open A Darker Fate: Beyond these Walls Chapter Two.

[Tricksters Pride 100]

Shadow

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At the ponies response Shadow outright laughs, a truly amused laugh, before responding to him with an amiable and pleased tone. "Hehehe i like you, your funny. Even if that where true i'm taking that into account and each of them would be in turn destroyed as a result of the collision. If my home loses i'm actually thinking of calling this place The Shadowlands... Name pending a better one. Now if i helped you it had better be worth my while..."

[EcstaticWind 572]

Noble Persona and Gwyn

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Noble looked up at the sky with a look of worry behind his mask when a sudden clarity spread through his mind. The memories he’d been shutting out stopped pressing against his mental barriers and became still and quiet, replaced with a strange feeling of disappointment as if he’d failed. Gwyn remained behind him, frightened by the events and a sudden silence in her mind.

 

‘It’s…it’s too quiet. I’m gonna go crazy!’ Gwyn thought, desperately trying to fill her mind.

 

‘Stay calm, Gwyn. We’ll deal with it…For now, we have to make a plan.’ He projected along their connection, trying to ease Gwyn's mind. But Bolt’s words struck harder than they should have and Noble lost it. His voice was unnervingly calm. “Don’t you think I know that, Bolt? Now hear me. All of you! Emerald and Stahl, go and gather your militia. Protect the civilians. Move it! Now!”

[Midnight Scribbler 1,705]

Clockwork Green

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Clockwork's hearing seemed to be going, as Icarus barked orders to keep moving. His voice sounded distorted and garbled as he forced his vision to focus. Whatever he'd eaten had truly gone rotten, and he was feeling the poisonous effects in full swing. He struggled to stand, stumbling, and sputtering the vomit from his lips. The taste in his mouth was horrid, the worst he could ever remember. He managed to follow the others as they made their way into the cavern, and slumped against the wall. Everypony seemed to be asking the doctor for help, looking for some remedy or another. Suddenly a thought struck him as if it were a brick through his window. "Doctor! Check your medicines, they may be tainted as well.. If our food has been cursed, who knows what damage the medicine will do if we use it." He said, as his stomach wrenched, pain shooting like daggers into his gut. He winced, and held his hoof against his abdomen, making no audible sound.

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Midnight Scribbler

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@@Nomadic,

 

Scribbler took in Orion's reaction, feeling strange. How could he just ignore Willow's condition like this? The litany must be closer than he'd thought, though he wasn't certain it would help Willow even if they did find it. He merely nodded his head, acknowledging Orion's orders. As they made their way to the passage, a feeling of unease filled Scribbler's heart. Something wasn't natural about this darkness, there was something far more at work than the lack of light. He could see Zintiik contemplating the darkness, slowly advancing behind Orion's steady march forth. He fired his horn with a small spark of light, dimmer than usual, but better than nothing. Even his eyesight wasn't enough to see in this darkness very well. "Perhaps this will be of help to us. It isn't much, but we should be able to see any dangers." He spoke aloud, mostly to Zintiik, but also to anypony who was nearby. He felt his shaking increase as he used this magic. It was miniscule, he'd never thought twice about using it before, but now he could literally feel it sapping him slowly. He was running on empty, he hadn't eaten since they'd left, and was slowly losing what little energy he had left. Yet without him, they may not all have made it this far. What would they do if he went down again? Orion surely did not seem to care for them at this point.. Not even his sister was important enough to stop for now. Had he gone mad? Scribbler's thoughts turned once again to his confusion, wondering if he'd chosen correctly in following Orion. Yet he marched on behind him, Mirror at his side. What else could he do at this point?

[Nomadic 210]

Denarius

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The darkness filled every crevice of the of the passageway.  Denarius followed the group into the confined the space. The ground of it felt refreshing compared to the cold outside. So nice that he wouldn't have to spend the remainder of the day, or more, confined to trotting that forsaken piece of tundra. He observed Scribbler as he let loose a little magic from his horn and a dim glimmer became to light the passage.

 

"Are you sure that you can sustain that light there, Scribbler? Isn't rather mad to continually exert yourself like this. I don't think you nor anypony else would enjoy collapsing here", his voiced filled with an odd mixture of audacity and sympathy, relating to the pony's current poor health.

