Author's Note

Like I said in my blog. I'm doing a rewrite for my stories due to grammar errors after looking over some of my older works. Anyway, hope you enjoy the much readable chapter. ^_^;

Status:

Class: Knight

Build: Mage Knight

Vigor: 40
Attunement: 100
Endurance: 40
Vitality: 60
Strength: 50
Dexterity: 60
Intelligence: 300
Faith: 60
Luck: 20

Weapons:
Lothric Knight Sword, Moonlight Greatsword, Court Sorcerer Staff, Lothric Knight Shield, Dragonslayer Axe, Dragonrider Bow

Spells:
Soul Stream, Lightning Arrow, Darkmoon Blade, Magic Weapon, Great Heal, Homing Soulmass, Soul Spear, Old Moonlight, Great Soul Dergs, Twisted Wall of Light.

Chapter One: Welcome To Sunnytown

Chapter One

Welcome to Sunnytown

(Ringed City, Path to the Spear of the Church)

Pain radiated through the Ashen one’s body as she was thrown into the side of the entrance that led towards the entrance of the path she was on. A gasp of air escaped her body from the impact as she fell to the ground. Groaning, she tried to pull herself up from the ground, only to feel herself being set on fire by Midir’s fire breath. The Ashen one quickly pulled herself up and lunged herself off to the side near a formation of rocks that made like a cover for her to avoid the heated flames of the corrupted dragon.

Wincing from the pain of almost being burned alive and possible second to third-degree burns. The Ashen one quickly pulled out her estus flask and began to drink from it. Upon doing that, her wounds began to heal themselves as she smirked from seeing her body recover. Though that smirk would quickly fade away as the flask that held the estus was now empty and no longer glowing.

“Well shit. Bad time to run out of Estus stuff to heal me.” She thought before looking over the side of the stone wall she was hiding behind. Her eyes widened in surprise as she pulled herself over to avoid the wave of fire that Midir unleashed on her as she gritted her teeth in annoyance.

“The one time I chose not to bring armor that doesn’t have some kind of resistance to fire. Aright Alma, think. What can you use to knock this bastard off this path?” Alma quickly looked into her bag to see what she had to use. So far she had a few throwing knives, six bombs, green blossoms, a blooming purple moss clump, divine blessing, Church Guardian Shiv, and Ashen Estus Flask.

“....If it wasn’t for the dark sigil on my chest, I would’ve died a long time ago.” Alma sighed as she pulled out a bomb and the Shiv in her other hand. “Guess I’ll have to hope for the best that I can make him lose his footing by knocking one of his claws off the path.” She soon takes a deep breath as she quickly rushes from behind the stone wall she was hiding behind and rushes towards Midir.

The corrupted dragon sees Alma coming at him as he takes a deep breath before firing off a beam-like attack toward the ground which causes Midir to move his head causing the beam to come toward The Ashen One. Alma’s eyes widen in surprise at this as she rolls to the side of the blast. But was soon sent flying into the sky by the trail of explosions caused by the beam as she yells in both terror and pain. Once in the air, Midir tried to grab her by trying to bite at her. Only for her to toss a bomb into his mouth and throw a Shiv at the bomb causing it to explode and making Midir recoil his head off to the side.

Alma soon felt herself crash against Midir’s neck as she quickly pulled out her sword, and jabs it into the dragon’s neck. The dragon lets out a roar from the pain as he begins to thrash around a bit to try and get the human off his neck. To his fortune, he was able to fling the human off his neck. But soon felt his grip on the path loosened upon his thrashing about. Just as he was about to cling back onto the rocky path, Alma quickly summoned a bow made out of lightning and fired at the claw that Midir was using to latch onto the bridge.

“Wasn’t the plan I was going for, but I guess it’ll do for now.” She said before aiming at his other claw and firing upon it. Midir roared in pain from the lightning arrow hitting his claw as he lost his grip and began to fall off the bridge and into the chasm below. Alma blinked in surprise as she quickly walked over to where the corrupted dragon was as she saw him fall into the darkness below. “Looks like you’re the one who’s falling over today. Eh, get it?” She asked as she looked around to see no one. The only response that she got however was the sounds of crickets making a sound. “....It sucks being alone in this awful place…”

With a sigh, the ashen one turned her attention back to the path that led to the spear of the church. Well, her attention was on the path, until a familiar sound caught her attention. She looked over the bridge to where the source was coming from. Only to be met with Midir’s beam attack at point-blank range as it blew up the part of the bridge that Alma was standing on. She began to roll off to the side from the force behind the blast and she soon felt the ground missing from under her as she fell. As she fell, she hit the side of the mountain that the bridge connected to as she tried to reach into her bag with whatever strength she had left to pull out the divine blessing potion to drink it.

