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Guardians of the Aura

by Aguion12 - GotA

Chapter 8: Weapons Makes Everything Better

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It was the weekly breakfast/meeting on the Friendship Rainbow Castle – I know that’s not the real name, but I like calling it that – and Spike was making his pancakes for everyone. ‘Yeah, they sure love them. Every time they have breakfast here they ask for pancakes.’ He chuckled internally. The drake grabbed the plate that held the tower of pancakes with both arms and used his tail to hold the bottle of syrup; He cautiously walked towards the map room, where the girls were waiting for him.

“Finally!” Rainbow exclaimed when she saw Spike entering.

He chuckled. “Sorry girls, I kind of overslept in and couldn’t make the pancakes in time.” Spike said with a sheepish smile while putting the tower and the bottle on the table.

“It’s ok, Spike. We appreciate you for making our breakfast.” Twilight said and the others nodded. Rainbow grumbled under her plate but said nothing.

“Well what are you waiting for? Dig in!” He said while taking some of the breakfast for himself. Twilight, Starlight and Rarity grabbed theirs with their magic while the others used their forks to grab their food.

They ate in peace, some talk here, some jokes there, and a few minutes later Spike’s cellphone rang. He rolled his eyes and muttered about poor timing before looking at the screen to discover it was Soul. He rolled his eyes again and shot the girls an apologetic smile before answering. “The heck do you want, Blacky? I’m on the middle of breakfast.” He said with an annoyed tone.

“Sorry, just calling to remind you about Fairy’s ‘training’. We’re going there in a few minutes.” Soul replied through the phone.

Spike’s eyes widened. “Crap! I forgot about that!” He facepalmed. “When you’re going?”

“In about half an hour. Fairy should be up and about by now, so we’re going to her house call her. When the training is over we can have lunch at Sugarcube Corner or something.” Soul said.

Spike nodded. “Sounds like a plan. Should I bring something?”

“Your weapon and probably some bandages.” Soul chuckled.

“If I remember correctly, Dolph knows a healing spell, so I doubt we'll need bandages.” Spike chuckled too. “Shall I go to your house so we go together?”

“Yes, the others are coming here too. See ya.”

“See ya.” Spike ended the call.

“What was that about bandages and healing spells?” Twilight asked with a raised eyebrow. He noticed the others also were looking at him with curiosity.

“Fairy promised to train us when we could meet daily. She's calling for one now, to know our spells and how much she has to teach us.” Spike responded. “Soul said to bring bandages because he thinks we’ll get hurt. I doubt it's going to be that bad."

“When you're leaving?” Twilight asked again.

“I need to be at Soul's house with the other Guardians, and from there we’ll go to Fairy’s house.” He said before eating his last pancake.

“Mind if I tag along? Don’t have much to do, anyway. And I want to have a look at those spells of yours.” Rainbow said through a full mouth.

“Sure. What about you six?” Spike said, looking at the other girls.

“I’m sorry dear, but I have a few requests from some important clients and I need to make them right away.” Rarity said with an apologetic look.

“Ah’m mighty sorry, Spike, but Ah have tah work at the farm today.” Applejack said.

“Sorry Spike, but I need to take care of the animals at home. Angel would be angry if I went.” Fluttershy said, her ears going down.

“I think the Cakes can handle a few hours without me… Sure, I’ll go!” Pinkie said with a wide grin.

“Well, I want to get a look on those spells.” Twilight said, and then smiled. “Sure Spike.”

"I'll stay here. I want to finish a book I was reading yesterday." Starlight said.

Spike nodded and stood up. “I have to grab something before we go.” He walked out of the room and towards his bedroom. When he entered, he looked around, searching for his weapon. The room was surprisingly simple, compared to what others would expect. A door on the left side that led to a bathroom; a balcony on the other side of the room; a queen-sized bed a few feet to the left of the balcony's door, with a headstand on the other side; a stand with his console collection, with a green mat between it and the bed; and a few cushions scattered around. Near the stand was the computer desk with his favorite object in the whole castle, and a door to his closet on the other side. A flat-screen TV was placed above the console stand.

