" so uh... Crimson... Where are we going?" Asked mystee who trotted up beside me. It was about time some pony broke the silence. I was starting to cheer up now as was everypony else. We were miles away from ponyville now and walking through the dead winter forest. The sky was grey and snow littered the ground. It was very depressing to look at and certainly didn't fit the mood of adventure.
" yeah... Where are we going?" Asked Nightflame. I looked back at them and used my magic to pull out the map celestia gave me. I opened it up and showed them the glowing trail cut through the map.
" the glowing trail is our path..." I said explaining the map. " it brings us through several small towns as well as manehattan then las Pegasus... When we leave Equestria we travel until we reach indigo city... Then from there is through the mountains and into oasis which we will have to tread through." I knew everything about the map.
" is that all?" Said Derek sarcastically.
" we'll no..." I said. " the country of oasis is just a large city buried in a giant forest... We'll be walking through it for a few weeks unless we find a faster means of getting across... Then we head the the twilight ruins it looks like and then to the sea of oblivion where we sail to the western country of stallasia."
" holy fuck..." Said Derek. " what the hell is this thing and why does it live on the other fucking side of the world?"
" I should probably fill you all in on the details I guess... No point in all of you not knowing." I said. I took a deep breath and began talking. " this thing is an immortal demon by the name of shal- grahkan. I stole dash to lure me into his lair so he can kill me and add my soul to his collection."
" you're making this up... I swear he makes these things up as he goes." Said Derek to me and then to Ezekiel.
" his lair is in another realm called the ether... That's where we are going." I said. " unfortunately the ether is not in stallasia. It is in another dimension. So we will have to climb through dimensional portals until we find the ether."
" I think you're right." Said Ezekiel to Derek.
" don't believe me huh?" I said. " you're welcome to head back... Only a few miles and there's plenty of daylight left."
" nah... I think we'll tag along for the fun of it." Said mystee. She looked at me and smiled and I just smiled back.
" yeah should be fun... Even if this is a joke it should be worth the run." Said Derek.
" would I really drag you to a different continent for the sake of a joke." I said looking back at him.
" you shot me in the leg once for the sake of a joke." He said.
" oh yeah... I remember that." I said thinking back on an elaborate joke I played on him back on earth. It was really confusing and unnecessary... But totally worth it. " you have to admit that it was pretty funny." I said looking back at him and chuckling at the memory. He did the same and smiled.
" yeah it was pretty good." He said smiling. The others just stared on in confusion.
"So..." Said Nightflame flapping his wings and quickly flying over to me. " how come we don't just fly there?"
" there are only two of us with wings." I said. " you and me... And while we might be strong I don't think we're strong enough to carry three others along with a cart of supplies... We can walk... And I think that when we get to the next town we can take a train."
" why didn't we take a train out of ponyville." Said mystee.
" yeah... We could have easily gotten tickets." Said Derek. That was a good point.
" I guess it just didn't come to me... Oh well... The next town is only a day away... We can rough it out until then." I said. We continued down the cold winter road and we just mingled really. We talked about random stuff and one conversation lead to another. Over and over again we would talk about random things and laugh at jokes and memories. But I was sensing something close by. Some kind of danger... So I kept alert.
And suddenly without warning an arrow fired through the bushes and pierced me through the side of the head... And god did it hurt. I fell to one knee and started clenching in pain as two masked bandits walked out from behind the snow banks. The others looked at me with horror and shock while they walked out and smiled. Soon I fell to the ground and started bleeding... But I wasn't dead.
" alright... Give up the goods and nopony else gets hurt." They said. They were holding bows with arrows ready to fire. The others looked in fear except for Derek who gleamed at them with anger. He charged his horn for an attack but one of the archers fired his arrow but Derek soon turned his magic attack into a shield that covered the group of us.
