A Roegadyn in Equestria

A Roegadyn in Equestria.
Chapter 8: The Death Angels Discovery.

*Point of view: Rory Mercury*
*Location: Dream scape*
*Time: a few minutes before sunrise*

It was a very long and exhilarating night for the once, known as the assistance protocol, now called Rory Mercury. She was the newly downloaded program that was meant to help whatever system that it was installed upon, but due to unknown circumstances and the near-death experience of her newly designated user, to which she now refers to as master, is now able to think on her own accord.

Luckily for Brex the once human, now turned Roegadyn, Rory has made it her mission to make sure that she is there for him and seems willing to do whatever it takes to help Brex. Unfortunately, even with the fact that she knows practically everything about him, Brex has not had the chance yet to formally meet her. This was going to be an interesting morning.

Within the dream scape the two had met up, but Brex was out cold, in both the real and dream scape. This let to Rory finding him after a long, drawn-out search. Things had led to one, then another, then yet again to another, oh you get it folks. It’s the basic, artificial intelligent’s program gets the hots for her user scenario. Well, Brex unknowingly did something to Rory while asleep and now it’s nearly sun up.

Rory, begins to stir while in her master’s dream scape, with a still foggy mindset, she lifts her face from what she could only tell at the time, to be some sort of generously large pillow. When she managed to lift her head a few inches, this caused her to un-intentionally flex the muscles in other areas of her body. This in turn caused Rory to experience a shark shock to run around her lower region.

Thanks to this, the young woman’s eyes shoot open and the events of last night start flooding her mind. What she had done, what her master had done and just how long it all had lasted. It was hard to believe but in the dream scape, time ran at a whole other pace, from what Rory could tell, inside her master’s dreams, the time that had passed was roughly 20 hours, but in the outside world, roughly three days had gone and went. This sent a wave of red to fill her cheeks, but not out of anger, no, this was a reaction to the amount of pleasure she had felt, she was feeling so embarrassed that she had lost control.

She quickly began to think in her head for some sort of excuse to give to her master for how she acted, then to question herself, “Why did you do that Rory, ARG! The moment you meet your master after getting a real body, not in the real world real, mind you, but real in his mind. You go and let your newly found senses control your actions. Oh, he is going to think badly of you… NO PLEASE DON’T THROW ME AWAY.”

She couldn’t help but chastise herself repeatedly as she awaited her masters most likely harsh judgment. Even without all the data on her master’s past, to which had for some reason that she, nor him knew why it was missing, Rory had a strong feeling in her gut that, if what had nearly happened in his dreams, had turned out with her acting on those impulses, would be something that would seriously hurt him in some way.

The seconds passed in utter silence; the a few more had gone by. Why was he taking so long to yell or maybe even shove her aside to get distance? Then the thought came to her, “He must be doing this on purpose, he wants to see me suffer. I was bad and this is part of my punishment…”

At that moment, Rory’s eyes, that where already wide open, had suddenly had their iris’s turn into pin pricks. In utter disbelief, the young woman’s lower area was somehow getting bothered again. She then thought to herself while having an internal panic, “What the fuck!? AM, am I getting turned on by this too?”

She could feel her breathing quickening, this was just like last night. Rory then looked towards her master and what she saw was something that surprised her more. Right there laying next to her, was Brex, still sound asleep. There was a satisfied smile on his face and this calmed down Rory enough for her to carefully get out of the mattress and then she stood off to the left side of the bed.

Rory’s foot had nearly slipped out from under her but caught herself before something had happened. Looking down she could see what had almost caused her to fall. She did not expect this, for right there near the bed, was a large wet puddle and She instantly realized what it was. In a panic she waved her arms and made it vanish.

With an internal sigh, she thought, “Thank goodness this is the dream scape. Otherwise cleaning that mess wouldn’t have been possible in this situation.” She then takes a good, long look at her master. Knowing that she somehow brought him some sort of comfort, it caused Rory’s chest to heat up and fill with pride.

It was at that moment that the sounds of glass cracking echoed throughout within the room, this led to lines of cracks to form along the floors. From there they ran up along the walls and eventually they were forming on the ceiling as well. Rory was able to tell that her master was about to wake up soon, their time to meet face to face was about to end.

With a sigh, she then said in a soft voice, “Well, it looks like I’ll have to talk to you as a girl inside your head until the next time you sleep later tonight. *Giggles* Well maybe not that long, you did tend to faint a lot, perhaps it could come sooner.

It was then that the background started to shake as the sections that had just been made from the cracks shifted apart from one another, this felt as though the scene was of a puzzle being dismantled and the parts of said puzzle where now floating away, this exposed a nearly blinding white light that enveloped the dream scape to mark the awakening of the dreamer.

