private The school for Criminals

[TerminalObsession 250]

@@reader8363,

 

One of Mercury's eyes opened. She stretched on her cot and yawned. Today's a big day, Mercury thought. Escape, legal activities, return by sundown.

 

Mercury ran a hoof over her mane in attempt to brush it out. With a sigh, she got out of bed. She walked towards the place she was pretty sure the entrance was. The gate loomed overhead. Mercury noted the guards on either side of the gate and walked away from it, along the fence. The fence was actually shorter than the gate; It made easier climbing. With a grunt, Mercury began climbing the fence, hooking her hooves into the wire links to progress. She ignored everything, focusing on getting higher.

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@@Amorphous, 

A guard noticed her and ran after her. when they go there, one tackled her off the fence and pinned her to the ground.

 

@@crispy fries,@@Dapper Charmer,  

Nightmare stopped, looked up, and said before heading to her bedroom,

"Sure, take the whole day off, I think Shadow has it under control."

When she got to her room, she sat down on her bed and tried to think of something to help

[crispy fries 432]

@@Dapper Charmer,

 

"Let's get goin' then," said Redwood as she gave Hooligan a kiss on the cheek. "We got a whole lot to do."

 

Like with dresses, Redwood had never really been a big fan of shopping. This was special though, and she was more than happy to do it. Plus, it had been a long time since she had taken any time off.

[Spellvamp 33]

@reader8363

 

Feral senced that the pray stoped moving so he started to sneak when he was near he noticed that two ponies had come out of the room so he waited until they were out of sight, then he slowly opened the door, he saw his pray on the bed so he jumped, well let's just say that he hit the magic shield, he immediately got up and started to look arownd he did not see a thing so he started to growl at his now woken up pray

[SugarfootWillie 383]

@@reader8363 @@Missklang

 

Kurren$y watched from his seat as the world revolved around him. This was probably the lightest punishment he had received, odd for his heaviest offense.

 

"Must be done here. swaagg. See you later boss."

 

Kurren$y non-chalantly proceeded to head to the door, but stopped as he remembered something important.

 

"Aye Missklang, lemme borrow you fo' a second. Follow me."

Edited May 10, 2016 by SugarfootWillie

[TerminalObsession 250]

@@reader8363,

 

Mercury grinned at the guard. She shifted ever so slightly to one side.

 

Her rear hooves hit the guard's stomach, and one of her forehooves slammed into the side of his head. Mercury rolled the guard off of her and ran to try again at a different point. This time, she put her thoughts into speed. Once she had a feel for the links, it was simplicity itself to flow up the fence, and she was out of reach almost before the guards had noticed her.

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@@Amorphous, 

the guard went over to a box near the gate and turned on the electricity for the fence,

 

@@SugarfootWillie, 

Shadow said as he applied more pressure to the leg, 

"Just for once, just shut up and sit down."

 

@@Spellvamp,

Nightmare looked up to see Feral, then she made a small ball of magic and rolled it out the door, 

[Spellvamp 33]

@reader8363,

 

Feral looked at the ball for a second but then it bursted in to a magic that sruck him "Yes my body I can feal it and it hurts a lot one eye is not working and Feral found his new mate shi*t this is a bad day or I think this was a day and Night don't you dare tell my this is my fault I told everyone that I NEED magic or I will go feral so do you have any questions?" Spell asked

[SugarfootWillie 383]

@@reader8363,

 

Kurren$y sat down on the floor so that his body weight would not add to the pressure Shadow applied to his leg. Feeling some relief Kurren$y rebutted

 

"But MOM! All the other kids get to play outside!"

 

Wonder if Acrylic ever got the rust I asked for. How long am I going to be in here?

[Dapper Charmer 591]

@@crispy fries

 

Hooligan smiled, "lead the way," he said happily. As Hooligan and Redwood walked through the prison towards the exit he couldn't believe how amazing the last few days had been. And now for the first time in years he was being aloud to leave the prison. And it was all thanks to Red.

[TerminalObsession 250]

@@reader8363,

 

Mercury's eyes widened as the fence started humming. Quickly, she shifted her hooves so that all four of her horseshoes were propped on the links. She sighed quietly as a faint tingle filled her body, the tingle of electricity moving. Moving electricity that, thankfully, didn't build up enough to injure her. I should still get moving, she thought.

Carefully, she lifted her right forehoof and left rear hoof off of the fence. When no shocks happened, she hooked them in the fence a few inches above with precision that could only come from a fear of being killed.

 

Moving slowly, Mercury scaled the rest of the fence. She was careful to only let her hooves contact the fence, and always two at a time. Once she was at the top, she simply jumped. Her muscles burned and she tingled from ears to tail, but she was out.

 

With a determined grunt, Mercury galloped towards the seedier neighborhoods below.

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@@Spellvamp, 

Nightmare looked up and said as she lowered her head,

"I don't really care right now if it's your fault or not."

 

@@SugarfootWillie, 

Shadow applied more pressure, then he said as he pulled out a light blue collar,

"I said shut up, and don't go whining around here."

He turned around and started putting all the other relics back into the chest.

 

@@Amorphous, 

The guard ran out the gate, and took off after Mercury

Edited May 11, 2016 by reader8363

[SugarfootWillie 383]

@@reader8363,

 

"Hmmmm"

 

Grunting through the pain was all Kurren$y could do while remaining silent. Despite the pain, he felt a tinge of monotony as applying pressure to his unhealed leg was the punishment he received from Shadow the first time. The exception being that this time there was no genuine fear instilled in Kurren$y, only mental anesthesia. 

