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// Fight and Make Nice 
// Story: Fate's a Funny Thing 
// by Honest Wisdom 
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I leap out of the way of a stray blast of air, under the right conditions air magic could be very lethal. Scootaloo was one of those conditions. Her magic was surging and she was powerful. It was amazing how long she was able to keep it under wraps. A simple meditation exercise and she was creating a mini tornado. "Scoots! I need you to listen very closely! Look deep inside yourself."

I heard a tiny voice call out from the vortex. "I can't."

"Scoots, I have confidence that you can. If you're powerful enough to make this then you're powerful enough to stop it." I hear the heavy hoof beats of the Guard. I spin around and flare my wings, "Stay back! She's surging!" I turn back to Scoots. "Scoots, look inside. You're magic is stitched into the very fiber of you're being, I want you to look at your heart, the place where all your magic flows together." The vortex begins to slow down. "You're magic will do as you ask if you're polite. Ask it to stem the tide, explain to it how much danger your friends are, it will obey you."

The vortex disappears and the dust settles. I fly over to Scoots and scoop her up. She hugs me tightly. "I'm sorry."

"I've never seen a unicorn cast a spell like that before." Shining says as he walks closer.

I glare at Shining. "She's a Pegasus you dolt." I look down at Scoots. "Let's get you back home."

"I don't wanna go home. I wanna watch you fight Discord." She smiles at me, her excitement making her exhaustion all but disappear. "It's fun watching his flank get handed to him."

I chuckle, forgetting the less than enjoyable audience that still hadn't left. "Only if you cheer me on."

"Deal!"

"Wait," Shining was still trying to wrap his head around what I said. "How can a Pegasus use magic? They don't have horns."

I roll my eyes at him. "I don't have a horn, I can use magic."

"That's debatable. I haven't seen any proof that you can." He stuck his nose up in the air like a pompous brat. My eye twitched, telling me what to do is one thing, but no one questions my magic.

Discord appears beside me. "Dis gon be good" He rubs his paw and claw together. "Let's watch." He makes some bleachers and teleports everyone except for me and Shining onto them. He raises a hoof-painted sign that reads 'Go Wisdom.' in back wards letters and cheers. Scoots stomps her hooves and cheers.

The Guards are temporarily confused but slowly figure out what's going on. When they try to move however, they find themselves stuck to the bleachers. "It's fine." Shining announces. "I can take her on my own." He lower his head and powers up his horn.

I stand up on my hind legs and start pacing. His eyes follow me closely, as if he'd trying to catch me powering up a spell. I decide  to take a physical approach. I beat my wings once and rocket into the air. He blasts a fireball at me and I bank right. I dive down at him and release Air magic through my wings to speed up my descent. He jumps right. I tuck in my wings and reach out to the earth below me. A large tree bursts out of the ground next to him and he stumbles away. I snap open my wings and make a sharp turn towrds him, barely missing the bleachers.

I slam into him full force and knock him to the ground. We tumble for a few feet and grind to a stop. I throw him off me and Slam him into the ground, leaving a dent in the rock. His horn flares and I get thrown several feet back. I roll to my feet and release some Fire magic through my wings. "Stick head!"

He blasts a wave of magneta magic at me. I leap out of the way. "Feather brain!"

"Raugh!" I charge forward, ready to gut him.

"WISDOM!!!" I stop and shrink. Fluttershy hovers over to us with an angry look on her face. "What are you doing? What would Twilight say if she saw you?" She put her hooves on her hips and narrows her eyes. I mumble out an apology as she swings around and looks at Discord. "AND YOU!! Are you collecting bets?"

He hides the bag of bits behind his back. "No. I was... confiscating them... Yes! Confiscating them from the people who were betting!"

"He bet that Wisdom would Kick Shining Armor's flank." Scoots chimed.

Flutters grabbed his ear and twisted. "Give them their bits back."

"Owowow... here... owow... OW!" He started handing back the 'confiscated' bits. I resisted the urge to laugh as best I could. Shining wasn't doing as well as I was.

"Ahahahaha!" He fell back. Fluttershy shot him The Stare. That shut him up. "Errr... sorry." Fluttershy flies off, Discord follows closely stammering apologies.

"I guess their date went well." I help Shining to his feet. "Come on, you look like you could use a drink, I know I could."

He blinked in confusion. "Uhh... sure."





I chug down another pint of Applejack's Finest. Scoots cheers loudly and Shining frowns. "Are you sure the Filly should be here?"

"Scoots, don't Drink till you're 20. And if you can't wait don't drink more than three pints, it'll make your brain cells die." I let out a loud belch. "Don't Drink and Fly."

"You do that all the time." She joked.

"Cause I'm crazy." I grin as Berry Punch slides me another drink. "Thank ye kindly. And a juice box for the Filly." I snort. "both of them." Scoots giggles at the last part.

Shining scoffed. "I'll take the strongest drink you got." He slammed some bits on the counter. 

I whistle in respect. "Looks like you grew a pair." He glares at me. "Alright." I slam my jug back down on the counter. "What's your deal?"

"What's my deal?!?" He growled at me. "You're a terrible influence on that Filly, you're rude, Obnoxious, inappropriate and a drunk."

"A Drunk?" We turn to Berry Punch who starts cleaning a mug. "This is only the third time she's been here, and when she does she only orders Non-Alcoholic Cider, like she's drinking now."

Shining looked down at my drink then back at me. "What?"

"And She's Really nice," Scoots interjects. "She's smart and funny and she teaches me these really cool flying tricks!"

"Didn't Twi ever teach you not to judge a book by it's cover. I was joking with you, that's how I act around friends. Jeez." I sipped my drink. "You're the one who was so uptight."

He looked down at his drink. "I... have bad experiences with... Gryphons."

"Figured. But like I said Mages are normally non-violent. I only fight with Discord to keep my edge and sharpen his. We're pretty close him and I. 'Battle is where two beings become the most intimate, those who fight together are bound by blood and sweat'."

"That's deep, who said that?"

"Warmage Gaia.  A Gryphon like me. She died during the Great Purge, protecting Hatchlings." I took another sip. "I think it's time my people came out of hiding." I cocked a brow at him. "Don't you?"