Warrior Dark Void

(I really can't keep up with this XD so I'll play through Discord every now and again instead of trying to keep up through a player.) Discord laughs "Ooh they beat a boss, what am I going to do?!?" He cackles loudly. "Perhaps the next floor will be more... Fun!" He says with a dark gleam in his eye. (The next floor will have extra hard standard monsters, it'll take two ponies to knock one out. This also means EXP is earned faster, and better items will be gotten from said monsters)

I found a group of ponies heatedly discussing weapons and decided to stop and see. After deciding it wasn't anything really important, I continue out to the road outside of town. "Level 13... Might as well travel now." I murmur to no one in particular. I spit a shattered tooth to the ground and take a step back. The tall, furry creature in front of me rears up on it's hind legs and roars, stunning me. It rushes forward and plants a clawed paw straight into my head, throwing me sideways as I attempt to stand. "My turn..." My weapon appears, the blade rapidly collecting a blazing orange aura. The bear seems confused and steps back. My blade splits into two, and I race forward, and with 4 quick slashes, leave a burning star image through the bear. It explodes into a puff of code and I nearly collapse. "I better get something good from that!" I cough, stumbling over to the few loot drops. (Wow. I never expected the RP to get going this fast! XD it's great! I just can't post through 8 am to 5 pm cause of school where I am. anyways, you guys can start the boss fight for the first floor or the forest queen when you want. I may or may not be able to join XD )

I was making my way back into the town with a large haul of boar hides when I noticed a particular group of three ponies that seemed... Interesting. After selling all the hides I had collected, I work my way over to them, catching words about a big boss battle, which got me intrigued. "Hey, may I join in on this? I'm Void." One of the ponies just about jumps out of her skin while the other two turn to look at me. "Sooo..." I trail off as they think it over several times.

I couldn't care less what other people think about me, (except if it's positive) but what I do like to do is absolutely baffle people, for example: completely and utterly ruining someone's attempt at my level-headedness (yo mamma jokes, jokes at my expense, etc) by either returning better than they started or saying "your opinion is maximally irrelevenant, and you input was unnecessary and unrequested, so please remove your presence from the perimeter of my personal space." Essentially, confuse them with large words XD

I pull the dagger out of the lifeless body of a large boar and check my levels. "Ok, so I'm moving towards speed, strength, and health. Doing good so far..." I stop when I notice something. "Well then. I guess I have enough for a real weapon now!" I turn and start to gallop back towards the Town of Beginnings. I reach the town and see the gruesome remains of the panic earlier in the day, bloodstains on the ground from those who couldn't take it, some who just collapsed, and other things best not to be noted. I groan and trot up to a stall where an NPC is straightening various weapons. I drop a bag of bits onto the table and point. A clink of metal later, I find myself with a single, blood-red blade with a pale grey hilt, all with a single indent down the center. "I like the look of this!" I whisper to myself, hoisting the weapon up to catch the dwindling rays of the dusk sun. I smile darkly and walk out of the town. A boar growls loudly and charges at me. The long blade splits down the center, turning into two half-swords. I laugh and jump forward, bringing my weapons straight forward, then twisting in a complete circle, leaving the boar in pieces. "This will definetely work!" I laugh, ready for any challenge.