“Come on, where the hell is that stupid thing!?” She yelled as she soon felt the potion and quickly pulled it out. “Haha! Got ya! Now I just need to time the fall and drink this before I hit the-'' Before she could finish her sentence, she felt a sharp pain run through her chest. She looked down to see a sharp piece of rock sticking out from the side of the mountain and impaling itself into her chest in an upwards jagged position. “W-Well….this was...unexpected.” She said as she felt her breathing slowing down along with her vision slowly fading. “Guess that….makes seventy-five times...I got m-myself killed.”

Alma’s body began to slowly turn to ash, as she once again heard a high pitch noise coming from Midir as he fired another beam from within the darkness of the chasm. Only this time he was shooting it off in many different directions instead of aiming at the ashen one.
“.....Lucky shot.” She said before her vision faded into darkness and her body disappeared.

(Equestria, Everfree Forest)

Alma’s body felt warm. Which was kind of a surprise given how she would normally feel cold and empty. Then again when you’re pretty much a corpse that can come back to life with the help of a curse, it shouldn’t be surprising that she would feel warm. She guessed that she was near the bonfire from where she lit it before fighting Midir. But as she slowly opened her eyes, she soon found herself in what looked to be a colorful room. Blinking in surprise as her vision became much clearer, she pulled herself upwards a bit as she soon found herself sleeping in a bed. Another surprise seeing how most places she would find solace in would be worn down, infested with monsters, or laying with skeletons of humans or dead monsters decaying.

“What the hell?” Alma said as she looked around the room she was in. From what she could tell, it looked like she was in a well-furnished room with a nightstand, a lamp, a working fireplace, and a bookshelf with an array of books. “I don’t remember lighting the bonfire in a place like this?” She said before quickly pulling the covers off of herself. Upon doing that, however, she took notice that her pale dark skin was now covered in a gray-colored fur-like substance. “The hell!?”

“Oh good, you’re awake.” Alma’s ears twitch upon hearing a voice coming from the doorway to the room. Looking up she saw a pony-like humanoid with black hair wearing a gray long-sleeve shirt and brown cargo pants standing there with a smile on his face. “I didn’t think you would wake up anytime soon when Three Leaf found you passed out near the entrance of our town.”
Alma simply glared at the earth pony creature as she slowly looked around the room to see what she could use as a weapon. The Earth pony simply tilted his head, still smiling as he slowly walked over to the unkindled one.

“Is something wrong? Did I say something that you might take offense to?”

“Where am I and what the hell did you do to me?” Alma asked as the pony stopped.

“Well, you’re in our small little town called Sunnytown. As for what I did to you, you’ll have to be a bit specific.”

“What the hell did you do to my body!? I was not covered in fur, nor did I-.” Alma paused for a moment before looking over at the mirror next to the bed on the nightstand as her eyes widened in surprise to see her looking like a mixed breed between a horse and a bat-like creature. “Nor did I look like a freak of nature! Now tell me what the hell did you do to me?”

“I don’t think I can help with that strange bat pony. But all we did was we took you into our town to make sure you didn’t get eaten by the wild animals in the forest. How you look, you might want to talk to your parents about that if that’s the case?” The stallion said as he walked over to Alma. “Did you hit your head on something?”

“No….No, I did not.” She said before shaking her head at this sudden turn of events happening to her this quickly. Alma took a deep breath before exhaling and looked over at the pony. “Forget what I said about what you did to me. Mind telling me who you are?”

“Oh! Sorry about that. Where are my manners.” The stallion said as he extended a hand towards the bat pony. “My name is Grey Hoof. I’m the mayor of this small little town called Sunnytown!” Alma simply blinked at this as she looked down at his hand before looking up at him.

“Sunnytown?” She asked as the stallion nodded his head. “Did you name the town that or?”

“Heavens no. The town was named that by the founders who built it long ago.”

“And those are?”

“Um…..I honestly forgot their names.” Gray Hoof said as he chuckled awkwardly. Alma deadpanned to this before leaning back in her bed.

