”God it’s weird not talking all the time…” I thought to myself. ”Which might be my fault cause I seriously can’t shut up...twenty word limit...oh boy

I was walking still here in High Wells, I needed to catch up on much of what’s apparently happened. So I’m camping out here in the library and studying. Most of what I started reading was history books. I don’t know how much of this might happen, so I’m keeping notes of significant events. Mainly events about Zeke, Eclips...a? Me, and the Foretellers. There wasn’t much on John oddly, it’s like it was either never recorded or erased?

“Wouldn’t be surprised if John did something to make himself not be apart of history…” I muttered. “Max probably knows how to-” No more words came out, my mouth shut itself… Crap, already went to the limit…”God damn it…” I mentally grumbled.

To see just how many times I go over, I kept tally… It’s been six days since I arrived here… I have six tallies… I need to learn self control… Finally after marking tally number six, I found the book I’ve been looking for. Key-Armerments. The difference between your Keys. Huh, written by Twilight Sparkle and Moon Dancer. Neat.

”Wonder who’s Twilight and Moon Dancer…” I wondered, having a feeling one of my wives was Moon Dancer but having to remember over two thousand can be a bit of a hassle sometimes. ”But let’s take a gander at what these two bookworms have to say about these weapons…” I thought to myself while opening the book to read it’s contents. ”Let’s hope things are well explained here…”

Key-Armerments: The Basic Information

Key-Armerments, much like Keyblades can be summoned whenever their wielder needs them. Unlike Keyblades however they are very limited depending on what weapon or even item makes them up. For Example, a Key-armerments that started off as say, a toy, can be limited to a max damage potential of fifteen where as one that started off as a simple hammer can have a max damage potential of fifty.

”Well that’s something.” I thought to myself honestly. So if I has a gun that happens to be such a thing...must be pretty strong.” I mentally hoped.

One of the earliest Key-armaments consisted of a Bow, A battle Axe, a Scythe, A Spiked Gauntlet, and a Charm. Comparing the Key-Armaments made with Firearms and the Bow Key-Armament, once wielded by Queen Luna of Nothingness, we can determine that things like the weapons caliber do not actually determine their damage potential, just their starting base damage. What this does determine though is how fast you can attack, for obvious reasons. A bolt action fires slower than a Fully Automatic gun.

No Key-armaments can change into a glider. Multiple tests have all failed, this is specifically a Keyblade trate. For what reason though we are unsure.

”That’s interesting to know.” I thought to myself, finding this very informative even though this was the first and maybe only Key-Armament I’ll use.

There are admirable Keyblade/Key-Armaments Hybrids. Two so far, one is wielded by Daybreak Council leader Lion, his former Gunblade, not a Keyblade/Key-armament. The other is within the laboratory of High Wells Light and Darkness Research facility for testing. So far these CAN change into gliders, and do everything that is unique to Keyblades and Key-armermants. This is believed to be because of the fact it is part blade, something about blades allows for the Keyblade part to be utilized and work. We are unsure as to why, but both Lions and the one within High Wells testing facility can both change into gliders. Also something interesting is that Lion’s hybrid blade works in perfect sync for him, but with another tester worked less effectively. It can be passed along like any Keyarmerment, but apparently with a wielder it prefers, or maybe even chooses like normal Keyblades do, it works better with them. An interesting mix for these Hybrid Key weapons.

”Oh? Hybrid Key weapons?” I thought to myself curiously.

Something unique to Key-armerments is their ability to be passed on to another, regardless of preference. Key-armaments seem to have no preference to wielders, or even if they have them at all. Anyone can be given a Key-armament and it becomes linked to them so long as their former wielder is accepting/approving of the passing, or the former wielder has passed.

”So that’s why it didn’t vanish when I found their dead body.” I thought to myself.

Key-Armaments also can be used with most spells, not all of them however, and some sadly do not work as intended without practice. For example, the Fire, Ice, and Thunder spells all work but each is different. For example, Fire works like any other Keyblade spell but Firaga, being that is creates an AOE that typically spins around the casters body, instead spins around the Key-Armerment itself, and the casters hand, harmlessly of course, meaning that this spell means you’d have to make some form of Physical contact with your target for them to take damage, making your Key-Firearm into more of a gauntlet. While yet you can use them as a ‘Keyblade’ by hitting your target their blunt damage is half their ranged damage shots.

”Alrighty then.’ I thought to myself. ”That’s interesting to know.”

Spells that are unique to a Key-Firearm can vary, there are spells and modified versions of existing spells for them, but one common unique spell is Ricochet, a version of Reflect raid in which up to ten shots can be fired and all bounce off and home in on the tartet fired at, by bouncing off the air itself. This is a very effective and easy to learn spell, the spell itself is in Key-Armaments: Firearms. A List of Spells and Attacks Specific to Them. A three volume set of books, each volume contains different spells of ranging difficulty. Volume three holding the most difficult and powerful.

”That’s interesting.” I thought. ”Can’t wait to relearn all this crap…” I mentally grumbled. ”Are the volumes here though?” I mentally wondered..

I got up and started searching for those spell and attack volumes, finding them and opening Volume one.

This Volume contains fifty special Key-Firearm attacks and one hundred and Twenty Key-Firearm spells and modified spells.

The book’s first words were on page one.

”Oh boy…” I thought to myself. ”This is gonna take a while...”

The first off shall be attacks. First, Dark Tracer. If you harness your own darkness and fire it towards a target, while also dealing darkness the target his shall be traced by a visual dark aura clinging to them for five minutes, and if the target and attacker are within a mile of each other, the attacker can feel where their target is up to a minute after the dark aura has faded.

Att Type: Physical/Dark
Damage: 20-105

”Cool…” I thought to myself, good to know some attacks that could do some damage. ”I should test these after I read through all this…”

Attack two, Chain Whip. This attack shoots out a continuous chain of light from your Key-firearm but stops after ten feet, the attacker can then use their weapon in a whip like fashion and deal physical damage for as long as the attack lasts, up to ten minutes, or wrap the chains around the target and subdue them.

Att Type: Physical
Damage: 10 Standard. 80 Critical.

