Chapter 25: Royal Guard Training, Part 3
The next morning, I woke up at my normal time after going to bed just after midnight is seems. I headed just outside the barracks I was in. Not knowing what Shining Armor has planned. I worked on my stretch positions, balances, and strength endurance movement. I wobbled a little bit on the balancing positions as I have never done it at this weight level. As I was in a middle of one of them, I saw Shining Armor walking up.
“Good Morning Shining Armor.” I said.
“Blaze, what are you doing up already? I thought you needed to meditate to help heal those injuries.” Shining Armor said.
“I did last night for a couple hours and then went to sleep. I am normally up at this hour every day. Can’t explain it.”
“Ok, then explain what are you doing in that strange position?”
“This? I have been falling behind on my morning routine I normally do since I been here. I decided to do it this morning when I woke up before you came to get us up. What I am doing now is training my muscles on keeping myself balanced in different ways so I am in better control of my movements.”
“I have never seen a pony go through something like this. Might also explain why it was so difficult to defeat you yesterday.”
“Plus the fact I am wearing weight enhancement clothes equalling 375lbs.”
“And You Are Still Able To Do That!”
“Shhh. Keep your voice down. There are ponies sleeping.”
“Not anymore. TIME TO WAKE UP! GET CLEANED UP AND HEAD TO THE MESS HALL FOR BREAKFAST! YOU HAVE 30 MINUTES!” Shining Armor shouted to the barracks.
I could hear them stumbling around. I left and made my way to the mess hall. After I got my food and sat down, the others came rushing in. They looked startled to see me there, already eating. They grabbed theirs and joined me at the table.
“Blaze, what time did you get up this morning?” Colorful Spark asked.
“Before dawn. My body wakes me up around that time ever since I got here. The only time it didn’t is when I was in the hospital.” I replied.
“Which time?”
“The second one after going up against a tornado.”
“YOU WENT AGAINST A TORNADO!” The others shouted.
“The storm was out of control and a heard he sound of a tornado over the EverFree Forest. I was beaten and banged by debris and lightning was hitting my sword.”
“Why did you bring a sword? That will always draw lightning to you.” Lightning Trails said.
“I used my sword with a jutsu combo to break apart the tornado. Then my ki wave to disperse the clouds, the same wave I used to take down Shining Armor’s barrier. I will tell you more about it tonight. Let’s finish breakfast before we are late.”
We quickly finished breakfast and arrived at the field with a minute left. Shining Armor teleported in front of us like usual as we stood at attention.
“Alright recruits, here is the agenda for today, you are to do 1 hour of track and then 2 hours of obstacle course. After that, meet me in the sparring ring.” Shining Armor said and then disappeared.
We began to run together as we all had close to the same times now. I increased the enchanted weight total to 385lbs. I still need to increase it, but not as much as Shining Armor have me do. We were 30 minutes into the run when something I did not expect to happen. I was teleported not by me to another location.
When I appeared at the next location, I was still running at full speed. I looked in front of me and see I was about to run into Princess Celestia. I acted quickly and kicked my fore hoofs off the steps leading up to her. I backed flipped in the air and landed back down on the floor on all hooves.
“Nice reaction timing Blaze.” Princess Celestia said.
“Thank you. If you could please warn me before you do that again. I would hate if I was running faster and collide into you.” I said as I was catching my breath.
“My apologies but this is urgent and I wanted to ask you what you know about this?” She said as she pointed out the window.
I walked over and looked outside and I could see black smoke high in the sky. Oh, the episode with the dragon. Nothing to worry about.
“I see the black smoke. Where is it coming from?” I asked acting clueless.
“I was wondering if this was in one of those events that you watched?”
“I thought we agreed that future knowledge will be kept with me and I will determine IF and WHEN I will inform you.”
“I know. Just last time we had such big smoke over the sky, there was a major forest fire several centuries ago. I just wanted to know if it was again.”
“Fine, I will inform you. THIS ONE TIME. I do recall seeing this in an episode from the show on my world. It was not caused by a forest fire.”
“Whew, that is a relief. A little bit. So what could cause this much smoke then?”
