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// Prologue: Worst timing separation. 
// Story: Displaced Symbology & Floral. 
// by Neutral Boy 
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??? POV:

Hello there, my new name is Albel the Wicked, but my old name is actually Kent when I was human.

Many of you out there somewhere is wondering how exactly did a fool like me end up in a Colosseum.

Why everyone in the bleacher seats is cheering all of the muscly fighters to execute me while I'm already exhausted from several fights earlier? Why I'm protecting a hated weird person behind me that has mix lavender hair, pointed ears, a messy tail, a gem on her forehead, and torn clothing who's crying over her two unconscious friends? Crying out for me to take her away from this awful world and wants to be back to her family?

Well then, sit back, relax, and let me take you back on what happened three months ago.



You see, it all started back on Earth where me and Crystal, my younger sister, have ran far away from our own dead home I call it since we couldn't take the abuse anymore. How you may ask? Well one night, when our 'nice parents' decided to go to bed, I had a bold devilish idea that would get me and my sister a ticket out of here.

Making sure they were sound asleep, I did some pick-pocketing around the house first before making my plan work. Once that was done, I grabbed the supplies I need and picked up my sister in order to sneak out of the house and lock everything up.

Not long after a couple of miles away, I glance behind me to see our former house lit on fire. The neighborhood woke up and I heard them screaming either to put out the fire, save the family inside, or call 911.

I didn't really care if our abusive parents were alive or dead, I just wanted to run far away from our former home. Away from all of those who would dare to lie, swear, and harm me, including my young sister as well. If those fool even dare as to try to harm or even rape my sister, I'll make sure that all of them will wish they'll regret to ever being born.

Anyway, me and my sister arrive at a small market in order to stock up on some food & drinks.

Thankfully I got some cash money I stolen from a stash in the garage dad hidden away. It would explain why mom must've been in the argument on why he's been mostly gone out at nights and how the bills is stocking up for some reason. My guess is he probably been fooling around with different women or has a secret girlfriend or family she doesn't know about, like that one show I watched on TV.

So while I gotten the things to grab, I notice at the window cops and fire trucks driving on the road.

My sister notice as well and holds my left hand tight, she says to me in her voice.

"Are we going back to that awful place big brother?"

I merely smiled to her and pat her head lightly before answering her back.

"Don't worry little sister, we'll be long gone before they even find out where we are."

Although, a part of me fears that we'll be caught soon since there are cameras inside this market and the police will later drive here asking the employers about two missing children. I try to think in my head to see if there's got to be some way out of here faster without getting spotted.

After paying the employer in the market and walking out, an idea popped up when I spot a travel bus parked at the bus sign with no driver, probably went on pee break or something. So I walked fast with my sister and sneak onboard the bus without getting caught by anyone.

I saw the bus drive walking back to his bus from having a pee break and we did our best to not make a sound as he got on and started the engine up. We hear the bus start up as it moves forward on to road, away from the market.

I sigh in relief, my eyes looking out the window to see places moving by so quickly.

My sister went to sleep beside me, I pat her and rub it before my eyes grew tired and I also slept.

Some hours later, both of us were jolted in awake to see that the bus is parked in somewhere. We saw the bus driver open up the door, leaving to go make a call to someone. Once he was out, I took my sister up off the seat and we look both to see if anyone else is outside, only multiple vehicles parked. So we got off the bus and sneak by to not get spotted by any securities roaming around the areas.

Eventually, we came across a wide building with people dressed in costumes walking around.

"No matter what, make sure that you stay close to me, okay Crystal?" I said to my sister.

"Alright big brother." She nodded to me.

Nodding back, I took my sister into the crowd as we carefully moved around into the crowd. Both of us saw many people dressed in their favorite characters either in movies, games, cartoons, or in anime. My sister didn't know a lot of those ones, but I do remember some of the games and anime I watched. Some of the characters looked interesting to me, but I haven't watch a lot of episodes.

So we made it into an empty stall with no one guarding it. We went inside and I had my sister sit down, along with giving her the supplies we took so that she can eat and drink. I open up my bottle of water as I drank half of it from walking around a lot with my sister. It took a lot out of me without collapsing, but we have to stay strong together so that we would stay at a safe place, knowing my sister would have a better life than our old one.

I put the cap back on the water bottle as I spoke to my sister Crystal. 

"I'll be back in a little bit to get some clothing for us, stay put until I return."

She nods to me as I got out of the stall and find some useful clothing for us to wear.

Several minutes later, I found a closed box containing the clothing at a different stall. I see someone who's busy taking to a couple of customers. I sneaked around to not get spotted and carefully grab the box before heading back. It took some time, but I made it back safely. I put the box down beside my sister as I open it up, revealing a couple of clothing's. One for a boy with a name tag called Albel the Wicked and the other one in a girl tag is Polka the Floral girl, including some weird gears and materials that I don't recognize ever seeing in any game. I shook my head as I hand one of the clothing to my sister.

