POV Orgran
"Hey, honey?" Eva said.
"Yes, sugar lips?" I promptly slapped my overtaken face. "NO! Bad Alucard! No making me look bad in front of Eva!"
"Ok for one I kind of like it and two I just remembered I don't have a place to live," Eva said.
"I mention some time yesterday I would buy you a house," Talion said.
"Oh yea but do we even know if your money is good here?" Eva asked.
"Well with a door here and in my world I could bring over gems and precious metals and sell them," Talion said.
"I checked our wallets, the bits we have are compatible for all three worlds," I said.
"Ok, that's good." Talion snapped his fingers and a very large bag appeared and it hit the floor with a loud thud. "That should be enough and then some," Talion said he opened the door and it revealed a forest and he grabbed the small bag that had the marbles off his waist and he walked through.
"Huh… neat." Orgran said.
"It looks safe right now," Talion said.
POV CHANGE Eva
"OOH! Let's go explore!" Orgran said eagerly before walking through the door.
After I gave the skeletal animals and the tree sprite the order to watch the twins I stepped through the door before it closed.
"Wow," Talion said as a screen popped up in front of him.
"What is that?" I asked.
"It appears to be some kind of command setting like controlling the time dilation of this dimension" and he tapped something and it grew twice in size. "Well, this is useful," Talion said.
"What did you just do?" I queried.
"It looks like I pulled up a map but everything is different though the town that used to be there is gone now and is nothing but forest but there is a city not far from here in the opposite direction," Talion said
"I vote we head to the city," I said
"Yes, that would be a good idea," Talion said and as we walked in the right direction Talion found a way to make the screen appear and disappear at will and when we say the city we were ambushed and there were ponies, minotaurs, zebras, and other species among them.
"Who are you state your business." One of the Pony soldiers said and Talion had a few of the marbles in his hands.
"Visitors," Orgran said pulling out a mug. "Free beer?" But they did not lower their weapons.
I tried to intimidate or get them to back down by flaring my wings but it had the opposite effect as it caused them to tense and take a more aggressive posture.
They charged and Talion said. "Leave them to me."He said as she threw the marbles and magic start rush out of them and take forms there were two types the swordsman and the one that wielded a great sword that glowed with red magic and a smaller sword at their side and some of the swordsman swords turned into spears and their shields into tower shields but the rest stayed the same and the ones with great swords swung make a slash of red energy leave their blades and towards the guards it it hit the ground causing an explosion and they stopped.
I breathed a sigh of relief as the cloud of dust cleared and it showed all of the soldiers still alive but on the ground groaning from the shockwave.
"What is going on here." A voice said revealing a female zebra priest and her robes were black and red and she had a staff that had a symbol on it and that gave Talion a look of surprise.
"Ooh, fancy! What kind of staff is it? Magic?" Orgran asked.
"This is the staff of a high priest of our god." She said agitated as she approached..
"Really? Hey Talion, God of Death and Darkness, did you know about this cool symbol that fits your style perfectly?" he bluntly stated.
The zebra prist looked at Talion then the staff and she pointed it at him and walked slowly towards him and it glowed bright red as it got close and all of the soldiers dropped their weapons and kneeled and the zebra got on one knee.
"Uh what's going on why are they kneeling?" I whispered to Talion.
"Because I am their god you all may rise." Talion said and they all stood up.
"Wow, you take getting attacked well… though I don't think I'm one to talk, Dranlun encourages it, Olthok's too nice to even pretend to hit, Rintae doesn't care and would just kick the guy's ass, Elnir is a pretty scary guy when provoked and Eric… well a lot of people forget his power is over water and that 'bloodbending' is a thing."
After that was all cleared up we got an actually good look at the scenery, there were healthy, fully grown trees and there were the dead ones and there were a few made entirely out of bones when we reached the city their were undead living together with the living and as we walked by their was a skeleton merchant selling meats. "Get your meats here!" He shouted and as we walked their was glowing everywhere every symbol that was like the priests was glowing as Talion passed.
"Hey! Do any of these shops sell beer or other alcoholic beverages!? Preferably fruity and flavourful!" he called out to the crowd.
"There is a bar near the church you can go their after we get our god in the church we can cause a giant panic like the end of the world or something else." The priest said and we continued to walked through the city and into a church. "The bar is that way." She said pointing at a building.
By the time we looked to where Orgran stood, there was instead a comical smoke cloud in his shape instead, off in the distance we heard the distinct scream of "BEEEER!!" As he rushed to the building after we walked into the church she had a smile on her face.
