Brawling for Love

16 September 2014

15:39 GyroTech hops on Zuthal's back and pokes him a couple of times. "So, I heard you know a couple near places around these forests. You should take me to one. I wanna fly."

15:40 Zuthal flies off towards a cave in the forest and deposits GyroTech in front of it. "You can explore this cave. I heard there might be an item inside that makes you absolutely irresistible"

15:45 GyroTech rolls his eyes as he stares into the darkness. He shakes his head, jabbing Zuthal in the side a couple times. "Well if that is indeed true, I better get it and give it to a charity case like you, since I'm already irresistible, " he replies with a snicker.

15:46 Zuthal baps GyroTech on the head. "I don't need anything like that. And yeah, I bet you like to think that you are," he says with a snort.

15:50 GyroTech winces from the blow and rubs his head. "I know I am, you should see my record at the bar. Four times out of five I bring a mare home, and often they're ones I hadn't romped with yet."

15:52 Zuthal gives a dry chuckle. "Yeah, as if I'm to believe that. But you do know what they say, quality over quantity. I might not get as many ponies attracted to me as you, but I know at least one mare who likes me more than she likes you. I think you know who I mean."

16:06 GyroTech sighs and lowers the tips of his ears. "Ok fine, it's closer to three fifths who come home, but that's still positive." The unicorn slinks even lower are mention of inky, this time his ears folding flat against his head. "She's still mad at me I think, and going to you is a way for her to get back at me," he rationalized.

16:09 Zuthal chuckles at him. "I don't think so. She doesn't seem like the kind of mare to me who could truly hate somepony, not even you. And also not like a mare who would go to me just to get back at you."

16:21 GyroTech reaches a hoof over and gives Zuthal a half hearted shove. "But... She's the one mare I'd always come back for. I lo--err like her quite a bit. She knows this. Plus I let her feed and you don't."

16:23 Zuthal gives Gyro a shove in return, though due to his larger size, it is actually quite substantial. "Well, we're working on that one. It is just that I am a bit afraid of her fangs. As she is of my coils. As I said, we're both working on it. And she has helped me so much. If it weren't for her, I don't think I'd have built up the courage to ever approach other ponies.

16:29 GyroTech stumbles to the side as he's shoved, grunting a response, "Ya that would have been /quite/ the shame," he says sarcastically, hoofing at the ground. "Shell come back to me. You'll see."

16:30 Zuthal gives a snort, looking away from GyroTech. "I don't know. She might have found somepony else by then~"

16:36 GyroTech glares at Zuthal as a desperate rage burns in his eyes. He gets right up in the tatzl's face and snarls, "You will not keep inky from me!" His horn grows bright green as Zuthal's mane begins to get very toasty.

16:38 Zuthal could feel a heat in his mane and uses two of his coils to apply a generous amount of saliva to it, in order to stop it from catching on fire, and extends the third towards Gyro's horn, meaning to extinguish his magic. "You'll see... I think she like me quite a bit..."

17:01 GyroTech slaps the coil away with his hoof, taking a couple of steps backwards. Unfortunately, the tatzl's coil was interfering with the vacuum, and enough of the energy leaked out that Gyro realized he wouldn't have the desired result. He glances around, dropping the spell and targets a couple of small rocks out of Zuthal's immediate view, pouring energy into them.

17:03 Zuthal could not see what exactly the unicorn was doing, but he could still see his horn glowing, and as the heat in his mane had stopped, he was still wary of the unicorn. He propelled himself upwards with his wings, only to soon after fly back down, both gravity and his wings accelerating his outstretched front hoof right towards GyroTech's horn, from behind him so the unicorn would not see him.

17:16 GyroTech brings the stones to bear defensively as Zuthal takes off. Watching the skys, Gyro keeps an eye on the tatzl, until he briefly looses him. Gyro notices Zuthal at the last moment in the plunge, and only has time to interpose the couple of rocks, glowing a dull red now, between him and the tatzl, but doesn't have time to get away.

