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Chapter 9: The story of how we began
Dream and Pinkie Pie both come back home after searching for Azazelists or any other Samuelnists. They were fully aware of course, that Rarity and Applejack were Samuelnists but it was too dangerous to confront them, not yet at least. So far they found no Azazelists or Samuelnists in the town. When they entered through the door Dream gave off a relaxing sigh and set down his cello that was strapped to his back like a saddle bag.
He notices Spike cleaning around the house. "Hello Spike I see you're cleaning the house, how come?" Dream asks, giving the purple dragon a smile. "Oh hey you two, I'm just bored really. So the only thing I can think of was to clean the house while you all were gone." Spike says as he cleans the bookshelf with a duster. "Well today is not the day to be bored Spike, because today we are going to make gem cupcakes just for your hard work around the house!" Pinkie says trotting towards the kitchen with a smile on her face.
"Really! That's awesome! Thanks Pinkie Pie." Spike says smiling at the pink party mare. Dream only smiles softly and walks towards a door that had a plaque saying, 'Music to my ears'. Dream opens the door and slowly trotted in to the room that had only music sheet paintings on the walls.
"I'm back with some company!" Dream heard Magic's voice. 'Company…what does he means about company?' Dream thought, becoming confused. Leaving his empty music painted room Dream saw Rainbow Dash and Magic talking to Spike and Pinkie Pie. "Magic who is this?" Dream asks walking over to them. "Rainbow Dash, remember Dream?" Magic asks smiling at Dream who had a suspicious look on his face as he looks at Rainbow Dash.
Magic could already tell Dream had trouble trusting Dash since she was under contract with Erebos before. It was hard getting Dream to trust someone that used to be under something bad or is just bad in general. Pinkie took a while for him to trust since the Shinnock incident. "I know that Magic but what I want to know is why is she here?" Dream asks Magic, not letting his glare off of Dash who quickly became uncomfortable by his stare towards her.
Dream had never slept which caused him to have bags under his eyes. "Dream don't worry, Dash isn't bad. She wasn't bad to begin with. Give her a chance like you gave Pinkie." Magic said getting in front of his musician friend and giving him a friendly knugge. Dream struggled to get out and in few seconds succeed.
He glares at Magic and looks at Dash still not trusting her. Magic makes a fill coffee mug appear and offers it to Dream using it to persuade him. After Magic offers Dream the cup of coffee Dream looks at Magic and the cup, then at Magic again, then at the cup then looks at Magic. "…No." He said and Magic tosses the cup of coffee away and says to Dash, "I tried." As he gave up Magic looks at Dream frowning.
"Now Dream did someone almost fall asleep?" Magic asks his insomnia friend. Dream glares at Magic again not saying anything. "Dream almost fell asleep on our patrol but, quickly woke his-self up panicking about something about-" "KEEP THAT TO YOURSELF PINKIE! NO PONY NEEDS TO KNOW MY PROBLEMS!" *Strife suddenly breaks through the window and covers Dream's mouth making his voice muffled*
"Strife good buddy how are you?" Magic greets Strife with a smile. Strife rolls his eyes still keeping Dream's vulgar words in sustain. "Well, Fluttershy's here also so you know." Strife said to Magic. Magic and the others adverted there attention to Fluttershy who just entered into the house. "Hi guys." Fluttershy greeted them.
"Hi." Magic says to Fluttershy, frantically waving his hoof. Dream begins to calm down from his ranting and signals Strife that he is okay. Strife uncovers Dream's mouth with his hoof and backs away. "*Clearing his voice* Thank you Strife that was a good save there my dear friend." Dream says to Strife who only shrugged.
Spike walks towards the group and says, "How did you know Dream was going to yell?" He asks Strife. "Spike…Magic, Dream, and I have been by each other's side for so damn long it's easy to know what's going to happen to one of us, such as Magic's day dreaming; things just come out of nowhere randomly. Dream, well Magic and I already know the solution to prevent his outbursts which is either coffee or me covering his mouth and finally for me, well, there's simply nothing that can stop me from being me." Strife said to Spike.
