The mismatched team had spent many, many hours playing in the world of OnO, losing one and another on a whirlwind tour of shenanigans.

This was one of those shenanigans.

Eventually during their adventure, Big Mac, also known as Sir McBiggan, the scruffy unicorn knight joined the fray after tending his lovely lady at home finally and the group was complete.

The group was in a snowy bank, everyone wearing clothes that fit the terrain around them. They were accompanied by an older male stallion NPC in a wheelchair as they stared at this large pillar that has a purple gem embedded in the stone.

“So remind me what we’re doing?” Picaro/Rainbow Dash asked the group.

“We’re here to retrieve a gem from that pillar and give it to the historian in town.” Gypsy/Pinkie said, tugging in on her huge fluffy blue coat, making her look like a blue marshmallow.

“However, no one is ever able to get the gem out.” Captain Wuzz/Discord said, getting his arrow and bow out and aimed for the gem.

His dice appeared out of nowhere like before. He smacked the die with his tail and it landed a 6.

With a frown, the archer lets go of the arrow and the wind suddenly picks up out of nowhere and pushes his arrow into the snow five feet away from them. “Well that sucked.” he grunted, ignoring the collective giggles and snickers around him before tugging his brown coat.

Hades, the black wolf, was in the snow, rolling about and popping him up from in, just having the time of his life, Dabria/Rachel watched with a chuckle before turning back to the pillar.

“From what we were told, anyone who tries to take the gem out just dies?” she asked the old stallion in the wheelchair NPC.

“Pretty much.” the old man said.

“I can grab it with my hand if we need to,” the burly “unicorn” knight said, having his huge axe buried in the snow and leaned against it as they assessed the situation.

“Maybe we can chip it out.” Picaro said, making a stabbing motion with one of her daggers.

Garbunkle/Spike, being the resident dragon, fake or not, he couldn’t take his eyes off the giant gem. He licked his lips hungrily as he thought what it might taste like.

“I got it.” Garbunkle said. Since he was the strongest caster in the group, he volunteered.

Rachel gave him a raised brow and a smirk look. “Hungry?” she asked in a teasing manner.

“Hush you.” he said quickly with a nervous chuckle. “Okay guys get back fifty feet, just for safe measures, back back.”

Everyone ended up scooting back but the dragon wizard, they hid behind a wall of snow and ice just to be safe.

Garbunkle got up to the pillar with his staff. He twirls it in his hands. “Everyone back?”

“We’re good!” Gypsy called out to him.

With that, he gripped the staff in his hand, stomping the end of it on the snow, the staff glowing red as he initiated his telekinesis spell. Before it was initiated, his D-20 die appeared before him.

The dragon hit it and it spun in the air for a few seconds before dropping on the ground. He had landed a 16. Engulfing in red magic, the wizard’s magic shot out at the pillar. The telekinesis grabs hold of the gem and with all of its might pulls.

The Gem however does not come free, but instead the gem starts to pulse before it radiates this black shock wave that shoots literally sixty foot radius out and about.

Which meant it was coming right at them.

“Oh no, we’re too close!” Gypsy screamed.

Before they could book it, the black shock wave consumed everyone, this high pitched squeal blatantly hit them before everyone around the area was consumed in the dark energy. The energy tore through their bodies as if someone just punched them right into their souls, their breath leaves them, their vision turning black, all of them gasping for air.

As fast as the shockwave hit them, it dissipated, everyone collectively got on their knees and haphazardly coughed as everything seemingly returned to normal.

The NPC beats his chest as he coughed before pointing a finger at the group. “I-I said don’t do that shit!” He shouted at them. “I warned you, you even brought it up. I-I’m going way back next time.” The NPC spins his wheels and scoots a hundred feet away from the idiots and the pillar.

Hades whimpered as he nearly tackled Dabria to the ground, visibly shaken on what just happened, his human began scratching and holding him as she tried getting her breath back. A hand reached out and she began rubbing her neck.

The dragon wizard looked back at the group to see that everyone was alright before he turned back to the gem above him. The gem sits in place, now virtually taunting him.

“Are you going to try again?” Discord asked him, putting on his DM hat.

“Yeah I’m gonna try again.” Garbunkle said to him as the dragon stood up. “Everyone get as far back as you can.”

This time, everyone went back thirty more feet away, Gypsy going back extra eleven feet just to be sure.

