Author's Notes:

Before you read this, I need to say a few things.

First, this is still on hiatus. I was able to write this chapter this weekend because I found the time and also because it's rather short.

Second, I wrote two different blog posts that may interest you. I reccommend reading them right after reading this.

The first is about a few edits I did to the fic from the chapters 1-9, and how the first part of the chapter was written before I edited. It's here.

The second I wrote right after writing this one, and this one you NEED to read. Here.

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Sapphyra stared at me for a few seconds before blinking. “I’m a what?”

I calmly took a sip of my milkshake before responding. “You’re a Dancer.”

Shining had returned to the Friendship Rainbow Castle to spend some more time with Twilight before going to Canterlot. Niv joined us when we walked near our house and we decided to grab something to eat at the Sugarcube Corner; we all ordered milkshakes and cupcakes while we talked. After finally deciding what class Sapphyra was, I wanted to tell them what which were their own classes.

“How the hell is Dancer a fighting class?” She asked with furrowed brows. Heh, I had this same reaction when I heard of the Dancers for the first time.

“I’m with her on this one, what?” Eclipse asked as he shook his head.

“Just like an Assassin doesn’t mean having to kill, Dancer doesn’t mean having to dance.” I said with a roll of my eyes. Niv squawked and I offered her some of my strawberry milkshake before continuing. “It means your attacks will follow the way you move. On the battle, your blades spun just like you, and when you finished on that pose your orb attacked.” I pointed out. “By the way, ‘I’ll never be able to spin like you’ my ass.”

Sapphyra looked at her weapons. The True Ice orb was floating just between her wings, and the blades floated in the same position my knives are when hung on my chain. “So, I move and my weapons move with me. I still don’t see why the name is Dancer.”

Scarlett lifted her finger. “Lupine explained this one to me one time. She said a Fire-wielder summoned fire and used dance moves to control it. It was the first one to do that, and a lot of people started fighting like that too. They stated calling themselves Dancers after that.” She explained. “A Dancer fights by controlling their weapons and/or elements with precision and continuity, following a dance move or a rhythm.

Sapphyra nodded in understanding. “I see. Well, if you say so.”

“Like I said before, you don’t need to actually dance.” I said, sipping my milkshake again. “Just control your weapons like you’re already doing.”

Eclipse’s eyes darted between me and Niv before he shivered in disgust and acted like he didn’t see that I shared my food with my bird. “Well, I like being called a Fighter.” He said as he reclined on his seat, putting his hands behind his head.

“Spell Blade, huh? That means I will fight with my sword more, but that my spells aren’t something to laugh at, right?” When I nodded he smiled. “Works for me!”

“Archer… Not a big surprise, but I guess it fits.” Soul said before biting his cupcake.

“I hope you have a good reason to call me a brawler.” Luna said with a scowl.

“What do you like more, fighting with your sword or with your own fists?” Scarlett asked.

Luna thought for a moment. “Fighting with my own fists is something else, I suppose.”

“There you go.” Scarlett concluded before finishing her shake.

The rest of us followed suit before Luna continued. “Still, I’d gladly use the Spell Blade title instead of Brawler.” The disguised alicorn complained. “I think I fit for it.”

“I know you fit inside that class’ requirements, but like you said; you like to use your fists more. And you seemed to fight better without it; if you weren’t an Atk-based fighter, maybe you could have landed a hit on me.” I said a little smugly. Just a little.

“Hah. You’re so funny.” She deadpanned. “I wonder why you never tried being a comedian.”

I snorted. “I did try, but my sense of humor was too much for them.”

“References to pop-culture and memes doesn’t count as stand-up, Fairy.” Dolph said with a roll of her eyes.

“And puns doesn’t count as real jokes, they’re just a word game.” I retorted.

“Let’s stop before this escalates, please?” Eclipse asked. “I’d rather not have to stop a fight today. I’m already sore.”

“You’re no fun.” Scarlett grumbled.

“Fairy!” I heard someone call behind me. I turned on my chair to look behind me and noticed Lobis running towards us. He stopped in front of us and smiled at me. “Glad I found you. I have something for you, but I need you to follow me.” He said and motioned to the side with his head. I raised an eyebrow but complied, standing up and following him as he walked off.

The other Guardians looked at each other before standing up and following behind us.

We walked through town for a few minutes towards the ‘something’ Lobis had for me. He said nothing at all during the walk, and I didn’t even try to ask. Once Lobis started keeping a secret, he’d bring it to the grave, unless he sees that another person needs to hear this secret too, but that’s once in a blue moon.

We finally stopped outside of a shop. It was a big shop with blue walls and a big vinyl disk on the front that held a sign saying ‘DJ-Pon3’s Music Emporium’. I blinked when I read it while Lobis wasted no time and entered the shop. The Guardians and I followed him, and the moment we stepped inside we looked around in awe.

The shop was big; it had almost every instrument I’ve even seen in stands on the walls as well as CDs and vinyl disks. Everyone scattered and looked around; inspecting the instruments or CDs they had there. I walked to Lobis, who was standing near the counter, chatting to a mare I swear I had seen before.

“Vinyl, this is Fairy. Fairy, this here is Vinyl Scratch; she was the DJ on our welcome party.” Lobis said.

Vinyl was a white unicorn with an electric blue spiked mane. She was wearing a white V-necked, short-sleeved shirt and black leggings; she also had magenta sunglasses.

Hey, I’m getting better on descriptions! Hooray, me!

My eyes widened in realization. “I remember you! We talked for a bit on the party.” I said and shook hands with the unicorn.

