Chronicles of The Seven (PG13)

[Lili]

Seleca took the paper into her hands and shook her head "No, this is not the last page from the book of The Seven. I need to get it back." she said looking Zero straight in the eyes. Her own eyes with no pupils or whites were shining in a gleam blue and a shiny line constantly ran through them like it was spinning around the eyes. Well, she had her eyes replaced with camera sensors. She could perfectly see in the night as well as in daylight and also had a movement sensor in one of them, so it was a bit darker that the other. All in all, her eyes were creepy. Her master - an old dragon/flutter pony went to her and put a hand on her shoulder "It's okay Seleca, I am sure that they will be able to find the page... And bring it back safely." he said, but Seleca didn't seem to listen "No, I have to go with them. They have no experience in dealing with books, and I do. Over two hundred years of experience." she said surprised by the emotion she put in those words. "It seems my old self is showing a bit..." she thought, still waiting for an answer.

Shade sighed and snorted
"For the last time, I have never even been to the Grand Palace. Toxic just managed to connect to a computer there and download a bit of information before it was deleted." he said frowning.
The same black feline stood up, clutching his fists.
"I have little patience left, so you better tell me just HOW your friend managed to get through the firewall of the Grand Palace again? Let me tell you one thing..." the feline growled and leaned forward to Shade "... It is impossible."
Shade only sighed again
"I told you, he's a genius when it comes to computers... Just try him and you'll see. By the way, where did you put Jackal to?"
The feline smashed the table, it cracked.
"Fine, we'll let him try, but if your friend won't be able to do that trick again, you all are accused in a murder of a council member!" the feline shouted.
Shade got the chills
"A member of the council... dead? But that's impossible!" he said.
The feline growled again and went out of the room, smashing the wall while going out.
"He's free... for now." Shade heard him say.

Bloodflower (by the way, she's 19 ) felt like she was shrunk to a size of a flutter. That was because she walked besides a "Big Brother". He was a sand yellow color with the hairiest feet she ever saw and had a short bright orange mane with green stripes in it. He had metal pads on his arms and legs and a dark brown leather jacket with big guns on the sides. Bloodflower shivered when he looked at her with his big yellow eye. She felt like he could crash her with one hand. Sunset, on the other hand, seemed not to be too excited to have a big brother in his company too, he constantly looked around and when his eyes caught the big guy, he frowned for some reason.
"I think we can go get something to eat before we go to talk to those important people." he said and smiled to her.
"I'm not hungry." Bloodflower said and wished she was home right now, though she wanted to go out just half-an-hour ago.
"But I am, and I guess Boomer is too." he said, Boomer only snorted and grinned. Well, at least it seemed like a grin from down where Bloodflower was. "And it will be better if you eat too, because the talk can take very long with their kind of organization and attitude..." he said, opening a door of a small coffee shop.
They sat there in silence, Bloodflower only ordered a banana milk-shake and played with the straw not even taking a sip. Sunset ordered a cappuccino with some strange meal and the big pony called Boomer ordered "FOOD!". So he got the biggest piece of meat Bloodflower had ever seen. Only now she noticed something dragon-ish (or feline-ish) about that pony - sharp teeth. Sunset looked up at her with a mouth full of some dark green weed and sighed, swallowing it all
"You know, you could at least drink the milk-shake... I'm the one paying for it you know." he said smiling.
Bloodflower frowned and pushed the glass towards Boomer. The "Big Bother" only smiled and drank it all in one shot.
"There. " she said and bitterly smiled back to Sunset.

[NumiTuziNeru]

Oh great, here comes the weirdo brigade.
Euralie sighed.
Knowing her luck, she would instantly get caught up in a stupid plot or something....
Or get crushed to death by an insanely big....THING.
Take your pick.
Just then, Ninni sneezed, breaking Euralie right out of her thoughts and back into the real world.
"Gesundheit."
Ninni looked up at her.
"What's Miss Euralie thinking?"
Euralie scowled.
"Didn't I tell you it's not polite to-"

"FOOD!"

Euralie quickly had to bite down on her lip to keep herself from laughing and ended up looking as if she were having an aneurysm.
"Erm...pardon...."
Ninni, looking completely bemused, simply smiled and carried on eating her carrot cake.

[sunstar]

Zero was already shaking his head no as the andriod talked.
"It's way too dangerous. plus, that thing was met to kill you and the master." Zero pointed out, "you need to stay here where it is safe."
"Don't worry, I can handle books just fine." Axl added.
Medic went to Zero.
"You be careful, my love." She purred throatily.
Zero responded with a smile, "I always am, my dear."
"Okay, you two! I know you two are married and all, but please, not now!" Axl wormed between them, "I'm going to put my computer skills to use and see what else I can find on X's computer." Axl left.