"Well here we are." She said as she closed the door it looked like a normal church but instead of a cross it was Talion's symbol.
"What does that symbol mean exactly?" I asked.
"It means several things really to some it means darkness and others death but sometimes resurrection you saw the skeletons outside walking among the living and selling their merchandise right." The priestess asked.
"Yes, what about them," I said
"They used to be alive but now they are undead they can choose to go to the afterlife whenever they want and most of them used to be guards, priests, or people that helped others it is seen as a reward from our god for our actions in life." She explained.
"Ooookayyyy?" I said.
"Let me get us a few drinks to lighten the mood a bit."She said as she walked out of the room.
"This is not what I expected for this world to be like but I'm not complaining." Talion said.
"It's kind of what I expected!!!" I said.
Suddenly the door swung open and a griffon rushed in. "Priestess there is trouble!"
"What is going on." Talion asked.
"There is- there was… it's some kind of- it-it's a creature and... it's made of..." He continued to ramble.
Suddenly his attempts of trying to explain the circumstances were cut off by music, then the main doors burst open to reveal a massive construct made up of beer barrels, flexing dramatically as the wood and metal rings shimmered in a light as if it were heavily oiled.
"What is that." Talion asked in confusion.
"I exist to quench the thirst of the masses." it spoke in a booming voice before blasting us without warning, causing us to hold various alcoholic beverages that seemed to fit our preferences.
"I have returned." The priestess said as she walked back through a door holding a bottle of wine, then she sees the construct in the doorway and nearly drops it.
"Oh sweet, wine!" Orgran says as he casually walks in, grabs a glass for himself and drinks some. "Ooh, excellent vintage!" he then proceeded to give the glass to the 'beer golem', which then absorbs it.
"I am honoured to add to your list of beverages, master." It boomed, proceeding to flex again.
"Hey that is one of the few bottles of Death berry wine that we have you can't just take some!" The priestess yelled.
"Oh! Sorry, Beerus, please compensate the mare."
"Dispensing product at request!" it declared before a bunch of casks and bottles of that very wine landed next to the zebra.
She tasted it and she shrugged her shoulders and said nothing but she mumbled something.
"Hey, don't worry, that's still your technique there, I haven't figured out how to get him to make his own stuff yet, that wine is only good because you made it that good, and I should know, I'm a Brewmaster, one of the highest honors for a Dwarf!"
I put on my new vambraces, walked up to Orgran and socked him one and said "that's for making a twelve foot golem without, mind you, mine or Talion's permission."
"...sorry…"
The priestess grabbed two glasses and gave one to me and Talion and pours us some, the wine was almost completely clear but it had a sweet aroma.
"It is made from a very rare berry only found in a few places the death berries they are completely white and almost see through they give off a sweet aroma that attracts many creatures and makes them dangerous to be around for too long." She said.
"Huh, a berry that causes fights and makes wine… could we rename them to Dwarf Berries? They sound very similar." he joked.
"No." she said flatly.
"Relax, I'm kidding, what is a serious matter is that Eva shouldn't be drinking."
I pouted but put down my glass anyway and said "why the hell not?"
"You're breast-feeding Legolas, an elf like that would be at risk from the alcohol in your system, Demigod or not."
"Well I guess I'll have some then," Talion said as he drank some. "This tastes amazing" He said.
"Hmm… don't worry Eva, I think I have a solution, Priestess? Could you come here with your water affinity?" Orgran asked
"Sorry but what?" She asked.
"In my world, every creature has an elemental affinity, while you may not originate from there, it seems in some ways the concepts still apply, be it through how your aura reflects your very self or body language, with your love for winemaking and the calm flowing nature of your movements, you are very much bearing an affinity for water, and I need that to help give a small gift to my girlfriend."
"Well sorry but I don't have magic." She said.
"I don't need your magic, just your water affinity now just come here please," Orgran asked and she walked over to him. "Alright, now I need you to hold absolutely still… since I've never done this before, but really when would I have a reason to temporarily hijack someone else's body through earth dominion?"
"Wait what?" She asked.
She went silent as Orgran put his hand to her back and both their eyes glowed a soft yellow, the Priestess jerked her hand towards my glass, causing all the wine to lift out. With a flex of her fingers the wine split into two different liquids, one the wine and the other the pure alcohol. The wine was placed into the glass again as the alcohol floated to Orgran, to which when he released his hold on the Priestess he snatched the entire ball of fluid out of the air like a dog and gulped it down.
"...huh, guess beer really has flavour, raw alcohol is quite bland."