”Wonder if I can use that like a Grappling hook?” I wondered to myself. ”But let’s see...what else is in this book…”

I read through many other spells, each looked interesting, and some were simple. I began my patroles, dealing with any Mad Ones who got a bit too close to my location. I grabbed a few more food items and headed back. I need a direction to go… What about my weapons? Where would they be? I thought for a moment before bringing out Divine Rose and raised it up, taking a deep breath and letting the blade fall in the direction it wanted me to go.

The Keyblade began tugging me towards the backmost area of the Library. Once arrived I was in the Biographies.

”Oh? Wonder why they wanted me here…” I thought to myself while looking through the Biography section, wondering what might be super special here.

As I was gazing them over, I found something framilier… The Life of Nothingness Royalty: Queen Luna.

”I wonder what Luna thought of me…” I thought, thinking she thought crap about me as I pulled out the book.”I’m sorry...I wasn’t good enough…” I thought to myself sadly, already having low expectations of her innermost thoughts of me.

Introduction:

I was born into this world an Alicorn, back in that time, we were near immortal. Time used to not be a worry, but now, time is. I’ve aged, I’ve lived, and I sit here, writing this book of my life, an old, shriveled mare who loved and enjoyed the life I got to live, regardless of the mistakes and sins of my past. I, like all my fellow wives was a mother to many children, more than any sain mare should, heh, but when you love someone, you take what you received, and never complain. I’m sad to say I have more children than I can even remember, and that troubles me.

I first met Ben, my husband, while he slept in a Manehattan hospital before it was obliterated by a Titan Shadow. He saved not just my sisters star pupil, and Co-wife, but also Rarity, aspiring fashionista, and later, another wife, another love. Herd marriages for the pony race were once so common, and we were one of many who began the trend, and returning to those roots aided our kind in ways we thought impossible.

He was injured, shot with high caliber bullets in non-lethal areas, but was at a heavy blood loss. That was how I first met him, days later when he awoke I met him awake, and, in a mix of youthful glee and desperation, quite literally jumped him on the bed. I remember stealing many kisses while he laid there in what I assumed was shock and maybe even enjoyment.

”Ah yes, I remember mentally screaming at that.” I thought to myself. ”Back in a simpler time…” I thought sadly as I continued to read. ”But good to know I only got to date Luna because she was desperate…”

Chapter 1: The Early Years

Dating Ben was the highlight of my life, with him, and my co-wives I felt safety, security, love. Everything was just so precious. When the fighting was finally over, and we were allowed peace, Ben and I, along with some others would govern our kingdom in this eternal world. It was peaceful, but, life is meant to be enjoyed, and should not be so extensive. This was the law of the new world we lived in. As such, different cities developed different ideals on death, others stayed the same. Ours was a simple acceptance and Celebration. Celebration of a life well lived and enjoyed, by their family and loved ones.

And, the day came when we had to act on this new ideal and culture our kingdom developed. It was a surreal thing, the ‘wake’ of Dinkey, by then a mother to many and wife to Joy.

”Dinky...was the first one to die?” I thought to myself. ”Poor Joy…” I thought, knowing how hard it is to lose the ones you care about...even though Joy also does cause he was in my head for a long time.

She was a daughter, mother, and grandmother at the time of her death. We all age a bit differently, but we all still die, by age or other. Sadly, Dinky was ‘other’. After the new world Dinky decided to work, like any other. Many did. It was a means to keep busy and pass the time of each day. She worked in the water plant, and sadly, fell into the filters. By the time they shut it down, water forced itself into her lungs, drowning her instantly.

While there were tears, we all tried to remember the fonder memories. Her mother Derpy took out all kinds of childhood pictures, and her family took out for their own, and everyone shared stories, her favorite foods all over for all to enjoy. Joy, while mourning her death, kept a smile to make sure that while we were hurting now, this pain would fade, but not her memory. I believe the saying was ‘so long as we are remembered, we never truly die.’ If I recall. To honor her, Ben left his Lunatic, the original, in her tomb. She always loved the Rainbow Skyfalls, so her tomb and his weapon rest there to this day. And hopefully til times end. Hehehe, or at least long enough to be forgotten. Time now goes on forever, but we can’t live as long as time. Not anymore.

”Alright...good to know.” I thought to myself. ”Good to know that we were okay during it.” I thought, wondering what else Luna had to say.

Before I continued, I looked for a world map book, searching the entire place for this Rainbow Skyfalls place. I didn’t want to… but I’ll have to… to open her tomb to get Lunatic...

”Is it wrong that I’m going to rob my own daughters grave?” I thought to myself. ”Yes...yes it is...but because Lord is a vague fuck I don’t have a choice…” I mentally grumbled. ”I’m sorry Dinky…”

I found the Rainbow Skyfalls, it’s a mountainous area about…. 5 Sextillion miles from here… I don’t think even a glider can get me there fast enough… Crap…

”Well...at least I won’t be grave robbing today…” I thought to myself, not wanting to do something horrible to family.

So… I know where I need to go, first at least… Now how to get there in a reasonable amount of time?

I began looking through the city, finding travel areas and looking for something that won’t take too long. In my readings, DTL’s can now only take you to places you've been to before. Visited at least once, no longer can they just take you where you want without ever being there prior. However, gummi ships can still work for fast travel/living accommodations. They can cover such distance so long as I can keep it fueled up. I need to find one, and stock it up for travel. This is an all Keyblader city, I’m sure Gummi Ships were still a thing here.

”Let’s hope the Gummi Ship won’t take for fucking ever.” I thought to myself while I roamed around, looking for a Gummi Ship. ”Still hope I can maybe tame a giant monster...never got to do that and it would probably be a good idea given I can’t solve everything by myself…”

I packed my stuff and headed off into the largest market area. Thankfully this place is hardly visited by the Mad Ones, they typically stick to the entrances. I found a gummi ship market. Huh… Dragon Ball Capsules… useful. Now, which is the best for what I need?

”Which one is the fastest but fuel efficient?” I thought while looking around at all the gummi ships. ”Cause if it’s fast but chugs fuel faster than a fat person at any food eating competition then that won’t help, but if I have a ship that uses not that much gas but is about as fast as a snail then it’ll just take forever…” I thought, trying to think of what would be the best one for my needs.

I found one that was the classic gummi ship design. Electronium engines so it self recharges when they empty, and can run continues for two months before needing a week long recharge. It’s rooms were spacious and had an autopilot. Not including when I would have to stop to find food, so how long would it take me to get there. Oh, there’s estimations here. Well that’s handy. Let’s see… from here to Rainbow Skyfalls will take me… seventeen months… a while, but doable.