"It's true once a snarker always snarker." Magic says after he began drinking a beverage that he made appear into his left hoof. "Shut up 'Sir. Let's get us both killed by charging into a nest full of Manticores like a fool while screaming 'Leeroy Jenkins.'' Now you never told me who this 'Leeroy' was to begin with." Strife said glaring at Magic who only laughs at him. "No I haven't and I don't think I ever will." Magic says earning a frustrating sigh from Strife.
"You three know each other a lot." Rainbow Dash says chuckling at Strife's annoyed reactions to Magic's ways of having fun. Dream looks at Dash causing her to focus on him, becoming nervous. "Dash since I am calm now, wait for a minute please, I require something important." Dream stops for a second and signals Magic to give him something.
The blond haired Pegasus nods and makes a cup of coffee appears in front of Dream's face. He grabs it and takes a sip of it. Giving off a sigh of relaxation he turns to Dash and continues "Alright Dash, I'll let you slide for now but if you even show any sign of betrayal towards us I will chop those wings off and then slit your throat, do I make myself clear?" Dream says to Dash shocking her, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Spike.
"Gee that's such a great way to make somepony feel welcome." Magic says with an incredible amount of sarcasm in his voice while still smiling, Dream just ignores him. "Do I make myself clear dear?" Dream said not letting his glare slip off of Dash. Dash nodded and said, "You don't have to worry about me betraying any pony here. I bare the element of loyalty after all." Dash gives Dream a trustworthy smirk.
Dream smirks back and says, "Good, I'm glad we are on the same page here." Dream then takes another sip of his coffee. The others sigh in relief, glad that Dash was accepted by Dream as a Paradise member. "Hey Fluttershy, are you part of Paradise also?" Spike asks. "Oh no, I'm not, mother said I shouldn't join since it could put my life in huge danger." Fluttershy said to Spike confusing everyone except Strife.
"Don't tell me you guys forgot. Well you weren't here for this Dash but still, she's talking about Nocta Deae, remember?" Strife says becoming annoyed that the others forgot about Fluttershy. "N-Nocta Deae, the goddess of the night?" Dash asks looking at Fluttershy shocked. "Um yes that's her." Fluttershy says looking down nervous, hoping that she hadn't done anything wrong.
"Oh yeah, now I remember, sorry." Magic says to Strife smiling. Strife only facehoofs his self and says, "Damn it, does any pony listen me at all in here?" Magic, Pinkie, Dream, and Dash all laugh at Strife's anger. His left eye twitches out of annoyance. Strife decides to drop it and sigh, relaxing him.
Spike was curious now; he wanted to know how Strife can deal with all of that like it was nothing. Usually he would get angry and stay in his room but right now at this moment he isn't becoming angry. He's just calm.
He began to wonder how Magic and Dream can act like this towards one another as well. "Hey guys?" Spike spoke up getting everyone's attention. "Yeah what is it Spike?" Pinkie asks the purple dragon. "How did you guys meet?" Spike asks. This question had Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie interested in knowing. They were never told from either of them on how they met. Magic smiles and was about to speak but then heard the sound of a sword being unsheathed.
He smiles at Dream whose eyes began to glow red with him having his sword touching Magic's throat. "I'm going to tell them Magic." Dream said in a demonic voice causing everyone to gulp as the insomniac colt's grin. Magic smiles then says, "And what? Bore them to death? Mines much better, it involves a cupcake fighting a waffle!" Strife looks at Magic and then suddenly says "Oh No! Not that that story again! Dream, hurry up and start telling it so I don't have to listen to that again!" Dream instantly becomes calm.
"Now gather around everypony and dragon, that's you Spike. Today is story time from uncle Dream Phobic." The musician colt says as he began to slowly play his Cello with his sword perfectly, not cutting the strings. "That's cool." Rainbow Dash and Spike both said at the same time, amazed at Dream's musical skill. He was playing a soothing symphony that made the mood very calm and slow. "Now I will start with Magic and I on the day we both met." Dream says giving the others a smile. "Ah that's right, I was a mercenary back then nicknamed 'Mortium Solos'. It means 'Death's Solo' since I performed music by myself. Now where should I start off? Oh that's right, it all started when I was hired to retrieve a book for some colt…"
Before Paradise was ever formed, Dream was slowly walking down a dirt road.
