Author's Notes:

And it's finally up!

Dear Thundara, that took too long. But it's extra sized as an apology for being late.

If you saw my blog post, you know what happened to me, and I'm sorry for not being able to up this chapter last weekend.

Until the next hopefully in time chapter, and enjoy the action!

I was lying on my bed, my eyes closed as I slowly woke up. My eyes fluttered open and I let out a loud yawn, sitting up and scratching my head and eyeing the snoring mass on top of my roommate’s bed. I rubbed my eyes and got up, walking towards the wardrobe and the mirror beside it. I grabbed my clothes and towel from inside the wardrobe and looked to the mirror, observing my body, especially the light pink camisole I was wearing – and forgot to wear the day before – and some scars I gathered over the years. I sighed as I exited the room, heading towards one of the house’s three bathrooms with my body being covered with magic for a moment before it disappeared.

Minutes later I stepped out of the bathroom already on my normal attire and walked towards the kitchen, crossing paths with Dolph on the way down. Almost everyone was already eating something, and my brother looked over the counter and smiled at me, nodding his head as a ‘Hey’. I sniffed the air and smiled, the scent of fried eggs and bacon reaching my nostrils. My beak watered a bit and I gave thumbs up to my brother, who got to work on my breakfast for the two of us.

Moments after that my brother walked to the table with two plates in hand, one for me and another for him; on the plate was also a cup with orange juice in it. Everyone was already sitting on the table and eating their breakfasts, some were talking about what they would do on their day, but I tuned them out, focusing on eating my bacon. I felt like something was going to happen that day, but didn’t know exactly what. I brought the orange juice to my beak, taking a sip before taking my phone out and accidentally opening the Play Store. I groaned and took another sip, moving my talon to close the app, but something caught my eye that made me do a spit-take.

As I stared my cellphone’s screen while everyone was staring at me in surprise. “What happened?” Scarlett asked, furrowing her eyebrows.

“Sent you a print. Spike needs to see this.” I said, sending an image of my screen to their phones and running out of the room.

My family looked at each other before they all took their phones out to see what made me run out of the house in such a hurry. Everyone’s eyes widened when they saw it, before breaking into wide grins.

I jumped out of the house and ran towards town, encasing my hand with my pink aura. “Copycat, Amber: Wind Portal!” I shouted, my aura turning orange and shooting forwards, creating a portal to the city. I didn’t hesitate and jumped right in, startling some of the ponies passing through the streets.

I skidded to a stop right outside of the castle and knocked on the door, forgetting the doorbell for a moment. I was almost jumping into place, waiting for someone to open the door, silently hoping it would be the drake I wanted to see.

The door opened and Twilight peeked out, a book on her hand. “Oh hello, Fairy. Can I do something for you?” She asked, opening the door a bit more.

“Spike’s here? I need to see him, now.” I said with wide eyes.

She looked at me in surprise before answering. “He’s still sleeping, but I guess it’s time to wake up… Come on in.”

I nodded before teleporting behind her, running upstairs, using consecutive teleports and wall-runs during curves to be faster. As I neared Spike’s room, I used my telekinesis to safely unlock the door before I kicked it open. “SPIIIKE!” I yelled.

“HOLY FUCK!” He shouted, jumping a few feet up. I used my telekinesis to safely put him back on the bed. “What the hell, Fairy?!” He asked angrily.

“You need to see this!” I said as I pulled my phone out.

“Let me put my clothes first.” He deadpanned. I looked down and noticed that there wasn’t anything covering him.

“Huh.” I blinked before shaking my head and opening my Play Store that I accidentally closed on the way. “Anyways, you really need to-”

“Seriously? How can you be ok with seeing me naked?” He asked while covering himself. I deadpanned before motioning to my face, showing that I was still me. He rolled his eyes. “Of course. Now get out of my room.”

“But-”

“OUT!” He shouted, thrusting a hand forwards. I felt magic covering my body before I was forcefully thrown out of the room, the door closing as I impacted the wall.

I slowly slid to the floor, groaning and a bit dazed. I heard footsteps and Twilight soon came into view, a concerned look on her face. “What happened here?” She asked.

I grunted as I lifted myself, rubbing my back in pain. “I got kicked out. I bet my ass he spent the last night practicing his telekinesis.” I grumbled.

“Probably. He asked me for advice on how to use telekinesis. I taught him the basics and he improved greatly, but still couldn’t move big things.” She said.

“Risk that out of the list, ‘cuz he literally threw me out of the room. Not that I weight that much, anyways…” I said. We turned to Spike’s door and heard water falling, making me raise an eyebrow. “Did I miss the bathroom yesterday? I spent half of the day here, how the fuck is this possible?!” I said as I stared at the door.

Twilight giggled. “Looks like you were a bit distracted.”

“Like you when you’re reading a new book?” I asked with a raised eyebrow and a grin.

“I need to talk to Spike about what he should and shouldn’t tell others about me.” The mare grumbled, making me snicker for a moment.

We stopped talking for a moment, the only sound being the chirping of birds outside and the sound of falling water. The awkward silence I was talking about, guys! After a while Twilight turned to me again. “Why were you on such a rush?”

