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// Night Clan shows its strengths 
// Story: The Lonely One 
// by Celesteon 
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	The train ride to Trottingham was the least of Lakura's worries, seeing that Naruna stayed up all night preparing training for this tournament.  As the train neared the station, Lakura nudged Naruna gently, because she was asleep on the train ride to Trottingham, so she could be awake by the train stopped.  As the train stopped at the station, Lakura and Naruna got off, and once again they were swarmed by fans, the two did their best to get to the tournament area.  At the tournament area, the two noticed many players that were clanless and seeing the big clan leaders there, which Lakura became the new clan leader since Luna was just gonna be the Night Clan's coach, the ponies noticed how famous Lakura is and now know that the Night clan, though small, was famous for taking down the All Star Clan in the last BIG tournament held in Canterlot.  All the announcers introduced many players though Naruna wasn't mentioned for some reason, though Lakura went to find out why.  

Moments later, Naruna was already practicing against other players beating them, sometimes losing to cheesy plays, while she was taking a rest many players walked up to her seeing that she was new to the famous clan.  These Trottingham players were no less than common low lives that cause bad mannering to all players, pro or not, which making them feel right to make fun of Night Clan's newest member, Light, which was Naruna.  They kept making her feel down and saying that Night Clan doesn't have no right to recruit some worthless pegasus, that fell to her own teammate, as the bullying continued Lakura stepped in and said this, "If you have a problem with Night Clan's newest member then you have a problem with me, and if this continues I will make sure to put your clan to shame no matter what build in the game you play against me, I will put you to shame in front of this crowd."  The players heard these words backed off to regroup with their clan in the tournament hall, Lakura turned to Naruna and took her to an area that he arranged for her.  Naruna was already in tears, to see that they bullied her to the point of breaking down into tears, she kept saying to herself to pull herself together and stay calm, Lakura hugged her when they got to the area that he arranged for her.   

Many casters and announcers kept the crowd going and the other clans were fighting while Lakura let Naruna calm down while he took her spot which brought them to the finals.  Most of the players that bullied Naruna fell to Lakura's might and the casters seeing that the Leader of Night Clan is unstoppable with the power of the Dusk, it would be time for the Light to shine in the game.  Naruna saw that Lakura was already bringing the clan to the finals, but when the finals were announced as a 2v2 in ZooieCraft III Lakura went to get Naruna and they were gonna face Trottingham's greatest clan: Flialation.  This clan has been giving alot of problems in the Zooiecraft game, for they were cheap hacking players breaking the game down, Lakura did his research on this clan and invited AllStar clan into the game to watch, not knowing to the other clan and every other player and caster, Lukra let his best human race player, AllStar Zakovia, be in the game under a hidden connection to help protect Night Clan in case things went wrong.  As the announcers stated that the players will be playing on the new patch update for ZooieCraft III, while this was going to nerf a unit from the game because of how broken the unit was, and the unit was the Zooie Race's greatest tank: The ZR-6000 The Reclaimer.  The game started off with Lakura and Naruna doing teamwork opening, Naurna would be protected by Lakura's defenses, which made Flialation upset seeing that they were trying all their builds to crush the Night Clan's best player, Dusk, and they were being crushed by Light's army.  The crowd was already shocked seeing the Trottingham's best clan being beaten by Night Clan while AllStar clan watched while working out the new patch that was going to be released the following day.  On the Final game, the 2 clans were pulling out the stops and pulling all attacks but still the Flialation clan couldn't break Dusk's defense, until they broke through with the Reclaimer unit that they relied on so much before the patch update, which they over packed it with so much power that Allstar was given permission from the admins to step in and stop the hacking clan from winning against Night Clan which in this causes them to lose their gamer tags and everything that came with it, owing millions of Bits, the money of Equestria, to the owner of the game which is an automatic disqualify, however 1 last match had to be shown, Night Clan's Naruna Light vs Allstar clan's Zakovia, a human race vs a zooie race match up, the brutal match.

