The Autumn Towerby ScriptureChaptersOutsideGround FloorFirst Floor- Attacked!First Floor- Food!Second Floor- Hunger Pains!Second Floor- Exploration!Third Floor: Explanations!Third Floor- Ghosts!OutsidePLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Chapter One: Outside Ugh… where the hell am I? Ow! Why does my head hurt so much? In fact, for that matter, who the hell am I in the first place? Hmmm… let’s see… my body feels kind of different… And, what’s this? Hooves? Hmmm… so I’m a pony, huh? Alright, that’s kind of cool… Oh, wait, what? Wings?! All right, now we are talk- OW! My head AND my wing! What the hell is wrong with me? What the hell HAPPENED to me? I feel so scared… but why? I can’t remember anything that would scare me… I can’t remember much at all! The only thing I am sure of is my name… My name is… is… Oh yeah! Loosewing, my name is Loose- YOW! Yeah… my name fits that pretty well right now… I wonder what all this is… The leaves are all brown and orange, the trail in front of me beaten in worn down, as if a thousand ponies had trodden across it year after year… Wait, maybe there is someone that can tell me who I am then! It’s a path after all… it has to lead SOMEwhere! Man… this path seems to lead on forever! I can’t even see an end in sight! But I have to start somewhere I suppose… but now which direction do I choose? Hmmm… eenie, meenie, miney… MOE! Alright, right it is! It sure is a nice day out though… even if the sun isn’t fully out from the clouds. It’s slightly chilly with the wind but the sun keeps warming me up all snuggly-like… Now that I think about it, I wonder what I look like anyways… Ah! A puddle, perfect! Drat, I hate it when I make the water ripple… Now I gotta wait a bit and… Aha! Oh... well, I didn’t expect that. Female, huh? Oh, but a nice short cut chestnut brown mane and tan body color… I do like that. And my eyes… such a pretty orange! The red bandana on me though, that I didn’t notice… I wonder what’s on it? Hm… nothing much, just a weird looking gold triangle… I wonder why it has all those points sticking out from it… it was on me though, so maybe I can figure out who I am with it. Maybe. Highly unlikely though. I probably should still keep on moving. No sense in looking at a reflection for answers! I just honestly wonder what could be at- WHOA! How did THAT get there? I know for a fact that this wasn’t here a minute ago! Was this magic or something? Maybe I should turn around and- Hnnn? What was that noise? It sounded like… wolves. Many wolves. Too many to fight against wolves. So many I should probably rethink about entering that place… yeah, probably the better idea at the moment… This tower looks so incredibly old… I wonder how it’s even standing right now! I mean, it’s just brick on brick on brick… no windows, no cement, and it’s certainly not wide enough to hold itself very well… I can’t even see the top of this thing! Just how high is it?! Man… maybe I should have taken the other way instead… Hel-lo, what’s this? A plaque? By the doorway? Odd place to put something like that… wonder what its about… ‘The Autumn Tower, a place to have your wishes fulfilled! Treasure beyond belief, power beyond comprehension, love beyond compare! If you succeed to reach the top floor before the end of Autumn, you will have every and any wish granted! But be warned… If you enter the Tower, you may not exit! If you don’t reach the top floor before the end of autumn also, you will crumble away like the Tower, only that the Tower will be returning alone the next year. Enter, and hope to succeed!’ Well… that was informative… sort of. I don’t fully grasp it yet, but maybe after awhile I will… Although, not exiting isn’t exactly the best reassurance, and that last part… does it mean what I think it means? Oh my… The wolves are closing in… I think they can smell me! The door is already opened a bit, and I could just keep it open a crack until the wolves go by… right? AUGH! BARKING! I’M HEADIN INSIDE! WAH! I don’t remember shutting the door, or even touching it for that matter! I really hope that the plaque didn’t mean what it said, because I really don’t want to disappear without knowing who I am… Wait, the plaque said something about having my wish granted if I reach the top of the Tower… Hm… yes… If I just get to the top of the tower, I could wish for my memory back! Simple as pie! Maybe even sweeter… Wait, what IS pie anyways? I know the name, but I can’t think about it straight… it’s like all hazy in my mind… I just can’t seem to focus on the image… I know it’s great tasting and my favorite dessert, but what IS it? This is starting to bother me… Huh? What was that? A chuckle? But where could there be one… the room is bare! The white tiles and the white walls are certainly bright and shiny but I can’t see anyone… So how can there be laught- GAH! CLOWN PONY THING! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: Alright, this is a new style I am working with... trying to make it LITERALLY all in Loosewing's mind and her adventures looking out from her thoughts! Something different, you know... but anyways, please enjoy! :) Ground FloorPLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Chapter Two: Ground Floor What… what the hell is HE doing here? Who the heck is he? I wonder if he knows anything about the tower… but that mask he is wearing… its creeping me out big time… How the hell did I know to call that a mask though? I never saw one in my life… well, at least, from when I woke up today… And my head…urgh… WHOA, WHAT THE BUCK! I blink once and he’s gone! I can’t see him anywhere now but I KNOW he was there… that creepy smiling blue and green mask… Maybe I should just go back outside. I honestly think that I have better chances with the wolves at this point… Wait, what? Where the hell is the door?! It was there just a moment ago! I mean… how? This wall is solid, like nothing had ever even been there before! My hooves aren’t even leaving a dent in it! Could that plaque have actually been telling the truth?! Oh this is wonderful, just WONDERFUL! Well, what now… I suppose I could look around again… seems that every time I turn, there is something new to- Annnnnnnnnd there is a staircase across the room now. Perfect. My confused-o-meter just cranked up another level… I just hope that this place isn’t booby-trapped or something… I could get killed! Wait, that’s the point of this place… ‘Death or Treasure’… that would be such a nice slogan for the Autumn Tower… GAH! WHO TOUCHED ME?! Whoa! When in the world did he get behind me like that?! At least I get to have a better look at him… He honestly doesn’t seem like much with his green coat and blue mane, but the mask is REALLY weirding me out and the staring… Maybe I should just back up a bit. He could, I don’t know, bite or something… Urgh… that laughter… it chills me right to the bone… that stupid pony is so bucking creepy… Hm? He’s talking now... better listen up for a bit, maybe get some information from this bub… How the hell did he know I have no memory?! God I wish he would stop laughing so much… it starting to really aggravate me! Alright alright… each floor is a challenge, unique in its own regard, several ponies are among its levels and… dead? They died? Urgh… the shivers… Makes me wonder what could have killed them… Actually, never mind, that’s not a good idea… He vanished again the bucker! And on cue, his freaky laugh, coming from nowhere... Oh? A parting word this time? I wonder what he- What the hell did he just say? What does he mean I’ll be seeing familiar faces around here? Come to think of it… he was talking to me as if he knew exactly who I was… Just who in the world was that guy? Man this is so confusing… no memory, this weird tower, wolves, magic, treasure, a freaky clown pony thing… Maybe I should just sit down for a bit and weigh my options… No! What am I saying? There ARE no options here! I have to get to the top of this bucking tower! So far, everything seems pretty legitimate… so if the ‘no exit’ thing is true, then I would certainly feel that the time limit is also true! Whatever the heck ‘autumn’ is anyways… … … Oh, wait, never mind, I know it now! Alright, I guess my only option is to climb that staircase and see where it leads. Sticking in this room any longer and I might just get anxiety… Or boredom. Whichever kills first. Man, the steps just seem to keep on going up and up in this place… I doubt it’s actually this wide though… Maybe this place has some magic to it? I sort of recall something about magic… Something nagging at me, like I should know something about this, but I can’t remember it at all… Ah well, better start walking… Well hell-lo, what’s this? A red box? Why would someone leave a box halfway up the steps? Hm? A tag? Let’s see here… ‘To Miss Loosewing; use wisely. -JR’ JR? Who the hell is JR? Maybe it was that pony back there… but how could he have gotten past me already? Ah well… free stuff is free stuff, right? Hm? What have we got here… a saddle bag, nice, but of course empty. Go figure. One wrapped up… sandwich? Ugh… I hate learning new words like this… its feels all tingly in my head whenever it happens… hopefully there isn’t much more to- And a dagger. Nice. Tingle sensations a go-go! Well, this should be useful… and it fits my mouth perfectly! Hi-yah! Ho-yeah! Let any marauder and bad guy mess with me now, for I am Loosewing, champion daggerdeer and first person to reach the top of this stupid tower! …What the buck is wrong with me… Well, might as well get a move on, no use just waving this thing around… Oh! The sheath! Sheath… that’s an odd word altogether! Sheath sheath sheath… Anyways, just tie it around here and… alright! Nice and tight around my front right leg! Hopefully I won’t have to use this thing though… Alright, saddle bags in place, dagger to use just in case, sandwich randomly obtained… And door, straight ahead. Hm. Kinda expected a grand door to this place, but its just oaken and plain… Oh well! Time to open it! Whoa! It’s so bright! Wait, what the HECK is THAT thing?! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: Oh my~ what could be on the first floor of the Tower? OoOoOooOOoOoOoO~ :P Anyways, like always, please enjoy it~ :) First Floor- Attacked!PLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Now with colors to differentiate the characters! (WIP) Chapter Three: First Floor- Attacked! Is that…? No, it couldn’t be… but it really does look like one… Naw, I bet its fake… But if it was fake, why would it be here? Seems kind of fishy to me… Although, this tower IS all around nutty so far… I mean, where in the world would I ever see a real live dinosaur, much less this humid rainforest? …Dinosaur? Rainforests? So new yet nagging at my brain… this memory thing blows big time… Hmmm… now, where to go from here… Oh! Well, that’s UNsurprising… the door which I came into here is gone now! Wonderful! Well, at least there isn’t any turning back around here… not like I would need to all that much… Wait, whats that? A trail? What would a trail be doing here in the rainforest? Oh… well, there must have been other ponies travelling here too, so they probably eventually wore the trail down… Perfect! Less work for me! Ow! Stupid branches, keep getting caught up in my mane… I do wonder what it’s going to be like though, without friends or people to talk to… I mean, all I’ve really done so far is talk to myself in my brain… almost as if I was telling my story thus far… …Naw, it couldn’t be that! Yeah, I mean, really, what Pony could read mi- WHOA! What the HECK was that thing?! It’s some kind of weird flying lizard thing… and it’s looking at me hungrily… and it squawked in my direction… and now its flying straight at me… and oh MY GOSH ITS TRYING TO EAT ME! GAH! That swoop barely missed me, if only by a few inches! I swear my tail looks a bit shorter now… Guh, no time for that, I need to get going! If I can just reach a bit into that path, I am sure to- YEOWCH! LET GO OF MY TAIL! STUPID LIZARD THING! A GOOD BUCK OUGHTA- … Of course, I didn’t recognize the fact I was VERY high up already from that lizard… Oh wait! Wings! OWCH! Er… WING! C’mon wing, work, work, please work already… Crap! Its slowing me down but not enough! I’m gonna crash and burn! It’s been a short, nice life, but it’s been worth it… I only just wish I had some memories to look back upon… ...Dammit I hate crying… … … … …Am I dead yet? It certainly still FEELS the same… its humid as all heck, the air stifling with heat, and my lungs still gasping for air… Well if this is heaven, what the HECK did I die for?! Might as well see what it’s like… …Ok, now this is disappointing… Heaven is a prehistoric jungle, just like where I died! Oh well isn’t THAT just great! Now I have to live my afterlife in a hot mess of- Why can’t I move my body? Maybe if I just tug a bit I could- Nope, no use… I wonder what the heck has got me so stuck in place here! It probably broke my fall and helped me survive! OH YES! I’M NOT DEAD YET! Thank you whoever is watching over me and- Hey, wait, is this a spider’s web I’m stuck to? … EWWWWWWWW! UGH! GET IT OFFA ME! I REMEMBER WHAT SPIDER’S ARE NOW AND I DON’T LIKE THEM ONE BIT! And if one built a web this big, it must be a HUGE spider, and with a HUGE spider, that’s big jaws, and big jaws lead to big bites, eventually leading to- Hey, where is this big old hairy thing? WELL THEN! Am I not delectable enough to be eaten or something? Hmph! I’ll show that spider what’s boss when I get free of this web! Now how to get out of this- Ah ha! My serrated dagger! If only my mouth could reach it… Hnnn? What the hell was that?! It wasn’t a spider all right, but it sure was freaky, whatever the hell passed by… That silver colored thing… I wonder what it is really… Maybe it’s a silver speedy spider! Urghhhh… the shivers… I really hope it isn’t… Hm? Who the hell is THAT? ================== Oh great… another one… Honestly, I was hoping to get a longer lasting meal… but I suppose that she will have to do… too bad though, she is quite the looker in all regards, even if her orange eyes are staring daggers at me now. Heh. It’s always cute when they fall into my trap. ‘Oh no, save me! Help me! Wait, please, don’t eat me! Ahhhhhhh~!’ Yeah, right. Either pain or your life. Let’s see… Your life! Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner! Hmmm… it’s odd though… she hasn’t screamed or anything yet… lots of struggling from before, but it’s odd… She hasn’t even called for help yet to me… I wonder what’s going through that little mind of hers… ================== If he doesn’t get me down soon, he is more than likely here to kill me. If he does help me down, I can’t say I fully trust him anyways… he looks more ravenous and desperate than anything else I have seen so far here, which hasn’t been much in all honesty… Its just that, I didn’t expect two things about this guy… One, that he was an emaciated grey coated, black mane earth pony. The other was that his grin showed devilishly sharp teeth… teeth that I know ain’t for having a salad with… Salad... now that's an appetizing thought… ================== Ahhhhh so she finally saw my teeth, eh? Better give her a little chat, see how she likes them… After all, tenderizing the mind tenderizes the meat for me… Mmmm my lips are already smacking… ================== Oh gosh he is licking his lips… And great, he feels like he should entertain his dinner, well done… Well, I can’t say he wasn’t a gracious host or anything. At least he had the decency to talk to me before eating my limbs and- WHAT THE HELL AM I THINKING, HE’S GONNA CHOMP ON MY LUSCIOUS BODY! Wait… did he just call my body luscious? Well that charmer! I bet he got a few fillyfriends in high scho- FOCUS! Being eaten soon, remember? Alright… think, think, think… He is hungry obviously. He needs sustenance. Food. Sandwich. My sandwich! Maybe… Maybe he would like some of it? I mean it’s my only food, but its eat or be eaten, right? Well, better now or never… ================== Hm? What? Wait, is she actually serious? Hmmmm… A sandwich… well, honestly, I would love a sandwich… and she IS a pretty mare… it would be a waste to eat something like her… URGH! Ugh… no, not now… I still have some time left! I shouldn’t be feeling it for a little bit still… GAH! ================== Well… Offer a stallion a sandwich, and he keels over in pain. Glorious. I didn’t know guys hated home cooking that much these days! I mean, come on, he could have just said he didn’t want it or something… Whoa, I don’t think he is kidding… He’s screaming now! Oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh what do I do? Uhm… Uhm…. OH! Dagger! I have to reach it… Come on, come on… just a bit further and I can just reach for it- Oh god. Was that squawking? OH SHITAKE MUSHROOMS! REACH LOOSEY REACH! You are so close just a bit further and… There we go! Got it free! There! Alright, got that one, and that one… OW! That one is in my hair… Oh hell I can hear flapping now… I have to get out of here soon or else that freaky bird will get me! Just a few more now… Finally! FREEDOM! Now, where to bolt off to… ================== Guh… lucky little mare… urgh… Didn’t know she had the dagger on her… uh… Well, I suppose it’s time for Karma to have its little bit of fun with me like usual… Argh! This goddamn pain! It’s just… just unbearable! Hurm? What… what is she doing? She’s not- no, she wouldn’t! There is a pterodactyl around here! She couldn’t carry both of us and outrun it! What is this, suicide? At least- OW! I better not say anything else to her… urk… unless I want a jab with that knife…. If she wants to carry me, fine. Her own damn fault for dying… Nnnn… ================== Sometimes, I am such an idiot… Why the BUCK would I try and help this guy?! I mean, he isn’t very heavy but he was going to EAT me! Man… why did that stupid flying thing have to show up now? I could have just left him there and not cared but noooooo… My good heart shone through! Gah… I know this is going to bite me in the flank later on… I just hope not literally… ACK! OR RIGHT NOW! Damn that lizard bird swoops down fast! Nearly got my tail again! Alright, I gotta get under some cover like before… except, well, maybe this time I won’t be dropped upon a giant spider’s web with a mad, cannibalistic po- AH! Alright alright! I better get moving! That bird doesn’t wait for anything! How rude of it honestly… Okay, just a bit a bit further now… Oh crap, I can hear it flapping behind me! Oh dammit it’s getting closer! Dammit dammit DAMMIT GAH! … … … … … OH THANK YOU MIGHTY BRANCH OF BLOCKING! ================== Holy buck she actually beat that bird up… well, made it collide with the tree, but either way she- UGH! The pain… Will… Will I be able to… to tell her through this? GUH! Urk… I really should tell her now, while the pain is… is… bearable… ================== I don’t give a buck if he is in any kind of pain right now, we need to MOVE! Honestly, this stallion better stop moaning soon or else he is getting dropped… better tell him that before he does it louder… Heh… one scared face later and there is silence, except for my speeding hooves. Nicely done Loosewing, nice. Hm? Doorway? What does he mean by doorway? Hm… oh, OH! Well, that’s convenient… alright, that sounds like a great idea! Hopefully, we can get there in time… He isn’t looking very good even though he isn’t whining anymore… ‘Myeh myeh myeh!’ I can’t STAND whining! And I’ve only known about it for bucking 2 minutes! ================== I can’t believe… she would even THINK about dropping me and leaving me behind! ME! Of ALL the people in here, I would have to be the most resourceful of ANY of them! OUCH! Too much moving… I probably should barter with her… she’s been running along this trail for awhile now and all it does is loop around… Thank Celestia that the door is nearby! ================== Hm? A door? There’s a DOOR to this place? Well… this helps out a lot for me! Uh oh… The ground is shaking, but in a beat-like rhythm… I wonder what could make the ground do that kind of- … Why did I look behind me…? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: Just who is this mysterious new Pony? why is he in so much pain? Why am I asking you these questions? Oh, right... i already know them~ ;D Anyways, like i say from time to time, enjoy~ :) First Floor- Food!PLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Now with colors to differentiate the characters! (WIP) Chapter Four: First Floor- Food! RUN! RUN FOR THE HILLS YOU LITTLE MOTHER F- ================== Hmph! How DARE he call me that! I’m already busting my legs here, trying to save his flank when he could at least show a tad bit more appreciation… Although, getting chased by a T-Rex can get a bit stressful. Just a tad I think… I don’t recall a time that I was ever chased by a T-Rex but I do know they eat ponies and- Oh holy buck they EAT PONIES WHOLE! I FORGOT ABOUT THAT! ================== I swear to god, if this mare doesn’t- aack!- get herself out alive… I am gonna kill her myself! Wait… that didn’t make any sense at all- OOF! Jeez she is a bumpy ride… she is gonna miss the door at this speed- OH BUCKIN APPLESAUCE THAT T-REX NEARLY BIT MY LEG OFF! SPEED GIRL, SPEED! OH MY SPLEEN! Ungh… Damn this curse… it drives me to want something to eat… ================= Holy… moly… this lizard will NOT let up at all! It even knocked over that huge tree! I hope nopony got hurt by it… ================= Sentiments? Really? AT A TIME LIKE THIS?! Turn right nnnnnow! No, now. Now! NOW! GO BACK YOU STUPID- ================= …He is SO lucky I can’t stop and whack him across the face! I mean, seriously… That tongue of his! Heh… maybe he could insult the T-Rex to death… GAH! LIZARD LIPS TRIED TO SQUISH US! THE BUCKING JERK! Just how the hell do I get away from this monster of a reptile?! I can’t keep this up for too much longer… I HAVE to get to that door now! Ideas, ideas… Tree branch? No, too flimsy… Rock? I wouldn’t be able to pick up one big enough, much less get the time to throw one! Vines? No… be broken much too easily! Alright, that leaves me with one option, although I don’t like it very much… ===================== Urk… I’m just surprised she still has some steam in her… I can tell their both getting tired now, so if she wants to do anything- Ughhhh- now would be the time! Hm… that boulder… it’s pretty big… I wonder what she is gonna do with it- Hold on? Why - umph!- should I hold on to her- … … … OH CELESTIA, WHY ME! =================== U-TURN TIME! Alright, just gotta close in on that rock… steady, steady… All right! JUMPING! Perfect landing! KICK BACK! WHEEE! It’s nice going through the air like this! The wind in my mane, the sights passing by… It would be so much better if a certain T-Rex’s belly wasn’t blocking my way though… OOMPH! =============== IDIOT! Now we are BOTH dead! Well, more you than me but- GAH! I HATE this pain so much! I need to eat something NOW! Ugh… the only thing I can eat is… well… it’s worth a shot… I’ve had worse before! I just gotta remember to wash my mouth after this… =============== …Holy buck did he just BITE the lizard’s toe? …I think I’m going to be a bit sick… it’s like he is ENJOYING its flavor. What if it has athlete’s foot or something?! So gross! HOLY- HE JUST TOOK A HUGE CHUNK OUT OF THAT TOE! This guy is ballsy! That, or really REALLY hung- yeah, hungry. He swallowed the piece. Mhm. Nice… that won’t give me nightmares or anything, nope, not at all… We better run though while Big Liz above us is screeching in pain. Just gonna- yoink!- RUN LIKE THE WIND! …Remind self not to add sound effects to actions… =================== Mmm! Sweet relief! Meat! Wonderful food! Horrid taste but wonderful delicious food! Thank god I ate enough though… Now the pain is gone! SWEET CELESTIA YES- WHOAH! I do NOT like to be colt-handled! Wait…Did she make a yoink sound when she grabbed me? More importantly, did I just hear squawking again? The beating of wings… why is that so familiar? Doesn’t matter! RUN MARE RUN! ===================== I’M TRYING! Jeez! This guy won’t let up! And that stupid lizard behind me ain’t either! Seems Munchy over here ticked her (or is it him?) off a bit more than expected… Either way, I’m more afraid of those wings at the moment… Seems my flying friend has come back for a visit! Wonderful, right? The door! Finally! YES! We are going to make it! Yay! A break from all this- …Since when can T-Rex’s fly? ================== Dah-yum! That frickin beast can jump! But of course, it would land right in front of the door… It knows what’s up, it ain’t stupid! If this stupid mare just listened to me the FIRST time we went by the door, we would be fine… … … Ugh… I hate being a hero… =================== Eh? So NOW he can run? Well, this is just dandy… could have helped out a bit ago! Whatever. It’s done now and all we need to do is get through one ton of reptilian predatorial meat and bone while it tries to either kill or eat us. Meanwhile, my old friend is coming for a revisit… Wonderful! It’s great to have no memory then get ravaged by dinosaurs and- …What the hell is he doing?! Is he… is that stallon actually trying to GET eaten?! Stop taunting it and move between its legs already! Stop goofing off and- OH MY HOLY BUCK! OH… OH MY… ======================== URK! Ya know… I finally get some food… and this stupid lizard… is slowly- ARGHHHHHH! BUCK! MY LEG! Why doesn’t it just- BUCK BUCK BUCK!- bite off my back leg already and be down with it?! IT HURTS LIKE HELL ON EARTH! I just hope that that mare is able to- BUCKING A, STOP TOSSIN ME AROUND AND JUST RIP IT OFF ALREADY! –get the message and go through the- What the BUCK is she doing?! MY LEG IS RIPPING OFF HERE AND SHE WANTS TO GO FORAGING?! ====================== Alright, almost… THERE! That should be a strong enough vine… Hopefully anyways. Ok, so… I just hope that this ridiculous plan works… and that his leg will be fine after all this! I only got one shot at all of this so I better make it count… …I almost wonder if this is how everypony’s day is? ===================== …Hm… I see… so that’s- CELESTIA BUCKING DARNIT! THIS THING WANTS ME TO PAY, HUH?! Urgh… I can’t believe she is trying to save me though… even after I was going to eat her and everything! I… I just hope she knows… what she is doing… ===================== I have no bucking clue how I am going to do this! The proper phrase at this point would be probably to, “Wing it”? If my memory is correct… which I highly doubt anyways… Ah-ha! There he is… better make this quick! He’s closing in fast! All right, three… Two… One… JUMP! ================== Holy buck she did it! She cleared right over that swooping pterodactyl! Even better, she slipped that vine around its neck and over the wings so- AACK! JUST EAT ME ALREADY! I’M SORRY FOR EATING A TOE OFF BUT JEEZ! Wait… did she… … Ah buck my life- WHOA! ==================== Perfect! Even better, the T-rex hardly even knew I wrapped the vine around its leg since it was shaking that stallion so much… It would have been very comical with all the shouting for his mommy if he wasn’t in so much pain! But now, the master part of the plan is working… working… YES! The T-Rex is falling over! Over… and AT ME OH MY BUCKING LUCK I GOTTA MOVE! …Wait, did that stallion just fly through the door? =================== URGH! OW! OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW! Aack… … I… hate… stairs… ================== Alright, he must have been launched there after the T-rex tripped… ALRIGHT! Time to move out of this jungle! Thanks stupid dinosaurs for… nothing really! This has been a complete waste of my time… but there is something I have to do very quickly, before the dinosaurs recover… … … … WHAM! That’s how you kick a MALE T-Rex to make it hurt! Yeah, you better be roaring after that! …Stupid reptiles… A/N: Alright, sorry for taking awhile to write this chapter... this one is largely unedited but i am going to post it anyways so that i can move on with my other stories that i am writing~ And no, the stallion's name is not Munchy or Jaws of McBitey XD Second Floor- Hunger Pains!PLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Now with colors to differentiate the characters! (WIP) Chapter Five: Second Floor- Hunger Pains! Oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh I KILLED HIM! Ok, don’t panic Loosewing, its fine… You… you just gotta find a nice place to… to bury the body and- Of COURSE we would be in a stone cavern! What do I do now? Call up an excavator?! Head. Hurt. Ow… DANG MY MEMORY LOSS! Well, maybe I can just shove him in some crevice around her… there are a lot of smaller holes I could stuff him in… yeah, maybe he won’t mind much. Yeah. He is dead. Shouldn’t mind much at all… yeah… ========================== Ugh… My neck… hurts… SO much… GE-OW! FAAAAAAAAAACK! Urgh… Well… Its broken, that’s for sure! And it’s all thanks to that crazed out mare from earlier! Honestly, she better have been eaten by that T-Rex… I don’t think I could handle much more of her- GAH! IN! FACE! MARE! … Why is she screaming?! I should be the one screaming here! ================== GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! HE- HE- HE IS ALIVE! HIS NECK IS BROKEN IN HALF AND HE IS ALIVE! … … … EWWWWWWWW CREEPY! I don’t think that’s supposed to be normal! ================== …Creepy? REALLY LADY?! Ugh… I can’t talk too much… I gotta… Gotta get something. Something to… ================== WHY would he want my SANDWICH at a time like THIS?! His neck is BROKEN! I think that calls for a bit more than just chowing down on some food! ================== Just give me the sandwich please… I just need a little bit! ================== He is an insistent fella! But jeez… I should try to find a first aid kit or something to- Urkkkk… First aid and kit… two new vocab words to impale my brainwaves! ================= YO! I NEED A SAMMICH! ================= GRAH! Idiot stallion! Fine! He can have it but honestly, I am just leaving him here to die… he wanted to eat me after all! Might as well let the irony hold true for his end! ================= OH THE SWEET BEAUTY OF BREAD AND LEAFY GREENS! COME TO PAPA! ================= Wow… he really WAS hungry! Curious, this guy is, but whatever. I need to get to the next door… … Wherever it is in this huge dark cavern… ================ Mmmm… delicious, although a bit smooshed… but I think that should be enough to- GACK! …Yep… that was enough… ================ HOLY T-REX PARTS! Did his neck just REALIGN itself?! That is some crazy stuff right there! Now I am thoroughly curious about this guy… just what the heck IS he? I feel like this might take awhile… time to sit and chat! … … Stone ground sucks to sit on… ================= Urgh… she ain’t