“Not a very informative one are you?” She said before trying to figure out where her stuff was.

“Where is my stuff? More importantly, where are my clothes?”

“What clothes?”

“Don’t play dumb with me. You found me in the forest right? So you know I was wearing something when you brought me here. Now talk. Where is my stuff?”

“Umm are you sure? I didn’t see any clothes when I found you.” He said as Alma raised an eyebrow at the stallion. “I-It’s true. I wouldn’t lie to you if that was the case.” She stared at him for a moment before snorting in annoyance.

“Whatever….do you at least have a set of clothes for me then? I’m not going to walk around naked. Did it once…..it wasn’t pleasant.”

“What happened? Did you try it in the middle of winter or something?”

“Just give me some fucking clothes! I’m not here to answer something that I’m not willing to talk about.” Gray Hoof almost fell over from her yelling as he quickly leaves to find her something to wear. “Something about him….doesn’t feel right.” She thought before looking outside the sunny-like environment of Sunnytown. “This whole thing doesn’t feel right at all. What the hell even happened to me? One minute I found myself being pierced in the chest by a gagged spike sticking out of the side of a mountain, and the next I woke up to find myself here in this little town in what I’m guessing is the middle of the forest...In the middle of an unknown forest in the body of a weird pony bat creature humanoid thing…” The unkindled one paused for a moment as an idea hit her head. Raising her hand, she quickly slapped herself in the face to see if what was going on was a dream. Sadly however the pain she felt upon doing that was real as she crossed that thought out for ideas to see if she wasn’t dreaming.

“Okay, not a dream. So this is real life and I’m stuck in some unknown place in the middle of the forest...Fan fucking tastic.” She said with a groan. “All this is so fucking confusing. The first thing I need to do is to find my stuff and figure out where I am.” Alma’s ears twitched as she heard the steps of hooves heading towards the room she was in as Grey Hoof entered with a set of clothes for her to have.

“Sorry. These were the only things I could find that would fit you, or at least I hope they fit you?” He said as he presented her with a blue-colored long-sleeve shirt and a pair of black shorts.

“....You don’t have….anything else?” She asked as Grey Hoof shook his head. A sigh escaped her mouth as she extended a hand toward him and motioned him to hand the clothes over.

“Fine, but you’ll need to leave so I can put them on.” Before the stallion could leave, he looked back at Alma with a smile.

“Before I forget. What’s your name if you don’t mind me asking?” Alma was hesitant at first but decided to tell him as she cleared her throat.

“Alma Andrea….now please leave.”

Gray Hoof nodded as he quickly left the room. Leaving the human-turned-bat pony alone as she began to put on the clothes that he gave to her. As he was making his way out of the house that they placed Alma in, he noticed a green-colored mare wearing a dark green short sleeve shirt and long lime-green-colored dress walking up to him with a smile as she bows.

“How is she doing?”

“She’s up. Though she might’ve hit her head on something because she thinks we turned her into a bat pony.” Grey chuckled as he scratched the back of his head. “I get the feeling that gaining her trust will be a bit more difficult than I expected.”

“She might’ve been lost in the forest for quite some time. I mean the stuff she had on looked old and covered in dirt, blood, and who knows what else.”

“I know, why did you think I hid that stuff in my house Three Leaf? Poor thing must’ve been through something fierce.” Grey said as he placed a hand on his chin. “Hm, maybe you can talk to her to see if she can open up a bit more. You always did have a way of getting ponies to open up more.”

“I’ll try. But I can’t make any promises if she doesn’t want to talk much.” Three Leaf said as she looked over at the house, then back at Gray Hoof. “Do you think she’d join our little town like the others?”

“She might. We’re still trying to find the little filly that we were able to help protect from that….disease after all. Gladstone and Roneo will tell me if they found her once they return. For now, let’s get everything ready for the party today.”

“Party?” Three Leaf said as she paused for a moment before her eyes widened. “Oh! You mean the party for Roneo and Scarlet?”

“Yep, that’s the one. We have to get everything ready for them seeing how they just announce they’re going to get married soon.”

“Aw, that’s so sweet of you to host a party for them.” She said, jabbing an elbow into his side which caused Grey to blush.

