open Bangcolt Arena! (Fighting/Sol) -RP-

[Fractured 2,684]

"Everything..." Luna hadn't turned to face him, instead staring up, towards the chandelier that hung suspended above the hall they were in. Remembering how it used to shine like polished glass, though now, the room had taken on a darker setting. Perfect for fighting, but poor for viewing. Such a shame.

 

"Copper Strike... that is your name, correct?" Her gaze finally left the ceiling as she finally turned to the pony at her back, giving him a glance. "Tell me... do you know where you are?"

[DwhitetheGamer 867]

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Copper looked at Princess Luna with fierce determination, and after her words, he said, "My last name is actually Strikes, not Strike, but it's pretty close.  And yes, your highness, I know where I am.  First, I'm in a replica of the Dream Castle, that's on the moon, your home, and prison.  Second, I'm in Bangcolt, the place where fighters all around come and do battle for bragging rights.  Am I correct?"

[Fractured 2,684]

"Correct. But do you know why they call it that?" She didn't wait for him to answer, instead, pointing a wing upwards. "On the moon proper, their exists a race of beings known as the Dreamweavers. Every night, they go hard to work, weaving dreams for all of the ponies of Equestria. From the sweetest foal, to the most battle hardy soldier. It is where I learned some of my own skills with dreams from."

She turned, to walk away from him, stopping a short distance away. "It just goes to show, that there is always something greater than what you thought you knew. Someplace you haven't been before, and something that you have yet to learn. Two stallions have taught me that quite recently..." She paused, thinking quietly to herself, before she looked up, and back at him. "Do you understand?"

Edited May 17, 2016 by Fractured

[DwhitetheGamer 867]

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Copper listened to Luna's words, looking up as she pointed with her wing the moon proper.  He sighed, for he had learned something new today.  He looked at the Moon Princess and nodded, giving her a warm smile.  "I understand, your highness.  I understand."

 

He knew the fight would start soon, but he could wait a while.  His body was tired after all, except that he could still turn super whenever he needed, which would be soon enough.

[Fractured 2,684]

"Hmmm... I wonder if you do." From the floor, a glossy black blade rose up, still sheathed in its hilt. The light in the room visibly seemed to shiver as it materialized, the castle floor staining itself a dark inky black in its presence. Even the air in the room dropped several degrees, turning cold and bitter. Until Luna grabbed hold of it, ceasing the effects. She looked at it for a moment, before de-materializing it. She cast a side glance to Copper Strike.

 

"You may take the first move."

[DwhitetheGamer 867]

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So she let him make the first move, then?  That was fine.

 

Copper knew aggression wasn't the answer, but he had to make it so that she'd believe that was it.  He closed his eyes, saying just five words to Luna, "Fight at your full potential."

 

 

He then gave her the same glare that he gave Raze, and began to strain himself, causing electricity to form around him.  Outside of Bangcolt, clouds gathered above the city, and lightning started to strike on the clouds every half a second.  The strikes were only for effect, but the whole city knew a fight was about to go down.

 

Copper growled, his whole fur flashing gold multiple times before settling back to blue.  A few seconds later, he unleashed a war cry, turning full gold, with wings and a horn present, but they were not real.

 

The pseudo-alicorn Super Strikes had returned, and the fight had begun.

 

Super Strikes grinned at Luna, then charged at her, delivering a punch to the muzzle.

 

(Transformation time remaining: 14:55)

[Fractured 2,684]

Luna had calmly waited while Copper had transformed, taking little more action than to cast a single spell over herself. Her wings flashed with a hard sheen.

 

As the transformation ended, and Copper led for a charge, Luna blocked, holding the force with those same wings. She slid back an inch, before holding her ground. From underneath Copper, two solid black and black tinged spikes surfaced directly beneath him as she casted them, moving for him with impeccable speed.

