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// First round 
// Story: The Librarians and The Summoned Cat 
// by Dragon Shimmer 
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"Damn it, failed again," Sunset throws a sword to the box and sighs. Lemon Heart takes the sword and looks at it, the sword is very nice. The old pony slashes at the dummy. After that moment, the dummy's 'wound' is frozen. Lemond looks at the sword and smiles. Sunset lies on the floor, "It's hard to change a lethal thing,"

"Sure. It is the reason why the weapon was made," Lemon takes the sword and puts it on display with a price of 20.000 bits. The dragon looks at him amused as Lemon retorts, "What? Your sword is too much valuable,"

Sunset looks around and sees all of her failure swords are on his display. The orange dragon looks at him, "How many swords have you sold?"

Lemon rolls his eyes and gives the orange dragon a big bag of bits, "Here, this is 9000 bits." The old pony rubs his head, "Geez, you really know how to make someone spill out money,"

Sunset takes the bits, "Okay... why is it too much? 9000 bits is not small money you know?"

"Well, I sold for a noble with 20.000 bits," Lemon Heart smiles, "I'm okay to share for you a little bit,"

"Uh huh," Sunset glances at the old pony and points at the bag, "I bet this one has minus the material money that you have provided for me, right?"

"You really know how to read me, dragon," Lemon waves his hoof and goes out of the blacksmith. When he just goes to the shop, a white unicorn with a yellow mane is waiting inside. Lemon knows that he will have a headache because this noble is a familiar one. Lemon walks to him and asks, "Hello prince, How can I help you?"

The prince offers, "I would like a sword that is made of gold," Lemon facehoofs as he knows that the gold sword is a bad sword. The prince continues, "I want a rich sword like that."

"I'm sorry my prince, but I won't make a gold sword for you," Lemon denies and bows to the prince, making the prince smirks and sits down on the chair. Lemon looks at the unicorn, "What are you doing here, Blueblood? I don't want a headache from you."

Blueblood puts his cheek on his hoof, "Come on. Don't you want to talk with me like I am a colt?" Lemon shakes his head as Blueblood sighs, "This is not a way to treat a prince you know?" Lemon walks to him, then he picks the prince up, making him struggle, "Hey! What are you doing?"

"Throw you out," Lemon opens the door, "If you don't have anything, I will kick you out like usual." Blueblood is trying to say something but Lemon has already thrown him out of the door. Sunset just walks to the store and sees that scene. She gives him a smirk and shakes her head. Lemon looks at her in amusement, "What?"

"Nothing," Sunset sits on the table, "Reminds me of when I kicked Luna out of my dream." Then she walks out of the blacksmith and ready to meets Feather.





Feather and Bull are waiting for the orange dragon with the purple duo and Noleg. She is late 1 hour from now but the orange dragon doesn't come. Feather tapes her claw furiously, "Did your dragon always like that?"

"No," Twilight shakes her head, "She is always at the right time. I found that weird for her." Twilight is waiting for a little while and sees Sunset is coming her way," There she is,"

"Finally," Feather takes out a sword, "I can spar with her."

The orange dragon takes a wooden pole on the ground and walks to the griffin. She points at the griffin, "Show me what you got, Feather,"

Feather doesn't know what the dragon is doing with the wooden pole. Shaking her head, Feather flaps her wings and charges at the dragon. When she is close to Sunset, the orange dragon suddenly lies down on the ground, making the griffin surprised and slammed into the tree. Feather gets up and tries to slash the dragon but the orange dragon just dodges and dodges. The black griffin feels so angry as she is increasing the speed but Sunset blocked the final slash.

"It looks like you don't know how to control your emotions, right?" Sunset smiles as the griffin tries to overwhelm the dragon but can.  Sunset spins around, making the griffin just go forward due to the inertia, then she trips her backleg and puts the wooden pole on her neck.

The griffin looks back at the dragon, "How... How can you block the sword with a simple wooden pole?"

"Training," Sunset puts out the pole, "And controls the emotion. You fight well but you don't know how to control your emotions." 

Feather just stands up, "Thank you. I wish to fight against these two."

"You should pray for your luck," Sunset looks at the purple duo, "Because all of the numbers are random, I can't guess it because I am not a seer. Anyway, you all should go because it's nearly late for the arena." All of them jump up and quickly go to the arena to join the quarter-final."




The guards are waiting for four more competitors as they are going late for this. Bull kicks the door and all of them run into the stage, then they breathe heavily. One of the guards warns them, "You should be here earlier. We nearly kicked you out of this competition," The group nod and  the guard walks to the box, "Here, draw your number."

