Bouncing, bouncing, bouncing all over the underworld
Doctor Caring Heart was a famous cardiologist in Equestria, especially known for putting together a group of heart specialists in a clinic dedicated to assist in an easier more accessible way those ponies who had any kind cardiac issues.
And because of the last few days, Twilight really could use a little help. Her blood pressure was usually a little high due to the high levels of stress Twilight used to handle, but she stopped caring since she became an immortal alicorn. But after dealing with a terrorist attack and a new bunch of soldiers Princess Celestia convinced Twilight to go to see doctor Heart.
“You’re immortal Twilight Sparkle, but hypertension can be harmful even for an alicorn. Go, a check-up won’t kill you and I’m not taking ‘no’ for an answer”
And Twilight of course followed her mentor’s advice. Stress was something to take care of and as a Princess she used to handle a lot. That’s why she went to doctor Heart’s clinic, and much to her surprised Twilight found a certain blue unicorn with silver-blue mane reading a magazine in the waiting room. Twilight smiled.
“Trixie! It’s so good to see you, what brings you to doctor heart?” Asked Twilight cheerfully.
As always Trixie groaned in annoyance and tried to focus on her reading, but Twilight won’t give up on her that easy.
“Come on Trixie! This is ridiculous, you can’t be mad at me forever, what I ever did to you? I thought after all what happened with the Alicorn Amulet we were in peace”
Trixie just looked at Twilight, mostly because she knew the alicorn’s stubbornness in terms of friendship. She must be direct.
“Okay, listen Sparkle: you may be Princess of Friendship but that doesn’t mean everypony haves to like you, right? I’m not still mad at you, I just dislike you very much”
Twilight didn’t know how to answer to this so she sadly sat in silence, unfortunately the only free chair on the waiting room was aside Trixie’s so this was going to be very uncomfortable. But at the end Trixie had to do something since Twilight was famous all over the Kingdom for drowning in a glass of water; and of course today was no exception.
“Whatever” sighed Trixie. “I’m here for a check-up for a heart-murmur. Nothing to bad”
Twilight’s eyebrows raised as her pupils shrank.
“A heart-murmur?! But Trixie, aren’t you even a little worried?”
“Of course, as any other mom” said Trixie calmly. “But as far as I understand is very common in children with Pure’s condition. Besides he was operated when he was a baby but we have to do regular check-ups”
Twilight was genuinely surprised but quickly smiled understandingly. Still couldn’t believe the turn Trixie made to her life when she decided to adopt a colt, but the blue unicorn seemed genuinely happy now.
And then a door opened and a nurse went out along with certain unicorn colt who happily ran to Trixie.
“Tisi!” Pure said cuddling with his mother.
“Pure! Are you done? Good, what did the doctor told you?”
“Everything is completely normal Miss Lulamoon” said the nurse. “Just keep on with the diet and exercise and see you in three months”
“Okay, thank you. Come on Pure, let’s go!” Said Trixie dedicating a small nod to Twilight before leaving.
“Bye Pure!” Said the nurse.
“Vye!” Cheered the colt.
Mother and son left the clinic and walked around the streets Canterlot going back to their home. Usually a pony wouldn’t bring a foal to the streets where Trixie was leading Pure, but they were at home. The red districts, home of dealers, mafias and bounty hunters such as Trixie.
“So what do you want for dinner Pure?”
“Pagetti!”
“Okay, but we need to go to the store first”
Again, Trixie’s life had made a 360 degree turn at the moment she adopted Pure. She had to learn how to cook, to put her house in order (especially putting dangerous materials such as weapons and traps out of Pure’s reach), cleaning the house, do laundry, do the dishes, be there for him whenever he needed her and much more.
But Trixie was happy, happier than she had ever been. During the last years she had several goals in life: some banal as being the most famous magician in Equestria; some really stupid like try to beat Twilight Sparkle; and some other that already reached but didn’t really filled her like becoming super rich (during her time as a brutal bounty hunter) or be known as Great and Powerful (also during her days as an outlaw). But now she only wanted to become the best mother for Pure, it was the hardest thing she ever tried but unlike the other things, it truly filled her.
“For the first the first time in a very long time I truly feel happy” she mumbled to herself.
“Tisi?”
“Oh, is nothing darling, mommy just spaced out for a little”
“Kay!” Said Pure, and then offered to carry the bags.
Trixie agreed giving him half of the bags and they finally arrived home.
“Maiy” announced Pure passing the letters to Trixie when they entered to their pent-house in the red districts.
