Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x Rarity x Twilight x Fluttershy x Applejack x Pinkie Pie x Rainbow Dash x Ditzy x Luna x ? x ?

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Inner thoughts, Text read, Italics used to represent characters speaking in different language.

Demonic rage, Demonic characters, Kurama Speak

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Story Start

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With the skies clear and the temperature a pleasant seventy-eight degrees it was a perfect time for an exhibition match. The smell of oil, sweat, and blood permeated the area.

The sound of metal on metal and the heavy footsteps of combatants all played to the audiences primal desire and indulgence for bloodsport.

Though as always there was a deeper meaning behind the exhibition match.

To set an example.

Naruto had kept a mental catalog of possible problems in the guard's ranks. He remembered early on how most of the Royal Guards have no interest in guarding "Nightmare", as some would say.

There were more than enough that it took notice in the Solar Guard holding a similar mentality believing Luna a Princess in name only and had no power over them.

One such pony was Commander Radiate Pulse. A Unicorn from a Unicorn clan family. Moderately rich background from a minor noble house. His fur white with golden mane and tail with dark sapphire eyes.

Like many who joined the guard he bulked up when compared to your average was just one of many with an arrogant attitude and complex that borderline tribalist.

There seemed to be this ideal going around that once you left the general royal guard and joined one of the elite guards you were picking sides of sorts.

Idiots.

The lot of them.

Who the hell would instigate or support strife between two sisters separated from each other for millennia? Being in one guard did not invalidate one's duty to protect the citizens and one's rulers.

"Do YOU want to guard that NIGHTMARE?"

Well equines were like humans in that regard. They were stubborn. And there was simply no pleasing everyone.

"By the holy light of Celestia, are you daft? You would guard the moon. It only brings out the wicked in ponies, those that can not stand the light of Her love."

Some of them seem to only respect strength. If that was the case that was what they were going to get.

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"Today is the day we show the citizens why the Sun will always be above the moon. ourselves. Her Sun with our Princess watching. Show the Nightmare the error of her ways!" Radiate lowly encourage among his soldiers.

No words were exchanged, just silent gestures, and nods of either acceptance or disagreement.

"Commander allow me this chance! Allow me to show the Princess how much I honor her and how dedicated I am to her service!" Vivid Protector had jumped to the chance.

For a moment the Commander wondered if he shouldn't go with someone more experienced, but upon seeing the theastral was chosen decided that they had this in a bag with a magic user.

Vivid chose light weight armor with a battleaxe. He gave it a few test swings before embedding it deep within the head of a test dummy with worn out armor.

"THE SUN WILL RISE!" He announced!

He looked up to the private box where the Princesses were. Taken in by Celestia's look. She is pure in her radiance. Seeing the blond standing next to her causing him to darkly bristle.

He turned his attention to his opponent. A guard who had less than half his active time in service who already outranked him.

He couldn't help the gnawing bit of anger swelling within him.

This...this batpony strolled in and received such a promotion when he worked and toil for the longest time and his contributions meant next to nothing.

Vivid immediately began firing spell fire and charged.

Dusk twisted out of the area and dodged the spell fire. Dodging spell fire was rather easy for her since part of the training under Naruto included dodging hundreds upon hundreds of shuriken.

They benefited from a captain who could create clones to train them one on one as well as provide them with hand to hand styles that will take a while before beings start to recognize it.

Vivid charged and took a swing at the center of her body, only for her to twist away and make him miss his mark. He pressed the attack and after his third failed swing he used one more swing and used the momentum to throw his legs out in an attempt to buck her.

His metal boots hit the armor causing Dusk to stumble back, but righted herself using her wings.

He raised his head and fired a spell but once more Dusk was able to twist out of the way. 'How is that pony so fast?' Vivid thought in irritation. He let his irritation blind him to the fact he was being baited as his opponent shot forward and using the time to strike, slashing his armor plate. He hissed and stumbled back.

He had been so confident he had paid little attention to he exact gear she was rocking. On her feet were specialize combat gear for Pegasi, a pair of cleats sharp enough to tear through steel easily under the right condition.

Vivid let his anger fuel him as he continued with renewed spell fire.

"You lack discipline! I'll bring this to an end!" Dusk remarked as she landed on the ground with one leg raised. as Vivid raised his axe and gave charge.

He was pushing everything he had into this next strike. "For the Su..."

Crunch!

His cry was ended as the next thing he noticed he was tasting cover and face down in the earth. The rays of the sun shining on her back.

Cheers from the Lunar Guard could be heard chanting Dusk's name.

He fought and struggled to collect himself as he noticed Dusk had one leg high in the air and her pose strict.

Yells and encouragements from the Sun Guard for Vivid to get up was being heard.

The best he could make what happened was that she struck out and landed a solid blow to him faster than he could react.

He got to his hooves, and try to shake the last of the blood from his snout, clearing the tears from his eyes. "You...you freak. Its not over!" He shouted making his challenge known.

