First blood!.. I mean Love!

by EPP

First published 15th of July, 2014

Pixel always loved gaming, she played everything from FPS, through RPG to RTS games and more, and she was always best.

(WARNING! HUMANIZED!)
Pixel always loved gaming, she played everything from FPS, through RPG to RTS games and more, and she was always best.

Or at least one of the best.

That was until one day, when she finally meets someone who shows her how does it feel to get "pwned".

I wonder how can this turn out into love story.
(A/N Teen for vulgar language, it's multiplayer gaming after all.)

Most of the main characters used in this story were created by awesome kilala97.

Chapter 1 - Lets play a game.

Pixel sat in her comfy throne smiling wildly and enjoying her chocolate ice creams, simply enjoying wondrous life in her own castle, suddenly her peace was broken by one of her guard walking in.

“Princess Pixel your highness, I am afraid it is time for your royal duties.” He said while patting a bunch of paper he held in his right hand.

“Sorry but Princess is in another castle.”

“Ms. Bit.” Guard said while walking up to the throne.

Pixel cocked an eyebrow at him when suddenly walls of her castle started to fall into nothingness.

“Ms. Bit! Are you sleeping on my lesson again?”

“Huh?!” Pixel lifted herself from her slumber still drooling a bit, earning quiet chuckles from rest of the class. She looked up only to see her math teacher Risky Prize with angry frown on his face, his name was suiting him quite well considering his gambling addiction.

“Ahahah, well I…” Pixel stuttered quietly grinning nervously.

Risky cocked one of his eyebrows “I’m listening Ms. Bit.”

Pixel nervously looked around class for any kind of rescue, her gaze was jumping around other students who either avoided it or simply grinned mischievously until it landed on one of her friends.

Night Light was sitting there with his usual caring smile on his face, his dark blue hair with brighter highlights slightly combed as always. He wore white shirt and light-purple vest with a purple tie. Pixel always preferred to wear more comfortable clothes than Night like the plain orange T-shirt and blue shorts she wore right now.

Night motioned with his head towards the blackboard and Pixel gazed upon it quickly understanding her friend idea.

“I was simply thinking about best way to solve that problem Sir.” She said and pointed towards the blackboard.

“Ohh, you did?” Risky asked with a weak grin on his face. “Then perhaps you would like to show us how to do it?”

“No problem!” She said cheerfully and stood up, she walked towards the front of the class, of course she didn’t knew how to do that but she didn’t have to.

‘All right there, please be on time, 4… 3… 2… 1…’
DINGDINGDINGDINGDING.

“Oh my, it’s this late already? I am afraid I will have to show my knowledge next time Sir.” Pixel spoke as fast as she could while picking up her staff and leaving the class before her dumbfounded teacher could get himself together.

“Pheew, that was close.” Pixel sighed with a relief while trying to get as far from the class as possible.

She knew she had to thank Night later, she wouldn’t think of that if it wasn’t for him.

“Hey Pixel! Wait!”

Speaking of the devil.

“Oh Night you caught up, how unusual.”

“Very funny Pix.” Night said panting softly, his lack of form was a very known fact which was very often used by his friends.

“Tell me Pix, did you pull an all-nighter again?”

“Umm, maybe.”

“Oh come on Pix, I don’t have anything against those video games of yours but you slept on the lesson again!”

“Oh chill Night, it was just once.”

“It was fifth time this week!”

“Oh well, he he…” Pixel grinned dumbly. “Oh right Night, how are your studies going? You know this whole preparing for Canterlot University.”

“Oh thanks I am doing… Wait, are you trying to change subject?!”

Pixel chuckled and cursed mentally, she really liked Night, he was her childhood friend after all, but she had enough of his scolding for next month.

Luckily rescue came soon.

“Hey Night! Pixie!” They both turned towards the source of the voice, they both smiled when they recognized it.

Another of her childhood friends Icy Storm was quickly walking up to them, his dark blue hair with light-blue highlights unkempt in a cool style like always, he wore a tight T-shirt which was clearly showing his well build body.

“Icy! Wassup.” Pixel said and high-fived her friend, Night soon following suit.

“Pretty fine really, look guys me and my friends are planning to go grab some beers after school, so I was wondering you guys want to come with us?” He said with an almost pleading expression, which looked hilarious with his build and haircut.

“Oh look at that! Mister sportsman is drinking beer?” Pixel asked cocking one of her eyebrows at him.

“One beer in a while doesn’t hurt does it?” Icy answered and grinned, he looked at Night who in response nodded.

“Yeah I guess I could use some relax from time to time.”

“Great, how about you pix?”

“Yeah, sorry but no.”

“Great then meet me at… Wait no?”

“Yeah, I don’t really feel like drinking, besides it’s really unhealthy and aren’t we a bit too young for that?”

Two boys locked their gaze before looking at Pixel with angry expressions.

“Pix?”

“Yes Night?”

They both stared daggers at her not saying anything, after few moments of nervously smiling and giggling Pixel sighed in defeat.

“All right I just got this new FPS game and I want to try it out.”

Both boys face palmed simultaneously.

“What?! Come on, don’t tell me you guys didn’t play old CS 1.6? CS Go is like a nostalgia exploding in my face, I have to punish some noobs, oh please!”

“Why am I not surprised?”

“I don’t know Icy, I don’t know.”

DINGDINGDINGDING.

“Oh it’s lesson again already?! Well see you later Icy, havefunonyourmeetingbye!” Pixel shouted and ran away leaving boys with same unamused expressions.

Later same day.

“Sheesh, finally free!”

“Pix you are sure you don’t want to come with us?” Night asked, Icy nodding to his question.

“Sorry boys but someone has to show them how you to play fps game! See ya later!” She said and dashed off into direction of her house, Night sighed he then felt someone’s hand on his shoulder, he looked up and saw Icy staring at him with an apologizing expression.

“There will be other occasion to make a move man.”

“I don’t know about that, she always loved playing but ever since the beginning of highschool she isn’t doing almost anything else, I rarely find myself talking to her in other places then school.”

“Did you try playing with her?”

“I did but it gets boring after few hours, I can’t understand how can she do that all of the time!” Night stated throwing his arms in the air dramatically.

“Don’t worry man it’ll be fine, you know that you have my full support with this crush of yours.” Icy said and patted his friend on his back earning a small smile from him.

“Thanks man.”

“Hey best friends for life right?” Icy said and lifted his clenched fist towards Night.

“Heh you betcha.” Night said and bumped his fist.

“Now come on, let’s get these beers and lets have some fun!”

Night nodded and two friends left the school smiling and laughing all the way.

Few hours later, Pixel’s house.

“What the hell?! Turn off your WH noob!”

“Oh stop it you! That’s such a nice compliment.” Pixel answered jokingly while earning another headshot with her AWP.

“Aaaand another one bites the dust! All right this was easy, give me another one!” She almost shouted and impatiently waited for her new opponents.

“Pixel hunny! Dinner is ready!”

“Not now mum!”

“Pixel! Get down here and eat with your family! What are you doing up there?”

“I’m pwning noobs.”

“That’s my girl!”

“Button!”

“What? Oh please Sweetie, she can eat her dinner later.”

Pixel chuckled and smiled wildly, she was so glad she had a father like that, it was mostly his influence that got her so much into gaming.

“Guhh fine!”

“Thanks mom!” Pixel shouted, soon she heard usual sound coming from her headphones which meant only one thing.

Another bunch of guys just waiting to get their ass kicked by her.

She gladly clicked “Accept” button and waited for the game to start. Soon it begun, Pixel got into Terrorist team, not that it mattered, she is best at both of them after all.

