit more, visibly frightened. "Just... stay away from me!" She yelped out and galloped off.
"Blue!" Starlight called as she chased after her.
Azure's eyes slowly opened. The last thing he remembered was getting hugged again...by a really pretty mare, he'll admit.
"Ugh..."
As his vision cleared, he saw a blurred image of Blue running off.
"...Blue...?"
Fulmen noticed him and lifted his head.
"Careful, you got hugged again. By that blue princess, no less."
Azure sat up and saw Chrysalis staring after Blue, Starlight chasing her.
Blue ran all the way out of the ruined city of Canterlot, before stopping to catch her breath. She wasn't running that fast though, as her hind hoof was still injured, as well as some other injuries she was unable to heal at this point.
Chrysalis gave up on the runners and turned back to the now awake Azure.
"You're up. Good."
He quickly bowed, before Chrysalis lifted his chin with her hoof.
"You got a hug from me and one of those princesses. Why don't you use your luck to tell those two to focus on getting this cure out. I'll give the stuff out myself if I have to."
Azure just nodded, glancing at Zappy, before running after Blue and Starlight.
um...is there anything I can do? Zappy asks Chrysalis.
"B-Blue, please slow down, I just wanna talk to you!"
"Sorry, child. I don't want to risk you ending up like the rest of them."
Okay... he sighs.
um..do you want some of this? he offers her a drink from his flask.
"Oh, thank you. What is it?"
It's a love substitute I've been drinking. It's not as sweet, but it still works. he says.
She looks in the flask. "To be honest, I haven't had anything since this whole thing started."
She took a gulp of the liquid, making sure there was plenty left, before hoofing it back to Zappy.
While it was intended for a much younger changeling, the potion still has a rejuvenating effect on Chrysalis, restoring a good chunk of her energy and magic through the gulp she took.
Zappy smiles, happy to help her out. He takes the flask back and closes it up.
How do you feel?
She looked at him. "Much better. Where did you get this?"
I um...made friends with a pony who makes this stuff in Canterlot.
I wonder if he's alright...
Chrysalis felt a slight pang of disapointment when he said that, but then again, it shows what he had to do to survive.
"Well, we may be in Canterlot, but to look for him would be too risky. We still have to wait for Azure anyway."
// Well he doesn't RP here anymore anyways so looking for him would be pointless. \\
I know.
um...so...what would you say the hive is normally like? he asks.
"Well...it's sort of like this city: stores, traders, schools...it's our own little city."
(Trying not to go for the whole "hive-mind colony thing.". It's a functioning city-like place.)
I mean like what are most of the changelings like? On their good side? I...mostly caught their ugly side. :s
"Ah. Well, aside from the ones you listed, they're all trustworthy. We all focus on teamwork now; it helps out Hive grow. Well, it DID, until this plague struck."
Is it...just you and those other two changelings that got out okay?
"Well, Azure wasn't there when it happened. That's why we went looking for him." Fulmen threw in.
"I also became corrupted for a time, but those ponies cured me...then attacked me without reason."
That was mean, and kinda pointless. I wonder why they'd help you only to attack you right after...
(( good question lol Starlight said "knock her out", and Blue did so without even thinking X3 anyway, i'm up now, morning ))
Quote from: Snowcraft_Pony on 2014 Jun 30, 16:46:27
"B-Blue, please slow down, I just wanna talk to you!"
Blue stopped, catching her breath, ears still folded and eyes filled with tears.
"Then talk." she whispered, not even turning to Starlight.
(( btw, what does the pink mean? o.O ))
((Softer voice.))
"I know this is hard for you, that much is clear, but like it or not we have to work together.I don't like working with Chrysalis anymore than you do, but we have no choice. I care for you Blue, I want you to be safe..."
"W-Why do you care for me?" she questioned and turned around to face Starlight.
"Because not all changelings are bad, we can and do care for pony-kind... Mostly."
"I trust you, Starlight. I don't even know why, but i do." She whispered. "I'll do whatever you need me to..."
"Tell that to the one who bit me..." Hazy says with a low tune.
Azure was running in the direction Blue ran, catching up when he saw them talking.
"BLUE!!! STARLIGHT!!!"
He skidded to a halt in front of them.
Blue sighed when Azure arrived at the scene. "Yes, Azure? Is something wrong?" She questioned with a partially cold voice and expression.
Naura and Hazy stood there, frozen. They just stared infront of them, not knowing what they should do.
"Oh, Hi Azure. Glad to see your not infected anymore." He thought.
"Um, Her Highness told me to tell you that she'd...give out the cure herself if you didn't hurry...I-I didn't say it, it was her!"
"Tell her highness that if it was as simple as that this problem would be handled a long time ago." Blue growled, half angry and half annoyed.
"Well, I didn't know! Can't you make like a...a vaccine or something? Make us resistant? 'Cause if I get hugged one more time..."
"You'll do what?" Fulmen surprised him by tapping him.
"Ah! What are you doing here?!" Azure questioned.
"Making sure you don't get hugged again."
Blue thought about it for a while, before just shrugging. "With the right equipment, personal and time maybe. But definitely not here and now." she sighed.
Azure sighed too. "So, what's the problem? Why can't we give out the cure?"
"Do you honestly thing that the infected will line up to get the cure? No, they will line up to hug the everlasting light out of the poor fool that will try that one." Blue said with an irritated tone.
Azure started thinking. "...Can you make cure that'll...cure on contact or something? Like, they hug something and it cures them?"
Azure never really had sensible ideas.
"Ug thats.... not such a bad idea. Hmm..." Blue rubbed her chin and started to think.
Fulmen nudged Azure.
"Hey." Fulmen decided to joke a little. "When you were out cold, Her Highness was REALLY worried about you."
Azure turned to him, confused. "W-What?! But...I'm a pony...why would she care what happened to me?!"
Fulmen just shrugged, and began walking back up to Canterlot, snickering to himself.
Starlight had suddenly zoned out.
"Are you alright, Starlight?" Blue questioned with a worried expression.
Starlight didn't respond... She was almost in some sort of trance.
Azure ran to her front.
"Hey, Starlight, you okay?"
"Oh Celestia! What do we do?" Hazy yelled.
Blue observed Starlight closely, not sure if she should be worried or frightened. She backed away one step. "Starlight?" She questioned.
Still no response...
Azure thought for a second, before holding Starlight's head and shaking her. "Starlight? You okay?! Hello?!"
Suddenly Starlight collapsed, she was completely out cold.
Blue walked to Starlight and examined her, trying to figure out what is wrong with her. Checking her blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, temperature, iris reaction ect.
Starlight was seemingly healthy from a medical point of view...
Azure stepped away. "Everypony back up; let me try something..."
Azure formed a ball of water, before launching it at Starlight's face, trying to wake her up.
Nothing happened.
Blue let out a combination of a sigh and a growl. "Anyone seen my saddlebag?" She questioned.
In truth Starlight was just suffering from Caffeine Depression... She had crashed.
(( alright, read a few pages about Caffeine Depression and i have no idea how to treat that :I ))
Blue charged her horn and placed Starlight on her back. "Lets get her inside." She said and started to walk back to the others. As she walked she realized that her house is no more, but there are plenty of abandoned houses in Canterlot now, surely they can use one of the less damaged ones for a temporary shelter.
(Let her sleep, only way)
(( oki doki loki ))
Azure followed them back, all the while thinking about what Fulmen said.
"So...did anything happen while I was out...again...?"
Electrical sparks appeared next to a random stall in the Ponyville market, they were soon followed by the intrusion of a silver cuboid with a pyramid on top, it was emitting a green portal. Suddenly, a 21 year-old stallion jumped out with a brown, short mane like a male human's hair. They had baby blue eyes and royal blue fur; his tail was short and spiky, his cutie mark was also three silver cogs. "Zeeblezooble, everypony!" Doomato cried with joy. Despite this spontaneous action, there was nopony there. Doomato cringed as he sniffed air, "An equestrian virus?" Doomato muttered. He galloped into the portal and back with a hazmat suit equipped and an empty syring, ready to harvest a sample.
((... wat?))
(( i have no idea, but he's in Ponyville, so... yeah, no player there but him lol We're all in Canterlot right now. ))
Getting no response, Azure just hung his head as they all got back to the others, Chrysalis eying him.
"Well? What happened to her?" She questioned him.
"Don't know...uh, Your Highness! They're thinking about how to spread the cure."
Blue didn't say a word, just walked to the nearest building that looked usable. Once inside she lied Starlight on a partially damaged sofa and then lied herself next to the sofa, wondering about their situation.
Azure made sure Starlight was ok, wondering if Blue's bandaged head was ok, then stepped out again, going straight to Fulmen.
"Fulmen...what did you mean Her Highness was worried about me?"
Fulmen was still in a joking mood, despite the situation. "Hm? Oh, that. She was always asking the ponies to help you, at one point she even said "Help my Azure.""
Azure didn't know whether to be relived or terrified about this news.
"Oh...um, ok..."
"Azure! Get over here!" The Queen suddenly called. "I'm hungry!"
Azure sighed; he hated doing this. Walking over to her, she quickly grabbed him and opened her mouth, a green mist floating off Azure and into her mouth.
However, she then said something he never heard her say to him before.
"Thank you."
Azure would question it, but right now he felt like he had a hangover, like every other time she fed off him. Making his way back into the building Blue was in, he just fell on the floor, and fell asleep. (You can wake him whenever you want.)
(( nah, i think it will be best to leave him sleep it out. But i'm kinda thinking of Blue walking out and throwing a temper tantrum at Chrysie XD ))
(Ok, if you want. But remember, she didn't know they were mistreating Blue)
(( I know, blue doesn't, in her head Chrys was basically supervising it ))
(I know, just sayian. Go ahead.)
(( nah, i'll save it for later, My head hurts so much that i can barely keep track of reality... going to bed now :c see ya tomorrow ))
(Ok bye :))
Doomato looked around he sniffed and sniffed, "Well this is unexpected, the smell's coming from Canterlot. Guess that's final." Doomato walked backed into the portal and electrical sparks appeared marking it's departure.
Chrysalis walked into the house to see Azure on the floor. Sighing, she looked him over; this always happened when she fed off him.
"Ponies...I suppose I have to let him rest."
Fulmen walked in behind her. "To be honest, Your Highness, he has been through quite a lot."
She looked at him, then back at Azure. "Plus, he has been working harder than ever back at the Hive...He deserves it."
Chrysalis had no idea why she was caring about a pony.
Blue watched this "imitation of care" with a suspicious eye and raised eyebrow. She said nothing, just kept her distance and checked her head.
Fulmen nodded. He was debating whether to tell his queen that Azure liked her as a joke, but that wouldn't work.
Chrysalis picked up Azure and looked around, finding another couch/sofa and laying Azure on it. Back at the Hive she'd worked him to the bone, but he wouldn't be of anymore use if he burned himself out.
Once he was lain, she imitated Blue and sat next to him, putting a hoof on his head.
Post Merge
Fulmen walked out, wondering what they were to do next. How would those pony princesses react if they saw him or his Queen in their city?
A faint distant moan was heard, the song of the infected. The once glorious city of Canterlot now lied in ruins, the shield once protecting the city was gone, the princesses unaccounted for, the last remaining guards and civilians evacuated. All but Blue and the rest of the group now hiding in one damaged building.
Blue wrapped her head with a bandage and walked to the window, listening in to the distant sounds of approaching doom. "We have to move..." she whispered. Now was not the time to argue, and even though she had a deep dislike towards changelings, only together they have at least a faint chance of getting through this.
Chrysalis noticed the voice as well, before picking up Azure with magic, and resting Zappy on her back.
"Fulmen!" She called. "We're leaving!"
Fulmen came rushing in.
Blue walked through the house briefly. She found three saddlebags, a first aid kit and the storage room, full of food items. She filled the bags with everything needed, and took a knife from the kitchen, just in case. She gave one bag to Chrysalis and one to Fulmen, the last one she put on. She walked out the door and looked around, noticing their possibly only hope, a zeppelin docked in the garden air dock. "Any of you know how to pilot a zeppelin?" She asked as she galloped to the air dock.
"I took a few lessons from Fury." Fulmen stated. "Granted, all she wanted to do was see how big a crash explosion she could make...but I'm sure I can fly it."
"So THAT'S what happened to our budget. Anyway, I'm guessing our first course of action is to see your princesses." Chrysalis spat out the last words. No matter the situation, she still hated the princesses.
"No. Our first course of action is to get in the Zeppelin and leave the city. We can figure out other things then. Seeking out the princesses is pointless. The shield is down, that means that the princesses and the guards are either evacuated or infected. Either way, nothing we can co..." Blue sighed as they galloped on.
(Let's just assume Naura and the others are with us.)
Chrysalis nodded as they went on, arriving in the air dock.
"Everypony on, now!" She said, knowing a second wasted here could possibly destroy their chances of getting out.
Once she was on, she placed Azure on the deck as Fulmen ran to the airship's helm.
"Everypony ready?"
((Is it okay if I appear as a newborn? Temporal rift business.))
Blue took off her saddlebag threw it to the floor and galloped out again. "We need to release the ropes and check the fuel. Come with me." She said to Chrysalis reluctantly and walked, untying one of the two ropes holding the zeppelin docked. The infected hordes slowly closing in on them. The streets of Canterlot were now overrunned by the infected.
(( if you think we can handle a newborn in the middle of a hugbie appocalipse, sure. ))
Chrysalis simply shot a small beam of magic at the rope cutting clean through it.
"Come on!"
Blue untied the rope and galloped inside, waiting for Chrysalis to get one before slamming the door. "Go! Go! Go!" she said urgently as the hordes closed in.
((Hordes!? This is a job for: ADULT DOOMATO!!! ovO))
A stallion appeared on top of a balcony near-by, looking down at the horde. "Zeeblezooble, everyzombie!" He cried, alerting the army.
A good chunk of the infected turned to the tower, towards Doomato. "Hugs? Hugs. HUGS!" they started to climb one on the other and slowly reaching the balcony. The rest of the horde continued to approach the zeppelin.
"Hugs? HAH!!! What's wrong with brains, you rip-offs!" Doomato taunted.
(( waiting for Chrome~ ))
Azure slowly woke up.
"Ugh...where am I? Again..."
He slowly rose to find he was on an airship, about to take off. Blue wasn't on yet.
"Wh-WHAT?! Nonononono, not a zeppelin, I hate heights...!"
((Doomato's thinking of an escape route. Backflipping off the balcony and legging it?))
Quote from: Grizzly on 2014 Jul 25, 07:52:38
Blue untied the rope and galloped inside, waiting for Chrysalis to get one before slamming the door. "Go! Go! Go!" she said urgently as the hordes closed in.
(( i am on ))
"Wanna be walking?" Blue frowned at Azure.
Doomato spotted a familiar sight in the distance, a zeppelin. "Wait!" Doomato bellowed.
Azure turned to Blue. "N-No..."
"Wait!" A voice called out.
Fulmen was getting ready to take off. "Do I wait, or do we go?!"
Doomato leaped off the balcony and fell flat on the ground.
"Lift!" Blue said and opened the door, swinging a rope out of it for Doomato to grab on to.
Doomato wrapped his hoofs around the rope tightly, "Zeeblezooble! Have we met?" He cried, looking up at blue.
Blue held tightly. "I highly doubt that." She called back.
The stallion attempted to shuffle up the rope.
"He's on! GO!" Chrysalis called to Fulmen.
Fulmen nodded and shifted the gear, piloting the airship out of the dock.
"YEEEE-HAH! Here we go!" Fulmen shouted. Azure just stayed as close to the floor as possible.
"Let me try this again... Zeeblezooble, everypony!"
Azure help pull the stallion into the zeppelin. "Zeeble-what?"
"Zeeblezooble!" Doomato looked around, "You know, the only person you can trust to pilot a zeppelin perfectly is a cornish man."
Blue sighed as they finally left the destroyed city. "Alright. That worked out well. What now...?" she asked.
Quote from: Doomato on 2014 Jul 25, 09:26:35
"Zeeblezooble!" Doomato looked around, "You know, the only person you can trust to pilot a zeppelin perfectly is a cornish man."
"...What?" Azure was confused, as Chrysalis leant in.
"I think we picked up the one pony more insane then the infected." She whispered.
((Woah, woah! What did I miss?))
Doomato facehoofed, "Do you atleast have a trombone on this zeppelin?"
(( the horde came, we had to evacuate, now we are in a zeppelin flying away from Canterlot, and we picked up Doomato before departing ))
Blue sighed and checked her bandages, then tended to Starlight.
"Trombo-WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" Azure was a little annoyed, but being on this flying ship made him VERY uneasy.
Doomato slapped Chrysalis, "TELL ME THERE'S A TROMBONE!!!"
Chrysalis recoiled from the slap. "Agh!" She then picked him up with magic, glaring at him. "You insolent little knave! Raise a hoof against me again, and I'll drain so much love out of you, you'll be naught but a lifeless husk!!!"
"You harm a single fur on his coat and i'm going to gut you." Blue hissed menacingly, didn't even turn to Chrysalis.
"Love radars read zero. So do magic radars." Doomato slapped her once more, "I NEED BRASS INSTRUMENTS!!!"
Chrysalis had had it.
"Zappy, don't look."
Chrysalis marched over to the edge of the Zeppelin, before dragging Doomato across the floor, and holding him out the door with magic, out of range of another slap.
"Give me a good reason to not drop you right now."
The magic around Doomato suddenly disappeared and he was forced to grab the edge of the zeppelin, "I'm not from Equestria!" He cried.
Blue turned around and charged her horn. "Drop him and you'll follow..." She threatened.
"Hey! This book's gonna end on a cliffhanger!" Doomato winked with a smile, even though he was grasping a ledge for the sake of his life.
"...Azure. Stop her. Now." She said, not taking her eyes off Doomato dangling for his life.
"W-What?!" Azure knew he had to serve her, but he wasn't going to hurt Blue.
"I'll pull you back in when you stop spouting nonsense, and swear not to raise your hoof again."
Azure sighed and stood between her and Blue, if only to deter her from blasting Chrysalis.
"WHY!? Why did I have to forget my Survey Corp uniform at a moment like this!?"
"Just swear, and you can come back in."
"But what if the teacher asks a question and I know it!? I would need to raise my hoof!"
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Jul 25, 10:48:38
"I'll pull you back in when you stop spouting nonsense, and swear not to raise your hoof again."
Azure sighed and stood between her and Blue, if only to deter her from blasting Chrysalis.
Blue moved back one step, then frowned.
"I'll shoot through you if i have to." she whispered. Azure really was no obstacle for her magic blast.
Azure stepped back for a second. This pony he met at the start of all this, the one he knew for the longest (time he was conscious), was going to shoot him.
"B-Blue...?" He said.
Meanwhile, Chrysalis explained what she meant.
"Ugh, how clear must I be?! I will pull you back in, if you swear not to attack me again. Do you even know who I am?!"
Blue frowned, staring into Azure's eyes. Soon enough a distaste in her mouth from her own actions formed. She sighed, discharged her horn, lowered her head and folded her ears. "Why are you obeying her? You have no obligations to her, the world we knew before is gone..." she whispered.
Doomato cringed, "I very well know who you are and how badly you sung! I saw that new princess being paranoid about Cadence not being Cadence and it was you! I decided to scan around for traces of morphing and while I done that I heard you singing about some day being perfect! I was gonna object at the wedding if Twilight and Cadence didn't show up but they did!"
"I...have to help her...or she'll..."
Blue snapped. "OR SHE'LL WHAT!!!" she yelled.
((GTG, I have to go nan's.))
Azure cringed. "...She'll-!"
Chrysalis didn't want anypony knowing. "Not a word!" So he had no reason to tell her, she pulled Doomato inside again. "There."
Blue sighed and walked close to Azure. "Her hive is gone you know. And she needs you more then the other way around. Realize it already. In this situation, you're the one in charge..." she whispered in his ear, then hugged him briefly and walked away.
"...I know. It's just..." He lowered his voice to a whisper. "I need to know something from her. I...can't say it. It's...strange."
Suddenly Starlight awoke. "Wha- Where am I? Who are you?"
Blue walked to Starlight and sat in front of her. "On a zeppelin, we had to leave Canterlot, it got overrunned." She explained.
Chrysalis's eye twitched as she saw Blue hug Azure. Why? Was she jealous or something?
"...No, that's ridiculous. Impossible...
Azure just stepped back, sat down, and closed his eyes. All that happened was catching up to him, plus he was still terrified about being on the airship.
Soon, however, a black hoof was put on his shoulder.
"..." All he did was look at Chrysalis. He wanted to find out if what Fulmen said was true, but couldn't bring himself to ask, out of fear of her reaction.
Fulmen kept quiet throughout the whole ordeal, until now.
"Soooo..." He said, trying to break the tension. "Where to?"
Blue stood up and walked in the cockpit area. "You have a radio in here?" She asked and looked around, she found the radio, held one headphone on her ear and tried to jiggle with the nob for a signal. "I'm open to suggestions of our destination, i got nothing." she sighed.
Doomato saw a ripe opportunity, he slapped Chrysalis and galloped to the other end of the zeppelin. "I didn't swear!" He exclaimed.
Chrysalis was about to burst into foul language and launch a beam at him, but it wasn't her.
It was Azure.
"OH, FOR THE LOVE OF CELESTIA, LUNA, CHRYSALIS AND EVERYPONY, DO YOU THINK THAT'S GOING TO HELP ANYPONY?! I JUST GOT THREATENED BY THE FIRST PONY I'D SEEN IN MONTHES BECAUSE OF YOU!! NOW CALM DOWN, OR I'LL THROW YOU OUT THE AIRSHIP MYSELF!!!"
Starlight went and looked over the edge of the airship, losing her balance, causing her to hang on in panic!
Azure quickly snapped out of his rage, running to help Starlight. "Careful!"
Grabbing her hoof, he pulled he back in.
Starlight huffed, her hooves taking the form of timberwolf claws, digging into the zeppelin.
Azure shut his eyes as he backed up: his vertigo would go out of control if he looked down.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Starlight? Any suggestions on where we can fly to?" Blue yelled and while waiting for an answer scanned the entire radio spectrum. "Nothing... Not even a dang add..." she whispered.
(Is it okay if I have someone answer the radio?)
(( sure, if you wish to~ ))
(ok)
Suddenly, static-ridded voices burst through the radio.
"H--lo? Any---y there? Ple--e, answ--!"
"Calm do--, -ury. I- --ypony there?"
Blue's attention sprung up. "Yes, Hello? I hear you, but you're breaking out." She said to the microphone and attempted to get a better signal, playing with the controls.
The first voice, a female, sighed in relief.
"Ho-- on." The second, a male, said. There were a few seconds of solid static. "...There. Are we coming through clear now?"
"If you're out there, come to the Ponyville radio station! We've been here for days!"
"Radio station? So you're the ones that send out that weird message? We can get there in a few hours, are you safe? We're in a zeppelin, so we could extract you from the roof." Blue explained via the radio and motioned Fulman to take course for the said village.
The female voice was confused. "Message? No, that must've been the pony we met. He left to find food and never came back."
"Most likely caught by the infected." The monotone male added. "In any case, we hope for assistance soon."
Fulmen saw Blue's signal, and began to steer in the direction of Ponyville.
"We have some food and water here, but not much i'm afraid. Um... Don't know if you know, but its pretty bad out there. Canterlot is lost, any other stations are dead. I fear that there isn't much of us left..." she tried to explain the severity of the situation.
Their reply was out of nowhere.
"Oh, don't worry, we got a cure!"
Suddenly, static was breaking in.
"Cr--, sta---'s back. We'll s-- --u s---."
The signal went dead.
Blue worked the controls a bit more. "Didn't get that. Repeat, please... They're gone." She sighed.
"Wait... Cure!? Did we grab our doses? And what happened to the others! Also... Where did you find me exactly... I don't remember much... besides some... images..."
Blue looked at Starlight and tilted her head. "What do you mean, where did we found you? We were talking and you suddenly passed out when some message came in, don't know what it was, but it must've been bad. Before that we meat in an old abandoned house near Everfree."
Starlight paused.
Blue turned to Starlight with a concerned look. "You alright?"
"I don' get it..."
Blue sighed. "Never mind, then." She leaned in her seat and sighed again. Suddenly, a loud whistling noise rang in her ears, her vision blurred, and what followed was the worst headache she ever felt. She closed her eyes and held her forehead until this episode of what ever it was passed, breathing heavily as it did. "Dang it..." she sweared under her breath.
Starlight sat down and took her pony form. "Where w' goin'?"
"Ponyvile radio station, to pick up other survivals. And then... i have no idea." Blue explained and held her head.