17:18 Zuthal sees the red-hot rocks floating in the air between him and Gyro and pulls up hard, narrowly evading them, though he could feel the heat radiating from them on his coat. As he pulls up, his tail lags behind a bit, slapping against Gyro's horn as the tatzlpony flies over him.

17:37 GyroTech stumbles backwards as he takes a glancing blow to the horn, stunned for a second as he shakes it off. He doesn't drop the spell or the rocks though, and begins looking for Zuthal once more. "Come down here and fight like a real pony you creep waifu stealer! '

18:11 Zuthal chuckles at GyroTech. "If you're allowed to use your magic, I'm allowed to use my wings!" he shouts, turning around and flying back up. "And besides, she approached me. And I didn't know you were with her at the time."

18:16 GyroTech growls at Zuthal, hurling one of the stones in his direction, though it falls short. "I don't care if she's with other ponies as well, even if some, like you, are distasteful. But you! You are not going have her all to yourself!" He picks up another stone to replace the one he just threw and begins to heat it.

18:19 Zuthal climbs up ever higher, soon disappearing from Gyro's view behind a cloud. He stays hidden there for a few minutes, leaving the unicorn to guess as to his position, before he comes back down from the other side, rapidly gaining speed in a steep dive.

18:23 GyroTech left the clearing when he saw Zuthal disappear, moving into the tree cover where the tatzl would lose his aerial advantage. When Zuthal dove, he'd not see any blue unicorn in sight. Gyro watches and waits for him a couple trees deep.

18:25 Zuthal looked left and right as he flew in, unable to see the blue unicorn. Not stopping, he called out "If you want a fight, then fight, and don't hide like a coward! Come out and face me!" He spots a hint of blue between two trees, but decides not to engage, knowing that he would have trouble moving around in the trees.

18:28 GyroTech makes himself know, stepping into the view of the tatzl, but not out of the treeline. "You're the one who was hiding. I'm right over here, not sitting amongst the clouds."

18:31 Zuthal snorts, going around in a circle past the unicorn and away from him so he would keep at least a part of his momentum, raising his voice so he would still be heard. "You should know that you need height to build up speed, even though you lack wings."

18:49 GyroTech steps right out at the treeline, giving himself ample opportunity to retreat should Zuthal take off once more. Bring his stones to bare, he says, "Not so big and strong then are ya if you can't manage without diving and having to take me by surprise."

18:52 Zuthal flies towards GyroTech, intent on beating the unicorn, and as he sees the stones levitating in the air, he decides to change his approach a bit, tucking his wings in once he has gained enough velocity and descending towards GyroTech in a parabolic arc, steadily gaining speed as he fell, ready to strike the unicorn.

19:04 GyroTech watches the tatzl dive down at him, waiting till the last moment to step aside, or rather he would have if his leg hadn't snagged on a root. As Zuthal comes down on him, he's trapped, watching helplessly as Zuthal crashes first into the red hot rocks and then subsequently into him. The sizzling of flesh fills the air as Zuthal takes a couple good hits, causing third degree burns and scattering the stones into the forest. One of them bounces back on the unicorn, burning his chest as well as the two roll into a heap.

19:07 Zuthal lets out a loud yelp as the stones sear his flesh, though they luckily only stayed in contact for a fraction of a second each before they were knocked aside. Still carrying almost all of his momentum, he barrelled into GyroTech, the impact on the ground being quite hard on the tatzlpony as he forced the unicorn backwards, digging him into the ground.

19:30 Inky walked through the forest, unable to find Zuthal at his house. She thought she heard some noises a while ago and set off in that direction, becoming confused as she heard... Gyro's voice as well? The mare steps into the clearing just as Zuthal was diving into the unicorn. "Zuthal? Gyro? What in Luna's name--" Her question ends in a high-pitched shriek as one of the stones skips off the ground and smacks her right foreleg.

