My little pony: the Shadow veil saga

Right away Shadow veil shot a green flash at twilight, and for a moment, nothing happened, then twilight began to feel a wired tingling in her mouth. And before she realized it, she began babbling all kinds of nonsense, ranging from facts about Canterlot history, to sections of a bedtime story she would tell Spike when he was little to get him to sleep at night. She was trying to think of a way to counter this spell, but as she did, her lips and mouth began to swell up like a balloon.

"One of my mostly used, non-lethal spells, 'babbling bloat'." He said with a smirk. "Causes uncontrollable rambling, shortly followed by swelling of the lips, tung, and eyes." He then stretched his front legs and let out a yawn. "Applejack, Twilights's time has begun."

Reluctantly, Applejack began the timer, and with every second that passed, as hoped her friend could find a way to break the spell.

"Oh and by the way," Shadow Veil added. "If you wish to forfeit the round, stomp your right hoof three times to signal a surrender. The spell will then end immediately."

Ten seconds had already passed, but Twilight couldn't concentrate. Her rambling of various bed bedtime stories, history, and other memories were filling her head. To stop this, she stomped her right hove three times. And almost immediately the rambling stopped, and her facial muscles began to relax. She let out a huge breath and almost passed out.

"Come on Twilight!" Rainbow Dash cheered. "Whip the floor with this guy!"

"We believe in you!" Rarity added.

"Make him laugh!" Pinky Pie screened. Which actually gave Twilight a brilliant idea.

It was her turn, the score was Shadow veil 1 twilight 0. But she was going to turn the tables this round. Applejack saw the enthusiasm in twilights's eyes and knew her friend had this in the bag.

"Draw!" Applejack cried out to the magic users.

Instantly, Twilight's horn glowed and this off a blast of energy that flew at Shadow Veil too fast for him to counter. But instead of being knocked to the ground, little balls of light surrounded him from all sides. He looked at them confused as to third purpose. After a moment on them just floating there, he stopped to examine why they remained motionless. Then they took the form of feathers! Soft, purple glowing feathers!

The feathers began tickling Shadow Veil, causing him to drop to the floor laughing. Applejack began the timer with a confidant light smirk, seeing as how Shadow Veil couldn't counter it.

"Yeh!" Rainbow Dash screamed as she did a back flip in the air. " I knew you could do it!"

"Smashing! Truly brilliant!" Rarity threw out there.

"Yeah!" Fluttershy softly spoke, in her normal, quiet, cheering voice.

"Great idea!" Pinky commented. "I wish if thought of that! Or a pie to the face! Oh, or raining cupcakes! But not chocolat-" Rainbow Dash put her hoof over Picky's mouth.

"I wouldn't celebrate just yet girls" a slick, female voice said. Twilight looked over to Shadow Veil's assistant, who's pupils had shrink, making her look more like a snake then a dragon. "He's just toying with you. Watch..."

And as the dragon predicted, the grey unicorn shot a flash of green from his horn that surrounded his entire body, creating a bubble like shield. He then stood up in the shield, fully protected from the tickling feathers that were now attempting to reach him threw the barrier, but having very little success.

With a proud grin, Shadow Veil replied, "countered, and now I think I will return them."

He then twirled the shield around by running in place, like a hamster ball. The feathers then flew off of the shield and began flying off in random directions, hitting the girls and the black and red dragon assistant. The feathers resumed tickling them all. But when Twilight caught a breath, she dispelled the tickling feathers.

When she caught her breath, the dragon assistant began to yell at Shadow Veil. "What was with that! Why did you hit me too!? Are you stupid or something?!"

"Calm down, Envy. I couldn't control the direction of the feathers." He said coldly to his assistant. Turning his attention back to the girls, he cracked a sinister smile. "That's 2 me, 0 for the Princess. I was expecting a little more of a challenge."

Twilight's temper shot up a little, she could feel her pulse increasing and her heart race, but then Rarity cried out "keep your cool, dear! He's just trying to use your anger against you!"

Twilight took a deep breath, lifted her hoof to her chest, then as she exhaled, she let her hoof fall to the ground, a relaxation technique her old filly sitter, and sister-in-law, taught her. She then smiled back at her friends, who gave her an cheer of support.

Twilight then shot a confidant glair at Shadow Veil. "It's your move."

He smiled back "good to see you still have some fights in you. This would be boring if I won against the number 1 student so easily."

"Draw!" Applejack cried out.

Instantly, Shadow veil shot a flash of green at Twilight, and much like her last spell, orbs of green light surrounded her, but these where bigger, and in fewer number. It didn't take her long to know what he planned to do. The orbs then changed from balls of green light into floating green glowing boots. But unlike the slight tickling of the feathers, they began kicking the alicorn princess. She took a few shots in the shin, one in the back of he head, and a few in her flank. As Shadow Veil nodded to Applejack to begin the timer, the confident smile appeared on Twilight's face again.

This shook Shadow Veil slightly, but not enough to were he felt much danger. He knew she couldn't project a barrier like he did. And it's true she couldn't, but it is also true that she did know of a way to counter his spell.

Her horn then flashed purple, and a aura of purple surrounded the shoelaces of the boots. The laces then stretched out, as began tying the boots to each other, they tied over and under, and all around until all the green boots were tied together in a giant ball, unable to kick. Twilight shot a victorious smile over to Shadow Veil, who no longer looked so smug.

