Rachel’s character lowered her weapon when the other’s faced her. Putting her bow in her holster, the large black wolf made a low sound, it’s intense blue eyes stared at the group. Assessing the four but staying by it’s master’s side.

“Time out! Wow, Rachel, you look good!” Pinkie called out, giving them a moment to compliment her costume.

“Wait, you can have pets in this place?!” Rainbow looked at Discord. “I could’ve brought in Tank this whole time??”

“Your class doesn’t require pets. Rangers and Summoners have the skills and requirements to have pets.” Discord said, waving Rainbow off.

“Then how come you don’t have one?” Rachel asked.

“Because I don’t like taking care of them while we OnO. they tend to get very annoying.” Discord said, looking at the wolf.

The wolf snarled at him in response.

Spike still couldn’t take his eyes off his girlfriend. Though what she was wearing wasn’t revealing much of skin or overly sexualized as some OnO players, especially those who were starting out tend to make their avatars, Rachel’s costume was a bit conservative but with her design, she looked like a female viking with the furs, the warpaint, the way the braids are in her hair and with the large pooch next to her and he was all here for it. Pretty much no matter what Rachel wears, Spike is always turned on by her, as one could see his large wings were still up and stiffened.

Rachel giggled softly as she walked towards the group, the large wolf following closely by. She walked up to the awe-stricken dragon, standing on the tippy toes of her black calf long boots and gave him a kiss on the cheek that seemed to snap him back. “You look very handsome.”

Spike lets out a chuckle, looking down at her. “And you look….uh...I…” His mind went blank. “I can’t talk..” He said, causing her to smirk.

She patted him on the chest. “Well, let's hope you can find your words when casting your spells. Garbunkle.” She said his name in the deep accent she came in with. She ended up having her tongue rolling the R’s. But it was more flirting on Rachel’s part. Spike blushed red at her flirting.

By the grace of Celestia, he hopes he can control himself around her. He watched as she scooped up the blood staff and handed it to him and he took it graciously.

The wolf looked up at the two, almost with a puzzled expression before headbutting her free hand. “Oh geez.” Rachel said with a chuckle, reaching down and petting the wolf. “I petted you for like fifteen minutes before coming in here!” she said.

The wolf let out a happy whine in progress. As if this wolf and Rachel’s character had a bond for years and became almost a puppy like in her hands.

Discord watched them for a moment before clapping his hands. “Alright, before we get carried away, let's get this show on the road, shall we?” He said.

Pinkie gets close to the wolf, with a cupcake at hand, she goes to sneak in a pet and hopefully can bribe the creature with a sweet at the same time.

The wolf looked at her and gave the bard pony a warning growl: Stay back or I’ll bite was the message.

“I’m not gonna hurt you puppy.” Pinkie said with a slight frown.

“Yeah I’ll explain him in a moment.” Rachel said, giving the wolf a tap to get him to stop growling and he did.

Now getting back into the story, Spike a little slow on reeling himself back into character due to still looking at Rachel’s costume.

“Okay, Picaro, you're up first.” Discord said, pointing at Dash.

Dash/Picaro nodded before turning her head towards Rachel. “So who are you and why are you here?” she asked her.

“Who’s the puppy?” Pinkie/Gypsy asked with a giggle, not taking her eyes off the wolf.

Rachel’s character looked between the group. “Apologies, I didn't mean to startle you all.” She said in her character’s voice. She gave them a small bow. “I am Dabria Morrigan, my companion here is Hades.”

Hades gave them a nod but still looked at the group with a weary eye.

“And why I’m here, Mayor Caster Shells sent me here...however, we were not expecting other adventurers on this job request.” She said.

“Ooh that jerk sent a rival to steal our job.” Picaro grunted, staring at Dabria.

“Or maybe he thought we weren’t going to survive.” Gypsy said, scooting closer to Hades.

When she got too close, Hades snapped at her to back off, Dabria reacted by grabbing his scruff and pulled him back.

