open Casual stroll

[Storm Shine 1,196]

@Widdershins

 

Pinkie began piling the foods onto plates as fast as he was pointing at them, a full platter of plates in front of Ambie by the time he finished speaking. "Of course!" Pinkie chirped cheerfully, "You can come back as much as you like! Stormy and Void over there made plenty of food for everypony!" She picked up one of the cupcakes, "They cooked all the normal healthy foodstuffs like the potato dishes and soups and curries and stuffs, while the Cakes and I made all the yummy pastries and bakestries! Like this yummy strawberry cupcake, that deliciously mouthwatering cheesecake, and that giant mega-chocolatey multi-layer Chocolate Cake Deluxe!" Pinkie ducked out of view and then came walking through a side door carting a gigantic and wonderously chocolatey cake of mega proportions. (Youdhavetoreallyseeittoknowjusthowbigandchocolateyandgiantthiscakeis! Likeifthewordschocolateandgianthadafoalandnameditcakeanditwassjustasuperduperbigmixofallthreeofthosethingsbroughttogetherinacreamychocolateygiantmarvelousyummytower!!! )

 

[Foxy Socks 2,599]

@Widdershins 

"Oh I see, good." Foxy honestly wasn't sure what to think of Widdershins. She knew that they probably wouldn't harm them, as they seem to be more playful and childlike. She was a bit upset that they tried to scare Brittle, but she couldn't stay mad at him. There was something likable about them. Besides, maybe they didn't know that Brittle was so fragile.

"Hey, um, where did you come from? I don't seem to know much about Draconequuses. They seem quite fascinating, as I love to study new animals and creatures," Foxy said, realizing she felt no need to hide or be so shy from them. They seemed, well entertaining to her.

"Though I mostly focus on studying Foxes, I have an interest in a variety of other ponies and creatures too. You seem, well, kind of fun..."

It was strange to talk to someone like Widdershins, as she never encountered anyone like them before. She is not one to unjustly judge others, partly because she was different too, even if a little.

[Twilight-Shimmer 151]

@Blitz Boom

@Widdershins

@Foxy Socks

 

As he group conversed Stardust quickly became more and more distracted,y the area around him  and walked away from the grooup, but not too far way that he was out of thee sight, something in his mind telling him to keep well in sight of the others so he didnt get lost. He began to explore nooks and cranny's and even in random boxes and such looking for something to do. "think we will find any treasures?" he asked looking up at the Phoenix perch on his head curiously. Then. spotting something a shiny looking stone on the ground not far in front of him he  attempted to levitate the stone to him, However due to his poor skill in levitation he had a tiny surge of magic and instead sent the stone flying across the camp at high speeds "Umm...oops.." he muttered out sheepishly

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[genessee 535]

@Blitz Boom (Sorry for not posting, had to go inactive to deal with life.)

Lance hadn't moved from his spot in the chair. He looked only half-conscious. The thing he had just seen had scared the living crap out of him, putting him in this semi-unconscious state. Then something snapped.

"Agh! I'm back, I'm bac--"

That's when he laid his eyes on Happy, again.

"...Um, care to explain what's happening right now?"

 

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[Widdershins 9,959]

@Foxy Socks & @Twilight-Shimmer

   I sure hope I'm fun! Otherwise I'd be dragging down our little story, wouldn't I?

You see this, everybeing else? A mare that actually asks questions! Opens up a bit of my own self-narrative to expound at length as to how much of an original character I am! Between Stitches there tossing a fit because of my hi-jinks somehow missing a bit of their mark to having to impale myself for emphasis for BigAngry earlier I- ... Oh, huh. So that's where that sword came from.

  Widdershins looks back up again, having derailed his own monologue again. He slips a bit further off Briar's back to better address Foxy.

 Haven't the notioniest fog why you lot keep assuming I'm some sort of a danger! I assure you. I had not known that Brittle would be brittle.

  Widdershins looks straight up at Foxy, clearly making a point to make his expression look as sincere as possible. Before quickly changing back to his usual grin in a flash.

   Now where was I?! Oh yes...  Well, to answer your question, Miss Socks. 

     I do suppose its easier to list what a Draconiquiz isn't.

    By rights, you would be right in assuming I'm not so much of a "creature" per se. That would require me to be mostly biological. A Drasonsis-... Drunkenwhiz (I just cannot ever pronounce that!) is more of... well, in lieu of better phrasing, more like a Living Concept. I'm more put together of what-once-was & could-be.Hmm, how to put it?...

  You know the Spirit Beasts of Northerend?... No?

     The Cheshire or Jabberwocky of Wonderland or any number of what lives there? That a story you keep here? ...No?

Ah, well perhaps someone a bit closer to this franchise... I mean, dimension. Surely you know of Discord? To say he's any more the Lord of Chaos so much as the chaos itself that he wields is about as fuzzy a line drawn as to what Chaos Magic actually is! And that's what I am, is a Fuzzy Line!

   Widdershins then goes limp and swings his head a little down by Briar's side. He then continues on while facing straight downward.

   From, is somewhat the easier question. That is to say: I don't. I exist in whatever continuity & realm my author writes me into.

Widdershins then turns up to give Foxy a quiet, subdued, closed-mouthed grin.

   You'd be surprised how many different Equestrias there are!

 Suddenly his head whips to his left from where Stardust had wandered off to with a short chuckle.

  Oh, and how are you with foals? Because you might need to duck now!

 

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@Shineling & @Blitz Boom

NnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnMMMM- You could say it was.... Mashmallvelous, even! You ever try that jet-puff stuff, Pinkie, from Wal- Oh don't you dare start getting into a Meta-Off with Pinkie! I need this room to narrate! Get on back to your own section of the post! mmmm-Exit! Stage Left, even!             ...Sigh.

 

    Slack-jawed in amazement and his eyes fairly glazed, It takes a moment for Ambie to react and speak through his drool.

           "... uhh... welf... maybe a slice of that too..."