He walked towards the closet and opened it; moving his clothes to the side, he grabbed his weapon that was behind them. He looked at it and remembered how he got this beauty. Fairy had given him on his nineteenth anniversary, saying he could use as a decoration or fight with it. He had to hide it so Twilight wouldn’t throw it away saying it was too dangerous, but the drake trained with it regularly and was proud to say he can handle himself using it.

“Looks like I’m finally using you on an actual battle, huh?” He said, rubbing the sheath.

He strapped the sword to his back and walked to the main hall, where the others were already waiting for him. “Hurry up, Spike! You’re going to be late!” Pinkie shouted.

He chuckled and jumped over the whole staircase, somersaulting on the air, rolling to absorb the fall’s impact and stopping on one knee. He grabbed the hilt of his weapon and slowly got up, unsheathing his sword and presenting it to the girls, touching the tip of his blade on the floor. “Girls, meet one of my best friends,” He lifted his blade and slung it on his shoulder. “Hellish Greed.” He said with a smirk. Rainbow and Pinkie looked at it in awe and ran to his side while the others looked at the blade wide-eyed.

“How did you get it?” Rainbow said excitedly as she touched the blade.

“Fairy’s sent me to use as a decoration. It’s very real though.” He held Greed on front of him. “It was on the back of my closet, I’m surprised Twilight never found it and threw away.”

The blade was beautiful; the hilt was made of black metal that surged forwards, two emerald green blades sprouted from the side and a small serpentine dragon wrapped on the metal behind the blade. The words Infernales Cupiditas – draconian to Hellish Greed – were engraved on the blade near the hilt.

“So… Cool…” Rainbow and Pinkie muttered.

“Yes. And better yet, I had it for about four months; I know how to use it and never got hurt while training with it, so Twi doesn’t have any arguments to make me throw it away.” He finished by sticking his tongue in a childish manner at Twilight.

Twilight narrowed her eyes at him. “You should have shown me this sword earlier, and I wouldn’t have thrown it away without any good reasons.” She sighed. “But, since you can use it, I guess it’s okay. But be careful with it.” She said with a stern glare.

Spike smiled and nodded. “Thank you, Twilight, and I will.” He put the blade back on its place and hugged his sister before walking out of the castle. “Come on, I can’t wait to show this to the others.”

“So they didn’t know about it either?” Pinkie asked. “I thought you shared those things with them.”

Spike laughed. “Yeah, we share just about everything. Sometimes we share too much.” He shook his head, but his smile didn't leave. “They know I have a weapon, but the only one that knows what it is and what it looks like is Fairy, and only because she’s the one who gave me.”

“I don’t think she’s a good influence on you.” Twilight frowned.

“And neither do I.” He joked with a shrug. “That’s why I don’t let her influence me. Not that much. Anyways, we’re here; we’ll wait for the others before going to Fairy’s house.” He nodded towards the house they were walking closer to. Spike knocked on the door thrice and in a few moments Sapphyra opened the door. She smiled and nodded, a gesture which Spike returned, before stepping aside for the group to enter.


I stepped on front of the full body mirror Metta put on my bedroom today and looked at my attire. I had put on my black jacket that I dumped on my backpack before moving here and smiled. ‘I owe Niner one; I honestly thought this jacket was a lost cause, with all that blood on it.’ I thought. “Looking good, Fairy.” I giggled.

I stepped out of my room and down the staircase, entering the living room. I looked around and noticed Bella on her natural form fiddling with her pendant, a frown on her face. I also frowned, knowing exactly what was going on her head. “Hey Bella.” I leaned on the back of the couch, using my elbows to prop myself up.

She looked at me for a moment before returning her gaze to her pendant. “Hey, Fairy.” She said in a low tone.

