Catpone Cerberus

@Blitz Boom Ruby didn't say anything regarding it, but she disagreed with Marley and Leviathan on how such treatment would feel like, and it wasn't even for pride or money related reasons, but instead a physical one. She didn't doubt that these two enjoyed it, but she was bit more complicated, firstly, her scales had barely any feeling in them, they being her armor that's whole purpose was to take damage, and second, her scales were so thick that any type of real massage was pretty much impossible, it would be like trying to massage someone while they are in a full-body metal armor. "This is not a termination of our relationship, you can tell as much to Spicy too, and if there's any business you feel my help would be appreciated in, you can feel free to seek me out." "There just has been...events that have taken place, that I need a moment to ponder over in peace, and I don't feel comfortable leaving part of my belongings to lay around somewhere else for that moment." "This moment of thought will also serve our future dealings in positive way, as the events have caused me to be...distracted, which could do a disservice to my performance." As they followed Marley, she continued "Also, don't mind Charir, he doesn't understand a word we say and isn't familiar with the ways of civilization, so he is a bit.... traditional, when it comes to his species." She would proceed to remove the spells from her treasure when they got in the vault, and after she was done she asked from Marley "One thing more, where may be the closets place from where i could get a cheap cart or wagon to help to move these." she would have asked Marley but she didn't know if he had something else to do, and thus didn't ask directly, knowing he would certainly offer himself if he saw it as an option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I prefer to keep my knowledge on chirps and quacks." Scarecrow said with slight amusement in his voice "To me it is enough to know if they see me as a threat or not, and that tends to be rather obvious." he explained as he followed Lyriel "Only time I truly wondered what may be going on in creature's head was when the scavengers left me alone, what thought causes a worm to leave its apple, duck to refuse bread, pony to throw a full plate of food away, or a scavenger to abandon a carcass." as he spoke and walked, he also listened in the conversations going on around them "There's beings of many levels of intelligence, they all are different, yet they are also all the same, even those outside the usual share many things with everything else" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The siblings had no reason to hang around, so they would be ready to leave right away, at most they would finish a glass of water that may have been left unfinished. "Not only the area, but the whole place, we still have only words about its greatness, and it's time to see how true they are." Trox said as they would make their way out of the room "a desert? what was that like." Sheska asked from her brother "Couldn't tell you, wouldn't have know I was there if she didn't mention it." he had only seen a sun from a window, that was his experience of this desert awake, so he had no idea how it actually was. The hospital itself didn't get much attention from the kobolds, it was a hospital, sure it was lot less advanced than what they were used to, but some things never changed regardless of how technologically advanced they got. The outside in other hand was what caught their eyes, or well, blinded them with its literal glow, as the direct sunlight took them by surprise, sure they had gotten used to light in the hospital by now, but the sun itself was quite a lot brighter than anything in a building. "That thing certainly is bright, can you imagine sleeping in this light." Sheska commented, covering her eyes from the light "And warm, no wonder most of us ended up in the Night-Realm, I can feel my scales drying up." Trox added, he didn't know, as he hadn't experienced it before, that this wasn't really a bad thing, rather it was just his body protecting itself from drying up further by pulling the moisture deeper.

@Califorum "I have already thought about that, if I didn't have plan on how to get you there, I wouldn't have offered the room in the first place." Frail pointed out, seeming bit irritated from Sparkly seeing the need to point such a thing out, or maybe it was from the other point she made, since with Frail's response to that, the irritation was more obvious "And I already sell things at other places too, I get you are trying to help, but know that if it's a obvious solution like that, I have already thought about it, i have been doing this for years after all." she again wasn't angry at Sparkly necessarily, it was just a combination of the already existing irritation and her not liking when she was given 'obvious advice', since the rich ponies did that quite a lot, though with them it was many times also bad advice, since they were trying to tell her how to do her job, job that was her talent. While she spoke she made her way to a door that opened to a different storage room than the one with sand, from there she pulled out a cart and put few bags of stuff in it "I don't know what internet is, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist here, also, while you do look like a princess, you're not one, it's earned here, though you being an alicorn will be a complication of its own." she brought the cart next to Sparkly "Get in." assuming Sparkly did as she was told, Frail would then cover the cart with a cloth cover to hide her.

