open A Darker Fate: Beyond these Walls Chapter Two.

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Clockwork Green

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Clockwork caught up with the group, the smoke clenched in his teeth still burning. As he trotted along, he listened, hoping to gain some information himself, but said nothing. The tunnel had his attention, these crystals glowing with a faint light. He stepped up to one of them, looking into the depths of the stone to see how clear the material was, and possibly to see if there was a source within causing the light. He raised his hoof, and tapped the surface, as if that would cause it to brighten like a faulty light bulb.

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Midnight Scribbler

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Scribbler double took a moment, realizing Mirror had just used magic. The memory of that strange water flickering back through his mind's eye. He suddenly turned his attention back to her as they followed after Orion and the others, and spoke quietly to her. "Wait.. Mirror, you're.. Do you feel anything? You're using magic. I don't mean to sound like I'm nagging, but.. You really should be more careful. What effect do you think that could be having on you?" He looked genuinely concerned, not knowing the nature of what Mirror had consumed, but having seen what reaction it had over the aura cast upon the stone she had thrown into it. "Perhaps she hasn't felt a reaction, because the magic hasn't made contact with the substance in her system?" He pondered, hoping for the best. If anything happened to her, he wasn't sure what he would be able to do, and this worried him immensely. Willow was merely exhausted, Mirror might actually be in danger.

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Ronin sighed as they traveled toward their friends destination and decided to ask amethyst a question "you de-... I mean... Girl. W-what exactly are you?" Your appearance defiantly resembles a pony... But not fully. Your more... Curvy..." He blurted, before realizing what he'd said. "I-I meant angular. Your ears are different too..." He said, blushing slightly. "For the love of god, why am I babbling like a filly? I can't even speak right... maybe I've contracted a virus of some sort..." He thought

Edited February 11, 2014 by ~chaotic biscuit~

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White Eclipse

"If I could enlighten you on a few things" Eclipse said, continuing to walk forward. "This race has gotten by with cooperation and teamwork. It's one of the things that keeps Equestria and it's inhabitants on it's hooves. This is simply just another issue, but if it's as strong as you say, it could escalate... quickly."

[Ihei 713]

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Aphrodite

 

"What in Equestria just happened?"

 

Aphrodite hesitated when the mare approached her and, well, inspected her. "What in the hay am I supposed to do now?" Aphrodite asked rather foolishly, considering that she's become a guard on the spot. She's had some experience before, but she's never really guarded anypony. Was she supposed to watch them sleep? No, that doesn't sound right. Maybe fight anypony that confronts them? Maybe she should do that.

 

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(After what seemed like years, I finally post!

 

So, I'll be making some sort of dream sequence for Willow to wake her up. How creative am I, huh? ;D)

 

Willow Starsinger

 

"Am.. am I dreaming?"

 

Willow sized out her surroundings. She looked ahead of her. Zintiik was gone. Mirror was gone. Denarius was gone. And it seemed Scribbler vanished into thin air. She was in her room. "Orion?" Willow called down the hall. No answer. "Orion, what're you doing?" She heard a voice from his room, "Over here!" She quickly ran to his room and saw him standing there, wielding the power of the Litany, reading on and on and on from the book.. 

 

"Orion, you need to stop reading that. What will you do when you're done with it?" Willow asked, trying to shut the book. Her hoof was slapped out of the way. "I need this power!"

 

Now he was just acting foolish. Willow didn't want this for him. "Orion, please--"

 

"Nopony will get in the way!"

 

And that was when Willow awoke, sweaty and yelling out, "No!"  A wash of relief fell over Willow when she was still on Zintiik's back. She rubbed her eyes weakly, looking around. "Where's Kricket? I sure hope he isn't currupted with magic." Willow looked ahead, calling to Orion, "Orion, can we please rest?"

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Pavisa

 

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"Yeah, and we're supposed to be in the Crystal Empire right now.  I'll rest when everything else starts going the way its supposed to first..."  Pavisa smirks slightly to herself when Frost asks about Orion, deciding to try and fill in what answers she could before Kingfisher answered.  

 

"Orion read over half of the Litany.  We ran into him and his sister Willow on our way to try and get the Litany...  He's overprotective of her and decided we were bandits out to hurt 'em.  A couple of the idiots in our group didn't respond well to the accusation and a fight broke out..."  The mare sighs - she still considered not being able to stop that fight a failure on her part.

