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Rivals in Equestria

by Blacktastic

Chapter 1

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Chapter 1

"Reckless mage!" the hulking behemoth of wood and plants shouted as he charged at his foe. He swung his massive deformed arm at his target connect a heavy blow to the metal plating that was giving shape to the being of raw magic

"I will show you true power!" the metal clad energy creature echoed as he launched a barrage of lightning at the charging treant who easily shrugged off the bolts thanks to his enchantments. The treant smashed his fist into the ground sending a pulse of energy at the energy being. The twisted creature relished in defeating this abomination to nature and went to try and finish what he started, but was stunned by a sudden prison of dark energy. The ground beneath him turned black as night and began to boil as a chain of dark energy connected itself to him. He turned to see a dark angelic figure channeling her magic into him, slowing his movements and tearing away at his life.

The fallen angel smirked, but she too was cut off in her victory as a bolt of holy energy slashed into her.

"There you are..." the fallen angel spoke as she clenched her wound. He gaze hardened on her closest rival.

"You're justice is a hand sister." The holy being spoke as she began to charge. The treant didn't waste any time and took his new bound freedom to continue his assault on the being of energy, who was likewise preparing his own attacks.

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Across the small field of the twisted forest where these beings fought two more opposites clashed sword against board. The warrior of the sun clashed her blade against the solider of night, depicting the ages old battle against the very elements they reflected.

"An ally has been slain" a female voice announced overhead, the warrior of night cursing her team's failures.

"Too bad for you heretic... it seems your comrades are not empowered by the night." the sun champion mocked, only to invoke the nights quick wrath. Despite her heavy armoring she found herself being whittled down to the last portions of her life under the relentless assault of her foes crescent blade.

"You surely recall what happened to the last souls he branded me a heretic?" the night warrior asked sarcastically before taking another empowered swing at her foe. The sun warriors stamina had not run out yet as she returned her assault

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The battle continued to wage on into the hour mark, both sides taking losses to their defenses and morale. The summoners who were puppeteers to the whole event were beginning to lose patients with their enemies and allies alike. The champions they controlled were not faring as well either. On one side of the Twisted Treeline a team marked by blue colors consisted of Diana, Scorn of the moon, Morgana the Fallen angel, and Xerath the Magus Ascendant. While the side marked by purple consisted of Leona the Radiant dawn, Kayle the Judicator, and Maokai the Twisted Treant.

On the side of blue the team had converged to talk tactics.

Diana began her explanation "I'll charge down the road while Xerath follows along the treeline and attacks them from afar, Morgana you shall engage them as they attempt to stop his bombardment and further more..." she stopped herself when she sensed her summoner open a surrender vote, she wanted desperately to cut the coward down, but must suffer in silence for she couldn't get the influence she so wanted if she committed such a crime.

"These mages are pitiful and do not deserve their power!" Xerath boomed.

"We must suffer in silence my ally, lest we invoke the wrath of the council..."

"Bah, I say if we gather together we can destroy this wretched league."

Another summoner had agreed to surrender, not wanting to prolong the match anymore.

"I wonder if our enemy is in the same situation." The fallen angel wondered aloud.

"I doubt it, they seem fairly full of themselves." Diana rationalized.

The final summoner had cast his vote agreeing to surrender.

"I suppose that's it then...hold on...the other team..."

'Your team has voted to surrender 3/3'

'The enemy team has voted to surrender 3/3'

"A double surrender?" Morgana asked

"What happens if both the nexuses explode at the same time?" Diana asked Xerath, hoping the mage of seemingly infinite power could answer.

"I...I believe we should move..." the ascendant being said nervously as he began to levitate away from the exploding nexus of power. His allies followed close behind him. Up ahead the saw their current foes doing the same task. As they neared they all heard the distinct charging of the nexus crystal beginning it's destruction sequence. The area around them began to crackle with bolts of energy.

"'The field, it's becoming unstable!.' they heard the female announcer proclaim.

"What do we do?" another voice from above asked.

"Get the champions out of there quickly!"

The summoners began to scramble to retrieve their precious champions before something befell them. As the champions began to feel the pull of their summoners on them a massive spike of energy disrupted the spell.

"Evacuate the spectators, there's nothing more we can do!" the voice above announced.

"You cannot leave us, we all have deals with you!" The annoyed treant announced, pointing his vine covered limb into the air accusingly.

The voice's response was disrupted by another bolt of energy, the area around them began to disintegrate rapidly. The champions all began to back away from the oncoming void, but had nowhere to move when they all bumped into each others backs.

They had nowhere to run as the wave of energy consumed them and they disappeared from the world

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"Woaooooo!" The energetic earth pony was vibrating erratically and violently in the confectionery shop she worked at. "It's the biiiiigest dooooozy eveeeeer..." she said her words vibrating as she did.

"Pinkie, the last big doozy was when dear Twilight just learned to accept your ability to sense the future." The fashionista said calmly.

