Chapters MinePony: Crafting is Magic
Author's Note
A fanfiction I was really excited to get started on.
Oh yeah, and I'll be informing you of their materials as we get to the characters 3rd person point of view, as well as the time of day.
Generating World
Derpy opened her eyes, and felt a strange breeze. She groggily got to her haunches and looked around. She seemed to be in a place she hadnt seen or been to before. She took in a deep breath of the strange air of this place, and got to her hooves. She looked around her surroundings again, and finally noticed the many oak and brich trees around her. But, these trees looked strange; they seemed to lack the realistic details normal trees would have, and seemed oddly... blocky. Looking around more, Derpy noticed that everything was this way. She walked up to one of the trees, and, for no apparent reason, she lifted a foreleg and punched the trunk. The trunk took the hit, and noticable damage was made. It looked almost as if the wood had a crack in it. Curious, Derpy hit again. More damage was done, and the crack grew bigger. She did it again. It gree bigger again. She did it again, and the crack was just at the edge of the trunk. Wanting to see what happened if it went all the way, Derpy punched the trunk one more time, and it broke.
The trunk seemed to disappear for a second, only to appear again, but much smaller. It landed on the floor, only to start floating up to a certain point and going back down, and spinning kinda slowly. Derpy was curious at the strange, spinning piece of wood, but was also confused as to why the tree didnt fall down to one side. Oh well, she thought. If this tree obeyed the laws of gravity it might have fallen on me. So, i dont have to worry about that. Still curious about the spinning block, Derpy picked it up, only for it to be absorbed into her. Derpy gasped, taking a step back in surprise. A second later, a grey rectangle appeared at the bottom of her vision, and she gasped at this, too. The rectangle had a light gray outline around it, as well as going through it, making squares in the rectangle. Just above the rectangle was a meter, probably for points or something, and above that to the left, were ten hearts. To the right of it, ten apples. What was weird, though, was that two and a half of the hearts were greyed out, and the same could be said for the apples.
Then, a block of wood appeared in the first block of the rectangle. Derpg brought up a foreleg and touched the square with her hoof, only to find a block of wood resting--yet frimly stuck to--her hoof. Derpy gets an idea. She started punching the part of the tree that was situated above the trunk, until it broke. Once again, it disappeared, only to appear a second later, much smaller, floating up and down and spinning slowly. Again the block was sucked into Derpy when she approached it, and a '2' appeared next to the block of wood in the square situated in the grey rectangle. Hmmmm, I think I get it. But why would trees be like this? So... unrealistic, blocky, and... physichless? Derpy thought. Oh well. I'll just roll with it for now.
Derpy continued the process of hitting the wood with her hooves until there was no more of the wood left. Derpy went to a Birch tree, and did the same to it as she did with the oak. Afterwards, she went back to where the oak was, noticing that the leaves were disappearing. She watched the rest of the leaves disappear, and then looked at the ground. She saw a new type of item, floating and spinning the same way the wood did. She picked it up, tapped on the box it was situated in. In between the hearts and the apples, she saw the words, 'oak sapling'. So thats what that is. I wonder if there are any saplings for that other type of tree, Derpy thought as she trotted to to where the birch once stood. There were, in fact, saplings there, waiting to be collected. Derpy did so, and tapped on the item with her hoof. The words 'birch sapling' appeared in the same place 'oak sapling' had appeared; in between the apples and hearts.Oooh, Imma call this strange grey bar the 'Hotbar!'
"Howdy there, Derpy."
Derpy wipped around to try and find the owner of the deep, country voice. Her worry was quickly replaced by relief when she saw that it was on Big Macintosh, AppleJacks older brother. Derpy gave him a warm smile, and Big Mac returned it.
"Ah see yu've 'lready learned tha basics," Big Mac says.
"Basics?" Derpy questions while cocking her head to one side. Derpy hadnt noticed yet, but her eyes had stayed in focus the entire time. From when she had woken up, to now.
"Its hard ta explain, but Ah'm glad ta have found sumponey else here, its gotten kindah lonely here."
"Wait, how long have you been here?"
"About two days,"
"Oh, well, I just got here a few minutes ago."
"Eeyup,"
"Do you have a place to stay?"
"Nnope. But Ah know how ta make a house bah placin' down the blocks ya got, and we bettah make a house buhfore nightfall, because, buhleive me, ya do not want ta see what comes out here at night." Even though he didnt raise his voice once, he still managed to emphasize the words 'do not'. Such a gentlecolt. And, even though he seldom goes off in tangents like that, he still managed to find the right words in his limited vocabulary to get Derpy confident enough to do this.
"Well then, Lets get to work!"
Current Items (Derpy) 5 Oak Wood 6 Birch Wood (11 Wood in total) 6 Oak Saplings 4 Birch Saplings (10 Saplings in total) 1 Map Current Materials (Big Macintosh) ??? ??? ??? ??? 1 Map
Current Time 9 AM, Plenty of Time.