“A sleeping dragon in a cave on that mountain.” I said as I pointed to it.
“A DRAGON! I need get the guards to go and get rid of it! It will sleep for a hundred years and we cannot handle all that darkness during that time.” Princess Celestia said in a panic state.
“HOLD IT! You do not need the guards. I should not even tell you this. You had Twilight Sparkle and her friends go to reason with the dragon to convince him that he cannot sleep there.”
“Thank you Blaze for letting me know. I should have not overreacted to it. Just knowing you know what the future entails having me all wondering if I am doing everything correctly.”
“Celestia, you do not need to worry about this. What I know will probably have changed since my arrival. The future is always changing and it is based upon what we choose to do at the moment to set it. Go with what your knowledge and experience tells you and let me deal with anything bad I feel I need to step in to stop.”
“You know, you are very wise Blaze. I am happy to call you a friend.”
“Thank you Celestia for accepting me as a friend. Also I am not wise, I just watched too much TV. Bye.”
I quickly started to jog away and teleported back to the track. I reappeared where I was and almost collided with Cancer and Dragon. I jumped over them and came to a stop.
“Why were you in my lane!” I shouted.
“Blaze, you disappeared. You have been gone for 15 minutes.” Star Dust said.
“No I didn’t. I have been running with you this whole time. We have jogged for 30 minutes. Suddenly there was a flash and then I see Cancer and Dragon standing in my lane.”
“Blaze you were really gone for 15 minutes.” Colorful Spark said.
“Enough joking around. We need to finish running the half hour before Shining Armor sees us standing around.”
“Blaze, we have 15 minutes left.” Lightning Trails said as he pointed to a clock tower.
“Stop pulling my leg with this joke. It is not funny anymore. Admit you flew up there Lightning and moved the minute hand.” I said acting like I was getting annoyed now.
“This is no joke Blaze.” Fang said.
“Well, not worth discussing it anymore. Let’s get back to running.”
I started to run and the others soon followed. When the time was up, we headed over to the obstacle course. As I was going through it, Cancer came up to me.
“Blaze, what do you make out of those dark clouds? We are not suppose to get any rain today.” Cancer said.
Come on! Need to think of something so they don’t panic. What can I do? Thinking it over, while I look at the clouds, I came up with my answer. “I am not quite sure, But a fog bank is rolling in to.” I said. I did my jutsu in silent and began to have fog cover the training grounds.
“Now there is a fog bank rolling in? What is up with this weather?”
“Maybe it is part of the training. Let’s get back to the obstacle course.”
Cancer nodded and we went back to it. The fog did make it a little tougher as we could not see the same distance we are used to. I would say we can only see 15 feet in front of us. We slowed down a little bit to make sure we don’t make a mistake and fall somewhere. We finished those 2 hours and headed over to the sparring area.
Shining Armor was waiting for us as we walked out of the fog bank. He looked at me and I could tell he wanted a word with me later. We got in a line and stood at attention, waiting for the next orders. We did not have to wait long.
“Alright, for the next hour, you are going to spar again with no abilities. When I call your name’s in sets, head over to a ring and begin. Fang, you will spar with, . . . Colorful Spark.” Shining Armor said.
I heard a sigh of relief come from Lightning Trails. Wondering who you are going to pair with?
“Star Dust, you are going to spar with Cancer this time. Dragon, you will have Swift Blaze to spar with. Lastly, Lightning Trails, you are going to spar against me. I expect to see a better performance from you today compared to yesterday.”
We separated out in the pairs and headed to a ring. I began to think of what type of fighting style Dragon was going to use. Hmm, did not get a good look yesterday when he was up against Star Dust. I think I will start on defense till I can figure out his movements.
“I hope you don’t plan on going too easy on me Blaze. I want to see how I compare to the pony that went hoof to hoof with my big sis and ended up in a draw.” Dragon said.
“I wasn’t planning to. Prepare for the PAIN!” I said.
