open Forgotten legend

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Radiant took another sip of his cider "Well he taught you well," he said as his eyes looked at her axe and back up at her "It is definitely well maintain when it has been used for generations, but then again from what I read of your clan they take their blacksmithing and weapon maintenance very seriously. Since they say every warrior that wields the weapon, a part of his fighting spirit is infused with the weapon. Passing it down to the next pony to wield the weapon."

He said finally drinking the final sip of his cider.

[P-Jay 1,987]

caliber looked at him, bewildered. "your right! how do we find the monster without drawing attention to ourselves?" he looked around. "are we gonna have to find the monster without anything to go on?" he looked at ice, again. "i got an idea. you and me. we should find its nest! then report back! how about it?" ice looked at him. "dont worry, as much as id like to, we wont engage in combat. we'll just find its cave, and report back."

[Unicorncob 5,694]

Tyra laughed, her grin wide and toothy from the compliment.

 

She nodded, listening to Radiant's insight on her weapon.

"Aye, it's said that every one with Shatterhoof blood who has weld this axe has had part of their fighting spirit contained in its blades, ready to help its next wielder in battle."

 

She lapped up a few drops of cider off the rim of the mug. "The blacksmiths in Trotstheim are considered the best in the North. To some, the whole world!"

[J.R. 3,183]

Blizzard was ready, "Good idea! Let's scout ahead, and at the first sign of trouble, we'll hightail it back here and tell the others what's going on. It's the perfect plan!" Blizzard looked into the sky, "It's gonna get dark soon, so we better hurry and so we won't get lost, I got a map of the area from a roadside stand. You ready? Let's go!"

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Radiant saw Tyra attempting to lap every drop off of her mug, he smirked at how silly it made a shatterhoof fighter look. He stood up returning to the bartender "two more mugs please." Radiant requested.

 

The bartender nodded and set the mugs on the counter. "thanks" Raidant said before returning to his table.

 

Radiant sat down at the table sliding another mug over to Tyra "Here you go no need to be lapping every drop out of your mug." Radiant teased as he took a sip out of his mug "Ever since I first read about Shatterhoof steel I always wanted to swing a piece of their craftsmanship in battle."

[Unicorncob 5,694]

Tyra blinked up at Radiant's departure, and watched as he walked back to the bar, and returned with yet another pair of mugs. She grinned in anticipation as he walked back over and slid it across the table to her.

"Ah, many thanks!" She said, taking a few gulps of the drink as she listened to Radiant.

 

She set the mug down and gave him a proud smirk as she wiped cider off her lip with a foreleg. "Well, perhaps I may let you try out my axe on some training dummies or something!"

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Radiant looked at his mug as he swirled the cider inside the mug "I'm honored at your offer but it wouldn't be right for someone outside your bloodline to use your axe, especially when it's a family heirloom. Similar to my scarf, it's more a memento but it's something I would never let any other pony take from me." He said lifting the end of the scarf with his hoof looking at it. "Just when some pony has a tie to something it's best not to mess with that bond." He took another sip of his cider.

[P-Jay 1,987]

caliber started walking into the snow with ice blizzard. "yeah, but only if its the legit monster." they started walking through the snow, taking care of the occasional ice goblin.(thats what i call em, anyway) and caliber saw a cave. "come on," he whispered to ice, as they got around 100 meters from it. caliber closed his eyes, and shut off his sense of sight, taste, touch, and sight, boosting his sense of hearing dramatically. he heard snoring, and the snoring sounded like it belonged to a big monster. if caliber hadn't known better, he'd say there was an ursa minor in there. 'but those don't live this far north' caliber thought, as he enabled his other senses, and looked at ice blizzard. he nodded, and started walking back.

[Unicorncob 5,694]

Tyra nodded, taking another gulp of cider before responding.

"I understand," she said, then put on another grin, "well, if you ever visit Trotstheim, tell one of the blacksmiths I said to set you up." She winked.

 

She took a look at the scarf, blinking. "If I may ask, who did your scarf belong to? A friend, or a loved one?"

[J.R. 3,183]

Blizzard was on the move with Caliber, "Ok let's go back and warn the others about what we've found out here, maybe we can all find out what's going on if we beat this guy." But Blizzard noticed that it was dark now, "*yawn* Let's go back to that tavern and get our rooms and some sleep. We can come back here tomorrow and deal with whatever's in there." He took out his map and pointed his hoof in the direction of town, "Town's this way, let's go I'm tired." Blizzard started to trot back to town and hoped Caliber would follow.