As Ambie begins to balance a few plates on his back, one in a hoof, and begins to contemplate if he can balance another on his head, he looks a bit behind him at the dining tables. Making a cursory attempt to find the stallion that brought him here and failing to, he turns back to Pinkie.

  "Well, guess I'll go sit down with...  Hmm.  Well, uh, Hey Pinkie?

     Think our... uh... uh, n-newcomer?, wants some of the cake too? He certainly doesn't seem happy.

  I'd, uh, take it myself to him but I'm kind of full up here, heh... heh..."

 

[Blitz Boom 4,627]

@Trixie .

"I tried being cracked in half before. Totally horrible day that one, but at least Legion stitched me back up again. Don't think they'd be able to do it from something as severe as getting reduced to ash though, that's just crazy regenerative abilities. Nothing regular about you even before the horn it sounds like if you got through that. I mean, the sun's pretty hot to say the least, so it'd have to have done a number on you right off the bat. Can't see a regular pegasus survive that. Heck, I can survive a lot of stuff, and I would've been dead on the spot."

He was a bit... Crude and unpolished in Sorrow's mind, but Keeneye sounded like he had been through a lot, and honestly, calling himself invincible after a trip to the sun sounded like a pretty fair title to run around with, so she wouldn't even call him all that stuck up, all things considered. She did think he could use to smile and enjoy life though, and not be this grumpy and confrontational. She hated seeing ponies like that, which were going to be a bit of a bother for Keeneye, since Sorrow was unlikely to leave him alone until she had seen him being happy at least once.

Might also be she'd stick around to see what exactly he were going on about in the long game, as he then started to ask about where to find Princess Celestia and her cronies. Far as Sorrow knew, the princess didn't have cronies, so that one was a bit puzzling, but she responded with what she could nevertheless.

"Celestia? I figure that she'd be in Canterlot, just like the royals usually do. Why're you looking for her?"

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@~Phoenix~ @dragon4111

Seeing as Ancalagon was done speaking with him in particular, Smokey stepped back a little to give more place for the guard who had most of the guild leaders attention currently. He didn't mind being passed over like this as it were, as he wasn't in a position of power to speak with the dragon, and had simply wanted to make things start off smoothly, which seemed to have gone over well enough as it were. His job in that regard being over, it was back to comfortably stay on the sidelines and observe.

There was one thing that he had to do though, and that was to see if Last was safe to let go of her bond currently.

"I might as well get this done then. Are you prepared to be more level-headed Last?"

She still looked on him like she wished to flay him slowly, but she didn't attack, and nodded to his question. Something which he accepted this time around and let the magic around her muzzle fizzle out.

"I'll deal with you later for this, but you need to get on, now. Go up to the tent camp and find the draqonequus before the claws goes amok again. And bring Phoenix. There's more of a need for you two up there than in this crowd."

Last might only have one eye open, as there were still too much light were she stood for her more light-sensitive one to not hurt, but she wasn't blind to what went on around her, or how Phoenix started to look like she were about to bolt as more ponies started to gather up.

Back at the shrine, you learned to keep an eye out for those who were about to break, and then back them up when there was an attack so they didn't loose them, or stay off from them if they needed a spot for themselves to get a breather. The second part is what she saw with Phoenix now, and she didn't have an interest in getting her to freak out right now.

"Very well. Come then Phoenix, let's ditch the crowd and go towards glory."

He looked up and saw fireworks going off in the sky just after he had said it, and chuckled a little to himself as he turned to his female companion.

"How lovely, they're sending us off with a show."

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@Foxy Socks @Widdershins @Twilight-Shimmer

"Feathers do me little. Fire on the other hoof...

And Brittle is fine Foxy. I am aware that she likely looks rather unrecognisable by now, but it is an unfortunate side effect of her not knowing how to control her form changing. She will return to her base form again when she wakes up and calms down a little. Which will not happen if anypony tries to grab at her, so I repeat: Keep hooves, wings, or whatever else can be wrapped around a being away from her."

"No issues here. If her caretaker doesn't wish for me to go near her, I won't go against that. As for the bird, I'd suggest you stay over near where you are. The little thing's aggressive."

Whilst Amazon said that, she saw how the phoenix tweeted happily and brushed its head up against Stardust's hoof as he lifted it up to the bird again.

"...Sometimes at least. I still wouldn't get near it.

Anyway, I think it's best if I ease some minds here: The dragon you just saw shrink down, is called Ancalagon. I don't know that much of him, but I know he's the leader of the Courier Guild and not the sort you wanna mess with. Best if you just ignore him as well as possible."

Meanwhile, Briar had went away from talking to the *Widduh Snake* he believed he had heard him call himself, and did his to try and hold a comment back about if she could point towards the dragon he were supposed to look at to see how soon she'd get flustered - he were going to miss making others uncomfortable from his lack of eyes - before backing closer towards Foxy who seemed to have a vested interest in the draconequus. Hopefully she wasn't going to jump on his back too, or this would just start to get weird...Er.

In the rush of things going on though, both Amazon and Briar hadn't taken notice in the fact that Stardust had went off to examine the area with no other company than his newly acquired companion/pet.

It seemed to be pretty calm about things as he went around and seemed to look for something, until he accidentally made a stone fly off through the camp, which for some reason caught the birds eyes to the point where it rose up from it's perch and flew quickly towards the rock like a hawk, catching it just before it hit somepony in the back of the head with a huge squawk, which nearly scared the daylight out of the mare.

The phoenix didn't care though, it just flew back in a more relaxed speed and settled down on a box near Stardust, put the shiny rock down in front of it and looked at him. It puffed up its chest a little too, clearly proud of itself.

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@Seamore Sandwich @Moonlit

"Well it stopped shaking, so that's a plus at least, but yeah, somepony was really screechy after the growly one. I wonder if everything's been sorted already since I can't hear any of them?"

Could be, but she wasn't going to go look right now. She was far more worried about her friend here right now than what might go on outside, especially since it had gone quiet again afterwards, which didn't seem to signal that the town was about to be crushed out of nowhere.