 

Not waiting for a response from Scribbler, Denarius advanced forward approaching the leader of their little pack. He was currently intrigued by Orion's reaction to Scribbler. The unicorn obviously grew more obsessed by this Litany each passing moment. How long would it be before he abandoned the others for his own desire? Regardless, Denarius saw his foremost job was to stroke the ego of Orion, so his voice would ring with some sense of validity within this group's fragmented mind. He saw his intent as neither good nor evil, but rather as a pony just desiring a single coin of control over his current situation.

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

Amethyst Void.

 

@@Tricksters Pride,

 

"My hero..." The pony creature muttered - sarcasm practically dripping from her voice - as Shadow 'intervened'. Always trying to show off - blustering and boasting... Sure he might have been more powerful, but she didn't know how - the way he acted, he should have been absorbed centuries ago. No finesse! No tact!

 

To be fair, that had probably been what saved her a good number of times - he hadn't managed to absorb her yet. She preferred to think that it was her own intelligence responsible for that fact though.

 

Ignoring the threats, she tried diplomacy.

 

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"Well, I've got better things to do than sit here and be insulted... badly... by the idiots that just ended their own realm of existence... If you can't ask politely then I'll just find something that can. There might be a slug somewhere that can comprehend the sheer idiocy of the situation..."

 

So much for diplomacy.

 

"... or see if there's anything worth absorbing in this realm... you all look pretty meagre - no aura at all! Probably give myself a stomach ache..."

 

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Kingfisher.

 

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Panic set in - what was wrong? Had something fell and hit her? No, it couldn't have. Something about the sickness then? No, it was the wrong kind of reaction...

 

The mare dropped beside her friend - she wasn't a doctor, but there didn't seem to be anything wrong - nothing new at least. Not that she could see. No blood or bruising or punctures in the plate-mail...

 

"Pavisa! Oh come on... not now. We need you, your now allowed to... whatever your doing!"

 

Nothing she could think of seemed correct: the cold wouldn't have induced the brief state of panic. The sickness wouldn't have been so sudden... would it? She had nothing in the way of medicine: not that she would have any idea how to use it if she did. The doctor was attending the others and she couldn't risk them by distracting his attention.

 

"Come on Pav, talk to me!"

Edited February 7, 2014 by Cinderscribe

[~Sole~ 852]

Ronin quickly retrieved his blade off of the ground and grinned at shadow "so you do know a little about blades. You any good with that tail blade of yours? I wouldn't mind cutting a pompous demon like you to pieces." He said, sheathing his sword and turning to the others "I don't care about the world saving or anything like that, but if I get to fight strong guys like that creature back there, or this demon, then I'll help you guys. But would anypony have objections against me gutting this dumbass before his stupidity gets somepony killed." He finished, glaring at shadow

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

@@Tricksters Pride,

 

White Eclipse

"Hmph. Seems like we're finally coming to an understanding." Eclipse said, not taking his eyes away from Shadow. "Look, I know you don't like us, and we don't like you, but if we work together, we can restore peace to both worlds. If you're as powerful as you say you are, accomplishing a task such as this shouldn't be a big issue. We have alicorns, dragons, griffons, perhaps you could be the grand finale."

Edited February 7, 2014 by Geek0zoid

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

Amethyst Void.

 

@@Geek0zoid,

@@Icy Void,

 

Well, at least some of the ponies were showing sense. Some of them - not all.

 

"Try telling him that..."

 

Anethyst stated.

 

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"Of course - because nothing bad has come of blindly savaging things without thinking already has it?"

 

She didn't care for 'Shadow' or whatever he was calling himself now: but funny as watching the pony get smushed against a rock would have been, she was getting bored with these primitives. Casually flicking a hoof as easily as breathing, a compressed ball of light arched through the air: striking the ground and erupting with a black light as the detonation blasted outwards with tremendous force contained within an area barely the size of a pony - cracking the stone buried beneath the snow. A simple action for her - one that developed naturally at about a hundred years - when she was a mere child.

 

With the residue of the shattering: wielding the aura in the air was almost like being back in Arcana.