Garbunkle walked back up to the fifty foot marker where the others were previously. His emerald eyes glaring at that gem before the die appeared again. The dragon hit the die again and it rolled a 19.

The wizard starts running again as he holds the staff up and uses telekinesis again, twisting his body around as he holds his tool up and uses his magic again.

Like before however, the magic pulls on it and the gem does not come free.

“What the fuck??” Garbunkle shouted when he saw that it wasn’t working.

He wasn’t paying attention while running but his foot hit a big ol’ chunk of ice and he was sent flying. The wizard, for a moment, forgot he had wings and so before he was able to hit the snow, he was hit the second time by the shock wave, sending him tumbling and crashing ten feet farther out in the snow.

“M-make a constitutional saving throw!” Discord shouted at Spike while he laughed.

Rachel was trying too hard not to laugh but the other girls and Big Mac were laughing.

The wizard quickly rolled again and rolled 10, which saved his life. The dragon shot his head up from the snow, shaking it off his snout while hearing the old stallion go “What’s wrong with you?!”

“He’s going to do that again?” Dash asked with a laugh.

“Oh, I mean he has to.” Discord responded with a grin.

Spike let a growl, not going to be humiliated by this stupid gem and stands up. He takes his cloak and does the most anime style take off one can ever get.

“Yeah, baby! Now it’s a party!” Rachel catcalls him. “Whoo!” When Spike throws the cloak, it drapes over Rachel’s head. “Let's go!” she pumps her fists up in the air in encouragement.

With landed mixed reactions of others staring at her weird looks and snickering and annoyed mutters.

Spike chuckled at that before turning his focus towards the pesky gem. He popped the joints in his neck before he walked backwards just to get out of the AoE before using his staff again.

“If telekinesis won’t work, maybe this will.” He said as the staff began to glow again but instead of red like the gem, the color shifted to a deep purple color. He slaps the dice, and since he was using a specialization, there were two of them. His D-20 and D-10 appear and he slaps both of them.

Rachel pulled the cloak off of her head and turned to Discord, leaning close so Spike couldn’t hear her and told him. “Unless you want a hungry, annoyed dragon to be grumpy for the rest of the night, you might wanna surrender that gem.” She said, scratching the back of her neck.

“Oh come on, this is funny.” Discord said with a smirk and a chuckle.

“Yeah man, teasing a dragon with gems is not a good idea..” Dash said, but a part of her was enjoying this too.

“That I can vouch.“ Rachel said.

“No grumpy dragon please.” Pinkie giggled as she made snow angels in the snow.

Big Mac rolled his eyes from underneath his helmet but didn’t say anything.

Discord looked at the girls before turning back to Spike as he was preparing to launch the spell. “Oh alright.” Discord grunted and snapped his bear claws.

Once he got a 26, a large purple spectral hand shot out of the staff and flew out for that gem. The hand can go a hundred and twenty feet and was a lot stronger than telekinesis contests. The hand flew out and grabbed the gem.

With a twink of a sound, the hand pulls out the gem.

“YES!” Garbunkle shouted in glee, jumping in joy as he finally got that pesky gem out.

However after he did that, the pillar sent out another black shockwave. The wave hit the spectral hand and the gem was knocked out of its grasp and disappeared somewhere in the snow. No one else got caught in the shockwave so everyone was alright.

“OH COME ON!” Spike shouted, and ended up throwing the staff in the snow.

The girls and Big Mac looked at Discord at that and he had a big grin on his face. “What?? I’m just following the rules in OnO. I made the world but I didn’t make the rules.” he chuckled.

Rachel sighed heavily. “Sorry ba-what the heck??”

She turns her head to find Spike was digging around in the snow for that gem.

Hades pounced towards him and thought Spike was playing and was digging around as well.

“Well...that was something.” The old stallion in the wheelchair NPC said, seeing nothing but a purple spade tail wagging up in the air as the dragon was digging around the snow.

After five minutes of shifting through the snow, his hand shot up from the snow and in his hand held the gem. “Got it!”

“Don’t eat it, that’s for returning a quest.” Captain Wuzz called out.

Everyone in the campaign looked at the draconequus as if he had a death wish.

Discord sighed dramatically before snapping his fingers, splitting the gem into two gems. “Just eat one of them then. Big baby.”

Spike gave discord a low growl before he began nibbling on one of the gems in his hands, soon becoming satisfied. It tasted like a real gem and it was delicious.