My eyes widened and my excitement came back. “I just have awesome news to him; he’ll be crying tears of joy when he hears it!” I said. “Ok, he won’t cry, but still!”

Twilight raised an eyebrow. “Okay, then.”

We heard the door opening and turned to Spike. He was wearing his normal clothes, including Greed, which was safely strapped to his back. He looked at me flatly. “Ok, what do you want?”

I smiled brightly and practically shoved my cellphone on his face. He looked at the screen and his eyes widened before looking at me with a smile to match mine. We fist-bumped and shouted. “POKÉMON GO IS OUT!”

“Fucking finally!” I said, jumping in place. Remember when I told Fluttershy I get a bit too excited over new games? Yeah. Spike laughed at my antics and took his phone out, immediately entering the Play Store to download the game.

Twilight looked between the two of us. “What?”

“Pokémon GO is simply one of the most waited games of those few weeks.” Spike explained. “The developer is from Neighpan, so they released it there first.”

“Ok, but releasing on Griffonia and Saddle Arabia before releasing it here or in Hybrios was bullshit.” I said while shaking my head. “Hybrios is one of the most advanced countries in terms of technology and videogames, and Equestria is one of the biggest countries of the world, if not the biggest.”

“True.” Spike nodded.

“So all of this was because a game?” Twilight deadpanned.

“Pretty much, yeah.” Spike and I said together.

Twilight stared at us for a moment before shaking her head. “If you need me, I’m on the library.” She said and walked off.

“I’m going out. I’ll be back before lunch.” Spike called.

We looked at her direction for a moment before looking at each other and snickering. “You know you didn’t need to throw me out, right? Nice telekinesis, though.” I commented as we made our way out of the castle.

“Thank you. But seriously, I still can’t believe you were so okay with seeing me naked, considering last time something like that happened.” He said off with a lidded stare. “And you wouldn’t leave my room otherwise.”

I shrugged. “Fair enough. And I walked in on everyone on the house, even Scarlett, Dolph and Viper. Trust me when I say that seeing your dicks wasn’t that big of an inconvenience to me.” I commented before turning to him with a smirk. “By the way, now we’re even.” I winked and walked out of the castle.

Spike stood there for a moment with a deadpan expression, and after a moment he shook his head and followed me. “Don’t remind me. If Twilight found out…” He grumbled under his breath before snickering. “Actually, scratch that, it’d be hilarious.”

We joined the other on Eclipse’s house, since Scar and the girls went to get the others the moment I jumped through the Wind Portal and his aunt was out searching for some herbs. We all made our characters and walked a bit inside the Everfree so the Pikachu’s would appear for us to catch. When everyone was going to catch their starters, I stopped them.

“Hey, wait. Do you guys already know what team you’ll be part of?” I asked. Most of them shook their heads. “What about we do it like that, we’re nine for three teams, so three of us will be part of a different team. And since the starter doesn’t matter that much, we can catch them to remember us of what team we’re a part of. Instinct gets Pikachu, Valor catches Charmander and Mystic goes with Squirtle.” I suggested.

“What about Bulbasaur?” Luna asked. Viper convinced Niner to teleport her to Canterlot so she could get the princess. She managed to sneak in the castle – she could sneak inside any building, if she wanted to – and wake up the alicorn, making sure she was with us to ‘inaugurate’ the game. Luna prepared herself and let Celestia know she was on Ponyville with us, unlike last time.

“Shadow Talon has a friend in Griffonia. This friend said Bulbasaurs are really common there. Not to mention we can hatch one on the 2km egg.” I said with a shrug. Y’know, on Hybrios we use the metric system, unlike Equestria. I’m laughed so much when I discovered they would need to learn our system. Or Google ‘Km to Miles’.

“I’m Instinct.” Spike said, selecting the Pikachu.

“I honestly thought you’d be Valor.” I said with a raised eyebrow. “Anyways, I’m Instinct too.”

“I’m Mystic.” Sapph, Luna and Dolph said together.

“Figures. I’m Valor, by the way.” Scarlett said.

“Me too.” Viper said and Eclipse lifted his cellphone, showing he already had caught the Charmander.

“Looks like I’m Instinct.” Soul said while selecting the Pikachu.

We all caught our starters and decided to do a quick run around – and by quick, I mean two hours – discovering Pokéstops, gyms and capturing random Pokémon. I don’t know about the others, but I finished that run with three Spearows, a Pidgey, two Rattatas, two male Nidorans, an Exeggcute and a Poliwag. I upped to level four and got an egg, also.

Not many people had the game installed yet, so there weren’t many Pokémon around.

We were walking towards the Schoolhouse, since it turned into a Pokéstop, when our stomachs grumbled. “Heh… Better go back home…” I said sheepishly.

Scarlett laughed a bit and nodded. “Yeah, I’m hungry too.” She said. “Let’s go.” She said as she walked towards our home.

Viper nodded and followed her. Dolph turned to our friends. “Bye guys! See you later!” She then ran towards Scarlett.

“You can join us with Sweetie and Button later on the server.” I commented.

“Sure.” Spike shrugged.

“Nah, I’ll go search a bit more.” Eclipse said while pointing to his phone.