"I dunno Rarity, we may wanna make sure nothing bad is going to happen." Twilight explained. Out of her periphial vision vision she spotted a large oncoming storm. "That's weird... There's not a storm scheduled for today." She turned to her two friends "Let's go ask Rainbow Dash."

"But what if my mane get's wet?" The alabaster unicorn whined. Twilight simply rolled her eyes and rushed out the bakery. Rarity humphed and followed, pulling a still jittering Pinkie Pie with her.

They trotted to the location of Rainbow Dash's favorite napping spot where they spotted the three remaining parts of their group.

"Rainbow what they hay is this storm about?" Applejack asked, clearly annoyed

"How the hay should I know?! I'm off duty today and it wasn't scheduled this week."

"I was gonna harvest the south field today!" The farm pony said angrily.

"My cottage hasn't been readied to take something this big..." The shy pegasus said

Rainbow was about to speak her rebutle when she saw her other friends fast approaching and saw Pinkie Pie bouncing erratically.

"Whatever's up, it's gonna be one heck of a doozy..." Rainbow Dash said.

"C'mon Grils we need to help Fluttershy ready her home before it get's blown off it's foundation." Twilight explained to all her friends, who all nodded as they rushed to their shy friend's cottage on the edge of the forest. They quickly got to work boarding up the windows while Twilight fortified her roof with magic. Fluttershy began to round up all her animals into her home. Soon enough the storm was upon them, thunder and lightning crashed loudly throughout the sky, the timid mare found solace in the fact her friends were there, but was terrified beyond belief.

All was going well until Rarity and Twilight clenched their heads in pain.

"Oh it feels like somepony is taking a jack hammer to my skull..." Twilight said

"Are you two okay?" Fluttershy asked, along with her other friends.

Before either of them could respond they noticed Pinkie pie was bouncing even worse than before. "Heereee it cooooomes!" The girls who weren't holding their heads in pain jumped for cover when a sudden burst of magic flowed out of both unicorn's horns. Twilight shot a purple burst of magic in the direction of the forest, the beam burned right through Fluttershy's walls. Rarity fared no batter as she launched a blue beam that went straight into town. Shortly after both unicorns blacked out and the storm began to let up...

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Maokai's ancient wood groaned as he attempted to stand upright. He stumbled clumsly to his feet as he gripped his head.

"Wh-what happened?" he asked, when he heard to other groans from around him.

"It feels like we were caught in one of Jaina's tornadoes...." The sun warrior groaned as she stumbled to her feet. The angelic Kayle got to her feet and tried to take flight, but a sharp pain shot through her wing and leg as she let out a cry.

"Kayle?!" Leona cried as she rushed over to her comrade.

"I'm fine Leona...just a broken wing...and leg" she said, but a realization dawned on her "But the match is over...our wounds should be healed..."

"I do not thin we are in a match anymore my companions...nor even Valoran" Maokai's ether voice chimed in "This land...I sense it is vastly different..."

"How so?" Leona asked

"The soil, it is not tainted with blood and magic...it is pure, untouched even..." he said

"Where ever we are...it must mean our foes are not far behind..." Kayle began

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In the center of Ponyville a crater had formed in the center of town. Ponies all curiously gathered around the smoldering hole. When a sudden crackle of energy frightened them as the slowly began to back away. An ethereal metal clad hand burst from the ground, shortly after the vague humanoid body of Xerath slowly rose up, all the ponies that were gathered ran off at the sight of the strange creature. Xerath looked around and spotted the familiar sight of the purple feathers of the fallen angel. He floated over and reached into the ground, when he had his grip on something he pulled upon it revealing the fallen angel who seemed to suffered severe damage to her body, and her clothes upon Xerath's energized touch. He carefully laid her down and continued his search for his other comrade, which was made easier by the bursting hand that grabbing his lower plate. He reached down and with all his might pulled the night warrior out of the ground. She was still conscious unlike their dark ally.

She coughed up some dirt and brushed herself off "What happened, where are we?"

"I cannot say, but the land is definitely different..." Xerath began

"What makes you say that?"

"The amount of magic in the air is different than that of our island home..."

"How's Morgana?" Diana asked plainly.

"Breathing to say the least...but what troubles me is her injuries."

"What of them?" Diana asked impatiently

"She still has them..."

A look of realization washed over Diana. "So we're definitely not on Valoran anymore..." she walked over to Morgana and pressed down on her chest to force her to cough up any dirt she still had in her lungs. After a few coughs she regained her consciousness slowly.

"Where are we?" she said with a wheeze.

"We're not on Valoran is all we know..."

"Hay, what're you folks doin' down there?" a feminine voice with an accent similar to a certain card shark in the league asked

Diana turned, slowly hoping this wasn't some weird land like theirs, but with reverse genders. She saw before her was a small orange horse wearing a cowboy hat, next to her was a pink horse with a frizzy hair style who was beaming the largest smile ever.

Morgana's senses slowly returned, but she only saw the lower half of the orange equian. "Is that Hecarim?"