Sign ups: http://mlpforums.com/topic/112720-pony-art-online-ooc-discussion-sign-up/ Video games have reached the next level in Equestria. Far after the mane six have lived there life, we find a new technology: Virtual Reality gear. Everyone is buzzing with excitement about the new game, Pony Art Online, which is a virtual experience of living in a medieval type age. Those who just want to have a calming experience remain in the towns while the adventurous ones race out into the feild to level up their character, find new gear, and defeat monstrous bosses. As the servers open for the first time, millions of ponies log in to the new world. Mere minutes after the initial opening, everyone finds themselves in the main square. Confused, many try to log out, but find the option missing. Amidst a rising panic, a familiar voice cackles loudly as the name ripples through the crowd. "Discord." The familiar dragon appears and announces his success. "You are all trapped here in my... Game. You can all see that it has become impossible to log out, and this is for a good reason. Since the mane six have long since died, I've had no one to play with. Now that you all are trapped here, I can have all the fun I want. Feel free to continue playing the game in any way you want, but keep in mind that the rules have changed: if you die here, you die in the real world as well." Gasps rise quickly from the crowd, followed by screams of panic. "But there is some hope for you ponies yet! If you can reach the hundredth floor and defeat me there, then I will let you all leave on your own time. Farewell, and let the games begin!" I cast my eyes down to my hooves, trying to comprehend what just happened. Some dark part of me seems almost pleased, being forced to battle to live. I swallow once hard and breath out, slowing my heartbeat. "Let's get this started." I mutter to myself, heading out to the Fields of outside the Town of Beginnings, leaving the mass of panic and disharmony. I pull out the tiny dagger given to starters and sigh. This wouldn't work. As soon as possible, I'm getting something bigger. I see a young boar turn to me and snort. "And so the fighting begins." I say out loud as the boar charges. I shout and race forward, blade glinting maliciously in the noon sun.

I focus on the ballista shots. More specifically the path they had left. I cast a spell over my vision so the paths become visible, and follow them with my eyes to where I think they had been shot from. With a quick teleport, I find myself several meters away from a pony next to a ballista, and a pony hovering above, sparking with power. This was going to get crazy... "Ooh! I need some popcorn!" The voice comes from next to me, and I see Discord smiling viciously. I roll my eyes and hit him hard with my hind legs, knocking over. "Fine. Fine. Jeez." "I still have not forgiven you, so you'd best be on your way." I growl at him. He disappears in a puff of smoke and I turn back to the standoff.

No clue, but I'll probably end up dressing as a (get this) brony. I'll probably wear my doctor whooves shirt and some sort of mlp jacket. I'm getting close to the age that it would be odd for me to go trick or treating, but that year is NOT THIS YEAR >

This is the prologue to a story I'm writing. If all goes well in editing, then this book will most likely end up getting published on Kindle. After that, it may move on up the food chain. I just wanted to post it here so I could get some feedback and suggestions. Don't be afraid to leave criticism, I appreciate it PROLOGUE A flash. Resonating screeches pound through my head, following the rapid beating of my heart. My eyes whip open, frantically darting left and right. I catch a glimpse of a mysterious figure, holding something. Something small, almost like a handle of some sort. He tosses it up once, catching it again. He then casually tosses it at me. Whatever he threw disappears as soon as it leaves his hand, so I'm left with my growing headache and the question of what it could have been. There is some sort of semi-clear layer between us, easily ten feet wide and seven tall. I blink and in the place of the one figure, many appear, rapidly typing on a large control panel. Were they studying me? No. Testing me. I feel a sudden rush of fatigue, but I will for my eyes to stay open, something in me desperately wanted to escape, and I feel myself begin to strain against leather bindings holding me to some flat, dentist-like chair. One of them says words that I can't make out and points at me, finger waving inches from the glass, probably recognizing that I had woken up. I feel a rush of anger and shout, pushing against the bindings again, but to no avail. One of them points at monitors rested on the control panel and turns back to face another man that had somehow entered the room. He hadn't been there before, for I would have remembered him. He was a large man, almost round, and I swear I could almost smell his stench. How had he gotten in? I then see something slowly making its way into my vision, descending, always pointed at me, a vicious-looking needle protruding far out of a large cylindrical body, several times larger than a football. I strain again at the bindings, now panic and adrenaline aiding me. I need to get free! The people spring up from their seats and start shouting, frantically pressing buttons on the large panel. More pulses of fatigue; it feels like my eyelids are being forced closed by some monstrous beast. I try to cry out, but all I can muster is a soft exhale. I feel everything drain from my body, and I lie still, breathing. I can't move, nor open my eyes. I feel... Peaceful. As if my problems were gone, and I was free... Free to live how I wanted... Suddenly shrieks shred the silence in my brain. I scream, fire blazing intensely through my veins as I writhe, trying to escape the pain. Memories flash quickly, faces I recognized, some that I didn't. Small landscapes with houses, and me. Myself standing still, staring. "THIS..." I shout, tugging one last time. "ISN'T..." But I can't finish the sentence as a black abyss overtakes my vision and I lie still.

