One hell of an adventure

I began to stomp towards the entrance when Kate jumped in front of me. “ ‘Where are you going?!’ “

“ ‘I’m going to find Jack and drag his sorry tail back out here.’ “ I growled and tried to get around her when she pulled out her greatest weapon to all beings, I swear I HEARD the dragon flinch, smart guy. She pointed her demon spoon at me threataningly.

“ ‘You are going to stay right here you blasted cat, we don’t have time right now to go get him. Maybe later cause I have to slap him.’ “ I hissed at the spoon and back up a bit.

“ ‘FINE jeez, anyway.’ “ I turned back to the dragon. “ ‘Thanks for the teachings teach, we’ll get out of your scales now.’ “ I turned to walk away just to see the dragon pulled a Pinkie and teleported right in front of me.

“Hold right there slayer, my teachings do not some free and I do not accept money.” Aww crap, I hope this guy ain’t talking bout what I think he’s talking about. “Oh no, you must do me a favor.” Oh gods.... “I want you to find all 4 of the sandstorms in the Southern Dunes and stop what is causing them, if you do this you will be able to meet the princess. Shiva.” Shiva? That one summoning from final fantasy? “Then you shall see the true harm this place can do.” Aww crap a dark secret? BRING IT ON!

“ ‘Alright, come on Kate let’s go save a nation.’ “ She did a fist pump, that’s my girl! We left the large building while thanking the dragon and the huge dogs. We then began to make our way out of the city when that one unicorn from the soul gem presentation stopped us.

“Hello mister manticore, I would like to thank you for ‘helping’ me with my talk, I would have  it into at least a hour or two longer and let’s be honest it would have gotten boring.” Was this guy for real? I saw pure honesty on his face so he must be telling the truth. “So I would like to enchant YOU!” Wait what? I back up a bit as he chuckled. “Oh don’t worry, I’ll just make it so you can use very minor magical abilities. Please follow me to my study and we can begin.” He turned and began walking away.

“ ‘Is this guy for real?’ “ I repeated to Kate this time.

“ ‘No clue, but hey free magic.’ “ That’s my girl! I taught her many human things so to makes it better AND more fun, so we bro hoofed each other and began following the unicorn. After a few minutes of walking and tripping on a stray book later we finally got to this guys study, and let’s just say this guy made soul gems his life's work. There were flouting gems everywhere! I swear I saw a black soul gem here somewhere.

“Alright, let me find a gem with a big enough charge and we can get started.” He spoke cheerfully, I swear this guy was almost too happy. We waited a moment before he walked back out with what appeared to be a grand soul gem+! That thing was huge!

“ ‘Whoa, that has GOT to have a huge soul in i- Wait it’s not glowing.’ “ I paused a moment before crouching and growling. “ ‘Kate get behind me, NOW!’ “ She did as she was told as the unicorn began to laugh.

“It’s funny manticore, I came here to be successful. Soul gems are a great thing even in a world like this.” Sweet jebus a human! AND he’s evil, great. “I knew you were another human the second you explained soul gems. Everyone thought me a fool after being shown up by a manticore with telepathy.” He hissed. “So now, I’m going to steal your souls, take your hat, and skin that cat for a nice new coat.”.....

“You can threaten my soul, you can even threaten Kate and get away with it, but the hat? FUCK YO COUCH!” He gave me a stunned look before I was right in front of him after dashing forward. I quickly grabbed his face, lifted him up, and slammed him into the wooden floor until it broke. Then I followed him into the basement and continued to slam his face into the floor, which was not made of stone. Before he died of major blood loss and lack-of-face I grabbed the GSG+ (Grand Soul Gem + ) and smashed it over his head. The gem exploded when it broke and sent me flying back up a floor where Kate was waiting patiently.

“ ‘Get him?’ “

“ ‘Yes, and I smell a major shit storm is going to start in a moment.’ “ I looked down into the hole to see a glow coming from the body and the shards from the GSG+ were floating around it rapidly. “ ‘Hey I was right this time, TAKE COVER!’ “ I turned and lightly tackled Kate to the ground as all the floating glowing soul gems flew away from their resting places and into the hole. “ ‘It’s the college of winterhold all over again!’ “ I yelled then the glowing stopped and the house stopped rumbling. I got up and dusted myself off. “ ‘That was anticlimactic, let’s go see what awesome thing I did.’ “ I chuckled and walked over to- wait.

Hands,

Arms,

Not on two legs,

Oh fuck I’m human form.

“WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK!?” I yelled and fell over backwards. “HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN!?” Needless to say I’m pissed and shocked about this.

‘You do not like it?’ FUCK NO- Wait who said that? I crawled over to the hole and peeked down, ignoring Kate’s comments about how adorable I look. I saw a ghost of a d-dog down there looking up at me with a grin.

“EENope,” I growled, my voice sounded deeper. “I like being a manticore.”

‘But how are we suppose to pay you back for setting us free?’

“Um, magic?” I deadpanned. The dog grinned sheepishly.

‘We just thought that you would like your old body more.’