"Hey, we still have a few hours 'till we get there." Fulmen said. "If you need to get any rest, do it now."
"Yeah, that would be nice. Alright. Just, no love sucking while i sleep." Blue attempted to joke and rested her head on the back rest of the chair, closing her eyes and resting.
Chrysalis gave Doomato a weary look.
"...I'm going to see what else is in here before this insane pony tries to kill me."
Azure looked around for another chair.
Starlight was asleep again...
Blue was now fully asleep, totally defenseless. The zeppelin had a storage area in the balloon section of the ship. In the passenger/crew part there was only very little to see besides the saddlebags the group brought, ropes and seats.
(( feel free to find what you wish in the storage, Chrome ^-^ ))
(Ok)
Chrysalis made her way to the storage area, looking for some rope or anything to keep that pony from attacking her again. Instead, she found a few crates and barrels full of food, water, and poison joke. They were spaced pretty far away from each other, so the risk of poisoned food was practically impossible. There was also vials filled with loads of different chemicals and other things; vinegar, quicksilver...liquid rainbow?
"What was this zeppelin for?...Suppose I'd better bring this back."
She grabbed a few of the food boxes (mainly just rice and fruit) and was about to head back...when one of the vials caught her eye.
It was filled with a pink, swirling mist.
"Is that...love? I'll take that."
Grabbing the vial, she began making her way back.
Doomato stood silent, "What now?"
Chrysalis made her way back, magic ready to grab Doomato if he moved.
"I found food." She said bluntly, lying out the food boxes on the floor.
Azure immediately grabbed some of the boxes, one for himself, and placing one next to Blue and one next to Starlight.
Doomato looked at the drawn-on watch on his wrist, "Sorry, chaps. I need to get out of the zeppelin in time for tea."
Fulmen called to Azure. "Think you can wake everypony up? We're here."
Azure nodded and walked over to Blue, tapping her lightly.
"Hey, Blue? We're here. We found food too."
Blue shook when tapped. "Wha...?" She whispered when she opened her eyes. She leaned forward from the backrest to a sitting position and rubbed her eyes, yawning a bit as she did so.
(Is Blue aware of the changeling-silk bandage on her head?)
Fulmen moved the ship so it was directly over Ponyville.
"Ok, I have no idea if there are any infected down there, so I'll have to hover the ship above, while somepony teleports down. Unless somepony has a better idea?"
(( she removed it and wrapped her head in a normal bandage ))
"We could try to get low, someone hop on the radio tower roof and tie the ship down, then get the survivals." Blue suggested.
"Ok. Good plan."
Starlight got up and looked over the edge, this time not slipping. "We got infected..."
"Hello?" The voices were coming through the radio again. "Are you still there? We can hear a ship above us! If that's you, can you tell us if there are any infected? We have a solution if there are!"
Blue jumped on the radio again. "Yes, thats us, we're here. And there are a lot of infected all around the radio station."
The male voice took over again.
"Okay, then: whatever you do, DO NOT look down at them. Are you ready?"
"Ready."
"Very well."
The radio fell silent, and the was silence everywhere for a few seconds.
Untill...
"BOOM!"
A loud bang and a flash of light erupted from under the zeppelin, dazing the horde.
"GO, GO! FLY!" A voice called, and soon there was a hum of wings. "BEGIN FLYING AGAIN! BEFORE ANY PEGASI COME!"
Fulmen began moving the ship again as humming closed in on the ship, and knocking at the door. "Let us in!"
Blue let the radio be and galloped to the door, opening it and letting the other group in.
Two figure crashed in: both changelings. (Sorry, Blue. I don't have any other pony OC's)
One was female, with lime-green eyes, and the male had grey eyes, glasses, and surprising for a changeling, a dark grey mane. He had a pouch with him.
"Great, more bugs..." Blue thought with her ears folded and slammed the door shut. She sighed, then growled and cringed as the whistling and blur returned, she had to sit down and wait for it to pass again.
"Hey!" The female shouted. "What did we do?"
"!"
"WHAT?!"
"Wait, is that...?!"
Chrysalis, Azure and Fulmen all turned to the new changelings, who gasped and moved to a bow when they saw their Queen.
"...Fury? Frequent?! You got out?!"
The male, Frequent, stood straight. "Yes, my Queen. 'Twas a simple case of acting. The infected are amazingly slow-minded."
"From there, it was just a case of finding Fissure and Fulmen!" Fury, the female said. "But it's great to see you made it out. Thank Garuda!...Um, where's Fissure?"
"Gone." Fulmen said, turning back to the steering.
Frequent adjusted his glasses. "Hm. Just like Freeze and Flame."
Fury looked at Azure. "Oh, hey! Azzy made it out!" She looked at Blue. "...Quite the merry band you got here."
"Zeeblezooble!" He cried, coming to greet the new passengers.
"Woah!" Fury was startled by the cry. "Um, Zeeba-zable to you too...?"
"Ah, a warrior of dimension R-36 I presume? Zeeba-zable is their greeting."
Fury tilted her head. "...What? Um...Sin's toxin get to you?"
Frequent stepped up. "Please, Fury. Now is not the time for your deities."
"Hey! I believe what I want!"
Chrysalis decided to step in.
"Stop bickering...It's good to see you're both safe. Frequent, what is in that bag?"
The grey-eyed Changeling nodded and lowered his bag. "It's a cure."
"While we were trapped in the station, Frequent kept looking for medicines and herbs when there were no infected."
Chrysalis was a little shocked. "Oh. Well, we too have a cure." She turned to Blue. "Blue pony. Do you still have any of the cure left?"
Blue didn't answer, she was too busy with her debilitating headache from her head trauma. She only cringed and held her head.
Azure noticed it and ran over to her. "Hey, Blue, you ok?"
A few more moments pass and Blue gave no reaction, then she slowly lied on her side and cringed, breathing heavily. Another few moments and she sat up again, holding her head.
"Blue? Blue?!" Azure was panicking again.
Blue cringed even more from Azure's yelling. "Ug, not so loud, please." She simply said and attempted to get to her hooves.
"Oh...sorry."
Frequent walked up to the two. "Do you have a cure?"
"Not on me, no. But i know how to make one, thanks to Starlight." Blue whispered tiredly.
"Hmm... About this cure. Has it been tested?" Doomato questioned.
"It has, on Starlight, Twilight Sparkle, Princess Luna, Azure, and Chrysalis. So it's proven to work." Blue answered.
Doomato thought for a second, "Does it contain magic and have you thought of making a vaccine for those who aren't infected but like hugs just the same?"
"Does not contain magic, and we have thought of that. But its kinda hard to make a vaccine when you don't have laboratory equipment." She answered again and rubbed her head.
Frequent thought for a second. "...Have you added any orchids to it?"
Doomato grinned, "Does not contain magic? There's something I can relate to."
"N-No orchids." Blue sighed. "Poison joke, spitting plant, fire flower, and love changeling essence. Crushed, mixed and boiled for a few minutes in water on an open flame." She whispered and walked to the back of the ship. "I really need to get some rest..."
Starlight had wandered inside, and suddenly something collapsed ontop of her loudly.
Azure looked at Starlight. "AGH! S-Somepony help!"
Azure and Fury both ran over to Starlight, to get whatever had fallen on her off.
(What is it, anyway?)
((You realise Starlight is being crushed, right?))
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((You realise Starlight is being crushed, right?))
(CRUD, I misread it. Thought she just fell over! Modding last post NOW.)
(( just a disclamer, infected pegasi and unicorns can use their wings and magic only for the first day after infection, then they forged how to use them. I'd say that it was well over a day so most of the horde shouldn't be able to do those two things. ))
A rather large plank of wood had fallen on Starlight, bringing metals and tools with it. No doubt without aid Starlight would be severely injured.
(Ah ok)
Azure used his magic to clear away the metal and other debris, while Fury removed the plank.
Frequent made his way to her. "Hmm. She's hurt bad."
Azure ran over to Blue. "Blue?! I know you need a rest, but Starlight's hurt!"
Starlight was completely out cold, and bleeding slightly. She may have had a concussion...
Doomato pushed the others out of the way, "Certified Doomato, coming through!" Doomato turned towards Fury, "Nurse, could you please hand me the maffle-mcscaffle."
((How about our medical expect sort this. Grizzly, if you may.))
Azure heard Doomato, and was fed up with it. He charged at him, and took a swing at him with his hoof. "YOU IDIOT! DON'T YOU SEE SHE'S HURT?! IF YOU'RE GONNA DO NOTHING BUT TALK NONSENSE, THEN GET OUT OF HERE!!!" He shouted, glaring at Doomato.
Doomato pointed at Azure, accusingly. "I WAS GONNA HELP!!! EVERYONE IN THE DOOM FAMILY TREE CAN USE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT!!! EVEN MY COUSIN, DOOMTATO!!!"
Azure was normally shy, but when anypony argues with him...
"Oh, REALLY? Oh, ok, I'm sorry! Then PLEASE, tell us just what the HECK a maffle-ma...whatzit is!" He said sarcastically. "Oh, please, take your time! There's no rush, it's just SOMEPONY SERIOUSLY INJURED ON THE FLOOR!! While your at it, why don't you tell us about the jackdawinator or the flying scredooblemaker?!" He was trying to think of the most ridiculous names now.
"Ah, so you have been to dimension T-78..."
He took another swing at him. "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! JUST SHUT UP!!"
Doomato stood silent for a few moments, "Ok, enough quiet time! Cover the wound with a rag or something to stop the bleeding as I go find a first-aid kit!" The stallion galloped away, intent on finding said item.
Starlight's injuries looked like they were getting worse.
((Please explain your... Behaviour, Doom))
(( sorry guys, wasn't here till now. ))
All the screaming woke Blue up from her much neaded sleep. "What's going... Starlight!?" she exlaimed, ran to one of the bags they took with them, opened it and pulled out a first aid kit. "Make me some room, please." She ordered, opened the kit and started to give Starlight first aid, cleaning her wounds and bandaging them.
(( don't really want to get too graphic here, might get us banned ))
((Yeah, no describing what you see, just get her bandaged.))
Starlight's wounds already looked near-fatal... Blue could save her though. Right?
Doomato turns around to the sound of a familiar click, "You had one this, "hole", time?"
Azure sighed as Blue helped Starlight, sitting down. "Thank Celestia."
Chrysalis was looking at Azure. She'd never seen him explode like that before.
Frequent ran over to help Blue. "Have you used any styptic?" Frequent was the Hive's top scientist and medic. "She may require a splint."
(Just so you know, I know nothing about medical treatment for wounds.)
"Ug... this is bad..." Blue whispered and charged her horn. She wasn't in a contition for safe magic use at this point doe to her own injuries but she ignored the risks, doing nothing would prove fatal for Starlight. With very delicate and gentle taps of her healing magic, as well as a internal levitation spell to make sure everything is as it should be she did her best to save the life of her patient. With the aid of Frequent and after a lot of efort, Starlight's wounds were treated and her life saved. But as an aftermath, Blue's fur, mane and tail was lighter, its color faded a bit, her eyes were baggy and she looked like she could pass out any moment.
Starlight however remained unconscious, and an unseen injury, which as a result still needed treating, may cause the group trouble later on...
"Oh dear, how much magic have you used lately?" Frequent asked Blue, despite knowing she most likely could not answer.
(( Hmm, blue would normally not miss any internal injuries, but this is not a normal situation, is it. Making a mistake does actually make sense. ))
"Quite a lot, in fact. Not to mention this..." Blue whispered tiredly and sat down, pointing to her bandaged up head as another whistling episode came in.
Frequent looked at the bandage. "Yes, I saw that when we got here. Hold still."
Closing his eyes, he cast the same healing spell that Blue did and delicately tapped her head, slowly and hopefully healing the injury.
"No, nonono. STOP!" Blue yelled, panicking. "I already did that, already have my 'patches' on. If a different magic source messes with them it can kill me." She whispered. "My injury needs time to heal properly..." she added.
Frequent immediately stopped. "Ah, my apologies."
Fulmen was listening to the whole thing. "If everypony's OK now, I think it would be best if we hit the hay for the night. The infected can't reach us up here.
Azure yawned on cue; despite the amount of time he'd been knocked out or hugged to near death, he was still tired. "I'm gonna...go to the cargo bay for the night." He left, followed by Chrysalis and Fury. "You sure you're okay, Blue?" He asked, about to shut the door.
"NEIN! A Doomato never slee-" Doomato passed out on the floor, there and then.
Blue looked at Azure, about to say 'no' but stopped when her eyes meat the changelings. Suddenly a memory came to the forefront of her mind and she cringed. "Sure, i'm fine..." she whispered and looked away. Can't show any weakness... Just then, Doomato did his shick, which made her chuckle.
"Ah bet Woona dreethed har uwn fawts un da mun..." He muttered within his slumber.
Azure rolled his eyes at Doomato. "Well...good night, then." He said, before shutting the door and making is way to the cargo area. Azure rested against a wall on the floor, Chrysalis sitting next to him. Fury tied up a few ropes into a make-shift hammock.
Frequent, back in the hull, turned to Blue. "Tomorrow, we'll show you the cure we made." He then sat against a wall, and closed his eyes, keeping his pouch incredibly close, like there was something in it he couldn't let anypony take...
Blue simply lied down where she sat, next to Starlight, and fell asleep almost instantly.
(( time skip, perhaps? ))
(Yup, go for it.)
"ZEEBLEZOOBLE!!!" He cried, disturbing his own sleep. Once again, Doomato had been dreaming about explosions. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Everywhere! No wonder he woke up. "Guys! Where did everybody go!?"
"Gu-" He fell unconscious once more. ((BRB, shower.))
Hours later Blue woke up and shook, first thing she did was to check up on Starlight, ten checked her own injuries and then lied down again, resting some more.
""yawn" ...Oh, my back..."
Fury woke up in her rope hammock, which as you would expect wasn't that comfortable.
She jumped out of it, wondering what today was going to be like. "So, now we're out of that station, what do we d-...oh my glob..."
She was look at Azure, who was still sat against the wall, sleeping soundly. Chrysalis was still next to him, but from the looks of it, she had fallen asleep...and hugged him unconsciously.
"That's...flipping...HILARIOUS!" She thought to herself, before whispering. "I need to find a camera...don't move...!"
She then made her way to the hull, snickering like a little girl.
Blue raised her head and looked at the snickering changeling. "What's going on?"
Doomato was woken up by Fury's cry. "Well, at least I know where one pony is." The stallion trotted towards the cargo area, following his ears.
Fury looked at Blue. "Please..." She spoke between laughs. "For the love of Anima...please tell me somepony here has a phone...o-or a camera! You have to see this...just look at them...!" She was laughing louder now. "But...just don't wake them up...this is too good...!"
Blue rolled her eyes. "For the love of Yevon..." She stood up and walked to her bag, taking out a small recording device. "Will this do?" She walked with it to Fury.
Fury's eyes lit up at the sight of the recorder. "YES! Now we can get a video, not just a picture! C-Come on, you gotta see this..."
Frequent was woken up by the noise. "...Fury? What is happening?"
"Just come on! You all have to see this!"
Doomato opened the door and entered, "Zeeblezooble, everypony! What's so hila-" he noticed the scene of hugging and almost fell to the floor, laughing. He seized the opportunity and raised his hoof, ready to slap the sleeping queen.
Fury grabbed him with magic. "Don't! You'll ruin the video!"
Blue rolled her eyes again as she was dragged to Azure and Chrisalis. Once gazing at the sight of them hugging she stared with her mouth agap. Slowly she raised the recording device and started to record, slowly starting to laught. After a good minute of recording she finally lost it, bursting out in laughter.
Doomato backed away, out of camera view.
Frequent walked in. "What is going on in he-!"
One look at the two, and he immediately put a hoof to his forehead, shaking it. "Oh, Your Highness..."
All the laughter in the room finally caused Azure to stir. Chrysalis, however, was completely out of it.
"Haah...wha...? What's going on...EEP!"
He froze as soon as he saw Chrysalis around him. "...help..." He whispered desperately.
Doomato's head fell to the floor, attempting to conceal his laughter.
Blue giggled a bit more before walking to the hugging couple and charging her horn, with her unicorn telekinesis she gently moved Chrysalis off of Azure, then cringed and held her forehead. "Ug, too much magic at a time..." she whispered.
"Are you sure we didn't bring an abnormal infected onto this ship." Doomato joked.
"...When this is all over...I never want a hug again..." Azure said. Chrysalis appeared to be dreaming, though, mumbling in her sleep.
"Wait...you recorded it?!" Azure said. All of a sudden, Chrysalis grabbed him again.
"(mumble)...Cold...zzzzz..."
"HA!!! This is as funny as Sunbutt's royal nose-picker!"
Azure tried to get out of her grip, but Chrysalis wasn't letting go for anything.
"Somepony...help..." Azure whimpered, as Chrysalis kept mumbling.
"Ponies?...zzz..."
(( :/ ))
Blue only rolled her eyes, opened her saddlebag and pulled out a ceringe with a muscle relaxant, giving chrysalis a shot. She will be unable to hug, or stand for that matter, for the next twelve hours. "There. Really now, can't you just take a hug?" she teased Azure.
"Hey, do you want to wake up to see THAT in your face?...Thanks for the save, anyway. So what do we do now?" He said, standing up.
"Get a marker and draw on her face?"
"That's actually a good idea." Blue said with a hint of an vengeaful voice, she galloped to her bag again, looking for a marker.
Doomato for a moment about what they should draw, "I think we should give her a handlebar mustache."
"AHEM."
Frequent cleared his throat. "You do realize you are talking about desecrating Her Highness's face in front of two of her Elite guard, correct?"
Fury looked at him. "Aw, come on, Frequent. Just this once?"
Frequent groaned. "Fury, you're the Elite Of Wind! And yet you...ugh, fine. Do as you please. But when the Queen destroys you, you will only have yourselves to blame. Azure, come with me, lest you wish to suffer her fury too. We need this precious time to demonstrate our inoculation cure, and they wish to act like newborns."
Azure nodded, and both of them left the cargo area.
"Oh, come on! Cant i get at least a bit of a revenge?" Blue hissed, but then she sighed and walked with Azure and Frequent. "So show me that cure of yours, if its the same as ours." she whispered grumpily.
Starlight woke up, breathing weakly. "What did I miss?" she wheezed.
Frequent opened his saddlebag, showing two vials, one blue, and one green. He quickly took out the blue one, trying to hide the green one.
"During our time in the station, I would sneak out and find ingredients for a cure. I was able to create an "anti-virus": we are now immune, but sadly, it doesn't cure the already infected."
Blue nodded. "So you created a vaccine, what's it key on, and the ingredients? Have you tested it? Do you know what the infection is? Is it bacterial, viral or other source entirely? And what's the green one?" she unloaded her questions.
"Pretty much exactly as you said before, only you need to take approximately three orchid petals and crush them, then extract the foam that forms on the liquid. I was attacked after drinking it, and I am still sane. The cause...I still have no idea. And the green vial..."
His face turned hostile.
"...Is none of your business."
"I see, we're doing this again. Alright, good look with finding a cure that actually cures the infected." Blue simply said and walked away.
Starlight creeped up and took the green vial, drinking some of it thoughtlessly. She really wasn't in the best state...
"May I present a possibility?"
Azure saw Starlight take it. "AAH! Starlight, don't-!!"
It only took Frequent seconds to notice his bag was lighter. "NO!! DON'T YOU DARE!!"
He dived at Starlight, ripping the vial from her and checking its contents. "...Thank the Queen, there's still enough for Fury..."
His glare turned to Starlight.
"I will say this, and I will say this once: if I find anypony, changeling, griffon or otherwise trying to steal this, I will turn them DEAF. I am the Elite Of Sound for a reason."
He turned to Blue. "And you. You are going to risk the future of all our races because you can't handle anypony keeping a secret from you? Smart. Very smart. The way you spoke to me just now clearly says you are lying. And even if you deny having a cure, I will simply turn to Azure."
"We have cure!"
"...Good. It seems you have some sense after all. All that is in that vial is a medical tonic. However, it is precious."
He turned to Blue again. "So there. You have a cure, and we have a vaccine. Were we to mix the two, we could create a full elixir for this epidemic."
"Just one question. Have you found subject zero yet?"
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"...Good. It seems you have some sense after all. All that is in that vial is a medical tonic. However, it is precious."
He turned to Blue again. "So there. You have a cure, and we have a vaccine. Were we to mix the two, we could create a full elixir for this epidemic."
Blue raised an eyebrow.
"Was that so hard to say? If you said its an unrelated medicine form the get go we could have avoid this entire thing. And we do not have a cure, but me and Starlight can make one if we have the ingredients." After which she walked close to Frequent.
"I am an S class medic. If Fury needs medical attention i should know about it before she actually needs my healing."
Naura and Hazy could be found sleeping in the corner of the zeppelin, Naura lying on Hazy's back snoring.
Starlight looked around. "Hey, what happened to Tiger... and whoever else who isn't here?"
Naura stopped snoring and sat up, wiping her eyes and gasping. She looked around to find the owner of the voice, and walked into Starlight.
Frequent looked at Blue. "I have been the Hive's medic, stratagist, and adviser to the Queen since I was a foal. I'm the only one who knows how to make this medicine. If you want me to tell you what it's for, fine. But that is IT."
(BTW I won't be able to post again for about three hours, going to friend's house.)
Blue lied in a corner, having an emotionless expression. "I couln't care less." She simply replied and rested a bit.
Fulmen was listening as Frequent spoke again. "We just had a whole night of rest. I believe it'd be more beneficial if we sought out a way to mix the cures. We have ingredients." He opened he pack again, showing some of them. "All we need is equipment."
(BTW Snowcraft, didn't you say that Celestia was cured?)
(Celestia escaped infection, Luna was cured
)
(Why don't we go see them then?)
Fulmen wanted to break the tension. "Well, does anypony have any idea where to go now?"
Doomato raised his hoof and waggled it in the air.
(( the whereabouts of the princesses is unknown, and i would prefer if they wouldn't show up again ^-^ ))
Blue sighed and tried to focus. "We need an open flame, you really thing it is wise to use an open flame on a zeppelin, being held in the air with highly flammable gasses?"
"...No." Frequent said flatly. "We need to find a safe area to conduct the alchemy."
"Ugh, sorry Starlight" Naura apologize and sits down.
"Hmm, have I missed anything?" She asks and yawns.
Frequent turned to Naura. "And you are?"
Naura turn's and sees the changeling talking.
"That's my question, my name is Naura, and you?" She asks with a polite tone.
"Frequent." He said blandly.
"When did you get here? Was anypony with you?" Naura continues to ask.
"My companion is in the cargo hold, currently making me question her loyalty."
"Yeah, but where did you come from? And when?"
"We were picked up yesterday from the Ponyville radio station."
Naura tried to stare at him with a ice cold glare, but collapsed on the floor from sleep, and started to snore again.
((I gtg now, see you!))
Frequent sighed. "Do ponies do nothing but sleep...?"
He turned to Blue again. "Do you know where we could find any alchemical equipment, then? It is far too risky to go back for mine in the station."
"To my knowledge, there is no safe place left..." Blue whispered.
Frequent adjusted his glasses. "So, we're stuck then..."
Still lying Blue sighed again. "Pretty much. And from what i could see the Radio Station got overrunned by the infected a few moments after we picked you up, so returning there would be suicide."
"GEEYEAH!" a yellow half changeling half unicorn with green mane and tail yelled as he ran by, "Somepony help me!"
"HHEELLPP MMEE!" screamed a small filly unicorn who the color of black with a mane of dark purple. "We must RUN NOW plz"
Frequent's ears shot up. His hearing had a habit of picking up random noises, but these were cries from Ponyville.
"...Fury, Fulmen: with me!"
With that, he dove for the door, flying out and down to Ponyville, followed by the other two.
Flying down to the town, they saw the two panicked ponies.
"Fulmen, help the stallion! I will help the filly!"
Fulmen nodded, and shot in his direction.
Frequent flew down to the black and purple filly. "Wait! I'm here to help!"
"Thank you," was stated by both the stalion and filly. Then the Halfling stated, "What is going on here?"
//Sorry my sister stepped out so I will play for both characters till she gets back.//
"lets see" the filly said and as she walked to the infected and said "this was started by a pony in the far side of ponyvillie."
"Ack!" Frequent immidiatly swooped down and picked up the little filly. "You don't want to touch them and- Wait, did you just say you know who started this?!"
Meanwhile, Fulmen was helping the halfling. "Come with me! We have an airship!"
He turned and made for the ship, checking if the halfling was following.
Running not but a milometer behind the halfling shot towards the airship. his only thought was first time I was saved by my fathers race.