*Point of view: Brex Mith*
*Location: Castle of the two sisters, Princess Luna’s bed chambers*
*Time: 6 in the morning, 3 days after falling asleep*

Brex’s eyes were being assaulted by what could only be considered the bane of all gamer’s existence. The scourge of the night owls, late night otakus and graveyard shift workers. Yes, the one, the only, the one that wants all to suffer, ladies and gentlemen, a drum roll please. The blinding~. Sun.

With a grunt of frustration, the Roegadyn reaches up and swats at the beam of light that was hitting him in the face. In his muddled mental state, Brex did this a few more times. Soon after he realized what he was doing and said, “Oh, right… its light, a ray of light, not some bug.” He then lets out a long yawn and sits up on the bed. That’s when he finally opens his eyes and looks around the room.

In a confused state, Brex says, “Huh? This isn’t the forest, and is this a stone lined room?” When he said those words, Brex started to fear that he was somehow found out by the older sister and quickly felt around his body as to check if any of his items had gotten taken away by the guards, also to see if he was in some way restrained, like something like a chain attached to his ankle or similar.

After a short time of examination, Brex calms down and takes another look around his environment from the sitting position atop the bed. He then thinks on what he could remember about how he had got here. Soon the events run across his mind as if he was watching a movie, this startled him and he said, “How did that happen, sense when could I do something like play a screen shot power point just like that, I’m not sitting at my computer!”

It was then that a young feminine voice came out and said in a subdued tone within his mind, “That would be my doing, I am sorry if that was a shock for you … My Master.” Near the end of that, the feminine voice had gone from being reserved, to seeming seductive as the words, my master, were spoken.

This caused Brex to raise his eye brows in shock, but then he unexpectedly calmed down. He takes in a deep breath and closes both eyes for a moment before speaking, “I’m surprised alright, about a number of things if I’m being frank. For one, there is the fact that I currently have the ability to basically have a movie theater in my head. The next is you are talking to me through what I could only assume is the same way. Now, as for last, is the fact that I get the feeling that I have heard your voice some were before, but I can’t seem to place it. So, I’ll kindly ask that you start explaining things to me. No talking around in circles, no half-truths, and keep it to the point.”

*Point of view: Rory*

This just through Rory for a loop. She had not expected for her master to take that so well. In fact, he adapted rather fast. Around half way into his questioning, Rory was sensing that in those words, were some power behind them. She thought to herself, “Huh, I don’t get it. Here I was thinking the master would freak out and I would have to find a way to calm him down. Instead, he takes the lead right away and basically orders me to tell him just what he wants, what’s more, he gave me, an underline threat of not messing around.”

It was then that Rory lets out an internal moan of excitement, the very idea that her master had just taken charge and is commanding her in a subtle way that says, submit to me and answer all my questions. Of course, this was not the case, but Rory’s mind is running away with her imagination.

*Point of view: Brex Mith*

Brex is currently waiting for a reply, but it seems that the voice has yet to answer and it has been a few moments sense his line of questioning. Just as he was going to attempt to say something, the voice returns, but this time the words seem to sound as if something was off with her, “I-I I’m your servant from this time forward, my name is Rory Mercury.”

This was not what he had expected at all. But none the less, Brex was able to keep his calm composure with still keeping his eyes closed. Without missing a beat, He then says, “Now before you answer my questions, I want to get something cleared up first, if you’re talking to be in this way, then, does that mean that you’re reading my thoughts right now?” This was something he needed to find out right away, otherwise he will have to make sure he doesn’t have any needless thoughts. If it is a yes, then things will become much more difficult.

The now identified, Rory reply’s with, “Of course not, I cannot read your thoughts. But if you focus on it then I’m sure you can communicate with me without the need for talking out loud.” She then giggles before continuing, “Unless you want others to think that you’re crazy that is.”

Internally Brex lets out a sigh, for some reason, he can’t help but feel as though Rory could be someone, er... something, that he could trust. Ok this needs to be cleared up as soon as possible. Brex says, “ok then start with my previous questions and then we will go on from there.”

From there, Rory explains the circumstances to how she appeared within his head, not knowing anything but from the moment she got him to wake up during the fight, how his mental state was in peril. This led to the spiders’ defeat and what the anti-virus program did to ensure that he survived. This soon let to how she had gotten her current identity. Lastly, she told him of how she found the dream version of him and helped, by doing some remodeling of the dream scape room to make his sleeping inside of said place to be comfortable with the bed she had produced. She did however omit the details about how things went down and just said that she watched over him and how three days had passed in the real world.

It was the understatement of the century that Brex was confused as to how this all happened, the fact that this girl, along with what used to be another were in fact in his head back then. Then there was anger that she had gone and looked into his memories, now that was an invasion of privacy, but soon he had calmed down. Knowing that it was something that, in the end helped in saving his life.

