The Town - Ch. 2
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Friendship is Optimal - Lover's Code
written by SpedaHooves
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The sun shone through the ruined rafters up above, signifying a new day. I groaned in annoyance, pulling up what was closest to me in a hug to sleep more, till I heard that familiar giggle.
I looked up instantly, my eyes bearing sight to the beautiful mare once again, who while I may be now, I am not her, so I'm allowed to find her attractive in that way. Uh- getting off track, I rubbed my eyes with my hooves, now coming to terms that this will be my reality from now on, and while some people may freak out and want to return ho- to Earth, all I do know, or at least Think, is that I had nothing to go back to. So I felt content, happy even that this was real, and I pulled Speda into a bigger hug, not caring if she was in the buff.
It lasted a few minutes as she ran her hoof through my mane, until finally I decided that since I'm here, we might as well explore more than we did yesterday, or at the very least head to the town that was nearby, which had shown a bit of itself on my map.
But before all of that, we need to sort through the loot gained. Heck, I haven't even searched the Sun side of the castle, though I felt like I should wait on that for some person, er pony to be here with me. I don't know who though.
So, I took a look at what we found yesterday that we could easily move. It was a decent haul, and just based on their qualities, it more than made up for their quantities.
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Loot Gained-
Silk of the Night Tapestries x24 - a high quality tapestry made up of special silk, that is easily given an enchantment when combined with some items, mainly for clothes or banners. Quality of enchantment is based off the materials used. <A+>
Mirror of Desire*- A special mirror that hides things you want kept safe, except if the being only wants to find it , but not to use such things. Able to be shrunken down to a hoof-mirror if wanted as just a normal mirror for the owner. Unbreakable in properties.<A>
Night Blade Ingots x20 - A special ingot made up of a unknown property, giving it an additional special power when used in the night, especially under the light of the full moon. Can be made into anything you want with the right know how, and a certain forge, enchantments depends on the pony using them, and with what materials are used. Cannot be used at a normal forge. <A+>
Preserved Medicine of Old x10 - A special medicine with properties unknown to those today, if researched can gain great knowledge under Healing and Alchemy. Heals 10,000 HP <S>
?Magic Book? - Is a mystery, pertaining to the pony wishing to read, it only shows some of it's magic unless a pony is skilled in many elements. Knowledge within is very powerful, allowing many common mages to rise to being great Wizards, or Witches throughout history. <???>
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Everything that was found were great additions to my Inventory. Especially the last one, as it's ranking was unknown, which means according to who or what you are, you could gain a lot of knowledge or only a little, to maybe even none if you are unlucky. The magic contained within taunted me, but I knew I shouldn't open it yet. So I stored it, and marked it under Favorites, along with my first S class Item, the Medicine.
I was giddy with excitement, imagining what I could create with these items in the future, but I calmed down and decided to take another, more thorough look around the castle as we didn't search everything on this side. It was a huge castle that I planned on fixing to be my future home.
I arrived in another room, and just as I took a step in, I felt something calling to me. So I walked ever nearer to the thing calling out, and when I found it, I couldn't help but admire the beauty of this weapon. It was a black, no, a dark midnight blue sword, and it just radiated with the power of the night.
I picked it up gingerly in my hooves, and it seemed to hum even more, so I tried looking at it's properties, but it was weird.
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???????????????- Unknown in Material, Unknown in Power, Unknown. <????>
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I looked closer at the blade after turning off the screen. I felt I had to do something important, so I attempted at what I could feel around me as I sat down at the desk which held the beautiful blade, along with a sheath, and some very ancient looking armor, but it seemed to worn down to be of any use, sansing this blade.
After what felt like hours, I finally felt a tug around me, from the blade itself, as if it was calling to be accepted, and used, to be molded into a perfect blade for a new user. I intended to be that user. So after a few seconds of concentrating on where to place my magic, to access it, I felt a new pull, coming from the sky.
That is when I noticed it was night. So I pulled some curtains back, storing those for later, and felt new information flow into me from an unknown source. It felt so familiar to me some how, that when I felt that new energy, feeling, or magic, whatever it was, it was like many doors had opened. I suddenly remembered something, as an image appeared before my eyes, showing two boys, talking with each other. I heard familiar names, especially the name Speda Hooves.
They were talking about some kind of story, of two sisters not unlike the two sisters from the paintings in this castle, but different. Speda Hooves was one, and the second was called something else, but suddenly I felt it blur, as if blocking that name, and pony to me directly. I would have to look into this further later, as for now, I felt a new feeling, and when I accessed it, the powers of the night flowed through my very soul, though I could feel as if it was saying this was only borrowed magic for the time being until I finished connecting to the blade.
What I could feel was that it was different towards one particular pony, or 'Alicorn' I could find information about from here. Her magic seemed to be from the moon and the night. My new power felt similar, but different in that I could extend beyond the moon. Towards the stars. And beyond even that if I focused enough, but only a little it seemed, as this was only borrowed magic, even if I don't know who it came from, but I had a feeling that it was that 'Alicorn' from before. Or someone like her.