"Here's a clothing for you Crystal."

She accepts it as we both turn around in order to change out of old clothing to the new ones.

A minute or so later, I finally got done changing to the ones I'm currently wearing. Not sure how I feel about this Albel character having two long hair ties behind his head, but his gauntlet claw and sword looks pretty awesome. I wonder if he has any cool abilities? Eh I'll look into it later.

"Okay Crystal, what do you think about my costu. . ."

When I turned around, I didn't see my sister there. I never heard any grunting or gasp from her, like she just vanished without a trace. My worries grew as I fear that she might've run off or has been kidnapped.

"Crystal? Crystal, where are you?! Crystal! Please answer-"

I didn't finish my sentence as I suddenly fell unconscious.



I don't know how long was I out, but I woken up feeling different. My eyes were blurry for a moment as I barely stand up from the ground. I still have this gauntlet claw on my right hand as well as the sword in my left hand.

However, my memories came back with worry as I wondered where Crystal could be.

"Crystal, where are you?!" I shouted in worry.

"K-Kent?"

My body froze as I heard the whisper I recognize as my sister. I immediately turned around to see my sister on the ground, still wearing the clothing I've given her and her appearance seem different. I'm guessing the both of us are now the cosplay game characters.

I walk up to her and patted her cheek as she groggily opens up her eyes.

"Thank goodness, I thought that I lost you when you've suddenly disappeared."

"Disappear? W-What are you talking about big bro?"

"Open up your eyes Crystal and look around."

Her eyes open and she notices that we're somewhere in a different location.

"Where are we Kent?"

"I'm not sure Crystal, but my guess is we must've been teleport-ed to an unknown place. I don't see any houses, people, vehicles, or roads. Maybe we can walk around and find some information on where we're at exactly. For now though, we better find a safer place. My gut tells me that something isn't right here."

"Good idea, we better hurry up and fast."

So we walked around to find any shelter nearby until we both stopped as I spotted something.

"Hmmmm."

My eyes saw some strange looking glows inside a forest near our location.

"What's that. . ."

The glowing things has suddenly grown brighter as they are flown up into the air. The projectiles I saw is going up high coming closer to my view as my mind realize something. Those fiery big boulders I see are actually artillery when they were flung by the catapults and are heading straight for us.

"Oh shoot, run Crystal run! Keep running and don't stop!"

We both turn around and run for our lives from those artillery catapults. Multiple fiery boulders were definitely heading toward us as they descended down, nearly missing us in the process. We kept dodging from left to right as more of those artillery keep bombing us.

Unfortunately, one of those fiery projectiles got too close as my sister is flung from the blast.

"AHHHHH!"

"CRYSTAAAAL!!!"

I ran up to her as I see that she has gotten damaged from the blast, but she's still breathing.

"Hang on sister, I'll carry you and do my best to shield you."

I didn't hear her response back as I quickly picked her up and run as fast as I can.

My body gotten damaged a couple of times, but I ignored as I try to find a way out of this bloody battleground and look for shelter for my sister. I kept dodging from those projectiles until I stop to see a large river down below. I glance and my eyes widen in horror when more than several of those fiery boulders are descend down towards us. Looking back and forth, I gulped and hold onto my sister tightly.

"Brace for impact Crystal, we're going to jump into the river." I whisper to her.

In an instant, I jumped out of the way in time as those boulders missed. Bad news for me, we're now plunging into the river as I hold my nose and her nose until our bodies hit the water as I blacked out from the impact.



Miraculously, I survive as I woke and groan from feeling the river impact. I found myself in some sort of prison cell room and I can't find my sister, probably got separated from jumping into the river. Hopefully she survives and finds some shelter to rest in before she finds me. The problem is, I can't tell on who found me and why they put me in this prison.

The next thing, I hear some commotion as I try to listen on it.

"Is this all of the available fighter you have found?"

"Yes sir, though I'm not sure of the last one I found by the river. I've never seen his armor or his unusual clothing before. S-Surely we must gift him to one of the nobles and study him for research, or perhaps a suitable wife for marriage and power-"

"Silence! I need you to get these contestant fighters up and running. I do not wish to keep the King, his Queen, and the nobles waiting any longer. If only a few of these tough fighters, including this one manages to survive these bloody combat games, then I'll hear about your interesting offer."

". . . . . As you wish."

I'm guessing one of those goons found me in the river. Also, the contestant fighters, King, Queen, nobles, and combat games? I have no idea on what's going on, but it looks like this can't be good for me. Though my trail of thoughts were interrupted when two of those human guards were dragging someone and put'em in the cell right beside me before closing the gate door and walking away.

