private ~* Feral Ponies *~ {RP}

[Malinter 3,064]

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He'd lost track of Pious before the rubble had hit and was disappointed when the scent of blood didn't meet his nostrils, he snorted.

 

"You can't hide your scent, fool. Come out and face your death with some dignity!" he yelled as he started searching for Pious 

[Hive King 1,998]

@@Malinter,

Pious circled around slowly, creeping along like the slug he was. Silently, he leaped up behind Malinter and swung his hooves, smashing the diamond hard limbs against Malinter's nape. Pious was weak physically, but it was still an unguarded blow to the nape by a hard object

 

"Hehe, see? I'm the best" Pious panted 

[Malinter 3,064]

@,

 

Malinter staggered from the sharp blow to the neck. That actually hurt but Pious had once again underestimated Malinter's strength. This fool truely belived he could win in a single blow?

 

Malinter turned and slammed Pious into the ground and started applying pressure to his throat.

 

"Your skin might have been hardened, but i imagine your internal organs are still flesh." he grinned as he continued to try and squeeze the life out of him

[Hive King 1,998]

@@Malinter,

Pious hissed and spat, aiming to land the glob of saliva in Malinter's eyes. He would not lose, never, never, never! Especially not to a low grade fool like the one in front of him! Pious spat again and again, aiming for Malinter's eyes to blind and disorient his foe 

[Malinter 3,064]

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Pious's attempt to spit in his eyes only served to raise his ire and he be began to repeatedly pummel Pious's diamond shell repeatedly into the ground over and over to try and knock him out which was becoming suprisingly frustrating to do, but Pious's squirmings were slowing down, the instant the fool's spell broke he was as good as dead 

[Hive King 1,998]

@@Malinter,

Pious could take a beating fairly well but this was getting ridiculous. His courage failed him and since Malinter had decided to try and pummel him instead of choke him, the crystal unicorn was able to scramble away, running away from Malinter. The royal was too panicked to do anything else 

[Grapz224 137]

@@Malinter, @,

 

(OoC: you have to remember here, Soul has no idea who Pious is, or why Malinter is fighting him.)

 

As the Crystal Unicorn ran from Malinter, before Malinter could run away, Soul got in front of him. "Malinter, ENOUGH. You've made your point, and he is hurt enough! You did what you came here to do, Escort me to this group. You gave me the book on Equibane's Properties, and we are not a threat to you! Mantorok has already died by your hoof, so let's not spill more blood than needed!"

 

As Soul said this, he looked into Malinter's eyes. the Pupals were heavily dialated, a sign that the Hulking pony was not thinking with his own mind, but that the Equibane was controlling him. As Soul talked, they became slightly less dialated... He was getting through.

Edited May 20, 2014 by Grapz224

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

@,@@Malinter, @@Grapz224, @@Pripyat Pony, "LET ME GO DAMN YOU!" she said as Pious destroyed the last pillar that made the building stand on itself. She tried to flee but the grip was stronger than her. "MOVE!!!" she shouted but fortunately Soul survivor came out of nowhere and protected them. He was seeking answers but she wasn't going to give them right now. She dusted her and rushed to her companion Lykos shaking him to his senses... he started waking up and looked up obviously annoyed...

"You..." she turned angrily at Soul... "You just had to follow my advice and leave that dumbass Mantorok to die alone! Because of you, the Princesses, and now our dear "friends" Glory and that jerkbag Pious i am in more danger in my life than i would be facing the entire feral colony myself! Do me a favor and when the times comes to save me again... DON'T!!!"

Lykos rubbed his neck and ears standing up. "Mind not shouting a bit? You're all going to defean me... Tsk... this is turning to be more than i bargained for. Whatever... if Glory hadn't pulled us back i would have killed that idiot Malinter. But well... if he hurts Pious i am not complaining."

[Malinter 3,064]

@@Grapz224,@,

 

Malinter was sorely tempted to crush Soul into the ground for daring to interfere. But the red haze began to losen its grip on his mind and logic came back into focus.

 

"Yes... of course. That is what I swore to do.."  

 

Malinter almost seemed confused for a brief moment but soon realised his location and turned to walk away.

 

"Take your friends... and go. Next time I will not stop. And I will show you the true horror of what Equibane is. You have yet to scratch its surface..."  

 

Malinter gazed over to Pious, grimaced and walked away shaking his head. And soon vanished back into the forests of the ferals.

[Pripyat Pony 2,608]

Glory was dazed for a while; she shook the dust from her ears and turned to Soul. "I don't know who this crystal thinks he is," she replied. "But his name is Pious. Do you know what happened to the others? We know that Manterok is dead. But surely you can't be the sole survivor?" @@Grapz224,

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

@@Pripyat Pony,@, @@Grapz224,  "Does it truly matter at this point? We are a mess... we have no plan and no shelter here plus from what you have seen already it doesn't seem like we can co-operate. Everyone does whatever they want... might as well have been in the jungle. I think i prefer prison right now..."

"*sigh* Unless we find a way to work this out it doesn't matter how much we try to rescue them... we'll always end up failing. I still insist that we should make a cure for the Equibane if we are to survive this wasteland."