I got side-tracked, but once I got focused again, after another hour of constant stress in my mind, I felt the sword hum one final time before falling silent, and when I touched the blade, new information burst within me from within it, as I felt it accept me as it's new owner.
The blade changed somehow, now sporting my unique pony stylization, with new gemstones sprouting from the hilt. The handle seemed to fuse with some of my Timberwolf Wood, causing it to gain a purplish shine, while the blade turned Indigo in color, very nearly Black, then for a final touch, it's length extended a bit more, though it became thinner in width at the base, but not too much. Finally it hummed again, and a purple ruby embedded itself between the few gemstones that had already appeared, beautifying the already beautiful sword.
I shook at the feeling spreading throughout my being, even as a new screen popped up into existence, gifting me newfound information.
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???????- Does not have a name to finalize it's transformation, but once it has one it will be your most loyal weapon in your arsenal if you so choose. With this, it marks you as a Princess of the Night, though of what is unknown until it shows in your magic as it develops.
Main Enchantment <1> - Under the sky of the night, whenever the stars are abundant, it's power will flourish, granting a transparent shield over the body for a short time once activated.
<Current time - 10 Seconds>
Main Enchantment <2> - Once the first enchantment activates, grants the user a unique buff that last for 10 minutes once activated.
<Unique Buff- Unknown until used>
Main Enchantment <3> - Final Main Enchantment passively grants the user affinity with Night Magic the moment this blade has accepted you as it's owner. Depending on who you are or who you want to be, it will branch off and give you many abilities along the way. One path was taken. There are few paths left to choose. Which will yours?
Sub properties: ???, ???, ???, ???, ???, ???, ???
This officially marks the user <Speda Hooves>, and <?> Night Princess, and Night Prince, granting them official domain with areas officiated with the night, sansing the Moon.
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I couldn't breathe. I felt like I was staring at the screen for an hour before Speda appeared in front of me wearing a distressed look, before she calmed down, until she saw the blade. She too balked at it, as she raised a hoof to touch it, and it hummed at her presence, signifying that she too was indeed a Night Princess.
We couldn't speak for a good while, as we sat there, with the blade sat on our laps. Just staring at it. That's when I knew we should come up with a name for it, but each one I thought of quickly felt wrong, as if it wasn't worthy for the blade.
So the silence continued for a good long while, until I gingerly slid the now changed sheath over the gorgeous blade, and hooking it to my sheath beside my two blades I had made just yesterday., And they each felt like they weighed only very little from the unique enchantments on them aside from my newest one which felt heavy, but not too heavy. I looked around for anything more of use, spotting something underneath a knocked over book shelf. I decided to just store them both into the inventory, as I was gonna need to decorate my new room until I had money to gain new furniture, and refurbish the entire castle.
We walked back towards the entrance of said castle, and as we stepped outside, the moon slowly started drifting towards one horizon, as the sun started also rising, signifying the time was around four o'clock in the morning, maybe four-thirty. So with that, we both trecked our way across the rickety bridge, which I planned to fix into a decent one in the near future, and headed towards the town.
I could tell there probably wasn't any machinery aside from maybe trains in this world, which meant coal was being burned, in turn causing eventual harm to the planet like it did for Earth. I remember that much, even with how advanced people became, it's always caused problems for the world. I would need to find a way to fix that.
Finally I spoke to my companion. "So... Do you think you could figure out a name for our new weapon? Anything that sounds nice to the ears?", I asked her, and she seemed to gain a look of thought.
"Well not at the moment no. But I'm sure I can think of something Love. Just need to get over that mental trauma of how you even gained access to something like that. Makes me feel proud of what you accomplished already!", Speda smiled at me, making me blush again in embarrassment, and not a small amount of love for the Mare that I had no clue as to why I did, but it felt right, and she was a very pretty Mare, if not gorgeous.
I felt a headache coming on since I 'was' her at the moment, and I had no clue as to how the towns ponies would react to a pony standing as a bipedal, while talking to something they couldn't see, or hear, so they would probably veiw me as insane, or at the very least crazy.
Finally after a hour of travelling in the Everfree Forest as it said on the map, we made it to the end, where a Farm showed on the horizon as soon as the sun reached mid-sky, the farm itself was beautiful looking in the early morning.
What happened next was a bit confusing, as I saw an orange colored Earth Pony walk out of one of the houses with three others, one of them just barely shorter than her. The red stallion seemed to be the tallest one, and the final one seemed to be the eldest among them, as she was quite a wise looking old mare.
They were all different colors among the rainbow, but it didn't seem to matter as they appeared to be family. And that's when the Elder Mare turned my way, gaining a confused expression upon her face as she stared at my form, and my clothes.
The youngest burst forth with unexpected excitement from the group towards us, and once she reached us she appeared to be looking for something on me.