His girlfriend shook her head at him when he joined the fray. Though in their characters they aren’t together, Rachel still reached up and rubbed her boyfriend’s back. “Better?” she quipped with a teasing smirk.

“Yes.” He said casting his eyes away cause knowingly once again he got lured in by gems.

Rachel sighed as she handed him his cloak. “What am I going to do with ya?”

Spike shrugged before nuzzling up against her neck, causing her to squeal. “Dude!”

“Sorry, you know I can’t help it.” He said with a chuckle.

“Maybe I should’ve brought Sugar Belle out here.” Big Mac muttered.

“No you don’t.” Discord said immediately.

“Okay okay guys, enough with the lovey dovey crap,” Dash called out to the couple.

Spike let out a huff by that before he felt his girl rubbed his arm. “Alright,” he said before he continued to munch on his gem and give Rachel the other gem so he wouldn't mistakenly eat it.

Discord coughed before getting back into his character. “Let’s get going before this storm hits.” Wuzz said.

“Yeah, it’s getting really cold.” Gypsy said as she finished building snow ponies that looked like the gang before getting up.

Hades playfully destroys them by pouncing on them and jumping about.

“HEY!” Gypsy grunted, trying to get Hades to stop but the look he gave her was enough to pull her hand back.

Dabria let out a low whistle that made the large wolf cease playing before briskly walking back over to his mistress and the dragon wizard.

She looked at him and said, “You gotta be nice,” Dabria said, her accent flowing out of her lips as she scratched the wolf’s ears. Though he seemed to be a playful pup, he’s still a creature that could murk anyone if enraged.

Gypsy is pushing her limits.

Hades made a low sound as if he was responding to her but melted in her scratches.

“Daveros, we got the gem, let's head back.” Garbunkle said, trying not to look as if he was getting jealous of the wolf’s attention, and looking at the NPC in the wheelchair.

Which was, even he knows it, was down right petty and needed to get over himself.

As the group was about to head on back to the winter stricken town of Snowballfite, a familiar whistling sound caught the attention of the dragon.

Quickly, Garbunkle grabbed Gypsy and pulled her to the side as an arrow whizzed past them and hit the snow where the pink pony was just standing.

“Whoa there!” Gypsy giggled but it wasn’t a laughing matter.

“Scatter!” Garbunkle barked at all of them.

As soon as he said that, a barrage of arrows began firing at them, causing everypony to run in different directions in the snow. All ducking their heads as they frantically moved so they wouldn’t get impaled.

Sir McBiggin, Gypsy and Captain Wuzz managed to escape the area of impact, Picaro jumped in the air when missing the arrows. Dabria and Hades, the NPC in the wheelchair and Garbunkle were trying to outrun them.

However, the dragon turned about, slamming the staff onto the ground. The staff glowed red and a shield manifested itself, creating a dome around them. The arrows hit it, they snapped into tiny pieces upon impact.

When the rain of arrows died down, the group looked towards where the arrows came from. Coming behind the large pillar, there were these…. White furred chimpanzee looking creatures with blue lips, hands, black soulless eyes. A lot of them had bows and arrows in their hands but from what they could see, the rest had no weapons at all.

“Oh fuck.” Dabria/Rachel said when seeing them.

From what she knows of chimpanzees - not an expert but from what she learned as a kid, dealing with one chimpanzee is bad...having a full community of them….

“What are they??” Picaro asked as she flew around the Pillar and saw the chimpanzee looking creatures coming out of a portal behind the pillar. All of them hooting and screeching and roaring mighty that echoed across the winter tundra.

“Ooh… I thought I forgot about something.” the NPC named Daveros said, seeing the mob heading for them, a few reloaded but the chimps that weren’t wielding weapons were heading right for them.

And they seemed to just pool out of the portal, seriously outnumbering the group.

“There were other rumors that the pillar holds the Marmill back….seems that’s true.” Daveros added with a nervous laugh.

In OnO, the Marmill were a malicious tribe that once terrorized the town. It was once said that the pillar was what kept them at bay…

But after many years, legends get lost, mixed up, and greed comes into play.

Or in this case, a dragon’s stomach.

“Run you fools!” Wuzz shouted at everypony and everyone began booking it.

Dabria shoved the gem inside of her bag, grabbed the wheelchair and pushed the NPC. Garbunkle would run behind the two, using his staff and blasting any of the creatures that get to close and deflect the oncoming arrows. Picaro was flying in the air, whipping through the many arrows flying up at her. Sir McBiggins trailed behind Captain Wuzz who was flying near the ground and Gypsy who was squealing as she bounced away.