“Do not approach him like that. He has trust issues.” She said, making sure the large wolf wouldn’t attack the pink pony. She then looked at them. “I have given you our names, but I do not know yours.”

“Gypsy Bard!” Gypsy greeted her with a smile. Plotting to get Hades to like the bard one way or another.

“Picaro.” Picaro grunted.

“Captain Wuzz.” the draconequus said, eyeing Dabria's black stone carved bow and iron arrows and looking at his wooden bow and arrows in comparison and saw how intriguing her design choice was.

"And I'm Garbunkle." The dragon said.

Dabria looked at the group before saying. "Since we're all going in the same direction, how about we do this job together and split the reward."

"Yeah? Why should we trust you?" Picaro said. "What makes you think you won't stab us in the back when it's over and steal our stuff?"

"If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have shot the gnoll. I'm a good shot." Dabria responded with a quirky smirk.

And everyone knows what a hell of a shot she was. In and out of character.

“Okay, that seems fair enough.” Gypsy said with a grin. “Teamup!” She strums the mandolin in response.

Garbunkle, Picaro and Captain Wuzz hushed her for being so loud, but the damage was done.

The sound of many gnoll guards were heading their way.

“Nice going, loud mouth.” Picaro groaned, pulling out her daggers.

The archers in unison pulled out their bows. The wolf gets in a position, growling and waiting for his mistress’s orders.

Gypsy puts the mandolin away and then pulls out a rapier out of her fluffy mane.

“How does she keep that in her hair??” Rachel asked out of character, not calling time out for that. Eyes widened when she pulled the sword out.

“It’s Pinkie Pie, don’t question it.” Spike sighed softly as he got his staff ready before switching back to character. “Alright, lets do this, Picaro, word of advice.”

“What?” the rogue said.

“Watch out for the AoE’s. I don’t wanna spend the majority of the battle focusing solely on healing you.” Garbunkle grunted.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah.” the pegasus rolled her eyes.

The sounds of the gnolls quickly filled the long sloping corridor, with at least fifteen armed guards carrying various weapons of spears, swords, a couple of maces and one crossbow archer in the front. Sizes vary from small foot soldiers, some taller than others to one huge creature wielding a huge ass hammer.

Pretty much looking like badasses, the group attacked.

Dabria and Wuzz fired arrows as Gypsy and Picaro charged. Hades let out a snarl before he charged right at them. Garbunkle spun his staff around before the stone glowed red before aiming at them. Shooting concentration balls of red energy at the guards, taking five at once.

Each of them showing their skills, their prowess, what each character has to show for.

As the wolf tore a small guard into literal shreds of paper, Dabria leaped over the wolf, rolling into the crouch position and rapidly releasing several arrows. Four to be exact back to back. Two iron arrows shot at one gnoll, embedding one in it’s stomach and piercing that one’s neck. Fired one arrow at another’s shoulder and the fourth arrow took down one of the taller ones right in one eye before taking cover behind a rock for cover.

“Show off.” Wuzz/Discord said as he shot at one gnoll before floating upwards as he dodged a swing of a mace.

Gypsy parried with one gnoll, dancing and randomly stabbing it in all directions, confusing the guard before taking her mandolin and smashing it up the head and bounces back on her tail.

And plays this:

(

[url=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMoFhmD1Yik[/embed] This was part of this OnO idea XD)

“What the fuck??” Rachel/Dabria asked, Hades looking up at the musical bard, tilting his head to the side with a confused whine. Bits of the paper “Dead” guard clinging to his fur.

As the gypsy sang and strummed her instrument, the bits of the guards started to turn green and slowly began pulling themselves together. Their version of ghouls looked like they were being held by tape basically haphazardly. The mouths of these ghouls have x tapes over their muzzles...and they all had some sort of pastry designs.

“Now its a Party!” Gypsy squealed as she now controls her zombies - of the one she killed and what spike and rachel took down. And then continued singing and strumming the instrument with glee as the ghouls attacked their once comrades.

“This mare’s a necromancer bard?!” Dabra gawked.

