Jame and Paul scream and try to run out of the tent, but Paul finds that he can't move easily. He trips on the ground, looks back at Sunset, and sees that her staff is pinning his dress. Jame comes back to help Paul, but he falls to the ground too because he trips the rocks.
"Ouch, that's embarrassing," Jame rubs the back of his head, "I hope we don't get into trouble right?"
"Invading someone's privacy is trouble for you here, Mr. armor." Sunset glares at them, but they don't see it because she is hiding her appearance. "So what are you doing here? Wanna see what I look like or something?"
"Eh... no. We just come here to visit and see you alright or not," Paul tries to lie but the staff is pinned on the ground near him, making him gulp. "Fine, we come here to try discovering your appearance ok?"
"Then no, my face is ugly compared with others," Sunset lies because she is not sure she is beautiful or not.
"Then I will be more curious about that," Jame says with a more curious tone "You don't know all the camp does not have a good impression on you, right? Due to your winning of captain Eldaro, I don't think not anyone wants to challenge you."
"Fine," Sunset rubs her forehead and sighs "Anyway, I let you go this time but next time I will roast you alive if you do that. Am I clear?" Both of them nod. "Good. Can you tell me where the training zone is? I need to test some spells"
"Well... we got a small zone to training there. It's not large enough like a training tent like the one that is down to the mountain," Paul answers, and then he gets up "Anyway, we will show you the training zone because we are going to that place too, right Jame?" Paul smirks make Jame rolls his eyes.
Paul and Jame lead Sunset to the training room. The training is quite huge, it is designed as a circle. There are some bullseyes for practicing range attacks and some dummy for practicing melee attack. Sunset is quite impressive in the zone because it's like yesterday they just came here and set the camp.
Paul grabs the two-handed sword, the sword has something like a blue battery in it. While Paul takes weird staff, it is thinner than other staffs that she saw but it has two crystal attract on two sides of its head
"Oh, what kind of staff is that? It is thinner than mine but seems its more powerful than mine," Sunset asked and take out her wooden staff
"Don't compare my shining rod with your staff, silly." Paul waves his hand to Sunset "My shining rod gets enchanted while your staff doesn't. And... I never see a mage use the un-enchanted weapon. Suicide in battle? Paul taunts Sunset, and Sunset pays nothing to that.
"Right... You got me. I should change the weapon though," Sunset sighs, " But I haven't found a fit weapon yet"
"Nah, don't worry. You will find a suitable weapon for you in the future" Paul cheers her up " Anyway, what is your main element of magic."
".. Fire. Sometimes, I used ice and lightning," Sunset answers, "But still have many elements I haven't used yet like earth,... " She sighs and rubs her forehead. "Geez, I don't know how to use them in battle."
"Just focus on your main elements and stuff. Besides, if you have too many elements, you will be confused in battle," Paul explains.
"Hey, you should come here and I have something to see buddy," James waves his hand to call Paul training with him.
"I'm coming, Paul." Paul takes his shining rod " Wanna come too?" Sunset nods and they come to Jame's training spot.
By the time they meet Paul, he introduces something special. A dummy has been attracted with two guns at two hands, Paul and Sunset surprised.
"How is it? I make it by myself," Jame says proudly, "So far I wanna train with range enemy too but I rarely meet them so I create this, eh... of course with some help of engineer team" He knocks the dummy "Of course, this is rubber bullet but the feeling will be like being shoot by real one."
"Oh... I like that idea. Besides, I want an "injured" dummy to practice healing though. Anyway, how many of them do you have?" Paul asked.
"So far only ... six dummies, with two dummies holding the sword and one dummy holding the shield and the other holding the guns" Jame rubs his head "Sorry, but the material is limited for the engineering team, " Jame takes out a button. "We should start now, right Paly?"
"Okay... can sit there and watch," Sunset says as she points at the bench. "Just wanna see how you train. Besides, I haven't eaten breakfast yet."
