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// The arena, Begin. 
// Story: The Librarians and The Summoned Cat 
// by Dragon Shimmer 
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Swift Blue is walking in the station while other guards are lining two sides of the door. All of them take a seat and Swift Blue walks forward. 

The vice-captain announces, "Today is an important day. Princess Luna will come here at noon. So our captain must not skip her work again." One of the guards raises her hoof as Swift points at her, "Yes,  private?"

The private asks, "How can you know that our captain is going to skip her work?" Swift Blue takes out the paper of the arena in Diamond Dog mine. The private nods in understanding, "Oh, I see. But... we can't stop her last time. I still shudder that she can lift all of us without a problem." Everyone's face is blued because of the moment when Coral throws all of them into the ground.

"That's why we have to prepare these tools," Swift Blue claps his front hooves. After a while, a guard pulls a cart full of capture equipments. The guards are murmuring each other as Swift Blue continues, "These things can stop her." Then he takes out the map with full of 'X' about this. "Here is our thing we can do. We will follow this one to stop her at any cost. Do you want to be with me?" All of the guards raise their hoof to show their determination.


Coral Blade is sitting at the table and writing on some paper. When she is done, she takes the paper about the arena as she is going to join them. She really wants it. When the captain just opens the door, Swift Blue is standing on the floor, making Coral jump back in surprise.

"Whoa, You make me scared," Coral taps her chest and takes a deep breath. After a while, she coughs and asks, "So, why are you standing in front of my door?"

"Where are you going, Captain?" Swift Blue ignores her question and asks her back, "You think you can skip the work and participate in that arena." the soldier presses himself to Coral, "I think not."

"Ah," Coral grins, "So you are going to stop me?" Swift Blue nods as Coral puts her front hoofs to his chest, "Try to stop me." Then she pushes Swift Blue, making the soldier press himself into the wall and cough. Coral sees the chance and runs outside of the door, but she trips on the rope that sets up before. The net is dropped into the captain, making her struggle to get out, "Hey, did you do that?"

"Yes," Swift Blue jumps out of the wall and coughs, "Geez your push is strong as usual."

"You can't stop me," Coral glares at the pegasus. "You never will."

"Let see about that," 

Coral lies, "Oh hi princess Luna. Sorry about my presentation." Swift Blue grasps and looks behind, realizing that Princess Luna is not here yet. The pegasus looks back at the net and sees the captain is not here anymore with the net cut. Swift Blue taps at the walls four times and follows the captain.





Twilight, Spike, and Nolegs are walking to the Diamond Dog mine. When they just come there, many creatures have come to see the arena, which makes the purple duo stop and feel nervous. Noleg rides on Twilight and wants to tell them that they just came in. The purple duo just sighs and goes inside the mine.

After asking the guard about the arena, the guard leads them to the registered zone. When the purple duo just comes inside, they see many creatures that are very muscular. Griffin, Minotaurs, Diamond Dogs, even some ponies, and Abyssinians are inside. They really want to join this arena. When they see them, they laugh. 

One of the diamond dogs says, "Where are you going, lady? This is not a place for a lady like you."

"Yeah," The minotaur pokes at Spike, "Look at this shrimpy dragon. I don't know if they can get survive,"

One of the pegasuses says, "I don't think they even pass the preliminary  or not." 

Everyone inside laughs out loud as the purple duo feels very angry. They walk to the registered zone and fill their paper, make everyone there surprised and give them a smirk. When they finished, the minotaur points at them and says, "Brave one. We like that. See you all at the elimination round." Then the group goes outside, "Don't make us disappointed." The purple duo looks at each other and they gulp, they just don't know what they have done as Noleg 'meows' happily. Twilight and Spike sigh and walk to the competitor zone to prepare themself.

Inside the competition zone, Noleg takes out the coach costume and wears it. The purple duo look at him and laugh, then they receive a knock on the head by Noleg's wooden sword. Noleg goes outside and drags the paper board inside. 

"So," Twilight rubs her head, "How can we communicate with each other when we can... you know... speak?"

Noleg flips the board and it has words. It writes, ' The preliminary round is avoiding obstacles. Each competitor has to avoid obstacles until you finish. The first 64 competitors will be going inside the elimination round. If you fall into the water, you're out.' Twilight and Spike understand the rule. Spike asks, "So we can help each other right?" 

Noleg nods as he flips another page. It reveals the map of the zone. Twilight and Spike look at it and see that it has a lot of obstacles on the way. Spike looks at the cat and asks, "Where did you get this?" Noleg turns his head away. Twilight and Spike glare at him, the blue cat can only smile nervously. 

