We waited on the dining room while Spike prepared our lunch. I really wanted to go help, but he almost kicked me out saying he could do it alone, and I didn't really want to know if that statement was true. Luna suggested we played a bit while we waited, so we started a quick HearthStone match on our cellphones.

I looked to the other side of the table and saw Luna’s smug grin, making me gulp before nervously looking at my phone. I had 5 HP versus Luna’s 18 HP, and my hand only had weak monsters. I only had one Oasis Snapjaw – ATK=2, HP=7 – summoned and it had only 2 HP, so I was pretty much fucked.

Luna didn’t do anything, only ended her turn before looking at me with a smirk. “Your turn.”

I gulped again and saw the card that was added to my hand. A Wolfrider, 3/1.

I sighed. “I yield.” I said, putting the phone on the table and holding my hands up in defeat.

“Huzzah!” Luna shouted in glee before returning her attention to me. “How’s the score again?”

I thought about it for a moment before answering. “124 for me, 115 for you.” That’s two years of Hearthstone for ya.

“I’m getting closer! Soon you won’t be the group's Champion on Hearthstone.” She said with a confident smirk. Both of us, plus Spike and Scarlett, are the only ones that actually like this game. We play matches against each other and count our victories, our own ranking. I’m first because I play this game since the beta; Luna is a close second because she absolutely loves it; Spike is third with 93 victories and Scar is forth with 89, both of them only play because I made them play and they ended up liking it. The others doesn’t like the game like we do, so they’re not on our personal ranking.

“That weak cards on your deck made you lose.” Scarlett pointed out. “Maybe you should change them for stronger cards.”

“My deck is a good one, and those weak cards are just for the beginning or to play protector. The problem was getting three low power cards in a row.” I countered. “Mirror knows how much that same deck kicked her ass.”

“Too many.” Luna admitted. “It’s good to win against it.”

Twilight was at Luna’s side, observing the match through the blue alicorn's cellphone. “A strategy game? I didn’t think you’d play one of these.” She said. “I thought most games were about violence of silly stories.”

I looked at her and shook my head. “You’re not wrong, but you’re not right either.” I said. “The most famous, like CoD and Battlefield, are pretty violent; and yes, there’s a lot of silly games out there, but not all are like that. Undertale is a game where you can finish it without killing anyone; and Deadlight is a platform game on an apocalyptic era that has a very good story. Hell, that Inside game that was released those days has an awesome hidden story. Or at least a good theory on what happens on that mindfuck of a game.”

“Hidden? Theory?" She asked with a confused face.

I smiled. “Most games tell you what is happening, and another lot doesn’t have any story at all, but some has multiple ways to finish based on what you did through the whole game – like Undertale, with more or less twenty three endings that differ with how many and who you killed during the game – and also there’s those who just start and leave you to understand what’s happening by yourself, which end up in a crap-ton of theories.” I will convert you into a gamer, Twilight. Just wait for it.

She looked at the phone's screen again. “And this one doesn’t have any story.” She said, pointing at it.

Luna smiled too. “More or less. Hearthstone is a spinoff of the game World of Warcraft. WoW has a story, but this one is just two people playing cards against each other.”

Twilight hummed. “Maybe I was wrong when I judged this.” She said slowly.

“If you want to judge something, you need to know its side first. Try playing a game some time, every Guardian has a few they can let you play.” Scarlett suggested and the Guardians nodded in confirmation.

Spike entered the room, carrying with him two plates with his hands and one with his tail. “I hope it didn’t took too long.” Spike said.

“Nope!” Pinkie and Dolph said together, Pinkie playing with the wolves along with Fluttershy.

“Well, here it is.” He said, putting the plates on the table. On one there were cups with juices of two flavors – orange and grape -, on the other were some veggie sandwiches that I presumed were for the ponies, and on the third were…

“Were the hell did you find hamburgers?” I asked with a raised eyebrow. “I thought Equestria was an herbivore country.”

He chuckled. “The borders opened because there were already a lot of people of other countries here. The ‘opening’ just made the immigration easier and established meat trades for those who already lived here.” He explained.

