Equestria Girls - Canterlot Court

Canterlot Court

Game 03: Last Seconds

Rainbow was complete soaked in sweat after the practice match the Canterlot Wondercolts had, their new center was a real match against Lightning Dust, good thing they based their new strategy in quick passes.

A small bottle was softly put on her hands; looking at her side she saw the smiling visage of Fluttershy.

“Thanks Shy” she told her before taking a huge gulp of the sports drink and then sighed in relief “nothing like a good nap after a game like that” Fluttershy simply giggled at her friend’s words.

“You are like an adorable puppy; once you play you want to take a nap”

“Hey, don’t you dare compare with a puppy, and besides, adorable and Rainbow Dash do not belong in the same sentence”

“Then stop pouting because you only look more adorable” Fluttershy shot back making Rainbow growl in small annoyance. Since the friendship games and their outcome it seemed that Fluttershy had gained a huge amount of self-confidence, enough to make jabs at Rainbow, but the athlete was happy to see her oldest friend shed the last pieces of her social anxiety.

“Yeah, yeah, whatever… now that I remember, want to check the gym? I have to do something before I go back home”

“The gym? Rainbow Dash, I will not let you go and play some more after that match”

“Is not like that, is just… I kind of made a promise and well… I ended up sending Sunny to kind of… you know…”

“Where you trying to bite more than you could chew again?”

“Yeah… so… maybe go by the gym so I could say sorry? I mean, I hate to let people down and I feel that I let Cloudy down” she felt Fluttershy’s hand on top of her own and that stopped her babbling.

“If you feel this is important then it is no problem, we are close to the gym anyway”

“Yeah, it won’t take long anyway, just go in, see what happened and maybe try to help them in another occasion” Rainbow answered back before changing directions into the gymnasium, encountering someone else getting close to it too “Wait, is that Principal Celestia?” the multi-color haired principal of the school took notice of the two students walking towards her.

“Well, I see that the training match against White Tail ended up well, so what can I do for you Miss Dash?”

“We were just going to check on the basketball team Principal”

“I see, is good to know that you are putting so much attention to the sports aspect of being a student in Canterlot High… if only you put that kind of dedication to classes” Celestia said with a completely serious face making Fluttershy put her hands on her mouth to stop the giggles.

“Eh, sorry about that, but you know, sports girl extraordinaire”

“You just copied what Rarity said yesterday without knowing what the words meant, isn’t it?”

“You need to stop hanging around with Applejack” now it was Principal Celestia’s turn to giggle at the interaction of her students. Since the last Fall Formal things had been shaken in Canterlot High and she was glad that the one that started all that change, and in a positive way none the least, also had found redemption among this halls.

But for now, she had a job to do and that was to check on another team of her school, even if the board put more attention on both the football and soccer team (even though the football club sucked in comparison) all sport clubs were important.

Opening the double door her body locked up at what she was seeing.

“Eh, principal Celestia, are you alright?” Rainbow Dash asked looking at the way the older woman simply stopped at the threshold of the gym. Shrugging, both teenagers simply went around the principal and saw exactly why she had reacted like that.

“Rainbow… is that?”

“That’s Sunset… amazing!” Rainbow was ready to say that she was sorry for letting her schoolmates down at their training match, but this blew her plans out of the water. Right there in the court, both Cloudy Kicks and Sunset Shimmer were leading a fast break against North Canterlot; their opponents seemed out of breath, almost sluggish, what had happened?

“Cloudy!” the captain of the squad send the ball bounce on the floor right into Sunset’s hands before taking flight again, her hand sending the ball through the basket once again.

“Another dunk! Come on! Go back and defend, they still have time for a comeback!” From the sideline Twilight had been infected by the energy of the team, she was shouting support and orders; she had quickly taken the spot as coach for the match it seemed.

“Fluttershy… did we just saw Sunset dunk?”

“Yes… yes we did” both friends were completely speechless at what was going on, just for a second Rainbow took her eyes from the court to check the electric scoreboard.

“82 to 80, Canterlot is winning”

“There’s only three seconds left, seems we arrived to the clutch moment in the game” Rainbow and Fluttershy both turned to watch at their principal to find her completely entranced with the match, her eyes seemed weird, as if all her concentration was put on the court, in every movement; Rainbow knew that kind of look, it was in her face every time she played.

With the whistle one of North Canterlot took aim letting the ball fly through the court to the other side.

‘What? They still have that much energy? No, they are using all they have to make this last shot count!’ Sunset thought watching that the one that caught the ball was none other than Sky Light ‘I won’t let you shoot!’ was the only thing in Sunset’s mind before jumping to block the shot. For a moment it seemed it had worked, but Sky Light still had a trick.

‘Idiot… I don’t know who you are but you still have things to learn’ Sky Light thought halting her shooting stance and resetting her position.

‘It wasn’t a shot… it was a faint!’ Sunset was already falling, by the time she would land Sky Light could shoot, right now she could make the three shot and they would win.

‘You are a newbie, you still don’t understand these kinds of plays and a simple faint got you, sorry kid but this is our game’ Sky Light smirked before letting the ball go but in that moment a hand appeared from Sky’s blind spot ‘What?’

Cloudy’s hand made contact with the ball slapping it out of reach at the last second just as the clock ticked down to zero and the referee marked the end of the game.

“Basketball is a game that has five people in the team, no way I would let my teammates down” the captain of Canterlot High said before she was assaulted by Apple Belle and Line Stream sending her to the floor.

“I… I lost? What am I going to tell sis?” Sky Light ended up kneeling in the court, she couldn’t process what just had happened to her, this was supposed to be an easy match, Canterlot High was nothing more than a pushover team.

“That… was… AWESOME! SUNNY YOU FREAKING ROCKED!” Rainbow screamed while started running in the team’s direction with Fluttershy hot on her heels. For her part Sunset simply turned to look at them trying to catch her breath after such a draining experience.

“That was amazing Sunset, congratulations” The bespectacled girl told Sunset offering her a towel to which Sunset only smiled.

“I have no idea how I did it, but thank you” Sunset told her trying to grab the towel before her eyes lost their golden shine and everything went dark falling on top of Twilight sending both of them to the floor.