[The Down Trotten 300]

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As his life literally flashed before his eyes Rhetoric heaved a heavy sigh, watching the hills and vallies of his days, successes and failures. As much as he thought he wanted to go back... he didn't know where to go back to. As much as he regretted a lot of what he had done, it was the uncertain  future that made him regret. He knew he still had time to change, but should he? 

 

And so many other questions that he had that were never answered, and he doubted would ever be. he looked over to Trixie who also looked forlorn about the past, maybe the future. He wasn't a mind reader so his guess was just smoke. "Trixie... I'm sure we'll be centuries back before we know it, but, but maybe some day we could visit our pasts eh? See some of the mistakes we made?"  

 

He meant it well meaning enough. He truely wanted to see where he went wrong and see  if he could learn from it for the future, surely trixie wanted the same thing? 

[Jack Baker 698]

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Raze, having been healed and having nothing better to do, decided to get out of bed and walk around. He grabbed his katana and revolver, made his way out of the infirmary ward, and back to the front desk. Glancing around, he didn't see anyone around... except for a small filly.

 

"Uh... hello there," he said to her. "Are you the only one here?"

[DwhitetheGamer 867]

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Copper sensed an attack from below him, and without warning, he dodged the attack at high speed.  He wasn't going to be taken down this early, not now.  He used his magic to teleport behind Luna and delivered a swift, hard kick to her rear hooves, hoping for any damage.

 

(Transformation Time Remaining: 14:40)

[Fractured 2,684]

As Copper backpedaled away, Luna noted the speed. As he disappeared, she blinked, before jumping upward experimentally. Copper's attack just barely grazed her as she rose. Her guess had been correct.

 

"Teleportation..." Shifting her weight in mid-air, she twisted her body, now angling downward. A wing sharper than most swords proceeded to split the air as she fell towards him, aiming for a decisive strike.

[DwhitetheGamer 867]

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Copper looked up as he saw Luna aim down on him for a strike with her wing, to which he assumed to be SHARP.  Without hesitation, he charged at her as well, dodging the cut at the last second before using a mid-air Spin Dash as a homing attack, and charged at her before she touched the ground.

 

(TTR: 14:25)

Edited May 18, 2016 by Unstoppable Luck

[Fractured 2,684]

Luna reached out with her second wing, blocking the shot, then tossed it backwards, flicking her wing with considerable force. She landed, inverting her body to return to all fours, as dark pillars similar to the first spiked outwards from her in a circular pattern, heading in Copper's direction.

[DwhitetheGamer 867]

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Copper landed on all fours after being flicked, and looked up to see dark pillars after him.  He charged up his horn and fired a powerful beam of magic, making the pillars disappear.  He then fired a volley of magic blasts at Luna, keeping up with her if she moved.

 

(TTR: 14:05)

[P-Jay 1,987]

Raze, having been healed and having nothing better to do, decided to get out of bed and walk around. He grabbed his katana and revolver, made his way out of the infirmary ward, and back to the front desk. Glancing around, he didn't see anyone around... except for a small filly.

 

"Uh... hello there," he said to her. "Are you the only one here?"

The small, light blue filly blinked, looking up at the stallion. Her eyes noticeably trailed, to his weapons...

 

"Hi! Um...The nice mare at the desk is on lunch break, so...Yup!" She beamed at him, finally dismissing his weapons, "until Uncle Zenny gets back, anyways."

[Jack Baker 698]

@@P-Jay,

"Oh, uh, alright..." said Raze, smiling back at the young filly. The cut on his head began to throb a bit, and Raze winced in pain and put a hoof to his bandaged forehead. He found a seat across from the front desk, and decided to sit in it. He looked at the filly. 

 

"So..." he said to her. "What's your name?

[Unicorncob 5,687]

 

Terra managed to break out of her panic, to glance back at Starlight. Her eyes held a questioning gaze; she had no idea what she was doing here,

after all. The portal continued to lift her up, until she was drawn into it. Once inside, flashes of different time periods swirled around her like small stars. Each carried its own different setting, images from the different eras floating by her, paler than ghosts. But too fast; she needed help. "I can't pin it down," she called out to Starlight. "Do you have any way to slow this thing down?"