”I know this is magic but Christ.” I thought to myself, wondering how fast I'm actually going in this thing if it takes 17 months. ”But let's get going then...still hate Lord for all this shit…”

I chose a grey color for it then headed off. Gathering some food then using my glider to make it out of the city. Once I spotted the sunlight in the first time in like, days, I opened up the Gummi Ship, loaded my stuff and some nearby fruits then headed out. I set the autopilot and let it start. When it got going all I could see through the windows was white. Must be going crazy fast. I guess now all I’ll do is wait then...

”Christ...this is gonna be so fucking boring.” I mentally groaned. ”I know I asked for this but fuck if this isn't just a massive waste of time.” I thought, hating that just to do something I honestly really don't want to do i have to wait 17 months...this blows.I’m lonely...

”Fuck me I’m bored.” I thought to myself, having traveled for god knows how long at this point. ”Why am I even doing this anyways? I’m not going to actively graverob my own daughter for fucks sakes, even if it means I get a weapon and a lot of power.” I mentally groaned. ”Basically just going there to see her grave at this point...seriously there’s a difference between ‘hard work’ and ‘figuring out what the fuck your supposed to do’.” I mentally groaned, still hating not knowing what I’m actually supposed to do and doing jack all to stop that.

As I just waited I wondered what exactly I needed to do, I began looking into more of the books I brought for something to do. Most were facts about the world now, notable locations, weapons, items, dungeons, things of that nature.

As I was reading I began looking over the Dungeons and their magic.

So far the majority of known dungeons are all spawned in with the world, however, Mothers have informed that dungeons can be created, during a shift from an era of peace to an era of evil. This can be cities, townes, any once populated area. Not just places of living, there are some dungeons where spawned in with Undead enemies, and have a natural Necromancy magic within them, often times these undead even when slain will reform after several minutes to an hour or more unless a specific item is destroyed within the immediate area, or, in rare cases, the dungeon boss. Most of the time the Dungeon boss in these areas is an undead necromancer, though other times they are massive stones of Necromantic energy guarded by one or many strong guardians.

Other dungeons follow a similar pattern, many floors descending, or ascending to a major boss with high valued items. All dungeons respawn after a year, or under a Blood Red Moon, or a Crying moon.

”Alrighty then, this is good to know...but what the hell is a ‘Crying Moon’?” I mentally wondered.

I bookmarked that page then looked through the other books, skimming through til I found the Crying Moon.

Crying Moon- A random Event where the Skystones above project the Sun and Moon in the same place, creating an eclipse that causes the whole sky to rain liquid mana. This event lasts for at most Ten hours, and dungeons that respawn under it gain their foes back weaker to magic, but stronger in terms of Physical attacks. Mage based enemies gain no benefits.

”Well that’s good to know.” I thought to myself. ”This world must have been filled with a lot of good things...wonder why the hell it went downhill?” I mentally wondered. ”I know I have clones back home but...I miss everyone…” I mentally sighed out.

I kept reading, apparently each dungeon tells you how long/deep/tall it can be at the entrance. A symbol on the door or door frame. A Circle with an X in it means expect four floors. Or four miles if it’s a horizontal one.

”Good to know.” I thought to myself. ”Too bad I’ll never know cause I’m too busy…” I mentally grumbled.

Time passed I finished reading all the books I brought and my food and water supplies were damn near out. I had the ship stop and it landed me near a river. I needed a stretch anyway, pretty damn claustrophobic in that ship after ten days.

Thankfully I was able to shift into my primal wolf form still and with that, I began hunting.

”God it feels good to be like this again.” I thought to myself happily as I carefully searched for my prey. ”May not find anything as tasty as those animals back home but food is food.”

As I ran I made myself a mental perimeter so I didn’t lose my ship. I found a large field of rabbits, some I ate then and there and the rest I took back to the ship, making ten rabbits. Heading back out I found two male deer. I figured that was enough meat, so I looked for edible plants. Nothing too much, an apple tree, wild onions, mushrooms that my nose informed me was safe. Oooh! Truffles! I smelled and began digging up.

”Can’t wait to have truffles, they’re always nice.” I thought to myself happily.

I managed to get twelve truffles, each rather large. Happy with that I took them all back to the ship, slicing up the prey to fit the ships fridge and freezer. I left the bones but kept the skin to tan into leather. Might as well, it will keep me busy. Once that was done I got the ships hose out and began filling up the water tanks and dumping my, er, waste. Advanced tech and you still have to dump your crap out like it’s an RV.

”Well so far things have been...too quiet.” I thought to myself, even though the sounds of nature was still around and it was pleasant, not hearing much else was a bit concerning.

Back in primal form, I began swimming. The deepest area of this river thankful at least was able to go to my neck when sitting. I managed a few fish. They were plane. Not too tasty at all. I let my nose take deep sniffs of the air, looking for anything that could be worrying nearby. It was then, I heard something… a loud cracking in the distance… is that a tree falling?

”Well...that doesn’t sound good.” I thought to myself while looking to where the tree’s might be falling. ”If this is a giant monster...god please let me be able to tame it cause I am really fucking lonely.” I thought to myself, thinking having a buddy would help alleviate the growing feeling of being alone in this place.

I headed over to the noise, finding… a robot? It was slicing up trees… and from the looks of it behind it, it’s been doing it for a long time. Must be automated.

”Weird...wonder who turned it on and left it?”” I mentally wondered.”Wonder what I could do here…” I mentally wondered, slowly moving towards the robot to get a closer look.

It didn’t have any Logo on it, in fact it looked hand made, dented metal, rusted body, and most of its parts looked like they were from other machines. It took the tree it cut down and began moving out. I followed it, some miles til I came across this farm house near a waterfall. Crops long since overgrown the area, lot’s of grapes, corn, potatoes, wheat. Score! Looking around more I saw the Farmhouse was long since abandoned… til I went inside. Inside was three skeletons, an old fashioned shotgun, and rotted into the wall was the sentence ‘Mothers have Mercy’... What happened? The smallest skeleton had to be no more than ten, way too young to go mad… unless they bled out when one of them did go mad and attacked...