I went for a defensive martial art stance and I see Dragon went for a boxing stance. Interesting. Never did that against me. Let’s see how this goes. Dragon went on the offensive and started to throw hoof jabs at me. I blocked them, but I could feel they had some power in them. I swapped up and went on the offensive. I threw several different hits at him from different directions and he was able to dodge or block them. We kept going at this back and forth on who is doing the attacking. We both managed to land some hits.
The guard watching our match called out 5 minutes left. Already? Guess we need to finish this up. I moved to full offensive and began to throw random hoofs and kicks to throw him off. Dragon was getting close to the edge. I switch to grapple move to toss him out of the ring from behind me. I grabbed him and pulled him towards me. As I rolled onto my back, I used my hind legs to launch him out of the ring. The next thing caught me by surprise, he grabbed me and reversed what I was going to do to him. Now I am the one about to be tossed out. Think! Think! Think! Ah! As I am somersaulting forward, I arched myself backwards quickly and changed my momentum. I landed behind Dragon and quickly gave him a kick that sent him just outside the ring.
“Nice reversal there Dragon. You almost had me.” I said as I was catching my breath.
“You surprised me when you recovered in mid air. I really thought I had you.” Dragon said as he wiped the dust off him.
“You have some powerful hoof punches. I think you bruised several of my ribs. Maybe even fractured one of them.”
“That happens when you get into fights with your twin about almost anything.”
“Nice job recruits. Go and get some lunch and any medical attention you might need. After 1 hour lunch period. Back to the ring with the same pairs. This time though, abilities can be used.” Shining Armor said and then teleported away.
We all cheered and moaned at different intervals. We were happy that we can use them, then realize who we were up against. We went to the mess hall and grabbed lunch. As we were eating we went around and told how the matches went. Dragon and I went first and told what happened. Up next was Star Dust and Cancer. It was pretty much the same match up yesterday. Dragon won yesterday now that I find out the results. This time Star Dust won.
“HA! I beat a pony that beat you!” Dragon gloated.
“We shall see what the results are for this afternoon.” Cancer said giving his brother an angry glare.
Fang and Colorful Spark’s match ended in a draw. Fang could no get a hit in as Colorful Spark was able to dodge them all. Guess dealing with bullies got him good at that. Fang was not happy having another draw on her record. Last was Lightning Trails up against Shining Armor. He began to tell how he dodges Shining’s attacks and managed to get a few hits on him.
"That is not how I remember it." A pony said from behind us.
We turned around and saw Shining Armor standing there. Oh this is going to be good.
"So what happened then Shining Armor?" I asked.
"Being a Captain of the Royal Guard, I decided to go easy on Lightning Trails as he did not have much experience in fighting, like you Blaze. So I tested out his moves by throwing slow hoofs at him. He was able to dodge them, so I picked up the speed until he couldn't. I then tested what strength he has so I let him get a few punches in. They were about average. 10 minutes later I was getting bored, so I finished the match by giving him a hard kick to get him out of the ring." Shining Armor said.
"You were going easy on me?" Lightning Trails asked.
"Yes. If I did full power, you would not have lasted 30 seconds."
The others and I began to laugh. Lightning Trails was getting mad with us laughing. He got up and walked to the door. Before he left, he turned his head to us and said, "We shall see how you fair when I can use my lightning!" He then stormed off.
"Should we be afraid of a lightning energized pony?" I asked.
The others raised their hoofs up like they did not know. We have actually never seen the others ability yet. They have seen some of mine from different times and a little bit of Colorful Spark's illusion ability. Can't wait to see what they can do in a fight. We finished lunch quickly. Colorful Spark used his magic to heal Fang, Cancer, Star Dust. I used my jutsu to heal Colorful Spark, Dragon, and myself.
We returned to see Lighing Trails waiting in the ring. I walked up to him and said, "Hey Lightning, sorry for laughing at ya. We would just in the mood. How about I heal you before you go against Shining Armor to make it up?"
He nodded and did a quick blow of air out of his nose. Anger is going to cause trouble in his match. Better keep aware of my surrounding this time around. I healed him and he thanked me.
We all returned to the rings we fought in previously to face the same opponents. Dragon looked happy that he can show off his ability. Oh we are going to the next level of pain today.