Dream was by himself. He was whistling a soft song while he was walking down a dirt road with trees surrounding it on both the left side and right side. He was walking at a calm pace and wasn't in a rush. "Hmm now if I was a group of Azazelists where would I be hiding?" Dream asks himself, scanning left and right for any Azazelists. Dream gave off an exhausting sigh and said, "Look at yourself Dream. You're on a goose hunt for a book guarded by Celestia-only-knows-how-many-Azazelists."
Dream's ears perk up when he suddenly heard chanting in the distance, to his left in the forest. "Well then Dream…looks like you're in luck." Dream says to himself as he smiles and began to trace the chanting. Dream was getting closer to the source that was chanting some kind of unusual language. Dream stops and hides behind a tree, he then peeks from the side of it and spotted the source of the chanting.
"This chanting, it's coming from Azazelists." Dream mutters under his breath seeing a ritual taking place. A dead pony was skinned and laid upon a large pentagram circle with a triangle in the center. Along with three lines connected to the triangle and spread out horizontal.
There were about twelve Azazelists dressed in black hooded cloaks chanting around the circle. In the center was an Azazelist holding a book. It was the book Dream had to retrieve but he was wondering how. Looking around for any source to help him with Dream found none. He sighs in defeat and then says, "Well Dream…guess this is the only option left, let's just get this over with."
Dream walks out of his hiding spot and stops due to the Azazelists stopping their ceremony and readying their weapons towards him. Dream lifts an eyebrow and says, "Are you all raising blades towards me?" The Azazelists say nothing. Each ready to attack the intruder to their ritual, Dream looks towards the pony holding the book. "That book, I came to take it." Dream said calmly. "This book of lord Azazel shall not be tainted by a degenerate such as you. You ruined our ritual. Fools who ruin the ritual of Phobus shall be skinned alive." The book holder said. Dream sighs and pulls off his Cello.
Dream looks at all the Azazelists and smirks. "Now…let's dance under Luna's moonlight shall we?" He says as the Azazelists all come at him weapons ready. Dream's smirk turns into a menacing grin and in an instant, his sword was drawn; blocking all their swords at the same time and with a tough push knocked them back. He tosses his Cello all the way up into the air and runs towards a stunned Azazelist. With a swift movement of his blade, blood gushes into the air as the pony's head flew and fell down.
Dream shifts his blade to the side and the blood on the blade was splattered onto the ground. The blade glistening radiantly as it reflected the moonlight. Dream began to run in a zig zag pattern slashing each Azazelists member in his way while sheathing and unsheathing his sword after each strike. He was beginning to run towards the one holding the book. This Azazelist was a unicorn who spotted Dream running towards him.
The Azazelist used ice magic and shot an ice shuriken the size of a windmill. Dream swings his blade and slices it in half, still galloping towards the Azazelist. Three Azazelists got in his way and tried to stop him by swinging their swords at him. Dream leaped over them and did a 360 degree horizontal slash midair before landing next to the Azazelist book holder who had his horn cut in seconds. Dream had his sword on his left hoof and quickly swung it at the Azazelist book holder. The wind began to blow as the trees began to bristle due to the wind. Dream's cello was falling all the way to the ground but, was caught by Dream.
He straps it around his back and tosses the blood away to ground with another swing of his blade. Dream looks at the edges of his sword for a few seconds and smiles. "Not a single mark of blood, plus it's still sharp." Dream said beginning to chuckle. Turning around he notices five remaining Azazelists that survived his Iaido attacks. "Now, now you all should stay dead."
Dream says seeing the Azazelists preparing to attack again. Dream unstraps his Cello and begins playing it with his sword. "Do you all want to know how my sword stays so sharp?" Dream asks while playing a nice soft, soothing song. The Azazelists began to all run towards him. "These strings are special thread I made out of dragon scales; they sharpen my blade without being cut apart. Not only that…" Dream makes a sharp pitch in his Cello as the Azazelists all attack at the same time.