Well, not unless everypony had run out of town quietly and they were being attacked by a giant mime, but the odds of that were like... One out of a million normal places, and one out of a thousand in Ponyville. Considering everything, it wasn't that high odds for bad things.

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@Lloyd

Chow facehoofed a little and let out a small sigh.

"Uhm gals? Time and a place for this kinda chatter. I thought we went over this."

He send glances around to make sure that nopony nosy were looking in, but there didn't seem to be anypony but a few nobles thankfully, and those sorts wouldn't listen to the *lower classes* if their life depended on it. Snooty sky-sniffers the lot of them, but for once that got in their favour.

There was a short moment when he thought that there were somepony looking at him, but he couldn't glance anypony when he looked around, so he chalked that up to paranoia for now.

"Let's get to the park before we start gathering ears here, alright? And remind me I need to teach you two some sort of code system for when you wanna go at this. I'm sure the library will have something on this sort of thing."

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@Lloyd

Golden kept quiet as Francis explained what he had seen, what he knew and especially focused as he changed into the shapes of the three ponies in question. To the sides, two pieces of papers had pens flowing over them as he wrote down the descriptions of these that he saw now so that he could ask a sketch artist about them later on. He wasn't good at drawing, but he could remember the forms well, so he could instruct them well in making sure it got accurate when it were.

It wasn't to plaster their face all over town, but to have something he could show for a few that could keep an eye out on the lot of them for the time being. As well as to the princesses.

He didn't seem to have one going for the third one that was shown, though hat were going to be explained shortly. Likely they could already tell that he knew him though, considering his surprise over seeing the strange pony amongst the ones mentioned.

"Those others I don't know, but him I remember. He once called me a stuck-up sky-sniffer with an army of brown-nosed little suck-ups, when I were passing with some diplomats from outside Canterlot and one of them snorted at him as we passed. I think he singled me out because I tried ti speak with him afterwards.

I am surprised though. I had heard a few things here and there about him from others higher ranking in town, but it have been some time. I were certain he had left. If somepony like him, who doesn't have much good will towards authority figures are with two who practises witchery... This might end up poorly if guards are sent to speak with them. I will need to take some contacts other places to get this sorted it seems."

He let out a small sigh and thought over the other two that he had seen from their presentation.

"To think that one so young have been dragged into this as well. What a mess this may end up being.

But, one should not go forth with too much haste. There is still much we don't know."

A small light went off around the tables and a plate of assorted sweets, fruits, and of course the tea showed up in front of them, in three different cans, depending on what they would prefer. Which in his case were a tea from back in Saddle Arabia. A little strong for some, but he much preferred it over the more berry-like ones usually drunk around Canterlot. Though he off course had alternatives there, in case this was not for his esteemed guests either.

"There is a herbal tea from Saddle Arabia, local multi-berry tea, and green tea, which is one of the princess' favourite. Shall I pour some for either of you?"

The cups were on the table already, so that wouldn't be an issue. It was just to find out what they would prefer to have in them.

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@dragon4111

A movement from the roof where the dragoness resided told that she had well heard what were asked of her, and slowly flew over towards the others. A bit of time that Stargazer used to take a breather and answer what he could of what Ancalagon had said before, about the fine.

"I was there when the claim were made sir, and I didn't file ch-"

"I told him not to."

Last broke in from her position behind the Night Guard, speaking in a somewhat suspicious, but overall neutral tone.

"I'm the forepony in charge of the rebuilding. The alicorn came to town and wanted to help, so I asked him to move some things from the train station to our building site, which he did. Saved us four hours of work at least, and then all of a sudden this stallion showed up and started yapping off about how he could've hurt somepony, and then they got into an argument, that ended with him leaving in anger. I led the alicorn to the spa afterwards to get him to cool off before he destroyed something.

The materials were mine, and I made sure to check that nopony got hit from the moving afterwards. I didn't get a warning on how he'd do it, but It went safe, so I told the guard that I wasn't gonna press any charges on him when it went all up in a tip. And I would do it again if it came to it, 'cause the amount of time and workforce saved meant we could make sure three more families were able to get back into a house before nightfall."

"You should have ensured the route before he sent anything."

Nerzhei half-mumbled this as she landed close to Ancalagon. Tall as a human, she towered over the other beings here currently, though if Ancalagon wished to, he could make her seem small like an ant in a moment, and she knew it.

One else where there that were about her size too, which Happy in his chair, with his back turned, but she only gave a small glance towards him as she flew in, and filed it under something to figure out later. Right now, she were more focused on folding in her wings, and then bow down on a knee in front of the oldest of dragons.

"Lord Ancalagon."

She were not typical of a dragoness. She wore robes, her pockets seemed to contain pieces of paper and a necklace of small, multicoloured gems were around her neck. If Ancalagon could sense magic, he would be able to see the small amounts stored in them if it were, as well as from those she had in her pocket that were meant for the necklace for Blood, but it wasn't a strong amount.

On her shoulder, the pink bunny Lotus looked confused at Nerzhei, not sure what to do as she had never seen her friend do that before, then started to glance at Ancalagon with a worried look, wondering what this one were capable of when she had never seen the dragoness bow to any being before this. Not this much at least.

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@Shineling @genessee @Widdershins

Happy didn't say anything as Pinkie Pie got him out of the ropes, put a hat on him and plopped him down in a chair, but he was close to. The look in her eyes as she got serious and said that he wasn't going anywhere though, made him keep whatever snide comment he had to himself. Usually he wouldn't take ponies like this serious, but this one were doing a lot of weird things already, and he were still surrounded by a lot of seemingly powerful beings, which made him hesitant in taking chances.

He didn't intend on saying something to Lance either as he question what had just happened, nor to what Ambie went on as he had started yapping and looking this way, but it wasn't like he had anything else to do except wait for the pink one again, so he let out a small sigh and picked up the cupcake, and rotated it between his claws whilst glancing over at Ambie, Lance, Pinkie and this scared little life, Void. He could practically taste her fear from her.