I nodded, as did my family. “Well, made our life easier, that’s for sure.” Scarlett said while her beak watered.

“Well, what are you waiting for?” Spike asked with a grin.

We all grabbed what we were going to eat – the only ones who grabbed a hamburger were me, Scar, Viper, Sapph, Soul, Draco, Dranitta, Moonlight and Niner – and started our lunch.

My eyes widened when I took the first bite. “Spike, this is amazing!” I said through a full mouth before swallowing. “Sorry. I didn’t think you cooking could improve since my visit last year, but damn!” I eagerly took another bite while my friends started to laugh. I just gave them the middle talon and continued to eat happily.

Twilight swallowed her bite and looked at my family. “You’re all hybrids, right? I know Hybrios has some… uh... What's the word for non-hybrids?” She asked sheepishly.

“Pure-blooded.” Sunshine answered.

“Thank you. Hybrios has some pure-blooded, but you certainly are not.” Twilight finished.

“What gave it away? The wings?” Moonlight asked sarcastically.

I threw a chain at Moonlight before turning to Twilight. “You already know that my siblings and I all are pony-griffin hybrids.”

“I’m a pony-dragon hybrid. The actual name is Kirin.” Draco said.

“When you’re a pony hybrid, it won’t matter if your parent was a unicorn, a pegasus or an earth pony, the changes between them are minimal. But, if your parent is a thestral, a hippocampus, or a plant pony, the changes are drastic. So while my brother’s species name is just Kirin, mine is Seakirin, a dragon-seapony hybrid.” Dranitta explained. “Herds are a thing in Hybrios too, y’know.”

“Venompony, a naga-pony hybrid.” Viper said.

“Seaponies actually are hybrids too! A seapony is a hippocampus-pony hybrid.” Dolph said with a grin. "But it's been a long time since we even heard about hippocampi."

“Not a hybrid.” Sunshine, Moonlight and Niner all said together.

“Wait, so why are you eating meat?” Twilight asked Niner Blaze and Moonlight.

“Thestrals are omnivorous. We just eat fruits more regularly.” Moonlight said.

Niner finished her hamburger before turning to Twilight. “Ponies can eat meat too, but only once and a while. It's as healthy as hayfries.”

“I’ll try it someday.” Rainbow said with confidence, finishing her own meal.

“I won’t.” Twilight said, her cheeks bulging a bit.

Spike looked around and saw that everyone already had eaten their meals. “Well, looks like lunchtime is over.” He said, making every one of the Guardians groan.

“Fuck you, training!” Eclipse said.

I giggled. “Come on, it’s not that bad. Besides, now that we know your passives we’ll just see how strong your spells are; maybe even teach you all a spell or two.”

“Ok…” They said tiredly.

We walked back into the clearing, the pets returned home, much to Fluttershy's dismay, and decided to start training with some basic spellcasting to warm up. Everyone used their weakest spells, and then used a slightly stronger spell, and so on.

I was parrying with Spike to see how much he had progressed, and man… Despite having only six, Spike’s spells were pretty strong! I think he didn’t use everything he got on that stone, or that my shield is stronger than I thought, because the Dracon Sphere he threw at me fucking hurt! I was thrown back by a couple feet before stopping, sprawled on the ground with a scorch mark on my belly.

“Ow…” I groaned, sitting up. Spike ran to my side, looking at me with concern.

“Are you ok?” He asked, pulling me up.

I wobbled a bit before turning to him. “Yeah. Damn, that sphere was powerful. Looks like you can use some powerful spells, already. You only need to learn them.” I looked at the others, some of them were looking at me in concern, but most shrugged it off since I’ve received stronger attacks. “Draco will have a fun time training you.”

“Is he that good of a teacher?” Spike asked with curiosity.

I chuckled a bit. “More or less. He’ll probably explain the spell one time and already have you to throw it at his face.”

“Do you remember how powerful the Dracon spells are?” He asked, looking at his hand.

“Arcane and Dracon-wielders are like mimes. They can mirror any spell you think without changing their element. Draco can use Dracon Razor Wind, for example.” I said, surprising Spike.