Vinyl grinned. “That’s right! You asked which beats I was going to play there.”

“And you didn’t let me down! The music there was awesome, shame I can’t dance at all. A Magikarp dances better than me.” I said with a chuckle.

“Well Fairy, the reason I brought you here is simple. I finally decided to try and fix your guitar.” Lobis said. He’s a Sound-wielder; he’s good at almost everything related to music, including fixing broken instruments.

My eyes widened. “Wow, I completely forgot about that! I asked you to fix it months ago.” I said.

He chuckled nervously. “Sorry about that. Anyway, it was completely destroyed. Fixing it would be more expensive than buying a new one.” He explained. “Most of the cords were broken, three pegs were missing, of the posts was cracked, and I’m sure I’m forgetting something. I honestly want to know how you managed to screw that thing up so badly.”

“Like I said, it was months ago. I have no idea how I managed that either.” I admitted with a sheepish grin.

“Luckily, your birthday is in two months, so I’ll another one for you now to apologize for taking so long to take a look on you instrument.” Lobis said with a grin.

I looked at Lobis with my jaw agape, and a grin slowly made its way to my face. “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” I gushed and hugged the disguised changeling, gaining a chuckle from him.

“Now, why don’t you look for one you like?” He suggested. I released him and nodded, walking to the guitar stands.

“Hey!” Vinyl called and walked to me. “Here we let the customers test the instruments to see if they like them or not.” She nodded to the guitars. “Go on!”

I nodded and looked the stand. One guitar on particular caught my eye and I walked up to it. I grabbed it and put the strap around my neck, holding it in position. “Huh, it’s been some time since I played.” I commented. The other Guardians walked up to me and formed a circle around me.

I held up the guitar’s plug; Vinyl grabbed it and connected to a nearby amplifier. Looks like she was serious about letting the customers test the equipment. I looked up, trying to remember some music to play when I heard the door open. “Vinyl?” A refined voice called.

“Octavia!” The unicorn called, waving her arms like she was inside a crowd.

Octavia was a grey earth pony mare with a long black mane and tail. She was wearing a black sheath dress with a pink bowtie on her neck.

Octavia rolled her eyes and walked to us. She looked at me and smiled. “Another customer? Shame it’s another who likes blaring noises.” She sighed, pointing at the electric guitar. Octavia turned to the unicorn. “Did the new CDs arrive?”

Vinyl smiled and nodded. “Yep. I reserved one for you; it’s on the back room.”

Octavia smiled gratefully and nodded in thanks before walking to the room where her CD was placed. I raised an eyebrow and followed Octavia with my eyes. “I have an idea. Lobis, can you use the Party Globe spell?”

Lobis groaned and pinched the bridge between his eyes. “I swear to Waver I’ll kill Bella for naming the spell that. Yes, what beat do you want?”

“You’ll know. It’s from your favorite game, after all.” I smirked and prepared to play.

“Got it!” We heard Octavia call and she stepped out of the room. “Thank you, Vinyl. I let my bits there.”

As Vinyl nodded, I started to play my song. The notes echoed through the store, the slow tones making a beautiful melody. On the fourth note, Lobis’ eyes widened and he activated his spell with a smirk. A sphere of purple sound waves formed between Lobis’ hands and soon it started pulsing, creating the sounds of a drum and a second guitar. Octavia paused as she stretched her hand to open the door and looked at us. Everyone smiled peacefully as the calm music sounded around us.

When the music slowed to a stop, the Guardians and Vinyl applauded Lobis and me. “Looks like you do know how to play.” Vinyl said with a smirk and a nod.

I smiled and looked to the earth pony that stared at us, my smile morphing into a smirk. “Not bad, huh?”

The mare blinked and blushed when she noticed what she was doing. “Y-Yes, not bad.” She said. “See you later, Vinyl.” She nodded and exited the store.

“She liked it.” Vinyl commented. “She just didn’t show it.”

“I know.” I said. “Well, thank you very much for letting me test the guitar, Vinyl. I’ll take it.”

Lobis nodded and fished for his pocket, grabbing an amount of bits to pay Vinyl as I strapped the guitar to my back. “Thank you for your service, and all that jazz. Come by someday to talk! And I want to learn this spell of yours, Lobis.” Vinyl grinned.

“I’ll be sure to visit someday; maybe I’ll bring my sister and my girlfriend too.” Lobis nodded with a smile. “They love music, and Bella can teach you the spell better than me; she’s its creator, after all.”

Vinyl nodded and we bid farewell as we stepped out of the store. “Thank you for buying it for me, Lobis.” I said.

“Don’t mention it. I messed up when I forgot to take a good look on your guitar.” He said. “Actually, if you want, I can teach you and Spike a spell someday.”

Spike and I both widened our eyes. “Really?!” We exclaimed together.

Lobis chuckled in amusement. “Sure, why not? But you’ll need to think about which spell you’ll want to learn, though.”

“Yeah!” My duo and I grinned and high-fived.

We started to talk about which spell we’d want to learn, and in my distracted state I didn’t notice the two figures observing us.

“Are you sure it’s them?” One of the figures asked.

“On my whole life, I only ever heard about two wingless griffonesses. Well, born without them, at least.” Its companion assured.

“Fair enough, but Fairy isn’t exactly a social girl.” The first pointed out.

“She said she already had a few friends in Equestria, remember? Maybe it’s them.” The second shrugged.

“If you say so. Let’s go?” The first conceded with a nod.

“Let’s see where are they going; I want to surprise those two.” The second said with a smirk.

“Alright.” The first rolled its eyes.