My name is Adam Darkeharte and I am a knight of the Everburn empire, or I was until I was killed defending my people from the perpetua terrores or the everlasting terrors. Demons who survive by killing everything they see and sucking the mana out of them, not only does this heal them, but rejuvenate them as well making them nearly impossible to kill. This may sound unbelievable since I said I was dead yet I am clearly alive. But I assure you, I died. But before we get into how I am still alive I wish to tell you of my appearance and my story.
I am a young man of 22 years, I started my knight training at the age of 12, to most that may sound too young to be in the army of an empire, but in the Everburn we pride ourselves in making warriors with the experience and training to survive the horrors of war and battle. I stand at a height of 6’6 with shoulder length dirty blonde hair, greyish green eyes and a small black beard on my face. I was an orphan until the age of 6. After being found on the doorstep of a rundown orphanage, I was taken in, raised, abused and treated like a servant. Until one day I had enough of the torment and struck down one of my evil “caretakers”.
I killed him and felt nothing but emptiness, no joy that I wasn’t going to be harmed by him any longer, no sadness because I had taken another living being’s life, no worry because I thought I would get in trouble for my actions. There was nothing.
A recruiter for the Everburn empire army saw this and offered me a chance to get away from the hell I had as a home. I accepted and he took me away from the orphanage, adopting me a his own son. His name was Charles Darkeharte, and he was my father. He taught me what it means to be a knight.
“Being a knight is not going to battle just to kill, it is going to battle to protect what you care for, be it your kingdom, your home, your family, your friends or even your pet. You fight to protect, if you have nothing to protect you cannot win a battle. You can have all the power in the world but without something to keep safe, you will be slain.” He would say.
Those are the words I live by, they are what keep me going. My father died before the attack of the perpetua terrores, he died from an untreatable illness caused from straining his body to its limit. But as his last wish he asked the fair king of Everburn, King Nicholas Orion, to grant me the rank of knight trainee. Later on that very week I was given news that my father had passed in his sleep. I had known for a while that he was dying and was fully prepared for his death, or so I had thought. When the news reached me, I was a wreck. I cried for nearly 4 days straight telling myself I was a failure over and over because I couldn’t protect him.
The king gave me a room in his castle to stay in while I dealt with my pain, he said whenever I was ready to start my training all I had to do was tell him. A week after my breakdown I had come to terms with my father’s death, to an extent. I was ready to start my training. It was a tough and painful experience but I pushed through. I broke bones, I bled pools, I shattered swords and I nearly died multiple times but I continued my training. This was all that happened in public but in private I trained on another thing, Magic. Magic for humans is rare, those that have it become healers or become wardens to prisons due to the power they possess. My case is a lot different, if news of me having magic were to break out I would be kicked from the knight academy and forced to become a healer or a warden. Neither are what my father wanted for me, so I practiced in secret, training in the ways of the arcane, learning how to manipulate earth and plants, learning how to create ice and fire, and learning the forbidden magic arts of light and dark. But I won’t delve into those topics now.
Eventually my training came to an end and I was sent to the Royal blacksmith for my armour and weapons, I had a few ideas for my armour that I wanted the blacksmith to try. The look I was going for was the standard knight Crusader helm added with a red Phoenix bird emblem on the faceplate along with some standard heavy full body armour giving me the best protection possible, the armour would have a red Phoenix on the breastplate and shoulder plates as well. This represents the Everlasting flames of the Everburn empire. My weapon design was a two handed greatsword with a Phoenix shaped pommel, silver hilt wrapped in black leather, a standard curved hilt guard, and a blade with glistening silver duel edges that had the words accendetur velut sol on one side and Fulgebunt quasi luna et stellae on the other, the first one meaning burn like the sun and the second meaning shine like the moon and stars. After waiting for a couple of days, my order was finished and made to perfection. The sword was of perfect balance in my hands, it felt sturdy and strong while lightweight and easily maneuverable, the words were etched into the side neatly and beautifully. The armour was just as I asked, heavy full body armour providing the best protection possible, it was heavy armour yet it was incredibly light. When I had confronted the blacksmith about this he said that he had a warden place a weight rune on the armour making it easier to move in.
