The Last of Equestria
Chapter 3
Previous ChapterNext Chapter19 years, 7 months, 12 days and 2 hours. It's been that long. Corvo was now travelling up Mount Everfree. A cold and gloomy mountain only climbed by few ponies. Probably because it was so cold. Corvo was wearing a thick fur coat, leather boots, a black wool scarf and a pare of snow goggles. He was about half way there. He was sure he was alone on the mountain, or at least he hoped so. This whole time, a blizzard was bashing hard and Corvo felt his legs getting weak. He was on the side of a snowy yet rocky ledge. He tried to look up and see the top of the giant rock structure but the white blizzard was too thick to see through, and with that he kept moving.
As he took a step forward, the rock he stepped on broke loose and fell to it's doom. He cursed under his breath that he almost had the same fate as that rock. After what seemed like an hour of carefully walking up on a ledge, Corvo reached a stop. There was a big gap about 4 meters apart from an ice wall. He took out his pickaxe and braced himself."Well, let's see if this thing is steady". With one quick breath, he jumped across and stabbed his sharp tool against the slippery wall. It went through with an audible crack, and Corvo grabbed the pickaxe with both of his hooves hoping not to fall. He could see the ice cracking. Panicking, he quickly pulled himself upwards and onto the opposite ledge. But apparently, his tool did not make it and ended up falling like that rock from last time. Probably due to the fact that the heavy survivor put his weight on the pickaxe for a boost, thus breaking it off the wall.
After what seemed like an eternity of climbing, Corvo made it to the top. He looked around to witness the scenery."Only snow and ice here. Better set up a camp and continue in the morning". It was getting very dark with only a dull light left in the sky. He was going to set up a tent he borrowed from Twilight until he noticed the temperature. It was cold, very cold. He was sure to freeze to death in hours if he stayed on top of the dead rocky structure. With a depressing sigh, the survivor continued walking only to be stopped by an enormous hill. A very steep snowy hill that led stray down to some untouched flat land."Well fuck, better slide down". He then jumped down and started sliding on the flat snow. Something about this was kinda... enjoyable. But that was easily taken away when he stumbled and started rolling down against his will."Damn it, fuck, ow, son of a bitch", That was all he said while falling down.
After minutes of stumbling, Corvo made it to the bottom in pain."God damn it, why does gravity have to be such a dick". He said to himself while he picked himself back up. In the distance of the blizzard, Corvo saw what appeared to be a train station. He quickly galloped to the ruined train station only to find that there were no train tracks. Or maybe they were covered in the snow. He walked passed it, seeing that nothing was there. And then he saw it. The Crystal Empire less than a mile away. But, something... something was off. It was indeed the Crystal Empire but nothing more than a colourless city with some buildings demolished, everything covered in snow and the lakes were frozen.
While arriving there, he saw nopony around. Just a frozen city. It even looked worse then when King Sombra was here. That's when he heard a very slow creaking."What the fuuuu-". He was stopped when something wrapped around his left hind leg and pulled him upwards. Corvo found himself dangling upside down by a rope. Obviously some kind of trap other survivors put there.
"Hey, we caught one". said a mysterious voice from behind him who was probably male due to his voice.
"Well what are you waiting for, loot him and see what he has". said yet another voice but this one happened to be female.
"This little fucker picked a wrong time to come here". said a third pony. But this voice was much deeper than the last two.
Corvo could feel other hooves ripping off his saddle bag and begin to loot them.
"Not a lot of stuff but it will do", said the female voice as she searched through his stuff.
Corvo tried to struggle and cut the ropes only to be stopped by the third pony's deep voice.
"Hey you, quit moving and if your lucky, we might let you live".
The first pony Corvo heard walked up to him and stopped him from moving.
"You little pricks never learn when to not mess with other survivors. Where ever you came from, you can kiss that place goodbye cause your not leaving this area".
"Listen". Corvo started and hoping to maybe persuade the other survivors."If you release me and give me back my stuff, i will spare your lives".
The other pony in front of him almost laughed."Hah, what the fuck are you gon-". He was cut short as Corvo quickly pulled a knife from the other pony's boot and stabbed him through the throat. Blood gushed out as Corvo pulled the knife out and cut the ropes attached to his leg. Corvo fell on his back but quickly got back up on his hooves. As soon as the other two ponies noticed that their friend was dead, he through the knife straight across him and stabbing the mare in the chest, piercing her heart. She fell to the ground dead and now only one pony remained.
"You motherFUCKER, you killed them. You are FUUUUUCKED". The angered pony took out the crossbow he looted from the stolen saddlebag and pointed it at Corvo who was now running straight towards him screaming.
