Stuck in Equestria
Chapter 6
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAfter 2 hours of endless walking, Dylan made it to the giant building as sundown began. He opened the door to see a giant monster, H telling the monster who Dylan was, made the monster bow down in front of Dylan.
After each monster door were some stairs. There were 5 floors of monsters, each floor with more, tougher monsters.
As he walked through the last door he saw the black alicorn sitting on his throne. "Ah, Cuber, I'm glad you made it, what took you so long?"
"I had to walk from Ponyville," responded Dylan.
"Well, I'll give you your level like I said," H's horn glowed, after a few seconds a screen popped up in front of Dylan saying he was level 58, "Now, like I said before, you can leave when ever you want, and you could bring somepony along with you up here. Is there anypony you want to rule beside you?"
Dylan bowed his head with his eyes shut, "There is," he looked back at H, "but she didn't want to join, she didn't want me to join..."
"'She'? So this friend of yours is a mare, is it?"
"Yes."
"Well if you want I could change her mind with a simple trick, if that's what you want."
"Don't hurt her."
"Alright, alright. If you want though, I could give her special treatments, like discounted or even free items. I could also let you see her when ever you want via video screen."
"Well, I guess the video screen and discounted items seem good..."
"Okay then," said H as his horned glowed, after a minute it stopped. "There, open your menu and you can see and hear her."
Dylan opened up his menu and saw the word 'Cameron', "So what," Dylan said, "did you know what mare I was talking about?"
"I could see you talking to her earlier," H pulled out a screen showing Dylan talking to Cameron and Shadow.
"So what do you want me to do here?"
"For now, whatever you want, but when somepony tries to attack and they get close enough, I want you to kill them. Also, did I mention that you could leave this building when ever you wanted?"
"I'm not gonna kill innocent ponies," thought Dylan. "Alright fine, but there are two things I want."
"What do you want?"
"I want my level to go back to 3 when I'm outside this building, and I want that skateboard from Soul Eater that Death the Kid has, that I could summon it whenever I want."
H's horn glowed for a moment, "Anything else?"
"Not at the moment."
"Alright, go, do whatever."
Dylan summoned his skateboard and rode it out of the building. He rode it back to Ponyville before getting off and putting it away.
He looked around for a moment, but then started walking. He walked to the field where Cameron led him, where they had their first kiss. Dylan sat down at a tree, crying.
After a few minutes Dylan heard his name called, he looked to his side and saw Cameron. Dylan quickly wiped the tears off his muzzle. "I figured you would have taken H's offer," said Cameron.
"I just came here," Dylan said.
"Alone?"
"I needed to clear my head."
"You could have asked me to come with you Cuber."
"No, I need to clear my head, distractions don't help, please leave me alone."
"Cuber, is there something wrong?"
"JUST LEAVE!" Dylan screamed, frightening Cameron. Dylan looked down at the ground, "Please... just leave me alone..."
Cameron slowly walked away. Dylan began thinking to himself "Why did I accept the alicorn's offer!? That was the most stupidest thing I have ever done!"
Dylan got up and walked over to Ponyville. Walking back into the weapons store there still was nopony in there. Dylan proceeded to buy a sword of his liking.
After completing the unnecessary tutorial, Dylan went back to the field and started wondering the forest.
Dylan saw a lot of enemies. Most of them wolves however. Dylan switched out his bow for his sword then proceeded to wield it. Dylan ran through all of the wolves, screaming the entire time, getting all of his anger out as he killed the wolves. Dylan killed 10 wolves, leveling himself up to level 5.
Dylan opened up the menu, he saw something he didn't realize earlier, 'skills'. As he looked through it, he saw a few the intrigued him. 'Detecting', 'Tracking', 'Agility' and 'Hiding'. Each level somepony gets means a new point they can use to buy skill levels.
Dylan, getting that level 58 from H, had 60 points. He decided to spend it all on maxing out Detecting, Tracking, Agility and Hiding. Having only 20 points left.
Dylan realized he just cleared 10 wolves at his level without taking a single hit. Also realizing he does much better alone then with groups. Dylan opened up the Friends list. He clicked on both Cameron's and Shadow's name.
Their player cards popped up, "From here on out," Dylan said as he deleted Shadow, "I'm a solo player," he then deleted Cameron. Dylan went back to training on wolves, gaining 5 EXP each kill.
After an hour Cameron came running into the field, wondering where Dylan was. She heard screaming from a distance. Cameron ran towards the screaming and saw Dylan, fighting 7 wolves at once. "Dylan!" screamed Cameron.
Dylan killed all 6 wolves with one hit each, then proceeded to look at Cameron. "Shit," Dylan said to himself, "bow." Dylan's sword switched to his bow in a flash as he grabbed an arrow and shot the arrow, Cameron thinking it was straight for her.
Cameron stood there shocked, as if a deer in headlights. The arrow flew right by her. After realizing what just happened seconds later she screamed, "What are you trying to do, kill me!?"
Dylan walked up to her then pointed behind her. Cameron looked behind her and saw killed wolf 5 feet away from with an arrow in it's head. Cameron then said, "I came looking for you, all of the sudden you weren't on my friend's list anymore."