"It's a talking horse..." Diana said flatly

"Right...Hecarim..." Morgana said. Diana rolled her eyes, apparently the usually deathly serious angel was slightly delusional.

"Our friend needs medical attention" Xerath finally said, starling the two ponies.

"We'll get ya'll sum don't you worry none...but uh...just who are you folks?"

"Now!" Diana commanded, slowly losing her patients.

Applejack turned on her hind legs and before she took off she turned to her companion. "Pinkie I want ya'll to keep an eye on 'em, I don't right trust em."

Pinkie giggled "Oki doki loki!" she said with a salute while Applejack ran off to find help.

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Rainbow dash was flying over the Everfree Forest, following the trail of destruction left by Twilight's energy blast.

'I hope their both okay...' She thought to herself 'At least Flutters is watching them.' As she was in her thought she thought she saw something moving down below. At first she thought it was the wind rustling the leaves, but then she looked closer through the thick canopy and saw a faint glowing coming from below the canopy of leaves. She slowly descended to investigate when what she saw confused the chromatic pony in every way. A tree was up and walking with a golden clad winged figure over his shoulder, and another figure walking next to him in equally golden armor.

"What they hay..." she said quietly. she turned to fly off when she saw a little acorn creature at her feet, crackling manically.

"What they hay!" she cried as it charged at her, she jumped out of it's way and it clamored into the bush, shortly there after the walking tree came into the light of day. It's eyes were bright yellow and it's teeth were jagged and broken. One arm was much larger than the other and had a face similar to his on it.

"What is that thing?" The wingless one of the obvious warriors asked

"Is it related to Hecarim?" Kayle asked

"Doubtful.." Maokai said as he leaned forward to investigate the chromatic mare, but he only succeeded in startling her.

She jumped back and took up a combat ready stance "Back off you twisted weirdo!

"Do you want to see twisted?!" He shouted at her, he looked ready to charge but was stopped by his comrade on the ground.

"Relax Maokai, we don't want to start anything with the locals if we can avoid it..." She turned to the mare. "Greetings, we're obviously not from around here...is there someplace we can go?"

The mare looked at them confused. "Uh yeah...follow me..." she said cautiously.

As they walked Kayle whispered to her comrades "I don't like this at all, who knows where we are, how we're going to get back home? And what if this is a trap?"

"If it's a trap do you think that anyone can take on three champions of the Leauge?" Leona said with a confident smirk.

"Two and a half..." Maokai corrected earning a displeased growl from Kayle.

"Regardless, most people couldn't even take on one." Leona rationalized.

"I only hope your right..." Kayle muttered

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After a slow walk the group arrived at a small cottage which had two large gaping holes in either side of it, the fact it was still standing was sheer luck from what it seemed.

Rainbow Dash turned to the champions "Wait here, the owner is kinda..."

"Aggressive?"

"Creepy?"

"Insane?"

"I was going to say shy and terrified of everything..." Rainbow said, taken back by all the negative assumptions

The champions looked at each other for a moment, confused by the change in personality of new beings they meet. "Was a creature named Nocturne here by chance?" Maokai asked

"Who?" the chromatic mare tilted her head

"Never mind..."

Rainbow Dash trotted inside only to find Applejack was running out with a first aid kit in her mouth.

"Yo AJ where's the fire?"

She dropped the kit and said, "Some weird folks are in the center a town and one of em's hurt." and picked up the kit again before dashing into town.

Applejack was running out of the cottage when she saw the trio of champions standing at the end of the trail she turned to Rainbow Dash with a skeptical look "Is that there tree alive?"

"I can here you, and yes I am!" He shouted eliciting and embarrassed blush from the farm pony.

She turned to the trio "Sorry partners, but there's a bunch a others waiting on me ta help."

The trio looked at one another for a moment before looking back at her.

Kayle began saying "Does one of them have purple skin and feathers and is wearing some revealing clothes?"

"And is one of them wearing dark blue and silver armor with a crescent blade and bleach white hair?" Leona asked

"And is there a creature of pure energy encased inside a broken looking sarcophagus with chains wrapped around his chest?" Maokai finished their trio of questions only to get a confused look from Applejack.

"I take it ya'll know these folks?"

They looked at each other and nodded "Take us to them..."

"They ya friends?" Applejack asked

"Yes," Leona said with a false smile

"Sort of," Kayle said more truthfully

"I hate them all..." Maokai muttered

"Come again partner?"

"It'll be great to see our companions again!" he said with false enthusiasm, which the farm pony believed.

"Then let's go!" she said leading the trio into town.

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A/N  I know some of you are probably thinking 'a league cross over, like that hasn't been done before'. While yes it's already been done I have yet to see one that pits the most hated enemies of the league together. The reason I put Maokai and Xerath in instead of someone else is because A) one hates  reckless mage and Xerath is the most reckless mage seeing as how he blew up his city to become an energy being. And B) I do what I want! (plus I like the two of them anyways)

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