All of the competitors draw their numbers. Twilight has number 1 while Spike has number 4. When all of them finish drawing, the guard announces their number, "Okay we got. Number 1 is Twilight Sparkle, number 2 is Lighting Shield." Twilight and Spike look at the unicorn as the yellow unicorn gives Twilight a wink. The guard continues to list, "Number 3 is Breaker and number 4 is Spike," Spike looks at the number 3 and sees that it is an Abyssian. He had never met any Abyssian before so he is kinda nervous.

The guard turns to another page, "Number 5 and 6 are Feather and Spirit." Feather looks at the diamond dog as she is not feeling good about this, The guard continues, "And the last two are Bull and Flour," The black minotaur turns to the ninja as she covers all over her face and wears her costume. "Now follow me and we will have a battle for everyone," The guard waves his paw and the competitors follow him.

When they are walking toward the light, they hear something loud outside. The competitors keep walking until they go out. Looking around, they see many creatures are watching them. Twilight and Spike gulp as this is the first time they are watched by many creatures. 

The audiences keep cheering as Flame steps out from the very high stage and raises his paw, causing the audience to stop. Flame throws out the yellow flag and the colored smoke is coming out. The MC steps out of the stage and starts talking, "Every creature, please be silent." The audience is silent as the MC nods and continues, "This year is a surprise for us when many creatures are standing here in the quarter-final." The audience starts murmuring as the MC keeps announcing, "Now, let meet our competitors," 

All of the competitors step on the stage and the audience looks at them as they see many creatures step on the stage, even a dragon. The MC raises his paw, "All right, no more talking, let's get this arena started." The audience cheers and all of the competitors go inside. The MC introduces the first battle, "All right, we need less pony right? Let me introduce the battle between Twilight Sparkle and LIghting Shield." 

Twilight and Lighting Shield are stepping on the arena. When the duo steps inside the position, Lighting Shield starts teasing the purple unicorn, "Oh, a beautiful pony. I don't know if I can date you after this battle?"

"Sorry but I have to deny." Twilight shakes her head. "Especially a prisoner like you. I don't know how you are able to join this one."

Lighting Shield grins, "You may not how charming am I? I will tell you in the battle."

Twilight is feeling annoyed for this pervert as Lighting Shield gives her a rose. Sunset is watching the prisoner from the Flame's stage with Coral and Flame. Sunset turns to the Diamond Dog leader, "You know that guy is the criminal of Equestria, right?" Flame only shakes his head as Sunset sighs, "Next time, please read the Equestria newspaper. I am the one who caught him so I know."

Flame smiles nervously, "Okay I will be careful next time." Coral looks at him then shakes her head in disappointment. The Diamond Dog leader glares at her, "What now? I told you that I will be careful next time, okay?"

"Yeah, sure," Coral sits on the chair, "We will arrest this guy after this battle."

The referee waves the flag to start the battle. Lighting Shield takes the sword and teleports to the purple unicorn but he receives a blast directly into his chest, making him cough. Twilight continues to blast him but the orange unicorn uses the shield to cover around him. Twilight continues to shoot the shield until it explodes and leaves the smoke in there. The purple unicorn looks around to find the unicorn. Suddenly, a hoof pins at her neck. Lightning Shield put his face near her face,

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you," teases Lighting Shield, "I will make sure that you will be mine." 

"You... are not my TYPE," Twilight blasts him but Lighting Shield just teleports away. When he looks back, Twilight looks at him with angry eyes. Her horn is shining into a tall aura and her front hooves are covering into the purple aura. Lighting Shield rushes at her to block her horn. He smiles as he successfully blocks the purple unicorn's horn but an ice book is dropped into him, make him jump back. 

Lighting Shield looks up and sees a vortex appear in the air. The audiences just stare at it in disbelief as the yellow unicorn looks at Twilight and sees that Twilight's horn is still being blocked by him. Feeling shock, the yellow unicorn is trying to attack her but an ice book is dropped on his head. The yellow unicorn looks up and sees a rain of ice books come from the vortex. It is too much for him to dodge and he gets hit, slashed and even slammed by those books. Twilight Sparkle breathes heavily as Sunset and Spike are terrified about those ice books. 

Now, Lighting Shield inside the pile of book. The audience silents as they don't know what just happened. Twilight's front hoof is still glowing and looks at the pile of ice books. Suddenly the pile is moving and Lighting Shield climbs up. He glares at Twilight, "You think you can defeat me?" 

Twilight nods, "Yes," A shadow overlope him as the yellow unicorn looks up. A big ice book is on his head as he gulp. He looks at the purple unicorn to bet for mercy. Twilight shakes her head and she slams her forehooves down. The book is slammed into the yellow pony. Sunset looks at her and smile while Twilight's forehooves stop glowing and breathe. She sits down and lies on the floor. The refugee waves the flag to the purple unicorns and announces, "Twilight Sparkle is the winner." The audience cheers as Twilight just looks at the roof