"Sure," He takes out a box of noodles and throws it to Sunset, then he takes out a big blue shield. Sunset catches the noodles as he replies, "Nice catch. Now you should boil some water then you can eat it, the water is over there," He points at the tank of water near the zone, Sunset takes the pot near the bench and starts pouring water into the pot. Jame presses the button to start training "Get ready, Paul. we got a hard training"
"Sure, dude." Paul gets ready in a battle stance "I hope that no more hospital" Jame smirks
The six dummies are beeping and engaging while James raises his shield for defense. Two swords Dummies are rushing at James while the Gun dummies aim at Paul. Paul creates a light arrow and throws it at a gun dummy but the shield takes the arrow by its shield. The gun dummies shoot at the priest, Paul uses a "shield" to protect himself while Jame throws the swords at one gun dummy, destroying it.
"You throw the weapon again?" Paul complains and sighs "No wonder captain don't wanna give you any weapon."
" Nah, I have many, "Jame takes out a one-handed sword while still holding the dummies' sword. "The two-handed sword is not my core weapon," He swings the shield, making the robot flinch. Seeing the chance, he thrusts the sword at one swords dummy. The other sword dummy rushes at him, Jame freezes the dummy that he just thrust, then lifts it up and slams the dummies that rushed at him like a hammer. The dummies get destroyed.
"Nice job, Jame," Sunset comments while pouring the boiled water into a noodle cup. "Good to know that you can use ice spells like that" Sunset takes chopsticks and begins eating.
"Heh heh. No problems," He rubs his head while blushing a bit but gets cut off while the gun dummies are shooting at him, he has to raise to block the ammo.
"Next time, don't get distracted in combat." Sunset is eating noodles and smiles "Lucky that this is a training if this is a real battle, you will be a goner," James grumbles at her words and Paul smirks at him.
"Funny?" Paul is concentrating on mana while Jame glares at him "Being taught by a stranger is not a good thing you know" Then he points his shining rod at the sky. Several light balls appear at the gun dummies' heads and fly directly at them. The dummies have no time to react and get hit by light balls. They are then destroyed, James slashes the shield dummy and it is not moving anymore.
Sunset is quite amazed at the way Paul uses light balls. She smiles as she finishes the noodle cup and looks at them. They are laughing and talking like best friends, making her remember more about Celestia. They used to talk and laugh like that, Sunset starts to look at the sky and remember the happy memory while in Equestria.
"You look at the news here. I never see you at this campsite team" Said the slender woman is wearing a long white sliced - dress and a white bra. She has blue and white ponytail hair and carries a boomerang that is bigger than her and attracts her back. She also has two large metal ring wear at two sides of the hip. Her ears have some earring accessories.
"Oh, sorry. But I have my own team now. Hmmm..... I wonder what they are doing now?
Meanwhile, in Tactic Tent
Eldaro is sitting on the chair and thinking what to do with the Hydra. It seems this monster is strong. Even if he has information about that monster from Sunset Shimmer, he doesn't believe that this campsite will defeat it and has to think a lot. Lance and Natalie coming inside the camp.
"You have a problem, uncle?" Lance asks as he takes a chair to sit near a big map on the table "I think you have a problem with that Hydra."
"You know right. If that Hydra is deployed to our campsite, it will destroy all of us. And if it goes to our capital city, we will lose a lot of soldiers because even if they know about this monster, I don't think they can fight this." Eldaro explains while he rubs his forehead for thinking.
"I see..... Anyway, we know many things about this monster, so we can defeat this monster. We come here to prepare things to fight against the Hydra"
Eldaro is thinking for a while " I don't know. I don't wanna die in there, should I let you go in there again?" Eldaro stands up and walks around. "Besides the Queen reinforcement is nearly come here, should we wait for three days then you can go"
"Sorry, I can't wait to beat that monster. If we can slay that Hydra as soon as possible, we can turn down the pressure and take off that gate, " Lance points at the gate as he is annoyed to see that. "I know this gate is necessary, but it blocks our clear site inside so.... no"
Eldaro nods for understanding. "I see.. well what -" Rose rushes inside to the camp, much as the trio was surprised.
