They awoke with a jolt as they hit the ground. Luke groaned and sat up. He looked around and saw that it was night. He took in his surroundings and saw that he was in a forest and a weird midnight blue lump on the ground beside him. "What the hell?"
Dameon sat up and looked towards Luke's rather loud voice. He was surprised, though, when he was a white scaly creature where Luke's voice came from. It also had blue lines running down it's face so it looked almost like it was scarred.
Now that the lump actually sat up Luke could see that it has fiery orange marks across it's body. Both Luke and the creature shot up, the creature pulled out a sword and pointed it at him. Luke made some quick motions with his hand and three ice spikes appeared around the creature in case it attacked. "Who are you?" They both called out at once.
It was then that they both heard chuckling. They looked towards the noise and saw both Purification and Zalgo laughing at them. "Dameon?" asked Luke, aiming the question to the creature beside him.
"Luke? God damn, you gave me a scare." said Dameon as he sheathed his sword.
"We might need to find shelter, more dangerous creatures always lurk in the night." said Purification.
They both looked around to see what they could do for shelter, Dameon could feel a fullness underground and he knew immediately that it was full of copper. He couldn't really describe the feeling of copper underground, but it felt more... dirty than other metals, as if it was covered in grime. "If you clear out the trees, I'll work on the house." said Dameon.
Luke nodded as he pointed his palm at a cluster of trees. He felt the moisture inside it and pulled it out to the bark, doing the motion of pulling something with his arm, and freezing it when it touched the bark causing the trees to shrivel up. He put his arm in front of him freezing the air in the shape of a blunt sword. He gripped the sword and rushed forwards slamming the sword into the frozen trees shattering them and only leaving behind small pieces of wood.
After Luke cleared out enough, Dameon called him back making sure he wasn't in the zone of the copper when he raised it out of the ground. He planted his feet firmly into the ground and raised his arms as if he was lifting something. Sweat beaded on his brow as he was trying to raise most of the metal. With a cry he pushed his arms above his head pulling the copper from the ground into the form of a two story house. It left him utterly exhausted, though.
Luke rushed forward and caught him before he fell. He carried him to the door, opened it, and went inside. Luke set him down carefully on the metal couch and looked around, there was a kitchen, a bathroom, (which he learned later went into a pit that went to the planet's core burning anything that went through the toilet) and the living room that he put Dameon in. He climbed up the stairs. Upstairs were four bedrooms, though they didn't have any mattresses. He walked back downstairs and carried Dameon up to one of the room upstairs and set on him on one of the beds. Luke went into the opposite room and lay down, thinking about what kind of world it would be, he didn't have any funny feelings so it was either bad or neutral. Then again, Old Man never did explain how to tell if a world was neutral. He continued to think about it before sleep claimed him.
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Dameon was awoken to the sound of birds chirping. He sat up and looked around. He was surprised, though, when he saw dozens of birds in the room. He looked over and saw that the window didn't have any panes of glass, so anything could just fly in, it it was small enough. He stood up and walked out of the room, but not before shooing away the birds.
He walked out of the room and right into Zalgo's ghostly form. Of course Dameon passed right through him, but it sent a few chills down his spine as Zalgo's dark thoughts transfused into his mind for the few seconds that he was inside of him. Despite being walked through, Zalgo's expression stayed the same, annoyed.
"Luke asked me to tell you that he was going to explore along with Purification, while we're supposed to train." said Zalgo.
Dameon groaned before asking "What are we going to do?"
"Well, I think you should learn how to make items with the shadows." Zalgo said, a gleam appeared in Dameon's eyes before the next part came out, "But you can only summon four things. One primary weapon and three things that could help you in a fight or outside of a fight."
Dameon asked, annoyed, "Why can't I summon secondary weapons?"
"Because you already have them. Your Ninjato and your gauntlet." explained Zalgo. Dameon sighed. "Now, what do you want to do first, one of your powers to help in a fight or outside a fight, or your primary weapon."
Dameon just realized something while Zalgo asked what he wanted to do first. "I know what I want to do." said Dameon, a feral grin spreading across his face.
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Luke slammed into the tree, thankfully his scales took most of the damage. "Damnit! I thought I dealt with my last lion-scorpion-bat thing!" shouted Luke, and sure enough a manticore roared at Luke. "You know, you're really pissing me off." said Luke, standing up. He raised his hand and formed a blunt blade again and slammed it across the manticores face before jumping backwards to avoid being hit by the claws. He examined the area around them and saw a scorpion tail swing towards his face.
The tail connected, thankfully the tip wasn't pointed at him and he only slide a few feet. The manticore swung again, this time Luke ducked underneath it and slammed his sword into it's gut. As the manticore bent over Luke brought the sword down on the back of it's head, knocking it out. It was then that he heard a voice, "I've never seen a creature so skilled, to take down one that kills."