"I doubt it." Jenna said again as she looked at what was now the military's last stand, the army had reached the wall and had no more room to retreat "As far as we know, they may be the one in need of training, we don't know what their potential is, maybe this is just a small fraction they could do." meanwhile the person made their way back on the wall, they didn't seem to have any interest to interact with Jenna and Oliver, as evidenced by them staying far enough from them the whole time that besides maybe shouting there wouldn't be any way to speak to them. "That's the complicated thing about these powers, they don't have clear scientific explanation, and thus it's hard to know anything about them."

"Actually there is problems with more armor, mainly its effect on one's ability to move, it slows you down and makes you less agile, and with our claws cutting through most known materials, the advantage is minimal." Jenna pointed out "And I never said it being only a visual thing was a bad thing, I stated from the start that's exactly why I would wear one, that's why I said one made of gold instead of something more protective."

@Illiad Easle Ædriga shrugged "I only know animals, no eat other." she didn't really know how to answer the question because she wasn't used to having a choice, she usually just ate what was available, as long as it was meat of course "No lot food where I from, eat what can." that wasn't fully true, as there wasn't lack of food per say, and the problem was more that she was so weak that if there was any competition for the food, she was usually the one left without.

@Califorum "Glass items." Frail explained "Jewelry, decorative items, for use items like plates and drinking glasses, special items like lenses or windows....if it can be made out of glass, I can make it for a price, though the first three are what I have in my shop." "And yes, ponies do buy them, and my main customer base happens to be the self-important rich ponies of Canterlot" "And I do like what I do, it just takes its toll to deal with ponies who act like they are better than you for living." "And unfortunately there isn't anything you can do to help with it, that's life, not everything is enjoyable." she had her friends and other things to take her thoughts out of work, there wasn't much more that could be done "Also let's not get ahead ourselves, for now you're a guest in my guest room, anything else, we'll look at it when it's time for that." "Speaking of guest room, we should probably head to the house instead of loitering here."

@Califorum When Sparkly spoke of the presidents and such, it was visible from Frail's expressions that she had no idea what she was talking about, but Frail also didn't ask about it, because it sounded like politics, and she didn't like talking about politics. "Cutiemark is the picture on your flank, ponies get one when they figure out their talent, don't ask how it works, I don't know." she didn't meet Sparkly's eyes, looking more at her face in general rather than the eyes, also eyeing her legs to see how her standing was going "And yes, I am stressed, I just got done with dealing with egotistical rich snobs, and when I got ready to go home, I found a stranger who looks like a princess from my sand-closet." she said all that in surprisingly calm manner, and it was clear that she wasn't angry at Sparkly, why would she have been, even if she was still bit wary of her, it was pretty clear she wasn't there on purpose.

"I doubt it." Jenna stated "Like I said, they most likely have a different power altogether, evidenced by the notable lack of wind, so it would be like me trying to train someone who controls fire." "And honestly, it doesn't seem to be any more effective than what I can already do."

"Paint wouldn't be the same thing." Jenna said "And any armor would ultimately be more trouble than worth, we already have armor, it's called scales." she pointed out "Like I said, it would serve mainly as a way to make oneself look better, like jewelry."

