Evaluations: Moonlight Mist's POV
"Wake up."
"Huh?" I say, opening my eyes and rubbing them with my hooves to see who it is. It's a brown unicorn with a black mane. Tacitus, who traveled here with me from District 6.
"Training's hard." Says Tacitus, the other tribute from my district. "But we can't sleep the day off, evaluations are today." My eyes open wide.
"Today?" I exclaim, before lifting my head up and running out of bed. Let's see, a couple days of training, pathetic failure and being laughed at by my peers; I guess it's now time to get humiliated in front of the rest of the Capitol. This makes no sense to me. I get dressed quickly, as if I'm not just speeding up my execution.
"You just got dressed in front of me." Tacitus blushes. I raise an eyebrow and give an annoyed response.
"Really?" I complain. "I've been naked most of the time around you anyway." He shrugs.
"What is that, really?" He looks at me quizzically. What this is that I'm wearing, it's a distraction. Something from the makeup department. A warriors outfit, an uncomfortable suit of fur and leather. Maybe some ponies will be naive enough to give me a good score if I look like a deranged killer.
"Oh, it's just something I whipped up for the judges." I smirk.
"You'd be better off naked." He chuckles. I fight the urge to hit him. Instead I give a guttural yell and throw my iron helmet across the room. "Evaluations are not for hours, you don't want to wear that all day anyway."
"Don't tell me what I want." I grin before making my way down the stairs, before realizing that the sun is barely poking through the corridor windows. I give Tacitus an angry look as he follows behind me. "Why does it look like President Discord just raised the sun a few minutes ago?"
"Because it's 6:00." Tacitus says, unfazed. I sigh.
"I need coffee." I say, suddenly becoming tired now that I knew how early it was.
"Evaluations are at 11:00." Tacitus says "You really should thank me for waking you up to get a few more hours of training."
"Who made Coffee?" I say, looking to the coffee trough that's now filled with coffee. I find it hard to stop myself from stuffing myself headfirst in the burning brew. I remember again of it's mysterious appearance, and then the thought of it maybe being poisoned, makes me hesitate.
I turn in shock as I hear footsteps. Another brown pony, an earth pony with an Orange Mane walks in. It's just our mentor Cannon Fire. He smiles.
"You know I was going to wake you up but Tacitus beat you too it." He laughs, before taking a cup full of coffee with his mouth and setting it on the table. "Have some..." Before he could finish his sentence, Tacitus interrupts him.
"There's an interesting fact about Equestrian history that not many ponies know, Princess Celestia used to raise the sun and Princess Luna the moon, before the great war." He boasts. Cannon Fire puts a hoof to his face in frustration.
"Moonlight, get some coffee." He orders. "Tacitus, shut up." Tacitus nods disappointedly.
I quickly make my way to the mini coffee trough in our kitchen and use a spell to quickly find the tallest glass in the cabinet, and fill it gluttonously. "Honey?" I say, looking to Cannon Fire.
"What do you want sweetie?" Cannon Fire says lovingly. I glare at him.
"I mean do you have any honey?" I say, trying to put on and angry expression while holding my laughter. He nods.
"There's raw honey to your left." He winks. I levitate the honey into my coffee and guzzle it down, letting drops of coffee trickle down my muzzle.
"Moonlight let's go." Tacitus says, already by the door. I gulp down the rest of my coffee and give a hearty burp, one that would make my father proud. I run to the door before quickly stopping.
"And to be clear we are not going to hear one of your boring lectures on Equestrian History on the way there." I look at him, sealing my words.
"Done." He ponders for a moment. "What about old Equestrian Philosophy?"
"Say nothing." I smile. I make my way slowly to the training room which to my surprise is actually empty at this hour. "I guess waking up at 6:00 does pay off."
"Guess so." Tacitus stops and looks up to the window, onlookers are already present eating breakfast above us. "Whoa, do you see that?" He points. "They're already here."
I freeze and shiver in the corner. "I-I don't think I can do this." Tacitus kneels beside me and tries his best to comfort me as I have my panic attack.
"What if they watch you take me out?" He whispers. I shake my head.
"What?" I shake my head. "I can't do that."
"Come on." He smiles. "I got a big head, I could use a concussion." He looks around the room before spotting a metal pole. He points to it. "That right there... would be perfect. If they see you knock me unconscious, it will boost your score."