The stallion shot the arrow right though Corvo's foreleg which had lots of blood coming out of it. But that didn't stop the determined survivor. He kept running, completely ignoring the horrible pain he was experiencing. With a loud grunt, Corvo jumped on top of the stallion, knocking him over. In less than a second he hit his foreleg (which had the arrow sticking out of it) straight through the stallion's temple and killing him instantly.
Corvo got off the dead pony and tried to stand up but fell. He panted heavily as he just killed three ponies in 10 seconds and his leg was now purple with a lot of blood he lost.
"F-F-F-Fuck, F-F-Fuck, F-Fuck, Fffffuck". Corvo stuttered to him self as he was probably going to die in minutes due to blood trauma. He dragged himself towards the dead ponies with ever step giving him a shock of pain. He looted all of their stuff. And they did have some useful weaponry, food and medical supplies. Corvo wrapped medical cloth around his injured leg which stopped some of the bleeding. He found a needle with a green liquid inside and on it's side, it said "Stops blood loss". Without thinking, he stabbed the needle in his leg and watched the green substance go inside him. He pulled the needle out grunting in pain and in mere seconds, he no longer felt light headed and the bleeding stopped.
Corvo let out a satisfied moan as he fell to the ground."I'm never doing that again". He looked ahead of him and where he thought he would see the crystal castle, he just saw smoke and a bunch of rubble. He closed his eyes to rest and actually fell asleep.
He woke up and found himself on something soft. He looked around but his blurry eyes limited his sight. After some seconds of looking, he was able to see better and realized he was no longer on the cold, stone floor he had fell asleep on before. Instead he was on a bed. It was midnight blue with some scratches on it but soft enough for sleep. Corvo took notice of his surroundings. Wooden walls with few shelves here and there containing supplies and other tools. A single light bulb was in the center and had the energy to lighten the small room he was in. He saw in front of the bed he was on, there was a cardboard box with his saddlebag, weapons, food and other useful supplies. The confused survivor only now took notice of another figure standing right beside him. This other mysterious figure was dark colored, had a hood and cape made of cloth around it's body. As Corvo rubbed his eyes, he remembered seeing the familiar pony, or alicorn before.
"Greetings to you sir Corvo. You are lucky that i came just in time to save you". Luna was talking while levitating his stuff with her magic.
"H-How did you know i was in trouble? And when did you get there? How long was i out for?", the confused stallion assaulted the night princess with questions while getting up, only to start feeling pain."Where am I?"
"I did sence that you were going to be in danger, and after you said your next destination was the Crysal Empire, I thought you might need some assistance. Oh and yes, you are in Ponyville in a secret bunker. I did meet Twilight Sparkle after what you told me and..." Luna paused for a moment and gave Corvo a sad expression." And I came."
Corvo by this point, was almost fully healed with some special medical cloth wrapped around his injury with few bandages around his other legs and head."Where's Twilight?"
Luna couldn't help but smile a bit."The Golden Oaks Library is just a few blocks from here. I can take you there if you would like". Then the night princess gave a teasing grin."So you care about her well being"?
Corvo scanned the room to find the way out and found a dusty wooden door which was slightly open."Just wanted to know", Corvo said as he got up to go out the only door. His legs were still weak but he managed to walk properly.
"I'll be here if you need me".
As Corvo went through the door he found himself through a tunnel. At the end was another wooden door. He made his way through that and found himself in a house. Everything around him was trashed and dirty. He must have been in a kitchen since there was a sink. As he walked passed from room to room and noticed all the broken windows, he noticed that it was day time.
He found himself outside, witnessing the sight in front of him. Buildings still sagged and plant life every where he looked.
"Still the same". He thought to himself as he kept walking. Then in the distance, he saw Twilight sitting on a bench. Her back was turned so she couldn't see him. So Corvo walked up to the bench, to Twilight. He placed a hoof on her left shoulder and started speaking silently.
"Hey". That was all he said which brought her to full attention.
Corvo Your Back!!!! Twilight then tried to hug him, only to be stopped by his hoof."Don't think I fully trust you yet". He said with a cold tone which later softened.
"Oh um, thanks for bringing Princess Luna here". She said with a quiet yet happy tone in her voice.
"I'm gonna go hunting for food, and I'm assuming you'll be back at the library".
Twilight only nodded. As he started walking to the woods, Twilight's voice stopped him.
"Thank you. For being here". Her head was down while she spoke but obviously glad.
"Don't mention it". He only spoke with a flat yet reasonable expression before he kept moving.
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