“EEEEEEEEEEENope.” I crossed my arms. “Change me back and give me dah-magicz.” The dog got a confused look then shrugged and vanished. In a flash of light I was a manticore again. “ ‘Sweet.’ “ I chuckled and turned to Kate, who was still pointing out how cute I looked. “ ‘Yes I know I was adorable and mushy but I’m not anymore, let’s get the hayhay out of here.’ “ I grumbled and picked her up, placing her on my back.

“ ‘Well it sure was nice for that bandit to give us a map free of charge.’ “ I chuckled as I licked the blood off my paws. A bandit thought we were scholars and threatened to kill us if we didn't give him our ‘big invention’. I cut him down with mah axe. I opened the map and got a look at it. “ ‘Hey, this map has the storms marked on it.’ “ Kate leaned over my shoulder and gave it a long look.

“ ‘Huh, you're right. There’s one to the north of us and isn’t too far away, about a mile or so.’ “ Easy quest mode activated!

“ ‘Then let’s go!’ “ I laughed and began to ran north (Kate helped). After a half hour the wind began to pick up violently, resulting in a sandstorm. “ ‘FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKK! I CAN’T SEE SHIT!’ “ I almost roared as I held a paw in front of my face. Kate said something but I couldn’t hear her over the storm.

‘Why not use one of your new powers?’ Loud and clear, fucking ghosts. I moved my paw and looked at the ghost of the d-dog that was in the house before.

“ ‘How? I don’t know how to.’ “ I muttered and it chuckled. “ ‘What’s funny?’ “

‘All you must do is use your imagination. Roar, and imagine it 10 time louder and stronger.’ And with that, he vanished. Stupid fucking ghosts.

“ ‘Alright, let’s hope this works!’ “ I took in the biggest breath I could and thought of fus ro dah. When I roared my ears began to ring but from what I saw there was a sonic boom type thing, it spreading out slowly from my very being and blowing away the sandstorm in the process. I kep it going for a a minute when I stopped and began to pant. “ ‘Holy dog shit scooby-doo.’ “ I muttered and looked around the now clear area for any signs of a dragon.

Nothing.

“ ‘Really? Nothing?’ “ I facepawed.

*Rumble.*

Fuck.

-------Princess Sapphire Lotis------

“Where did they go?” I asked my assistant, the bandits I had posted at The Pass vanished two days ago and haven’t sent my any rare treasures before they had gone.

“I-I don’t know my princess, all we found was the corpses and griffin feathers everywhere.” He nervously spoke, as if I would hurt him.

I was thinking about it.

“So they were killed? By who?” He smiled sheepishly at me.

“Well, from the three survivors we found they said it was a Bast and a manticore, both heavily armed and magic resistant.” I put my hoof up to my chin and thought for a moment.

“How armed?”

“The manticore had a battle axe attached to his tail and the Bast had a longsword, both able to cut right through magic.” He seemed to calm down a bit.

“And the magic resistance?”

“From what we gathered their armor was made from bronze dragon scale and seemed to be heavily enchanted.” I began to think again when the palace suddenly began to rumble. After a few minutes it stopped.

“What was that?” I glared at my assistant for a moment when one of my guards barged in rather rudely.

“Princess! You must hurry and see this!” I groaned and got up and off my throne to follow the guard. I followed him until we were on my side balcony overlooking the eastern part of the Dunes. “Here my princess.” The guard hoofed me a telescope and pointed his horn directly east. I sighed and held the telescope to my eye to see what he was talking about.

I couldn’t believe it. Someone or something is challenging a bronze dragon! The fools! “Guard!” He stiffened. *Cast a spell so I can watch this without the blasted telescope!” He nodded and conjured up a large floating mirror. After a moment the mirror showed a Bast riding a manticore. “Excuse me.” I turned my head slowly to my panicking assistant. “Are those the two that killed my thugs?” He nodded slowly. “Guard, dispose of him.” The guard nodded and levitated my assistant up and threw him over the balcony.

I love taking my anger out on others.

------Austin------

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- I got swatted again by the fuckers huge ass claws and hit the sand, stering up some sand so I had some cover for a moment.

“ ‘YOU HAVE TRESPASSED ON MY SLUMBER! NOW THIS WORLD SHALL BURN WHEN I AWAKEN THE BROOD MOTHER!’ “ It roared at me, Kate was honestly riding on it’s back to try and get some scales off so I could poison the fucker.

“ ‘WHY ARE YOU YELLING!?’ “ I shouted at him as I took flight again. He got a confused look on his face, fuck ya cartoon logic.

“ ‘Apologies, but you must die!’ “ He hissed at me and took a huge step forward. “ ‘Awakening me has brought upon the end of your world! After I kill you I shall awaken my brothers and the brood mother, then we shall set your world ablaze!’ “ He took in a deep breath and blew a column of flames at me. I dove to the left and charged at him, hitting his side jaw like a truck.

Too bad a truck would make this thing giggle. Needless to say it still hurt it, it bellowed in pain and swung its head at me. I hit the ground again and shook off the pain and dust. “ ‘Fuggin love this armor.’ “ I muttered as I stood back up and glared at the dragon slowly walking towards me. “ ‘You're going down broski!’ “ I shouted in a russian like accent and charged forward on foot.