Fulmen opened the door to the airship, flying in. Spinning around, he grabbed the halfling's hoof and pulled him in, Frequent and the filly following soon.
"well I am small yet smart I am a pony who knows ever thing a sceiencetis should,"as the filly pointed to her cuteymark //it was a scalpel and stitchs//"I came here to see myself I live in manehatten. I love this small town. so I came to see all the fus." You see the filly is right but she falls a sleep before you could say anything.
"Look, she hugs ponies in her sleep. So cute. :3"
the filly wakes up.
ono "mom u there."
Frequent let the little filly go. After he did he noticed the halfling. "What are you?"
Doomato woke up within the zeppelin, "Zeeblezooble, everypony!"
"I am a halfling. Half changling on my father's side and half unicorn on my mom's. Thats why I have a red eye and a purple eye," Then as he spoke a spell on his eyes faded to reveal that his match the shape of Queen Chrysilus' eyes.
Frequent didn't know how to respond to that. All he could think about was what the Queen's reaction would be.
Saying nothing, he left to the cargo hold, charging a spell to give Chrysalis her movement back.
Blue sighed, put on her saddlebag and walked to Frequent. "Can you get me low enough so that i can get off?" She questioned.
"You mean off the zeppelin? Why?"
"I'll be leaving, there is no need of me here. And with so many changelings around its only a matter of time before i snap. For the safety of the group as well as my own i will leave." she explained with a normal voice.
Starlight suddenly had a coughing fit. "Blue we - we need you." she muttered.
Frequent kept a straight face, looking at Blue. "...No. I am not ferrying somepony to their fate. And yes, there IS need of you here: you made a permanent cure. I made a vaccine. We need to figure out how to mix the two. And I fail to see how the amount of our race here affects anypony's mental state. Azure and the others seem perfectly fine with us, and we all have no intention of ever harming anypony. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to assist my Queen."
With that, he turned for the cargo hold.
"Very well..." She sighed and walked to the loading door, opening it and jumping out, she decided to take her chances with the fall since they didn't want to get down for her.
"Blue!" Starlight called jumping after her.
"W-WHOA!" Fury shot for the door as Azure looked on in horror. She dove through the air and grabbed Blue. "Are you nuts?! What are you doing?!"
((um... you guys wont let me leave, will you X3))
(well you ARE the one who made a cure. ^-^)
Blue blinked a few times when caught by Starlight and Fury.
"Okay, just take a few deep breaths..." Fury said, lifting Blue back up.
Starlight was breathing heavily, struggling to stay in the air. "I-I..." She suddenly lost her grip and passed out, falling downwards.
"Okaynewplan!" Fury used an immense amount of magic to catch Starlight. "Owowowow..." She yelped.
Starlight was still unconscious...
Using every last bit of her strength, Fury lifted the two back into the zeppelin, soon collapsing herself.
Blue simply blinked again, turned around and was about to walk out the lading door again.
Azure quickly used magic to slam the door shut. "Blue, stop it!"
Blue turned to Azure. "Listen, hun, its sweet of you to want me around and all, but auntie need to go do her own stuff." She said, totally detached from the real world, her mind gone.
Azure looked at Blue, unnerved. Something was clearly wrong with her.
"Blue, STOP! Just sit down or something! You're just stressed!" He had no idea if that was really the problem, but he didn't let go of the door in any case.
Blue chuckled again. "Very well, hun. I'll make more tea." She walked into the storage area and soon walked back with a cracked pot and two cups. "So tell me, what's new for with you and that nice bug lady you're hanging with?" This tiny mare was a perfect case for a psychologist now.
Azure stepped back: something was seriously wrong. Frequent had come back and ran over to the out-cold Fury, while Fulmen was ready to do something if anything got out of hand.
"Bug lady?" Azure said. "You mean Queen Chrysalis?! W-What do mean "what's new?"?!"
Blue poured imaginary tea into the cups from the broken tea pot. "I was just wondering if you finally proposed," she chuckled.
"?!" Azure's jaw dropped as Fulmen walked up to him. "Keep her talking. I have a plan."
With that he slowly began to make his way around the edge of the room.
Azure looked from him to Blue. "W-What makes you think I l-like her that way?"
"Oh, Ethan told me." She giggled again and drank her imaginary tea, then she spat. "WHO SWITCHED THE SUGAR FOR SALT?!" She yelled.
"Um, who's Ethan? And, uh, how did he know...?" Azure was watching Fulmen, who had made it to the door to the cargo area.
He was going to get Chrysalis.
"Oh, Ethan is a monkey spy ninja. He's right behind you, but don't look! He'll just disappear!" She said and rolled on her back looking upside down at Azure.
Azure knew now she was more insane than that Doomato stallion.
"So...what do you think of "that bug lady"?"
"Oh, i don't like her at all!" She said with a very serious tone. "But love is stupid, and you will end up running after her, wont you." she sighed.
Doomato looked at everypony else, "Why does everypony have to participate in the drama!?"
"Hush back there, you don't want to make the director mad, do you?" Blue hissed at Doomato.
"What?! N-No! I..." Azure stopped. It was obvious that something was wrong, but now he might have a chance to find out why Blue hates Changelings.
Chrysalis was finally moving again, and was with Fulmen, watching and hearing everything through the door.
Azure took a deep breath. "Well, yeah, I like her." He fibbed. "She's really nice, and pretty. Why shouldn't I like her? Do you not like her or something?"
Blue charged her horn and teleported away, returning in a moment from another red flash of her magic, wearing a long scarf wrapped around her neck and partially her body, dragging part of it on the floor and gazing straight into Azure's eyes from about one centimeter. "Am i crazy or something? I already said i don't like her!" she hissed.
"Well, I'm willing to make anyone furious if it ensures the safety of the Equestrian-dimensional system!" He replied, scornfully, to Blue.
((I might be late with replies, I'm playing Persona 4 Arena.))
Blue charged her horn again and teleported right into Doomato's face. "You mean the spectacular E-Dimension 4 breaker wall system?" She said with a smile, this mare was gone...
(( i kinda enjoy playing a pony that lost its mind X3 ))
"Nah, that's a phoney pyramid scheme."
Azure paused for a second. "Is there a reason you don't like her?"
Suddenly Blue was in Azure's lap. "It happened when i was a wittle filly, no more than five. I was captured by her and she was very mean to me." She said in a childish voice, but it was unclear if she was saying what really happened or just her madness taking hold.
Doomato chuckled, "That's called your mother and the educational program."
"Hmmm.... does that mean i'm a bug lady too?" She tilted her head.
"Correction, that's called your mother in a nightmare-night costume and the educational system." He chuckled.
Chrysalis had enough. She threw the door open and stormed into the room.
"LIES! I would never harm a young one, pony or otherwise!"
Azure almost had a heart attack: how long had she been listening?!
Doom turned to Chryalis, "You held me off the edge of the zeppelin... And I'm only twenty-two..."
Chrysalis turned to the stallion. "Young one means 18 or under to me."
Doomato chuckled, "Old means Chrysalis to me."
"Thats a load of lies, i'm only 17 and i've been threatened by you and your lackies multipe times." Blue appears on Chrysalis's back and gazes in her eyes, Chrysalis could see only madness in the mares eyes.
Doomato smelt the oxygen within the zeppelin, "Are you sure that Blue one's alright? Smells like cordyceps."
(OMG The Last Of Us: Hug Edition!)
Chrysalis levitated Blue off her back. "...I get it now. You were that filly in the Hive all those years ago. I found some of the teacher Changelings with you, and asked them to return you home."
((I wasn't just referencing to that, cordyceps is a real thing!))
Doomato paused for a moment, "Do we even have an idea of what kind of epidemic this is? Virus, bacteria, fungal?"
Blue rolled in space while being levitated. "Oh?" She looked away, then stared straight into Chrysalis's eyes. "You're right, she's not serious at all, is she."
(I know, it just made me think of TLOU, although I don't think the forum rules would let us have ponies with 'shrooms in their heads.)
Chrysalis stared at Blue. "You're mad..." She then spat silk to bind Blue, but left her head unbound.
((Heh, just a small reference to real life))
Doomato gazed at the two, bored out of his mind. "Hey, blue thing. Wanna' build a robot that can infinitely slapped ol' Swiss cheese over there?"
Blue looked around the silky binds. "Is it sleeping time already?" She charged her horn and teleported out of the bindings. "I don't feel tired yet, lalalala..." she wondered off, other ponies might notice some red fluid flowing from somewhere on her head.
((no spoilers please :C ))
Doomato sighed as he saw Blue's head, "I think you may have drank too much kook-aid! It made ya' into a sponge and now it's escaping because you drank too much!"
Blue giggled "The spungyness of my head is only a testament of the great hugging war." she still stumbled around.
Doomato pointed his hoof and cried: "OBJECTION!!! There was no such war! I've read every history book in existence and even partook in The War Of Great Butt-Hole!"
Blue jumped to his face with a crazy expression. "Then you must update your history knowledge. The great hugging war ended exactly in 30 seconds from now." She hopped around some more afterwards.
Starlight suddenly rolled over, stirred by the conversation.
Doomato sighed, "Someone restrain her. I'm gonna go see if I can make an anti-toxin..."
"Restrain who? Huh?" She stared off into the distance, then laughed. "Silly colt, you can't restrain me." She giggled again and with a flash of her horn disappeared, returning in a moment from the storage room with a banana in her snout, she tilted her head at the group. "What? Something wrong?"
Doomato walked to Grizzly and booped her horn, "Fight fire with fire..." He thought.
Blue held her horn and jumped to the ground looking in pain. "Arg. Murder! That stallion tried to hurt me, help!!" she said in a obviously fake voice.
"All toasters toast toast!"
Blue started to laugh like a little filly, then sat up. "Most logistical."
Doom rubbed his hoof on her horn, "Come out, magical genie!"
Fulmen approached his Queen. "Just say the word and I can crash the zeppelin. Put us all out of our misery.
"......I'm seriously contemplating that now. But first..."
She moved next to Azure, who was watching everything happen.
"She's really nice and pretty"?"
Azure jumped, mortified that's she heard him.
"Isn't that sweet?"
"Uhh-! I, um...!"
"I'll just take care of this, then."
With that, she fired a green aura at Blue, trying to put her to sleep.
Doomato cut the act and turned to Chrysalis, "Hmm... Slaps come later. For now I would like to thank you. Send my regards to my changeling friend, Netirax."
Just now notusing Queen Chrysilus the halfling bows and says "My queen" as respectfully as possible.
((my parents had me very busy so I just got back))
Queen Chrysalis turned to him. "...What are you?" She mirrored Frequent's question, eyeing the halfling wearily.
"I am Smooth Waters and I am a halfling ma'am, half changeling half unicorn." said Smooth who at this point is standing at atention.
Doomato giggled, "Hey there, 'Smooth'! What's Swiss Chrysalis been up to?"
Chrysalis was shocked. "Offspring between a pony and a Changeling? I never thought the notion possible...Very well. We will have to talk later, however." She stated, motioning to Blue.
"Y-yes ma'am of corse."
While the group was waiting, they could hear a clatter of hoofsteps and a swear from out of sight.
After the encounter with the queen Smooth went to a window, and watched the infected fall of a cliff the zeplin passed over and just started laughing. Then somthing donned on him and he said, "Anypony notice how funny these hug-zombies are acting?"
Chrysalis's spell worked at the tiny crazy mare, she is now sleeping in the floor, rolled on her back.
If anypony was paying attention, they would notice a head looking at them from a nearby hiding spot.
Chrysalis immediately spun around to the head watching them. "Show yourself. We have enough ponies on here."
The tiny crazy mare started to snore gently, kicking with her hind hoof every so often.
"Why does visibility matter, I may ask?" He questioned. "Anyway.... Are you sure she doesn't need an anti-toxin? I think I met an alternate version of her once... Dimensional travel is dangerous, kids."
After a while Smooth walked to the cargo hold and opened the the ferthest back door. He then sat down and charged an emense spell.
Doomato trotted over to the sleeping Blue and promptly kicked her, "Wake up."
Azure lost it.
"GAHH!!!"
He charged at Doomato, launching himself in a tackle at him.
Doomato toppled to the floor and pointed his hoof at Azure, "I've guarded this dimensional system anonymously and this is how I get re-payed!? I keep getting called a walking disaster but there are much worse things that I've been protecting everypony from!"
Blue was still under the effect of the sleeping spell.
Azure was in full rage mode now.
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! DIMENSIONAL SYSTEM?! WHAT IS THAT?! UNLESS YOU'RE INSANE, EXPLAIN!!!"
The stallion struggled to rise to his hooves again, "DO YOU PEOPLE EVER WONDER WHAT'S BEYOND EQUESTRIA!!!??? BEYOND THIS PLANET!!! BEYOND THIS UNIVERSE!!! DO YOU PEOPLE EVER WONDER IF THERE'S BIGGER THREAT THAN TIREK, CHRYSALIS, DISCORD, SUNSET SHIMMER, SOMBRA AND NIGHTMARE MOON COMBINED!!!???"
Something suddenly caused a large cracking sound... Starlight was awake, and mad. "You will all SHUT THE BUCKIN' BUCK UP!"
Azure turned to her. "Why don't you tell that to him?!...Grahhhhh!"
He then fell to the floor, clutching his head. "I can't take it anymore! I've tried staying calm throughout this whole thing, but I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!"
Doomato sighed, "You were the one who tried to enact your rage physically and not mentally like someone who's IQ is of a higher level than yours."
Suddenly Blue woke up, charged her horn and teleported, away, returning with a rolled up newspaper. She hit Starlight, Doomato and Azure with the newspaper and frowned. "Knock it out children! Mommy is tired!" Her mind was still gone.
Azure wanted nothing more than to just deck this insane stallion, but all he could do was just sit there, tears now coming from his eyes.
"Please...just make it all stop...p-please...before I go crazy...I don't want t-to end up like Blue..."
Doomato sighed, "I guess I apologize for whatever happened.... Anyway, likewise with the whole Blue thing. How did she get so... Off?"
Chrysalis saw Blue strike the trio. On instinct, she ran forward and shoved Blue away from them. "Stand down, before I put you down. Although, in your current state, I'd be doing you a favor..."
Doomato pointed at Chrysalis, "Hey, stop that! It may not be a popular opinion but I think it would be most preferable if we came up with a more peaceful solution!"
Blue only frowned and smacked Chrysalis at the nose, with the same force as she did the trio, and to Chrysalis's surprise it was actually pretty gentle. "Down, bug lady! I'm not taking your Azure away from you."
Doom stared at Blue, "Hmm... Lectures always seem like sedatives..." The stallion cleared his throat, "Hello, students. Welcome to quantum physics one-o-one..."
Chrysalis flinched, before she turned to Doomato, ignoring Blue's ramblings. "It depends if she decides to stop." She then sat next to Azure, putting a hoof around him.
Fulmen, Frequent, and Fury all moved to the cargo area, knowing there wasn't much they could do.
"Before we begin the lecture, any questions? Ah, yes, Chrysalis."
Blue teleported to the storage area and dragged the three there to the other. "Where the hay did you thing you were going? Class is about to start!" She was frowning.
Starlight suddenly disappeared too!
Chrysalis knew there wasn't much else she could do. "What's the most drawn-out, sleep-inducing topic you can discuss."
The three soldiers just sighed and went with it: they could annihilate her in seconds, but they were just fed up now.
Every-Changeling was.
Doomato grinned at Chrysalis, "Today's lesson, quantum physics one-o-one, of course."
Blue felt the annoyance of the group. "Well, if i remember i tried to make my appointment with the ground on time, but you just didn't wanna let me go." She said and wobbled around madly.
Doomato pointed at Blue, "No talking in my class unless you put your hand up! That's your warning! Next thing you do, off the sun and onto the white cloud! No break-time for people on the white cloud!"
"Oh, i heard that the sun is nice this time of the year." She said while holding up an artificial hand she pulled from out of nowhere.
"You're on the white cloud now, missy! You're in with me at break-time! Next thing you say, I'm sending a red letter to your parents!"
"Oh no! Please please please don't mister teacher!!! My parents will kill me!!!" She cried with her ears folded.
"Hmm... I'll give you one more chance... But next time you speak without putting your hoof up, I'm writing the letter!"
Blue nodded and raised her hoof.
A bright red and violet light came from the cargo hold, and if anypony looked threw the door they would see somthing that gave talking to yourself a new meaning.
Doomato pointed to Blue, "Yes, miss...?"
"Is it tea time already?" She grinned widely.
"Lunch is after Science, today... Now, any questions related to the lecture?"
Blue raised her hoof again.
Doomato groaned, "Yes...?"
"From the fundamental standpoint of quantum time theory derived from the thirty-fourth sentence of the berry cherry theory, which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
"The chicken, obviously. In theory, if there was only one unhatched chicken egg in the world, there wouldn't be a mother chicken to warm the egg to make it hatch."
"But the mommy chicken had to come from an egg, no?"
"Of course, making the chicken a temporal-rift in itself."
Three Smooth Waters were sitting facing eachother. One was the orginal Halfling. The one to his left was was a pure changeling. The one to his right was a pure unicorn.
"Can they be trusted?!" inquired changleling Smooth.
"I trust them. Besides we have no reason not to," answered unicorn Smooth.
"Shhh! If they hear or see us talking that might make them trust us less," the real halfling Smooth whispered harshly.
"Which means two plus two is five!"
Starlight appeared before the three Smooth's. "Cool trick." she commented, hanging upside down above the trio.
//actually 2+2=5 2+2=2+i+2=5 i=1//
Post Merge
"OH BUCK!" was screamed from the three Smooths as two of them vanished leaving only the Halfling.
Azure had fallen asleep, his eyes still wet. Chrysalis stayed by him, however, lest Blue attack him for "falling asleep in class" or the like.
Doomato pointed, "No one sleeps in my classroom!" Doom stood silent for a moment, "Unless they have a memory-foam pillow, of course. There might be a pillow somewhere in here..."
"What?" Starlight whined as she dropped down. "I won't tell, it's a cool trick."
"Oh now look at what you did it will take us hours to get that spell going again." frustation over flowing to the point Smooth was on the edge of a rage shift. "And you had better not!"
"Can you teach me it?" Starlight replied shivering slightly as her pinkish body was unused to such heights.
"I guess I could. What would it hurt?" Smooth was starting to calm down. "What is your name?"
"Starlight, Starlight Eclipse."
"Alrighty then Starlight lets go look for the matterials we need."
Starlight nodded taking a pony form.
"Burnt tea leaves, an aprentus' mat, and 28 candles." Smooth repeated the list from memory.
"Twenty-eight?" Starlight asked in surprise.
"Yes 14 each. I already masterred that spell so I have a custom masters' mat set up. Thank you pre-ordering."
"Wha-"
"simply 10 suround the pony casting the SPELL. Phew and 4 go on each corner of the mat to channel the mystic energies of the multiverce." Smooth explained as he broke a crate and pulled out a brand new aprentus' mat.
"Uhm..."
"Well the pony this belongs to probably ain't gunna get it. Besides we are not using it for black magic. Oh and those candles will have a blue and red flame my little vampony."
"Vampony? What are you talking about? I'm confused..."
//Oops sorry bout that I am also reading your fanfic.
"Oh, never mind," giggled Smooth.
(Remember when this was about hugs and trying to find a cure? lol)
Azure was still asleep. Chrysalis was keeping guard over him. Even if he was a pony, she couldn't help but feel sorry for him: he was most likely the youngest in the group.
However, she soon found herself nodding off next to him again.
"Falling asleep on a zeppelin full of insane ponies...great idea...zzzzz...."
((You like it?))
Starlight suddenly heard something... a voice... "Hug..."
She suddenly turned white, literally!
"One of them is on the zeppelin..."
Doomato growled, "Somepony get them pillows or else they're in detention!"
//Yeah its great
"Oh buck it all sence when did cloudsdale get infected!" Smooth shouted pointing to a window.
((Thanks))
"The infect can't fly after one day! He must be recen- Buck..." Starlight was just hugged!
Smooth squirted some mystery ointment that made the hug-zombie slide off.
"Students! Wake up, grab a pillow and go back to bed! You can't sleep in this classroom without a pillow!"
"Hugs!" Starlight yelled joyously in her demented state.
"Oh hug yourself," at that Smooth grabbed the other hug-zombie with his magic and sent both it and hug-zombie Starlight out the back door.
Both infected were still sane enough to just open the door again. "Hugs!" they called in unison.
Doomato walked over to the pair and screamed in their ears, "YOU NEED PILLOWS!!! OR DETENTION!!!"
((We're in another room))
Smooth got an idea and tryed casting the memory spell on the infected Starlight.
Quote from: Snowcraft_Pony on 2014 Aug 12, 16:55:17
((We're in another room))
((I'm talking about Azure and Chrysalis... :l))
((Oh))
The spell failed.
(Sorry, trying to RP and play The Last Of Us is hard.)
Chrysalis and Azure both jolted awake, Azure instinctively throwing a "punch" at Doomato.
Doomato almost fell to the floor due to the power of his blow, "White cloud for you! If you both don't want detention, grab some pillows and then sleep!"
Smooth set up a magical sheild. With his red eye and horn glowing he summons 10 or so infected versions of himself and ran to worn everypony else.
Post Merge
//Oops almost forgot something
Smooth used the infected forms to make a wall.
//excues me//
When Smooth made to the other ponies and worned them about infected Starlight the artifitial infected wall disipated and it was obvius Smooth used up all his magic.
Starlight suddenly burst through the door with the other infected.
"BUCK ANYPONY GOT AN IDEA ON HOW TO STOP THEM!" Smooth shouted as he pointed to the infected duo at the door.
Hey everyone, just a friendly reminder to please remember to follow the rules while RPing. Make sure things are always family friendly, no godmodding and please edit posts if you need to make post additions opposed to double posting. Thank you :)
All four Changelings jumped to their hooves.
"W-What?! What happened?! How'd an infected get up here?! w
We've been here for days!" Azure shouted, before...
"Yaaaaaaaaah!"
Fury went flying by, followed by Frequent, who had left his satchel on the floor. They both charged straight at the duo.
"Don't worry!" Fury shouted. "We had the vaccine, remember?! We can't get infected!"
"Your Highness!" Frequent called. "Take my satchel! It has the vaccine in it! You and Fulmen take anypony who can't fly and RUN!!!"
Smooth at this point though god I wish I could trade with one of the other mes or atleast use changeling abilities.
((Are the infected in the same room as me?))
(Think so)
Doomato suddenly spotted the infected, "These aren't students! Intruders! Black cloud for you all!"
(Ok think I'm done for today, need to wait for Grizzly to do what I'm planning. Bye. ^-^)
Getting to his feet Smooth charged full force into the into the infected shouting "Hug this!"
Starlight happily gripped Smooth ang hugged him tightly.
"Zeeblezooble, suckas!" He taunted, a fair distance away from the horde.
All Smooth could do now was take that hug out side and drag it to the ground.
(You do know we're on an airship, right?)
//yes i just got infected and is using last shreds of sanity to save yall//
The infected Smooth pushes the infected Starlight out of the air-ship and drags them both to their doom.
((just reminding that this RP does have a occ page> Click here~ (http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=11733.new#new) Going there right now with a few questions.))
Starlight simply kept flying up as Smooth dragged her down.
"Some... pony... lock... the... hugs?" Smooth shouted as they nearred the ground.
Chrysalis picked up the satchel, before nodding to Frequent. She suddenly grabbed Azure, and tried to grab Blue with magic.
Fulmen ditched the wheel of the ship, running up to Doomato.
"Unless you want to become a zombie, come on!"
Starlight had let go of Smooth. flying up and attempting to reach the zeppelin.
(I thought the infected couldn't fly?)
(Only after the first day of infection.)
Smooth is infected on the ground uncojuse.
"Naturally!" Doom replied, ready to follow him, seeming a little TOO happy about this.
(Just need to wait for Grizzly now)
Blue crazily danced all around the room, until grabbed by Chrysalis's magic. Blue giggled as she spun in the magical field. "Who needs gravity?" She laughed.
Something suddenly shocked Starlight, causing her to freeze unconscious on the zeppelin. Was it right to just leave her there though?
Fury ran over to Starlight, picking her up. "Is that everypony?!"
Chrysalis held Azure and Blue, Fulmen had picked up Doom, and Fury had Starlight. (If Naura comes back, Frequent has her)
"Yeah!" Fulmen shouted. "Let's go!" Smacking the wheel of the ship, it begun to spin as they all flew out, one by one.
"Juuuu." Blue giggled and laughed in her madness as she was carried.
"I've seen worse..." He responded, somehow really calm.
The group turned around to see the zeppelin still flying in a straight line.
