Convocation by Need

Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. ‘Tis I, Classy, with forthcoming news about a new fanfiction series written by Etherdrone. It is a series whose name is in the title of this posting, Convocation by Need.
 
This series, protagonized by Sunset Shimmer, were and are currently being written with the intent of being stories with no real set of continuity between each chapter. At least, with about as much continuity as MLP Season 1 ever had. As an introduction, Sunset Shimmer is approached by monsters that live in the human world after Rainbow Rocks’ Siren incident, and is asked to do certain works on their behalf. Those include solving mysteries, disabling monsters with their weaknesses and generally being an “underground detective”. The first chapter is quite long because the writer admits she got carried away with how much fun she was having writing it, but it introduces the Convocation and the concept of monsters in the human world in general.
 
With that in mind, this series is generally written with the thought that you could just jump in any chapter and read it and enjoy it for what it is, without really needing to read every single one in order to understand the chronology of events. These are a light-hearted adventure setpieces, so if you are looking for something along those lines, there it is!
 
More random updates will come here as the series go on. We are unsure on how long it’ll run, but until then, we hope you have fun reading Convocation by Need!

On recent news, the author apologizes for the lack of restraint displayed on the two chapters that have been written so far! They are at least 12k words each, and a shorter one, guaranteed this time, is underway.

Still not apologizing!
 
By the way, no Convocation By Need next week because the author’ll be away on a panel. It’ll be updated when she comes back, though.

I managed to convince the Etherdrone to put this little preview through to you to see! You can thank me later, nerds!
 
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Sunset Shimmer’s hands clasped tightly around the paper she was holding, her eyes reaching out to the distant landscape before them as a sigh escaped her breath. She wasn’t sure exactly how much of this was due to her having to climb a hillside, or if it was thanks to the extremely morose letter she now possessed, its words turning into a scrambled, garbled mess of incomprehensible nothing after she had read it.
 
It wasn’t very common for her to receive letters like this one. In fact, this was maybe the first one, ever. Nimue was always very straightforward when asking Sunset for assistance, so having her explicitly tell the Equestrian to avoid and pretend she never got this letter if she didn’t want to assist them told her a whole lot about what Nimue was like, much more than she already seldom knew.
 
Therefore, as her feet complained in fatigue as Sunset Shimmer found herself finally reaching the summit of said hillside, she was already decided on helping no matter what.
 
This was a very lonely hillside, indeed. The pathway that lead all the way up here wasn’t even pavement, more like cobbled stone with grass sprouting from it, making it feel and look like no one’s walked these grounds for many days. The moon was high up in the sky, the light of the waning satellite and the stars being the main source of guidance for the path ahead of the girl made the area look really gloomy and sad. Sunset shivered a little as the wind blew lightly, but effectively, dancing through her hair with a chill, proper for a cold night.
 
The path still extended a few ways to the house which sat atop of it like an old, battered down landmark that history had forgotten. It looked old, uncared for and it was obviously abandoned. Its wooden walls had definitely seen better days, some of them jutting forward and blemished with some black taint that Sunset identified as moss and dirt. Some of the few windows the house had were broken, and as the wind passed by her, Sunset could listen to the music the house echoed with as it passed through its frames, sounding much like a sad, crying lullaby.
 
Sunset Shimmer stopped walking as she took the opportunity to take a look around. The area around the house was quite wide - there was a nice, big yard right next to it, neighboring the path down back to civilization. The Equestrian noticed a few toys around it - there was a swing; a couple car tires as well. A gnarled mess of a broken jungle gym, which was turned to scrap thanks to lack of care from whoever had left this place a long time ago. Sunset also saw hints of sand in there; maybe there was a sand box somewhere around here prior to it being abandoned, but now all that remained were shadow remnants of something that once was.
 
It was impossible to tell for how long this place had been abandoned. If Sunset didn’t know any better, she would probably have guessed that this was abandoned for decades, but that would probably stretch her guess too far. The soft lights of the night sky, despite sparkling beautifully above her head like diamond dust expertly sprinkled atop a black velvet curtain, did very little to illuminate this area in any other way other than sad and depressing. The Equestrian didn’t really bother looking up too much despite of that however, and found herself walking amidst the wreckage, carefully not stepping on any rogue sheets of metal or scraping herself on one by accident. Her hands were cold, so she stuffed them inside her jacket’s pockets, almost in an attempt to shield herself from the environment in some way.
 
And then she finally saw it. A tiny speck of light, emanating from the wreckage almost as if it was trying to hide from her. Sunset took a deep breath in as she slowly walked forward, her mind being strangely serene and collected; a very thankful change of pace.
 
Sunset stopped walking as soon as she got very close to the light, who gasped and remained still like a statue. The Equestrian shrugged; collecting as much of her words as she could before using any of them.
 
“…You don’t need to hide, you know?” she said as the small light gasped fiercely once again, flinching like it had been suddenly dumped in cold water. “Not from me, at least.”
 
The tiny light didn’t respond for a quick while before standing up on its own. After another very short while, it stepped out of the wreckage, and the sight before her eyes made Sunset’s heart sink…
 
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Next chapter will involve Flash Sentry. Harness your blunderbusses, Dammes and Cavaliers.