“Ok Mickey, YOU THE STALLION,” Pinkie pie cheer massaging her cousin’s shoulders.
“I’m the stallion,” said Mickey getting hyped up.
“YOU CAN DO THIS”
“I CAN DO THIS”.
“YOU’RE A WINNER”
“I’M A WINNER”
“NO MATTER HOW BADLY TWILIGHT BEATS YOU”.
“NO MATTER HOW BAD…..HEY!!!!” Mickey frowns at her shrugging her off “whose side are you on anyway?”
“Just being honest,” said pinkie pie chuckling.
“She’s right sugarcube,” said Applejack taking another sip from her drink “you’re going up against an alicorn taught by Princess Celestia. Doesn't look like ya gonna win”.
“That just makes me want to do it even more,” said Mickey.
“My thoughts exactly,” said Twilight, her horn glowed vibrantly as she touched the board; her avatar takes form. She then looks directly over at Mickey grinning with determination.
Mickey quirks an eyebrow at her, he didn't even notice that she had switched seats with Fluttershy so that she was looking at him face to face. He follows suit by concentrating on his own power and his hooves glow, he places them on the board and his own avatar appears, “well someone’s an eager beaver”.
“Especially when it comes to you,” said Twilight.
Applejack leans close to Rarity whispering in her ear, “is it just me or does twilight seem a bit more excited then usual”.
“I know what you mean,” said Rarity smiling, “such passion, such bravado, isn't it simply romantic?”
Rainbow smiles excitedly, “ok everypony lets get this show on the road. Our opponents ready?”
Twilight had been maintaining eye contact with Mickey the entire time, “ready”.
Mickey gives her a serious look; this was going to be epic, “ready”.
“FIGHT,” Rainbow shouted.
Ok so, the twilight mage shot this energy beam thing at Mickey but he dodges it and strikes the floor with his giant black sword. The floor cracks and opens up and then twilight remembered she had wings and flew up into the air. But Mickey was like GET OVER HERE, and used his shadow power to grab her leg and threw her back on the floor. She lost about….uh….5 points…I guess. But princess badass was all like "OH NO YOU DIDN'T" and went all ALICORN POWERS ACTIVATE on him and raised the floor up. Then she flipped it and brought it back down on Mickey, whoa, he's totally going to feel that tomorrow. He lost……um…..seriously how many points is that again?
“30 points dear,” said Rarity getting annoyed with the unprofessional narration, “mind if I take over again? It’s getting hard to focus on the action with such elementary style narration”.
“Fiiiiine,” said Rainbow in a huff, “whatever”.
From the crater in the floor a large sonic wave broke through the land formation on the wizards head and the pieces were flung in the mages general direction. The mage easily breaks through the debris only to be bombarded by a tiny sonic wave piercing through her head and disorienting her magical powers. The Twilight mage loses 5 points and is constricted from using her magic.
Twilight gasped and froze in her actions, “what is this? A dual spell?”
“That’s right,” said Mickey, “a physical wave to remove the land mass and also acts as a binding spell”.
“But there isn’t even a card for that,” said Twilight.
“We’re not playing with cards,” said Mickey grinning wickedly, “Remember?”
The dark wizard swipes his black sword in her direction shooting a dark energy beam right into the mage knocking her off her hooves and onto the floor. The mage loses 20 points. The wizard jumps into the air ready to bring his sword down towards the mage, the mage rolls away missing the attack. The wizard catapults from the floor and towards her making another strike. The mage blocks it with her staff, the mage loses 5 points. He strikes at her a few more times slashing furiously at her staff, she loses 10 more points. The wizard ducks lower and tries to connect his sword into her back hooves but she back flips. She then spins connects her staff with his head, she turns again and sweeps his hooves right from under him.
She then jumps and brings the sharp end of her staff into his chest. The wizard loses a combination of 30 points. The dark wizard kicks the mage off of him, launching both her and the staff away from him. He gets on his back hooves and shoots wave after wave of energy balls at her from his front hooves. His attacks miss as she maneuvers and dodges each and every one of them. The wizard speeds forward in an attempt to impale her with his sword, the mage deflects the attack with her staff causing it to slide right into the wall above her head right next to her horn.
The Twilight mage struggles against him but smiles, “getting a bit desperate aren't we?”
Mickey said, “I bet that’s what you’d like to think”.
“I don’t think, I know,” said Twilight, she slides from under him and tries to strike him again but he leaps over to the side leaving his sword behind on the wall. He uses his shadow power causing a black spike to stick out from the ground and catch her right through the leg. The mage loses 30 points, the wizard spreads his hooves outward and other spikes burst from that one. The mage loses another 30 points, the shadow spikes rise lifting her off the floor to deliver another attack but the Mage launches her staff at the wizard penetrating through his skull. The wizard loses 50 points. The wizard loses his concentration and the shadow spikes fade releasing the mage back to land on the floor. Twilight casually walks toward the struggling wizard, “are you ok over there?”
The wizard yanked the staff out of his head and glared at her, “TROTTING ON SUNSHINE, THANKS FOR ASKING. How else would I feel about getting stabbed in the head?”
Twilight chuckles as she approaches him, “by the way,” she raises her hoof and the staff returns to her, “your binding spell has just expired”.
“So you figured out there was a time limit on the binding spell,” said Mickey the dark wizard, “big deal”.
“Well I think it’s a big deal,” said Twilight, “you did everything in your power to inflict as much damage as possible before the binding spell ran its course. Interesting”.
The wizard grins at her, “glad you’re impressed”. He glows with a smoky red aura and the blade of his sword turns blood red, there was a sinister gleam emanating from his handsome features.
“Sinister gleam?” asked Applejack quirking an eyebrow.
“Handsome features?” asked Rainbow Dash rolling her eyes
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Mickey breaks his focus from Twilight for a moment and blushes, “you think I’m handsome?”
“I’m just stating the obvious darling,” said Rarity in her usual flirty manner, “and every evil character has a sinister gleam. You my friend have been absolutely dastardly”.
“Really?” Mickey said smiling at her sincerely.
Rarity smiled back, “why yes, you are a ruthless brute. It’s quite entertaining really”.
“ Awww stop Rarity,” said Mickey, “you’re making me blush”.
“Focus on me Mickey,” said Twilight interrupting them, for some reason she felt impatient and slightly annoyed at his diverted attention, “we’re not done yet”.
“You’re right,” said Mickey staring back at her, “let’s start round two”.