"...Chances are, somepony'll say we did that as an attack when the zeppelin crashes." Fulmen said.
"Does anypony know where to go now?" The Queen asked.
Fury thought for a second. "Hmm...Ah-ha! Cloudsdale! I used to hang around there and mess with the pegasi. I think the clouds were reinforced so anypony could walk on them. Follow me!"
Fury suddenly zipped off north, prompting the others to follow. Azure had his eyes firmly shut, occasionally opening and glancing over at the laughing Blue.
Doom chuckled, "In truth, then everyone would be on the white cloud."
Azure just sighed. "Shut up, sir. Just shut up."
Doomato sighed, "Underappreciation at it's worst..."
Azure opened his mouth again, but quickly shut it: he couldn't be bothered.
Doom sighed, "You seem to be acting like the leader of the group, so speak up! Where do we have to go!?"
Fury looked at him. "Didn't you just hear me? Cloudsdale!"
Azure shook his head, before looking angrily at Doom. "I'm not a leader. But I definitely have better things to do than talk to an insane pony."
"Insane? That is a mere adjective with no place in my current persona..."
Chrysalis spoke up this time."Look, pony: Azure is clearly distraught over what has happened. Nopony his age would be able to think straight if all this happened to them in this short period of time. You spouting nonsense about "beyond Equestria" is not helping in the slightest."
Doom sighed, "Perhaps... It would be most favourable to co-operate with one-another..." The stallion put his hoof out to Chrysalis and turned his head, expecting a hoofshake.
"......We've been trying to co-operate with you since we met. And I would shake your hoof, but I'm, how do you say, busy carrying somepony?"
"Listen to the ugly bug lady, mister teacher. Tea was already served." Blue said out of nowhere.
Doom put his hoof back onto the floor and looked towards Blue, "It would seem that way, yes...." He soon turned back to Chrysalis, "On another subject, may I ask you a few questions about your species?"
(Floor? We're in the air)
Chrysalis narrowed her eyes. "...It depends on what you want to know and why."
An odd pony was seen flying into view. "A Zeppelin, flying through the skies during a crisis....haha...how interesting." His head was tilted down as he was closing in on the direction of where the zeppelin was flying showing no signs of stopping. He looked as if he was going to ram the zeppelin.
Fulmen noticed the strange pony flying by. "Who the heck...? HEY!" He called, noticing he was on a crash course with the zeppelin. "Careful!"
"I would rub my chin but now really isn't the time or place!"
The pony ignored the shouts as his speed intensified as he was neared the zeppelin. His horn starting to shine catching the eye of every pony.
Doom chuckled at how he had both wings and a horn, "Hey, it's a pretty little princess!"
Chrysalis saw him too. "Stop! What are you doing?!"
"I couldn't care less about the salad dressing!" He yelled to Lunar. Suddenly, he turned his head to Chrysalis, "It was your lyrics, after all...."
"KyaAAA!" yelled the pony as he rammed the front part of the zeppelin. A hole was made in the balloon where he rammed at.
Doom attempted to shrug, "Not my loss."
All Changelings flinched as the pony rammed the zeppelin.
"Um...I think we'd better get to Cloudsdale." Fury said. "Y'know, before that zeppelin goes BOOM!"
Azure turned to her. "B-But he can fly! That means he can't be infected! Plus, I-I think that was an alicorn!"
Chrysalis was a bit hesitant to believe there was yet another alicorn.
"...Fury. Fulmen. Frequent. Take them all to Cloudsdale. We'll see to this "alicorn".
"BOOM!!!" The tiny crazy mare yelled out and giggled. "Fireworks!!!" She cheered at the zeppelin and charged her horn. "BOOOOM!" She said as her horn went off with a magic spark, forcing the zeppelin's engines to overcharge and explode loudly, flaming chunks falling to the ground as the crazy mare laughed.
"Magic, who needs it?" He said, forgetting that Changelings have horns and it may have been seen as offensive.
The Changelings were above his provoking, and began flying away. Chrysalis strengthened the magic field on Blue to stop her from causing anymore harm.
Chrysalis cautiously approached the zeppelin, looking for a safe way in. Azure was watching Blue sadly.
"The first pony I meet for years...and she goes insane...because I know Changelings..."
"Azure. Focus." Chrysalis said suddenly.
"...Yes, Ma'am...." He said quietly, before aiming a shout at the zeppelin. "Hey!" Azure called in. "Are you okay?!"
"More boom!" The tiny crazy mare giggled and clapped her hooves, did a 360° spin and charged her horn again.
((what is the nature of the field? How strong is it now? X3))
(I'm hoping strong enough to stop Blue making more things go boom-boom.)
The crazy mare looked at Chrysalis. "Bug lady go BOOM!" She motioned her hooves as she used the spell her crazy mind though up, but it had no effect thanks to the magic field. "Go boom! Go boom..." She spinned around again and giggled. "Bug lady can't go boom, the external armor is too thick. BLUE GO BOOM!!!" she cheered and concentrated her magic on herself, charging her horn again.
"B-BLUE?!" Azure shouted, earning Chrysalis's attention. She saw what she was doing.
"Pony! Stop at once!" She ordered: she didn't have anything like a sleep spell.
"Huh? Why stop, bug lady? We need fireworks!" the crazy mare said, confused.
"Dinkle-Finkle? We need candy! Not the boom booms from the frying pan!"
Chrysalis opened her mouth, but no words came. She had to think.
"Um...Oh! If you blow yourself up, you won't see the fireworks!" She stated. However she did move Blue quite a ways away from her, lest she DID explode.
"Valid point, mister bug lady sir." The crazy mare rubbed her chin and thought. "I know, i'll just break the safety rule and make the spell stronger! Who wants to be fireworks?!" She asked happily.
Chrysalis flinched slightly; she was running out of magic. If Blue cast any sort of spell, she'd fall.
"Blue, stop it, please!" Azure begged. "Snap out of it!"
"I heard that sky-diving is more delicious this season." He said, playing along.
Fulmen sped up his flying, so they were out of hearing range of the other three.
"Ok, look." He said to Doom. "I could stand you at first, but I'm starting to see why Azure doesn't like you. You're not helping, so, with all due respect, SHUT UP before you kill somepony!"
"Huh? You can't be the fireworks, you're too nice." She rubbed her chin.
"Blue..." Azure said. "Do you even know who I am anymore...?"
"Of course i do, hun. You're the poor pony that serves the bug lady." She said casually.
Azure sighed. It seems she hadn't completely lost it.
"And...you know what's going on? Why we're running?"
Blue rubbed her chink "Cause we're late for a tea party and there are hugging ponies that don't want to let us reach it."
"She's gone, Azure. And so is the pony that collided with the zeppelin, apparently."
Azure didn't believe it though. "N-No! She's the first pony I've met in years! We need to help her!" He was tearing up again, turning to Blue. "Please, Blue!" He cried. "Snap out of it, p-please!"
"Oh..." Blue looked to the burning zeppelin. "No, he's not. Lying again, bug lady." She said casually.
Azure just looked at her in disbelief.
"...Azure." Chrysalis's voice was ungodly serious now. "You can call me a monster, or heartless, or curse my name if I do...but if she keeps acting like this..." She paused.
"I'll drop her. Her mind's broken, so it'd be for the best."
Azure looked up at her, mortified. "W-WHAT?! NO, D-DON'T!!! PLEASE!!!" His vision was blurry with tears.
(GTG now, see you tomorrow)
Blue looked at Azure then at the magic field around her and realized it was weakening. She stared at Chrysalis and smiled. "Bye bye, bug lady." She waved her hoof and charged her horn, forcing her magic against the field, canceling it and dropping to the ground.
Suddenly the pony descended, landing in front of Azure Blue and Chrysalis. Every pony was able to to see the details of his appearance clearly including the stripes on his face now that he was standing right in front of them. "Ha...has a pony has gone bye bye?" he teased while trying to balance a visible beaker on his head.
"Hugs?" Starlight asked, still being held.
(going to friends house for a three hours, I'll post again after that.)
Doom looked over to the others and laughed, uncontrollably. "HA!!! He is a pwetty widdle pwincess! I wonder where Vince and Netirax are! They need to see this!"
Turned to Doom. "Princess eh?" Levitated the beaker off his head. "Laugh at this funny man." he said as he threw the beaker on the ground by Doom's hooves making the chemicals spill out which has a sweet aroma to it, it started to draw a group of the infected ponies his way.
Doom chuckled, "I don't care! I've seen worse! And to top that, they were all on that zeppelin!"
(Um, everyone? You all do realize we're in the air a couple of hundred meters from the ground? I mean, we did just get out a zeppelin. Sorry if I seem a bit naggy.)
Azure saw Blue fall. "NO!!! BLUE!! CHRYSALIS, GRAB HER, PLEASE!!!"
Chrysalis struggled to hold him as the striped pony spoke about her going "bye-bye".
After a few moments, Azure gave up. "B-Blue..." He then looked at the striped pony. "Did...you just laugh?! BECAUSE SHE FELL?!" He screamed at him.
"Now that is COLD! Netirax really should be here!"
(( i do realize X3 I also just realized that unless Starlight gets back to normal we lost the cure ))
((Whoa... Let's just hope he digests it by mistake. X3))
(oohhh....anyone got a plan to save Blue then? Or should I have Azure use magic?)
(( that would be the backup plan, anyway, saving Blue debate moving to the OOC page X3 ))
Post Merge
As the crazy blue mare plummeted to the ground she was laughing and spinning. Once she hit the ground she luckily landed on a trampoline and bounced back upwards, gigging the whole way and spinning.
A mysterious blue stallion swoops in and saves Blue.
"Well....then." Lunar looked up not knowing what to say.
Doom sighed, "I hate pegasi..."
((saved by a mysterious blue stallion, that works too X3 ))
((I guess...? :I))
(Well, moving on, I guess...?)
Azure didn't see Blue get caught, as he was still staring at the striped pony, waiting of an answer.
"I've done way better than this..."
"Hahaha...yes....yes I did, problem?" Lunar replied trying to make a troll face.
Azure couldn't believe what he just heard.
"Wha...why...why you NO-GOOD BRUTE!!!!"
He began wildly swinging at the striped pony, Chrysalis holding him back.
"Just who the HAY are you?!" He screamed.
"A catalyst for a current catastrophe."
Azure was too angry to even bother trying to understand what he meant, but Chrysalis wasn't.
"Catalyst? For what catastrophe?
"Hugs!" Starlight screamed happily, all of a sudden. "He make me hugs!"
The mysterious blue pony disappeared.
"See, it's foal napping. Now you now why I hate pegasi..."
(( HEY! :D you just foalnapped me, mentalshock, what gives X3 ))
((The mysterious... MARE DO WELL!!! lol))
"You'll know eventually Chryssy....seeing how Ponyville fell...It could reach even Cloudsdale."
Doom chuckled, "Dale! That's a good one! May I call you Chum?"
//Oops\\ Puts Blue next to the other ponies. Then disappears again.
(( AH WANT MA SANITY BACK!!! :D ))
The tiny crazy mare blinked her eyes a few times as she was set on a random changeling, possibly the bug lady, but she didn't care enough to check. "That was fun!!!"
Quote from: LunarDusk on 2014 Sep 03, 20:02:04
"You'll know eventually Chryssy....seeing how Ponyville fell...It could reach even Cloudsdale."
Chrysalis leered at him. "And how do you know that? The infected can't fly, so far as I know."
"They cant after a day, the hugging will take their pixie dust away." Blue said out of the blue.
Azure jumped slightly at Blue's voice. "B-BLUE?!" he said, not knowing she was on Chrysalis's back now. "Where are you?!"
The tiny mare giggled. "Right here, silly. I went for a huge quest to find my sanity back home, but unfortunately she was busy with a big tea party."
Azure sighed. He didn't see how, but at least she was safe. He then turned back to the striped pony. "Just who the heck are you?!"
"I don't see how does that matters." She tilted her head. "Hey, bug lady, weren't we going somewhere?"
"I thought he was a pretty, widdle pwincess!" Doomato taunted.
Lunar looked up at the stallion unamused. "You can't be a princess if your male you imbecile." he said facing away from Chyrsalis. "I am Lunar Dusk."
"Well then, Mr. Lunar, care to explain why you just rammed a huge zeppelin? Or why you laughed at a filly almost losing her life? Or how you're a fifth alicorn?" She bombarded him with questions and demanded answers.
"He's not an alicorn, silly. Boys can't be alicorns, its anatomically impossible." The crazy mare said.
"Impossible eh? Hahahaha!." lol
(( lol hush, hun, she's crazy ))
(( i know :]))
((can we move along so we can get to Cloudsdale, please? ^-^))
(Ok. And I just noticed we're at page 100. Yay"fluttershy face")
Chrysalis rolled her eyes."Well, Mr. Lunar, we don't have time for this."
She turned and began flying away from him, joining back up with the others.
"...I don't like that pony." Azure grumbled. "Something's definitely up with him..."
Blue giggled. "He's funny." She said in her usual misplaced tone.
"Hu-" Starlight was suddenly cut of by a coughing fit.
((where is Starlight right now?))
((She got grabbed by one of the other changelings, they did take everyone, right?))
(( not sure, but lest say yes. ))
(all the changelings have magic, so they can carry anyone if the want to rejoin)
Huvers just out of sight.
Lunar levitates off the ground then ascended more by flapping his wings staring at the direction Chrysalis and Azure went off to.
Azure glanced behind, watching Lunar. "......We haven't seen the last of him, I bet."
With that, the group continued to fly until the large flying city of Cloudsdale was visible a short ways off.
"He will join us later for another tea party. Speaking of which..." She waved her hoof at the town as they approached.
Halt!! Who goes there? A pony near a makeshift gate spoke up. He himself was wearing pieced together armor, and had a simple staff.
The group of Changelings dropped to the cloudy "ground", Azure happy to finally be on stable ground.
"A group of refugees in desperate need of an alchemical lab." Frequent stated to the guard as they released all their passengers.
Another pony at the gate ran inside quickly, and soon enough he came back. Boss says to take you to meet him, so follow me.
(they don't even react to Chrysalis lol)
The group began to follow the pony to wherever he was leading them.
((It's more like they've been shell-shocked by everything. It's just like, "Oh look, a big changeling, IS THAT ALL?!?!" lol ))
The pony guided them to a building and opened the door for them. He should be right inside. And...friendly hint, he's a good leader, but he's kinda paranoid.
The crazy mare galloped zigzag all across the path, laughing and doing stunts.
Chrysalis quickly grabbed Blue with magic one more time. She was clearly getting weak from all this constant magic use.
Do you want me to hold her down? I mean...I could do that while you guys talk to the boss.
"Oh? Bug lady getting weak?" Blue giggled and charged her horn, motioning her hoof as the queens spell broke. She laughed.
Lunar eventually catches up to the group and follows them inside while remaining hidden
Starlight was coughing madly now.
"Um, is it ok if you just...keep her out of trouble. The stress had kinda...got to her." Azure said.
Chrysails's eyes were heavy. "Do you have anywhere to rest?"
Doomato sighed, "Or a clothing shop?"
"Hu-" More coughing.
Fulmen and Fury were holding Starlight with magic just in case.
"She doesn't sound too good..." Fulmen observed.
"I'm heading into the city at my own accord, I have some unfinished business here..."
"Sure, whatever..." Azure sighed.
Chrysalis had lost more energy then she thought, slightly swaying in her walk.
Doomato walked deeper into the city.
"Ohh, does the bug lady need a hug?" Blue asked and walked up to Chrysalis.
"No..." Chrysalis said, fatigue in her voice.
Azure walked up to her. "A-Are you okay, Your Highness?"
"I..." She said. "I just...need...I..."
She suddenly blacked out, collapsing from tiredness and falling on Azure.
"Gah!" Azure yelped. "S-Somepony help!!"
Doomato stopped in his tracks and walked back, no trace of surprise in his actions. "Oh, dear... Is there some way that I could help, sir?"
Lunar chuckled quietly at Azure while standing by a wall in a nearby alleyway. "Oh my hehe." he thought
Blue hopped to the downed Chrysalis "Stand back everypony, i am a doctor!" she giggled, her horn engulfed in the briliant red flame of her magic. "Twinkle twinkle little Star, help the bug lady get a bar." She was sending her magical energy to the changeling queen, restoring her energy suplies while singing horribly.
Suddenly, the door that the guard had been pointing to opened, and a pony walked out. He gave commands to the guard immediately. Get her to medical. The rest of you, come inside, now.
The guard nodded and helped Chrysalis up as best as he could. Come with me...you there, can you help? He asked Azure.
((even if crazy Blue is a good healer, so Chrysalis state after her healing her should be much less severe, just saying X3))
The crazy mare frowned. "Hay, on who's autority are you taking my patient? The bunny curator will hear about this." She said simply and walked up to Checkmate.
It's on my authority, so the bunny curator can talk to me.
(Chrysalis isn't hurt, just worn out)
"Oh, um...s-sure..." He stammered, getting off the ground and helping lift the Queen.
The rest of the Changelings approached Checkmate, save Frequent and Fury.
"Is is possible for us to accompany them to this medical bay?" Frequent said, before motioning to Fury. "My charge here requires medicine." He then pulled out the vial of green liquid Starlight had drunk from before.
((They can still rest there.))
You may. Once you've all recovered, I would like to see you.
"Ok, we'll all go then." Fulmen said, before the whole group began to follow the guard and Azure.
The guard guided them to a makeshift hospital, where they were given beds and some food.
Starlight coughed again, falling unconscious.
Some medical ponies quickly attended to Starlight, trying to take care of the sick pony.
((Unless they're somewhere else, then nevermind.))
The group of Changelings sat around rather disjointed, while Frequent was giving Fury the green liquid. She spat a little afterwards.
"Bleack! You know I hate this stuff." She whined.
"Would you rather freeze up and perish at a random moment?" He rebuked.
"Touche."
Azure was sat next to the sleeping Chrysalis, and Fulmen was lying down, staring at the ceiling.
Azure felt his head slide to the side, before he jolted up again. He was falling asleep himself. Soon enough, he did just that.
(Where's Blue?)
(Good question ovO)
The little crazy mare was nowhere in sight, what could her crazed mind be cooking up?
(oh noes...)
((.....oh dear.))
((check's class started, he'll be back in a few hours))
((Hey, guys! I'm back from getting my new glasses! ^-^))
(Ok)
Fulmen stood, bored, by all the waiting. He looked at Azure sleeping near Chrysalis.
"Heh. Fissure would have blown the whole place up if he saw this..." he spoke to himself. Frequent and Fury were in another room, so he decided to play another prank. Before he could, though, he realized something.
"Hey, where'd that Blue pony go?"
Thinking for a second, he made his way out the hospital, looking for Blue, leaving the Queen and Azure on their own.
The tiny crazy mare walked around the city randomly, her mind racing with ideas from making another firework to trying out a cloud dispelling spell.
Lunar hung upside down above Blue with his wings covering his body as if he was like a bat. The pony grinned as his red eyes were the only thing making light in the area as he was holding a bottle full of oil.
"W-whoa!" Book Keeper yelped as she collided with (and nearly tripped over) a tiny blue mare. "Sorry about that little one, I wasn't paying attention to where I was going," she continued sheepishly.
Checkmate stepped into the hospital room, looking at who was in there.
Quote from: waaaaaaah on 2014 Sep 14, 15:12:26
"W-whoa!" Book Keeper yelped as she collided with (and nearly tripped over) a tiny blue mare. "Sorry about that little one, I wasn't paying attention to where I was going," she continued sheepishly.
The tiny blue mare giggled and hopped around Book Keeper.
"No problem! Tell me, do you like fireworks?" she asked with a wide smile.
Quote from: Checkmate on 2014 Sep 14, 21:38:51
Checkmate stepped into the hospital room, looking at who was in there.
Frequent and Fury were in another room, so all that was in there was Chrysalis and Azure, both asleep.
"Come on...light the fireworks...do it." Lunar thought to himself filled with anxiety.
Doomato proceeded into Cloudsdale, "Guess I should go find an inn..."
Quote from: Grizzly on 2014 Sep 15, 00:19:30
The tiny blue mare giggled and hopped around Book Keeper. "No problem! Tell me, do you like fireworks?" she asked with a wide smile.
"I love fireworks! The way they sparkle and flash and make a pretty show of lights!" Book Keeper gushed.
Then her mind caught up.
"You weren't thinking of lighting any fireworks without any supervision,
were you?" she asked rather sternly.
Blue rubbed her chin. "Good point, but they will see it, it will be a big firework!" She smiled widely, craziness shearing from her gaze.
Oh hello, reader. My name is Clock Work, and i am a toymaker here in Cloudsdale. There i do some toymaking for the comunity. I am not a pegas, i am an earth pony, with a pair of mechanical wings. A few weeks ago some hugging epidemic started, so let's go have some fun advanture!
A brown pony with geary wings slowly went through the streets of Cloudsdale. He was thinking about some new toys and music boxes, to morally boost the remaining survivals of the city. He saw a tiny blue coated unicorn, presumambly a filly, that he hasn't seen before with Skilett.
He walked to them.
Book Keeper raised an eyebrow at the tiny blue mare. There was something off about that smile of hers. Still, she smiled back in return.
"As long as we inform those in charge, it should be ok. Since I don't have anything important to do right now, so why don't I help you set it up after we ask permission?"
"Oh? But i already have permission." The crazy mare said confidently. "The blue bunny said i can."
Book Keeper cocked her head. "Blue bunny?" she echoed. Then she shook her head. "No, there's no one in Cloudsdale like that. Come now, let's ask the one in charge instead of imaginary friends."
The tiny blue mare blinked as she noticed the brown pony approaching them, charged her horn, teleporting away and reappearing in front of Clock Work with the sound of sparkles and a sort of puff sound effect. "HEY! You're in charge here? Can we do a big firework?" She asked in a high pitch voice and big wide smile.
"H-Hey! You can't do that to somepony!" called out a surprised Book Keeper.
"Hmm... This certainly isn't the town of accommodations..." Doomato continued to walk through the town, attempting to find an inn or hotel.
Fulmen was shooting through Cloudsdale, looking for Blue.
"'scuse me! Pardon me! Has anypony seen a little blue filly?!" He called, hoping somepony would hear him.
Doomato heard the voice and galloped towards him, "Is there any kind of manner in which I can assist you?"
Fulmen turned to him. "Oh, you again. I'm looking for that little blue pony that was with us before. The one that kinda...lost it."
"Yes... 'Blue', was it?"
"Ah, that was it. I never got her name before. C'mon, we have to find her!"
He galloped off, calling Blue's name.
Doomato followed him, also galloping.
Quote from: waaaaaaah on 2014 Sep 15, 12:19:55
"H-Hey! You can't do that to somepony!" called out a surprised Book Keeper.
The tiny blue mare turned her head to Skilett.
"You don't do what?"
Doomato continued to gallop behind Fulmen, "Blue! May I have your attention please! Wherever you are!"
"Just rudely leave somepony's conversation at the drop of a hat!" answered Book Keeper while walking over to the tiny mare, slightly miffed. "You should have at least said 'excuse me', before dashing off!"
Doomato began to hum a peculiar yet soothing song as he galloped.
The tiny blue mare blinked. "We weren't done?" she tilted her head.
Doomato became annoyed, "BLUE!!!??? Where are you!?"
"And - wait, er," Book Keeper's brow furrowed in concentration. "We were done - that's not the point! Argh! I'm confused now!"
"There's nothing to be confused about. We talked, and we were done, so i went." Her ears twitched. "And it would seem i am being called for, excuse me, its tea party time, fireworks later." She giggled and trotted off happily, then stopped on the cloudy 'ground' and looked at her hooves, giggling. "The ground is funny today." she hopped off.
Doomato took a different direction, "Let's split up!" Soon, he came to witness the scene of Blue and Book Keeper.
((Where is Starlight ATM? Medical?))
(Think so, most likely detained.)
((yeah, check had her taken in the medical area and restrained, if i remember correctly))
"Hey! Can I have hug? Pwease?" Starlight asked before coughing again. "Hugs?"
"What's going on here, I may ask?"
Lunar continued to follow Blue remaining hidden. He made sure the cap was sealed tightly so nothing would leak out.
Quote from: Doomato on 2014 Sep 15, 15:36:52
"What's going on here, I may ask?"
"A nice conversation that became rather...interesting," Book Keeper answered the blue stallion, turning towards his direction. "Are you an acquaintance of hers? There's something off about her behavior...it rings a bell somewhere."
The tiny blue mare continued to hop in a random direction.
Clock had interest only for the blue mare.She had something he seen before. In fact, he knew exaclty what was going on and choose to guard her.
