Author's Notes:

A little time skip and a scene that's certain to give me a few dislikes.

Also, IMPORTANT!

Guys, something happened here and I won't be able to write much. This little problem will last until november. I'll try to write a few chapters when I have the time, but I'll still tag this as 'Hiatus'. If I manage to write a chapter before the hiatus' end, I'll say if the hiatus really ended.

I'm really sorry, and enjoy the chapter.

I was standing on the middle of the clearing with my eyes closed and my hands on my jeans’ pockets. I sensed the auras around with a smile and took note of Spike, Eclipse and Luna slowly circling me, ready to fight; we were all unarmed, our weapons on the floor near where the rock once was.

I opened my eyes as Spike jumped forwards with his fist clenched, ready to punch me on the ribs, but I easily side-stepped the attack. I sensed something move behind me and backflipped over my assailant, giving Luna a kick on the back of her head and falling to the ground with a roll. Spike ran after me along with Eclipse, both trying to hit me with punches as I swiftly evaded each one of them.

I decided it was my turn to attack and jumped on their direction, kneeing Spike on the face and quickly turning to kick Eclipse on the gut, making the zebra take a step back and gasp for breath. As Spike fell to the ground, I jumped and somersaulted over Eclipse, grabbing him by the shoulders and throwing him over me when I touched the ground.

I rapidly turned and blocked a punch from Luna. She snarled and tried to hit me again, this time with a kick on my rib. I evaded with a jump over the alicorn and I fell behind her, grabbing the mare by her waist and rolling backwards to slam Luna’s head on the ground. I looked to my other adversaries and saw that Spike was already up and running towards me; he stopped in front of me and tried a high kick. I dropped to the ground at Luna’s side as she slowly got up and swiped the leg that was holding Spike up, making him crash to the ground again. I leapt to my paws and jumped high, stomping him before jumping back to evade Eclipse’s right hook.

I decided to put a distance between the two of us and he two downed, so I ran a few feet away before stopping; he ran after me in a boxing stance and I smirked. When he sent a punch, I side-stepped and jumped on his direction in a manner that I was upside down and wrapped my legs around his face. I rolled forwards and brought him down with me sitting on his chest, but I wasn’t finished; I wrapped my tail around his neck with the tuft of fur covering his mouth and rolled forwards again, hurling him over me using my tail and legs. He flew a few feet before impacting the ground.

I got up and looked at both of the boys; they were struggling to get up and clearly were out of the battle. I sighed contently before hearing a faint flap of wings coming from behind me, which made my smirk widen. I jumped again just as Luna came down and stomped the place I once was; she stopped in surprise with my quick reaction and I fell on top of her, standing on her shoulders. She looked up and I winked, grabbing her head with my paws and letting myself fall backwards while bringing Luna with me, rolling when I impacted the floor and slamming the mare on the ground.

I straddled her back; she tried to get up, but I grabbed her horn and slammed her back on the ground. She gritted her teeth and tried again, just making me tighten my grip and slam her on the ground again. “Y-Yield…” She croaked out. I smiled and released her horn, making her gasp and pant on the ground. I stood up and looked at Spike and Eclipse, who were both looking at me with narrowed eyes; Spike a few feet ahead of Eclipse. Looks like I was mistaken, huh? I also narrowed my eyes and we all ran towards each other. When we were close enough I rolled and used my arms to vault myself over Spike, giving Eclipse a punch on the face when I fell to the ground.

Spike turned and stared at me, while Eclipse stepped back and rubbed his face. The zebra was the first to move and tried to punch me and I grabbed his arm; he tried with the other, but it had the same results. We were in a power-struggle and Eclipse smirked, making me instinctively turn back and lift a leg to block Spike’s own punch. He lifted his other to punch again and I jumped, blocking his punch and wrapping both of his hands with my tail, leaving me in an awkward position. I smirked and kicked Spike on the chest, gripping his shirt with my paws and curling into a ball, pulling Spike’s shirt and Eclipse’s arms. Both shouted in surprise as they were thrown off balance and head-butted each other.