“Really? Huh.” He looked at Draco, wondering how many spells the kirin could teach him. “Can’t wait.” He said excitedly with a bright smile.

“Y’know, you’re already getting there.” I said, making Spike look at me with a questioning stare. “You can use Dracon Fire, right? That already is a mirror spell.” I explained.

“Oh… Cool…” He said, making a ball of green fire appear on his hand. He cocked his head to the side before asking. “My magical aura is green, right? Almost every spell I use is emerald green.”

I blinked in surprise. "You catch up fast!” I said, genuinely impressed. “Normally someone has to explain that.”

We returned our attention to the others again. Most were just trying their spells so their ‘teachers’ would know what they would be dealing with. I sighed before facing my duo. “Well, enough of that; back to training. This time, it’s a real spar to see how much you can fight. Come here.” I said, making him curious.

I held my hand forwards and charged my aura. My hand glowed a pink light as my magical aura covered it, and the magic shaped into a ball between us. I looked at Spike and nodded; he took the hint and did the same. Our spheres mixed and expanded, forming a circle with about fifty feet of diameter around us.

Spike stared at the green and pink circle with a raised eyebrow. “What.”

“This spell doesn’t really count as a spell. It’s just to delimit a small battle arena for the two of us. We or anything we throw will stop at that line like it’s a wall, but the others can enter here.” I explained before putting a hand on my beak in wonder. “I kind of want to know how they found out everyone could do that. Bah, not important.” I jumped back a couple feet and got into a battle stance. “Ready?” Spike nodded and prepared himself.

He lunged at me with his palm open, trying to hit my chest. I jumped over him and kicked his head, making him stumble a bit. He turned back to me and grabbed Greed’s handle, getting ready for a slash. I put my hands on my hips and grabbed my Rippers, extending their chains; the blades almost touching the ground. We looked at each other for a moment before he ran again and tried a low slash, but I just jumped over it. He smirked and pointed his left palm at me. A jet of flames shot out of his palm and I had to shield myself so I wouldn’t be even more burned than I already was.

Burned feathers are a pain.

I was thrown back again, but this time Spike rushed for me and slashed at the shield while I was mid-air. I tried to hold the shield, but it was destroyed by his slash and actually gor hit, and was sent flying once again.

‘I thought he was a spellcaster. Looks like he’s a swordsman.’ I thought while I jumped to my feet. He was pretty slow, so I could see his overhead strike, and dodged to the side before slashing him with my Rippers. He grunted and tried to hit me with the flat side of his blade, but I jumped over him again and prepared for a spell. While Spike didn’t need the command for the Flamethrower and the Dracon Fire, I had to use one for this spell. “Arcane Bomb!” I shouted, reaching for my Chasers. They were covered in energy as I hurled them, and they exploded when reaching their target, creating a dust cloud and sending Spike to the ground as I was sent to the air. I backflipped a few times before falling on the ground, the Rippers’ chains fading out and leaving me with just two small kamas.

Spike jumped out of the dust cloud, his passive starting to activate with his irritation. “Well, better up my game.” He said, holding the blade with just one hand while he thrusted the other forwards. “Dracon Sphere!” A glowing green sphere of Dracon energy was fired forwards, catching me by surprise.

“Not again!” I shouted, grabbing the sphere. I was sent skidding back, but the Dracon Sphere was safely being held by my Reversal. I threw the spell back at him, but he deflected it with his blade, the sphere impacting the arena’s wall with an explosion.

“Nice.” I praised with a grin.

“Thank you.” He said with his own.

This time I took the initiative. I ran to him with my Rippers ready and extended to their full length, about seventeen feet. I slashed him from a safe distance, but he blocked and got closer, impacting me with his blade. I flipped over him and prepared for another spell. “Arcane Missile!” A blast of magic impacted Spike, sending him to the wall and to the ground.

He stood up and stared at me, charging some energy on his left hand. His stare went blank for a moment, but suddenly changed to a confident one and smirked. “Oh no.” I muttered with wide eyes.

