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// Battle Born 
// Story: The Lonely One 
// by Celesteon 
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	"Been a thousands places and shook a million hooves, I don't know where I am going, but I know just where I will be..."  as the radio was playing while Lakura was talking to Luna about the new clan recruits, which Luna decided to take a look further into these new players.  Naruna was asleep still smiling about her fantasy dreams, she has been having lately, but is woken up by announcer on the radio gaming channel,  "That was The 5 Death Stallions' new song Battle Born which was to show respect to one of the famous players we have yet to see in Trottingham since the crisis occurred.  Up next is Disruption, Avenged Mare, and many more after these commercial breaks."  As Lakura and Luna were looking over the players on the recruitment list, Naruna comes in and sees them and sits with them seeing the players on the list that Lakura and Luna were discussing while having the game open to get info while studying them.  Lakura turns to Naruna, shifting his head at her saying, "go and get something from the store, there's bits on the gaming table this might be a while," which Naruna did and she did go to the store to get the items that Lakura put on the shopping list.

As the morning continued, Luna said that she will look over the players and decide which ones that are going to be in the Night Clan will be sent a message to them from a letter by postage.  Naruna returns from the market, Lakura helps her put the groceries up in to where they need to be and both of them sit down and talk about their future.  Mostly because the Night Clan is going to get bigger and the dating couple was already starting to get noticed by some of the gaming community, though they didn't mind at all, though it did bring up questions on Night Clan's motives for having 2 dating ponies in the clan in the first place.  After the 2 discussed on what plans they were gonna be making in the future, the day went on like any other day, Lakura would be doing game analysis with troubled players, while Naruna was doing her daily ladder dosage on Zooiecraft III.  Though a strange knock came at the door and Lakura answered it, and it was a package addressed to him with a note attached saying, "For the best gamer in ZooieCraft III, on behalf of Zooie Inc. this game hasn't been released yet though I think you might find some fun out of it.  Lukra"

Lakura signed the slip that was to acknowledge that this is his home, and received the package and opened it and saw the latest game from Zooie Inc., "Legend of the Platinum Zooie".  Lakura read that this game became the best game in the market from Zooie Inc. and Equestria hasn't received this at all, yet anyways Lakura was the first to receive it, and noticing that its the first game to be a First Person game from the company.  Naruna finished with her ladder on the game and saw that Lakura was setting up a game that she never saw, or heard of that her coltfriend would get his hands on, though she saw the note from the Head of Zooie Inc., meaning that this was important for him to test, so she watched him play the hardest game from Zooie Inc.  Days passed and since this game got released many pony gamers got their hands on it and discovered that this game was put on the most Difficult game in the Equestrian Gaming News, EGN, those that beat the game noticed that they accomplished the impossible, though some of them beat the game on the most difficult level: Wrath of the Gods, this game got much attention in Equestria though Zooiecraft still stood strong and Zooie Inc. stated that "Legend of the Platinum Zooie" wasn't to be better than Zooiecraft, but was to show a part of the Zooiecraft universe that was not shown.

Weeks have passed and Lakura and Naruna have been put as senior members of the Night Clan and new members have been nothing more than just new players that got to a high level with non stop games, though some have noticed the relationship between Lakura and Naruna.  As Naruna's practice got to the point that she can beat players beyond her level and she still almost beats her coltfriend, though Lakura still comes out on top, shows that she has gotten better since the last 2 tournaments.  And finally Night Clan gets a big invitation to a tournament that is held, once again, in Canterlot for a National Tournament, Lakura would guess that All-Star Clan would be there, and the two couple set out to Canterlot again this time with a bit more curious on why did their clan get acknowledged in the Nation, though they got 2 best players in their clan, well they will soon find out that it would be more then they can handle in this tourney.  As the train pulled into Canterlot, the two saw that the city was crowded than they expected seeing multiple gaming clans coming in from whatever transport they were arriving on, though they didn't mind on what was going on until they got to the castle.  

"I hardly believe this, of all the days for a peaceful week and yet you schedule this tournament here in Canterlot, why did you do this again?" Celestia questioned Lukra.

"I believe we talked about this last year Celestia, you agreed to this and this would upset your sister am I correct," Lukra answered looking into the Princess' eyes.

Celestia closed her eyes and nodded her head, "well I haven't been paying attention to the news of 'gaming' only my sister pays attention, though I won't be conducting the interviews in this tourney, I need my time to work with other things."

Celestia walks off to work on a lot of stuff that she needed to do as Lakura and Naruna noticed Lukra which he shook his head meaning "sorry you two, All-Star Clan is just going to be making sure the rules are followed so everyone can enjoy the game, and Lukra walks off to get things ready for the tourney.  Lakura wanted to do something for his marefriend and he was determined to show her, no matter what....