Chapter 4 Mine's and miniguns, guards and princesses, and backstory....?

I arrive at the mine entrance and oh boy, it looked old. Honestly, looks like it hasn't been used for at least 50 years. It still is supported though. I go to explore it but I realize my own fatal flaw, I don't have torches, nor a flashlight. So I instinctively reach for where my phone would be, only to somehow grab it like it was there.

Wait.... what the hell?! I don't even have pockets! Does that mean I can access some of the stuff from home?! Hm.... I decide to try to pull out a little gift, my balisong / butterfly knife, and surprise! It came out. How is this even possible? I shouldn't be able to grab these! Ah well! Flash-light!

I tap the flashlight function on my phone and oh boy, is it bright. But what I see makes my eyes light up like the 4th of july! A Traveler's meter. Take a wild guess at what I found? The abandoned mineshaft found on lush planets. Case and point. Although..... I bet there is far more than just one. At least starbound logic seems to help me here.

My guess is that since Luna didn't return until at best 3-4 years ago, she couldn't of found the ship that was orbiting the planet. Or the creature that crashed here. Time for some spelunking! Although, should I try to find those poptops? Honestly, core fragments would prove to be incredibly useful. Not to mention the fact that I doubt that many creatures on equis have managed to reach near the core. And if they have reached it once or twice, chances are they either died, or came out with little to nothing.

But wait.... Oh fuck me. THE RUIN! If my OC hasn't destroyed it yet, then I'll have to do the WHOLE starbound storyline, god damnit! This'll be such a pain in the ass....

I then go into the mine and start mining every single piece of ore I can find. The Snaunt's, Batong's, scaveran's, and gleap's, are annoying as hell and I've even seen a poptop here and there, along with a nutmidge or two, but no sign of the cave entrance to the poptop den. Then I see the platforms that only go down in a fairly narrow area which means, BINGO! But I'll explore that later, instead, I go and explore the rest of the mine, my loot ends up being: Iron ore = 73, Copper ore = 107, Lead = 30, Magnesite = 56, Sulfur = 12, Core fragments = 31, Gold ore = 13, Silver ore = 21, a fucking FLAK CANNON called the Techlaki Starstopper which does Shadow damage. Should be pretty effective, some 60 throwing spears, 200 darts, some bombs, THATS RIGHT! BOMBS! 24 of them to be exact, and that's it. Well, other than 4K fucking pixels. After that I go down into the area that the platforms lead to and find something surprising, an Avikan. Sorry, a DEAD Avikan, oh wait... make that 7 DEAD Avikans.... oh shit. I better check their corpses, I start looking inside their backpacks, finding things like water, bone, a broken gun or two, but the best thing I find is not one, not two, but THREE Avikan sealed Caches. Wonder what's in them? I'll find out later.

Didn't find anything useful other than that. But the bones that are exposed on the dead Avikans are what worries me, scorched bones. Avikans are resistant to heat, by quite a lot. But from what I know, their bones are FAR more resistant, but they're not immune to lava, or anything, but something has to be pretty fucking hot to scorch Avikan bones. There are three possible causes, Dragon, Hydra, or worst case scenario, Princess Celestia. Not exactly sure HOW hot Dragon or Hydra fire breath is, but I'm guessing its up there, but to be honest, some of them look like the bones began to MELT, this isn't going to be good for me if Celestia is the one who killed them. This just means I have to be quick about gathering supplies, better gear, and allies, preferably someone with a lot of power to help me, but they have to be either Neutral or Good. Chaotic or not, I need them. Gilgamesh would be a perfect example. I just hope he still isn't fighting those damn things. That would be a problem. Delsin Rowe could also be a choice, but then I would have to deal with Nisled, damnit. I just keep thinking of things to get but I get snapped out of my train of thought by a roar I hear while I'm looting crates. Guess who? Mother Poptop. And oh SHIT is it close.