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@@Missklang,

Shadow turned around and said as he pulled the knife out of the desk and replaced it with the light blue collar,

"I need you to get this to Spellvamp, and tell him it should help with his problem. Don't put it on yourself. I don't think Nightmare would like you using this for your own gain." 

[Missklang 1,053]

@@reader8363

How would a magic dumper-chvumper benefit me? Well, okay I guess.

 

He levitated the collar to himself.

 

Oh, and you remember the red collar you gave me earlier? I kinda plocked it on Spellvamp when he attacked. That did something I hope. Would it still work? I mean they are thin, I can manage to lock this one too... But, you know... Possible artefact disagreement when both effects applied together and stuff...

Edited May 11, 2016 by Missklang

[TerminalObsession 250]

@@reader8363,

 

One of Mercury's hooves slipped out from under her as she ran through an alley. She giggled as she corrected her stumble, leaping on top of a dumpster. Her mane and tail felt light; She was sure that the electricity had screwed up her mane to an extraordinary degree, but it didn't bother her. On the contrary, she thought, jumping from the dumpster to a rooftop, I rather like it this way. It's so fluffy.

 

She galloped over the sloping roofs, jumping from rooftop to rooftop. She turned almost completely around once she'd gone a certain distance, and jumped rooftops to get to the nicer parts of the city. What she was looking for was definitely not a dumpster. She'd seen enough of those.

 

Once more ponies started filling the streets, Mercury slipped to the ground. She lost herself among the crowds of the city. A discount store provided a map; Mercury stopped to check it occasionally as she made her way to her destination. 

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@@Missklang, @@SugarfootWillie,

Shadow said as he threw the knife near Kurren$y's head, missing of course,

"The blue collar give the magic from the red collar while it takes the extra magic from the creature."

 

@@Amorphous, 

Guard asked around town for Mercury with a poster, then one spotted her and took off after her.

[TerminalObsession 250]

@@reader8363,

 

Mercury trotted into the place she'd taken such trouble to get to.

 

It was a library, filled with majestic columns and shelves upon shelves of books.

 

Mercury waved at the librarian as she walked past, following signs to different sections, perusing books, and occasionally flipping through one's index. In the end, she'd narrowed her search down to four books. Anatomy of Unicorns, Curses: Make or Break, History and Science of Umbramancy, and Runecraft for Beginners.

 

She balanced the books on her back as she searched for a space to sit. Eventually, Mercury found a satisfactory beanbag chair and sat down to read, ignorant of the commotion outside.

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@@Amorphous, 

The guard went up to the librarian and asked for Mercury, she pointed to mercury sit down. The guard walked up, grabbed the book and as he placed it back on the shelf, 

"Mercury, come quietly or we will force you. You do know that there is a library in the prison."

[TerminalObsession 250]

@@reader8363,

 

"Yes," Mercury replied, "but there aren't the kind of books I'm looking for there. It's simple pursuit of knowledge, sir. After all, do you really think Darky would put books on umbramancy and curses in his prison?"

 

She rolled over and turned around lazily in her beanbag chair, resting her chin on her hooves. The picture of relaxation, for sure. Yet, through half-closed eyes, Mercury looked up the sharpened tip of her horn. She definitely wasn't going back without what she was looking for, all of it. Though she wouldn't give up her life, she decided. That would be pointless.

[SugarfootWillie 383]

@@reader8363,

 

Kurren$y flinched as he saw his life flash before his eyes in the wake of the passing knife. Seemingly fortunate have this extra moment of life Kurren$y lunged to pick up what would become his knife. Upon grabbing it he cut at the base of the shadow wrapping around his leg, hoping for an enchantment to release him from Shadow's bond.

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@@Amorphous, 

The guards went up to Mercury and started dragging her out of the library and into a van.

 

@@SugarfootWillie, 

Shadow laughed and said,

"Scared of knives are we? That won't do any good, that's just a plain knife that can get between scales"
The shadows went around the knife and Shadow applied more pressure.

[TerminalObsession 250]

@@reader8363,

 

Mercury went slack in their hooves.

 

Well, she went slack for three seconds. It was something, okay?

 

Then, it was chaos. Her horseshoes blurred, neatly striking jaws and causing guards to crumple around her. When she propelled her back hooves into the final standing guard, Mercury realized that quite a crowd had gathered. "I took self-defense lessons," she said sheepishly before returning to the library.

After all, there were books to be read. She'd come back later.

 

Later.

[SugarfootWillie 383]

@@reader8363, 

 

Kurren$y attempted to wipe the shadows off his new knife and leg, unable to think of anything else that he could do against shadowmancy. Artificial lighting didn't seem to work against these, and that left Kurren$y very confused.

 

"Yooo  f*** is up wit these shadows writing they own rules? Dudes tryna break the wrong system. Why you gotta f*** with these?"

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@@SugarfootWillie, 

Shadow walked up and said,

"Let's just say that I had many years of practice to master it."

He started to sit down and his shadow became a chair.

"If I let you go, are you going to behave?"

A guard walked in and said, 
"Sir, Mercury has escaped some time ago, she was last seen heading to the village below."

@@Dapper Charmer,@@crispy fries,

Shadow applied a lot more pressure on Kurren$y's leg as he said, 
"What. Get whatever guards you can find, and tell them the situation, I want Mercury at my feet waiting for punishment or telling me why she escaped."