Dusk turned as she starred down her opponent. "We serve the same nation and rulers! There is no need for us to hold grudges against each other. Please, just give up. I don't take pleasure in harming a fellow guard I have no quarrel with."

He charged again with renewed vigor as he began slashing wildly at the mare. Adrenaline pumping in his veins he sharpened the edges of his axe with magic as he pressed the attack.

Cheers and screams from the crowd continued as the two guards continued their fight.

"I cannot help but wonder why they chose a First Private against a Captain. Even if their amount of service time is different their accomplishments and battle record are different." One of the Lieutenants wondered as they watched the battle. Ranked members of both guards were watching the battle. They were gathered in an area just below the Princesses private booth.

"He has forgotten his discipline. This sloppy performance does not reflect our standard. I will have to speak with his superior officer." Shine Spark announced as she watched the battle. They needed to be better. They needed to be stronger.

Dusk jolted back as the reinforced attacks resulted in her being put on the defensive as her light weighted armor was built for speed and not dealing with attacks of that caliber.

Thankfully enough his undisciplined nature made it easier to run circles around him. She kept baiting him and drawing it out as he slowly began to tire out and his attacks became less accurate.

With one overhead swing caused him to overextend and unable to recover quickly enough Dusk too this opportunity and struck him in the rib-cage.

Distracted by the pain Vivid was unable to protect himself from the series of attacks and wing slashes that bombarded him.

Seeing that her opponent would remain stubborn and refused to give up Dusk landed one timed yet dangerous blow to his cervical plexus. The helmet would absorb must of her blow, but the power behind the attack would be enough to render him unconscious.

The stallion was launched backwards and landed on his back. Complete silence had followed it. Then cheers erupted much to the surprise of many.

"Victor! Dusk Threader of the Lunar Guard!"

Dusk was surprised that so many citizens were in support of her victory knowing the tensions of ponies considered normal against Theastrals. Medic ponies soon arrived to the field to retrieve the downed pony.

Though others like Radiate was bristling in anger, but he kept his thoughts masked.

"Who else would like to test their might in the arena? Who else would like to test their metal?" Luna's voice was equal mix of bombastic and majestic.

Feeling embarrassed by Protector's performance several Sun Guards stepped forward while Lunar Guards stepped forward as well. The bout between the two guards continued.

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Applejack, the premier camping expert was the one in charge of this expedition. With her kagebunshin Applejack was to make use of her copy in a way that wouldn't continue her near workaholic streak on the farm.

So Applejack went and got herself CIT certified as camping was one of her interests outside of farming. The assembled group stopped as they came to an opening in a field. There were three logs around a stone fire ring.

"This is it." Applejack said with a smile as she remembered the fund times she had in her youth. "Alright its a few hours after noon so we'll have to split up duties to make sure everything is set up in time. Dash can you take your group and find some wood for tonight's fire?"

Rainbow Dash gave a nod as she turned to her students. "Come on squirts, let's go."

Applejack turned to Twilight. "Twilight I'll leave you and your group to collect berries and herbs. You remember which ones I told you were safe?"

"Of course."Twilight brought out the book that she had under her arm. "I even went through my catalog and triple checked and referenced each plant."

"And Rarity that leaves you and your team to go get the water." She grabbed a suitcase worth of canteens and tossed it to the mare. Several of the other adults looked rather alarmed at the rather large case was tossed at the unicorn. They were surprised at how Rarity snagged the large and heavy looking bag and spun around and let it rest on her back.

"Alright gentlecots and ladies follow me,' she said to her little troop.

Cheerilee couldn't help but be perplexed by what was going, this thought was shared by the others, "Applejack if you don't mind me asking why are you sending the others off to get food and water? We have plenty."

Appplejack tipped her hat slightly as she began speaking,"Well its simple Miss Cheerilee. How are the kids spose to bond without a little hard work and workin' together. Nothin' like helpin' each other find yer grub and commutin' together to bond ya together ya know. Ah already know the parents wouldn't agree to this without being able to make sure their children were provided for an' all, but I rather those provisions be used in case of emergency or if the children ain't successful in collectin' grub. Anyway that leaves the rest of us to start fixin' up the camp site and make it 'presentable." That and Applejack wanted to make sure there were no unwanted elements nearby. The bandit rate had dropped considerably in the local area.

The number of bandits willing to attack the Ponyville area and the caravans that traveled to and from the local areas. Very few were foolish to attack the home town of the ponies that won against Nightmare Moon, Discord, and help fought off a Changeling Invasion.

Rainbow Dash soon returned with sticks and logs. An arrangement of logs were made for campfire as a collection of sticks were laid at the newly embedded log seats.

The plan was to teach the fillies and colts how to sharpen sticks to make into spheres to use for fishing.'Ah consarnit!' she thought as it started to drift into evening, she knew she forgot something. She forgot to assign someone to collect flint to use as a means to start a fire. She got so excited about the whole thing she got a little ahead of herself.

Well. It was a good thing they had those provisions then. Tonight she'll let it slide, but starting first thing tomorrow she was going to have those kids learn how to start hunting for themselves and how to rough it.

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