" that's alright." Said the other bandit. " we can wait until you run out of energy." They sat there and kept their arrows tight to their side in case they drop the shield. I laid on the ground fading into blackness but soon I came back and I was perfectly aware. But I still had that arrow in my head. I guess getting killed is going to take some getting used to. Although I don't think I'm really dead... Probably just a wound since I'm not in purgatory right now.
I let out a moan of pain and slowly crawled back to my hooves like I was just getting out of bed. The bandits looked over and I think they almost shit their armor. I got up and stood on all fours facing away. I slowly turned over and rubbed my throbbing head. The others looked at me with shock but Derek had a devious smile on his face. I looked at the robbers who stood there shaking and holding their bows up and aimed at me.
" ow... That wasn't very polite." I said looking at them.
" what the hell..." Said one of them. " you... The arrow... The fucking arrow shot through you fucking skull." He said. The other one let the arrow in his bow loose and it hit me square in the middle of the head. I yelled out in pain and stumbled back. Now I have two arrows in my head and it hurt like a bitch.
" would you quit doing that." I said. " it fucking hurts." They just looked back with more fear and shock.
" what the fuck are you." One of them said as they both backed away. I looked up at them and the arrows in my skull burnt to ash and fell to the ground reviewing my head which should be wounded but isn't. I looked at them and started glowing furiously and soon my armor fixed itself to my body and I stood there glowing brightly.
" your nightmare..." I said glowing a dark red and black. The ground cracked and a rift opened up starting from me and ripped the ground oped under them. They fell down screaming into a glowing pit of fire and lava. Before they hit the molten inferno I shut the rift closed and all was quiet. I stopped blowing so brightly but kept my armor on and still glowed my old pure white and put my wings at my side. I let out a deep gust of air and started to relax now.
" holy shit dude." Said Derek lowering the shield and walking over to punch my shoulder lightly with his thick dragon bone armor. " that was freaking sick... That must have hurt like a bitch."
" yeah... It did hurt a lot." I said. " at least now instead of them being evil I can use their souls for a good cause if I need it." I said slowly feeling their memories seep into my brain as their souls being so small, quietly and unknowingly seeped into my being.
" that was quite impressive." Said Ezekiel. I smiled at him and looked to the sky. The once light grey sky was now fading to a darker shade of grey as the night was soon to fall upon us.
" I think we should set up camp here." I said looking at them. I looked over to an area covered by snow and In seconds it was on fire. For only a second though, before I stopped the fire and all the snow had melted to reveal a circular area of grass for us to set up camp. And that's what we did.
We set up tents which mystee had blessed like her families wagon. So the space inside was larger than the tent itself. Ezekiel and Derek went out and found some fire wood. Nightflame would light the fire when we got the campfire ready. Until then he went out and gathered some snow buried stones to contain the fire. I was in charge of the hard part.
I walked over to one of the trees close by and looked at it. Everyone else was already done with their jobs and I was the only one not done. I just needed to figure out how I would do this. It didn't take much longer for me to figure it out. I used my magic to bring up a long blade of light ready to cut the tree but before I could I was interrupted by Derek who was standing over there with the others in the increasing dark.
" hurry up crimson... It's getting cold." He said. I just rolled my eyes and went to work. I cut the tree and used my magic to push it forward a little. It leaned over and I walked out in front of it. As it fell it fell on my back and almost crushed me. But I stood up and carried the huge hulking tree on my back. I carried it over to the camp. Derek just smiled " about time." He said.
I threw the giant tree to the ground and it landed with a rumbling thud. I used my magic to cut the tree into pieces and trim the top for firewood. The trunk of the tree soon became five logs for us to all sit on around the fire and we had more than enough firewood now. We set up the fire pit and Nightflame lit the fire. It burned brightly and just in time for the darkness and cold to settle in. We took our spots and sat down by the magical fire which warmed us all around.
" so not bad for the first day." I said.
" yeah well you died... So I'm not sure if we should be so grateful just yet." Said Nightflame.
" actually i died twice." I said. " took two arrows to the head." We all just laughed and I used my magic to grab food from the cart and pass it out to everypony. They were mostly just magically preserved foods like sandwiches and pies, cakes, muffins, and other things. We all ate our food and tossed away the trash.