I thanked the blacksmith and left the smithy, my next destination was the throne room. Once I was allowed entry I walked up to the foot of the throne and kneeled to my king.
“Knight trainee Adam Darkeharte.” He had said.
“Yes, milord?” I said with my head still looking down.
“Hand me your weapon and remove your helmet.” I did as I was told and removed my helmet placing it by my side and handing him my greatsword.
He lifted the sword up to my shoulder and placed it there for a second.
“Adam Darkeharte, today you hand in your training sword and receive a real weapon, you have gone through the tough training all knights must endure before ascending to true knighthood. Today I strip you of you rank of knight trainee and pronounce you, Sir Adam Darkeharte, Knight of the Everburn Empire!” He said as he moved the sword to my next shoulder and handed the sword back to me.
“Now rise and recite the oath of the Phoenix my child.”
I stood up put my helmet back on and placed the tip my sword blade to the floor while holding the pommel.
“The light of the ever burning fire lasts as long as our kingdom stands, I as a knight of the empire will die to ensure it stays everlasting like the flames of the eternal Phoenix!” I recited.
“Now what do you fight for my child?” The king had asked me
I stood up straight and I stared into the king's eyes.
“I fight to protect the kingdom my father loved, I fight to continue his legacy and to protect what he has helped build. I fight to protect those who cannot protect themselves. Because a knight without a will to protect is not a knight, but a coward hiding behind armour. That is what I fight for your majesty.” I said
“Well said Sir Adam, well said indeed.” The king praised as he sat back down and dismissed us all.
That day was the happiest day of my life but it was also the last day I had in the Everburn empire. On that day, the perpetua terrores had attacked seeking to feed off of the kingdom.
The scouts had given us word that demons were making their way to the city in a horde. And acting up on the orders of the king we moved to intercept them.
By the time we made it to the gates of the city the demons were on the horizon, while still far away, I could smell the putrid breath and body odor each had. It was horrid.
They had made contact with the frontline now and were tearing our men apart, but we stood strong with our swords and shields held high. The frontline had been broken, and this was the first time I had a glimpse of them. There were small demons, imps that looked to be the standard foot soldiers, each imp was green with a spiked tail and had sharp teeth that looked to be able to slice straight through flesh. There were demons that looked to be the knights of the horde, all black with only white markings on their muscular shoulders, their heads held no eyes but a mouth that looked to only be used the kill. Then there were the fat ones, I don’t know what to call them but they were tanks with spines that looked to be poisonous. They took hit after hit and continued pushing forward. On the orders of the king we moved to fight the oncoming demon horde. I threw my sword up into the air with a cry of “Vivat Everburn!” We charged at the demons.
I was a blur of movements, swinging my sword to decapitate two imps while ducking under the leap of a knight demon, standing up I swung my greatsword right into its collar bone before removing my blade and charging it to the ground, after getting up, I impaled its chest with my sword which I had now named formido perniciosa, Terror bane. I removed Terror bane from the demon and turned around only to be smacked in the chest by a tank demon which sent me hurling through the air and landing in heap of metal and pain. I tried to get up but I was immediately pinned to the ground by a massive foot. I was at the mercy of a demon who was about to have my mana as it’s lunch before going off to kill more of my comrades. I wasn’t going to die yet.
I called upon the magic I had and yelled “Earth! Heed my call and strike down my enemies! Rock spike!” A massive spike of rock burst from the ground impaling the Fat demon and dragging it screaming into the earth itself. I was free from the clutches of a monster but as I got up I felt incredible pain shoot across my person, mainly in my chest. I looked down to see it had had the last laugh, buried in my chest was a spine oozing a green liquid which I could only assume was poison. The poison’s effect was almost instantaneous as I fell to my knees clutching my chest before removing my helmet and coughing up blood, I knew no sort of healer or plant could help me with this poison. It was demon made, demons know how to counter healers and antidotes when it comes to poisons. I grabbed Terror bane and tried to stand up using the blade as a cane, but to no avail. I fell to the ground face first, Terror bane still stuck in the dirt next to me. The poison had shut down my nerves so I could neither feel my arms or legs, but I could tell it was moving to shut down the rest of my organs but I could do nothing about it. I had accepted my fate and lay there, thinking to myself as my breathing became ever more labored, I had failed to protect my kingdom, my father and myself and for this I was paying the price. I took one last breath and closed my eyes, and I knew no more.
