private Mercs of Equestria Rp

[dragon4111 914]

"Yes?" Draco asked as he looked into her eyes. He was thinking what it could be that she wanted to ask him. He began thinking of answers to her future question. He smiled at her slightly "Go ahead and ask me about that my dear lady," Draco said with a chuckle.

[Rainbow Dash 1,472]

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"Yes well, I ask you this question: Can those two be trusted?" Delia said with a stern face. "That Dimitri seems to be holding himself back from reaching his own goal. Acheron...well he just seems immature. Though this is what i have observed via my interactions with them." She said with a more firm voice. Delia wasn't one to talk about other ponies negatively behind their backs like this but she felt like it needed to be brought up to the leader.

[THE WILD HUNT 213]

Acheron further tried to reason with Dimitri to show that he wasn't doing this to hold him back, rather to try and protect him, the success of the mission, and unity of the team he hoped to establish a "truce" of sorts.

"I will not say I know how you feel about Fluttershy, how desperate you are to see her safe. While I did experience 'love' before, I can say it is an extremely powerful emotion. This power however, can be manipulated to bend the wills and desires of others. You seperating from this group could be what the Seneschal wants, until eventually they make the rest of this group disband and they pick us off one by one."

Acheron then told Dimitri of his brief encounter with one of the Envy sisters.

"You are the only other pony here reasonable enough to try and think through things. Will you help me negotiate with this group then?"

[Dimitri Hammer 3,645]

Dimitri sighed. "You honestly have no idea what I feel for her, but it is a extremely powerful emotion. I might as well just be joining the Seneschal the way I'm acting. I apologize. I can't help it sometimes. Something inside my mind just tells me to distrust others. It had always been there since I was tortured. It has since gotten stronger with all the things that happened to me."

 

He walked close to Acheron. "I am corrupted, friend. Can't ever change that since I accepted the darkness into my soul. I'll try my best to stick here. I know it is the right thing to do, but sometimes it just takes over my better judgements." Dimitri sighed again and ran his hoof through his mane. "I know it is the better idea to stay. I might not seem intelligent, but I am. I just can't control my anger sometimes."

 

Dimitri nodded at Acheron. He accepted the sit down idea.

[dragon4111 914]

"Dimitri aye I trust him with my life. Acheron I admit he has a dark soul but then again he's afraid o show he needs companionship. Honestly I think he and I share an empathy link. But this is just what I think. Acheron seeks knowledge to isolate himself from the pain but in doing so he is harming himself denying himself what it means to have true friends not those who betrayed him humph. I've been betrayed before you know," Draco said as he looked to the sky.

[THE WILD HUNT 213]

"You and I both are tainted with darkness. Like I told you before, I can try and help you use this dark power if you so desire."

Acheron spawned a few dark, ancient tomes.

"It is hard to maintain yourself at first, but I know secrets to developing your control further. I will respect your decision to hold back your power however, just remember that I am willing to help you."

Acheron felt a slight awkwardness in his mind as he said these words however. It had hit him beforewhen he first offered to help Dimitri... ""Knowledge for knowledge", had always been a type of tenet he lived by, and this made Acheron unsure whether he would truly help Dimitri without being given access to the knowledge of darkness he wielded.

"Time will tell," Acheron thought.

[Dimitri Hammer 3,645]

Dimitri shook his head. "I appreciate the offer, but I can't accept. It's personal reasons, but also other reasons. This power is a curse. It was a while back. Fluttershy was taken by a stallion of immense political powers, and I couldn't find her no matter how hard I tried." Dimitri breathed heavily.

 

"I almost gave up, but I heard a voice in my head. Telling me that it'd be okay. I had to bury a box with a memento of myself in it, near a crossroads several miles from Ponyville. I listened to the weak voice in my head, and it helped me bring back a ancient evil. A being called Etonat. He was a demon. Centuries old, and something of pure complete evil. He gave me his power and more. It was immense, and never before been used by a mortal. The exception was that it was corruptive. After I used it to find and rescue my wife it took over my mind..."