Flame is looking for the map of the preliminary round as he doesn't know where it is. Spirit walks inside the room with the map. Flame takes the map and looks at it, it is exactly the map of the round, "Where did you get this map, son?"

"Well, I take the copy of them," Spirit folds his paw, "You should be more careful of this type of information, dad."

"Sorry," Flame rubs his head, "Anyway, let's get the competition started." Spirit nods and he comes out of the room to join the arena.





"Come back here, Captain," Swift Blue is chasing Coral as the coral mare is running away from him, "You can't escape this time."

"Catch me if you can," Coral looks back at him, "I will skip my work and sign in the arena. See ya." Swift Blue flaps his wings to increase his speed. Coral sees that and she runs into the wall. When Swift Blue nearly got her, the captain uses her hooves to climb on the wall, then flips backward the pegasus, making Swift Blue amazed and slam into the wall. Coral looks at the blue pegasus, "See ya. I have an arena to watch." 

When the captain just runs out of the door, two bolas are flying toward her and wrap her body into place. Coral struggles to get out of tied as two guards are walking toward her. Coral glares at the while Swift Blue walks behind the captain. "Good job, we finished the mission."

"I'm not losing," Coral grits her teeth, "Get me out or you all be my punching bag."

The guards laugh at her, making the captain confused while Swift Blue just gives her a smirk, "You think that threat is work anymore? We got used to it and now we are happy to be like that a lot." Coral glares at Swift Blue. The pegasus takes out the paper and throws it to her, "Sorry but the time to sign up is over. You lose." 

Coral looks at the paper and finds that it ends at 10 A.M. Look at the clock, it is 11 A.M now. Coral sighs and she admits to defeat, "Fine, you win. Happy now? Can I get out of this rope? I feel so uncomfortable here." Swift Blue just ignores her pleas as he takes the captain to the back, making her blush and yell at him, "Hey. What are you doing? Put me down."

Swift Blue turns to the guard, "You guy keep working. I will take this captain to her room." Then the pegasus walks to the captain's room and puts her on the chair, ignoring her glare. The vice-captain walks out of the room, "I will release you when Princess Luna comes." Then he closes the door, ignoring the struggle of Coral.


After an hour, Swift Blue comes inside the room and sees Coral Blade is sleeping in bond. The pegasus seems cute to see that face. The pegasus releases her as Coral opens her eyes. The coral mare stands up and stretches her body, she looks at the pegasus and asks, "So, Princess Luna is here?"

"She is coming," Swift Blue answers, "In 5 minutes more."

"I see. Prepare to welcome her. I heard that she brought some night guards."

Blue Swift nods and he follows Coral Blade to the dressing room. Coral takes off her captain uniform and throws it into the wardrobe, then she takes her soldier uniform and wears it. The blue pegasus doesn't know what to say but he keeps following his captain to the main room.

When they are just coming to the main room, Princess Luna is already there with two bat ponies. Luna looks around but doesn't see the captain anywhere. Feeling weird, she decides to walk to the captain's room with Coral. Princess Luna doesn't see the captain anywhere.

Luna looks at Coral, "Where is the captain? I thought that I had announced it to everypony in here."

Coral bows, "Sorry Princess, the captain here likes to dress like a soldier," Then she points at Swift Blue as he is confused, "This is our captain, Coral Blade. He likes to dress like a soldier to make friends with us."

Swift Blue is going to retort but Luna glares at him as he gulps. Luna yells at him, "Why didn't you do that, captain? I'm so disappointed in you." 

"But... But..."

"No but captain," Then Luna looks at Coral, " You, leave us alone. I have some words for our captain." Coral bows and grins while Swift Blue is terrified. Now, he has to deal with the princess of the night while Coral waves her front hoof to say goodbye and head to the Diamond Dog mine to watch the arena.




Flame walks to the high stage to present himself to the audience as the crowds are very exciting. The diamond dog leader takes a flag then throws it down to the arena. The audience cheers as they know that the arena is beginning. Flame sits down on the chair and watches the competitors.

The MC is walking to the low stage and announces to everyone, "Every creature, please sit down and enjoy our 5th competition of the mine. Today, we will have over 200 competitors here to show who will be the champion today." The audience cheers as the MC raises his paw to stop them. The MC introduces, "Because of too many competitions today, our leader decides that we will have the preliminary round. Let meet our competitors,"

The door opens and the competitors step toward the door. What they see first are many hammers, archers, and other obstacles. Twilight and Spike see that and gulp. The MC continues, "This is the avoiding obstacles challenge. You have to avoid all of them to get the finish. If you get to fall down into the 'lava', you are out. Understand?" The competitors nod and the MC raises his paws, "Now the arena, BEGIN."