"Point to Twilight!" Applejack cheered out, the added "2:1"

Shadow Veil shook off the uncertainty, and regained his bravado. It was her turn. He had an ace up his sleeve, but he had hoped not to use if he could help it. "Your turn to attack, Princess." His words trailed out like a thick smog.

"Draw!" Applejack called out confidently.

Twilight then shot a small and fast flash of purple flash at Shadow Veil. He didn't have time to counter with his defensive spell before it hit him though. He looked around, wondering if she had used the same spell twice or had copied his own version of the spell. But there were no boots, no feathers. But as he checked his face for swelling, he felt something plushy on his face, and without thinking, his horn flashed green as he cast the counter spell to the 'babbling bloat' spell. The counter to the babbling bloat was a spell that chilled the mouth and face, reducing the swelling and calm the rambling mind. Only, when he performed the spell, something on his face froze!

He touched it, and there was a solid block of ice attached to his face! He looked to Twilight, confused as to what she had done. She stood tall and proud, mimicking his own stance.

Knowing what he was confused about, she answered his question "I just used the mustache spell, you did say non-lethal spells right? You never said I had to use a spell that would directly be a weapon. I had a feeling you would prepare a quick counter without thinking, being this close to the end. All I had to do was set a spell up for you to counter knowing you would rush to counter without fully analyzing the spell first."

"Woo-hoo!" All get friends cheered for her as she made her was back to them to give them all a hoof five.

Shadow Veil, now annoyed, shot a medium sized yellow lightning bold from his horn, that shattered the frozen mustache on his face, severing it from his body. His cocky grin was now an annoyed grit. "I've gone easy on you up till now, but the horseshoe has been thrown!"

Twilight repositioned herself, ready for what she expected to be a very powerful spell. She locked onto Shadow Veil, afraid of what would happen if she dared look away. But her friends still cheered for her in the background, which gave her confidante in her abilities and the strength to overcome anything.

"Draw!" Applejack screamed.

And within an instant, Shadow Veil's horn began summoning a giant ball of green glowing energy, which started to grow more and more with every seconds hat passed. Horror struck Twilight when she saw how big the sphere of magical energy was. She looked behind her and saw the shadow of the sphere engulf all of get friends! If it his her, they would be in danger too!

Twilight's horn began to glow as well, she began to summon as much magic as she could to try and block the attack not just from her but from her friends as well. Both the dark unicorn's and the purple alicorn princess's eyes turned white with the amount of magic they both were summoning. Right before the attack , when Twilight thought that Shadow Veil was going to shoot the ball off at her directly, the ball shrunk to the size of a parisprite!

Her eyes returned to third normal color as she saw Shadow Veil shoot the small sphere, not at her, but at an angle at the pond not far over to there right. She looked at the size of the ball and wondered what he had planned. Then when the sphere hit the water, the entire pond exploded! Creating a huge splash that engulfed not only the entire park, but Twilight's friends as well.

"Envy!" Shadow veil called out. "Hop up in that tree!"

"Why?" She asked in a snarky tone.

"Do it!" He yelled in an angered tone, shooting more sparks from his horn.

She must have realized something, Twilight thought,because her eyes grew wide and her pupils extended past their usual sliver. She immediately hopped up in the nearest tree.

Twilight watched their reaction, still confused as to what the spell was supposed to have done. "What was that about?"

Shadow Veil turned his attention back to the young princess, his smirk turned into a teeth clenching smile as he told her "if you give up right now, you won't have to find out. But I'll tell you this, I have you and your friends set up to receive the 'shock of your lives'!"

Twilight looked once again at the unicorn's horn that began sparking more and more. But not with a magical green light like what he used, but with sharp flares of yellow. She then looked around her and the others who were drenched due to the pond exploding. Then she pieced it together, and Shadow Veil's threat was realized!

"You can't use another spell! That's cheating!" She called out to the grey unicorn who stood with a triumphant grin.

"For one thing, Princess Twilight Sparkle, spell combos are commonly used, but one can only combo one directly after another. And another thing, what I plan to use is not a spell, but a sick joke of fate. Not you have your choices, you have 3 seconds to surrender, 4 seconds to try and dry you all off, or enjoy a free perm!"

Twilight quickly began thinking of possible options, but knew ultimately that there was no spell she could cast in under 3 seconds that would keep her friends from harm's way. And even if she wanted to try, she wouldn't want to risk her friends safety. She hung her head low, her eyes closed and began stoping her right hove.

Once. Shadow Veil laughed maniacally as his assistant cheered from the nearby tree.

Twice. All of twilight's friends watched eagerly, wondering what she was thinking. Rainbow dash trying to reach her with words of enthusiasm, while the rest of them nearly watched and bit their lips (exempt for Fluttershy who couldn't watch and hid her head underneath her hooves).

But right before Twilight could stomp her right hoof the third and final time, a familiar and comforting voice rang out from the sky. "What is the meaning of this?!?!"

Twilight and her friends looked up to see Princess Celestia descending from the sky, ridding up in her Pegasus driven chariot. Shadow Veil looked back at his assistant who shared a look of equal worry. Whilst the girls all ran up to the princess of the sun as her chariot landed, and stopped.

Princess Celestia smiled down on the girls, happy to see them, but wondering why they were all soaking wet, what had happens to the park, and why they were there in the first place. She turned to her faithful student for the answer, but as soon as she saw slight yellow sparks fly out of the corner of her eye and say the grey unicorn looking sheepishly guilty over at the other end of the park, it became painfully clear what had transpired here.

"Magical duels again, Shadow Veil?" Her voice was dry and disappointed.