I quickly released Eclipse and put myself on a handstand before jumping back to my paws to face the zebra, kneeing him on the ribs and punching him on the face, knocking him to the floor. He lifted both his hands before letting them fall to the ground, too tired to even hold them up, signaling defeat. I turned to Spike and grabbed both his punches, putting us on a power-struggle like Eclipse had. He was winning, as he’s way stronger than me physically, and I had to come up with a plan fast. I remembered something that one of the Elementals had done. Something that Metta had done.

Most of you probably thought ‘Oh, shit’ now, and considering the last chapter I don’t blame you.

I smirked and moved my head forwards, locking Spike into a kiss. He went wide-eyed and I quickly backflipped, kicking Spike on his chin, making him also backflip and fall face-first on the floor. I fell to my paws and flipped over Spike, slamming myself on his back and straddling like I did to Luna as he tried to stand up. He sighed and let his head fall. “Yield.”

I laughed and stood up, holding a hand for him. Luna had already recovered and was holding Eclipse as he tried to stand up. I turned to our audience. “And that’s how you do it, people.” I concluded.

Scarlett and Dolph were laughing their asses off because of the strategy I used against Spike while Viper tried to stifle her giggles; Soul, Sapphyra and Twilight were looking at us with gaping mouths while Celestia and Shining Armor looked at us impressed, partially because of how easily Luna fell, partially because I kissed Spike to bring him down. “I must say, that’s an interesting maneuver.” Celestia admitted. When Shining Armor discovered of the training sessions I was having with Spike and the other Guardians, he decided to check it out to discover how much I could fight; Celestia decided to come too, mostly to keep an eye on her sister.

“I blame Metta for that one.” I giggled. “I had to think of something fast and that was the first thing that crossed my mind.” I said with a smile.

“Damn, you evaded all of our attacks! How the fuck did you do that?!” Eclipse shouted in anger.

“I got my dexterity over twenty; I’m able to do all kinds of shit.” I said with a straight face.

“I’m not sure it works like that.” Dolph said with a lifted finger when she stopped laughing.

I shrugged and Eclipse started to cough and sputter. He put a hand on his mouth and took off a few strands of pale pink fur, probably from my tail. “Thanks, Fairy.” He grumbled.

I laughed and patted his shoulder. “Sorry for that, buddy. But I only wrapped my tail around your face; I didn’t know the fur on the end was going to stop on your mouth.

“That was a good fight, Fairy. I’m amazed on how you use your agility to power up your attacks.” Shining said with a nod.

“Thank you, Prince Armor.” I said with a nod and a smile. “I have almost no physical strength, so I always need to think of other ways to fight. Mainly my spells, weapons or jump attacks.”

“You jumped and spun so much… I would get dizzy on the first spin you did there.” Sapphyra said.

“You forgot about kissing.” Spike said. “Dick move, by the way.”

Scarlett, Dolph and I laughed again and I got closer to Spike, wrapping my arm around him. “Things are returning to normal, then.” I said with a shake of my head. Twilight raised an eyebrow but decided not to ask. Honestly, a wise decision; but I’m sure you want to know, so...

The moment I discovered about the crush Spike had on Rarity, I started to tease him mercilessly about it. Even when he realized that Rarity wasn’t going to return his feelings I continued to do it. It was pretty hilarious to see him blushing so easily, but a few weeks before my first trip to Equestria he got used to it and started to tease back, which surprised me greatly. We were always trying to one-up each other.

When the Blizzcon here in Equestria ocurred the year before, we saw it as an occasion to war. We spent the whole weekend telling innuendos to each other, until Spike actually used his tail to slap my butt when we were walking through the city’s shopping center. I don’t remember what I said to make him do that, but after that slap we both said ‘fuck it’ and practically tried to murder each other with the teasing, both wordily and bodily.