" so what's the plan for tomorrow?" Asked Ezekiel. I was going to answer but mystee beat me to it.
" gonna go to the next town and catch a train." Said mystee.
" pretty much." I replied. " it'll save us time and energy... Plus we won't have to burn up as much of our supplies if we can just order catering on the train."
"Sounds good to me..." Said Nightflame sitting back.
" I'd rather be out adventuring but I guess this isn't a quest we can just be lazy with." Said Derek.
" we'll there isn't much to see in Equestria... All old stuff... Wait till we get out of Equestria." Is said. " that's where the good stuff is." We all just smiled and so did Derek. We spent more time sitting out at the camp fire before it started to really get late and the fire died out it was getting cold and we all turned in to our own tents. The night air was cool for me but the others must be freezing. I got to my tent and when I walked in the first thing I noticed was a rush of warm air.
The tent was now in the form of a room. Like when I was picked up by those traveling hunters a long time ago. It was like that where it was a room shoved inside of a tent. There was a desk, bed, rug, and even a few candles everywhere. I walked over to the desk and sat down in the chair. Using magic I pulled a scroll from thin air. I did them same to make a quil. I started writing on the scroll and he quill generated its own ink.
I finished up the scroll and rolled it up. It was just a letter to twilight so that we can keep in touch. I vow to write to her all the time no matter what. And with my new magic and abilities I don't need magic ink or scrolls. I held the scroll and it glowed. It burst into a cloud of sparkling lights and the lights drifted off to go to twilights house. Seeing them go made me smile and I left the desk.
I went over to the bed and laid down. I used my magic to put out the candles and I laid my head down on the pulling and pulled the covers over me. The bed was strangely big enough for me... Everything was, come to think of it. Mystee did tell me earlier she made this tent for me... I guess I see why. I rested my head and closed my eyes. I started drifting off and soon I was dreaming
I hope that rainbow dash is alright.
-Authors Note: i know that this chapter is a little short but dont worry... i was in a bit of a slump when i was writing it. i had been in a bit of a slump for a while at that time but i just downloaded the movie BRAVE, if any of you have seen that movie it's pretty awesome. i just watched it... now i'm writing the next five chapters of my story, that movie inspired the hell out of me. so yeah, this is officially the beginning of the adventure and it might get a little boring from crimsons point of view since you know, he's pretty much seen all there is to see in equestria. so it might be a little boring until they cross the border and hopefully i'll get done with that as fast as possible. it is going to pick up when they are out of equestria and it is definitely going to get better when they leave the continent and go to Stallasia. and then, you know, different dimensions and stuff, which is always fun.
and i would also like to thank you bro's for sending me some OC's. i will admit some of them are hard to register in at the story at this point since the pace of it is very fast and there isn't much time to settle down into one place. i am trying my best to insure perminant places within the story but i do apologize if i ask you to wait a while like i have done with some OC's. but you guys are sending me a lot of details on your characters which is nice... but it would be nicer if you didn't just cram it all down into one paragraph and send that to me. it would help if it was organized and not one continuous thing, that makes it hard to keep track of details. i'm not going to completely reject your character if you dont organize their details but i'm just saying i would appreciate it.
oh and on the notice about the fight i was just in. i know some of you bro's have been wondering and i'm proud to say that i made second place (WOOHOO). that means i just made a solid $1,500. that's easily enough to buy a nice new computer and some other cool stuff. the other fighters where pretty good and i have to say that they deserved their place as much as i did. i am in pain though... much pain. i have a few cracked ribs, been spitting up some blood for a while now, and my nose is broke to hell. doctors said i'll be fine but to take it easy... so i'm going to be taking it easy and healing for the next week because luckily it's February vacation. so i'll be in my room writing more chapters for you bro's and probably playing video games. so yeah, stay safe, stay sober, and stay shady.-End of Note-