[Grapz224 137]

Glory was dazed for a while; she shook the dust from her ears and turned to Soul. "I don't know who this crystal thinks he is," she replied. "But his name is Pious. Do you know what happened to the others? We know that Manterok is dead. But surely you can't be the sole survivor?" @@Grapz224,

Soul watched as Malinter walked away, then turned to Glory. "Sadly, I am. Technicolor died on the way over there, and was dead in his cage. Mantorok was poisoned, and I am nearly starved."

 

@@Pripyat Pony,@, @@Grapz224,  "Does it truly matter at this point? We are a mess... we have no plan and no shelter here plus from what you have seen already it doesn't seem like we can co-operate. Everyone does whatever they want... might as well have been in the jungle. I think i prefer prison right now..."

 

"*sigh* Unless we find a way to work this out it doesn't matter how much we try to rescue them... we'll always end up failing. I still insist that we should make a cure for the Equibane if we are to survive this wasteland."

As Artemis said 'Cure', Soul began to think. "Perhaps... But I did get this."

 

He pulled out the dusty old book, and flipped it open. "This book was given to me by Malinter. He said it's his journal from his trip over here... I skimmed it, it says a lot about all sorts of things... what the landscape was like, Who the other ponies were, I think there was even a map somewhere... But I was always seeing one word... Equibane."

 

Flipping to the last page, he picked up the letter with his magic. "This letter was the last one he was going to send to Celestia, but it never got delivered. We have limited options here... but Delivering this letter is one of our top priorities."

[Hive King 1,998]

Pious stopped running after he found some rubble to hide behind. He had run like a coward, shameful! No, it was a tactical retreat, that was it! Nothing else! He'd stay hidden, not because he was scared, but to spy on them! Yes, he wasn't scared of anything or anypony

[Malinter 3,064]

@@Pripyat Pony,

 

Malinter had arrived back at the feral village, it was quite clear to everypony there that he had been in a fight, his coat was still covered in dust and debris from the collapsed building, as well as an assortment of minor cuts and briuses, mostly from the building than from the ponies he'd faced.

 

Eventually a few stopped staring and actually asked him if he needed any assistance. They kept a respectable distance of course, some ferals took offers of aid as implications of weakness. Malinter was not one of them but given his sheer size he could understand there nervousness.

 

"No assistance is necessary. I merely need some assistance cleaning this grime from my coat."

 

One of them left to find some mares to aid him, that was a problem his his muscle structure, some places you just couldn't reach when you were his size.

 

"You." he pointed a hoof at another feral who came closer. "take this,"

 

I first the feral was confused as to what Malinter had asked until he saw the fleck of crystal buried in the fur of his raised hoof, the feral took it out and looked at it. He seemed fascinated by it though wither it was the fleck or his blood on it that he was not sure. Several ferals had reverance for him. To them, he was the oldest living fera of the badlands, the ancient one... which wasn't entirely true. There was one other as old as he. Not as strong. But wiser and far, far more dangerous....

 

"Take this shard to Lightning. The intruders seem to have found allies in the badlands. He will know what to do,"

 

The feral nodded and left as the other feral returned with a mare, the same one who had stitched his wounds before. She let out a frustrated sigh and beckoned him to follow her. 

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

@,@@Pripyat Pony, ((OOC:Lykos said that not Artemis)) "No this is YOUR top priority. What is always top priority is survival... and although that feral let us go i am hesitant to believe that they will let us just roam in their territory. Regardless how could we even go back? Are you seriously willing to run through the wasteland to the nearest station without any water on you? I suggest we take care of our wounds... Then we'll see what we do."

[Pripyat Pony 2,608]

@@Grapz224, @, "I will use my healing magic to heal everypony's wounds," Glory said. "Then we need to go back to the town hall and consider our options. I would love to find a cure for Equibane, but it's not going to be easy. We'll need a sample, and how do we do that, when it's very likely that the plants are guarded by the ferals? It would be a suicide mission just to do that. Also, it's going to be tough and dangerous to get back to Canterlot just as we are. There isn't enough of us, and we don't have many supplies."

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

@@Pripyat Pony, @@Grapz224, Artemis didn't say much just gathered whatever had fallen of her as she and Lykos silently continued with the rest. They could do nothing but watch this moment as everything seemed to have crumbled around the party. What would they do? What could they do?

[Pripyat Pony 2,608]

@, @@Grapz224, Glory was thinking much the same thing. She tried hard to gather her thoughts and focus on the priorities, on what was the most important now.

 

"We must try and forage for food," she said to the others. "At the moment, our supplies are dwindling and it's unlikely that we're going to be able to do anything on what we have. There has to be somewhere where food can be found, without having to go into the forest and tangle with the ferals."

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

@@Pripyat Pony, @@Grapz224, "There might be some bushes out there but we have to be careful just in case we mess with the Equibane. Do you havea  picture of what it looks like? I've never met such a plant again in my life and honeslty i wouldn't like to eat something that would mess my head up... Wouldn't like for me to end up like those ferals now would we?"

[Pripyat Pony 2,608]

@, "There's a picture of the plant in my book," Glory replied. "We'll have a look once we're safely back at the town hall."

 

Glory fell silent as they walked back. The frontier town looked sad, in its abandoned state. Glory couldn't help but think of how it used to be as a once bustling town full of life. Now it was hollow and empty, and the wind whined as it blew thru the holes.