That now brings us to the present. Here I am, in a dark unfamiliar forest in Phoenix knows where. I had my armour and Terror bane still which was a huge relief. I had wondered how the massive hole in my chest was now healed along with my armour being repaired. Maybe I never died? Maybe it was a dream or I was knocked unconscious during the battle and the demons dragged me off somewhere. After that last thought I grabbed my sword and stood up, feeling no pain or fatigue at all. I was in perfect health. But I didn’t worry about that, I had to find a way out of this forest and get back to my kingdom. I looked around around finding nothing but trees that seemed to move around, I wrote it off a my imagination and started walking in the direction I was facing. Until I reached a mountain, seeing no way to climb it I turned around and started walking back in the direction I came when a thought hit me. I could have used a spell where the nature could tell me where the nearest civilization was. I facepalmed against my helmet and sat down in a meditative position. This spell required a lot of concentration from you to work, that and you had to be on good terms with the nature spirits of the world. When it comes to human magic, to use certain elements you have to be on good terms with those element’s spirit or guardian. I happen to be on very good terms with the spirits of ice and nature and the guardians of earth and fire. But dark and light are stubborn spirits so they wish to test me every time I want to use one of their abilities. I called upon the nature spirit to show me a path to the closest civilization and it obliged, but something it did caught me off guard, it giggled like a little girl. It had never done that before, maybe I was hearing things but I got up and followed the path of flowers the spirit had made leading me to the closest civilization.
Many hours had passed as I traversed the path that was hopefully leading me to civilization and I had time to think, where was I truly? The nature spirit was never the one to speak unless spoken to, it never laughed let alone giggle. I was thinking that I wasn’t on Viridi terram anymore. I was also thinking that perhaps I was going mad and the nature spirit hadn’t giggled at all. I would have to test out my theory on a later date, for now though I had to watch for the dangers of the forest. Speaking of which, I heard a growl from behind me. Reaching for my sword, I grasped its hilt tightly and waited for whatever was hiding to come out, my patience was rewarded as a pack of wolves that seemed to be made of timber started creeping out of the bushes, their ears low and bodies tense. They didn’t know what I was from what I could tell, they were circling around me cautiously. A sharp bark made them stop and back away slowly, still surrounding me. A bigger timber wolf walked out from the bushes and sat down in front of me, staring at me with its sickly green eyes. I could tell these wolves were connected to nature from the feeling they were giving off, and the fact that they were made from timber. I loosened my stance and stood in front of the wolf staring it down. After a couple of minutes of this it turned around and started walking back through the bushes, it stopped and looked at me as if telling me to follow, which I did.
After 10 or so minutes we had arrived at a cave, the wolf stood still and turned around and gave me a look that obviously meant “stay here”. To which I obliged and waited. After another 2 minutes of waiting the wolf came back and beckoned me to follow, I obeyed and followed the wooden creature inside. The cave wasn’t what I expected it to be, I expected to see bones of other animals littered everywhere, wolf pups pulling at pieces of meat and skulls to be placed everywhere. But what I found was much different, wolf pups playing and running around or walking right beside us looking at me with curious gazes, mother wolves were conversing with each other from what I could tell or they were taking care of their pups, father wolves were with the mothers tending to the pups as well.
‘These wolves must be incredibly intelligent.’ I thought to myself. ‘I must be careful with my actions.’
We finally came to a stop and I was brought out of my thoughts. We were now standing in front of a very large timber wolf who sat on the ground staring at me.
I could only assume that this was the alpha of the wolf pack.
It beckoned me with its paw and I obeyed, walking towards it I stopped when I was directly in front of it. It leaned it’s head down and I felt my body tense, but instead of having my head bitten off, I had felt it’s large wooden head placed against mine and felt something brush against my mind, I let it in and was pulled away from reality.