Luke looked over towards the voice and saw a zebra standing there, looking intently at the manticore and him. "Excuse me, but can I help you?" asked Luke, voice sounding defensive.
The zebra asked, "What is a dragon, as young as you are, doing in this forest, but please discard that sword. I mean no harm."
Luke threw the sword against a tree and watched it shattered on impact before turning back to the zebra, "What's your name?"
"Zecora's my name, and brewing potions is my game."
"Hmm, catchy, Name's Luke." said Luke. His comment brought a smile to the zebra's face, er, muzzle. Then his eyes widened. "Duck!" he shouted as he formed another blunt sword and threw it towards Zecora. Zecora quickly ducked underneath the sword. It flew over her head and slammed into the manticore that sneaked behind her. The sword shattered and shards of ice went into it's face. It roared before rushing back into the foliage. Luke rushed over to Zecora and helped her up and said, "Sorry!"
"What are you sorry for? You saved my life, of course you better come before more manticores appear." said Zecora, walking into the foliage of the dense forest. Luke shrugged, having nothing to lose, and followed her.
Luke followed her to her little hut. He looked around and noticed masks around the hut. When he asked her about them, she just chuckled and explained that they were equal to welcome mats from what he heard about them. When he went inside, though, he looked around in awe at how spacious it was, and at all the potions that lined the walls. He even saw some books against one wall, all of the recipe books, or books on plants. "Can I look over some of the books on the plants here?" asked Luke.
"I see no harm. They'll help you like a charm." said Zecora. Luke strode over to the bookshelf and pulled out one of the books. He skimmed through it, noting the descriptions of poisonous plants and the ones that are edible. Of course, he didn't need this knowledge, but it would help if he acted like he could die. After reading through the book, he put it back where it was before, and asked Zecora where the nearest town would be.
"Ah the town of Ponyville is near, though you must veer away from the cockatrice. A single look into it's eyes would be unwise." warned Zecora as she told him the direction Ponyville was in.
Luke smiled and thanked her for the directions. He left before saying, "Ponyville, that name seems familiar."
"It does doesn't " said Purification, shaking his head as if trying to dislodge a memory.
"Meh, I'll deal with the problem when we get there." said Luke as he walked towards the direction of Ponyville. He didn't notice that Zecora stood by the door, listening to his half of the conversation and wondering who he was talking to.
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Dameon had practiced and managed to get some control of the ability. After Zalgo heard what it was, he just laughed and agreed to teach it to him. He sat at the edge of the house and looked around, seeing if there was anything to practice the ability on. It was then that an unlucky manticore stumbled onto the house. It roared as soon as it saw Dameon and charged forward, swinging his claws at Dameon.
Dameon ducked underneath it and rolled into the shadow of a tree. The manticore roared again and Dameon just smirked, raising his middle and his index on both hands. He raised them until they were in the form of a cross and shouted out, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
The shadow he was in seemed to shrink and out came two exact copies of Dameon. "Attack!" roared Dameon, his two clones running towards the manticore while Dameon jumped into the air and blasted him with his fire. He kept hammering the manticore with fire until the clones were in position. He stopped the flow of fire as the clones shot their kunais at the manticore, impaling it in the side. Dameon quickly pulled out his own and shot it at the manticores stomach. "Now! Get the fuck over here!" All three Dameons pulled at once, basically tearing the manticore into three pieces. Guts and blood spilled onto the ground, the heart was actually impaled on one of the kunais and as it went back to it's owner, so did the heart.
"Disgusting!" cried Dameon, wiping some of the blood off of him. His two clones dispelled and he buried the remains of the manticore near one of the trees. He cleaned the ground, otherwise known as burying the bloody ground underneath normal ground. The clones have left him tired, so he trudged back to the house and lay down on the rough couch.
He looked at the ceiling and sighed, "We need some furniture." He then fell asleep.
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Luke looked at the familiar looking town of Ponyville. "Why is this town so familiar?" asked Luke. Before he went in, he asked Purification to check if anything suspicious was happening around him. He then went into the familiar town. He decided on his walk over there that he would try to apply for a job, again acting as if it would be possible to die without food, and also hoping to buy some things for the copper house.
When he walked into town, he saw that it was full of ponies. He realized that they looked like the same ponies that were there when he attacked that one town in the last world. He put two and two together and got 4. He was either in an alternate version of the last world, or somewhere in before his attack on the town. He felt no tingling sensation in his stomach, so he assumed that this world either has too much evil, or is neutral. The entire town seemed busy, for some reason.
He asked the ponies, almost all of them mares, if there was a place needing a worker. They all pointed him in the same direction, the Apple Family farm. He wandered into the market and asked where the Apple's farm was. The stallion there pointed him in the direction and continued to sell his pears.