Or at least that was what she thought.

Pixel rushed with her teammates surprising her enemies and quickly changing Pistol round into a 4v1 situation for her enemies.

“All right, where are you emm “Retir”! Come on show yourself.” Pixel talked to herself while planting a bomb.

Answer came quickly.

Right after planting her whole team got surprised by sudden flashbang, Pixel’s vision returned after 3 seconds and she couldn’t believe it, she was left alone, rest of her teammates took down.

“Huh?” That wasn’t end of surprise as quickly after she saw figure of her enemy before getting shot down with a headshot.

“What the FU…”

“PIXEL!”

“Sorry mom!” Pixel turned her attention back to the screen, to her horror this whole “Retir” managed to disarm bomb winning round for his team.

Pixel clenched teeth and grabbed her mouse tightly.

“Oh so you want to go like that huh?! All right then…”

Pixel licked her lips and locked her eyes on the screen.

“Let’s play a game.”

Chapter 2 - Life drain.

“Oh come on!” Was what Pixel wanted to shout out but she knew that her parents are more than likely asleep.

“Well will you finally give up?” Her opponent said after beating her in the one on one game 22th time in a row, it was already humiliating for her, but what was worse is the fact that she didn’t get even close to victory in any of these games, always winning only one or two rounds.

And his talking didn’t help her to stay calm.

“Oh you little cocky son of a…”

“Hey hey hey it's time to make some carrrrazzzyy money are ya ready? Here we go!”

Pixel jumped in her seat startled by her phone’s outburst ‘Why the hell is my alarm clock ringing? What time is it.’ Pixel thought and picked up her phone quickly silencing it and looking at the hour.

To her horror it was already 7 a.m. Pixel froze for a moment before her brain activated critical mode, she quickly jumped back on the computer.

“I have to go for now but I’ll kick your ass later!” Pixel almost shouted, she wanted to turn off the game already but instead said one more thing that was on her mind. “And you should think about changing that nick, it's lame.”

Before her opponent could respond she quickly logged out and started her morning activities.

Ponyville Highschool.

“Hey Night! Wait up!” Night stopped and turned around, he smiled and waved at approaching Icy who soon caught up with him and two boys walked together in the direction of school shop with snacks.

“So Night, how did you enjoy yesterday?”

Night pondered for a minute before smiling “It was fun I guess.”

“Yeah, and you know, you shouldn’t worry about what Sunny said.”

Night forced a smile and sighed, how was he not supposed to worry about that.

Yesterday after school, Berry’s Punch bar.

“Hey guys what’s up!” Icy shouted towards the bunch of teenagers while walking inside his, and his friends favorite place to meet, Night following him behind.

“Hey Icy! Oh wow you even got Mr. Perfect with you this time.” Said the girl with unkempt purple-pink hair, she was wearing a white plain hoodie.

“Ha ha, very funny Echo.”

“Oh I’m just messing with you, come on guys take a seat, we already ordered some beers.”

“You do know we have lessons tomorrow right?” Night asked while sitting near Echo.

“That’s why we will drink just one.” Commented the girl with curly white hair with grey highlights, she wore plain dark skirt and light-grey T-shirt.

“All right then, so I guess it’ll be just the four of us? After you said you are drinking with YOUR friends I thought you meant people I didn’t know.” Night asked and looked questioningly at Icy.

“The four of us and my friend from basketball team, but he seems to be a bit late.”

“Well at least I wasn’t late for our game.”

Everyone turned their gaze behind Icy where stood very tall well-built boy with long blond hair which was kept together in a ponytail by a red hairband.

“Hey that happened only once!”

“Yeah sure, so Icy these are your friends you told me about?”

“Oh right! Guys that’s Sunny, he’s our Power Forward and my good friend and Sunny, this is Echo, Cloudy Skies and Night Light.”

Sunny shook hands with each one of them before taking a seat next to Icy.

Soon their friend from school, Ruby who was helping her mom brought their orders, girls started some friendly chatting with Cloudy asking Echo to speak louder from time to time, soon boys followed suit in their small pack.

“So what are you guys going to do after High School?” Sunny asked knowing perfectly well what will Icy’s answer be.

“I’m going into Wonderbolts academy and Night…”

“I will try to get into Canterlot University.” Night stated before his friend could finish, Icy gazed at his friend before shrugging and taking another sip of his beer.

“Wow that’s amazing, good luck then buddy.” Sunny said and raised his glass, Night followed suit and they bumped their glasses before drinking.

“What about you?” Night asked while placing his beer back on the table.

“It would be awesome if I would get into Wonderbolts academy, but if that won’t work out I will work on my parents farm in Dodge City.”

Night nodded and opened his mouth to say something before being interrupted by Icy.

“By the way Sunny, correct me if I’m wrong but weren’t you supposed to come here with this friend of yours?”

Sunny sighed and took another sip “Yeah I was, he’s my best friend since we were kids and I really wish he could get out more. Do you guys want to know why did he decline my invitation?”

Both of them nodded, Icy slightly shaking in his seat.

“He said that there's this new FPS game and he needs to, let me quote “punish some noobs.” can you guys believe that?!” Sunny almost shouted and took another sip finish his drink, both guys looked at each other sympathizing gaze before giving Sunny a friendly hug accompanied by a tap on a shoulder

“We so know how you feel.”

“Y-You do?” Sunny asked a bit surprised.

“Yeah, in fact that is the same thing our friend used as an excuse to not come today.” Night said while Icy finished his beer.

“Really who is it?”

“You probably don't know her, her name is Pixel Bit.”

Sunny pondered for a moment before snapping his fingers. “Oh you mean That Pixel Bit? I sure don’t know her personally but I heard about her a lot from my friends.”

Night looked at Icy expecting some kind of reaction from him, sadly Icy was focused on keeping himself steady in his seat.

“You did?”

“Sure, she’s not really my type but there are many guys in our school who find her very attractive, more than that she’s a gamer girl and as far as I am not into gaming I know that makes her twice as hot in most eyes.” He said blankly while looking at his empty bottle.

Night sat there frozen thinking about Sunny's words, he was sure that he didn’t have to fear that someone might take her away but it seems that the reality is different after all.

“Would you look at that, Icy got drunk again.” Echo stated smirking.

“N-NO I did not.” Icy replied trying to look as steady as possible.

“Oh come on we all know you are extreme lightweight, like that time you tried to impress my cousin by drinking 4 beers? We all know how it ended.”

“Shut up! And besides I did not try to impress Whirlwind, why would I?”

“Because you totally have hots for her.”

“I do not!”

“You do!”

“Do not!”

“You do!”

“Here we go again.” Cloudy sighed and face palmed, Sunny looked questioningly at Night who simply shook his head and sighed.

“Actually Icy I wanted to ask you.” Night said while they both waited in the line to get their hot-dogs.

“What is it?”

“You still have crush on Whirlwind?”

“Oh come on, et tu, Brute, contra me?”

“I just wanted to ask and, hey I’m actually surprised you know this quote.”

Icy gave him death glare and Night grinned dumbly.

“Umm well anyways, I just want to know for sure Icy, you are my best friend and I am just curious you know.”

Icy calmed himself and sighed. “I know that, sorry, and to be honest no, I got over it long time ago, too bad Echo doesn’t want to believe me.”

“That’s because you always let her tease you instead of just ignoring that.”

“Yeah I know but, I just can’t ignore her messing with me and my old crush on her cousin, I don’t know why.”

Night looked at his friend questioningly before they both heard Pixel calling out to them.

“Hey guys!”