I duck down, switch my hearing to ' half deaf ' and ready my brand new Flak Cannon ( Put it simply, its a fucking giant, shoulder mounted, shotgun or FGSMS for short ) along with my Katana's and look for big ugly ( Short name for Mother Poptop, also a short name for many other bosses that I know I might have to fight ) and I notice the health bar for it appear in my vision, great, hopefully this will be easy. Nothing can go wrong now. Just as soon as I finish that thought * CHOMP * " AAAAAHHHHH! " A fucking Poptop bit my damn leg, let me tell you, it HURT worse than being just grazed by a bullet, I swing my katana and swat it off my leg before cutting it in half, then I look to me right and see three things, firstly, the escape route, secondly, a swarm of baby poptops, and thirdly, take a wild fucking guess, the mother poptop, staring me down. I just draw my flak cannon and say " NOPE! Fuck you, fuck your kids, now BURN. IN. HELL! " And use the secondary fire function, which was a penetrating shot, so it was pretty much a huge wall of super flechette. Killed every single baby poptop, but big ugly still survived, albeit, without much hp left, but it closes the gap and smacks me into a wall, nothing broken, due to my augments, but I know I'll die of blood loss if I'm not fast. So I pull out my scythe and began striking, it was so very fucking close to dead, but it hit me again, then, blood in my vision, I scream " DIE YOU PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A LIVING THING! "

I do something I never thought I could've, I changed forms, this was an aspect that my OC got after defeating the ruin, you see, when my OC defeated it, she absorbed a fair amount of the ruins essence which gave her a great boost to many stats that revolved around attacking and avoiding being attacked, but it changed her appearance a lot which is how she gained two more tails and two bat wings sprouting from her back and her personality changed a bit, but she still died, and when she received the last shard of the cultivator, she changed, more, reverting back to her original self, personality and appearance save for the tails and wings, she thought she returned to normal.

In truth however, she was far different, other than the main changes, and bonuses that having both the ruin and the cultivator inside give her, they came with an unbelievable perk / downside, partial immortality, sure, she could still die just as easily as before from attacks and such, but not by age, disease, and sickness, she could not believe it that she outlived her own pack members, in spite the fact of being one of the oldest, as her parents had perished long before she became a protector, and was broken for a long time.

That was until one day, she was out, trying to be rid of her depression, and fell, got a concussion which altered her mind to be more similar to humans, in more ways than one, she become colder, and crueler to those who weren't in her pack, which at the time, meant everyone, but when she went back to Avalon, an avali insulted her in the absolute worst possible way, after asking what happened to her pack and hearing her story, they thought she told a lie, and couldn't believe her, and thus made the last mistake they ever made, they said that she killed them all herself, when she heard that, she snapped, her form changed into what is called the ' Ruin ' form, her eyes become orange with slits, her feathers become poisonous, her strength, speed, agility, dexterity, vigor, and energy reserves increased and she was able to inflict bleed, Toxic weaken, Embrittle, and toxify with just a punch and gained a glowing red aura around her. While her Endurance, Intellect, vitality, reasoning, and other mental functions decreased due to anger, the more angry she got, the worse it was. She literally RIPPED off the head of the avali, screamed as loudly as possible, left Avalon, and never came back.

She destroyed countless planets and stars just out of rage, until she finally calmed down. She was then wracked with guilt, she had possibly killed over 100000 people, and just didn't stop. One night, she fell asleep, and saw the ruin and cultivator in her mind, battling, while the ruin had a hold of her, and the cultivator was fighting it to get her from it. The real Kalali, the one who wasn't grabbed, went to them, and begged for the fighting to stop.

Eventually, she said ' Fuck it ' and absorbed both of them into her being from her mind, erased their memories, kept her own, and went back to her normal form, and when she went out to right her wrongs, she turned into her Cultivator form, which was mainly white with cyan blue highlights, when she reached Avalon, she was hunted for many years, eventually, she knew what she had to do, she made a device that could completely mask a warp to a planet, but it was experimental, she had to fake her death, so, she had hidden a ship with a LOT of fuel and a large FTL near an unknown planet with brand new life signs, not knowing if it was truly safe, but knew it was able to have her live there. So when the they caught up with her, she rigged her ship to auto target them to make it seem like she was still there, and even make a fake life signature in the control room for the weapons.