He found the Apple's farm, and he wasn't surprised that they harvested apples. He walked up to the front of the farm and was walking down the path he heard a, " Ye-hah!" coming from the trees. When he looked he saw an orange pony with a blonde mane put into a ponytail, kicking a tree with her hind-legs, knocking off all the apples in a single hit. Luke was impressed, it must take a lot of strength to even knock a single apple out of a tree, much less entire bushels. It was then that the pony took notice of him. "Well, howdy!" she said, walking up to him, shaking his hand. Luke winced slightly at the grip. "What are you doing here?" she asked.
"I heard that you might need some help for an upcoming celebration?" asked Luke, arm still shaking and stinging from the grip and shake, before managing to calm down the motion.
"Well, yeah, but you need to pass an 'entrance exam' so to say." she said, "Oh, by the way, name's Applejack."
"Luke. Now, what's this entrance exam?" asked Luke, though he did have an idea.
"All you just have to do, is buck as many apples of this tree as you can in one go." said Applejack, leading him towards a rather large tree, full of apples. "Just kick 'em down."
Luke walked closer to the tree. There were buckets around the tree to catch the falling apples, so he probably didn't have to worry about some of the apples hitting the ground. Still the tree itself was very solid. He gulped, knowing this was going to hurt. He planted his legs firmly apart, twisted his waist, and he swung his right leg at the trunk. Good news was that he got all the apples down, bad news was that his leg was hurt. As soon as he placed his leg back down, he fell to the ground, his leg unable to support his weight. Applejack raced forwards. "Are you alright?" she asked.
"Yeah, fine. Just hurt my leg a bit." Luke said, standing up, making sure to lean most of his weight on his left side. He grinned before saying, "When can I start?"
"How about after yer leg is fixed up? " said Applejack, chuckling. "Are you sure yer alright?"
"Yeah, fine. I'll just go home and try to heal it." said Luke, limping towards the entrance before Applejack could say another word.
As he put weight onto it, he kept wincing and muttering, "Son of a bitch." under his breath. It was of course that then something bad happened. He heard a cry of "Look out!" before being slammed into the ground, his legs taking most of the force, hurting his right leg even worse than before.
"Ah! God damnit! I have the worst luck!" cried out Luke, as he lay in the ground.
"Oh Celestia! I'm sorry!" came a brash voice. He felt something help him up. He gripped his right leg as it hit the ground, hissing at the pain.
"Nah, it's fine." said Luke, looking over at the pegasus beside him. It had a cyan coat and a rainbow mane, the mark on it's flank was a storm cloud with a rainbow bolt of lightning striking out of it. Luke couldn't help but comment, "Nice mane." He started to walk back to the forest, not looking back. If he did, he might have seen a blush on the pegasi's face.
He walked back into the forest and walked towards the general direction of the house. About half an hour later, he finally found the house. He walked inside to find Dameon, sprawled out on the couch. He kicked him, which was a bad idea. It hurt both Dameon and himself. "Can I have some help here?" asked Luke.
Dameon sat up. Luke sat beside him, before Dameon got up letting Luke lay down. "Geez! What happened?"
"I kicked a tree too hard." said Luke.
"And why were you careless?"
"Because I can be, see?" said Luke, forming a slightly sharpened ice sword and ramming it into his heart.
"What the fuck! Why did you!?" was as far a Dameon got before Luke started laughing.
"Oh shit! I forgot to tell you didn't I?" asked Luke, between laughter.
"Tell me what?"
"We're immortal dude, still can feel pain, but immortal through and through. Though we do need food the heal any wounds we get."
"So all we have to do is eat and we get better? Fuck yea!"
"Yeah now listen," said Luke, describing what plants that were edible in the forest. "Get some of those, and we can heal up nicely. Of course we could also eat poisonous plants, but I really don't want to see how poison affects us."
Dameon nodded and walked outside, trying to find some of the plants that Luke described. "Purification, I'm taking Dameon to work with me tomorrow. We both need money, or whatever their currency is called."
"Yes and after you get healed, we can train while there is still light out. Now, do you want you primary, two secondary, or one of three things that could help you in a fight?"
"Might as well start with a secondary, maybe a bow, since that is two objects." said Luke. He knew something about secondary weapons and that bows were sometimes considered secondary weapons, including to him.
"That would mean that you could use the light as arrows." said Purification.
They both talked until Dameon came back with the plants. They healed up Luke's legs and Luke went into some afternoon training with Purification. He managed to nail down how to make the bow out of light, but his aim was way off. They both practiced until it turned night, they both went to bed as soon as they saw the moon in the sky, though Dameon stood up a bit later, trying to practice his shadow clones in the night. After almost passing out, Dameon decided to go to bed as well.