"Dragon before we start. I would like to make you an offer, I will only use one element jutsu if you allow me to disable the weight enhancement on my clothes.” I said.
“Whichever way, you are at a disadvantage. I will allow you to do that.” Dragon said.
“Thank you. Return clothing weight to normal levels.”
“Before you all begin, there is going to a slight difference. For everypony’s safety, a barrier will be activated along the ring. So the only way to win the match is submission or knockout. Out of the ring will no longer work.” Shining Armor said.
He activated his magic and magic barriers began to rise up around each pair’s sparring ring. It rose high up into the air so Pegasus won’t be grounded if they wanted to fly. Dragon and I looked at each other, trying to figure out what the other is planning before the match begins. Hmm, because he can slow down time around him, he will appear to be going fast. I think I will go with earth element style. We stood in our battle stance, waiting for the command to begin the fight.
A guard walked up to each ring and stood there to observe. Each one looked at the two ponies in the ring in front of them. At the same time, they said, "BEGIN!"
--------3rd POV----------
(Going to do each match one at a time as they are all happening at the same time)
(Swift Blaze vs. Dragon)
Swift Blaze activates a jutsu that appears to have grown stone like armor around his body. It was black as night and shiny. There were several sharp points around his hooves. Once it was done, he returned to a battle stance
Dragon was trying to figure out which mineral it was. He activated his magic and said, "Clock down!" The space in the ring began to slow down. Outside of it, it would appear the object's effected would be moving slow. Dragon then charged at Blaze.
Blaze saw the charge coming and was able to move out of the way to dodge it. As Dragon was passing by, Blaze jammed one hoof with the spikes into the side of him. They did not break the skin, but left a good scratch along the body.
Dragon yelped in pain and said, "How in Eqestria are you still moving? Time in this ring has slowed down to nothing."
"You allowed me to release the weight that kept me slow. All 385lbs of it. This was the speed I was going when I faced Shining Armor." Blaze said.
"But that armor should have slowed you down a bit too. What is it made of?"
"Something I am testing out to see how practical it is. I made a thin layer of black diamond armor. Light, but very strong in theory."
Dragon dropped his mouth open as he never heard the idea of diamond armor. He shook his head to regain focus and began to think another way to attack Blaze. An idea came an he new it was going to be a long shot if it worked. Dragon went on the defensive and signaled Blaze to come at him. Swift Blaze oblige and went on the charge. Dragon stepped out of the way and deactivated his magic.
Blaze was caught off guard as he was going full speed in slow down time. Back in normal time, he could not stop fast enough and collided with the barrier. He bounced off and continue to bounce around the ring's barrier, like a pinball off bumpers. Dragon was laughing hard as he stayed low to the ground, avoiding getting hit by the bouncing Swift Blaze.
Even with the armor, Blaze was getting a beating by the barrier. He had to do something quickly to stop himself. He shouted, "Earth Style! Stone Wall Jutsu!" A wall rose up the length of the ring in the middle of it. When Blaze made contact with the stone wall, it did stop him. He made a decent impression in it as he fell out.
Dragon was laughing harder now. He was rolling on his back with eyes closed and tears coming out. He failed to notice Swift Blaze was struggling to get back up. Blaze said quietly, "Oh, you think that was funny? Then what do you think about this?" He switches to a louder voice and said, "Earth Style! Hackysack Toss Jutsu!" The ground underneath Dragon rose up quickly and sent him into the air. Just as Dragon was about to hit the ground, Swift Blaze stopped his hoof and the ground underneath Dragon rose up again, sending him back into the air. Blaze repeated this for a few minutes and then let Dragon land back on the ground.
Dragon now feels just as bad as Blaze from running into the barrier so many times. He struggled to get back up the same amount of Blaze did. They both knew this had to end soon.
"How about no more abilities and we finish this with our hoofs?" Dragon said while breathing hard.
“I agree.” Blaze said, also out of breath.