“Dracon Blast!” He sent his own blast at me. I leaped over it, but the explosion that occurred behind me sent me flying towards the drake. He used Greed as a baseball bat and sent me flying to the wall. I impacted the barrier and fell limply on the ground.

I weakly got up. “Son of a bitch…” I groaned before glaring at him. “If he wants to play like this, then I will beat him until next Friday.” I muttered. I charged my magic and teleported above him, and then used another spell to make him just a bit confused.

Spike heard a thud behind him and slashed at the noise, the slash being blocked by my shield. Then something grabbed his neck and threw him to the middle of the arena. He looked at me and went wide eyed.

“What the fuck?!” He shouted in surprise, making me giggle. The giggle was echoed by the griffoness by my side, a perfect clone of me.

Well, almost perfect. The Arcane Clone spell is really useful, but the clone's resistence is even worse than mine, which is quite the feat, and can’t use any spells.

And now the people that already compared me to Naruto will hate me even more. Oh, well...

“What?” We asked in false confusion. He shook his head before running at us again. I jumped back and summoned two more clones to help me fight. Spike hacked and slashed my clones, but they always blocked or dodged, just to return a punch or a kick. The drake got tired of it and threw flames all around him, burning all my clones.

He looked around him, searching for me. “Where are you?!” He shouted, getting a bit irritated. Another clone appeared behind Spike, but instead of attacking the drake, it just pointed upwards and disappeared. Spike stared ate the place the clone was before turning to look above him, but was met with only a cloud flying over the arena. Or not. I let the Mirage spell fade, the cloud disappearing and revealing the real me. I was jumping on top of a pink glyph, the magic on it making me jump higher and faster; I made a final jump and activated another glyph on top of me, backflipping so I was upside down. “Copycat, Lightning: Bounce Glyph.” I said with a smirk. The glyph sent me at incredible speed towards Spike, and I started to flip to gain even more momentum. “Vault Breaker Kick!” I shouted, aiming for the ground just in front of the drake. I impacted the ground, creating a large crack on the floor. When the crack started to glow pink with energy, I winked to Spike before teleporting upwards, just on the moment the cracks exploded.

The explosion sent Spike to the air, and I encountered him during his ascension, kicking the drake back to the ground. He impacted the ground hard, creating a small crater beneath him on the already abused soil. I fell back to the ground and walked to the crater, seeing Spike on the center. The arena around us faded just as I grabbed Spike’s unconscious form and teleported us out of the crater to a place outside of the one we battled on, putting him on the untouched floor.

I looked to the others, who watched the entire battle. “He’s ok. His scales and Harmonic Power protected him.” I reassured them. I was proven true when Spike stirred and opened his eyes. He looked around and sat up, groaning.

“What happened?” He asked, putting a hand on his chest.

Dolph chose this moment to use her curing spell. “Sacred Water.” She said. We.both sighed in relaxation when the soothing water cured our wounds.

“I won the battle. But you put a hell of a fight! That Dracon Blast took me off guard, if it had hit you would have won for sure!” I said with an impressed tone. I really hadn’t expected him to be that strong, and the way he just learned a new spell on the middle of a battle…

“What was that, anyway?” He asked again. “And why your spells didn’t hurt much? That Arcane Missile you fired at me should have knocked me unconscious.”

“There’s three ways to learn a spell: Someone, or something, teaching you; you creating it; and you having an ‘epiphany’ of sorts. Like, the spell just come into mind like you always knew how to use? You just blank out for a moment while you learn the spell.” I said, helping him up.

“Oh. And your spells…?” He asked again.

“Harmonic Power.” I said, simply. “The power Equestria knows is called Harmonic Power in Hybrios. A unicorn being able to use Fire spells even if they’re Ice-wielders; a pegasus being able to control weather; a earth pony having a easy time when growing plants… A griffin’s Harmonic Power is their capability of sensing the others around him. Mix that with my unicorn part, and I can sense other’s magical auras like I did yesterday. A dragon’s Harmonic Power is that their scales absorb most magic directed at it, except for their own. That’s why spells deal less damage on you.”