Brex, after taking in all that Rory had mentioned in the story, slowly went and thrown his legs over the left side edge of the bed he was still sitting on. Getting to his feet, he then says, “Fine, I get the idea of how things are, But I want to make sure that something is perfectly clear.”

Brex takes a second to make it understood that what he was going to say next was something that Rory needed to understand fully. “Rory, you are not to look into my memories, much less into my thoughts unless I explicitly give you permission, or in the situation that my life is in danger and it is absolutely necessary.

Right as he finished with this order, Rory reply’s almost instantly with, “Of course my master, I’ll do whatever you order me to do. All I want, is to make sure that you are happy and I will do everything in my power to do so.” This however causes Brex to consider that he should make sure his commands are clear, from the way Rory answered, he had the feeling that she may go too far.

However, Brex was not fully comfortable with the idea of ordering another around, Somehow, this made him feel guilty, well maybe not that per say, more like, he didn’t deserve that another person would say things like those types of words, like the ones she had. Also Yes, Brex was going to refer to Rory as a person.
With that out of the way, Brex asks Rory, “Are you interested in exploring this room? I need to look around for some sort of diary, if at the very least a few notes so I can get a handle on how this worlds history is set up. Rory replies with an enthusiastic, “Of course master!”

After some searching, Brex finds a small book that was placed on the very top of one of the book shelfs nearest to the bed. But this was only after he had tried to look in spots that he considered to be more secure, what he did find on those were some rather interesting items and reading material. Putting those aside, he turns his attention to the small book.
Within his hands, is a small blue bound book with the silver crescent moon drawn on with what he at first thought to be paint, but on closer inspection revealed to be really silver. He said “Wow, those of the high class really are in another world compared to the rest of us. Who else would melt real silver and use it like some overpriced painter?”

With him shaking his head at the image of Princess Luna, standing there and demanding that she needed silver paint, then when given, she would ask if it was really silver. The one that had retrieved it would answer with, oh no my majesty, that silver colored paint, just as you wanted. Then she would use the Canterlot voice and demand that she is to be given real silver to use.
Brex knew full well that the so called Canterlot voice, was in fact the booming level of volume that only the Alicorn’s can produce thanks to the magic they possess. One would think that this skill, could have in fact have been first made to be some form of attack, but it may have been deemed more useful to instill fear into the peasants.

This line of thought was now causing Brex’s feelings on how the upper class treat those lower than them to come to the surface. This in turn caught the attention of Rory, who then asked, “Master, are you ok, you seem angry, did you discover something already, even though you have only been looking at the books cover?”

This snaped Brex out of the figurative angry rant that was oh, so very close to exploding. With a light shake of the head, He said, “oh, it’s just that by the looks of this book, I got a better feel on how the owner’s way of thinking, may have been like.”

*Point of view: Rory*

With a look of admiration, Rory is ecstatic as she watches her master. Before when he had told her that she was not allowed to look into his memories, or even read his mind unless it was needed. She was on the verge of losing it again, the way that he made it painfully clear in those commands. She couldn’t help but take it as some sort of verbal shackle, this made Rory’s mind go into that newly discovered lewd place.

When she had been about to dive deeper into a fantasy, she was brought out of it when she suddenly felt something from her master, even if she wasn’t allowed to read his mind. Rory could still sense something; Right now, was that of a simmering anger. That’s when she spoke up. When her master answered, she had realized that he was like that only because of something secret that he exposed that she herself had not comprehended.

It was during this point in time that she had not been sure on just what her master discovered that could have elicited such a response. There must have been some secret meaning behind what the books outside portrayed, the fact that master had discovered it, caused Rory to feel even more pride in being his… his…

This was when Rory’s mind had come to a dead end. Just what was she meant to be to him. The first word to come to mind was assistance, but that was before, she was Rory Mercury. So, what should she be thinking herself to be to her master?

It was then that Rory looked into her own mind and was trying to come up with a title. This when on for a few minutes, but during those, the words that she came up with one after another only fell deeper and deeper into those that would be considered to have been taken out of a very adult themed book.

She was now turning into a ripe red tomato with how those cheeks were now. Steam could have been seen rising from this girl if only she was out in the real world with her own body. It wasn’t long after that, when Brex said, “So that’s how it is, I get it now. Well, that clears up one of my suspicions for Luna.” This snaps Rory free from the induced delusion.

*Point of view: Brex Mith*

After his little near rant on the rich episode was derailed. Brex started reading the diary that belonged to Princess Luna. Inside he found a lot of small personal things, things that only her sister should have known about. Among those where some silly things, sad things and some rather, *cough* stuff that lets Brex see, just the type of mare this Equestria’s Luna, really is like.

For some reason, Brex was able to read the diary in a rapid pace. He didn’t know if this was normal. But he had a feeling that this was abnormal, but then chucked it up to the enhancements that Rory had done during that spider incident and moved on.