Hearing a screech, the burly knight turned and saw two of the Marmill had gained speed and had leaped in the air, ready to pound the dickens out of them. The knight spun the ax in his hand before bringing it down on one of them, splitting the card in half down the middle before his horn was engulfed in orange aura. The magic engulfed the other Marmill, it screeched and tried to pound at it but was hitting nothing. The knight then turned and threw the Marmill with his magic back at the mob that was after them.

That marmill knocked down a few of its own but it didn’t slow the rest of them.

“Why haven’t we been told about this?!” Picaro shouted at the NPC in the wheelchair as she barrel rolled to safety into the sky.

“It hadn’t crossed my mind!” he responded.

As everypony was running, one of them looked up to see that the town was just at their view.

They were leading the Marmill right for Snowballfite!

“Uh guys!” Picaro shouted.

“Hey, is there a way to push them back inside the pillar??” Garbunkle asked the NPC as he continually shot at the on coming Marmill. Since the Pillar was their prison and was what kept this army within.

“Um uh.” Daveros started to sweat profusely. “F-f-from what I heard, the gem acts like a catalyst. If it’s placed back in its slot on the pillar, the Marmill will get sucked back into the pillar!”

The dragon felt a lot of eyes staring heavily at him.

“Don’t you guys start.” Garbunkle grunted as he finished up his gem quickly.

“So we have to get the gem back in the pillar, with an army of bloody thirsty apes coming right for us that will gladly rip your face off without a second's notice.” Wuzz said as he fired a few more shots at the Marmill while they ran.

When more arrows shot at him, Sir McBiggen spun the axe rapidly with his magic, deflecting the projectiles to protect the draconequus archer.

“Or otherwise the town is gonna get destroyed.” Picaro said as she threw more daggers at the marmill before reaching underneath her cloak and pulled out a flintlock pistol and started shooting.

“We can take them!” Gypsy giggled as she played with her instruments, getting ready to take control of what dead enemy that was in the area. “Hoofball everyone??”

Dabria stopped moving. “Cover me.” she tells the wizard as she swiftly lets go of Daveros and grabs her bow and an arrow from her holster.

The NPC wasn’t taking the chance and proceeded to roll back to town, the wheels of the wheelchair spun hard in the snow, leaving the group alone for this.

While the human ranger was knelt down, Hades snarled and started attacking any Marmill that came close. The wizard continued to blast away as well before he slammed the staff on the snow, shooting out a red barrier that surrounded the two as arrows were shooting at them. One without arrows started pummeling the barrier with their hands. All of them focusing on them.

But more importantly, they were after that gem. If the gem is placed back inside of the pillar, the Marmill will be forced to return inside it and they didn’t want that to happen.

“Picaro!” Dabria shouted, tying the gem to one of her black iron arrows before standing up, pointing the loaded arrow up in the air.

After shooting and dodging, the winged rogue nodded and she zoomed across the air while the archer pulled back the string. She waited for a moment before releasing the arrow.

It spun and whistled as it soars up. The pegasus grabbed the arrow as she whizzed on by. “GOT IT!” she shouted.

“Oh this is going to be fun.” Wuzz grumbled underneath his breath as the knight and bard ran straight into the Marmill.

Picaro took the gem off of the arrow as she flew, using it as a spear, she threw it down and impaling one of them as she lowered herself down. Weaving and swerving past flying arrows and the marmill leaping up and trying to grab the rogue.

“Oh fuck off!” she shouted as she kicked one of them back.

While she wasn’t looking, one of them managed to leap up and tackled Picaro out of the sky, knocking the gem out of her hand and it was sent flying.

The gem was about to land on the ground before Gypsy bounced up on her tail, springing up and grabbing the gem with her mane and coming down. “My turn!” She grinned before strumming her mandolin and mowing down the Marmill on her way to the pillar.

When she got a few feet ahead, four of them surrounded her. She paused, looking at them before removing her hat and her hand digging through her curly mane before pulling out a white table and three cups.

She slams the gem on the table and covers it with the cups and rapidly shuffles the three cups. “Where’s the gem? Can you find the gem? Which cup has the gem?” She said in a carny-like voice.

The four marmill watched her with puzzled looks. Tilting their heads as the strange bard kept shuffling the cups, sending them in a trance like state before she eventually stopped.