We looked to the right and saw Twilight scribbling that on her notepad too, making us chuckle in amusement. “I was wondering that…” She muttered. “Guess your theory doesn’t have any loopholes…”

“At least not that we know of.” Scarlett said. Twilight blushed when she realized she said that out loud and we laughed at her.

“No offense taken.” I said before she could apologize. “So, how was your training?” I asked the others.

“Not as exciting as yours, not that that’s a bad thing. I want to live a few more years, thank you very much.” Eclipse said with a nod.

“Haha! You can be sure we’ll fight someday, Stripes.” Niner Blaze said with a large grin. A bit too large.

He gulped. “I think I just shit myself…” He said weakly.

“Didn’t know you could use a cloning spell, though. That caught me really off guard.” Spike said to me.

“You were starting to be a pain, and since my spells could do nothing against you, and my physical attacks were being deflected by your scales, I decided to up my game and use gravity against you.” I said with a boasting grin.

He thought back to what happened on the ending and started to chuckle. “You’re a great fighter, Fairy. But someday I’ll beat you.” He said with a confident smirk.

I couldn’t help but smirk too. “Being a dragon you have the advantage, but…” I got closer to him, my chest almost touching his, and looked right on his eyes. “Bring it on, fucker.”

After that we decided to end the training, since everyone was getting tired. The Guardians decided to go to the castle play Spike’s videogames while my family went home to relax a bit. Rainbow and Pinkie were excitedly commenting my battle with Spike, with noises and all, and we heard while trying to hold our laughter. When we were reaching my home, Pinkie turned to me. “Fairy, can we use those spells too?”

“Eh, more or less. It depends on what element you wield, but yeah, you can use spells.” I said.

Pinkie jumped excitedly. “Can you teach me? Pleasepleasepleaseplease!” She begged.

I looked at her for a moment. “I’m pretty sure you can learn your spells alone. You’re a Chaos-wielder, after all.” I said, making her gasp.

“Y’know, it was kinda obvious…” Spike said with a hand on his chin. And the equestrians stared at Pinkie slack-jawed.

“A-Are you sure?” Twilight asked.

“No, but with everything Spike told me about Pinkie’s antics, it’s most likely.” I replied. “What’s the matter? She already did weird things, so it won’t be that bad if she learns to control it. It’ll be good, actually.” I turned to the pink mare. “Why don’t you ask Discord to teach you? Fluttershy can make sure he won’t teach her anything too dangerous.”

Fluttershy broke from her surprised state and nodded. “I’ll be sure he won’t.”

“See, Twi? Nothing to worry about it.” Spike said, hugging his sister with one arm.

“I hope you’re right…” Twilight muttered, rubbing her temple.

“Hey, Twi! If you want, I can let you study my Chaos magic!” When I learn it, of course." Pinkie said, trying to cheer her friend up.

Twilight smiled weakly. “Thank you, Pinkie.”

We reached the castle and entered, all Guardians immediately dashig to Spike’s bedroom. The place was huge. There were a bed on the left side of the room, a green fur mat on the floor near it; on the other side there was a writing desk with various study materials, a computer stand with one of the most recent machines, a stand with various consoles, from PS4 to Nintendo Wii, and a flat screened television nailed to the wall. On the middle of the room were four cushions for us to sit on and a glass door that led to a balcony.

I whistled and sat on one of the cushions. Spike, Luna and Eclipse sat on the others while the rest sat on the bed and Dolph lay on the mat. Spike thought about what I said earlier and pointed a hand to the controller. After a few moments of concentration, the object glowed green, making us gasp; but before it could float to us with Spike’s Telekinesis, the aura dissipated and sighed in disappointment, Spike rubbing his temple. "Dammit.”

“You were close. Just try a bit more and you’ll get it right.” Luna said reassuringly to the drake while he stood up and turned on the TV and Xbox One. He returned to us holding the four controllers on his hands and gave one to each that were sitting on a cushion.

Author's Notes:

Hope you liked it! I really want to put better action scenes, but I think I'm improving.

Someday I'll make a action scene so awesome DBZ will be jealous!

Yeah, no.