MinePony: Crafting is Magic
Derpy walked up to a tree and looked at its unrealistic glory. This tree was bigger than the others. Much bigger. Just a couple of metres from the trunk was a massive cluster of leaves and wood. Derpy stared in awe. Sh3s gonna need a lot more than punches to get all the wood from that before sunset. Then, Derpy had an idea. This idea, if it worked, will make harvesting trees much easier on her, and make it no sweat for Big Macintosh, who was off somewhere to try and find food.
Derpy turned away from the tree so that he head was facing away from the tree. She brrought up her hinx legs, and bucked the tree as hard as she could. When she heard the light 'pop' sound that indicates that a block is broken multiple times, she turns around to see no tree, but loads of little wooden blocks, saplings, and apples. Wait, apples? Those havent dropped from a tree before. Oh well. The more food the better.
The thought of apples suddenly makes the air fill with the sound of a stomach growling. Derpy brought up a foreleg and wrapped it around her stomach. Derpy knew this feeling, she'd felt it before. But where? Distant and fading memoris of being some kinda mail pony and klutz come to mind, but Derpy couldnt think of why she had felt these feelings before. There was another loud growl.
Derpy picked up all of the wood, saplings and apples, and brouvht up a forehoof and touched on the box in the Hotbar which contained the apples. And apple appeared in Derpy's hoof, and Derpy brought the apple up to her mouth, and took a bite out of the red foodstuff. Derpy then perked up after the first few ches, because of the flavor, she swallowed and quickly took another bite of the apple. Derpy didnt notice, but the ten apples above what Derpy thinks to be an experience bar, had seven apples greyed out. Derpy conitinued eating the apples, and with each apples eaten, the greyed out apples soon got color again. Soon, all the apples have color again. Derpy happily sighs after she's eaten, and trots off to find Big Mac to tell him about the massive amount of wood she's got.
Derpy finds him near an entrance to a cave. Despite his lack of emotion on his face most of the time, Big Mac's face was filled with fear. Derpy looked into the cave, and saw darkness. She quickly was in the same state as Big Macintosh. But, she managed to pull herself together, and she tried to push Big Mac aeay from the gaping hole. Big Mac was much heavier than he looked, making pushing him a much harder task.
Big Mac soon got out of his frozen state, and trotted away from the cave. Derpy followed, keeping in time with the stallion's hoofsteps and keeping up with the stallion himself. After a couple of minutes of awkward silence, Big Mac stopped. Derpy followed suit.
"Why are we stopping?" Derpy questioned in an adorable tone.
"Here," Big Mac replied.
"Huh?"
"We are gonnah build here,"
"Ooooh. Speaking of build, I gof a loooot of wood! Ooh, and a few apples, too,"
Big Mac seemed to perk up at the mention of apples. But he slumped back down soon after, hoping that nopony saw. But, the only pony here was Derpy, and she didnt notice.
"Eeeyup, now let meh tell ya about craftin',"
"Okay. Im ready!"
"So, craftin' seems to be a huge part of everythin' here. You craft to get almost everythin' ya need. Now, if ya wanna craft, tap on the lil' box next to yer experience bar."
Derpy guessed that that bar above her hotbar was the expirience bar, brought up a hoof and tapped the small box next to it, and she was met with a screen. It was the same Colors as her hotbar, the outline light grey and boxes which are grey, and above that was an image of herself, and next to that were four boxes. The top one had the outline of a helmet, the one underneath had an outline of a chestplate, the one umderneath, leggings, and the bottom one, boots. Next to that was a two-by-two square, the lines of the outline going through the large square to divide it into quarters. The inside of the squares were colored slightly darker than the outline. Next to the box was a box that was slightly bigger than the rest, and had an arrow pointing to it from the square. It was the same color as the square.
"The squares above tha bottom squares are ya inventory, the bottom row of squares are ya hotbar." Nailed it, thought Derpy.
"Drag yer wood logs inta one o' tha light grey squares. Then, take out the thing that ya see in the box with an arrow pointin' ta it."
Derpy did so, tapping the block in wich the wood logs were situaged with her hoof, dragged it up to the square and put it in one of the boxes. An item appeared in the bigger box, and Derpy tapped on it, just as the stallion instructed. The itwm was now in her hotbar. Derpy took what was left of her logs and put that back where it was. She somehow got out of the screen, and she tapped on the box in her hotbar with her hoof where the new item was situated. It appeared in her hoof, and in between the hearts and the apples were the words 'wood planks'.
"Oooooh.... this is cooool......" Derpy said.
"Yer lucky that ah'm teachin' ya. I had ta figger this out mahself."
"Woah, really?"
"Eeyup. Anyway, go back inta yer inventory screen." Derpy did as she was told.
"Now, take yer planks and put one in each box in the craftin' space."
"Will this 'Crafting Table' allow us to craft more stuff?" Derpy asked.
"Eeeyup. Naw, we bettah build a house buhfore sundown, or else we're deader than a chew toy fer Cerberus. Make a bunch more planks, we need ta hurry."