"Hi, hun Eah, i am in charge. I think the fireworks are not ok. Where are you from? Do you have any friends here?" He questioned
"Fireworks? Are you crazy!? Its tea time, you can't do fireworks over tea, that's just silly." The crazy mare said sternly, then hopped around the strange pony. "I'm from a lot of places and i have friends EVERYWHERE!" she said and stood in an epic pose.
Fulmen walked up to Blue. "There you are! We've been worried sick!" The Changeling turned to Book Keeper and Clock. "Sorry about all this, she's with us."
Blue turned her head to Fulmen in an unnatural way. "Oh, hello mister bugmister sir, you look slightly familiar." She said.
"Ugh...this is taking to long...I guess I'll have to use it." Lunar thought as he took out a grenade then pours some of the oil on the street where it eventually flowed towards group's hooves. He covered himself with his wings as he unsealed the grenade and dropped it by the oil.
((wouldn't the oil just flow through the cloudy streets?))
A movement at the edge of Book Keeper's eye caught her attention. She suddenly noticed a small river of oil headed towards their group...and a grenade falling towards it!
Time started to slow down for her. She only had limited time, and had to make the seconds count. She quickly browsed her memories for the right spell, reviewed it as fast as she could, and prayed it work.
Her horn sparked brightly as she cast the spell, and time resumed. A shimmering blue shield surrounded the group.
As the grenade hit the cloudy ground it set of, exploding and igniting the oil, flames quickly followed the oil stain and a larger explosion followed. The shield managed to protect the group.
The tiny blue mare gasped. "Who started a firework in tea time?" She frowned.
Book Keeper gasped at the strain of of the explosion on her shield. After a few seconds, the shield shorted out.
[[Can I join? :)]]
((of course you can, hun ^-^))
Clock jumped back, he try to look for the one who dropped the bomb. "Is everypony ok?"
Doomato had been in the middle of explosion, yet he walked out as if he was just touched by a tiny gust of wind. With an icy glare, Doomato began trotting directly thought the flames towards the assailant. "Care to elaborate on your motive?"
Fulmen jumped at the shock of the explosion. "GAH! What the hay was that?!"
He then saw Doom walking into the fire, unharmed. "...What is going on?!"
Quote from: MemphisFox on 2014 Sep 16, 12:29:37
Clock jumped back, he try to look for the one who dropped the bomb. "Is everypony ok?"
"Y-yeah," answered a panting Book Keeper. "Just let me catch my breath."
Doomato turned towards Fulmen, standing in the flames. "Ever heard of the phrase 'Fight fire with fire'?"
Fulmen didn't hear what he just said.
"H-How are you walking in there?!"
"Has anyone ever tried to turn an emotion into a somewhat physical form?"
Book Keeper's ears pricked up at the blue stallion's question.
Wait...there it was!
"There have been many attempts over the years to convert emotions into a physical state, " she recited, "but the only successful conversion was that of love."
Doomato chuckled, "I guess that I do manage to keep my secret a secret."
(where is this coming from lol)
"What are you talking about?! You do realize there's a FIRE SPREADING?! Go get help!"
He hadn't seen Lunar.
"Help? I care to seek the assailant first. These clouds are full of water, and you're at a safe distance." Doomato began to walk through the fire, searching for the culprit.
(World building man ;) and character building ^-^)
Book Keeper blushed in embarrassment. "Yes, yes, right away." She then rushed off to get a firepony.
((WHAT!!!??? I don't work with a lego knock-off! lol))
The tiny blue mare was frowning at the fire. "No no no no no, that will never do. The flame spread too slowly and the explosion didn't create nearly enough sparks, this firework is a total bust." She said idly and walked toward it, charged her horn and stirred the clouds, guiding them to and over the flames. The water aerosol quickly choked the flames, leaving only black smoke. "Highly unacceptable."
Doomato continued to look for an answer, ignorant to the lack of fire and the rain.
(Is there anyway to snap Blue out of it? We need her to make more cure.)
"HELP IS ON THE WAY!" shouted Book Keeper as she charged around a corner. A red pegasus in a yellow helmet and a black and yellow striped coat flew behind her, eyes rolling.
The black smoke instead of the red flames she expected to see halted her charge completely. As she sat there staring in confusion, the firepony snorted. "And I had to leave my lunch break early, " he muttered to himself, then flew off
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Sep 16, 13:46:40
(Is there anyway to snap Blue out of it? We need her to make more cure.)
((there is, her particular state can be cured via hypnosis.))
The tiny blue filly walked to Book Keeper.
"I am sorry, that firework was totally wrong! No fun at all!"
Book Keeper shook her head, then turned to the blue mare, sighing. "Silly filly, that was no firework at all! Fireworks are supposed to sparkle and glow! All this did was just go boom."
"Exactly! Absolutely unacceptable! Celestia guard the pony responsible for busting up a firework so horribly." She huffed angrily.
"Those other ponies seemed like friends of yours, " Book Keeper remarked. "I'm glad that nopony was hurt."
The tiny blue mare tilted her head. "Huh?" she looked over the said ponies. "Hm, i think so, not sure. Possibly."
(Fulmen's still here, you know, and he's a changeling ^-^)
Fulmen stepped up to Blue. "Are you okay? And what are you talking about? We ARE you're friends!"
He turned to Book Keeper. "Sorry about this. She kinda...hit her head."
Doomato continued to walk over the oil, covered in rain.
Book Keeper stared at the changeling. She had a whole bunch of questions she would like to ask him, but suppressed her excitement and tried to focus on the subject at hoof. "Hit in the head? Head trauma doesn't account for the behavior she's been displaying! What really happened!?"
"To be honest...I don't really know. She just...snapped. Tried to jump out of the zeppelin. She been harassing my Queen ever since."
Blue opened her mouth and tired to say something but her eyes just kinda went to the back of her head. "Nap time already?" She felled on her side, sleeping soundly.
Book Keeper levitated the sleeping filly onto her back. "If you can bring me to somepony that knows what happened, I may be able to help. I can't guarantee anything though, as I'm not a psychiatrist."
Starlight tried breaking free. "I want hugs!"
(Oh geez this is the 2nd day I see 2 new pages of replies after I come from school)
"Hehe...hahaha so explosive, but I hate hot ah..." As the flames were spreading Lunar made a run for it before anyone closed in on his location.
"I'll take her to the commander."
Clock said and didn't wait for an answer, he took the sleeping blue filly on his back and ran to Checkmate's office.
Checkmate was sitting at his desk, reading some reports from scouts. Still missing...missing...confirmed...missing...
The tiny blue mare was breathing gently as she slept on Clock Work's back. She was drooling a bit and mumbling some nonsense about tea and explosions.
Clock opened the door and stept in. "Mr. Checkmate, i most apologize for this trully unexpected arrival, but as you can see on my back, i need your help."
I know that mare... Checkmate stood up, walking over to Clockwork and helping him. Blue Star...daughter of one of my guards.
The tiny blue sleeping mare yelped out some nonsense and rolled off of Clock's back.
"Its nice that you have a family session but she is totaly nuts. Her consciousness is like "I don't wanna be here anymore." She has a little bit of an ignition problem too. O think maybe we need to drop a vase on her head to help..."
Let her rest for now, we can see once she wakes up.
Fulmen took a deep breath. "At least she's out of trouble."
He turned to Book Keeper. "Sorry about all that."
Book Keeper shook her head. "It's not a problem. I'd still like to help, if I can."
"One of the guards guarding Starlight yelled through a communicator. "Starlight got out! Starlight got - hug?"
(I'm heading over to a friend for a few hours, ill post after)
Quote from: Snowcraft_Pony on 2014 Sep 17, 10:38:36
"One of the guards guarding Starlight yelled through a communicator. "Starlight got out! Starlight got - hug?"
(I kinda didn't want another outbreak, but eh, I'll still roll with it. ^-^)
(Don't you know that's how these things work? lol)
Fulmen was looking around now. "Don't tell me it got here too?! Wait...My Queen and Azure are still asleep in the medical room!!!"
Lunar strolled down the street. "Hmph, this area seems a bit clean...I haven't been seeing any infected ponies reaching here yet." he looked up into the sky. "Not even the pegasi yet it seems...heh I guess I should fix that but..." The beaker in his bag seemed to have a little bit of liquid in it. "Heh seems that attraction potion was wasted during the zeppelin incident...well then I guess that will have to be replenished." "Ha! No pony will be safe." he said out loud as he sprinted down the street,cutting and turning through alleyways.
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Sep 19, 17:45:23
Fulmen was looking around now. "Don't tell me it got here too?! Wait...My Queen and Azure are still asleep in the medical room!!!"
Book Keeper shivered in fear at the changeling's statement. "Not here too!" she whimpered.
(( love how lunar just spontaneously took the role of the villain X3 ))
(Well, we need a reason the plague exists. Just now we need a reason why he made it... O:)
((cause he's being himself? X3 you haven't played with lunar much, have you X3))
(Nope, sorry X3)
((Lunar tends to take on a Villain or Anti-Hero role))
Doomato was completely ignorant to the broadcast and was galloping towards the voice which said "No pony will be safe". Strangely, Doomato had a certain glint in his eye that said "truth".
(Eh, I should've replied on this rp while it first started before it even reached the 20ths page >:/)
Lunar heard hoof steps of a pony closing in on him. "Crap..." he thought as he turned his head in the opposite direction.
True enough, Chrysalis and Azure were still sound asleep in the hospital. Frequent and Fury were elsewhere in it.
Quote from: Checkmate on 2014 Sep 17, 02:14:15
Let her rest for now, we can see once she wakes up.
"Very well, commander. I'll leave her here then and return to my workshop. Surely you wont mind caring for an unconscious filly." Clock Work teased with a smirk and left the office.
'She will be a hooffull, best its not my hooves she's keeping busy.' he thought.
Lunar jumped unto the dumpster then leaped on top of the building next to it. He was leaping over the gaps until he landed next to a building. "Oh Blue...where are you..." Lunar said in a hushed voice.
"Hug..." Lunar heard chillingly, finding Starlight above him in her pinkish-white changeling form.
"Oh look, an infected pony.' Lunar said as he looked up smiling. "I guess I was wrong about this city being clean."
"Hug..." Starlight repeated as she closed in on Lunar, one of her guards, unlucky enough to have been infected as well also approached.
Fulmen began looking around for any infected. "I'm not sure if we're safe here." He said to Book Keeper.
Back at the hospital, Azure and Chrysalis were still asleep. Fury and Frequent were looking around for Starlight; being immunized, it would be much safer for them to find her.
Doom heard hoofsteps and talking from the top of a nearby building; without hesitation, he climbed up the dumpster which Lunar used and began to jump from building-to-building.
Book Keeper bit her lip nervously. "If it came down to it...I could teleport us out of here," she said hesitantly. "I'd rather not do that though. I could cast a spell to help us run faster."
"Do you know anywhere that might be safe?" Fulmen asked.
"I've been working on a temporary safe house," Book Keeper confessed. "But it can't hold many ponies yet."
"Not only but two haha, it must be my lucky day!" Lunar leaped at Starlight at 50 mph speed then struck her in the left side of her head with his horns knocking the infected pony unconscious. "Your next." he said as he shot projectiles towards the infected guard which illuminated the area making it noticeable to Doom.
Fulmen thought for a second. "Well then, our best bet is to keep moving."
Book Keeper nodded. "Let me cast the spell first," she said. Her horn lit up as she casted the spell, and for a moment, she and the changeling glowed, before returning to normal.
The tiny blue mare sat up. "Sleep time is over!" She said abruptly and stretched.
The pegusis that had appeared then disappeared early; just walked past Blue, Fulmen, and Book Keeper wereing Lunar Republic armour.
(I'm gonna be away for three days, just letting you guys know X3)
The infected guard.managed to get dangerously close to infecting Lunar.
"Whoa whoa bad, back up!" he said as he distanced himself a few inches away from the infected guard. "Saimin-jutsu...." he whispered as his eyes started spinning along with the guard's.
Doomato noticed the light emitting from a nearby roof and jumped over to the scene. The thing that caught his eye the most was the beaker which Lunar had in his possession. "I'm afraid I cannot let you do that... Lunar."
Back at the hospital, Azure had slumped over in his sleep, and tapped Chrysalis's head, causing her to jolt up into a sitting position, still half-asleep.
"Huh-wha?! ...No, mother, I don't..." She mumbled. "I dare you..."
She then laid back down. "You do that, and I'll marry a...zzz..."
She dozed off again, hunched over.
Meanwhile, Fury and Frequent were walking through the city, looking out for Starlight, when Frequent stopped them.
"Wait...I hear something..."
He then turned his head in the direction of Lunar and Doom.
Doomato closed his eyes and began to stroke his chin.
Lunar sighed as he let go of the guard. "So you're the one following me, however..." he said as he dropped the beaker on the ground making a crack in it. "All purpose of making the ingredients are meaningless, seeing how an infected pony here and the guard are running around here would've saved me the trouble of doing so."
"Quite a peculiar motive, is it not?" He said, opening his eyes.
"Motive eh, you don't say."
"Hu..." Starlight said in a dazed fashion.
Lunar turned around "Well then, I guess I shall skedaddle." he said as he fled
Frequent and Fury had hidden and watched the whole conversation. After Lunar had fled, they turned their attention to Starlight, sneaking up behind her.
"You hug?" Starlight asked to Doomato in a fashion that sounded disturbed by itself.
Seeing that starlight was infected Mental slowly flew up as fast as his bat wings alowed.
Doomato grinned, "Coward..." The stallion looked at the infected Starlight, "No, my good sir. I know that the purple stallion who just departed would be joyous to have a hug. Why not pursue him?" He offered, fearlessly.
"3...2...1...NOW!!!!"
Frequent lunged at Starlight, while Fury lunged at the infected guard, trying to tackle both of them to the ground.
Lunar looked up to see Mental in the air. " What the hay is that thing!?"
The crazy blue mare with an amused smile hopped around the room she was set to sleep in, but she quickly grew bored. "What kind of tea party is this?" She asked and sighed. She rubbed her chin and then charged her horn, the brilliant red flame dancing along the whole horn for a few seconds, before she pointed it at the wall and unleashed her stored arcane energy, blasting a hole in the wall ranging from floor to ceiling. "Adventure time~" She proclaimed happily and hopped out out the room through the giant hole.
"Nya!"
"Yahh!" Starlight yelled as she tried to break free and stand up, unable to do so though she resorted to wildly flailing her limbs. The infected guard had unfortunately nod been so fortunate as to how hard he had been tackled, and was knocked out on the spot.
Frequent struggled to hold Starlight. "Cover your ears!!" He shouted to everypony, before unleashing an incredibly high-pitched screech in an attempt to knock Starlight out.
Doomato stood there, allowing the screech into his ears. "Are you quite sure of that?"
"Myah!" Starlight screamed in response.
(Back ^-^)
Book Keeper frowned. Somepony nearby was screeching. That didn't bode well for them.
At the scream the tiny crazy mare's ears twitched. "Oh, a party! Here come's Blue!" she proclaimed happily and quickly galloped to the source of the screaming.
"This is a rather peculiar turn of events..."
(did that knock Starlight out?)
Fury immediately used whatever was around her to immobilize the unconscious guard, so if he woke up, he wouldn't be able to move.
A high pitch screech flowed through Lunars ears. "Gaaaah! You got to be kidding me!" he yelled as he covered his ears. The screech had a big impact that it shattered Lunar's glasses.
"Mean! Hug!" Starlight yelled. (Nope.)
"HUGS!!!" Blue yelled from across the street. "Somepony wants hugs? But how can you have hugs before breakfast? That's outrageous!"
Check ran to the source of the chaos with some guards.
The tiny blue mare tilted her head at the sight of Checkmate and the guards. "HEY! I know you! You work with my dad!" She waved her small hoof and with in a second hopped to Check. "And the nice misters behind you are the breakfast squad, no doubt, right on time, i'm starving and somepony wants hugs, but you cant have hugs before breakfast! Its like girl rule number 5!"
Fury didn't want Blue to be in any danger, so she started thinking.
"Think, think, think! What'll get the attention of a crazy filly...?! ....Aha!"
She reached into her saddle, and pulled out a shiny golden Bit.
"Hey! Look!" She said, waving the Bit back and forth in front of Blue with magic. "Shiny thing!"
Check was commanding the guards. Evacuate the area, find the one who's infected, exile them. NOW!
Frequent looked at Starlight, then at Check. She wasn't a Changeling from their hive, so...
"This mare here is infected!" He called, still trying to hold her down.
Several guards moved towards Frequent, before helping to hold Starlight down.
Book Keeper nudged the changeling. "I think we should get out of here."
Fulmen looked at Book. "I know its stupid, but I need to check on my Queen. Head to that safehouse you mentioned, you'll be safe!"
The guards dragged Starlight away, removing her from the city. She was dragged out of the gates and left there, with a patrol making sure that she didn't move back towards the city.
Book Keeper nodded. "If you need me, just look for the house with upside-down mushroom on its roof!" And she ran off.
Frequent sighed. "Thank you for the assistance." He thanked the guards. "Is my Queen safe?"
I believe so. Checkmate answered.
"And what of the blue stallion that was with her? Azure Wave?"
They are both recovering, according to my medical officials.
"So the hospital is still safe, thank the Queen..." Fury breathed, relieved as she still waved the Bit in front of Blue.
That is the most secure area in the city, I promise.
Lunar saw the infected pony being dragged away then followed them. He looked at Starlight with an unamused look on his face. "Ha, I know you can do better than that." he walked closer. "Surely one such as yourself would've put up more of a fight even when tied down beyond any way of moving....hehe except squirming like a little worm." he said as he kicked at the infected pony to the edge almost knocking her off of it.
Blue was distracted by the shiny coin for a while, but suddenly she charged her horn and teleported away, reappearing in front of the guards that were about to throw Starlight out of the city. "Hey! What's the meaning of this? You really want to throw my college out? Just when i was about to make my special tea to stop the hugging?" She said with a stern expression.
Starlight gave a saddened expression as she neared the edge of the cloud. When her wings buzzed however she grinned and slowly began to take off, coughing as she did so. (Why did she keep doing that anyway?) And transformed into the same form Blue and her friends had originally met her in. (Also, what happened to them? She hadn't got them.)
Book Keeper approached the house she was staying by.
Fury flew after Blue, but then saw Lunar kicking Starlight near the edge, and her taking off. "HEY!" She yelled at Lunar. "What are you doing?! Why is it that whenever you show up, something bad is happening?!"
"By the moon! Throwing ponies out 'cause they are infected?" Mental spoke for the first time.
"I know, totally not cool, right?" The tiny blue mare rolled her eyes. "Hey! You can talk?"
Lunar opened his wings and turned his head in Fury's direction. "Heh, wouldn't you like to know..." he says as he takes off as well.
Fury growled. "Oh, you just wait 'till my Queen wakes up in the hospital. She'll kick your-!"
She suddenly shut up. She just told a possible villain where her Queen was.
"Oops...Um, you heard nothing!"
Blue frowned at Fury, rolled up a newspaper and smacked her on the head. "BAD GIRL!"
//lol
Lunar grinned at that Fury's comment. "And thats exactly who I'm going to go for." he teased as he flew off.
As Lunar flew off the tiny crazy mare sighed. "Well, i did give Bug Lady some of my energy, so she should be up and about by now. Still, don't wanna miss the party." she grabbed Fury and Starlight and dragged them to the hospital.
Book Keeper breathed a sigh of relief, and walked towards her residence. But she didn't get far before she heard a terrifying sound from behind her.
"Hug?"
((we officially made hugs terrifying X3))
(Ikr X3 )
Fury was about to go after Lunar, but unfortunately Blue's newspaper made her flinch, and she didn't see which way he flew to stop him.
"This is bad..."
Back at the hospital, Chrysalis and Azure were both still asleep. (Considering how much magic Chrysalis has used and how stressed Azure was, I'd probably be asleep for ages too.)
Mental turns into a shadow and disapears. He then materializes in Chrysalis and Azure's room at the hospital.
Book Keeper slowly looked behind her. A green pegasus stallion hovered in the air a short distance from her. Her expression changed from one of relief to that of a pony scared out of her mind.
She tried to move, but felt herself frozen in place. She willed herself to move, but her body wouldn't budge.
"Hug," the pegasus growled as it barreled towards her.
With no time to waste and no other options, Book Keeper did the unthinkable; she prepared to teleport.
She screamed in fear as the pegasus drew closer to her.
She was still screaming as she teleported away.
Lunar looked down to see a pony with an infected pegasus under him. "What the hay, I don't recall that guard or Starlight spreading the disease yet!"
"Oh, no! Infected; alert the media!" He joked, "I guess that I'll see if anyone with medical expertise can tell me more about this virus..." Doomato jumped from roof-to-roof, heading towards the hospital.
As Starlight was dragged to the hospital she was silent, but she had a bored expression on her face.
Lunars face went from a frown to a devious grin as he took a second look at the infected pegasus and thought about Chrysalis. "Oh boooy." he said in a hushed voice. He swooped down in front of Book Keeper to grab the pegasus by the tail. "Ill take that." he said as he ascended and started flying with the dangling pegasus.
(Whoops, I may have doomed Chrysalis :I)
A sobbing Book Keeper suddenly appeared in the hospital's reception area.
The sound of teleportation woke Chrysalis. "Hmm?"
She looked around, briefly looking at Azure, before getting up, and looking for signs of the teleport. She stepped into the other room as Azure still slept.
A screaming Doomato dolphin-dived into reception.
Book Keeper continued to sob, oblivious to anypony's presence.
As Chrysalis stepped in to the reception, she saw Doom dive in.
"Not you again..." She groaned, before moving to Book Keeper. "What is wrong?" She said.
"Zeeblezooble, everypony!"
"P-p-please, no," Book Keeper mumbled through her sobs, barely noting the presence of the changeling queen herself. "D-d-don't t-t-take me aw-w-way."
Lunar saw the hospital coming into view then stopped. "Hmm, how should I do this oh right." He sat the infected pegasus next to him then started going around the hospital boarding up the all windows and doors one by one with anything he could get his hands on except one. "Ok,now get your flank in there." he said as he threw the pegasus in the window to roam free in the hospital then sealed up that last window. He then flew up to the roof approaching the chimney taking out a match. "Wait, no...not yet hehe, I'll save that for later." he thought as he jumped down the chimney.
Shoves infected up chiminy
//lol random
Lunar felt a body bump against his head. "What the heck is this?!" he thought as he bumped the pegasus as he went down.
Blue finally dragged Fury and Starlight to the hospital, once the building of medical care was in visual range the tiny crazy blue mare tilted her head. "That's a very odd decoration. Anyway, let's go visit bug lady!"
Chrysalis looked around; all the exits had suddenly been boarded up.
This made her suspicious, as she went to the hospital's intercom (whatever you call those announcement things)."Everypony may wish to evacuate. Somepony is boarding up the hospital."
After she finished, she blasted the main door open again, readying another blast and waiting to see if somepony would try and board it up again.
As the main door was blasted open blue only shrugged and galloped inside, dragging Fury and Starlight with her.
Doomato stood up and began to trot towards the medical ward.
Look annoied Mental unboards all exits.
Lunar got to the bottom then sat the pegasus down. "Now where is it, oh there it is." he aimed his head then stabbed the main circuit breaker making all power go off. He lit the chimney then ripped the circuit breaker off the wall. "No one shall fix this." he said as he threw it into the lit chimney to melt it.
Doomato trotted into to the scene of Lunar and the burning power-source, swiping the circuit breaker from the fire. "I'm afraid I'm going to have to object to that..." The stallion's face grew emotionless. "Ever wonder why my 'cutiemark' consists of three cogs?"
Chrysalis suddenly looked around at the loss of power, remembering she had left Azure alone in another room when she followed Book Keeper. However, without the power, she couldn't see two hooves in front of her.
Once Blue got inside the hospital she was puzzled by the darkness, releasing Starlight and Fury she walked forward until she hit the wall. "Ouch! Who turned off the sun?" She asked as she rubbed her nose. She walked around the darkness a bit more, bumping into a lot of walls, furniture and ponies, until she got an idea. "Oh, that's right, i'm an unicorn. That translates to walking light bulb." the crazy mare giggled and charged her horn with a basic light spell, illuminating the area around her with a light about flashlight strong.
Frequent was standing where Blue had dragged the others away from, sighing.
"Sometimes, it's like I don't even exist..." He said, adjusting his glasses. "And that's fine by me."
He took off, flying towards the hospital. "There must be a way to fix that filly's mind.....maybe a hypnosis session would help."
Blue walked through the darkened corridors of the hospital with the only illumination being the light of her horn. "Bug lady. Oh bug lady. Big scary bug lady~" She called while going from room to room.