 

"We haven't really sat down with him and had a chat, other than that we don't know too much about him really...  When we found the Litany one of his party members decided it was a good opportunity to betray him and take the power for himself, though.  The last I saw of him was at Neighagra Falls.  He was unconscious and I was trying to carry him out of the ruins when his pet changeling grabbed him and took off...  Oh yeah, he apparently has one of the damn bugs on a leash."  Yet another failure on her part, at least in Pavisa's mind.  If Zintiik hadn't flown off with Orion, they might have actually been able to come to some kind of understanding...

 

 

Zintiik

 

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"Ah!"  When Willow woke up by yelling in Zintiik's ear, his reaction was of course to shout himself in surprise.  To the changeling's credit he managed to avoid stumbling and dropping her, though!  He slows his pace a little to turn and look at her, raising up his pegasus-like wings to carefully press them against her sides.  "Willow!  It's alright, don't squirm too much...  You okay?"  He tries to smile at her in the dark tunnel before turning his attention back to watching where he was walking.

 

"I can carry you for a while yet if you're still tired...  I don't mind.  Don't want you to push yourself too hard, you scared me when you collapsed back there...  Er, us!  You scared us!  That's what I meant."  

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Aegis Dare

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He grinned mischievously at Frost, clearly back in the swing of things already, before walking up to Clockwork. “Interesting, aren’t they?” He said simply, gaze following the crystals until he noticed the smoke from Clockwork’s cigarette drifting to the exit and a dark mist near the ceiling following them, despite the air current moving in the opposite direction. He shrugged and broke off a glowing crystal for himself, reasoning that it might come in handy sometime. “Mist clinging to the roof and not moving in the right direction? I’ve seen stranger things so far.”

Edited February 12, 2014 by Windbreaker

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Amethyst Void.

 

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"Teamwork?" She snorted at the notion of the idea - finding once again that this pony form was excellent for such acts of sarcasm. "What, and then have them ambush you when your backs turned? No thanks - I'll stick to nice, safe solitude. It's always the same - they always ambush you."

 

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She shot a cold look towards the pony with the pointy stick who was once again failing to make much sense. It seemed to be a specialty of his: muttering senselessly between his useless blustering.

 

"What are you babbling on about now? I'm Ethereal - I needed a shape in your world and figured that this one might put you at ease... not that it worked. Why? Is there something wrong?"

 

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Kingfisher.

 

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"Pav's right... Stubborn, but right. First I head about him was in a letter from a friend. Said he had found and read the Litany and was trying to finish the job: woulda basically become a god if he had." 

 

She thought for a second.

 

"Didn't seem to do him much good in the head though - fella was more crazy every time we met him."

 

There was just too much to say - she wasn't a storyteller.

 

"It's the Litany that did it - I can tell ya that. Sunk a ship that the Cap'n was on back before the Dreamer - killed the rest of the crew, even his... ahem..." She stalled. What was she doing, telling ponies about her captain? Even if she was working alone here, she wasn't about to start talking about her friends behind their backs. "Never mind. It's bad news - Cap'n spent years looking for it but when we finally caught wind of it, it was too late. One of Orion's own team took him out to take it from him - they both got away in the confusion."

 

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Orion Starsinger.

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"This place should be... it doesn't make sense. Is it a trick? A trap?"

 

Orion muttered under his breath - barely aware of what was being said around him - what was happening. He closed his eyes and opened them again: the magic was all old - residual. nothing potent - there had been magic here, but it was gone. What of the Litany? What of its writer? It couldn't be gone - this was the right place... was it hidden by some illusion that even he couldn't see?

 

He stopped to think, and the voices behind him started to make sense.

 

"... W.... Willow...?"

 

Blankly, his pace slowed to a stop as he turned to stare into the dim light behind him.

 

"You're okay... that's good. It's okay Willow: I'm going to put things right - find a way to fix all of this. We're going home Willow - really soon... going home. I just need... need to..." He shook his head. It was so hard to focus. "Need to find it. Then we can all go home..."

Edited February 12, 2014 by Cinderscribe

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(OOC: Posting from phone.)

