Zatch Bell Equestrian Battles!

Later on, that day Kiyo guided Zatch towards the roof top. Kiyo had made quite a mischievous plan to trick Zatch and get him out of the way that way he could at least get some peace and quite for the rest of the day.

"So is this the place Kiyo?" Zatch asked as he turned a corner and looked towards the door leading to the roof.

"Yup, if you go up those stairs you find the place where all the bullies hang out!" Kiyo explained as Zatch looked at him with his usual innocent expression.

"And when the bullies come to pick on me?"

"Then I'll come up there to rescue you!" Kiyo explained with a sly grin, however, Zatch wasn't the most perceptive kid in the world.

"Alright! It's time to start, OPERATION: HERO OF JUSTICE!" Zatch exclaimed as he ran up the stairs.

"Yeah right! I don't care what my dad says....That kid is a royal pain."

Kiyo sneered as he began to walk back down the hallway. Meanwhile, Zatch opened the door to the roof and looked around only to see that no one was there.

"Alright come out you bullies!" Zatch exclaimed only to suddenly hear a familiar voice from behind.

"Oh hello again!" The bubbly voice of Pinkie Pie said as Zatch turned to greet her.

"You're the girl from the hallway!" Zatch exclaimed bluntly while Pinkie just grinned happily at him.

"And your Kiyo's friend! I'm Pinkie Pie by the way! I'm Kiyo's besty but he doesn't know it yet! Though I wish he wouldn't be such a grump but hey I kinda like that side of him." Pinkie exclaimed while whispering that last part to herself.

"Nice to meet you again Pinkie!"

"And it's nice to meet you, flash!" Pinkie said once again not getting it right but not caring a single bit. You gotta wonder if she's just doing it on purpose at this point.

"MY NAMES ZATCH! Um....Wait a minute, don't tell me you're the big bully?" Zatch asked while Pinkie just giggled.

"Naw if you're looking for a bully you should look for Sunset Shimmer or Kane. But I wouldn't suggest it cause those two can be super duper mean! They do all kinds of stuff like taking people's lunch money and picking on them and stuff! If you ask me their nothing but a bunch of meanies!"

However, what Pinkie didn't realize was that while she was explaining this to Zatch, Kane had walked out onto the roof and was, ironically enough, beating up on some kids and taking their lunch money before making fun of them.

Kane was around 15 years old and was easily one of the biggest, and arguably buffest, guys at Canterlot High school. He stood a lot taller than most of the students at least a 6 and a half feet tall and wore an unbuttoned white shirt with some worn out blue jeans.

"What's up Pinkie? Who you callin a bully?" Kane asked as he stepped behind her.

Pinkie slowly turned around to see Kane glaring down at her which seemed to catch her off guard and caused her to scream in surprise.

"You, ya big dope! And you better watch out! A bully like you would be squashed by Kiyo the Hero Of Justice!" Zatch said with a confident expression while Kane just glared down at the child.

"The hero of justice is gonna tear you apart so yo-" Zatch tried to say before Kane snatched him up by the collar.

"You sure know how to talk a good game kid. So why don't you show me..." Kane said only to suddenly start beating Zatch to a pulp before throwing him to the ground.

"If you can walk the walk with Kane."

Pinkie stood in shock as she tried to help Zatch in whatever way she could while Kane just cracked his knuckles. However, high above them, they had another strange spectator watching them with some binoculars. Somehow he was able to levitate in the air on what appeared to be a skateboard and was also eating a hamburger.

"Wow! Looks like those two guys are fighting over a cute girl. YES! I'm gonna make her my new girlfriend!"

"Eido would you please get serious! Can't you think of anything else but girls?" A voice said as a boy suddenly appeared on the man's back.

As the boy took the binoculars he saw a familiar looking boy with yellow hair trying to defend some girl from a thug. After closer inspection he instantly realized who it was.

"What's the dealio Hyde?" The man, now known as Eido, asked as the boy, AKA Hyde, looked at him with a confident smirk.

"Look, I found a weak Mamodo for us! Let's go Eido!" Hyde said before suddenly vanishing again while his partner pulled out a green book.

"JIKIR!!" Eido shouted as the book let out a bright green glow.

Suddenly a gust of wind seemed to appear almost out of nowhere as the man started to glide down towards the rooftop.

Meanwhile, Kiyo was downstairs heading towards the front entrance only to stop when he heard a few students talking to each other from the staircase.