“Oh hey Pixel, so how was the gameeeeeahhhh! What happened to you?!” Night asked almost shouting, Icy had similar reaction, Pixel looked terrifying, bloodshot eyes accompanied by dark bags under the eyes, to top it off her hair was a complete mess and she looked like she was about to fall.

“You look like Icy on hangover, seriously what happened!”

“Yeah Pixel what did you… HEY!”

“Oh umm, I guess I might have just played this new game, whole night.” Pixel finished with small giggles, Night looked at her with concerned expression which quickly changed into angry one.

“You. Played. Whole. NIGHT?!” He shouted startling other persons in line.

“W-Well, you guys went out drinking in the middle of the week!”

“You’re right, and now tell me Pixel, which one of us is looking like he’s about to collapse?”

“Hey! It’s not that bad.”

Night sighed and looked at her with once again a care in his eyes. “Pixel look, we are just worried about you.”

“I know guys, I know, I wouldn’t play whole night but I met that fuc… I mean that guy in the game who, emm, let’s say that he gave me quite the challenge.”

“Ohoho, it seems that our Ms. Best found herself a worthy opponent.” Icy commented.

“He he, yeah.” Pixel answered chuckling nervously.

“Well anyways class are soon starting so let’s get those hot-dogs and get going.” Icy said and Night nodded, he once again looked at Pixel concerned about her state, she in return smiled at him making him blush lightly and smile back.

Meanwhile somewhere else in the school.

“What the hell do you mean you stayed up whole night Blaze!” Sunny shouted at his friend, Blaze was a small and skinny boy, his crimson red hair with black highlights was in an unkempt mess, his golden eyes were bloodshot and he had bags under his eyes.

“Oh calm down big guy, it’s not my fault.”

“When whose fault is it?!”

“That weird girl who wanted to play with me one on one whole night even though I kept kicking her ass each single time, and she even called my nick lame after getting completely crushed like that, can you believe that?!”

Sunny facepalmed and sighed.

“Anyways, are you sure you can stay in school, maybe it will be better for you to go back home?”

“Nah man it’s fine I can handle this.”

“Whatever you say.”

Blaze nodded and parted with his friend, in the meantime Pixel and Night walked away from the school snacks shop after boys got their hot-dogs.

Both players very confident in their skills required to survive this day in school, even though neither of them would admit they both looked up to fighting each other once again.

But first they need to wait until the last bell rang.

And this won’t be an easy quest.

Chapter 3 - Till the last bell ring.

Author's Notes:

Hey, I'm very sorry it took me so long to write, I had a small writer's block but it's all good now.

I am not sure if this chapter worked out as well as I wanted it to, but I hope you will still enjoy it and read on cause it's just a beginning after all.

Best wishes.

Riter12pl4

“This isn’t going to work.”

“What’s not going to work?” Night asked with concern written all over his face.

“I am afraid this is my last heart container.”

“Your what? Pixel come on it’s just a history lesson.”

“Ghh” Pixel grunted walking into the classroom with rest of her classmates, after some swaying she finally sat in her place, soon enough her history teacher, Lifeless Story, whose name perfectly fit his teachings methods, walked inside.

“Hello there children, so is everyone present? Stainless Harvest?”

“Present.”

“Cursed Apple?”

“Present.”

“Circus Gem?”

“Present.”

“Crystal Ace?”

“Absent.”

“C-C-Combo breaker!”

Silence fell over the classroom everyone’s gaze falling over to Pixel, the only sound came from Night face palming.

“Miss Pixel what was that supposed to be?”

“Ooo, ummm, nothing Mr. Story, my tongue slipped.”

“Well let us hope it won’t happen again.” Professor started checking students presence once again and Pixel sighed in relief, she couldn’t believe she actually said that out loud, it was just first minute of her first lesson today and she already almost got in trouble.

But she wasn’t the only one.

“Blaze dear, am I disturbing your nap or something?” Blaze’s teacher asked sarcastically earning some laughs from the class.

Blaze however had a hard time answering her question as his consciousness drifted far away into the huge land of dreams.

“mmmno….”

“What was that?” She asked again.

“Don’t you dare you…” Blaze mumbled in his speak earning a frown from his teacher and good laugh from rest of the class.

“Don’t you dare using that blue shell!” Blaze almost shouted waking from his slumber, it took him few moments to get back into reality before seeing angry expression on his teacher face.

“Oh, I’m very sorry Ms. Spark.” He said humbly slightly lowering his head, his expression was however almost emotionless like always.

“Blaze come with me.” She said and walked out of the classroom, Blaze following suit, everyone laughed at him and called him names as soon as Ms. Spark left but it didn’t bother him one bit, he got used to that.

After leaving the classroom Blaze closed the door and turned towards his teacher “I am very sorry Ms. Spark, it’s just that I didn’t get any sleep yesterday and…”

“You played whole night didn’t you?” Blaze sighed and nodded keeping his eyes on the floor, he didn’t have any problem with talking to people online, but in real life he couldn’t really handle conversation with other people.

Ms. Spark sighed and looked at blaze with expression of concern mixed with annoyance “Blaze I always somehow tolerated that addiction of yours but this is going too far, you already are pale and skinny like a living skeleton, but those bags under your eyes? With your physiques you will soon collapse.”

Blaze sighed and nodded on habit, he didn’t like debating with his teachers, no matter how good and logical were his arguments, the teachers will still think that they are right.

“Now go back inside and I don’t want to see you sleeping on my lesson again, also after you get home first thing you’ll do is getting some sleep, understood?” Blaze nodded again even though he knew that sleep will be last thing he will do after coming home.

And then it hit him.

If he will play against his new enemy in this state, she might even manage to defeat him and for some reason he simply couldn’t accept such outcome.

‘I need to somehow rest before getting home, there will be P.E so I can get some sleep in the locker-room, I hope this will be enough.’ Blaze walked inside and sat in his chair, his tired brain trying it’s best to memorize what was his teacher talking about.

‘This will be a loooong day.’

“Gosh, and here I thought water temple was boring enough.” Pixel mumbled while walking towards her next classroom in which her chemistry lesson was soon going to start.

Pixel sat down on a bench and sighed, she closed her eyes and just before she drifted off into the world of dreams she heard someone sitting right next to her.

“Here you go.” Night said and lifted his hand towards her, she didn’t understand at first then she recognized the object Night was giving her.

“A coffee?! Thanks Night you’re the best.” Pixel didn’t waste any time and took a big sip, almost burning her throat in the process.

“Whoa watch out it’s still very hot.”

“Whaa you don’t say.” Pixel said while holding her tongue out trying to cool insides of her mouth, Night couldn’t help but chuckle a bit.

They say there for a few moments, none of them said anything before Night decided to break the awkward silence.

“Sooo Pixel, you have any plans for today afterschool?” Night asked with hope in his voice.

“Well that’s not really an official plan but I guess I’ll try to kick this guy ass.”

“This guy? Oh you mean that player who defeated you?”

“Yeah him.” Pixel took another sip while Night kept his gaze on the floor, another chance of meeting and talking with Pixel after school utterly destroyed by video games.

DINGDINGDINGDINGDING.

Pixel frowned and quickly finished her coffee, she stood up and patiently walked inside the class, the day went on calmly for every student, except two tired gamers.

10th bell of the day rang meaning the end of fifth lesson, Pixel walked outside the classroom, is she was just tired at the beginning of the school day, now she was completely wasted and there were still four lessons to go.

“Hey Pix cheer up, more than half of the lessons is over.”

“…”

“Pixel?”

“What huh?!” Pixel snapped and quickly looked around before her eyes rested on the concerned Night.