 

"This magic is evil. I can't control it, but I managed to contain it in the recesses of my mind. It can't be controlled. It is a magic that I've never even read about before. From before our time I've heard from the demon. It told me that I am the first one to have this since it's time." Dimitri stopped himself from going on. He felt stupid for saying it, because it sounded completely unbelievable.

Edited April 26, 2013 by Dimitri Hammer

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

Diamond quietly followed behind everypony.
She didn't really feel like talking to anypony at the moment...so she just looked around Ponyville...hoping that it wouldn't be the last time she saw it. "So after Appleloosa...where too then ?" She asked, looking ahead at Draco.

[dragon4111 914]

"The next clue would be Manehatten," Draco said then noticed something that caught his eye. A mare looking like she was homeless with two little fillies and a colt. The colt from what he could see haven't gotten his cutie mark yet. The cloak on the mare he recognized it. He side as she started to walk towards the train station looking like a devil. He saw potential in the colt since the colt was a unicorn. But also a show pony. He smiled slightly as an idea came to him.

[THE WILD HUNT 213]

"I see then," Acheron said plainly. "I suppose it is something I can research after all this is finished. This realm Is not he only one with secrets afterall..."

Acheron began to pace around as he waited for the others. What was taking them so long? Lust's influence on Draco must have been strong, he hoped it had faded already.

[dragon4111 914]

"You no good piece of donkey shit," The mare yelled as she came upon Acheron. she pivoted on her front whooves then bucked him in the nose. "Do you know what you did to my husband you no good blight addled asshole?" She asked with her eyes glaring at him with tears threatening to escape her eyes.

 

Draco had snuck into an alley and changed into his tuxedo and fedora. It was time for Ol Silver Eyes to make an appearance. He walked out to the two mares "Diamond what do you think. Now watch how this show pony works his own magic," Draco whispered into the two loves of his life's ears.

(*laughs* http://media.photobucket.com/image/frank%20sinatra/juliadarkler/works/frank-sinatra_zps067bb66a.jpg his suit but pony style)

[THE WILD HUNT 213]

"Buck! How many damn times am I going to get hit in the nose?"

Acheron rubbed his injured nose and then looked towards the mare. She looked familiar, but Acheron had never seen her before. Then she said husband, and that's when it hit him. Greed's mind wasn't attempting some last minute pity escape when Acheron had drained his mind dry....

"... Husband? Ah... so the General of Greed did have a wife afterall..."

Acheron couldn't help but have a tinge of pity begin to well in his heart.

"What I did to him? Do you even know what you are saying?"

[dragon4111 914]

"You widowed his wife and orphaned his children you cold hearted fucker. That was his only job we were homeless before he got that break. Tell me then how do you like it knowing you did this hmm?" she said with an angry look in her eyes. She was an earth pony as she glared right into his eyes. "Tell me how does that knowledge feel hmm enticing isn't it. But you don't think of the consequences now do you, you blight addled hairless brute. Now my children won't eat," she said sadly as Draco walked up and coughed to get some attention.

[Dimitri Hammer 3,645]

Dimitri was still acting cold, and dull. He turned his head and looked as a mare just bucked Acheron in the face. "Again?!" Dimitri exclaimed loudly. He heard what Acheron said about the Seneschal called Greed. Apparently this mare was his wife....now apparently widowed. He chuckled a little bit. "Wife and kids? They should've seen what I did to him too." He thought to himself and gave a dark looking grin. He felt bad that Acheron got the hit though. Dimitri would have loved to have been hit instead.

 

He saw Draco and the other two members of their little group and huffed. He wanted to say something to the mare and the kids. Saying what he did to their father, and how he enjoyed every moment of it. Yet this wasn't Dimitri. He would never do something like that to a family. Draco coughed and Dimitri tried to contain the darker thoughts as he waited.