@Blitz Boom Ruby just smiled at the ponies, knowing that nothing would annoy them more at this point than a wide friendly smile. She hadn't actually intended them to hear it, but it didn't bother her that they did, it was always nice to hurt the feelings of annoying ponies Ruby greeted the female griffon with a nod, recognizing her from the bar, but other than that didn't pay much mind to her, even the blood and meat didn't cause any questions since she could smell that it was all from prey rather than Marley or Spicy, not that it necessarily would have changed anything, sure it would have been quite unfortunate, but at least it would have been one less creature who knew the truth. "So getting dirty doesn't kill you, how unexpected." Ruby stated as the first thing, it was both a joke and a jab at the style obsessed griffon, she then 'pointed' at Charir by nodding with her head towards him "He's Charir, if anyone asks, I'm transporting him for a client." she didn't see a reason to lie to Marley, since she knew that he knew that there was no client. "I'm here to retrieve my things as I'll be heading back to Ponyville." Charir meanwhile mainly observed things, tilting his head at the nobles and the distaste they felt towards the group of dragons, and vice versa, since he didn't know what was so different between these ponies and for example the guards.He also followed the bloody griffon with his eyes curiously when she moved past them. Other than that, he looked around at the buildings and such. This didn't change when inside, and Marley would get the same curious head tilt as everything else, though if he tried to touch him, he would get a cloud of smoke as a warning, Charir wasn't scared of this weird predatory bird creature, but he also didn't trust him yet, even if Ruby seemed to. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Scarecrow looked around, he had spend his whole current existence among nature yet this was somehow nicer, maybe it was the light, or the lack of predators, who knew, but it was nicer than the forest. He was taken bit off guard by the mare but didn't say anything to her, she had managed to go unnoticed by him until she spoke because he wasn't used to this amount of life around him, and thus he wasn't really 'tuned' to stay alert to everything. "Nature without its bad parts, what is there not to like." he said "One can come here unaware of the brutality of nature and rude words of ducks." "What an amusing thought that is, foal unfriendly ducks." he had never thought about things like that, but no he wondered how many animals had cursed ponies out or been generally very rude while the ponies pet them and say how cute they are. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sheska didn't say anything and just let the nurse to do her thing, trusting her abilities to get it right. She nodded to the doctor after he informed about the estimated timeframe, and nodded again at the latter statement "We'll come back if problems occur." she decided not to bring up her own experience with these things, as bringing it up wouldn't really change anything, only possibly delay them from leaving. She smiled at the nurse "Thank you, I appreciate the compliment, I'll keep that in mind when I get something to wear at some point." like ponies, they didn't really need clothes, but they had gotten used to wearing them due to wearing armor and camouflage, so they would eventually get something to wear when they figured out the situation they were in. Sheska wasn't really good at getting compliments, partly due to not getting them often, and party because those who did compliment her in the past, usually had ulterior motives. If there was nothing else, the siblings would be ready to leave.

@Califorum "You can borrow my guest room for now." Frail promised, 'for now' being the important part, she would borrow it until Sparkly got a good enough footing, both literally and figuratively, after which she would need to find her own place or start paying rent. Frail looked down at Sparkly for a moment, her way of looking being lot more neutral than Sparkly's, she noticed how she looked at her, but didn't show any reaction to either way regarding it. "One thing at a time." she again said, offering her hoof to help her up again "No queens or kings, for some reason the few that have been have all turned out to be evil." "I'll try my best to help you, but I'm not experienced in these things, so I can't promise anything." "And lastly, I have no wish to stop you from going anywhere, not to sound harsh, but while I wish you no harm, you also aren't my biggest worry." Sparkly was ultimately just a stranger who appeared in Frail's shop, so if she decided to leave and get in trouble, that wasn't Frail's concern at that point anymore "Though I'd suggest changing your mane-style and hiding the cutiemark before leaving if you want avoid attention."

@Illiad Easle Ædriga wasn't really sure why Ætheron apologized, because in her eyes the problem of understanding was mainly at her end, she having different native language than everyone else. Regarding Spike she didn't say anything, but she thought about it, trying to figure out how exactly she felt about the idea, it wasn't easy when your knowledge and sense were in direct conflict with your instinct and experience. She didn't say anything in the post office either, besides of course greeting Ditzy, mainly because the conversation didn't sound like a one where she was expected to say something, and she wasn't really the chatty type that would involve themselves in conversations. Instead she used the time by getting her harness of and doing her usual warm up. Getting into the office wasn't any trouble to her this time, the bigger cities having made Ponyville lot easier to deal with, though the usual vigilance was still there, it was one of those things that would probably never go away, it was so deep in her instinct that it was stuck for good.

@Califorum Frail didn't pay too much mind towards Sparkly's noises, sure it was nice to have someone be actually impressed by something she did, but she didn't really know how to react to it. "Not always a villain, sometimes it's a wild creature or creatures." she agreed on the comic book part, in fact, she had always found it weird how popular comic books were since they were barely different from reality. She made a magical barrier around Sparkly when she tested out her magic, just in case, it wasn't a powerful barrier, and would do nothing against alicorn's magic, but since this one had no idea of how it worked, she believed it would be enough in case she did manage to do something. She removed it after the small poof appeared. "For somepony in your situation, not bad, though you should probably focus on getting control over basic functions before trying that any further." "Also it's a horn, not whatever you said." Sparkly had already called it horn earlier so Frail found it bit odd she suddenly thought it was called something else. "And as I didn't have time to respond when you brought it up, no I have no intent to hurt you, until of course you give me a reason to." glass wasn't the only thing her spells heated up, she may have not been a fighter, but she had ways to buy herself time to flee "I'll be contacting the princesses though, mainly to ask if they know anything about you, but as long as you don't become a threat, they probably won't care to do anything." "Also, they don't dissect things, our studies are done through magic which doesn't require such barbaric measures, besides, what's there to study, you're a lookalike of a princess, they already know everything about you physically."