She waited, and waited, she saw the biggest weapon she's ever seen on a ship begin to aim at hers, she knew it was time, and activated the device, it sent her to the planet, and her ship was destroyed, the device had left her soul open with which mine merged with hers, turned her / me back into her / my normal form, and blocked her memories from my mind until my mind and soul was used to her body, then the thought process, memories and such, mixed with mine at a slow rate. At that time, she had lived for about 150 years. She had knowledge on nearly every single type of thing that can or cannot be useful and far more.

When I was finally out of remembering everything, I had already gathered everything from the dungeon area, transformed back into my normal form, healed up, and kept going through the dungeon. I even managed to unlock areas I didn't even know about! But now? Having two sets of memories is irritating, honestly, but I've learned so damn much, now I can somehow recall nearly everything I could ever need, every recipe Kalali learned, EVERYTHING! Its insane! My short term and long term memory ability must've sky rocketed. My mind used to be selective on what I remembered and what I didn't, now? I can remember everything both lives had with complete clarity. Every conversation, every food they ate, everything. Its insane.

After leaving the mine, I switch my hearing back to the 'human' setting and I decide to see if I can will a set of avali headphones into existence, and it worked, so I put them on and willed a converter for my phone into existence as well and start to play one of my favorite tunes. This is the normal version.
But THIS is the version I listen to.
So I just kept listening at human level hearing, with which, the headphones somehow adjusted the volume for no matter what my hearing was set at, save for deaf, I could hear it fine. I just continued on my way back to my home, I spotted a few creatures from the mine, mainly a few poptops and gleaps, annoying bastards, I just slice them to pieces, and keep going on my way back home while Whistling the tune without a care, cutting down any sort of beast that came at me, but being sure to end it in one hit, it doesn't deserve to suffer.

I eventually got back and got to work with all the new items I received. I managed to make a few rather dangerous things, mainly, a few Avali guns, which included my favorite, and most badass gun, the MG1 Hailstorm that's right, a FUCKING MINIGUN! Now, it resized for me, same for the other guns I made, but it seems to fire a projectile the size of a 22 round, and the barrels are HUGE, so my guess is that the barrels will thin out as I go up in power, as honestly, why would you need a fucking 3in' thick barrel for a 22 round? Now back to the guns, I also made the FM1 Firelance, AR1 Blizzard, 2X PD1 Frostbites, and a QRC Type-1.

Then the grand Finale, the Avikan sealed Caches. I open one, and get two Nomada protector F-19's, I open another and get a random piece of Avikan armor ot like I can use it since A it won't fit and B it doesn't provide any sort of protection in game, so I'm guessing that applies here, but I'll test it to be sure, but.... huh, its fit for me, an Avali, even has cuts in the back for my wings, and its dyed red and it will fit over my survival gear, might just wear it I open the next one and receive an engineer's belt which is also dyed red and will fit with my survival gear AND something I didn't expect, a Line rifle called the TerveLeaders Bow. Which if I remember correctly, has an enemy seeking secondary fire. I open the last one and receive only one thing, ANOTHER line rifle, the architect. No idea what that one does, as I haven't even gotten it before in a starbound playthrough, even though I've opened roughly 500 Avikan Caches total. Oh, I also received quite a lot of Dranite and the other type of Avikan plates. ( I cannot remember the name for the life of me so it actually appeared as a ??? in the menu ) and a bit of monster bone. Had taken every crate, metal and wooden, from the mine, and placed them around, and stored stuff in them, but when I opened them the normal way ( VIA Prying off the top ) the items were actually neatly stacked inside, I shook the crate, they didn't move, picked it up and turned it upside-down, and they didn't move, STARBOUND LOGIC IS AWESOME!