"It doesn't matter anymore. I'm already exposed. Even if I get away, my store will be flagged, my name and normal appearance sent out for arrest orders... I'd have to start from scratch no matter what I do. And that's if I can even get my wagon out of here to begin with. Might as well accept I'm cornered."

There was thoughts on how he would get out of here, and how he could  get on with things afterwards, but none of that would help if he tried to run. Only way he could see out that might keep him alive and have some degree of anonymity after this, required him to do what he least wanted to: Expose himself further, by telling what he was, but just letting out a few of the worse parts. If he could make it seem like he just tried to live without making any ripples, and make them feel some degree of pity towards him, he might just still have a chance. And letting one town know what he were, was a small price to pay compared to having an entire country know, and a price on his head.

"I'm Happy Hour, and I used to be a human, sent here through some kind of rift that tore me away and popped me into a changeling hive of all places. Just my luck, huh?

They converted me, confused at what else to do with this freak that had just shown out of nowhere, but my queen treated me well. Made me prepared for this world, and learned me how to change and adapt."

Happy rose his other hand and poked himself on the head with the tip of one of his fingers.

"The Hivemind couldn't contain me though. I'm not under any control and I can't hear their voices. Didn't matter either, I don't support my hive by being there, I do it by earning a living, and sending the profits where it matters. You'd me amazed how much bits means to our kind too. Or well, their kind. Ain't really nopony else like me."

He made a small, hollow laugh and tried to take a small bite out of the muffin. Usually he couldn't eat things like this, but the first little taste didn't outright make him feel horrible, not even after he had swallowed it, and it did strangely taste of love. How peculiar.

"Fire off if you got anything to say. Apparently I ain't leaving anytime soon anyway, so you might as well have a go. And you, the timid one? Sorry for before. I don't really like being exposed since I always figure I'll be met with spears and chain. I didn't man to scare you."

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@BloodDrops

The tree giggled a little as it was licked, but didn't say more. For all intents and purposes, it simply observed Blood as she went on with taking some fireworks from Blitz's hut, and then wandered off.

There were the creaking of wood heard as the tree changed form and the new shape followed Blood, hidden by the other trees and examining what this strange pony that Nerzhei had seemed so irritated with were doing.

To spy on her friends wasn't something she particularly enjoyed, but she had wanted to surprise little Blitz, and then one thing had led to another and it had felt better to just sit back here, and wait for what would go on, though the heat of the forge had irked her a little. She didn't like the fire.

As Blood had started to fire off fireworks and spoken to whom she were assume was her though, she thought that perhaps now would be as good a time as ever to show herself, and wandered with silent steps out from behind the trees.

She was a strange being from the standpoint of those here, she understood that, but she had been too back in the valley in dragon land, so it was not as hard to get used to as she first thought. She just stayed out of sight of others, observed, and only really talked to the pony friends she had made that she followed here to Equestria, as well as Nerzhei. The dragoness was supposed to be her warden, and keep her out of trouble, but the dryad thought more of the scaled one as a somewhat grumpy, but trustworthy friend after the past few weeks.

"Do you think it safe to catch the attention of the large Atazi like this, friend? No, dragon, I must remember that is what you call them."

Many words could be used to tell how she looked, but the easy way were to say that she looked like a human mixed with a tree. Leaves and some branches grew in her hair, her skin were bark, though most of it were coloured like flesh, except at her naked feet, which were brown from the ankle down and carried small roots on top of them, prepared to reach into the ground and take hold. Her hair were currently a reddish brown, her warm eyes were hazel, and the dress of leaves, long grass, bark and so forth were in summery themes and colours. It looked like a simple, yet elegant dress that stopped just short of her ankles.

As she leaned down on her knees to better be in height with the pony, she greeted the small one with a warm smile and lowered hands, to appear as non-threatening as possible.

"Be not alarmed little friend. I am Lyriel, daughter of the silver valley. I wish you no harm."

Blood could touch her if she wanted to, Lyriel were not of any flesh or blood, and so the disease the pony carried could not infect and rot her. If that were so, every rock, tree and even the earth she stood on, would have withered and died in Blood's path wherever she went, and that would have been easy to see if it were.

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@CentipedeGhoul @Lil' Lovebug

Vivid looked a little moody at Satin's comment, as it seems like her attempt at being witty had been taken more serious than what she had expected.

"Back in Hell, that joke would have gotten a round of laughter."

She still had to get used to the degree where regular ponies found things too morbid it seemed. Pity, and here she thought that perhaps she had finally found a proper line. Oh well, seemed like Cadence had some work ahead of her in that regard as well. Just good to keep her mistress busy.

Listening in to what satin flew up on the table and said, much like the others there, she heard the logic in it, and could understand the concept. Something large enough to make the ground tremble would likely not stand still if it was here to destroy town, and they'd be able to hear it if it were. She supposed she could change her way of handling things then, as she turned to Starburst, though she still thought that a regular pony such as him should stay in here where it was relatively safe.

"Well, you heard her. If you wish to go out, you're free to. However, I think I will catch a glimpse myself too. I am somewhat curious."

Her horn glowed a deep purple, and a smoke of the same color appeared at the lock, flowing into it and soon thereafter would let out a small 'click* at which point Vivid stopped her magic and walked calmly over to the door, openeing it slightly and turning back towards Starburst.

"Are you coming child?"

With that, and a minor smirk, she opened the door and looked out to see... Nothing. What an anticlimactic start to things.

Meanwhile, inside the inn, Bubble Tea came back with the water that were requested by Satin and gave it to her.

"Hopefully this is the right temperature. Did something happen whilst I was away that I should know of though? Everypony seems somewhat less tense in it."

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@Shineling

"I've never actually seen a Wonderbolt before, but I heard about them. Pretty cool that you're associated with them, even if you didn't take the gig. I would say that they'd have been happy with you at your current speed because come on, when do you need to be faster than to break the sound barrier."