Blaze removed his armor jutsu. They both stared at each other, wondering who will get knocked out first. The tension in the air was tense. They were both back to how they were this morning. All of a sudden, they both charged each other and began to throw hoofs and kicks. Neither of them was blocking as they were too tired. They were getting bruised up badly as neither of them wanted to give up.
Blaze was the first to change tactics. He spun around and gave Dragon a hard applebuck to the chest. Dragon flew back and hit the barrier. He then fell onto the floor. He did not move, but Blaze could see he was still breathing. The barrier came down and the guard declared Swift Blaze he winner.
Blaze went to Dragon and begun to heal him. Soon Dragon regains consciousness.
"What happened?" Dragon said as he was about to get up.
"Don't move. I am healing your injuries. I gave you an applebuck to the chest that knocked you out." Blaze said.
Dragon laid back down to allow Blaze to heal him. "You are an amazing fighter. Wonder what the outcome would have been if I did not allow you to take off that weight enhancement?"
"You would be faster, that would be for sure. The downside is you would have to deal with all the elements I can use."
"Yea, that one element was tough enough. I definitely don't want to tangle with you in a real fight."
Blaze continued to heal Dragon with his jutsu. He knows he can heal himself later.
(Colorful Spark vs. Fang)
Colorful Spark went first as he activated his magic. Several of him now appear around the ring. They began to run in a random pattern to mix up where the real one is. Fang stood in the center, waiting for the right moment. The Colorful Sparks' stopped running and stood at four positions, equally spaced.
"Alright Fang, can you tell which one is the real one?" They all said at the same time.
"I am impressed. You even managed to have the illusions cast a shadow too. Luckily this will be easy." Fang said.
She had a blade come out the side of her right fore hoof. She charged the one in front and did a slash attack. The Colorful Spark was an illusion and disappeared. Fang was then hit on the flank from behind. She spun around and saw the other Colorful Sparks were still standing where they were. They began to spread out again evenly at the edge of the barrier.
"You got one of my illusions and not have found me yet. Which one am I?" The Colorful Sparks said again.
"This is going to be fun. I never had this much fun on one of my missions." Fang said as she looked at each one to see if there was something different.
Fang looked carefully to see if anything was not the same. As she was looking, she got hit again. This time it felt like a kick and it hit her ribs. Fang spun around quickly, hoping to cut the real Colorful Spark. She felt her blade hit something. When she finished spinning, Fang looked to see who got it. She was even more surprised as they all had a cut on the left fore hoof in the same spot.
"Did you really think that it would be that easy?" The Colorful Sparks said.
"You know, for a second there, yea. I did think that." Fang said.
"Silly Zebra. Tricks are . . ." The Colorful Sparks began to say
" . . . for fillies and colts." Fang finished what they were about to say.
The three Colorful Sparks began to walk in a circle around the Zebra. They picked up speed as they did so. Fang stood in a defensive stance as she pulled the blade back into her. Fang felt a hit on her right side. In quick reaction, she had her blade popped out where she was hit. Another mark showed up on the Colorful Sparks.
Fang realizes she needs to go on the offensive instead of waiting for the real one to reveal himself. She charged at one and took another illusion out. The other two again spaced out so they were the opposite position of each other. Fang returned to the center of the circle. She waited to see what Colorful Spark will do this time.
"You have found another illusion. Congratulations. Guess I should get a little more serious." The Colorful Sparks said. They stuck out their right fore hoof and a metal blade appeared attached to the hoof by a mechanism.
"Really? Another illusion? That fake blade does not scare me." Fang said as she chuckled a bit.
"Not every illusion is smoke and mirrors."
The Colorful Sparks began to run around in a random pattern. Fang did her best to keep an eye on both of them. It was not enough when she felt two hits on her back legs at different angles. She could not believe that both were able to land a strike without her noticing their approach. Fang suddenly had a solution popped into her head as her eyes grew wide. Fang closed her eyes as she no longer wanted to trust her eyes.
"I can see into your trick now Colorful Spark. I am truly impressed how you have managed to control your magic and make sure that the illusions were so perfect. Even when I got two hits on you with my blade. I now know the real truth." Fang said. She opened her eyes and quickly made her move and slashed at both of them in a blink of an eye. She watched them disappear like the other illusions. "When you revealed that blade, I realize you can make yourself invisible."