What I saw I’m my mind caught me off guard, there was a wooden woman with vine like hair standing in front of me. She giggled as I stood there, which broke me out of my stupor.
“Who are you and what are you doing in my mind!” I asked with a serious tone.
“Oh, can a spirit not visit the one who called upon her to find a safe path to civilization?” She said feigning hurt in her tone.
This again had caught me off guard.
“What!? You lie! The spirit of nature has no body. It only talks when it is talked to!” I yelled in disbelief.
“Well I don’t know about any other nature spirits who reside here in Equestria.” She said as she put her wooden hand to her chin in a thinking pose.
“What do you speak of spirit? We are not in this Equestria that you speak of. We are on the world of Viridi terram, there are no others worlds besides the plane of the spirits!”
“Oh? I don’t know of this Viridi terram you speak of but I can assure you, the very soil you are standing upon is that of Equestria, a place where ponies are the natives. Now tell me my dear creature, what are you?”
This information nearly broke me, it would do so to you too if you had been told that you are no longer on your own world but on another one where animals are among the sapient creatures of the land, no humans to speak of.
I fell to my knees clutching my head in my hands.
“N-no! This cannot be! H-how am I on a world not of my own!?” I cried out, with my hands still clutching my head. The spirit was quiet for a few minutes, letting me have my moment. Until she finally spoke up again.
“So creature who and what are you?” She asked.
I looked up at her and stood up, albeit shakily. “My name, is Adam Darkeharte. I am human and I hail from the Everburn Empire of the Viridi terram.” I replied
“Now who are you spirit? And what are you doing inside my head?”
She gained a thinking pose once more and said “I am the spirit of nature of Equestria, but you may call me Everfree. I am the Timberwolf outside of your mind that you allowed to touch your forehead and I am here to find out how you have been able to contact me.”
I was standing a lot easier now, I was breathing better now that I had gotten the denial out of my system
“I was able to contact you the same way I contacted the spirits of my world, through the arcane.” I said. “Though seeing as you are the nature spirit here I am guessing that I will need to speak with the spirits of Ice, Fire, Earth, Light and Dark before I am able to use their abilities or gain their help?”
She nodded slowly.
“You indeed will have to talk to them before being able to use any powers from those elements, but seeing as you have done nothing to harm nature so far I will allow you use of my powers, I would like to talk more about this but our time grows short. I will allow you use of my abilities but until you have passed my trial, you are limited to three abilities. I will contact you through your mind when I wish to have something done.” She said with a giggle before fading out of my mind.
I opened my eyes to see the massive Timberwolf staring at me once again. Sighing, I nodded towards the spirit and turned around to leave. As I started walking I was thinking to myself. ‘So I am in a land where ponies rule and humans are non existent and or myth. If that’s the case I have to stay hidden from the locals then, I don’t want a hunting party sent out to try catch or kill me.’
I was now at the cave entrance and I decided to break out of my thoughts and continue my journey to find civilization. While I may not be able to interact with them, It would be best to have a place where I can get food from easily. Reaching out for the spirit once more I asked for the path to civilization once again, she obliged and a path of flowers that lead further into the forest was formed. After silently thanking her I continued along the path for the next few hours. After 5 hours of walking I took a break and set up camp. The night was now upon the land and I was ready for sleep. But before I could lay my head down to rest, the nature spirit yelled in my mind.
“Adam! Get up you need to move! Ponies are in danger to a monster known as Nightmare Moon! She wants to bring eternal night which will kill all of nature! Please you have to help them and stop her from causing the destruction of nature itself!”
She cried out in a voice of desperation.
“I’m on it, give me a path towards them and I’ll make it there!” I yelled out loud hoping she would hear me. She did and another flower path formed and I rushed off to help the creatures. After a couple minutes of running I could hear voices conversing with each other, I was close. I pushed my legs as much as I could and continued my mad dash towards the ponies!