Trixie began to examine the mail. It was the usual: mostly requests as bounty hunter, some encrypted messages from her direct commander Lighting Flash; but suddenly she noticed a black envelope with golden letters.
“It can’t be! Has it really been three years! Last time I was beaten on the second round, but now I’m readier than ever, hahahahahaha. I’m dying to register and with my training this year victory will be mine, hahahahahaha!”
Equestria had several sport-events very known for the ponies like the Great Rodeo of Canterlot, the martial arts tournament known as the Tenkaichi Budokai; the Cloudsdale Festival that also featured the best flyers-competition (recently spiced up by the new rivalry Wonderbolts vs. Shadow Bolts); and the Military Games where the three Royal Guards proved their strength against each other.
Usually Trixie preferred to avoid those kind of events but now there was one that she expected with excitement: the Underworld Tournament, where every three years the worst of the worst faced in a brutal fighting competition where everything was allowed.
Trixie kept laughing for a while imagining the excitement of the fights, there was a huge possibility to get hurt in those fights but she was the Great and Powerful Trixie, she was born for this event.
But then the gentle touch of a certain young colt made called her back to reality.
“Tisi?”
The blue unicorn froze for a fraction of a second but quickly recovered and offered her son a warm smile. Seriously, what was she thinking? She had more important things to deal with now, and if she got hurt there was somepony else who would pay the consequences.
“It was nothing darling, I just got a little confused since somepony sent me this letter by mistake. Just don’t worry and what if you help me to make dinner, okay?”
“Shuy!”
The rest of the evening was peaceful, they cooked and ate together and they spent a while playing. And at the end of the night, Trixie read a bedtime story to Pure and after he closed his eyes Trixie started the hardest part of her daily routine: clean the house and prepare the lunchbox for school. This was the hardest part since she had to prepare carefully each part of his son’s lunch watching every calorie, it was because children with Down syndrome tend to overweight easily.
So at the end, tired but happy she went to sleep.
At the next day, after dropping Pure at school Trixie found her two best friends from the underworld expecting her in front of her door.
“Flim, Flam! How you’re doing guys? Last time I saw you was when you turned into Shim and Sham”
“Don’t remind me that please” asked Flam annoyed. “However, did you get the invitation? Are you going to enter this year?”
“Now that the Black Swordsman and the Lighting Flash are working at the side of the law anypony could win” added Flim. “It’s a shame, those two were our bets for this year’s tournament”
“So we decided to put our money on you!”
Trixie shrugged.
“Right. Sorry guys but I’m not entering this year”
Those two stood there as somepony threw them a bucket of icy cold water, so Trixie raised an eyebrow and after checking their vitals she decided to make appear… a bucket of icy cold water that threw them.
The two got back to reality looking at Trixie in astonishment.
“Seriously? But Trixie, we already made our bet! And aren’t you supposed to be one of the best bounty hunters?” Asked Flim trembling.
“Exactly!” Added his twin. “You’re fame as Great and Powerful depend on you entering the tournament”
Trixie shrugged again.
“Guys, I don’t fucking care, and about my fame… shall I remind you I was the one who handed over half of the guys of Vito Colteone to the Trottaglia Family? Including Brassi”
Flim and Flam nodded gulped, of course they knew Trixie didn’t need this, so they used their last resource: begging.
“Trix, please… precisely speaking of Vito Colteone… we owe him a ton of money because of certain shipment we sold him… and it ended up defective”
“We put our last bits on you because we know you are the Great and Powerful Trixie, the most feared bounty hunter of this side of Canterlot!”
“Please Trixie, our lives are on the line!”
Trixie sighed.
“You know it’s been a while since I accepted requests that involved physical combat. Not now that I have somepony expecting me at home. Sorry”
Flim frowned.
“Remember when we lend you the weapons you needed when you started as a bounty hunter? And we did it for free, for friendship nor for anything else!”
Trixie had a sweat-drop on her temple.
“You did it because we all had our problems with the group of morons who defend Harmony”
“Whatever, but at the end haven’t you always counted on us whenever you were in trouble?” Reminded her Flam.
“Guys, I didn’t mind to do stupidities for you before, but now I simply can’t. I have a family now”
Common sense said couldn’t show any kind of weakness in the underworld, but now Trixie was considerably strong and those two were her first friends when she began doing this work.
They both knew it as well so also showed a little weakness.
“Trixie, help us, you’re our only friend who doesn’t want to hang us. We won’t be bothering you if we really had a choice”
“Please!” Begged Flam.