Current Items (Derpy)
7 Oak Wood 15 Birch Wood 52 Oak Wood Planks (68 Wood in total) 19 Oak Saplings 12 Birch Saplings (31 Saplings in Total) 6 Apples 1 Crafting Bench 1 Map Current Items (Big Macintosh) ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? 1 Map
Current Time 12 PM, Midday, Time is ticking.
Author's Note
Again, please tell me if i made any mistakes with this. I,m still using my phone to write and I wrote this off of 5 hours of sleep.
MinePony: Crafting is Magic
"Fifty-two, fifty-six, sixty, sixty-four! I now have two stacks of wooden planks."
It had been at least twenty minutes since Derpy had started chopping down trees and turning them into planks. The process of this was speex up, thanks to Big Macintosh giving Derpy two wooden axes for her to use. During this, Big Mac was digging out a small foundation for the house, making sure that the number was even. By now, he had finished doing this, the hole being eightteen-by-eightteen.
"Ah'm pretty sure thats about enough," Big Mac said.
Derpy dropped one stack of planks near him, and he picked it up.
"We better get started. We're burnin' daylaht!" Big Mac said.
Derpy nodded and started filling in the hole where Big Macintosh had dug with wood. Placind things was actually really easy, just motion a block or placeable item in your hoof where you want to place it. Easy as apple pie. Derpy and Big Mac had run out of wood pretty quickly, surprisingly.
"Hmm... maybe we need 'bout three more stacks o' wood," the red stallion says.
"Alright, got it!" Derpy said, giving a small and silly salute.
"No. Ah'm gonna help, it will speed up tha process of buildin'."
"Oh, okay, if you insist!"
Derpy and Big Mac got to chopping down trees, the latter crafting a wooden axe before starting. They slowly made a clearing in the area where their house was gonna be, but still getting the needed materials all the while.
Then they both went to making as many planks as they could, but Big Mac was sure to save a couple of logs for later. The overall amount they had was more than enough nonetheless. They had about six stacks, and fifty two extra. Oh, did I mention that theyre building the house out of oak wood? Just thought I'd let you know.
After finishing the floor, they had three stacks of wood left.
"Let's make tha walls three blocks high," Big Mac said.
"Okay, I can fly up and make the wall building easier." Derpy said. She tried to open her wings and take off, but nothing happened. She tried jumping and taking off, and again, nothing. Derpy looked to her side, and saw that her wing was not present.she looked at the other side, and it was the same thing. Derpy looks forward, and a message pops up.
/removedevitemwings Items removed Player cannot have dev items
Derpy sighed sadly, sat down and stared at the ground as the realisation hits her. She no longer has her wings. Derpy just sat there for a couple of moments, and then she felt something warm and soft wrap around her. She tensed for a second, but loosed up when she recognized the yellow hoof and the red fur.
"Naw naw, dont worry none, ah'm sure that we will fahnd a way to get yer wings back," Big Macintosh said.
"Yeah. I like thw aound of that. Lets continue building!" Derpy said, her usual confidence back in her voice.
The two ponies started building the walls, and were left with a small amount of wood. Big Mac made a door to the front of the house. He quickly went to get some stone from a nearby patch of exposed stone be saw earlier, using a wooden pickaxe h had made. Afterwards, he went back, planted the saplings he had on him around the house, and absentmindedly checked the sky to see what time of day it was. He seemed to lose the color in his face when he saw the position of the sun.
It was setting.
He quickly ran inside and closed the door behind him. He looked back into the house after closing it to see Derpy standing by the crafting table, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He went to the cracting table and hastily made a furnace and a couple of tool upgrades, as well as two stone swords. Derpy seemed to notice Big Mac's distress, and a look of concern came over her face.
"Big Mac? Whats wrong?" Derpy asked, concern lacing her voice.
"Tha sun is settin', we need to prepare fer tha dangers of nightime," Big Mac answered.
"What? Why?"
"Terrifyin' lahfe-threatnin' creatures appear at night. We need ta be able ta defend ourselves."
Current Items (Derpy) 12 Oak Wood Planks 18 Birch Wood Planks (30 Wood Planks in total) 27 Oak Saplings 20 Birch Saplings (47 Saplings in total) 1 Wooden Axe 1 Stone Axe 1 Stone Pickaxe 1 Stone Sword 20 Apples 1 Map
Current Items (Big Macintosh) 1 Stone Pickaxe 29 Cobblestone 1 Stone Axe 1 Furnace 1 Stone Sword 1 Stone Shovel 1 Wooden Axe 9 Oak Wood 6 Birch Wood (15 Wood in total) 17 Oak Wood Planks 8 Birch Wood Planks (25 Planks in total) 9 Sticks 316 Dirt ??? ??? 1 Map
Current Time Sunset, Better get inside.
Author's Note
I'd like to thank the calculator on my phone for doing the math needed for this chapter. Also, be sure to point out any mistakes i made, it helps.
MinePony: Crafting is Magic
"Quick!!! Get as much wood as ya can!" Big Mac said to Derpy.