“Pixel are you all right?”

“Y-Yeah I’m fine, just lagging a lot.”

“What?”

“N-Nothing, I just need to emm, take a walk, yeah see you later.”

“Pixel wait…” Night said trying to stop her but to no avail, soon his friend disappeared in the crowd leaving him alone.

Night sighed and walked back to the classroom not really having anything to do ‘What am I supposed to do?’ Night pondered to himself while silently continuing his journey through the school hall, which was soon interrupted by his friend.

“Hey Night got a minute?” Icy shouted out while slowly trotting towards his friend.

“Sure, I got all the minutes, what’s up?” Night answered with a bit of annoyance in his voice and a frown on his face which didn’t go unnoticed.

“Hey man did something happened?”

“Oh nothing really, I just got beaten by a video game, you know the usual thing.”

Icy frowned and sighed “You tried asking her out again?”

Night nodded “I don’t really know what to do, maybe I should give up.”

“Hey dude, hell no, you can’t just give up on her, you had these feelings for far too long to just give up now.”

“Well perhaps *sigh*, so what was that you wanted to talk about?”

Icy frowned a bit and answered “You remember our small talk about my former crush on Whirlwind and how Echo always teases me about it?”

“Yeah.”

“I was thinking about it since then, and I am afraid I figured it out.”

“You figured out what exactly?” Night asked cocking his right eyebrow.

“Why is it always working on me, her teasing about that old crush that is.”

“All right. So what’s the answer to this question?”

Icy looked around and silenced his tone even more “W-Well it seems that.” Icy’s gaze was frozen on the ground, Night was becoming quite concerned as he never saw his confident, cool-guy friend acting like that, except for when he was….

“You/I have a crush on Echo.” Both boys said simultaneously, they locked their gazes in disbelief.

“Holy shit dude that’s awesome.” Night said with a smile on his face.

“I’m not so sure about it, I mean she’s…”

“I think she’s perfect for you, you two always hanged out together.”

“Well yeah when we were kids that is, and besides she’s younger than me.”

“Two years difference? Come on my parents age difference is bigger and Echo is going to our school next year, that is perfect!” Night was answering with a bit too much excitement in his voice.

“Dude you are starting to creep me out a bit, I mean you are starting to sound like Candy.” Silence fell upon both boys only to soon be replaced with big fit of laughter, Night completely forget about his unsuccessful attempt at asking Pixel out.

“Oh right, speaking of Candy.” Icy said trying to restrain his laughter.

“Yeah?”

“Guess who is my brother going out with recently.”

Night’s laughter stopped completely and his expression changed into shock “Prism and Candy? Really?” Icy nodded and after few moments they both started to laugh again.

“That’s also amazing, well Icy I’ll get going, want to hang out after school since I don’t have any other plans?”

Icy chuckled “Sure why not, just the two of us.”

Both boys smiled and bumped fist before parting, Night was again walking towards his classroom but now his previous sad mood was replaced with joy and excitement.

‘Come on Pixel, wake up!’ Pixel thought to herself while walking through the corridor with her eyes constantly trying to close themselves ridding her from her vision.

After few moments of dodging other students she bumped into someone which resulted in her landing on her behind.

“Sorry, are you all right?” Pixel still had her eyes closed, she didn’t recognize the voice that called out to her.

“I-I’m fine thanks, and I’m sorry too I tried to look where I’m going but my eyes didn’t.” Pixel answered mentally face palming on how ridiculous her answered must have sounded, she opened her eyes and saw a hand aimed towards her, accepting the help she quickly got back on her legs and finally looked at her victim.

It was a skinny boy with very pale skin, his unkempt hair was crimson red with black highlights, he was very short, even Pixel was slightly taller than him.

“You’re having a hard day?” Boy asked.

“Yeah, how did you know?” She asked rhetorically when she noticed his bloodshot eyes and bags under eyes.

“Rough night?” Pixel asked.

Blaze nodded and yawned Pixel quickly following suit.

“How many lessons do you have until the end?” Blaze asked, not really understanding why did he even bother talking with her.

“Four, you?”

“Three.” Blaze answered.

Pixel frowned but soon smiled again and lifted her hand towards him “Name’s Pixel Bit.”

“Morning Blaze.” He answered and his eyes widened in shock when he realized that throughout this whole small conversation he had with her, he was smiling, his usual poker mask was thrown somewhere in the corner.

“So what did hold you up whole night?”

Blaze frowned, he didn’t really care what other think about him but for some reason this time was different, he didn’t want to tell her that he stayed up whole night just to play video games, but in his current state he didn’t have enough brain power to think of something else than the truth.

“I got hooked up with one particular game, it happens from time to time but I don’t usually play whole night.” He answered emphasizing word WHOLE.

Pixel’s eyes went wide and she immediately smiled wildly before starting to laugh like crazy, Blaze frowned not really sure why did he expect any other reaction.

Pixel soon stopped and breather heavily for few moments before saying “Duuude, that’s so cool, I actually did the same.” She said with wide smile.

It was Blaze’s turn to express shock as her answered stunned him, he soon felt his heart beating slightly faster and once again he didn’t have any idea why.

“So you’re a gamer?” Blaze asked.

“I sure do! And let me tell you this day is going slower than Yiazmat battle.” They both laughed before their conversation was interrupted by a ringing bell signalizing start of another lesson.

“Well I got to go, see you later Blaze, we have to play together someday!” She said while quickly trotting away, he stood there for a few more moments thinking about what just happened, smile slowly left his face as he turned back and started walking back to his classroom.

“Hey honey, how was your day?” Sweetie Belle asked he daughter when she walked inside the house, the only answer she received was a huge frown on Pixel’s face.

“Oh my, what happened?”

“Nothing, really nothing.” Pixel stated blankly, her battery was almost completely out and even though she wanted to go up there and play against her “rival” she needed some sleep, at least one-hour long nap.

“Sweetie you want to eat something?” Her mother asked with a concern in her voice.

“No it’s okay the cats got it with the salad.”

“W-What?”

“I-I already put, I, I… the French toast.” Pixel answered and quickly ran towards her room leaving her dumbfounded mother in the living room.

“Button, do you understand any of this?”

Button stopped his quiet chuckling “Not a clue honey.”

Blaze sat down on his chair waiting for steam to start, this hour of sleep he managed to get on P.E managed to keep him up, he logged onto his account only to notice that the player he wanted to play against wasn’t online.

Blaze frowned before something caught his eye.

His nick.

“And you should think about changing that nick, it's lame.” Her words echoed in his head, he pondered for a few minutes before shrugging.

“Perhaps this needs a little change.”

Chapter 4 - Shut up and play.

Pixel woke up to the sound of her alarm clock, she swiftly turned it off and stretched. She lifted herself up smiling widely as she walked towards her computer.

She sat down with excitement written all over her face as she turned it on, after few moments everything was ready, she logged onto steam and quickly frowned.

She waited whole day for this battle only to find out that her rival wasn’t there, her eyes went wide as she scanned her friend list for the 10th time, suddenly she got a message from one of her friends namely KillGen13.

She didn’t remember to have a friend with this nick.

“What took you so long? Well whatever actually, are we playing or not?”

Pixel cocked her eyebrow and responded. ”Emm, sorry but who are you? I don’t really remember adding you to my friend list.”

“Right I forgot, it’s me Retir”

It took few seconds for Pixel to realize what he meant, her frown changed back into excited smile, she wanted to immediately start the game, but then one thought crossed her mind.

”So you admit that your previous nick sucked?” She wrote with satisfaction.

Blaze frowned.

“Yea whatever, so shall we begin the ass kicking?”