Gypsy motioned the enemy to find the gem.

The Marmills looked at each other before one stepped forward. Extended its long arms out. Making actual chimp noises out of curiosity. It reached out and grabbed one cup and lifted off the table.

No gem.

Another Marmill stepped forward and picked up the other cup.

No gem.

With a frustrated hoot, that marmill reached over and grabbed the other cup and no gem was underneath it.

“Whoops!” Gypsy giggled with a big grin before taking her rapier out and rapidly slashed the marmills. “Catchy catch!” She calls out before using her tail and flinging the gem in the air.

Captain Wuzz grunted when he flew by, catching it. Before he said he got it, a couple of the creatures grabbed him and pulled him down with a yelp.

Losing the gem in the process.

Before Wuzz was overwhelmed, Sir Mcbiggen using a spell that caused his axe to glow orange, slammed his axe down and the ice ad snow beneath them started to crack from the pressure, the shockwave of his axe knocked the Marmill off of Wuzz before he grabbed the gem out of the snow.

And like a linebacker in hoofball, the burly knight charged through the onslaught. Bulldozing any who gets in his way, using his magic and swinging his axe left and right and all around him. Slicing the enemies left and right as he ran through the snow.

He jumped and hurled over those who tried to tackle him, using his axe to deflect any arrows that were shot at him.

Garbunkle was racing around, healing his teammates before he made a lunge in the air, swerving and dodging the arrows and jumping Marmill, smacking a few down with his tail and breathing his green fire at them before shouting. “McBiggen!” he calls out, flying overhead the knight.

Sir McBiggen nodded with a grunt, faking a left before turning a right, running up a hill made of solid ice. “Heads up!” the knight said, jumping off of the hill and threw the gem up in the air.

With a WHOOSH!, picking up snow with a mighty flap, the dragon wizard snatched the gem in the air and took off flying with it.

As he raced towards the pillar, the dragon looked down and saw that Dabria was riding on Hades, running through the army of Marmill. She had one hand gripping on the scruff on the back of the wolf’s neck and had one of her curved swords out and swung at those that leaped at her.

Dabria was trying to get close to the pillar to give some backup.

However, a large Marmill jumped and slammed down on Hades’s backend.

With a painful yelp coming from the wolf, he dropped and rolled, knocking his mistress off of him.

Dabria rolled in the snow before rolling to her feet. She stood up as the wolf and the large marmill were fighting. Hearing the wolf snarl and claw and bite and the enemy was slamming its hands, clawing and biting as well.

She pulled her bow and arrow back out swiftly and began firing arrows at it, trying to give her pet a hand. After a few hits embedded it’s side, it stopped fighting the wolf and started to turn its attention to the human, throwing the Wolf overhead and tossing him off to the side in the process.

Dabria whistled loudly to call Hades to her side and he was quick to do so. As the large marmill was coming to her, she ended up forgetting what skill she had to use “TIME OUT!” Rachel calls out.

Instantly, all the NPC’s froze where they stood.

“What is it??” Discord asked, annoyed.

“Just a sec, I forgot what skill I got,” Rachel said nervously with a chuckle, digging into her satchel and pulling out her character sheet to see what her skills actually are. “Sorry, just gimme a sec.”

“Amature.” Discord scuffs, shaking his head.

A snowball was flung at him and it hit Discord upside the head. “HEY! Who threw that??” he called out.

But no one coughed up.

Rachel quickly read the page and then saw what one of her skills were. When she found out what it was, she grinned. “OooOoooh!” she said, liking what it was before shoving the paper back inside the satchel. “Okay, sorry again, resume.” Rachel called out.

Spike snickered and shook his head at that.

Getting back into position, the OnO resumed.

The large marmill once again was running after the human archer.

“Two Becomes One!” Dabria shouted.

Hades howled loudly before he and his mistress was engulfed in this blue aura before he turned ethereal like and merged with Dabria. The ranger started to growl as she gotten down on all fours crouching. Her eyes had turned bright blue with a thin slit pupil with the sclera black, her teeth came to a sharpen point, nails extended to claws. The ethereal aura took a shape of a wolf, ever so flowing.

She snarled and growled before lunging with great speed. The Marmill slammed down its fists at the ranger before she leaped up in the air to dodge. Stepping up on it’s arm, Dabria dug her claws into the Marmill’s large chest and then took a bite out of the creature’s neck.