19:38 GyroTech lays there under Zuthal, whimpering in pain as his entire body ached from the blow, and when he moved his leg he yelps in pain. The unicorn is far too stunned by the impact to notice inky, his head feeling dazed.

19:42 Zuthal was dazed from the impact, though his front hooves had taken the brunt of the force, being outstretched, it had still been quite a large deceleration. He groaned in pain from the burns and a dull ache in his forelegs, though he got himself together enough to slowly roll off of the stallion, but not enough to notice Inky.

19:47 Inky clutches her leg, tears forming in her eyes from the pain. The bat pony takes a few deep breaths before trotting over to the two of them, flapping her wings so she didn't have to use her burnt leg. "What in Equestria," she gasps out, "were you two doing? Gyro, was that one of your rocks? You /burned/ me!"

19:53 GyroTech looks up at Inky blinking a couple times as he has trouble bringing her into focus. His eyes were dilated and he seemed I little out of it. Gyro rubs his crying eyes and sure enough inky was still there. "Inky, what... What are you doing out here? Zuthal said he was taking you away from me... For good." He responds, seeming to have missed the question.

19:55 Zuthal groans still as he tilts his head to look at Inky, blinking a few times to clear out the stars still swimming in his vision from the impact. "Uh... Inky what in Luna's name are you doing here? And yes, he attacked me! He even tried to set me on fire!"

19:58 Inky lets out a short, sharp breath, gritting her teeth. "I couldn't find you at home and went looking." She looks at the pair of them incredulously. "He attacked you... and you fought him? Unbelievable!" The mare winces and clutches at her leg again, taking a moment to fight against the pain before responding. "I'm very, no, UTTERLLY disappointed in both of you! You're grown stallions, not foals, and you should act like it!"

20:05 GyroTech winces, failing to meet her eyes as she yells at him, instead staring at her feet. "But...but he said he was going to make sure I never got to see you again..." He protests back in a small voice that wavers as he cries even harder. He tries to get to his feet, but finds that he can't put any weight on his front left leg, and stumbling down onto his burned chest with a yelp.

20:07 Zuthal shakes his head, both at her and the stallion's words, though soon regrets doing it as it brings a lance of pain through his skull. "Ugh... I never said that, Gyro! I wouldn't do anything, I just said what I thought she might do. And Inky, what else should I have done? Let him set me on fire?"

20:12 Inky flaps her wings and stamps the ground with her good foreleg. "Zuthal would never try to steal me away from anypony," she says firmly. "And no, Zuthal! But you should have left, not sunk down to his level!" The mare shakes her head, blinking back tears from the pain. "Whatever. Can you fly? We need to get these burns taken care of."

20:20 GyroTech bursts into a torrent of tears as he lies there on the ground. "You implied it! You implied you were taking her away from me and now look! She's even siding with you over me! Just leave me here. I'm sure the beasts of the forest will be Kinder to me than you." The unicorn wails out, quivering on the ground in a pitiful heap.

20:23 Zuthal does not care for the unicorn's words, quite understandably, as he rolls over to his hooves in a concert of various pained grunts. He experimentally spreads his wings, finding them to hurt less than the rest of his body, as they had been tucked in when he had hit Gyro. "I think I can... and I don't know if he would have left me alone. He seemed really angry."

20:29 Inky rolls her eyes, not in the mood to put up with any of GyroTech's blubbering. "Just grab him and carry him to the hospital with me, Zuthal," she says, before turning to look down at the wailing unicorn. "Gyro, I'm not going to leave you here. And I'm disgusted with both of you. Now c'mon."

20:34 Zuthal nods and flaps his wings a few times, moving to hover over GyroTech and grab him with his forelegs. He took care that he didn't touch any of his own burns with the unicorn, though the same could not be said about Gyro's. He looks at Inky as he lifts him off the ground. "So, to the hospital?"