The sound of a sword slicing through air echoed in the forest. Five dead ponies lay around Dream who was not harmed nor had any spec of blood on him. His sword had no trace of blood on it. Dream sighs and says, "It also makes my blade able to slice through bone like it was just, a piece of cake." Dream puts his sword away into his Cello's hidden slot and straps the instrument onto his back.
Picking up the book, Dream puts it in his saddle bag and looks at the skinned corpse of a pony. "Rest your soul." Dream says beginning to walk away but he suddenly stops and curses under his breath as he quickly turns around and sees a huge fire ball coming straight at him. Dream shuts his eyes preparing to face his upcoming death. But, all he heard was the sound of splashing water.
Opening his eyes slowly, Dream gasps seeing Magic standing in front of him. Puddles of water lied everywhere, Magic turns around smiling at Dream and says, "That was a close one." Dream was confused but, suddenly his confusion vanished after he saw the last surviving Azazelist that launched that fire ball at him charging another spell attack.
Dream unsheathes his sword and yells at the Azazelist saying, "YOU DARE ATTACK SOMEPONY WHO ISN'T YOUR ENEMY!" Dream appears behind the Azazelist with his sword by his side. This startles the Azazelist but before he could even react to anything he felt his throat clog up. Blood was clogging his throat and then abruptly burst out his mouth as his throat was cut apart.
As the last enemy fell Dream sighs and sees a thin layer of blood dripping from his sword. Dream sheaths his sword back into his hidden slot of his Cello and calmly smiles towards Magic. "Thank you mister…?" Dream offer a hoof shake. "Magic Junk's my name!" Magic smiles but, instead of shaking his hoof he did a brohoof.
Dream looks at the pink eyed, blond maned Pegasus, curious about the unusual hoof shake he's gotten from Magic. Dream shrug that thought off and then looks at Magic saying, "How did you stop that fire ball and how did you know I was in danger?" Dream asks.
Magic with his cheerful smile sat down and says, "Well you see, I was sleeping on a cloud but woke up after hearing the commotion down on the surface. So flying down to see what was going on I saw you destroying all these colts and when you let your guard down the last colt shot a fire ball at you. I saw that you were not going to be able to stop it or even dodge it so I came in front of the fire ball and put it out with water." Magic said pointing at the puddles of water scattered around.
"I see, well thank you again for saving me Sir. Magic my name is Dream…Dream Phobic." Dream said as he straps his Cello onto his back and puts the book into his saddle bag. "Wait…how did you put that fire ball out Sir. Magic?" Dream looks at him surprised. Magic chuckles and says, "Well if I tell you would you mind keeping a secret?" Magic asks Dream.
Dream nods ensuring Magic that his secret will be kept safe. "Essemancy, or as it's also known, Reality Warping." Magic said, confusing Dream. "You see I can control reality whenever I want…well…I'm still learning how to use it as we speak but you got to make what's due." Magic says shrugging his shoulders again. "So if you want to summon a cup of coffee just by thinking of it, it appears?" Dream asks, interested in Magic's power.
The Pegasus nods his head still smiling. "How about you, I never seen an earth pony like you move that fast, and hold his sword while also playing a Cello like that before?" Magic asks holding Dream's Cello while floating upside down.
Dream gasps, "Hey give that back! My Cello should not be held like that!" He says as Magic laughs a little and hands Dream his Cello back. The deadly musician snatches it and straps it around his back. "Now to answer your question I am a master of Iaido. I can move fast, slice like the air, and clean my blade just by swatting it to the side, leaving not one speck of blood on it. Plus my blade stays sharp and well-formed thanks to my Cello strings made from dragon scales."
Dream says smiling with his head up in pride. "So you're a musician also, how cool is that." Magic says summoning a violin into his hooves. Dream chuckles at his power usage and says, "Magic how would you like to come with me so I can turn in this book to my client?" Magic made the violin reform into a pink cotton candy cone. "Sure, I wouldn't mind coming with you, I wasn't doing anything away."
Magic then eats the cotton candy whole and burps a little. "Excuse me." He said showing his manners. "Wonderful, now let's not waste any more time shall we." Dream says walking ahead. "Okay, so where are we heading again?" Magic asks flying next to Dream. "We are heading towards a bar my client owns." Dream says looking at Magic.
