private A Not So Famous Somepony...

[LonnaKitty 173]

Argante traveled quietly, her horns glow making small glow mushrooms react to her magic, the cutie mark on her flank started to glow the same color as well. She smiled as she followed the glow path, ignoring the sounds of other creatures in the woods. She knew she was safe, her magic protected these paths. She wound over and under trees, through bushes and brambles, going ever forward at a very steady pace. 

 

Her thoughts were elsewhere at the same time. She had not been home in some time. Not since the Shattering. She wasn't sure how she was going to feel being back near the old castle. She shuddered a bit and then shook her head, trying to shake the thoughts entering her mind.

[Missklang 1,054]

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Missklang expected the walk to be a casual one, but it was still weird for the Everfree forest to be as safe as on this path. She followed Argante for some time now and it even started to get a little bit boring, without any encounters. At one point her hoof got stuck in a twig. She wiggled it and when it was as soft as a cooked macaroni, pulled it out. She looked at her leg getting back normal and continued gazing around. He turned to Exist.

 

Look! Her mane change colour according to the magic she use! Isn't it cool? 

[CharChar 35]

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@@LonnaKitty

 

Exist's eyes widened as he saw Miss Klang's leg literally become noodle like, and slide through a twig.  After he heard the unicorn draw attention to the changing alicorn, however, he shook his head as if drunk and replied, "W-What?  Huh?"  Looking up... he could see exactly what they were talking about.

"Ooh!  Very pretty."  The colors quickly shifted from a purple to a blue...

[LonnaKitty 173]

Argante shifted at what seemed to be a wall of trees. She smiled at the circle of mushrooms and her horn stopped glowing, her body following suit. She placed her hoof upon the wood, taking a deep breath she walked through, disappearing through it.

 

When she finished walking through she looked at the clearing. A small castle sat on the other side, the clearing held several houses that were still being used. Several ponies came out and saw the alicorn. They all shouted with glee and rushed to her.

 

"She is back!! Our Princess has returned home once more!!" Ponies yelled, she smiled and greeted them all, laughing at them as she was now stuck at the entrance of the clearing.   

[Sir Xarthas VI 471]

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Shining watched as the very comical looking group of three walked through the Everfree. He was about to teleport again, when suddenly the black alicorn disappeared. Shining moved his goggles over his eyes, and switched filters, looking for magic. Hmm. A hidden village? In the Everfree? This could be what I've been looking for... Dark Blood could be there... And I sense a magic barrier... Maybe that's why that creature from before couldn't detect his magic... That would explain a lot... he thinks to himself, sighing with exasperation. Deciding to take a closer look, Shining walks toward the wall of trees. He peers through to the other side, and sees the black alicorn again. As well as a bunch more ponies. Shining curses under his breath, and squeezes through the trees, and disables his invisibility spell. "You! Alicorn!"

[LonnaKitty 173]

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Argante turned to face the voice that called out to her. The other ponies opened up like a parting of the sea, giving their princess full view of the stranger in question.

 

"Yes? How can I help you?" she asked carefully, her body was pulled entirely upright as she looked at the stranger, unsure if he was friend or foe.

[Missklang 1,054]

@, @@LonnaKitty

 

Missklang quickly recognized the voice and jumped through the space between her and the unicorn in a quick teleport.

 

It's you again mister "I'm here to save the universe or something of equal importance"! Do you greet Luna and Celestia by "You, Alicorn" as well? That's not nice! It's not nice to be not nice. Last time I heard someone being this rude to them, it was from Discord. And he was turned to stone.

 

Missklang frowned lightly, but then smiled, unable to keep the serious face.

 

But who am I to talk about such things as conduct and order. I'm glad I wasn't wrong when I thought you went into the forest. I was looking for you actually.

 

She stopped talking, and instead started looking at the unicorn.

[Sir Xarthas VI 471]

@@LonnaKitty, @@Missklang,

 

"Normally I don't greet anypony with such a harsh tone, nor am I usually so withdrawn towards others. I just happen to be in a foul mood, and have something important to do." He says to Missklang, with a somewhat irritated tone. "And it doesn't help when random creatures, like yourself, are somehow finding me and irritating me further. He says sighing. He then turns to the alicorn "And I would be more polite with you, but I only greet my current princesses with kindness. Everyone else I greet neutrally. Anyway, I'm looking for someone. An alicorn. Goes by the name of Dark Blood. About two hooves taller than you, with black fur, and blood-red markings. Usually wears scale-mail boots." He says, while looking at his surroundings, trying to spot any clues as to whether or not he was here or not...

