private The Other Ponies

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Lyth nods, "Frequently. Luna and I are very close," she blushes. "It's very nice; well decorated, well lit, and home to one of my favorite and most trusted ponies in Equestria. I am not, of course, talking about Celestia. So what is it like running a gang? Are you ruthless,or do you inspire loyalty in others?"

[Chickey 383]

"Loyalty isn't really a word i know much about, sadly. We're more pillaging vikings, compared to Midnight's assassin rouge thing" Clocks explained. "But nowadays we just run clubs more often and keep the stealing to a minimum." He added with a slight shrug as he walked

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

"Clubs... I have to admit, I have never gone clubbing," she blushed, "I have been told that more often then not, there is a mare found later with 5 different drugs in her system, signs of... pain and pleasure, and the possible side effect of death. Is that true?" She looked genuinely curious.

[Chickey 383]

Clocks shrugged. "Well, that all depends on the club that you go to. I usually pick off some clubbers and drink from them harmlessly. But Fang's club usually just lets people in and out safely to irritate me." He explained. "Yet every so often that statement you made is true"

[NinjaCPU 270]

Carrick tipped his hat and nodded to Blaze, "That should be of right size, come on everypony. Let's found out what's in this cave." Carrick jumped into the hold and slide down the hole. The touch of light started to dim down as Carrick slid down the slope. The feel of sand that drifted across his hooves. As he finally went down the hole. Utter darkness was all Carrick could see. However, he felt his detective sense made him feel somepony was close by. It's not by this group...it's some other pony. He couldn't tell, but it seem like the pony was staring right at him...

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Quickly heard what Carrick said and watched him jump down the hole. He unslung his crossbow and looked around. ""Guess I'm next," he said, dropping into the hole. His first impression was dark, but it seemed unnatural. He turned on his MP vision.

 

Lyth sighed, Not a straight letter.

[Chickey 383]

Hypn, Midnight, and Shadow jumped down the hole while Clocks looked into the hole. "Alright, are you ready?" He asked Lyth as he get ready to jump down.

 

Hypno jumped down and began to adjust his eyes to the dark light so he could see. Shadow did the same afterward.

Edited October 26, 2012 by Hypno

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Quickly scooted over for more people to drop just in time. He thought he saw... something infront of them. Whatever it was, it's MP Wave signature was well disguised. He leveled his crossbow at it, standing in front of Carrick.

 

Lyth drew a crescent moon with her eyes closed and mumbled something, then nodded to show she was ready.

[NinjaCPU 270]

"Now, now. Let's be civilized here." A voice popped up as Quickly bought up his crossbow level to Carrick's direction. "If I wanted to, I could of attacked you right now, I would of done so as you stepped into this cave. However, I'm not here for such things." The pony started to walk over to the group. The voice sounded familiar to Starbolt. As it was the same voice that helped her get to Carrick.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Quickly recognized the voice from when he'd followed Starbolt from running away during his training exercises. "I don't like ponies who make my friends break their promises to me. Especially ones who's first words to me are off-handed death threats." Even so, he lowered his crossbow.

[Samurshy 708]

Blaze realized that it was dark, and then he heard a foreign voice from in front of the group. Se he decided to use the glow of his horn to illuminate the cavern. His horn cast a bright crimson on everything in the caves from the stalagmites to the foreign pony standing in front of them.

[Chickey 383]

"Alright" Clocks said as he jumped down into the now illuminated cave.

 

Hypno's eyes had now adjusted with Shadow's, he could now see into the cave easily. Fire conjured a fireball at his side to help him see in the darkness of the cavern. But when Blaze lit it up, he let it burn out.

[Glaceon 793]

Starbolt was unsettled by the voice, she remained next to Carrick quiet. She readied her magic.

Fae noticed Starbolt quite disturbed by the voice that was coming towards them, she quickly prepared a spell and aimed it towards its direction.

Sapphire slid down only to hear the voice coming from the darkness. But one of the other ponies quickly set light to the cave, she saw the pony in front of the group she raised her spear ready to attack.

[NinjaCPU 270]

Carrick's eyes shrank from the light that came from Blaze's horn. The first thing that came through Carrick's eyes was another pony. The cave had stalagmites all around the floor. The ceiling was rather short however, but the cave seem deep. It would take a good amount of energy to do illuminate this whole cave. The smell was rather unpleasant as some sort of mildew Carrick smelled.

 

The pony looked at Quickly, "Everyone has free will. She has the right to choose if she wanted to go or not. Plus, you come at me with a crossbow, you think I'm going to be pleasant to you?"

 

Quickly seem to have know who this pony was...somewhat. It seem that he helped us before and the look on Starbolt's face seem like made Quickly statement correct. The pony was hooded, just like many of Ice Star's group. The same writing on the hood as well. Carrick spoke up, "Alright, if you're not here to kill us. What are you here for?"

 

"Hm?" The pony turned to Carrick than told him, "I'm here on behave of Ice Star. He knew that you would be come here soon. You're...stubborn, all of you. Even when we given you so many chances to leave this case." The pony looked at Blaze, "However, I'm not here to fight you to the death or anything. I'm not actually a strong pony like you folks." He said as he turned to each and every other pony that was inside here.

 

"Alright, what are you here for?"

 

"I'm here to give you a tour of the place. Show you how nice the place is and everything. The front here isn't really fixed, but we're renovating it very soon." The pony said as he turned around. "Unless you want to head back up, it's up to you." The pony said as he turned around and started to walk.

 

Carrick had no choice, but to follow him. "Be careful everypony." The earth pony said to the group.