Magic notices dark marks under Dream's eyes and begins to wonder if Dream had slept recently. Magic decides to ask Dream, "Hey Dream, have you got any sleep lately?" Magic asks. "No, I do not sleep. I stay up because sleeping leaves you defenseless and open for the enemy to attack. I cannot allow myself to fall asleep so I drink coffee to keep me awake." Dream said, he then stops and pulls out a coffee mug out his saddle bag and opens the lid.
He lifts it up to his mouth, but nothing comes out. Dream's eyes widen as he began to breathe fast in shock. "N-no more coffee…I ran out…no…no…no…no…NO!" Dream throws the coffee mug at Magic and begins to panic.
"Hey calm down dude. I'm sure you can get coffee at the bar." Magic says to Dream but, the musician glares at him and says, "Do you have any idea how far the place is! I'll past out before we get there and I don't want to past out Magic, NO! I want to stay awake! I need coffee! I NEED COFFEE AND I WANT IT NOW!" Dream becomes silent after a coffee cup already filled with coffee appears floating in front of his face.
He glances at Magic who smirks at him giving him showing that he used his power to summon coffee for him. "Thank you my friend that was very clever of you." Dream said then he grabs the coffee with both his hooves and drinks it. "So, should we head off to the bar?" Magic says having his right foreleg around Dream's neck. "Yes we shall." Dream says beginning to chuckle softly.
Soon after a few hours of traveling towards the bar
"We made it, sweet!" Magic yells bursting through the door. He earned weird stares from other ponies after this but he shrugged at the glances and waited for Dream to enter the bar. When Dream entered into the bar the two walked towards the counter and sat on the stall chair. "So did you retrieve the book?" A colt in a brown robe asks sitting next to Dream. "It depends; did you bring in the bag of 24,000 bits?" Dream asks.
"You don't trust your client Dream Phobic?" The colt asks in a venomous tone. "It depends sir…I would like to see my pay before I give my clients there items." Dream says in threatening tone glaring at the colt. Magic notices a few robed ponies enter into the bar blocking the entrance. 'De' hell is going on?' Magic thought. This wasn't looking right at all. The ponies that were chatting before stopped and got up looking at him and Dream. 'What…are they going to jump us?' Magic thought glancing left and right at each pony examining their movements and body signals for any source of threat.
"Hmph, do you have the book? Yes…or no?" The client asks. Dream notices the bartender sighing cleaning his glass mug. "Bartender do you have insurance on this place?" Dream asks glancing around at all the starring ponies. "No." The bartender said. Dream chuckles grabbing a bottle, he then looks at the bartender and says, "Sucks for you." With that said Dream smashes the glass mug onto the clients head causing some glass to be lodge onto his head.
Dream jumps on top of the counter, takes off his Cello, and pulls out the sword from its hidden slot. "My name is Dream Phobic…and I will be playing a beautiful symphony for you all. Magic can you take the lead please?" Dream looks at the white coated Pegasus smiling. Magic then smiles a full grin from ear to ear and says, "Don't mind if I do."
Dream began to play his Cello in a fast pace as the ponies headed towards the two. Magic summons buckets filled with water and had them shoot bullets made of water towards each pony that were heading towards both of them. A unicorn colt shot a lighting spell at Magic.
A sword suddenly blocks the spell attack startling Magic and Dream. More swords appear in the air attacking any pony that was going to attack Magic and Dream. "Magic, did you do that?" Dream looks at Magic shocked. The pink eyed pegasus shook his head no and was shocked.
A colt with a dagger in his mouth appears behind Dream about to attack him but, an axe interrupted that sneak attack as the colt was pin to the wall with the axe in his head. Dream leaps off the counter dodging two attacking ponies. He then dodges a pony's attack and impales them with his sword and smacks another pony back with his Cello.
Magic bucks a pony back into a table and turns around ducking a blade attack from a pony. "Holy crap that was close." He mutters under his breath as smacks the pony back with his wing. He summons a violin and uses it to block blade attacks from the hostile ponies. More swords appear attacking the hostile ponies.
