open Omnipotence: MoonLock's Heartache.

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"Whats happening?! Just tell me whats happening and I'll let you go!" he said quickly "Damn it! Please! Don't leave me in the dark I want to help you!" he sounded more panicked then before  

 

"What is going to happen?!" he kept walking running away from the house, fearful of what was going to happen 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

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"Whats happening?! Just tell me whats happening and I'll let you go!" he said quickly "Damn it! Please! Don't leave me in the dark I want to help you!" he sounded more panicked then before

 

"What is going to happen?!" he kept walking running away from the house, fearful of what was going to happen

When he made it off the Boulder mound she stopped panicking and her eyes narrowed in focused anger. Two rows of large curved spikes grew out of the Boulder mound, surrounding the house, and a massive maw closed over the house, crushing it with massive strength and a great explosion of sound and splinters. As the mound shifted and pulled itself out of the ground she cursed, "Damn you." And reached over, quickly sliding her blade deep in and out of the flesh of his shoulder.

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Rhetoric cried out in pain and obviously let her go, and stumbled to the ground. Trying to get up he held his bleeding shoulder

 

"I'm sorry!... Damn it ow... if your going to kill me just do it... spare my pet though please... It didn;t do anything to you, if you have any ounce of mercy left.." he looked back

 

"...What is that thing..." he gulped and limped away from it  

[Colenso Rivers 85]

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Rhetoric cried out in pain and obviously let her go, and stumbled to the ground. Trying to get up he held his bleeding shoulder

 

"I'm sorry!... Damn it ow... if your going to kill me just do it... spare my pet though please... It didn;t do anything to you, if you have any ounce of mercy left.." he looked back

 

"...What is that thing..." he gulped and limped away from it

She rolled across the ground and stood up once she stopped. The wound, while appeared thin and insignificant, poured out blood at an alarming rate. She said securely, "You guys will keep me alive If only just a little longer." The stone beast was finally able to stand, and it was collosal. Your companion stood over you and layed it's belly down upon your wound with its body weight, the blood unable to pour out any more.

The stony beast stood on six thick collumns, and had massive stony pincers that probably did a lot more crushing than pinching. It's body was draconian, even though it lacked wings. The no eyed monster roared at them all, close enough to crush them in all in any moment.

But EdgeWise looked up at it and said to herself, "Nova Storm you bitch." Her wings, made of blades opened and cut her bandages away, as he eyes began to glow red. A moment later a large red, electrically laced beam of violent energy shot from her mouth and eyes and cut diagonally across the monster which erupted in a series of explosions across the beams path before screeching and collapsing to the ground with a massive thud, shaking the earth beneath it. She too collapsed, falling unconciouss.

In the aftermath your creature cooed at you in a cloud of dust.

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Rhetoric coughed and slowly got up, quickly bandaging his wound on his shoulder more and more looking like a sickly survivor by the day . Surveying the scene, Rhetoric figured that he was now responsible for Edgewise. 

 

"Come on girl help me get her in the cart, she saved our lives and we should do in kind." situating her in the cart as comfortably as possible, giving her his beding supplies while she was out cold. 

 

"Alright, I'm sorry but I gotta have you pull the cart, I'm pretty beat up, as you can see" he sighed wincing at his shoulder, but smiled "Thanks though... I'd be dead without you... lets go before something bat crap crazy happens." he began walking once more giving the creature a wide berth 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric coughed and slowly got up, quickly bandaging his wound on his shoulder more and more looking like a sickly survivor by the day . Surveying the scene, Rhetoric figured that he was now responsible for Edgewise.

 

"Come on girl help me get her in the cart, she saved our lives and we should do in kind." situating her in the cart as comfortably as possible, giving her his beding supplies while she was out cold.

 

"Alright, I'm sorry but I gotta have you pull the cart, I'm pretty beat up, as you can see" he sighed wincing at his shoulder, but smiled "Thanks though... I'd be dead without you... lets go before something bat crap crazy happens." he began walking once more giving the creature a wide berth

The creature cooed at him as he got up, lifting off of him But still attentive. She watched him contently as he bandaged himself up. However, it was very hesitant in helping out EdgeWise, and even when it did, it did so begrudgingly.

It happily took the cart, and ground zero seemed to not bother it too badly, but it turned it's head to him and kneeled, gesturing for him to climb over onto its back. It cared, and could see the difficult Rhetoric had when moving.

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Rhetoric took the offer greatfuly and hoped the creature knew where to go as he lightly dozed on her back

 

This world was taking its toll on him physically... surprising though his mental state was fine, enough good things had happened to keep insanity at bay. of course the question was if this new character, Edgewise would be trustworhty or not 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric took the offer greatfuly and hoped the creature knew where to go as he lightly dozed on her back

 

This world was taking its toll on him physically... surprising though his mental state was fine, enough good things had happened to keep insanity at bay. of course the question was if this new character, Edgewise would be trustworhty or not

The journey was slow going. But it made sure to keep it that way, it had two ponies relying on it, and even if it disliked one, both were in pretty bad condition.