"Alright!" Derpy said, running outside. She chopped down trees and collected their stuff as quick as whe could. Big Mac placed the furnace next to the crafting table and quickly started smelting (is that the right word for this?) one of his leftover logs using his leftover planks. The furnace lit up, illuminating the part of the house it was in. The darkening of the day was obviously making it dark. Derpy came in shortly after, shutting the door behind her. Stars had already started appearing in the sky, and the sky was darkening by a horrifying rate.
"I got a stack and twenty-one! Ill quickly make them into planks!"
"When yer done, fill the hole in our roof!"
"Got it!"
Derpy was putting the wood next to the third block of the wall, creating a roof. It was getting darker every second and more stars appeared in the sky. Big Mac was sitting in front of the furnace, waiting for an important item. The second the log was finished smelting, he took the new item, charcoal, and made four torches. Everytging seemed to slow down as Derpy placed the last block of the roof, Big Mac placed the torch in tbe centre of the house, the sun disappeared behind the hills, and the moon peeked up from the ground.
Then everything went eerily quiet.
Its as if Marecus Piersson himself muted the entire land. Derpy slowly stepped back, and found herself gripping onto Big Macintosh for comfort, due to this sudden fear of silence. Derpy was shaking in fear.
A sudden strong gust of wind seemed to go through the land, shaking the branches and leaves of the nearby trees, and threatening to burst open the doors of the two ponies' house. Then, as quickly as the wind came, it disappeared. Then they heard them.
The sounds.
A throaty moan was heard, muffled through the walls of the house. The sound of a bone cracking made Derpy sick to the stomach. A strange hissing sound, as well as something large climbing up one side of the house. One sound stood out from the rest, though. It was kindof like vrrip vrrp , and was soon accompanied by a weird mixture of an alien sound and a feminine giggle. It was soon accompanied by the sound of somepony teleporting. Derpy was quaking in Big Mac's grip, the latter trying to comfort the former by stroking her mane in reassurance.
What they heard next caused their faces to pale, breath to cut short, eyes to widen, and blood turn cold. A loud banging. Coming from the door. The throaty moans were heard in mass, especially by the door. Upon further observation, Big Mac saw what--or rather, who--had decided to come knocking on their door. They were ponies. And not just any ponies, at that you are wrong, but rather, ponies that everypony seemed to know. But, something seemed off about them. Probably due to the fact that they were ZOMBIES.
The most notable was wearing a torn up cowpony hat.
Big Mac stared at disbelief at the pony at the door. His own sister, turned into a monster of the night. There were other notable examples; Spitfire, Starlight Glimmer, Fancypants, Trenderhoof, Mayor Mare, Colgate or Minuette, whichever you prefer, and Lyra Heartstrings. How some of them got here is completely beyond me.
Big Mac brought up a shaky hoof to his hotbar, and taps on the square containing his sword. Derpy did the same, although even more shaky. They got to their hooves, having been sitting down previously, and readied themselves for the zombie horde that awaited them outside, and who were currently breaking down their doors. Eventually, they knocked down one of the doors, and made their way inside. Derpy let out a warcry, and plunged her sword into the throat of a zombie. The zombie seemed unfazed, only opening its mouth to show off its rotting teeth and horrifying breath. Derpy gagged at the stench, but quickly gather herself. She removed her sword from the zombie's throat. She brought her sword up, and ended up slicing the zombie in half due to the sheer force of her strike. Zombie juices sprayed everywhere, and Derpy shielded her eyes and mouth from it with her free foreleg to avoid infection.
Derpy quickly lowered her foreleg to steady herself and chopped off a different zombie's head. Derpy didn't even feel any emotion, just fear. But the adrenaline was quickly consuming that, turning it into strength. Derpy continued killing zombies, Big Macintosh following suit. But, when one zombie was left, Big Mac couldn't bring himself to killing her. The zombie I'm talking about is AppleJack. But, soon, Big Mac's mind was screaming at him, SHE'S A ZOMBIE! SHE'S NOT. REALLY YOUR. SISTER! JUST DO IT! , so, he drived the sword into Applejack's forehead, straight to the brain. She fell to the floor, even more lifeless than she already was. Soon after, her body vanished, leaving behind an item called rotten flesh. Since the one door was wide open, that left space for more monsters to waltz in without being invited first.
Thats when there was a sudden pain in Derpy's left shoulder. The one facing the door. Derpy screamed out in pain and fell to the floor. Big Mac quickly went and put a new door where the old one was, then went to Derpy's aid. He lay her down next to a wall. Derpy was on the verge of tears, breathing heavily, and blood was quickly seeping out of her shoulder and staining her grey fur. She suddenly felt another pang of pain as something was pulled out of her shoulder by Big Mac. She looked down to the floor to see an arrow with the tip covered in blood. Her blood.
Derpy blacked out right then.
Derpy's eyes fluttered open. She smacked her lips a couple of times before looking around. She was in the house, and it was light out. Her memories of last night were very fuzzy, so she didn't know what happened right at the end. She looked down and saw that she was in a bed with a red, silky blanket. She looked to the other side of the room to see a similar sight, a red bed with a blanket she could only imagine was as nice as hers. She looked at herself, noticing that there were bandages on her left shoulder. She got out of bed, only to wince in pain when she pressed her weight on her shoulder. Just then, Big Mac walked through tbe front door.