That's where I met the lavender hair elf girl. I can definitely see the bruises and scratches all over her body, especially some of her clothing is already torn apart, exposing he breasts. Poor girl, looked like she gotten beaten by those guards or someone else and it seems she hasn't eaten a lot of food in weeks. She merely got up using both of her hands to get up and glances here eyes toward my location.

I simply waved my hand to and said in my polite voice.

"Hi there."



Since then, I have been forced into multiple fights every day for those sick bastards.

I even was also forced to execute the ones who were treason to not participate in fighting, but I couldn't do it since it doesn't feel right to kill them. The nobles and their King grew anger at me and I was dragged out of the stadium and nearly beaten to death by those tough brute guys.

Although, it wasn't so bad as I got to know this strange girl little by little. I introduce myself and in exchange, she told me her name is Twilight Sparkle. I asked her on how she has gotten into this prison in the first place. She told me that more that about seven months ago, it all started when she and her family didn't enjoy being around a cruel kingdom full of greedy, manipulative, and corrupted people. So they decided to sneak away out of the kingdom to somewhere more peaceful and not hateful toward magic ever since it's forbidden to use, courtesy of the ones who has beaten the Alicorn sisters, Princess Celestia and Luna, and divided every kingdoms in the past. Though she doesn't know on where the former princesses are at, either alive or maybe dead.

Unfortunately during their escape attempt, she got separated from her family by a bad storm and was later caught by one of the knight commanders. Her punishment for not telling them on where the rest of her family is, she's sentence to the Colosseum as a fighter in the combat games.

She also says that four of her friends were captured and they are somewhere in this Colosseum. One of them she details is named Bolivia, a anthropomorphic purple dragon with green spikes. The other one is named Rainbow Dash, an athlete elf girl who has rainbow hair, a tail color as her mane, and light blue wings behind her back. She asked me if I have seen them or her two friends Lyra Heartstrings and Moondancer anywhere, but I sadly shook my head no and she tears up then cries herself to sleep. It does pain me to see her like this, but I had to make sure to cheer her up since I'm the only friend she has here.

Then one day however, both of our cages are lifted upwards as we see the ceiling above us open up, revealing to the stadium field battleground. We did cover our ears as a lot of people in the bleachers were cheering for some kind of special tournament. I see about one hundred & fifty cages of fighters, including mine and Twilight. All of the cages in a large circle and the ones in the middle must be the big dog champions, nine of them in fact, hence why the people are cheering for them.

I didn't exactly hear from what the King is talking about to everyone, but from what I can gather, he says that should any fighters take down his best champions, then they are granted freedom. I didn't buy that for one nickel since everyone from my eyes are craving for every chosen fighters to being all slaughtered by the champions.

One of cages open as the fighter I see charges at the champions, only to measly to get swatted dead by a hammer boulder. More and more cages were opening as every fighter try to take down at least one champion, but were unsuccessful and the champions didn't have a single scratch on them.

I turn my head to Twilight as she looks around for her two friends. Her eyes lit up in hope and she smiled as she spotted them on the other side of our position. I also see them, but I can tell that they looked pretty banged up and won't last long against those brutal champions. I did think for a minute of how all of us find a way out of here, away from this cruel stadium and the guards outside.

About 20 minutes later, only fifty fighters remain while the nine champions still stand. Someone blows a loud horn as all of the cages open and the fighters charges at those cocky champs, except for me, Twilight, Bolivia, and Rainbow. Twilight tries to run, but I notice that she collapses and couldn't walk yet. An idea popped in my head as I immediately picked her and run towards the champions. One of the champs notice that I was running to them and tries to swing their big sword at me, but I easily dodged the blade as I continue to run to Twilight's friends.

I made it there and I gently put Twilight down so that she can check on them. I turned around and saw one of the champions running towards us. I also charge at him to slow him down from reaching them, but he swatted me away with his big club. Not only that, but my eyes widen in horror when he kicked both Bolivia and Rainbow in their stomachs, then punched Twilight's face, making her fall to the ground.

Shocked at his own actions, I gritted my teeth and got up before charging up at him. That champion didn't react of turning his head to me in time as I immediately punched him hard with my right hard. He fell to the ground as I brutally beat his head multiple times, then I finally finish him off by using my right claw and stab into his back neck.

Everything went silent as i ignored them and try to catch my breath before walking over to pick up both Bolivia and Rainbow, then gently put them down beside Twilight. My eyes gave cold glares at everyone in bleachers, especially those champions and higher ups.

