I had been a few days since Twilight experienced her first blood moon. Feeling a little more comfortable outside at night now, Twilight went out as much as she could to get as many stars as she could. Twilight really didn't like being unable to use magic, since she had spent most of her life using magic in some way. Already, she had managed to get enough stars to give her a quarter of her magic potential back. Unfortunately, she was still unable to use even basic magic, despite her having magic now.

Twilight had also went mining a few more times. She was a little more experienced at defending herself from the various monsters, and was able to get quite the collection of ores and gems. She also found a few more abandoned buildings, which yielded her some ice skates and an ice mirror. The mirror ended up doing the exact same thing her magic mirror did, so she decided it was pretty useless. Although the ice skates were actually useful to Twilight by allowing easier movement on ice. She was able to get a few more of those heart crystals, putting her health all the way up to 200. Twilight thought it certainly would be useful to not die as soon by being attacked.

Seeing a particularly full inventory, Twilight decided it was time to exit the caves. So she teleported back and went over to her chests. There weren't very many of them, which Twilight was quickly finding out wouldn't satisfy her requirement for a convenient method of storage. So Twilight decided now would be as good a time as any to begin work on a storeroom, which would preferably have all the items sorted into alphabetical order and in sections of types of objects. This would be oh so very fun for Twilight.

As Twilight finished sorting all her items into her various chests, and refining the ores she got, she went outside just in time to see the sun rise. That would be very convenient for Twilight, although she wasn't able to collect any stars for upgrading her magic. Oh well.

Suddenly, Twilight was notified of a slime rain. Twilight looked up just in time to see the slime land on her upturned face, damaging and startling her a little. Twilight backed away, allowing the slime to slip off, before pummeling it with her sword. Up ahead, more slimes were replacing the one she killed, and they were all bouncing towards her.

Twilight didn't think it would be terribly difficult to fight all the slimes. After all, they were just slimes, which couldn't do much except bounce towards you. But Twilight had to remember they were going to come at her from both sides, so she would have to constantly watch her back. Twilight was pretty sure she had a lot of experience doing just that.

But as she fought off all the slimes, she saw a new, very pink and very small slime fall from the sky. It kind of reminded her of Pinkie, just from the overwhelming amount of pink, even from such a small creature. As she mused, the pink slime bounced toward Twilight rather quickly, which prompted Twilight to try to hit it. Unfortunately, it seemed to be really difficult to hit with much accuracy. Switching tactics, Twilight got out her sword and waited for the slime to come close to her. Twilight was expecting the slime to die in a few swings.

Twilight was unpleasantly surprised at that moment to find that the slime was still alive. Twilight ran back to the house and backed against a wall so that other slimes wouldn't be able to sneak up behind her. Then, bringing her full attention to the pink slime, she started swinging. Still, the slime kept bouncing, which was very confusing for Twilight. How could something so small take so much damage?

Finally, Twilight was able to kill it, as well as the few slimes that got caught up in her swinging. It just dropped a whole bunch of pink jel, however, which she couldn't seem to put with the rest of the gel. Shrugging, she went back out to mercilessly slaughter all the slimes.

It really was just as easy as Twilight expected. Other than that one pink slime, the others all were destroyed pretty quickly, and Twilight even got a few banners out of it. As she defeated her 149th slime, Twilight decided slime rains weren't that bad.

As soon as she killed her 150th slime, however, things took a dramatic turn. She could suddenly hear the shlorping of a really massive slime, and she also received a message stating that "King Slime has awoken!" She couldn't see any large slimes anywhere, though. She decided to look on the other side of the housing complex, wherein she was treated to a truly magnificent sight. That sight being a giant blue slime wearing a golden crown. Twilight could have sworn she could see a person inside the slime, but decided that wasn't really important right now. A part of her was freaking out at the size of the slime, but she shushed that part up quickly so as to be able to fight the giant slime.

Twilight decided she didn't want to see what the slime was capable of, and decided to just stay inside the Guide's house as she fought it. Twilight allowed herself a small bit of hope, as the King Slime uselessly jumped at the wall, and the small slimes it summoned were easily dealt with.