 

Starlight narrowed her eyes as time literally flashed by before her eyes. But Terra was right - it was going by too fast. She couldn't pinpoint the correct time period like this.

 

She had never tried this before, but could she possibly...?

 

Her horn began glowing again, and a blue flash domed out from her. The stars surrounding the group began to slow down, hopefully to a point Terra could point out the right period.

 

"I can't keep this up for long!" She warned the mare, "Don't waste time!"

 

 

 

As his life literally flashed before his eyes Rhetoric heaved a heavy sigh, watching the hills and vallies of his days, successes and failures. As much as he thought he wanted to go back... he didn't know where to go back to. As much as he regretted a lot of what he had done, it was the uncertain  future that made him regret. He knew he still had time to change, but should he? 

 

And so many other questions that he had that were never answered, and he doubted would ever be. he looked over to Trixie who also looked forlorn about the past, maybe the future. He wasn't a mind reader so his guess was just smoke. "Trixie... I'm sure we'll be centuries back before we know it, but, but maybe some day we could visit our pasts eh? See some of the mistakes we made?"  

 

He meant it well meaning enough. He truely wanted to see where he went wrong and see  if he could learn from it for the future, surely trixie wanted the same thing? 

 

The grip on her spell nearly broke as she caught a glimpse of something. A small village, with a small pink filly with pigtails.

 

She recognised it right away. It was her own past.

 

She stared at it for a moment, and thoughts began to run through her head. About Sunburst, and her reclusion after losing him to his cutie mark.

 

Could she go back and change things?

 

She grunted as she already began to feel a strain in her head. The two spells combined was putting a lot of pressure on her magic.

[Star Saber 114]

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“I’ve including as much information as I could find in these files although that being said it wasn’t hard. For being some of the most important ponies in Equestria, aside from one being a Princess… these ponies are rather… mundane.” Maverick sighed and leaned back in his seat, “As for now; I guess we talk payment?”

[P-Jay 1,987]

"Oh, uh, alright..." said Raze, smiling back at the young filly. The cut on his head began to throb a bit, and Raze winced in pain and put a hoof to his bandaged forehead. He found a seat across from the front desk, and decided to sit in it. He looked at the filly. 

 

"So..." he said to her. "What's your name?

 

"Um..." She continued observing him with curious eyes, "my name is Yrel. I'm visiting from Rainbow Falls, to live with my Uncle for a while. He's teaching my about my family history..."

 

She frowned. "...They're really boring. But the stuff he has is cool! There's a heart made of ice, and a shield-badge, and a short staff that has all these cool carvings, and--" She broke off, as if only now considering if she should be explaining these things, "um..."

[Jack Baker 698]

@P-Jay

Raze smiled at Yrel. "Sounds neat! Well, nice to meet you Yrel. I'm Raze." He waved his hoof at her.

 

"Rainbow Falls, huh? I've never been... and I've been to a lot of places..." He noticed Yrel staring at the weapons he had. He chuckled.

 

"You like my weapons?" he asked her kindly. "You know, each weapon tells a story... want me to tell you how I got them?"

[J.R. 3,183]

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Ice had finished pretty much over half of the burger by now. He swallowed what food he had in his mouth, and grinned at her. ​"No problem. This town is a really amazing place for ponies to hang out, test skills, have fun, meet new people...stuff like that." ​His ears twitched as he heard the intercom. ​"...Someone's challenging Luna. Oh boy. You know, me and Caliber have been training with Luna? She pretty much taught me how to fight blind. Literally with a blindfold. No way are they gonna be able to beat her. Especially considering I've seen her at near-full potential."