leaving… Wonderful. No doubt she saw my little fix-me-up, but I was hoping for more of a scare factor instead of this… curiosity! So sickening... She is acting like some little filly or something! Grow up mare! Haven’t you ever seen something bizarre in your lifetime?! ================= SUCH a charmer and I am NOT a little filly! Thankfully, I don’t have to deal with him for much longer... Such a rude Earth pony… ================= Huh? Where does she think she is going?! I need her now that I have nothing to eat in this damnable place! Guh… I guess I better follow her for now… just have to have some excuse for me… Hmmmm… ================= …Afraid of the dark? REALLY?! … … …BWAHAHAHA! And he called ME the little filly! Goodness… a full grown stallion and he is letting the dark scare him! I don’t have a memory and even I know that’s a bit silly of him! ================= …But I really am! Celestia why did I have to choose something that was true… Note to self: always try to be stalliony, even if you are lying about it… Now just to try and press it a bit, get her on my side about it… I may be useful for her later and honestly, I don’t think she is at full health what with her injured wing and such. ================= …Damnit I hate logic sometimes. Fine, I suppose he could tag along… anyways, if the first floor had a jungle and a T-Rex, who KNOWS what this floor is going to hold, what with all its dark passageways, dank tunnels, and eerie crystallations everywhere. Couldn’t be all that bad… right? ================= BEEP! No, wrong. It’s always much worse in the tower… floor by floor, it just gets worse and worse… I know how it is the deeper it goes… ================= The stallion seems a bit off and put down… maybe I should tell him my name, get him to tell me mine. It would probably ease the tension a little bit… He seems like a lot has happened to him over the years… … Wow, when did I become Ms. Sensitive all of a sudden? ================= …So, Loosewing, huh? Seems to be getting a bit softer on me, hehe… Hm? My name? Jeez… I haven’t been asked that in for so long… What was it again? Hm... Oh! Oh yeah, it was- ================= Hunger Pains? Suits him very well… Well, it’s nice to finally officially meet him I suppose… Even if he tried to EAT me the first time he met me! Actually, I wonder… ================ Why did I try to eat her? ANOTHER great question, although this one I don’t want to answer… Probably should just stay silent, make it seem like a touchy subject. … … Success~ ================ Well, he ain’t saying anything… right now… But eventually I WILL make him talk! Hopefully, after all this is said and done he could tell me about himself a bit more… If we ever get out of here that is... -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- A/C- Yeah, sorry for taking so long to do these chapters and such ^_^;; but honestly, just been CRAZY the last few weeks and I finally got some time to do this story! Anyways, hope you enjoy this newest chapter... its mostly character development but meh, it was mostly made to reveal out hungry friend here! ALSO, if you do not know, i am doing a Let's Read of Mystic's story All Paths Lead Home on Youtube~ Look it up if you're interested~ Second Floor- Exploration!PLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Now with colors to differentiate the characters! (WIP) Chapter Six: Second Floor- Exploration! Ok... I'm pretty sure that we already went trough this area before... Just where the heck is this guy taking me?! He said he knew the way out of here too... I wonder if he already climbed the tower before? But wait... If thats true... Why was he on the first floor? That makes no sense! -------------- ... Dang, she is a smart one... Well, maybe not TOO smart, but she isn't like the rest of them dumbasses comIng in here and dying on the first floor! Still, the minimal talking treatment seems to work pretty well with her, hehe... ... HAHAHA IT'S FUNNY WATCHING HER GET FLUSTERED! --------------- That jerk is STILL giving me the silent treatment! How rude! Well, whatever... I'm just following him for now since he knows this place better than me... ... JERK! --------------- HEY I AM NOT A JERK! --------------- Well whatever! It's not exactly nice to keep a lady in suspense, especially with an achy wing and sore back! And memory loss! Don't forget that! I mean, c'mon! I already have a lot on my plate here and just traveling through these maze of caverns isn't exactly helping me very much! We don't have any food and I haven't had a single drop of water all day! I MIGHT DIE OF THIRST HERE! Really, do we even have a plan to get through here?! Eventually we will run out of food and I KNOW you will want to eat me again! I swear though, if you even touch me the wrong way, you'll be feeling the same pain like that T-Rex on the last floor! Got it? --------------- Blah blah blah, jeez! This broad doesn't stop yapping sometimes! Is she like, part bird or something? I wonder if its a pegasus thing... They both have wings and feathers, right? Maybe there is some heritage in there somewhere or something... Oh? Hm? Yeah, yeah, pain, gotcha, mhm... ---------------- Good! Now that that's settled, maybe I can coax him into a short break! My hooves and back are KILLING me after that stupid chase earlier and I- ---------------- NO! DON'T TOUCH THE CRYSTALS! ---------------- WAAAAAAAAAGH! WHY NOT?! ---------------- THEY'RE DANGEROUS! DIDN'T I MENTION THAT?! ---------------- NO, NO YOU DIDN'T! YOU HAVEN'T TOLD ME ANYTHING YET! ---------------- Oh. Well, don't touch the crystals... They are dangerous. --------------- ... I honestly can't believe this guy... --------------- So, yes, with that, we are nearly at the end of this floor and- OW! Dang, these crystals are SHARP! Anyways, it should be- ...The rumbling... --------------- Such a hypocrite... And now, ominous rumbling all around, oh joy oh me! ... ... ... that wall just moved... --------------- NOT AGAIN! RUN! NOW! GOLEMS! --------------- What the HELL is a go- WHAAA! ROCKY CRYSTAL MONSTER! THAT'S A GOLEM! GOTCHA! --------------- Why is it always me, why is it always me, why is it always me, why is it always me- AHA! LEFT TURN! --------------- LEFT TURN? Left turn left turn left turn GAH! More golem-thingy monsters! Ugh... ... ... Why did they have to be shaped like ponies?! They are catching up to us pretty quickly! --------------- Dangit, there are more than I remembered... they must have multiplied lately! Ugh I swear... its gonna be one of those weeks... OH SHI- --------------- Whoa... he is a huge one... How the HELL does he even fit in here?! Well, whatever, need to get by him and his glowy eyes somehow and- Hehe… DESERVES YOU RIGHT! ---------------- Hey! Being hit by a boulder from that huge golem is NOT right, thank you very much! Urghhhhh… that impact definitely left a broken rib or two… Wonderful… No food, and this is going to take forev- WATCH OUT, LOOSE! ---------------- WHOA THAT WAS CLOSE! Stupid charging golems, trying to tackle me… Well thank goodness I still had one good wing! Barely fluttered by them! But… They still crash into a wall and get up, like nothings happened! How the hell do we beat something like these?! ---------------- You don’t, Loosey! They simply are rock, stone, and crystal made into living by pure magic! Literally, we are battling juggernauts without the help of a unicorn! GAH! ---------------- ...You don’t dodge very well, do you Hunger? ---------------- Oh come off- HACK!- it! ---------------- Hehe… BUT we need to get past these things! We can’t keep dodging and running all day! Well, neither of us are unicorns, but we are starting to run out of passageways… That big one has been chasing us for a bit now, but is a lot slower thank goodness! Maybe what we could do is- CRAP! --------------- A dagger?! When the hell did she get a dag- WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING?! ---------------- Dagger, dagger, gotta get that dagger without being squished… AHA! GOT IT! … Oh dang it all, this looks like the end again… ---------------- Are you fricken for real?! Ugh… RAWRGH!!! … … I can’t believe I got her! Ok, just run, don’t worry about anything, just run… ---------------- …How much luck can one mare get?! Looks like our roles are reversed this time, but I don’t know how much longer he can hold me up with his injuries… Wait, is that- ---------------- THE DOOR! YES! ---------------- MOVE IT YOU LAZY TURD! WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW! There are TONS of those things right behind us, and the big guy is NOT looking too happy with us getting away! ---------------- HEY! I’M DRIVIN NOW SO QUIT YOUR- URGH! ---------------- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! UMPH! Ugh… Why can they throw boulders at us…? SO UNFAIR! Ah jeez... Either I am the STUPIDEST pony out in the world, or I am just that reckless… ---------------- Andddddd great. Broken leg now. Wonderful. They are closing in on us, mostly me though… They obviously remember me the first time… And they aren’t enjoying me try to go a second time either… Well, this has been a long haul… a very VERY long haul, but still… Radiance… Forgive me… … … … … … … … Uh… Oh, what the hell?! NOTHING?! Even after my lame last words?! THIS IS A RIP-OFF! If you’re gonna kill me, do it RIGHT and do it qui- … … What the hell…? ---------------- How the hell… How… WELL! Whatever, its making them pause anyways! I didn’t think that defending him with my dagger would do anything! Huh! Who would have thought? They are just looking at me, all stupid like… Hehehe… YEAH! YOU STUPID BOULDER GOLEM THINGS! FEAR MY DAGGER OF DOOM! WOOOOHOOOO! HAHA YES, THAT’S RIGHT, BACK AWAY NOW- oops! ... ... ... Dropped it, hehehe… Uhm... RUN! ---------------- Oh my Celestia… PICK IT UP AND HEAD FOR THE DOOR! Jeez I hope I can make it myself. Only a few yards to go! The doors opening, like always, and I can- OW! YEAUGHHHHH! ---------------- Sorry! Had to kick you in the fanny to get you going! WAY too slow for me to get in! Time for me to make my dive! YA-HOOOOOOOO! UGH! OW! OW! OW! Urghhhh… … … Well, don’t hear any more golems, so we made it I suppose! Hunger, your butt ok? ---------------- My butt…? Oh, oh YES! My butt is PERFECTLY fine! It has a nice hoof shaped impression on it now, but yes, it is perfectly fine! So is my ribs! And my legs! My back feels terrific also! But yes, thanks for caring about my big, rotund, HURTING LIKE HELL, A- ---------------- … Well, I’m glad he is all right then! A/N- Yeahhhh so Anoobus93 (my editor :D) wanted me to continue this story and i said, "Eh, what the hay!" I love the characters in this story anyways, so i didn't want to randomly just drop them! So i decided that i will add this to my rotation of updating for chapters! Next, will be I Hate Ponies! :D So anyways, please enjoy like always~ :) Third Floor: Explanations!PLEASE READ: This is now a THOUGHT and SPEECH based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or NOW COLORED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Chapter Seven: Third Floor- Explanations! Alright, this place is starting to annoy me. How in the name of all that’s good, can a tower hold an entire fricking OCEAN? I mean REALLY now… Couldn’t we have, I don’t know… a nice, meadow field or something? Would that be too much to ask? Yes, yes it is. The tower shows no mercy and the tower WILL destroy you if you’re not- ow- careful! Jeez this broad… not very bright, is she? Does she even notice the destruction right around us? Oh! Jeez… the rocks around here looked like they were chunked out of the ground and… Yeah, thrown waaaaaaay over there, down the rock path! Wait… is that a boat lodged between the rocks?! IT’S HUGE! Sigh… Yes, that IS a boat. The S.S. Lunar Might. It was built way before your time… Heh… Hm… big bad and chompy and acting a bit strange… I wonder why- OH! HEY YOU! Ugh… yeah? What now? What’s the deal with you? Like, you and this place? A little slow, maybe, but her insight might make up for it! Well… It’s a long story, and frankly, I don’t want to tell it. So let’s drop it there. And great, no greens or meat anywhere… Guess I have to resort to other measures… WHOA! JEEZ! WHY THE HELL ARE YOU EATING THE ROCKS?! … In fact, HOW the hell are you able to eat all these rocks? And meat! Ponies are vegetarians, that much I know, and- Urgh… that one had a bit of sandstone, blech! But I feel it working it’s magic on my body, so I suppose I’m all good… For the moment. Oh my dear Celestia, is she still going on about me? I knew I should have eaten her way back, but… sigh… Damn you Radiance… -can’t believe that you were stupid enough to go and touch a crystal even after you said not to! So all I’m saying is, what is with you? I’m not going to stop being curious about it, so you might as well lay it on the table! Huh… that’s a peculiar expression… ANYWAYS… Please? … … … Alright, fine. You want a little story? You got it. So I want you to shut up and listen since I don’t particularly like the past. I suppose it might explain quite a bit about me… Jeez… all serious now. What’s gotten into him? Hm… I think I may have dredged up some bad memories… Dredged, such a peculiar word… So, I guess I shall start from the beginning. This is going to be the condensed version since we really should be going soon… Way before you were born, I was born, though under a different name than Hunger Pains. Had a pretty good life in my village, from what I recall. Nice family, did well with my job, had a few scraps with bad ponies now and then, but was backed by my buddy, Laughing Fit. He was a pretty good jokester, though a bit odd, but he was always by my side. But yeah, life was pretty good elsewise. …Hmmm… Laughing Fit… seems strangely familiar… Then I met myself a nice mare named Radiance. She was a pegasi that shone like the sun, especially when she flew around. Although I was often grounded, for obvious reasons, I would always watch her, milling about the clouds, like a personal angel over me. She was… really something, I tell you. Eventually we got married and had a nice life together. So this went on for some time and long story short, she… died… … … A-anyways, I was pretty shaken up by the situation and, foalishly, I tried to figure out a way to revive her. I was desperate for a way, any way, to get her back though Fit, even though he helped me, often would try to talk me out of it. We ran around Equestria for quite awhile until I collapsed one day from running. I couldn’t take it anymore and my grief was running it’s course. I couldn’t let Fit keep following me, enduring this as well. I needed to stop, but only so others wouldn’t be dragged with me. It was then that we found The Autumn Tower, suddenly appearing right in front of us. I read the notice on its front and thinking it could be my one and only option left. Everything else had ended fruitlessly and I was done being on a wild goose. I bravely entered the doorway, intent on this final run around, and asked Fit to stay behind. But what do you do with a loyal friend like him? So, off we went into the tower. We were not expecting anything like this however, and soon learned the true perils of this place. Although, back then, it was actually a lot easier than it is now. Now, everything has evolved, changed, and grown. We got pretty far into the Tower, probably up near