“I’ll play a bit of Elsword back home. See you on the fight later.” Soul said with a nod.

“I have some things to do back home, sorry.” Sapph said with a shake of her head.

“Celestia is going to flip a bitch if I’m not on the castle before lunch.” Luna commented sadly.

“Ok, see you all later.” I said and ran to catch up with my family.

We walked to our home, phones in hand to catch some Pokémon, and in silence. After a few minutes, my cellphone vibrated and the screen changed, making my eyes widen. “It’s hatching!” I said, making my friends stop and rush to my side. I touched the screen so the egg could hatch and we watched the animation. After a few seconds of tension , the egg hatched to reveal… A Spearow.

A fucking Spearow.

My friends snickered as my eye twitched. “Don’t worry Fairy; I’m sure you hatch a better one next time.” Viper commented, patting my back.

“It’s ok, it was just two kilometers. And Spearow isn’t the worst I could have hatched, and its evolution is pretty strong.” I tried to smile but couldn’t make my eye stop twitching.

Dolph put a hand on my shoulder. “Come on, Fairy; are you really that deSpearowate to hatch a Charmander?” She said with a snicker.

I groaned and facepalmed. “First off, fuck you. Second, that sucked. Third, fuck you.” I put my cellphone on my pocket and walked towards our house. “But seriously, I got eleven Spearow candies and Fearow is a great Pokémon, it wasn’t a total loss.” I said with a smile. “It could’ve been something else, though. This place is a fucking Spearow nest.” I grumbled under my breath, the smile still on my face.

This time, Dolph’s stomach grumbled. “Come on!” She said as she started to run. We shook our heads and ran after her, eager to eat something.

A few hours later, Dolph and I joined Spike and went to our next stop before the fight. We walked through a thick forest, avoiding almost anything hostile as we made our way towards the place. “Are we getting close?” Spike asked.

I took as sheet of paper out of my pocket, read the numbers on it, compared to the place we were in now, and nodded. “Yup, we’re really close to it.” Spike and Dolph nodded, looking around for any sign of trouble.

We got out of the forest and entered a clearing, spotting a building on it. We looked at each other before running to check it out. It was a simple oak wood house with a darker roof made of dark oak and a door made of birch wood. There were also some windows here and there, and I could see there was someone in the house.

We stopped on front of the door and knocked on it, gaining the attention of the ones inside. The door opened to show a familiar face that smiled brightly when she noticed us. “You’re here!” Sweetie said and stepped aside so we could enter.

“Of course! We promised to come, didn’t we?” Dolph said with a smile.

“That you did.” Button said as he stepped into view. “Come on; let’s get you geared up so you can help us. I found an abandoned mine a few days ago, and been preparing myself before exploring it. We couldn’t find enough resources to complete our armors, though.”

“We’ll need to mine some more iron for it, but I think it won’t take long as we’re in five rather than two.” Sweetie commented. “We have some spare pickaxes for you on that chest.” She pointed to a chest near a crafting table.

If you didn’t figure out – which is quite impossible –, we’re playing Minecraft with Sweetie and Button on their server.

We opened the chest and each of us grabbed an iron pickaxe before getting out and entering their mine, starting our search for iron ores. “How many iron bars you already have?” I asked.

Button put a hand on his chin for a moment before turning to me. “Fourteen.” He said with a sheepish smile.

“Well, that complicates things.” Spike said as he raised an eyebrow.

“Well, let’s start digging everypony!” Sweetie said. “Or everyone, in this case.” We nodded and started searching and mining.

I won’t bore you with the details of forty five minutes of breaking blocks, but basically we found enough ores to five complete armors and three swords, since they already had two iron swords with them.

That’s one hundred twenty six iron ores mined, plus thirty or so spares.

Phew.

I turned to the others after we finished crafting our armors and weapons. “What resources are you bringing with you? Armor, sword and pickaxe doesn’t count.” I asked.

They looked on their inventories before they answered. “One pack of cobblestone, about twenty wooden planks, fourteen sticks, thirty torches, and… that’s it.” Button said.

“More or less the same.” Sweetie said and Spike nodded.

Dolph sighed. “Noobs. Grab some more wood and sticks; we never know when we’ll need to craft something; and food too.” She said.

“Good idea.” I said before opening one of the chests. I found thirteen flints, twenty feathers and ten sticks, making an idea come into mind. “Hey, do you have any strings?”

“Yeah, there’s some on the other chest.” Button said while searching through a chest on the other side of the house.

I grabbed the items I found and grabbed the strings on the other chest before walking to a nearby crafting table to create a bow and some arrows. That’s one thing I like on Minecraft; the arrows’ physics is pretty reasonable, and that makes me shoot the most accurate arrows of the whole family, the only ones beating me being Lobis and Viper.

I made a bow and twenty three arrows for me, and also five buckets with the spare iron that was on my inventory. I stored the bow and walked towards the others, ready for our dungeon questing.

We walked slowly as we entered the mine, looking around to spot nearby mobs or any loot. “Mine every ore you find, not matter if it’s lazuli or gold, we probably will need them later.” I said. “Also, if you find any lava please collect it with the bucket I gave you guys, I want to make an infinite cobblestone factory later.”

