(A/N: Please read the authors note at the very end of the chapter. It will lead you to a blog post that will tell you of my up coming plans for this summer involving some ideas. There will be a link for you to find the blog post! Now, enjoy the chapter!)

I stared down Major Block as we gave each other death glares inside the sparring circle. Judging by her name and her cutie-mark (that depicted something ricocheting of a green shield), her talent would be defence. I’ve never fought a four-legged intelligent creature with possibly different training; the only thing I could really do was to go full throttle on her ass.

I knew that I could overwhelm her by striking her fast and hard. I had the feeling in my gut that I had the advantage because of my height, stamina, and agility. Strategic thoughts began to race in my mind on how to best her in the fight. At first I would create a plan, but then the realization of greater defence potential shot it down; making me think of another plan.

“How good is her defence anyway? After all, our close combat skills and training are most likely different and may vary in certain areas.” I thought to myself while dragging my left foot in the loose dirt.

“Hell, maybe the only thing I’ll have to do is just tire her out and wait for a opening in her defence… Wait, how goes a pony defend themselves?”

3RD POV

Captain Shining Armor stepped in between the competitors, with Isaiah to his left and Major Block to his right, he asked both of them to meet him in the center of the sparring circle for the rules.

“Are you two aware of the rules of the sparring circle?” Shining asked.

The earth pony mare nodded her head but Isaiah shook his head, making his challenger sigh in slight annoyance.

“Isaiah, the rules are simple. You are to only stay inside the circle; even if your leg sticks out by an inch; you’re out. There’s no biting, spitting, mane pulling, tail pulling, inappropriate name calling, and strikes on genitals. Do you understand these set of rules?” He asked.

The human nodded his head.

“Good. To eliminate your opponent, you must; force them out of the ring, make them submit, or by rendering them unconscious. There will be three rounds to this sparring session.”

When those words escaped his lips, Isaiah gave his opponent a devilish grin.

“I know how I’m ending this…” Isaiah hissed at the mare, earning some laughs from the crowd that surrounded us.

The mare only rolled her eyes at his threat.

Shining Armor cleared his throat to refocus our attention on him. “Now, are you to ready now?”

The mare and human simultaneously agreed; ready for a most likely interesting fight with each other.

As the competitors made their way to the opposite sides of the circle, the audience members cheered. Many of the ponies yelled encouraging words to their friend while there was only silence for the human.

Well… there were some cheers for Isaiah, but the alicorn sisters decided to stay silent.

Princess Luna knew full well that Isaiah could handle himself, the only thing she feared was the outcome of the pony who decided to fight against him.

When Isaiah and the mare stopped, they both got into a comfortable position to start as Shining Armor magicked a whistle to his lips.

“Ready!”

The competitors focused on each other.

“Set!”

Isaiah bent down low and dug his feet into the ground.

Shining Armor sounded the whistle, signaling the start of the match. A chorus of cheers erupted from the spectators as both charged at each other.

Much to Isaiah’s surprise, Major Block made the first offensive move. When the mare was in bucking distance, she spun around on her front hooves with so much speed that her hind hooves grazed over Isaiah’s body as rolled underneath them.

The human instantly recognized the window of opportunity; Major Block’s move had left both of her sides vulnerable to him.

The man plowed his body into the left side of the mare and knocked her down into the dusty ground. A series of cringing ‘oohs’ sounded from the ponies closest to the perimeter of the sparring circle.

Before Isaiah had the chance to get on top of her, Major Block quickly got back onto her hooves.

Isaiah silently cursed and began to circle around the mare. He knew that his attack alerted her of his potential; something she greatly underestimated.

Major Block now understood that she would need to stay on defence for the whole time. Whenever she spared with a fellow guard, they’d alwaysed expected her to be in defencive mode, giving her the chance to strike when they weren’t expecting it.

The human started to close in on the mare. He watched her legs moves as she moved to face him head on. He couldn’t think of a way to expose herself to him, so doing the most ballsy move he could take; he charged.

Isaiah practically launched himself into a sprint, throwing caution into the wind as he readied himself for a possibly costly mistake.

Major Block saw his move and tsked him for his mistake. The burly mare pivoted on her front legs and swung her hind legs for a collision to his chest.

But neither Major Block or the audience didn’t expect the kind of outcome the collision they were thinking of.

Isaiah braced himself for the contact.

Major Block’s hind-hooves were slightly adjacent to the right side of Isaiah’s torse. The human felt her left hind-hoof strike him, making him grimace in discomfort. He instantly locked both his muscular arms around her hind-legs.