Pixel smiled, finally, after whole boring day in school she got what she was waiting for, a chance for a rematch, her excitement level passed 9000 as she wrote and spoke those words.

“Bring it on”

“Damn it! Even you can kick my ass at this.” Icy almost shouted throwing his arms into the air.

“I guess that’s Pixel influence, I’m nowhere close to her level though.” Night stated somehow proudly, he never was really fond of video games but arcade games like this particular fighting game were exception.

“One more time?”

“Hell no, I’m just losing my money here, how about that one?” Icy stated and pointed with his hand towards the Shoot To Win Basketball Machine

Night gulped and answered “Well perhaps later, maybe some air hockey? We will have equal chances there.” Icy shrugged and nodded, they walked over to the table and Night took out few coins.

“Hey look what we have here!” Boys turned around and smiled upon seeing their friend approaching them.

“Sunny! What’s up man, what are you doing here?” Icy said while bumping fist with his friend, Night soon follow suit.

“Not much, I didn’t have anything to do at home, at first I wanted to meet up with Blaze, you know that guy I told you about yesterday, but he was too absorbed in his game.” Sunny sighed and took a sip from his pepsi can.

Night and Icy connected their gazes before simultaneously nodding and turning their stares back to Sunny.

“Like we said yesterday we pretty much know that feeling. *Cough*EspeciallyNight*Cough*” Night frowned and gave his friend a brief death stare before turning back to Sunny with a smile.

“So maybe you want to hang out with us instead?”

Sunny grinned and nodded. “Sure man, so what, are we playing Air Hockey? Or maybe that neat Street Fighter?” Icy frowned while Night smiled as their gazes followed Sunny’s pointing.

“Sure, we can play that.” Night answered with innocent smile making Sunny flinch a bit.

“Emmm cool?”

“So anyways.” Icy stated quickly “Let’s play this first shall we?” He said while pointing towards air hockey table.

“What the hell! How did you even saw me there?!”

“I heard you running towards the place.”

Pixel mumbled something under her nose while next round started, it was already 6-0 for him and her previous excitement although still present, was slowly lowering.

Pixel bought AK-47, and nothing else since she didn’t have enough money.

‘This bastard will be camping again, last time he was at B and most of the time he camps at A so...’ Pixel thought for a few moments before finally deciding to go B once more, this time she walked into the tunnels holding shift to not make any noise.

‘That’s right, slowly, swiftly…’ And that was the moment she loved the most, few steps from entering bombsite, her heart was pounding faster and faster almost wanting to leave her chest, she loved that anticipation and nervousness, is he there? If yes where is he camping? Will I be able to shot him down? All these question swarmed inside her head, and then it happens, she let go of shift key and ran inside the bombsite making quick 360 turn.

For a few moments she stood in place looking around noting everything, she couldn’t see him, relaxing a bit she checked other places she couldn’t see, now with more confidence she walked up to the chests and started to plant a bomb, only to be interrupted by a smooth head shot.

“WHAT THE FUCK.”

“Got you again.” Blaze stated smiling with satisfaction.

“But how, I don’t, I don’t even.”

“I got you from the window, you know that hole in the wall near…”

“I know what that is thank you very much! But..”

Blaze cut her off not letting her finish. ”I was just outside bombsite from the CT spawn side when you ran in, I luckily heard you and just waited for you to start planting, nuff said.’

Pixel face palmed and sighed.

“Heh don’t worry maybe one day you will… Sir I brought your dinner, where do you want me to put it?”

Pixel cocked her eyebrow upon hearing that last statement. ’It wasn’t his voice, that was definitely someone older, also “Sir”?’

After few moments of silence just as the next round started she once again heard her rivals voice “Sorry for that.”

“No problem but who was that?” Her first thought was “His father” but what father calls his son “Sir”?

“That was mine family butler.”

Pixel’s eyes went wide “You have a freaking butler? Dude.”

“I know I know, shouldn’t you focus on buying stuff?”

“I’m going eco, I don’t have much money left.”

Blaze shrugged while walking over to his usual camping spot on A bombsite and waited with his AWP.

He was happy to play against her again, even a bit excited, but that was also what frightened him.

He never really know why, but if there was something concerning him that he didn’t understand it was always scary for him.

And he didn’t understand his current situation at all.

Why did he enjoy playing against her so much? What was different about her that made him want to play against her again?

Sure she had some skills but still she didn’t really give him any challenge, was it that she never even once called him a cheater, thus most likely believing in his skills? No it was something else.

It scared him, but he kept on playing, he knew that the answer is right there, he will find it sooner or later.

And even if it was frightening for him, the excitement he get from playing against her was too satisfying.

Suddenly his train of thoughts was stopped by a flashbang, he cursed under his nose but he couldn’t do anything while Pixel finally shot him down, for the first time today.

“Ha in your face!”

“Well congrats, you shot me down.”

“Bang bang.”

“W-What?”

“Never mind, come on let’s play!”

Blaze smiled and nodded to no one. “Yeah, let’s play.”

Chapter 5 - Plans for the weekend.

“OHH Come on!” Pixel shouted at the end of another game which ultimately was finished with score 16-3 for Blaze.

“Another one?” Blaze stated blankly.

Pixel sighed and flinched as she once again noticed something that was bugging her since their first one on one game.

“Hey KillGen, mind if I ask you something?”

Blaze cocked his eyebrow “Sure, what is it?” He wrote back while sending her invite for next game.

“I couldn’t help but notice that unlike most players you are ummm, how to put it, not reacting too much?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well on our first few games whenever you spoke through your mic you always sounded, well I guess emotionless is best word, even when I shot you down. I mean sure not all players are reacting with shouting and stuff but.”

Blaze sighed and waited few seconds for game to start, as always they had a minute of warmup.

“Recently I can sometimes notice your voice crack or rise but it’s still pretty much blank.”

“I guess it’s just how I am.” Blaze half-lied.

“It fine then I guess, it just got me worried a bit I guess.”

“You got worried over that? Seriously?”

“Well duhh, after all you sounded like you didn’t have any fun playing.”

Blaze flinched at her words, she hit the spot right there, it wasn’t that he didn’t have fun playing against her, it was the opposite, he didn’t have any fun playing video games for a long time which is what caused his emotionless behavior to emerge.

Playing against her was fun, but he simply got used to keeping calm and blank demeanour when facing his screen, he only showed some emotions when talking with Sunny.

And recently he put his emotionless mask away when talking with this girl he met by accident in school, it was another thing that he didn’t understand.

“Well you don’t have to worry about me having fun, by the way you got any plans for the weekend?”

Pixel pondered for a moment, tomorrow was Friday so after school what awaited her were two beautiful days of freedom and most likely playing.

“No, not really, I guess I’ll just…” Pixel was cut short by her phone ringing.

“Emm, wait a moment my friend is calling.”

“Sure go on I’ll just wait on spawn.”

Pixel nodded to herself and answered the call “Yeah Icy what is it?”

Few moments earlier.

“No way, so you and Echo?” Sunny asked Icy while still keeping his gaze at the flashing screen of Street Fighter in front of him.

“Don’t get the wrong idea, I just sorta like her, I don’t even know if it’s mutual.”

“Wow this must be serious, I mean our cool and usually collected Icy acting this shy?” He said and cursed under his nose as Night delivered another final blow.

“Yeah it scares me a bit, I’m starting to sound like Night.”

Night opened his mouth to throw some counter, but after few of thinking he had to agree with Icy on this one, ultimately just sighing in defeat.