"Where are these *Duking an attack* swords coming from?" Dream asks quickly taking out the attacking pony with another swing of his blade. "Don't *Ducks an attack* even *ducks another attack* know!*He ducks a flying anchor* Hey where the hell you get an anchor from!" Magic yells countering attacks and smacking each attacker back.
One hostile pony smashes a glass mug on his face. Magic's face becomes covered in glass but there were no cuts. The shards of glass vanish into small sizzling pink smoke. His face was perfectly normal. Magic shook his head 'no', grinning at the shocked colt. Magic then grabs the colts head with both his hooves and chocolate starts to pour out the colt's eyes, mouth, and nose. He falls down panicking at his current state leaving Magic to laugh at his antics.
Magic's laugh was cut off when the colt he made spew out chocolate was impaled by a sword from the ground. "Okay show yourself damn it!" Magic yells. "Oh crap!" Magic leaps over a pouncing hostile pony and bucks him in the face with his hind legs and then smacks his violin onto another pony's head knocking them out. "You should at least shut up and stop fooling around you know." The attacker that helped Magic and Dream said.
"Where's the fun in that?" Magic says smiling as both of them were back to back, looking around for the source of the voice. "These are assassins. Well picked by the client that you smashed with a bottle. These assassins also are Azazelists who were plotting a trap for the one with a Cello, but the pegasus with the unusual power screwed up their plans. They didn't expect the one with a Cello to have a partner."
The colt's voice belonged to none other then Strife. "Who are you?" Dream and Magic both say in unison. "My name's Little Strife." He says as his horn glows, Strife summons two swords around him and sends them flying into two Azazelist assassins pinning them into the wall. "Dream Phobic, musician and swordsmen as you can see." Dream introduces himself after he ducked a swinging sword attack from an Azazelist assassin and swiftly cut the pony.
Magic was hopping onto each head of the assassins while playing his violin. "Name's Magic Junk." Magic introduces himself also and smashes his violin onto an Azazelist's head, knocking them out. He then appears by Strife's side leaning on him giving the snarker a smug face then says, "So you were the one summoning those swords out of nowhere?"
Strife sighs shaking his head and looks at Magic then says, "Obvious…can't you even tell?" Strife looks at Magic with a annoyed look. Magic rubs his chin, thinking, and then says, "Nope, had no point in caring really." Strife lifts an eyebrow at Magic trying to comprehend what this pink eyed pegasus just said.
"BRING THIS WHOLE PLACE DOWN!" An Azazelist yells catching the two's attention. Dream see's most of the Azazelist that were unicorns use a fire spell and lit black powder that led into the walls. "Where did those fools get that powder from?" Dream yells shocked. Magic and Strife both look at each other and said at the same time, "Oh sh-" But, it was too late the bar blows up stopping them from finishing their sentence.
Magic, Strife, Dream, and the bartender/owner were surrounded by swords protecting them from the fire. "Well that was a close one, thanks for the save Strife." Dream says looking at Strife who only sighs in relief. Strife soon makes the swords disappear and sits on the ground exhausted.
"Damn fools blowing up my bar, now I'm homeless and broke!" The bartender complains franticly. "Oh, no reason to worry about that, I already got that fixed." Magic says to the bartender. The bartender glares at Magic and says in a disbelieving tone, "What do you mean by that?" Magic chuckles and points his hoof behind the bartender, the bartender turns around and gasps.
The bar was perfectly fixed and back to normal. "B-but how did you do that?" The bartender looks at Magic shocked. "That my good sir, is a secret…just joking with you I'm just awesome." Magic said beginning to laugh. Strife and Dream look at Magic shocked. "Have you seen him do this before?" Strife asks. "Mr. Strife, I've been with this colt for only a few hours…I wouldn't expect him to do that." Dream said in disbelief. The two were left in dumbfounded expressions.
"Hey you two realize we fought those Azazelist fouls together like a bad ass team." Magic says looking at the two beginning to smile. Dream and Strife decided to drop the subject of Magic's power for now. They look at each other and shrug. "He is right, I was excellent due to my close combat Iaido techniques, you did well in defense Strife, and Magic here was well…magical."
