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// The Dragon Confrontation 
// Story: Me and Dragons confront Opaline 
// by Javier 
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It was chaos in Opaline’s Castle, Opaline has taken everypony’s cutie marks, including those of Sunny and her friends. I was heartbroken at the fact that Sunny lost the battle. And soon enough, Opaline has shut down every protection spell in Equestria. I cried and cried my heart out for Sunny, but for Opaline, it was a different story.

“And I’ll rule over you little powerless ponies for all eternity.” Opaline declared while laughing evilly. 

I looked up at Opaline angrily, and then I scolded her for her actions. “You stupid Alicorn.” I said furiously. It was at this point where I lost it. “How dare you take everypony’s cutie marks and have Lava and Jade get involved in your stupid plan. You know something, Sunny told me a story of Starlight Glimmer, but even she will never do what you did.”

I then stomped my hoof so hard that it freed Lava, Blaize, Leaf, Tumble, Jade, Luxxe, Fountain and Spike from Opaline’s mind-control spell. They looked up at Opaline in anger. “What? You were all under my spell.” Opaline shouted.

“Not anymore”, Luxxe shouted back in anger.

“So you are Opaline?” Tumble said as he looked up to her in disgust. “You have some nerve messing with our friends.”

“Ugh!” Opaline growled. “You messed with the wrong pony. Who are you to mess with me like this?”

Blaize glared at Opaline. “I’m Blaize,” the large female dragon said in anger.

Next was Leaf. “I’m Leaf,” said the male green dragon, furiously looking at Opaline.

Lava was up next, putting his claw down. “The name’s Lava,” the red male dragon responded while stomping his claws.

Next was Jade, who blasted dragonfire at Opaline. “I’m Jade,” the white dragon shouted as she folded her wings. 

Tumble was up next, roaring angrily. “I’m Tumble,” the orange male dragon said. 

Luxxe was next, as she flew to Opaline and knocking her to the ground. “I’m Luxxe,” the yellow female dragon said while looking at Opaline angrily. 

Fountain was next, staring down at the alicorn. “I’m Fountain,” the blue female dragon said while pointing her claws at Opaline. 

Spike was last. “You know me, the name’s Spike,” the purple dragon said, disgusted by Opaline’s actions.

“I’m Javier,” I said. “Just so know, I freed the dragons you’ve captured.” 

Opaline looked up at me and dragons, finding out what I did. “You did what?” Opaline screamed and screamed at me. “YOU PATHETIC PONY!” She scolded. “I WILL GET YOU FOR THIS!!!” 

“No, you won’t be getting away with this,” I said furiously. “You have caused everypony to lose their cutie marks including those of Sunny Starscout’s friends. YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS!!!” 

“Oh hush,” Opaline interrupted. ”You'd be surprised how long I can keep somedragon in here. You're mine now. My own little scaly army. How lovely. See? I can make friends, too. Friendship! Ha! They used to tell me that was magic. You know what I think is magic? Power! And soon, I'll have all of it! Dragon Stone? Right there! Cutie mark magic? Incoming! Prisbeam? Soon enough! Together Trees? Did you see my tree upstairs? Poor little thing. I tried and tried to make it grow, but you know what feeds a Together Tree, right? Did you guess "unity"? That's correct. It's always unity. So my little tree would always just wither up and die. Why, even when I found it a real live friend, it wouldn't grow. No matter. My little fake friend brought some real unity magic back to me whether she meant to or not. And all it took was one tiny spark… And once my tree woke up, well, it made friends with the tree in Maretime Bay and another tree in Bridlewood. And then my friend Misty – do you know what she did? She grew a brand new one for us in Zephyr Heights. So maybe my little Misty really has been a true friend, after all. Now all of the cutie marks come to me one by one. Bing, bong. But I'm saving my favorite cutie marks for last. And once I have those, nothing will stop me from total domination! Then, Equestria is ALL MINE FOR THE TAKING!!!” She finished, but then I looked up angrily and furious at Opaline. 

“YOU BIG MEANIE!!! THE DRAGONS DID NOTHING WRONG TO YOU, AND YOU JUST HAD TO CAPTURE LAVA AND JADE? REALLY, OPALINE? REALLY? WELL THEN, YOU’RE ONE GREAT BIG MEANIE. AND YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY WITH THIS. NEVER, YOU’RE LUCKY THAT I FREED THE DRAGONS BUT THE DAMAGE HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE!!!” I raged very loudly at Opaline again. 

“Dragons, teach this monster a lesson.” I said angrily. 

“You got it Javier.” Luxxe said. “Me, Fountain, Lava and Jade will take turns in throwing vines, Leaf will destroy her pathetic throne, and Tumble, Spike and Sparky will use the dragonstone to destroy this castle.” She told me her plan. 

So, the dragons flew to Opaline while knocking her down to the ground. Leaf uses his dragonfire magic to destroy Opaline’s throne, Luxxe, Fountain, Lava and Jade all took turns in throwing vines at Opaline while using their magic in the process, and Tumble, Spike and Sparky uses the dragonstone to free the cutie marks that Opaline stole from them. 

“You pathetic dragons, I thought we were friends,” Opaline said.

“Actually, Opaline, we are not friends,” Lava and Jade both said and they and the rest of the dragons were at the final stages of their plan. 

“Just wanted to clear that up,” Jade said. 

As Spike uses his dragon teleportation to teleport him, the dragons and Sunny Starscout out of Opaline’s castle, the Together Tree starts to grow and expand, and the castle itself starts to crumble. Opaline brushes her flank against the tree's growing roots, causing it to rip her cutie mark away. In her attempt to retrieve it, she gets engulfed in the tree's roots. The Together Tree fully blooms, with Opaline trapped inside and her castle reduced to ruins.