The crowd and even the Princesses gasped at what had just happened.

The air was silent until Isaiah let out a roar that made his competitor panic and instantly try to get out of his grasp. He then swept his right foot below the mare and kicked her front-hooves out from under her. Major Block’s face slammed into the ground; momentarily stunning her.

Isaiah let out a beastly growl as he grinded her face first into the dirt towards the perimeter that was nearly three feet away. Major Block screamed in agony as the human pushed her harder and harder into the dirt towards the perimeter like a plow. The mare tried to stick her front-hooves out to stop her face from being pushed into the dirt, but it was to no use when he picked her up from her hind-legs and threw her outside the ring.

Shining Armor blew on his whistle. “Point one to Isaiah!” He yelled with a little bit of concern for the mare who had just lost.

Isaiah beat his chest at his first victory as the crowd grimaced in horror at what they just witnessed. Major Block slowly began to rise from the ground with a dirty bloodied face. The medical ponies who were called upon incase there were injuries instantly began to check on the mare.

The human turned around and crossed his arms as he waited for the medical team to finish up.

“By the looks of it, I really fucked her up.” He thought to himself while smiling at what he had done.

Isaiah glanced over to where the Elements of Harmony were sitting. Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity stared at his challenger with their mouths gaping. Poor Fluttershy had her eyes covered; not even daring to take a peek of what was happening.

Both Isaiah’s and Rainbow Dash’s eyes connected. The blue pegasus gritted her teeth in anger at the man who was shaking his head at her.

The stare down ended when he noticed Major Block re-entered the circle with a slightly cleaner face that was slightly oozing a little bit of blood coming from the cuts he inflicted on her.

Shining Armor whistled for the next round to start.

The crowd was now not as energetic as it was originally was; only a few ponies continued their cheering.

The man could now see an uncertain look on the mares face. It seemed like she was trying to cover up her pain with a furious expression that screamed hate. He only let out a small laugh escape.

Major Block now realized that she bit off more than she could chew. She wanted to forfeit, but she couldn’t; especially not in front of the Princesses and the captain of the royal guard. Her mind raced for another option, she couldn’t beat him just by defensive offence.

Isaiah bent down to the mare’s eye level. He began to slam a fist into his open hand to try and intimidate her into forfeiting as he let out a sinister chuckle.

The pony slowly made her way to the center of the circle. Isaiah moved himself accordingly to compensate for his next move.

The ponies watched in confusion as the human ran around in circles around Major Block while poking fun at the mare.

“What’ach gonna do?! What’cha gonna do?! Come on, what’s taking you so long?! Are you just going to watch me prance around you all day or are actually going to make a move?!” Isaiah hollard at Major Block as she eyed him running around her.

Celestia and Luna watched in slight amusement at what Isaiah was doing. Unlike the other ponies, they knew what he was trying to get out of his efforts.

“Taunting the opponent, smart move Isaiah…” Luna whispered to her sister.

“I agree dear sister. It’s only a matter of time before she snaps out of control and attacks him in blind rage.” Celestia said to her sister who sat close by her side.

They both watched as Isaiah redirected his circular pattern; confusing the mare. The human brought his hand back and spanked Major Block’s flank as hard as he could. The mare squealed as her rump slightly jiggled while turning red with a faint handprint of Isaiah’s hand.

“Lucky…” The sisters said in unison.

The mares both looked at each other with a smiles creeping on their faces and started giggling at what they had just said.

As Isaiah danced around a blushing Major Block, (it was hard to tell if she was blushing or not due to the earlier events that happened to her) Shining Armor and the other guards quickly went through the sparring guide to see if that was a legal move or not.

“Come on, come on, come on, come on and get me baby!~” Isaiah sang a horrible song he heard from a while back on Earth.

The mare screamed as she slammed her hooves down before she charged at him in a fit of rage.

“Damn it! I was about to get to the chorus…” Isaiah groaned in his head.

The mare stomped to a halt in front of Isaiah, and reared onto her hind-legs in an attempt to strike him down with her fore-legs. The human was quick on his feet and side stepped out of the way from her hooves.

Isaiah saw how exposed she was when she reared up on her hind-legs like the way she did. With a plan in his head, the human positioned himself ahead of the raging mare.

The mare instantly charged without realizing what he was about to do.

Isaiah got what he wanted, Major Block stood on her hind-legs as she tried to beat him down. When she exposed herself just enough for Isaiah to execute his plan. He got low to the ground and launched himself into her belly.