"Aw crud. I was hoping you would not have gotten it so quickly. But now you have to figure out where I am in this ring." Colorful Spark said.
"That is just it, I don't need my eyes in order to find you. I am going to use my other senses to do it."
Fang closed her eyes and began to focus on her other senses. The sound to hear movement. The smell to detect his scent. The feel of her coat as air movements have passed over it inside a barrier. She took it all in to find where the real Colorful Spark was hiding. After a few minutes she found him.
Fang dash over to where he was and threw a hoof punch to confirm. It made contact with something. Colorful Spark dropped the illusion after he has collided with the barrier.
"You have actually found me. You are the first to ever find me when I was invisible. Your skills and abilities are really impressive. I yield the match to you as I know I cannot contend to face you to face and hope to win. You have more experience with that blade than I shall ever get. Plus the fact I don't like to spill blood of a friend." Colorful Spark said.
The barrier came down and the guard announced that Fang won.
"I am glad too that I don't have to injure a friend anymore." Fang said. "Let's go and get these cuts patched up before we lose any more blood."
Colorful Spark nodded and they headed over to the medic building that was on the training grounds.
(Cancer vs. Star Dust)
When they were told to begin, Cancer went up first. He activated his magic and said, “Clock Up!” He now can move faster as he chooses. He was determined to beat Star Dust so his brother would stop gloating. He quickly charged at Star Dust, knowing he cannot stop it.
Star Dust began to get hit from all sides. He knew it was Cancer going at super speed, but he could not track something of a blur in his own vision. Even though the sun was out he needed the star's help to track his opponent. He used his magic to make a connection to the star's above and requested their help. They obliged and gave him a secondary view of the ring.
The speed of images allowed Star Dust to see a pattern in Cancer's movements so he could dodge. When Cancer was coming in for another hit, Star Dust step out of the way. He then swung an uppercut that Cancer could not dodge at the speed he was going. It made contact and sent Cancer flying back to the ring barrier.
Cancer shook his head to clear the spinning vision from the hit. "How were you able to do that? I was moving at top speed." Cancer said.
"My cosmic powers allow me to communicate with the stars and they are allowing me to see this match from the sky. I can also be able to see your movement pattern and anticipate where you are going to hit." Star Dust said.
"Then let's see if you can follow this."
Cancer started to run around again. This time in a random pattern the thought of. He did get a few hits in until Star Dust side stepped and gave him a good jab to his ribs.
"Dang it! I thought I was doing a random pattern? How were you able to see it?" Cancer demanded.
"Nothing is ever random. Everything has a pattern to it." Star Dust replied.
Cancer was getting angry as he wanted to win. He went for a full charge straight for Star Dust. Star Dust quickly reacted by letting his horn shine bright as a star. Cancer was blinded and soon felt the force of running into something as solid as a wall. He bounced back and landed in the center of the ring.
Still seeing spots, Cancer looked around to see where Star Dust went. As his vision was returning, he saw Star Dust over by the edge of the ring.
What Star Dust was doing was charging up a powerful spell that would help him. He first started to glow with a silvery white aura and it kept on getting brighter. His horn then shot a beam up into the sky and made a small moon appear. What happened next surprised Cancer as it looked like there were stars falling from it. He tried to dodge at top speed but they altered their course and hit their target, which was him. They exploded on contact, but the explosions were not dangerously big.
After the falling stars were done, Cancer wasn't doing too well as about half of those hit him and exploded. He had black scorch marks over his body. His legs were shaking as they were trying to keep him standing. Cancer did have a smile on his face because he saw how Star Dust was doing.
Star Dust was exhausted after casting that powerful spell. He knew it would do this to him, but it was a desperate move to stop Cancer from running around. He could feel he could not cast another spell as he was on the verge of magical exhaustion. He was happy that the spell did do some damage to Cancer.
"Cancer, how about we finish this up with our hoofs? No magic, no special ability, just you and me and our hoofs." Star Dust said.