the top, since the enemies and trials were getting harder and harder to deal with. Trust me, what you’ve seen now is nothing to what is supposed to be ahead. Anyways, we hit this floor and faced off against a huge creature. It called itself ‘Bardra’ or some crap like that. We fought against it for quite some time, about a few days really. We kept on having to set up traps and use guerilla tactics against him and- Guerilla? Oh, uhm… Hit-and-run, hide from the bushes and attack. Sneaky things. Ah... … ANYWAYS, even with all of this, we couldn’t beat him and eventually, he had us pinned down. We were broken, beaten, and exhausted. We had lost. And with our loss, he ate me whole right after he splattered Fit’s head against a wall, brains exploding out- Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA. Hang on a moment... WHAAAAAAAT?! You said you were eaten WHOLE by this Bardra character and… and… you’re still HERE and stuff! Even I know that is not supposed to be even REMOTELY possible! Are you ly- Well if you would just let me FINISH, I could probably explain some things to you! Jeez… just can’t keep it shut, can you? Fine fine fine… Asshole… Stupid grumbling aside, we both found out bitterly that we were the very first ponies to try and scale the Tower. And while the Tower itself is a merciless entity, we found out how sadistic it can be as well. That is to say, we didn’t die that day. Instead, we were cursed for the rest of time. Cursed to live forever in the tower and gave us powers to suit our newfound jobs. For me, they made my teeth sharp, as you know, and forced this inflicting hunger-induced pain if I don’t have something to eat after some time. I learned that I could eat anything I wanted to, though some things taste real nasty and things that are not meat or plant based don’t regenerate or sedate me as much. It also lets me use, if I eat enough of the material, attributes of them for a short time, like hardened skin from rocks or better vision from birds. If I had eaten more of any of the stuff before, I probably would have gained their traits for a bit! Like stinky dino foot breath? Or be squishy like old bread? Har har har basically but shut up. Hmph! The Tower is cruel and it’s Custodians had to be equipped for everything inside. Some of the things in here can kill me still, if they do things the right way or obliterate every part of my body, but the Tower has made it difficult for them now only so I can complete my job. And Laughing Fit, well… He, I believe, had a much crueler fate, even though he shouldn’t have come in with me… They bound him to a mask with a smile on it and gave him the power to teleport throughout the Tower. His job was to introduce and bring out any pony who entered the tower. No doubt you’ve already seen him once. However when I mean ‘bring out’, that basically means for him to take the dead bodies in the tower and then give them to me. I think you can connect the pieces from there… Ohhhh yeah. That guy was pretty interesting... but he did help me out. Wonder why? Does he do that with every pony that comes in here? And his job... But... wait, wouldn’t creatures in the Tower just eat the bodies instead? I mean, what you’re saying sounds a bit morbid… Of course it’s damn morbid! It’s like I said about the Tower being a bit sadistic! I can’t help it! When I see the dead body of a pony, any pony, young, old, unicorn, pegasus, I-I get this overwhelming urge to eat! It’s not like I want to… but I HAVE to! It’s like an addiction they put into me and my mind just goes blank and all I can think about is sedating the hunger and feasting and eating and tearing them up and munching on their bones and- OWCH! … ... Thanks for that slap. Welcome. Anyways, to wrap it all up, we had to do this whenever a new pony came in and died and slowly I noticed Laughing Fit drifting away into madness, especially after the first go arounds of this procedure. He’d start sputtering nonsense about this and that and more than once now, has attacked me for no reason whatsoever just to get a few laughs out of it. Sure he sends me the food, even though I can get it myself, but it’s like the Tower… it’s like it is controlling him instead now. He doesn’t even call me by my original name, instead putting this title of ‘Hunger Pains’ on me. Fitting after all, but still unnerving coming from a psycho who was once your best friend. And with that, I think I covered about everything. Hmmmmm… What do ya mean ‘Hmmmmm’? Oh, I believe you, just saying. Don’t worry about that. Then why ‘Hmmmmm’? Just thinking if you are always grumpy, or this other side to you with the deeper parts and the ‘not the best guy’ kind of attitude is something you can actually be on a regular basis! Screw you. Guess not then… Wait a minute… Did you hear that? Huh? Oh, that screaming? Yeah, heard it awhile ago. Think it’s some mare, screaming her head off on the ship. But really, I already know where the next door is and- Oh… COME… ON! Why did she have to bolt off towards THAT ship? I really hate this ship… I hate this ship I hate this ship I hate this ship I HATE THIS SHIP! Author's Note So, hey everyone! Got in the mood to write some more for this somewhat forgotten fic and decided that I should expand on it a bit more~ The style for it is still a bit frustrating to work with, but I think I have a better system for it... Splitting the thought and actual dialogue between characters! It should be MUCH less confusing than before and will, hopefully, enrich the story more! Future chapters WILL NOT be as monologue as this one is, hopefully, but I think I will be more fluent with the system as it goes on. I checked through this chapter about three times and I THINK I got all the bugs out of the story, but if anybody spots something amiss, please don't hesitate to point it out to me! I plan on doing one or two more chapters by the end of the week but we will see how that goes and such! :) Also, apparently, the coloring system on FimFiction is being buggy, forcing me to color each individual paragraph now... So yeah, this'll be annoying lol Third Floor- Ghosts!PLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Now with colors to differentiate the characters! (WIP) Chapter Eight: Third Floor- Ghosts! That asshole! Why didn’t he say something before?! Did he NOT want to get interrupted that badly? Of all the things… Jeez! This ship is even bigger up close! Arghhhhh… why isn’t there a ladder or something??? That would be SO useful right now… Well, at least the ship was wedged between the rocks enough to let it intersect with the path… Maybe I could… WHA! You certainly caught up quick! But you aren’t stopping me, you asshole! Insult insult insult… seems that’s all we do to each other! Whatever… But I can’t believe her! Doesn’t she know what’s on this fucking ship, I mean like- Oh, wait, she doesn’t… Well, at least the broad is thinking for once… Dammit, these rocks are pretty slippery! If I didn’t have my one good wing, I would have probably fallen by now! Phew! That’s a LONG way up! Wait, there’s a breach in the hull –urghhhhh new words… I’ll just hop on in through there! Wait, when did that opening get there…? Ah shit shit shit shit shit shit shit! It’s getting closer to nightfall… The horizon is full on orangey-pink! That’s it, gotta get movin now! Whoaaaaaaaa! It’s so… regal? In here! Well, everything that’s still standing up and not knocked over like a mini typhoon came in and had a tap dance party! …What? Where the HELL did THAT come from? Ughhhh… anyways, I gotta find whoever it is before- WAAAAGH! I SWEAR TO FUCKIN CELESTIA HUNGER, IF YOU POP UP IN FRONT OF ME LIKE THAT AGAIN, I WILL KICK YOUR HEAD AROUND EVERY CHANCE I GET! Yeah yeah empty death threats woo-hoo seen that before now SHUT IT! Celestia dammit she really gets on my nerves, even though I’m helping her… Did you even pause to think what could be ON this boat? Basically, what lives, or rather, lived on this floor of the Tower? Well, of course I thought, but I didn’t give it MUCH thought… Not… really? Well, I’ll tell you what it is; frickin ghosts! A bit cliché of the Tower to do, but this is a haunted ship with at least a couple hundred ghosts floating about! G-ghosts…? Yes. I… don’t like ghosts… … Hey! What’s with that surprised look? Uh, it’s just… this is the first time you said something you didn’t like, or at least expressed some sort of fear than the obvious fleeing in terror kind… Oooooooooo~ I like where THIS is going! Screw you! Hehehehe… but anyways, you can’t just go amongst these ghosts, hooves a-blazin and throwing around everything in sight at them! You have to, basically, dodge everything they throw at you. Luckily I remember exactly where the door is here, so just follow me and- OWCH! WHY IS IT ALWAYS WHEN I AM NOT LOOKING?! No matter HOW many times you snap your neck, even backwards onto your back… …IT… …IS… …FREAKY! Anyways, what in the name of Tarturus –what the hell is Tarturus?!- hit you? …That’s a big rock… WHOA! That's a REALLY big rock! Bigger than me! How the hell did it get blasted so fast at me, let alone be picked up? Ah whatever… guess I should eat some of it now… Guess somebody decided to have their feast early and- HOLY GUACAMOLE! (Guacamole?) Did his jaw just unhinge itself from his skull? ONLY so he can take bigger bites out of it? And in such an awkward position too… … He ate… …the whole thing… How in the world…? BURRRRRRRP! Ooooo~ that granite had a bit of sodium in there as well, nice! Ah crap… OWCH! Oooof… that realignment stung a bit… Andddddd now she is slackjawed in shock… wonderful… But we don’t have time now, so I’ll make it quick. I can dislocate my body parts, break them, eat them, etc to help me out. My belly instantly dissolves everything that goes in, so I have basically a bottomless stomach. Happy? … Good, a nod, now let’s get on over to the next room and- Whoa… Wow… That boulder of a rock didn’t just hit Hunger… It hit through three walls… ...waaa...aaaaaaaa...ah...ah... Wait, there’s the shouting again! But now it seems a bit more… young? HANG ON THERE WHOEVER YOU ARE! WAIT, NO! LOOSEWING DON’T- …just charge ahead like that… Ahhhhhhhhhhh SHIT! Whoa! When did all the furniture get up in the air? Wait, when? WHY IS ALL THE FURNITURE UP IN THE AIR AND AIMED DIRECTLY AT ME?! GHOSTS YOU IDIOT! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! Oh, oh NOW she panics. Right in the middle of the floor, with all the furniture about to go kamikaze on her ass! I swear to Celestia, Loosewing… YOU BETTER STAY ALIVE ON ME! Wait, huh? YEAUGH! FURNITURE WHIPPING AT ME! DODGEDODGEDODGEDODGEDODGE! OOF! Stupid upturned rug… AH! CHAIR! COMING! NOW! OOF! Well… that didn’t hurt as bad as it normally would ha- OOF! Ugh… two- AUGH! Three down, many more to go… Well… this is awkward… If I was a more romantic pony, and didn’t hate Hunger Pains with the rage of a thousand t-rex's, this would have been nice; him over me as I lay my back on the ground, the sunset over on the horizon through a giant gouge made in the ship… Oh, and if he wasn't letting every single chair, table, bench, and lamp crash itself against him. That too. C’mon, even the barstool? OUCH! Okay, that is ENOUGH! Super munchy powers, activate! He ain’t dodging anymore… Just eating! Wait, was his skin really lumpy before? Sort of like it had been… Rock? WHOA! What the hell is going on? His coat is changing to a lighter brown, almost like the wood he is eating! Wait, so is this what he was talking about earlier? Nifty power, I would say… BELLLLLLLLCH! Ahhhhh… that was nice! Thanks to the hardened skin, I either broke or ate everything in this room… Gotta get us out of here now. Broad’s already got me into enough trouble as it is… …save… me… Huh?! What was that?! IS IT MORE GHOSTS?! …Save me! No, the ghosts don’t sound like that… It sounds… more living… I think it’s coming from the next room over. I can hear it through the hole in the wall… AND STOP HIDING BEHIND ME! OH DEAR CELESTIA! PLEASE SOMEONE SAVE ME! BWAHHHHHHHH! TINY BLUE GHOST! BEGONE FOUL THING OF THE DEAD! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! GHOST? WHERE?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! IT TALKS JUST LIKE A LITTLE FILLY! LITTLE FILLY GHOST?! THOSE ARE THE CREEPIEST! PLEASE PROTECT ME! OH NO! IT’S LEAPING RIGHT TOWARDS ME! HUNGER! EAT THE GHOST PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! IT’S TRYING TO TOUCH MEEEEEEEEEEEE! … When did my life become a circus act? I got the two clown, but nothing else for the show… Sigh… STOP YOU TWO IDIOTS! EEEEEEEEEP! WAAAAAAAAGH! She is NOT a ghost Loosewing! She’s just a light blue unicorn! And has a sheet tied to her neck! Look! … … …Ohhhhhhhh… Yeah, I see that now. Y-you t-thought I was a g-ghost…? Oh boy… I can see the water works on full blast… Uhhhhhhhmmmm, I uh- WAAAAAAAAAAAA AH AH! Oh dear Luna almighty… This is why I never liked kids… Hey hey, there there little one… *Sniff* Whoa… look who got all motherly all of a sudden! She is even holding the kid! But like that’s going to work… Have the ghosts here been all mean and bad to you? Mhm… T-they sure have… And then a mean old brown stallion with scary teeth goes and yells at you, huh? Wait, WHAT?! Y-yeah! He d-did! Well, don’t worry. Auntie Loosewing will make sure Mr. Meany Pants Hunger Pains won’t be mean to you again, alright? Hey! When did I become the villain here?! You were the one who thought the filly was a ghost! Al-alright, Loosewing… Good… But jeez Hunger, why the hell did you let a little filly inside of here, of all places! How bad can you possibly be?! WHOA HEY! BACK UP A SECOND! Firstly, I can’t interact with EVERY pony that decides to go on a suicide trip in here! I only ran into you because you got caught in one of my traps set for food! Second, introducing people is Fit’s job, not mine. I just eat the ponies who die here and- YOU EAT P-PONIES?! Well, yeah, so? …mmmmmm… Oh, oh shit not again! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AH AH! HUNGER! SHUT YOUR TRAP! Wait, what? What’d I say wrong? All I said was I eat ponies and- WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AH AH AH! Well maybe SOME OF US don’t dine on that delicacy of yours, Hunger! Jeez… this guy can be such an inconsiderate royal arse! Scaring a little filly like this to the point of being sick… Shameful! Ugh… I… hate… kids… There there little one… Calm down, calm down… Auntie Loosewing won’t let the meany over there do anything to you, alright? So, when you’re ready, why don’t you tell us your name and why you came here? *Sniff sniff* Al-alright… M-my name is Teardrops and I a-am here, trying to s-save my mom. Author's Note Hello again! So, I got on the ball and did another chapter for The Autumn Tower~ thought I might as well, use it as a kickstart for me for other stories I plan to write on here and such~ So anyways, this chapter was... interesting to write out, and felt a lot more natural than the others~ The tri-color system now is a bit... annoying, but it helps transition between each character a lot better, plus giving us a bit of a different look on both of the characters thus far by adding Teardrops to the mix! I am pretty sure I was able to get everything inside of here, but if you happen to see a mistake of some sort, don't hesitate to tell me about it! :) I might do one or two more chapter this week, if possible. I'm def thinking about it :)
OutsidePLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Chapter One: Outside Ugh… where the hell am I? Ow! Why does my head hurt so much? In fact, for that matter, who the hell am I in the first place? Hmmm… let’s see… my body feels kind of different… And, what’s this? Hooves? Hmmm… so I’m a pony, huh? Alright, that’s kind of cool… Oh, wait, what? Wings?! All right, now we are talk- OW! My head AND my wing! What the hell is wrong with me? What the hell HAPPENED to me? I feel so scared… but why? I can’t remember anything that would scare me… I can’t remember much at all! The only thing I am sure of is my name… My name is… is… Oh yeah! Loosewing, my name is Loose- YOW! Yeah… my name fits that pretty well right now… I wonder what all this is… The leaves are all brown and orange, the trail in front of me beaten in worn down, as if a thousand ponies had trodden across it year after year… Wait, maybe there is someone that can tell me who I am then! It’s a path after all… it has to lead SOMEwhere! Man… this path seems to lead on forever! I can’t even see an end in sight! But I have to start somewhere I suppose… but now which direction do I choose? Hmmm… eenie, meenie, miney… MOE! Alright, right it is! It sure is a nice day out though… even if the sun isn’t fully out from the clouds. It’s slightly chilly with the wind but the sun keeps warming me up all snuggly-like… Now that I think about it, I wonder what I look like anyways… Ah! A puddle, perfect! Drat, I hate it when I make the water ripple… Now I gotta wait a bit and… Aha! Oh... well, I didn’t expect that. Female, huh? Oh, but a nice short cut chestnut brown mane and tan body color… I do like that. And my eyes… such a pretty orange! The red bandana on me though, that I didn’t notice… I wonder what’s on it? Hm… nothing much, just a weird looking gold triangle… I wonder why it has all those points sticking out from it… it was on me though, so maybe I can figure out who I am with it. Maybe. Highly unlikely though. I probably should still keep on moving. No sense in looking at a reflection for answers! I just honestly wonder what could be at- WHOA! How did THAT get there? I know for a fact that this wasn’t here a minute ago! Was this magic or something? Maybe I should turn around and- Hnnn? What was that noise? It sounded like… wolves. Many wolves. Too many to fight against wolves. So many I should probably rethink about entering that place… yeah, probably the better idea at the moment… This tower looks so incredibly old… I wonder how it’s even standing right now! I mean, it’s just brick on brick on brick… no windows, no cement, and it’s certainly not wide enough to hold itself very well… I can’t even see the top of this thing! Just how high is it?! Man… maybe I should have taken the other way instead… Hel-lo, what’s this? A plaque? By the doorway? Odd place to put something like that… wonder what its about… ‘The Autumn Tower, a place to have your wishes fulfilled! Treasure beyond belief, power beyond comprehension, love beyond compare! If you succeed to reach the top floor before the end of Autumn, you will have every and any wish granted! But be warned… If you enter the Tower, you may not exit! If you don’t reach the top floor before the end of autumn also, you will crumble away like the Tower, only that the Tower will be returning alone the next year. Enter, and hope to succeed!’ Well… that was informative… sort of. I don’t fully grasp it yet, but maybe after awhile I will… Although, not exiting isn’t exactly the best reassurance, and that last part… does it mean what I think it means? Oh my… The wolves are closing in… I think they can smell me! The door is already opened a bit, and I could just keep it open a crack until the wolves go by… right? AUGH! BARKING! I’M HEADIN INSIDE! WAH! I don’t remember shutting the door, or even touching it for that matter! I really hope that the plaque didn’t mean what it said, because I really don’t want to disappear without knowing who I am… Wait, the plaque said something about having my wish granted if I reach the top of the Tower… Hm… yes… If I just get to the top of the tower, I could wish for my memory back! Simple as pie! Maybe even sweeter… Wait, what IS pie anyways? I know the name, but I can’t think about it straight… it’s like all hazy in my mind… I just can’t seem to focus on the image… I know it’s great tasting and my favorite dessert, but what IS it? This is starting to bother me… Huh? What was that? A chuckle? But where could there be one… the room is bare! The white tiles and the white walls are certainly bright and shiny but I can’t see anyone… So how can there be laught- GAH! CLOWN PONY THING! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: Alright, this is a new style I am working with... trying to make it LITERALLY all in Loosewing's mind and her adventures looking out from her thoughts! Something different, you know... but anyways, please enjoy! :)
Ground FloorPLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Chapter Two: Ground Floor What… what the hell is HE doing here? Who the heck is he? I wonder if he knows anything about the tower… but that mask he is wearing… its creeping me out big time… How the hell did I know to call that a mask though? I never saw one in my life… well, at least, from when I woke up today… And my head…urgh… WHOA, WHAT THE BUCK! I blink once and he’s gone! I can’t see him anywhere now but I KNOW he was there… that creepy smiling blue and green mask… Maybe I should just go back outside. I honestly think that I have better chances with the wolves at this point… Wait, what? Where the hell is the door?! It was there just a moment ago! I mean… how? This wall is solid, like nothing had ever even been there before! My hooves aren’t even leaving a dent in it! Could that plaque have actually been telling the truth?! Oh this is wonderful, just WONDERFUL! Well, what now… I suppose I could look around again… seems that every time I turn, there is something new to- Annnnnnnnnd there is a staircase across the room now. Perfect. My confused-o-meter just cranked up another level… I just hope that this place isn’t booby-trapped or something… I could get killed! Wait, that’s the point of this place… ‘Death or Treasure’… that would be such a nice slogan for the Autumn Tower… GAH! WHO TOUCHED ME?! Whoa! When in the world did he get behind me like that?! At least I get to have a better look at him… He honestly doesn’t seem like much with his green coat and blue mane, but the mask is REALLY weirding me out and the staring… Maybe I should just back up a bit. He could, I don’t know, bite or something… Urgh… that laughter… it chills me right to the bone… that stupid pony is so bucking creepy… Hm? He’s talking now... better listen up for a bit, maybe get some information from this bub… How the hell did he know I have no memory?! God I wish he would stop laughing so much… it starting to really aggravate me! Alright alright… each floor is a challenge, unique in its own regard, several ponies are among its levels and… dead? They died? Urgh… the shivers… Makes me wonder what could have killed them… Actually, never mind, that’s not a good idea… He vanished again the bucker! And on cue, his freaky laugh, coming from nowhere... Oh? A parting word this time? I wonder what he- What the hell did he just say? What does he mean I’ll be seeing familiar faces around here? Come to think of it… he was talking to me as if he knew exactly who I was… Just who in the world was that guy? Man this is so confusing… no memory, this weird tower, wolves, magic, treasure, a freaky clown pony thing… Maybe I should just sit down for a bit and weigh my options… No! What am I saying? There ARE no options here! I have to get to the top of this bucking tower! So far, everything seems pretty legitimate… so if the ‘no exit’ thing is true, then I would certainly feel that the time limit is also true! Whatever the heck ‘autumn’ is anyways… … … Oh, wait, never mind, I know it now! Alright, I guess my only option is to climb that staircase and see where it leads. Sticking in this room any longer and I might just get anxiety… Or boredom. Whichever kills first. Man, the steps just seem to keep on going up and up in this place… I doubt it’s actually this wide though… Maybe this place has some magic to it? I sort of recall something about magic… Something nagging at me, like I should know something about this, but I can’t remember it at all… Ah well, better start walking… Well hell-lo, what’s this? A red box? Why would someone leave a box halfway up the steps? Hm? A tag? Let’s see here… ‘To Miss Loosewing; use wisely. -JR’ JR? Who the hell is JR? Maybe it was that pony back there… but how could he have gotten past me already? Ah well… free stuff is free stuff, right? Hm? What have we got here… a saddle bag, nice, but of course empty. Go figure. One wrapped up… sandwich? Ugh… I hate learning new words like this… its feels all tingly in my head whenever it happens… hopefully there isn’t much more to- And a dagger. Nice. Tingle sensations a go-go! Well, this should be useful… and it fits my mouth perfectly! Hi-yah! Ho-yeah! Let any marauder and bad guy mess with me now, for I am Loosewing, champion daggerdeer and first person to reach the top of this stupid tower! …What the buck is wrong with me… Well, might as well get a move on, no use just waving this thing around… Oh! The sheath! Sheath… that’s an odd word altogether! Sheath sheath sheath… Anyways, just tie it around here and… alright! Nice and tight around my front right leg! Hopefully I won’t have to use this thing though… Alright, saddle bags in place, dagger to use just in case, sandwich randomly obtained… And door, straight ahead. Hm. Kinda expected a grand door to this place, but its just oaken and plain… Oh well! Time to open it! Whoa! It’s so bright! Wait, what the HECK is THAT thing?! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: Oh my~ what could be on the first floor of the Tower? OoOoOooOOoOoOoO~ :P Anyways, like always, please enjoy it~ :)
First Floor- Attacked!PLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Now with colors to differentiate the characters! (WIP) Chapter Three: First Floor- Attacked! Is that…? No, it couldn’t be… but it really does look like one… Naw, I bet its fake… But if it was fake, why would it be here? Seems kind of fishy to me… Although, this tower IS all around nutty so far… I mean, where in the world would I ever see a real live dinosaur, much less this humid rainforest? …Dinosaur? Rainforests? So new yet nagging at my brain… this memory thing blows big time… Hmmm… now, where to go from here… Oh! Well, that’s UNsurprising… the door which I came into here is gone now! Wonderful! Well, at least there isn’t any turning back around here… not like I would need to all that much… Wait, whats that? A trail? What would a trail be doing here in the rainforest? Oh… well, there must have been other ponies travelling here too, so they probably eventually wore the trail down… Perfect! Less work for me! Ow! Stupid branches, keep getting caught up in my mane… I do wonder what it’s going to be like though, without friends or people to talk to… I mean, all I’ve really done so far is talk to myself in my brain… almost as if I was telling my story thus far… …Naw, it couldn’t be that! Yeah, I mean, really, what Pony could read mi- WHOA! What the HECK was that thing?! It’s some kind of weird flying lizard thing… and it’s looking at me hungrily… and it squawked in my direction… and now its flying straight at me… and oh MY GOSH ITS TRYING TO EAT ME! GAH! That swoop barely missed me, if only by a few inches! I swear my tail looks a bit shorter now… Guh, no time for that, I need to get going! If I can just reach a bit into that path, I am sure to- YEOWCH! LET GO OF MY TAIL! STUPID LIZARD THING! A GOOD BUCK OUGHTA- … Of course, I didn’t recognize the fact I was VERY high up already from that lizard… Oh wait! Wings! OWCH! Er… WING! C’mon wing, work, work, please work already… Crap! Its slowing me down but not enough! I’m gonna crash and burn! It’s been a short, nice life, but it’s been worth it… I only just wish I had some memories to look back upon… ...Dammit I hate crying… … … … …Am I dead yet? It certainly still FEELS the same… its humid as all heck, the air stifling with heat, and my lungs still gasping for air… Well if this is heaven, what the HECK did I die for?! Might as well see what it’s like… …Ok, now this is disappointing… Heaven is a prehistoric jungle, just like where I died! Oh well isn’t THAT just great! Now I have to live my afterlife in a hot mess of- Why can’t I move my body? Maybe if I just tug a bit I could- Nope, no use… I wonder what the heck has got me so stuck in place here! It probably broke my fall and helped me survive! OH YES! I’M NOT DEAD YET! Thank you whoever is watching over me and- Hey, wait, is this a spider’s web I’m stuck to? … EWWWWWWWW! UGH! GET IT OFFA ME! I REMEMBER WHAT SPIDER’S ARE NOW AND I DON’T LIKE THEM ONE BIT! And if one built a web this big, it must be a HUGE spider, and with a HUGE spider, that’s big jaws, and big jaws lead to big bites, eventually leading to- Hey, where is this big old hairy thing? WELL THEN! Am I not delectable enough to be eaten or something? Hmph! I’ll show that spider what’s boss when I get free of this web! Now how to get out of this- Ah ha! My serrated dagger! If only my mouth could reach it… Hnnn? What the hell was that?! It wasn’t a spider all right, but it sure was freaky, whatever the hell passed by… That silver colored thing… I wonder what it is really… Maybe it’s a silver speedy spider! Urghhhh… the shivers… I really hope it isn’t… Hm? Who the hell is THAT? ================== Oh great… another one… Honestly, I was hoping to get a longer lasting meal… but I suppose that she will have to do… too bad though, she is quite the looker in all regards, even if her orange eyes are staring daggers at me now. Heh. It’s always cute when they fall into my trap. ‘Oh no, save me! Help me! Wait, please, don’t eat me! Ahhhhhhh~!’ Yeah, right. Either pain or your life. Let’s see… Your life! Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner! Hmmm… it’s odd though… she hasn’t screamed or anything yet… lots of struggling from before, but it’s odd… She hasn’t even called for help yet to me… I wonder what’s going through that little mind of hers… ================== If he doesn’t get me down soon, he is more than likely here to kill me. If he does help me down, I can’t say I fully trust him anyways… he looks more ravenous and desperate than anything else I have seen so far here, which hasn’t been much in all honesty… Its just that, I didn’t expect two things about this guy… One, that he was an emaciated grey coated, black mane earth pony. The other was that his grin showed devilishly sharp teeth… teeth that I know ain’t for having a salad with… Salad... now that's an appetizing thought… ================== Ahhhhh so she finally saw my teeth, eh? Better give her a little chat, see how she likes them… After all, tenderizing the mind tenderizes the meat for me… Mmmm my lips are already smacking… ================== Oh gosh he is licking his lips… And great, he feels like he should entertain his dinner, well done… Well, I can’t say he wasn’t a gracious host or anything. At least he had the decency to talk to me before eating my limbs and- WHAT THE HELL AM I THINKING, HE’S GONNA CHOMP ON MY LUSCIOUS BODY! Wait… did he just call my body luscious? Well that charmer! I bet he got a few fillyfriends in high scho- FOCUS! Being eaten soon, remember? Alright… think, think, think… He is hungry obviously. He needs sustenance. Food. Sandwich. My sandwich! Maybe… Maybe he would like some of it? I mean it’s my only food, but its eat or be eaten, right? Well, better now or never… ================== Hm? What? Wait, is she actually serious? Hmmmm… A sandwich… well, honestly, I would love a sandwich… and she IS a pretty mare… it would be a waste to eat something like her… URGH! Ugh… no, not now… I still have some time left! I shouldn’t be feeling it for a little bit still… GAH! ================== Well… Offer a stallion a sandwich, and he keels over in pain. Glorious. I didn’t know guys hated home cooking that much these days! I mean, come on, he could have just said he didn’t want it or something… Whoa, I don’t think he is kidding… He’s screaming now! Oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh what do I do? Uhm… Uhm…. OH! Dagger! I have to reach it… Come on, come on… just a bit further and I can just reach for it- Oh god. Was that squawking? OH SHITAKE MUSHROOMS! REACH LOOSEY REACH! You are so close just a bit further and… There we go! Got it free! There! Alright, got that one, and that one… OW! That one is in my hair… Oh hell I can hear flapping now… I have to get out of here soon or else that freaky bird will get me! Just a few more now… Finally! FREEDOM! Now, where to bolt off to… ================== Guh… lucky little mare… urgh… Didn’t know she had the dagger on her… uh… Well, I suppose it’s time for Karma to have its little bit of fun with me like usual… Argh! This goddamn pain! It’s just… just unbearable! Hurm? What… what is she doing? She’s not- no, she wouldn’t! There is a pterodactyl around here! She couldn’t carry both of us and outrun it! What is this, suicide? At least- OW! I better not say anything else to her… urk… unless I want a jab with that knife…. If she wants to carry me, fine. Her own damn fault for dying… Nnnn… ================== Sometimes, I am such an idiot… Why the BUCK would I try and help this guy?! I mean, he isn’t very heavy but he was going to EAT me! Man… why did that stupid flying thing have to show up now? I could have just left him there and not cared but noooooo… My good heart shone through! Gah… I know this is going to bite me in the flank later on… I just hope not literally… ACK! OR RIGHT NOW! Damn that lizard bird swoops down fast! Nearly got my tail again! Alright, I gotta get under some cover like before… except, well, maybe this time I won’t be dropped upon a giant spider’s web with a mad, cannibalistic po- AH! Alright alright! I better get moving! That bird doesn’t wait for anything! How rude of it honestly… Okay, just a bit a bit further now… Oh crap, I can hear it flapping behind me! Oh dammit it’s getting closer! Dammit dammit DAMMIT GAH! … … … … … OH THANK YOU MIGHTY BRANCH OF BLOCKING! ================== Holy buck she actually beat that bird up… well, made it collide with the tree, but either way she- UGH! The pain… Will… Will I be able to… to tell her through this? GUH! Urk… I really should tell her now, while the pain is… is… bearable… ================== I don’t give a buck if he is in any kind of pain right now, we need to MOVE! Honestly, this stallion better stop moaning soon or else he is getting dropped… better tell him that before he does it louder… Heh… one scared face later and there is silence, except for my speeding hooves. Nicely done Loosewing, nice. Hm? Doorway? What does he mean by doorway? Hm… oh, OH! Well, that’s convenient… alright, that sounds like a great idea! Hopefully, we can get there in time… He isn’t looking very good even though he isn’t whining anymore… ‘Myeh myeh myeh!’ I can’t STAND whining! And I’ve only known about it for bucking 2 minutes! ================== I can’t believe… she would even THINK about dropping me and leaving me behind! ME! Of ALL the people in here, I would have to be the most resourceful of ANY of them! OUCH! Too much moving… I probably should barter with her… she’s been running along this trail for awhile now and all it does is loop around… Thank Celestia that the door is nearby! ================== Hm? A door? There’s a DOOR to this place? Well… this helps out a lot for me! Uh oh… The ground is shaking, but in a beat-like rhythm… I wonder what could make the ground do that kind of- … Why did I look behind me…? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A/N: Just who is this mysterious new Pony? why is he in so much pain? Why am I asking you these questions? Oh, right... i already know them~ ;D Anyways, like i say from time to time, enjoy~ :)
First Floor- Food!PLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Now with colors to differentiate the characters! (WIP) Chapter Four: First Floor- Food! RUN! RUN FOR THE HILLS YOU LITTLE MOTHER F- ================== Hmph! How DARE he call me that! I’m already busting my legs here, trying to save his flank when he could at least show a tad bit more appreciation… Although, getting chased by a T-Rex can get a bit stressful. Just a tad I think… I don’t recall a time that I was ever chased by a T-Rex but I do know they eat ponies and- Oh holy buck they EAT PONIES WHOLE! I FORGOT ABOUT THAT! ================== I swear to god, if this mare doesn’t- aack!- get herself out alive… I am gonna kill her myself! Wait… that didn’t make any sense at all- OOF! Jeez she is a bumpy ride… she is gonna miss the door at this speed- OH BUCKIN APPLESAUCE THAT T-REX NEARLY BIT MY LEG OFF! SPEED GIRL, SPEED! OH MY SPLEEN! Ungh… Damn this curse… it drives me to want something to eat… ================= Holy… moly… this lizard will NOT let up at all! It even knocked over that huge tree! I hope nopony got hurt by it… ================= Sentiments? Really? AT A TIME LIKE THIS?! Turn right nnnnnow! No, now. Now! NOW! GO BACK YOU STUPID- ================= …He is SO lucky I can’t stop and whack him across the face! I mean, seriously… That tongue of his! Heh… maybe he could insult the T-Rex to death… GAH! LIZARD LIPS TRIED TO SQUISH US! THE BUCKING JERK! Just how the hell do I get away from this monster of a reptile?! I can’t keep this up for too much longer… I HAVE to get to that door now! Ideas, ideas… Tree branch? No, too flimsy… Rock? I wouldn’t be able to pick up one big enough, much less get the time to throw one! Vines? No… be broken much too easily! Alright, that leaves me with one option, although I don’t like it very much… ===================== Urk… I’m just surprised she still has some steam in her… I can tell their both getting tired now, so if she wants to do anything- Ughhhh- now would be the time! Hm… that boulder… it’s pretty big… I wonder what she is gonna do with it- Hold on? Why - umph!- should I hold on to her- … … … OH CELESTIA, WHY ME! =================== U-TURN TIME! Alright, just gotta close in on that rock… steady, steady… All right! JUMPING! Perfect landing! KICK BACK! WHEEE! It’s nice going through the air like this! The wind in my mane, the sights passing by… It would be so much better if a certain T-Rex’s belly wasn’t blocking my way though… OOMPH! =============== IDIOT! Now we are BOTH dead! Well, more you than me but- GAH! I HATE this pain so much! I need to eat something NOW! Ugh… the only thing I can eat is… well… it’s worth a shot… I’ve had worse before! I just gotta remember to wash my mouth after this… =============== …Holy buck did he just BITE the lizard’s toe? …I think I’m going to be a bit sick… it’s like he is ENJOYING its flavor. What if it has athlete’s foot or something?! So gross! HOLY- HE JUST TOOK A HUGE CHUNK OUT OF THAT TOE! This guy is ballsy! That, or really REALLY hung- yeah, hungry. He swallowed the piece. Mhm. Nice… that won’t give me nightmares or anything, nope, not at all… We better run though while Big Liz above us is screeching in pain. Just gonna- yoink!- RUN LIKE THE WIND! …Remind self not to add sound effects to actions… =================== Mmm! Sweet relief! Meat! Wonderful food! Horrid taste but wonderful delicious food! Thank god I ate enough though… Now the pain is gone! SWEET CELESTIA YES- WHOAH! I do NOT like to be colt-handled! Wait…Did she make a yoink sound when she grabbed me? More importantly, did I just hear squawking again? The beating of wings… why is that so familiar? Doesn’t matter! RUN MARE RUN! ===================== I’M TRYING! Jeez! This guy won’t let up! And that stupid lizard behind me ain’t either! Seems Munchy over here ticked her (or is it him?) off a bit more than expected… Either way, I’m more afraid of those wings at the moment… Seems my flying friend has come back for a visit! Wonderful, right? The door! Finally! YES! We are going to make it! Yay! A break from all this- …Since when can T-Rex’s fly? ================== Dah-yum! That frickin beast can jump! But of course, it would land right in front of the door… It knows what’s up, it ain’t stupid! If this stupid mare just listened to me the FIRST time we went by the door, we would be fine… … … Ugh… I hate being a hero… =================== Eh? So NOW he can run? Well, this is just dandy… could have helped out a bit ago! Whatever. It’s done now and all we need to do is get through one ton of reptilian predatorial meat and bone while it tries to either kill or eat us. Meanwhile, my old friend is coming for a revisit… Wonderful! It’s great to have no memory then get ravaged by dinosaurs and- …What the hell is he doing?! Is he… is that stallon actually trying to GET eaten?! Stop taunting it and move between its legs already! Stop goofing off and- OH MY HOLY BUCK! OH… OH MY… ======================== URK! Ya know… I finally get some food… and this stupid lizard… is slowly- ARGHHHHHH! BUCK! MY LEG! Why doesn’t it just- BUCK BUCK BUCK!- bite off my back leg already and be down with it?! IT HURTS LIKE HELL ON EARTH! I just hope that that mare is able to- BUCKING A, STOP TOSSIN ME AROUND AND JUST RIP IT OFF ALREADY! –get the message and go through the- What the BUCK is she doing?! MY LEG IS RIPPING OFF HERE AND SHE WANTS TO GO FORAGING?! ====================== Alright, almost… THERE! That should be a strong enough vine… Hopefully anyways. Ok, so… I just hope that this ridiculous plan works… and that his leg will be fine after all this! I only got one shot at all of this so I better make it count… …I almost wonder if this is how everypony’s day is? ===================== …Hm… I see… so that’s- CELESTIA BUCKING DARNIT! THIS THING WANTS ME TO PAY, HUH?! Urgh… I can’t believe she is trying to save me though… even after I was going to eat her and everything! I… I just hope she knows… what she is doing… ===================== I have no bucking clue how I am going to do this! The proper phrase at this point would be probably to, “Wing it”? If my memory is correct… which I highly doubt anyways… Ah-ha! There he is… better make this quick! He’s closing in fast! All right, three… Two… One… JUMP! ================== Holy buck she did it! She cleared right over that swooping pterodactyl! Even better, she slipped that vine around its neck and over the wings so- AACK! JUST EAT ME ALREADY! I’M SORRY FOR EATING A TOE OFF BUT JEEZ! Wait… did she… … Ah buck my life- WHOA! ==================== Perfect! Even better, the T-rex hardly even knew I wrapped the vine around its leg since it was shaking that stallion so much… It would have been very comical with all the shouting for his mommy if he wasn’t in so much pain! But now, the master part of the plan is working… working… YES! The T-Rex is falling over! Over… and AT ME OH MY BUCKING LUCK I GOTTA MOVE! …Wait, did that stallion just fly through the door? =================== URGH! OW! OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW! Aack… … I… hate… stairs… ================== Alright, he must have been launched there after the T-rex tripped… ALRIGHT! Time to move out of this jungle! Thanks stupid dinosaurs for… nothing really! This has been a complete waste of my time… but there is something I have to do very quickly, before the dinosaurs recover… … … … WHAM! That’s how you kick a MALE T-Rex to make it hurt! Yeah, you better be roaring after that! …Stupid reptiles… A/N: Alright, sorry for taking awhile to write this chapter... this one is largely unedited but i am going to post it anyways so that i can move on with my other stories that i am writing~ And no, the stallion's name is not Munchy or Jaws of McBitey XD
Second Floor- Hunger Pains!PLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Now with colors to differentiate the characters! (WIP) Chapter Five: Second Floor- Hunger Pains! Oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh I KILLED HIM! Ok, don’t panic Loosewing, its fine… You… you just gotta find a nice place to… to bury the body and- Of COURSE we would be in a stone cavern! What do I do now? Call up an excavator?! Head. Hurt. Ow… DANG MY MEMORY LOSS! Well, maybe I can just shove him in some crevice around her… there are a lot of smaller holes I could stuff him in… yeah, maybe he won’t mind much. Yeah. He is dead. Shouldn’t mind much at all… yeah… ========================== Ugh… My neck… hurts… SO much… GE-OW! FAAAAAAAAAACK! Urgh… Well… Its broken, that’s for sure! And it’s all thanks to that crazed out mare from earlier! Honestly, she better have been eaten by that T-Rex… I don’t think I could handle much more of her- GAH! IN! FACE! MARE! … Why is she screaming?! I should be the one screaming here! ================== GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! HE- HE- HE IS ALIVE! HIS NECK IS BROKEN IN HALF AND HE IS ALIVE! … … … EWWWWWWWW CREEPY! I don’t think that’s supposed to be normal! ================== …Creepy? REALLY LADY?! Ugh… I can’t talk too much… I gotta… Gotta get something. Something to… ================== WHY would he want my SANDWICH at a time like THIS?! His neck is BROKEN! I think that calls for a bit more than just chowing down on some food! ================== Just give me the sandwich please… I just need a little bit! ================== He is an insistent fella! But jeez… I should try to find a first aid kit or something to- Urkkkk… First aid and kit… two new vocab words to impale my brainwaves! ================= YO! I NEED A SAMMICH! ================= GRAH! Idiot stallion! Fine! He can have it but honestly, I am just leaving him here to die… he wanted to eat me after all! Might as well let the irony hold true for his end! ================= OH THE SWEET BEAUTY OF BREAD AND LEAFY GREENS! COME TO PAPA! ================= Wow… he really WAS hungry! Curious, this guy is, but whatever. I need to get to the next door… … Wherever it is in this huge dark cavern… ================ Mmmm… delicious, although a bit smooshed… but I think that should be enough to- GACK! …Yep… that was enough… ================ HOLY T-REX PARTS! Did his neck just REALIGN itself?! That is some crazy stuff right there! Now I am thoroughly curious about this guy… just what the heck IS he? I feel like this might take awhile… time to sit and chat! … … Stone ground sucks to sit on… ================= Urgh… she ain’t leaving… Wonderful. No doubt she saw my little fix-me-up, but I was hoping for more of a scare factor instead of this… curiosity! So sickening... She is acting like