“Hey so Night also have hots for someone? Now you made me curious.” Sunny stated and stared at Night, he wanted to look somewhere else but Sunny’s gaze kept his eyes in place, it was terrifying experience, it almost felt like Ms. Fluttershy’s stare.

“All right, all right! I’ll tell you just stop that.” Sunny smiled proud with his victory while Icy simply grinned knowing perfectly well what his friend just went through.

“It’s Pixel.” Night stated quietly while blushing a bit.

Sunny pondered for a moment “Ohh that Pixel! The one we talked about… last… time…”

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, DING.

“Ohhh man I’m sorry for what I said about her back then.” Sunny said to which Night only responded with a nod.

“I really don’t know what to do, I even tried to ask her out but she always chooses to play some game instead.” Sunny frowned while Icy stared in the sky pondering if Night really asked her out or if he just thought that he did.

“That sounds awfully familiar man, I would love to give you some advice, but I’m having similar problem with my friend and I don’t really know what to do either.”

Both boys sighed in defeat and frowned keeping their gazes at the floor, Icy didn’t really know how to react to this so after few moments he simply followed suit and kept his stare on the ground.

“Actually I have an idea.”

All boys looked up and immediately turned towards the source of the voice.

“Cloudy? What are you doing here?”

“Oh I was on my way towards mine mother’s bakery, and then I saw you guys talking and couldn’t help but eavesdrop, good thing I did.”

Ignoring their friend confession they all nodded for her to continue.

“Soo, Icy wants to hang out with Echo, Night with Pixel, and Sunny with this gaming-guy-who-never-leaves-his-house right?”

They all nodded simultaneously.

“So I think the perfect place to ask them out will be arcade!”

Boys eyes went wide and they all turned around, it’s true the place that they were at right now was pretty much perfect, Night remember old times when it was Pixel who invited him to places like this one.

“I don’t think this will work on Blaze though, he’s really stubborn.”

“Then you have to beat his stubbornness with your assertiveness!” Cloudy said and tapped him on the shoulder.

Sunny pondered for a few moments, he then smiled and nodded.

“Yeah I’ll get him out of his house if he likes it or not, so this Saturday?”

“Yeah sure why not.” Icy simply stated, Sunny walked away and waved towards his friends as he swiftly disappeared around the corner.

“So only things left to do are inviting the girls, Night let’s get Pixel first shall we?”

Night gulped and smiled sheepishly. “Ummm no thanks, can’t we invite Echo first?”

Icy sighed “Come on Night man up! I thought you asked her out few times already.”

“W-Well maybe I wouldn’t call it “asking out”.”

Icy face palmed and sighed “I knew it.”

“You what now?”

“Never mind, fine I’ll call her, just give me a sec.”

“All right boys, I’ll be going then, see you later!” She said and happily trotted away.

Pixel’s room, present

“Arcade on Saturday? Me you, Night, Echo and your two friends I don’t know yet?” Pixel wanted to decline at first but something stopped her, she thought about it for a moment and got to a conclusion that she actually didn’t hang out with her friends since forever.

“Sound pretty good actually, sure I’ll be there.” She said and stopped the call.

“Hey sorry for wait, also it turns out I’ll have some plans for the weekend, well not really, I’m just meeting with friends on Saturday for few hours, we can play after that.”

Blaze felt slightly disappointed at first, but he quickly shrugged it off.

“Okay then, can we start?”

“Of course we ca….”

“Pixel sweetie did you see my mousta… oh hey is this the new CS?” Button asked excited as he walked into her room.

“Yeah it’s pretty cool.”

Her father walked up to her and looked on the screen.

“You’re playing one on one?”

“Well yeah, it’s a long story.”

“Emm Pix? Are you here? Can we start already, first round is almost over and we didn’t even move.”

“Oh yeah sure just give me a second I’m talking with my father.”

Blaze grunted and sighed in defeat.

“So who are you playin against? Is he, or she good?”

Pixel chuckled nervously “Yeah he is, umm good, very good I would say, so good I didn’t win even one game against him.”

Button could pretend he didn’t hear his daughter last words instead he whistled in admiration.

“Ok I won’t bother you then, have fun sweetie.” He said and walked out of her room.

‘So he’s so good that my daughter doesn’t stand a chance?’ Button smiled widely with excitement.

“You just wait KillGen13, you’re going down, there is nothing you can do to..”

“Button? Are you talking to yourself again?”

He blushed and smiled sheepishly “Emm, sorry Sweetie.”

Sweetie Belle looked at him with a cocked eyebrow for a few seconds before putting on an honest and adorable smile. “You’re lucky you’re cute.” She said and walked back into kitchen leaving blushing Button in the hallway.

“We dated, we got married, we have child and this is still supper effective.” Button said and sighed in defeat as he followed love of his life into the kitchen.

Author's Notes:

IF you are wondering about Blaze calling Pixel "Pix", her nick is Pix64, I ain't sure if I stated that somewhere in the story before, and when I am posting it I'm simply too tired(read:Too lazy) at the moment to check.

Chapter 6 - Getting rest.

Pixel cursed under her nose as she got shot down once again losing another game with final score 16-4 for Blaze.

“One more time?”

She frowned and mumbled some curses, at first she wanted to accept his offer but then she looked at the time.

“Sorry but I can’t, I need to catch some Z’s and it’s already 10 p.m. I mean I wouldn’t normally go to sleep for like next 4 hours but I didn’t get any sleep yesterday.”

“Yeah same here, now that you said it I realized I feel kinda sleepy.”

Pixel smiled and nodded. “Well then I guess good night and see ya tomorrow.”

“Yeah see ya.” Blaze said through his mic and proceeded to turn off his computer, he then took his pajamas and went to the bathroom to get a quick shower before sleep.

He walked inside and stopped, he turned towards the mirror situated on one of the walls and he saw something unexpected.

He was smiling without even noticing it. ‘I swear either I will find out what’s so great about playing with her or I’ll go mad.’ Blaze shook his head and proceeded with his shower.

Pixel yawned while stretching out on her chair ‘I guess I can take shower in the morning’ she stood up and changed into her pajamas which consisted of plain orange shorts and same colored top with no sleeves.

She thought that as tired as she was she would instantly fall asleep but she was wrong.

She kept on thinking about last days, all those games she played against him, replaying them inside of her mind trying to find her mistakes and clear them.

Blaze on the other hand had similar problem, but in his case he tried to figure it out, why did he enjoy playing with her? Why was he getting excited even though he was better in every aspect of the game.

Why playing against her made him smile?

And so both players slowly went into slumber thinking about each other in different ways.

But they both slept with happy smiles adorning their faces.

Pixel woke up to the same ringtone she used since she got into high school, her eyes were met with gentle rays of sun shining through her window, Pixel got into sitting position and stretched.

Right now, she was in her personal heaven.

Yesterday’s nightmare seemed to simply vanish, she hated being as tired as she was back then, but on the other hand she didn’t get such a good sleep for a looong time.

Pixel stood up and just like she planned yesterday went straight to the bathroom, picking up some random clothes from her shelves along the way.

“Morning Pixi, oh hey would you look at that, you are literally shining.” Her mother said with wide smile on her face, Pixel blushed slightly and nodded.

“Yeah, you look like Knight Blade +13.” Both his daughter and wife chuckled at the comparison.

“Thanks, I just got good bunch of sleep.”

“Oh yes, playing whole nights is always cool but what’s the best is sleeping afterwards, well of course if you can sleep afterwards.”

“Right Button, because if you don’t you might fell asleep on some very important occasions.” Sweetie grinned mischievously and looked at her husband whose face reddened and scowled into a frown.

“That was just one time and long ago!”