”Either something bad happened here...or someone killed them…” I thought to myself worriedly, investigating around and kind of hoping my words per day stacked given I haven't said anything in ten days. ”But hey, good to know this place has an ass ton of free food...but the robot is something to consider…”

Looking outside I saw the robot dropped off the log among a massive pile of others near a small outside shack. Investigating there was some lumber work being done, and a set of long worn and faded blueprints for something. Guess they just needed wood and this thing was left on. Wonder how it stayed powered this whole time?

”Well...let’s see if I can make out what they wanted to make…” I thought to myself as I looked over the blueprints, wondering if they’ll be useful. ”Maybe I could repurpose the bot maybe? Would be better for it to be used for something progressive rather than being stuck here where everyone’s dead.” I thought while rummaging through things, hoping to find something helpful about the robot as well.

Trying to make out what was on the blueprints wasn’t helpful. They were long since decayed and sun bleached, whatever was on them, if anything was on them yet was lost to time now. I did find a Pc in the house that seemed to control the robot outside. There was pre-set instructions.

”Hmm...wonder what the preset instructions are?” I thought to myself as I tried to find out what they were.

MultiBot Preset Instructions:

-Lumber Collection
-Repairs
-Water Fields
-House Defence
-Create Custom Preset

”Alright...seems simple enough.” I thought to myself. ”I doubt i can just turn it off...if it did it would probably fall apart…”

I changed it to repairs, the machine stopping for a bit then it’s saw arm swapped out for what looked like a nail gun as it began scanning the house. Huh, that’s cool.

”Alright...that should help keep the building alright…” I thought to myself as I wondered what to do with the robot next. ”But if I can’t think of anything then...well I can keep this place as a checkpoint cause of food.”

Taking a look around, I just grabbed a few veggies and fruits then left to the ship, flying over the farm and locking in the location. With that stuff collected I I went back to my designation… Wonder how long this will take.

”SO FUCKING BORED!!!” I mentally screamed/ ”Seven months my ass...I’m gonna go fucking stir crazy if I can’t actually have any interactions with anything!” I mentally groaned. ”Still hope I can be a monster tamer here cause there must be some monsters around here that aren’t mad ones...just something to do~.” I mentally complained, hating not doing much through these two months.

As I was at this point laid on the floor in boredom I heard the ship make a beep sound then a notification came up above me.

Dungeon Detected!
Status: Prior Explored/Loot & Enemies respawned.
Threat Level: 9/10
Type: Tower
Name: Heavens Stairway.
Floors: 957

Engage?: Yes - No.

”I’m fucking bored, so let’s do this.” I said while clicking ‘Yes’ on the ship’s computer. ”And hey, I’ll be leveling up a shit ton because I’m basically level one at this point...even though Level’s haven’t really mattered at all at any given time as far as I’ve noticed.” I thought to myself while slowly flying towards the tower.

As I got closer I realized two things… One, this tower’s ‘floors’ are as tall as a New York Apartment building, the whole tower itself was at least the size of canada… around… and just all in all… THIS WAS HUGE!!!

”Well...good to know this will take for fucking ever…” I mentally grumbled. ”But it’s better than nothing right?”

I landed outside the front entrance. Pushing open the large doors and taking out Divine Rose. I had some food, and remembering how DTL’s work now, I should be able to leave and return whenever. Upon entering this floor I realized it was a maze. The pathways large and many. Thankfully there was a lot of hanging crystals that gave off plentiful light.

Traversing my first path I came across some rather large white rats, two, ready to attack me.

My Assistant flashed to life, their levels, health… Okay this is BS. Albino Rat, Level 50, att 33, def 23, and their bites give me an infection… Oh yeah, and HP 500!

”Well...looks like I’m gonna have to play sneaky and cunning…” I thought to myself as I looked to see if this thing was weak to anything as I prepared to either run or set a trap with all the spells I learned for my Key Armament and just normal spells I knew.

Thankfully I did manage to see it hated fire, so I used that a lot against it. Finally killing one while only taking a few hits… each hit nearly killing me. Finally though the other died. Their corpses burning up in the fire.

”Ow...but yay, two dead…” I muttered while looking at my own stats to see what happened to my own stats and levels since stats might matter.

I leveled up… to level ten. At least that’s better than one.

”I mean...murdering two level fifty’s at level one shouldn’t just give you nine levels but...maybe there’s some exp thing when you murder something too high level…” I thought to myself while feeling plenty stronger just from the levels. ”Alright...this is gonna be a nightmare and a half...but let’s hope for the best.”

I figured sneaking might be my best option. So, I did just that, casting Vanish whenever it ran out to help me stealth by. I did find a few random loots and such around. Mostly it was potions, Rem, and HOLY FUCK! This chest I opened was large, larger than others I came across. Opening it was the sword that Link carries in the Zelda games. Sweet!

”Alright cool, I have the Master Sword.” I thought to myself while grabbing the Sword. ”Wonder how good this weapon is…” I mentally wondered while continuing through the dungeon with my new wonderful sword.

I found the stairway up, and on the second floor- Did I end up outside? I’m in a forest? Huh, each floor must be different. Cool, wonder what’s here. As I walked through the trees, I was pounced on, a giant silver wolf snarling over me.

I growled back, shifting into my primal form and knocking it off of me as I got up quickly, getting ready for a fight against the wolf.

The wolf looked at me, confused now as it sniffed me. I sniffed it. This was the first time I ever smelled another wolf. Male, old, not enough to go Mad, but possibly not too far off. Likes fish, that smell is all over him.

”Well...better than fighting I suppose.” I said, not entirely sure if barking counted as talking but I just let body language of ‘why did you attack me?’ was kind of obvious to the wolf. ”Let’s hope I can at least understand the wolf without much trouble…” I thought as I relaxed a little.

‘Territory. This floor is mine. Then beast arrived.’

‘Who’s the beast?’ I ‘asked’ the wolf. ‘And...why do I smell female?’

‘Beast massive. Takes up half this floor, or so. Appeared when Madness happened.’

‘What does the beast look like?’ I ‘asked’ curiously, tilting my head in wonder at what might be that big.

‘Massive Behemoth, making her claim over by this floors largest river. Large horns atop it’s head and glowing red eyes.’

‘Excuse me, did you just say ‘Behemoth’?’ I asked, shocked that a monster like that was here. ‘That’s actually a pretty strong monster...wait, what color is it? Did it have any markings on it that doesn’t look like battle scars?’ I asked, wondering if this was a regular Behemoth or a Behemoth King variant.