 

Catching the pony with a tendril of crackling, raw magical energy in the air, she held him suspended and spoke cheerfully again - completely unfettered by the threats still being issued.

 

"And we're Ethereal, not Demons... It's really not that hard."

Edited February 7, 2014 by Cinderscribe

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((Wanted to get a post off before school, will be a while before I can post again))

 

Zintiik

 

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@@Nomadic,

 

Zintiik slows his pace a little when the magic light appears, waiting until he can look over his shoulder to talk to Scribbler.  "...Thanks, goggles.  Just...  Don't push yourself too hard, alright?"  The changeling in the guise of the pegasus smiles cockily at the unicorn, though he hesitates when the ground shakes around them briefly.  When it doesn't seem to have caused any serious damage he shakes his head and starts walking again.  "I mean, Willow is already down too...  If you pass out again, you probably won't like anything I do to try and help."  Letting it hang at that Zintiik grins at him again before picking up the pace to try and catch up to Orion.

 

 

Pavisa

 

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Pavisa's eyelids flutter open at her friend's voice calling for her, though her gaze is distant and unfocused.  She looks up and glances around with tears welling in her eyes.  She groans quietly before lowering her gaze, mumbling under her breath in close to a whisper.  "We failed...  I failed...  No...  What did I fail?  I don't know...  Where are these thoughts coming from?"

 

This wasn't fair - she felt judged from something she didn't even know about!  She tries to pick herself back up again, but her body doesn't seem to be completely listening to her yet.  She manages to get one hoof under her and prop herself up somewhat, but that's about the extent she's able to do so far.  Slowly turning her gaze towards Kingfisher, Pavisa then glances down to the ground as the built up tears start to roll down her cheeks.  "I...  I'm sorry...  My head hurts..."

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

Emerald Gaze and Sol.

 

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@@Tricksters Pride,

 

Sol grimaced at the sky: his precious sun obscured by... by...something!

 

"I can do that..."

 

Whistling loudly, he took off into the streets to find the militia - leaving his contact alone with the guard and the strangers. This wasn't what he had expected or planned for - but it was close enough. They would have to make do with what they had.

 

Emerald got back to her hooves - pulling away the cloak completely - if she was going to restore order, she needed to start projecting it - and that wasn't going to happen by hiding herself away. The knife at her side - adorned with green stones but otherwise unremarkable - becoming clear. Hopefully she wouldn't have to try and use it - but something of the sort might dissuade others from rash decisions.

 

"I'll find out what's happening." She suggested, looking over the streets nearby. "And try to restore some order..."

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

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Blasted Nova

"No... no, Pavs *cough* We haven't failed yet... we're just exhausted..." Blast said, lying down on the ground, half-conscious. He tried wiping the tear from Pavisa's cheek. "Everything will turn out alright in the end... I promise" He said with a weak smile.

[~Sole~ 852]

Amethyst Void.@@Geek0zoid,@@Icy Void,

Well, at least some of the ponies were showing sense. Some of them - not all."Try telling him that..."

Anethyst stated.@,"Of course - because nothing bad has come of blindly savaging things without thinking already has it?"

She didn't care for 'Shadow' or whatever he was calling himself now: but funny as watching the pony get smushed against a rock would have been, she was getting bored with these primitives. Casually flicking a hoof as easily as breathing, a compressed ball of light arched through the air: striking the ground and erupting with a black light as the detonation blasted outwards with tremendous force contained within an area barely the size of a pony - cracking the stone buried beneath the snow. A simple action for her - one that developed naturally at about a hundred years - when she was a mere child.

With the residue of the shattering: wielding the aura in the air was almost like being back in Arcana.

Catching the pony with a tendril of crackling, raw magical energy in the air, she held him suspended and spoke cheerfully again - completely unfettered by the threats still being issued."And we're Ethereal, not Demons... It's really not that hard."

ronin continued to glare at her while suspended "you think I care wench? I'll call you what I please, you and your friend over there are nothing more then magical assholes who blame others for your problems." He said icily "by the way, if your angry about us killing that creature back there, why didn't you oh so powerful beings stop us? Should've been easy right? Or maybe you were scared of dying, like the cowards you are." He finished with a smirk.

