Stronghold: Legends are Made!

Chapter 2:

Thud, dead?

"Bye, dad! Have a nice day!" said Pound Cake as him, his younger brother and his sister headed towards Miss Cheerilee. I waved goodbye to them and said, "Thanks, son!" I officially adopted them, papers signed and everything, so I could call him that. Anyway, after that, I drove back home and enjoyed the party that Pinkie had thrown. I saw Applejack there drummin' up business for the farm (probably to fix that squeaky door). Rarity was giving out flyers for her new and improved Carousel Boutique. Rainbow Dash was talking to Soarin from The Wonderbolts, who I saved from a mission I had when I was eighteen (The briefing papers said they knew valuable information about what one of Discord's minions had planned. It was, of course, true).

"Hey, Dashie! You actually flirting?" I said as I walked up to the two. Rainbow Dash said "No. You already know Jake and I got married. Besides, Soarin is seeing someone and judging by her description, I wouldn't even have a chance." "Of course, I know that! Feels good though to have fun at least once in a while. What with all the missions and briefings, I barely have enough time to smile at the slightest of funny jokes!" She laughed, agreeing that it was true, and went back to talking to Soarin. I saw Jake by the fruit punch bowl, filling two cups with the fruit juice.

I walked up to him and scared the living daylights out of him. He jumped and got some punch all over his face. "Hah! that always gets me!" He said as he wiped his face off with a paper towel. He then turned and said to me, "Hey, slugger, how's your throwing arm?" "Not too bad, actually. Lotus has been helping with the pain and it seems to be working well, thank the Royal Sisters. It's funny though, because one day she brought in a pen and paper. The shoulder massage was over, so she asked if I could give her an autograph." "And did you sign it?" He asked. I then replied with a "Of course! after all she did to help with the pain, how could I not? So I signed it, and she said she was gonna put it up on a wall at her home."

"Oh lord, the stuff that happens when I'm in town." Jake said. He was then about to say something, when I told him it'd have to wait. I was hearing the flapping noises of dragons. I ran out the house and saw I was right. There were dragons, all right. And they were trying to burn the entire village of Ponyville to the ground. I stepped forward and yelled, "Just what makes you think you can burn my home and get away with it!?!" The two dragons stopped and looked dead at me. I asked Austin, my clone, to get my mini gun and my uzis using the mindtouch. He went into my room, used the lock combination for my weapons vault, and threw it out the window.

I jumped up, kicked my foot against the window, and grabbed the uzis (in their holsters). I then grabbed the mini gun, and put the strap for it on my side. I strapped on the uzis and landed on the floor. I grabbed the handles on the mini gun, and yelled, "NOT IN MY HOUSE!!!" as I squeezed the handle with the trigger. I aimed at the dragon on the right. I shot off it's right wing, and right before it fell on top of a house, I focused on it and froze it in mid-air. I then realized I forgot to reload it from the previous mission, and ran out of bullets using them on the dragon. So I dropped it and took out my uzis. I made my skin rip apart on my back and wings came out of the slits. I knelt down and then vaulted, flying upwards.

"Wanna play a game called Human and Dragon? It's simple, really; I, the human, must kill you, the dragon." I said as I landed on his snout and put the guns in front of his eyes. "Turn around or you'll end up like your friend, Hokey Smoked!" I told him. He made a scared face and turned back. I then jumped off of him, my wings melting off.

I didn't go too close to the sun, though.

I start to panic as I try to remember if this happened before. When I realized it hadn't, I looked around to see if there were any tree branches to grab. There weren't, so I braced for impact. I Then hit the ground, and died.

...Or did I?