"You should try Minotaur ale that stuff is five hundred proof that will put some hair on your back." I said.
"Yeah! I'd take some home with me, I bet something like would really brew competition between Minotaurs and… oh right… aww, now I've made myself sad." he said as he sat on the floor in a solemn mood.
"What happened?" the priestess asked.
"Congratulations, you've been a focal point for a spell." He said, starting to curl up at remembering the loss of his race.
I turned to Orgran and raised my Vambraces and said in a sickly sweet voice "Oh Orgran honey!!!!"
"If you're gonna hit me, do it… I don't care." he said in a broken, dull monotone of emptiness.
All of a sudden a portal appeared in front of Orgran and Legolas shot out on Pix's head and glomped him quickly followed by Pentil being carried by Olthok, and immediately he was happy again, cuddling his son.
"Okay, I'm better now, hey Olthok… where's Pentil?"
The undead king looked at his arms to find the little Dwarf gone, though I notice her… currently crawling towards the casks and bottles of wine with a curious gleam in her eye.
"No-no-no." The priestess said as she picked her up.
"Orgran we have a problem!!!!" I said.
"What, why?"
"Our daughter was crawling towards the wine," I said with a worried tone.
"Oh! Right, that's not safe!" he marches up to Pentil. "No young lady, you can't drink stuff like that."
He then proceeds to take a bottle from the pile and puts on one of those nipple lids and passes it to her. "There you go! Now you won't spill it!" Orgran said.
The little Dwarf cheered and took it.
"Can you two take her back?" Talion asked.
"Yea, I think that's for the best," I said dejectedly.
"I am going to stay here for a bit I will be with you shortly," Talion said.
"Ok," I said then turned to Olthok and asked. "Can you do that again?"
Pentil burped as in the surprise and Talion's suggestion, nobody thought to take the wine bottle away from her, though unlike what I worried about, she seemed happy and a bit more energetic and attentive even after going through half the bottle.
"I don't think she should be drinking that," I said.
"Ah, don't worry, she's a Dwarf! We're built to be tough from the get go, one bottle of wine isn't gonna hurt."
"Ok fine but when she is hyper YOU are dealing with her." I said
"Eva, it's better she gains a love for the finer alcohols when she's younger, I don't want my daughter growing up to think grog is good enough for her." He visibly shuddered.
Right after my little man said that, here comes his excellency, The Faceless Horned God who proceeds to say "and what is wrong with grog, it's a perfectly respectable drink?"
"Dwarves are the artisans of two things, steam-powered mechanisms, and alcohol, and while Grog is an okay drink, at the end of the day it is a crude thrown-together facsimile of beer made of fungus, I want Pentil to know as early as possible all the possibilities of Ale and other alcoholic beverages, while she still has that childlike sense of wonder so she knows she doesn't need to settle for the simplest and cheapest beer to enjoy herself… thankfully this Zebra here has produced the most delicious wine I have tasted and created the perfect balance of alcohol content and flavour, this is the perfect drink to start a Dwarf on that path… Legolas will have to wait because Elves start off really weak in all but magic potential… like, even as a demigod he'll need to be very careful not to get too sick or hurt himself."
"Well the ring I made him will help make him stronger." Talion said and the priestess was gone." Where did she go?" Talion asked.
After a minute she came back in carrying a book and gave it to Talion. "This is an ancient book on magic that we excavated from an abandoned mine a few years ago." She said and he looked through it.
"We should head back now it is still late in Eva's world and the children should go to sleep." Talion said.
"Okay, I've had my fun." Orgran agreed.
"Before we leave I must try the wine you synthesized for me" I said. I picked it up and took a swig and my taste buds exploded with flavor
"You ok Eva you have standing there for a few minutes?" Talion asked.
Snapping back to reality I said. "Sorry about that but that's the best damn wine I have ever had the pleasure of drinking!!!!" I said and the priestess nodded.
"Agreed, happy I could ensure you didn't miss out." Orgran said.
"No, I'm fine I had some the other day during a celebration and may I ask your name?" She asked Talion.
"It's Talion." He said and she smiled after that me, Orgran and the kids went back to the door Talion said he was going to stay a bit before returning.
"COME OOOOON! LET'S GOOOO!"
"Keep your voice down the twins are trying to fall back asleep," I said following him carrying the twins, who were cuddling each other.
"Now that's just adorable." Orgran commented.
"Honey?" I said.
"Hrm? Wait! Hold that thought." he takes a long waterfall swig from his ale mug. "*burp!* okay, continue."
"Two things; one, manners dear, and two, could you call Pix for me with your earth magic?" I asked.