 

@Team Serious

 

Mirror Image gave him a short look of disdain before briefly glancing at the others to make sure they weren't listening in. "It's sweet of you to worry but I'm fine. It's only a slight stomach ache. I've travelled further while feeling worse before. It's something you learn to deal with when traveling mo-" she was cut off by Willow's shouting. She stopped talking to look at the mare for a few seconds before turning her gaze to Orion. Rest sounded good.

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

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White Eclipse

Eclipse only gave a small "Hmph" at the mare's gestures.

"You don't believe in many things, do you?" Eclipse said, obviously annoyed with this... thing. "News flash, missy; we're a team now, whether any of us like it or not. Don't believe in teamwork? You better start learning about it, because that's the only way we'll survive this hell."

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Amethyst Void.

 

@@Geek0zoid,

 

"Teamwork?" She snorted at the notion of the idea - finding once again that this pony form was excellent for such acts of sarcasm. "What, and then have them ambush you when your backs turned? No thanks - I'll stick to nice, safe solitude. It's always the same - they always ambush you."

 

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She shot a cold look towards the pony with the pointy stick who was once again failing to make much sense. It seemed to be a specialty of his: muttering senselessly between his useless blustering.

 

"What are you babbling on about now? I'm Ethereal - I needed a shape in your world and figured that this one might put you at ease... not that it worked. Why? Is there something wrong?"

 

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"Pav's right... Stubborn, but right. First I head about him was in a letter from a friend. Said he had found and read the Litany and was trying to finish the job: woulda basically become a god if he had." 

 

She thought for a second.

 

"Didn't seem to do him much good in the head though - fella was more crazy every time we met him."

 

There was just too much to say - she wasn't a storyteller.

 

"It's the Litany that did it - I can tell ya that. Sunk a ship that the Cap'n was on back before the Dreamer - killed the rest of the crew, even his... ahem..." She stalled. What was she doing, telling ponies about her captain? Even if she was working alone here, she wasn't about to start talking about her friends behind their backs. "Never mind. It's bad news - Cap'n spent years looking for it but when we finally caught wind of it, it was too late. One of Orion's own team took him out to take it from him - they both got away in the confusion."

 

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 Orion Starsinger.@,@@Nomadic,@,@@Midnight Scribbler,@@SilverHeart,"This place should be... it doesn't make sense. Is it a trick? A trap?"

 

Orion muttered under his breath - barely aware of what was being said around him - what was happening. He closed his eyes and opened them again: the magic was all old - residual. nothing potent - there had been magic here, but it was gone. What of the Litany? What of its writer? It couldn't be gone - this was the right place... was it hidden by some illusion that even he couldn't see?

 

He stopped to think, and the voices behind him started to make sense.

 

"... W.... Willow...?"

 

Blankly, his pace slowed to a stop as he turned to stare into the dim light behind him.

 

"You're okay... that's good. It's okay Willow: I'm going to put things right - find a way to fix all of this. We're going home Willow - really soon... going home. I just need... need to..." He shook his head. It was so hard to focus. "Need to find it. Then we can all go home..."

ronin glared at amethyst and blushed "n-no! I was just curious. You look very... Exotic." He said, before facehoofing. "Did I really just say that? Do I really give a fuck what she says? Dammit, I'm getting soft. What's gotten into me?" He thought in confusion. He felt like such a fool.

[Midnight Scribbler 1,705]

Clockwork Green

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Clockwork jumped slightly as Aegis appeared over his shoulder, speaking suddenly within the silence of his pondering. He glanced up as Aegis broke a crystal off. "I do not know that breaking these would be such a good..plan.." he stalled, Aegis commented on the shadowy mist above their heads just as Clockwork began to focus on it. His pupils shrank, a sudden shot of adrenaline hit his body as he realized, they might be in danger once again. Turning to the group, he trotted up alongside Kingfisher and Pavisa. "I do hate to break apart your discussion.. but I have need of your attention." He gestured towards the roof of the cavern, where something loomed above. "I am uncertain weather or not we should be worried, but.. whatever that is, it appears to be trailing us."