[LonnaKitty 173]

@,@@Missklang,  

 

Argante sighed softly at the commotion, lifting her wing to signal to her guards that all was fine. She stepped forward and stared at the strangers.

 

"Well welcome to our home, unfortunately stranger, you and the other one are the only strangers who have stepped into our home in a very long time, we have met no pony matching the description that you describe. However I am not so rude as to deny you help. We have lived in this forest a very long time so we know it fairly well, I will help you in your quest if you so desire. As long as you do not harm any of my ponies, you will have full cooperation. I have met your princess, they are very nice and lovely alicorns, so if you are under them then I have no quarrel with you." she then turned to the other one who was lovely enough to jump to her defense. 

 

"You are also welcome to stay as well, we don't mind visitors just don't cause any trouble...we have enough as it is." she waited for their replies, looking to and fro from the two strangers.

[CharChar 35]

@@LonnaKitty, @, @@Missklang


Exist was astounded at the small village in the middle of the everfree.  He could see the rather older looking buildings have been kept up well, despite being in such a dangerous place.  It had been fairly obvious how this village was hidden: a magic barrier.  He's seen it before when he has patients visit their homes.  A lot of the time, there's magic barriers that hide towns and villages across equestria from danger, but he's never seen one on this kind of scale.  It would take a strong amount of magic, or some kind of spell to keep something like this up for so long.  At least, that's what his coworkers tell him when he goes out.

 

...!  Exist paused from his oggling of the village, looking at the sudden appearance of that mysterious pony.  He listened to the pony, and thought about what he said.  It sounded familiar, what he was describing...  Where have I heard this before?  His eyes closed as he thought, listening to the other ponies talk.

Edited July 17, 2016 by CharChar

[Sir Xarthas VI 471]

@@LonnaKitty,

 

"I don't intend on doing anypony harm. But I don't intend on using your help, either. I do, however, intend on searching the town for Dark Blood. You may not have seen him, but he could still be here... somewhere." Shining states, walking past the alicorn and looking throughout the village. After a while, he seems more irritated, cursing under his breath, and his tattoo's starting to glow a faint blue. He walks back up to the alicorn. "Maybe I will ask you to do one thing. Well, it depends. How powerful are you?" He asks with a grin, though nopony can see it.

[LonnaKitty 173]

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She smiled a very playful smile and lifted her forleg showing off a bracelet. "These bracelets are not just for show, they keep my magic in check. So to answer your question, quite powerful." she watched him carefully, she was treading on thin icy and she knew it in her heart. She wanted to help though, he was searching for somepony, and with that notion, she could entirely sympathize.  

[Sir Xarthas VI 471]

@@LonnaKitty,

 

Shining mistakenly let out a chuckle, but soon corrected himself. "Good. I'd like you to cast a spell." He says, and then starts to rummage through one of his saddlebags. He eventually takes out a large leather-bound journal, and starts flipping through the pages. Almost halfway through the book, he stops, but then keeps going, trying to find a powerful enough spell... Eventually he settles on one that he himself couldn't cast... yet. He tosses the journal on the ground in front of the alicorn, showing the spell page to her. The spell, named 'Enforced Darkness' was very accurately described, as Shining himself had discovered it, and is the only one that knows of it. Well, used to, anyway. The page also has a hoof-drawn image of a large black sphere, with a dark mist emanating from it. "I would cast it, but I'd have to use the rest of my power, and I'll need it for later. All you have to do is cast the spell into the sky, probably about 30 meters up. And hold it there for a minute or two. After that, we wait. Hopefully he see's it.." He grins again, yet nopony can see it.

[LonnaKitty 173]

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Argante eyed it and then him carefully. She turned to a guard and whispered to him. The guard silently nodded and ushered everypony in the vicinity away, making them go into their homes. She looked again at the spell reading over it once, twice, three times, before nodding. The spell was complicated and very powerful, she removed one bracelet from her forarm. A small spark of light illuminated her body and she winced in pain. It had been long since she had removed these bracelets. 

 

She looked over the spell once more, a double check, and breathed deeply. She looked to the sky her mane started to swirl with purple colors, her tail and cutie mark doing the same. The black light shot from her horn. She made the black mass form at 35 meters high, the use of magic made her body more stable, confident even. She held it and watched what the others would do.

[Sir Xarthas VI 471]

@@LonnaKitty,

 

Shining chuckles again, and stops himself. He looks up at the black orb, floating above the everfree "Impressive... If you were a unicorn. Now I'd recommend to stop casting the spell. This ones particularly nasty. Although it doesn't always happen, it sometimes drains power from the caster. But it forces all powerful creatures to look at it, no matter species. Except for the ones within 50 meters. Most of them will ignore it once it passes, but if it catches the eye of Dark Blood, he'd know it's me, and will probably come running over. Or more accurately, flying over. I just hope he's not in a fowl mood..." He says as he looks guiltily at the ponies around him. "Chance of him being in a foul mood is about 32% though. Wait.. what day is it?" He asks, somewhat stupidly, and checks his goggles. "Make that a 27% chance..." He says with a sigh of relief...

