(Twilight’s Castle, General Oasis Spring’s P.O.V.)

For the last few days after the whole King Sombra ordeal, me and the troops have been resting and relaxing. Many of the troops started to find their special someponies. The fact that they could find their special someponies made my blood boil, especially since Randablitz and I knew each other since we were foals and now this Princess Luna decides to try and steal him from me?! I don’t think so. “If you want to court my friend, then you’ll have to fight me first, let’s see how sharp your skills are Luna.” I thought to myself as I just finished sharpening and polishing my sword. My sword was like Randablitz’s, but the major differences were our scabbard colors, ito wrap colors, menukis, and tsubas, Randablitz’s designs were black ito wrap, black wooden scabbard, dragon tsuba, black manta ray hilt and menuki, mine has the images of a lotus tsuba, red silk ito wrap, red wooden scabbard, white manta ray hilt and sakura blossom menuki. I looked at my fine blade admiring my craftsmareship. “I love you my beautiful instrument of death.” I said as I planted my lips on my scabbard. “Time to challenge that harlot to a traditional duel of honor.” I said as I strapped my blade to my hip and left to find my best friend.

As I walked through Ponyville with my elegant blade at my side, I saw Randy and that harlot Luna at a small cafe having lunch. “They haven’t seen me yet. Now I can get the drop on Luna.” I thought to myself as I quickly ran into the cafe getting ready to unsheathe my sword and slash downward near Luna, but my sword was blocked by none other than Randy. “Oasis, what has gotten into you?” He asked clearly upset that I almost assaulted Luna. “I’ve come to challenge you Luna, for the privilege of dating my friend. Do you accept?” I said while maintaining a guard stance. Luna rose from her seat and walked towards me. “Name the time and place.” Luna said with a scowl on her face. “Town Square, at 3:00, and bring your blade because we’ll settle this like honorable warriors, and you can’t use you wings, or magic to disarm, harm me, or heal, is that clear?” I asked her laying out some basic rules for our duel. “I assume that outside help is also forbidden, correct?” Luna asked me and I nodded in response. “It’s settled then, see you there.” I said as I walked back to Twilight’s to practice.

(Randy’s P.O.V) (A/N Randy is a nickname for Randablitz)

After Oasis left me and Luna, I was quite disappointed with my General for doing such an act. Then again, she did feel jealous when she saw me and Luna hanging out. Besides Oasis did know me since we were foals, so maybe I can understand her feelings, but still I liked to spend time with Luna. “Hey Luna, if you win please tell me that you’ll give Oasis a chance to try and share me with you.” I said as Luna turned towards me with a slight frown. “Why would I try to share with a mare that tried to attack me?” Luna asked me. “I may not know why, but maybe she felt jealous of you and me hanging out.” I explained to Luna, whom seemed to understand Oasis’s plight. “Alright, if I win I’ll give her the offer to share you with her, who knows maybe we might end up together as herd one day.” Luna said optimistically. I was glad and put my hoof around her for a tender embrace of gratitude. “Thanks Luna, I really appreciate what you’re doing, because I’ve known Oasis since I was little, and I should’ve figured that she would developed feelings for me, so this is partly my fault.” I said as I tightened gave her small peck on the cheek. “It’s for luck, trust me, you’ll need it.” I said as Luna blushed from my peck on her cheek. “Thanks, Randy.” Luna said as she giggled at the name Oasis gave me during our foalhood.

“Ha,ha, yeah laugh it up, but can’t deny that it’s better than using my full name all the time.” I said as a slight blush emerged on my cheeks. “Ok,ok, you’re right it is better than calling you by your full name, but still it’s kind of cute.” Luna said as she playfully nudged me. “Yeah, but I think you should go and get your sword if you want to honor the engagement.” I said to Luna who nodded in agreement. “I will, and thanks.” Luna said as she teleported back to Canterlot to retrieve her blade.

(Ponyville, Town Square 2:45, Oasis’s P.O.V.)