Also, we’re not a thing! Just sinking this ship before it sails. Half of you are sighing in relief with that.

Well, now we were living near each other and we could do that all again. But we were cautious not to do that near the Elements or in public spaces so people wouldn’t get the wrong idea. Seems like I fucked up now, huh?

“Looks like we’ll need to train a lot more to even land a hit on you.” Eclipse said disappointed.

“Agi-based classes are almost impossible to fight against when you have no weapons or magic.” Viper said while gesturing to our weapons, using my game-talk. I pointed at them and teleported our weapons to us, giving them to their owners.

Luna and Spike both sheathed their swords, while Eclipse twirled his staff on his hand and I put the chain around me, along to putting my kamas on my belt. “You guys improved a lot over the last three weeks. You would’ve fainted on Fairy’s first kick back then.” Scarlett said jokingly.

We all chuckled. I looked to the side and saw Twilight holding her note pad up and preparing to open her mouth. “What-”

I cut her off. “Atk – Attack is physical strength. Def – Defense is our capability of enduring pain and tanking attacks. Mag – magic is our magical power, the strength of our spells. Spd – Speed is the velocity we attack and move ourselves. And Agi – Agility is how we move. It’s basically D&D’s Strength, Constitution, Intelligence, and Dexterity split in two different stats.” My friends snickered at Twilight’s pout.

“Am I really that easy to read?” She asked with furrowed eyebrows, the pout still there.

“Depending on the occasion? Yes.” Spike answered.

Twilight looked at her brother and former mentor for help, but found none. “They’re right.” Shining said, holding back a grin.

Twilight groaned and we snickered. “Cheer up, Twi!” Spike said, hugging his sister.

“I believe I shall return to Canterlot for the court. Farewell, and see you soon, sister.” Celestia said with a nod when her own giggles stopped. We all bowed and said our goodbyes, and Celestia teleported herself back to the city on the mountain.

“I’ll return to the castle too. There’s a book that’s supposed to arrive today, and I want to be there to receive it.” Twilight said with a smile.

“I’ll stay and see the rest of your training, if you don’t mind.” Shining said.

“Sure, those five need to train too.” I said, pointing to the Guardians that didn’t participate on the fight. Twilight nodded to her brother and walked back to the city.

The other five that were going to train walked to the center of the clearing and picked a spar partner. Dolph versus Scarlett, Sapphyra versus Soul and Viper stood off to train her aim with her needlers, shooting the trees around us.

We sat on the ground and watched them. “How does the Royal Guard train on Canterlot?” Eclipse asked Shining.

“Circuits, spars, training dummies… Not so different to what you do here.” He responded.

“I bet it’s not as intense as us, right?” I asked the unicorn.

Shining laughed. “No, it isn’t. I believe I shall bring a few soldiers here to compare your fighting style to theirs.”

“Our fighting style is more instinct than anything.” Luna commented. “We only train our strengths and create moves when we need them. Like that thing Fairy did with you two.”

“I’m surprised you fell so easily, Mirror. Normally you’re the last one to fall.” Spike said with a smile.

Luna turned to glare at the drake. “She was grabbing my horn. For a unicorn, that’s like holding you by the balls.”

Eclipse shivered and Spike lifted a finger. “My testicles are internal.”

“Then go to tartarus.” Luna snorted. We giggled and returned our looks to the training, watching as they tried to improve their fighting.

“Did you figure out our classes already?” Spike asked.

I looked to Sapphyra and Soul. Soul attacked from a distance, and Sapph had to use her blades to block the arrows. She looked like she was getting annoyed by that and decided to do something. She froze the ground below her and started to spin in place like a ice-skater would do; the blades also spun in front of her, creating a shield that blocked all Soul’s arrows. She suddenly stopped spinning and struck a pose, the blades pointing at Soul and firing an Ice Beam that made Soul jump to the side to escape.

I hummed as I saw that scene unfold. “Maybe…”