Starlight had gotten up and wandered the hospital dazed until she collapsed in a coughing fit. Unable to get back up.
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Blue walked through the darkened corridors of the hospital with the only illumination being the light of her horn. "Bug lady. Oh bug lady. Big scary bug lady~" She called while going from room to room.
(Chrysalis is by the entrance)
Book Keeper continues to sob; however, the sobbing starts to sound less and less hysterical.
Azure was still asleep. He woke up for a split-second, but fell asleep again when he couldn't see anything, letting out an audible yawn.
Lunar looked unmused. "I don't want to know, but I have two words to tell you." he said as he walked close to Doomato. "......Get your flank out of here." he said as he kicked Doomato lunching him through the wall of the room they were in which made noise that everyone could here. "Ah geez" he grabbed the infected pegasus then started to run down the hallway.
Mental looking cautiusly at where the curcit breaker should be. Stupidly sticks his hoof in it alowing wires to electricute him and turn the power back on.
Lunar stopped dead in his tracks then turns his path around until he returned into the previous room. "Aha!" he leaped at Mental tackling him against the chimney getting shocked himself. He started punching his face repeatedly with both of his hooves as the electricity and fire was making him catch on fire with his cape burning and a few parts of his tail.
Mental had no idea he was punched. the lights come on.
(I was going to use a night vision spell when Book Keeper stopped crying X3)
Azure suddenly flailed awake due to the noise. "W-Wha?!"
As Azure woke up Blue came in the room. "Oh miss bug lady~" She called. "Oh, hi Azure." she left the room, closing the door, then charged her horn and telepoted to Azure's side. "OH AZURE! You're bug lady's favorite pet, right, have you seen her?" she smiled widely.
Even though Lunar attacked him with such might, he remained idly standing and emotionless; seemingly immune to attack. Without hesitation, he began to walk in pursuit of Lunar.
Lunar took a deep breath athen took the circuit breaker out the chimney once again causing making the blackout.
Doomato walked up to Lunar, "Remarks and physical strikes mean nothing to me."
"B-Blue?! Wait, where is Her Highn-?!"
All of a sudden the power went out again.
"AAAAAAGH!!!!" He screamed. "What's happening?!"
Blue charged her horn again to form the light. "Somepony is playing with the power." she sighed.
Book Keeper hiccupped, and stopped crying long enough to notice that the power had gone out.
"W-what's going on?" she stammered in the darkness.
Chrysalis stepped over to Book Keeper, but with the power out, all that could be seen of her was her glowing eyes.
"We need to get out. It seems somepony may be interfering with the power."
Book Keeper almost screamed in fright at the glowing green eyes in the darkness, but she managed to hold it in, letting out only a small gasp.
"I - yes, we should be getting out," Book Keeper replied as she found her voice again. "Just give me a minute to cast a night vision spell." And she searched for the spell in her mind.
"Yes as if it matters to me." replied Lunar. He left the room then heard screaming. "Wait...that voice sounds familiar..." he closed in on the sound towards the room.
"You've piqued my curiosity..." Doomato began to follow Lunar.
Doomato tripped over Starlight, causing her to squeal in shock.
Lunar was hanging upside down on the ceiling right above Book Keeper. His red eyes and stripes on his face were glowing as he smiled with his teeth showing.
"Aha! There it is," Book Keeper exclaimed, gaining some of her confidence back. She then cast the spell, allowing her to see and giving everything a green shade. A movement at the top corner of her eye caught her attention, and she looked up at a grinning pony with glowing eyes and glowing facial markings hanging directly above her. His smile was all teeth.
Book Keeper froze.
Blue sighed. "Hello? Azure? Anypony here?" Blue waved her hoof in front of Azure's face, then moved to his side and looked in his ear. "And i thought i was crazy."
Doomato kicked Starlight a small bit and continued his walk, "Look, I think that a certain 'Lunar' who's climbing the ceiling like 'spidermare' would thoroughly enjoy a hug."
Chrysalis also yelped at seeing Lunar, before launching a string of silk from her mouth at him.
Lunar shielded the silk with circuit breaker he took out earlier then threw it at Book Keeper's head to knock her off balance in an attempt to cancel out her illumination spell.
Chrysalis quickly launched a beam at the breaker, knocking it off its intended path, before spitting more silk at their assailant.
Doomato sighed, "And everyone else has superpowers?"
(It's not an illumination spell, it's a night vision spell ovO)
Book Keeper stood frozen in place as the circuit breaker flew towards her, but a beam hit it and blasted it to pieces. This galvanized her into action.
"DUCK AND COVER, PONIES!" she yelled, and she galloped in a random direction. Unfortunately for her, she ran directly into a bluish pony who had just entered the room.
((Doomato or Blue?))
(doomato)
Doomato stood his ground, emotionlessly. "I apologise for the slightest inconvenience, but I'm afraid that I have a job to do."
Azure was standing outside, listening to the carnage inside.
"Gah, what do we do?! Her Highness is in there! Is it an infected attack?!"
He began to panic, but Fulmen helped him calm as Frequent arrived.
"Where is the small blue mare?" He asked calmly.
(I was expecting a liiitle more reaction than that X3)
Book Keeper stumbled and fell after bumping into the immovable stallion.
"Ow! Um, er job?"
"Small blue mare? Who do you mean?" Blue, sitting next to Azure, asked.
"I'm afraid that I cannot disclose any information on the topic."
"Awwwww," Book Keeper pouted. Her ears pricked up as she suddenly remembered something. "Weren't you that pony who asked, 'Has anyone ever tried to turn an emotion into a somewhat physical form?'"
(Doom, page 106)
"In a manner, yes. It was a rhetorical question, though."
"Ah, there you are. Fury, please give me a Bit."
Fury tossed a small gold coin to Frequent, who then began levitating it in front of Blue, back and forth in a hypnosis fashion.
Lunar somersaulted over the blast of silt to land on his back hooves crouching and his horn glowing. "Super powers?....Ok then." He moved both his front hooves to the right direction then moved them up to make a torrent of water rise from a grate into the air traveling in every direction his hooves where at. "My turn." he said as he span causing the water to curve in the air sweeping everyone in the room except Doom into the wall.
Book Keeper's eyes widened as a torrent of water suddenly appeared in the room. It whipped every which way, catching her and knocking her into a wall. She let out a grunt as she fell to the floor, dazed.
In Book Keepers vision she could see Lunar levitating drops from the puddle solidifying them into sharp ice spears, all aiming directly at her like target. "Say your prayers...Keeper" he said grinning.
Doomato rubbed his chin, looking at the ice.
Azure was tired of waiting. He could see flashes and crashes in one of the rooms of the hospital and, admittedly scared for his life, he ran in.
By the time he got there, he saw Lunar aiming the ice spears at Book Keeper, and all the water in the room.
Charging his magic, he lifted the water in a similar torrent the Lunar had done, and launched it directly at him.
Lunar was was about to launch the ice spears then turned around and flinched when he saw a torrent of water coming straight at him. "Another one?" he cancelled his ice spears then leaped towards the torrent to surf on it.
In non-apparent shock, Doomato began to... Spark?
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"Ah, there you are. Fury, please give me a Bit."
Fury tossed a small gold coin to Frequent, who then began levitating it in front of Blue, back and forth in a hypnosis fashion.
"Uuuh, shiny!" The tiny mare explaimed and stared at the coin, slowly falling into an hypnotic trans.
Doomato suddenly plunged his hoof into the water, somehow electrifying it.
As Book Keeper regained her senses, she noticed that the simple attack on her had somehow become an all out battle. Not for the first time, she wished that she was more capable in battle magic. Luckily, the strange pony that attacked her was occupied, and thus, she had time to perform a rather intricate piece of magic.
Book Keeper cleared her mind of all thoughts, and began to chant softly.
Seeing Lunar surf on the water, Azure pulled it away from under him, hovering the liquid in a ball next to him and glaring at Lunar, recognizing him from the zeppelin.
"You..." He growled. "You laugh when somepony almost dies, and now you ATTACK US?! What...is..."
He suddenly launched all the water forward at high pressure straight at Lunar.
"...WRONG WITH YOU?!?!"
Back at the entrance of the hospital, Frequent began chanting quietly, trying to return Blue's mind to the state it was at before she went insane.
The water was pulled away from Doomato's hoof, causing the remaining electricity which coursed through his body to become visible.
Lunar's mane and tail stood up as the hock managed to force him off the wave. "Haha, nothing is I'm just getting the fun out of an apocalypse and intercepting anyone trying to stop it." he crossed his front hooves readying himself for any attack.
The stallion continued to spark, staring at the water, longingly.
The water blast, which had been electrified on contact with Doomato, crashed into Lunar, all but destroying the wall behind him.
Blue repeated some stuff after Frequent, mumbling as she did so, her eyes half shut and all her attention to the golden coin.
"Counter" Lunar uncrossed his hooves causing the lightning to get extracted from the water redirecting it in the opposite direction.
Doomato stopped sparking.
"...veharetz yipatach!" Book Keeper finished chanting. A pentagon as black as night suddenly appeared underneath the strange pony's hooves. Black tentacles with an unearthly glow suddenly rose, and latched on to him with amazing speed. They gripped him tightly, dragging him toward the ground.
(did I god mod here? I can change this If i did X3)
Azure's eyes went wide as the blast hit him, sending him flying out a window, and straight into Frequent, interrupting the hypnosis. He landed on his hoof badly.
"?!" The strange pony's eyes widened out of curiosity. He reached out his hoof out of fear. "Ah, I wont go empty handed!" he yelled manipulating the remaining water in a puddle make tentacle like rope around his right arm then grabbed Chrysalis dragging her down with Lunar as he sunk in.
A slight steaming emanated from Doomato as his eye started to forge a burning glare. He slowly walked towards Lunar and the tentacles.
"Ah!"
Chrysalis couldn't react as she was suddenly grabbed, and dragged down by Lunar.
Lunar seemed to be out of sight.
Book Keeper panted from the sudden exhaustion that came with performing the ritual. She watched helplessly as the changeling queen was draggged under, unable to help.
Doomato leaned his hoof on the tentacles, setting them alight.
The tentacles reacted wildly, lashing this way and that way in response to the fire.
The heat from Doomato seemed to neutralize. After all the stallion had done, Doomato started to... Pull? Lunar out of the abyss.
(and after all that hard work? X3)
Lunar started shoving violently as if in response to the tentacles above.
Doomato dragged Lunar out of the abyss and onto the floor, giving him time to gather his bearings.
(did the tentacles burn completely?)
((They're just burning.))
Chrysalis, however, grabbed Lunar's tail with the only hoof she had out of the black pit, and pulled him back towards it; she was too far down to be pulled out now, but she wasn't going down alone.
Doomato kept grip of Lunar, supporting Chrysalis AND Lunar, "Aren't you guys the ones who have wings?"
Lunar landed on the ground straight as if he was in no pain,however his his markings and 2 horns were black instead of white. An unamused look was on his face as he eyed BookKeeper and Doomato.
Book Keeper shivered at the strange pony's intense gaze. There was not much she could do now; her best spell for ending the conflict had not worked.
Doomato replied with a literally burning stare. "And that's how you treat the overseer that saved you from an eternity in a deep, dark void?"
Lunar had no intention of attacking, he turned around and walked through the hole in the wall wordlessly with a visible smirk.
Book Keeper breathed a heavy sigh of relief when the strange pony, instead of attacking, walked through the wall, leaving them. She rose, trembling all the while from exhaustion.
Lunar continued moving as he went through the main door of the hospital.
Doomato's eye suddenly flashed yellow and then back to the regular baby blue. "Your fate is rather unique..."
Book Keeper made her way over to the blue pony. "Just who was that strange pony?" she asked him.
Blue was still dazed by the hypnosis, sitting in place like a good little filly.
Lunar turned around to sit on the ground and notices tht the white color on his hoof went to black. "I dont recall this, agh...must be a side effect from those tentacles."he sighed
"LunarDusk, an archmage I read about in the 'newspaper'." Doomato began to trot on the path that Lunar took, "I'm afraid that I have to confront him once more."
Lunar took out a button and sighed. " Guess now its time to use it....say bye bye, imbeciles" Suddenly all the mines he set during when he tried boarding up the windows all went off 1 by 1 The hospital was about to collapse.
Book Keeper was about to ask another question when the hospital shook from multiple explosions. She tried to run out, but her body was moving painfully slowly.
Doomato trotted out just as Lunar pressed the button. Suddenly, Doomato's voice rang in Lunar's head as he stared at him with his... Yellow? eyes. "Your fate is in the cards..."
Fury saw Lunar leaving, and ran up to him.
"Hey! Where do you thing you're going?! Where's our Queen?!"
"Your fate is in the raging fire..."
Lunar faced the duo with an expression that showed he was in no mood at the moment. "She has been buried into the pages of history" he says as he points to the hospital.
"I highly doubt that..." He said, glaring at Lunar with his glowing, yellow eyes.
Lunar smiled as his eyes started glowing making red air flow out of them to the side. "And what makes you come back for me now."
Azure slowly rose to his hooves, holding his hurt left foreleg in the air to see to hospital shaking.
Chrysalis and the others were still in there.
He ran in, and saw Book Keeper, who looked like she needed help.
"Hey!" He called running over and helping her. "Where's everypony else?! Doom? My Queen?!"
Back outside, Frequent got up and yelled loudly. "Destroying a hospital?! Have you the MINDSET OF A FOAL?!"
Unfortunately, he yelled the last part loud enough for Blue to hear. And with the hypnosis...
"Foal? I don't think a foal would think this except maybe baby King Sombra." he sneered
Book Keeper finally made it out of the hospital, watching the blue pony and Lunar Dusk squaring off.
Blue remained dazed a bit longer, then shook her head and looked around. Seeing the destruction of the hospital, and growing ever so scared by Frequent and the loud sounds, she started to cry, her mind regressed back to her filly years. All her knowledge and abilities possibly lost in the depths of her mind.
"You!" Lunar leap off the ground and started flying at Book Keeper at the speed of a jet in response to her approaching.
Azure didn't think, he only acted.
Out of pure instinct, he jumped in front of Lunar's path.
Book Keeper stood stunned when Lunar Dusk suddenly took off towards her with great speed Suddenly, a pony jumped in front of her.
Lunar collided straight into Azure hard wounding him. He gasped t the stallions and looked down holding him. "What imbecile does that?
"
Azure was knocked flying again, crying out in pain. He flew straight towards Book Keeper.
The tiny blue mare stud up, intending to gallop in a random direction, scared out of her little mind.
Doomato suddenly galloped over, "Okay, let's be serious here. Lunar... I challenge you to a duel."
Book Keeper's eyes widened as the unicorn flew towards her. He crashed into her, and they both tumbled to the ground.
"Lunar, I challenge you to a duel."
Fury saw Blue about to run, and slowly made her way over, trying not to spook her even more.
"Don't worry, we won't hurt you! Let's get you somewhere safe." She held out a hoof to her.
Lunar went to the center of the hill and got in stance as ice claws formed on his front hooves. "En gaurde!"
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Oct 05, 15:48:30
Fury saw Blue about to run, and slowly made her way over, trying not to spook her even more.
"Don't worry, we won't hurt you! Let's get you somewhere safe." She held out a hoof to her.
Blue nodded and sobbed as she took Fury's hoof.
Fury began leading Blue away, looking for somewhere safe.
Mental flies over to help Azure.
Azure's side was hurting terribly now as Mental approached. Fury was still leading Blue to an empty house while Frequent and Fulmen watched Doom and Lunar.
The tiny blue filly was sobbing as she was lead by Fury to a safe spot.
Book Keeper's knees wobbled as she tried to stand up...and then she fell back down . She couldn't do it
//Eh, sometime today Doom :/
An ice cold draft starting blowing around Lunar like a veil.
"This a battle of chivalry, not barbarians; be sure to remember that." Doomato motioned to Lunar, signalling him to attack first.
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Oct 07, 12:54:22
Azure's side was hurting terribly now as Mental approached...
"Come on get up," Sticks a hoof out to pick him up, "Got to find your wife don't ya."
Lunar hesitated for a moment then edged forward.
Quote from: mentalshock on 2014 Oct 08, 08:06:12
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Oct 07, 12:54:22
Azure's side was hurting terribly now as Mental approached...
"Come on get up," Sticks a hoof out to pick him up, "Got to find your wife don't ya."
"W-Wife...?" Azure groaned; he had a bit of a bruise on his side now as he tried to rise, eventually getting up and standing shakily.
Doomato's stance seemed to signify that he was on the defensive.
Slowly circuling the blue stallion Lunar constantly fake jabbed and slashed in an attempt to fake him out
Doomato stood there, sighing.
"Tya!" Lunar did a low sweep on Doom as soon as he sighed tripping the blue stallion.
The stallion jumped over Lunar's swiping hoof.
Lunar's hoof recoiled to swipe a wave towards Doom in the air.
As the wave made contact with Doomato, he smiled, causing the wave to be... Absorbed?
Book Keeper lay helpless on the ground, watching the battle unfold before her eyes.
Azure managed to stumble over to Book. "C'mon!" He beckoned to her.
"I-I can't get up," Book Keeper admitted, feeling a little embarrassed. "Can you help me up?"
Azure lent down, beginning to help Book up, but flinching from the pain of his wound. He managed in the end, however.
"Let's go...!"
Book Keeper nodded. She limped along with the unicorn.
Blue pulled on Fury's hoof. "I don't like it here!" she protested in a fillyish voice.
Fury crouched down to Blue. "I know, I don't like it either. But soon it'll be all better. We just have to stay here for now!"
Lunar looked up to see that it was starting to rain soaking the field as he continued swinging his clawed hooves.
Doomato parried all of his attacks with a fiery hoof, "I know your weakness... I know everything about you, Lunar."
"Heh you're going to try fire on me? Heh bad idea." he said as his ice claws started extending after ever parried attack.
Quote from: LunarDusk on 2014 May 08, 05:05:44
Weakness: Fire and heated environments.
((*Cough*-*cough*))
//lol said bad idea because its raining and if you hadn't noticed he's being like a waterbender for this rp since his element is primarily ice
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Oct 09, 13:49:26
Fury crouched down to Blue. "I know, I don't like it either. But soon it'll be all better. We just have to stay here for now!"
"Okay." Blue whispered in her fillyish voice.
//tch 10 days...are you waiting on me? :s
Lunar stepped back a few feet from Doom. "Everything?" "Ew, a stalker." he said sneering at Doom. His mane and tail were starting to droop as he was starting to get soaked but ignored it. "That just makes another person that knows what I do for a living like some person I know."
A green glow emerged from his eyes, a large scar appeared above his right eye and a gaping hole exposed itself in "Doomato's" hoof. "Ever heard of a changeling named Netirax?"
"Never wanted to have anything to do with that changeling."
"I'm afraid that you already have..." "Doomato" began to walk away from Lunar, and into town. "If you wanted to see the real Doomato, I'll be discussing sales and ideas with him at the bakery; he always had an unquenchable lust for sugar-donuts..."
Lunar hesitated to realize what just happened. "Tch, a changeling disguised as a blue stallion." he said unamused.
Blue remained crouched to the ground, shaking. (( and i think she's outside the hospital? dont really know what's going on anymore, need to do some reading X3 ))
(Blue was with Fury, in an empty house while Doom and Lunar did their dual. I feel like a chronicler for this X3)
Frequent ran to the house Fury and Blue were in.
((oh, thankyou~ X3 ))
Blue curled up into a cute blue ball of fur and was pressed against Fury.
Lunar turned around then started moving in the same direction.
Fury put a hoof over Blue. "It's okay...we'll be out of here soon."
Frequent entered, looking at the two. "Those two barbarians are dueling."
As Book Keeper limped away with the unicorn, she twisted her head back to see what was happening with the battle. She noticed the two ponies walking away into the town, and sighed with relief.
"They're gone, at least for now, " she told him.
(I've been waiting for you guys forever :s)
Suddenly Lunar started slowed down groaning until he stopped completely then collapsed on the road.
As he walked, Azure flinched again from pain. "Must...keep...moving..."
"Keep...it...together," Book Keeper muttered through clenched teeth as they entered the hospital. "Just...a bit...longer."
Blue kept her ears folded, snuggled up to Fury.
(Wait, didn't the hospital blow up?)
"Where's...Chrysalis...?" He gasped.
(It didn't blow to pieces, but it was seriously damaged X3)
"She's...gone!" Book Keeper sniffed as she stopped at the side of the entrance on the inside, breathing a bit easier now. "I'm so sorry! When I cast the ritual spell, Lunar Dusk dragged Chrysalis along with him, and he came out and - and she didn't!"
"Ugh...guess this is more than side effect..." Lunar thought as he laid motionless.
Azure froze.
"...W-What...?! W-What happened?! Where did you send her?!"
"The Void," Book Keeper almost whispered, and her ears drooped in shame. "Lunar Dusk attacked us all of a sudden, without warning, and there was a serious fight, and he almost killed me! When his attention was directed back onto the other ponies attacking him, I took advantage of his distraction to cast a ritual spell to trap him in the Void. It worked, but Lunar dragged Chrysalis with him. And then he was helped out, and Chrysalis was left in there! There are spells that can bring a pony back but I - I don't know them! I'm so sorry!"
Azure's mind was suddenly split in two: the mare that enslaved him for most of his life was finally gone...maybe for good. But then again...she saved him when he was sick, and almost died...
The shock took away his speech.
"V...She...gone...?"
"Not...permanently," Book Keeper answered. "But I don't know how to bring her back. Was she a special somepony to you?"
Azure immediately wanted to argue that; from all the evidence he saw, The QUEEN liked HIM. But, try as he did, he couldn't talk.
"..."
"Um," said Book Keeper, fidgeting with her hooves. "After the epidemic has ended, and everypony returned to normal, I could use my contacts to find the spell for me. If you want."
Azure slowly nodded, before sitting on a seat in the hospital, his ears dropped. "..."
Back in the house, Fury was talking to Frequent.
"We got a problem, Frequent. She thinks she's a filly again."
Frequent put a hoof to his chin. "And she's the only uninfected who knows how to make a cure...The hypnosis was interrupted. It'll be safe to perform it again tomorrow. For now though..."
He sat on the floor.
"We wait, and see if those two idiots don't destroy the whole of Cloudsdale."
Using the fact that she was really tiny for her age Blue moved under Fury's hooves. She was scared from the mentioning of destruction.
Finally Lunar started to regain mobility then stood up. "Tch, to tartarus with those two, I have other things to deal with." His horn started to glow then he was teleported to the entrance of the severely damaged Hospital. A light bulb fell down almost hitting his head. "Eh! Oh brilliant..." he sighed as he walked through the hallways.
Book Keeper suddenly froze as Lunar Dusk suddenly walked past her. She kept completely still and silent until he had left, at which point she let out a sigh of relief.
Azure glared at Lunar as he passed, but decided against starting a fight.
Lunar stopped dead in his tracks when he realize who he just passed. Soon he turned around to approach Book Keeper. "Still here I see."
"You just stay away," said Book Keeper nervously. She tried to back away, but the hospital seats prevented her from doing so.
"I came to ask you something." he said sternly. "The spell you used earlier here on me, where were you planning to drag me, because wherever it was it left side effects on me either from being exposed to the tentacles or the dimension itself, like this." he pointed to the stripes on his body which seemed to be a faded black instead of the usual white color. "And I get headaches like a fever then randomly pass out on the ground."
(( tentacles? :I i must have missed that one ))
(Page 116 X3)
"Um um," Book Keeper stammered nervously, "It could be because you were exposed to The Waiting Dark. I haven't used the ritual spell before, and the lore was fragmented."
Azure stared Lunar down, readying magic in case he pulled anything.
"I see..."
Azure's voice finally came back.
"Who...are...you...?!" He growled. "Why did you...DO this?!"
Lunar turned to Azure without hesitation.
" I am Lunar Void Dusk an infamous archmage...thats all you need to know."
"You're a murderous freak, that's what you are..." He grumbled.
"Shhh! Don't provoke him!" Book Keeper whispered.
"True...but thats not my concern right now." Lunar replied. " I just want more details on that spell she used on me since thats a spell i've been wanting to learn for a while."
"And why should we tell YOU?!" Azure was raising his voice; he didn't care that Lunar might be stronger than him.
Book Keeper suddenly became very worried. Magic of this caliber could not be allowed to fall into the hooves of this pony.
"You would probably be eaten alive if you tried casting it. This is a ritual spell after all. And anyways, these lips are sealed. S-E-A-L-E-D," she spelled out.
Lunar took 2 steps forward to Book Keeper and said in her ear. "I mean, asking you to reverse this effect "
Azure grew uneasy when Lunar stepped up to Book. He readied more magic.