"Good mornin', sleepyhead." Big Mac greeted in a cheerful tone.
"Good morning, Big Mac," Derpy replied with a yawn.
"Derpy, ah have amazin' news."
"Oh, yeah?"
"Ah found a village."
Current Items (Derpy) 3 Paper 1 Map
Current Items (Big Macintosh) ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? 1 Map
Current Time Sunrise, wakey, wakey!
Author's Note
I'm excited to get started on the next chapter. Mostly because of the cliché 'gathering at a bar to find out what the heck is going on' and because my OC will cameo in it.
MinePony: Crafting is Magic
"Wait, what?" It can't be possible...
"Ah said, ah found a village. Full o' otha ponies. Most of 'em ah didn't recognahze, but there were some faces ah could make out." Maybe...?
"Well, what are we waiting for!? Lets go!"
'"Or, whatever pace you choose is fine. Eheh...."
It was a beautiful day in the forest. The sun bathed the land in heavenly light and welcoming heat, making everything warmer and brighter. Invisible birds were chirping, and leaves were being rustled every so often by an unkown force. The two ponies walked in silence, just enjoying the nature aeound them. But, Derpy was curious. Her memory of the night was still foggy, and she was curious to find out what the heck happened last night.
"So," Derpy started, "What happened last night?"
"We were attacked bah zombie ponies. Ya got shot bah a skeleton pony. Ya blacked out as soon as ah pulled tha arrow outta yer shouldah."
"I see..." Derpy murmured. "What else happened?"
"Ah ran off ta find sheep. Ah also went ta find sugarcane so ah could make paper to use as makeshift bandages. When ah found sheep ah Took their wool an' made a coupla beds. Ah bandaged ya right up an' put ya in one bed and ah went ta the othah."
"How far is it to the village?" Derpy asked while lifting up her left foreleg and shaked it lightly. "My shoulder is killing me."
"Not too far off, naw. Ah'm pretty sure that its around this bend..." Big Mac said said as they rounded a bend. Then, right there, at the edge of the forest, was a village. The houses were made out of wood, and there were a couple of small carrot, potato, wheat, melon and pumpkin farms. A lot of ponies were out and about, either tending to farms, walking from house to house, or chatting with other ponies. Derpy and Big Macintowh made their way to the village, and they could hear ponies quieting down and whispdring to each other as they passed.
"I didnt think that we would get so much attention," Derpy whispers to Big Mac.
"Maybe its because o' yer bandages," Big Mac says, "Ah don' think its evrtyday that they zee a coupla ponies walk inta town, one of 'em with bandages on."
A hooded pony was walking towards them, the features of it barely showing. A slight light purple glow was coming from the top of the pony's head, but the glow wasn't bright enough to illuminate it's features. It bumped into Derpy, making her stumble. The hooded pony managed to stuff a piece of paper into Derpy's bandages.
"Wh- Hey!" Derpy said to the pony after the collision. She looked at her shoulder and pulled the paper out using her teeth. She unfolded the paper and read what was written on it.
Meet me at Sweet Cider Bar tonight.
It had no name saying who it was from, or even a signature. Derpy read over the letter again, and just shrugged.
"What'd it say?" Big Mac asked.
"Ah guess we should do what tha pony says. She maht know what's goin' on," Big Mac states.
"How do you know that pony was a mare?"
"Ah could tell 'cuz o' tha way she walked, an' ah could see 'er muzzle. It was a shade o' red a tad lighter than mah own. An' her muzzle was one fer a mare."
"Aha, I wonder how you saw that and I didn't."
Big Mac let out a hearty laugh, a tad louder than what he usually sounds like when he speaks.
"Ah've gained an eye fer things like that." Big Mac said.
"Well, what should we do while we're here? We've got a lot of daylight to lose." Derpy was right, it was an hour after sunrise. Lots of time until this meeting.
"Maybe we can talk ta some o' tha townsfolk. These two seem curious..." Big Mac said as two ponies came closer to them.
One pony had a dark mane, with an even darker mane. The second was a zebra.
"Octavia? Zecora? Is that you?" Derpy asked. "Octy, you look different. New manecut, I see?"
""That is not a new manecut, Derpy. It is actually what happens when a starterman tries to steal your mane," Octavia said, "and I told you not to call me that."
"Call you what? Octy?" Derpy said, her lips forming into a smirk.
"STAPIT!" Octavia exclaimed.
"Calm down, Octavia,
"I highly doubt it!" Octavia said, turning around and stomping off like a foal that has just thrown a temper. Zecora sighed.
"Ever since Equestria changed,
"I understand, Zecora. It wasnt your fault."
"An' besides, ya have us."
"I am so glad that we are friends.