“Fairy is good with traps and infinite thingies.” Dolph commented. “But mine some redstone for me, I love making redstone circuits! Maybe I can build a cool one for you later!”

“Sure.” Spike, Button and Sweetie said.

“I like to mine and build, but those redstone creations always amaze me.” Sweetie said.

“I like to explore and fighting better, it’s always awesome to brave an unexplored cave like we’re doing now! Braving the nether is even better with all those different mobs!” Button exclaimed excitedly, swinging his sword around.

Spike chuckled. “I like to use the creative mode more than the survival. Building pixel arts is pretty cool.”

“I like to build houses, and the factories aren’t that different. I could build a village, but it’s too much work for me.” I said with a shrug.

We walked a bit more and soon reached a place where the cave split into three. “Crap.” I muttered.

“I’ll keep forwards!” Dolph exclaimed, marching towards her chosen direction. “Explore the other entrances!”

We stood there and looked at each other, mutely asking how to proceed. “Sweetie and I will go to the left cave; you can go to the right.” Button said, pointing to the left entrance with his thumb.

We nodded and separated, entering our chosen caves. Spike and I walked on silence, only calling each other to mine or to borrow a certain item. “Ok, what kind of abandoned mine is this?!” I shouted. “Not even one loot chest!”

“Calm down, geez… We just need to explore a little more, not all mines have chests every corner.” Spike said with an amused stare.

I sighed. “You’re probably right.” We turned another corner and found ourselves in another split. We looked into one of the entrances and saw the only thing there was a chest, while the others went deeper. “Ok, I’ll check the chest and go on the middle one.” I said, walking to the loot. Spike nodded and walked to the right cave.

I opened the chest and only found some seeds and ores, nothing big but also nothing worthless. I entered the middle cave and walked a bit, finding nothing much than a certain iron and gold ores. Well, until I found something much more exciting.

The wood floor of the mine ended, meaning the building also ended here, but there still was a cave going down, so I continued forwards. I jumped down a big hole and grunted when I fall, losing a full heart of health. I put a torch on the wall, signaling I came from there, and continued walking to find a lake of lava.

I whistled. “Looks like I got what I wanted.” I said while grabbing a bucket full of lava. I looked around and saw another entrance nearby, and walked there to find a bit of water.

I smiled. “Looks like I also got some obsidian.” I put the lava on a hole on the floor and grabbed the water, running to dumb it on the lake of lava to the lava turned into obsidian for me to mine. I returned and grabbed the lava I separated before starting to mine the hardest block of the game, not counting the bedrock.

Then I remembered my pickaxe was made of iron.

“Fuck all kinds of duck…” I facepalmed before walked away to search for diamonds so I could make another pickaxe. That took almost half an hour, and I could only find the exact three I needed.

As I walked inside the obsidian chamber and started to mine the ten blocks in an agonizingly slow pace, I started to wonder if the others were having better luck than I was.

And if Sweetie changed the difficulty to peaceful, because holy shit, where the fuck are the mobs?!

I finished mining the obsidian – thank Manae for that! – and put a torch on top of those I didn’t, illuminating a veil of gold I didn’t see before. Normally I would ignore it, but I did say to mine every ore we would find. I sighed and got up, walking towards the ores and started to mine. But there’s a little rule I forgot to obey that moment.

NEVER dig the block you’re standing on.

“Gah!” I shouted as I fell to the ground on the cave I accidentally discovered, my armor protecting me but still losing four hearts. “Fuuuck…” I moaned and stood up. I opened my inventory and ate a potato pie Sweetie baked for us before we went here, replenishing my hunger bar and making my hearts regenerate.

I heard moaning nearby and turned. On one of the far walls of the cave, there were two ‘buildings’ of cobblestone and moss stone, one of them with a hole on it. My eyes widened. ‘Mob spawns so close to each other? That’s pretty rare…’ I thought as slowly walked forwards to discover what kind of spawn they were. ‘Judging by the sound, one of them is a zombie spawn.’

I equipped my bow as I walked towards the opened spawn, passing nearby the closed one and hearing clattering sounds. ‘Skeleton mob spawn.’ I concluded. As I reached the end of the closed spawn’s wall, I heard a sound behind me, a sound every Minecraft player dread.

“SSSSSSS-”

“OH FUCK!” I shouted and jumped, trying to evade the Creeper’s explosion behind me, but it still wasn’t enough as the asshole exploded and launched me forwards, stealing five hearts of my health – thankfully my health was almost full – and opening the skeleton spawn.

The mobs caught sight of me and walked out of their spawns, but there were also two spiders that I didn’t see before, and vice-versa, and another creeper that had spawned inside the zombie spawn. I lifted my bow and got ready to fight. “Bring it.” I said with a challenging smirk.

The spider came at me first, seeing as they were faster than the others. I shot one down with two arrows before quickly grabbing my sword and slicing the other. I ran forwards and grabbed their drops while jumping at the zombies with a cry.

I slashed the zombies to make them open space so I could reach the skeleton spawner, but they were giving me a hard time by pounding me and making me slow so the skeletons could shoot me down. I grabbed my bow and arrows and started to shoot the living bones, but still was making slow progress of eliminating the bigger threat.