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Radiant had a legitimate smile appear on his face "That would definitely be great if I could have a weapon made for myself from Blacksmiths of such fame." he said taking a drink from his mug.

 

While drinking his cider he heard Tyra ask about his scarf and choked out his cider spitting most of it back into his mug. He set the mug down and looked down at his scarf again looking a bit depressed. "Well it's actually the main reason I don't share my past, granted there's no one I've known well enough except the Princess and my mentor to share my past with," he said letting out a long sigh clearly upset thinking back on his life "It belonged to my baby brother, who I lost after being separated from our family. One day in the Hayseed swamp our family was attacked by manticores. We both fell from a cliff after I protected him from a one of them, we fell falling in a shallow pond and the impact caused him to accidentally use a teleportation spell. After that I could never find him, I searched for a week on my own unable to find him. I was eventually found by a royal guard patrol unit which I was then raised as a member of the guard." He paused for a second looking very upset, he looked at the scarf again and nodded returning to his serious self. "Well sorry for the life story, but I guess that answers your question from earlier as well. I will say it is kind of a relief to share my story, I'm not sure why though."  

[P-Jay 1,987]

"yeah. you go. i'll just stay here for a little, and think." as ice walked away, caliber took out his sword, and polished it. then sharpened it. then checked it over to make sure he didn't miss a spot, then polished it again. when he was sure everything was properly cared for, he fished around in his bag, and pulled out a book titled: 'Caliber's Adventure Log'. he opened it, and started writing in it. he looked up at the sky. "i wonder if i'll prove myself to be good enough." he wondered out loud. "that mare, Tyra, seems stronger than me. Radiant seems like he could just activate that shield thing, i doubt my sword could cut through it. even Ice Blizzard, who knows how our dual would have turned out had we been fighting for real." he kept writing in his book, "where does that leave me? we've got attack, defense, and magic." his entry this time was particularly long. "could it be...im the weakest of us?" he finished his entry, and started walking back to the town.

[Unicorncob 5,694]

Tyra listened intently to Radiant's story, swallowing and lowering her ears. Even the wings on her helmet seemed to droop down sadly.

 

"I am deeply sorry about your brother, I can clearly see you are worthy of your knighthood," she began, then put on a smile, "though, I am sure your brother is safe, wherever he may have gotten to. I am confident that you two will reunite one day."

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Radiant grinned at Tyra's comment "I hope that to be true, after I was found a few members of the guard continued looking for him but to no avail. However part of me really wants to believe he's out there somewhere, that's why I keep the scarf in hopes I can return it to him someday. If I am unable to do that then I keep it to keep his memory alive, after all he was also my best friend." Radiant grinned again looking into his mug swirling his cider again. 

[Unicorncob 5,694]

Tyra nodded, her grin unwavering as she took another hearty swig of cider.

 

"I understand, I am also close to my brother," she explained, "I am certain your brother is still alive out there. If he is anything like his older brother, he is not so easily taken down, yes?" She grinned wider.

[J.R. 3,183]

Blizzard walked back to town, "*sigh* I can't wait to get back there, I am so ready to hit the hay." Blizzard finally made it to the town when he spotted something, "What is that?!" He spotted another ice elemental, but it was unlike the others he encountered before, it was all yellow and didn't move fast, and it looked like it was about to break into the tavern! "No ya don't! Ice Blast!" His attacks with ice had less of an effect on this one, he had to fight Commando Style! "Hiya! Take this! Get punched! Shattering kick!" It was somewhat difficult for IB on his own but he managed to break it apart, killing it, emerging victorious! "Well that was fun, now for some sl--- wait what if more enemies come while I'm sleep? I got it!" Blizzard started digging small holes all around the town and placed ice charges within them. "Haha! Now if any bad guys come, they'll be blown sky high and frozen to perfection! And they recognize me and everypony in the town, and my teammates, as friendly, so no random pony's gonna get hurt. Now off to bed." Blizzard came back through the tavern door, "Hey Ty, Raid, I'm going to sleep, good night!" Blizzard then asks the bar tender for his room, was escorted and laid down to sleep.