[RAGESTAR 479]

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Crimson sighed and climbed off of Eclipse's back, cracking his neck as he did so. "Fine...I'll work with you two, and cooperate...but how about we make a little deal first? We'll stop pestering you about being stuck-up and quite calling you demons and witches, if both of you stop referring to our species as leeches, ants, or insects in general...this'll work out much better if we stop arguing...but we'll only do so, if you do too...got it? I don't care what you think of me, all I want to do, is defeat Noble and save my homeland..." he said, straightening his hat.

[Tricksters Pride 100]

Shadow

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Shadow snickers for a few moments before speaking up one last time, his voice still amused but also bored. Apparently hes losing interest in the conversation. "Our problems hmm? I can remember stating that this is not our problem a couple of times already. We didn't recklessly destroy the guardian of our world that would be you bunch, attacking something that kept the balance would have been pointless and the only reason it didn't turn you into pony guts is because its not supposed to. 'Guardian' keeps going over your head doesn't it? And for the last time, We have absolutely no reason to work with you. All you have done is made it quite clear to me that you three at least deserve your fate, this has been irritating and only mildly amusing. You are still acting like we have a reason to do any more than watch as your world is ripped apart, their is nothing in it for me to aid you in any way... Nor do i care what a leach calls me, i find the term 'demon' a quite amusing coming from you three actually."

[RAGESTAR 479]

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Crimson stared at Shadow for a few heartbeats, seemingly making a decision. After about 30 seconds, Crimson suddenly punched Shadow...hard. "We...are not...leeches...and it's clear that your nothing more than a blackhearted, cowardice, self-worshipping fool...I kill sacks of shit like you...if your not going to assist us...then leave, go on, you can have a front row seat of watching us save the world...we will fix our mistakes..." he said, on guard in case he retaliated.

[Tricksters Pride 100]

Shadow

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Shadow simply grins and dissipates as the pony takes a small swing at him, promptly drifting over beside Amethyst before reforming with the same amused grin. "I take back what i said about the mirror, it probably disintegrates with your very presence. I'm sure that as 'blackhearted coward' like me wouldn't hesitate to doom a world out of ignorance to how things really work."  *'The irony is that hes already stated his intent to do things that would flush this place down the toilet... Fix his mistakes, yeah right, hes only going to make things worse should he continue without thinking as he has already done.'*

[~Sole~ 852]

Shadow

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Shadow simply grins and dissipates as the pony takes a small swing at him, promptly drifting over beside Amethyst before reforming with the same amused grin. "I take back what i said about the mirror, it probably disintegrates with your very presence. I'm sure that as 'blackhearted coward' like me wouldn't hesitate to doom a world out of ignorance to how things really work."  *'The irony is that hes already stated his intent to do things that would flush this place down the toilet... Fix his mistakes, yeah right, hes only going to make things worse should he continue without thinking as he has already done.'*

ronin glared at shadow "fine. It's clear that it's either your world or ours, in that case say goodbye to your world. I'll destroy it myself to protect these ponies, especially if it's filled with filth like you two." He said from his place hanging in the air as he drew his sword with some difficulty and slashed at shadow's face as fast as he could. "That makes you enemies." He finished coldly

[Tricksters Pride 100]

Shadow

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Shadow simply stops the blade with his own with ease and twists his opponents blade on contact, forcing him to either drop the blade or cut his mouth open upon the edge. Rolling his eyes and responding in a bored tone. "Wrong again, that would solve nothing and would kill your race regardless... And are we really the filth here? I've been insulting a few morons who have doomed their world with their own thoughtless actions, even your pitiful attempts at harming me have been met with tolerance. Your own insults deflected just as easily. Every action here only makes you the filthy aggressors not us."

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

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White Eclipse

"You, my friend, are just so typical." Eclipse said to Shadow. "I finally try to reach an agreement with you, but yet you still remain on your high horse and refuse to even try to come to one." Eclipse then gave a small smirk. "It doesn't matter in the end. We'll stop this destruction, with or without you. It's obvious that you and your friend's minds are so oblivious to the possible outcomes to realize what's at stake. I refuse to play this game another second." Eclipse stared into Shadow's eyes once again. "You can either help us... or watch both our worlds burn to nothingness. It's your choice."
 