I spent the last couple of hours training for my duel with Luna, and I trained hard, since she was an alicorn, I knew that she would have the strengths of all of the other pony races, so I had to train longer to counter the natural pain resistance of an Earth pony, the reflexes of a Pegasus, and the situational awareness of a unicorn all at once, and after all of that I knew that I was ready for her. I had been waiting in Town Square for the past half hour hoping that she’d either forfeit, or give me the challenge of a lifetime. “I hope she’s ready, because this will be the battle of a lifetime.” I thought to myself as I waited for the clock to chime 3:00 in the afternoon. About five minutes later I saw Randy and Luna walking together, this made my fiery rage grow within me. “Okay, the rules for this duel are simple, no flying, no magic, no outside assistance, no potions, no cheap shots, the first combatant unable to use their weapon any longer loses. Are these rules fair to you ladies?” Randy said, taking the position of referee for the duel. Luna and I looked at each other and we nodded in acceptance of the terms we were given. “Good, now bow and walk ten paces away from one another and wait for the word ‘go’.” Randy said as Luna and I stood face to face. I bowed to Luna, and Luna returned the gesture and we moved ten paces away, now all we could do now was wait for Randy to say ‘go’. “Alright combatants, draw your blades, the battle begins in: three, two, one, Go!” Randy shouted and I sprinted for Luna clashing my blade with hers, Luna broke the blade lock and thrusted towards my left foreleg.

I dodged Luna’s thrust and countered with a diagonal slash as I put all of my power in my hips. Luna responded by running to my left and attempted to slash at me horizontally, but I managed to block it and move back a little so I could give myself some breathing room. “You know what you’re doing I’ll give you that, but unlike you, I trained before this so i can counter whatever you can throw at me.” I said as I dropped into a guard stance. Luna held her blade with one of her bevels looking like it cut her down the middle, she closed her eyes, inhaled deeply, exhaled, and charged at me with a thrust that left her sword’s midsection a perfect target to strike. I struck her blade and broke it in half, Luna was shocked, but still she persisted to duel me even if her sword was broken. “I admire your commitment.” I commended as Luna once again locked her half of a blade with mine, she started to spin our blades and she managed to make mine fly out of my hooves. Pressing her advantage Luna spotted my sword about ten feet from the both of us, we both sprinted for it, but Luna managed to beat me to it , stepped on it, and knocked the wind out of me with her pommel. As I fell to the ground in defeat, I knew that Luna won fair and square, but I still couldn’t believe it. “I yield.” I said breathlessly Luna heard me when Randy couldn’t. “Oasis Spring yields.” Luna said to Randy who nodded. “Oasis Spring is unable to battle, Luna is the winner.” Randy announced to the large crowd that had gathered to watch.

(Ponyville, Town Square, 10 minutes After the Duel, Luna’s P.O.V.)

After the duel was over, I found the other half of my sword. “Well, I guess I need to get a replacement.” I said as I knew that in the state my sword was in the only way to fix it would be to break it up even further and forgeweld all of the fragments together. “Yeah, it’s a pity that such a magnificent blade had to be sacrificed.” Oasis said as she had a sad smile on her face. “It is, but I’ve always been fascinated by your blade type, and thought that I should try to reforge my sword into one like yours.” I said as I blushed a bit. “Well Randy taught me how to forge my blade, I can do the same for you, if you want.” Oasis offered with a smile. I nodded my head in acceptance. “I’d love to, but on one condition.” I said making Oasis’s ears perk up. “Name it.” She said looking me in the eyes. “You join a herd with me and Randy.” I said with a slightly sultry smile. I saw Oasis’s jaw drop to the ground when she heard that Randy and I didn’t want her to lose the chance to be with him, like me. “Y-you mean it?” Oasis asked as she started to act like a foal on a sugar rush. “I do mean it, so what’s your answer?” I asked her with a smile. Oasis got closer to me and gave the a tight, loving hug. “Yes, yes I’ll join your herd, I’d do anything to be by Randy’s side!” Oasis exclaimed as she hugged me a little bit tighter. “Anything, huh?” I asked as I wiggled my eyebrows in a sultry fashion. “I-I, you knew what I meant.” Oasis stammered as she had a bright blush graced her cream colored coat. I laughed as Oasis had a blush and had a cute pout on her face. “Oh relax, I was only kidding.” I said as I draped my wing around her.

