Chapters Shade stumbled on the cobblestone street, a thin layer of sweat already forming on her body as she regained her balance and rushed towards the school house, her almost ice colored hair flowed through the currents opposing her as she rapidly closed in on her destination, the school house were a single big house with a few classrooms inside and only a single corridor and the occasional flicking light bulb that appeared in the middle of the hallways, just outside her classroom.
Rushing inside the school building she barely notice the door as she barrel straight through it, a quick glance on her wrist clock tells her that she's twenty seconds from coming on time.
Rushing for all that she's worth she run down the corridor until she reaches her classroom labeled '963 A' which were curious to her as there were only seven classrooms in the entire building.
Practically shouting something that were a mix of 'LEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOY' and cusses labeling from cursing her feet to death, promising to summon Satan if someone as much as looks at her funny and a bunch of curses going from Swedish to English, to French, to German, to Spanish, British and Japanese.
"Kaminahage!" She shouts as she tackles the door inward, her clock telling her that she were five seconds early.
"Nailed it." Shade said as she got off of the floor and dusted herself off, the room were a dull grey version of a very small dining area, the paint had started to peel off of the walls and the blackboard were almost grey from constant use too, Shade would describe the room as a colorless hell, but just as the thought crossed her mind she noticed something, or lack of something.
No students or teacher's were present, and at a closer inspection the entire room looked more... Aged than ever.
A thin layer of dust covered everything, cobwebs almost everywhere and a half bitten pen, something were going on and she didn't like it one bit, reaching to her right pocket she pulled out her switch knife and held it at the ready, her left hand ready to grab her Butterfly would it be needed.
Shade started walking down the corridor in a combat stance, ready to kick someone if needed, her heavy leather boots would hurt a lot more than a knife, if used correctly.
She were telling herself that everything would be fine and that it was just some stupid prank, but that idea was replaced with a heavy feeling of dread as she realized that the corridor seemed longer than she remembered.
"By the nine hell's what is going on?!" She yelled out at nothing, or everything.
"What do you mean old man? I'm not in the mood for jokes!" She almost growls at him as she turns around, her switch blade held in a thrusting position.
The man were 5'4 tall, wearing a blue coat and a matching blue hat with a buckled wooden staff that he shouldn't be able to use, as it looked like it were about to break in half if you so much as breathed at it. The man wore a pair of dark glasses on his face that completely blocked out his face, his nose were huge, about a finger long and three thumbs thick
"Oy, aren't you a bit old for this place?" She said, gesturing to the bricks on the wall, leading to the schoolhouse.
His teeth were half rotten and yellow, they were sticking out in unnatural angles revealing a old tongue.
Her eye's turned into narrow slits as she kicked towards the man, and much to Shade's surprise he grabbed her dark jeans and threw her into the ground, making her land on her chest.
"FFFFFFFUU- ouuuchh! That freaking hurt you dimwit!" Shade said as she heaved herself to her feet, pulling out the switch blade she had secured in her pocket.
The man didn't even raise an eyebrow at the gesture.
"Yeah? And for all I know you're some creepy pedophile that slaughtered my classmates! So choke on it, old man." She threw the switch blade at him, edge first.
He caught the blade between two fingers mid air and threw it back to Shade at a slow pace, she caught it with a practiced motion.
"Well... In order to avoid complications call me Starswirl." he said, gesturing to the swirl filled with stars on his staff.
On the top of his hands were the symbol's that was on the staff, but in different color's, the one on his right were a mix of purple and dark green, and the one's on his left were a mix of orange and white.
"Starswirl..? I'll call you Starswirl the Bearded. I mean look'it!" Shade said, gesturing to the ginormous beard.
Confused Shade lift her left arm to her face and saw that it had changed into a alphabet with a lot of small arrows pointing on E A I Q R S T U.
"Girl, wanna make a bet? If I win, you can go on the journey of a lifetime, but if you win you can have one wish." He said, gesturing towards the clock.
"Don't cry Nightshade, magic does exist. Look." He said gesturing towards a brick wall, with a flick of his wrists the wall almost dissolved and revealed a portal with a mix of color's she had never seen before.
"If I win, you must enter, if you win i'll grant you one wish." Starswirl said, the tattoo's on his hands glowing with the portal.
He laughed a little and said "Excellent! Riddle me this little girl, what can't see itself in the mirror without crying, but other's can't look at it without falling in love?" He riddled, she didn't understand it.
"Umm... Something corrupt?" She guessed, that answered seemed about right to her.
Shade felt something grab her entire body and played her like a puppet and master.
