Chapter Sixteen Silver Lining

Silver Spoon

Journal entry, N: 1, Date unknown, Time: Noon, Mood: ...

I have decided to start keeping a journal as of today. Twilight was kind enough to give me a blank book, turns out she keeps a lot of those with her. It makes me wonder just how much of our caravans weight was book related... but enough of that train of thought. I started writing to keep my thoughts together and in case I die on this very dangerous mission I hope that maybe someone someday will find this and tell my tale. My name is Silver Spoon, and not to long ago I was a pony.... no seriously! Me along with the rest of my hunting party are not from this world. We come from a world far different than this filled with magic, but to go into that would take forever. The one exception is our leader Twilight. She comes from another world too but she was human just like we are now. So where to begin... well I guess I'll just start with my feelings. Up until we came here I lived a really normal life, my best friend Diamond Tiara and me always went around causing havoc, shes good at being a bitch but I love her anyway. We never really struggled for anything, both of are families being wealthy. So despite how its seemed to the rest of the group this whole ordeal has been a major pain in the neck! Working out! Getting Dirty! Camping! None of this was even remotely on my to do list back home. And I know very well that saying all this makes me seem like a priss or some kind of brat, but it's not like we could just form to this world in a day just any way. We adapted to it but not by choice. If things had gone differently me and Diamond would probably be way less into this whole..... hunting thing, but let me ask you this. You have nothing, no way to go home, no hope, and someone suddenly throws their live in front of yours to protect it. What option do you have but to help them? Sombra and Twilight both saved our lives, we agreed to do everything we could for them. It was humbling really, waking up early and training, being disciplined and lectured, wearing our bodies out on the daily, forcing ourselves to eat meat... okay that one was really hard. We did it all for them, but soon enough it became for us to. We talked and talked about how we felt about the whole situation and somehow figured we loved it here. Training at first sucked but it soon became addicting. Swinging around giant weapons was exhilarating, and despite the meat thing being hard to get past at first we found out this worlds food was amazing! Plus in the end, and I'm sure everyone feels this as well. This world was different, like a constant adventure the possibilities were endless! We were a family now, and I think everyone here found themselves just where they needed to be. Me and Diamond's parents were never home. We would spend months without seeing them and when we did they didn't care. Appleblooms parents were dead, Scootaloo was an orphan, Sweeties parents were never around either and her sister was always busy. Sunset was an outcast, Twilight a shut in, Sombra was literally a target for our homes military. So with us bunch of throw away's, being stuck in another world might be just the right place for us to call home. /i]

"Hey Silv's" Diamond said as she glomped onto my back. I sighed closing my journal, she had gotten even more cuddly then normal towards me, she was always like this she even called me her 'little treasure'. So her behavior was something I came to except. Even when I thought about our future I was sure that if she found someone I would be dragged into forming a herd. Not that I really would have minded, she's cute and all and if she would be willing to share me with anyone they must be special. Sometimes I thought she wanted to be my special somepony and the thought made me blush, but after this long and she still hasn't offered I pushed that idea aside. After all we're perfect just the way we are, what would be the point in messing that up?

"Yeah Ara?" She used my pet name so I used her back, we had started using them after we got our cutie marks. It made us feel closer and I liked that.

"You think that story by the drunk guy is true?" She asked as she draped her arms over my shoulders using me like a living stuffed animal. It always made me blush when she did this back in our world. It always looked like she was trying to mount me and in this world her chest poked into me making it just as embarrassing. Thinking about it made me blush harder so I shook my head to clear my mind, thinking about her question helped me focus on something else. It was interesting to think that if his story was true then this world had a place just like where Sombra was from. Somewhere unreachable, unknown to the rest of the world. Seemed like it was pulled right out of a fantasy novel.

Resting my hands on her and pulling them to my chest I tried to come up with something. "Could be, I mean from what I know this world is ridiculously big, the continent were on is huge but they say its one of the smaller locations. Since everything here is so dangerous and just going out of town can lead you into some form of trouble I don't see how its impossible for some secret place to exist out there."

"Yeah you're right." She said twisting herself to the side pulling me down with her. It was early morning and everyone was just mulling about the cave. Me and Diamond were on the far backside where we had set up our sleeping bags. No one really payed us any attention but I was still embarrassed by her lack of situational awareness.

"D-diamond.." I stuttered out as she pulled me against her.

"Yes 'Spoon'?" She said putting emphasis on that particular part of my name. Something she never seemed to get tired of doing.

"Ugh.... never mind." I said giving in and letting her have her fun. After all I kind of liked being her cuddle buddy, she was always so warm.

Sunset

"Aren't they adorable?" I asked to Sombra, he was polishing and maintenancing his hammer. Which in context sounded pretty raunchy. Heh..

Looking up from his work he looked in the direction of Tiara and Silver. He looked for a bit then a grin spread across his face. "Quite cute indeed."

"I always wanted a friend like that." I whispered quietly to myself.

"What about Twilight?" Apparently not quite enough.

"Well um.... you see the thing is me and Twilight weren't really that close until we came here, and even then we still haven't talked a whole lot like normal friends." I replied looking for the right words. It was really confusing to think about, what level of friendship did me and Twi have? This all sounded like some Equestria stuff though so I decided not to worry about it. Being away from the magic and colors really changed your way of thinking.

"Why not though surely you two are close." He looked at me with quinine curiosity. His eyes were always so piercing, I would love to see what he looked like when he was a pony. Although I do really like his human form to. I shook my head gently to get away from the chain of thought.

"Well I guess we have just been really busy?" I wasn't quite sure if that was the reason.

"May I suggest something?" He turned away from his hammer giving this his full attention, I gave him a nod and he continued. "Since we're now all going to be traveling together for the foreseeable future why don't we all get to know each other better?"

I coked my head to the side not sure what he meant. "I mean I'm with you on that but how do you suppose we do it?"

"I'm not sure exactly but if we bring up the proposition to the group perhaps someone would have an idea." He stood walking over to the center of the cave and I followed.

When Blades Fall

I was alone, darkness all around me, the thing had separated us. I needed to make it back to them, I was there wall I was their distraction I was their cannon fodder, it was my job to stand in front of them. Without me who knows how long they could hold it off. So without second thought I ran through the smoke, it smelled heavily like sulfur, imagine a bitter egg mixed with burning logs. I could barely breath and was running out of time before I would have to take another breath, just how far was I thrown? How far did the smoke extend? When I emerged on the other side the site bore into my soul, my companions lay on the ground. It had taken them out after it threw me, the beast must have sensed my power and through up the smoke for cover. Pick off the weak then take out the strong. I had no way of knowing just how much they were injured and I didn't have time to figure it out. A long tail flew down through the canopy the blade that made up the tip clashed against my armored fists, my trusty gauntlets did not fail as a I parried the strike sending the elongated tail into a nearby root. The massive hardwood claiming its prize as the creature could not pull free. I took my opportunity, running forward I leapt upon its tail and kicked the ground hard the tree root shattered and the tail retracted, as it got closer I heard its gnarling cry. Upon breaching the canopy and past the intertwined vines I saw the monster for the first time. Its head was just like a snakes but its body resembled that of a wyvern, like a Nargacuga and a Najarala crossbreed. As the sword tipped tail reached its body I used my momentum leaping off and flew straight at its head. Putting all my might into a single hit I struck its jaw. The sound of bone cracking echoed threw the dense jungle. This new place already was giving us a challenge.
~ The Drunken Hunter, First day into the unknown.

Author's Note

Little bits of 'The Legends of The Drunken hunter' will be added towards the end or beginning of chapters. Twilight has read the whole book several times, such a good noodle.