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Edited April 2, 2015 by IceBlizzard

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Radiant took another swig of his cider looking into his mug again "Unfortunately, at this point in time neither of us had control of any particular magic except telekinesis. Another thing that didn't work in his favor, unlike me he didn't inherit our father's earth pony genes. So I was the stronger of us two." He said taking another sip of his cider and glared into his mug. "There's gotta be something in this cider, I'm usually never this talkative. Oh well kind of nice to let some weight of the shoulders."  

[P-Jay 1,987]

Caliber trudged through the town, looking for the tavern where the others are. He saw a yellow-colored ice elemental scatter by him, and his sword was out in an instant. He gave chase towards the unique monster, when all of a sudden, it was blown sky-high. He noticed it was frozen, as it soared upwards. 'Huh, Ice Blizzard must'v set some ice mines,' he thought. He sheathed his sword, and found the tavern soon after that. He walked in, and started drinking another cider, intent on getting drunk.

[J.R. 3,183]

As Blizzard was lying he couldn't sleep, "I wonder what's going on in Ponyville right now, I wonder if Caliber made it back yet." Blizzard got up and went back downstairs to find that his friend had returned, "Hey Caliber! What happened bro? Where were you?"

[P-Jay 1,987]

"i was just...thinking," caliber said, as he got up, and walked over to him. "i thought you were going to sleep?" he asked, and when ice explained how he couldn't get to sleep, caliber nodded. "ah, right," caliber said, "sometimes that happens." caliber looked outside, into the storm. he saw another land mine go off. "hey, those are pretty fancy," caliber said, trying to make small talk.

Edited April 2, 2015 by Peytonjay

[J.R. 3,183]

Blizzard was glad that Caliber was ok, "Yeah, thanks ice mines are a defensive maneuver that I developed for protection, and it seems to work great!. Ok, now that I have peace of mind, knowing everypony's ok, I'm going back to bed. Good night guys, I think tomorrow we should head out and start looking for the you-know-what." And with that, Blizzard went back upstairs and fell fast asleep.

Edited April 2, 2015 by IceBlizzard

[Unicorncob 5,694]

Tyra nodded, listening to Radiant's story as she took mental note of Blizzard and Caliber entering the tavern.

 

She grinned up at him. "It is good to be open with your companions, it helps us to understand each other!" She finished off her cider and slammed the mug back down with a content sigh. "In fact, you may ask me about myself, if you wish!"

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Radiant looked at Tyra and looked upward as if looking for a topic to appear out of thin air. He looked back at Tyra looking over her still unable to find a a topic to ask. "Hmm... I don't know what really to ask. Anything you feel the want to share?" He asked taking another sip from his mug.

Radiant stood as if he decided to not wait for Tyra's answer. He walked up to the bartender again "how many rooms do you have left?" Radiant asked the bartender.

 

"Just one, that hyper fella took the other one. Would you like to take the last room?" The bartender asked.

 

Radiant looked back pointing his hoof to Tyra "go ahead and let her take it, the other two can share a room." He said looking back at the bartender who nodded at him.

 

Radiant walked up to where caliber and blizzard were sitting. He stood at their table looking at the two "you two are sharing a room, make sure to get some sleep we don't know what we'll be facing tomorrow." he insisted continuing back over to his table.

 

Radiant took his mug and drank what was left in it setting it back on the table. He looked at Tyra still standing "I got you the last room, I know you don't want to room with those two otherwise you probably won't get any sleep. So you should rest up here soon, I'm goING to patrol the town during the night since i been hearing a lot of commotion outside." Radiant stated tightening his scarf around his neck.

Edited April 2, 2015 by Chip Circuit

[Unicorncob 5,694]

Tyra glanced up herself, wondering just what to share about her life.

 

"Well, my father, Ralof, is the chief of our village," she explained, grinning back at him, "and my older brother is training to take the position from him one day. It is common for those in our family to set out into the world and explore at some time in their life, so that is what I chose to do!"

 

She blinked and looked as he went toward the bar, and pouted at his deciding not to listen.

 

When he returned and declared he let her take the last room in the tavern, her mood perked back up.

"Oh, well, my thanks to you," she smiled, "will you want company on your walk? I would be happy to join you!"

Edited April 2, 2015 by Unicorncob

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

Radiant looked at Tyra who was offering to accompany him and he looked toward the door "Um if you want I guess I can't stop you. Just if you feel tired feel free to return to your room. While we patrol you can continue telling me about yourself which I am sorry for leaving abruptly." He said as he begun heading to the door.