In X's office, Axl sat down at the computer and opened the computer's log.
"Someone hacked into his computer? why didn't X stop them? I have to find the computer responsible!" Axl's curiousity got the best of him as he clicked open the folder labled diary.
"Odd, X started this one two weeks ago." Axl read through the entries, which were mostly about meetings and other everyday tasks, until he got to the last four enetries.
"I recieved a threat in the mail today. It said to stop working on the project or else. I wouldn't be worried about it, but since my poisoning, I'm taking these threats more seriously. I've requested Zero to patrol the halls outside my office, the only place where I still feel safe. He knows me too well. I can tell he knows that something is bothering me. If I told him, he'd probably tell me to let it go. I'm going to continue to work on this project and I'm putting in a failsafe on my computer to protect anything that has to do with the project." Axl clicked to the next entry, "Three more threats today. Zero has stepped up patrols in the halls outside my office. My failsafe is up and running. I'm going to tell Zero everything tonight. If anything happens to me, he'll know what to do. I ordered Cigma's grave dug up on Cristia to confirm a suspection and the pony in Cigma's grave is not Cigma. It is a female dragonpony with flutter wings. I'm worried now. years ago, I sentenced Cigma to fifteen years of work in the mines on Cristia for crimes against the council. as he was leaving the courtroom, he said that he'll kill me jimself first chance he got to escape. four years into his sentence, I recieved word that Cigma died of a heart attack. I know different. Cigma is free, and I'm his first target. I don't know when he'll strike, and I can't ask Zero to stand guard over me. I haven't told him yet, but I will, soon." Axl sat back in shock, "X knew he was going to die?" He went to the next entry, "I plan to tell Zero about the failsafe tonight. Someone hacked my computer today. I decided to not stop the hack. instead, I let the hacker see the report I was working on. what the hacker doesn't know, is that by hacking into my computer, my failsafe is no longer on my computer. All they will know is I was downloading something on my computer and a piece of info went with them. They will have no knowledge of my little trick." Axl opened the last entry, "I will tell Zero everything tonight. In fact, here he comes."
"ZERO!" Axl hit the com, "I found something big!"
Zero was by his side in an instant. Axl let him read the four entrys and he turned to him, "Can you find the hacker?"
"Um, I'll try." Axl went to work.

[Lili]

Seleca wanted to do something and knew she will, but the thought of disobeying straightforward commands was unbearable. Her master didn't let her go, what a fuss... She's in the same danger as anywhere else in the world, her metal shell was not made to make her eternal, it was to protect what was left of her body. Thus it was also strong and able to fight. Even though she couldn't use magic anymore, she was as strong as a "Big Brother". And she decided to wait. She was patient to a fault and that was the most important quality in being a true librarian. She knew every page of every book by heart. There is nothing more to do besides reading when you work and sleep at the library for two ages.

Shade smashed his forehead "You mean all this time you were browsing through their files? Jackal! They will kill you for this" he said, half-laughing.
"You should have seen the face of that feline when I winked right in front of him, hah!" Jackal smiled.
They both sat in a little room with a very unpleasant light and all that they were talking about was heard in the next room, where some officers sat.
"Who do you think works on the councilors death?" Jackal asked
"I think they are ALL working on the death and use an enormous amount of people..." Shade said and sighed, leaning his head on his arm.
"And I think that nobody really knows yet and there is some bad-guy that's hunting someone else now. I stumbled on someone talking about the stolen Sapphire of Gaeleus while I was walking around this place."
"What? They managed to do that also?"
"Yeah, and they all were ambushed in broad daylight almost at the same time the councilor was murdered."
"That can't be a coincidence..."
"Yeah, but to get those two pieces together you should know every part of the history by heart."
"Yeah... And every part of the murder mystery."
"And who the next target is... Before they get to it."
Silence filled the room. There was nothing left to talk about.
After fifteen minutes, when Shade was almost sleeping the door creaked.
"Oh finally! Toxic... Hey, where's Toxic?!" Shade asked, standing up.
Jackal stood up after him, he was half-asleep also so he couldn't concentrate too well.
"You are all going with me, there is someone that wants to see you." a cute purple feline said. Shade looked her over from head to hooves and almost whistled.
"We'll go where you go, doll!" Jackal quickly woke up and suddenly appeared beside the girl hunter.