[THE WILD HUNT 213]

Acheron had been having enough at this point. He was wished ill fortune by an angry mare and then threatened by an arrogant sister of Draco's. Now this? Being accosted by the wife of a stallion who had tried to kill him and others? Acheron ignored Draco as his eyes grew cold and steely, not caring anymore how anypony would view him anymore.

"That's right, I did kill Greed. But before you run your mouth again, know this mare: Your former and current state of poverty does not justify the dark deeds of murder your husband did and was trying to commit as he fought the red stallion you see next to me, three other ponies, and me. What I did to him was not to absorb his knowledge, but as an act of self-defense."

Acheron projected an image of what Greed was doing to Dimitri, and then what he had tried to do to him and the others.

"I... I am saddened that you and your children are the ones to bear the pain of the consequences of his actions. I truly am. Losing a loved one is the most painful thing that could happen, and I am sorry you have to endure it..."

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Draco sighed and said "O come now don't be so dramatic my friend," he walked next to the mare and kissed her hoof. He pulled out a rose to the lady "A rose for a beautiful mare," Draco said with a suave tone of voice. "Now I know how to get you out of this slump. the young colt there your son I sense his magic is that of a magician. You I believe are able to sing in the western style correct?" Draco asked as the mare looked wide eyed.

 

"How did you know?" she asked with wonder in her voice. "When you were walking your cutie mark was that of a Stetson and a microphone. So I know of a place you can work you and your children. The Coco Bucko," Draco said with a chuckle. "The...The.. The Coco Bucko. That classy club full of lounge singers and swinger? I mean who are you," she asked as she looked like she was about to faint. "I am Ol Silver Eyes singer at the Coco Bucko or I used to sing there. Now they had to move to Apploosa. So now they have western nights 2 days out of the week. No why don't you and the children come with us we're going that way our selves," Draco said with a smile on his muzzle. His plan was working now to help her son realize his destiny.

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

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Diamond ignored the mare and looked at Acheron, her mouth agape. "Seriously ? You're sitting here talking about how you Had to kill Greed and take his magic because he was bad...you needed to do it because he was a bad pony...yet you still take mine without a second thought. And are you actually caring right now ? Because I didn't know that was possible. To be honest, I thought you would take over as Greed as soon as you got the chance." She said, walking passed everypony into the train station.

[Dimitri Hammer 3,645]

"We're letting them accompany us...?" Dimitri sullenly asked. "I was willing to reconsider my previous thoughts of abandonment....now I'm nearly certain that I should just leave. Let the Seneschals try to get me. See how they fare against a pissed off Sovestrian. See who they're messing with. I don't care anymore..." He heard Diamond too, but was just ignoring everything around him. The voice in the back of his heard barely spoke. "Told you..."

 

"Killing that bastard was fun. I don't regret it at all. Especially after he messed my mind. He manipulated images of my wife. Sick bastard.....I know you tried Acheron, but this is drawing line for me. Normally I'd love to be involved with helping strangers, but I have too much at stake to be doing this. I should be in the desert already dammit."

[THE WILD HUNT 213]

Acheron scoffed at Diamond's words and looked directly at her.

"Still spiteful of me mare? I had hoped you would have just avoided arguing with me the rest of this journey. No, I didn't kill Greed and take his magic because he was evil, I simply killed him. That my method of killing him endowed my mind with his knowledge, that is a mere happy coincidence for me."

Acheron flashed an image to her mind, portraying the way he had killed Greed and their words towards each other as they fought.

"As for your magic, I did what I did because it is my everlasting nature, my temptation, to horde all knowledge to myself. Like I said before, I offered an apology, yet you reject it and continue to smolder in your anger. And while you may not believe it, I actually do feel pained for this mare's lost. But do I care for your words? No. Envy was right, this group in its current state will utterky fail at saving the six should this behavior continue."