Along his journey, this time around, he didn't even see any other living, big or small, and his companion made sure to keep away from anything even remotely dangerous. It had two souls in its hands, and couldn't risk Rhetoric, or his need to save others.

They had been moving for a couple of days, no dreams. But as they headed in the direction of the moon, through an empty plain, luscious green foliage materialized around them all and they suddenly found themselves in a rich and lucious forest.

The creature stopped in its tracks, and a voice in the cart exclaimed, "What hell."

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Rhetoric looked up groggily and say the forest "Oh um... wow..." he slide of the creatures back and stopped her from going forward and limped back to the cart

 

"Hey you alright... hurt at all, hungry, thirsty?" he yawned and stretched  "And before you ask, no I don't know where we are." 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric looked up groggily and say the forest "Oh um... wow..." he slide of the creatures back and stopped her from going forward and limped back to the cart

 

"Hey you alright... hurt at all, hungry, thirsty?" he yawned and stretched "And before you ask, no I don't know where we are."

The creature kneeled as Rhetoric climbed off, laying down and chiming at him warmly.

As he spoke to her she said in a bit of a down trodden tone of general dissapointment, "Huh. Nope." She said while chewing on a mineral biscuit. She looked up into the air and added whimsically, "Yeah. To be honest I though you were dead," mumbling under her breath, "It certainly would have helped."

Edited March 7, 2016 by Colenso Rivers

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric rolled his eyes "What exactly are you trying to achieve? I mean gez... I know this world sucks, doesn't mean you have to spit in my face everytime I try to help you out." he sighed a tad and got some rations for himself 

 

"I mean whats the point of living if you can't share that live with anyone?" 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

As you reached in for some food she tapped her hoof against the floor of the cart, and saying, "c'mere." She took a satisfying drink of the nutri-drink. Then she continued, "Even before all thus I didn't get along well with others." Chewing on the biscuit, "Ponies are weak. They fail, they break and nowadays they die." She set her food in its wrapper and added contently, "Actually I find it generally upsetting that you are as old as you are and you still behave like a naive little filly."

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Rhetoric rolled his eyes "Just because your name is Edge doesn't give you license to be edgy..." he sighed "I'm sorry I don't measure up to your brutal standards. And maybe I am weak but some how I've survived this long right? Must be doing something right?" 

 

he desperately wanted her to lighten up just a little, or at least stop being such a jerk 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric rolled his eyes "Just because your name is Edge doesn't give you license to be edgy..." he sighed "I'm sorry I don't measure up to your brutal standards. And maybe I am weak but some how I've survived this long right? Must be doing something right?"

 

he desperately wanted her to lighten up just a little, or at least stop being such a jerk

She stared for just a moment before giving off a very light hearted laugh and demanding lightly, "Come, relax." She added thoughtfully, "I mean I guess you have a point. It doesnt make me feel any better, but it makes sense. You are alive. I could use someone with luck luke that." She then grew a more melancholic tone, "I was safe."

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric frowned "I'm sorry... You may not believe me but I'm looking for some place safe too, and hey, at least you got food, and drink, and if you choose a friend or two. I don't know about you but I'm clinging onto my sanity as hard as I can. You an I could be the only ponies we see.. for the rest of our lives." he sighed again

 

"but come come, I think we have a forest to get through if your ready" 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric frowned "I'm sorry... You may not believe me but I'm looking for some place safe too, and hey, at least you got food, and drink, and if you choose a friend or two. I don't know about you but I'm clinging onto my sanity as hard as I can. You an I could be the only ponies we see.. for the rest of our lives." he sighed again

 

"but come come, I think we have a forest to get through if your ready"

She laughed at him, "I believe you. Thats what worries me." She finished off her drink and said surely, "Oh, there will be other ponies." She jumped out the side of the cart, next to him, "But that's not a good thing." She started through the forest and your creature stood up.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

He followed Edge curiously "Really? Well at least this time you won;t have to kill them to feed to some beast" he sighed trying to laugh

 

"Look before we go much further, for both our sakes we should probably get this out of the way. I see our relationship going in one of three ways. One, you travel with me until my usefulness is no more, find a way to dispose of me and take whatever is left. Two you actualy for some reason, come to like me and we depend on eachother in this harsh world. Or three you depolve some sort of apathy towards me travel with until I die and once again take all that is useful."