(Twilight’s Castle, Obsidian’s P.O.V)

After my parents and I arrived in Ponyville, or to be more specific Twilight’s Castle, My parents began to look around the new environment “Obsidian dear, where are we?” My mother asked me. “Welcome to Ponyville, more specifically a friend of mine’s castle.” I replied as my parents looked around and the portal disappearing from behind. “This place almost reminds me of the Crystal Empire, are you sure we left son?” My father asked as he walked towards the doors to the throne room. “I’m sure we’re in Ponyville, let’s just look outside and…” I said, but I was interrupted by a feminine shout come from outside. “What the heck’s going on?” I asked myself as I ran towards the front door, with my parents trailing behind me. “Wait for us son.” My mother said as she and my father ran to catch up to me. “Sorry Mom, I just need to see what’s going on.” I said as I saw large crowd of ponies watching something like a fight in a school yard. I walked up to one of the crowd members. “Excuse me, but what’s going on here?” I asked politely. The stallion turned around to face me and he had the most eager grin on his face. “Oh, you’re missing it, Princess Luna is having a sword fight with some mare that has a really cool sword!” He said with a slight squeal of delight.

“What?!” I exclaimed. “When did this happen?” I asked the stallion. “I don’t know, but that alicorn stallion is the ref, I’d ask him.” The stallion said as he shrugged and pointed to none other than Randablitz. “Oh what has that stallion gotten himself into?” I sighed in disbelief as the battle commenced. I activated my magic to open a telepathic link with him. “Okay, I’m a little late in the game, what’s going on?” I asked him through our link. “Hello to you too, anyway, you remember my general, Oasis Spring?” He said to me with a hint of sarcasm at the beginning. “Yeah, what about her? Did she get provoked due to the obvious fact she has the hots for you?” I asked with a sly tone at the end. “Yeah, see while Luna and I were on our date this afternoon Oasis charged in with her katana, which I blocked with my own, but then she challenged Luna to a duel for the right to date me, I told Luna that if she beats Oasis, let her join our herd so she doesn’t feel left out.” He retorted not sounding the least bit surprised at how I managed to guess the issue without trying. “Well, in any case when this is all over, I have some ponies you’d be interested in meeting after this duel is over and everypony is at the castle.” I said with a slight hint of joy. “ Great I’ll get right on that, but why don’t you come over here and watch this where it’s less crowded.” He said to me as he looked like he was watching this fight very carefully. “Looks like you need a new point of view, say the sky.” I said bluntly as I levitated off of the ground and over the crowd of ponies. “Excellent, how’s the view, oh my goodness! Did you see that?!” He said as he watched Oasis break Luna’s sword in half.

After some time, Luna bested her opponent in their battle. As impressed as I was, I possibly seen better fights during the jousting tournament during the Crystal Ball and even Discord had a winning streak for the last 18 years King Sombra was in power. “Okay now that the duel is over, I’ll get the rest of the girls, Luna will go get Celestia, but Cadence, Shining, and Strong won’t be able to make it because they just went home a couple of days ago.” He said to me laying out a plan to get everypony at the castle. “Good, see you in a few.” I said as I turned to my parents and I never noticed til now that even though they were brought back from the dead, they smelled like rotten flesh left out in the sun for decades. “Mother, Father, I’d recommend you wash up because you smell foul.” I tried wiping the stench with my hoof. The two smelled themselves and knew I was right and said nothing else as they headed towards the castle’s bathroom.