‘Many, deepest looks like it should have been lethal.’

I thought for a moment. ‘Interesting...well, looks like I’m gonna have to search for the lady if I want to continue.’ I shrugged simply. ‘Wouldn’t be the dumbest thing I’ve done. So where’s the large river she’s staying at?’

‘Just head a ways deeper. Beast takes up the whole major hunting grounds.’

‘Not surprising, heard Behemoths can get really big.’ I said honestly. ‘Oh, do you have a name?’ I asked curiously, wondering if the older wolf had a name or if he didn’t have one.

‘I was known as Pond, no one has called me that in a long time however.’

‘It was nice to meet you Pond, my names Ben.’ I nodded to the wolf.

‘Ben, well, it was nice as well. If you die, what is left over I shall retrieve and bury.’

‘And if you start hearing roars and howls...don’t entirely expect it to be from fighting.’ I said, knowing my current track record with women has been ‘trying to kill me’, ‘good friends’, or the ever wonderful ‘became wife through rigorous pelvic thrusting’ as I headed off to find the Behemoth.

Trekking through this forest floor in primal form was rather easy. As I stood atop a rather large hill I was wondering why I didn’t see it yet and why is this hill moving? Oh crap! I yelped, sliding down to the ground, then was face to face with a face the size of Twilight’s Library house… Just its face.

“Uh...Hi.” I said to the Behemoth with my actual voice. “How are you doing today?” I asked the giant lady, not entirely sure how many words per day I have left.

They turned their head, looking at me a bit confused. Then, there was a purple fog that covered her body, it smelled like steam. When it cleared, standing over me was… to put it bluntly, what looked like a battle scarred horned amazonian woman standing over me and Dear lord those knockers just gave Celestia a run for her money. “Who are you?” She asked, eyes still a glowing red, giving her a bit of a demonic appearance along with those horns.

I shapeshifted back to my hybrid form and rolled my shoulders. “I’m Ben. Who are you?” I asked politely, blushing a little at how hot she looked.

“I have no name. My kind were bred to conquer kingdoms, when the Madness happened, we were set free, or escaped. I wondered. Unlike most beings, my kind lives much longer, so the Madness affects us differently. Twisting us after we are about three hundred years old rather than forty years like you smaller short lived lots.”

I nodded. “Sounds rough.” I said honestly. “And lonely.” I said, mentally wondering if these Behemoths are different than the Final Fantasy Behemoths now that she explained some things.

“Those with longer lives like myself typically are always among our own, but many in my kingdom I was born too, went mad when it happened. I came here, after wondering for many years. I only take this smaller second form to enter the area, or speak with small ones like yourself.” She said, leaning in more… and my torso is getting crushed under her massive knockers… “What brings you here? Treasures? Safety?”

I could only think of saying something retarded. “Love now that I met you.” I said without thinking. ”Well fuck me…” I mentally groaned, blushing brightly at my own stupidity.

She looked at me even more confused. “So, you wish to breed me?” She asked… does she not know what love is or can she feel my boner… or both?

“Do...you know what love is?” I asked curiously.

“It is breeding… right?” She asked. “My kind were bred for larger and stronger versions of us to be born.”

“Um...you're not technically wrong.” I said. “Love is an emotion...you share with someone special, that you deeply care about.” I explained, trying to figure out how to explain this important thing...before just mentally going ‘fuck it’ and just kissing the sexy Behemoth on the lips cause I’m an idiot.

She didn’t break the kiss, rather letting it continue til I stopped it. “Oh, you mean the emotion love… We don’t have that, my kind I mean. We have some other emotions but Love was literally bred out of us. That part of our brain is bred to be so small it can’t work. We can like one another but love… nope. But we do just breed with one mate for life, mainly cause our biology makes us incompatible with any other after we are first bred.”

“Ah…” I said. “Can...I teach you how it feels then? It’s not too late.” I said honestly, thinking it was a bit sad they couldn’t experience something nice and heartwarming.

“If you mean can you breed me, yes actually. I was meant to be bred before but then the Madness happened.” She said and OH FUCK SHE'S on top of my dick. “Woah. that’s interesting.”

“You satisfied?” I panted, cuddling up to the wonderful Behemoth lady.

“If I’d known that was what Breeding was like, I’d have been a bit more pissed about missing out on it for so long.” She said, still in her humanoide form that was twice my size. “So, I guess this makes us mates for life, as now I can’t breed with anyone other than you.”

“Cool.” I said honestly. “Oh um...do you know what a Harem is?” I asked sheepishly.

“Yes. Often many of the breeding males had more than one female to breed with. It’s just us female that can only breed once with a mate, the males can breed with many.”

“Alright...then you wouldn’t mind if I had...say twenty five hundred other mates?” I asked curiously. “Including you of course.” I said while nuzzling the loving lady. “But...you said you don’t have a name...do you want one?”

“A name would be nice I guess. And I’m fine with other mates of yours, we all are bred by the same male so we all at least have that in common.”

“Alright.” I nodded while trying to come up with a name for the loving lady. “What kind of name do you want?”

“What would you like for me?”

“Hmm...how about… Ashe?” I asked honestly.

“That will be my name then. Ashe.”

I nodded with a smile. “A strong name for a strong woman.” I said with a warm smile.”I hope Lord or someone that’ll take me back to present day will also bring Ashe with me…” I thought to myself, hoping to have Ashe be with my whole family so she can learn what love is again.

A few days passed, and while finding clothes for Ashe’s human form is proving… impossible, she helps a lot when covering this dungeon. She gets them weak enough for me to kill them off, letting me both learn to handle them as well as gain some exp in the fighting. The Teamwork combat also is good practice.

“Thanks Ashe.” I said. “Don’t know how far I would have made it in this dungeon by myself.”

“This is fun.” She said, her makeshift clothing made by large leaves held together by glue like sap. It at least covered her up. “If I’d known fighting this small would be fun, I would have shifted to this form sooner.” She said, crushing the skull of a giant that tried to kill us.

“It is.” I said honestly. “Better to give an honest fight then just accidentally stepping on it right?”

“Much. They used to teach us not to bother with anything small, but this is much more fun than just stomping on our enemies.”