Trixie sighed, this was bad.
Damn Flim and Flam, why they had to appear precisely now? And the worst part was that she couldn’t forget how much they helped her by lending their unused weapons or gathering information for her. They both were real idiots, but they were still their friends.
“Fine!” Said Trixie defeated.
So Flim and Flam hugged her thankfully.
“Oh thank you Trixie! We knew we could count on you!”
“I swear this is the last time we bother you”
Trixie let them hug her but at the end entered to her home angry.
“Why those morons had to get into trouble right now? Is there any holy deity I can ask for help?”
Then she had an idea, it wasn’t a holy deity but another deity who owed her a favor. So quickly Trixie took her cape and hat and ran. She had to hurry if she wanted to be back on Canterlot on time to pick up Pure after school.
The next days passed too fast for poor Trixie who was desperately thinking in a strategy to the great day, and she wasn’t the only one. Every single criminal in Canterlot was training hard for the tournament so it was relatively safe to walk in the red district.
But again Trixie had her own problems, but luckily she had her other friends for situations like this. And Black and Lighting happily agreed to train her for the great day.
“Seriously, what kind of dumbass sells a shipment to Don Colteone without checking it first?” Asked Lighting sending a series of attacks to Trixie, who was dodging them as she could jumping, crouching and such.
Unfortunately Trixie was too concentrated on elude Lighting Flash’s thrusts that she didn’t noticed Black Swordsman jumping from behind and used his infamous signature attack:
“Star Burst… STREAM!!”
Trixie’s solution to this was to teleport to the other side of the gym and prepare her emergency weapon: a small dagger. But suddenly a very heavy encyclopedia got her right on the head making Trixie fell unconscious.
“Dumbasses fall under the weight of knowledge” said the Cold-Hearted Snipper appearing from one of the balconies above.
“Princess Celestia said that if you damaged another of her books for using it as a weapon you would pay for it” warned Lighting looking up.
“I know, that’s why I bought this one myself” explained Sinon. “Besides my choices were use this or my Hecate, and considering the main Monarch is a hippie this would bring me less trouble”
“A hippie?” Asked Black.
Sinon did her best imitation of a royal and presumptuous pose at the time she forced her voice to sound elegant and wise.
“I Princess Celestia Ruler of Equestria who praises the Sun demand only peace and love from my little ponies. Make love not war”
They all laughed at this.
“I suppose you’re right…” reasoned Trixie recovering from Sinon’s attack. “She’s a pacifist who praises the sun, if she smoked weed she would be the perfect hippie”
“Now that I think about it, I heard that nopony is allowed in her personal garden” reasoned the Lighting Flash.
“And she’s always hungry…” added Black Swordsman.
The laughter got louder, but the soldiers were suddenly interrupted by a very angry ‘ehem’. They all turned and as you guessed, Celestia was standing there frowning at the Lunar Guard. But of course they just ignored Celestia’s anger and kept laughing on her face, so the Princess left while grinding her teeth.
“I hate the Lunar Guard, I hate the Lunar Guard, I hate the Lunar Guard!!”
Back with the soldiers they finally relaxed after five minutes.
“Nothing like laughter to deal with the stress” sighed Trixie finally relaxed.
“It’s nice” said Black with a smile. “And you are getting better Trix, I guess you won’t have a problem tomorrow”
“I guess so” sighed Trixie. “Guys, can I ask you a favor? Can you watch Pure during the tournament? I don’t want him to see me like that”
“Sure! Yui would love to see her old friend again”
Trixie thanked them and returned home for a good night of sleep before one of the most dangerous events of Equestria. But she had a plan.
“And I really hope it works…”
The next day started normally, Trixie programed her alarm clock to sound as soon as Celestia raised the sun, but as always it didn’t work. What awoke her was a very energetic boy who jumped with all his strength right on Trixie’s belly.
“TISIIIIIIIII!”
“Ufffffffffffff”
Trixie pushed away her son while recovering.
“Cof-cof, Pure, I’ve told you a thousand times to be more careful, you hurt mommy”
But then she realized that Pure were bouncing on the floor, and now that Trixie noticed her bed felt different. And once she got up she looked through the window noticing everypony were bouncing as well.
“What’s going on here?” Asked Trixie literally jumping out of her bed.
And when landed on the floor Trixie began to bounce over and over like the entire world turned into a bouncy castle for some reason.
“Tisi, this is fum!” Cheered Pure bouncing to his mother.
“Yes, it’s fun!” said Trixie jumping aside him happily. “Make breakfast will be a challenge but we’ll enjoy ourselves while doing it. Come on Pure!”
