Everdeath

It wasn't long until I found some disturbed dirt, showing me that my sword was buried there, I then decided to just train the girls when we got them weapons, for there were many forges in the Fiery Fields. "Okay everypony! Let's get going!" I yelled, waking all of them. I smiled, this was getting to be quite fun.

"Sargast again! Can't you just let us rest in one day?" Rarity asked me.

"You look well rested, so I have no idea what you are complaining about." I said to her, she looked ready to walk over and kick my head off when Applejack walked out of the tent and gave her a playful punch in the shoulder.

"Listen sugarcube we won't git anywhere if we let you sleep in, Rarity."

"Humph." Rarity grunted, then she walked over to Twilight's tent since she hadn't come out yet. "TWILIGHT DARLING WAKE UP! YOU TOO PINKIE!" She yelled. A yelp of surprise was heard from the tent. Twilight walked out, looking a little bit dazed, Pinkie on the other hoof was bounding out just like her usual self. Another groan could be heard when Rainbowdash flew out of her tent, stretching.

"Come on Fluttershy, Sargast isn't going to kill you." She said, poking her head back into the tent.

"Umm, okay." Fluttershy then flew out of the tent and landed quite close to Rainbow, watching me intently. I put a hoof to my forehead as Rainbow did the same.

"Fluttershy do you really think I am going to kill you? I mean come on! I could have killed you easier if you were asleep, so why wake you up?" I said to her. She seemed to calm down a little but still kept her distance from me. "Lets get going." I said, walking out of the camp."

"What about breakfast? And the tents?" Twilight called after me. I turned around and started walking back.

"I knew that, I was just testing to see if you would remember, you passed." I said to her, she simply shook her head slowly.

"Sargast if I wasn't here I swear you would leave your brain behind." Twilight remarked.

"I have a brain?" I asked with mock surprise, this made Twilight shake her head again before saying.

"Sargast, I don't believe you do." We both laughed, although the rest really seemed to be intent on eating. I walked over to my tent and pulled the food bag out.

***

We had been walking for a few hours now, and Rarity was now getting quite whiny again. "Saaarrgast! I need a breaak!" She said to me, putting on puppy dog eyes.

"Puppy dog eyes won't work on me." I said to her flatly. She opened her mouth to complain again but Twilight cut her off.

"Why is that Sargast?" The lavender alicorn asked me.

"Well first of all, I hate it when ponies bribe other ponies with fake sadness and tears. Second of all you need to actually have a good reason to use them, and most of the time ponies who use them don't." I answered her, she put a hoof to her chin thoughtfully.

"Sargast, did your parents or friends use the puppy dog eyes a lot?" She asked me, making me stop dead in my tracks, I tried to keep a smile on my face as memories of Flip using puppy dog eyes on me countless times came back.

"No, just for the two reasons I stated before." I lied, she saw through this though, but I guess she decided not to bring it up further. I started walking again and decided to try and find some clouds to get some shade. "Hey everypony i'm gonna look for some clouds, be right back." With that I took to the skies, leaving the group behind. I flew ahead of the group quite a ways and suddenly saw it, a huge volcano, standing taller than the rest. There was lava boiling over the top of it, flowing down the basalt mountain as it cooled in the air. "Wow, the Fiery Fields." I whispered to myself. I now was excited and flew back to the group.

"No clouds?" Twilight asked me as I landed.

"Didn't check, guess what." I asked them, happiness in my voice.

"Ooohh! Ooohh! Is it that you found a cloud?" Pinkie asked me hopefully.

"Nope, here is the good news, we are now starting to pass into the Fiery Fields, the last leg of our journey." I said to them.

"Whats the bad news?" Applejack asked me.

"Well it seems to be eruption season." I said to them, judging from the confused looks on their faces I guessed they had no idea what that meant. "Eruption season is when all of the many volcanoes littering the earth of the Fiery Fields are now erupting, spewing lava everywhere." I said.

"Why would volcanoes litter?" Pinkie asked me.

"They are mean volcanoes." I replied to her, getting me frowns from both Luna and Twilight, I shrugged.

"So how are we gonna get through?" Rainbow asked "We can't fly through."

"The entire ground isn't covered, just the majority of it." I said.

"Oh well that is much better!" Rainbow said sarcastically.

"In fact it is, nice observation." I said to her with a smug smile. I was such an asshole.

***

"My goodness it is blistering hot here!" Rarity whined as we walked in between the lava flows.

"I wonder why?" I said to her, sarcasm practically dripping from my voice. "I'm going to fly ahead and see if I can find us a forge, get you some weapons."

"That sounds like a good idea." Luna said, knowing that I just wanted to leave before I threw Rarity into the lava to make her shut up. I flapped my wings and started to fly away when my vision started to blur.

"Oh shit." I looked down, I was above lava, this was going to hurt. As the dream took me I dropped like a stone into the lava.

"Hello Sargast how are you?" Deadriser asked me.

"Screw you," I said to him grumpily. "you made me fall in the frigging lava."

"I did, oops. Anyways just letting you know I sent a huge metal warrior to hunt you down and murder you all, tootles!"

"What the buck?" The dream ended quite quick and I opened my eyes to see nothing but red, and I felt pain all around. "Holy bucking hell!" I tried to get out of the lava, getting closer each death. I finally crawled out and died again. "Stupid necromancer." I grumbled.