Taking his eyes off Storm for a moment to check the horizon for the dragon again, Molotov returned back to see something that the pegasi did that had caught his attention before, and yet again did like it was the first time he had seen it.

"Dragging more things from out of the multi-verse like it was nothing. It never seems to get less fascinating to watch."

Molotov looked in fascination as the paper just showed up out of nothing. There was no pulling through a portal or wormhole this time, that was for sure. One moment it wasn't there, the next it were. Usually getting stuff out of nothing was the sort of ability that would be assigned draconequui in his knowledge, but Storm clearly wasn't. He was far too symmetrical and plain in it to be one of the mixed beings.

Yet, there was a time to think on this later. What it were that he said were more important, as it put forth a somewhat disturbing thought to him at least.

"If this particular dragon can change size like that, what're the odds that he could just make himself crazy massive and just crush the entire town in a single step? Perhaps it'd be a good thing to get into town and see if everypony's okay. Oh, how I wish I had brought my accelerator canon. That'd be a sight for sore eyes right now. I'll have to make a new one to bring with me next time I get back here I'm thinking."

He looked down on Blitz, who were not really listening to them, but just lost in bliss over her new pillow. Something which would be really good at home, as she thus far still only had the old bed and blanket she had pulled out of the trash back in the day. A pillow would be a nice addition to when she slept.

"I'm tempted to leave her here to keep her a distance away from the dragon though, but I'm getting the feeling that she'd just end up getting into more trouble than she already have been if I let her out of my sight right now. Guess I could trap her in a box perhaps..."

"Nuhuh, I'm coming too. I wanna see if my friends are okay. Especially Pinkie, though I bet she totally defeated the dragon herself. She's real strong and does spooooky stuff like Storm. Bet she just blasted him away with her party canon!"

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 @EQ_Theta

There was a lot of things that Mother could handle. Her children sometimes tried her patience, stories she were told from the formed ones that came back to visit worried her greatly occasionally, and the separation from her sisters hurt her to her core on some lonely days. All of that she got through though with a smile on her lips, because in the end, she still had her beautiful, lovely children, who she cared for more than anything.

Which were also why, when she saw how Lin were tortured and scared, whilst the entity that were overtaking her body mocked her for her apparent inability to protect her, the light flared up on her claws and in her eyes, and she did something which she had hoped she would never have to do to any of her children: She raised her arm, and with a quick motion tore her hand through Lin's body.

"You tell me that I cannot do anything, you little worm? I can do things that you cannot possibly fathom. Including saving my child from the like of you."

With that, she clenched her hand and pulled back, leaving Lin's contested body- Absolutely fine. There wasn't a scratch on it,t hough the entity would likely feel some pain from what she had done. That being, pulling out Lin's soul, who now rested in her hand. Something which the entity should be able to see for a second before she clutched her hand around the soul to make sure she were protected from seeing what she were to do now.

Her other hand rose, and pale energy clung to the entity, reaching it and the contested body into the air from a distance and growling something to the shadows around her, which made all the eyes of her children close. There would only be one pair left the entity could see, and she made sure that it looked directly into them as she growled at it.

"Reapers cannot be corrupted, maggot. We harness the powers to take souls and bring them towards the next world. To extinguish life of those whose time have come, and to bring those back whom Lord Mortimer's favour falls upon. And guess what little one? Your time have come.

You don't have my daughter to threaten me with anymore. There is just you, and a body who is challenged by two lives. And when I'm done drawing out your life atom for atom, I will return her to her vessel. You will loose, and when I'm done, you will be dead."

If there was nothing more to be said, she would start to snuff out the life of the entity as she picked it apart from her daughter. It would take time, and it would be painful - mostly because she willed it to hurt - but at least she could help her. If she could focus on it much right now, she would think more about the one whom she couldn't, who were not carrying any piece of her children: Sen.

Speaking of whom, Omen barely had to move to get away from him. Or rather, the thing that had possessed him, which were now more obvious than before, considering how it spoke and how she could now get a better look at the glowing, green eyes.

"Others have gone for Mother before. Noone could do anything to her. If Lin is there she will save her."

Omen's ears vibrated slightly as she heard somepony beckon for her a long, long way from here, but she couldn't answer it right now. She needed to stay with her friend and try to see if there wasn't something she could do to get it out of him. If she could just find out what it might be, there might be something, but... Wait, glowing, green eyes? She had seen that before.

"Salosan? It's you, isn't it? Leave my friends alone, or I will do... Something."

She were pretty much helpless in this situation. Sending *Sen* anywhere would just get more hurt, and she couldn't fight. Transporting others were her only way of handling threats, but what did she do when that wasn't an option? That were something she were still thinking about, and with her speed of thought usually, it might be that when she finally had an idea, it would be far too late.

[Twilight-Shimmer 151]

@Blitz Boom

@Widdershins

@Foxy Socks

 

Stardust blinked watching the Phoenix take off and manage to snag the stone out of the air "That was amazing!" he cheered smiling at the bird before reaching out a hoof and lightly rubbing the birds tummy a bit while looking at the stone that looked like a small sapphire. "Thank you for catching it" he thanked the phoenix warmly "You see, while I am a unicorn, the only magics I can really do without something going wrong are Alteration spells, and Illusions, everything else typically goes boom, or flying in this case" He then blushed "I once somehow set some guys tail on fire once while trying to use a cleaning spell..." He paused a moment and tapped his chin "Now what was that stallions name again... Blue bucket..Blue Boat?..Blue Bonnet?.. gah I don't remember but it was Blue something or other, " he giggled

[Foxy Socks 2,599]

26 minutes ago, Blitz Boom said:

Hopefully she wasn't going to jump on his back too, or this would just start to get weird...Er.