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Midnight Scribbler

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Scribbler felt somewhat taken back, he had expected her to react this way, but still couldn't help but worry that she was in danger. "Forgive me, Mirror, I.." He paused. "It is not my place to tell you how to conduct yourself." He gave her a brief look of empathy. He knew all too well about traveling alone, and what was he worrying about? She was likely in better condition than he was. "What is wrong with me? I feel like an idiot.. yet.. I cannot shake this feeling that I might be right to worry. Who knows what that substance was. Perhaps Mirror will be fortunate enough for that water to really be harmless." He thought. Gazing up, he noticed that Willow had awoken and requested they rest. Hopefully Orion would hear her, he seemed to be deaf to everypony else. Scribbler looked to Orion now with concern. He was acting distant, distracted from reality almost. Something was wrong with him, very wrong, but he could not place what, yet. He turned back to Mirror, sparing a brief smile and speaking quietly. "I do hope we can stop soon.. Orion is beginning to worry me. He seems to be suffering from something, though what I cannot say. His actions are most unorthodox, even for our interesting little party." He looked up again, waiting for something to happen. What would Orion choose to do?

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Denarius

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Denarius turned his body to face the changeling. The little bug had interrupted himself. Intriguing, did he know more than he let on, or was it more likely simply a slip of the mind. He chose the prior, yet it would probably be wise to feign ignorance of the fact for now. He gazed at the ground for a moment before shifting his gaze towards Zintiik.

 

As he opened his mouth for some smarmy response, a stray limb of Willow's seemed to twitch followed by a loud shout erupting from her previously dormant body. Denarius' own body was jolted upright from the shock of the loud burst of noise from the mare, yet he was more than happy to see her at least awake.

 

"Ah Willow, good to see that your awake, and back among the group". Denarius backed away slightly, but not before giving her a singular welcoming smile. His body began to relax bit. It would most likely be awhile before Zintiik and Orion were done quizzing Willow, and was probably in his best interest to get as comfortable as possible. With a mild chuckle escaping his mouth, his eyes began to wander once again tracing the shallow emanations of light across the darkened passageways. 

[Ihei 713]

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Willow Starsinger

 

"Sorry, I was just having a bad nightmare. Everything's fine," Willow nodded weakly. "I just passed out from the cold. I'm not used to freezing without a coat or a blanket, so I guess I'll have to get used to it. Thank you for offering to carry me though, I'm fine with walking on my own," Willow nuzzled the changeling and followed Orion.

 

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"So, can we? We've been walking for hours and we still aren't getting anywhere! Why do you need that book so much?" Willow asked, lagging behind Orion. She was quickly reminded of her dream - she knew it was just a dream, that's for sure. But it seemed so real. Maybe it could actually happen. So Willow tried not to be too harsh with him. "It wouldn't hurt to just rest for the night.."

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Kingfisher.

 

Looking up toward the apparition in the air, Kingfisher dearly wanted to raise a hoof to her face. Just give up and lay down right there and let Equestria go on without her - if one more thing tried to kill them... she didn't know how much more she could take. It seemed like anything they did just led to more danger: there was always something!

 

But it hadn't done anything yet - it was just a cloud or some fog or something... and as likely as it was to be yet another danger, given their current run if bad luck, she was willing to chance it. She didn't have much fight left in her: physically, mentally or emotionally.

 

"What do you want me to do, hit it with my sword?" She grumbled miserably as she felt her stomach clench and a now familiar trickle within her nose. The faint smell of blood...

 

"I've had enough. I haven't even been able to touch most if the things trying to kill us! Blow it up or... or magic it away or something... I'm done with magic. Sick of it." She muttered - shaking her head. "I think I can see a light, can someone go fetch Blast and Icarus? We'll move on while its clear."

Edited February 12, 2014 by Cinderscribe

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Frost watched Kingfisher as she talked, hearing her stories were interesting, and they gave him valuable information. This Orion character was starting to sound more and more like a psychopath as Kingfisher continued. At the mention of her captain she seemed to get more vague. He figured he wouldn't ask, seeing as how it was a touchy subject. "Oh...I see...so The Litany is something that can give a pony the power of the Gods, but take away their sanity at the same time?" He asked lifting an eyebrow, wondering if had actually understood what she had said.

 

Then Frost heard Kingfisher mutter something and he looked up to see exactly she was looking at. Is this the thing scheduled to kill us.....again... he thought with a large frown.

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Black Mist

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Upon hearing the cyan mare mention hitting things with her sword, the black mist quickly darts further ahead and lets out an irritated grumble. "Wow seriously, i haven't even gotten near you or spoken a single word and where already at the 'lets kill it!' point??? What is with you ponies and killing things, i haven't even been here for a few hours and every one of you has responded with violence and aggression! Could we not swing the pointy weapon or blow up the black mist this time? I's getting real old..."