Without waiting for a response from the odd pony, I cast a quick spell and fall back into my void. "Tsk. Challenging my strength of the void, and then asking for a fight. The fool." I drift for a few seconds in the void, just thinking, before a small orb drifts in front of me. In it is a picture of Ponyville. "Yeah, why not?" I swipe downwards with my horn and step out into the main square of Ponyville. As my hooves touch the ground, my vision pulses and a headache hits me hard. 'Something is wrong in the void.' I think quickly. And yet I could feel an aura similar to mine moving towards something... Different. 'Perhaps that Disruptis fellow is doing something.' I decide to let Disruptis run his course and turn my eyes to the sky, just in time to see some stray ballista shots falling at an angle towards Ponyville. I race towards where I assume they would land and do my best to catch the shots. After realizing I couldn't slow them, I open two portals to the void, and watch in satisfaction as they fall through. "Guess that's one way to handle that. Now, who fired those shots?"

Yeah I'm not sure why it flipped the picture. It keeps doing it, and I can't fix it. The phone camera is sorta buggy :/

Not quite sure what this falls under, but I thought it looked good. I guess this could be my OC as a human, even though my OC is a unicorn, not a pegasus. Anyway, hope you like it Why must this thing keep flipping my pictures?!

From left to right: Warrior Void, Lion Blaze, and Hyperion mech 7. I'm not the best of artists, and it isn't coloured, but whatever And why did it flip the picture sideways? :/

@@dusk shade I fall into a darkness. That pony's words, 'judgement day'... I scoff at his stupidity. A void? Is that not implied in my name that I have mastery of such realms? With a swift glow from my horn and a step forward, I emerge in front of the pony again. "Are you serious?" He whips around to face me. "Petty voids? You really believe I was incapable of escaping that?" I feel my horn heat up. "And while my sins are true, you are not the one to deliver judgement." A blast of energy from my horn surrounds him as I am careful not to touch him. "Now, do you wish to continue?"

A tap. Words spoken. I leap forward and twist around mid-leap, as to put distance between us. "What?" I say, voice shaking. 'She must know.' The thoughts pounds in my head following the beat of my heart. After noticing the glowing horn, I act fast, quickly dropping through a small portal and re-appearing in a feild. "If a fight is what you want, then at least let me spare those I can." I say into the noon sky. If he really wants to confront me, then he'll have to do it here.

Trotting back into Ponyville, I sigh. 'Maybe Disruptis won't tell anyone... Maybe he has, and I'll be arrested...' The painful thoughts keep looping through my head as I walk towards the... Nowhere really. I stop moving at the center of the town, and just look around. Through a groan and tears, I sit, head bowed. I hear hoof steps and the clink of metal. 'Wait!' I bolt up, and follow the sound. 'Could he be...?!'

I walk into the small hut, instantly catching the smells of various brews and spells. "Welcome, warrior." The words come out from the hut as soon as I set hoof inside. "Um, excuse me?" I reply, a bit caught off guard. "I have been keeping track of your 'adventures', to say the least they are exciting. Panic clutches at me suddenly. "Have you seen anything as of late?" I ask, mortified that she would know the lives I have taken recently. "No, but I have a feeling I do not wish to." "That is true..." "So, what do you need?" "Magic limiters?" "Really? That's a bit odd of a request, but let me look." She trots off into a cut off room. "If you have really been watching me, then you would know..." "Ah, but I thought the gem and further limiter on that would have been enough." "I wish it were..." The zebra trots back to me holding a strange, crimson feather. "Please kneel." I do as she says, and I feel the sharp tip of the feather scratching my horn. A few minutes later, she steps back. "I'm afraid I've done as much as I can, the rest is up to you." I now, and with a word of thanks, make my way back into the forest. As soon as I leave, I summon a mirror using my magic and examine the glowing glyphs engraved upon my horn. 'I hope this will be enough...'