@Blitz Boom @Twilight-Shimmer

While she turned the other direction for a brief second, she noticed that they tried to pick up a rock before somehow sending it their direction. "Look out-" Foxy squeaked, jumping to push Briar away, only to then hear something else fly toward them. By then, Foxy already made contact with Briar, falling onto the grass again. Looking back, she saw it was the Phoenix with the stone in  their possetion, as it flew, satisfied of it's catch. Ironically, it left Foxy a little dissatisfied with her actions. "Oh, um, sorry."

Foxy helped Briar up, and looked toward the small pony, Stardust. Walking toward them, though trying to keep distance from them as the phoenix could be provoked, she quietly said, "H..hello. I'm um, Foxy Socks. Yes, I haven't met you before... or your phoenix."

 

((OOC: More potential powerplaying. Is this an issue?))

Edited April 15, 2017 by Foxy Socks

[dragon4111 914]

@Blitz Boom , @Widdershins

Ancalagon nodded as the dragoness with acknowledgement. "Well aren't you the arrogant one. Afterward? so instead of making sure a route was secured you allowed this alicorn to levitate the materials?" Ancalagon said with a calm professional tone. His whip like tail was swaying slightly but at the end of the sentence it whipped the air making a crack sound. "The courier guild has a saying. Do the job perfectly or don't do it at all little pony," Ancalagon said with a hiss as smoke bellowed from his nostrils. His anger was definitely showing now. "The courier guild will be coming just so you know," he said simply as he looked into the air seeing the fireworks. He looked at Last Stand and said "Your luck y I am able to shift my size or else those fireworks would have been in my eye,"

[Storm Shine 1,196]

@Blitz Boom

"Yeah, I still do some party planning for them sometimes." Storm smiled as he stored the paper away under his wing, after which it disappeared to who knows where, "Anyways, Blitzy stands less of a chance of getting into trouble if she's with us both." He reasoned aloud, "Besides, if the dragon had bad intentions it probably would've squished part of town already. So it's probably not a meanie-pants!"

[Twilight-Shimmer 151]

1 minute ago, Foxy Socks said:

@Blitz Boom @Twilight-Shimmer

While she turned the other direction for a brief second, she noticed that they tried to pick up a rock before somehow sending it their direction. "Look out-" Foxy squeaked, jumping to push Briar away, only to then hear something else fly toward them. By then, Foxy already made contact with Briar, falling onto the grass again. Looking back, she saw it was the Phoenix with the stone in  their possetion, as it flew, satisfied of it's catch. Ironically, it left Foxy a little dissatisfied with her actions. "Oh, um, sorry."

Foxy helped Briar up, and looked toward the small pony, Stardust. Walking toward them, though trying to keep distance from them as the phoenix could be provoked, she quietly said, "H..hello. I'm um, Foxy Socks. Yes, I haven't met you before... or your phoenix."

 

((OOC: More potential powerplaying. Is this an issue?))

He smiled up at Foxy cheerfully his blue green eyes sparkling with child like innocence and  his pink tail swishing from side to side a bit "Hello! Sorry about almost hitting somepony with this I think it's a sapphire" he said cheerfully  Then motioned to the Phoenix "I am not sure where this totally awesome phoenix came from but it is pretty well awesome"  he giggled a bit of his pink mane falling in front of his eyes which he pushed back again

[Storm Shine 1,196]

@Blitz Boom

"Yeah, I still do some party planning for them sometimes." Storm smiled as he stored the paper away under his wing, after which it disappeared to who knows where, "Anyways, Blitzy stands less of a chance of getting into trouble if she's with us both." He reasoned aloud, "Besides, if the dragon had bad intentions it probably would've squished part of town already. So it's probably not a meanie-pants!"

 

Meanwhile Pinkie plopped a plate full of more love-muffins in front of Happy before popping back over to the counter.

[Foxy Socks 2,599]

@Twilight-Shimmer

"Oh it's okay. Nice to meet you. I only has seen a phoenix once, and not up close. They must really like you." Foxy wondered why the young colt was with them, then asked, "What's your name, and umm, I am guessing you are with Amazon?" Foxy wondered if there was something special about the little colt. They were quite cute, and she wondered if they had any parents nearby. Especially as they had a phoenix with them. 

[Twilight-Shimmer 151]

25 minutes ago, Foxy Socks said:

@Twilight-Shimmer

"Oh it's okay. Nice to meet you. I only has seen a phoenix once, and not up close. They must really like you." Foxy wondered why the young colt was with them, then asked, "What's your name, and umm, I am guessing you are with Amazon?" Foxy wondered if there was something special about the little colt. They were quite cute, and she wondered if they had any parents nearby. Especially as they had a phoenix with them. 

Stardust smiled "My name is Stardust Nicole Silvermane, age Six Hundred and Five years old, it's nice to meetcha!" he chimed then nodded his head "Uh huh, I just kinda got to town recently and currently have no where to stay, and Miss Amazon found me wondering around town and brought me here" he explained. He then tilted his head to the side a bit "I wonder if the phoenix was drawn to me due to my Semi-Immortality" he mused tilting his head a bit "After all my curse mark represents stopped time"

[BloodDrops 762]

30 minutes ago, Blitz Boom said:

The tree giggled a little as it was licked, but didn't say more. For all intents and purposes, it simply observed Blood as she went on with taking some fireworks from Blitz's hut, and then wandered off.

There were the creaking of wood heard as the tree changed form and the new shape followed Blood, hidden by the other trees and examining what this strange pony that Nerzhei had seemed so irritated with were doing.

To spy on her friends wasn't something she particularly enjoyed, but she had wanted to surprise little Blitz, and then one thing had led to another and it had felt better to just sit back here, and wait for what would go on, though the heat of the forge had irked her a little. She didn't like the fire.

As Blood had started to fire off fireworks and spoken to whom she were assume was her though, she thought that perhaps now would be as good a time as ever to show herself, and wandered with silent steps out from behind the trees.