"What's bad for you is good for us." He said bluntly. "Now get back."
"Bad for me that is good for you eh?" Lunar chuckled. "You do realize im known for transferring and spreading things...if you know what i mean."
"I gathered that before." Azure stated. "You're the only psychopath I've seen that would start this whole epidemic. Now WHY?!"
Book Keeper shuddered at the nearness of the mad archmage. She would have put more distance between them, but there was nowhere to go. "I can't, and I don't know how. But even if I did, I wouldn't remove it from you!"
//irony time
"You think I made it? Oh no, that epidemic ended a long time ago. I just got the fun out of it by releasing the infected pony into the wide open so it can spread it in Ponyville."
Azure growled again. "Yeah well, congrats, you doomed Equestria. Now get out of here before we take you down."
Lunar sighed. "Guess I'll have to personally seal your fate here then." Lunar's black stripes sent out smoke as he touched Book Keepers head with both of his front hooves infecting her with what he has. He turned around facing Azure. "Now its your problem." he said as walked past him grabbing his head in pain then fell over.
(I'm confused. Did you infect Book Keeper with the hugging disease? :I)
//No,he transferred the side effects from the spell you used onto you. Its like the Synchronize ability from pokemon.
(oh, ok. Lunar Dusk is lucky that he didn't try to infect Book Keeper with the disease. And that's all I'm gonna say X3)
Book Keeper screamed as her head suddenly was wracked with searing pain. As she fell to her hooves, clutching her head, she heard faint laughter coming from everywhere.
"I am me," she muttered an almost forgotten mantra. "The pain is not. The pain is besides me. The pain is around me. The pain is not inside me. I am me..."
Azure looked at Book in shock, before swinging around to Lunar again.
"You no-good FREAK!!!"
Using all the magic he stored, Azure unleashed his anger in the form of a room sized wave, aimed right at Lunar, and made so it would miss himself and Book.
Lunars eyes closed as the wave launched him through the wall landing outside the hospital. "Ugh..."
Azure charged his magic again, waiting for Lunar to make a move.
"Go on, try to move." He said in a rather sinister manner. "I DARE you."
"I am me. The pain is not. The pain is besides me. The pain is around me. The pain is not inside me," Book Keeper continued to chant. Little by little the pain seemed to be receding.
Blue put her hoof on her forehead as her mind started to race with thoughts and memories. Still under the influence of the botched up hypnosis, she made a few squeeks and grunts, her distorted senses making no sense. Confused she started to question, and answer her own questions. She lied on her stomach and put her other hoof on her head as well, cringing she fought the hypnosis. Little by little it wore off, and the tiny blue mare stood up again. "Wha... Where am i? What happened?" She asked, not sounding young nor crazy, it seemed that she was finally back to her normal self.
(I guess you were finally tired of waiting X3)
(( yeah, i'd have to wait for 'tomorrow in the RP', and by the rate things are going i feared that would not happen this year x3 ))
"W-why you!" Lunar glared as he laid on the ground paralyed. "I am me....the pain...the pain is not. The pain is besides me...the pain is around me. The pain is not inside me." he chanted in sync with Book Keeper. "Pain...pain." he muttered as tears streamed down his face.
Azure actually laughed. "You're CRYING? Good. Now you know how all these ponies, whose lives YOU ruined, feel!"
"...pain is around me. The pain is not inside me," Book Keeper finished chanting. The mantra was meant to disassociate oneself from the pain; she hadn't needed it for a long time. She could still feel it inside her, but it was walled off, and it would stay so, provided she didn't lose focus. She groaned, and tried to get up, but found that once again, she still couldn't.
"Could you help me up?" she asked the unicorn.
Azure turned back to Book. He began to slowly edge back to her, not taking his eyes off Lunar.
"Here." He leant down and began to help her up.
"Thanks," Book Keeper thanked the unicorn as he helped her up. "Say, I never did catch your name. Mine's Book Keeper!"
Blue remained silent for a few moments, switching looks between Fury and Frequent. "Can any one of you please explain what the hay is going on? Last thing i remember is being on a zeppelin." she sighed.
Azure looked at Book. "Azure. Azure Wave."
He then turned back to Lunar.
Back in the house, Frequent noticed Blue's mood change.
"You're better now, I see."
Fury stepped away from Blue. "Um, you...kinda went psycho a little after we arrived. Don't know why, but you tried to jump out of the zeppelin."
Blue's eyes narrowed as she stood frozen on her hooves. It took a while to recollect herself. "W-What even went through my silly little mind? Well, i'm very grateful that you didn't let me." She sighed. "Anyway, was i right about Cloudsdale? Is it safe here?" She walked to the window and peaked out.
"Not anymore." Frequent said. "Some psychopath of an...alicorn?...followed us, destroyed our zeppelin, followed us here, and some how spread the infection here. But, if we find a lab, we can still mix our immunizer and your cure."
Frequent thought for a second.
"...which are still in the hospital."
Looking outside at the calm scenery it was hard for Blue to believe what she was just told. She nodded and reached for her bag, then turned her head and her eyes narrowed. "Anyone of you saw my bag?" she asked.
Frequent sighed. "It must still be back in the hospital along with ours. No matter. If we just wait here, Our Queen will most likely return with Azure, the others, and the bags."
He didn't know about what happened to her.
Blue looked out of the window again, frowning a bit. "Wouldn't hold my breath on that one." She whispered.
Lunar slowly stood on his knees trying to support himself with his right hoof. "Ruined lives? Mines was ruined a long time ago. :c" All 3 of his horns started to whir with static leaking out. "The damage is done." The noise and static started to get louder and an energy reaction was starting to form. His horns were going into overdrive.
Book Keeper nudged Azure. "Do you think you could defend against whatever Lunar is planning? I'm afraid I'm rather useless at the moment," she said sheepishly.
Lunar started to turn the duos way as he slowly rose to his feet. A sphere of energy started growing as the lightning intensified.
"Azure! Do something!" Book Keeper shouted, unable to take her eyes away from the growing sphere.
Azure saw the lightning, and grabbed Book's leg, charging a teleport.
Lunar looked closer to see that Azures horn was glowing. "Hmph, I should've saved this for that blue stallion and changeling...no matter, TAKE THIS!" he backed up then kicked the sphere in their direction before falling to his knees.
Azure launched the teleport, but a little late: he managed to teleport Book and himself to the other side of the hospital, but he went flying once he did, having taken about half the force of the blast. Coupled with his injuries already, he was knocked straight out as he rolled to a stop, dangerously close to the edge of a cloud.
Book Keeper gasped when she saw Azure tumble close to the edge of the cloud, not moving. She tried moving forward, and found that she could indeed move, albeit a slow pace. She dragged herself towards Azure, inch by inch.
"Urgh dang it...he escaped, I won't...let...you...ugh" Lunar started crawling due to exhaustion and getting launched through the wall earlier.
Azure's leg slid over the edge.
Book Keeper reached Azure, who seemed to be unconscious, and sliding over the edge. "Hoo boy," she muttered, and attempted to pull him back. He moved a smidgeon. Undaunted, Book Keeper kept on pulling and pulling until Azure was safely on the cloud.
Lunar looked up at the ceiling of the east side of the hospital. His eyes widened as a few stones came down. "Oh geez." his movement was starting to slow down each time he dragged himself across the floor.
Fulmen, who was searching around the hospital, managed to get to where Book Keeper and Azure were.
"Whoa, what happened?!" He said, crouched down next to Azure.
Book Keeper sighed. "A lot," she told the changeling. "But this here was due to Azure protecting me when Lunar attacked."
Lunar stopped and collapsed as he was at his limit. "o_O....." his eyes widened even more as the ceiling started to give away causing the section to collapse on top of him.
Fulmen levitated Azure onto his back. "Let's get to the others. We need to figure out what to do now."
Lunar laid beneath the rubble motionless with one of his legs sticking out.
Book Keeper nodded, and slowly rose. She walked slowly alongside Fulmen.
Soon enough, they reached the house.
Fulmen stepped in, laying Azure on a nearby couch.
"What happened? Where is that alicorn?" Frequent asked. "And what happened to Azure?"
Then Fury stepped up. "Wait...where's our Queen?"
All the Changelings fell silent.
Blue closed her eyes and charged her horn to check her mana reserves. "Hm, seems like i'm at almost full power. What ever happened did replenish my strength." she said to herself.
Book Keeper lowered her head. "She's...she's gone. For now."
Fury stepped up to Book "W-What do you mean?"
A certain blue and brown stallion wearing a brown fedora with a yellow stripe and a blue and white striped tie walked out of a cafe and onto the clouds, eating a sugar-doughnut.
(Where have you been all this time, Doom? :/)
"There was a fight with an Arch Mage named Lunar Dusk," Book Keeper explained, her ears drooping. "I cast a ritual spell to send him into the Void. It worked, but before he went under, he dragged Chrysalis with him. He got helped out, but she...didn't. There are spells that can bring her back, but I don't know them. After the epidemic is over, I can use my contacts to find these spells."
All the Changelings except Frequent gasped.
"Hmm..." He thought. "And Azure?"
((Sorry, I forgot... X3))
(YOU FORGOT!? >:()
"Just knocked unconscious," she replied.
((Sorry, I just didn't want to be disruptive with the whole Netirax thing, so I left... >A<))
(Please don't leave again :'()
(( lol really?
((Yes... :c))
// tch not like I would be moving or doing anything at the moment
(I'm planning on the group going back to you, Lunar.)
"...Very well." Frequent said, before he walked over to the door. "We need to head back to the hospital soon; our cures are in there."
Fury walked up to Book. "For the record, we don't blame you for what happened."
//lol your group is safe anyway since i'm basically presumed dead right now
(That's a good thing right now X3)
Book Keeper nodded.
"Thanks," she said embarrassedly.
Doomato wondered the streets, still taking bites of the sugar-doughnut.
Fulmen lay Azure down on a couch. "He's hurt bad. Anypony here able to help?"
(( are fulmen and azure with Blue? kinda lost tracks X3 ))
((I wonder how Doomato could intervene...))
(I think everyone's in the house now apart from doom and lunar)
Book Keeper shook her head. "I'm a knowledge broker, not a doctor," she responded.
Blue turned her head towards Azure and nodded. "I'm here..." she walked to the couch and charged her horn, examining his injuries.
Azure was pretty badly hurt on his right side from Lunar's first attack, and had multiple burns from the teleport incident.
With gentle touches Blue looked for inner injuries on Azure's whole body. Once done examining the young mare started heal his injuries, sending waves of her brilliant red magic aura in the damaged areas and repairing the damage. "I need some water and a towel or peace of cloth. Can somepony bring them to me?" The tiny mare asked
Fury nodded, and brought a towel.
"The Queen would lose her mind if she saw this..."
"See what, a pony injured or a competent pony healer?" Blue asked with a sigh as she took the towel. "Thank you. Don't worry, he'll be alright." She continued to channel her healing magic as she tore the towel into stripes and used them as bandages. Once done with the internal injuries she used one piece soaked in the water to cleaned up Azure's external injuries to get a better look, before bandaging him up.
"Her servant hurt, is what she means." Frequent stated.
Fulmen, however, shuffled a bit suspiciously.
"Yeah, it's definitly that..."
"Yeah, somehow i'm doubtful." Blue said and sat down, letting out a sigh of relief. She was done with Azure's healing, he now lied bandaged up in the sofa. "He might wake up any moment now, if he does make sure he rests." She gave instructions and stood up, walking to the window. "He does need some medicine though. One of you come with me, we'll go to the hospital. The rest of you search the house and try to find anything that looks like medical pills, if it has penicillin written on, give him one pill." The tiny mare said, basically giving out orders to the group, and walked to the door. "I'll try to find my bag along the way, or at least the things we need for the cure in the hospital. So, who's going with me?"
"I'll do it!" Said Fury. "We need to find our cure up there anyway, so..."
Book Keeper nodded. "I'll see what I can find," she said, and slowly left to look for some penicillin.
Azure let out an unconsious groan.
Blue nodded and walked out the building, heading for the nearby damaged hospital.
Fury followed Blue up to the entrance of the hospital.
Once by the entrance Blue entered the darkened building, having the light of her horn to illuminate their way. "Why is it so dark here?" Blue whispered and walked on.
(( random element, dice roll for hugging zombie~ rolling with a d20, over 10 means we're fine, under 10 means zombies X3 ))
[blockquote]Rolled 1d20 : 10, total 10[/blockquote]
(I don't understand the dice roll thing that much. Did we get ten?)
(( yup, it rolled 10, the last number is the one that matters the most ))
(so over meant fine, under meant attacked. What does exactly 10 mean? X3)
((Is everyone still in Cloudsdale? >.<))
(yes)
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Nov 04, 13:17:32
(so over meant fine, under meant attacked. What does exactly 10 mean? X3)
(( that's what i'm trying to figure out, maybe roll again? X3 ))
(ok)
(( ok, rolling again~ ))
[blockquote]Rolled 1d20 : 12, total 12[/blockquote]
((Oh, I thought zombies would've made it interesting... X3))
((they would, aw well x3 ))
Blue and Fury made it to the storage room, Blue looked over everything, picking up bottle after bottle, some of them returning and some of them putting on the table. "We'll need a bag for these, or something."
Book Keeper searched a room, but found nothing. She sighed, and moved on to another one.
(btw when you rolled 10, there should have been a infected. 1-10 infected, 11-20 none X3)
(( oh, silly me X3 ))
Fury searched through the rooms as well. "Well, if we get back to our hospital room, our bags and saddles were in there. We could use them."
"No, not here either," Book Keeper said despondently, and moved on.
Fulmen and Frequent were also looking for meds in other rooms.
"Can you go and get them then? If you remember which room was yours." Blue said while still gathering the bottles.
"Um, sure." Fury said, before trotting off, looking for their room.
"....."
As Fury walked through the halls, she emerged in the damaged part of the hospital.
Scanning the area for a few seconds, she soon saw quite the sight:
Lunar, buried under the rubble.
Blue soon finished gathering the supplies she wanted and waited for Fury to return.
Book Keeper noticed a tiny bottle in a desk drawer. She took a look at the label, and saw the words 'Penicillin' scrawled on it.
"This is great!" she said excitedly. She took it and moved slowly back to the living room, a little faster than last time.
Azure groaned again, before his eyes slowly began to open.
Lunar seemed motionless as his hoof stuck out of the rubble.
Azure's vision slowly began to clear, as he saw Book and Fulmen.
Blue got tired of waiting on Fury and went to look for a bag. She walked around for a while before she got to the damaged part of the hospital, noticing Lunar's hoof in the rubble. She gasped and charged her horn, slowly removing the rubble from the buried pony and pulling him out before lying him on his back. She closed her eyes and concentrated the brilliant red aura of her magic to heal his injuries, cleansing him of any and all corrupting and painful effects, as well as repairing his damaged body.
(wat did you just do!? :I)
Book Keeper smiled when she saw Azure come to. "How are you feeling, Azure?" she asked him.
(( from Blue's standpoint, found an injured pony and healed him, remember she doesnt know who or what Lunar is X3 ))
(ah, ok. You've still doomed us all X3)
Lunar slowly opened his eyes but flinched at the sight of seeing a pony above him. It took him a few seconds to notice a familiar pony above. "Whats this now, wait..I know you. You're that crazy mare a saw from the group."
Fury was eventually able to find their old room. After a bit of searching, she found the bags, and the two vials of cure.
"Ah, great!"
She then made her way back the way she came.
And then she nearly had heart failure when she saw Blue talking with Lunar.
"I apologize, i do not recall ever meeting you, sir." Blue said and she did some last checks on Lunar. "You should take it easy, sir, if i'd find you a moment later you could be dead by now."
Fury called out to Blue.
"Um, Blue, was it? Step back, VERY slowly..."
Lunar sat up.
"Maybe..."
Doomato came upon the scene of the demolished hospital, Lunar and Blue. Without hesitation, he spat out his sugar-doughnut. "You better call who!?"
"What the....WHO THE HECK ARE YOU?!" Lunar said comically.
The stallion looked up at his fedora, and down at his tie. "Doomato in his signature tie and fedora?"
"Hmph, I see...if you're that changeling I'm making sure I sent you straight to the fiery pits of-" Lunar suddenly groaned when he heard a crack in one of his legs from not moving them in a while.
"You mean Netirax? What beef would you have to pick with him?"
"A lot, almost as much as I do with Mental."
"I told you to take it easy." Blue said frowning at Lunar, she charged her horn and was about to use her healing power on him again.
Fury carefully made her way over to Blue.
"Um, Blue?! Don't help the psychopath!" She warned.
Blue stopped her spell, the red flame of her magic no longer dancing around her horn, she turned her head to Fury. "Huh? What psychopath?"
"HIM!" she shouted. "From what we've seen, HE's the one who started this whole epidemic!"
Doomato leeped into the conversation, literally. "Need someone to end it!?" He exclaimed, excitedly.
Azure seemed to be responding slowly. "Hellooooo?" Book Keeper waved a hoof in front of his eyes.
"Correction, I made it spread NOT start it, the origin of it is beyond me...along with the pony who made it...." Lunar said with his eyes looking to the side.
Azure suddenly snapped to: he'd spaced out for a second due to his injury.
"O-Oh, yeah, I'm fine...oww..." He cringed.
Blue's caring eyes slowly turned to a cold frown. "Then why did you spread it?"
"Pleasure... ovO"
Blue kept her cold frown at Lunar, charging her horn, focusing her healing magic to do... something...
(( and i think somepony should stop her, like... now! ono ))
Book Keeper winced sympathetically at Azure's pain. "I have some medicine to give you. The tiny blue mare asked us to give you one pill of penicillin." She opened the bottle and handed him a pill.
(Book Keeper couldn't do anything right now even if she wanted to. Casting ritual spells requires sacrifices you know X3
Also, she's in the house, not the hospital X3)
"How about an intervention instead of an execution..." A distorted voice protested.
Lunar stared at Blue unfazed by her frown. "A natural reaction, that possibly could've been one of you're homes that you had to leave."
((#Notice-my-intervention.))
//lol//
Blue closed her eyes and the glow of her horn slowly subsided, she canceled her spell. "What is done is done. Just... don't expect me healing you again." She turned to Fury. "Did you find our bags?"
((Now that's just insulting.))
Lunar stood up and stretched. "Meh, I heal overtime anyway...and what are YOU doing here?" he said turning his head.
Suddenly, a Changeling with a purple shell and eyes, a scar above his right eye and a tattered red scarf came into focus. "I could ponder the same question; after all, this scenario is at an extremely low and pathetic standing, even for you, Lunar. I only intervene to give people the correct mindset, and you currently possess the most corrupt and disgusting one I've ever seen. Am I at the wrong time-period to prevent evil from consuming you? It doesn't appear so."
"Tch and what concern would it have your kind I doubt its even spread completely to your hive....even so those infected would've left by now."
"Heh, I'm correct in saying that I didn't originate from a hive, nor have
I ever lived in one."
Lunar tilted his head before getting up.
Azure looked at the pill, before closing his eyes and swallowing it.
"Bleh...I hate pills. Back at the Hive, I had to take these when I was really, really sick."
He began thinking about all that happened recently, and how he (in his opinion) seemed to barely do anything apart from...get hugged and fall asleep.
He turned over on the couch. "Thank. If anypony needs me, I'll be asleep." He sighed. "It's about all I'm good for."
Back at the hospital, Fury answered Blue.
"Yeah, I do." She then turned to the new Changeling. "And who are you?"
"H-hey! Don't be like that!" Book Keeper chided Azure. "You saved me from Lunar Dusk! I think that you do more than you realize!"
Azure remembered that, but he was still depressed. "Well, apart from that, all I do is make water, cry, and help the enemy of all Ponykind."
"....."
Book Keeper thought for a moment. "I don't know anything about crying," she began, "but you have amazing water manipulation! If you make the pressure high enough, you can cut through steel! And as for helping the enemy of all ponykind," she paused for a bit to add emphasis, "you are in the best position to foil all of her plans."
Lunar looked to the opening in the room then leaped through it at astonishing speed.
Azure sighed. "I can't. Not after what they did for me."
Suddenly a purple blur flew past the two.
(which two? :s)
//you and Azure who else :/
(Fulmen and Frequent are in the house too.)
(yes, but they are in the other rooms X3)
Book Keeper was about to ask Azure what he meant when a purple blur flew past them.
"W-what was that?" she asked weakly.
"Hm?" He turned over again. "What was what?"
Back at the hospital, Fury blinked.
"Hey! Where'd the psycho go?!"
//lol Er that was technically teleportation
The blur started bouncing off the walls then finally landed by the door revealing the archmage. "Surprise."
Book Keeper just stared with a sinking feeling when she saw the archmage appear.
"You know," she said halfheartedly. "At this point, it's not really a surprise anymore."
"Oh please, its not like i'm going to hurt you."
Azure was shocked. "WHAT?! YOU?!"
He tried to get up, but with his injuries, he only fell off the couch painfully.
"Careful! You're too hurt to be moving yet!" Book Keeper fretted as she helped Azure get back onto the couch. She turned her attention to Lunar and glared at him. "I think you should go."
Azure gritted his teeth, glaring at Lunar. "You try anything again...and I'll...grr!" He was still hurting.
A few moments later the door opened and Blue walked in with Fury, both carrying bags filled with medical supplies.
(( decided to skip those two back to the house, Doom can be with us if he wishes to. ))
Fury walked in along with Blue, and nearly dropped the saddles when she saw Lunar.
Lunar suddenly turned his head toward Fury as if in response to her dropping her saddles.
Fury bared her fangs. "What?! YOU'RE here ALREADY?!"
"Yes, how or why wouldn't I be."
The sound of commotion caused Frequent and Fury to descend from up stairs.
"What is going on here?!" The grey-eyed Changeling shouted.
"Nothing, just a little party." said Lunar with a sarcastic tone.
Blue was standing behind Fury, staying quiet and prepared to heal if needed.
Azure grunted. "Stop him...ack!"
He got another pain in his side. (How long would it be for him to be healed?)
(( hmm, i'd say at least a day before he's fine enough to move and fight ))
Book Keeper continued glaring at Lunar. " Just go," she said.
Fury and Fulmen stood on either side of Lunar, while Frequent stood behind him.
"State your buisness, then leave." Frequent growled.
"Heh, as you wish damsel in distress." Lunar said walking through the wall to leave.
Frequent glared after him, before turning to everypony else.
"Is everypony ok?"
Book Keeper let out a breath she didn't know she'd been holding, muttering darkly about damsels in distress. "Yes, we are alright now," she answered the changeling.
Blue let out a sigh of relief. "Alright. I brought everything needed. Lets start working on the cure and vaccine." She smiled and walked to a table.
"Really!? That's GREAT!" Book Keeper practically shouted, grinning from ear to ear.
Frequent stepped up next to Blue. "I will help. You need to know how we made the vaccine."
Azure sighed, before rolling onto his back again. Hopefully, it all would soon be over.
Blue nodded and walked to the kitchen, setting up a pot on the fire and heating some water and mixing the needed alloys for the cure. "You can explain while i prepare the cure. Also, watch how i make it, if something happens to me again." she sighed.
Fulmen nodded, and got ready to observe.
Lunar started resting his head on the outside of the house.
Blue talk as she prepared the cure. "A leaf from the poison joke, powder of the spitting plant and the bloom of the fire plant. Mix together in boiling water and cook for 20 minutes, then add the most important ingredient. The changeling essence will make the cure complete. Without it the cure will work only for twenty four hours." She explained, all that was needed now is to wait.
Frequent nodded. "I see. That's almost exactly how we made the vaccine, only we used a leaf of an orchid instead of poison joke, and boil for 30 minutes."
Azure knew this was going to take a while, so he laid back on the sofa and began to doze off: it was one way to take his mind off the pain.
"Interesting." Blue rubbed her chin. "Well, the cure needs to be swallowed, at least as far as i know. How do we introduce it to everypony infected? Mass producing it should be easy enough with proper equipment." she was thinking out loud while the potion boiled.
"Hmm...what about mixing it with sap plant spores? That might make it possible to administer the cure on contact."
After making sure that Azure was alright, she walked into the kitchen and remarked, "That would work, but you need to specially prepare the spores for this purpose."
"I admit that my botanical knowledge isn't exactly the most advanced." She rubbed her chin. "It might work, but i honestly don't know how."
"I do," Book Keeper replied casually. "Hold on for a moment." She then furrowed her brow in concentration for a few moments, then looked up and answered, "Collect forty spores into a bowl, then mash them until they have turned into a fine paste. Pour the paste into a boiling pot three liters deep and leave it to sit until the water has boiled away. Scoop the contents out the pot and mix into the cure. "
Blue nodded. "Sounds simple enough, can you start working on that, please?" She smiled and wondered on. "Hmm, could we maybe make a rain cloud containing this mixture and make its rain just take the infection away? Is that possible?" She looked to Frequent for conformation.