And so, they just talked for a few hours. Zecora explained how the village works, what she knows about the whole situation. Before they knew it, the sun was setting. Torches were in fact placed arouns the village, giving it a warm glow, but that doesnt stop the monsters from waltzing in. The three headed into the bar, and they saw that it was filled with the other ponies from the village. They were all murmering to each other about something.
Derpy tried to hear what they were saying.
Are you sure that these ponies know whats going on?
Names werent said.
I dunno, but we came here to find out, right?
Derpy scratched her head. Were they talking about the hooded pony from earlier? Was there another one like her? Her thoughts were interrupted by Big Mac saying something.
"We should find a table an' siddown," he said.
"Uhh, okay," Derpy replied. Zecora remained silent. They all went to a table and sat down. Soon after, they were approached by a stallion with a crew cut mane and slight stubble.
"Anythin' ya want?" He said in a gruff voice.
"Uhh, what do you have?"
"We have milk, and milk, and milk, and water. So what will it be?"
"I will have milk,
"Ill have the same," Derpy says.
"Jus' water fer me," Big Mac replies.
The stallion nodded and walked over to the bartender. Soon after, the stallion comes back with the drinks. He placed them on the table in front of them.
"Uhh, don't you have glasses?" Derpy asked as soon as the drinks were on the table.
"Sorry, ma'am. But in this place, glasses don't exist. A message keeps on popping up, it's always says 'Item name/Glass Cupitem/Glass Cup removing... Removed.'"
"Hmm... It's just like with what happened with my wings..."
"The land took away the special things they had since they were born,
"I used to be a unicorn myself, but then that STUPID MESSAGE popped up when I tried to use magic," the stallion said, putting emphasis on 'stupid message.'
After that, they just sat there with their drinks. Derpy and Zecora slowly drinking their milk, and Big Mac staring at his bucket.
After a couple hours, Derpy spoke up. Everypony was becoming anxious, maybe this pony wont show up after all?
"Hey, it's nearing midnight. I think that mare isnt gonna show."
"Sorry, Derps, but if ya forgotten...." Big Mac said while motioning towards the window. Derpy then remembered the dangers that awaited outside, and stared into the depths of her empty bucket.
"So, we're stuck here for the night..." Derpy says with a sigh. Just then, two hooded ponies walk through the door of the bar. One of them took to the stage and another to the bartender. It was that mare from before, Derpy could now see the light red coat, and a piece of a purple mane poking out at the front. The mane had a light purple stripe going through it, which was glowing slightly. Strange. Derpy lookedbdown and saw her hooves, the forehooves a shade of blue and the hindhoov3s a purple resembling the stripe on her hair. The other pony looked like a stallion from what she could see, and had a coat much like her own. He had parts of his mane sticking out, it being purple and yellow.
The mare was talking to the bartender, but the words were blocked out by the crowd. The mare stomped a hoof on the ground after a few seconds, then went onto the stage to join the stallion. The mare pulled out a disc, and plopped down a strange block.she put the disc inside, and loud heavy metal music started playing. This made everypony shut up and cover their ears, including the three protagonists. She soon after took out the disc, and seemed completely unfazed by the music, as well as the other stallion. The crowd was groaning slightly, but they uncovered their ears, and decided to sit down and shut up. They all looked to the mare and stallion on the stage.
The mare cleared her throat and spoke up.
"Hello, ponies of... Uhm..."
"Town Without a Name?" The stallion said to her.
"Uh, okay. Hello, ponies of the Town Without a Name. I bet you're wondering why we're gathered her tonight," she said.
The silence that followed made it possible to hear a pin drop.
"Uhhh, anyway... My friend and I have important information about this place." The mare and stallion throw off their hoods.
The mare had green eyes, and slight bags under them. She had a cutie mark of a Pony controller, and a tail that was kinda short. There were two dark spots on her back, and these spots are where the base of the wing is for a pegasus.Maybe she was a pegasus before, Derpy thought. She was also wearing a necklace with a green jewel in the middle, but it was severely cracked. The chains of the necklace appeared to be made out of faux gold.
The stallion also had green eyes, and had a cutie mark similar to the mare, except was white instead of black. He also has these dark spots on his back, and had a short mane and tail. He was wearing what appeared to be a dog tag around his neck, but the inscription upon it was unreadable. The writing was just too small.
"Our names shall remain classified, but we shall allow you to at least see how we looked. Anyway, to the info. The starterman has always been a strange creature, standing on two legs, extremely tall, teleportation skills despite the lack of a horn, but we have discovered something far worse than the buggers," the mare said, saying it with confidence in every aspect of her, as if she has said this a million times before.
"It's called the Starterdragon. And if you couldnt tell, it's a dragon. It is the leader of the Starter race. It, and many other Startermen, can be found in an alternate dimension called the Start. We also found something else, but it must be... Summoned, using things from another dimension called the Lether. It's called the Slither, but nopony has survived long enough in the Lether to summon it," the stallion said with the same amount of confidence as his associate.
Then they both say it together, "We believe that the Starterdragon has kidnapped Princess Celestia and the Slither kidnapped Princess Luna."
Everyone in the room gasped and stared wide eyed at the two ponies on stage, including our protagonists.