I smiled. “Glad your happy.” I said simply, just glad to have someone here with me again.

We reached the third floor a while ago, this place more like large planes with giants roaming and other large and deadly wildlife. Most loot was in animal dens and giant camps. Something in a giant camp must have something for Ashe, so we attacked one. Well Ashe did most of it, I just made sure any that hit the ground didn’t get up.

”Alright...now what loot is in these camps?” I mentally wondered after making sure all the monsters from the camp were dead.

Looking in their tents and large sacks was mostly raw materials, large hides, raw ores, some makeshift weapons made from giant trees with large boulders attached to the top. We did find some cloth clothings too small for a giant. Maybe a baby one? They were still a bit large for Ashe, but with some needlework, and such, we got them to fit like a worn dress of sorts. Covered more than the leaves.

”So far so good.” I thought to myself. “Alright...now another nine hundred floors to go...”

As the day went along I realized something. I was way over twenty words a day, though, maybe it did stack? Even so, a few weeks stacking twenty a day can’t pile up that many words… Wonder what’s up?

I gently rubbed my throat, wondering if there was any marks on my neck. ”Either something happened or that guy stopped caring.” I thought to myself.

I didn’t feel anything and went about with Ashe, some more looted camps and a few level ups. We were now on the next floor. This was neat… looked like hell...

“Well...this looks peachy.” I said nervously.

“Ooh. This looks like a good place to find some strong weapons or magics.” Ashe said.

“That would be good.” I agreed.

As we walked through the area the only thing that I could describe as Demons popped up. They were dealt with easily by Ashe and finished off by me. We then came across one with a massive battle axe. The demon itself looked like half Minotaure, half Scorpion. “Ohh. Nasty looking one.” Ashe said, looking eager to fight this one.

“Hold on.” I said while checking my assistant to see what kind of demon that was. “Cause I’d rather you not get poisoned by Demon Scorpion venom.”

Before I could check though it attacked, swinging it’s massive Axe which Ashe caught between her hands. This demon put more of a fight than past enemies for her, actually able to deliver her a challenge while they fought. I did a few pot shots at it’s eyes, managing to blind it in the left eye, letting Ashe deliver a punch to it’s jaw, snapping said jaw off on impact. Despite the mutilation it suffered, it still attacked, now using it’s lower half pincers and tail in combination with it’s axe for AoE attacks rather than precise ones.

Ashe grabbed me, and got us both out of it’s range. “Wow! I haven’t had this much fun in years!”

“It is fun.” I said honestly. “But the things hurting, we know that...but there’s something up...I’m sure there’s something else special about this thing other than minotaur and scorpion…”

“Does that matter?” She asked, taking on of the Giants hammers from the floor below and arming herself. “Never used a weapon before. Wonder how this will be?” She pondered, blocking another swing of this things axe.

“Gonna have to train you how to use weapons, cause weapons are special.” I said while raising my gun and firing two flaming boa’s at the scorpion, one wrapping around it’s pincer and another around it’s stinger, the thing igniting and starting to burn the thing.

As it tried to break the chains Ashe slammed the Giants hammer atop it’s skull, smashing it into thousands of shards. It dropped the Axe, Ashe picking it up and slicing it’s Minotaure half off it’s scorpion one. “I think I prefer the sharp ones.” She said, looking over the axe that seemed big even for her.

“Alright.” I nodded while cutting off the things tail. “Hmm...I wonder.” I said with some thought as I looked at my Key Armaments keychain, Divine Rose and the huge tail. “I wonder…” I muttered while seeing if I could take off my Key Armaments keychain so I could attempt to give it to the scorpion tail.

Sadly nothing happened, but I did keep the tail just in case. We went along after that, finding a chest. Inside was a glove, with a small fire in its palm, though the glove did not burn. “Wait, a Pyromancy Flame?” I asked in a little surprise, gently grabbing the glove carefully and curious as to why this thing was here. “This is a little curious.”

I checked it out in my Assistant.

Pyromancy Flame

A form of Magic, Fire based spells have been a part of magic for as long as mortal life has crafted fire, but, simple magic catalysts or spells bare no match to the power of a proper pyromancer, armed with a flame of ancient fire. With such an item in possession, the possibilities expand drastically.

“Cool, exactly what I’ll need.” I said while slipping the glove on. “Can’t wait to use this.” I said while clenching my gloved hand and opening it, seeing a small ball of fire appear in it.

I tested it out, so far I can only do fireballs but it was better than nothing. We headed up to the fifth floor now, the whole place was like mountains and dragons flew all around us. “This place looks risky.” Ashe warned.

“Dragons...a whole lot of dragons.” I muttered. “Gonna have to be extra sneaky because of those things…”

As we walked through, careful to avoid the Dragons we came across a treasure chest… surrounded by dozens of massive eggs. “Can we reach it?” Ashe asked.

“I probably can…” I said. “But...it’s about as obvious of a trap as you can get really…” I muttered, not sure if we should just skip the obvious trap or just say screw it and go for it. “Hmm…” I hummed, carefully moving over to the eggs and using my ears to learn if the things are even alive and waiting or if they’re asleep.

I didn't hear anything, but slowly I managed to get to the chest. Opening it, inside was a sword, it's metal did not look like metal… more like… bone? I checked the assistant.

Dragon Bone Sword.

A dragons bones and scales are so tough only magic imbued forges can melt them like ores, forging the strongest of weapons that lack their own magic.

Att: 5000
Def: 300
Mag:0

Cuts through 90% of enemy defence.

“Oh...well that’s a thing…” I muttered while taking the sword. “Unless my assistant is lying to me...this sword is really fucking strong.” I muttered while trying to carefully get out of the ring of eggs. “So far...so good…” I muttered.

We headed off the pathway to the next floor was decorated by two large stone statue of dragons. I noticed something. On their chest, decorated we're designs of… eternal flames? My chakrams?

“Wait…” I muttered. “That...doesn’t seem right. Where are we?” I asked, finding the more we went through here the more I’m feeling like this entire dungeon is just filled with Dark Souls related stuff.

I checked my assistant but didn't find anything… then went back to the book with Luna's life story.

I remember when Ben's council began to fall to age and time. The first to go was Dante, the Archer. Killed in duty to his king. Then Rogers, died from age. Cat, from heartbreak of losing Dante, and a possible miscarriage.