"I know, I deleted all my friends."
"Well, why?"
"I've became a solo player." Dylan walked passed her and retrieved his arrow, "So stuff like that won't happen again."
"But Dylan, why did you delete me?" asked Cameron with tears in her eyes.
"I can't risk anypony dying, I'm sure there are already a few who tried to go into the tower alone and got themselves killed. I'm gonna defeat all 5 floors and H to get us all out of here. I'm going on my own to anywhere from now on."
Cameron slowly began to leave, a few tears escaped her eyes. She had thought that Dylan and her were something... something special... something good... more than just friends. Now she found out that he didn't really care about her at all. The entire thing at the field was a lie. She never wanted to see him again.
Dylan continued training, from killing the wolf that was going to attack Cameron, Dylan had gotten to level 10. With every kill from the wolves Dylan gained 5 EXP and some attack and strength EXP. Dylan ran deeper into the forest. He found himself against a different enemy, this one looking as if a wolve and bear had a child. He killed it with little struggle, taking a single hit which didn't bother him the least.
"H!" Dylan screamed.
A screen popped up in front of Dylan, showing the alicorn, "Yes, Dylan?"
"I don't want to be with you anymore, if that means taking away my ability to see Cameron through that screen on my menu, not logging out and my levels taken away when I enter your castle, then so be it. I want to be treated like every other player, not as your partner."
H was taken back by that. "Fine, be that way, you'll wish you hadn't say that." the screen disappeared. The 'Cameron' option on his menu disappeared.
Dylan continued training, the wolf/bear mix got stronger, Dylan had only guessed H made them weaker, or him stronger. Dylan killed the wolf/bear mix, this enemy giving him double the points of wolves. Dylan continued to train for as long as he could, going deeper and deeper into the forest, killing many enemies that got in his way.
After an hour Dylan realized his health was getting dangerously low. He killed his latest enemy, this enemy gave him 30 EXP, Dylan leveled up to 23 in measly two hours of straight training.
Dylan began to head back to Ponyville to rest and heal himself. As he got there he opened up his menu, seeing new items in his inventory. He saw meat, different kinds of meat from all the monsters he had killed.
Dylan walked over to a merchant place and sold all of his meat that he had gained, some of the meat being expensive. After selling the items he didn't need he had well over 5000 bits.
Dylan looked at the clock in the merchant's store, it's 3 in the morning. Dylan completely forgot that it was night when he arrived in the forest. Dylan walked out of the store and all around Ponyville.
He ventured around empty houses, arriving at one that didn't seem bad, nor did it look good. Dylan touch a 'Buy' button on the house's door, a screen popped up saying "Would you like to buy this house for 1000 bits?" Dylan clicked yes and walked in.
Exploring the house he saw there were three rooms, a bathroom, bedroom and living room with a kitchen. Dylan walked to the bedroom, unequipped his sword and laid down, slowly drifting off to sleep.
Dylan slowly began to wake up, as he did he rubbed his eyes. Dylan got out of bed, a screen popped up in front of him "New message from the system!" the screen changed saying "Rarity's boutique is now open! Buy all of your clothing from her shop!"
Dylan walked out of his home, only seeing the boutique from a distance Dylan knew it was crowded in there.
Dylan started walking through Ponyville, after a few minutes he felt a cut on his right foreleg. Looking at it, Dylan saw that Cameron was a few feet away from him with a weapon that looked like it had a knife at the end of a chain.
Dylan didn't take any damage due to the town being considered a 'Safe Zone'. "I guess you found your weapon?"
"Mm-hmm," responded Cameron as she walked over to him.
"You could have just told me, not hitting me with it."
"I wanted to know why you de-friended me."
"I told you, I've become a solo player."
"What about what happened at the field, you kissed me."
"It was the heat of the moment. You kissed me first, I couldn't have just stood there and do nothing."
"What do you mean 'heat of the moment'? It's obvious that you're lying, tell me truth."
"I am telling you the truth."
"No, you aren't. Is it because of how I look?"
"No, it's not."
"How I talk?"
"No."
"Is it my teeth? Cuber tell me!"
"I've told you already and I'm not telling you again, I'm now a solo player. I'm working on defeating H just like others, but I'm doing so on my own."
"Then why don't we PvP? If I win you have to friend me again."
Cameron sent a PvP invitation to Dylan, it was a 1v1 friendly game, meaning if somepony loses nothing happens. Dylan declined, "I have more important stuff to do."
"Cuber, come on, if you wont PvP then friend me."
"Cameron, what level are you."
"What does that have anything to do with it?"
"Tell me, what's your level."
"I'm level 2 from completing the weapon tutorial."
"I could probably clear you in one hit."
"What makes you say that, you're probably only level 5!"
"Cameron, you saw me out in the forest kill 7 wolves in a single hit. I'm level 23, I've been training ever since sundown to 3 in the morning."
Cameron was shocked, "How? Wolves only give you 5 EXP from the tutorial."
"Going deeper into the forest brings stronger and higher level monsters, the stronger the monster, the more EXP it gives you. Now if you excuse me. I have to continue my training."
Dylan ran off into the forest before Cameron could say another word.