It screeches and hollars as it tries to get her off before she pulls back, her claws still in it’s chest, she pulls and basically rolls it to the ground. Taking its head while disoriented and ripping it in half from the skull to neck.

“What archer skill is that??” Pinkie then calls out to Discord while she raises her necro minions to assist the gang with the army.

Discord sighed as he continued to shoot.

“Soul Beast Mode. It’s one of the archer’s specialties, I don’t have it because it requires a pet and like I stated before, I don’t do pets.” he said.

Spike actually stopped flying towards the pillar to watch his girlfriend become this savage.

Yeah, after this battle, he and she are going to be very busy after this.

While he was ogling at his girl, some of the marmill saw the opportunity and leaped up at the dragon. Two of them had grabbed him by the tail, one grabbed him by his leg and the other used it’s own to climb up on his back.

The dragon snarled once he felt the unwanted guests, he started kicking the one on his foot off, trying to shake the two on his tail and rolled to try and knock the one off his back. However the weight of them was bringing the dragon down with more jumping on him.

“Dabria!” Garbunkle shouted before he punched one, breathed fire at another before throwing it as he was brought to the ground.

Dabria caught the gem and began running towards the pillar. Running on all fours, weaving through the army. Jumping away from the arrows and jumping over those who try to jump her.

When she got to the pillar, she leaped up, her claws dug into the stone and she pulvolted herself up. She kept climbing up and up the stone, going right for the empty slot.

What she didn’t realize was that one marmill with a bow and arrow had aimed at the ranger. Pulled back and shot at her.

Just as Dabria slams the gem back inside the slot, she felt that arrow hit her in the back.

Now, this was a form of a simulation, no one was really meant to get hurt and none of the actions taking place in this pocket realm was actually going to kill anyone, all meant for fun. However…. Once Rachel felt that “arrow” hit her, her eyes flashed white, feeling this hot burning sensation all over her back. This phantom pain resonated with her whole body.

She ended up letting go of the pillar and she fell at the base of it. When she hit the bottom, her and Hades split apart but he ended up rolling onto the snow unconscious.

Spike lets out terrified gasp before dropping the staff and goes to Rachel as the gem activates. It pulsated as the portal began pulling the Marmill back inside.

All of them hooted and hollered out of fear, trying to run away but they couldn’t escape it. Like a vacuum, it was sucking every single marmill back. It took ten seconds before the Marmills were gone.

“Rachel, Rachel??” Spike got to his knees and lifted her up a bit. She didn't respond, like the wolf, she was unconscious. He shook her a little. “Baby? Rachel?!” Her eyes were closed but he could see her eyeballs move rapidly.

“Make a constitution saving throw.” Discord calls out to Rachel, thinking she was still in character as her die appeared above her.

Rachel didn’t move.

“Wow she’s really into character.” Pinkie said.

“She’s not playing!” Spike ended up snapping at everyone before turning back to Rachel, trying to wake her up.

Rachel sat on her small bed, her legs pushed close to her chest. It was night time and it was pouring down outside. Her computer was off and the lights were too, the only sounds she heard was the small clock on the wall.

Her heart was beating out of fear. Fear of the man that was inside this home with her. She hoped he didn’t call her that evening. She kept her eyes glued to the clock as it ticked past eleven.

If he didn’t call her by two in the morning she knew he would’ve been asleep, which meant she would be able to get some sleep.

“Rachel.” Her heart skipped a frightened beat when she heard her name being called out from behind the door. “I know you hear me.”

So much for that plan.

She lets out a small whimper, not wanting to get off this bed.

“Come. Here.” her father called out again, this time more agitated.

Biting her lower lip, she slowly moved off the bed. It creaked and shifted from her weight as she stood. She hugged herself as she walked up to the door and opened it.

He wasn’t behind the door.

“In here.” Her father calls her from what sound to be the kitchen.

Taking in a shallow breath, the thirteen year old moved down the hall. Taking seven strides to the kitchen.

Her father was sitting at the kitchen table, taking a swig of a large bottle of booze, still in the suit he wore for the funeral but the tie was gone and a few buttons were unbuttoned.

His eyes bored at his daughter as he silently motioned her to take a seat across from him.

Rachel looked at him before turning her head towards the stove. It was on…

And there were keys on the eye that was on and were heating up red.

Rachel ended up waking and gasping loudly, sitting up straight. Causing both Pinkie and Dash scream as well as they were startled.