“Don’t ask,.” Picaro said as she slid between the legs of one gnoll, doing a leg sweep before taking her daggers and sliced the guard in an upward motion as it came down. Doing a quick pat down to steal what jewels and treasures she could immediately get before taking up two tall ones.

She flew up in the air before throwing a hail of daggers she had hidden in her cloak. They both got hit and were taken down. “Gyps, do you have a different tune to play? You’re on repeat.”

“It’s the only dead spell I know. Not my fault it has a pleasant jingle.” Gypsy giggled. Making a face and pose and strum in a way that brings back one of Rachel’s all time favorite cartoon movie.

Garbunkle smashes several of the gnolls with his staff; as Dabria was shooting from her rock, she glanced over to see that the dragon was doing some impressive moves with the staff before blasting the others with magic.

Now Rachel has seen Spike with swords and his fighting skills at the last Dragon Migration, but she noticed that he was much more comfortable using that staff. Seeing how he danced around the ncp’s before using the magic. Maybe because he’s been fighting with a magic staff for years in OnO campaigns and just gotten good with it.

Or maybe there was more.

Now she wasn’t paying attention, a gnoll came at her from behind, raising spear at her when Picaro threw a dagger at it. “Yo Dabria, get your head out of the clouds.”

“Oh right.” Rachel/Dabria said before pulling out more arrows and shot at two other ncps before she ended up running out.

“Uh oh.” Gypsy said as she commanded her undead minions.

Hades made a sound before he dropped the screeching gnoll he had in his mouth before he darted all over the corridor, slamming back those who tried to stop him and then scooping and pulling out the iron arrows in his mouth and raced back to Dabria.

Dabria pulled out one of her curved swords and made contact with a gnoll’s sword.

Now Spike took a moment to stop and watch his girlfriend fight and couldn’t help but awe at her skills. “She looks so cute like this.” he whispered to himself in a squee. Eyes seemed to sparkle as he watched his dragoness move.

He watched as she danced around the gnoll, the sword spun in her hand before kicking the gnoll as hard as she could. The hyena-like guard made a whining howl as it flew back and hit the leg of this massive gnoll.

“Oh shit.” Dabria said as the massive hammer wielding gnoll pushed its own guards out of the way as it swung, bringing the hammer down. Before she was able to jump out of the way, Hades swooped his mistress right from underneath her legs, flinging her on his back. Dabria quickly clung to his fur and rode the wolf out to safety.

“That was a close one.” Captain Wuzz said as he shot the crossbow gnoll and the ncp card was ripped completely in half.

“Thank you, old friend.” Dabria smiled, petting the wolf’s neck before hopping off of him and grabbing her now retrieved arrow, sheathed her sword and resumed her archery and Hades went back to charging at the remaining gnolls.

“I got the big boy!” Picaro declared as she flew towards the huge one. Jumping on it’s back and started stabbing it.

The giant gnoll grunted and just flicked her off like a flea off its back.

Picaro let out a shout as she was flung back and somehow fell in a hole.

“Make a constitution saving throw!” Discord/Wuzz called out with a laugh.

“Okay, that hurt.” Picaro groaned from the hole. The die appeared floating above her and she hit it. The dice spun before falling on the ground. 14. She was still alive in the campaign, but she was disorientated. “Healer…?” she raised a shaky hand up.

Garbunkle sighed as he had to stop generating a spell that would have wiped out the remaining smaller gnolls to turn around to help out Picaro. Muttering underneath his breath in doing so.

While the grand wizard was helping out the rogue, the bard and the two archers and wolf continued to take out the smaller ones before focusing on the big one.

Eventually after picaro was healed up, everypony teamed up and fought the big gnoll. Showing what teamwork was all about and bringing it down.

“Hours” later after everyone banded together to stop the gnolls and the main monster - which was a large Hydra-like creature that truly took all of their skills to bring it down - was now sitting outside of the crumbling castle.

All of them circling around a burning fire. Gypsy was randomly strumming her mandolin, Wuzz and Picaro were going over their plentiful spoils of battle. Various jewels, a bit of coin and weapons they managed to scavenged and they could possibly sell when they get into “town.”