Then it all changed. Twilight saw the slime quickly shrink into itself somehow. Twilight waited a few tense seconds to see if it might return. She was just about to relax before the slime reappeared right on top of her, surprising her and causing her to run out of the house as quickly as possible. At that point, Twilight realized she had run into the mass of slimes that had spawned, and she also realized the Guide was inside that house. As Twilight tried to fend off all the slimes awaiting her, she could hear the pained grunts of the guide inside.

Twilight ran as far as she could away. If the King Slime could teleport, maybe it would leave the Guide alone and try to keep up with Twilight. She really didn't want to get Guide killed again.

And it worked. Twilight didn't get any notifications of slain Guides. But now she had to deal with a house-sized slime and its baby slimes. Twilight probably should have thought that through a little more. Although her strategy of running away while still being close enough to hit the slimes with her boomerang seemed to be working.

...until the slime fell out of the sky right behind her, knocking her into the mass of slimes and King Slime, where she was unable to escape in time and got her meat ripped off the bone. When Twilight came to again, she decided she was just about done with slimes at the moment, so she stayed inside the house, entertaining herself with various methods of sorting her items.

Finally, after a little while, the slime rain finally stopped. Twilight was glad she didn't have to deal with any more King Slimes, at least for the moment, and exited the building. Hopefully, she would be able to just collect some stars in peace.

Twilight's wish was denied. Twilight suddenly had the feeling that something was watching her. That was confirmed when she saw the message about an evil presence. Twilight hoped whatever it was would be kind enough to just leave her be, as she really wasn't in the mood to fight whatever it was.

After about a minute of just walking around collecting stars, she heard a monstrous roar originating from above her. When she looked up, she was greeted by the very scary sight of a giant eye looking down at her, which she realized was the Eye of Cthulhu thanks to the super helpful message that appeared. As she started to back away from the eye, it started to shoot smaller eyes from its pupil, which seemed really creepy to Twilight. She was easily able to beat them back, though they prevented her from hitting the Eye itself.

Without warning, the Eye charged at her, almost hitting Twilight before she barely dodged. She saw the eye go through the ground, and realized it might try to rush at her. She tried to run away from where the eye would come out, but was frustratingly still unable to go past a certain speed. The eye managed to hit her coming out of the ground, which disoriented her and damaged her quite a bit. Then the eye came at her a third time, which Twilight was able to dodge. It then rose back up above Twilight slowly and started shooting eyes again.

Despite being such a scary boss at first, it seemed like the pattern was easy to follow. All Twilight had to do was run back and forth while throwing her boomerang up at it. Once again, Twilight allowed herself a small bit of hope. Of course, that changed when the eye started spinning rapidly, shedding its pupil in favor of a giant mouth. That freaked Twilight out a little more, and she started to panic slightly.

But the eye still seemed easy to dodge. It was rushing at her three times, before hovering over her for a few seconds to rush at her again. All Twilight had to do was keep dodging as she was doing before. As she continued hitting the eye, it started to get faster and faster, with less time between its rush attacks, until it was constantly rushing at her. Twilight was pretty sure she was about to die, but was so close to beating it that she just had to continue fighting.

Twilight felt the wall of the house behind her and realized it would be impossible to dodge now. Seeing the eye charge at her, Twilight struck with all her might, being sure she would die but still holding out.

An explosion of giant eye bits greeted Twilight that night, as she struck the killing blow on the eye. As she watched, she saw a number of potions and some kind of ore drop from the corpse, while a message read that the eye was defeated. Twilight could feel her confidence rising from her victory against this monster. She walked forward to pick up the drops before heading inside. She wanted to know what she could make with this ore, and ultimately wanted to know what bosses there were so she could defeat them all. Probably starting with that King Slime.

Author's Note

And so Twilight has officially defeated her first boss! Sure, she also defeated the Brain once, but she didn't really do anything that time. She has also officially died to her first boss, too, but that's irrelevant. And now that Twilight feels high on victory, she's probably going to die a bunch. Tune in next time!