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@Blitz Boom Warlock smirked tossing the gem over to Athriel, falling backwards into a portal, opening on the floor, turning around as he stepped onto the floor inside the archives. Guards turning to look at him, one jabbing a spear at Warlock, shattering the metal tip apart from the warding as it caused his head to turn with the spear. He turned to look at the guard, who was terrified now. "Heh, this will be fun, come on Athriel, take the blood for yourself." He created a sword, cutting the guard's cheek, tossing him over to Athriel, allowing her to use the cut as a source for blood. "Stand down! you are wanted by-" The guard found his head grasped by Warlock, who then threw him into a bookshelf. He looked around, tossing away guards, mostly into bookshelves, giving the ponies only small cuts but still allowing Athriel all the blood she needed to fight as well. Warlock saw the element with four guards around it, the element in a warded container acting as if it was trying to absorb the magic of the ward, but it was using a ward similar to his, but if the ward's etched design was disturbed, it'd stop working much like the one Warlock currently had. The guards ran at him, being easily tossed aside, Warlock slicing through the warding mark, punching the glass apart. Turning around while holding the element in his hooves. "STOP HIM!" A guard threw a spear, slicing Warlock's hoof, the one with the warding, deflecting off hoof, into his chest. He dropped the element on the ground, but now out of it's casing it sucked out the magic of all the ponies in the room, except Warlock's as he was the owner of the element, it absorbed any remaining warding or magic inside Sapphire's eye, a guard grabbed the element, quickly having his magic sucked out into it. "AHH!" Then fainting onto the floor. Warlock looked up to the guard, grinning. "It's called the Element of Greed for a reason." He grabbed it, still dripping blood as he put it on, the wound healing up once the element touched his chest, fusing with his body, this being something he did to ensure it couldn't be taken from him again. His mane growing long, a cloak forming around him from the air itself much better looking than the last one, he floated through his portal, leaving Athriel behind, now in the middle of the Everfree forest as the portal closed, stretching he put his hooves together, making some energy in between the. "Time to test my strength." He directed the energy downwards, destroying the landscape around himself, knocking over some trees. "Perfect." =================================================================== Iron Star stood still as Dew made his movements. "Yes that is true." He looked up at Dew. "At least the ponies won't be able to tell I am blind." He said with a slight smirk. "I'll try not to wander to far away from you though." His ears turned to the door, his head soon after. "Oh shoot..." "What is it?" She asked lifting her head off Dew's back. "Warlock has the element of greed, and I have no idea what the heck we're supposed to do now for an advantage." =================================================================== "While I enjoy that you care for them too, but they all have military training." "Nectar, even I don't know what the limit to his power is, especially if he has gets the element of greed, Warlock might just turn your army to dust." She stepped back at Astral's statement, her wings lowering down. "Even if you feel confident they could find the two, it's unlikely many, or any, would survive." Nectar looked down, almost disappointed. "but they'll be fine back at home, I'm sure Golden will do a good job of handling them." She turned, looking at Golden with a bit of a smile. "And go ahead and ask, I'm not going to keep secrets unless they end up being too personal." =================================================================== "Well if you have suggestions on how to keep the amount of layers to a minimum, I'm all ears." He said now following the dragon. "Will you need to measure my wings though? their size might make it hard to put on the armor." He fluttered them a bit, the shifting metal clattering like cutlery. "Or is there a work around for them?"

@Blitz Boom Is it okay that I control the guards in the archives? Or should I work in some complex work around for you to control them? I'd need them to react to Warlock obviously, but you could have some guards attacking Athriel in the reply, I wouldn't force them to attack her, just Warlock.