"You seem surprised," the mare said.
"To end all of the strife, we just need to kill the two creatures. Now if we can just get volunteers-" the stallion started, but was quickly cut off by somepony in the crowd.
"Wait, you expect US to FIGHT those things!?"
"Err, well, only the bravest can fight them. We've lost too many ponies on the task to defeat these things, we can't afford to lose any more." The mare said.
"If anyone is feeling up to it, tell us by the time the sun sets in five days," the stallion said. They both took what they had dropped and then walked out of the bar. All was silent from then on.
Derpy looked outside and saw that the sun was rising. She made an audible, "yippee..." and got up.
"We'd best get going," she said.
"Eeyup, tha house needs furnishin' anyway," Big Mac said.
"Can I come with you?
"Of course, why?" Derpy asked.
"Octavia might have kicked me out of her house,
"Aha, well, of course you're more than welcome to stay with us!"
"Ah jus' need ta fand more wool,"
"Yippee!"
They walked out of the bar, and they walked to the square box they call home.
Current Items (Derpy) 4 Paper 1 bucket 1 Map Current Items (Big Macintosh) ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? 1 Bucket 1 Map Current Items (Zecora) 1 Bucket 1 Map
Current Time Sunrise, Up and at 'em, Soldier!
Author's Note
As always, point out any mistakes I made.
Cameos-Me, Wolfkid9963 flutterbutter524
Edit: I swapped Luna with Celestia because the 'Start' is technically the Ene, so that will be where the last fic ends.
MinePony: Crafting is Magic
(Welp, here you go. This chapter is completely optional, and, I thought that I might as well finish it off for you. Enjoy.)
Derpy felt something tickling her sides. Her bed... Didn't feel like her bed anymore. It didn't feel as soft, and her blanket was absent. There was a slight breeze then, and Derpy swung her tail around herself and squeezed into a ball to create as much body heat as possible.
wait, wind? Derpy thought, am I not inside the house anymore?
She opened her eyes and looked around. She was surrounded by green grass, a hill here and there. A tree over there. The occasional chicken and sometimes a cow. Flowers dotted the landscape.
"Outside? How did I get outside? And... And where did the forest go?"
Derpy looked up. The sun looked.... Slightly bigger, but only by a tiny bit. It also wasn't moving. There was also a lack of clouds. No clouds here.
She scratched her head and got to her hooves. She stretched, her joints making a satisfying "pop" or "crick" when she stretched enough. Derpy then looked around to see if she could make out more detail. She saw a slight... Edge, at one part. It was strange, because it was the same edge you would see at the edge of a pond. She slowly made her way closer to it, and she soon found her self right at the edge. She looked down and saw how high up she was. Clouds were below, and the ground was nowhere to be seen. Derpy instantly backed up, terrified of the massive altutide she was at. She took a deep breath.
"Okay, no point going to the edge. Might as well try to figure out how I got here."
And so, Derpy started walking. She decided to walk up a hill to get some high ground. (Ya get it?) Derpy saw that she was on a fairly large floating island in the sky, and that there were other islands, some big and small, around here too. She looked around for anything promising or suspicious. She saw what she believed to be a mountain, but it looked really, really far away. Looking up to see the time, Derpy noticed that the sun hadn't moved a single millimeter. She shrugged and looked towards the mountain again.
"I have no other choice, might as well." And so, Derpy walked down the hill, and trotted towards the mountain. When she reached the end of the island she was on, she hopped to the next one, repeating the process at the end of the next island. Eventually the large islands turned into small chunks of floating land, making it harder — and even more dangerous — to travel about. Derpy saw that she had made quite a bit of process, despite her injured shoulder and lack of...
Wait...
She tried moving what would be her wings. She heard a flap. Derpy gasped. She looked back and saw her wings, outstretched in all of their glory. Derpy felt like crying. She had her wings back! She looked to her shoulder and saw that no bandages were present. Hurrah, hooray! Now she can get the the mountain quicker than before! Derpy smirked, and started flapping her wings like crazy. She soon took off, and she yelped out a cry of victory. She started flying towards the mountain, she was traveling even faster than she was before, way faster.
After a few minutes, she made it to the mountain. Letting out a cry of triumph, she landed on the peak. But, just as she did so, her wings disappeared, causing her to slip. Derpy started rolling down the mountain, eventually rolling across flat ground. She fell off the edge, but managed to keep a hoof on the ground. She looked down and saw the forest through the clouds, even managing to spy her house. Derpy gulped.
"I must not let go. I must not let go. Must... not..."
Her hoof slipped. She screamed. She started plummeting to the ground. Derpy was saying her prayers in her head, silently hoping that she would get her wings back and live. But, at the altitude she was now at, she would not be able to pull back up. She was nearing the ground, the roof of her house...
She fazed through the roof and landed right on her own sleeping body.
Derpy jumped up from her sleep, taking in deep breaths of air.
"Well, it,s 'bout time ya got up. C'mon, we are goin' mahnin'!"
"Okay, Big Mac... just... give me a minute..."
