Remorel had some time to think before his last match between the dragons. Trying to understand 'embarrassment', which he seems to...sorta understand.

But after a while, it hurt to think with his face all scratched up. His healing was taking longer than he thought, and it was starting to annoy him.

He made his foot bounce up and down to occupy himself while he waits for the last round call. But he felt that something was off. He keeps hearing a voice in his head saying "The tide has turned into rain..."

He knows that voice, but it was to distorted to make it out.

...

Whatever, he needed to concentrate. He had the dragons to tend to. And he was getting more pissed as the voice in his head wasn't shutting up.

He got up from the bench, looked at the clock, and waited for the gates to open.

'Last round, I hope this ends quickly. I need to talk to Celestia about something...'

The gates opened and Remorel just walked out. Not in the mood for impressing anybody at this point, just wanting to end it.

The dragons seemed miss-mashed. There were some small ones mixed with two who reached the top of the stadium.

'How? There to big for the do- know what? I don't care at this point. Ponies have the capability to use magic, they must have used some to get the dragons in here.'

Remorel looked at the dragons, who then looked at him.

They started laughing uncontrollably.

Remorel just waited for them to finish.

A dragon approached Remorel, eyes full of tears from laughing to hard.

"Y-your who were supposed to fight!?" The dragon asked.

"Yes." Remorel answered in monotone.

"Did you not see what happened to the others? What makes you think you can beat me?"

The dragon smiled. "A little to confident eh? We're going to have so much fun...AREN'T WE BOYS!?"

The other dragons cheered and shouted...all except one.

"And gal? Eh? What about you Ruby?"

This dragon seemed to be the only female in the bunch, yet she seemed to be less than interested to even be here. More like she's uncomfortable.

When she spoke, she sounded more like she was sad or unmotivated.

"Yeah....sure Blackfire."

Blackfire, now that he learned, seemed dissatisfied with the answer. Actually more irritated. But brushed it off regardless.

"Whatever. BOYS! Let's show this 'Warrior of Bone' how we dragons do it!"

'"Warrior of Bone"? Oh great, not here for a week and I already have a nickname.' Remorel inwardly thought.

All the dragons charged, without Ruby, which caught Remorel off guard.

When they were in close proximity, they opened their mouths and released a blinding wall of flame.

The force behind the burst sent Remorel to the ground, making his sword as his leverage from falling over.

As the sword penetrated the ground, a burst of energy was released and caused a slight earthquake-like shake.

Remorel regained his stance and hilted his sword, bringing it above his head and crashing it into the ground, making sharp stones from the ground fly into the air, causing some of the dragons to land on the ground with force.

Remorel wasted no time and seized the opportunity to strike some of the dragons while they were down. He opened his hand and made some dark magic appear.

Remorel flung his hand outward toward the downed dragons.

The magic bullets exploded on contact with a loud bang.

Several shouts later and blind firing from the dragons, and after the smoke cleared, only a few dragons remained. The rest either sat against the wall or just laid on the ground, exhausted.

Blackfire stared at Remorel, with a look of fury in his eyes, roared and flew furiously at Remorel.

Remorel, again, wasn't ready for the rush. He tried to bring up his sword to block, but was just seconds too late as Blackfire smashed into Remorel.

Remorel impacted the ground making a crater in the arena, and causing a large cloud of dust to form around him.

Blackfire smiled triumphantly, while Ruby actually looked more worried but didn't let it show to Blackfire.

But...in the dust, a silhouette manifested itself from the cloud.

Remorel stood, sword drawn and looking very pissed.

Blackfire stopped smiling, and stared at Remorel.

The first thing he noticed was his eyes, an orange glow with a slight tinge of red.

Ruby was frightened, she didn't know what he was capable of. And she knew not to come.

But Blackfire on the other hand, was stubborn. He thought the other races were just weak, but now he was looking more concerned.

Remorel made more magic in his hand, except it was crimson red and left a heavy metallic scent in the air.

When Remorel released the magic, a fury of large bomb-like projectiles incinerated the ground and making a large wall of flame around Blackfire, making him unable to move or fly.