@Blitz Boom Warlock levitated the gem over to himself, grinning. His eyes turned white, seeming as if he went blind. While Iron Star was able to do this without magical energy, Warlock did need magical energy, so he couldn't do it often, and Warlock could only use it to read minds. About a minute later his eyes turned back to normal, and he let out a sigh of frustration. "Seems they just put the element of greed back where it used to be, how typical." He said with a hefty sigh. "Well that means we have to check the canterlot archives to make sure it is there. Which is likely to be more guarded after the last time I went there." Warlock lifted his hoof, wincing in pain as a warding spell, a permanent one resistant to anti warding or magic spells, etched itself into the bottom of his hoof. "You'll have to apply one on yourself too, even if you don't want to invade the canterlot archives, we still need the advantage." He said putting his hoof down, looking to the gem. "Speaking of advantages, who should wear this?" He asked, levitating it over to himself, letting the gem sway as the smoke inside seemed to be tired out. =================================================================== "If you have any questions about what I said, you should ask them." Iron Star said, standing up off the floor. "And I accept those requirements, wearing cuffs isn't unusual for me." Misty slowly scooted forward, nervously standing on the floor, but falling over. "Um, I will wear cuffs too, but you'll have to keep carrying me." She said still laying on the floor. "Still need to recover after, earlier." =================================================================== Astral nodded. "I haven't had something to drink recently, so some tea would be nice." Nectar walked over to Golden. "Golden, I should bring something to your attention." She looked to Francis. "I could send my army out to search for the Warlock figure. Francis knows what he looks like, so he could lead the search." "Lead it? I can't lead anything, and I'm not exactly leader material anyways." She smirked, raising an eyebrow. "If I say you are leader material, you are leader material." She looked back to Golden. "Apologies I hadn't thought of this earlier, it only occurred to me just now." She said shrugging with a somewhat embarrassed look."But do you have anything to add?" She asked, then finding a chair, sitting right next to Astral. =================================================================== Iron Wing extended his wings, allowing him to get a better look. "I actually would prefer if all the armor pieces had this enchantment, to make them lighter so I could fly with it." He said, then retracting his wings. "And they could be designed to slide underneath each other, to allow for armor pieces over the joints." He explained while trying to use his hooves to express his idea better. "Should keep in mind with the enchantment it could be made out of a really tough metal while still being light enough to fly with." He put his hooves down, looking up to the dragon. "Sound good? or do you need more input to do your work?"

@Blitz Boom Well whatever the result is, I know it will be awesome, and I think warlock would know about the astral plane messing thingy, since Sapphire used it when fighting him. Maybe Athriel wouldn't know, even if Sapphire used it during the battle with her, since Athriel might not attribute the ability to the gem.

@Blitz Boom Warlock smirked. "Full of surprises you two." The smoke inside the gem hit against the outside, as if trying to escape, but at the same time it seemed to be trying to lash out at Athriel. "You know, we could use this to lure out Astral and Iron Star." He said with a snicker. "Tell them we can bring their lost family member back and such." He let out a disappointed sigh when Athriel made it clear he couldn't go to Canterlot. "It does disappoint me I can't wreak havoc, and show them I still have it." He looked to the gem, which had started turning a deep red as Athriel made her threats, indicating great anger from inside. "Well your plan certainly sounds interesting." He sat down on one of the chairs in the room. "And I thought you only knew where one of the elements were." He looked at the gem. "Unless she knows." The gem's lashing out smoke seemed to calm down immediately, pressing against the bottom of the gem as if in fear. "I wonder if we could use a spell to peek inside her "head" To be sure" He said making some smoke based air quotes with his hooves. =================================================================== Iron Star walked slowly inside, trying to make sure any direction he walked in had nothing there. Eventually deciding just to sit on the floor near by Misty, if Dew decided to suggest another spot to sit, he'd move there. "This Warlock figure has a lot to do with it; when Warlock was imprisoned the one who imprisoned him tied it to their life span, because they were immortal he'd be imprisoned forever, but they turned their immortality off when they met me, eventually died of cancer, then my daughter went off to learn dark magic trying to resurrect her mother, failed horribly, then met a zebra, her." He said pointing to Misty. When he spoke about the death of Sapphire, as abridged as it was, he didn't show much grief in his tone, since he had already progressed through grief. "Misty had managed to stop her from trying, and eventually they ended up in Canterlot right as the remaining imprisonment magic faltered. So now they are wanted for not just using non-unicorn magic, but also for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I left a lot of the story out though, but I said the things you need to know." He turned to Misty with a grin. "We won't need a doctor by the way." Misty gasped, opening her eyes suddenly. She looked around, spotting Dew. "AH!" She moved against the wall, looking down at Iron Star, pointing to Dew. "Who is this?!" Iron Star looked to Misty. "He's a general." "Are we getting arrested?" Iron Star shrugged, Misty looked up to Dew. "We didn't mean to do anything wrong, In fact I haven't done anything wrong yet." She looked down, her eyes still focused on Dew as her head faced the surface of the bed. "What do you plan to do with us?" =================================================================== Astral looked down, nervously shifting her hooves. "I wouldn't really call it a family heirloom, but thanks." Her head turned, following Golden as he exited the room. "Please make sure the generals don't attack me when they enter!" She yelled out to Golden, but likely loud enough for the other guard to hear. =================================================================== Wind nodded. "Dew is alright, he just retired from his position. I'm the new general now as Screecher said." He looked to Screecher. "She can explain why Dew retired, since I don't believe I had been informed why myself, might have just forgot though." He said shrugging with a smirk.