“Shuy!”
But giving the situation they were unable to do much so they just took some oranges and apples with some milk; and then they bounced to the Palace where the kid was received by Black, Lighting and Yui who wished Trixie good luck.
“And Trix, be careful” warned Lighting.
“Thanks to your training and my plan I am confident that I will win” said Trixie stroking Pure’s mane. “But most important, I have somepony waiting for me at home. Pure be nice with Black and Lighting, okay? I’ll be back at the evening”
Pure nodded and hugged his mother with a warm smile.
“Luv you Tisi”
“I love you too darling, now good bye. See you guys!”
“See you Trix!” Said the Captains and their daughter at the unison.
So it was time. Trixie took a deep breath and jumped to the deepest area of the Red District. Most of the ponies would lose in a place like that but Trixie knew it as her right hoof, after all this was her home along with the rest of bounty hunters, mobsters, criminals and also fugitives.
Some of the ponies looked at Trixie and dedicated her a small nod to with her good luck, as one of the most famous bounty hunters in the area a lot of ponies put their bets on her. Trixie smiled flattered for all this attention, yeah, she was the Great and Powerful Trixie for a reason, and this year’s tournament would be hers.
She arrived to the empty storehouses that dubbed as a stadium where a line of ponies were there was already a line of impatient ponies waiting for their chance to shine. They all seemed threatening and dangerous, but considering they all were jumping all over because of what happened to the world, they seemed kind of silly.
Trixie revised for the last time the weapons in her saddlebag, perfect for the occasion she hoped.
“Name?” Asked the pony on the registration desk.
“Beatrix Lulamoon”
“Good luck. I have my bits on you”
“Just give me my fucking number already”
So she received the number and bounced to the locker room, where the other contestants were bouncing desperately trying to get their weapons since those were bouncing all over as well, this was a pandemonium to say the less. At some time a giant hammer fell from its owner’s saddlebag causing a huge chain reaction that ended up with every pony losing their balance and increasing the bounce all over the locker room making very difficult to get ready for the main event.
After chuckling at this, Trixie made a glance to her competitors.
The ones who intimidated her the most were a couple of ponies wearing a full-body armor: one of them had it green a gray with a red line painted around the visor and a huge backpack with the head of a missile sticking out of it. And the other one was wearing a red and orange armor, green visor and had the unusual ability to turn into a ball.
In the VIP box seat, the leaders of the underworld gave the signal and the tournament officially (or extra-officially) started.
The first contestants arrived: Trixie and the mare in the orange armor.
“Trixie, long time no see you”
“Hi Sammy, are you ready?”
“You know?” Said the armored mare with a condescending tone. “It’s a shame you’ll get disqualified right on the first round”
And they started, the armored mare jumped backwards aiming to Trixie some kind of cannon attached to the front hooves of her armors and began to charge a very powerful magic beam. Trixie activated a magic force field and began to jump side to side of the area in order to prevent the armored mare hit her.
The armored mare frowned and better turned into a ball to tackle her opponent so she could finish her with the magic beam, and this was what Trixie was waiting for.
The ball tried to get Trixie but she simply used her athletic ability to dodge the attacks. Since the whole world turned into a bouncy castle it was really easy for Trixie, much to the armored mare’s frustration.
“Since when this is a dodgeball tournament?” Mocked Trixie. “But it’s fine with Trixie, if high school sports is what you want, that’s what you’ll get!”
And before Sammy could react Trixie made appear a giant baseball batt and hit the ball to the other side of the arena where Trixie summoned a basketball ring and the ball entered at the first attempt.
“I like to call this base-ketball”
“Having fun, Lulamoon?” Asked Sammy turning back from the morph-ball. “Then it’s my turn”
So the armored mare created a whip made of pure energy that she used to grab Trixie by the neck and punched her right on the gut. Trixie screamed in pain, after all this mare had a very considerable strength, but the blue unicorn wasn’t defeated yet even if the armored mare kept punching her over and over.
And suddenly Trixie shot an energy beam with her horn sending Sammy to the other side of the stadium, but she bounced on the wall and landed unharmed.
“Tcht, this bouncy-castle thing is getting annoying” complained Trixie.
“This had to be that dragon’s fault” complained Sammy, “Of all days, he had to choose precisely today to mess up with the world? It’s really hard to organize this kind of events”
“Our main Ruler is a hippie, what do you expect?” Said Trixie shrugging.
“Hippie?”