[Fractured 2,684]

@Unicorncob

As the time portals began to slow, guided by Starlight's magic, Terra could see. A tiny, near barren place of stone huts and a drifting winter. Much different than she remembered it, but still... home. She floated closer to the star that contained it. "Everyone; here!" Without waiting, she reached out a single hoof, and touched it. The world began to spin...

 

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@The Down Trotten

Trixie had been staring at the tiny star containing her timeline for well over a minute now. It was only a particular voice that snapped her out of it, ringing into her ears. "Yeah... someday." As she heard Terra's voice in addition, signifying that she'd found the portal, she let it leave her attention. She floated past Rhetoric, towards Terra''s location. "Let's go."

 

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@Star Saber

"Hmmm..." Nightingale flipped back in her seat, thinking. For this job, there was obviously going to be no small amount of things she could ask for. Though, she thought to herself with a smirk, secretly, she'd do it just for kicks. Still, there was one thing she needed... She shot a look back to Fuse. "I want a favor. Just one favor. But not from you. From your boss."

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"Really?" Rarity asked in surprise, though it's not like she couldn't believe it; Ice Blizzard had been on no share of large and small adventures. "As an alicorn, I figured she'd be no slouch in the fighting department, but..." She took another bite of her salad, before leaning in closer to Ice Blizzard, all eyes on him. "What's it like?"

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Luna kicked backwards with a single step at the magical attack, dropping backwards to slide across the floor. Almost immediately afterward, she jumped backwards diagonally, flipping out her wings and taking flight. She passed towards the back of the room, before she banked, strafing around the interior as she dodged the rapid fire blasts.

 

All power, but no style. A single large dark orb split from her horn. Floating upward, it split into several pieces, before floating to separate corners of the room. They sat there, hovering. I'll have to thank my sister for teaching me this spell later...

[DwhitetheGamer 867]

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Copper looked up as Luna took flight after dodging his blasts.  He had been using power throughout this fight, and now he had to back up and go on the defensive.  He could swear he had seen that move before, so he stood in place, and prepped himself for what's to come.  It was fortunate that he was able to learn defensive magic and techniques while he trained.

 

(TTR: 13:50)

[J.R. 3,183]

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​"I'll tell you like this...." ​Ice went on, ​"When it first started out, I felt like I was in military school. Like...take every amount of training Rainbow Dash gets from Spitfire, but the instructor is more powerful, more lenient, and what's happening could potentially kill the average pony. That's what it's like. Caliber and I both have been getting extensive training on both ends. He mostly's been getting speed and endurance training. Whereas I'm getting sensory training."

 

​​He took out the same blindfold he had been using for months when in Luna's training. It was a basic red blindfold with a single blue stripe attached to the end of it. Sort of like how martial arts belts worked. ​"Because my attacks can span over a wide area, Luna pretty much noticed that I have no control whatsoever. So after dropping me on my ass a few times...hehe, I pretty much became used to blind fighting."

[Fractured 2,684]

As the orbs hung in the air, they pulled in the darkness around them, growing bigger as they nipped at it. The room jumped up a shade in intensity, starting to glow, as light rushed in to fill what remained. It slowly began to take on a polished sheen...

 

As Luna came to a stop on the ground, she tensed. Rearing up with her front hooves, she slammed them forward on the ground, hard enough to crack the surface. What would be otherwise damaging, however, turned into an attack, as the crystal responded to her magic, turning into a force. A wave of polished stone as tall as Luna herself shot from floor, heading quickly in Copper's direction.

 

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@J.R.

"Wow... it sounds pretty difficult. For me. It looks like you've managed to handle yourself pretty well, all things considered." She sat back. "It's funny... you'd think after all of this time, me and my friends would be some sort of expert fighters. We have saved Equestria at least a half a dozen times, after all. And yet, very of us have had any sort of real training. Though Twilight has come to training with Luna herself, and Rainbow Dash has her martial arts. And I have my fencing skills. It's not always helpful, in the situations we come across."