"Can we go now?" Bloodflower asked, watching the big sand yellow mountain of muscles swallow the last bite of his meal. A big bite. "He could easily tear half of my hand off with those teeth..." she thought.
"No, we still have to pay up... Wait here till I go to the bar." Sunset said. Boomer seemed to be quite amused admiring his guns and there was nothing left besides waiting. Bloodflower looked around and saw a little girl and a woman leave the cafeteria. The girl waved to Bloodflower and suddenly it all turned very soft inside. "That child has some powers..." Bloodflower thought, waving back, a soft smile not leaving her face.

[NumiTuziNeru]

Ninni's primary weapon :
UTTERLY DISARMING PERSONALITY (1D6+1) Devastating force of Cuteness melts hearts of all opponents.
Value: priceless.


"Bye Miss Pretty Red Lady! Bye Mr Big! Bye everyone!" called Ninni as they left the coffee shop, waving her little heart out.

Euralie slapped a palm to her face, grimacing.

"You strange, bizarre, crazy child." she said, trying to hold back a smile [and failing]

Ninni turned to her, curious.
"What does strange, bizarre, and crazy mean?" she asked.
"It means you are very very odd." Euralie explained. "And very very cute."
Ninni smiled happily.
"So Ninni is odd but cute?"
"Absolutely. Now, let's go to the toy shop, shall we?"
"Yay!"

[sunstar]

"Sir, there is two people you need to question." Zero turned to see Rogue, one of his hunters. She was purple and white with pink hair. her eyes were green. she had white bat like wings.
"Lead the way. Axl, anything yet?" Zero asked.
"Nothing yet." Axl answered.
Zero followed Rogue to an interrogation room.
"I sent another hunter to bring them here." Rogue said, "Their names are Shade and Jackal. they may have information for you. I have another hunter grilling their friend, Toxic. I think Toxic may have been the hacker."
"Bring Toxic here too. I want to question all three of them." Zero chose to sit behind the table, "Go check in with Axl and see if he has found anything."
"Yes, Zero sir. also about the robbery on Gaeleus, two other hunters are bringing in a priestess for you to question. I think the events are tied." Rogue left. Zero waited.

"I have discovered something shocking." Axl read, having found another document, "the Sapphire of Gaeleus holds powers. I visited it recently, and I could sense those powers. the Sapphire holds magic. for some reason, it felt so familiar. I must look into this further. I bet the Sapphire could revive someone if used right." Axl reread what he's just read, "magic? but Magic doesn't exsist!"

[Lili]

Shade carefully stepped inside before Jackal. There was a tan pony sitting on a chair and looking some files over. Jackal was warmly chatting with the feline and that's why Shade was the first to enter. He silently opened the door and then Jackal bumped into him
"Hey! Oh, we're here already? Oh well. Sweetstar, I'll catch you later!" Jackal said with a playful tone. The feline giggled and went away.
"Sheesh, how come you're so good at girls?" Shade thought, looking at his two-horned yellow friend with a sparkly bright blue mane.
"So, we were summoned here why?..." Shade asked, then he heard Toxic shout something in the corridors
"... It's your fault you installed that stupid fire-alarm! I want to smoke and I want to smoke NOW!" Shade heard and sighed
Toxic was pushed inside the room and they locked it from the outside
"Great... They took my cigarettes!" He said, turning to Shade, then they all turned to the pony sitting by the desk.

Bloodflower walked in the middle of the group of people that suddenly appeared around them. They were strange ponies, a kind she had never seen before... Though she didn't see a lot of impure blood ponies, but these really were... monstrous. And they surrounded them in the middle of the street.
"Give up the girl and you will live..." one of them said, the tallest one and the slimmest one. He also seemed the smartest one and the leader of the group as he wasn't in his ready-to-fight position. He had seven horns on his head, like a crown, and they all were a pale brown, like real bones, his stance was very graceful, like of a feline and he had four bat wings on his back. When Bloodflower looked a bit more, she noticed, that he really was beautiful, but had a strange mask on his face and most of his body was covered up, but she saw his color on his arms - a beautiful dark blue very suitable for his mane of the same color and the only thing that was different were his crimson red eyes and a lock of hair of the same color on his covered face.
"Yeah, right.. Look, you really picked the wrong pare to fight." Sunset said, smiling. Bloodflower heard how Boomer loaded his guns. The sound was really very loud and she covered her years instantly.
"Well, Boomer, don't fail me!" Sunset shouted and then the ground started to shake. To all directions spread bolts of light that followed the intruders. They followed all but the leader, he stood in his place as he was, nothing touching him.
"Who is he?" Bloodflower thought and then Boomer shot again. Bloodflower leaned down to be farther away from the terrible loud sound. Her hearing wasn't too good and she thought that this sound will totally kill it.
Then she felt a hand on her shoulder, someone tried to get her up.
"Hey, it's over." Sunset said, smiling. But then his smile disappeared and blood showed on his dark gray lips. He let out a short gargle and coughed up blood straight in front of Bloodflower. She instantly stood up and looked him over. There was a huge part clawed out of his back. Bloodflower gasped and immediately started to heal the wound. Boomer ran to them instantly and made himself a shield if anything would attack them again.
"Will he be okay?" he asked in his low voice.
Bloodflower took her hands off of the wound for a bit to look at it.
"He'll live, but we have to get him to a doctor..." she said.
"Okay." Boomer said and took them both up on his huge hands and started walking.
Bloodflower squealed a bit when he took her up, but then suddenly felt thankful. Though he looked big, stupid and very threatening, was very gentle and kind.