I dodged most arrows, but with seven mobs shooting me plus the zombies on my path, it was rather difficult to dodge all of them. I shot two of the skeletons down and ran to them with my sword in hand, cutting three of them open and jumping inside the spawn to put torches around the block so the skeletons would stop spawning. I turned to the skeletons around me and jumped out of the spawn, killing the mobs with my sword and arrows while making my way to their spawner this time.

I killed most of the mobs on my path to make path towards their spawn, and jumped inside it, putting a torch on top of it so my only trouble would be the mobs that already had spawned.

A bit too late for that.

I grunted as I felt something stab me on the side just when I put the torch on the spawn. I turned to my attacker and my eyes widened. “Just my luck…” I muttered while eyeing the zombie that spawned on the last second.

It had an iron sword that glowed with its enchantment, and also had an iron chest plate and helmet on him that made him much tougher than the zombies from before. I yelped when he slashed at me, making me jump back to evade the attack. I jumped out of the spawn to kill the minor threats before fighting the stronger enemy. I couldn’t fight every one of them without receiving a few attacks, resulting in me having only four hearts when I cleared the area, leaving only me and the sword-wielding zombie.

“Just you and me now, asshole.” I said while lifting my sword. I had run out of arrows a few moments ago, even the ones I looted from the skeletons. The zombie moaned and lunged at me, ready to slice my head off with his sword. I jumped back and tried to slash him open, but the armor protected him from my attack while giving an opening to attack my side, dealing a heart and a half of damage, two more and I was dead.

“Fuck, is this sword enchanted with Sharpness II?!” I groaned in pain. I lifted my sword and jumped at him, taking care not to be hit again while I slashed at his side. Normally a zombie needs three to four hits with an iron sword to die, but this one had armor, so I estimated it would take seven hits. Two down, five to go.

I side-stepped his attack and slashed with my own sword, then stepped back to dodge another slash and jumped up to deal critical damage to him. He stepped back with the impact but wasted no time to lunge at me. I jumped to the side and slashed with my sword, my blade impacting his helmet and head. I twirled the blade on my hand and went for a stabbing motion, breaking his chest plate and piercing his heart, killing the hungry-for-brains.

I raised an eyebrow. “Or that crit dealt more damage than I expected, or I just needed six hits.” I said. I looked down and saw the blade didn’t disappear with the mob, so I grabbed it and put it on my inventory. I also went to loot the chests of the spawners, finding a few iron and gold bars, redstone, a saddle, two tags, a music disk – cat –, a bucket, two enchanted books – Unbreakable and Silk Touch –, a few seeds and…

“Enchanted golden apples!” I shouted in glee when I saw two of those. Hey, it’s a really rare item to spawn on those dungeons, not a diamond but still.

I looked at the monster spawners and decided to grab them with the Silk Touch book I found; they would be really useful for my mob trap later. Then I remembered that doesn’t work. “Dammit.” I grumbled as I walked to the hole I fell from earlier and used cobblestones to get out of that place. I can always make the mob trap here, later.

When I got out of the hole, I started to walk back to the mine to find the others and go to their house, but a voice suddenly echoed on the cave.

‘Having fun?’

I looked up and narrowed my eyes. ‘Yes. Scar, I already told you not to-’

‘Yeah, yeah, sorry. But you’d rather be late than being interrupted?’ Scarlett asked rhetorically.

‘Late? What do you mean?’ I asked while pulling my phone out to check the time.

3:57 pm.

“Oh shit!” I shouted and started to run towards the house. I entered the mine and passed Spike and the others who were looking for me. “We’re going to be late!” I shouted and they started to run after me.

We stumbled inside the house and disconnected from the server, immediately jumping to our feet and turning off our laptops. Sweetie told us they normally play at the Sugarcube Corner, but Sweetie invited us to play on her house so she could warn Rarity when we would go watch the fight.

We jumped the stairs, startling Rarity and making her drop the tea kettle she was holding, but Spike acted fast and caught it on his telekinesis before putting it on the table, shooting Rarity an apologetic look.

“Gotta go! We’ll be back later, bye!” Sweetie said as we ran out of the house. Rarity blinked but shook her head and returned to her afternoon tea.

I ran in the front and charged my magic for another portal. “Copycat, Amber: Wind Portal!” Once again I summoned the rip in reality and we jumped through it with no hesitation, stumbling on each other and falling on the ground near the lake.

“Note to self: Only jump through portals when you’re alone, calmly enter when in groups.” I groaned as we stood up. I looked around and saw most of the people were already there, the only ones missing being Sunshine and Bella, but that’s understandable. I also noticed that Rainbow Dash, Applejack and even Love Tap were there to watch.

“Mom?” Button asked in confusion as we approached the earth pony mare. “What are you doing here?”

Love Tap turned to her son and smiled. “Well… when you said you were going to watch the… Elementals?” I nodded in confirmation. “When you said that, I got curious and decided to come here to check it out. Looks like Applejack and Rainbow Dash had the same idea.” She said, pointing to the mares that were talking to Dranitta, Amber and Draco.

“I tried to convince my sister, but she didn’t want to come.” Sweetie said. “I already knew she would refuse, but it wouldn’t hurt to try.”

