Equestrian Earth: Tumbling Through

Flare's purple hooves thrummed on the ground as the pegasus pony race to and fro. She'd been running around the room for five minutes now. Flare's wings were spread out and flapping, giving her minor speed boost in her pacing. A wireless earbud hung secure in her left ear, while the right dangled freely onto her chest.

A visor was laying on the couch, forgotten for now, while a reletivly new game case laid open on the coffe table.

The game's front cover held heavily armored colts, one in the center particularly stood out, and robed mares on the cover. The stallions were armed with huge swords and pole arms,while the mares were holding detailed staves and daggers. Above the drawing, in large decorative letters, was the game's name: Equestrian Earth, an Open World MMORPG.

Ping! The sound played through Flare's earbud. She tore it out and raced to the couch, as well as the visor.

Great! The loading is fianaly done! Flare quickly got to the back of the couch, and flew over. She landed next to her black visor. Flare picked up the black helmet with her hooves, carefully as to not damage the equipment, then finally set it on her head, closing her eyes.

The moment she opend her eyes Flare was plunged into the game, though she hadn't even begun to play. The menu was in front of her

Behind the game options Flare saw a massive moving landscape. Sometime trees were shown, other times it was a long cave, or even the greatly known Winsome Falls.

Flare Tumbler smiled as she realized the potencial of her new game, and why Wishery had insisted that her friend bye the game. Wish, being the pony she was, had preordered the game as soon as it's preveiw showed. She had gotten a head start becase the Ponyville Gameflight kept running out of the item. Wish had gotten a good two days of playing before Flare had even gotten the game.

There was four game options, Continue, New Game, Settings, and Quit. One out of the four choices was faded; Continue, as Flare had just gotten the game she needed to create her first character. As soon as she was ready, Flare chose New Game.

No characters attached to your account, please follow the link below to create a character.

... Grrrrr. Flare, having no other option, clicked the link.

The layout of the game's site was actually pretty simple. After Flare had entered the code found in her gamecase the website had immedietly taken her to the Create-a-Character. There were two options: Picture Perfect or Create Me. Flare clicked "Picture Perfect", and  two *new options showed on her screen. Flare could either Choose an exsisting picture, or take a new one.*

To be perfectly honest; Flare rarely took any pictures of herself. It just wasn't something she liked to do. She had some that her friends had sent her, and some from parties. That and the fact that she was to lazy to take a new one left one option: Create Me.

After clicking the back arrow and going to the Create Me menu, Flare began.

She spent at least an hour on her character. She checked that the shades of purple on her coat and mane were correct. She made sure that the lime streaks were wide enough. When she was done with that, and she had to make sure that the mane style was correct. All of that was just the basic styling, too! She'd still had to do her body size, and choose from tons of different wing styles.

The cutie mark was the hardest part though, as every pony had a different one. The creators had a bunch of presets set in to catagories: Social, Outdoors, Shops, Electronics, or others. Flare clicked Electronics,  knowing that her cutiemark was a power symbol. Even though it was there Flare still spent ectra time on it.

After she'd finished fine tuning her avatar Flare clicked done, and was told to go back to the game's menu. *Finally, She thought. Flare closed the browser and put her visor back on, the game was still open on this system. She clicked New Game once again, but this time it allowed her to select her character.*

A new loading screen popped up, but it was only there for a few seconds at most. The previous loads must have done something to help reduce the time, right?

Flare blinked; the visor made where she was so... *realistic. It was hard to remember that she was in a game, not in real life. But where was she? Flare looked around, but everything seemed to look the same: Everything looked bright white.*

"Are you alright?" Flare jumped as the voice spoke, and her purple wings held her in the air a few moments before she turned. Before her stood a thing of light, it looked like a pony... kind of.

"Yes," Flare replied slowly, but the figure confused her: Why was it here? Why did it ask? Was there a chance something bad could've happened?

"Then choose your Class, Flare Tumbler." The shape moved, and where she had been standing several colored screens popped up.

Each screen showed Flare as a different, high leveled class. There was a Rouge, Mage, Warrior, Archer, and an Elementalist. Hovering a hoof over a class showed Flare the two sub-classes.

The thing is, that didn't matter much. Flare had decided upon her class the moment she'd seen it. Everypony in that class wore the coolest armor, and their weapons? They could use great swords and polearms and shor swords and long swords and everything!

Flare raised her hoof, pointing at the class she wanted, as she searched for the lightly colored figure.

"Very well." Before Flare could say anything, she began to fall.

A unicorn mare walked around immpatiently, her white hair streaming out behind her. Her name tage showed that she was called Wishery.

She wore a thin and tattered brown cloak that covered her back and trailed down to the floor, the fron two sides were hooked together with a small silver clasp. Her purple-blue forehooves were left free from the cape, ready to fight. Her long flowing white mane cascaded over her shoulder and cape when she stood sill. A silver shoe clung onto one of her hooves, embedded into the metal was a simple, low level, mana stone.

Underneith her cloak, strapped to her side, was an iron blade and shield. The combo was unusual for an Elementalist, but she worked it. The blade had been enchanted for over 100 in-game bits, but it was worth it. The blade did so much damage, Wish was pretty sure that it was OP for her level.

"AHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Wishery looked up immedietly, her ears pricked. She knew that voice, she'd known it for years.

Scanning the sky for her friend's purple coat, and finding it, she noticed that Flare was falling to fast: Her wings weren't out. Sighing she concentrated on the growing purple speck, and lit her horn. The falling pony started going slower, helped along by her friend's violet magic.

She reached the ground, but she was upside down! Flare gritted her teeth as her best friend, Wishery, spoke.

"Honestly, Flare, I know your not the best flyer, but you could at least glide!" She chuckled. "Anyways," She continued, scanning her friends nametag, "Welcome to Equestrian Earth! And! ... I knew you'd be a Warrior. I knew it."