"'Lright. I'll let ya 'ave a breather."
Author's Note
Hohoho, this was fun to write. And in a biome Ive never been in, too!
Oh yeah, Im suffering writers block for this story. I mean, I know how its gonna end (i need to look up a guide that will help me be able to create feels) but I dont know what the buck is gonna happen until then. Help me, please?
As always, tell me what mistakes Ive made!
MinePony: Crafting is Magic
Derpy, Zecora, and Big Mac all made their way to the hole Big Mac saw during Derpy's first day of consciousness. Derpy was looking at the scenery. It was all beautiful, albeit square. Many trees were around, blocking out a lot of sun. But, the forest wasn't as dense as the... Uhh... I know I've heard of a dense forest before, but... What was it called? Derpy Tried to remember, failing miserably. Zecora was humming idly to herself, she hadn't said a word the whole trip. It's as if she was trying to figure out why everything was square with little to no evidence, silently thinking up theories as to how this all happened. Big Macintosh wasn't in a talkative mood, despite being the one who explained most of the essential things to Derpy.
Big Mac, who was leading the group, stopped suddenly. Zecora stopped behind him, due to her being completely aware of everything around her, and, due to Derpy being distracted By the things around her, accidentally bumped into Zecora. She recovered quickly after, muttering a silent apology to the zebra. Her full attention now on the stallion, Derpy looked at him with a questioning face.
"We're here." Without turning around, Big Mac announced their arrival. Before them was a giant gaping hole in a hill, one that was sure to give any professional miner chills down their spine. It was eerily dark, and the trio didn't know what lay ahead of them. I might have an idea... Derpy thought, looking at her bandaged shoulder, downcast.
"Did ya bring the craftin' table, Derpy?" Big Mac asked out of the blue, looking back slightly to look at the downcast Derpy.
"Huh? O-oh, yes," Derpy said, the cave ahead of them making her fearful despite not entering it yet.
"Let's go." Big Mac's mood went from seemingly neutral to dark in a matter of seconds. This frightened the two other females, making them look fearfully at each other. Big Mac started treading into the cave, and the two others followed closely behind. Big Mac was looking at every single block of rock, examining them, as if he was looking for certain block in particular. He stopped in front of a cluster of blocks that stood out; they had black spots all over them, but otherwise looked like any other rock.
Big Mac lifts up his pickaxe, and starts hitting at one of the new blocks. The cracks in the block grow bigger and bigger until it breaks, but, instead of forming into a smaller version of its original self, it turns into a new, lumpy object. Big Mac takes a step toward it, and it goes into himself.
"Coal," he muttered, mining out the next block.
"Coal?" Derpy asked, "Don't we need that for light?"
"Zecora! Catch!" Big Mac said out of the blue, tossing the new object at Zecora. Zecora just stood there, no fear, and, when the object stopped and dropped in front of her, she smiled. She walked forward a step and the object went into her, making a 'pop' sound as it did.
"Ya need to make—"
"I know, I know, torches.
"Well then..." Derpy said, confused. Zecora opened her hot bar and crafted these torches without needing to put down the crafting table, and tossed them to Big Mac. He placed one down near him, to his right, and that part of the cave lit up. Now that Derpy could see further into the cave, she felt a little bit calmer, but not by much. Her fur was still standing on end, and her paranoia was kicking in. Big Mac said nothing as he started to lead them through the cave, placing torches down as he went, always to his right. He took heavy steps, his hooves making audible 'clop ' sounds as he went, the other two's hoofsteps slightly less so.
Derpy noticed that Big Mac was placing the torches on one side as they went, and couldn't help but get curious. There had to be some sort of reason for that, right? And, why did Big Mac seem much more... Sinister, in here? Why hasn't there been anymore ore yet!?
"So, uh, Big Mac, why do you... Uh..." An onimous sound is heard from her left. She quickly glances over that way to see nothing, her paranoia now becoming a very noticible trait in her every feature. "P-place all the t-torches to your right-t?" She stuttered out, her body now shaking; not only from the cold, but from the eery spookiness that was a huge aspect of this cave.
"It's a path, helps lead us back to the entrance," he said flatly, not looking back, still placing torches as he went. Derpy gulped at his newfound tone, worried for her companion.
...I'm Scared, was all Derpy thought as she worriedly followed after the stallion, looking behind her every few seconds, feeling like they were being followed...
Current Items (Derpy) 4 Paper 2 Stone Pickaxes 1 Stone Sword Current Items (Big Macintosh) 20 Torches 5 Stone Pickaxes 2 Stone Swords 3 Dirt 5 Cobblestone 7 Apples Current Items (Zecora) 1 Crafting Table 50 Sticks 1 Furnace 7 Torches 1 Stone Sword
Current Time Midday, Get On with It!
Author's Note
SURPRISE MOTHERBUCKER
GUESS WHO'S BACK WITH SOME MINEP0NI????!!!
THIS PERSOOOONNNNNN
Edit: I know I posted this late, but, think of it as a Christmas gift to you all. :3