After that, I managed to do something I've been putting off, sealing off the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th floor of my home with sealed doors, I crafted the ' Familiar door ' which was made from glass and iron, then I used it on the entrances of each floor, the inside of the tower for them was basically a spiral staircase that lead all the way up, I also get an outside extension of it with a living room spread out inside the extension, I have it on the 2nd floor as that is where my LEAST dangerous experiments reside, mainly involving genetics and potions so it is SOMEWHAT safe. After that, I completely seal off the rest with more doors. After that, I make some basic wooden furniture for the living room, I also have my kitchen up on the 2nd floor extension, but there will be more. For now, however, I need to do some target practice, I want to re sharpen my skills with shooting a minigun, as the old Kalali did use them, quite a lot.

I set up targets, Switch to the ' deaf ' hearing setting and begin with the PD1's first, I actually think to 'load' a mag into the pistol's first and I can feel the energy drain from me but not by a lot per pistol, but doing both was slightly taxing on my mind, by my guess, thanks to the ruin and cultivator, I have a rather large boost to my energy reserves. Then I fire a whole what would be 20 round mag from each before I begin to feel the energy drain again. Then I 'reload' and regenerate. Then I switch to the FM1 and see how well a sniper rifle could work, as soon as I tried to 'load' it, it took nearly all my energy, I could feel my mind was nearly completely drained, I regenerated and tried to 'load' it again but no energy was drained, so it takes almost a full bar of energy to load the FM1, which takes the most energy per shot. I start test firing again, 6 shots before I need to reload for it. So I have roughly a 300 energy reserve. I then pull out the AR1 and load it, it doesn't take much, I regenerate and fire 30 shots before I start to feel the drain again.

Then I switch to the QRC and load it, my mind felt dead for a few seconds after that, so it must hold at a minimum of 8 shots. I wait 7 seconds so that my mind can recover and try to load it again and end up barely using any energy, so I'm assuming 9-10 shots. I fire off 9, reload, rest, reload, then I switch to the big gun. The MG1, and it only takes 2 energy per shot if I remember right, but holy hell, I had to reload it 6 times, so I'm guessing the 1000 round per 'mag' range. Perfect. I fire off 100 rounds and reload, then I call it quits for that for the day. I open my book for the RPG growth mod and see a few new things, seems as if this world receives updates like the mods do, interesting. I'll have to remember that for later.

I switch my hearing back to avail and hear two things, firstly, wing beats, secondly, hoof steps, a LOT of both. I quickly rush inside and barricade myself on the first floor and seal off the entrances from both above and the door, then I get ready for the worst. " Foul creature! Come out and surrender or face the wrath of the royal guard! " Oh shit are you serious?! God damnit Silver! I knew I shouldn't of let her live. Damnit, well, I never wanted to fight those guard, but I guess if I can't talk them down, I won't have a choice.

" Hang on a minute morons! Foul Creature? Who told you about me? An earth pony mare named Silver Sword, right? Well by my guess, since you're here, anything she must've said was- " I was cut off.

" SHUT UP CREATURE AND FACE PUNISHMENT! " The guard captain yelled with fury. I wonder... I bet this will work.

" Hey guards! You know those loud bangs you heard earlier, right? Guess what made those? ME! I have weapons that can launch up to 1000 metal projectiles per minute and each projectile goes faster than the speed of sound, do the math, no matter how many of you there are, I. Will. Win. I don't want to fight here, nor do I wish to kill, but if it comes to it, I WILL! Now listen up! You have THREE choices: Choice one, You lower your weapons, stop using your magic, and settle the hell down, and we TALK like Civilized people SHOULD. Choice TWO, you leave, and NEVER come back. Or, worst case, Choice THREE! Which means, EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. YOU. DIE! Take your bloody pick! As I sure as hell can't be captured, as all I have to do is die, and I'll come right back to life back at my house, so sorry guards, but you're out matched. " Please tell me they fell for it. I really don't want to kill them.