[dragon4111 914]

Draco let out a frustrated sigh as he gritted his teeth "Oh do you know where the exact location of the artifact is Dimitri?" Draco asked and he looked into his friend's eyes. "Without supplies you would die easily out there," Draco said as he gritted his teeth. "Then tell me this Dimitri would your parents be proud of you here and now the way your acting? But hey who cares about what I have to say I'm just a courier pony who has to leader. I got mind raped three times three. First was with Acheron here. Second by Greed. Third by Lust. I don't have the privacy of my own mind anymore because Acheron and I have an Empathy link. So if your going to listen to that demon in your head remember this. Demons don't care for love nor do they care for those around them. Always alone. Tell me then Dimitri are you going to give up Fluttershy in the attempt to save her?.

 

Acheron you and Dimitri get onto the train right now with the rest of the group. I will handle this situation with the family got it," Draco said with an authortive voice. His nerves were now about to be shot.

Edited April 26, 2013 by dragon4111

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

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Diamond looked back out the door. "I am not accepting your apology because I spent almost my entire life on magic, only to have all the things I have learnt and worked so hard on to be stolen. Even if I still know how to use it, its the fact that the things I have worked on to make myself unique have just been zapped away. The only way I would accept your apology would be if you somehow forgot everything you took from me. But you're even more greedy than greed himself so that's never going to happen." She said, turning around and walking back into the train station. She sat down on a bench and stared down at the ground.

[THE WILD HUNT 213]

Though Acheron chuckled at Diamond's last sentence, it... somehow pained him. She was right. Unless he would somehow receive different, unknown knowledge in exchange, he would most likely never give it up. Though Acheron could care less if Diamond accepted him or not, if these matters were not settled between the two, the entire group may never settle down within each other. Acheron then heard Draco's words.

"I know the area where the artifact is located Draco."

[Dimitri Hammer 3,645]

"I'm constantly criticized for thinking straight! I'm focused on rescuing my friends and my wife! My parents would understand my way of thinking! My father went through a similar ordeal with my mother years before I was born. He rescued her because he put her first and not himself or strangers. He did what he had to do to save her, and I'll do the damn same to save my wife. The demon inside me, is me." Dimitri headed towards the train.

 

"If anyone of you sit near me, so help me....Leave me alone for Lenoy's sake. This rage building inside me is killing me!" He walked into the train and sat in the last cabin.

[dragon4111 914]

"I want the information after I deal with this problem got it," Draco said as he looked at Acheron and his eyes were saying 'do as I say because I'm in no mood' He smiled gently to the family get onto the train ladies and gentle colt I will be the one who will introduce you to show business," Draco said as he put on his show pony act once more.

[THE WILD HUNT 213]

"I am in no mood either, O'Malley," Acheron told Draco telepathically with a smirk. "But for the damned sake of the little unity of this group, so be it."

Acheron entered the train and isolated himself from the others by slamming a cabin door shut and then locking it with his magic. A few seconds after he did so, he immediately slammed his forehooves onto the windows. Had it not been sturdy glass, it surely would have broken.

"What am I supposed to do?!", Acheron mentally yelled as he looked towards the sky. "No matter what, each time I try to calm myself so that I may speak peacefully with this team, another damn problem arises that only sets all of us back further!"

Acheron was now thinking aloud. 

"Knowledge for knowledge, Acheron," he told himself. "But what worth is it when it only serves to jeopardize the lives of the six most cherished ponies of Equestria, if not Equestria itself?!"

Acheron sighed angrily. "All of my time I have only spent gathering knowledge... but what of wisdom? Do not several ancient proverbs speak of the worthlessness of things if one 'has not love'? I've heard what Draco has said about me... and he is right..."

Acheron quoted lines from a favorite book of his.

"Which way I fly is hell, myself am hell.. And in the lowest deep a lower deep..."

Acheron sighed as he spawned the purple book with Diamond's cutie mark on it and began to flip through its pages.

"I love not any member of this group, but I don't do anything for them but for a better good so that other's may live on safely... I would be betraying my ownself should I kill any chance of this group working together, and thus being the cause of failure and endanger others... Would this then be what it takes?"

 

(You still don't win Diamond! At least not yet  ....)