“Same with Twilight.” Spike said. “She likes to study things, but dislike fights even more.”

We nodded in understanding and walked to the others, who were getting ready for the battle. Bella and Sunshine soon returned, bringing with them two bags with food for us to eat while watching the fight. “We brought snacks for everyone!” Bella exclaimed.

“Snacks!” Pinkie exclaimed, appearing near Bella and Sunshine and making the pegasus jump in surprise while the disguised changeling smiled. Pinkie noticed our stares and smiled sheepishly. “Sorry! I had some more work back on the Sugarcube Corner and almost couldn’t come, but I simply couldn’t miss this!” She said while jumping in place.

Lightning chuckled. “Don’t worry, Pinkie. The more the merrier, right?”

“Right-o!” Pinkie and Bella said together, Pinkie grabbing some chips and a coke bottle Bella was offering.

“Alright, everyone is here so let’s get started!” Aguion said. The fighters walked to an open space near the lake and stopped, each duo facing the other. Aguion stepped between them and cleared his throat. “The battle between Scarlett, Viper, Dolph and Lightning will start! The rules are simple, the fight will end when both fighters of either side are down or surrender; if one falls, the battle will continue until the second also falls. You can use any spell you have, including the Callings as long as you don’t charge them enough to kill. Understand?” All fighters nodded. My brother also nodded and Feather Stepped to our side.

The fighters walked to the center and put their hands forward, changing the energy to activate the battle ring. The globe of magic that they created expanded, reaching almost seventy feet of diameter, including on the arena some of the lake.

“That’s a big ass arena.” Draco commented impressed while the fighters stepped away from each other.

“Four fighters at the same time, the arena has to be big.” Moonlight said.

“Shouldn’t those Callings be banned from fights like that?” Rainbow asked.

“Nah, they know each other’s resistances and will only use them with little power.” Scarlett reassured the pegasus.

“The fight will start in five!” Aguion started to count.

“Four!” Scarlett twirled her Vampire Fangs on her hand before strapping them to her belt and summoning Bloodlust, entering a battle stance.

“Three!” Viper summoned her secondary weapon, two undulated daggers commonly called Kris. Both Venom Slashes were purple with black grips and guards and dripped a purple liquid that all the family knew was poison. She did the same Scarlett did and reached for her Acid Stings that were strapped just above her tail, twirling them on her finger and pointing them to her opponents.

“Two!” Dolph summoned High Tide and got ready for the fight, pointing the trident’s blades at the others, mainly Viper.

“One…” Lightning summoned both her Fortunes and started spinning them on her hand, ready to jump at Scarlett.

“FIGHT!” Everyone shouted, starting the battle. The first movement was Viper’s; she jumped back and started firing at Dolph, but the seapony was faster and used Tide to fly high into the air. Once airborne, she pointed the trident like it was a bazooka and prepared for her strike. “Ranged versus ranged, Aqua Sphere!” She shouted, hurling a bomb of water forward that exploded when it reached the floor near Scarlett, making the griffoness jump to her right side and distracting her for long enough to Lightning attack her.

“Never let your guard down!” The pegasus shouted and kicked Scarlett on her belly. Scarlett grunted and smirked, using her scythe to slash at the pegasus and managed to make her take a step back. My twin spun while she slashed with her scythe to take more momentum and hit Lightning on the side, sending her flying.

“Never stay still next to a reaper, dumbass.” Scarlett said with a laugh. She ran to my older sister and jumped high, ready for an overhead strike. Lightning’s eyes widened and she rolled out of the way, half of the scythe’s blade embedding of the floor. She got up and prepared one of her spells. “Spark!” A spark of electricity fired off of her hand and impacted Scarlett, electrocuting her and making her lose balance for a moment, enough to receive a punch on the face that sent her rolling a few feet.

Lightning whipped her left wing, three feathers shot out like arrows and Scarlett had to jump to her feet in order to escape, the feathers embedding the floor she was just a second before. Scarlett glared at her opponent and ran towards Lightning; scythe in hand ready for a strike. Lightning sighed and jumped back, evading one of the slashes. But she didn’t predict Scarlett’s next move. “Blood Storm!” Scarlett launched one of her pearls forwards that immediately turned into a vortex of blood and impacted Lightning, sending her flying to the barrier.

Lightning groaned and stood up, pointing a hand down to her feet. A pink glyph appeared on the floor and Lightning glowed pink for a moment before jumping forwards, two clones appearing beside her. The three Lightnings ran around Scarlett in hope to confuse the griffoness, but Scar just smiled and punched the ground, another pearl on her hand, while the blood from the other pearl circled around her. “Bloodstone Trap!” The pearl on her hand turned into liquid and shot towards the pegasi around her, solidifying and trapping them in place. The blood around Scarlett stopped into a pattern and Scarlett stood up, crossing her arms before quickly swiping them to her sides. “Blood Fest!” The blood turned into needles and shot everywhere, making the Lightnings gasp.

The clones fizzled and disappeared as the needles impacted them, and the real put a shield glyph in front of her to stop the attack; but the impact was still strong enough to break the Bloodstone Trap and send her stumbling to the ground. Lightning got up and laughed. “Nice!” She praised. Scarlett accepted the praise with a smile and a slight bow before jumping again.