The air was knocked out of her lungs when he collided into her. The burly mare was tipped over onto her back, giving Isaiah another window to make his move.

Everypony else watched as the human threw himself onto the bellied-up mare. Several of the guards who still had faith in Major Block yelled for her to hit him in the head. When those words reached Isaiah’s ears, he pinned both her fore-legs down with his arms.

The mare wiggled in his grasped for a moment or two until she unfortunately discovered that she couldn’t get out of his restraint and submitted.

“Point two to Isaiah!” Shining roared.

As Isaiah got off the mare the screamed something fierce that startled everypony.

“BUCK THIS, I’M RESIGNING! I CAN’T TAKE THIS BUCKING NONSCIENCE ANYMORE!!!” She stuck her hoof into Isaiah’s gut. “Y-YOU! YOU’LL REGRET WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME!!!”

And with those final words, she ran off to some unknown location.

Isaiah stood in the middle of the circle with a confusion on his face. “Did I win?”

Shining Armor trotted over to the human. “Well, considering that your challenger forfeited in a fit of rage; congratulations, you won!” Shining announced.

The human let out a sigh of relief as he wiped some sweat away from his forehead. “Good, cause I can feel some sand in my a--”

“You think you’re all a hot shot, huh?” A tomboyish voice sounded behind him.

The human let out an annoyed groan. “I never said I was,” Isaiah knew where this was going. He was dumbfounded that she would want to fight him after all that she had just witnessed.

The mare rolled her eyes. “Whatever. I know I can kick your flank, so how about we have a spar?”

Twilight instantly teleported to Rainbow’s side a started to pull her away from Isaiah. When they were far enough, Twilight slapped Rainbow on the back of her head.

“Rainbow Dash are you crazy?! You saw what he did to that mare!” She halved screamed.

The winged mare rubbed the back of her head while frowning at her friend. “Chill out Twi, I totally got this--”

“That’s what Major Block said Dash! He isn’t just your average fighter,” The unicorn gestured at Dash’s body. “look at our bodies; we aren’t built to fight creatures like him, that’s why he was so successful.”

Dash huffed. “The reason he won was because the mare couldn’t take him anymore and stormed off.”

Twilight brought a hoof to her face. “The first round, you saw what he did?!”

“Just you wait and see Twi…” Dash mumbled.

“Till I see what? You in the intensive care unit?!”

Rainbow Dash ignored her comment and made her way to the sparring circle.

She could see the human that she hated so very much standing in the circle talking to Twilight’s brother.

The pegasus got herself airborne and glided next to the human and stallion. “That’s it. I’m in.”

The man laughed and started to walk to the starting place. “Goodluck. And by the way, I’ll be throwing actual punches… and theres others who’ve been in a whole new world of pain because of me.”

“Oh yeah?” Dash said skeptically

“Yup. All those fights I played in when I was little sure did add up.” He said before Dash walked to her position.

Underneath the tree in the shade, the Solar Princess was about to intervene the fight that was about to take place between Isaiah and Rainbow Dash.

“Tia, I think it’s best that we let themselves work it out.” Luna said.

Celestia looked at her younger sister with a disheartened emotion in her voice. “Why would you say or think of that. Isaiah’s going to do something terrible to her inside the ring!”

“Sister, you need to remember that they’ve been at each others throats for the while now. I think that something like this might actually somewhat resolve it.” Celestia tried to interject, but Luna immediately hushed her. “And don’t think that this is all Isaiah’s fault. Ever since the element of loyalty and the human met, the element of loyalty seems to start conflicts with him. This might show that being so… egoistic might help the mare too.”

“Is that true?” The eldest asked.

“I’ve seen it with my own eyes.”

“But I fee--” Tia tried before she was interrupted by her sister.

“Shh! It’s about to start!”

When Shining Armor blew his whistle, Dash was off like a bolt of lightning at Isaiah. The man’s eyes went wide and he rolled away from the danger that would’ve given him a broken bones for sure.

“Point one to Isaiah!” Shining Armor yelled.

Isaiah turned around to the stallion in confusion. “Wait, wh--”

The human looked back towards the direction Rainbow shot to. Isaiah roared in laughter as he saw Rainbow Dash thirty or so feet away from the perimeter of the sparring ring; picking grass off her coat from when she crashed like a plane into the ground. Tears formed in his eyes as the crowd began to join in the laughter.

Dash returned to her side if the circle with her cheeks burning red from embarrassment. The flustered mare had to wait for Isaiah to calm himself back down from his fit.

Shining signaled for them to spar again. Dash knew that she would have to take more things slowly now if she wanted to win.