“You know: harmony, love and peace. She only needs to smoke weed and would be the perfect hipy”
The armored bounty hunter had to agree.
“Know that you mention it… she acts suspiciously too relaxed in life or death situations… but whatever. Shall we continue?”
Trixie nodded and they keep fighting, this time the mare tried launch herself to Trixie using some kind of boosts inside her armor’s boots. Trixie only crouched while the other one hit the wall, but again she just bounced back to Trixie completely unharmed, but this time the blue unicorn prepared a frying pan that she used to send the armored mare to the floor.
If it wasn’t for the armor Sammy would get defeated already, but no, she was just pissed off.
“You’re going to pay for that” when she stopped bouncing and stood as she could. “You are really going to pay for that!”
“Ey, I’m just using the unusual situation to my advantage” grinned Trixie. “Is not my fault that can’t adapt as well as Trixie”
Said that, Trixie opened her saddlebag and after cast a small spell threw its content with all her power to the face of the other bounty hunter.
The other girl staggered for a few seconds and finally collapsed at Trixie’s hooves.
“I have to thank Sinon for taught Trixie that trick” said the blue mare putting back the dictionary of Equish/Spanish inside the saddlebag. “It’s true what they say, that knowledge is power”
The crowd started to cheer Trixie and the betting money started to run, officially the tournament has started.
Once in the locker room Trixie made a quick check-up of herself, her friends from Aincrad gave her a bunch of healing potions from their home, but her wounds still were too superficial to worry about them for now.
The fights continued, but most of the contestants had problems with the bouncy castle situation, especially the ones with weapons as swords or hammers. The main problem was that try to stab their opponents while jumping all over was almost impossible, and most of the times they ended up losing their weapons and the swordsman had to make an extra effort to take the weapon back that bounced away from them.
In fact Trixie won several times by taking advantage of the situation since her opponents depended too much on their weapons and once they lost them, it was the perfect chance for her to use her fatal linguistic attack.
On the other hoof those who used projectiles as their main weapon had more advantage but Trixie got rid of them by standing in one place to drag them to her and at the end she held them with powerful holds and a dictionary right to their faces.
And as the tournament continued the fights got more tiring to the fighters, it was very difficult for them to fight in a bouncy castle, and even the audience were uncomfortable with the situation since they couldn’t sit properly because of the bouncy effect coming both from the fights and the audience itself whenever a pony stood to go to the restrooms or to by something to eat.
Seriously, if it wasn’t that they were unable to reorganize this any other day because they had to hide from the authorities, they would wait until the Bearers of Harmony stopped the God of Chaos.
But the show had to continue and finally the last match was about to start.
“Mares and gentlecolts, thank you for your patience, it is time for the final fight. In this corner the Great and Powerful Trixie, one of the most respected bounty hunters and one of the favorites of this event!”
Trixie walked to the center of the stadium bowing to the crowd and getting ready for her last opponent. She was tired, after all what happened she had to use at least three of the healing potions her friends gave her. But Trixie had to do this no matter what, for her friends and mostly her pride. She was so deep on her thoughts that didn’t noticed when the referee introduced her opponent.
“So are you ready to fight or what, Lulamoon?” Asked the pony.
Trixie looked at him, it was the other full-armored pony, the one with on the green and gray armor.
“Great, another canned pony for my great finish”
“Really funny” said the other pony getting ready.
The referee just nodded.
“Ready? FIGHT! And sir please, no disintegration”
The pony didn’t answered, instead he ran to Trixie and punched her on the jaw and then from his right hoof he shot a strange cable that wrapped around Trixie’s body. He was hoping that the attack would be enough to hold Trixie, but the blue mare instead of attacking began to skip to escape from the armored pony.
“Oh no you won’t!” Said the pony shooting some kind of missiles from the backpack on his armor.
Trixie frowned but didn’t worry, instead she used her athletic ability to escape, again thanks to Spike’s prank it was very easy, all she had to do was to skip all over the place until he run out of missiles.
“Come on! Aren’t you going to do anything else than escape?” Asked the armored pony.
“Trixie knows this cable nullifies her powers, or do you think I’m dumb?” Asked Trixie. “Besides wearing such outfit I really doubt you can catch me”
“Want to see what this outfit does?!” Shouted the armored pony activating the armor’s jet-pack.
Trixie stayed calm and kept jumping all over the stadium to finally stay right under her opponent, jumping on the same spot over and over while she waited his enemy to attack.
“Clever” said him flying to another spot with Trixie always jumping to stay right under him all the time.