"Well, it wouldn't have happened if you didn't wanna go to the roof top! Still.....Kane took all my money!"

"Oh please, you only had like fifty cents anyways."

Kiyo watched as the boys walked away and suddenly felt a chill run up his spine.

"Kane's on the roof top?" Kiyo thought as images of Kane and Zatch fighting popped up in his head.

"Oh, what do I have to worry about? Worse comes to worse Zatch can just shot lightning at him. Besides, I don't care what happens to that brat anyways." Kiyo whispered to himself before accidently dropping his bag causing the red book to fall out.

As he stared at the book he thought about how Zatch had trusted him so much and how he had trusted every word he had said to him. As well as how much Zatch wanted to help him make friends, even if he was a little annoying it felt wrong to do nothing.

Kiyo sighed as he picked up the book and walked towards the stairs not noticing the girl from before had been following him.

Back on the roof Kane was currently beating Zatch to a pulp as Pinkie tried to stop him with little success. Suddenly Kane threw Zatch against the chain link fence with enough force to cause Zatch to gasp for air.

"That's enough Kane he's just a little kid!" Pinkie shouted as she stood in between both Zatch and Kane.

"Out of my way Pinks!"

"Zatch get out of here! Run away!" Pinkie exclaimed while Zatch slowly stood back up.

"No way! Kiyo is coming to the rescue so you had better watch out! Cause when he gets here, he's gonna....beat the pants off of you for sure! Because Kiyo's the real deal, The Hero of Justice" Zatch said confidently as he glared defiantly at Kane.

Meanwhile, Kiyo had walked back to the roof but gasped as he saw what had happened in the time he wasn't there. Zatch was battered and bruised with cuts and gashes here and there.

"W-Why is he hurt so bad? Why didn't he shot any of his lightning bolts?" Kiyo whispered to himself as he watched Kane push Pinkie over as he made his way towards Zatch.

"Do you really think Kiyo's coming to rescue you?"

"Definitely!"

"Oh don't make me laugh! That punk doesn't care for anyone but himself." Kane explained While drop kicking Zatch and sending him spiraling to the ground.

"He's right! There's no use waiting for me Zatch! Get a clue you little shrimp." Kiyo thought as he watched Kane slowly walk towards Zatch who was struggling to get back on his feet.

"He thinks he's something special, and everyone else is just garbage!" Kane exclaimed as he picked Zatch up by the collar again.

"That's right everyone else is just garbage."

"And he just thinks you're a whiny little baby!" Kane shouted as he reared back and threw Zatch into the ground.

"When are you gonna realize that you've been fooled Zatch and run away!?"

"HE DOSENT HAVE ANY FRIENDS! HE SHOULD JUST GO HOME AND STAY THERE FOREVER!" Kane shouted as he pushed Zatch over with his foot.

"NO ONE WANTS HIM HERE!"

Kiyo felt his body tremble as what Kane had just said reverberated through his body like an echo in a cave. The words kept echoing in his head over and over again. It was the truth.......The undeniable truth that Kiyo knew all too well. It's always been this way ever since he was a kid it's always been like this.......It was tr-

"That's not true!" Pinkie exclaimed while Zatch tried to push himself off the ground.

"Kiyo is......My friend." Zatch choked out under sharp breaths as he tried to keep his balance.

"Why would you want to be friends with a guy like that anyways?" Kane asked as Pinkie tried to keep Zatch from hurting himself, however, she could tell by the look in his eyes that she couldn't stop him.

"BE QUIET! What do you know about Kiyo anyways! Do you think he likes the fact that he's a genius, fat head? Well, he doesn't! Kiyo's father said, in elementary school he had plenty of friends but in junior high they started to get jealous because he was smarter than they were!"

Kiyo clenched his fists as he listened to the same kid he tried to trick before defend him. Zatch, a boy he hated for trying to make him make friends! Was trying to defend him! The guilt fell on him like a wave as he watched this brave kid defend him......Like a real friend would.

"And the truth is, Kiyo didn't change at all but the way his friends treated him sure did! What did Kiyo ever do to you anyways! He didn't say all those mean things like you did! He didn't go around hurting anyone like you! He didn't take money from them like you! YOUR THE ONE WHO SHOULDENT COME BACK TO SCHOOL! YOU BIG BULLY!"

Kiyo felt tears run down his cheeks for the first time in a long while. Kiyo watched Zatch stand against a thug like Kane, who had him beat in every way, and saw the courage he possessed and how it seemed to give him strength! Strength Kiyo wished he could have had before.