[Chickey 383]

Hypno leaned up the Midnight and simply whispered. "Why don't we just kill him though... we outnumber him a bazillion to one..." He said with a sigh. "I dunno, Detective whatever doesn't want to or something..." Midnight replied. "Bro that is harsh, we can't just kill him, he might be nice." Fire butted in.

Edited October 26, 2012 by Hypno

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Quickly reslung his crossbow and stared at the pony, "Is it not fair of me to say that I don't trust you? Because you certainly don't trust us," he mumbled under his breath.

 

Lyth leaned into Clocks a little. She felt as if something evil was in this place, and felt that Luna was still at Tartarous, and couldn't tell her about the caves."

[Chickey 383]

Clocks looked around the cave, slightly leaning into Lyth with a chuckle. "This will be good." He whispered to himself.

 

Shadow leaned over to Hypno and the rest. "It would give us a nice drink too." He added afterward as they followed the rest of the group and the odd pony who they just met.

[NinjaCPU 270]

"Trust is a two way road. I'm not here to be trusted, I'm just here to show you around." The pony replied as he took them farther into the cave. The cave generic style started to become more....fancy. Fabric started to come all over the ceiling of the cave. The floor that once was hard and slimy had become more of a soft touch as the carpet touched Carrick and the others hooves...

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

(*Yawns* Total sleep last night; 3 hours. I feel sick...)

 

Quickly watched the pony, until the surroundings changed to carpeting. He hissed shortly; to try to make a cave comfortable like this... It was foolish. All it was was a display of power, because it was expensive-looking carpet. It wasn't something he found tasteful; he preferred normal caves any day.

[Chickey 383]

Hypno walked with the group and the strange pony quietly. He wondered if this pony knew where Snow was since she might of returned to Ice Star. But he decided to stay quiet for now and just let him take the group where ever. He didn't know if they were being led into a trap or not yet, or a illusion.

[NinjaCPU 270]

Carrick took a glance back at the ponies who had looks of disgust or caution on their faces (at least, Hypno and Quickly). Carrick knew that it wasn't exactly the smartest thing to follow a random pony who seem to be cahoots with Ice Star. However, there wasn't much to really go off of. He knew that this pony must of helped Starbolt teleport her to the dungeon. Maybe to hold her up just like me? If that was the case than it was a fairly bad idea. It seems that he only listen to Ice Star. What is his big plan?

 

The hooded pony took them to see the cave had started to have a few doors on the side of the cave. Whatever pony had carved this must of used either a lot of MP or had a lot of time to construct this design. Carrick continued to walk with the pony. "Aren't we going into the other doors?"

 

The pony shook his head. Carrick took a tip of his hat and nodded, "We're going to see him aren't we?"

 

"Yeah, you are. You'll have an audience with Ice Star...." All of this seem out of place. Why was Ice Star ready to meet us? He didn't make it blantly to say the least to find this cave. If it weren't for Daeva's blast it might of been even harder to find it. The pony horn glowed as the door started to open up. Carrick wasn't sure what to except from this. He'd hope everypony would be ready though.

[Samurshy 708]

ICE STAR!?! Blaze thought astonished

 

"What do you mean we are having an audience with Ice Star? What is this place? No, no. None of this adds up. It feels like we are walking into our execution. The air in here smells of darkness. We can't trust this pony" Blaze said with his horn still glowing and his angry expression, to the average pony Blaze would have looked scary. But to the pony leading them, it had no effect.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

"Blaze, this time,I have to agree with Carrik's stoicism. In case you haven't noticed, here are our choices. We follow this pony, prepared for a trap at any moment, to an audience with Ice Star, we turn around and forget our quest entirely, or we turn around, and it doesn't matter what we do because we die." Quickly doesn't look happy about it, but he continues to follow.

 

Lyth stayed close to Clocks.

[Chickey 383]

"Bout time Piano boy show's himself..." Clocks commented as he followed. He knew that if Hypno had a chance he would probably try to persuade Ice Star to stop, but he would rather just kill him.

Hypno followed staying oddly quiet as he walked through the cave with the rest.

 

As Shadow walked through the cave slightly admired the scenery as it shifted to a civilized one. It was quite elegant, and he rather adored elegance.

Fire just simply walked with a bored expression. He didn't look very entertained as usual.

Midnight simply wished he had taken some guards with him when he entered the cave.

[NinjaCPU 270]

"Trust is an important thing, however we aren't in enough time to decide what we can do. We're in a state of danger and if this is a trap...we'll take it head on." Carrick told Blaze. Though his words had merit, time has officially been out. Stuck in those mountains for days, locked up in a dungeon for Celestia knows how long. The echo's of the footsteps touched his eardrums as they continued their walk in this long hallway.

 

The sound of music started to come out, as the reached the end of the cave. The only thing that was playing was the piano, the beautiful melody...it was like that dream. The dream where all he could listen to was the music. As if it was water for a dry tongue. They reached to the end of the cave. It was just like before, the same scenery as before. Ice Star must of played with his mind, right? Carrick looked around, the darkness was hard to see. A pony that played the piano as various other ponies were hidden inside their cloak, instead of just one. The nameless general. He stood next to Ice Star on guard, he did no attack and just stood there as if he was dog given a command. The other did the same as well.

 

"They are here, Ice Star." The pony said he turned around and went the other way. Who knows where he went to. He disappeared.

 

"Well, we finally meet face to face, Carrick Murphy." Ice Star stopped playing. "As well as the rest of you. You seem to have gotten yourself a big group."

 

Carrick tapped his fedora, "As do you, Ice Star."

 

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