“You fall asleep during our date and your face landed in your dish.”

Pixel tried to stifle her laughter with hand, her father didn’t make it easier for her puffing his cheeks in anger.

“Now now Button, calm down or maybe you want me to tell our daughter a story of certain, milk shake race?”

Button jaw fell down, he turned around on one feet and walked away, leaving both his daughter and wife laughing wildly.

“H-Hey mom, what was that about milk shake?”

“I’ll tell you later Pix, here, the toilet all yours, I’ll go and make some pancakes for breakfast, I hope Button won’t be angry for too long.”

Sweetie walked away but turned around just before stepping on the stairs. “Oh I forgot! Pixel, Rarity asked if you could maybe help her on Sunday, she needs a model for hour or two.”

“Mooom, you know I hate doing that.”

“Oh please. Do it for auntie Rarity?” She asked and used the skill she managed to learn to perfection during her childhood.

Puppy eyes.

‘Oh no, not this time, no way.’ Pixel thought to herself and crossed her arms on her chest, her mother used this many times before and this time it wasn’t going to work.

Or so she hoped.

“HMMF, fine. *sigh* I’ll do it.”

Sweetie smiled and proceeded to walk down the stairs.

‘Why couldn’t I inherit that?! I mean this kind of skill would make my life sooo much easier.’ She pondered while getting her clothes off and stepping into the shower.

She turned her shower on and sighed in relief as she felt warm water blissfully clear both her body and mind.

She clenched her fist and smiled “Today I’ll finally get him, I know it.”

Blaze woke up with a solid thud, his eyes shot open and he stared at his ceiling for a few moments before pain in the back of his head made him realize that he’s in fact on the floor.

At least his upper half is, his legs were still laying comfortably on his king sized bed.

He laid there for few minutes.

Or maybe hours, it sure felt like hours.

Blaze decided that’s it’s time to get up, but he quickly realized that his legs weren’t listening to him.

He looked up and starred daggers at his own limbs which carried him all these years before his face scowled into a frown and he stated “Traitors.”

“Excuse me Sir, your mother wanted me to wake you up but it seems that isn’t necessary.” His butler said standing in the door, Blaze turned his head towards him.

“Thank you Sunset, would you be so kind and go tell my mother that I’ll be down for breakfast as soon as I’ll take care of betrayal.”

Sunset Tea, taught by years of experience simply nodded without asking any questions and left the room closing the door as he walked downstairs back to the living room.

Blaze once again stared at the ceiling, he knew he has to stand up sooner or later and go downstairs in order to eat breakfast with his mother and father.

Activity he truly loathed.

But soon his thoughts drifted towards the future, he thought about once again playing against Pix64 and his smile returned once again.

He stood up and started to walk towards his doors and then downstairs, all the while his thoughts were focused on playing against her.

What he didn’t know is that the fate wanted to turn on him and today he wasn’t going to play against her.

The fate who sometimes was called

The Stache.

Author's Notes:

Bad jokes aside, we all know how good it feels to sleep after an all-nighter playing right?

Right?

Or is it just me?

Chapter 7 - It's Friday!

Blaze walked down the stairs into the huge hallway, a place that his parents for some reasons cared very deeply, adorning it with multiple statues and paintings on the walls, for him it was just a room through which he must venture in order to get anywhere else in the house.

Soon enough he arrived in the living room which was connected to the kitchen, his father enjoyed watching his chefs cooking while eating, something Blaze never could really understand.

He walked up to the round old-styled table and sat down, as far from his parents as possible, he started to gobble up his meal which consisted of some first class French toast, orange juice and few slices of apple.

Blaze hoped that maybe he will manage to eat his meal before his parents inevitable speech, but he hoped wrong.

“So Blaze, did you decide what college do you wish to attend to?” His father asked not even looking at him.

Blaze sighed and stopped eating his almost finished meal “No father I did not.”

“And why is that?”

“I don’t know.”

“*Sigh* Blaze you’re in the first class of high school, it’s about time you start thinking about your future, for example your brother knew that he will become a doctor right after he finished middle school.” His father said with a proud tone in his voice emphasizing a word “doctor”.

Blaze narrowed his eyes and returned to his meal trying to finish it as quickly as possible while ignoring his father.

“Blaze honey, we are worried about you.” His mother stated without any kind of emotion in her high voice. “Your grades are very bad and we don’t understand what’s the problem, when your sister was in high school she…”

“Thanks for the meal.” Blaze cut his mother short and stood up quickly not wanting to her anything else about his perfec siblings.

“Blaze where do you think you’re going? We were talking to you.” His father shouted out as Blaze was leaving the room, without even thinking about it he turned around towards his parents and simply stated

“I’m going to school.” With that he left the room and quickly ran through the hallway into his room, where he laid on the bed for a few moments letting one or two tears flow from his eyes.

Soon enough he calmed himself and stood up ready to go to school, as far he disliked the boring lessons he was very thankful that he doesn’t have to be in the house when his parents are present.

Pixel walked casually down the street humming to herself a song that didn’t want to leave her head for quite some time now I can swing my sword sword, cause I am the lord lord As she continued like that she saw her school in the distance and heard something that made her blood freeze.

A school bell ringing.

Pixel started to run like her life depended on it, which was partially true, she was passing house after house as she felt her poor condition showing up, finally she made it to the school gates gasping for air, she was sure she lost one of her lungs.

After few moments she took a one big breath and walked inside, hallways were already empty which made her even more nervous as she once again ran this time towards her classroom, Pixel was about to pass the corner when suddenly she felt a familiar feeling of bumping into someone and soon enough she was on the floor and in front of her laid the same guy she walked into last time.

“You do that on purpose don’t you?” Blaze asked rubbing his forehead as he slowly picked himself up from the floor and offered his hand to Pixel.

“Sorry about that, didn’t mean it.” Pixel stated and accepted his hand, soon enough they were once again standing up last time she didn’t pay much attention to how Blaze looked but now that she was well rested she noticed that…

“Hey you’re shorter than me!”

Blaze flinched not really expecting this kind of comment right now “Yeah emm well, not much I can do about it, besides height isn’t really useful for me.”

Pixel chuckled “Hey did you get some sleep? Cause you still have bags under your eyes.”

“Oh these.” Blaze stated and ran his finger under his eyes “I’m afraid this is a permanent thing.” He said and frowned slightly.

“Hey don’t be like that, I think it looks pretty cool, makes you look older and stuff.”

“Thanks, I guess.” Blaze said confused a bit they stayed like that in an awkward silence for few moments before Pixel broke it.

“Hey Blaze, you’re a gamer right? Do you have steam?”

Blaze formed an almost unnoticeable smile and nodded his head knowing very well where was she going with it “Yeah I do.”

“Great! We can play after school and… Oh crap.” Pixel froze as she remembered something really important.

“Blaze! Sorry we will talk later I totally forgot that I am already late for first lesson, seeyoulaterbye!” She shouted out towards him as she ran down the hallway towards her classroom where math lesson was taking place.

Blaze chuckled and walked towards his own classroom, not really caring about being late that much, he walked inside said that he’s sorry for being late and sat down at his usual place, the lesson was about atomic structure or something but he didn’t care, the only thing he could think of was going back to his house when his parents won’t be there and doing the only thing he’s good at.

Playing games.

And recently whenever he thought about games his mind always wandered off to one certain player he wanted to play against, he still didn’t understand what was so thrilling to play against her, against Pix64 but he knew the answer was laying ahead of him.

First lesson was ended by a loud ringing of school bell, Pixel walked out of the classroom puffing her cheeks in annoyed manner, Night followed her quickly into the hallway.

