After what seemed like hours, the train that Twilight and the other tributes were on haulted. Confused, she left her room to the dining cart where everypony else was.

"What's going on?" she asked, trotting to the group.

"Seems like we hit our destination of Canterlot." Pinkie Pie answered, looking out of the window. The doors then opened and we all were escorted to a huge building that had five floor levels.

"Ponyville tributes!" Filthy Rich got our attention. "This is Miss Zecora. Along beside me, she will be your mentor."

"Ah what do I see, all tributes under me." she stated. "Please there is no reason to fear, for our destination is near." We followed the rhyming zebra inside the building. We all entered the huge elevator that took us to the fifth floor.

"Don't get too comfortable. After the parade, we will be moving to another building. This is just for you all to get prepped for the big reveal." Filthy Rich stated, sitting at the table. "Mares on the right, stallions on the left."

After getting her room, Twilight heard a nock at her door. She opened it to see Zecora.

"Ah, tribute Twilight; hello! We have a place to go." She took me to another room.

A white unicorn with purple mane steps out of the back office door. "Ah, hello! Why darling, you have a wonderful mane."

"Um...thanks?" Twilight responded, puzzled at who this pony was.

"Oh, my. How silly of me to not introduce myself. I am Rarity. Ponyville's fashion designer." Oh, so this was Rarity. Rarity was about Twilight's age, but a year older. So, this is where she was? She used to own the boutique at the end of the corner, but she disappeared. No pony really bought anything from there anyways. They didn't have the money!

"Oh." was all Twilight said as Rarity started to take her measurements. "So, what's the plan this year?"

Every year the Pony Games happened, each of the districts had a sort of theme. Cloudsdale had some sort of sky theme to it usually while Appolosa usually had a country theme. Ponyville was lucky enough to have a variety of themes, but never seemed to go too well.

"The theme of friendship. Ponyville is well known for the town's friendship and I want to try to get that theme out there. Whatever type of pony you are, you can always be friends."

"You do realize that we all have to kill eachother...right?" Twilight bluntly asked.

Rarity sighed in depression, "Yes darling...I know." She wrote down numbers and then looked to Twilight, "Don't tell any pony, but I want to try to show teamwork and friendship to try and stop these dastardly killing games."

Twilight nodded, "Trust me, I won't tell any pony." Rarity nodded to this and then told Twilight she could leave. So, Twilight went back to her room and looked to the mirror. There, she started to think. Was these games made up to remember the wars, or was it just for the fun and games? Or, even was it a way to control the population? Twilight was unsure, but dwelling over it was no help.

Sighing once again, she laid on her bed and then decided a nice nap would help. No use in wasting her energy. A few moments later, the tributes were once again called to a meeting. Filthy Rich and Zecora went over what the parade was like and how we were all supposed to act.

Every tribute then got into their respected uniform. The unicorns had some sort of magic theme to them, the pegasi had a cloud theme and the earth ponies had a earthy theme. Three different themes to try and show friendship? Was it because of our differences, we are still teammates? The citizens of Ponyville are all races, while in Cloudsdale ponies are pegasi and Appleloosa has mostly earth ponies.

You would think that having a wide variety of race would help Ponyville win these games, right? Well, in fact it put them in a disadvantage. Usually the tributes were either fillies, unexperienced pegasi, or just did not have common sense in a survival situation. All the Ponyville tributes then got in their place. As the District whom have lost the games the most, they were presented last. Stepping into the take off area, Twilight could see the other three Districts. Same old themes.

Cloudsdale was the first to step out. Being pegasi, they had the sky advantage, letting them take most of the victories. Going out, they had a routine of the tributes confidently doing flips in the air. Come to think of it, Ponyville didn't have any type of routine.

"Cloudsdale already won. They have a routine." the young filli, Scootaloo pouted.

"Have no fear, for a routine is near." Zecora answered. In her rhyming ways, she explained what us tributes could do to top Cloudsdale's performance. We all nodded at the end and then turned to see Appleloosa's tributes go out. They just had a ground routine, so it wasn't as impressive as the Cloudsdale tributes.

With the other District just walking down the walkway, it was finally Ponyville's turn. The tributes marched out and then Flash picked up Scootaloo and started flying around the group in circles. Then, Twilight and the stallion unicorn teleported on top of Pinkie Pie and Big Mac (Twilight was on Pinkie while the stallion was on Big Mac). When there, they connected their front hoof and raised it up. All smiling for the crowds to look in wonder.

We made it to the next building which again had five floors. Why have five floors if there was only four districts? Everypony sighed and got down.

"Very good show, I'd like to let you know." Zecora then said, who was somehow there before them. She then took us up the elevator to the fifth floor and we all went to our assigned bedrooms to then fall right asleep.

Author's Note

Yeah... Zecora's in the story! I'm so dead. I decided to add Zecora because she was a mentor of Twilight in the MLP universe so..yeah. I apologize for my bad rhyming. Also, surprise! Rarity is the fashion designer. Who would've thought? Also, just to make things clear, Ponyville has two pegasi, two unicorns and two earth ponies. I'm not sure if I specified that in the last chapter. Sorry!

ATTENTION: I've seemed to forget that Flash was a Pegasus. Therefore, I updated this. I'm thinking the unicorn could maybe be a background pony. Any one have any background ponies they want me to put in?

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