Equestria Girls: Symbol Of Undying Love

by vortex123


Tutorial 1: Basics

"Ex Solar Prodigy Sunset Shimmer?" Manny asked aloud, scratching his head in confusion and missing Sunset stiffening. 'Is Solar something important? Maybe it’s a part of a family crest.' He muses to himself.

"What did you just say?" Sunset asked suddenly, her face completely blank. Manny jumps a little at her sudden question.

"I'm sorry?" Manny ask her.

"'What.did you.just say?' Repeat what you just said." She repeated, her face gaining an angry look.

"…uh…Ex Solar Prod-AHHH!" He started to say before she swung the pipe.


*[ATTACK]*

*MISS*


Manny had just managed to dodge her attack in time. He then held up his hands in a calming gesture.

"N-now calm down." He said, a little shocked by her sudden attack.

"Excuse me!?!" She asked, eyes widening as her anger flared. "Don't tell me to calm down, you bum."

"Bum!? What makes you think I'm a bum?" He asked, feeling insulted for obvious reasons.

"You were passed out in an empty library. And if you weren't a bum, you would have either passed out in your house, or at the very least passed out in a hotel or motel. Not to mention the fact that you're here with no faculty members around." She answered with a glare.

"I'm 13! How about you? You look like you belong in Elementary school, yet here you are, in what appears to be a high school! Care to explain that?" He asked meeting her glare with his own.

"Oh please, this school would be lucky to have someone on my level attend it." She says, rolling her eyes.

"That didn't answer my question." Manny said with a deadpan look before smirking. "I guess stuff like that is way you're an Ex prodigy." Sunset's left eye twitched at that. "Can't really call someone who can't answer a simple question a prodigy." Saying that caused her Atk to go up.


*[ATTACK]*

*62*


"AHH!" Manny yells as the pipe hits him in the face, surprised by how much it hurt. 'Jesus that hurt! In retrospect, mocking her may not have been smart given my new body. I gotta end this before she dusts me!' He concludes with a glare. His glare intimidates her, given the fact that the story mentioned Monsters ability to absorb SOULs. Her Atk goes down from his glare.

"Ok that…might've been uncalled for……you wouldn't hit a little girl, would you?" She asked, trying to back track. 'I can't use magic here for some reason, I don't know if he's in the same boat.' Manny paused at that, Sunset had a point. She is a little kid, kind of a brat, sure, but she's still a little girl. At the same time, she seemed way too arrogant to play that card.

'Way the sudden attitude change?' He pondered before speaking. "What happened to your 'tough girl' stick? A few moments ago you were more then willing to make this a fight." He asked, folding his arms.

"…I just remembered……I can't use my magic, but I don't know if it's the same with you. And before you ask, I showed myself because I could use your-or some other monster's-help." She said, ready to run if he makes any sudden movements. He just deadpans at her.

"Wow, amazing job so far in getting my help, I feel so moved. Here, let me take your coat and hang it up for you." He said, his voice oozing with sarcasm.

"Look the whole 'Solar prodigy' thing is a sore topic for me, ok?" She stated.

"Why's that?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I'd rather not talk about it." She said with a glare, but it wasn't directed towards him. Suddenly two screens pop up.

Manny:

This line of questioning seems to be going nowhere
Maybe a gentler approach would bear more fruit

Manny nodded in agreement, then tried to think of a better topic. 'Maybe I can form a pact with her. As we work to achieve whatever she's after, I could get her to open up.' He thinks with a smile, not noticing what was going on with her at that moment.

Sunset:

This conversation is going nowhere.
The book said that Monsters are made with positive emotions.
Maybe befriending him would make this easier.

Sunset rolled her eyes at the befriending part, but she did need his help. 'I don't need to actually like him, I just need his help. It's worth a shot since I don't have any better ideas. Who knows, maybe I'll actually like hanging out with him, though that's a big maybe.' She thinks with a smirk.

"Whatever your reasons are for being here, their not my business. Why don't we start over? I'm Manny He says with a smile, holding out his hand. A screen pops up in front of Sunset.

Manny is sparing you.

She thinks it over for a minute before grabbing his hand.


*[Marcy] - Spare*


"…Sunset. She says simply, still wary about him. With an enthusiastic shake from Manny and a halfhearted shake from Sunset, everything turns back to normal. The white box around them vanished, the colors returned to them and the black void changed back into the library. As Many rubbed his the area he was hit, two screens popped up, both saying the same thing.

You won
You earned 0 XP!

"…You know what? I don't want to deal with this right now." Sunset said, now just done trying to figure this out.

"Uh, Sunset? You shouldn't really brush off something this strange." Manny advised. Sunset gave him a look.

"Then you deal with it, because I don't feel like it right now. It's way too early for this." She said, crossing her arms.

‘I thought you were here to achieve something? That screen said we didn't earn anything, it still hints that something could have been earned…actually on second thought, this is honestly better considering what XP stands for.' He thinks before grimacing, the facial movement causing a spike of pain. 'Damn this hurts! Did she really have to hit me in the face!? I really wish I could heal this!' He thinks with a groan before noticing green smoke coming from the hand pressed up against his face. To his shock and relief, the pain suddenly vanishes as if it was never there. As Manny celebrates his tiny victory, Sunset's eyes turn into pinpricks.

"So you can use magic." She says in minor shock. 'This could pose a problem for me in the future. I don't exactly know enough about the guy to trust him. Better to keep him close in case I need his help, but not too close.' She thinks, slightly on edge.

"Sweet!" He exclaimed. "How did I do that?" He questioned, much to Sunset's confusion.

"What do you mean 'how'? You used your magic, you know, that green aura around your hand?" She asked. 'Maybe I hit him harder than I thought, I really hope it's not permanent.'

"I know, I've just never used magic before." He says with a shrug. '…Didn't he say he was 13? I know a full spell is hard for upstarts, but the stories about Monsters say that healing magic is as simple for Monsters as a telekinesis spell is for a unicorn. I don't understand why he's so happy.' She thought with a confused look before what he said registered.

"Wait, you've never used magic?…did you lose some memories from magic kindergarten?" She asked. 'He either has minor amnesia, or he's just an idiot.'

"Why would I need to go to magic kindergarten? Can't you just buy a book and read it? I didn't think it was that complicated." He says, scratching his head. Sunset sighs in relief at that.

'Good, he's just an idiot. Well I guess I'll have to give him pointers. By the looks of it, Monster magic and unicorn magic seems to be pretty similar. Can't be that hard to teach him, I mean, the princess seemed to have a pretty easy time teaching somepony younger than her. So teaching someone older than me should be even easier.' She thought with a confident smile.