" STOP! - " Holy hell! That's Dust! " Kalali isn't a threat ya damn foals! I met her before! Silver just over reacted to one of Kalali's tools and what it can be used for, that's all! " Go on dust! Tell them to back off damnit! I don't want to kill them!

" LIES! You're corrupted by the creature! SIEZE HIM! " SHIT! I switch my hearing to ' half deaf ' and its Hero time!

" Leave dust alone assholes! - " I burst through the door, minigun at the ready " Now you pissed me off, I never wanted to do this - " I avoid a few arrows and two magic bolts " now fall! " I unleash hell, little did I realize, that my train of thought of not wanting to kill them before, changed the ammo I used, from regular bullets, to a special type of dart like bullet that released a potent tranquilizer inside the target less than an inch into the skin, but it worked nearly as fast at putting them down as a regular round, except it can't kill them. After nearly all of them were down, they started to retreat, I just kept firing and eventually got every single one of them save for dust. I got over to him, switch my hearing back to Avali, and he was starting to cry, as he thought his guard friends had died.

" You killed them.... they're all dea- " I cut him off. " No dust, they aren't dead, actually, turns out, a mental command on my weapon switched its ammo type, from ' deadly ' to 'Knock-out' which is why you can still see the rise and fall of their chest's, they're all still alive, go check for yourself. " I remove the cuffs they managed to get on him and he quickly rushes to another stallion that is on the ground, he looks quite similar to dust. Only real difference being the fact that Dust is Shorter, that the stallion in question has a brown mane and is a unicorn.

" Father? You alive..? " Wait... WHAT?! That is his father?! Oh shit.... that would've been horrid had I..... I decide to respond quickly.

" Dust, your father is currently under an effect that is a mix of sleep and paralysis, it will wear off in about 2-3 hours. They can hear you, and me, currently, but they cannot speak due to the effect. They CAN still see, if you open their eyes. May I say something to him? He lead this charge, is that correct? " I truly hope this can work out for the better. As if it doesn't I'll need to jump planets, soon. But I'm not going to leave for good, I may have two sets of memories, but I sure as hell am NOT leaving this world, who knows what is out there that could attack it? If the ruin is back, the cultivator won't be.

" Yeah... he lead the charge, and his name is Solid Strike. Please, don't hurt him. " I nod and sit down beside Solid, and dust goes and helps the other guards that are lying around into a bit more comfort so that they don't wake up with pain, and moves their weapons away from them.

" Listen, Solid, I'm sure you understand now why it was such a terrible idea to attack, I warned you, but we got off on the wrong... foot? Hoof? I don't know what it is for your kind - " Dust yells over and says it's Hoof " Right, anyways, listen, I never did actually want to fight, truth be told, and to be honest, right now, I'm giving you my trust, as guess what? You're stuck, immobile, paralyzed, and at MY mercy, if I didn't trust you, to not attack me after you regain your ability to move, I would've killed each and every single one of you by now. Dust included. Understand that, while yes, I have deadly weapons AND abilities, do not assume that I am dangerous just because of what I CAN or COULD do, you cannot assume, it leads to ruin, believe me, I've experienced it many times before, instead, you must KNOW if something is going to be a threat, if something HAS done harm, then it is a POSSIBLE threat, in that case, you arrest it with just a few guards, if it has done harm, and continues to do so, THEN, and ONLY THEN, is it what you believed me to be, THEN is it a KNOW on the part that said thing IS a threat, I'm not threat, so long as I am not threatened by something, or someone. The ONLY time I harmed a guard was clonking Silver Sword on the head with a club to knock her out when she went out of control. Other than that, nothing. So please understand, I will not harm you, nor your friends, family, royalty, or anything like that, unless they have either harmed me, or have committed acts that I consider to be horrid. That is all, Solid. I truly hope you have a nice day, as I have a few things left to do today, mainly something I've been wanting to work on for a while. "

Little did I realize that the tranq had worn off mostly as it actually only lasted for 5 minutes, all of the guards were listening intently as the effects wore off, and were rather surprised to hear what I said. I had my eyes closed but I could tell they were up, I just acted as if I didn't know.