“W-Well I figured I’d do something nice for my best friends.” He said, looking away for a moment before looking back at Three Leaf. “Anyway after you’re done talking with Alma, you and Scarlet get the decorations and food set up. I’ve got some things I need to do before the party begins.” He said before walking off near the back part of the town.

Alma stood in front of the mirror that was next to the window in the room she was in. She had to admit. The shirt was surprisingly comfortable and matched well with her fur color, though what she didn’t like was the fact that she was wearing shorts that were a bit too revealing for her legs.

“I mean seriously? How can people, eh, horses wear something that rides up their butts?” She thought as she tugged on her shorts a bit. Just as she was about to look around the room to see if there were another pair of pants that she could feel comfortable wearing, she heard a knock on the door followed by a feminine voice behind it.

“Excuse me. May I come in?” The mare asked as the bat pony turned her attention to the door.

“You can come in,” Alma answered as the door to the room opened as Three Leaf entered the room.

“Hello, are you okay?”

“I’m fine...mind telling me who you are...Ms?”

“Oh! Sorry! My name is Three Leaf. Grey Hoof sent me here to see if you’re okay and needed anything, or if you’re up for it I could give you a tour around our small little community?”

“A tour around town doesn’t seem like a bad idea. Would give me a chance to get a good layout of the place, and a means to find my stuff once nighttime comes...at least I think this place has nighttime...right?” Alma thought as she nodded her head to Three Leaf’s questions. “I guess a tour around town wouldn’t be a bad way to start.”

“Wonderful!” Three Leaf said as she began to walk outside of the house. “I’ll be outside waiting for you when you’ve finished getting yourself ready.”

“Yeah, I’ll be there in a bit,” Alma said as she waved the pony off before looking at the mirror and sighing. “Just play along Alma. There’s something wrong with this town.” She thought as she noticed the fur on her body standing up. “Especially if the fur on my skin is standing on edge just being here. The moment night falls here is the moment I will leave this place before something bad happens to me.”

Moments later after Alma got herself prepared to meet the town, the bat pony soon exits the house she was in as she quickly covers her eyes from the light coming down on her from the sun.

“Damn, never actually took notice of the sun being brighter than I remembered.”

“Well from my knowledge of bat ponies, they don’t usually go out during the day. Which kinda surprises me that you’re not inside or trying to find something to cover your head with.” Three Leaf said as Alma rolled her eyes at that.

“I've...been out during the daytime due to having a job.” The bat pony lied as Three Leaf shrugs, not questioning the mare any further.

“Anyway, come with me if you would?” Three Leaf motions for Alma to follow her as she begins to lead her around town. “I know it’s a small little place, but the folks here are very friendly if you ever need somepony to talk to.”

“I’ll keep that in mind,” Alma said as she looked around at the houses they passed by. She did have to admit that this was a very colorful town. Compared to the undead settlement that she explored after dealing with Vordt of the Boreal Valley, this was somewhat calming for the most part. What got her attention was the many colorful ponies walking around town either waving at each other, talking to one another, or helping each other with something that involved lifting something heavy or repairing stuff.

“Everyone is so...friendly to one another,” Alma said as she waved back at the ponies that waved at her and Three Leaf.

“Well of course we’re friendly towards one another. We all grew up together in Sunnytown so we pretty much know almost everyone.”

“Almost everyone?”

“Some of the ponies here are new. Mostly because they got lost in the Everfree Forest and can’t get out because...well we've been nice to them and they just couldn’t part with our fair little town.”

“I….guess that makes sense if you think about it. Have you ever been outside of the forest before?” Alma asked as she noticed Three Leaf stop moving for a moment before looking at her with a somewhat creepy smile on her face.

“Why would I ever leave the forest? I have everything that I need here in Sunnytown after all.” She said before turning back around and continuing to walk. Alma raised an eyebrow at Three Leaf reacting to her question and would've asked why the personality changed. But given the fact that she didn’t want to run the chance of getting kicked out, she decided to push that question off to the side and decided to ask something else.

“S-So your friends with Grey Hoof, right? How long has he been mayor of this little town?”

“About two, maybe three years now? I kinda lost track of how long he’s been the leader of our town. But so far he hasn’t had anyone run against him during those years.”

“Why is that?”

“Because he has been doing such a good job, no one chooses or decides to run against him to become mayor themselves.” She said as she noticed a light gray earth pony with an orange mane & tail, and was wearing a light orange shirt and gray colored dress.