I sighed. She’s a monster hunter; one day she went on a hunt that was a bit too dangerous, and even if she completed her hunt, but she beast tore her old collar. She tried to fix it, but it was beyond repair; we looked everywhere to try and find a new one, but we never found something similar to it. “Come on, Bella, we’re on a new town! Maybe they have a collar that looks like yours.” I offered.

“I don’t know, Fairy.” She said morosely.

“I’ll look around today, ok? If I find one I’ll buy it and give you; I think I have about thirty bits with me.” I said, snapping my talons and made the bag that held my bits appear on my left hand. I snapped my talons again and the bag teleported back to my bedroom.

Knowing it’s just a teleport makes it sound less cool.

I heard hoofsteps behind me and saw Scarlett, Dolph, Viper, Niner, Draco, Dranitta, Moonlight and Sunshine were entering the room. I raised my eyebrow. “We’re going too; since we have the same elements your friends have, we can help.” Niner said and the others nodded.

“Ok, makes sense.” I said before I heard someone knock at the door. I walked there to open it. “Hey guys.” I smiled and stepped aside so they could enter.

“So, which are the ways you’re going to break our bodies to pieces?” Eclipse said with a smile.

“I don’t do that, that’s Moonlight.” I heard Eclipse give a sigh of relief. Time to crush his happiness. “She’s going to help me train you and Soul, since you’re all Shadow-wielders.” I said with a smirk. His eyes widened in an almost unnatural way.

We both looked at Moonlight. She gave him a predatory smile, making the zebra gulp audibly and chuckled nervously. “Fuck…” He groaned.

“Yep. Soul is a dragon, so he's more resistant, but you’re pretty much fucked.” I concluded with a nod. I then looked at my friends and noticed the objects they were carrying. ‘Cosplay festival, yay!’ I thought when I saw their weapons.

Eclipse was carrying a grey Bo Staff with two ornamented ends that looked like lamp posts, one white and one black. ‘Underworld Wukong…’ I noted.

Sapphyra wasn’t carrying her weapon; the weapon was floating beside her. It was a glowing blue orb of true ice with six ornamented blades floating around it. The blades would make a snowflake if you put them together. ‘A mix between Winter Wonder Orianna and Frostblade Irelia…’

Soul’s was an ornamented black bow; those without experience who look at it would say it’s demonic or cursed, but it simply was an awesome-looking bow. ‘Basic Varus…’

Luna’s was a simple greatsword with a silver blade and blue guard and hilt, a crescent moon on the guard. I could see a few engravings on the blade. ‘No reference? I’m disappointed, Mirror. And Spike’s…’

I looked at Spike’s weapon of choice and my eyes widened when I recognized the blade. “Is that Greed?” I asked.

He grinned and unsheathed the blade, the dragon on it glimmering on the light. “Yup.”

“Ohh…” Dranitta said while Draco whistled in amazement.

“Wow, it’s even better than mine. I didn’t think that was possible.” Draco said, putting a hand forwards. “Dragonslayer!” He summoned his weapon, a blade much like Spike’s, but longer and a with a few different details; it had a black hilt and a long dark red blade – like wine – and was more ‘squary’, surging forwards and only curving at the end, making the tip. It had a two words in draconian on a metal on the side of the blade and in the blade itself – Draco Interfectorem – that were glowing in a red light.

“That looks like Crimson Elite Riven’s sword.” Pinkie blinked.

Draco grinned widely. “It is. My first blade broke on a battle a few years ago. I was a Riven main, so I asked for a customized one to be made. I thought about making the Dragon Blade, but Crimson Elite Blade is more my style.” He said, putting the blade on a sheath that appeared on his back.

“Pinkie Sense or Gamer Pinkie?” Scarlett asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Pinkie Sense, League of Legends isn’t my style.” The mare shrugged.

I sighed. “Shame.” I clapped my hands. “Well! Let’s go, we have little time to train before lunch.”

We stepped out of my house and walked to a place I thought it would be a good place to train.