20:39 GyroTech continues to sob, giving absolutely no resistance as Zuthal lifts him up off of the ground, besides a yelp of pain as Zuthal rubs against the burn on his chest. Gyro looks down at the ground with a resigned expression on his face. "It would be more merciful if you did. You've already abandoned me for this beast..."

20:43 Inky looks at Zuthal, her face clearly saying "Seriously?". "Zuthal, don't touch him where he's burned," she snaps, glaring at the tatzlpony. Before she takes off, the mare hops over to GyroTech, rearing back and using her wings to balance. She grabs the stallion's head and forces him to look at her. "Gyro, get a grip!" The mare prods his neck where she normally bit him, a bit harder than necessary as she lets her frustration and pain get the better of her. "I don't do that with just anypony, and I'm not. Going. To abandon you." She sighs. "Tempting as it may be sometimes." The mare winces in pain before taking off, having to work harder to get off the ground with only a three-legged jump. "And yes the hospital! Follow me." She flaps her wings and soars off towards Seaddle.

20:47 Zuthal grunts a little and shifts his grip away from the burn, the unicorn slipping slightly as he does, though he does not fall out of the tatzlpony's grasp. "Sometimes I wish you would. Can't see what you see in him..." he mutters under his breath, not loud enough for Inky to understand, at her reassurance to the unicorn. He follows her towards the hospital, slowed down a bit by the unicorn held underneath him.

20:58 GyroTech squeaks as he settles a bit, clutching at Zuthal's legs before yelping as his bad leg sends a sharp pain. The unicorn looks deep into Inky's eyes as she turns him around. "If that's the case then why don't I ever see you anymore? You don't come around, and every time I run by your house, you're never home," he responds still crying very hard. "I miss you inky, and I would do anything to get you back..."

21:06 Inky leads for a while before dropping back to respond to the unicorn. "Look, we'll talk later, okay? Now's not the time." Leaving him with that unsatisfying response, she returns to the front, guiding them towards the Seaddle hospital. Eventually they reach it, Inky starting to glide down. "Now, you're probably worried about how they'll react to you," she says to Zuthal, "but of all places I think this is the least likely for it to go badly. You're hurt, and that'll take priority." She grunts and grabs at her leg before letting go and landing, taking a moment to recover.

21:12 Zuthal stays silent for the flight, paying no heed to the discussion between the two ponies. Just as he was about to voice concerns, Inky addresses them, making him sigh a bit. "Well, I hope so... I really do..:" he says as he turns to land as well, first setting down GyroTech before he lands a short ways away from him.

21:21 GyroTech sighs when Inky doesn't even respond to his critisisms, intead putting them off as she makes her way towards the front of the line once more. "I hope they throw you out, or at the very least, refer you to a vet," Gyro mutters, loud enough for Zuthal to hear, though not Inky. The unicorn stands on three legs as he's let down, keeping the other one pressed up towards his chest as he hobbles three legged towards the door of the clinic.

21:29 Inky goes in first and explains their injuries, and tells the staff what to expect before Zuthal walks in. The tatzlpony gets a lot of stares from other patients and the staff as he walks into the clinic, most shocked and a small few downright unfriendly. The ones who lead them to their room don't say anything, though.

21:34 Zuthal spits in GyroTech's face at his comment, making a hissing noise, before he enters the hospital after Inky, being quite a bit faster than GyroTech as he at least still had all four of his legs in working order, more or less. He shivered a bit at the stares he was receiving as he walked through, wincing at a few very unfriendly comments. He let out a deep sigh as he got to their room, happy to be finally as away from ponies as he could be there.

21:41 GyroTech hobbled in afterwards, moving pretty slowly from his injury. As he walks in, hearing the whispers and seeing the looks the tatzl got, he couldn't help but smirk. The unicorn gets help from one of the ponies who led them, leaning on them for support since neither of the other two in his party seemed to care about him.