The human looked up and saw that they were still inside the OnO world and that Spike was holding her.

“Rachel, ar~” Before Spike could ask if she was alright, Rachel quickly stood up and took off running away from everyone. Running out of the role playing world and coming back to the real world.

Her clothes - wearing a baggy shirt and shorts - had returned, and disappeared out of the map room. Hades completely disappeared from the group.

“What’s up with her?” Dash asked, confused.

“Maybe it became too much?” Pinkie asked. “Real life Ogres and Oubliettes isn’t for everypony.”

Spike looked at the girls then at the guys before he too took off. He left the map room to locate his girlfriend.

“So much for game night.” Discord grumbled as he watched Spike leave.

And as a result, more snowballs hit the draconequus. “Who the tartarus is doing that?!”

Rachel raced towards the kitchen, making a beeline for the fridge. She opens it up and grabs a water bottle, untwists it and takes a long pull of the drink. Guzzling it contents to she is left gasping. Closing the door, she then pressed her forehead against the cool surface and was taking deep breaths.

“He’s not here….he’s not here.” She shuddered repeatedly underneath her breath. “He’s not here…” keeps repeating it like a mantra, trying to get her heart rate to calm down but she felt like her heart was going to burst.

Spike walked in. He saw how Rachel was and stood there.

Rachel just barely turned her head to him and said. “I’m fine.” she said but her tone suggested she wasn’t.

“Rachel...you took a fall and was knocked out. I just want to see that you’re okay.”

“I said I’m fine!” Rachel turned around and snapped at Spike. Causing him to flinch a little. Rachel realized that she shouted and shook her head, turning her face away from Spike. “I-I’m so sorry.” her voice startled crackling, tears going down her cheeks. “I’m so sorry.” her body was visibly shaking.

She didn’t mean to yell, it wasn’t his fault. It wasn’t.

“Baby...please…” Spike said as he got close. He reached out his hand to her for her to grab it.

Rachel turned her head and looked at his hand and then at him. She could see that all he wants is to help her.

She bit her lower lip, desperately wanting to grab it…

“I’m sorry…” she whimpered before running off again, running past him. “I-I gotta get some air.”

“Rachel, please stop.” Spike goes after her as she runs down the hall.

She goes to the front door and grabbed the pair of shoes that was next to it and slipped them on without untying the shoe laces.

“Rachel, baby please talk to me.” Spike pleaded with her, stopping her just as gotten her foot in. “I’m worried about you!”

She looks up with him, feeling horrible that she was doing this to him. She wanted to tell him, it’s eating her from the inside out.

However, she couldn’t…

“I know….I know, Spike.” Rachel said but it didn’t stop her from standing up. “I know you want to help...but I don’t think this is something you can help me with…”

“You don’t know that until you tell me.” He said as RD, Pinkie, Discord, Big Mac, Twilight and Starlight came out to see what was going on. “Rachel, whatever it is, w~”

“I-I can’t!” Rachel screams, her voice crackling hard, feeling like she was going to crumble at any moment. “I-I’ll be back.” She said before she turns around and heads off, opening the door and just takes off running.

Spike stared at the open door in disbelief. Everyone else behind him didn’t know what to make of what just happened.

Rachel just runs down the street, it was night time so not alot of foot traffic was out in Ponyville so nothing got in her way.

She ran and ran until she got to the bridge where the river flowed through. Rachel ran halfway across the bridge before she began pacing around. Her hand running through her hair as every memory she had desperately tried to block out was hitting her all at once. She gripped and pulled several strains out, pacing around the bridge before she couldn’t hold it in anymore.

And started screaming from the top of her lungs echoing all around her.. Her throat burned as she let it all out. The screaming lasts but a few seconds before the screams turn into uncontrollable sobs.

Losing strength in her legs, Rachel collapsed to the ground, curling up in a tight ball and cried profusely.

Standing by, a few hundred yards from the human, two figures in the shadows spied on her. One of them took their phone out and made a call. Two rings later and the other line picked up.

“What is it?” It was Blueblood’s voice.

“Found the human, what do you want us to do next?” one of them, speaking in a female voice, asked.

“Bring her to me. Don’t kill her, I want her alive.” Blueblood ordered.

Author's Note

Just a reminder that all the NPC's in OnO are basically cards with cartoon like drawings done by the Spirit of Chaos himself.

But it was so much fun! Not bad, Crimmy, not bad

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