"If you insult my friend one more time! You'll have to answer to me and I promise you I won't let you off so easy!" Zatch said with determination dripping from his every pore.

"That's right and you'll have to deal with me to!" Pinkie exclaimed as she stood with Zatch who wasn't budging an inch.

"Oh yeah? Then why isn't he coming to save you then? He's not your friend thats just another lie!" Kane proclaimed with a cocky grin.

"He is coming! He umm, had to go to the bathroom really bad!" Zatch explained with his usual childish enthusiasm.

"Yeah thats it!" Pinkie said siding with Zatch's proposal without a second thought.

However, Kiyo felt his jaw drop while tears flowed down his face at the sheer absurdity of the situation. Suddenly all the tension from before vanished as Zatch tried to justify why his assumption was correct.

"Kiyo! YEAH, YEAH! KIYO THE HERO!" Both Pinkie and Zatch chanted while Kiyo himself couldn't help but feel proud to have friends like that.

"You guys....."

"AHH THAT FELT GOOOOD!" Kiyo shouted as he flung the door open which shifted everyone's attention towards him.

"What took you so long pal?" Zatch asked, however, Kiyo's response was a determined expression and a new fire in his eyes.

"You were in there forever."

"I hope you washed you hands."

Kiyo felt his eyebrow twitch as he listened to the two knuckleheads. It was true that he was lucky to have friends like these but still.....

"WHERE DO YOU TWO COME UP WITH THIS STUFF!" Kiyo exclaimed as Zatch and Pinkie smirked at each other.

"Hey ugly! Guess what!? Kiyo's here so I guess you're the liar now."

"Thats right dog breath! And now that I'm here your gonna have to answer to me!" Kiyo exclaimed only to have his but kicked a second later as Kane started smacking him around like a rag doll.

As Kiyo was firmly receiving his own butt on a platter both Zatch and Pinkie tried to cheer him on. However, it didn't seem like it was doing much good as he tried to crawl back towards the both of them.

"I-I can't....Beat this guy.....This fight was impossible." Kiyo managed to say as large bumps and bruises covered his face.

"What do ya mean? Everything's going great! Your plan is working perfectly! You should see the look on your face!" Zatch exclaimed as Kiyo took a second to catch his breath.

"I'm telling you Kiyo you look more alive than ever before!"

"A-Alive?"

Kiyo looked down at his scuffed up body and realized what Zatch meant. Finally, he felt like he was doing something! He wasn't just doing something for himself anymore he was finally trying to do something for others.

"Thank you so much for saving us Kiyo! It's almost like your the main character of some anime or a badly written Fanfiction!" Pinkie exclaimed with her usual bubbly tone, however, no one understood what she was talking about.

"Three cheers for the hero of justice!" Zatch said as he held Kiyo's hand up in the air while Pinkie clapped along.

Kane, on the other hand, looked kinda mad......Scratch that he was really mad! Like super mad! Like if you took mad times like 5 that would be the level of mad he was at. You could say that it was almost.......maddening!

"ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE FUN OF ME!?"  Kane shouted as a vein appeared on his forehead as the anger pulsed through him like fire.

"O-Oh crap.....Now he's really mad." Kiyo said as he felt his body begin to shake.

"Don't worry Kiyo! I already thought of another plan just in case of something like this happened." Zatch proclaimed as he pulled out a pencil and paper seemingly out of nowhere.

"Oh yeah, Whats that?" Kiyo asked with the slightest tinge of hope.

"I call it, The praying to the heavens plan! Now something will fall from the heavens and save us!" Zatch explained enthusiastically.

"THERE'S NO WAY THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN!" Kiyo exclaimed as Pinkie suddenly looked up to see something moving towards them.

"Why don't you pick on someone your own size!"

Suddenly Kiyo, Zatch, and Pinkie moved out of the way as what appeared to be a weirdo riding a skateboard touch downed right on Kane's face before skating towards Pinkie.

"Hey, cutie! Nice skirt!" The stranger said with a devious look on his face before Pinkie grabbed her skirt with a blush on her face.

"YOU LITTLE PUNK! How did you skate onto the roof like that!?"

"I came with the wind. But I guess that I would be hard for you to get.....For a big air head like you."

Without a second thought, Kane charged the stranger preparing to beat him to a bloody pulp, however, the second he tried to touch him the stranger lifted his hand up and shouted,

"JIKIR!"