That’s when he said, “So that’s how it is, I get it now. Well, that clears up one of my suspicions for Luna.” Brex closed the book and walked over to where it had been hiding before and placed it back. He then said, “Well, now with that back in its spot, Princess Luna won’t be the wiser that someone had even found the thing.”

Brex then called out, “Rory, do you remember those dots that where on my mini map when we made our escape?” A moment later Rory replied with, “Yes I do, there was quite a lot of them, 26 to be exact.” This caused Brex to let out a sigh, before saying, “And what are the odds that they too are spiders as well?” Rory had taken a moment before saying, “Its possible, but I doubt that they would be the same as the one from last time.”

Brex then turned towards the double doors that led back to the bridge and then said in a nearly emotionless tone, “Its time I get to those tomes in the basement, but before that, I’ll have no other choice than to clear out the mobs. Let’s hope that they don’t have a respawn timer.” The very idea that he would have to take on spiders every day creeped him out, but somehow Brex didn’t feel scared. It may have been, that the fight on the bridge helped with his fears. Well, that’s what he hoped was the case.

*Point of view: Brex Mith*
*Time: 9 in the morning*

Brex Lets loose another of his ninja skills, Ninjutsu: Fuma Shuriken. This one lands on the now dubbed, spider number 24. The spider is bisected vertically by the oversized throwing star an continues along its predetermined path, which happens to overlap with spider number 25. When the ninja skill makes contact, the spider is then blown into a multitude of parts that rained over the open courtyard.

Ninjutsu: Fuma Shuriken, Delivers a ranged ninjutsu attack with a potency of 500 Damage. Creates a large star shape Shuriken that has the physical strike that can also be combined with an explosion on impact. Hand sign Combination: Any one of the Ten, Chi, or Jin Hand signs.

Brex turns his head and surveys the area, when it was confirmed that the immediate area was now clear of any hostile targets the Roegadyn takes a relaxed stance and looks over the remains of the two that he had just taken down, might he add, with much enthusiasm.

It had surprised him when the Ninjutsu, that was just employed, did not stop on the first spider and continued on until the second was struck. In the game, that was a single target move. This was yet another learning experience, The skills he had while playing before, had, indeed change in how they could be utilized.

It had been close to two and a half hours sense he had started this little clean up mission. Giving a small chuckle, Brex says, “Ha, Ha. This reminds me of those mini quests that would pop up in areas outside the city. I wonder if there will be some kind of a reward at the end. *sigh* It would help a lot if I even knew what level these things were. The idea of facing off with something and not knowing its strength is somewhat annoying.”

Brex noticed that it was a little quiet and called to Rory using the mental chat function, “Rory, are you doing ok there, you have been rather silent for a while now, in fact, you have not said a thing ever sense I had taken out that number 12 a little way’s back.” Brex was starting to get rather concerned when there was nothing for a few seconds.

He called to her again, but this time with a bit more force, he had no idea how well this transmitted his thoughts but maybe he needed to add some extra force to it for her to hear him. “RORY MERCURY! This is an order, ANSWER ME!”

*Point of view: Rory*

Within Brex’s head, Rory was in a predicament. She could hear her masters voice, but Rory was having some trouble and couldn’t quite give a reply. As it turns out, the effects of killing in the immediate area where Rory the reaper was, did in fact had its original consequence’s. Within a room that she, herself had made in the inner most recesses of her master’s mind. Rory was currently laying on a mentally constructed bed.

There, riving in what could only be called both that of euphoric bliss and pure agony. A young woman laid on a large bed that was eerily identical to the lunar princesses to witch her master had been sleeping on for the last three days.

With her clothes still on, Rory was rolling left and right as her knees were being pulled into her chest. The girls’ arms were tucked in between her thighs, while the hands were pressing into her private place. Once every few seconds, she would change how she laid, first on the left side, then as another jolt of pleasure came, she would somehow roll to the right.

Rory had just, at that moment, whaled out an almost, feral moan and had thrown back her head. Her face was scrunched up as her eyes were closed and a line of tears ran from her eyes, those once pink colored lips had become purple. This meant that she was really worked up, normally the color only changed when she was about to kill. But it seemed that it also reacted to her while in this state.

The young woman was completely embarrassed with how she was reacting to her master killing all those creatures right In front of her. First it wasn’t all that hard to fight back. When they had killed the fourth, that’s when she had a bead of sweat roll down her neck.

When they had killed the tenth, that was the point, Rory focused and constructed a room, just in case she needed an escape. She didn’t want her master to see how lewd she had been becoming. It was a good idea, for when her master had slayed number 12. Rory had then retreated into the safe room.

Now it was the time that the dubbed number 24 and 25 had been slain. At this point Rory was crying and moaning at full force. She was losing her mind with all the building pleasure. She had feared that she would go after master, even to say and do something that would cause him to dislike her.