(3rd P.O.V)

As Randablitz and Obsidian went their separate ways, Serene Ice and Night Glass were in Twilight’s bathroom trying to figure out how to use the shower. But Obsidian took precautions of how this would turn out since showers weren’t around a thousand years ago, so he simply wrote instructions on how to operate them. “According to Obsidian’s instructions we need to turn these knobs in order for this to work.” Serene said as she pointed at the three knobs on the bathtub. “Okay, so which one do we turn first?” Night asked as he looked at them. “Well, I think the colors determine the temperature, right?” Serene asked unsurely. “Maybe, let’s give the knob in the middle a try.” Night said as he started to turn the knob to the left. “It didn’t do anything, try the one on the right.” Serene said as she pointed her hoof at the knob on the right. “Okay, here we go.” Night said as he turned the knob and like magic water started coming out of the shower head. “Ow, that’s hot!” Night said as the water touched his hoof. “Ok, so it the middle knob controls the water flow, the right knob is hot water, I’m going to guess that the left knob is cold.” Serene said as she started to turn the left knob. “The water’s much more bearable now, so I guess this allows whomever is using it to adjust it to their level of comfort.” Night said as he stepped into the tub to start washing himself.

As Obsidian’s parents were busy taking showers, everypony else was coming back to the castle to meet them and Pinkie set up a party really quickly at the few seconds she arrived. Obsidian was both excited, but nervous at how his parents were going to react to their party. “It’s been so long since they felt joy and I feel as if they had not been to a party in literally a thousand years.” Obsidian paced about in a hurried manner. “Relax, besides I think they’ll survive one of Pinkie’s parties.” Minuette said reassuringly. “But who are you talking about?” Roseluck questioned. Obsidian turned around to find the two mares who had found love toward him and could not help but rush towards their stallion’s hooves and give him an embrace like he had returned from a war. “Just some ponies that mean a lot to me.” Obsidian said with a smile on his face. “I hope they managed to get the shower to work and get cleaned up.” Obsidian thought to himself as he looked at the staircase that led to the bathroom. “Good thing they didn’t flood the bathroom.” Obsidian said as he didn’t see waterfall coming down the stairs.

Meanwhile back in the bathroom, Serene and Night were finished taking their showers, they started drying each other off. “There you go dear, doesn’t that feel better?” Night asked his wife. “Very much so honey, are you ready to go to our son?” Serene asked as she lightly brushed her tail across his muzzle seductively. Night smiled and nodded as Serene left the bathroom first. Meanwhile all of the ponies gathered in the castle to surprise Obsidian’s parents. They heard hoofsteps coming from upstairs and Obsidian’s parents started descending the stairs completely unaware of the massive gathering of ponies waiting for them. As the two married ponies made their way down, everypony shouted “Surprise!” And as a common reaction, they were startled at the sudden change of events. “Aah!” The married couple shouted as the large group scared them a bit. “Everypony, I’d like to introduce you to Serene Ice and Night Glass, my mother and real father.” Obsidian presented his loved ones as the smiled and waved at the crowd. “Charmed to meet you all.” Night spoke with some residue of nervousness in his voice. “Yes, we just weren’t expecting so many ponies to know about us.” Serene said as she looked around to see a lot of different types of foods and drinks. “Yeah sorry about that I tried to tell Pinkie to try and keep it between us, but Pinkie just doesn’t work that way when there are new ponies in town.” Randablitz said as he walked up to Obsidian’s parents with his sword on his hip. “What type of sword is that?” Night asked. “It’s called a…’ Randablitz was suddenly interrupted by a flash of light appearing behind him which triggered his fight/flight reflex and he drew his blade.