“You foals! Did you honestly think I The great Nightmare Moon would stand idle and wait for you to gather the elements of harmony? Hahahaha! Your ignorance is your downfall! Now die so all of Equestria can be stuck in eternal night!” I heard a feminine voice say ahead of me. I broke through the clearing and saw a dark blue pony with wings and a horn about to cast magic on a group of smaller ponies, I don’t know what kind of spell it was but it didn’t seem to be harmless. I sprung into action and shoulder charged the hybrid creature into the wall behind it, which seemed to catch her off guard as the spell was canceled and she was stunned. I brought up my sword to deal the finishing blow but the nature spirit stopped me.
“No! Do not kill her! She is a princess of Equestria that has been corrupted by jealousy! Let the elements of harmony cure her of her anger! Hold her still for them!” She yelled in my mind.
I lowered my sword and embedded it into the dirt next to me, I then reached down and grabbed the hybrid pony by the torso, holding her in place.
“Go!” I yelled “Use those elements of harmony on her now, while she is stunned!”
They didn’t waste another second and blasted a powerful magic beam at me and the pony hybrid.
“No! No! Let go of me you beast! I will not disappear again! I refuse!” The hybrid cried out as the magic hit us. I was holding onto her as much I could, she was a strong one.
Once the magic died down I dropped the creature to the floor and fell to my knees for what had to be the fourth time today and collapsed face first into the ground, before I lost consciousness I could hear what sounded like girls screaming and hooves galloping towards me, I closed my eyes and awaited darkness to take over.
The last thing I heard before darkness consumed me was “Thank you my champion, for saving nature from a grim death.”
Author's Note
Okay. First story I have written on this site, and second story in general. I know it may have many mistakes in it but hey you are always welcome to point them out, grammar has never been my strong suit so I kinda struggle with it. Anyway I hope you enjoyed.
The sounds of the forest is what I expected to hear when I woke up, what I got however was absolutely nothing. It was silent, quiet, no sound whatsoever. The area I was in however was different, it was a garden under the night sky, stars twinkling in the sky alongside a shining moon, lighting up the nature in the area. I had no idea where I was or how I got here but that wasn’t my main concern right now. My main concern was the Glowing being standing in front on me, it was pony shaped but it was much larger, and glowing with a night blue color. While I was staring at it, it decided to speak.
“So this is the creature that had his life force connected to my daughter’s? What a strange sight” it said in a masculine voice.
I got up and turned towards the glowing being but as my eyes set on it it disappeared.
“What? Where did it go? Who are you!? Where am I!?” I yelled out.
“Tell me creature, what is your name?”
“My name is Adam Darkeharte! I am a knight of the Everburn empire! Now tell me where I am!”
“Darkeharte? That is not your true name is it? Perhaps it was the one you chose? No matter I will learn why soon enough.”
“What are you talking about? Who are you? Answer me!”
The Creature chuckled, “You will find out soon enough, for now though you must return to the real world you are needed there. We will meet again Adam Darkeharte goodbye.”
“Wait what? No tell me who you are! Hey! Don’t ignore me! HEY!” I yelled as I suddenly woke up in an unknown room, I was not sure if that was a dream or not.
Perhaps I was going mad, but I would dwell on those thoughts later as I needed to move, I had no clue where I was but I didn’t have my armor or my sword and I needed to find them.
Looking around I saw the room was a light shade of grey blue, it had a fireplace near the bed I was on and the bed itself was Circular, it also had sun symbols placed around the room, which were very familiar with me. I would think more on those symbols later I needed to find my armor and sword first. Getting out of the bed I looked around for any signs of my armor, no signs at all yet.
Before I could think of a place for where my armor and weapon could be, I heard the sound of footsteps nearing the door, I dove behind the bed for cover and to hide from whoever was entering. I poked my head around carefully as the door opened and saw a pony enter the room, she was dressed in a maid outfit holding a tray of tea cups and a tea pot, she had cobalt blue coat with a light grey mane which was swept over to the side.
She walked in and placed the cups on the bedside table before noticing that the bed was empty, with a loud (and I mean loud) gasp she ran out of the room, probably off to tell whoever is in charge that I was awake or missing, cursing my luck I shot up from my hiding spot and ran out the door, I had an idea where my stuff could be, the armory.