@Illiad Easle Ædriga shook her head, it seemed she had been understood wrong "No close now, dead pony move lot, know this place, move here, no here now." she pointed out a route not far from Zecora's home "I mean, when I smell dead pony, I say I smell, and we say dead pony go here, dead pony talk, dead pony no need we two here." She was ready to continue when Ætheron was. After they had walked a bit Ædriga spoke again "When we Ponyville, I need books." "I no like when I no understand and others no understand I."

@Califorum The glass kept floating in front of the alicorn "If you are trying to scare me, don't bother." Frail said, sounding unimpressed "There's somebody trying to eat us, destroy us, take over Equestria or otherwise cause serious trouble pretty much weekly, a princess lookalike who can't even hold their own drinking glass isn't that intimidating." "And if I wanted to come up with names, I would become a mom." "I'll call you Sparkly until you get a real name." she tried to be friendly the best she could, but she was also still irritated from her work, so she wouldn't take just anything from this alicorn, especially since she was voluntary helping her, she could just as well have carried her for guards to deal with and gone home. "And if you are looking for fancy spells I'm the wrong pony to ask, I know only what I see necessary for my work." "Also, magic is part of the natural world here, we all are born with magic, and nature itself also has all kinds of magic in it." as she said this, she showcased her magic a bit, taking small pieces of glass from a metal container and fusing them together by melting them in the air with a spell, then she took more and bigger pieces and did it to those until everything was a single, big ball of hot glass, almost perfectly round ball in fact. She used this spell mainly for glass she was going to reuse, because while she could do everything magically, it saved her energy to use fire when making bigger amounts of stuff.

@Califorum Frail moved slowly step by step with the fake twilight leaning on her, slowly but surely getting her out of the storage and to a nearby bench she had in the workshop. She closed the storage's door using her magic behind them. Assuming the alicorn let go of Frail and supported herself with the bench as she best saw fit when they eventually got there, Frail would get her a glass of water, levitating it with her magic. "You are correct that I have no idea what you are talking about, and I admit I do have healthy amount of skepticism, though I'm sure you understand, you are a stranger who appeared into my storage room, look like one of our rulers, and talks about things I have never heard of." "Though at the same time, this isn't necessary the weirdest thing that has happened to me." "Richard you said your name is? sounds bit weird to me but who am I to judge? I can call you that if you so wish." it was pretty clear at this point that she was in her customer service 'mode', something that even Richard could potentially notice, "Don't really know what to say about magic or us ponies, I exist and use magic, don't know how else to prove their existence." Frail didn't do or say anything about the wings, it wasn't something she could help Richard Sparkle with since she was an unicorn and would most likely be equally helpless with them if she suddenly grew a pair.

"In theory yes." Jenna said nodding "But I can't currently do it like that." "I can control air, so in theory if I practiced enough, I could create strong, very localized winds to get similar result. Though there would be a high risk for me to accidentally create a tornado or something similar, nature is unpredictable and hard to control." "Probably easier to just slam buildings down using the ground."

"It wouldn't have much use when it comes to protection, gold is pretty soft." Jenna stated "It would be pretty much only for looks, in a fight it would probably cause more trouble than help." she let out amused exhale "Though I guess it could be used for physical exercise."