"Sounds like a plan. Prepare for a flank beating!"Cancer replied.
"Bring it!"
They both got onto their hind hoofs and approached each other. Their fore hoofs were up and ready yo block. Star Dust went first and thru the first hoof. Cancer blocked it and did the same. They went back and forth dealing hits and blocking them.
After a half an hour, they both stopped blocking and was landing hits. Their movements were also slowing down as exhaustion was taking its hold on them. In one final move, they both went for an uppercut. They hit each other at the same time, sending both backwards and falling to the ring floor.
The barrier rose up and the guard walked in. "I will give you both the count of ten to get back up on your hooves. First one to do so will win the match. After the ten count, no pony is standing, the match will be a loss to both ponies. ONE!" the guard said out loud.
Cancer and Star Dust both heard the guard and began to work on standing.
"TWO!"
Cancer was the first roll onto his belly. Star Dust was closely behind.
"THREE!"
They placed their hooves underneath them and began to try and get up.
"FOUR!"
Star Dust was first this time to get his belly off the ground.
"FIVE!"
They were both struggling to get up as their legs were shaking violently.
"SIX!"
Star Dust was getting close to a full stand. Cancer was half way.
"SEVEN!"
As Star Dust was about to lock his legs in, he collapsed back to the ground. Cancer saw he still has a chance.
"EIGHT!"
Cancer pushed harder to get his body to stand as he was getting close to standing.
"NINE!"
Cancer closed his eyes and gave his body one final push.
"TEN!"
. . .
(Suspenseful, isn't it?)
. . .
"Cancer has won the match!" The guard said.
Cancer opened his eyes and saw he was standing. He did not go and jump up and down cheering he won. He fell back to the ground and let his body relax.
(Lightning Trails vs. Shining Armor)
As soon as the guard said those words, Lightning Trails summoned storm clouds within the barrier. They began to flash lightning at quick intervals, but nothing struck the ground. He flew up to the clouds and as he was close enough, the lightning began to strike him. He took it with no issue. After each hit, his mane began to glow a bright white. He flew back down once his mane began to shoot off tiny lightning bolts.
He looked to Shining Armor and said, “Do you think you can handle dealing with the power I can manipulate?”
“It will be interesting.”Shining Armor said. “I have never seen a Pegasus be able to take so many hits from lightning and not show any sign of damage.”
“My body is unique and allows me to absorb it as much as I want. Let’s get to fighting. Oh, and don’t hold back. You might get yourself injured if you do.”
“Don’t get too cocky because you can use your abilities now.”
Lightning Trails ignore the comment as he raised his right fore hoof and sent a lightning bolt that struck right in front of Shining Armor. Shining Armor did not flinch, but saw that Lightning Trails is serious. He activated his horn and summoned a barrier wall in front of him as well as other locations in the ring. Lightning Trails fired off another bolt to Shining Armor. This time, Shining Armor rolled out of the way just before the bolt hit the barrier. When it made contact, it destroyed the barrier and continued straight to the ring barrier. That one absorbed the bolt.
Shining Armor how powerful that bolt of lightning was as that barrier normally allows him block normal ones. He decided to switch tactics as he now realizes he does not want to get hit by one. He weaved between the barriers, getting closer to Lightning Trails. Lighting Trails just watched as what the Captain was going to do. When he was close, Shining Armor charged directly to Lightning Trails and swung his right fore hoof at him. Upon contact. Shining Armor was sent flying back as he collided with a barrier wall.
“That is interesting, and stings a good amount too.” Shining Armor said has he shook his head to remove his daze and the fore hoof to get rid of the numbness he was experiencing.
“Yeah, whenever I absorb that much lightning, my body creates a lightning barrier around me so I cannot be touched.” Lightning Trails said.
Now that Shining Armor knows that, he can now only do range attacks. He activates his horn and began to send magic bolts at him. Lightning Trails was easily able to dodge them with the boost the lightning was giving him. He launched more lightning bolts at Shining Armor and watched as he has to get out of the way to avoid being hit. They destroyed all the barrier walls Shining Armor have created within the ring. None of the bolts did any damage to the ring barrier.