“Well if this is the Prince of Taurus’s way of saying ‘Hello’ then I should have brought my own sword.” The Chaotic Draconequus said as he appeared in a bowtie, a curved mustache, and top hat. “It’s not how I say ‘hello’, it’s because you startled me, and startling me isn’t a good thing because of my experiences during the Hunt of the Paleblood Moon.” Randablitz explained to the draconequus with a salutatory bow. “Well pardon me, but I just wanted to say that is this suppose to be the um.” He takes out a flyer that Pinkie could excel at making and puts on a pair of reading glasses. “The Super Incredibly Awesome Welcome to Ponyville Party I was so humbly invited to?” He took off his reading glasses. “It’s alright, but I’m not the guest of honor, in fact there are two.” Randablitz said as he pointed at Serene and Night. “Well it’s a pleasure to make both your acquaintance.” He said in a gentlecolt like tone as he shook Night’s hoof and kissed Serene’s. “I’m Sir Discord of Chaos and you must be?” He asked still maintaining a gentlecolt like posture. “Night Glass and Serene Ice.” The two said their names to the odd creature. “Well, it seems this isn’t one of those parties, like the Gala or the Crystal Ball so…” Discord got rid of the fancy get up to his natural form. “You really should have seen me in my days of chaotic havoc, I literally made ponies come to the brink of insanity one thousand years ago.” Discord said with pride as high as the moon. “One thousand years of making chaos? That’s crazy, next I suppose you’re going to tell us that Princess Luna turned evil.” Serene said with a smile.”Oh, but she did, I saw her defeat while I was in my stone prison and I even heard King Sombra’s screams after his downfall.” Discord replied as he showed an image of Nightmare Moon’s and King Sombra’s defeats. “Astonishing, but Luna seems alright now, and Sombra’s gone once again.” Night said as he spotted Luna and Oasis talking to one another. “Oh, Well then perhaps it’s time for me to try and woo Celestia, I know she has a thing for me, We’ve known each other since we were young same with Sombra, oh the fun we used to have at the Crystal Ball each year during his rule and I think a certain colt was there as well, See you later.” Then Discord conjured a bunch of roses and chocolate and made his way to Celestia.

(Celestia’s P.O.V)

As impressed of how well this party is going, one thing however wasn’t going to make it easier. A certain somepony named Discord. “Hello, Celestia.” I heard the all-too-familiar voice of Discord calling me in a suave manner. “Hello to you too, Discord, enjoying the party so far?” I asked trying to remain as composed as possible. “Yes, but I could enjoy it more with you.” Discord said as he gave me the bouquet of roses and chocolate. “That’s very sweet of you, but I think I’ll pass.” I said with a sheepish smile on the outside, but on the inside I was giving him a sly smirk. “It’s so fun to mess with you Dissy.” I thought to myself as I walked away from a very surprised Discord. I walked over to Luna who had her sword fragments in a small sack. “So when can we reforge it Oasis?” Luna whispered to Oasis. “Later tonight, but since this place doesn’t have an armory yet, we’ll need to go to your castle instead.” Oasis replied hoping to keep their plans a secret. “You two are welcome to use the forge whenever you like.” I said as both of their jaws hit the floor in astonishment that I overheard them. “It’s good to be the queen of trolling.” I thought to myself as I walked towards Randablitz, Obsidian, and his parents. “Oh it’s so good to see you again Obsidian. Who are these two ponies, I don’t think I’ve seen them here before.” I said to him with a warm smile. “These are my actual parents, Serene Ice and Night Glass.” They bowed before me due to my title and it isn’t the first time this happens when I meet new ponies.

“There’s no need to be so formal with me, I’m just like everypony else at one of Pinkie’s parties.” I said as the two ponies looked up at me with curious faces. “That crazy mare is one of your friends, but she’s also one of your subjects? How does that work?” Serene Ice asked me. “Allow me to explain over some sandwiches and tea.” I said in a motherly tone as the two ponies and I conversated as everypony else had a fun time. “Oh, now that’s very interesting, so those thrones belong to each of them because they are the embodiment of the Elements of Harmony.” Night Glass said as he summarized the lecture I gave them. “That’s right, but enough about me, how about you two, I mean I told you just about everything that everypony knows, why does it seem like you’re hiding something?” I asked the two of them starting to shrink in their seats. “Well you see…” Serene said as she told me of their sad story of what happened after they recklessly abandoned their only son. “Oh my goodness, that’s very upsetting, but also very ironic as well. I’m glad you made amends with him and I can’t believe he actually brought you both back from the dead, that’s amazing!” I said with a frown at first, but then that frown turned into an ecstatic smile.

After a few hours of socializing and mingling like a get-together, the party was over and Luna asked me if Oasis could come to Canterlot with us. I rolled my eyes as I already told her that she could bring Oasis along. “I should probably put up a bubble of silence so I can sleep tonight.” I thought to myself as I waited for Luna and Oasis to bring their swordsmithing materials.