"Oh my gosh, you look so cool! Where did you get that cloth?! Why are your eyes Glowing like that, hey can I see your Cutie-mark?! Is it secret, and that's why you wear clothes? Oh I have just so many questions! Oooh those swords of yours looks so awesome too! My name is Applebloom, and I hope we can be good friends-", suddenly she was silenced, making me sigh in relief, as I turned to the one in question who silenced her. It was the Orange Earth Pony, who looked positively confused as to why I came out of the forest as well, for some reason.
"While Ah don' know you, or why you suddenly walked out of the Everfree walking like Pinkie does at times, Ah would be very pleased if you could be careful when walking alone out there, y'hear? If ya didn't know, there be Timberwolves out there, and they will stop at nothing to get a pony once they've seen yeh.", She said, and I appreciated the concern, but I felt compelled to tell her what happened, and not lie about it. That's a bit weird, but okay, I was gonna do that anyhow.
"I appreciate the concern, but I already fought off one group of Timberwolves. In fact, I gained some interesting prizes from them there after I did so. Do you know where the direction of 'PonyVille' is? I don't know the landscape here", I asked in pure curiosity, and she seemed satisfied with my answer, if not a bit intrigued as to how I fought them.
"Jus' head down that way, take a right, then straight on til you see the first sign, after that take a left, and there you go. Now I do hope you have a pleasant day, Miss, but we gotta get back to work. I hope to see y'all again soon now! Applebloom, Big Mac, let's get right on to it!", Said the Orange Mare, and once they left, Speda popped into existence with me again.
"Y'know, I have the strangest feeling our luck with these items is going to end soon. What do you bet we'll only have common luck for a while? I know, I should have said earlier, but still, I think our luck is spent for quite a while.", my Companion said out of concern, and I agreed with her. At least for when we aren't talking about the castle, as I am sure there are more things we haven't found yet, but so far we should be good. The only thing I wish to find as of now is that 'Special' Forge to make some actual quality armor.
After another twenty minutes, we finally managed to arrive at the town. What greeted us was a lot of quadrupedal ponies walking around doing everyday things, that is except for one. A pink pony was walking towards me with excitement on her face, walking exactly like how I was, and when other ponies saw me doing the same, they seemed scared like I was spreading some type of disease, but at the same time they didn't freak out, just seemed passively nervous, so this should be sorta normal.
The pink pony mare finally made it to me, and I couldn't help but put my hooves over my eyes, blushing at the sight she was displaying. These ponies don't seem to understand the concept of clothes, unless they do these things on purpose because of tails or something.
"Hi there! My name is Pinkie Pie, and it's super nice to meet you! I love those clothes of yours! Ooh, and your eyes are super pretty, is there a reason as to why they are glowing like they are? What is your name by the way?", She asked super quickly, causing me and Speda to blank a bit, before Speda started giggling.
I filed a future conversation with Speda for later, and smiled back at the cute friendly mare, and then introduced myself, or ourselves.
"It's nice to meet you too Pinkie Pie, my name is Speda Hooves, and thank you for the compliments, I made them myself! For your second question, well I don't know, it's always been that way, as far as I know. They allow me to use magic like a unicorn if that helps", I added with a thoughtful look, not noticing the look of pure shock on the nearby ponies around me, while Pinkie smiled in excitement, and got super close to me, our muzzles nearly close enough to kiss, causing me to blush instantly.
"You CAN?! Can you show me please?! Ooh, can you float me up? Oh ooh, what about changing my hair a different shape or color!", The pink pony said, in plain glee, and I did not want to disappoint such a cute pony.
I focused, and suddenly she was flying, while giggling uncontrollably. Though instead of just using telekinesis like sane ponies would do, I thought, why not make her a pair of wings, if only for a few minutes. And as suddenly as two pink wings popped into existence, all of the towns-ponies freaked out, claiming I had unknowingly set a enemy out amongst them all. Sounded weird to me, so I paid that no mind, as I watched the mare gracefully fly, causing my cheeks to heat up once again, as I heard the teasing voice of my hidden companion next to me.
"Aww, isn't that sweet, you're crushing on her hard! Y'know, I'm willing to share, but you have to confide in me first, y'know!", she exclaimed, not caring how red she was making me, as the towns-ponies looked concerned after taking a look at me.
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I didn't realize how much chaos a single pony could cause, as I soon found out later on the small mistake of giving Pinkie Pie a set of wings. But some things are worth the chaos caused. One thing in particular is one of them, and I would definitely do it again if I was given the choice to have a redo.
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(Again like I said laster Chapter, Webnovel Readers, don't pay attention to the Author's Notes, they were made months ago, very nearly a year ago for the first few chapters)
<Author's Note:
Chapter Two done, chapter three coming right up! While I can guess I probably won't rank very high in the contest, this is fun, and I will definitely be continuing this after it's over. Once I reach the limit, of course.
I'm gonna make this story sort of like a Displaced story, when I give our protagonists, Yours Truly, and Speda, an item to summon them, but I will only accept those who ask in the future. For now, it will just be my SOUL Sister, Emerald Breeze, who will be the first Displaced character
Any questions, comment down below, and I will see everypony next time!
Mirror of Desire* = Mirror of Erised from Harry Potter>
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