Genos… Genos left. A cyborg can not die, not naturally, but he suffered a far worse fate. He went to the Heavens Stairway dungeon, and on the fifth floor, lived with it's dragon who's fire he felt kinda with. Unfortunately he spent too much time their, and he became part of it. Now he is just a boss, reappearing after every respawn period to fight those who want to pass the fifth floor. While not mindless he can not leave the dungeon either, so he made Ben promise to return to the dungeon every time he would respawn, and kill him again, and again, so he could at least have a temporary peace of death til the dungeons magic revived him.

“Well that sucks.” I muttered bitterly. “Genos…” I sighed out. “Ashe, I’m gonna do something really stupid...don’t panic.” I said before taking a deep breath. “GENOS!” I shouted, my voice echoing throughout the mountain region. “YOUR KING CALLS FOR YOU.”

The doors to the next floor opened. Genos was taller, long hair reaching to his feet, armor cracked and withered, and flames came off him with a volcanoes heat. He was still cybernetic, but it was clear his body was a mix of magic and machines. “My king.” He spoke, taking a step. “You are late. I had assumed you passed.”

“Well...yes and no.” I said honestly. “Technically speaking, in this time, I’m six feet under, but given certain...events I’m here with literally none of my powers.” I said while looking over Genos. “You look awesome...but you really need a haircut.”

“It’s a price to pay for waiting.” They spoke, Eternal Flames appearing in his hands. “I will always be your Anarchist, but these dungeons, their magic is far, far surpassed Lord's and admins, built to last forever as the world does and adapt, as such, it adapted to keep me bound to it, and nothing can change that, I am afraid. So please my king,” Eternal flames became engulfed in flames that reached fifty feet above us all. “Keep your promise while you are here…and kill me again, so I can be at peace, even for a short time.”

I looked at Genos, feeling really upset about this. “You...do know I’ll try to find a way to break your curse right?” I asked while preparing myself for the upcoming fight.

“I do. And I'm sorry.” Genos said, readying his pose. “But you died trying.”

“Well...looks like I’ll just have to walk it off.” I said, having a good feeling Cap told us all one time ‘If your hurt, hurt em back, if you die...walk it off’. “So...a horrifically under leveled me...versus a boss that’s one of my best friends...yeah this isn’t emotionally depressing.” I chuckled a little before dashing forward and swinging my Dragonbone Sword at Genos.

“I am aware my king. You mentioned something like this would transpire for me someday on your very last visit to stay me. Why else did you think I left that sword for you.” Genos rushed, fire melting the ground under him as he sent them out in massive AoE attacks. Melting the very rock and soil while also making the air itself evaporate it's own water. Seiring hot steam filled the area.

“I’ll save you my friend...even if I have to rip the magic out of this place barehanded.” I said. “And...you’ll finally get your long awaited rest..”

“I applaud your determination.” Genos said, slashing at Ben who dodged by the hairs along his nose. “But look at the facts. This is the future, and you are from the past. You will return to when you came from… and yet nothing here has changed.” Genos said, tanking a swing from Ben’s dragon sword. “While time travel is a possibility, this I know, and you will learn in time to come, time that has passed, such an action creates a paradox, and they will not let those happen.”

“And they can eat my ass.” I frowned. “I’m not going to stand by and watch my closest friends suffer like this.” I stated bluntly. “And I don’t even know who your talking about so unless they want to make themselves known to me now would be a good a time as any before I literally ruin a lot of things for them.” I said honestly. “And you know full well I can do it.” I said before dashing in and slashing at Genos swiftly and strongly.

“And yet, here we still fight.” Genos said, the two clashing, Genos’s obvious stronger power made Ben get pushed back to a wall. Ashe tried to land a hit, only to get spin kicked away while Genos tried another attack on Ben on the spin around, missing as Ben rolled away.

“That’s kind of because your the boss to the next floor.” I said honestly while pulling out my gun and firing two dark seeker arrows to distract him. “But I’m going to save you and whoever else needs saving. I’m not going to abandon you all even if I’m only from the past.”

“I’m sorry, my king. But I accepted this long before you first even received word of my situation.” Genos said, Ben dodging another kick but managing to slice the sword up Genos’s leg, breaking it and crippling Genos, who despite the handicap now kept himself a float with the jets from the palms of his hands.

“I’m pretty sure I would have taught you people not to give up on yourselves because of bullshit situations.” I said honestly. “No one should have to endure this crap for the rest of their lives.” I said while moving around carefully, now seeing the jets and not wanting to get burned by those.

Eternal flames spun around Genos, acting like projectiles controlled mentally, Genos himself switching to large area spinning attacks using his jets and one good leg. “If there is one thing you will learn my king, it’s that you can not do everything. You are just one person.” The area on this spin, Genos increased the flames, the resulting explosion sent Ben flying back, burning off part of his clothes and face fur. “King, Admin. Everything has limits, has something not even they can accomplish.”

“Then some people haven’t met me yet.” I said while planting my feet into a wall and dashing back towards Genos. “Cause if there’s one thing about me, is that I don’t entirely listen to ‘impossible’ things when it involves my friends and family.”

As Genos was about to attack again, they froze, everything around me was frozen in place, dragons in the air, the fire itself… everything and everyone but me… must be this they Genos mentioned.

“Perfect.” I said while looking around. “Nice to meet you whoever the hell you are. Mind coming out for some proper introductions?”

The air, no, reality itself began warping around til someone walked out of the disruption in reality, a person in a plain and simple Organization 13 cloak, but there was the design of a blue hourglass on the front, arms, and back.

“Nice to meet you.” I said honestly. “Who are you?” I asked, wondering if it was one of those Diamonds.

They didn’t speak, rather, summoned a No Name Keyblade, and aimed it at me.

“Okay, let me ask, are you a Diamond Tiara?” I asked honestly while getting ready to move away from most likely getting attacked.

They lifted the hoodie off, showing it was… but… their face was scarred all over, eyes milky...blind, ears torn, and fur a mess. “It’s been a while dad.” She spoke, voice raspy with tired experiences.

I looked at Diamond in fear. “Oh...oh god…” I muttered while taking a step forward. “Diamond...my Diamond...what…” I was at a complete loss for words at how beat up and tired she looked. “What happened?”

“Time. It’s our job to stop paradoxes, and certain events from transpiering. None of us are without scars.” She said, putting her hood back up.