Edited July 17, 2016 by ~ Akatsuki ~

[LonnaKitty 173]

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She sighed and let it be, placing the bracelet back on as quick as possible, the sparking died down immediately and she took a breath. Removing her bracelets was always hard, it made her feel a bit dizzy. She looked upon the stranger with curiosity and tilted her head a bit to the side. 

 

"If I may be so bold, but why are you looking for this pony?"

[CharChar 35]

@,@@LonnaKitty,

 

Exist watched the two do their magic, thinking to himself.  Of course, he kept a safe distance away from the large sphere in the sky.  It was so strange, the way it looked.  Such a dark force that seemed to absorb all light near it...  What would anypony need for such a thing?

 

He happened to look down at the blue stallion, and made an astute observation: his goggles!  There was something strikingly familiar about them.  Were they connected to that Dark Blood pony that was described?  Maybe I saw this pony one time whenever I flew over the Everfree forest...?  In any case, he supposed he would find out soon enough.

 

He couldn't shake this strange feeling though.  The entire time, his body felt strange...

[Sir Xarthas VI 471]

@@LonnaKitty,

 

Looking up at the black sphere, he tells the alicorn about his findings. "About 2 years ago, a hooded figure came to Canterlot to speak to me. He told me of a spell that could alter anything, and which spell-book I could find it in. I searched for about a year and a half before finding it, only to realize that I couldn't touch it myself, otherwise the book would turn to ash. The only one who could take the book and release the disintegration spell was Luna, so I asked her to retrieve it for me. Which she did, of course. Afterwards, I studied through the book, trying to find the spell I had been told of, but the language was something I'd never seen before, so I had to research it in order to read through the book in order to find the spell. After a while, I finally found it. But realized how powerful the spell actually is, and I need Dark Blood's help to make sure it's never used for evil. The reason I need his help is because, well... It's protected by extremely powerful magic. Not even the power of Celestia and Luna combined could break it. So I figured Dark Blood would be my best chance at breaking the spell. Well, not so much breaking it as altering it. So only me and the princesses are allowed to read it. And since he seems to be the most powerful being on this planet, I figured he would have the best shot at helping me." He explains this as he takes out a book from his bag and shows it to the alicorn. After letting her see it for a moment, he stuffs it back in his bag. Shining suddenly looks over to his left, where nopony seems to be. "Was that..." His voice trails off.

[Missklang 1,054]

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I'm not a random creature! I'm here for the action and my amusement. It just so happens you are the fastest way to get to it. However, it's a nice spell there. Mind if I try something?

 

Missklang was curious about the words of the unicorn, so she teleported away from the sphere on a rooftop that according to him was far away to be affected by the sphere. Suddenly, she started staring at the black sphere in the sky. It was so strange, but yet something familiar. It was as black as the blackest thing. As black as the void itself. She stared at it and felt the uneasiness gain her What if the void stares back. And yet somehow she found it so perfectly round, so perfectly black that she couldn't bring herself to stare back. Still looking at the sphere, she plunged her hooves in her saddle bag and grabbed a bucket that was strangely almost the size of the bag itself. Without waiting any longer, she put the bucket on her head, forcing to break line of sight with the sphere and teleported back to Argante and the unicorn. With the bucket still over her head, she continued.

 

Huh... I wonder if it's the same effect if you are looking at its reflection or its photo... I like it. It looks like a black hole.

[CharChar 35]

@@Missklang,

 

It felt almost like his body was about to blast off into space.  He began to sweat a bit, and slowly walked over to Missklang who seemed to be wearing a bucket over their head.  Exist ignored this fact, however, and spoke to them anyway,  "Don't you feel like... a pressure on your body?"  It felt like something was squeezing his body...

[Sir Xarthas VI 471]

@@Missklang, @@LonnaKitty,

 

Shining quickly looks over at Missklang "That's exactly what it is. A Black Hole. Though not a normal one. This one doesn't effect gravity, but instead attracts strong magic. And with slight alterations to the spell, you can control how powerful the magic has to be before the black hole starts to attract it. You can also change the radius in which it's effects don't work, like I have for this occasion." He says somewhat triumphantly, and then the black hole disappears. "Ah, it's wore off. Now we wait."