@Widdershins Well, it's not like we've ever seen a character use an element while also being from another universe before. (Does Sunset Shimmer count?) I also wouldn't let the idea go just yet if you actually want to be the element, just mention me when you get to doing the introduction. @Dji @Blitz Boom and I are setting up for that actually, just wait on it and Warlock and Athriel will find Dawn eventually.

@Blitz Boom There's a few things about the gem to keep in mind, so that way we can both avoid some possible deaths. The gem can be used to punch a pony's entire body into the Astral plane, which Sapphire did throughout her fight with Athriel, who may or may not know about this. The gem could allow Athriel, or Warlock, to seem as if they killed Iron and Misty, allowing them to get Astral to side with her after convincing her dark magic was the only solution. Which could be used as leverage to bring a resurrected Sapphire to join them and note, since Sapphire is already dead, when she comes back (If Athriel brings her back at all) I would like to treat her more like an npc, so she could be killed off later, or might just save the world again. Who knows? Also, do you think her eye could also be a element of disharmony? or could it just be an enchanted gem?

415837 I dunno but I'll run with it.

@Blitz Boom Warlock laughed a bit, interrupted there was the sound of something dropping. "Oh!" He grabbed it, it was Sapphire's eye, technically an old relic but also literally Sapphire's eye, allowing her to see magic users by making them glow with a sort of smoke. "Sorry, just had no idea you were related." He said fixing the necklace. "There were no records, no diary entries, no mentions, as if she didn't consider you alive at all." He said with a smirk. "Which is interesting." He handed the necklace over. "I hadn't had any plans for Astral other than trying to recruit her." He glanced down to the necklace. "Oh right." He brought the necklace back, putting a hoof over it, the crack repairing itself, the gem immediately turned a deep blue from gathering some dark magic. He rose his hoof in front of himself, the air seemed to crack open, clearly being a bridge of sorts to the astral plane. "There we go, working like a charm, here you go." The bridge closed, the necklace flying through the air awaiting Athriel to catch it. "I managed to snatch it after it sort of, exploded." He said walking away putting the element of depression on the shelf, Warlock turned around, looking at the necklace. "If you don't want it I'll wear it, since we need to take our advantages." If Athriel caught it, the gem's insides would act much more violent and would turn red-ish, this was a result of some of Sapphire's soul being inside it and recognizing Athriel's magical presence, if Athriel recognized the gem she'd know it was a horcrux too, since her sister told her of it so she could bring her back in the future, but now she could bring her sister back, and the possibly to get Sapphire to side with her again. "Oh while we're at it, why don't we search Canterlot for a possible bearer of this element?" He asked picking the element off the shelf. ================================================================ Iron Star smiled. "Oh good, we can't take to much time. Warlock is going to get a major advantage soon." He said, knowing the guard was aware of Warlock. "We'll need more help than just getting little Misty here to safety." Misty seemed to cough up some water, breathing in deeply as her body realized her lungs worked, then started breathing properly. Iron Star walking up to Misty, petting her mane. "I hope she recovers soon." ================================================================ Astral grabbed it, rubbing her mane dry. "Thanks." Her mane was ruffled up, but she ignored it and calmly walked over to the quest chair as she handed the towel over back to Golden. "As long as they know I am not evil I won't have any objections." she said sitting down, putting her hooves in front of herself but then realized something. "AH!" She grasped at her neck. "My necklace!" Her eyes now expressed dread. "It was just a piece of jewelry, what's so-" "It produces magical energy based off the user! If warlock has it it'd produce dark magic, if Athriel has it, well I don't know what it does with blood magic, but it can't be good either way!" "Could it be an element of disharmony then?" Astral scoffed. "No, it's a Sapphire gem. My mother had it. It glows near a source of magic but it was cracked." She leaned forward. "And aren't elements of disharmony indestructible anyways?" Francis sat down on one of the guest seats. "We never saw them break, so how would we know?" Nectar looked to Francis. "If anything nopony has actually tried to break them yet." And then Astral's eyes were wider. "That's even worse if it is!" She said swinging her hooves forward. "Golden do you have any ideas that don't keep Warlock in the lead?" ================================================================ Iron wipped some sweat off. "I'll try to keep that in min-" then he saw the dragon. "Woah, how did you get a dragon to work here?"