Isaiah stopped and walked out of the perimeter, which made everypony chatter in confusion.

“Point one to Rainbow Dash!”

“What was that about?! Are you mocking me?!” She yelled at the man.

He shrugged his shoulders. “Eh, kinda. I just want this to be over with.”

“Then why not forfeit?”

He shot her the sinister grin from before. “Because I probably won’t be able to kick your ass after this!”

“This round will decipher the victor!” Shining yelled to the competitors and crowd.

When the whistle blew, both Rainbow Dash and Isaiah met in the middle of the circle.

Isaiah shuffled towards the angered mare with his fists raised in a defencive stance. If was going to kick the mare’s ass, he’ll need to get up-close and personal with her. Whenever the pegasuses had enough distance from him, she had the advantage. All she’d have to do was tackle him hard enough to know him down.

Dash made the first move. She flapped her wings hard as she could to quickly propel herself at the human. She aimed her body at his legs with hopes of knocking him down.

Isaiah just barely had enough time to adjust his body for the collision. Right as the mare connected with him, slightly crouched down and locked his knees.

The mare’s barrel slammed into his knee, making her scream in pain and Isaiah wince. The collision forced the human back by a few inches from where he originally stood.

Dash was slightly dazed from her failed attack. He could her the audience roar from outside the ring. She quickly glazed her eyes over to her friends; all of their faces were starting to cringe.

Rainbow Dash could hear her friend, Twilight, yelling at her but couldn’t hear it over the volume of the audience.

“Dash, look out!” She faintly heard Twilight yell over the crowd.

Before her brain could register the message, Isaiah had an ach to his right fist as it slammed into Rainbow Dash’s jaw.

Her vision almost went completely black as her head was violently thrown to her left with spittle flying out of her mouth.

Isaiah cursed to himself as he shook his hand around as if would make the pain go away. Rainbow Dash was open to another attack put Isaiah backed off and allowed her recovery time to get ready for the next attach. He could’ve ended it, but he felt like he needed to toy around with her.

Rainbow Dash righted herself back-up and readied for her next move. She sprinted side to side at the human who had his fists ready in defence. Rainbow used her wings to get her airborne just a few feet above the ground and flapped her wings one final time before slamming into Isaiah’s torso.

The attack forced both competitors fall to the ground with a cloud of dust. She had the human on his back, he had his arms covering his head; exposing his chest to the mare who was on top.

Rainbow Dashed forced her hooves hard as she could into him. The ponies went into a frenzy when they glimpsed the first successful attack on the human. Each swing from the mare forced a grunt from the human; making hope rise within her.

The human quickly wrapped his legs around the pegasus hind-legs. He then began to rock back and forth until his opponent had to stick her left foreleg out to prevent him from rolling on top of her.

Rainbow’s left side was now exposed to the human that was under her. Isaiah sent his right fist into a uppercut onto Rainbow’s jaw. Dash was determined to stay on him but she knew that staying in the position she was in would be fatal.

Twilight and her friends winced when Isaiah continued to slam his fists into their friends jaw. Blood began to spew from Rainbow’s mouth and onto the human.

Isaiah could feel Dash’s strength drain. When she reared her left hoof back to punch him, Isaiah shot his arm out and wrapped it around her front leg.

The human now had the advantage. He then pulled his arm that he wrapped around Dash’s leg. The pony screamed in agony as he pulled leg; making her feel like it was about to dislocate from it’s socket.

Isaiah then rolled Rainbow Dash onto the ground with him using his body weight to crush her.

Rainbow now realized that she was completely pinned down with a pissed-off human ontop of her with the intent of knocking her out. She was unable to move as she was laid out on her belly with the human constricting every move and wiggle she made.

The human still had his legs wrapped around her hindlegs. He could feel her trying to move and buck him off with no success. He now had his right arm twisted around her right foreleg with it almost fully extended into the air. His arms were long enough to grant him certain abilities when fighting, even though he had right arm pinning her leg, he has still able to use his hand to dig in between her shoulder blades.

Now it was Isaiah’s turn to be on offence. Rainbow Dash could only squirm and brace herself as each punch knocked her head around like a bobble head. Every time his knuckles slammed into her face, his knuckles got redder and redder with blood.

Rainbow’s only free leg flailed about as Isaiah wrapped his right arm around her neck and pulled far enough to the point where her spine wouldn’t allow to be bent back any further.

Now majority of the ponies watching the spectacle were yelling for Rainbow Dash to submit. Their cries to Dash’s ears started to die down as she slipped into unconsciousness.