We walked through the trees of White Tail Woods, towards an isolated clearing I studied on the map; it was big and perfect to train without being seen from the city. We were walking for about five minutes, but patience is something some doesn’t have.

“Ugh, are we there yet?” Rainbow said in an annoyed tone from the air.

“No, Rainbow, we’re going to a clearing just ahead, wait five more minutes and we’re there.” I groaned. Rainbow was being a pain in the ass since we entered the forest.

I noticed Sapphyra humming a tone and decided to make a small talk. “Which music is that, Sapph?” I asked.

She squeaked, clearly thinking no one else was hearing her humming. “Oh, sorry.” She blushed. “It’s just a rap I was listening early. It’s on my head since then.” She said.

“Which rap?” Rainbow asked, suddenly interested.

“It’s about a game; it’s the Epic Overwatch Rap.” She said and my eyes widened, some of my friends doing the same.

“Watch Over Me?” We asked together.

She blinked, and then remembered who she was talking to. “Yeah, should have known you'd heard it.” She rolled her eyes before taking her phone out. “Normally when I get a music stuck on my head, I hear it again and it stops.” She said, putting her earplugs on her earholes.

“Don’t use the plugs, I want to hear it too!” Dolph exclaimed with a wide smile; Overwatch was one of her favorite games, just like Minecraft and Undertale.

“Yeah! Come on, this one is good.” Eclipse said.

She looked around to see if we all wanted to. Everyone had a smile on their faces, even the ones that never heard that music, or about Overwatch for all that matters. “Ok, then.” She conceded before touching her cellphone’s screen and music started to play.

We nodded to the beat while the chorus played for the first time.

“Oh, watch over me,
While you choose who you’re going to be.
Oh, watch over me,
While you show the globe what you’re going to be.”

“Ha!” Spike started to sing along.
“You’re here for heroes with no distraction,
So don’t wait, hit quick play and get straight to the action.

It’s Bastion blasting baskets of bullets at factions;
The turret look’s back and in fashion.
Reinhardt’ll ride hard as a hammer on a stallion;
Chivalry’s alive, but he’s not asking if he can marry you.

Valiant as Pharah, gryphon jump jet;
Harrier;
Blasting a barrage with the power to sink galleons.
Zarya singing an aria, bringing a cannon and flinging a barrier;
Strong as a mountain, benching a thousand pounds,
So bound to be able to carry you.

No matter whatever you are, it’s rare that you’re really as hard
As a gorilla in a armor;
We’ll win in an instant when Winston’s bananas.
Wince and witness Zenyatta send out an orb;
Of harmony, destruction or discord!
Forged in the core of war, it’s Torbjörn;
Watch him erect a new form of dwarf porn.

Here’s a fun fact: Out on the outback Junkrat;
Tick tock boomed and kaboomed, like the kick in this drumtrack.
Then when you reckon the rap’s run amok,
I pull a Roadhog and drag you back with the hook!”

Everyone that knew the lyrics started to sing too.
“Oh, watch over me,
While you choose who you’re going to be.
Oh, watch over me,
While you show the globe what you’re going to be.”

I Jumped in. “Reaper sweeps through the ether while death blossoms,
Shadow step and spank leave you with a red bottom.
McCree’s peacekeeper seeks any head honcho;
Put a bullet through their head, like a head through a poncho.

“It’s high noon, better ride soon if we’re to reach Hoofrea;
GG Fever! See D.VA’s Mech wreak, wreck, then eject careers.
Irrespective what a reflection’s trajectory is;
Symmetra projects a technicolor retinal tears and tears.

If you’re feeling hurty, get a heal off Mercy;
The Hippocratic pacifist. A fit bird, literally!
We’ve heard music only makes existence richer,
Lucio throws the switch, tones and notes composing us a picture.

We’re all Soldier: 76, except we’ll never be ripped;
Equestrian kids getting to grips with intricate weapons as heavy as bricks.
Tracer’ll race in the place at a pace that’ll make you say you’re seeing stuff;
Blink and you’ll miss her blink, like the ping isn’t in sync.
Cheers, luv.”