@Blitz Boom Sounds grand, yeah. Definitely sets up some hatred towards Astral herself, might ruin Warlock's idea to try and recruit Astral, but also might help it, who knows? Although this would build to Iron Star and Misty possibly dying, which wouldn't be very cheerful, but I could think up a work around for this so someone else does it instead of Warlock, or Warlock just blames said pony/being for their (possible) deaths. I'll figure it out since they are my characters. Actually, have many OCs died in this rp yet?

@Blitz Boom Well, I have a bit of "Evil Sapphire" that I came up with. If they are related; they used to be immortal sisters, working together for a while, but Sapphire found herself getting a friend, turning good as she learned about friendship and started to try and stop Warlock when he came about. After that she imprisoned Athriel after a long battle, Sapphire living long after. Sound good? Also, any idea where Athriel was trapped all those years, or should that be up to me since Sapphire traped her?

@Blitz Boom Warlock looked down at the element. "I am unsure if I can use this one. Depression isn't exactly an issue with me." Some internal smoke flowed around inside the element, as if it was alive. "But maybe somepony else might be able to wield it." He said grinning, looking back up to Athriel. "Of course I doubt you could unless something in your past that-" He paused, he grinned with an idea, a awful idea. "Although Astral does have some depressing things in her past." He looked to Chow. "We just have to remove a few, things holding her together, and whola, we have a new recruit." He walked over to his bookshelf. "That'd be family members first, like Iron Star who could tell her what we plan." He pulled out a book, opening it. He flipped it over and showed it to Athriel, Sapphire Star was in the depiction, but she seemed to be causing the destructing in the depiction. "Maybe bring up some things she never found out about her mother." He said turning around with a grin. "Oh did I mention these two were related?" He said creating a depiction of Astral next to himself. ================================================================= Iron Star looked to the source of the sound, scanning his mind to see he had no bad intentions. "Thank goodness, yes I would prefer if you carried her, she's heavier than she looks." He walked over, feeling his hooves in front of himself to try and find the voice. "I will need somepony to guide me though." He said raising a hoof. ====================================================================== Nectar nodded. "They only require my permission so I won't be long." She looked to Francis. "Try not to feed too much on any ponies love." "I don't normally." She smiled. "I am aware, just saying." She teleported away to her hive. Astral looked to Golden, her ears folding down. "I am so sorry! I teleported here blindly, first place on my mind at the time for some reason." Her ears popped up when he asked if she didn't get into trouble. "My mane is dripping wet, I thought it was obvious that I got in trouble." She said with a plain tone. "We had an encounter with Warlock and now we're all over the place, and Warlock has the Element of Depression and Chow now, we also almost drowned because of Warlock." She said walking over to him. "Wait, why are you in the throne room? I thought the princesses weren't here, wait are they coming here?" She said, suddenly having a shield forming around her. Nectar reappeared then seeing Astral, she looking to Golden. "Why is she here?" "I just told him, I teleported here blindly." ====================================================================== "Huh, am I going to be compared to Dew often?" He asked as they walked outside to the forge, Screecher made her comment on the forge door, Iron scoffed. "Well as long as you keep the door open I won't have to touch the handle."