As a result of wanting to keep herself in check, Rory had used whatever concentration remaining and created thick black straps that started from under the bed. She didn’t know what to do with what she could muster, so anything complicated was out of the question.

One could count maybe a dozen of the black straps coming out from the bed and they were leading straight to Rory. Three were coming from the foot of the bed, while four came from both of the sides. While a single was from under the headboard.

The straps were pulled tightly, hardly giving any slack. Rory’s body was basically wrapped up in a half hazard mummified state, there was hardly enough of the straps to cover her, but this just gave it the appeal of a woman that had been caught in a villain’s trap.

The one strap however, that happened to be the one that had come out from under the headboard had been used in an oddly specific manor. With her long raven black hair leading out from underneath the strap, it was wrapped around her neck, but it didn’t stop there. It was also continuing up as it covered nearly all of her head, aside from the very narrow gaps as to let her breathe. Even as a mental consciousness, the need to take in a breath was still present.

The strap that was around Rory’s head seemed to have three uses, the first being to restrain her head as to prevent thrashing about. The second was to keep the young woman from screaming out and muffle any sound that she had been making. The last seemed to be in an attempt to somehow cut off her senses and make the incoming sensations, as to make them become weaker.

Inside, Rory was franticly thinking this, “NO, ITS TOO MUCH. I MADE A HUGE MISTAKE! *MOANS AGAIN* WHY DID I HAVE TO DO THIS HEAD WRAP! GAWW! ALL IT’S DONE IS MAKE IT HARDER FOR ME, WHY DID CUTTING OFF MY SIGHT AND HEARING MAKE IT ALL FEEL SO MUCH STRONGER.”

It was then that Rory began attempting to get free by pulling and wiggling in place, the woman’s legs try as hard as possible to pull apart, but the straps had been made with the left-over mental willpower that Rory had before completely losing the ability to trust herself. Therefore, while in her current state of mind, Rory couldn’t release the self-imposed bonds.

Another muffled scream could just barely be heard before she thought, “GAAA! THESE RESTRAINTS ARE MENT TO PREVENT ME FROM ATTACKING MASTER! BUT THEY ARE ALSO MAKING ME HOTTER AND MORE BOTHERED, I DON’T UNDERSTAND. PLEASE MASTER, I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO, THIS IS ALL NEW TO ME!”

It was then that she could have sworn that her master was calling. After a few seconds passed, she could hear him again, but this time it was louder. Finally, the masters voice reached her in a booming volume, this was so loud that if she hadn’t had her ears all wrapped up, they could have suffered some damage.

Rory’s nerves were on overdrive from the powerful aphrodisiac effects from sensing the killings, but is unable to push her over the edge. However, when her master called out with, “RORY MERCURY! This is an order, ANSWER ME!” It was sent to her with such strength that it caused Rory’s body to be sent over the edge, she convulsed, as if she were a wild beast that wanted out of its cage.

Finally, she had been sent beyond and broke past that unknown wall. This also caused the bindings to break under the sudden surge of strength she had given off and they were practically shredded as the woman’s limbs pulled on them harder than ever. The pieces were then sent flying off the bed as if they were sets of tightly wrapped rubber bands that had been cut.

Now free from her unintentional prison, Rory lays there with her arms and legs spread as to have the woman presented in a spread eagle pose while laying on her back. A heavy amount of sweat was running off her body and staining the mentally constructed bed. Along with other bodily fluids.

Her face was flushed red. Breathing was sharp and fast, this was made painfully apparent with how this made her small chest pump up and down in rapid succession. Gulping air and still panting, Rory takes a moment to gather any kind of semblance of will power to answer her master with as much grace as she could.

She then said, with a shaky, subdued tone that was filled with a heavy dose of embarrassment, “I-I-I’m H-Here master… I J-Just had to, Uh… “She then had her eyes dart left to right, as to try and come up with some sort of response that would convince him. But try as she might, Rory just couldn’t bring herself to lie to her master.

She then continued with, “Master, I just had to, take care of something that I had noticed that had to do with my new self, that’s all. Because of that, I wasn’t able to ear you. I’m so sorry that this happened.”
It was then that she felt as if she was going to just die on the spot from what she told master. It wasn’t a lie, just not all of it. She then promised herself that later on, she would come clean with all of it. But as for right now, she didn’t think it would be a very good idea.

Brex answered with a, “Ooookay~ I’m fine with that, I don’t want anything bad to happen to you. Just make sure to let me know if anything is wrong. I don’t want to be left in the dark if you’re in pain when I could help.”
When her master said that, Rory’s state went from a kid that was on the verge of crying due to them being caught while in the act of doing something bad, to that of her, actually crying silent tears of happiness that her master cares for her. Then saying in a low whisper, “Oh I really, really want you to help. But, that’s the problem.”