I didn’t know where it was but I had to be quick with searching, I had no doubts that there were guards here and they would try to stop me. After a couple minutes of full on sprinting I was able to make it outside to a garden, I had an idea as soon as I hit the grass. Calling on my magic I asked nature for the direction of the armory, flowers grew around me and pointed straight ahead of me and another group of flowers pointed left, after thanking nature I ran full sprint again in the direction it had given me. After a few more minutes of running I was starting to tire, I slowed done a bit to save energy but I was still going at a steady pace, after another minute I had reached a room labeled armory, it had 2 guards standing outside it obviously guarding the weapons and armor inside, I ran straight at them and before they could react I knocked them both out with a swift punch, after opening the door and locking it behind me I ran through everything looking for any trace of my armor or sword, after rummaging around a bit I had found my sword, lying amongst a pile of dulled blades. I grabbed it and checked it all over, making sure nothing was wrong with it, after I had double checked to see if it was alright I put it back I held it at my side, I now had my weapon now I had to find my armor and fast, the guards were banging on the door now and I was running out of time.
The search for my armor was a lot easier than the one for my blade, the armor was lined up along the walls with the guards’ armor, I took it off the rack and put it on carefully , after making sure no part of it was damaged I turned around to face the door that now had the yelling of multiple guards behind it, they were banging on the door even harder than before, it was starting to break.
I put Terror bane into the ground and put my helmet on, lifting up terror bane I looked at the door ready to defend myself.
The banging on the door got louder and louder, and then suddenly it stopped, I was confused as to why it stopped but I was tense, I want going to let my guard down.
After a couple seconds of silence I heard sound beyond the door again, it was muffled but I could still hear it it was definitely female.
“Stand back everypony I’m going to blow it open!”
I called on Nature again to bring up a wall of vines to protect me as I waited for the explosion. I stood there behind the wall of vines waiting anxiously for it to blow open and for guards to rush in. After what felt like hours the door blasted open violently! Bits an pieces of the door hit the vine wall and the shockwave knocked me and my helmet to the floor.
I could hear the guards rushing in the room all ready with their weapons, all of which were pointed at me. I got up and readied my sword, I was about to charge them when the same feminine voice from before the door blew up spoke up.
“Lower your weapons guards, I do not want him hurt.”
All guards looked surprised and lowered their weapons, but I had mine up still, I wasn’t going to let my guard down.
Finally the body of the voice stepped through the broken door and stared at me. Her magenta eyes were watering as she looked into my grey green eyes. After a long tense silence she finally spoke, and what she said made my stance falter.
“Welcome home, Adam. Welcome home my son.”
Author's Note
Guess whose back? Me! That’s who! And I brought another chapter with me wooooo!
Yeah sorry for taking so long with this. As I said I was working on a personal project with my bud so I had to stop this for a time while we got everything sorted there. Anyway the story is coming back, and I have a favor ask. A lot of you know that I don’t have a lot of experience with writing yet I absolutely love doing it, so I’m asking if anyone wants to help me write this story. Just gimme a lil message and we can talk. That’s all! Cya guys next chapter!
Long lost mothers and the fire spirit.
“Welcome home Adam. Welcome home my son.”
My stance, one that was drilled into me during my training, one that was meant to show strength and honor, fell after those words were spoken, my sword clattered to the ground and I fell on to my knees, a look of disbelief in my eyes. I could not believe what I was hearing, this pony, this completely different species, was my mother. I had nothing to argue with, my father said that the sun symbol on the toy I had when he first adopted me looked like it meant something important, it’s her symbol. It was in the room, it’s on her flank, it can only mean one thing... she was not lying.
My years of training crumbled beneath me as I tried to find words, there were none that I could say. I was feeling so many things, Anger, joy, sadness, confusion, the list went on. Finally after what fealt like an eternity, I spoke.
“Why?”
She looked taken aback by that question.
“Why what?” She asked.
“Why leave me alone all those years? I was left in an orphanage for six years of my life, it was hell! Why did you never come for me?! TELL ME!?” I stood up and yelled.
My outburst must have frightened the guards as they brought up their weapons and pointed them towards me, I payed them no mind and started to walk towards my “mother”.
