The Pony and the shadows

        Yummy cake land, one of Epic's random dream lands, was being attacked! And only Super Epic could save the delightfully yummy land of baked goods. (Got the message yet?) {oy! My Dream OUT!}(sorry)... Anyhow... The dastardly evil Tomato King wanted to destroy the land of sweet treats! Throwing chilli peppers and other nasty fruit/vegetables at the peaceful land, but Epic had a better idea! He grabbed a chilli and throw it at the King scorching the tyrant...-_-_-

"*Yawn* The sun always wakes me up at the best part!" Epic said as he woke up to the sun shining in his face, he had sleeped under the stars last night, and stayed up until midnight just watching the stars float across the sky. His back up against a ancient Apple tree, he refused to sleep under the new ones, and had a nice dream before waking up, he was in charge of collecting the apples from the trees today.

"Oy lazy Colt, get moving!" The land owner yelled, the pony in question was a gray coated brute of an earth pony, with red and black main and tail, which he hates because everyone thinks he is trying to be (words why you fail me?!) edgey (bad English... I don't care!) and his eyes were a pail blue, slightly cyan, "you ARE the pony the townsfolk sent right?"

"Yes sir! Ready to harvest apples!" Epic said with vigour.

"I like your spark young lad, t' be good when on the harvest," the Stalin said, "name's Ronoda Kandona." (Yes I just made that up.)

"So how do I start?" Epic said, "and Epic Pony is my name!"

"Well Epic I'll be teaching you how to apple buck, very simple if I do say so myself, come over to this tree hear." Ronoda said pointing to a tree to his right, "now look at the tree, search for the best point to kick it without destroying it or getting no apples down from the tree." Epic did as instructed... Epic harvest 10 good apples! Epic harvest 5 great apples! Epic harvest 1 bad apple! Epic received 50 EXP. Epic Pony Levelled up! Epic is now LVL. 30. Attack increase! Defence increase! Magic Attack increased! Magic Defence increased! Maximum HP increased! {Bitten Balloon knock it off!} (it was just a joke!){...}

Epic continued to harvest the apples until twelve o'clock at which point he has somehow harvested half of the entire farms total number of Apple trees. Ronoda came over and was impressed with the work the pegesis (?) had done "well I'll be... You cleared half the total tree population in one morning... How did you do that?"

"Well when you come from where I come from you learn to be efficient, thus why I could have joined almost every job and be done before lunch... Let's just say that they work you to the bone if you aren't careful..." Epic replied. He really liked to just use several different kinds of exercise before lunch, and got a job or two because of it.

"Well then I guess I'll let you go early, me and my family can take care 'o the rest" the gray pony said.

"... Heh, well I'll just be off then, bye!" Epic said before flying to the little coffeé shop Gilia told him to meet at.

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"Hehehe... So Epic is still going... I'll just see what some mercenaries can do about that... Hehehe... AHhahaha!!!"

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A shiver went down Epic's back, "why do I have a bad feeling... That someone is going to try and kill me?" Epic question to no one in particular.

"Epic Pony, why would someone want you dead?" Gilia asked.

"Even the nicest of ponies make enemies Gilia, even the nicest..." Epic replied in a mysterious manner.

"Epic, you aren't making any sense right now." Gilia retorted to the brown-coated male, who for some reason just ducked his he-- an arrow wiped by were Epic's head just was. "Ah, should probably listen to you when you say something like that... Who shot this arrow?!"

"Me," said a sinister voice they saw a pony, unicorn, completely covered in clothing, "and let me get my point across, Epic is wanted dead. I don't know why, all I know is that if you look for my employer you will need to find a certain unicorn that is cloaked in shadows..." then the attacker charged, but Epic dogged, like he saw it coming, "I thought you were holding back against those irresponsible idiots that you beat up... SHOW ME YOUR TRUE STRENGTH!!!" a knife went straight for Epic, but he dodged expertly... The next attack not so much, he got a cut on his nose. He hardly notice it. And proceeded to disarm his foe, quite expertly only receiving a blast to a foreleg. "*Hmph* So you choose to disarm me, well then, with that blade you can take my life." Time passed slowly, before the knife fell to the floor, "and so it is done, I know you know there are more, but know this, the others will not accept your mercy, and call you weak, but what you have shown here is more strength than any other. I have been disarmed before, and I said the same thing as I have said to you... They tried to kill me, but I was too fast." Epic nodded and the cloaked figure backed into an alleyway and disappeared.

"What are you lot looking at?" They then pointed at his nose an he noticed red, before he ran off...