While thinking on that, Rory was reminded of the moment, master called out to her and how she felt when that happened. All that time while on the edge, Rory couldn’t bring herself to go all the way. It was only the powerful might of her master’s voice that had pushed her past that almost impregnable barrier. This sent Rory to nearly faint from a surge of arousal again.

With a steely gaze up at the ceiling, she then says to herself, “I really need to talk to him about this soon, otherwise I may just loose it for real. But not until I recover... Huff, wow, I wonder if other girls do this sort of thing. I think I discovered that I’m a kinky, horny girl.”

*Point of view: Brex Mith*

Outside in the real world, Brex said, “Ooookay~ I’m fine with that, I don’t want anything bad to happen to you. Just make sure to let me know if anything is wrong. I don’t want to be left in the dark if you’re in pain when I could help.” He was not too sure on how to answer that but he had hoped what he had just said would do the trick.

Brex was a little confused by Rory’s reply and awkwardly looked around in embarrassment. He wasn’t sure just what the problem was but it felt as if he intruded on something, personal.

Being, completely left in the dark as to the girl inside his head’s dilemma, Brex continues on with his current objective. Thinking, “ok, that was number 25, that leaves just one more spider. I’m glad that these are nothing like that first one back up there near Princess Luna’s bed chamber.”

This was very true, when Brex had left the safe zone. He was concerned as to how difficult this undertaking would be, also the amount of time it would take to clear them all out. To his surprise, the 26 others present within and around the castle where of a whole different type. In fact, these seemed to be carbon copies of spiders that he had many run-ins with in the game world.

(This is what the spiders looked like.)

Brex began to think back on before. During the time that he was trying out his skills, he had noticed that he couldn’t see the name or level of something he had been forced to fight. Normally in the game, he could get that information and this helped him in making the decisions on whether it was something he could go after or just avoid.

With many failed attempts, He had given up on getting access to the options menu. Within this window, Brex had wanted to see if he could turn on or off some settings. For example, the one he wanted to turn back on was what he had just been thinking about.

Like with the Timber Wolfs, Hydra, Star Spider and these other types of spiders that had been dying at his hands for the course of a few hours. It was eating him up inside, not knowing what level they were, this was really messing with him trying to comprehend just how strong his level 35 status really was in this world. For all he knew, everything was small fry.

As he was about to move on, a window screen popped into existence. This startled Brex because at that moment he wasn’t trying to open it. Unlike before when he first arrived and nearly gave himself a migraine while trying to do so.

With a confused expression, Brex asks with his mind, “So Rory, mind telling me if what happened during the last three days could have changed how my menu options are now accessible to me after all this time?”

Taking a moment to ponder this, Rory says in a nonchalant manor, “I guess it has to do with how you’re healing. I had a quick look and noticed that your data was badly damaged, maybe even before the time I came into existence during that fight.”

This only served to make the Roegadyn confused even further. He then spoke in an unsure tone, “just what do you mean my data was damaged before the fight. Here I was under the impression that everything that was wrong with me, was a result of running into that thing the other night.”

Rory then changed her tone to that of genuine concern, “didn’t you know that something was wrong before? I mean, you didn’t remember much prior to arriving to this world from what I had been able to see.” Then her voice got very low, “not to mention how your dream scape was so empty…”

Brex replied with, “huh, what was that last bit, I didn’t hear you very well?” He then began to scratch at the back of his neck, this was the area where he had that glass breaking sound occur back during the fight.

Lowering his hand, Brex gives himself a light head shake and returns his attention to the newly opened screen before him. “Now. Let’s see, hmm. Seems to have a lot missing. I guess that’s to be expected, a lot of it would have to do with what happened in the computer.”

After some fumbling, Brex finally finds what he had been searching for. “AH HA! There you are my little devil.” He was a little too happy and made what he had just said to sound a bit too seductive.

Inside his head, Rory folded her arms and gave an adorable pout before saying to herself, “I wish he would call me his little devil, Hehe. He could call me a lot of things…” This sent Rory into another one of her imaginary worlds for a few seconds, then she snapped out of it as to not miss what her master was doing.

With a few mental commands, he declared out loud, “Aaand! There we go, all set. Now let’s see just what that corpse has to say about itself.” Looking around, Brex noticed that the corpse in question, was no longer around. He then thought, oh right, the bodies normally disappear after a while. But wait, the other stuff didn’t. Where these last 25 different in some way?

He gave it more time, then the idea struck him. Everything that he had taken out, they were from this world. None of them just vanished, the Timber wolfs, he had basically cooked them to ash. As for the Hydra, now that one he had delivered the final blow to what he considered the brain, er, brains. The Star spider, now he wasn’t all that sure, but from the explanation he had gotten from Rory, that one bled to death.