"Eldaro, the reinforcement says our Queen is going first to this campsite. She can be blended into our camp. " Rose says in a quite scary tone while Eldaro can only sigh. Then she sees Lance and Natalie, "Where are your Black Coat mage and your swordsman? " she asked curiously
"Well, we don't know where Sunset is though but she will be alright due to her ability. About Matt, he is talking with some guards." Lance said as he is making his own sandwiches and Natalie is making noodles cups.
"I see. Alright, let's pick the Queen and Matt now." Eldaro is going out of the tent, making the others surprised. "Don't be like that, I know where that battle-hungry Queen is always in." The trio looks at each other and can only follow Eldaro.
Training Zone
Sunset meets an unidentified woman who sits next to her. She isn't surprised and continues to eat her noodles. The woman seems quite interested in her.
"Oh, you don't scare me right," the woman says in a normal tone but inside she is creating her pressure to threaten Sunset. "I'm quite interested now"
"And who are you? I don't see you at this campsite too," Sunset says without any sight of the scare. " Are you an intruder or something? Because you are carrying that weird weapon." She points at the woman's boomerang.
"Intruder? No no no" The woman waves her hand to denied "Oh, sorry. My name is Sabrina, one of the soldiers of Earth(en) kingdom" she lies about her identity, "and that weird weapon you said is my boomerang, quite heavy right?" she knocks her boomerang.
"Fine, I trust you. Anyway, what are you doing here? The soldiers in training over there" Sunset turns her head to Paul and Jame.
"Nah, I'm not in the mood for training now. And I come here to meet the Black Coat mage, is that you?" Sabrina asks curiously "I heard that the Black Coat mage always wears a mage hat that has many yellow stars in the hat, has weird spells and can teleport ... and always uses a normal wooden staff but can defeat many opponents. I just wanna try to battle with her though."
"Well... uh no" Sunset tries to lie in a nervous tone, "I use this one", She quickly picks a sword because it was on the bench before. " And I use just some normal spells like... " She creates a fireball by her front hoof.
Sabrina pushes her face near Sunset's coat, making Sunset more nervous "... Well, I don't know if you lie or not. But you know anyone can disguise as the Black Coat mage so I think you are not that mage due to you using a sword," Sunset sighs of relief in that sentence "Anyway, who are you and why you have to wear that black coat."
"Oh sorry, my name is Sunset and I have an ugly face so I have to hide my appearance," Sunset introduces herself
"I see.... " she put her hands to her chin "Man, I hope I can meet that mage to a battle. I just want to fight strong opponents to improve myself" That sentence makes Sunset gulp as Sabrina continues, "and I don't hope to meet that grumpy old man"
"And who is that grumpy old man you are talking about?" Sunset curious about this
"His name is Eldaro," Sabrina answers, make Sunset surprised about that "That grumpy old man never let me go battle alone except he allows to do so"
"Well... yeah. Oh, you should look behind " Sabrina raises her eyebrows and turns her head to look behind, her face turns pale immediately when she sees a familiar old man. Eldaro stands behind her with Rose and Matt
"Did I hear something wrong, my queen?" Eldaro says in a dangerous tone. " I hope that I hear wrong about what you say before so much."
"Ehh.... yeah. You heard wrong," Sabrina tries to deny but she got dragged by Eldaro "Hey, hey. Let me go, I am the Queen of this kingdom, you know?" Sabrina tries to struggle out of the drag, making her drop the boomerang.
"You may be a Queen to everyone, but for me you just a battle-hungry woman named Sabrina" Eldro continue to drag the Queen of the kingdom, Sabrina gives up eventually "I got a lot of things to say you know"
The others, except Sunset, are surprised that the woman is the Queen. Sunset finishes her breakfast and puts the empty noodles cup "Well, I don't surprise". Sunset, Matt, and Rose decided to go back to the Tatic Tent to prepare for the battle of Hydra. Sunset decides to drag the boomerang back to the tent and sigh.