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

Orion Starsinger.

 

Orion looked at Willow for several seconds... was she really there? He wasn't certain: this could be an illusion... a trick of the Litany to stop his search. It wouldn't have been the first time something had tried to use his sister against him.

 

Blinking, he tried to focus his eyes. Everything seemed hazy - his mind was still powering away as it tried to gloss over the hollow feeling where the knowledge from the Litany had been. Slowly turning his head, he looked at the other ponies, all looking tired and expectant.

 

It was defiantly a trick.

 

He had never commanded respect or guidance: just pushed them onwards. If they were real, they wouldn't have asked him - they would have abandoned him to go on alone. These were nothing more than apparitions sent to stall him: to make him tired - sap his spirit... what was left of it.

 

But... he was tired...

 

"Willow?" He asked again, an edge of desperation breaking through as his voice cracked and he held out a hoof hopelessly, as if reaching for something impossibly far away.

 

"I'm sorry..."

[~Sole~ 852]

Ronin was really beginning to lose his cool now, he didn't know what was wrong with him. "What's wrong with me? I'm SHY of this woman, I can't speak properly around her, my pulse quickens around her; hell, I can't even keep eye contact!" He thought in frustration, before stopping dead in his tracks as he came to a reliziation "do... I have some sort of a crush on her?! No, that's ridiculous. I'll admit she's attractive, but her personality is selfish and cruel. How could i become infatuated with such a spiteful creature..." He berated himself mentally for being so naive. He knew that all living creatures, from the mightyest of dragons to the smallest of critters, they all had the instinctual urge to be with another; to find a mate. But he was irritated that he succumbed to that feeling now of all times, and with such a creature as amethyst no less. "Damn it all, I just had to become attracted to a magical being from another dimension didn't I. I knew I should've cut you out a long time ago..." He mumbled, looking at his chest where his heart should be.

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Amethyst Void.

 

Amethyst meanwhile, was having a grand old time tormenting the ponies. It probably would have gotten old by now under normal circumstances but one of them at least just seemed to get more and more wound up... even when she didn't say anything!

 

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"You know, that's the first sign of madness - talking to yourself." The not-mare commented in that cold, cheerful voice. "We might have to leave you behind if your going crazy... for the good of the group of course!"

 

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"Hey!" She smirked - flitting through the air to appear in front if Eclipse - hanging upside down from some unseen force. "If we're a team and we have to split up, can I go with you?"

 

Twisting the right way around, she continued to drift backwards through the air.

 

"You really believe in this whole 'teamwork' thing don't you? Better you than me - how's this... I promise to not throw a detonation at you when your down unless it will absolutely, certainly save me from a similar, unpleasant fate... do you trust me now?"

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Pavisa

 

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Looking up at what everyone else was pointing out, Pavisa frowns and shakes her head.  Please let it just be mist.  Please.  When Kingfisher suggests moving on, the ex-guard nods and speaks up.  "I'll go get 'em - be right back."  Turning around she quickly trots back the way they'd came to fetch the others.

 

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As Pavisa walks back to the others, she walks up towards Blast and offers him a hoof to help him up.  "Hope everyone's up for walkin' a bit more.  There's light up ahead, 'Fisher wants us to keep moving so we can get some more distance between us and whatever was out there."  

 

Pavisa looks around briefly, making sure they had everything and everypony.  Noting Sunshine still standing around, Pavisa waves the younger filly over towards her.  "Hey kid, I want you to stick next to me until your brother catches up, alright?"  The mare smiles at Sunshine, trying to come across as friendly as possible.  "Midnight's tough, I'm sure he'll be right behind us, but I'm also guessing he'd want to know you were taken care of until he meets back up with us.  So I'll do my best to keep ya safe until he gets caught up, deal?"

 

They had better be coming...  Stupid stallions, if they don't come back - no, don't even think about that.  They will catch up.  If they don't, I'll go back and kick their flanks myself when all of this is done.

 

 

Zintiik

 

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Zintiik walked along next to Willow quietly, trying to stay close in case she collapsed again.  When the topic of stopping to rest was brought up, the changeling watches Orion with the rest of the group to listen for his reaction.  It was...  Not quite what Zintiik had expected, but then again he didn't know what he was expecting.  C'mon, do something to take some of the pressure off him...  You're supposed to be helping out here.