@Blitz Boom This idea circled my head for a bit, might require a few questions to be answered before I suggest it. How long has Athriel been around? Who might have imprisoned her? What if it was a family member? Do you like the sound of Athriel Star? Yes I am suggesting the idea that Sapphire and Athriel are related, depends how long Athriel had been around imprisoned or otherwise.

@Blitz Boom Warlock chose both, but did the teleportation first and went to his old house, the range for the water spell was only so far so the water collapsed immediately afterwards. Flooding into the temple and sweeping Astral, Misty, Chow and a blind Iron Star towards the furthest back area as the place flooded, but it was unlikely the guardian would be affected being made of gold which is denser than water. "Ahhh!" Astral yelled out trying to pull herself against the water using a ledge, she caught the unconscious Misty. Trying to hold her, and then found herself struggling to even use magic to hold them up. Iron Star hit the back wall with a thud. "Agh!" He pulled himself against the flow of water with some struggling. "No!" She let Misty go by accident, causing her to flow away with the rushing water. She looked to her grip, weakening, slipping from the wet surface she was trying to grip to. She hit the back wall looking around and not seeing Misty anywhere, or Iron Star. She took a deep breath as the water took her in, she teleported away leaving a vacuum behind, collapsing with a loud bang. She fell onto the ground, gasping for air, she grabbed onto a shelf, looking to it. "Wait..." She took a blind teleport, but this was the first place on her mind. She stood up, looking around a tad bit panicked. "Why the throne room?!" She said pulling her own hair a bit, she could teleport away but she ran out of the last magic the necklace had, leaving her with who ever was in the room and some warding. ============================================================== Iron Star also took a blind teleport quite literally, to the middle of nowhere in Canterlot, with Misty. Who was unconscious unable to tell him where he was. He fumbled around with her on his back and soaked in water, he'd surely look strange but guards were out looking for Misty, but she did need help recovering after the shock, which was what knocked her unconscious. "Can somepony helps us?" He yelled out, sitting down on the sidewalks. ============================================================== Unfortunately for both of them Warlock took Chow with him, throwing him onto the floor, but then casting a complex spell onto him removing the warding, a spell that couldn't be done on the battlefield as it required hoof movements that could easily be interrupted. "Have fun Athriel, he's all yours." ============================================================== "I can't really give suggestions unless I know the original option." She looked to the distance, in the general direction of her hive. "But I am going to need to deal with other matter soon, mostly my subjects feeding time." Francis' wings buzzed excitedly, his tongue flicked out, he looked down blushing. "Whoops! Haven't fed in a while." He said now batting his hoof on the ground. "That happens for some reason." "It's because you aren't reformed." Nectar said turning to Francis. "Seriously can me and my subjects design be that horrid?" "Uh, yes?" Nectar face hoofed, sighing. "Oh well, can't really say much against that." She mumbled knowing she looked weird, looking at Francis giggling. "Can we continue please? I'm getting anxious about the whole big bad thing, actually thinking about it, is this why Discord escaped?" She asked snarkily, smirking. "Seriously though, with whatever power Warlock has, at least Celestia could call the Elements of Harmony bearers until the army can help." ============================================================== Iron Wind followed her as they walked to the armory. "I'll be sure to keep that in mind Screecher, I would rather just something similar to the royal guards but with more protection around, everything." He said with a light chuckle. "They could just slide under each other at the joint, allowing more space to be covered." He said, glancing around. "I wonder if that is possible to do, oh and I need room for these." He extended his wings. "Maybe put some enchantments on the armor to make it lighter so I can fly with it if needed." His ears perked up and he stopped walking, then he turned to Screecher. "Wait, did you mean think on it in my head?" He asked, now trying to hold back a blush and failing.

@Widdershins Well it's only god modding if you hurt another players OC without giving them room to escape that harm in their own post. Anyways, at this point it's either you play the guardian as if it wasn't already the element of betrayal and was just a guardian, or the statue is just, there. Or @Blitz Boom controls it. hopefully one of these options work.