He looked at her honestly "Judging by what I know so far, I would say either One or three is the most likely case. And I would like to know from honestly if it is. If so thats fine, I just don't want to get my hopes up is all." 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

He followed Edge curiously "Really? Well at least this time you won;t have to kill them to feed to some beast" he sighed trying to laugh

 

"Look before we go much further, for both our sakes we should probably get this out of the way. I see our relationship going in one of three ways. One, you travel with me until my usefulness is no more, find a way to dispose of me and take whatever is left. Two you actualy for some reason, come to like me and we depend on eachother in this harsh world. Or three you depolve some sort of apathy towards me travel with until I die and once again take all that is useful."

 

He looked at her honestly "Judging by what I know so far, I would say either One or three is the most likely case. And I would like to know from honestly if it is. If so thats fine, I just don't want to get my hopes up is all."

With his first words she stopped in her tracks. Still as a statue, she didn't respond or react, only standing there. For some time afterwards too, until she began to shake, her fur bristling with fury. She snapped around and shot towards him, wings wide open and she brought her right leg blade just beyond his throat. Her eyes were almost pure red, and tainted her irises to a bright vermillion, red vapor coming from her mouth.

Rhetoric's other companion reared and roared in his defence, but could do only more harm than good at this distance. She growled in a distorted tone, "At this point, your pressing for the fourth option: Me killing you, obliterating your ugly deer, then passing out and getting killed in the middle of f*** knows nowhere." Then she shouted at the top of her lungs, "GENRAUV KEPT ME SAFE!!!" Heated for a moment, she slowly cooled down and retracted her blade, placing her hoof on the ground and turning away, "And you best remember that."

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@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric sighed and held back showing signs of fear and panic "Alright then, fair enough..." he kept walking "I'll try to give you your space and keep you alive as long as I'm able." he calmed his creature and continued to walk into the forest

 

"Thank for telling me that, its good to know where one stands with his travel companions, friend or foe... And I have done both." he mentioned briefly to his prior live  

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric sighed and held back showing signs of fear and panic "Alright then, fair enough..." he kept walking "I'll try to give you your space and keep you alive as long as I'm able." he calmed his creature and continued to walk into the forest

 

"Thank for telling me that, its good to know where one stands with his travel companions, friend or foe... And I have done both." he mentioned briefly to his prior live

A tension like no other filled the air as they traveled. Reaching no end to the forest by nightfall, but by eightish, she stopped suddenly and quiet added, "Let's stop here. I'll go get some firewood." The chill factor was suprisingly high. She stepped off into the woods, hoping in her heart that they would leave her behind. She felt in her heart of hearts that she was the burden again.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric nodded "Alright, I'll start setting up camp... Be careful ok?" while she was gone he used the old crates that used to hold rations and hocked together small shelters, only just large enough to lay in  and tried to prepare whatever food he could to be the most satisfying their supplies could offer 

 

When Edge came back she would find a Stallion trying his best to make a comforting setting in the bleak world around them 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric nodded "Alright, I'll start setting up camp... Be careful ok?" while she was gone he used the old crates that used to hold rations and hocked together small shelters, only just large enough to lay in and tried to prepare whatever food he could to be the most satisfying their supplies could offer

 

When Edge came back she would find a Stallion trying his best to make a comforting setting in the bleak world around them

It didn't take her very long at all, to come back with plenty of thick branches. All cut cleanly at the ends. When she seen him putting things together, she smiled bittersweet. He was trying. At one point she still did too. She couldn't blame him, but she felt a little bad for snapping. She brought the branches to the center of their chosen location, sat down with them and began to cut off the leaved twigs.

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers, 

 

While she tended to the fire Rhetoric brought over her meal... It wasn't anything special but it was presented with care "Sorry this is probably going to get dull after a while but it will keep us alive" 

He sat across from her "I promise I won't ramble on too much, I can't imagine you would like to hear me rant..." he smiled softly and quieted himself for her sake and munched on his food 

[Colenso Rivers 85]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

While she tended to the fire Rhetoric brought over her meal... It wasn't anything special but it was presented with care "Sorry this is probably going to get dull after a while but it will keep us alive"

 

He sat across from her "I promise I won't ramble on too much, I can't imagine you would like to hear me rant..." he smiled softly and quieted himself for her sake and munched on his food

After the fire was lit, she layed down and ate gratefully, "Thank you. I haven't eaten this well in years." His creature was eating the leaves from the foliage. She, almost finished her meal, playing with it with her hoof, she took a breath and said, "I'm sorry. Fact is I'd rather heat the sound of another pony than silence."

[The Down Trotten 300]

@@Colenso Rivers,

 

Rhetoric smiled "Oh ok. Well, you if you'd like why don't you tell me about yourself?... Or if you don't feel comfortable with that perhaps story or maybe a song to take your mind off things?" 

 

HE didn't really want to talk about himself either, this pony liked strength and he while he was passionate. had always been a more gentle soul