Lunar stood up to stretch. He sniffed the air then turned to the window.
"Chemicals..."
He thought. "...Amazing...I hadn't thought of that...yes, that should work. The only problem would be that Lunar character; if he interfered..."
Book Keeper nodded, and searched for a three liter pot, moving a bit easier now.
Lunar moved over to the other side of the house and looked through the window to see if anyone was around that area.
Oi, can i jump in? c:
Quote from: LocoMotive on 2014 Nov 27, 15:50:20
Oi, can i jump in? c:
(( sure thing, a new player brings a new element and this is a jump in, so feel free to jump in ))
Book Keeper, after rummaging around the cabinets for a minute, found a banged up three-liter pot. She levitated it to the sink, and started filling it up.
"Rin pyo to sha kai jin retsu zai zen..." Lunar quietly chanted as the window open silently with mist being exposed with him slipping through it. He started to sneak through the rooms constantly turning his head and checking his surroundings for any ponies.
OOC: Thanks for the offer Lunar, I'll take you up on it. :D I'm game to jump in!
"Hmm." Lunar moved his head to see Book Keepers shadow. " Hehehe...." He started to carefully climb up the wall then the ceiling to watch her trying to remain hidden.
OOC: Normally with an RP I would read the old posts to understand what was going on, but this RP has 133 pages... Can somepony gimme the quick version? I'm not sure how to jump in since I'm in the dark.
(( i'll try: So there was a radio broadcast that warned about a hugging epidemic but noone took it seriously before it was too late. Pretty much the entire world is lost to the epidemic now. We were in several hiding spots, everyone overrunned in the end, but we did discover a cure along the way. We also discovered that Lunar is the one responsible for spreading the infection. Now we're in cloudsdale, trying to create a cure+vaccine combo and combine it with a rain cloud to spread it easily. There, i think that covers the basics, a very very brief sum up though X3 ))
Blue was fully focused on making the cure, she didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
Azure was fast asleep, Fury was watching Frequent, who was helping with the cure, and Fulmen was derping around out of boredom.
"There we go!" Book Keeper sang happily as the pot was filled. She levitated it slowly, visibly struggling due to its weight; apparently, she still had a while before her magical strength recovered fully. She moved slowly towards the door, missing Lunar Dusk completely.
Lunar recognized as an opening then leaped down on top of Book Keeper. He started putting her front hooves behind her back then started tying them up along with her bottom hoofs. "Shhh..." he whispered as he put a muzzle around her mouth. Then he started dragging her to the cabinet. "Stay girl. " he said stuffing her in the cabinet before moving over to the pot to pick it up. "Laters! Hehehe...." he whispered before running back the way he came.
Bound and muzzled, Book Keeper struggled to free herself, to no avail. The cabinet was too confining, and although she wasn't claustrophobic, she felt as if the walls were closing in on her. The darkness pressed down on her, and she started to feel ghostly echoes of the pain Lunar had transferred to her earlier. An unbidden memory rose to the forefront of her mind.
"You will stay down here until you have contemplated on your actions and told me exactly what you did wrong."
"F-father, p-please-"
SLAM!
The darkness started to swallow her.
"N-no..."
OOC: Thanks Grizzly! :D
Aura was on a cloud floating over Canterlot, nopony would see her up here, on the cloud a few feet away, Moondust sat, a streesed look In his eyes.
Aura, the potion is gonna wear off soon. The unicorn whisper-yelled to the purple pegasus.
The cabinet that Book Keeper was stuffed in became still. A glow was barely visible by the crack in the door.
"Hold on, guys. The water should be ready." Fulmen called, before walking into the room he thought Book was boiling the water.
"Hello? Miss...pony...?" He never got her name. "Helloooo?" He called, before looking around. "Where's the water?"
The room was empty, save for water collecting on the floor in a large puddle. Soft snapping noises could be heard coming from one of the cabinets.
He looked around some more, before noticing the cabinet making noise.
He put his ear on it, before pulling away.
"Hmm...this place must have rats. Fury!"
He called, and the Changeling mare poked her head around the corner.
"Yeah?"
"Can you go look for that other pony? Can't find her anywhere."
"Sure."
Fulmen walked back into the room with Azure, while Fury walked into the room with the cabinet.
"Hello?" She called.
The snapping noises stopped. A second later, a voice called out harshly, "I would appreciate it greatly if you could free me from my current confinement."
"WAAAH! GUYS!!"
Fulmen immidiatly ran out. Azure had been woken up, but he still couldn't move.
"What is it?" Fulmen asked.
Fury was pointing at the closet. "Something spoke in there!"
Fulmen sighed. "I told you it was ra-wait, spoke?"
He edged closer to the cabinet, charging magic, before pulling the door open and jumping back.
Inside the cabinet was Book Keeper, her hind legs and fore tied together, though the ropes on the latter were nearly frayed through completely. A muzzle, no longer held in place by the door, fell out and clattered to the ground.
For some reason, she looked...colder.
Fury gasped "Are you okay?! What happened?!" She and Fulmen broke the other ropes and helped her out.
Book Keeper winced as she was helped out, but hid it as best she could, and turned towards the changelings. "I was taken by surprise by the arch mage Lunar Dusk and stuffed in this cabinet, and I am 'alright'," she said in a neutral tone. "But he soon won't be," she said coldly. "He is a threat that can no longer be ignored, and I shall put an end to this. Personally."
They both looked at Book oddly for a while.
"Well..." Fury said slowly. "At least it looks like he only stole a pot of water."
With the effects of the potion about to expire, Aura lowered Moondust to a rooftop. Now what are we gonna do? Aura sighed as she sat. I haven't the slightest clue...
"I do not wish to wait and see what he will do with a pot of water ," Book Keeper said coldly as she levitated the muzzle from the floor. She started casting a spell; within seconds, the muzzle started glowing faintly.
Actually... I'm hungry, let's go find some food. Aura stood and walked towards the roof access door. Alright, guess I am a bit hungry too.
Lunar was seen running down the streets until he stopped under a cloud. He sat down his pouch searching in it. "Hmm, this should be safe enough...now wheres that potion, ugh stupid hooves, this could've been easier if I was human."
"Wait here, I'm thirsty too." Aura went back to the aloud she had been on and pulled it over the building, not noticing the pony below her. She jumped on the cloud until it began raining, providing her a drink.
"Just need a few more minutes..." Frequent said, adjusting the temperature of the mixture.
Lunar looked up to see it raining. He rolled his eyes at the fact that everything on him was getting drenched. "Oh." he took out a bottle out of his back then moved from under the cloud to pour the poison in the pot.
"Well," Book Keeper told the two changelings as she turned away from them, "I believe I have some important work to do now. I shall be taking my leave." And she left the room, levitating the glowing muzzle with her.
With that, Aura knocked the cloud away, and followed Moondust down into the building. Moon, where are you? Aura called, only for him to appear a few feet away, light coming off his horn. Now we can actually see something.
Lunar started to pour an indigo substance into the pot then started mixing it. "And now to extract it, although it seems i have a temporarily gagged mare, a mentalshock and blue stallion's focus on me and possibly coming my way..." he said while dipping a bottle in the pot before tipping it over. "Now for a diversion." he started scraping a match against a piece of concrete until sparks started forming slowly starting an expanding ember on the ground. "Hehe come here Book time is wasting." he said before taking off back in the direction of the house.
Aura and Moondust began searching for foodstuffs and anything else useful, when Moondust suddenly broke the silence. Do you smell something burning, Aura? Aura sniffed the air. Yeah... Strange, must be a building fire from some stupid chaos causing pony.
(( Stupid?! How insulting... >:O))
Lunar started to land on a building to look at the street incase Book Keeper would take that path.
Hey Aura... I think I found the burning smell... Moondust said flatly as he saw a flame lick the wall. Great, wh- She stopped mid-sentence. RUN! She grabbed a hoof and pulled Moondust to a window.
-Please don't bring up controversial or sensitive topics, thanks/
((Anyway, could anypony give me the sum up? I've been out of action for some time X3 and i have a feeling i will be again >.< ))
((I want to put Naura and Hazy back in here, what have I missed? :P))
(oh, you missed a lot. basically, everyone is in cloudsdale now cause everywhere else has fallen. blue has found a cure, and lunar is apparently the one who initially spread the disease. and book is taking him down ovO
Also, Chrysalis is in a dark void X3)
In a small room, Book Keeper surveyed all the items she had managed to find: a bottle of pills, an alarm clock, a bowl of blueberries, a frying pan, four small candles, and the glowing muzzle. They weren't exactly what she needed, but it would do in a pinch. She levitated a piece chalk, and started to draw an eight pointed star.
Hope you can handle a crash landing Moondust! Aura shouted as she opened the window.
What in Equestria are you gonna do AuraaaAAAAAHHHHH!!! Moondust began screaming in a panic as Aura lifted him in her arms and flew out the window. They immediately dropped altitude, and fast, since Aura wasn't strong enough to fly while carrying Moondust.
They hit the ground hard, but not so hard they were hurt. The two landed in a heap beneath the window.
After she finished drawing the circle, Book Keeper placed each item on the diagonal points, and each candle on the other points. She lit the candles with a spell, placed the glowing muzzle in the center, sat down, and started to chant.
"Who is it this time? That better not be Azure..." Lunar said while turning in response of the screaming.
Fulmen heard the sound of screaming. "I'll...be right back."
He left the house and began flying towards where he heard it.
"...danemi danema danemo..." Book Keeper chanted.
Light fled from the room. The floor shimmered to reveal a giant eye looking at her. She felt a will trying to crush hers, but hers was absolute, and nothing would prevent her from accomplishing her goals. She continued to chant, crushing the opposition before her.
Lunar's astonishment was short lived as he heard something flying in his direction. He turned his head while backing away behind a chimney. It was Fulmen. "It's that changeling again." he thought
Fulmen looked around as he flew. "Where'd that scream come from?"
"...veafachad yavin et zeh!" Book Keeper finished chanting.
The eye writhed, but it was helpless before her; she had done her work too well. Her will had been superior, and she had conquered it.
"Seek out my enemy, and rend his soul asunder!" Book Keeper commanded. "Once you have finished, return to the Void!"
A thick cloud of oily, black smoke rose from the center of the octogram, and light returned to the room. It passed through the wall in front of her, and once outside, started to take form.
A wave of exhaustion suddenly passed through her and nearly cause her to black out, but she held herself together through sheer force of will.
Get off! Moondust pushed Aura off of him and laid there. I hate you so much right now. He inhaled sharply.
Hey! I saved your flank! Now come on, we need to get off the streets before somepony sees us.
Suddenly Lunar froze in place then looked up. "Wait, something doesn't feel right..." He was starting to feel a familiar lightheadedness. He started to sigh. Hmm, what do you think you're doing now Book..." he said as he flew off the building.
(ovO)
Outside, the smoke coalesced into a six-story nightmare. A giant mass of tentacles, elongated limbs, and other deformities too horrible to imagine hovered above the house.
The horror roared, and sped towards Lunar Dusk with blinding speed.
Both Aura and Moondust looked towards the roar, their ears flattened, and their pupils shrank. Run? Aura managed to get out. Yep. Moondust said before turning tail and running.
Lunars eyes widened and enhanced his flight speed as he saw a large abomination coming towards him before aiming his horn at it. "What the-"
Both Aura and Moondust galloped as fast as they could in the opposite direction of the monster. They both hoped that nopony would see them in their panicked fleeing.
The horror screeched as one of its...limbs reached out towards Lunar Dusk to grab him.
Lunar started to slow his speed to turn.
However it was too late, he flew right into the tentacle with his horn in contact with it.
"Agh..."
Aura and Moondust broke through the door to a building and stopped. What in Celestia's name, was that thing!? Moondust breathed heavily, while Aura sat with a dumbfounded look on her face.
The horror reeled Lunar Dusk in towards itself.
Aura suddenly grabbed Moondust in a tight hug. That was so scary! She spoke into his shoulder. It uhhh... It's okay Aura... He tried his best to comfort her.
Lunar started to freeze in place as if he was petrified. Tears started to stream down his face before screaming loudly.
A gaping maw appeared on the horror as it prepared to swallow Lunar whole.
Moondust's ears stood and swiveled in the direction of the screaming. Oh no... It got somepony. He spoke quietly. Aura, stay here, I'm gonna take a look.
No! It's dangerous! She shouted, but it was to late.
Lunar started to shut his eyes with uncontrollable static flowing from all 3 of his horns.
The...limb moved Lunar farther into its mouth as its jaws prepared to snap shut.
Suddenly there was a shout from below the monster. HEY UGLY! Moondust stared daggers at the monster, not knowing Lunar's past.
The energy in Lunar's horns finally let loose as he cried out one last word as he was having a magic surge.
"Spiral...STRIKE!!"
A tornado about the size of the horror started to surround it with smaller orbs of energy in the tornado sweep at it before combining at the top landing a finishing strike on it.
The archmage then fell unconcious.
Moondust watched in awe, then horror as the pony fell from the sky. He quickly levitated him down gently, and began to check him for injuries.
(phew, I was wondering if you were going to let me eat you X3. Of course, you won't get off THAT easy... ovO)
The horror, completely ignoring the pony below it, shrieked with an alien sound that normal creature could make. Its entire body was shredded, dropping bits and pieces and Lunar.
Within seconds, it started to reform.
Inside, Book Keeper winced at the shriek.
Moondust looked up from Lunar and saw the monster's reformation. He quickly levitated him and galloped away with him, hoping the monster wouldn't see.
The horror was halfway done reforming.
With Lunar in his spell still, Moondust ran back until he building where Aura was. WHAT DID YOU DO!? Aura shouted. SHHH! Be quiet or it might hear you! Now help me with this pony.
(lol that can happen, even the weaker ones.
Lunar's eyes slowly opened but only saw that he was being carried since his vision was too blurry.
The horror was almost finished reforming.
The two looked Lunar over for injuries, but found nothing major. Hey Mister, are you okay? Moondust nuged Lunar in hopes to wake him.
Lunar smirked before his eyes started to close.
I don't think he's okay.
The horror, having finished reforming, lashed out at the building Lunar was located in, wrecking a good chunk of it.
The stripes on Lunar's body stopped glowing.
All this time, Fulmen had been hovering in place, gobsmacked.
Back at the house, Azure was now hiding under a blanket.
"WHAT WAS THAT ROAR?!" He yelled.
Not good... Aura and Moondust backed away from Lunar, and away from the sound of the monster striking the building.
"....."
The horror struck the building again, getting closer to where Lunar was.
Moondust was unsure if Lunar was safe to levitate, but he did it anyway, moving him away from the monster while he and Aura backed up.
The horror bashed the building again, this time creating an opening where one could see the three ponies within.
RUN!... AGAIN! Aura jumped over some debris and out the door, while Moondust levitated Lunar in front of himself as he ran.
The horror paused for a moment, then wrapped many limbs around the building, and started to lift.
Fulmen finally got a hold of himself; he wasn't going to let this thing hurt innocents.
Charging everything he had, he launched a veritable thunderstom of lightning at the thing.
Moondust and Aura ran through an ally, Lunar still with Moondust as they stopped.
The lightning struck the horror, though it seemed to do little. It broke the building off its base, and threw it the ponies below - targeting the speck that threw the lightning as well.
Aura and Moondust had no time to move, the building hit them, and buried them in rubble.
Lunar started twitching.
A tentacle snaked in, gripping Lunar very tightly and pulling him out.
Aura and Moondust were trapped in a twisted concrete prison cell. Both of them coughed from the dust in the air.
The horror lifted Lunar towards his maw once again, preparing to swallow him.
Moondust used his magic and slapped the monster.
Fulmen zipped out of the building's way, before loosing more bolts at the creature.
A tentacle lashed out with blinding speed and slapped the speck to the ground. It prepared to devour Lunar.
Moondust felt useless, he began throwing pieces of rubble that were light enough to lift at the monster.
Fulmen hit the ground, and was knocked straight out.
Lunar was inside the horror's mouth, it's jaw prepared to snap shut...when suddenly, its body melted into oily black smoke before dissipating completely. Lunar dropped to the ground.
Inside, Book Keeper felt its presence disappear. She frowned heavily; it was possible that it had failed in its mission. She would have to see for herself.
Moondust and Aura stared, then cried out in relief. The two of them were still stuck in the rubble however, and Moondust was having trouble breaking through with his magic.
//ill be gone for a bit continue on, ill stay unconcious for whatever happens so...laters *zips away*
OOC: *Waves a hoof* Bye! See you later!
//Back from dentist appointment, did everyone just get offline or something.
Lunar's stripes started to glow as his eyes opened up.
(I happen to still be up, but im going to bed now)
Book Keeper walked out of the room, towards the entrance to the house.
OOC: I had other things that had to get done.
Aura and Moondust sat in their rubble prison cells, looking for a way to get out.
"Tch I have no point of being here it seems." Lunar started to get up and flap his wings before taking off.
Book Keeper left the house just in time to see Lunar fly off. She was unhappy to see the archmage still intact, but was satisfied that she had at least driven him off.
(Why am I still up!? :I)
Moondust and Aura were to late to call out for help from Lunar, so Moondust began using his magic to slowly free himself.
//Er...Blue? :s I think Its your turn
OOC: It's someponies...
//My OC is gone from the story so you can continue especially if you were waiting on me
OOC: I need Book. :/
(whoops, sorry X3)
Book Keeper walked back into the house, intent on finding another three liter pot to fill with water.
Pixel slowly opened his door to look but there was nopony there.
Again for the 6th time the last few weeks.
(Let me try and kick this off again)
Frequent walked into the main room, holding a large bottle of greenish-blue liquid.
"It's done, everypony."
Aura sat in her concrete prison. "Any progress?" She asked Moon, who was still using his horn to make a hole in the concrete. "Some... This could take a while though." he grunted with effort.
Having found a six liter pot, Book Keeper walked out to see one of the changelings announce that the cure was ready.
"Have the sap plant spores been mashed into a fine paste yet?" she inquired of him.
(for reference, Book Keeper mentions the process on page 132)
(I know, but things were getting a bit slow, so I wanted to make things interesting.)
"Yes. It's basically a vaccine with mild healing properties for now, but all we need is that pot you have, then we'll be able to mix them and completely finish it."
"Indeed," Book Keeper replied. "I will go now to fill the pot with water." And she walked to the kitchen.
//....Shall I place a tombstone on this thread
(Noooo ono)
(That's why I skipped a bit; I want to finish this RP. It's my first one ono)
// Grizzly! >:O
(( sorry >.< someone tell me whats going on and we can finish up, sorry >.< >.< ))
(Frequent just finished the cure, Chrysalis is in some void, Lunar flew off, and two other ponies are stuck under a building)
(( so, the cure is done and working, is everything said and done? I can close up in one big post if y'all want to, i just don know why exactly do you need me. I'm just a little burned out from RPing too much now, sorry X3 ))
//Sure not like my characters going to hinder you this time
(( Since this will be the closing post o might need to power-play a bit, so sorry in advance X3 I'm gonna keep the thread open for about 3 more days so everyone could put in their final posts ))
With the cure finished and ready there was only one final step to do, to apply it. Blue took the cure and walked the streets of Cloudsdale accompanied by the changelings, getting to the cloud making machine pretty much with no problem. Blue held the vial with the cure, prepared to merge with the cloud and rain on the infected world, with hesitation. Not that she didn't want this to be over but now that it actually was about to end she couldn't help but reminisce over the whole ordeal. She closed her eyes and, with every one that didn't make it on her mind, poured the cure into the machine, then she let the empty vile hit the ground as she whispered. "It's finally over..."
The machine constantly creating clouds carefully contracted, fusing the cure with the cloud and releasing it to the world. The strangely colored cloud spread through out Equestria and beyond, raining the cure on the infected masses. Every creature hit by the cure rain was freed from their hugging curse, what's even better is that those cured could not become infected again. The ponies cured all over Equestria were very confused, looking around their damaged environments. After minutes of silence, trying to figure out what the hay is going on, the ponies started to help each other, cleaning the debris, caring for the wounded and starting to rebuild what was lost.
After sitting around the cloud machine for hours Blue finally stood up. "Could one of you please take me to the ground?" She turned to the changelings and smiled while asking with a friendly voice.
(( Well, with all said and done, Blue is a bit more cold and doesn't hate changelings anymore. All and all, pretty fun X3 ))
Post Merge
(( and if anyone has any problems, send me a PM :) ))
The Changelings assisted Blue to the ground, and, without their Queen to object to them, began helping all the ponies with their reconstruction. The rest of Chrysalis's Elite were found and cured, and with the exeption of Freeze, Fissure, and Fear, all were generous to help in the efforts too. They were split in opinions about Azure, though; many actually respected him (only a little) now for surviving the ordeal, while others blamed him for the Queen's disappearance. The rest of the Hive also helped, and shared the opinions.
As for Azure, he was happy it was over, but completely lost now; he didn't HAVE to go back to the Hive without Chrysalis here now, but he also had nowhere else to go.
He tried talking to Fulmen about it, but he couldn't help him decide. He did, however, remind him that, at least, he got a hug from Princess Luna out of all this.
What Azure was reminded of, however, was that even across this living nightmare of a journey they'd had...he'd met some amazing friends.
And he wouldn't trade those memories for the world.
Then that was when Lunar was seen flying straight towards Azure. Something was a bit odd though, he seemed to be carrying a dark colored pony. It was the Queen!
Azure charged his magic, but soon stopped when he saw Chrysalis.
"WHAT?! Wh-How?! When?! Eh, WHY?!" He didn't know why Lunar would do this.
Blue stood next to Azure, with a smile on her face. "Looks like you get your queen back."
Book Keeper sighed in relief as the cure began to take effect; every infected pony seemed to be returning to normal. Her eyes widened as she saw Lunar Dusk flying towards them, but she also saw him dragging what seemed to be Chrysalis along with them. She glanced at Azure, who seemed to be surprised, but happy.
Lunar's speed started to decrease to avoid flying directly into Azure. Just as he was passing he gently sat Chrysalis beside him then turned around with a smirk.
The Queen was unconsious as Azure ran up and lifted her head, checking for any injuries.
Fulmen, on the other hoof, basically screamed all of Equestria down when he saw her, and soon there was a practical army of Changelings surrounding them, cheering.
Blue sighed and walked to Azure. "Is she alright? Want me to check her up?" she asked with a neutral expression.
"She'll be fine, there didn't seem to be any injuries when I saw her." replied Lunar.
Azure looked up at Lunar.
"...Thanks."
Out of nowhere, Fissure shoved him out of the way, and the rest of the Elite picked up the Queen.
"WE'LL be taking care of her." He rumbled.
With that, they all took off and began flying away, Fury waving goodbye. Flame, however, stayed behind.
"You've done well to survive this whole ordeal, Azure...but it's time to come back with us."
Azure's heart dropped at that.
He had to say goodbye.
Blue smiles at Azure. "Come and visit me when you can and want to."
Lunar gave Azure and Blue a satisfied smile nodding before taking off into the horizon.
Azure eyes began to well up.
"I-It...depends if Chr...Her Highness...will let me..."
Flame stepped in front of him. "We'll see if we can do anything to let him out once in a while."
Azure looked from her to Blue, and any other ponies that were also there, tears going down his face as Flame began hovering.
"Azure, it's time to go."
After a pause, he nodded slowly. "O-Okay."
He looked back at everypony.
"B-Bye, everypony."
Flame picked up Azure with magic, and began flying off the same direction as the other Changelings.
As they began to fade from sight, Azure gave one final wave with a smile, before disappearing over the trees.
"I'll never forget all of you."
(Well, there's my last post ^-^)
(( Yeah, i'll keep it open until tomorrow morning x3 ))
Blue stood and waved at the changeling until they were out of sight. She couldn't help but smile. Her distinctive dislike for changeling totally gone with no traces left behind. She was really glad she got to meet Zappy and the other changeling. When they were out of sight she sighed and returned to Ponyville, to help with repairs and to return to her old life.
(Awww, it's ending! ono I'm going miss this RP. Open another one soon! ^-^)
Book Keeper watched the changelings fly off. Now that everypony had returned to normal, it was time for her to go back to Baltimare and reestablish her information network.
"Only one way to go about doing this," she sighed. She concentrated for a few moments, then disappeared with a flash.
One week later, she arrived at the gates of Baltimare, bedraggled from her trek back towards the city; during the period of rebuilding, she offered her services as a consultant at a reduced price.