"I can't." I try to keep myself from crying. Tacitus shakes his head.
"Stand Tall." He puts his hooves on me and lifts me up, then before I know it, he starts to levitate the metal pole towards his body. The pole smacks him clean on the side of the head. He knocked himself unconscious. I gasp. The onlookers are staring at me. Before I can assess the situation, I give my best fake tough mare expression and yell.
"Yeah I hit him!" I say unintelligently. "And I'll do the same to the rest of them! They'll all be dead!" What is wrong with me. He did this to himself... why would I say something like that? Please, please, be worth it.
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I take a glimpse at the scores later that evening.
Arctic Blast: 9 Columbine Flucie: 4
Hurricane Bash: 6 Prism: 7
LawWing: 7 Swifty Sketch: 5
Plum Rose: 5 Lightning Bolt: 8
Starlight Comet: 7 Coconut Swirl: 6
Tacitus: 3 Moonlight Mist: 10
Tragic Focus: 7 Monotone: 6
Midnight Dreams: 9 Sonic Aura: 7
Ill Omen: 9 Posetem Weave: 7
Cyclone: 10 Blue Ice: 9
Shift: 7 Chitter: 4
Selune Darkeye: 11 Anvil Strike: 7
I got a 10/12...
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They likely gave Cyclone a 10 since they figured most anything the others would throw at him would just piss him off.
Not true, he is just as fragile as anyone else... good luck capitolizing on it though...
5473840 Brute Strength and general hugeness are a lot to be desired. Honestly, I think most of the judges were intimidated by him.
Neat. Lets do this!
5474487 OH YEAH. The games are starting NEXT CHAPTER. Are you ready?
5474490 Oh yeah!
5474647 I told myself I wasn't going to make a Maze Runner crossover fic until I finished writing this one... so I'm going to spend a lot of time writing this one.
you haven't forgotten about my OC right?
5474861 ?
Well, I may need some reminding. I can try to use everypony as at least a supporting character, but it's hard to include everyone.
5475483 I can help remind you, but first...did you ever keep a list of all the oc's from that forum thread or save the link to the thread?
yay my oc got ten, wait i got ten that was surprising (in a good way) and my oc exacly like i expected her to be well done thank you so much
Im so proud of my moonlight mist
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5475717 I kind of just used the list on my blog post.
5476064 Good to hear... wait is this because I added Cannon Fire to the supporting cast?
5476093 I'm surprised myself as well. Writing flows much better for me at this point. The problem though, might be the action scenes in the next chapter. I'm not entirely sure how I'll write those.
now I feel bad may oc made my partner get a 3
sorry thanks for help my oc out though
5476396 No problem.
It was fun to write.
5475483 Hey the chapter title first chapter. Selune not Salene.
5477134 You want to be my editor?
5477137 uhmm sure I guess i could offer myself until you find a better guy. You have em on gdocs?
5477139 Nah but I'll get you one for the first chapter by tomorrow, just PM me your email.
Sorry it took me so long to get to reading this, but I'm glad I did. Very well done story, and I must say you captured Tacitus pretty perfectly. The only thing I would change is that Tacitus would be all over that coffee. Coffee is life and strength!
5476396 Don't worry about it. Tacitus has had a lot worse. The important thing to him is that he helped Moonlight's chances of survival.
5476398 It was fun to write my oc getting a self-inflicted concussion?
Actually, that would be pretty fun. Plus it's exactly what he would do
5477708 thank you
, plus it just like me clumsey and shy (and needs her coffie in the morning)
5478940 I found Tacitus's reaction to Moonlight dressing on front of him to be hilarious and exactly in character. He's awkward, but a gentleman.
5480006 me too and just like my oc not lady like in the slightest
5480310 Your oc is definitely one of my favorites I've seen so far. Like you said, she's not lady-like, which is very entertaining. But she also clearly has weakness, fear, and (from what I can infer so far) a good heart. I look forward to seeing more of her, and hopefully more of Tacitus interacting with her.
I'm glad my OC got a good score on her test. This was a great chapter, as usual.
5480318 hopefully I last the coracopia
5480396 Here's to hoping. Don't worry though. If I know Tacitus, he'll have your back
5481084 lets hope