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// Let's start at the beginning 
// Story: A new Age 
// by Silver Butcher 
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It was a quiet morning in Ponyville, the Castle however was another story as the sound of metal clanging against metal rang across the castle yard, over the years the castle had been expanded, now housing an extensive amount of staff ranging from maids to guards, Twilight sighed as she looked over the training yard, Flurry heart was in the middle of kicking one of the guards ass with one arm literally tied behind her back.
"Ma'am if I may?" The Guard said to her as Flurry knocked his sword out of his grasp "I thought you were kidding about tieing your arm behind your back,"
"And I thought you knew how to read," Flurry replied as several of the guards cheered her one, one of them calling out to her opponent,"
"Suck it, lunch thief!"
"I apologized!" the guard managed to scream back before kicked his hooves out from under him, on his back and weaponless Flurry turned her back to him.
"Good fight," She said, leaving the training grounds, as she walked she used her magic to cut the rope and free her left arm, she teleported herself away to her room, where her friends where already waiting,
"3 minutes," Jasper said looking over to her, he was sitting in front of a chessboard, Pound moved a piece and Jasper looked back "Wait did I just lose?" he asked as Flurry walked over to Pumpkin, who was flipping threw a picture book on Flurries bed, "These pictures make your aunt look way cooler than she really is," She said holding up a Picture of Twilight holding a sword.
"That's because that picture was staged," Flurry replied "My Aunt has no idea how to use a sword, she relies fully on magic,"
"I can understand why," Zestar called back, Flurry and Pumpkin looked over to see he and Peach had set up a large map, "I remember when Uncle Mac had me buck the west field," Zestar shivered "Thought it would put some pep in my step, instead I quit the family business," Zestar shook his head and muttered about his life as a blind foaled Peach threw a sticky dart at the map, She stood in silence for a moment before saying.
"It landed on Maris Prance," She called out.
"I swear," Flurry said with a shake of her head "You have to be cheating,"
"You wanna test the blindfold again?" Peach asked, "My Cutie Mark is a map after all,"
"And mine is a Sword crossed shield!" Flurry shot back "I don't have comprehensive knowledge of all things sword and shield related,"
"How is that my fault?" Peach asked lifting the blindfold and giver her friend a confused look.
"Oh dang," Jasper said as Flurry and Peach continued talking about Peaches Peachie scence, "I did just lose didn't I?"
"No," Pound said as he moved his Queen "Now you have, you'll win one of these days,"



"I'm sorry," Spike said, cutting off Jasper as he explained how he had lost the chess game "what am I listening to right now?"
"Seemed a bit rushed to just start at the beginning of when we found you," Flurry said as she leaned against the glass of her lamp like prison "So I figured we'd start at events that lead to us finding you,"
"Alright," Spike said as a Diamond Dog offered him a drink "your story I guess," He took a sip before waving them on "Keep going," Flurry cleared her throat.
"So then my Aunt knocked on the door,"



"It's unlocked," Flurry called in response to the knocking that rang threw the room. Twilight walked into the room looking irritated, Flurry stood her ground, knowing what was coming.
"Flurry," She said sternly "You're supposed to be studying,"
"I've finished for the night," Flurry said with a smile, witch Twilight happily returned.
"Honey you never finish studying, you just take breaks, I know you like fighting and I know your an excellent swords mare, but if you're going to become one of the ruling Princesses of Equestria you must learn to use your magic to its full potential and...."
"...And then flaunt it and tell somepony else to deal with it?" Flurry asked sweetly earning a sigh from Twilight,
"Celestia took every opportunity she saw to help teach me, if Celestia had solved every problem on her own I wouldn't be here today and several times over Equestria would have been lost to several different kinds of evil,"
"Sure," was all Flurry said with a head shake "I'm sure she sounded way more conviving when she said that to you," Twilight rubbed her forehead and looked around at Flurries friends.
"Are none of you going to speak up?"
"Pumpkins the only other one here who has magic," Jasper said dully as he reset the chessboard with pound "and I don't think she wants to side against either of you," Twilight muttered irritably as Zestar and Peach ignored her completely, Pumpkin was doing her best not to move on the bed so as to not draw eyes to here before Twilight shook her head and pointed at Flurry.
"You and I will talk about this later when your friends aren't here," She said before leaving the room, the room was silent for a while until Zestar spoke up.
"That reminds me, Flurry is there a reason you called us all here? You seemed pretty serious before the Guards interrupted us," Flurries eyes went wide.
"Yes of course, sorry," Flurry levitated the map out of the way just as Peach threw the sticky dart and hit the wall.	
"Equestria, Ponyville," She said confidently before taking off the blindfold "hey where'd the map go?"
"Cheater and an Actor," Zestar mumbled "Gotta be it," The group turned to the map and Flurry hit it with a spell, the blank world map was suddenly covered with tons of ink, each and every part of the map from the land to the sea was marked with notes. She smiled as she turned to her friends.
"I think I may have finally found him,"