Suddenly a strong gust of wind shot out of the strangers hand and sent Kane spiraling through the air and into a pile of boxes next to the entrance to the roof.

"W-What was that?"

"Wind just shot right out of his hand."

While both Kiyo and Zatch were watching Kane the stranger skated around Pinkie before grabbing her wrist.

"Hey, Cutie. Your gonna be my new girlfriend~."

"What!? No way let go!" Pinkie explained as she tried to loosen his grip only for it to tighten.

"I'm wicked strong you know and I always get what I want." The strange guy said with an intimidating tone as Pinkie struggled to free herself.

"Stop right there! Let go of her!" Kiyo exclaimed as he and Zatch both stood in his way.

"You don't wanna mess with the hero of justice!" Zatch proclaimed as he ran over to them.

"That's enough out of you little man!" The stranger said as he held his hand up again.

"JIKIR!"

Once again a strong gust of air shot past Kiyo and Zatch almost like blades as the cut through their skin before pushing them both back. As Kiyo felt his body begin to break down from the strain he suddenly heard someone shouting and saw Zatch sprinting towards the stranger. Kiyo saw how the strangers book began to glow and now with a sudden burst of speed, ran over to protect Zatch before he got himself killed.

"JIKIR!"

Suddenly Kiyo noticed something strange about his attack now that he was closer. It was a faint figure of a child but he could definitely see him as he swung his hands which caused the wind to appear.

"A kid?" Kiyo thought as he slid across the ground with Zatch in his arms.

"Didn't I tell you I was strong?"

Kiyo turned around and noticed something that hadn't occurred to him until just now.

"That guy has the same book as Zatch and that kid who's making the wind. He has the same weird eyes as Zatch with those lines underneath. Which means that the wind power is actually coming from that kid and from that book with some kind of spell."

Kiyo looked down at the red book and a thought entered his mind. Memories of earlier that morning when Zatch blew a hole in his wall with his lightning!

"Now I get it, I must have accidently called out the spell when I was holding this book." Kiyo summarized as he held the red book in his hands.

"Eido, hurry up and finish him off." The boy exclaimed as his partner prepared himself.

"Yeah, let's show this guy our full power." Eido said as he skated towards Zatch and Kiyo while his book began to glow.

Kiyo slowly got to his feet and opened the book to the page where the red ink was as a faint red light began to shine from the pages.

"Take this, the books first spell!" Kiyo said as the red light shined brighter and brighter.

"ZAKER!!"

Suddenly Zatch's eyes disappeared as a strong electrical charge began to build up in front of him. Then with a thunderous bang, a giant bolt of lightning shot towards Eido and Hyde. However, just before the blast hit them, Hyde managed to move Eido out of the way of the blast as it collided  with the wall causing a giant explosion.

Kiyo and Pinkie felt their jaws drop as the explosion caused a strong back wind that blew rubble all over the place. Meanwhile, Zatch's eyes suddenly returned only to see the destruction around him.

"That was seriously cool." Kiyo said plainly as Pinkie had no words for what they had just seen.

"What's going on here Kiyo? Lightning sure does strike a lot around this place." Zatch said oblivious to the fact that HE was the cause of the blast.

"He doesn't realize that he's the one who makes the lightning?" Kiyo thought as he watched Zatch and Pinkie talk with each other excitedly over what had happened.

However, everyone didn't notice the girl from before had been watching them from the door leading to the staircase.

"Was that Equestrian magic? No....It was something different. Heh, well then......It looks like I might have to start my plan a little ahead of schedule now that Kane's gone and gotten beat up." She whispered before walking downstairs.

Meanwhile, Eido and Hyde had managed to escape from Zatch and Kiyo's and were currently hitchhiking on the top of a semi truck.

"What the heck Hyde I thought you said they were weak!?" Eido shouted as he tried to catch his breath.

"Its no use those guys are on a whole nother level."

"Dear dad, Thanks for the birthday present. It seems like my life just got a little more interesting, thanks to Zatch Bell."

As Kiyo finished his letter to his father he turned around in his chair to see Zatch asleep on his futon. He smiled and turned off his desk lamp and walked over and placed his hand on his head only to feel something sharp pinch his hand. On further inspection, Kiyo found two small horns sticking out of Zatch's head.

"What the heck are you Zatch?" Kiyo whispered as he got into bed and let the events of today replay in his head.

"Umm.......Yellow Tail~" Zatch said dreamily as drool streamed down his cheeks.