“I was beaten repeatedly after doing the slightest thing wrong! Hell I was beaten because they found it fucking fun! Do you know what that does to a child?! Huh?! It changes them, it turns them into monsters! It made me one, I killed one of them ‘mother’, I killed one of my tormentors as a child! And guess what!? I felt nothing from it! If my father hadn’t found me then I would be a madman slaughtering hundreds!” “So tell me mother” I said with venom, “Why leave me there and not come take care of me yourself?” I was in her face now, my eyes staring directly into hers. She was on the verge of tears, but I didn’t care I could tell she was trying to think of a reason. And she apparently found
“I-I had responsibilities my son, I am a princess I have to make sure peace stays in Equestria-.” She tried to reason, but I was having none of it.
“Oh so taking care of your country is more important than taking care of your son?! Your own flesh and blood?! At least someone cared for me when I was young, and he is dead now.” Walking back to my sword, I grabbed it along with my helmet which I put on! I moved to pass her but I stopped next to her and coldly said, “If you send any guards to find me, they will die. Do not look for me, if you value the lives of your subjects, ‘mother’.
With that said I ran off into the garden once more and called for the power of nature to lead me to a safe place in the Everfree forest. I ran for hours, fighting off tears and the urge to yell out, after who knows how many hours I finally collapsed in the forest, I had made it to what looks like the castle where I helped those ponies out before. I crawled my way inside and placed my back against the wall of the castle, I was tired, no exhausted, emotionally and physically, after fighting the tears for so long I gave in and the started flowing, I yelled into the sky with all the rage and sadness I had, I had hoped that she could hear this, the angry and sorrowful scream of her son. I had hoped that she would know that she did this, she made me like this.
After yelling my sorrow and anger away I took my helmet off and lay my back against the wall once more, I was tired and I needed rest. I didn’t care about what was going on around me I just wanted to sleep, and so I did.
“Adam... Adam... Adam, wake up I have something for you...”
I shot up awake, there was another feminine voice, It called to me. Looking around I see nothing but the castle I was sleeping in. Was I truly going mad?
“Follow the fire sprites Adam... let them guide you... guide you too me...”
There it was again, I grabbed my helmet and sword and shot up, looking around frantically, I didn’t find anything other than small fire orbs floating around me, I reached out to touch one but it shied away from my hand. The little orbs were floating away into the forest, no doubt wanting me to follow them, which I did. I put my helmet on and walked after the orbs carefully, I was on edge, you would be too if you heard a whisper in your ear as you were sleeping. After a few minutes of walking we reached a massive mountain, It was a volcano of some sort, the heat around the area was high, not high enough to kill me, but high enough to feel uncomfortable, especially in this armor. The volcano had a cave like entrance where the little orb was waiting for me, it started floating away and I ran In after it.
After a few more minutes of walking the air started to get hotter and I was feeling more and more uncomfortable, but before I could say anything the orb came to a stop in front of me, halting my walk. I looked around the room we were in and then it all hit me like a war hammer, this wasn’t just a volcano, this was the home of the fire spirit. It had called me here for an unknown reason.
After waiting for a couple minutes I was growing fed up with waiting in this heat, so I yelled out for the spirit.
“Hey! Fire spirit! You called me here what do you want with me? Do you want me to do some sort of trial? Make me earn the ability to use you powers!?”
“Ooh, clever little human, aren’t you. Yes I indeed want you to do my trial, make you earn my power and maybe more” it giggled. I looked around the room for the voice but I couldn’t find it.
“Show yourself! I am in no mood for games, give me your trial and let’s be over with it!” I yelled.
“Aw, you’re no fun, fine let’s get this over with then. I am Ignis, I am the spirit of fire and today, you take my trial, or you will die trying.”
Author's Note
Oh what’s this? Another chapter so soon? Hell yeah it is. Your welcome by the way.
I honestly don’t know what to say here other than, the story was stuck in my head so I decided to make the next chapter and be done with it. Well, yeah that’s pretty much it. Oh wait, I forgot to say again, I am looking for help with this story so if you want to help just send me a message and we can talk, that’s all cya guys in the next chapter! Be sure to comment and let me know what you think.
