Mysterious Mare Do Well:Rise of the Shadowbolt.

by Phoenix Kitten


The will to fight.

Sorry this chapter took so long to get out.I just have not been in the mood to write anything and this chapter was a pain in the flank to get past 50 words.
Anyway,have a theme song I thought appropriate.
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Fluttershy dodged another lightning bolt and landed on a near by rooftop, panting and staring at the dark mare in who stood on a black thunder cloud smirking at her. "Oh give it up would you? I know there's more of you. The fighting styles of the other two were completely different and with you flying instead of using magic... I'm almost sure of it. There's more than one Mare Do Well!"

Fluttershy almost panicked when Shadowbolt made her assumption. With a quick,calming breath she focused and opened her eyes as wide as possible, glaring at the other pegasus as hard as equinely possible.

Rainbow sudeenly felt terrified as she looked into the costumed mare's eyepieces. As she struggled to look up she was greeted by a giant, ethereal, yellow scorpion with pink eyes. 'What the? A pegasus with the ability to summon a familiar?. No, it's too big to be a familiar.'

The scorpion swung it's tail at the villainess, breaking a hole in the ground and dissipating the small thundercloud on impact.

"Oh so you can see him too?" Mare Do Well asked the frightened pegasus in front of her. "That's Seraphim, whenever I get in trouble like this he helps me. I thought only animals could see him."

"Seraphim." Rainbow repeated slowly.

Fluttershy continued glaring at her opponent as her mind played back the events that lead up to that moment.

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Fluttershy was trotting down through the market stalls with Pinkie Pie, who had turned up safe and sound in her room at Sugarcube Corner.
Her friend had turned over her Mare Do Well badge stating that she couldn't handle fighting another pony. They were on their way to meet with Rarity and Twilight and se about disabling Pinkie's costume, Muchourin, which boosted her Pinkie sense's precognitive abilities, when Shadowbolt showed up.
Applejack was at her family's stand today and took Pinkie to the meeting point instead, telling Fluttershy to keep the dark mare busy.
She quietly moved with the crowd before splitting into an alley way and summoning her costume, Geminus, before taking off and attempting to lure the villain to another part of Ponyville.

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"My costume, Geminus, allows my friend Seraphim here to manifest easier. A side effect I see is that he is able to be seen by other ponies now." Mare Do Well informed her.

Rainbow shook herself out of her panic and dodged a pincer threatening to cut her in twain. 'That voice... I thought it was Fluttershy for a second but no way would she ever try to do something like that to another pony.' "Geminus was it? By the end of today... I'm going to have your mask in my hooves!"

Fluttershy felt odd... was she normally this violent or was it just another side effect of manifesting Seraphim at this size?
She shrugged and kept the dark mare in her sights as she flew around her. "I won't let you have your way!"

"Fluttershy!" Her earpiece buzzed."Pinkies safe. Pull out!"

"Damn..." She grumbled as Seraphim shrunk back into nothingness, her demeanor changing back to her usual quiet self as she waited for Shadowbolt to pass behind a building, jumping into the alleyway and willing her suit away before trotting out and blending into the crowd, making her way over to the meeting point.

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"That still doesn't explain how it got torn in the first place." Rarity exclaimed as she looked over the shreds of Pinkie's Muchourin.

Fluttershy looked around as she trotted into the dark room

"Fluttershy... Was that giant scorpion your doing?" Twilight asked as the pegasus approached the rooms center.

"I... I think so. But he's never gotten that big before, and no pony else has been able to see him aside from me." The yellow pegasus said quietly.

"Before? So you had the ability to summon a familiar before?"

Fluttershy nodded. "Uh...what you all call the Stare.... it's really him... only animals can see him normally though. And he's usually about the same size as me."

Twilight nodded thoughtfully. "So Geminus boosts your ability to summon it."

"Him." Fluttershy corrected. "His name is Seraphim."

"So the costumes have all boosted our abilities... odd seeing as how they were never enchanted while Rarity was making them."

A loud sigh drew Twilight's attention, she turned to see Rarity looking over the remains of a gem.

"Such a waste, those gems were incredibly hard to find. Very high quality, nice amount of facets and superior hardness. Really easy to pick up with my gem finding spell but they're buried so deep it's usually not worth the effort to dig them up."

Twilight trotted over and examined one of the intact ones from the remains of Pinkie's costume, her horn glowing dimly.

"What in Equestria is that dreadful noise?" Rarity complained, holding her hooves to her ears.

"Ya sure you didn't hit yer head durin' yer bout with the Shadowbolt Rar? Ah don't hear anythin', Pinkie, Shy. Do you two hear anythin'?" Applejack asked from her corner of the room.

"Nope." Pinkie beamed.

Fluttershy shook her head.

Applejack turned her gaze on the studious, lavender unicorn."Twi?"

"Hmm? Oh. Sorry Rarity." Twilight said sheepishly as her horns glow faded. "I was testing the gems for magical resonance. I probably gave you a nasty horn ache."

The fashionista rubbed her horn gently after removing her hooves from her ears, being careful not to accidentally arouse herself. "Yes... a frequency like that is really quite painful."

"I'll need to conduct some more tests on these gems. Would you mind if I took all the ones that are still intact from Pinkie's costume?"

"Go right ahead dear. At least they'll get some use, and I would like to know more about these gems, I've gone gem hunting right across Equestria when I travelled with my parents. Never once found a gem like these."

"I'll report my findings back to you immediately if i make any." The librarian said as she scooped the gems into a small satchel, gave the white unicorn a friendly nuzzle and trotted out of the room.

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Twilight Sparkle entered the library she called home at around six thirty in the evening.

"Hoo."

"Good evening Owlowicious." Twilight answered her pet horned owl.

"Hoo."

"Oh. Twilight you're home." Spike called from the kitchen. "Dinner is almost ready."

"Send it down to the lab Spike. I'll be doing some studying tonight." The unicorn called over her shoulder as she trotted down the stairs and into the basement.

"Whatever you say." The dragon answered.

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