The New Champion Rising

Chapter 6: What The Hell?

I rocked myself forward mumbling. "Where is my sword? Is it gone? Will I never be the same!?" I askef myself.

"Don't worry Jack, whatever happened to it, I'm sure it's fine!" She said. I shot her a glare.

"It's not fine, I'm a goner, I'm powerless, and I'm feeling my twitch again!" I said. The memories of my training at Fort Condra had started to come back. It all stopped when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around to see a llama with my sword. I grabbed the katana and put it in my sheath and hugged the llama so hard, I was surprised she was able to breath.

"Hi! I'm Paprika! I was wondering around this tundra to see an old friend of mine and I found this thingy in the snow and I thought that it might belong to someone that was obviously not from around here and I'd say you were one of them, but I wasn't sure until you called for your sword then had a battle with Velvet and then forfeit and then start rocking yourself like a baby and then I thought,' Oh my gosh this is the guy's sword! And woo wee isn't this a coinkidink that I'm looking for my friends like you are!" She said. I have no idea what she said but I know she said her name.

"Thank you so much Paprika, by the way, I'm looking for three other critters like you, Arizona, and Velvet, there's a compe-"

"There's a competition which smells funny by Celestia and she sent you over to tel us six champions about it so we could check it out, and you got to Arizona who said she'd join you and then you got all the way over here and fought Velvet and I think I know the rest," she said. I just stood with my jaw dropped.

"How did you know?" I asked.

"Just a hunch!" She said vaguely. I rubbed my temples and just faced it. This one was a lot like a pink pony I knew that dropped by in Canterlot from time to time. She was a great friend. Her name's Pinkie, which definitely suited her. Paprika was a lot like her strangely enough. I smiled and got up. Paprika gasps.

"Oh! I know what we should do!" She exclaimed.

"What?" I asked. Barriers started appearing.

"Fight!" She said excitedly.

She hugs me, and launches me in the air, and throws me down. I got out my katana, chuckling at the surprise attack. I ran at her and jumped. She dodges my attack from above and pulls out a blue cannon. She blasted me with it and I slammed into the wall. I got up, cracking my back. I smirked and ran at her. I felt a surge as I activated one of my power ups. I fell to the ground and barely dodged a flag tied to a needle. I looked up in surprise to see that my power up isn't affecting her. She's catching up to every move I make. I activated the other power up and thought of an ingenious plan. I smirked as I transformed my katana to a knife. Paprika gives an ooooh as it happens before her. I ran at her again, did a backflip, dodging another needle and threw my knife. The butt-end hits her head and she stumbled a little. I don't have too much time left. I grabbed my knife the correct way and threw it at Paprika, before the blade hits her, she grabbed it. I smirked when she fell for it. The knife transforms into the katana, and the blade plunged into her head. I walk over to take the katana out. Her HP just went down three quarters. There was barely any left. Before I wasted any more time, I jabbed the llama again in the chest brutally. I take out the katana when I heard a beep. It wasn't over for me though, because I heard a sizzling below me. I look down to see a nice wrapped up present. I realized it was a bomb, but before I could move away, I was blasted into the same wall as before.

"Good game!" I gasped out. Arizona galloped over while I was getting up.

"What happened!?" She asked.

"Paprika," I said. Zona starts laughing hysterically as soon as I answered.

"Jack, don't mess with her, every time someone wins against her, she leaves a nasty surprise," she said. I wave my hand away. Paprika walks up, smiling giddily.

"Hi Zony! It's been a long time!" She said. I look up at her, then at Arizona.

"The hell is wrong with the thing!?" I ask out loud.