some little filly or something! Grow up mare! Haven’t you ever seen something bizarre in your lifetime?! ================= SUCH a charmer and I am NOT a little filly! Thankfully, I don’t have to deal with him for much longer... Such a rude Earth pony… ================= Huh? Where does she think she is going?! I need her now that I have nothing to eat in this damnable place! Guh… I guess I better follow her for now… just have to have some excuse for me… Hmmmm… ================= …Afraid of the dark? REALLY?! … … …BWAHAHAHA! And he called ME the little filly! Goodness… a full grown stallion and he is letting the dark scare him! I don’t have a memory and even I know that’s a bit silly of him! ================= …But I really am! Celestia why did I have to choose something that was true… Note to self: always try to be stalliony, even if you are lying about it… Now just to try and press it a bit, get her on my side about it… I may be useful for her later and honestly, I don’t think she is at full health what with her injured wing and such. ================= …Damnit I hate logic sometimes. Fine, I suppose he could tag along… anyways, if the first floor had a jungle and a T-Rex, who KNOWS what this floor is going to hold, what with all its dark passageways, dank tunnels, and eerie crystallations everywhere. Couldn’t be all that bad… right? ================= BEEP! No, wrong. It’s always much worse in the tower… floor by floor, it just gets worse and worse… I know how it is the deeper it goes… ================= The stallion seems a bit off and put down… maybe I should tell him my name, get him to tell me mine. It would probably ease the tension a little bit… He seems like a lot has happened to him over the years… … Wow, when did I become Ms. Sensitive all of a sudden? ================= …So, Loosewing, huh? Seems to be getting a bit softer on me, hehe… Hm? My name? Jeez… I haven’t been asked that in for so long… What was it again? Hm... Oh! Oh yeah, it was- ================= Hunger Pains? Suits him very well… Well, it’s nice to finally officially meet him I suppose… Even if he tried to EAT me the first time he met me! Actually, I wonder… ================ Why did I try to eat her? ANOTHER great question, although this one I don’t want to answer… Probably should just stay silent, make it seem like a touchy subject. … … Success~ ================ Well, he ain’t saying anything… right now… But eventually I WILL make him talk! Hopefully, after all this is said and done he could tell me about himself a bit more… If we ever get out of here that is... -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- A/C- Yeah, sorry for taking so long to do these chapters and such ^_^;; but honestly, just been CRAZY the last few weeks and I finally got some time to do this story! Anyways, hope you enjoy this newest chapter... its mostly character development but meh, it was mostly made to reveal out hungry friend here! ALSO, if you do not know, i am doing a Let's Read of Mystic's story All Paths Lead Home on Youtube~ Look it up if you're interested~
Second Floor- Exploration!PLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Now with colors to differentiate the characters! (WIP) Chapter Six: Second Floor- Exploration! Ok... I'm pretty sure that we already went trough this area before... Just where the heck is this guy taking me?! He said he knew the way out of here too... I wonder if he already climbed the tower before? But wait... If thats true... Why was he on the first floor? That makes no sense! -------------- ... Dang, she is a smart one... Well, maybe not TOO smart, but she isn't like the rest of them dumbasses comIng in here and dying on the first floor! Still, the minimal talking treatment seems to work pretty well with her, hehe... ... HAHAHA IT'S FUNNY WATCHING HER GET FLUSTERED! --------------- That jerk is STILL giving me the silent treatment! How rude! Well, whatever... I'm just following him for now since he knows this place better than me... ... JERK! --------------- HEY I AM NOT A JERK! --------------- Well whatever! It's not exactly nice to keep a lady in suspense, especially with an achy wing and sore back! And memory loss! Don't forget that! I mean, c'mon! I already have a lot on my plate here and just traveling through these maze of caverns isn't exactly helping me very much! We don't have any food and I haven't had a single drop of water all day! I MIGHT DIE OF THIRST HERE! Really, do we even have a plan to get through here?! Eventually we will run out of food and I KNOW you will want to eat me again! I swear though, if you even touch me the wrong way, you'll be feeling the same pain like that T-Rex on the last floor! Got it? --------------- Blah blah blah, jeez! This broad doesn't stop yapping sometimes! Is she like, part bird or something? I wonder if its a pegasus thing... They both have wings and feathers, right? Maybe there is some heritage in there somewhere or something... Oh? Hm? Yeah, yeah, pain, gotcha, mhm... ---------------- Good! Now that that's settled, maybe I can coax him into a short break! My hooves and back are KILLING me after that stupid chase earlier and I- ---------------- NO! DON'T TOUCH THE CRYSTALS! ---------------- WAAAAAAAAAGH! WHY NOT?! ---------------- THEY'RE DANGEROUS! DIDN'T I MENTION THAT?! ---------------- NO, NO YOU DIDN'T! YOU HAVEN'T TOLD ME ANYTHING YET! ---------------- Oh. Well, don't touch the crystals... They are dangerous. --------------- ... I honestly can't believe this guy... --------------- So, yes, with that, we are nearly at the end of this floor and- OW! Dang, these crystals are SHARP! Anyways, it should be- ...The rumbling... --------------- Such a hypocrite... And now, ominous rumbling all around, oh joy oh me! ... ... ... that wall just moved... --------------- NOT AGAIN! RUN! NOW! GOLEMS! --------------- What the HELL is a go- WHAAA! ROCKY CRYSTAL MONSTER! THAT'S A GOLEM! GOTCHA! --------------- Why is it always me, why is it always me, why is it always me, why is it always me- AHA! LEFT TURN! --------------- LEFT TURN? Left turn left turn left turn GAH! More golem-thingy monsters! Ugh... ... ... Why did they have to be shaped like ponies?! They are catching up to us pretty quickly! --------------- Dangit, there are more than I remembered... they must have multiplied lately! Ugh I swear... its gonna be one of those weeks... OH SHI- --------------- Whoa... he is a huge one... How the HELL does he even fit in here?! Well, whatever, need to get by him and his glowy eyes somehow and- Hehe… DESERVES YOU RIGHT! ---------------- Hey! Being hit by a boulder from that huge golem is NOT right, thank you very much! Urghhhhh… that impact definitely left a broken rib or two… Wonderful… No food, and this is going to take forev- WATCH OUT, LOOSE! ---------------- WHOA THAT WAS CLOSE! Stupid charging golems, trying to tackle me… Well thank goodness I still had one good wing! Barely fluttered by them! But… They still crash into a wall and get up, like nothings happened! How the hell do we beat something like these?! ---------------- You don’t, Loosey! They simply are rock, stone, and crystal made into living by pure magic! Literally, we are battling juggernauts without the help of a unicorn! GAH! ---------------- ...You don’t dodge very well, do you Hunger? ---------------- Oh come off- HACK!- it! ---------------- Hehe… BUT we need to get past these things! We can’t keep dodging and running all day! Well, neither of us are unicorns, but we are starting to run out of passageways… That big one has been chasing us for a bit now, but is a lot slower thank goodness! Maybe what we could do is- CRAP! --------------- A dagger?! When the hell did she get a dag- WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING?! ---------------- Dagger, dagger, gotta get that dagger without being squished… AHA! GOT IT! … Oh dang it all, this looks like the end again… ---------------- Are you fricken for real?! Ugh… RAWRGH!!! … … I can’t believe I got her! Ok, just run, don’t worry about anything, just run… ---------------- …How much luck can one mare get?! Looks like our roles are reversed this time, but I don’t know how much longer he can hold me up with his injuries… Wait, is that- ---------------- THE DOOR! YES! ---------------- MOVE IT YOU LAZY TURD! WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW! There are TONS of those things right behind us, and the big guy is NOT looking too happy with us getting away! ---------------- HEY! I’M DRIVIN NOW SO QUIT YOUR- URGH! ---------------- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! UMPH! Ugh… Why can they throw boulders at us…? SO UNFAIR! Ah jeez... Either I am the STUPIDEST pony out in the world, or I am just that reckless… ---------------- Andddddd great. Broken leg now. Wonderful. They are closing in on us, mostly me though… They obviously remember me the first time… And they aren’t enjoying me try to go a second time either… Well, this has been a long haul… a very VERY long haul, but still… Radiance… Forgive me… … … … … … … … Uh… Oh, what the hell?! NOTHING?! Even after my lame last words?! THIS IS A RIP-OFF! If you’re gonna kill me, do it RIGHT and do it qui- … … What the hell…? ---------------- How the hell… How… WELL! Whatever, its making them pause anyways! I didn’t think that defending him with my dagger would do anything! Huh! Who would have thought? They are just looking at me, all stupid like… Hehehe… YEAH! YOU STUPID BOULDER GOLEM THINGS! FEAR MY DAGGER OF DOOM! WOOOOHOOOO! HAHA YES, THAT’S RIGHT, BACK AWAY NOW- oops! ... ... ... Dropped it, hehehe… Uhm... RUN! ---------------- Oh my Celestia… PICK IT UP AND HEAD FOR THE DOOR! Jeez I hope I can make it myself. Only a few yards to go! The doors opening, like always, and I can- OW! YEAUGHHHHH! ---------------- Sorry! Had to kick you in the fanny to get you going! WAY too slow for me to get in! Time for me to make my dive! YA-HOOOOOOOO! UGH! OW! OW! OW! Urghhhh… … … Well, don’t hear any more golems, so we made it I suppose! Hunger, your butt ok? ---------------- My butt…? Oh, oh YES! My butt is PERFECTLY fine! It has a nice hoof shaped impression on it now, but yes, it is perfectly fine! So is my ribs! And my legs! My back feels terrific also! But yes, thanks for caring about my big, rotund, HURTING LIKE HELL, A- ---------------- … Well, I’m glad he is all right then! A/N- Yeahhhh so Anoobus93 (my editor :D) wanted me to continue this story and i said, "Eh, what the hay!" I love the characters in this story anyways, so i didn't want to randomly just drop them! So i decided that i will add this to my rotation of updating for chapters! Next, will be I Hate Ponies! :D So anyways, please enjoy like always~ :)
Third Floor: Explanations!PLEASE READ: This is now a THOUGHT and SPEECH based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or NOW COLORED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Chapter Seven: Third Floor- Explanations! Alright, this place is starting to annoy me. How in the name of all that’s good, can a tower hold an entire fricking OCEAN? I mean REALLY now… Couldn’t we have, I don’t know… a nice, meadow field or something? Would that be too much to ask? Yes, yes it is. The tower shows no mercy and the tower WILL destroy you if you’re not- ow- careful! Jeez this broad… not very bright, is she? Does she even notice the destruction right around us? Oh! Jeez… the rocks around here looked like they were chunked out of the ground and… Yeah, thrown waaaaaaay over there, down the rock path! Wait… is that a boat lodged between the rocks?! IT’S HUGE! Sigh… Yes, that IS a boat. The S.S. Lunar Might. It was built way before your time… Heh… Hm… big bad and chompy and acting a bit strange… I wonder why- OH! HEY YOU! Ugh… yeah? What now? What’s the deal with you? Like, you and this place? A little slow, maybe, but her insight might make up for it! Well… It’s a long story, and frankly, I don’t want to tell it. So let’s drop it there. And great, no greens or meat anywhere… Guess I have to resort to other measures… WHOA! JEEZ! WHY THE HELL ARE YOU EATING THE ROCKS?! … In fact, HOW the hell are you able to eat all these rocks? And meat! Ponies are vegetarians, that much I know, and- Urgh… that one had a bit of sandstone, blech! But I feel it working it’s magic on my body, so I suppose I’m all good… For the moment. Oh my dear Celestia, is she still going on about me? I knew I should have eaten her way back, but… sigh… Damn you Radiance… -can’t believe that you were stupid enough to go and touch a crystal even after you said not to! So all I’m saying is, what is with you? I’m not going to stop being curious about it, so you might as well lay it on the table! Huh… that’s a peculiar expression… ANYWAYS… Please? … … … Alright, fine. You want a little story? You got it. So I want you to shut up and listen since I don’t particularly like the past. I suppose it might explain quite a bit about me… Jeez… all serious now. What’s gotten into him? Hm… I think I may have dredged up some bad memories… Dredged, such a peculiar word… So, I guess I shall start from the beginning. This is going to be the condensed version since we really should be going soon… Way before you were born, I was born, though under a different name than Hunger Pains. Had a pretty good life in my village, from what I recall. Nice family, did well with my job, had a few scraps with bad ponies now and then, but was backed by my buddy, Laughing Fit. He was a pretty good jokester, though a bit odd, but he was always by my side. But yeah, life was pretty good elsewise. …Hmmm… Laughing Fit… seems strangely familiar… Then I met myself a nice mare named Radiance. She was a pegasi that shone like the sun, especially when she flew around. Although I was often grounded, for obvious reasons, I would always watch her, milling about the clouds, like a personal angel over me. She was… really something, I tell you. Eventually we got married and had a nice life together. So this went on for some time and long story short, she… died… … … A-anyways, I was pretty shaken up by the situation and, foalishly, I tried to figure out a way to revive her. I was desperate for a way, any way, to get her back though Fit, even though he helped me, often would try to talk me out of it. We ran around Equestria for quite awhile until I collapsed one day from running. I couldn’t take it anymore and my grief was running it’s course. I couldn’t let Fit keep following me, enduring this as well. I needed to stop, but only so others wouldn’t be dragged with me. It was then that we found The Autumn Tower, suddenly appearing right in front of us. I read the notice on its front and thinking it could be my one and only option left. Everything else had ended fruitlessly and I was done being on a wild goose. I bravely entered the doorway, intent on this final run around, and asked Fit to stay behind. But what do you do with a loyal friend like him? So, off we went into the tower. We were not expecting anything like this however, and soon learned the true perils of this place. Although, back then, it was actually a lot easier than it is now. Now, everything has evolved, changed, and grown. We got pretty far into the Tower, probably up near the top, since the enemies and trials were getting harder and harder to deal with. Trust me, what you’ve seen now is nothing to what is supposed to be ahead. Anyways, we