With a defeated sigh, Brex’s shoulders sag. He then said, “well, we got one more target to play search and destroy with, that will give me the change to see if this menu option really did work.

Looking towards the mini map, Brex couldn’t see any signs of the last target. He says, “I don’t see it, I wonder if it left the castle or maybe the count was off. No, that can’t be, I doubt that it just up and left, there was so many of the others here. Also, Rory wouldn’t make the mistake of miss counting. I’ll just have to wonder around the ground until I spot something.”

Inside Brex’s mind, Rory was beside herself with a flushed face that was currently being covered by a pair of hands, she then said in a small ecstatic tone, “OH master! To hear you praise me in such a way and with how much trust you have… Tehe~ “

Brex turns to the castle from within the middle of the courtyard. Looking from the left side of the structure, then scanning it till his eyes landed on the other end. Taking in a deep breath, the Roegadyn dashes towards the castle and into one of the buildings by jumping into a large hole that was so graciously made by the lunar princess.

Oddly to Brex, the idea of Princess Luna busting through walls had made an image of a large, red creature appear in his head. Then the following words would be said in a larger-than-life way, “OOOH YEAAAH!!”

*Point of view: Shadow Lily*
*Location: Castle of the two sisters*
*Time: 11 in the morning.

Just outside the perimeter of the old castle stood three figures. One stallion and two mare’s. this small group had been traveling sense day break and marched nearly nonstop through the Everfree forest just to get to this location.

From what her friend had told her, they got the assignment to look into the old castle and see if there had been any signs of creatures coming and going, also to check if any looters have gone inside in hopes for a quick bit or two.

Shadow Lily did happen to notice the uneasiness of Swirl Sugar. This had been going on for the last two days while they had leave from duties thanks to the incident with the hydra. Now that she was thinking on it yet again, even to this day, she had been racking her brains as to figure out just what had happened. What creature of the Everfree, could have been capable to take out a behemoth like that?

Shaking her head, Shadow Lily looks back to Swirl Sugar. This brought back the earlier thoughts. The way she looked confused as they got the assignment, or was it something to do with Break Down.

Now that she considered this, Swirl Sugar was acting more out of character when we were in the barracks office, there was another stallion there that she had not met before that wore a uniform that had many metals. This stallion was talking to Break Down just as the two of them entered.

Shadow Lily had only been out of boot camp for a month now and after all that time, the only group she has been assigned too was this one right now. Furthermore, all they had done was patrol the area that was only half the distance that they just marched this day.

While on those thoughts, Swirl Sugar nudges Shadow lily with her left elbow. As soon as she turned to face the mare, Swirl Sugar talked in a hushed tone, “I don’t like this Shadow. Everything feels way off. Why was the first thing we got, right out of medical leave, was to go even deeper to the castle. We don’t send anymore guards here.”

This sparked an old memory inside Shadow Lily’s mind from back when she had just gotten out of boot camp nearly a month ago. There was a story about a guard mare going missing while on a patrol near the castle. Back then Shadow Lily just chocked it up to old Mare’s tales.

However, now that She was at this moment, right outside of the old castle, she was getting the figurative goose bumps. She then spoke to Swirl Sugar in the same tone while keeping an eye on Break Down, “It’s a bit scary here when there is no one else around. I do hope that story of some Mare of shadows isn’t real.”

Of course, this was a tale about Nightmare Moon, but to Shadow Lily, this was not widely known all that well. So, the title Mare of Shadows was used in place of Celestia’s sister in those kid stories told by her departed parents.

As Shadow Lily was busy with her thoughts, Break Down leads them to the bridge and stops just short. Turning he says, “Finally, we arrived. This heat is just not doing any wonders for my mane!” all the while, sounding as if he was going to just turn back and get his mane stylist to fix what had been ruined.

The two mare’s turned towards one another, then exchanged an expression that just screamed, “STALLIONS!” This was then joined with the two of them rolling their eyes.

Shadow Lily just couldn’t get her head to wrap around the idea that the stallions are in the royal guards. It was said that long ago they were considered to be strong, but now. They just seemed more into keeping themselves clean and looking good. Oh, and let’s not forget how they can get so full on themselves. Just because they are in the minority and that made them desirable, with the mare’s outnumbering them by five to one.

She had heard from Swirl Sugar that the stallion population was in a decline for the last 200 years. No one knows why, but back then, the ratio was around, mare’s being three to every one stallion. If this keeps up who knows what it could turn out in the next thousand years.

It was at that moment that she noticed Break Down, who was just calming himself from some kind of mane emergency. Letting out an internal groaning sound, then thinks, “Isn’t there a stallion out there that isn’t a pompous ass. Let there be just one that can actually fight and isn’t upset about getting a little dirty. Geez! I would settle with one that didn’t yip all the time. A… nice silent type… *SIGH* A mare can dream, can’t they?”