“Pixel..”

“What?” She asked with a tone of anger in her voice making Night flinch slightly.

“You need to learn these things you know that?” Night asked referring to their math lesson, Pixel was welcomed by her teacher with mathematic problem for her to solve, which of course she couldn’t do.

“I don’t get it! I’m trying to listen to him talking on the lesson but only thing I can hear is “blah blah blah square blah blah blah numbers blah blah…”

“Hey guys what’s up, oh wait let me guess, math lesson?” Icy asked with a smirk walking up to his friends.

“Ha ha, very funny Icy.” Pixel stated not very amused, on the other hand Night was stifling his laugh.

Suddenly Pixel’s phone rang and without waiting she picked it up.

“Hey dad what’s up?”

“…”

“Well emm sure I guess?”

“…”

“Love you too.” Pixel stopped the call and sighed. “Great…”

“What did your father want Pixel?” Night asked both he and Icy being quite curious at the moment.

“He has a day off and wanted to check out CS:GO on my computer, sooo it seems I don’t really have anything to do back at home.”

The three friends stood there for a few moments before Icy felt like a small bulb just lighted up over his head.

“Hey then Pixel, from what I know Night was supposed to go the to Ponyville library and study today, maybe you could go with him? He might teach you math and stuff.” Icy stated proud of himself that he had such an amazing idea, Night on the other hand wasn’t very amused.

“Icy that’s…”

“Great idea!” Pixel cut Night short shouting out with a smile on her face.

“I-It its?” Night asked

“Of course! You said yourself that I need to start learning this stuff and what better way to do that then study with you mr. best grades?” Pixel said with cheerful smile while Night nodded his silent thanks to Icy.

“All right then, I guess we have plans now.”

“Yay!” Pixel added “Oh right, sorry but I really need to use the bathroom, so see you later guys!” Pixel ran away alone, not really understanding while other girls needed to go to the toilet in pairs.

“Thanks again Icy.” Night stated and his athletic friend patted him on his back.

“No problem bro.”

Chapter 8 - Let's have some fun.

Author's Notes:

Not proofread.

Pixel sighed as she and Night were leaving the school grounds together “What’s wrong Pixel?” Her friends asked with a bit of concern in his voice.

“Oh nothing really, I just hoped I will spend the rest of the day playing…”

Night frowned slightly, because unlike his friend he was more than excited, after few moments of walking together in silence he smiled again and decided to try cheer her up.

“Hey that won’t be so bad, believe me sometimes studying can be a lot of fun.”

After few seconds Pixel burst out in laughter surprising Night, however after she noticed the lack of laugh from her friend she stopped “Oh my god, you were serious about that?”

“Oh come on! It won’t be boring, I promise.” He stated

“Night, I know how much you like studying, and that’s cool but for me, the sooner we will get over with it, the better all right?”

Night sighed in defeat and nodded as they continued their travel towards library.

They were walking side by side, awkward silence that fall on them was only making it worse for Night who has been already nervous, Pixel on the other hand had other things to think about at the moment than the awkwardness of the scene.

“So ummm… Your father wants to test out your new game?” Night asked desperately trying to break the ice that somehow built up between them during their journey from school.

“Yeah, at first I was rather surprised but I think I figured it out, he wants to play against that guy.”

“That guy?” Night asked cocking one of his eyebrows.

“Oh you know, the one who has been kicking my ass, lately…”

“Ohhh that guy, all right, so umm you think your dad will win?” Night asked.

“To be honest, not really.”

Night stopped and looked at his friend confused “Isn’t your dad a professional gamer?”

“Well first of all, he’s not a pro, he’s a game designer, he used to play a lot when he was younger and as far as I know he could have chosen the life of professional player, but instead of playing them for money, he preferred to make new ones.”

“Well but still if what’re saying is truth then he’s on a professional level, isn’t he?”

“More or less, but we have to take many things in account here, first of all CS:GO has few differences from his previous versions, like shooting, it’s practically the same but because of a slightly different textures and other stuff a player needs a few games to adjust. In my case I needed around seven matches, while Killgen, or that guy needed like two, if I were to guess my dad should play few matches firstly before dueling him one on one, but knowing him that won’t happen.”

“Secondly, my father was always best at RPGs, RTS and platformers, I’m not saying he isn’t good at FPS’s, but it’s definitely not his favorite genre.”

Pixel finished just as they were about to enter the library, they stopped for a moment.

“So you thought about all this in a second, but you can’t understand the basic math?”

Pixel shrugged her shoulders “If math was at least half as fun as games are, then I would probably ace all the tests.”

“Oh boy, this is going to be hard.”

Meanwhile at Blaze’s mansion

Blaze just came back from school and luckily his parents were absent, so without the usual scolding for his bad grades, he went straight up to his room and turned on his computer.

He wandered around the room with excitement wanting to play against her already, when finally everything loaded properly he sit down at his chair and put on his headset.

Blaze slightly smiled to himself when he saw that Pix64 was in fact, online not playing any game.

“Hey what’s up, are you up for few games?”

Instead of an answer he was expecting, what he got was an invite to a one on one game, Blaze shrugged and accepted it, game was loading, this time their battlefield was known as De_Nuke.

Game loaded and warm begin, these few seconds they usually just used for a small chat through their microphones.

“So, are you ready to get your ass kicked again?” Blaze asked with his usual cocky attitude.

“We’ll see about that, kid.”

Blaze literally jumped in place as instead of the smooth, girl’s voice he expected he heard what certainly was an adult male voice.

It took him few more moments to get out of shock “Who the hell is that? Are you playing around with some voice modifier Pix?”

“Oh no no no, I’m Button, Pix’s father, nice to meet ya.”

Blaze cocked his eyebrow and slowly noticed that his smile disappeared, along with his previous excitement.

“So what are you doing here, sir?” Blaze said trying to sound as cultivated as possible, which wasn’t really easy sine he a felt extremely disappointed, and a bit angry.

“Oh I just heard from my daughter that you’re “Kick her ass” if I may quote, so I came here to check if you’re really this good.” The warmup ended just as Button said last words and Blaze sighed, he was on the terrorist side and the first round was just about to start.

“Okay the, let’s have some fun shall we?”

“Of course! That’s what games are made for.”

Game started and Blaze sighed with disappointment once again, as he ran without dropping a beat towards B site through the ramp, he didn’t care much but he still paid a lot of attention to his surroundings as he dashed with his desert eagle, which was adorned by a skin named “Blaze” what a coincidence.

He made it to the bombsite without any troubles and planted the bomb, Blaze was about to leave the place and camp somewhere just before getting totally blinded by a sudden flashbang.

“What the fu…” Was all that he managed to shout out before getting helplessly shot down by Button.

“That was a nice pistol round! Did you have fun?” Button said trying to sound as arrogant and cocky in order to piss him off, every good player knows that angry opponent, is a dead opponent and being cocky and childish are one of the best ways to put enemy in that state of mind.

Blaze flinched slightly as something that he completely didn’t expect happened, he just got shot down in a first round, by some guys he just met.

Blaze clinched his fist, but not in anger, no his previous irritation and disappointment were replaced by the excitement, excitement that he so wanted to feel.

But this wasn’t like when he was playing against her, no this was different. When playing against Pixel, Blaze didn’t understand why is he excited, he didn’t know why he wants to play against her so much.

This time around it was clear, the guy he was going to play against, is good, they played just one round, but Blaze could tell that this match, might end in a “defeat” for him.

“All right old man” Blaze said as he cracked his fingers and slowly placed them upon his mouse and his keyboard.

“Let’s have some fun.”