He blinked, eyes wide. "I can do that?!" he looks to the ground, then sends a pulse into it, followed by Pix emerging from a tree. "Holy shit, I CAN do that!"
"You called Master Orgran? And please mind your language around the twins!!" Pix said into his mind.
"Wait, is it me or did Alucard sound nice for a second? Ah, no wait, he just told me 'go f*** yourself', everything is right in the world."
"No that voice was me, Pix, master Orgran!!" Pix said again into his mind.
"Oh, fair then, Pix, I need to give you a word of advice for you and Eva… don't deny Pentil her alcohol, it's not gonna hurt her but if you don't get her it, she'll get it herself and break through several walls to do so, like any Dwarf would… oh, also help Eva with the kids please."
"As you wish master Orgran." Pix said walking over to me and I put them on Pix's back who then continued to walk alongside me.
"Well, let's all go home and finally buy that house." My Boyfriend declared.
As we walked through the door into the early morning light I felt at peace with the world and this situation.
"Well… I guess with everything stable, it's time for me to go home." Orgran said solemnly.
"Dear, can you take Pentil with you to teach her the ways of the Dwarves?" I asked hopefully.
But Orgran sighed and shook his head. "I can't my Equestria is too dangerous right now, with the Caribou and the Netherlord breathing down my neck I can't afford to risk her life… plus I couldn't bring myself to separate her from Legolas." He gestured to the cuddling twins.
"Can you at least stay for a bit longer so we can buy a house together?" I pleaded.
"Of course, I'll need to know where to go once my business is finished and I move here to settle down with you, Hella and Chryssi." Orgran said in a sweet voice.
"Shall we head to the town hall and see what there is available?" I queried.
With a pleasant nod we headed off to see the Mayor.
Once we reached the town hall we found out it didn't open for another four hours.
"...really? They're really extending the story with wait-time?"
All of a sudden Pinkie Pie showed up and said "Hey Orgran the author says f*** you for putting a hole in his wall again!" after saying that Pinkie Pie just bounced away.
"...ooookay."
"Honey what was that about?" I queried.
"Honestly dear? No F***ing Clue."
"So what should we do for the next four hours?" I asked.
"... give Pentil and Legolas some extra siblings?" He shrugged.
With half-lidded eyes I replied "Let's do just that~."
"Hey." Talion said as he popped out of nowhere.
"Mother******, don't do that you scared me!" I said
"Sorry I just wanted to tell you something I found out how to mix my dark and death magics." He said.
"Oh? So what's this recipe for dark and death gumbo? ...that sounds tasty, but it'd have too many bones."
"Well I need another familiar like Anna they would both work together and it would be possible to mix the two magics." He explained.
"Sounds complicated." I said
"Almost as complicated as Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia!" Orgran declared.
"What does that mean?" I asked.
"Oh it's the fear of long words." He said. "I WISH I was fucking with you." Orgran said
"Do you too want to see him?" Talion asked.
"Sure!" I said a little scared of what it's gonna be and he lifted his arm and something was moving inside it and it slowly made its way to his hand and when it did it crawled out revealing a spider made of bones and he lifted one of his front legs and waved.
"What's up." The spider said.
"HOLY SHIELD" I intoned in a shrill voice.
"Wow-wow calm down lady I ain't going to hurt you." The spider said.
I dispelled my HOLY SHIELD and slowly approached the spider. "Sorry about that I have a big fear of spiders and you look really scary." I said sheepishly.
"Well I was born from undead magic and Anna was born from dark magic by the way you can call me umm how about Dave." He said as he held out one of his front legs towards me and I took it and gave it a shake.
"Dave… the spider?" Orgran asked.
"Yeah got a problem with that." Dave said.
"Nah, just that you and Fluffy both win the award for least fitting names." Orgran said.
"Well I like my name." Dave said.
"Fair enough, I'm Orgran the Red."
"And I'm Lady Evangel Lucretian."
"She's got Arachnophobia."
"Well it is a pleasure to meet all of you." Dave said
"Sorry again about the overreaction." I said rubbing the back of my head
"It's fine." He said.
"Well, we got four hours to kill."
"Talion can you watch the twins while me and Orgran go for some private time?"
"Sure." He said as Pix handed him the twins.
"Thanks Talion! Come my mighty Dwarf we have some fun to be had." I said as I dragged Orgran into the bushes.
"Oh I'm gonna rock your world!" he replied back, then surprised me with a pounce into said bushes followed by a dome of privacy.