Break Down called out to them, in an overly dramatic way, “Here we are, the old castle. The orders are to go in there and search this place from top to bottom. We are not to come back until, each and every room is checked thoroughly.

This made the two mare’s cringe at the idea that they would have to put up with this idiot for so long. A normal patrolling day would be a six-hour shift, as it was now, they had already been with this stallion for nearly that long at this point. If it was any other, the two would be ecstatic to have this much time with one, but in this situation, the feeling was the reverse.

The commander Break Down calls out, “Ok we are going to split up and head to both, the tower and the basement, this will make this assignment go quicker. Swirl Sugar, aside from myself, you can handle a fight. As for Shadow Lily, being the only one without real combat that wasn’t inside a practice ring, I’ll take her along with me and head to the basement.”

Shadow Lily was upset at that very moment for two things. First was the jab about not being able to fight. As for the second, it had to do with the fact that she would have to be alone with this idiot. The very being that had been trying to make each and every day into a living Tartarus.

Swirl Sugar quickly noticed what was going on and interrupted Break Down and said, “Sir, that will not be advisable. Regulations state that when splitting up, the sets of ponies must have a balance between them. I will partner up with Shadow lily to do this. I have heard that sir, has had a flawless record in the ring, thus is most suited for solo activities when splitting up is the only option.”

It was obvious to Shadow Lily that Swirl Sugar was trying to play on the stallion’s vanity so she wouldn’t have to be with him. However, she also knew that Break Down, with his overbearing attitude would never alo-.” It was right then that Break Down said, “I see your point, very well. Let’s get this over with, I’ll head for the tower in the nearest structure, you two start by going over to the far end and we shall meet in the throne room at the center of the castle.”

This had caused both mare’s to look at Break Down with shock plastered all over their faces as they watched the stallion turn and begin walking over the bridge that led to the castle. Due to this unexpected reply, Shadow Lily and Swirl Sugar were standing with their jaws hanging low and asked each other with looks alone, “what just happened?”

*Point of view: Unknown, Daddy”
*Location: Unknown*

With an exasperated sigh, there was the sound of tapping that rang across the sea of gold water. In this environment there was the being of mist that appeared to be made of white and gold particles. Unlike before where it was simply floating near a table, it was instead sitting on an office chair. If one were to be paying attention, they would think that, this mist was leaning over in a dejected manner.

When following the sound of the tapping it did not come from this being, but instead came from a second being of mist, one made of light blue and purple. The second being in question was at that very moment sitting in front of a large table.

What made this scene rather strange to look at was that at the fact the second missed did not have arms as to which to use on said table, but it did appear as if it was using it like a large keyboard. All the while letting out a grunt of annoyance every few seconds.

Finally, after much time had passed, along with a very, very extended lecture. The second being lets out another frustrated cry then the chair spins and stops to face the first being who was previously given the identity of DADDY.

The white and gold mist, now being called daddy. Straightens up in his seat and leans back into it as if to try and gain some distance. He then says, “I said I’m sorry. I just wanted to feel like I was making a difference. I happen to like that world and I wanted to give it some help, you can’t blame an old man. Come on, can’t my little moon give her daddy a break?”

The mist made of light blue and purple, now identified as little moon, replied with, “Don’t you little moon me. Do you have any idea how much trouble you could be in for this? There is a reason why there are rules in place. Just because you feel a little bored, doesn’t it mean that you get to go around and mess with events that you’re not supposed too anymore.”

This caused the one known as daddy to slump in his chair once again. But now there was a small audible sound, that could have been mistaken for crying. He then said, “I just wanted to be useful again.”

Little moon lets out a small sigh, then says, “Ok I get it already. It must be hard with your job being done and you basically having nothing to do and all. But still, to go all the way to earth and have one of their residence’s be shipped off to this Equestria. I happen to know what’s happening there as well, considering…”

Daddy sits up in his chair and leans towards little moon. Well, that’s what it looked like when the mass shifts itself around. He then says, “Yeah… I do know about that incident. But he can help with that too.”

Little moon responds with a questioning tone, “What do you mean by that, don’t tell me you planned for *GASP*… oh… DADDY! THANK YOU, THANK YOU THANK YOU.” She then gives the equivalent to a swat to the daddy’s shoulder, but to anyone else, it looked as if the darker mist life form just shot a lightning bolt at the lighter colored one then continued with, “You should have told me before.

The top area of little moon leans in a number of directions then whispers, “I would have lent a hand with everything. Now, tell me from the beginning. From what you and this merchant talked about and what happened exactly. Leave not even a microbe of detail out.”

Daddy lets out a nervous gulp and thinks to himself, “Aaand~ this is why I didn’t want this one to know about what I was doing… *Sigh*