Spike was sitting next to the pink bard but couldn’t help but look up at his girlfriend with a soft chuckle. The wolf was sprawled all over the human’s lap, making happy noises as his mistress was indulging the creature in loving scratches.

“Ooh I wish you were real, boy.” Rachel whispered softly as she played with the creature. Hades responded with a lick on her cheek and she giggled.

With that, Spike got up from his spot, walked over to Rachel. “Mind if I join?” he asked out of character.

Rachel looked up to him and gave him a smirk. “Don’t have to ask me, you know.”

“I know.” He said before taking a seat next to her. “So..” he gave her a little nudge. “How are you enjoying yourself here?” he asked.

Rachel smiled. “I’m having a blast. I wonder why you haven’t invited me over to play this before.”

“I, uh, got distracted.” He responded with a light chuckle, scratching the back of his head before lowering it down. Spike looked more at the outfit she was wearing,. “You look outstanding, you know that right?”

“I tried.” She said as Hades looked to Spike, tilting his head curiously at the large dragon. “Thank you.” Rachel looked at him as she mindlessly scratched the wolf’s neck. “I didn’t go overboard on the design, did I?”

“No, you did the right amount.” Spike said, reaching over to play with her hair between his claws.

Hades responded with a low growl.

“Oi, you be nice.” Rachel said to the wolf.

“I’m not worried about him.” Spike said, giving the wolf the staredown before looking back at his girlfriend.

“Psst!” Pinkie calls out to get Spike’s attention.

Spike looked up and saw that she was motioning her mandolin to him and motioned herself to play. Seeing that the cotton candy bard had gotten an idea.

She then began playing a different tone. It was a ballad like tone.

Oh I get it. Spike said, catching on what she was doing. He looked at Rachel and smiled softly.

And began to sing.

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[url=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNUzNpEdEu0[/embed] The song Spike would be singing to Rachel. )

When he started to sing, it snapped Discord and Rainbow Dash out of their characters.

Rachel’s heart started to beat loudly when Spike just started to serenade her. She watched him in awe as he sung. Lovely chills going up and down her spine as she heard his deep baritone voice, cheeks quickly turning red and she had a beautiful smile she couldn’t keep down. Just melting by his voice alone.

And from what she could tell, it was all improv and somehow it just made it much more magical.

Finding more reasons to fall heavily for the purple dragon.

When Spike sung, he was just making it up as it goes, confessing everything into one song to his mate, but also a promise to her. One he will always keep.

He would give everything to Rachel.

Always.

And when it was over, Pinkie let out a squeal, throwing confetti everywhere.

Which made Spike and Rachel flinch.

“That was awesome!” Pinkie laughs.

“Gross. Why are we bringing that lovey dovey sap into the game? That’s now how it’s meant to be.” Dash groans, disgusted seeing so much love coming out of the couple.

“And what does that supposed to mean? There’s romance in OnO all the time.” Discord said, discreetly wiping a tear from that touching song out of his eyes with his bird claw. “You’re just jealous no pony wants to romance with you in game.”

“Because romance in OnO is just way too complicated.” Dashie said, pulling out one of her daggers and mindlessly starts flipping it. “I don’t even want it in the game. I only want is to kill bad guys and get rich off doing it.”

“She’s definitely jealous.” Rachel whispered to Spike.

“Oh she is.” Spike responded back with a grin before leaning down and claiming his mate’s lips. She starts giggling.

“Your beard tickles.” Rachel giggled.

Since he already has horns...Spike started tickling her, making her squeal and laugh.

Hades had enough of this and wormed himself out of Rachel’s lap and trotted off somewhere to go fetch himself something to eat.

Pinkie grins and starts following the wolf. Hoping by the time they get back, her and Hades would be best buddies.

Author's Note

next chapter would be the final OnO before going to the next big phase of the story.

Stay tune ya'll

Here Hades! Come here big boy, I got you a treat!

No no, bad pinkie, leave the wolf alone!