Dream says putting his sword away into his Cello. He straps it around his back and looks at the two. "Don't you think we should both work together?" He asks. "You make a point…even though I probably will regret partnering up with him." Strife says pointing his hoof at Magic who looks at him confused. "Geez you're such a moody pony." Magic said and beginning to chuckle.
"Whatever…so…is it set?" Strife asks Dream. "Magic would you like to be part of this group?" Dream asks. "No duh, of course. I was the one who mentioned it in the first place." Magic said to Dream happily. "Then it is official we are a team." Dream says offering his hoof and only to have it get brohoof by Magic and Strife. 'What kind of hoof shake is that?' Dream was left confused.
"Excuse me you three but, aren't you worried about the cult of Azazel going after you?" The bartender asks. "The Azazelists won't see us coming because we are 'Paradise'!" Magic began to mimic a boxer. "'Paradise'…what do you mean we are 'Paradise'?" Strife asks looking at Magic confused.
"Well I was thinking…how about we start an organization, like a mercenary company, but we hunt down evil cults like the Azazelists. We'll be helping a lot in Equestria." Magic said. "Hmm that doesn't sound bad, what do you think Strife?" Dream asks looking at Strife who only shrugs.
"Then it's settled once again we are 'Paradise'; the organization that will annihilate all the evil cults out there planning to do evil deeds and cause harm to innocents." Magic says smirking at the two. "You know what…that's catchy." Dream says smiling back at Magic.
"Whatever, as long as we get our mission done then I'm okay with it." Strife said looking at the sky. "Sweet, well then Paradise let's head on our mercenary, evil cult stomping, adventurous journey!" Magic says appearing between Dream and Strife wrapping his forelegs around their necks.
Present time at the Paradise H.Q./Home
"…And that's how we three met and formed Paradise." Dream says smiling at the others. "Brings a tear to my eye everytime." Magic says exaggeratingly wiping a tear that isn't there from his eye with a handkerchief. "Wow that was a cool story!" Dash said to Dream amazed at the events that occurred for Magic, Strife, and himself.
"Yeah, I liked the part where Magic used buckets of water as weapons!" Pinkie says with her usual hyperactive self, hopping up and down. "Sure it was dark; you all became a great team." Fluttershy said to Strife and Dream. Strife blushes at her comment and looks away. "Heh, it's the awesome thing we three can't forget. The time Paradise was made, was the time when we got into a bar fight with Azazelists." Magic said.
Dream looks out the window and see's the moon already up. "Wow, this story had lasted longer than expected, I forgot to practice my song." Dream said. "I don't know about you all but, I'm tired." Magic says trotting down the hall. "Oh yeah, Dash you should stay here in our H.Q. just in case. You never know, there may be Samuelnists out there that will probably try to, you know…assassinate you." Magic says turning towards Dash.
"Really, you sure that…you know Dream will, "Go ahead Ms. Dash I do not mind you staying here since you complemented on my story telling." Dream said interrupting Dash. "Thanks Dream, thanks a lot!" Dash says gently hitting his shoulder with her hoof and flies next to Magic. "We have a lot of rooms in this place so I'll lead the way and show you the rooms that you may want, and hey, maybe I'll get to tell you MY version of the story." Magic says to Dash as they walk down the hallway.
Strife looks at Magic and shutters. "I better get back home. Mother expects me back soon, bye Strife, I hope we get to spend a lot of time together again." Fluttershy said hugging Strife who hugged back hiding his blush. Soon Fluttershy leaves heading back to her cottage.
"Spike, do you mind if I make you the cupcakes tomorrow?" Pinkie asks Spike. "Sure I don't mind." Spike says smiling at the pink mare. Soon the others went to their rooms for the night leaving Dream alone in the living room. Soon he began to play his Cello in a nice peaceful symphony.
(Done with this, sorry for this late Chapter, but hey, a lot of things are in my way. Can you find out what I was referencing when I had Dream say his name? I hope you enjoyed this chapter; the next one is going to be nice! Thank you EpicAeromancer33 for editing, and thank you readers for well…READING! Now the FATHER of Time needs to Barrel roll and away!)