“Oh, watch over me,
While you choose who you’re going to be.
Oh, watch over me,
While you show the globe what you’re going to be.”

Dranitta surprised us by singing the next part.
“Mei’s the weather woman, summon ice age and blizzards;
Wither as you shiver in the bitter river with a bit of
couldn’t give a whether you are triggered.
And Widowmaker would have made a wicked woman in a Winnebago;
Because her aim is homing in from far away wherever they go.

Hanzo! The man bow! Sammurai commando!
Dragonstrike arrows still life like a Pon Gogh!
From Ponyoto to Trotyo, bringing mojo to the dojo,
It’s Genji chucking a hurricane of shuriken encouraging a low pose."

Spike sang again. "You’re ducking, looking like a Quasimodo;
No joke, I’m a showboat that throws blows,
At so-so Joe blows when I no scope;
Dead as Dodos;
Oh no!
So watch over me,
And decide who you’re going to be.”

“Oh, watch over me,
While you choose who you’re going to be.
Oh, watch over me,
While you show the globe what you’re going to be.”

We let the music fade as we entered the clearing. “Huh, that was cool.” Rainbow said and Pinkie nodded enthusiastically, even Twilight looked like she enjoyed the music.

I laughed. “Yeah, Bull can make some damn good songs.” I looked around and smiled. “Looks like the song made the time pass faster, ‘cause we’re here.” They all looked around; actually surprised we had reached the place without noticing.

“So this is the place we’ll be training?” Eclipse said, running to the center of the clearing. It was really big, about half a mile of diameter, and with a really big rock near the tree line that looked really resistant.

“Yes, Aguion’s Map Glyph spell showed me this place. I wanted to check it out, and it looked like a good place to train.” I said, walking to the rock and knocking on it. “We’ll need to destroy this, though.” An idea came to mind. “Ok, first test, you’re going to take turns to try and destroy this rock.” I said, patting it.

They came closer and observed the rock. “Yup, I’m not going to make a scratch on this thing.” Spike concluded; Eclipse and Sapphyra nodded in agreement.

“I’ll destroy it to bits.” Luna said, punching her left hand. Soul turned and walked a few steps back, when he was at a good distance he turned to the rock and prepared his attack. Luna raised an eyebrow. “Fuck the saying, huh? ‘Ladies first’, and all that.”

He looked at her. “You’re going to destroy it, no doubts.” He looked at the rock again. “So let me try first before you end the game.” He pulled the string on his bow and shadows seeped out of his hand, forming an arrow. He closed one eye and charged the arrow even more; Niner Blaze noticed that and teleported us on a stream of fire. “Shadow Bomb Shot!” The arrow gave a dark glow – don’t ask, it’s magic – and he shot it at the rock. The arrow flew fast and exploded on contact, creating a black smoke cloud that covered the rock. When the smoke settled, we saw that a small hole was created on the rock.

Eclipse whistled. “Nice. I won’t do much, but let me try.” He walked to Soul’s spot and pointed his staff at the rock. “My strongest destructive attack... Ok! Dark Light Bomb!” A ball of mixed Light and Shadow magic appeared on the end of his staff, which rocketed forwards and impacted the rock, once again an explosion occurred and cloud was created, this time of dust. When the dust settled the only damage was that the hole widened a few inches. "Told ya." He sighed in disappointment.

The others all walked to the place Eclipse and Soul were, with Sapph, Spike and Luna getting ready to attack. Spike went first. “Dracon Sphere!” He created a ball of Dracon energy and sent it at the rock. It exploded, but did practically nothing other than making Spike groan in frustration.

“I don't have many destructive spells.” Sapphyra said before pointing a hand to the target. “Water Ball.” The air condensed around her hand and formed a sphere that was hurled at the rock, but it only widened the hole on the side and wet the target.