{Three and a half hours later}
The dome pulled back after we cleaned up, however it seemed Orgran had been a bit more eager this time as my legs were still jelly.
"well we still have half an hour before the town hall opens what should we do?" I asked.
"I think we should buy Pentil some drinks, I wasn't kidding when I say Dwarves can get antsy without alcohol on hand… in fact when we get sober we get a bit… weird."
"Well it's about time you finished." Talion said as he walked up to us in his left he hel Legolas and in her right Pentil and his shadow was off the ground holding a bottle to Pentils lips.
"So what'd you get my daughter? Better not be some crap brand or you're a dead motherf***er!" Orgran warned.
"It's death berry wine and I also have seeds so I can plant them at my home." Talion said.
"Oh good." Orgran said with relief.
"*burp* uncle Tatas give fun bubbles!" Pentil said as she shook up the wine for some more sips.
"Bubbles? "Talion asked.
"She's using her strength to fizz up the wine." Orgran explained.
"Oh well here you go." Talion said as he handed Pentil to Orgran and he held a small bag of seeds. "These are some of the death berry seeds she seems to enjoy the wine very much." He said.
"Indeed she does, Uncle Tatas." Orgran teased with a grin.
"I would much rather have her call me Tali but that's fine as well." He said.
"You Uncle Tatas because Tatas are funny!" Pentil giggled.
"well I think it's kind of cute!" I stated.
"Whatever you say Evee." Talion said jokingly.
"Ok, what does that mean?" I asked Orgran.
"He called you a nickname which is coincidentally the name for a species of adorable magical creatures known as pokemon, think a brown furred fox with a short muzzle like a cat that adorably says 'Evee! Evee!'." Orgran explained.
"And she is as cute as one as well." Talion said with a chuckle.
Pentil giggled happily at that.
I punched Talion in the arm and said "that's for making a reference I didn't get."
"I wasn't lying when I said you are cute though," Talion said.
"Easy now, that's my future wife you're talking about," Orgran said.
"I know but you better take care of her," Talion said.
"I will! And we'll be happy! And have a big wedding to celebrate, I might even get the five kings to form Penticate so he can attend!" Orgran said and Talion smiled.
I was tearing up a bit at that as I pulled Orgran into a big cuddle hug.
And with our little emotional moment finished, the Town Hall finally opened.
"Well, shall we go buy the house so I can send you home?" I asked sadly.
"Well I need somewhere to set up the gate." he said. "You know, the permanent dimensional gate that will permanently link our worlds together!"
"Well mine and Eva's world are already linked so you don't have to build one to mine." Talion said.
"I mean mine and Eva's." Orgran clarified.
"Oh ok." Talion said.
With a firm nod, Orgran headed in with me to the Town Hall.
After buying the house we went straight there.
"Well here we are." Talion said as we approached the house.
"Wow it looks so much better in pony than in the pictures." I said.
Orgran carried several runed stones into the building.
"So what do we do now the bad guys are gone and everything is normal?" Talion said.
"Relatively." The Dwarf said as he exited the building. "I'm personally upset to go, but I do have responsibilities to my Equestria, and leaving them to face down such horrors alone wouldn't sit right with me."
"And I have my own problems to deal with,"Talion said as well.
"Honey, what were those stones?" I asked.
"Gate stones, I just made a permanent gate to my home so we can visit each other whenever."
"And I made these for you Eva." Talion said as he handed me a bracelet." That will let you enter my dimension so if you need to hide the kids or maybe you want to come visit you can." He explained.
"Thank you brother Talion and here this is for you," I said as I handed him a medal with a depiction of the Faceless Horned God on it. "This will get you access to any and all meetings of Minotaurs no matter if they are closed to outsiders and non-Minotaurs."
"Thank you, Eve," Talion said bowing his head.
"Well… this is it." Orgran said.
"Yeah I guess it is." I said sadly.
"Yes it is for now but this is not the end we will meet again." Talion said as he hands his token back to Orgran. "You almost forgot that Orgran."
"Thanks! Oh, almost forgot." Orgran smiled as he kissed me on the cheek and slipped something into my pocket before heading home through the gate.
"How do I send you back?" I asked.
"I'll just go, I can leave at any time, I just wanted to make sure you had nothing else to say before I left." He said.
"I can't think of anything I want to say!" I said.
"Well then this is goodbye, it was nice meeting you and keep your kids safe." Talion said as he turned into black blood and vanished into the ground.
"There goes two of the finest pieces of ass I have ever seen. Come on babies, lets go inside and see our new house." I said walking towards the front door.
END OF CHAPTER