"Before I leave however, what was the correct answer, Starswirl?" She asked him, if he could answer then she at least could go without thinking she's been tricked.
He smiled at her, at least that made her feel a bit better.
"I'll see you in another life, little sister of mine." She said with a tear as she entered the portal.
Author's Note
Aaaand done! First chapter's done and more to come, took me about three hours of off and on writing.
The world warped around her, revealing a long and broken staircase upwards, and she could swear she were a lot taller than she was supposed to be.
Slowly walking towards the broken staircase her ears picked up at the sound of something... Clicking against rocks.
Shade kept walking for what she could swear were days, her legs tiring and she would occasionally slip and fall a few meters before getting up again, stopping for rest only whenever she fell.
As she fell she tried to grasp at the wall out of fear for falling to her death, much to her surprise did her fingers not only completely halt her fall they also pierced the cobblestone wall, and that's when she was it.
Her fingers were longer and ended slightly pointier then she remembered, above them a pair of claws had come out and were now stuck in the wall.
Looking over her body she noticed how she had pristine white scaled instead of pale skin, she still had hair, but it was blonde and as she looked over her body, she finally realized what that clicking sound was.
Shade looked down on her feet and noticed that there were claws on them, clicking against the cobblestone every step she took.
Bringing a hand to her head she noticed two... Things sticking out, as much as she would want to find out what they were she didn't have a mirror, and nothing reflective was in sight.
Sighing to herself she made her way up the staircase, slowly ascending the hellish torture fate thought was funny.door with the words LORE inscribed in front, to the right of the tunnel there were a steel chest with something that looked like a human skeleton as a lock.
To the left of the tunnel there were two things held up on a pedestal, there was a shield and a sword, both held by a standard plate armor, the sword were held up in a thrusting position and the shield looked like it were about to slam something bigger than the man in plate armor.
Slowly walking forward she grabbed the shield from the mans grip and set it across her back with a a bit of rope the knight had across his shoulder, leading to a very poor condition crossbow.
Grabbing the sword from the knights hand were proven more difficult than she'dd have liked, as he suddenly sprung alive and stabbed dead at her, the sword grazed the side with a slight wound that she barely felt, but she still exclaimed in shock.
Having no idea what to do against someone obviously trained with swords, all she did was defend the best she could against his relentless attacks.
Oh god oh god, what the hell? What should I do? Hell what can I do? Calm down Shade, just calm down we got this, he got to get tired sooner or later, right? Yes of course he does, but i'm afraid we'll tire out or run dry on luck before that. ... I refuse to die here! I'm not going to die in this hellhole, and i'll tear Starswirl a new asshole for this! But what should we do... What would Leeroy do? Isn't it obvious? What? ... Ch arge
She was snapped out of her internal conversations by a particularly hard blow to the shield, brazing herself for what she were to do next she took a deep breath.
What came next surprised both her and the knight.LEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOY " But instead of just a shout, it came out as a growl, followed closely by bright blue flames.
The knights eye's had time to widen in surprise before he and his armor were turned into a hot pile of metal and flesh, the sword were somehow unharmed by the intense heat and fell harmlessly to the ground, sticking halfway out.
Running into the room to the right, she noticed how the the sword had a small skeleton on the hilt with three fingers sticking out.
Putting one and one together she slowly approached the chest, ready for any and all surprises with the sword in a thrusting position.
As she got to the chest she went down to one knee and brought the swords hilt to the lock, putting it in and twisting it until the chest opened.
A almost invisible yet ghastly mist flowed out of the chest, revealing something that looked like solid fire.
Slowly bringing out the rest of the items, including a ring that looked like it were still burning, she set them on the floor.The full set looked like something out of a game, adding the sword and shield made it look like something a high ranking demon or something would wear to keep him warm in the winters.
She didn't notice any heat radiating of the armor, but once it got close to her, the wound she had received on her side slowly started closing before vanishing completely, leaving no trace but a slightly whiter pair of scales to ever show there was a injury.
After that, she decided to equip the armor and slung the shield onto her back, and placed the sword in the sheath.
Author's Note
So Shade's pissed at me since I got her banned from DotD, thus sorry for the low quality chapter.
"My name... Is Arie'thorr"
Author's Note
Clarification: No, Shade'll not get a new name (She would beat me to death with a bag of cheese.). (I've seen her do it.)
"My name... Is Arie'thorr"
0021 Discord's Rein (D.R.)
Stumbling through the door, she narrowly avoided hitting the door's frame as she continued her walk beyond the door and into a very green forest.