“Thank you Bobo, now if you don’t mind it’s time for Trixie to attack”
The armored pony nodded and moved again this time shooting several projectiles to Trixie before she could get under him again. The missiles exploded covering the stadium in smoke, but when it scattered all he noticed was his cable staying empty on the center of the stadium.
“What?”
“Shall I remind you I was an illusionist before becoming a bounty hunter” said Trixie behind him.
Before the armored pony could react, Trixie activated her spell summoning a giant carnivore plant in the middle of the stadium.
The armored pony sighed when the thing opened its mouth and one of its filaments wrapped around his leg.
“Typical, why it always have to be a fucking plant?”
And the thing swallowed him entirely.
The entire audience began to cheer Trixie, who bowed honored receiving all kinds of praising. She grinned really proud of herself, at the end she won as she planned, it felt great. And Vito Colteone himself gave her the prize of three thousand bits.
“Congratulations Miss Trixie, but have you considered my offer?”
“Again Trixie doesn’t work for anypony, if you want Trixie’s services you know I charge for mission”
“I know, in fact I’ll talk to you later, but for now enjoy your victory Miss Lulamoon”
Trixie accepted the prize and signed a couple of autographs to then face the twins in the back of the improvised stadium.
“Oh Trix, thanks! You saved our behinds there!” Said Flim hugging his friend.
“Yes, now we can pay Don Colteone! He won’t hire us again but at least we’ll live to swindle another day” sighed Flam relieved.
Trixie accepted the hug and once they separated, she smashed their heads against each other making them faint and walked away.
“Next time you get into trouble, go with somepony else!”
Finally everything was okay.
…
It was the end of the afternoon and the girls sat on their thrones relieved that the world got back to normal. The Agents of Chaos made sure this prank last for a very long time, but this time the girls weren’t mad. In fact they had a lot of fun chasing the kids in the world turned a bouncy castle.
“I must admit I had the time of my life” sighed Rarity. “I haven’t been in a bouncy castle since I was Sweetie’s age”
“Yeah, it brought back pleasant memories” smiled Applejack.
“And where did you get such a fun idea Spike?” Asked Pinkie to the God of Chaos.
Spike shrugged.
“What can I say? I owed somepony a big favor and she just appeared and asked me to do precisely this prank”
“A favor? To who?” Asked Twilight with half of a smile.
The main door opened letting pass a young unicorn colt with white fur and purplish mane with a huge smile. He ran to Spike who could barely react at the colt’s sudden hug.
“Pure Soul? What are you doing here?” Asked the black and purple dragon.
Sweetie tilted her head curious.
“Pure Soul? Trixie’s son?”
Applejack’s eyes widened.
“Trixie’s son? Are you serious?”
“So it was true…” mumbled Pinkie Pie getting a close look of the colt.
“She adopted… an especial kid?” Asked Fluttershy astonished.
The rest of the girls approached as well examining Pure, who shrank in terror at the stares of the unknown mares, until his mother appeared right behind him.
“Ey bunch of jerks, he’s a kid, not an exhibition. My kid” said Trixie angrily protecting Pure with her body.
They all mumbled a quick apology and walked away, while Pure covered himself with Trixie’s cape. Once he calmed down, his mother smiled down to him.
“So Pure, aren’t you going to deliver the present?”
The kid nodded and walked shyly to Spike giving him a cute drawing of the Lord of Chaos signed by Pure.
“Zeinkz for heping Tisi” he said happily.
Trixie nuzzled Pure and turned to Spike.
“Thank you kid, if it wasn’t for your help, I wouldn’t made it”
“No, I owed you a favor for helping me on Nightmare Night, remember?” Smiled Spike. “Besides I’m always open to suggestions in my pranks”
The blue mare then offered Spike a bag of bits.
“Here, take this” she said. “It’s the tournament’s prize, since we cheated together I think you deserve this more than I do”
“It’s a lot of money…” mumbled Spike uncomfortably.
“Ey, I really don’t care kid. As a bounty hunter Trixie make this in a single mission” said the blue mare shrugging. “Besides it reminds me how much Trixie was enjoying herself fighting, I really love violence but I have to give a better example to Pure”
Spike didn’t know what to say at this but at the end he accepted the gift in silence and Trixie left followed by Pure.
“You know what Pure? I always get away with my schemes and that’s good, but I swear this is the last time I expose myself like that even if my friends beg me. They need me but I know somepony who needs me more than them and he’ll always be my priority. I love you Pure”
Pure didn’t say anything, he just cuddled with his mother and together they went back home.