Activating badass mode, estimated time of shutdown 5 seconds. Is this acceptable? (Y/N)

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Time increased to 5 minutes, risk of coma increased to 20%, is this acceptable? (Y/N)

Fuck yes.

I narrowed my eyes and scanned the dragon, muscular system strong but tired, ego reaching god like heights, battle strategy dulled due to a very long period of sleep.

I never saw how easy this is.

At almost RD speeds I shot up its leg and onto its back, Kate gave me a stunned look before I began crawling up its neck. “ ‘REMOVE YOURSELF FROM MY BEING LITTLE MORTAL! HOPE FOR YOUR WORLD IS LOST! GIVE UP!’ “ I landed on its muzzle with a bemused look while it wore a confused look.

“Shut the bloody fuck up.” I growled likely and stabbed it in the eye with deadly poison tail mode. It roared in intense pain and stood up on its back legs, its fronts covering its eye. I dashed around and to its back to pick up kate and get to the ground. When the dragon hit the ground it spasmed for a minute until it finally went limp. Its final words were ‘You shall suffer for this, mother grows stronger...’ it let out a pain filled screech then slammed its head to the ground, dead. I shut down badass mode and fell on my stomach, looking at the corpse with weak eyes.

“ ‘If I ever pay for the things I do then I would be dead by now...’ “I closed my eyes and fell into a deep slumber.

----Kate----

Well, he went longer than last time. The first time Austin told me about badass mode was after he woke up after a 10 minute use of it, he becomes faster, stronger, smarter, and even more deadly. Normally he would never get that close to the dragons face but he did, and it died. “Oh Austin.” I sighed and sat next to his sleeping form. “What am I going to do with you?”

“You could bring him with us.” I paused then shot up, drawing my blade and pointing at the source of the voice. What I saw was three d-dogs and a......

“Airship...” I muttered looking at the fairly large floating ship, the dogs chuckled at my reaction.

“Come, we must leave before the ponies arrive.” Just then another airship flew over the body of the dragon, more dogs jumped from it and tied up the body with a lot of ropes. When they were done they climbed up the ropes and the ship slowly rose, bringing the body with it. I turned back to the other dogs to see them lifting up Austin as if he was a pillow.

‘Which he is.’ I chuckled and then sighed. “Fine, but if you try anything I will make you a carpet.” When he started laughing I got a confused look on my face. “What?”

“Nothing, I just thought that was funny.” He chuckled a bit more before picking me up and jumping up and into the ship. He put on a sheepish grin when I glared at him for picking me up. “Um, sorry.” I sighed.

“Just show me to a place where I can sleep.” He nodded and lead me below the deck about two floors down.

“Here is where you can sleep without being bothered by the crew. Have a nice sleep.” He left the room and closed the door. I sighed and fell onto the bed.

‘Well Kate, what have you learned today? Draconic and to kick Mango’s ass for making me have a kit. Also bronze dragon scales are HARD!’ I chuckled a bit before I fell to sleep.

-----A few hours later in Austin’s point of view.-----

Badass mode recovery system activated, estimated time of recovery is 5 seconds.

I love you recovery program!

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Done,

WOO!

I slowly opened my eyes and yawned. “ ‘How long was I out?’ “ I muttered and looked around to see I was surrounded by dogs. “ ‘.....Fuck.’ “

“What did it say?”

“Get the Bast, she can speak with it.” They have Kate? Aww hell naw. I pushed myself up while growling with enough hatred to make Chuck shiver, of course it would never happen but a beast can dream can’t he? The dogs backed up a bit while shaking their hands.

“No! No please calm yourself! We are not hostile!” Heh, gave them a scare at least. I sat down with a heavy sigh and just glared at them for the 10 minutes it took for them to get Kate. Kate walked over to me, took of my hat, then slapped me with it.

“ ‘OW! The fuck was that for?’ “ She chuckled and put the hat on. Hate, levels, RAISING!

“ ‘For passing out in the middle of the desert and making me have to talk to the dogs alone. I’m going to be wearing this hat for a while to.’ “ I growled then just sighed.

“ ‘Ok fine. What are we even doing here?’ “ She scratched her back a bit then began.

“ ‘The dogs offered us a place to stay and transportation if we do them a favor.’ “

“ ‘And that favor is?’ “

“ ‘Get rid of the sandstorms.....’ “ …....Cool.

“ ‘Weren't we doing that anyway?’ “ She nodded. “ ‘Good, tell them we have it covered.’ “ She nodded again and turned to the dogs.

“He said we have it covered, when do we head out? Actually where are we? No one told me.” She crossed her arms and glared at the dogs, some actually flinched!

“You are in the sand dog dens, directly north of one of those storms.” How convenient. Kate and I looked at each other for a moment.

“So fluffy, how much longer do you think you need until you're ready to go?” I got up with a grin on my face.

“ ‘Right now.’ “

ARGH! Sorry I ended it a bit short but I’m tired as fuck.