“Finally! Let’s see, so many options… Aha!” Luna said, putting her right hand on the sword that was sheathed on her left hip. “Don’t leave me hanging, Midnight Breeze, Crescent Slash!” She quickly unsheathed her sword – that now I knew the name was Midnight Breeze – and slashed the air like Yasuo would do with his Q, sending a crescent wave of lunar magic that impacted on the rock with a big explosion; when the resulting dust cloud settled, there wasn’t a rock anymore. “And that’s how you do it!” She concluded with a cocky smile.

“And I’m the showoff.” I chuckled. “Good job, Lu. Now that I know what you’re all capable of, I have to say something. All of you could have broken the rock.” They looked at me in confusion. “I was protecting it with an Arcane Shield spell, to see if you could break both the shield and the rock. That’s why Spike’s spell didn’t do anything; my shield absorbed the whole impact.”

“Isn’t that a bit unfair?” Twilight asked.

“My defensive spells are a bit weak; it was just to make the rock endure this whole thing. I had to deactivate the shield when Luna attacked, but it wouldn’t have done much.” I explained. “Spike’s spell would have at least cracked the thing.”

“So, who are we going to train?” Sunshine asked.

“Moonlight will train Eclipse, Soul, and maybe Luna, since you four are Shadow-wielders.” Moonlight nodded and summoned her weapon, a double-headed scythe called Last Night. It was black with a black staff and indigo blades.

“Sunshine will train Eclipse too, since he's also a Light-wielder.” Sunshine smiled and summoned her weapon, a white double-headed spear with sword-like blades, and a golden glow just on the decoration at the blade’s bases. Its name was Last Day.

“Niner, you’ll train Spike, he’s a Fire-wielder too. But since you can also wield Light and Shadows, you can help Eclipse with his mixed attacks and test Luna’s sword fighting.” Niner said nothing and summoned her weapon, a greatsword with black hilt and guard, and an orange blade that looked like it was made of crystals. Its name was Hell Fire.

“Draco, you’ll train Spike with both his Dracon-wielding and sword fighting. You’ll help Sapphyra and Soul with their Dracon spells too.” Draco smirked and once again summoned Dragonslayer.

“Dranitta, you can help the dragons with their Dracon-wielding, but helping Sapphyra with her Ice-wielding is more important.” Dranitta nodded and energized her weapons. Her bracelets glowed and expanded, creating two claw-like blue gauntlets, named Snowfall.

“Dolph can help Sapph with her Water-wielding too.” Dolph nodded enthusiastically and summoned her weapon; a silver trident that had the spikes aligned in a claw shape, and a few weird runes on it. It was named High Tide.

“We should try to find what their passives are first, though.” I said, summoning Soul Ripper while Scar summoned Bloodlust. Those who never saw our weapons looked at them in awe, while Viper summoned hers. It was two needlers – pistols that shoots needles – that had a purple scale texture. The dual gun's name was Acid Sting.

I pulled my phone out. “Ok, we have a bit over an hour to train. Let’s find out what your passives are.” I concluded, putting the phone back on my jeans’ pocket.

Author's Notes:

Here it is!

Sorry for putting that music, it's on my head for about three days already, I thought that hearing it again and writing the lyrics would help me.

I didn't work.

Anyways! I won't do that again, don't worry. And holy crap, we already have a shit-ton of weapons here, huh? If you want to know what they look like, those are pictures that inspired the weapons:

Fairy's Soul Ripper: link
Scarlett's Bloodlust: link
Spike's Hellish Greed (a bit different): link
Draco's Dragonslayer: link
Dranitta's Snowfall: link
Sunshine's Last Day: link
Moonlight's Last Night: link
Niner Blaze's Hell Fire: zelda
Dolph's Trident: link
Viper's Acid Sting: link
Luna's Midnight Breeze: link

And the ones that didn't have the name mentioned:

Soul's Underworld: link
Eclipse's Yin-Yang: link
Sapphyra's Radiant Aurora (again, a bit different): link

I'll show the rest when they're mentioned.

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