For the Honor of Equestria
We Leave for Equis
Load Full StoryNext Chapter"Okay, Tobias, Ax, head up the left wall and guard point A. Cassie, you and Rachel head over and defend C. Me and Marco will take B." The rest of my friends gave affirmatives, and Ax gave me a 'Yes Prince Jake'. We all were playing the game For Honor, and we were in a faction war against the Vikings. We were on the knights team. I was the only knight besides Ax, who was a lawbringer. I was the Warden. Marco and Rachel were Vikings, the Warlord and Valkyrie respectively. Last of our party is Tobias and Cassie, the two Samurai. Tobias was a Kensei, and Cassie was a Nobushi.
We all liked the game, and always had immense fun whenever we played it. We always played in the faction battles, fighting for the knights.
I don't know how, but when me and my friends had started to play, they had chosen me to be the default leader of our little band of fighters. I wasn't unhappy about it, but it was hard, as I had to plan attacks, and choose who to send to which part of the battlefield.
It was another day, and we were finishing up the last faction war before the final stats came out. It was down to the wire, and the timer was running down. My team was up by two points, putting the pressure on to keep it from changing to a victory in the other teams favor.
Finally, the timer ended, and the battle was one in our odds. We all sat back in our chairs and congratulated each other over the discord chat. We decided to go to bed after the match, as it was about to turn to ten, and we had all been up since before five that day.
As I went to bed, and subsequently fell asleep, I woke up. I was standing in the courtyard where the warden was knighted in the main game. I looked around, and saw five others on the ground around me. They all were getting up, and i noticed that each of them looked like the heroes my team plays as. It wasn't till i started to move towards them to help them up, that I heard the jangling of metal coming from me, and looked down.
I was wearing the Wardens armor. I had the sword on my left hip, and i had the helm tucked under my right arm. My colors scheme, and that of the other people around me, was the same as the colors on my personal Warden. The sword was the custom sword I had made. My helmet, which I kept unadorned, as the special headpieces always were stupid, and I always thought that it would get in the way in a real fight, was the same as my characters.
It finally dawned on me that something wasn't right. I needed to test something.
"Okay, role call. Tobias."
"Here."
"Ax"
"Yes Prince Jake?"
"Cassie."
"Here Jake." The Nobushi raised her hand.
"Marco." At this point I was starting to figure it out.
"Yo man, i'm here."
"Rachel."
"Present."
I had just called my friends, and each one answered from their respective characters from the game.
"Okay guys, don't freak out, but we are all asleep. This is a dream. And all of you look like your For Honor characters. Do any of you know what the hell is going on? Why the fuck we are here?" Then, a voice spoke from behind me.
"No, but I do, and I can answer your questions." I spun around, as all my friends picked up their weapons and joined me as a line. The figure before us wore the oddest set of armor. It was made to look like several different animals had been brought together and merged. His right gauntlet looked like that of a lions paw, while his left looked like the talons of an eagle. His left foot, or should I say hoof, was just that, an armored hoof. His right leg was that of an armored dragons leg.
His torso was normal, but he had two wings on his back, one a bat, one a bird, on the right and left sides respective. And the last thing we noticed about him, was the tail. He had a large red, scaly tail, like a snake, with a fluff of white on the end. Wait, I forgot to mention something. Oh yeah, he had horns as well. One antler of some deer, and the other like a straight goat horn. His face was old, and he had a white goatee and hair. His eyes yellow, with draconic slits for the centers.
"I am Discord, the god of Chaos. I need you help. I need heroes, warriors who can help my nation fight. I found you."
Marco, the joker of our group, stepped forward and pointed his sword at the man in front of us.
"Oh yeah, and why should we accept? We are dreaming, like Jake said, so what's to stop me from waking up and leaving this behind?"
"Nothing. However, I do ask that you please think. I am stopping time right now in two worlds, one of which is currently under siege, to talk to you six. We need you help, desperately." I thought for a second.
"Guys, huddle up." We all did. Marco spoke first.
"Yo dude, you aren't thinking about actually taking up on his plea, right?" Cassie, my right hand girl, was next.
"Marco, something doesn't seem right. I mean, look at his face, his eyes. Even with them being like they are, he looks tired, like he has been fighting. I say we help him." Rachel was our berserker in name only.
"I say help. I think this is real. If we can save someone, then I say yes." That was my berserker cousin.
"AX, what do you say?"
"Well, I say go. I mean, like Cassie said, he looks tired. And, how are we sharing this dream? If not him, then what? I say we help him." Tobias speaks up.
"I agree with Ax, this shared dream isn't a coincidence. I think that either he, or something else, is doing this, so he can ask us this. Let's do it."
"Marco, it would be five to one. Yours is the final vote. Do you wanna go or not? I've placed my bet."
Marco looked at all of us. He then started to look at Discord. After a second, his eyes widened, and he turned back to us.
"Okay, but I think we need to hurry, it looks like Discord is Injured." We all look at Discord, and he has fallen to his knees. I could see him holding his right side, as blood slowly trickled out of a wound. We all ran over to him, and Cassie started to try and help him. He brushed her off.
"I am going to die. I might be a god, but I am not an immortal god. I am to badly injured. I need to know though, before I die, if you accept my request? Please, save Equestria?" We all look at each other. I look at Discord.
"We accept. We will help save Equestria." He smiles, and chuckles lightly.
"Well then. I can send you like this, or you can change your class, but do so quick. I have very little power left, and i need it to pull you to my world. After that, I will die, and leave you to your fight. I will give you warning though, the Ponies are not like you think. They are, anthropomorphic, I think is the word you humans use. Jake, when you get there, give this to the leaders of the castle." He reaches out, and hands me a scroll. I look at it, then my friends.
"Okay, classes, switch-em or we leave like we are." They all shook their heads, and Tobias spoke for the group.
"We played to often as these to switch. I think we all are gonna stick to this set-up."
"Alright. Discord, take us away." He smiled one last time, and we all saw that he had a truly genuine smile. He gave us some parting words, and snapped his fingers.
"Goodbye, heroes. I will not see you again, but I know you will help my world. Goodbye, for I shall die." And with that, he snapped his fingers, and we all dissapeared from the dream courtyard.
Author's Note
New story, just thought of it, and wanted to get it out. I love the game For Honor, and you don't see many fics about it. As I said, if any one can guess the series I got the characters from, they get a shout out, and they can have a personal OC put in. Speaking of, I would like for you to PM me about your own OC. It can be any of the races, but it can't be caribou. I won't' be able to pick all of your OC's, but I will try to get most of them.
Have a Jivin day!
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