Isaiah immediately felt her body go limp in his grasp. He let her flop to the ground as medical personnel entered the ring before Shining Armor could call out Isaiah’s victory.

The human slammed his fists into his chest in celebration against the mare he hated the most. He rose a single fist in the air as some guards stomped in applause at his victory. He flicked his eyes at the audience to see some exchanging bits between each other; apparently some therozilized how this would end and jumped at the opportunity to make a quick bit.

The rest of The Elements of Harmony trotted over to where Dash laid in the circle. He could hear the nervous chatter between them as a medic called for a stretcher.

Isaiah could just barely see what he had done to Rainbow Dash; she had multiple bruises covering her body, the feathers on her wings were all bent out of shape, her left eye became swollen, and her mouth was dripping with drool and saliva.

The human turned away from the downed mare and her friends and made his way to his clothes that he left under the tree where the princesses sat under.

Princess Luna oogled his sweaty body as he began to dress in his clothes. The mare felt a burning desire building up; making her re-divert her eyes from the human with a heavy blush on her cheeks.

Princess Celestia on the other hand just watched with a devilish grin plastered on her face. The older sibling rose up to her legs and nudged her flustered sister to follow her.

The princesses stood in front of him as he put his shirt back; much to the princesses displeasure.

When Isaiah poked his head through the shirt, he was greeted by his only equestrian friends. “Oh, hey Princesses.” He huffed. “Enjoy the show?”

“It… was entertaining none the less. It’s been a long while since I’ve seen a magnificent fight that you and both your competitors have performed.” Luna answered.

“Thanks, I’m glad you liked it. It felt kinda nice to put someone in their place, especially when they’re a complete dyke.” Isaiah thanked as sat himself on the grass to boot his socks and boots on.

“Dyke?” Luna asked.

“Uh… it’s nothing that you should worry about.”

When he got up to continue his conversation, the man let out a yawn.

“Tired?” Celestia asked.

“What gave it away?” He joked, making the lunar princess giggle. “This day feels like its been forever and it’s only noon. The ceremony sucked more of my energy out of than the fights I was just in.”

“You’re free to take a nap.” Luna assured. “Even I need to rest, I haven’t slept for the past couple of day.”

The human huffed. “Really?”

Luna nodded her head. “We alicorns can go much longer without the need of sleep; unlike the other pony races. But there comes a time when we need to sleep.”

“Doesn’t that mess around with your sleep schedule?”

“No, not really actually. Our bodies are able to adjust to whatever changes. For example; I am the ruler of the night, but here I am, in the middle of the day. There will be times when I would be needed during the day, and there will be times when I would be needed during the night, and I’m more than capable to be available during those times.”

The man twisted his body around, earning multiple pops coming from his back. “Geez, I wish I could do that…” Isaiah turned around into the opposite direction. “Um, I don’t suppose that one of y’all have a place for me to rest up now do ya?”

From behind his back as the man moved his body around, both of the princesses glanced at each other as if they had an idea.

“Actually...” Luna started. “you can rest in my chambers. You’re even free to clean yourself there as you please.”

“Really?” Isaiah asked, surprised by the princess’s proposal.

“Of course you are my friend!” She yelled in merriment. The mare stuck a wing behind his back to direct him towards a castle entrance. “Come Isaiah, you must be exhausted!”

The Luna princess was leaning against the human’s side as they walked. Isaiah had a little bit of difficulty as the mare pushed harder and harder to make him move faster. Luna waved her sister good-bye when Isaiah opened a heavy set of double set of doors for them to enter.

When the doors finally closed, Celestia turned around to see her grinning niece.

“Oh, hello Cadence dear.” Celestia chirped happily.

“Hello auntie Tia. Is it alright if I can talk to both you can Luna after they’re… doing whatever they’re doing?” The princess of love asked.

The solar princess nodded her head. “Of course sweetie, but they just left to go take a nap. If you really need to, I’m sure that Luna would be willing to listen to whatever it may be that you wanna say before she goes off to nap.” She anser made the youngest alicorn smile. “But if I may ask; what’s the matter?”

Cadance sighed. “Nothing really, I just wanna have a quick chat.”

Celestia bent her head down to muzzle Cadance. “Don’t worry, I’ll go ahead and fetch Luna after I finish check-up on Rainbow Dash and the rest of the elements.”

The young alicorn huffed after the loving muzzling ended. “That… was a rather brutal fight.”

Author's Notes:

Dang, this chapter came out kind fast. Please tell me of any mistakes that there might be, I'm always listening to what y'all saw!

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