Lakura and Lukra were already talking in the chat about patch updates seeing that all the players now know that Lakura has a contact with the creator of the game, and that all hacking is illegal when the creator is on, which he is always on making updates to the game, the announcers and casters were stating that the Night Clan's best player was already a force to be reckon with, but what about the clan's newest member, Light, most of the caster think that she will have a tough time with the Allstar clan Zakovia.  Some of the caster put some of their faith into the young pegasus for a victory that no one will see yet and to think that Night clan chose a player called "Light" into their clan boggles all in the game.  As the match began underway, Dusk, Lakura's gamertag, and Lukra were already talking about certain game stuff to test out for alot of stuff while the casters were talking about how Zooie vs Human match up in the Zooiecraft can be deadly, a lot of builds can happen early on.  Light, Naruna's gamertag, was already playing cautious in the beginning of the game seeing how her opponent plays in the early game.  Zakovia usually opens up with a lot of aggression and that is how he plays though, he tends to mix in an economic build with his aggression which doesn't throw off a Zooie race opponent player, seeing that they have the better economy than the human race in Zooiecraft, but still getting caught up in economy is the best way for a human race player to win against a zooie race player in Zooiecraft.  As the game progressed Naruna started to do harassment with a dark zooie harass, which led Zakovia making units that he didn't want to make to keep his opponent from harassing his econ and hurting his production, while he came in with Cosmic Banshee units to disrupt Naruna's econ, which it didn't hurt as much seeing that a Zooie player can get up to 4 bases before the mid game, if left uncontested, which came to Zakovia's downfall in the game when he saw many units of Naruna march across the map while he had nothing left to defend with when he was doing harassment at her base, which the game ended in this, "Congrats, I never thought that a pegasus that was chosen to show the power of Night Clan's true potential, can lead to some overwhelming crushing victories while maintaining their calm and collective ability.  Keep up the good work miss Light, good game, hopefully we meet again in the game.  {Allstar}Zakovia has left the game, {NC}Light was victorious as the crowd goes wild many players that came seeking a clan would turn to Night Clan for a way to enter, but to them entering won't be easy.  Naruna stepped out and hugs Lakura, and she is awarded with the trophy of the tournament and she became more calm and collective about her now which she can now show the players in the game she loves to play, and that other players will tend to watch out for her way of playing the game.

On the train ride back to Ponyville, Lakura smiled as Naruna was, once again, asleep next to him while they were on their way home to Lakura's house in Ponyville.  Though the Night Clan was still in its early stages when Luna recruited Lakura, and now that Luna is the Coach and that Lakura is now the leader of the clan, a lot will have to change for the clan and the two young dating couple, because their relationship hasn't been known yet in the gaming community which this has got a lot of players to think why these two are together.  But still, none of the pony players in the gaming community don't care on how famous Lakura is and mostly because of the way he plays.  When he doesn't show his feeling status in the game of Zooiecraft, it tends to put his mind at ease until the game is over, though it does concern him about Naruna from time to time.  As the two got home, Naruna went to get a bath while Lakura started to do nightly patch testing with Allstar clan leader/creator, Lukra.  When the balance patch hit, the ranking system reset though Lakura was already in the Elite Rank area which made it easy to win a game, and Naruna was placed into the Master's League in ZooieCraft, though she did manage to practice more when more stuff was added to the Zooie race in the game, after her shower of course, Lakura was already doing his daily nights with players constantly asking him about builds since the new patch hit in the game, though Lakura did bring in Lukra to help with these questions saying, that it was the best they could do though they have been testing a lot of the builds most players would be using in the lower leagues, which made some of the new players feel a bit easy on themselves, however Lukra did say that the builds that were asked are gonna get countered, no guarantees that it will succeed or not.  As Lakura's Daily ended, he went to sleep while Naruna stayed up all night playing as usual so she can climb the ladder in the game, though when the next day came Lakura got up and received email from his mailbox from his computer seeing many players that have met the requirements from a lot of clan seekers, though Lakura ignored them, he decided to look into the requests more which decided to get Luna into this as well seeing that she is the owner of Night clan which should be fun for her to see these players joining one of the best clans in Equestria.