 

Changing back into his natural, insectoid form, Zintiik starts to hover as his wings buzz quietly and he darts over next to Orion.  "Say boss, I've got an idea.  Why don't you ponies stop and rest, and I can scout ahead for you?  I've still got energy from when we stopped at Canterlot."  Granted, he hadn't done much since then other than get in the way and carry Willow after she fainted.  "That way you can all rest, and you won't have to count it as wasting time, right?"

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Amethyst Void.

Amethyst meanwhile, was having a grand old time tormenting the ponies. It probably would have gotten old by now under normal circumstances but one of them at least just seemed to get more and more wound up... even when she didn't say anything!@,"You know, that's the first sign of madness - talking to yourself." The not-mare commented in that cold, cheerful voice. "We might have to leave you behind if your going crazy... for the good of the group of course!"@@Geek0zoid,"Hey!" She smirked - flitting through the air to appear in front if Eclipse - hanging upside down from some unseen force. "If we're a team and we have to split up, can I go with you?"

Twisting the right way around, she continued to drift backwards through the air."You really believe in this whole 'teamwork' thing don't you? Better you than me - how's this... I promise to not throw a detonation at you when your down unless it will absolutely, certainly save me from a similar, unpleasant fate... do you trust me now?"

ronin facehooved "maybe your right, maybe I am crazy... But I'm not going anywhere." He said quietly, before clearing his throat. "Do you have a mate?" He asked amethyst bluntly, ignoring what she'd just said to eclipse. He felt like a fool asking, but he was genuinely curious too. Edited February 12, 2014 by ~chaotic biscuit~

[Commander Tangent 861]

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Icarus looked up from his bags from the ground and placed themon his belt with a click. He then put the book in his saddle bags and stood up. As he did, he immediately cringed with an audible yelp and doubled over.

 

" My blasted stomach.....the damn things feels like I am developing a stomach flu" He said.

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Clockwork Green

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Clockwork followed the mist's movement, hearing Kingfisher speak of hitting it. He chuckled at the sound of the phrase "Magic it away" "My dear, one does not simply magic." He cracked a grin and laughed. Watching as the mist suddenly moved, he fell silent. Did it just speak? He listened to it's words, as it made it's way ahead of them. "Some form of unicorn or something" He thought. "What sorcery is this? Show yourself, magician. We will not be swinging anything your way as long as you pose no threat to us. I, of course, speak for myself mainly, I cannot control the actions of others. I extend you my word of peace, now what say you?" His face was more serious now, he wasn't certain what he was speaking to, let alone who. All he knew was that their best defense against something that spoke in their language was diplomacy. But of course, now they weren't off to the best start. He gave Kingfisher a look, hoping she would get the hint. This wasn't something they wanted to just outright attack. He could only hope the others were on the same page.

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White Eclipse

"I only believe in teamwork when it's mandatory to get something done. I typically like working alone, but there are some things in this world that just can't be done with one being." Eclipse said, not even smirking at his sentence. He did, however, give a small grunt to what the mare said next. "Minimally." He said to her. "It takes alot for one to gain my trust. However, at this point, I haven't got much of a choice. It's either work with someone of the likes of you and your friend, or watch our worlds crumble before us."

 

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Blasted Nova

Blast was happy that Pavisa was still alive. So happy in fact, it felt as if he got a sudden boost of strength back. He used the opportunity he had to get himself back up on his hooves.

"I'll try to get through, Pavs... Just try to keep an eye on me. I really don't feel very good." Blast said, taking Pavisa's hoof. "So, did you find anything?"

[RAGESTAR 479]

Crimson followed the two stallions (and ethereal being) quietly, not bothering to state his opinion on any of the many conversations they've held so far, instead preferring to enjoy what was left of his flask of rum, while lost in thought. "I keep on helping ruin Equestria...so far, I've let a psychotic demi-god slip through my hooves, dooming hundreds of innocent ponies, killed a guardian spirit that held the balance between dimensions, again dooming even more innocence, and now I've managed to piss off, not one, but two god-like beings of immense cruelty and power...damn, I amaze even myself with my blunders...but whatever, none of that will matter when I die, which shouldn't be long now...but not just yet, not before I save everyone...that's all that matters...then I'll gladly take my one-way ticket to hell...and maybe even have a drink with the devil himself when I get there..." he half joked.