Remorel slowly walked to Blackfire, each step causing said dragon to rethink his decision of angering Remorel.

When Remorel was at the feet of the dragon, he closed his fist, making the vortex of flaming magic freeze in time.

"Surrender....or you'll feel pain worse than hell itself....." Remorel said coldly, and harshly.

Blackfire gulped, but stood his ground, still determined to make a final stand.

"Your choice..." Remorel then snapped his bony fingers and the vortex enclosed around Blackfire, making him scream in pain.

Then the vortex exploded, dropping the now unconscious dragon to the ground.

Ruby stood there, awestricken at the display Remorel showed.

Remorel then walked to Ruby.

Ruby noticed his eyes were now back to their white coloration, and the smell of metallic magic gone.

When he was about five feet away, Remorel stopped and looked as if he was waiting for something.

Ruby didn't know what to do, she was scared and terrified at Remorel, but wanted to let her friends think she was brave. Could she really beat this guy?

When Ruby didn't do anything, Remorel got closer.

Ruby trembled, his height clearly outmatching her.

Remorel was now a foot away, making Ruby close her eyes and crouch.

"I SURRENDER! PLEASE! DON'T HURT ME!"

...

'Huh?'

Ruby opened her eyes.

Remorel had a hand stretched out, like he wanted to shake hers.

Ruby couldn't believe it, was he actually letting her go?

They meet eyes.

Ruby looked into the white abyss of his eyes, seen so much and done so many things...he looked tired.

She could've sworn she saw something in those eyes, but couldn't put a claw on it.

"Are you ok?" Remorel spoke.

Ruby jumped, he was asking if she was ok?

"Uh...yeah. Yeah I'm fine." She responded.

"Why are you sparing me?"

"I can see your unwillingness to fight, I assumed you didn't want to be here in the first place, correct?" Remorel said.

'He knew?' She thought.

"Y-yeah...I....was a little out of it is all. Just didn't want to hurt you that's all!" Ruby said with some sweat on her head.

Remorel chuckled.

"Oh I'm sure, but seriously, are we going to fight or are we done?"

Ruby thought for a bit, then decided it was best to call it off.

"Yeah, I think it's best to call it off. I'm getting tired anyway."

As soon as she said that, Remorel rose his fist into the air. The crowed cheered, with some boo's mixed in.

"And the winner for the arena, Remorel!" Luna shouted.

Ruby looked at Remorel, his tall stature making her more...comfortable....no, safe.

'Safe? Why do I feel safe? I'm a dragon come on Ruby!' She scolded herself.

When Remorel was done, he looked at Ruby.

"We should hang out later, talk some more if you don't mind."

That caught her off guard. 'He wants to hang out? Well, it's not like I got anywhere else to go anyway...'

"Sure, I'll be around the gardens, if you want to hang just meet me there."

Remorel nodded, then turned and walked off.

Ruby looked around her, the guys were still knocked out.

'Ugh, after this I'm going to Canterlot Massage or something...'

And so she started dragging her friends from the arena one by one.

---Three hours later---

Remorel sat in his room, not bothering to go out yet.

He was pretty sure the city wanted to see him, but he had other plans.

He asked Luna and Celestia to give him some time to rest, since he used a small amount of blood magic to take out Blackfire...

'Jeez...I need to stop using that magic..' Remorel thought.

The chair he was sitting in was a bit small, but with a little help from magic, he made it to where he was able to fit.

It didn't help with the weight capacity though, and every move he made, the chair squeaked.

'The tide has turned to rain Remorel....'

The voice from earlier came back into his thoughts.

He knew the voice, but where has he heard it before?

Remorel decided it was best to get some rest, after today he's going to need it. Because tomorrow is going to be even more interesting.

'Ponies, Griffons, Dragons, Deities, what next? A three headed horse?'

And out the window a three headed bird appeared.

...well, guess that's close enough.

After that, he laid in bed until exhaustion took over, and went to rest.

Author's Notes:

Sorry I have been gone for so long, I had a major family crisis happen and devastated my whole family. So sorry for the overdue update, things are looking up though so I should be able to get back on my regular schedule.