I couldn’t stop myself as I just moved over and hugged her, tearing up at this. “I’m sorry…” I said sadly, sadly knowing she’ll just stab me cause it’s her job to deal with stupid people like me.

She didn’t stab me, but, she disbanded her Keyblade, hugged me back, then raised her hands to my neck, prying me off and began choking me. “It’s nothing personal. You have to learn… You can’t save everyone. You can’t do everything.” She said, tightening her grip and I was at my knees now. “You need to accept when you lose.”

“Your...right…” I muttered while looking at her. “I...let...my daughter...go through hell...without help…” I said through being choked. “I...could have helped...not get...you hurt...I’m sorry.” I said sadly.

She sighed. “That’s not the lesson. That’s not what you need to learn. What you need to learn is…” She said, grabbing the sides of my neck, then, I was looking behind me, I fell over… “You need to learn, to accept what happens, accept the outcomes good or bad.” She said, foot atop my head, applying pressure. “You need to know when a fight will make you lose more than what you could earn.”

I really couldn’t do anything given Diamond literally just snapped my neck. ”I’m sorry my daughter...and I’m sorry everyone else...for failing you…” I muttered while my spirit started to leave my dead body.

Tiara kept the pressure up. While I couldn't feel anything I could tell from the change in perspective, my skull was getting crushed. Everything went dark… “Well that could have gone better.” I turned around… I was alive… and Lord was in front of me. We were in a black void. “You are too stubborn for your own god damned good…”

“Says the guy that expected me to know what he wanted when he literally told me nothing about anything.” I said bluntly. “Also, ‘I need to learn to accept good or bad outcomes’? Bullshit, you and Cript and quite a lot of people get off scott fucking free-”

“...What’s sad is you think that’s true.” Lord interupted me. “I am one of the oldest Admins, I have lived so long that at some points I erase my own memories, living as someone random in my own creation just to forget my past, and I’ve done it so much I don’t even remember it. All I can recall is a promise, a girl, and a burriel. Anything before that is lost to me, where I truly came from, partners, siblings, friends… Everything I do, for ever one bad guy I kill, I have to watch something else worse come along and kill more. For every time Cript saves someone, it’s more time his own family is without him. You should know those Starfish clones while helpful are still not a perfect solution. For every victory Cript archives, for all his power, he feels less, and less. His own emotions are dying off. His compassion, his love, his sense of justice. He only acts out of knowing right from wrong, he can’t feel it anymore. For everything we all do, there is a consequence. I made a promise to someone once to keep on, to stay alive for us both, and my price? I can’t even remember their name, face, voice. Nothing. For all of Cript’s actions, he wears a facade to keep others happy, when inside, he’s dead, hollow. We live with those consequences, and do nothing to change them, because we accept them.”

“I mean...that part might be because you two are fucking ancient to be honest.” I said honestly. “But let me ask...you must have met someone that actively did what I just sprouted right?”

“Many times. Too many. Each time, the consequences drove them mad, or worse. Cript did, does, but he’s no longer human emotionally, physically, or even in how he thinks.This is why in order to keep this from becoming an issue, this infinite reality, will be devoid of immortal beings without a purpose. Longevity is one thing, immortality is the only true sin in this or any reality.”

“I like how I just wanted to let Genos finally rest forever instead of being stuck there.” Ben said honestly. “Like...just wanted to point that out. And I’m one of the people dumb enough to actively do it. Let me ask, what problems would arise from Genos being set free from his own eternal hell?”

Lord waved his hand over, and it was the arena Genos was in...only… Jenny… “Genos left because Joy had just died, and Jenny and he shared a kiss. If he didn’t leave, Jenny would have had this fate, too stubborn to leave a challenge… and stayed… forever bound to it.”

“Okay so...first, Genos stayed here instead of Jenny...and uh...what’s between Jenny and Genos?” I asked worriedly.

“Loss, comfort, a kiss, and while Genos doesn't know it. A child.” Lord explained. “Joy’s loss hit Jenny the hardest. She was weak, Genos was already mourning Saitama's death, now his friend and fellow council member. Weakness leads to mistakes.”

I sighed out. “And yet another thing I couldn’t help my family through…” I grumbled. ‘I know I was probably long dead before all that happened but still...and...I’m at least a little glad Jenny enjoyed her life with Joy...but wait, wouldn’t the many kids Joy and her had have tried to comfort her?” I asked honestly, finding it a little weird that her kids would be missing in her time of need.

“While Jenny, Joy, and many in your family were given longevity after creation becomes one place, but many did not, living normal life spans. Joy died after three hundred years… many of their kids only lived to be sixty to eighty.”

“I kind of call crap on that, given that back on Earth the average lifespan was a hundred, and that didn’t involve any longevity.”

“How long does a dog or wolf live normally?” Lord asked.

“Which, animal years or actual human years?” I asked. “Cause there’s a major difference, also are we talking about the actual animals or anthros?”

“Hm. Still trying to fight. Well, either way, you’ve lost this. I’ll send Ashe to your place so don’t worry there.”

“What?” I asked, tilting my head in confusion. “I lost? What do you mean? I asked a legitimate question.” I said, wondering where Lord found this sudden leap in logic.

“You’re dead. You’ve lost. There’s nothing more you need to ask or even know about what you could have learned, experienced.”

“Yeah, ‘learned and experienced’ when I was literally dicking around moving aimlessly for over five months wondering what the fuck you actually wanted me to do.” I stated bluntly. “There’s a difference between teaching someone something, and just throwing them into the middle of nowhere expecting to make a utopia out of a post apocalyptic event.” I said honestly. “But thank you for bringing Ashe back to my home...out of everything I’ve done...loving her was at least something positive out of it.”

“Good. Don't think your Admin training is over though. I'll have Player training you from now on. You will have full power and abilities restored. Now, I am going to have a nice laugh at your expense.”

“Hey, I’ll actually be trained this time.” I said bluntly, implying Lords version of training is shit.

“That is kinda the point.” Lord said. “I don't like training people so I just set it up so they train themselves. Now, two last things. Fuck you and goodbye.” Lord said with a clap.

It was all black… and I felt like I was... kissing someone… no, two someone's… I opened my eyes and...Zeke...Eclipsa… three way kiss… is this a wedding?!?!

”Well...shit.”