" So - " I jump up like I didn't expect Solid to be up. " you never wanted to hurt us, but if you wanted to, you could've killed each one of us just like that? I wouldn't of believed it, had I not seen it myself, but- " All of us hear a scream of rage

" DIE YOU WHORSE! " Fucking Hell silver! I stand up and get ready as she charges, the guards are just watching with wide eyes, I just wait for the right moment, silver goes for a stab, I push her sword to the side with my palm and grab her arm, I pry the sword from her grip and hit her clean in the forehead and knock her out, again. There I stood, holding a sword, silver unconscious, and roughly 40 guards around me.

But then I hear something, the same sound as a unicorn horn and trotting, but I felt it, powerful magic, far more than anything I could've guessed, the trotting sounded of grace and elegancy, I knew what two ponies possessed both of those qualities to the extreme, non other than the two main princesses, Celestia and Luna. I knew I was done, I just put the sword in the earth, and turned around, threw my arms behind my head, and surrendered, I could fight guards, yes, 400 of them? Easy, but two huge power houses? No way. I don't have a hard hitter yet, other than my line rifles, which I would never kill them, so those are out, I open my eyes, and look ahead, and see them, both of them, staring at me with a shocked look, I decide to speak first. " So, what's it going to be? Kill me? - " Celestia actually looked a little shocked at that " Send me to tartarus? Incase me in stone? Prison for many life times? Or are you here just to talk? except what happened to those Avikan in the mine " Celestia looked like a lightbulb went off in her head. " was not my doing, by my guess, it was yours, wasn't it Celestia? "

" Avikan? You mean the.... Syon? Those Lizard people? They killed my ponies over 700 years ago- " Wait, 700 years?! Jesus! What, do Avikan's take forever to decay or something?! " so I destroyed them all. You look similar in body shape. Are you related to them.? " She asked with a hint of suspicion.

" No, I am not related to their kind, I am a bird, not a lizard, big difference, and they are called Avikan, not Syon. however, my name is Kalali, I am an Avali, now with that out of the way, I will answer any questions you have, to an extent, no going into my personal life other than just to know who I am, I don't want pity, as my life is rather.... tragic, to put it lightly. " I say with a rather sad note at the end.

The princesses adopt a look of concern, caution, curiosity, suspicion, and another emotion I can't place. They nod and before they can ask their questions I interrupt them. " Alright, one more thing, I just wanted to finish saying something to Solid Strike here. " The guards get a little angry, I can tell from their stance and I just say to solid " Solid, to answer your question, would I ever use my tools, weapons, or equipment to harm the innocent? No, never. I will never harm the innocent intentionally, ever. That is a rule I have had for my whole life, and it will be that way until the day I die. " I know I lied there, but I can't tell them about what I did, not until I gain their trust, and until I can explain the situation with what happened. But did I really do it? GAH! Having two sets of memories is a bitch!

Celestia replies " You answered our biggest concern, Kalali, but one of our other questions is, what did you do with the sy.. Avikan, that were down in that cave? " She asks with a hint of worry, and curiosity.

" Well, to answer that question, I found them after I looted the mine, considering creature what was inside, lets just say I'm glad I dealt with it sooner rather than later. " The princesses adopted a look of concern, confusion, and curiosity. Princess Luna asked first

" But my sister vanquished everything in that mine! She told me so after I got back from my.... banishment. What manner of creature was inside of that mine that makes you glad you killed it?! " Luna is about to use the RCV, not good!

" Hold on! Settle down, most of the creatures I found in there were almost harmless to someone who is properly equipped, but the BIG problem were the creatures known as poptops, here is an example of a 'child' poptop. " I show them a picture of it.

The sisters look at it then look at each other with a smug look, then celestia asks " What makes this 'poptop' so dangerous? It is rather cute, isn't it? " Cute?! Alright, time to teach these ponies something important.

