private A meeting with Death

[Alex Kennedy 1,228]

@@MelancholicMemory,

 

Lost Knowledge saw the creature coming towards him, and had only enough time to shout to Moonbeam before it hit him.

 

"Run, find Dox and Nightfall. Don't worry about me."

 

As the monster crashed into him, he collapsed onto the ground with it pinning him down. Somehow he had maintaned his magical grip on his hatchet, and he sent it straight into the zombies spine. 

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

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Moonbeam panicked, running in he general direction of the others. "Paradox! Arrow! Nightfall! Shade! Help! It's attacking Lost! It's on him! It's an Undead! HELP!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. She didn't want to go too far from Lost. She didn't want to just abandon him, so she didn't go the whole way. She lingered there, calling desperately into the darkness. Lost...

[Count Paradox 3,548]

(i'm going to assume you're holding it back with your hooves)

Grak gnashed his teeth and tried to bite at Lost but couldn't reach. "Give up and let me eat you!" He then heard Moonbeam screaming for help and got up to go after her, the axe still in his back.

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Paradox also heard the cries for help and started running towards them. "Don't worry, we're coming!"

 

(goin ta bed, don't kill him yet)

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

Arrow jumped to her hooves and ran towards where Moonbeam was. "Moonbeam, Are You Alright ?" She asked, after finding moonbeam on a trail just a little ways away from the mane part of the garden. "What attacked you...I-GAH." She keeled over as Grak slowly grew closer to where they were, trampling on Arrow's garden.

 

(OOC: In case you didn't get this yet...Arrow has a special connection to her garden...and all plants, and I just kinda assumed that Grak isn't watching where he places his feet...er hooves...or whatever they are.)

@@MelancholicMemory,

Edited February 22, 2013 by ~Flame Dancer~

[Alex Kennedy 1,228]

 

He then heard Moonbeam screaming for help and got up to go after her, the axe still in his back.

 

@@MelancholicMemory,

 

Lost Knowledge sprung back up onto his hooves. When he realized the abomination was going after Moonbeam, he charged towards it at full speed.

 

"I won't let you hurt her!"

 

His horn glowed furiously with energy and he directed a blast of pure force at the undead, using all the strength he could muster.

[Feather Gem 967]

Chamois Vine lifted her eyes from her sketch.  She stared ahead, her ears twitching uncontrollably as she listened to the faint, and quite horrifying sounds.  She stood up, leaving her sketch book on her bag and walked towards the sounds, wondering what exactly she would find.

[Lost Profile 644]

Shade watched as this dead thing was attacking the ponies, she didnt move, she just watched as the ponies fought it off.

 

She gets a close look at the thing, it wasn't alive, that's all she could get from it. Then she just turns around and walks away leaving the ponies to fight it.

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

Moonbeam was glad to see Arrow and Paradox coming, but then she saw the undead abomination rushing towards her. She screamed in terror and walked backward towards her friends. It was then that she realized that Lost was still where she had left him. Lost! she thought, fixed where she stood. He can't be! He couldn't be! But if the undead monster is coming for me...No!

[Count Paradox 3,548]

(OOC MULTI POST INCOMING)

 

Grak was almost upon Moonbeam when suddenly, half of his midsection was blasted away by magic. He let out a low, gutteral scream and fell over to the side, but continued to crawl towards her. That is when Paradox arrived, stabbing the thing in the throat and pinning it to the ground. Grak was almost finished, his life seeping out of him, but he had enough strength to chuckle and say, "Oh, you may have killed me, but I shall still live. And I know of the journey you are on."

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

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Moonbeam stared as she watched Grak fall to the ground with a thud. She shook uncontrollably and tears began to fill her eyes. She ran past Paradox and Grak, tripping as she ran sporadically. "Lost! Lost Knowledge, are you okay!?" she called out, her voice shaking wildly.

[Lost Profile 644]

Shade looks at the thing one last time, and walks to the ponies, "well now that that's over, can we get a move on? I want to get going on the quest, or what ever"

 

Shade looks at the dead... Undead thing and pokes it with her hoof. She studied the coat thinking she could probably disguise as one if she needed to.

 

"Well? Are we going to go?"

[Count Paradox 3,548]

He grinned, his smile full of black, rotted teeth. "And as soon as I have left this body, I will be transported straight to Death, and I will tell my master all about your plan..." He gave a hacking cough and, before anypony could get information from him, he died.

 

(OOC MULTI POST END SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG)

[Alex Kennedy 1,228]

@@MelancholicMemory,

 

Lost Knowledge nodded, still panting heavily from the fight.

 

"I'm fine. It'll take a lot more than that to hurt me. I was more worried about you. I couldn't let that... thing hurt you."