[sunstar]

Zero looked up.
"Greetings. My name is Zero, and I am the Leader of the Hunters. please sit. I should be placing you under arrest for hacking into our computer systems. in fact, you are innocent of the crime." He smiled at the shocked looks the three friends shared with each other. Good, the reaction he wanted, "You got in, but you were allowed to stay in. The computer you hacked belongs to X, my closest friend. He was murdered tonight. By letting you in, he used you to hide some very secret information. We need your computer. I have two choices here. I can order it confisticated, or you can let me take it with your consent. Well, boys. what will it be?"

Medic was just stepping outside when she nearly got ran over by a big brother pony. She saw the blood, and reconized the hunter.
"Sunset? Let me take him from here. you get her to Zero." Medic reached up and took the injured Hunter and winked out, going straight to her beloved operating theater.

[NumiTuziNeru]

[FARGNAX POSTED TOO LATE]



Suddenly, a loud cacophony of gunfire exploded behind them.

"Aw HELL NO!"

Euralie sprung right into Defence Mode, whipping out a pair of flintlock pistols from her garters and brandishing them threateningly at wherever the sound came from.
Turned out there was nothing there.

"Ninni, go on ahead. I'm not risk-"
"Ninni stays with Miss Euralie."
"Don't be a moron, Ninni, you-"
"Ninni stays with Miss Euralie."

Ninni was a tiny girl, but when she wanted to she could end wars.
Euralie sighed.
She wasn't going to win this. Ever.

"Idiot."

Running to where the 'scene of the crime' supposedly was...
They found nothing to suggest a firing squad.
Just the Great Pony Mountain carrying Red Lady and a mortally wounded Mysterious Man of Mystery.

Mortally wounded?

"Great Goddess! What happened?"

Go figure, Ninni.
Go figure.

[Lili]

Toxic seemed to get fired up and quickly ran to Zero. Shade tried to grab him, but missed.
"Don't even think I will let someone touch my computer... And if you doubt my hacking skills, I just broke your bet security system into bits! It's nothing! You will never get to the files without me, My files are protected by me, and there is no way someone's hacking me!" Toxic shouted his curly bright green mane fell on his black face and same green eyes, as he was gesticulating a lot.
Shade sighed and went to Toxic, Jackal walked behind him.
"Toxic, calm down... Look, I don't want any trouble and all of us saw some of the files that Toxic hacked. That means we're all involved... So why don't we do it this way. We all cooperate and try to get to the bottom of this thing?" Shade asked. Jackal smiled and nodded.

Boomer didn't seem to stop when a woman ran to them.
"I'm sorry, but he's heavily wounded and we need to get him to the hospital as fast as we can!" she shouted. Boomer stopped for a bit and Bloodflower jumped down.
"Could you help us get there faster? I'm doing all I can, but he needs real medical attention." she said, her hands were covered in blood.

[sunstar]

"Have you ever winked before?" Medic asked, "Zero isn't going to be happy about this!" she lit her horn, "I am Medic, a doctor! Let me see the injuries!" Medic quickly examined the wounds, "Sunset, stay with me here. We have to leave now!" her horn burned brighter as she prepared to wink four ponies along with herself. I hope i don't faint from this!

Zero merely smiled, "trust me. X would have blocked you from seeing anything he didn't want you to see. Need proof?" Zero opened the folder, "read this entry right here."

I plan to tell Zero about the failsafe tonight. Someone hacked my computer today. I decided to not stop the hack. instead, I let the hacker see the report I was working on. what the hacker doesn't know, is that by hacking into my computer, my failsafe is no longer on my computer. All they will know is I was downloading something on my computer and a piece of info went with them. They will have no knowledge of my little trick.

"You see, X let you hack his computer. Now, I'll ask again. do I need to confisticate the computer, or will you allow my best computer tech to go over your computer? I have Hunters ready to swing in and grab the computer at my order." Zero waited for a response.