She was a strange being from the standpoint of those here, she understood that, but she had been too back in the valley in dragon land, so it was not as hard to get used to as she first thought. She just stayed out of sight of others, observed, and only really talked to the pony friends she had made that she followed here to Equestria, as well as Nerzhei. The dragoness was supposed to be her warden, and keep her out of trouble, but the dryad thought more of the scaled one as a somewhat grumpy, but trustworthy friend after the past few weeks.

"Do you think it safe to catch the attention of the large Atazi like this, friend? No, dragon, I must remember that is what you call them."

Many words could be used to tell how she looked, but the easy way were to say that she looked like a human mixed with a tree. Leaves and some branches grew in her hair, her skin were bark, though most of it were coloured like flesh, except at her naked feet, which were brown from the ankle down and carried small roots on top of them, prepared to reach into the ground and take hold. Her hair were currently a reddish brown, her warm eyes were hazel, and the dress of leaves, long grass, bark and so forth were in summery themes and colours. It looked like a simple, yet elegant dress that stopped just short of her ankles.

As she leaned down on her knees to better be in height with the pony, she greeted the small one with a warm smile and lowered hands, to appear as non-threatening as possible.

"Be not alarmed little friend. I am Lyriel, daughter of the silver valley. I wish you no harm."

Blood could touch her if she wanted to, Lyriel were not of any flesh or blood, and so the disease the pony carried could not infect and rot her. If that were so, every rock, tree and even the earth she stood on, would have withered and died in Blood's path wherever she went, and that would have been easy to see if it were

Blood Drops smiled at the tree and licked it again. She liked this tree, though she did decide it wasn't a good idea to annoy the large dragon, so she nudged the rest of the fireworks away. She then frowned "You didn't get infected when I licked you" she told the tree. 

"And your from a silver valley?" she added confused, she didn't know of any valleys covered in silver, "Wouldn't you have mined the valley of silver though, so it wouldn't be a valley of silver anymore" she added.

She then grabbed one of the tree things leafs and gave it a tug, still trying to decide what animal this thing possibly could be, since tree's didn't move on there own anyway.

[Foxy Socks 2,599]

@Twilight-Shimmer

"Oh we- wait what? Six hundred five years old?! And you look just like a colt too." Foxy had yet to meet a "normal" pony today, but she loves new and unique ponies, though this one was a bit surprising. "Curse mark...? I don't um understand. I am not used to meeting so many new ponies, so I apologize if I seem a bit, impolite. Anyway, nice to meet you Stardust."

Foxy looked at the phoenix, but only for a second. This is the closest she has been to one, since the other time was from a distance. That was years ago though, when she was visiting a faraway land.  

Edited April 16, 2017 by Foxy Socks

[Twilight-Shimmer 151]

Just now, Foxy Socks said:

@Twilight-Shimmer

"Oh we- wait what? Six hundred five years old?! And you look just like a colt too." Foxy had yet to meet a "normal" pony today, but she loves new and unique ponies, though this one was a bit surprising. "Curse mark...? I don't um understand. I am not used to meeting so many new ponies, so I apologize if I seem a bit, impolite. Anyway, nice to meet you Stardust."

Foxy looked at the phoenix, but only for a second. This is the closest she has been to one, since the other time was from a distance. That was years ago though, when she was visiting a faraway land.  

Stardust nodded and pointed to his cutie mark a clock face with a wedge jammed in it just a tick past the five. "This mark appeared after a mage placed a curse on me in retaliation of my mommy not wanting to marry him" he explained "Also if anpony tries to remove my curse I will die, least thats what his notes said when I eventually found his old lab. He then smiled brightly at Foxy "I love meeting new ponies too, and seeing new places it is always so much fun!"

[genessee 535]

@Blitz Boom

Lance stared blankly at Happy.

"That doesn't really answer my question, but to be honest I'm more interested in the fact that you're 'Human'. Or, at least were."

He paused before saying 'Human', and pronounced it like 'Hoo-man'. He had read a few conspiracy-ish novels about Humans. Supposedly they were... well, look at Happy and you'd get a general idea. Except without wings and less changeling-like. He wanted to know more, though, and so he asked a few questions.

"Did you know about ponies in the Human World? Like, at all?"

[Foxy Socks 2,599]

@Twilight-Shimmer

"Oh my... you must have been through a lot. I still can't..." Foxy couldn't believe what she was hearing. This pony was certainly unique. She wondered how they have gotten through it all for over six hundred years.

"S.. sorry, it's just that I never met somepony like you before. Then again, I have just met a Draconequus, a changeling, and an Evergrown. I guess I don't have much more to say, but this is... so much." Foxy couldn't believe all that has happened to day. She was not used to so much commotion, and so many new and very unique ponies. Foxy closed her eyes for a minute, taking it all in.

"Please, sorry... it's just I am not used to meeting so many new ponies. It's not that I am scared of you," Foxy apologized.

"I hope you are happy now. You seem like a nice pony."
 

[FanOfManyShows 396]

@Blitz Boom

Astral quickly realized Chow was a bit right, even though she assumed that wasn't enough information to go off of. "Right." She said summing up her thoughts on that. Misty shook her head with a giggle. "It's hard to keep quiet on that all the time." She let out a sigh, looking around, the garden was closer, and the power she sensed grew in strength, getting her a tad bit excited, considering she could go all out.

                                   

Nectar nodded as did Francis. "I'd enjoy some tea."

"Me too, and some of the snacks." He said as his mind formed a little idea, he looked ahead to Golden. "I could spy on them. Being a Changeling and all, I could easily do it."

Nectar turned to him. "I'm not too sure of that, what will you look like if they saw you?"

He rubbed his chin as he thought about that. "I could think something up, I could disguise as one of the nobles to do it like blend into the crowd and observe them."

"Might not work out if they see two of whoever you disguise as." Nectar was quick to point that out. "It'd probably be best if you made one up."

He nodded, quickly coming up with a form and then turning into it. "Like this?" Nectar nodded. "Okay then, Do you think my idea could work Golden?" He asked looking to Golden.