hit this floor and faced off against a huge creature. It called itself ‘Bardra’ or some crap like that. We fought against it for quite some time, about a few days really. We kept on having to set up traps and use guerilla tactics against him and- Guerilla? Oh, uhm… Hit-and-run, hide from the bushes and attack. Sneaky things. Ah... … ANYWAYS, even with all of this, we couldn’t beat him and eventually, he had us pinned down. We were broken, beaten, and exhausted. We had lost. And with our loss, he ate me whole right after he splattered Fit’s head against a wall, brains exploding out- Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA. Hang on a moment... WHAAAAAAAT?! You said you were eaten WHOLE by this Bardra character and… and… you’re still HERE and stuff! Even I know that is not supposed to be even REMOTELY possible! Are you ly- Well if you would just let me FINISH, I could probably explain some things to you! Jeez… just can’t keep it shut, can you? Fine fine fine… Asshole… Stupid grumbling aside, we both found out bitterly that we were the very first ponies to try and scale the Tower. And while the Tower itself is a merciless entity, we found out how sadistic it can be as well. That is to say, we didn’t die that day. Instead, we were cursed for the rest of time. Cursed to live forever in the tower and gave us powers to suit our newfound jobs. For me, they made my teeth sharp, as you know, and forced this inflicting hunger-induced pain if I don’t have something to eat after some time. I learned that I could eat anything I wanted to, though some things taste real nasty and things that are not meat or plant based don’t regenerate or sedate me as much. It also lets me use, if I eat enough of the material, attributes of them for a short time, like hardened skin from rocks or better vision from birds. If I had eaten more of any of the stuff before, I probably would have gained their traits for a bit! Like stinky dino foot breath? Or be squishy like old bread? Har har har basically but shut up. Hmph! The Tower is cruel and it’s Custodians had to be equipped for everything inside. Some of the things in here can kill me still, if they do things the right way or obliterate every part of my body, but the Tower has made it difficult for them now only so I can complete my job. And Laughing Fit, well… He, I believe, had a much crueler fate, even though he shouldn’t have come in with me… They bound him to a mask with a smile on it and gave him the power to teleport throughout the Tower. His job was to introduce and bring out any pony who entered the tower. No doubt you’ve already seen him once. However when I mean ‘bring out’, that basically means for him to take the dead bodies in the tower and then give them to me. I think you can connect the pieces from there… Ohhhh yeah. That guy was pretty interesting... but he did help me out. Wonder why? Does he do that with every pony that comes in here? And his job... But... wait, wouldn’t creatures in the Tower just eat the bodies instead? I mean, what you’re saying sounds a bit morbid… Of course it’s damn morbid! It’s like I said about the Tower being a bit sadistic! I can’t help it! When I see the dead body of a pony, any pony, young, old, unicorn, pegasus, I-I get this overwhelming urge to eat! It’s not like I want to… but I HAVE to! It’s like an addiction they put into me and my mind just goes blank and all I can think about is sedating the hunger and feasting and eating and tearing them up and munching on their bones and- OWCH! … ... Thanks for that slap. Welcome. Anyways, to wrap it all up, we had to do this whenever a new pony came in and died and slowly I noticed Laughing Fit drifting away into madness, especially after the first go arounds of this procedure. He’d start sputtering nonsense about this and that and more than once now, has attacked me for no reason whatsoever just to get a few laughs out of it. Sure he sends me the food, even though I can get it myself, but it’s like the Tower… it’s like it is controlling him instead now. He doesn’t even call me by my original name, instead putting this title of ‘Hunger Pains’ on me. Fitting after all, but still unnerving coming from a psycho who was once your best friend. And with that, I think I covered about everything. Hmmmmm… What do ya mean ‘Hmmmmm’? Oh, I believe you, just saying. Don’t worry about that. Then why ‘Hmmmmm’? Just thinking if you are always grumpy, or this other side to you with the deeper parts and the ‘not the best guy’ kind of attitude is something you can actually be on a regular basis! Screw you. Guess not then… Wait a minute… Did you hear that? Huh? Oh, that screaming? Yeah, heard it awhile ago. Think it’s some mare, screaming her head off on the ship. But really, I already know where the next door is and- Oh… COME… ON! Why did she have to bolt off towards THAT ship? I really hate this ship… I hate this ship I hate this ship I hate this ship I HATE THIS SHIP! Author's Note So, hey everyone! Got in the mood to write some more for this somewhat forgotten fic and decided that I should expand on it a bit more~ The style for it is still a bit frustrating to work with, but I think I have a better system for it... Splitting the thought and actual dialogue between characters! It should be MUCH less confusing than before and will, hopefully, enrich the story more! Future chapters WILL NOT be as monologue as this one is, hopefully, but I think I will be more fluent with the system as it goes on. I checked through this chapter about three times and I THINK I got all the bugs out of the story, but if anybody spots something amiss, please don't hesitate to point it out to me! I plan on doing one or two more chapters by the end of the week but we will see how that goes and such! :) Also, apparently, the coloring system on FimFiction is being buggy, forcing me to color each individual paragraph now... So yeah, this'll be annoying lol
Third Floor- Ghosts!PLEASE READ: This is a THOUGHT based story. Everything in it is centered around THOUGHT or IMPLIED SPEECH. It will make you use a bit of imagination at times but that's where the fun is, eh? Now with colors to differentiate the characters! (WIP) Chapter Eight: Third Floor- Ghosts! That asshole! Why didn’t he say something before?! Did he NOT want to get interrupted that badly? Of all the things… Jeez! This ship is even bigger up close! Arghhhhh… why isn’t there a ladder or something??? That would be SO useful right now… Well, at least the ship was wedged between the rocks enough to let it intersect with the path… Maybe I could… WHA! You certainly caught up quick! But you aren’t stopping me, you asshole! Insult insult insult… seems that’s all we do to each other! Whatever… But I can’t believe her! Doesn’t she know what’s on this fucking ship, I mean like- Oh, wait, she doesn’t… Well, at least the broad is thinking for once… Dammit, these rocks are pretty slippery! If I didn’t have my one good wing, I would have probably fallen by now! Phew! That’s a LONG way up! Wait, there’s a breach in the hull –urghhhhh new words… I’ll just hop on in through there! Wait, when did that opening get there…? Ah shit shit shit shit shit shit shit! It’s getting closer to nightfall… The horizon is full on orangey-pink! That’s it, gotta get movin now! Whoaaaaaaaa! It’s so… regal? In here! Well, everything that’s still standing up and not knocked over like a mini typhoon came in and had a tap dance party! …What? Where the HELL did THAT come from? Ughhhh… anyways, I gotta find whoever it is before- WAAAAGH! I SWEAR TO FUCKIN CELESTIA HUNGER, IF YOU POP UP IN FRONT OF ME LIKE THAT AGAIN, I WILL KICK YOUR HEAD AROUND EVERY CHANCE I GET! Yeah yeah empty death threats woo-hoo seen that before now SHUT IT! Celestia dammit she really gets on my nerves, even though I’m helping her… Did you even pause to think what could be ON this boat? Basically, what lives, or rather, lived on this floor of the Tower? Well, of course I thought, but I didn’t give it MUCH thought… Not… really? Well, I’ll tell you what it is; frickin ghosts! A bit cliché of the Tower to do, but this is a haunted ship with at least a couple hundred ghosts floating about! G-ghosts…? Yes. I… don’t like ghosts… … Hey! What’s with that surprised look? Uh, it’s just… this is the first time you said something you didn’t like, or at least expressed some sort of fear than the obvious fleeing in terror kind… Oooooooooo~ I like where THIS is going! Screw you! Hehehehe… but anyways, you can’t just go amongst these ghosts, hooves a-blazin and throwing around everything in sight at them! You have to, basically, dodge everything they throw at you. Luckily I remember exactly where the door is here, so just follow me and- OWCH! WHY IS IT ALWAYS WHEN I AM NOT LOOKING?! No matter HOW many times you snap your neck, even backwards onto your back… …IT… …IS… …FREAKY! Anyways, what in the name of Tarturus –what the hell is Tarturus?!- hit you? …That’s a big rock… WHOA! That's a REALLY big rock! Bigger than me! How the hell did it get blasted so fast at me, let alone be picked up? Ah whatever… guess I should eat some of it now… Guess somebody decided to have their feast early and- HOLY GUACAMOLE! (Guacamole?) Did his jaw just unhinge itself from his skull? ONLY so he can take bigger bites out of it? And in such an awkward position too… … He ate… …the whole thing… How in the world…? BURRRRRRRP! Ooooo~ that granite had a bit of sodium in there as well, nice! Ah crap… OWCH! Oooof… that realignment stung a bit… Andddddd now she is slackjawed in shock… wonderful… But we don’t have time now, so I’ll make it quick. I can dislocate my body parts, break them, eat them, etc to help me out. My belly instantly dissolves everything that goes in, so I have basically a bottomless stomach. Happy? … Good, a nod, now let’s get on over to the next room and- Whoa… Wow… That boulder of a rock didn’t just hit Hunger… It hit through three walls… ...waaa...aaaaaaaa...ah...ah... Wait, there’s the shouting again! But now it seems a bit more… young? HANG ON THERE WHOEVER YOU ARE! WAIT, NO! LOOSEWING DON’T- …just charge ahead like that… Ahhhhhhhhhhh SHIT! Whoa! When did all the furniture get up in the air? Wait, when? WHY IS ALL THE FURNITURE UP IN THE AIR AND AIMED DIRECTLY AT ME?! GHOSTS YOU IDIOT! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! Oh, oh NOW she panics. Right in the middle of the floor, with all the furniture about to go kamikaze on her ass! I swear to Celestia, Loosewing… YOU BETTER STAY ALIVE ON ME! Wait, huh? YEAUGH! FURNITURE WHIPPING AT ME! DODGEDODGEDODGEDODGEDODGE! OOF! Stupid upturned rug… AH! CHAIR! COMING! NOW! OOF! Well… that didn’t hurt as bad as it normally would ha- OOF! Ugh… two- AUGH! Three down, many more to go… Well… this is awkward… If I was a more romantic pony, and didn’t hate Hunger Pains with the rage of a thousand t-rex's, this would have been nice; him over me as I lay my back on the ground, the sunset over on the horizon through a giant gouge made in the ship… Oh, and if he wasn't letting every single chair, table, bench, and lamp crash itself against him. That too. C’mon, even the barstool? OUCH! Okay, that is ENOUGH! Super munchy powers, activate! He ain’t dodging anymore… Just eating! Wait, was his skin really lumpy before? Sort of like it had been… Rock? WHOA! What the hell is going on? His coat is changing to a lighter brown, almost like the wood he is eating! Wait, so is this what he was talking about earlier? Nifty power, I would say… BELLLLLLLLCH! Ahhhhh… that was nice! Thanks to the hardened skin, I either broke or ate everything in this room… Gotta get us out of here now. Broad’s already got me into enough trouble as it is… …save… me… Huh?! What was that?! IS IT MORE GHOSTS?! …Save me! No, the ghosts don’t sound like that… It sounds… more living… I think it’s coming from the next room over. I can hear it through the hole in the wall… AND STOP HIDING BEHIND ME! OH DEAR CELESTIA! PLEASE SOMEONE SAVE ME! BWAHHHHHHHH! TINY BLUE GHOST! BEGONE FOUL THING OF THE DEAD! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! GHOST? WHERE?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! IT TALKS JUST LIKE A LITTLE FILLY! LITTLE FILLY GHOST?! THOSE ARE THE CREEPIEST! PLEASE PROTECT ME! OH NO! IT’S LEAPING RIGHT TOWARDS ME! HUNGER! EAT THE GHOST PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! IT’S TRYING TO TOUCH MEEEEEEEEEEEE! … When did my life become a circus act? I got the two clown, but nothing else for the show… Sigh… STOP YOU TWO IDIOTS! EEEEEEEEEP! WAAAAAAAAGH! She is NOT a ghost Loosewing! She’s just a light blue unicorn! And has a sheet tied to her neck! Look! … … …Ohhhhhhhh… Yeah, I see that now. Y-you t-thought I was a g-ghost…? Oh boy… I can see the water works on full blast… Uhhhhhhhmmmm, I uh- WAAAAAAAAAAAA AH AH! Oh dear Luna almighty… This is why I never liked kids… Hey hey, there there little one… *Sniff* Whoa… look who got all motherly all of a sudden! She is even holding the kid! But like that’s going to work… Have the ghosts here been all mean and bad to you? Mhm… T-they sure have… And then a mean old brown stallion with scary teeth goes and yells at you, huh? Wait, WHAT?! Y-yeah! He d-did! Well, don’t worry. Auntie Loosewing will make sure Mr. Meany Pants Hunger Pains won’t be mean to you again, alright? Hey! When did I become the villain here?! You were the one who thought the filly was a ghost! Al-alright, Loosewing… Good… But jeez Hunger, why the hell did you let a little filly inside of here, of all places! How bad can you possibly be?! WHOA HEY! BACK UP A SECOND! Firstly, I can’t interact with EVERY pony that decides to go on a suicide trip in here! I only ran into you because you got caught in one of my traps set for food! Second, introducing people is Fit’s job, not mine. I just eat the ponies who die here and- YOU EAT P-PONIES?! Well, yeah, so? …mmmmmm… Oh, oh shit not again! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AH AH! HUNGER! SHUT YOUR TRAP! Wait, what? What’d I say wrong? All I said was I eat ponies and- WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AH AH AH! Well maybe SOME OF US don’t dine on that delicacy of yours, Hunger! Jeez… this guy can be such an inconsiderate royal arse! Scaring a little filly like this to the point of being sick… Shameful! Ugh… I… hate… kids… There there little one… Calm down, calm down… Auntie Loosewing won’t let the meany over there do anything to you, alright? So, when you’re ready, why don’t you tell us your name and why you came here? *Sniff sniff* Al-alright… M-my name is Teardrops and I a-am here, trying to s-save my mom. Author's Note Hello again! So, I got on the ball and did another chapter for The Autumn Tower~ thought I might as well, use it as a kickstart for me for other stories I plan to write on here and such~ So anyways, this chapter was... interesting to write out, and felt a lot more natural than the others~ The tri-color system now is a bit... annoying, but it helps transition between each character a lot better, plus giving us a bit of a different look on both of the characters thus far by adding Teardrops to the mix! I am pretty sure I was able to get everything inside of here, but if you happen to see a mistake of some sort, don't hesitate to tell me about it! :) I might do one or two more chapter this week, if possible. I'm def thinking about it :)