Edited July 19, 2016 by ~ Akatsuki ~

[Missklang 1,054]

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Hmmm.

 

Missklang removed the bucket revealing a thoughtful impression.

 

That's quite impressive. A black hole for magic waves instead of gravitational ones. Well, they are similar after all and this does explain it as if the magical attraction works in a same way as a gravitational one does. That explains the high magic need too, if a normal black hole is a very concentrated mass in one small place, this must be pure magic concentrated in a small space. Minor tweaks here and there, but it's essentially a small ball of pure concentrated magic floating in the air if I understand it correctly.

 

She levitated a grimoire and a raven's feather from behind her back as if they were there the whole time as well as a pair of  black-rimmed spectacles that she placed on her nose and started scribbling down something using strange symbols (wingdings) while her tone changed a bit from natural mary-go-lucky to a slightly calmer tone.

 

I suppose you are the creator of that spell? I didn't know of it. Is that your job? Spellmaking? Or is it just a complimentary hobby? If so, then that's quite impressive. It's a rare talent that few have. But perhaps you would be so kind to give me the formula, if it's not a national secret, naturally. I could try to tweak it into using my magic instead of the normal one. Of course, the effects of a concentrated ball of pure chaos magic would certainly have important side effects, it's something that also could be adapted for various practical uses as small diversion grenades or something similar...

[rolle 320]

Heathlife had traveled quite a bit before feeling some sort of attracting force, it wasn't attracting him however. It was attracting something beyond him, using him as a gateway. He felt a heavy pressure around his eye. A pressure as if he was being eaten alive by something so strong that even godlike beings would get dwarfed eventually. As if an entire magical plane of existance was forcing itself out from his eye socket. Then, it just stopped suddenly. He was shaken and sweat was forming all around his body "What was that? Something, it felt as if something was forcing something out from me... Could it be? Could it have broken through the seal, could it be the seal is only one sided and only contain my magic while allowing it to grow? Interesting. I have no way to test it as of yet though. I wonder what that was though..." He looked around the area and he noticed now something he didn't see before behind him. A bunch of magic trails after a magic spell. It also had traveled in a sphere pattern seemingly towards him and select other spots. Though, to him when he stared at it from his position before it penetrated into his eye directly. It was an uncomfortable way of seeing it, he decided to walk towards it. The herb could wait a bit longer. He started the journey towards the spot.

 

Heltheain seemingly went unnoticed by the people he crashed near, that was good. He had walked back into the forest and his body, weakly but surely was attracted towards the sky. He turned his head and saw just darkness, a complete void. His natural strength made him able to snap out of the trance-like stare at it. He didn't know why it had attracted him, even if it was ever so weak. He didn't take any mind to it, it wasn't anything he would consider useful to him. He decided to go away from it instead heading deeper into the forest, unknowingly however.

[Sir Xarthas VI 471]

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Shining stood there with his eyes shut to enhance his hearing, and he listened to his surroundings "Yes, I am the one who created that spell. And you're partly right. It's not 100% magic. About 15% of it is Dark Matter. The outer shell of it to be specific. Otherwise the ball would be coloured." He says as his left ear twitches slightly. "And I've already tested the spell using chaos magic. Well, I've had Discord test it before. It didn't turn out so well. Luckily I had the memory erase spell handy and deleted the spell from his mind, so he can't cast it again. So that would be a no to giving you the formula." He states rather plainly. He quickly turns around to see a glimpse of a tall shadow, before it disappears. "He's here. Argante, if you wish your people to remain safe, I suggest ordering them to get indoors. I don't know what kind of mood he's in."

Edited July 19, 2016 by ~ Akatsuki ~

[Missklang 1,054]

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Missklang shut the grimoire slightly annoyed and began rumbling to herself.

 

Pff, Discord to try the spell. Why does he always gets to do the fun stuff? He always was the Royal favorite chaos monster. Just because he looks crazier that the others. Do I have to enslave Equestria to get attention? Grrr. Of course it wouldn't work! You can't just make someone use a unicorn spell with chaos magic! Even if it seems to fit. You have to adapt it, so it fits, so it works. Only a skilled spell maker who is familiar with chaos magic could do that. As far as I know Discord never bothered with spell making. Even for me, who has decades of practice and mastery of chaos magic at Discord's level need months to adapt a complex spell. At least he erased it from Discord's memory. Whatever, I don't need his stupid spell. I got plenty of mine...

 

She put the grimoire and the feather back and turned to Shining and slightly bowed her head.

 

I understand the precautions. Discord with such spell can mess up things pretty badly. 

 

She left a grin escape.

 

Looks like the spell did manage to attract the wanted attention.