While all that happened, Dolph and Viper shot each other while they jumped to evade the attacks. Dolph tried to get closer to Viper to engage a close-quarters combat but Viper’s fast shots stopped her from doing so. Dolph’s eye widened as she had an idea and crouched low, her body being incased in water. “Water Rocket!” She jumped forwards and literally rocketed towards Viper, tackling the surprised venompony to the ground and jumping to her feet, again aiming her bazooka-trident at close range. Water gathered between the blades and Dolph shot, impacting Viper on her forehead and making her shout in pain.

As Viper stood up, Dolph held a hand forwards. “Bubble Stream!” She said with a giggle, a clear sign she was enjoining the fight. Viper jumped high to evade the stream of explosive bubbles that shot from Dolph’s hand and pointed her needlers at her attacker. She shot a volley of needles towards the seapony, but Dolph easily evaded each and every one of them.

Acrobats…

Viper fell to the floor and decided to come with a different strategy. She dropped her Stings and grabbed her Slashers, hurling them towards the seapony, who jumped to evade the attack. Too bad Viper wasn’t aiming for her. The venompony smirked as the krises embedded themselves on the ground on either side of Dolph, and lifted her hands, controlling the poison on the blades that formed two spheres on Dolph’s sides. Viper closed her hands and the blood started glowing and turned to spheres of energy, her Poison magic turning into Summon magic. She then punched her hand with the other while shouting the spell. “Serpent Snare!” The energy turned into portal where dozens of serpents shot out and held Dolph, making the girl gasp.

Viper calmly thrusted a hand forwards, “Poison Gas.” and cloud of poison engulfed Dolph. The seapony started to cough and felt her strength fading, dropping to the floor, unconscious. Viper walked towards her fallen opponent and put a hand on her back. “Poison Cure.” Her hand glowed purple and energy entered Dolph, eliminating the toxins inside her.

“Dolph is out of combat! If Lightning falls, her team loses!” Aguion announced.

“Wow… that… was… awesome!” Pinkie shouted in excitement.

“Poisoning? Your battles go that far?” Sweetie asked in disbelief.

“Viper created two kinds of poison; both steal energy and make the poisoned weaker, but only one of them kills. The other simply disappears a few days before the target could die. She uses the false poison on these fights, the true she only uses when things get extreme and she could die if she don’t kill.” Amber explained.

“And she also knows Poison Cure; it allows her to cure any poisoning known. That gives her an edge on the fights, since if she hits you once, you’re out.” Niner said nonchalantly.

Sweetie nodded in understanding and turned back to the fight, her eyes widening with the sight.

“What the tartarus?!” Rainbow gasped.

Scarlett was using her scythe and agility to evade her opponent’s attacks, as the pegasus calmly threw a Fortune at her.

And other.

And other.

And oth- oh you got it already.

I looked at it before returning my gaze to the surprised. “That? That’s Lightning signature attack, Infinite Fortune. She can summon infinite kamas as long as she keeps them energized. Until now she held a maximus of thirty four kamas at once.”

“That’s bullshit…” Scootaloo muttered, gaining a glare from Rainbow Dash before the mare glared at me.

“Hey! Wasn’t me!” I shouted defensively.

We returned our gazes to the fight and saw Viper running to aid her duo on her fight. Scarlett jumped back and started slashing at the air fast to knock all the kamas to the side. “Need help?” Viper offered.

“If it isn’t much trouble.” Scarlett grunted.

“It isn’t.” Viper said while she grabbed her Stings and shot the oncoming kamas. The venom pony’s aim is one of the best I’ve ever seen, she could shoot you on the head two miles away with a pistol if she concentrate. So it’s no surprise her fast shooting blocked every kama Lightning threw. Scarlett stopped her slashing and panted in exhaustion.

“Crap, she’s tiring me out.” Scarlett growled.

“I’ll try to cover us, warn me when you’re ready to continue.” Viper said concentrated in stop the kamas. The kamas on the ground were disappearing so Lightning could continue to attack.

Scarlett drew a deep breath and nodded. “Ok, I’m good.” Viper nodded back and smiled, Scarlett matching her expression. “It’s cool to fight with you in real life. We should do this more often.” Scarlett said, making Viper blush.

Lightning stopped throwing her kamas and panted a little before making all the Fortunes on the ground disappear. She smiled. “Teamwork OP, huh?”

“Pretty much.” Scarlett nodded.

“But it won’t be enough to take me down. I may be outnumbered but I’m still more experienced.” Lightning said, her smile disappearing. “Looks like I’ll have to stop holding back.” She held a hand up and a pink glyph appeared on it, and started spinning like a saw.

“Who is she, Krillin?” Eclipse deadpanned.

I shrugged. “In case you didn’t notice, most of our attacks are based on a game or anime. Lightning is a huge DBZ fan.”

Lightning hurled her Disk-Saw Glyph towards the duo in front of her, and they knew better than try to stop the attack and jumped out of the way, preparing their own spells.

“Crimson Rocket!” Scarlett shouted as she hurled her dagger towards Lightning.

“Poison Bomb!” Viper hurled a sphere of poison at the pegasus.