" Cute? Did you just call them CUTE?! I don't know what you see here, but poptops are dangerous little bastards, sure, when they're younger they aren't that deadly, but when they get older is when they become a REAL problem. Take a look at THIS picture. "

I show them a picture of an Adult poptop next to a child poptop with me for a scale, they both paled slightly, then luna asks " So... this is a fully grown poptop? Its huge! Are you saying you fought these things in the mine?! " I quickly shush her and reply " Yeah, they could literally bite me in half, but that isn't the worst poptop out there - " They get even paler " the worst is the MOTHER poptop, as those things breed faster than rabbits, and they grow quick, the mother poptop has over 5 times the strength of the regular adult poptop, 2X the speed, nearly 2X the size, a special type of liquid it can shoot from its mouth that is acidic, and a type of roar that weakens non organic materials and can cause some brain damage, on top of that, the mother can constantly 'send out' young poptops even while fighting, and as soon as they're out of the mother, they can fight to! I had one nearly bite my damn leg off! I was lucky I found a new weapon in that mine, other wise, I would've been deader than those Avikans down there, and if those damn things got to the surface, there is no way in hell nothing short of YOU, your sister or a whole army could stop one of those damn things! Sure, I stopped it somewhat easily, that's because of the weapons and tools I have, if I didn't have them, I would've just been dead before I could've even reached it. So you want to know what my true job description is? I'm the Monster hunter, sentient or not, if it is corrupt or is a threat to innocents, no matter HOW direct or indirect it is. It. Will. Die. I won't go into details anymore for now, as to be honest, you, and your guards, look like they could use some rest. As for me? I still have stuff I need to do. Please, have a nice day. "

When I first began, they kept getting paler, and winced when I told them about my leg, they paled even further when I told them that nothing short of them, me, or a whole army could stop just one creature. They talked it over and before they left they asked one more thing. " Kalali, since you appear to know so much about these creatures, is it possible there are more of these 'mother poptops' around our country? " I think about it, while starbound logic may apply in many respects in terms of crafting, I'm not sure it will in terms of creatures, so I tell them.

" Well, I'm pretty sure there are more dens, I just went down that one and got lucky or unlucky, to have found one, we need to cover all of this country and see what we can find, as honestly, poptop's are a huge threat, however, I will tell you this, while normal male and female adult poptops can have children, there can't be as many, they take months before they can fight, they take half as long to grow compared to mother poptop children, and they can't see for the first month of being born, where as, with the mother poptop, it can send out children pretty quickly, it doesn't even need a male to fertilize it, the children are immediately able to fight, they take 2-3X as long to grow to be adults, and can see as soon as they're born. All in all, if a mother poptop can get a good foothold in a cave, it takes a LOT to deal with it. " Scheisse, I am glad that they haven't sensed my magic yet, that would be BAD if they did. Maybe I don't have it other than Latin and Dovahzul? Who knows? Oh, and unless I WANT to carve up the body or use it for something, then the message that appeared for the manticore, won't appear.

" Well thank you Kalali for the information, and for dealing with such a threat, I would send a squad of guards to go and verify your claim, have a good night, but remember, I am watching you. " Thank god that exchange wasn't deadly, that would've been bad. Perhaps now I should make my token? Maybe? Who knows? I sure want to, but not until I get at least tier 3-4 gear, THEN perhaps I could. Until then I must be careful, I don't want to be summoned by a evil displaced and end up deader than a stone. I notice it is actually dark, as I was in that mine for a long time, so I decide to eat, then head off to bed, as yes, I made a better bed, woven fabric and timber bed, I don't have any tungsten yet, so I can't make any Avali things yet. Anyways, G'night. Lets see what waits us tomorrow....

To be continued.

Author's Note

If there was any grammatical errors, or anything like that, let me know. And if you liked this, please, tell me why, and if not, tell me why. I want to know how I could improve my story.