The only place I can be safe... Maybe not anymore because of the Disruptis stallion... All I can hope is that he can't reach me here. I look around at the infinite darkness. "Why am I cursed with such power?" I cry, but the words are lost in the void. I just float there, on the verge of tears. "Why must I take so many lives?" I whisper. I find myself on a hill, surrounded by an impossibly dense wall of trees. One stone sticks out of the top of the hill, with words engraved upon it. I trot up to the stone and lie down next to it, shutting my eyes. "You would know how to solve this." I tell the stone, remembering the face that I would have been talking to instead. I press my forehead to the stone, and open my eyes. "Please..." I lie like this for a while, just feeling the minutes tick by. I finally work up the strength to stand. Looking at the stone, and the engravement: 'the end of one path to save the paths of many', I slowly trot out into the everfree forest, in search of the only pony who wouldn't know of my crimes.

"I..." I pause, lowering my voice further. "Will handle it." After a quick nod from Disruptis, I focus, drawing time closer to a standstill. Time freezes and I swipe downward once with my horn, opening a small rift. I step through, finding myself adrift in an infinite blackness. After another quick swipe I find myself outside the hospital, several hundred meters away, where a hooded unicorn crouches, magic sparkling from their horn. "Getting nosey?" I ask, watching as the pony leaps backwards, startled. "It isn't nice to eavesdrop." I growl, pacing toward them. "But I already know too much!" The pony says, swiping a blade towards my neck. I step back, dodging the blade, but feel something change. "Now I have your power!" I hear a shrill cry rise into the air as my gem fastens around the pony's neck. Suddenly the pony crumples, and the hood falls from their head, revealing a mare's face. "But... Why do I feel drained?" She barely utters, looking at me with questioning eyes. I feel rage boiling inside, pumping faster and faster! "You should have heard." I loose control. A massive beam tears from my horn, knocking the mare high into the air. I'm suddenly above her, and with a swift kick, she rockets to the ground, followed by a loud explosion. I land softly, feeling a satisfying crunch as I trot over the smoking corpse. I lift up the gem and tie it back to my necklace. My vision flashes. "Oh Celestia!" I whisper, looking at the body. "What have I done?!" I fight off tears and race back to the void. Alone. Adrift in silence. "This power is becoming too much..." I whisper to myself, trying to force my brain into thinkin it would get better, but I knew too strongly that it wouldn't.

@Disruptis I sigh. "That seems more reasonable, and for the sake of time, let's leave it at that." I glance around, scanning the area. it seemed like my eyes were searching, but my head had forgotten what for. "I believe someone is listening in..." I whisper to Disruptis cautiously. "And I'm pretty sure they aren't just some curios filly..."

@Disruptis His words seemed to be truthful from his point of view, yet I could easily bounce through the void if I wanted to... "Perhaps we do not speak of the same place." I say, drawing an intrigued look from Disruptis. "From where I am speaking is an emptiness between time and space, where the rules of reality have no grip. It may not be the official 'void' you know, but it is a very real place indeed. And the extent of my powers is something I know far too well..." I shut my eyes, fighting off painful memories "but I have come to realize that I am bound by no rules, of this world nor of one from above. For my domain is far from their reach."

@Disruptis "I have... Spent more time there than I wish to. I was banished there at a young age both by Discord and later by..." I clear my throat once before continuing. "So in short I have learned to manipulate it, allowing me to escape that banishment. But, because of an earlier injury," I raise a hoof and tap my horn, which was jagged on the back edge, like it was melted and re-solidified in a blast I wind. "It made it rather difficult. My horn is melted at the core, allowing for a but more extreme spells, but they become very painful to use." I flick one ear quickly before elevating the necklace around my neck, the blood red gem socketed in a shining silver medallion. "This gem holds most of my strength, but not in the way you originally would assume..."