"How dare you, how dare all of you into thinking this is some fun game you like to enjoy. Watching every innocent person slaughtered for your own sick pleasure of entertainment. Betting on those who would win or lose. Laughing at those who can't even fight back. All for what? To enjoy living in this corrupt kingdom who's always superiors than the poor they put down for speaking up against them? Is that really fair to the innocents? What about those pure souls you all bribed and betray them?! What kind of kingdom rulers think's this is all okay?!"

My voice grew a dark tone and I yell at them.

"I REFUSE TO GIVE IN TO THIS SICK, TWISTED, KINGDOM'S ORDER! YA HEAR KINGS, QUEENS, AND NOBLES?! FROM NOW ON, I'M DECLARING WAR AGAINST THIS CORRUPTED ORDER AND CHAOS YOU ALL CREATED! MARK MY WORDS, I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE EVERY ONE OF YOU SUFFERS AND I'LL GLADLY TEAR APART THIS FORBIDDEN MAGIC RULES, WHERE ANY OF YOU SICK FUCKS LIKE IT OR NOT!!!!!"

Everyone were surprised and shocked of me declaring war on them.

The nobles and their king didn't like it as he yells out to his champions.

"K-KILL HIM! KILL HIM, RIP HIM APART MY CHAMPIONS UNTIL THERE'S NOTHING LEFT!"



That's how I got into this unfortunate predicament. Literally everyone in the bleachers, nobles, Queen, and King want me dead for good. All of the King's remaining champions have all charged at me. Shocking enough however, the remaining fighters have grown inspired from me speaking out and defy the order. So they did their best to slow them down and distract half of the champs with the three of them running at me.

I grabbed the big club from the deceased champion as I hit the brute in his stomach, then hit his head with the club as he fell down dead. Two more were coming at me with their big sword and halberd. Surprisingly to me, my hidden ability activates as a green barrier protected me from the impacted. The two champs stagger in paralysis, so I took my chance as I uppercut one of them in the face with my right knee. I descend back down and use the club to hit the other champ on his left leg. He screams out in pain and lowers down before I kicked his face with my left foot.

After that, I collapse on my hands as I breathed in and out, already too exhausted. My body hasn't fully recovered from the previous past fights. At this rate, I don't think I could last much longer and it's hard for me protect these three behind me who don't have enough strength to back me up. It's a pain in the ass, you know?

"Come on Albel, please get back up!" I heard Twilight shout to me, her voice cracking with emotions.

"I won't forgive you if all of us die here in this Tartarus stadium! I know we haven't known each other for very long, but you need to protect us! I beg of you, do it for me and my friends! If you are a really good person than any of these ruthless killers, then please get up Albel!"

I glance over my right shoulder to see Twilight crying full of tears. I nodded once to her for cheering me on and I barely got up, only to see the five champions have wiped out almost all of the fighters who did their best to keep them occupied for us.

"Don't worry Twilight, I won't let any of these filthy dirt bags lay a finger on you or your good friends. That, I promise to you." I murmur to her.

The five champions begins to charge there weapons at me as I picked up both a sword and halberd.

"Bring it on ya scumbag suckers!"

Before those five warriors were about to come closer and strike me down, an unexpected item is suddenly tossed in the arena. I'm not sure who threw it, but that item they toss created some kind of gas as more of them were also tossed in. I coughed from the gas and I had to cover my mouth up with my left hand to not inhale it more.

"W-Who threw those things and why am I having trouble breathing?" I heard Twilight say.

I turn around to see her coughing as l use my right to cover her mouth.

"I don't know, but you need to cover your mouth and don't inhale the gas." I muffle to her.

I remove my hand away as she uses both of her hands to cover her mouth. There's a lot of yelling and anger within the gas since none of the the ones in the bleachers and the five warriors can actually find us. I heard some footsteps coming closer as me and Twilight sees a petite figure in the shadow that sees us as the unknown figure speak in a different language.

"Salutations cher monsieur, désolé que nous ayons dû intervenir. S'il vous plaît faites-moi confiance, nous ne sommes pas vos ennemis, mais en tant qu'alliés de vous et de vos trois petites amies."

I didn't understand on what she just said as someone hit my head and my vision went blurry.

"Très désolé cher monsieur, mais nous expliquerons plus à un endroit plus sûr que cet endroit maudit."



???POV:

That's weird, I don't see Fluttershy, Rarity, or even Ember in the Colosseum arena. Perhaps those noble bastards must've moved them to another location like Pinkie and Applejack. Damn, it's going to be tougher than I thought. Wonder if the other group have also found Cadence, Celestia, or Luna yet.

Better check off my lists of possible locations later.

"Is this all of them?"

"Yes, including the two fighters. The rest were all killed by the champions."

"Alright, retreat with the remaining fighters to the rendezvous point. I'll buy you some time to escape."