@Blitz Boom @widdershins The wards did in fact let out a explosion of magic, not to large. More of a clash of magic sparks, Iron fell over and slid across the floor. Gasping as he realized the shields ere gone. Warlock grinned, seeing Misty helpless. "Time to deal with you." He ran at her, he formed a transmutation circle similar to what Iron Star created earlier, pulling out a spear like he did. With the same spell. Misty created a shield and protected herself, Warlock flying over and pinned her to the ground, pointing the spear at her back. "Astral!" She turned to her, narrowing her eyes at Warlock who smirked sily. She yelled out in anger as she charged to him. He opened a portal, sending her flying out, miles above where they were. But then Iron Star felt the loss of Misty's consciousness, from Warlock pinning her to the ground, with a fleshy cutting, and sound of cracking stone, clearly indicating to the blind earth pony that Misty was just impaled. "That was easy." He said with a chuckle, looking up, grabbing Astral as she tried to direct her falling body to him, he then threw her onto the floor. She stood up, making a shield to protect herself from Chow's lashing out. "Hey! Friendly here!" She held him in place, unfortunately allowing the blood spear better access to him. The warding lashed out at the blood magic, disrupting the spell containing the blood but allowing Chow's fur to be stained by the blood. She then caught a glance at Misty's body on the floor, Warlock pulling out the spear after he got her attention. "We're similar you and I, we have dead families, tried to revive them." He glanced to her cutie mark, knowing what the picture was of. "But one of us had a different path." He created a shield as Astral tried to strike him. "Because a little filly stopped you." He tossed her away. "How adorable." He threw the spear at her, hitting her gem, cracking it and sending the spear flying away, causing it to release all the magic it had gathered, at Warlock. "AH!" He found himself flying at Athriel, who if she dodged he'd tumble on the floor, other wise her body would be the only one hurt. The magic quickly burned out but left Warlock rather messed up as a result, Astral running over to cast healing onto the really injured zebra. Growling at Warlock. "You will suffer so much for this." Fire surrounded them as she prepped for teleport. Iron Star looked to her. "We can't leave yet." He struggled to say. "Not with the element right there." He said the last bit prominently, Warlock's ears turning to him. But before Astral could rush over and grab it so she could teleport with it, Warlock pushed her aside and picked it up, smiling at it expecting a rush of power, but then immediately had a question. "Wait, which element is this?" He asked looking down to it, then showing Athriel. ================================================================= Nectar looked around, confused why Scarcity opened the portal here of all places. "Well, I guess so, since I don't know where they are." She said nervously chuckling. "It'd be much faster than flying anyways." ================================================================= "May I ask why will we be talking to Tidal Wave? if that can be mentioned in front of them." He said, gesturing to the rest of the ponies in the room.

@Daybreaker Zealous sat down, placing his tray down. "So, who exactly did you try to overthrow?" He asked eating the garlic bread that he had on his tray, then sipping the container of orange juice. "I'd guess it was somepony important to land you in prison."

I'd not take that, there would be the chance I lose the million dollars all together. Million dollars, but everything you touch aside from food or living things, turns into a pile of random lego pieces.

@Daybreaker Finding himself in the cafeteria the guard left him to wander it, Zealous gathered his food onto a tray, then sat down with said tray, now with food on it, not making a introduction like last time he was in a prison. He looked around, wanting to introduce himself to at least a few ponies instead of being a loner. He spotted Collapse, the pony he had only talked to so far, well he did see her but he wanted to talk to her a bit more. He walked over to her, with a tray of food he had picked out earlier. "Hey, mind if I sit here?" He pointed down with his hoof to a empty spot directly across from Collapse.

@Denim&Venom You can enter at any point you feel like, could be a new prisoner arriving during lunch hour,or some other time.

@Denim&Venom Well, seems they're in. I like the idea of having an investigator posing as a prisoner, hopefully nobody hurts them.

@Denim&Venom Seems like an interesting thing to have in the prison. Will the warden or guards be aware of this pony?