@Califorum Frail stayed put when the alicorn showed herself, sure her first instinct was to go help who looked like Princess Twilight, besides the stripe of course, but she had seen lot of things during her life, and this could be anything from changeling to some weird alternate personality that had gotten loose, so she had a healthy amount of caution, which was visible from her face among surprise and confusion. When 'Twilight' spoke, Frail knew something odd was going on here, not from the accent, since even though she had heard twilight spoke, she didn't know how she spoke outside royal speeches and such, but from the words, or well, a word, as it was clearly a profanity, but she had never heard it before, and didn't believe the friendship princess use such language, even if panicking from what in this case would have been a clear case of lost memories. Most ponies would probably not known how to act in this situation, and she didn't necessarily know the correct way either, but having been in customer service for most of her life, she knew ways to keep herself calm enough to not freak out "First thing is to take a deep breath and calm down a bit." her tone was friendly and clear, very customer service like, she had had her set of freaking out ponies, and it didn't really change anything who they were as the first thing was to get them to calm down before anything else "One thing at a time, You are in my storage room, in my shop, in Canterlot, the capital of Equestria." "I'm Frail Spark, Frail in short, and I'm a pony, like you are, the light is created with magic, it's something Unicorns like me and Alicorns like you can do." answering seeming stupid questions was also very familiar to her "You are, or at least look and sound like an Alicorn called Twilight Sparkle, though I dare to assume that you are not really her." "And why you are here? That's a good question, i'd like to know it too." she offered her hoof to help 'Twilight' up "But before we try to figure that out, let's get you out of the storage." she would help her to stay up by supporting her with her own body. "How long have you been in there?"

@Illiad Easle Ædriga waited as she had been told to, looking curiously around her, a home inside a tree, now that was something she hadn't seen before, or thought about really, since to fire breathing creature like her it would be inconvenient way to live, it not being fire-proof. She was slightly surprised that this Zecora actually offered to help, not for any specific reason, she just hadn't been fully expecting it. What wasn't too surprising though, was that the zebra would need to see the weird pony herself before she could come up with any specific solution, it only made sense with something this unusual. "I say when dead pony close, we say zebra want see dead pony." she said as response to Ætheron after he was done talking,

@Califorum One more thing, when does this take place? What princess Twilight do we have? Friendship princess Twilight, Princess of Equestria Twilight pre-timeskip, or the after-timeskip Twilight. Also, don't forget to link the OOC in the RP and vice versa.

@Califorum *ting* The sound of the small bell above the main door rang out the last time for the day as the last customer left and Frail Spark locked the door behind them, and when the light blue mare turned away from the door, her smile dropped and she let out a sigh, she was open only few hours and yet it always felt like a full day of work. "Stuck up jerk" she muttered to herself as she readied the shop for her absence, it was only late afternoon but she had long time ago decided to keep her work days short, the rich ponies of Canterlot took a toll on one's mental health, on the good side though, she could ask so high prices for her products that she could easily afford it. After the shop she moved to the back, cleaning up her workshop and making sure there was nothing that could cause a fire, she made glass for living, so heat was a crucial part of the process, thus it was important to check that everything had cooled down before she could leave. She collected everything she would be taking with her home, before finally sweeping all the loose sand from the floor and collecting it back to a bag as best as she could. She then closed the bag, lifted it on her back and carried it towards the storage. She had been planning to clean up the storage at some point, as lot of sand had gathered on the floor from damaged bags and other sources, but she never had gotten to it, it wasn't like she was running out of material. She opened the door and lit her horn to see better in the room, she could have gotten lanterns or something to light it up more permanently, but why bother, it was a sand storage, what was there to see? She stopped at the door, something had moved in there, it wasn't that she knew exactly where everything usually was, but there were quite telling marks that few of the bags were moved, and that something else had moved around too, there was tracks left in the loose sand that was everywhere in the room. her first guess was and animal, but animals didn't push around heavy sandbags. She dropped the bag to the side with a thump and spoke, her tone sounding mostly tired and slightly irritated "I don't know who, how, or why you ended up in my storage, but don't make me get the guards, I really don't want to deal with that today." she didn't see anyone, but it was pretty clear from the tracks that who-, or whatever it was, they were behind the moved bags, and not really being a fighter, she preferred trying this before locking them in and getting the guards, it would have been risky to just walk in to see.

"So self-levitation and ripping buildings in pieces, in theory that would be possible with my powers too, but I think this is something bit different." Jenna said, or well, it was more thinking out loud than anything "Maybe telekinesis of some sort." she held her chin thoughtfully "I don't really know which of us would be potentially more powerful." she shook her head "Oh, and yeah, it's good they are on our side."

"Is there something that wouldn't look good on me in your opinion?" Jenna pointed out in slightly teasing manner "I don't really get the appeal myself, I mean, style is style, but if it was up to me, I'd prefer a full-body medieval armor made of gold over any piece of cloth or leather." "Though then again, I don't really understand the whole physical-attraction thing in general." she was only part-joking with the armor comment, she really liked the idea of having a full golden armor, but mainly in her real form, gold was heavy and her human form would be crushed by the weight.