Lightning smiled and a Reverse Glyph appeared in front of her, the attacks impacting it and returning to the duo with doubled speed. The teenagers’ eyes widened and tried to jump out of the way, but they were too slow and the attacks reached them. The Crimson Rocket cut the side of Viper’s right leg and the Poison Bomb impacted Scarlett with full force.

The griffoness started to cough and fell to a knee, one arm on the ground keeping her up. Viper rushed to Scarlett’s side and controlled the cloud of poison away from her partner. “Poison Cure!” She said, curing Scarlett.

Scarlett stopped coughing immediately, but still looked very weak and wouldn’t be getting better so soon if she doesn’t stop to rest or receive a proper healing spell, seeing as Viper’s only cured poisoning, not energy loss and injuries.

Lightning ran towards the duo and Viper quickly got up, grabbing her kris to try and stop her opponent, but Lightning side-stepped Viper’s attack and touched her on the midsection. “Time Stop Stun Glyph.” Lightning finally said the name of her attack, and a small glyph momently appeared on Viper’s belly before she stopped as if locked in time.

Lightning calmly walked towards Scarlett, who weakly stood up and grabbed her scythe, but Lightning quickly jumped and kicked Scarlett square on the face, sending the griffoness to the ground and to dream land.

Viper stumbled forwards when the spell faded; falling on her knee and whipping her head back to see Scarlett on the ground. She quickly got up and stared at Lightning with wide eyes before narrowing them. “Fairy, teleport them out of the arena.” She called.

I nodded and teleported the unconscious out of the battle zone, instantly realizing what Viper was about to do. Bella and Flora jumped into action and cured their injuries on the spot. “Well guys, I hope you’re excited, ‘cuz you’re about to see your first calling.” I said while turning to my friends with a large grin. Their eyes widened and looked to the arena, eager to see one of the strongest spells they ever seen.

Viper held a hand to her side, purple aura covering it and expanding into a large ball of energy. “Death’s Call: Colossal Anaconda!” She roared and the energy took form, summoning a serpent so big she had to curl to fit inside the arena, it looked like it could easily eat a hydra in a single bite without having to stretch her maw.

Lightning looked at that and grinned. “Now that’s what I’m talking about!” She laughed and ran towards the anaconda. “Bomb Glyph!” She shouted and threw a glyph at the snake that exploded with the impact. She did that a few more times and the anaconda attacked back, head-butting the pegasus into the barrier.

“Now, now. No killing.” Viper said to her beast. The anaconda looked at her but complied, pulling his head back.

Lightning fell to the ground, groaning. “Ouch, that almost knocked me out…” She sighed and closed her eyes. “I really want to toy with you, but I want to win this even more, so…” She opened her eyes, revealing they were covered in pure energy, a pink mist with a few runes oozing out. Viper’s eyes widened.

Lightning crouched low, a massive pink glyph appeared beneath the whole arena. When this massive glyph disappeared, a Speed Glyph appeared beneath her and dozens of Bounce Glyphs appeared everywhere. They were on the floor, on the barrier and on the very air. “Death’s Call: Annihilation Dome!” She finally shouted, running forwards with increased speed. She ran and impacted the anaconda before impacting one of the Bounce Glyphs that hurled her back and attacked the snake again. She did that again and again and again, and the group realized she was getting faster.

“Uhh, why is her speed increasin’?” Apple Bloom asked with wide eyes.

“That’s her passive, Lightning-Fast Combo. If she hits someone, she’ll get a bit faster for a few seconds as long as she isn’t hit back. One or two hits are almost imperceptible, but when it’s fourteen hits? That’s a really big change. The bad part is that the time the speed is up decreases as stacks increases.” I explained, gaining blank stares. “One hit, the passive lasts five seconds. Twenty hits, the passive lasts half a second.” I explained while rolling my eyes.

We looked back at the fight and saw that Lightning was nothing more than a blur, moving at incredible speeds and cutting the summon open. “I’m glad Fluttershy isn’t here.” Rumble said and we nodded.

My family turned to Flora, who was whimpering and covering her eyes with flowers, and Bella, who was almost crying. “Then again, we have our own Fluttershies right here.” Dranitta deadpanned.

The summon finally had enough and disappeared as his energy lowered to zero, and now Lightning bounced on the glyph one last time and flew towards Viper, kicking her with her not-so-big full strength that turned devastating with the increased momentum from the passive. Viper was sent flying on the barrier and fell to the ground, unconscious.

The barrier fizzled and disappeared, with Lightning grabbing Viper and carrying her to us. Bella and Flora immediately jumped to cure their injuries while my brother stood up. “And the winners are Lightning and Dolph!” He shouted, making Lightning smile and fall to the ground, completely exhausted.

“Let me rest a little…” She moaned and slowly closed her eyes. Suddenly her eyes opened and she glared at Pinkie, Bella, Draco and Dranitta. “But don’t you fucking dare to eat all the snacks while I’m out, or you four will be the next inside the Dome!” She growled before immediately blacking out.

Silence.

“Is she ok?” Pinkie asked worriedly.

“Yup.” Aguion, Amber, Scarlett, Sunshine and I said with half-lidded eyes.