 

See? I can protect her. It's going to be different this time.

 

You protected her this time, but what will you do when there are hoards of those things attacking?

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

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Moonbeam embraced him, crying, hiccuping and panting loudly. "Para...Para...Paradox took care of him. It...It was so horrible! It...it was coming at me...and then...and then it was all over the ground!...And I was so worried...I...I..." she sputtered, holding onto him tighter and crying harder.

[Count Paradox 3,548]

Paradox sat on a nearby bench, staring out into the forest. 'How... how could it have known? Was it following us? No, everypony here is on high alert, they would have noticed it... Then, how...?' He sighed, feeling as though they had already lost. A tear rolled down from his eye.

[Alex Kennedy 1,228]

@@MelancholicMemory,

 

Lost Knowledge held her tight and stroked her mane comfortingly.

 

"It's okay. It's over now, and we're both fine. I wouldn't ever let those things lay a hoof on you. Next time, though, I won't make you worry. I'll take care of it before it has a chance to come anywhere near you."

[Nightfall 3,950]

Nightfall stood over it. He had tried waking others up, but by the time he had, in his head, accounted for them all, the monster was dead. He stood over it, silent, wondering if it wasn't the changelings and it was these things that had killed his parents a long time ago. He had heard fairy tales of a few creatures slipping through and causing small areas of havoc before leaving. He wondered about his life and asked himself why he was on this quest.

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

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Moonbeam continued to sob in a mixture of sadness, fear, and relief. She felt weak and vulnerable. She had been uterly useless against this monster, and now it knew their plans. She was afraid, but she did her best to be strong, wiping away her still pouring tears. "R-Really?" she stuttered, looking up at Lost with a wide-eyed expression.

Edited February 22, 2013 by MelancholicMemory

[Alex Kennedy 1,228]

@@MelancholicMemory,

 

Lost Knowledge smiled reassuringly and continued stroking her mane.

 

"Really. Whenever those things come for us, I'll be there to protect you. I promise. I won't ever let anything hurt you."

 

He then realized what he was saying, and the feelings it entailed. He couldn't help but blush a little at it.

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

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Moonbeam did her best to smile at him. "Thank you," she whispered, laying her head back against him. She was a little reassured by what he said. He'll protect me, she thought.

 

But who will protect him?

 

It was at this time that Moonbeam realized that she would have to be stronger, and they would have to be more careful from now on. She let go of Lost Knowledge.

 

"Let's...Let's go make sure the others are alright."

[Alex Kennedy 1,228]

@@MelancholicMemory,

 

Lost Knowledge nodded, although he had to admit he would have been content to simply continue their embrace forever.

 

"Of course. The others are probably a little shaken too, if nothing else. An ambush is bound to have that effect on ponies You lead the way, and I'll be right behind you."

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

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@@Feather Gem,

 

Moonbeam nodded and trotted slowly over to where Arrow, Paradox, Nightfall, and Shade had congregated, near the middle of the garden. She spied Chamois standing a short ways away as well. The now lifeless undead creature lay in pieces on the ground. It almost made her want to vomit.

 

"Are all of you okay? Did any of you get hurt at all?" she asked timidly.

Edited February 22, 2013 by MelancholicMemory

[Lost Profile 644]

Shade glares at moonbeam then starts to walk away. "Iv been hurt all my life" she said walking into the dark.

 

She looks at herself then at her hoof, she walks into the dark hoping that the ponies woudnt follow her, green fire surrounded her hoof as she try's to make herself look like one of thoes dead things... After she made her hoof look rotten, she looks at herself and changes back to her normal pony self, * I hate myself* she thought.

[Count Paradox 3,548]

Paradox sighed. "Yeah... yeah, I'm ok... but I kinda need to be by myself for a bit..." He got up and walked to the other end of the garden with his head down, not looking anypony in the eye, afraid that he would find anger in their eyes. A tear fell from his cheek and landed on a plant in the garden.

[Nightfall 3,950]

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Moonbeam nodded and trotted slowly over to where Arrow, Paradox, Nightfall, and Shade had congregated, near the middle of the garden. She spied Chamois standing a short ways away as well. The now lifeless undead creature lay in pieces on the ground. It almost made her want to vomit.

 

"Are all of you okay? Did any of you get hurt at all?" she asked timidly.

 

He noticed the shy mare.

"No. I somehow avoided it all. I'm fine."

"I look fine, really. I don't feel fine. I feel... how do I feel? I can't really say how I feel..."

He sighed, closed his eyes for a moment, then moved over to Paradox.

"Look, man. I'm sorry that I was the way I was yesterday. I wanna change and come along..."