[Twilight-Shimmer 151]

@Foxy Socks

 

Stardust smiled and stepped forward and reaching out gave Foxy a gentle hug. "It's alright if your a little shy or overwhelmed, I get that way myself sometimes" he replied warmly. He then tilted his head a bit and asked "What's an Evergrown?" his eyes alight with childlike curiosity. "Oh and I used to know a Lot of changelings, a   few hundred years ago or so I stayed with a changeling queen by the name of Amethyst, in a town thats primary residents were ponies and changelings."

Edited April 16, 2017 by Twilight-Shimmer
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[~Phoenix~ 196]

@Blitz Boom

 

Phoenix continued trotting on her way to get away from the other gathering of ponies. how inconvenient it was that t hey decided to all meet up right there. normally being out here away from the town was supposed to be quiet, just the sort of environment that Phoenix thrived in. but alas, she found herself getting wrapped up in some very interesting things. she may show no immediate desire to be around the dragon, but she certainly could appreciate the fact that it was highly unusual. 

she heard some earthy hoofsteps behind her as Smokey caught up. she listened to him speak, and smiled slightly at what he said "it would be a great pleasure to get out of here" she said as she continued to trot along. of course, she deffinately was going to stick around as long as Last Stand did. she was certainly interested to see that sword of hers. even though Smokey helped to satisfy her hungry curiosity, she deffinately did want to find out more. where did her blade come from? what is the process for such an infusion? and did it have any direct link to her heritage? she hoped to find all of that out in due time. 

in the meantime, however, she would go with to return this cooked claw. 

[Foxy Socks 2,599]

@Twilight-Shimmer

Foxy hugged Stardust back before saying "Thanks... It has been a long day."

"An Evergrown is what Briar is, a plantlike pony. They are generally reclusive, but Briar..." Foxy thought for a moment since she didn't want to embarrass Briar by bringing up their past, even though they would probably be fine with it. "He decided to leave his kind. I haven't met any until him today, so I don't know a whole lot."

Foxy rotated the subject to Changelings "I like changelings. They can be very loving ponies in my opinion. Brittle is the first one I met though, at least in person. She is quite shy."

"I don't like to judge other creatures unfairly, one, because I have studied and had an interest in many animals and creatures, having an interest in them. Two, because, in a way, I am different from other ponies too." Foxy showed Stardust her fangs, trying not to look threatening. "Don't be alarmed, I have never hurt anypony. I was born with these, though I never had or will eat meat. In fact even though my teeth are omnivorous, I would probably not handle it well. The only difference it makes for me is my appearance, which can sometimes scare ponies off."

 

((OOC: I am probably done for today, so I will probably post again tomorrow, but we'll see ))

 

[Twilight-Shimmer 151]

@Foxy Socks

 

Stardust nodded at Foxy's explanations and smiled "I like to give everypony, and every-being a chance, as to your teeth? I find then really neat, they remind me a bit of a few bat pony's i knew a number of years ago, they are a really neat bunch" he giggled "Though I have to say I think my favorite non pony race are definitely the changelings, well as far as four legged races go. when it comes to birds Phoenix's have the top spot" he said  absently reaching over and  giving the phoenix a gentle pat.

[EQ_Theta 459]

@Blitz Boom

The being possessing the empty shell of Lin's body, for the first time in the entirety of its existence, looked down on Omen's mother and was terrified of her. It had never encountered the likes of her and its growing confidence waned. That shortcoming revealed a fatal flaw in its methods: it had its own personality hard-wired to be a much more grandiose version of its creator. It took after him in every way possible and made itself more than him. It was going to extend this to Lin after it grew envious of her wealth of knowledge, the kind that would help it take over many more minds and gain their knowledge as a result. But here, it was relying on the only fallback plan it knew.

"We are not finished. Destroy us if you wish but you've only won one battle," "Lin" struggled as she tried to free herself from Omen's mother. Eventually, Lin's voice faded and was replaced with a much deeper, almost synthetic droning voice. "We are many, a legion of melded bodies and minds tied to our creator. The damage is done; this individual concedes but we take our knowledge with us to our destruction."

A single battle, an entity that refers to it as many would have just as many minds as it has bodies. To a degree, it was right. Sen was still possessed and it knew of this. One setback spirals into more, revealing more and more holes in its plan until it could only make threats. "Sen" grew angrier but the being possessing him now had better control and coordination was much more fluid; it only had to stall Omen a little longer. The same could be said of the shadowy entity slinking in and out of view in the same place Omen was in until jumped into Sen's body through his mouth out of desperation. Sen was raised into the air and convulsed, the melding process accelerated but further damaging Sen's body and mind with spots forming on his body looking like his scaly exterior was rotting and falling off. The real Sen's voice came through, wincing and yelling in pain as his body was degrading while resisting the possession. Then he started laughing.

"You'll do what?" Sen dropped to the ground and looked at Omen with blackened eyes, the green glow disappearing into the sockets. "Let me ask you, what is the best way to win over more followers? Isolate them, separate them, let their loved ones know they abandoned them. They have nowhere else to turn to. I come along and take their pain away; Sen's last thoughts were exactly that. He could've been freed but here he is cursing your name because you couldn't save him. He will be just like the other villagers who didn't know any better."

"Sen's" head violently shook and the blackened corneas on his eyes disappeared. He looked at Omen with determination and yelled. Don't listen to him, my friend. You could still put a stop to this! Send us to your realm. Hurry! I don't know how much longer I can keep him out-  The convulsions returned and Sen was back to being possessed but not completely. The possessed body of Sen dropped to the ground and clutched its head in pain, fighting back the real Sen.

"No! Stay down, vermin! I am in control, not you!"

The sound of the real Sen coming back out to the surface should be able to alert Omen. Sen hated the last time he was possessed and considered creating blocks in his mind that will keep him from falling under possession again. It hasn't been effective though as he was still fighting for dominance inside. His body might not be stable enough to be useful later but if he saves his friend, that will be the reward. He can only hope his message to his friend didn't come too late.  

Edited April 16, 2017 by EQ_Theta