“There you are, Three Leaf.” The pony said, catching her breath as it appeared to Alma that the mare was running a long distance or so around town trying to find Three Leaf.

“Ah, Scarlet. Just the mare I was looking for. I take it you ran into Grey Hoof and he told you to come to see me right?”

“Yeah, he said that he had a job for us to do and that you’ll explain what it is,” Scarlet said as she looked over at Alma. “Oh! You’re the mare that Roneo and I found in the forest!” she said before extending a hand toward the bat pony. “I’m Scarlet by the way. Nice to meet you Ms...?”

“Alma Andrea,” Alma said as she shook the earth pony’s hand. Upon shaking her hand, however, she felt something off about it. “Something’s not right about her. More correctly, her and Three Leaf.” She thought as she quickly released her grip around Scarlet’s hand.

“Is something the matter, Alma?” Three Leaf asked as the bat pony looked over at her with a fake smile on her face.

“Oh yeah, everything’s fine. Just...um...a bit hungry is all.”

“Oh! I thought it was because I was smelly because of all the running I did.” Scarlet said as she chuckled.

“More like you’re radiating all kinds of wrong that I’m sensing off of you...almost like you’re a hollow.” Alma thought before hearing Three Leaf speak up.

“Well, you’ll get plenty of food to eat once we get the party set up.” Three Leaf said before looking over at Scarlet.

“So that’s what Grey Hoof sent me to help you with?” Scarlet asked as Three Leaf nodded.

“Grey Hoof is hosting a party today for you and Roneo.” The green mare said as she walked next to Scarlet and jabs her playfully in the rib. “Seeing how you two are going to be married in about a week or two~.” She said as a blush ran across Scarlet’s face.

“Geez Roneo. That pony can’t keep a secret if his life depended on it.” She sighed before looking over at Alma. “But wouldn’t the party be for Alma instead of Roneo and me?”

“We’ll plan that afterward. For now, I need your help telling the others so we can start on getting everything set up for when Gladstone and Roneo get here from their search.” While the two mares were busy talking to one another, Alma took her attention off them as she looked around the area they were in. As she did, she took notice of a mare with dark gray fur, red mane & tail wearing a long-sleeve shirt-like dress that was the same palette as her mane and fur color looking at the two mares with a disgusted expression on her face.

“Weird, maybe she has some kind of grudge against them maybe?” Alma thought before noticing that the mare was looking at her up and down for a moment before her eyes were drawn near her flank. The bat pony blinked in confusion before quickly turning her attention to the two mares in front of her as if nothing happened.

“Alma, I know I was supposed to show you around town. But I need to help Scarlet with the decorations and setting up the party. If you'd like, you can have a look around town to get to know the ponies in Sunnytown. You might even find a friend here if you’re nice enough.” Three Leaf said with a chuckle. “Who am I kidding, you’ll make friends here in this town. Everypony here is nice and open towards others.”

“Okay, I guess it shouldn't be a problem. How long will it take for you to be done getting stuff set up for the party?”

“An hour or two depending on if anypony isn’t busy with something else. But I’ll try to get back to you once I’m done. So feel free to walk around or relax!” Three Leaf said as Alma turned around and walked in the opposite direction. “What an interesting mare. I do hope she decides to stay with us in Sunnytown.” She said before looking over at Scarlet with a scared expression on her face. “Is something the matter, Scarlet?”

“Three Leaf….look at Alma’s leg,” Scarlet said as she pointed at Alma walking off. Three Leaf squinted her eyes as to what Scarlet meant by that. Once she got a good look at the bat pony’s leg, her eyes widened upon seeing to her what could be known to them as a curse mark.

“N….No….it….it couldn’t be.” Three Leaf said as she began to tremble with fear from this. “How did we not notice that on her before?”

“Do you think she knows about that….curse mark?”

“I don’t know. Maybe she does; maybe she doesn’t.” Three Leaf sighed as she looked back at Scarlet. Her eye color changed from green to crimson red. “Go inform Grey Hoof about this, I’ll keep an eye on Alma.”

“What about the party for tonight?”

“It will have to be on hold for now. We need to cure our soon-to-be new friend of her curse mark.” Scarlet nodded to this as she quickly ran down the street to find Grey Hoof. As she did that, Three Leaf followed Alma in secret. “Don’t worry my friend. Tonight, we will cure you of your curse mark.”