Shining Armor used his magic again and had lots of stone pillars rise up from the ground. They got rid of any line of sight attacks as most of the ring filled up with them. Lightning Trails began to laugh and said, “You know this is only delaying your defeat. I thought the Captain of the Royal Guard would be a lot stronger.”
Shining Armor knew he had spells that would kill Lightning Trails, but did not want to use them as this was suppose to be a friendly sparring match. He wondered what caused Lightning Trails to act like this. He quickly replayed some of the events earlier today up to the starting of the match. He then recalls about an old lesson from his day in Magic school. It was about how misusing your power will want you to have more and more. Almost like an addiction and you will stop at nothing in your way. Shining Armor now realized the lightning is affecting his way of thinking. He now needs to find a way to finish this match up before somepony will get severely injured.
Lightning Trails was using his lightning to destroy these pillars that were blocking his path. He knew he could fly over them, but he enjoyed the destruction the lightning was giving him. Shining Armor was quietly working his way though the pillar forest so he can get a line of sight shot ready. The storm clouds above were still shooting off lightning bolts between them. Shining Armor began to wonder why they have not begun to drop any rain yet. All storm clouds in Equestria normally drop rain in a thunderstorm. An idea came to him and he quickly put it into action. He sent some magic up to the clouds to have them start to rain.
In a few seconds, the first raindrop began to fall. Others began to join it. Soon the storm clouds finally started to act like a normal thunderstorm. Shining Armor suddenly heard a scream.
"RAIN! WHY ARE THOSE CLOUDS POURING RAIN! I HATE WATER! AHHHH!"
Shining Armor hopped onto he tops of the pillars and headed over to Lightning Trails. He was lying on the ground and lightning bolts were shooting out of him randomly.
"Please make the rain stop! I give! I give! I can't take the rain when I am charged up!" Lightning Trails screamed.
"Alright." Shining Armor said.
He used his magic and made the clouds disappear and the barrier went away too. The guard outside announced that Captain Shining Armor was the winner. Shining Armor returned the ring back to the way it was and headed over to Lightning Trails.
"Are you going to be fine Lighning Trails?" He asked.
"Yea, I tend to avoid *zap sound* storm duty because of this. *zap sound* If I am charged up, I get *zap sound* shorted out." Lightning Trails said as he was still letting out sparks of electricity now.
"Do you want me to get a medic to help you?"
"No, but I think Blaze will be able to help me."
Shining Armor left to go and get Blaze.
(All matches are now done so going back to First POV)
(Blaze POV)
As I and the others were waiting on the benches, we talked about the matches and what happened. Suddenly we see Shining Armor come running up to us.
"Blaze, Lightning Trails is having some kind of backfire of his lightning control ability. He asked me to come and get you." Shining Armor said.
"On my way." I said as I bolt off the bench at super speed, now realizing I have forgot to reactivate the weight thing again. I get there in under 2 seconds as a dust cloud engulfs me when I stop. "Hey *cough* Lightning Trails, what can I do to help?"
"Need to release my lightning so I can stop sparking out randomly. It hurts when I lose control of it." Lighning Trails said.
"Ok, I think I know what to do."
I used my jutsu and had a copper rod come out of the ground. This is going to hurt. I placed one hoof on the rod and moved my other close to Lightning Trails.
"This might sting a bit."
Lightning Trails nodded and braced himself as best he could. I placed my hoof on his body. The electricity started to flow fast out of his body, through mine, and down the copper rod. Both our bodies jerked around as the energy flowed out. The others showed up, but stayed back so they don't get hit by the lightning was going off. After a few minutes, the lightning built up in Lightning Trails finally left. I let my fore hoofs fall back to the ground. The others came up with worried looks.
"Blaze! Are you and Lightning going to be alright?" Dragon asked.
I looked over to Lightning Trails and saw he was knocked out and smiling. "Yea, he is going to be fine. *cough up some smoke* I am going to go nighty night too." I said and then collapsed to the ground, going off to dreamland.