The memory made her grin, showing her razor sharp teeth for all the world to see."From what I heard she couldn't walk for a month after that." "No surprise there, you twisted her leg in a unnatural angle until it broke." "She kicked me on the boobs! She had it coming." "No doubt she did, it's just you can get very violent sometimes. "Yeah? So what, what do you know?" "I'm you, remember?"
Yes, Shade definitely needed to make more friends.
She saw the pony mutter something like "I don't get payed enough for this" as he walked into the clearing.
"We got to do something!" "I agree, but what?" "Wait... None of those guards seem to be wearing weapons, perhaps we can take them?"
"Death to Discord." The Captain said again as she and the other's began to drag and push the immobilized dragon to a giant cart.
"Worth a shot." And with that, Shade jumped out from the bushes and managed to slam the captain's face with the shield, it obviously came with more force than intended as a sickening crack echoed through the forest, loud enough for every single guard to drop the dragon and turn to the eight feet tall being in armor that seemed to be made out of fire crushed their captain in a single blow.
A soldier wearing iron armor with two suns on it and one moon turned to the rest of the soldiers and shouted for all her could,
"Heh, how do a bunch of gay guys walk?" She asked herself."Dunno, I payed more attention watching your friends ass and boobs. "You're perverted, you know that?"
"I'm you."
"keh, tepoha wux confn ekess sulta sia loerchik? algbo, gethrisj ahead, coi ui|ulph desta ekess loreat ini kin loupon ini nomenoi drevaba harroci. " The dragon said as Shade approached, making her pause.
She tilted her head in confusing and managed to squeeze out a small sentence.
"I see, you do not speak our old tongue, what I asked was if you were here to end my suffering, Dragoness." The elder dragon managed a dry chuckle.
"No... I came here to free you, they treated you like a animal." She giggled a little at the irony.
"It feels nice to be free, tell me hatchling, what is your name?" Shade slowly sheathed her sword and coughed a little.'Rose of Fire' "
"Right... that happened." She said, her mind was still having a hard time progressing that she were indeed talking to a dragon.
"Are you hurt, Eldros?" Shade asked as she slowly approached the dragon, helmet in hand.
Shade pondered for a moment, she's sure she had seen a cave that should be big enough for the larger dragon to fit in without too much trouble, it was situated behind a waterfall.
"I don't know, he seems nice."
"He's a dragon! And he's huge! He'dd probably split you in half by sneezing too hard." "Don't be silly, I saved his life, and if dragons here are like anything like the dragons in myth from where we're from dragons repay favors." "And if they aren't?
"Then we're so fucked we'll just hope he dosen't rape us first." "It's not like you to swear, Shade, what happened?"
"I stopped caring somewhere between the talking ponies, the azure blue dragon and me burping fire." "And what stops us from killing him if he turns violent?"
"Oh nothing, just the fact that he's so big he'dd murder us in the blink of an eye." "Comforting."
----Fifteen minutes later----
" 'Tis a nice cave, Hatchling, is it not yours?" the azure dragon asked Shade, whom was leading him into the cave.
0082 Discord's Rein (D.R.)
"Sister, are you sure this is a good idea?" A blue unicorn asks her bigger sister.
"Yes, we must do this, if this Dragon Smith decide's to join Discord, we have no chances of winning." The elder sister explained, leaning down to muzzle her little sister.
"Now that's strange" the elder sister thought to herself as she continued into the cave."Show thyself, Dragon!" The voice echoed within the entire cave.
Slowly, a clicking sound could be heard as the two sister's rounded a corner, several wooden bolts suddenly stuck out around them and a group of Catizen's stood before them, all griping some kind of metal and wood item and most of them had some kind of sword around their backs.
"What is the meaning of this!?" the unicorn shouted towards the group, only for a bolt to lightly glaze by her eyes and almost hit her horn.
"We might want to leave" She whispered to her elder sister who nodded and turned around to walk out of the cave, but were met with nothing but a solid stone wall.
The elder sister took one step forward and stood with as much composure as she could.
The one with the slim, shiny object turned to a Catizen with two black daggers with green edges and spoke in a strange language.
"Now, we wait." The obviously high ranking Catizen said and aimed the shiny object dead at Celestia.
With that, the larger Catizen holstered the metal object and gestured for Celestia and Luna to follow.
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Aro is the name of the small Catizen (Cat people, basically.) Free?"
Direct translations: Aro, telk ti Bleak, esk geri ufn geri eviably gar i neating. > "Aro, talk to Pearl, ask her if she's available for a meeting."
And for the reason my writing's been delayed... Shade's grandmother died less than a week ago, and she's been in the hospital for a while, Shade is practically the only family I have, so I was sad too.