Edited February 7, 2014 by Geek0zoid

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Crimson scoffed. "Didn't I already tell you, that I don't care? I know it's our fault, that's why we're gonna fix our mistake. Eclipse is right, we're going to save the world, whether you help us or not...oh, and the only reason your still alive now, is because I'm outta magic power to kick your worthless ass with. Call us what you want, but at least I have purpose...save the world, fight for the innocent, kick an alicorn wannabes ass, and maybe even find a nice marefriend...that's my purpose. What do you plan on doing? Float around, calling ponies better than you leeches? Maybe laugh at others pain and despair, thinking your above them? That's pathetic...your existence may be eternal...but it's meaningless unless you have purpose...I pity you..." he said, looking at Shadow sadly.

[Tricksters Pride 100]

Shadow

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@ragestar, @~chaotic sole~, @Geek0zoid, @Icy Void,

 

Shadow glances over from his bit of play with the swordpony to look at the... probably a bit thick one and his thicker friend. with a curious glance, the way something would look at another being if it had just said something phenomenally stupid. "Look. That was not an agreement, nor did you provide any good reasons to help you. You have offered literally nothing to make this worth my time... at all. And seriously, I've done nothing more than defend myself from unfounded attacks this whole time. Yet somehow i'm still the evil, sick, and twisted one here? Come on, my every insult has been well founded in fact an-!......" Shadow then looks like hes had an idea and grins like hes found something very tasty. "Ohhhh i know, your using redirection! Your trying to paint us as the bad ones to redirect your own, rightful i might add, fault and guilt... Clever but fact and actions are totally on my side. Your every action and word has painted you as the evil one where as i've merely been defending myself from you, that makes me the innocent one here."

[~Sole~ 852]

(I'm pretty sure Automatically and easily disarming and stopping my character without me controlling him twice is kind of godmodding)

 

When shadow did his disarming technique ronin instantly dropped his blade, but instead of letting it fall he caught it with his hoof and slashed at him again. "You won't stop me with such a simple trick twice fool." He said in annoyance

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

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White Eclipse

White Eclipse used his magic to pick up a bunch of snow. He then proceeded to dump it over Shadow.

"Now THAT was for MY amusement." White Eclipse said, laughing to himself in the process. "Maybe you're right. This IS our problem. Why are we even wasting our time with you while innocent ponies are losing their lives. Talking to you like this was a waste of time. Now, we're going to go fix our issue." Eclipse then turned his back on Shadow and began walking. "Let's go guys..."

[Tricksters Pride 100]

Shadow

@Cinderscribe, 

@ragestar, @~chaotic sole~, @Geek0zoid, @Icy Void,

 

The swordspony swung at him... again. At the same time as the unicorn tried to dump snow on him. Shadow saw this as a golden opportunity to gain some play out of this boring display of irony. So he simply stepped back and moved the snow slightly forward to dump the whole load on the swordspony, leaving little chance for the overbalanced swordspony to respond to it. Afterwards he snickers and casually glances at the shortsighted unicorn. "And that, to paraphrase you, was for MY amusement... And it was fairly satisfying to use your own poorly planned attack on your comrade."

[~Sole~ 852]

As the cold snow fell upon him, covering him in it's coldness and ice he bit back a curse. He was about to spout more insults and comebacks, and even thought about attacking again. But then he realized something "they're right... It is our fault the world I like this, and if we don't do something now it'll likely end. Arguing with the ones we want to assist us isn't getting us anywhere. If I don't do something to convince them then everyone will die." He thought, as he remembered something his master had once told him "ronin, there are times when a man must swallow his pride and honor for the sake of the greater good. You cannot always win a fight by using brute strength. When it comes to saving lives, sometimes a warrior must bow his head." He had told him all those years ago. So, now dripping with cold snow, he sighed deeply. "Your both right... About everything. It's our fault that the world is in the state it's in, and the blood of the dead is on our hooves. So please, I beg of you two. Help us fix this somehow. I'll give you whatever you want; my soul, my life, servitude... Whatever I've got to give you to convince you to help us save this world." He said quietly, his head bowed