"Sargast what happened?" Twilight rushed over while the rest of the group were laying Fluttershy down safely on the path, I guessed she fainted.

"The stupid necromancer gave me one of those stupid dream things." I told her, I was really pissed-off so I probably said it to her in a angry tone but I didn't care, she wasn't the one who just burned to death ten times.

"What did he say?" Applejack asked as she walked over.

"Some giant metal warrior is now hunting us down to kill us, the usual." I said, really getting bored. "Lets get moving."

"You don't seem all that scared Sargast." Luna said to me.

"Well I don't think some stupid warrior would scare me more than falling into lava. Aw crap my sword melted." I said, looking at my back to see that the sheath wasn't there.

"We should walk to a forge in case Stronghorn tries to mess with you again." Twilight said.

"I could try Pinkie's cannon." I suggested with a shrug and a laugh.

"Really, you would! Ohmygosh! I'll get it!" Pinkie then proceeded to pull a cannon out from behind a rock.

"You know what, let's give this a shot." I said, then I looked over to see the rest of them shaking their heads vigorously. "When we are done the quest that is."

"Okiedokielokie!" Pinkie said, throwing the cannon into the lava.

***

We had been walking for what seemed like hours, looking for a forge and Pinkie was getting this strange song stuck in my head. "-but there's no use crying over every mistake, you just keep on trying 'till you run out of cake!" Pinkie sang. Eventually she got all of us singing along, and we were all laughing at the lyrics since they made no sense at all. Then I spotted it, a small cave with a chimney coming out of it.

"There!" I pointed at the opening.

"No way am I going into there and getting my hooves and mane all dirty! I will just stay out he-" She was cut off by me picking her up and throwing her in. The rest of the girls all looked at me.

"Does she ever stop complaining?" I asked them.

"Usually no." Twilight responded. "Try not to kill her."

"Its gonna take a lot of willpower." I replied, making them laugh. "I'm serious." They stopped and shuffled into the cave awkwardly.

"So what type of weapon you want missy?" The blacksmith asked Rarity.

"Oh I don't do much fighting darling." She responded.

"Give her a bow." I said to the smith, he nodded and picked up a silver bow along with a quiver of arrows and handed them to Rarity. "I'll take that broadsword." I said, pointing to a cool looking sword, along the middle of the blade there were gems forged into the meta, and one in the pommel.

"Ya have a good eye son, this once belonged to the necromancer Stronghorn Deadriser." He said to me, taking the sword down.

"What a coincidence, we are going to ki-" I looked over at the girls. "Er show him the wrong in his ways." Luna put a hoof to her forehead and shook her head slowly. I took the sword from the smith's outstretched hooves and inspected it's blade.

"Wait a minute, is that the princess of the night?" The smith knelt down.

"Oh stop with the formalities." She said to him, and the smith stood up on all fours.

"Anything for you prin- Luna?" The blacksmith asked her. Luna pointed to a sword that was on her back. "Okay then, how about you princ- Princess Twilight?" I looked a little flustered, I guess anypony would if two members of royalty showed up at their shop.

"Please, call me Twilight, do you have anything that enhances magical abilities?" Twilight responded.

"Why yes in fact I do Twilight." He took down four little anklets. They were solid gold and had a little gem in each of them. "These anklets will let you summon elemental magic to your hooves, just think about what you want to do."

"Wow, I really must study these!" Twilight remarked.

"I think i'll take some brass spiked horseshoes if ya got any." Applejack said, we all looked at her. "What, just because I am an element of harmony doesn't mean I know no types of weapons." The blacksmith then walked out into the back, where his forge was I guess. I caught a glimpse of his cutie mark, it was hard to see since the earth pony was completely covered in soot, but it looked like a flaming hammer. He walked out again with what Applejack asked for. "Thanks."

"No problem, and for you?" He turned to Pinkie.

"Umm, i'll take, do you have any cannonballs?" She asked.

"Uh, sure?" The blacksmith was really confused at this request. He once again walked into the back of his shop and came out with a large sack. Pinkie took it and put it into her mane. "Anyways, what do you want?" He turned to Fluttershy.

"Umm, I don't know, I never really thought about fighting." She looked around for a while and finally picked out a dagger. Rainbowdash then made her request.

"I want one of those ball-on-a-chain thingies! Can it be a flaming one?" She seemed way to excited about getting a weapon. The blacksmith handed her down what she asked for. "Awesome! How does it catch on fire?"

"The tips of the spikes are made of a material that will stay in fire until you manually put it out, so all you need to do is dip it in fire." The blacksmith told her. "My name is Eternal Flame by the way, nice ta meet you folks." He help out a hoof and I shook it.

"Sargast Everdeath, nice to meet you too." I said to him.

"Wait a minute." The blacksmith took his hoof away quickly. "Now I ain't saying you are dangerous but aren't you that pony who never dies? Like a zombie?"

"Kinda." I replied, he seemed satisfied with that answer.

"That will be five-hundred and sixty-eight bits please." He said. My jaw hit the floor, I had forgotten to bring my bits!

"Don't worry Sargast I have them!" Pinkie said, she reached into her mane and pulled out the three safes that I stored my bits in.

"How did you?" My jaw was on the floor again.

"Don't question it, it will save you a huge headache." Twilight whispered to me. I opened the safes and took out the money I needed and handed it to the blacksmith.

"Have a good day!" I said to him as we walked out. (Pinkie had the safes in her mane again in case you wanted to know.)