The Story Of Scoscvisc

A "Friendly Match"

"Do you want to play a game of Skyball?" Leif asked

"We can't play an actual game, but we could play a shoot-out." Scoscvisc replied.

"How do you play a shoot-out?"

"1 player is a goalie and the other shoots the ball from a certain spot. The players rotate after each shot and the one with the most goals after 5 shots each wins."

"do you have a ball?"

"at my house"

"well go get it" Leif said pointing at the door.

"ok, if you insist, I won't hold back." Scoscvisc said, walking towards the door.

"neither will I" Leif said with a grin as Scoscvisc closed the door.

"Leif go easy on him, he doesn't know about you." Rose said with a little concern.

"come on Rose, you've been telling me that I need to get more exercise now that we're retired. This is the perfect way to exercise." Leif argued, beginning to walk out the door.

"Dad, where are you going?" Tulipe said walking out of the bathroom.

Leif turned around and said, with a smile, "To get my jersey."

After a 10 minute walk, Scoscvisc arrived at his house. It was a small house that was a deep maroon color. He opened the door and quickly realized that he needed to clean his house, and soon. His friends really went overboard with the partying 2 days ago. While he didn't drink, he allowed his friends to drink. Scoscvisc realized that maybe he should have set limits to the cider.

"Great! I'll have to clean this up later!" Scoscvisc said while navigating the mess.

His house was an absolute mess. It would be hard to describe his house with the mess in the way. When there isn't "The Mess of the Century" in the way, his house is a nice light, grass green color with a wooden trimming.

The room he was standing in looking for his Sky-Ball was the living room. The ground was littered with garbage. Scoscvisc opened up a closet and found the object that he was looking for, a 7-inch radius ball filled with a gas that makes it float in air, but only when a button on the side is held for 5 seconds. He got the ball when he was a colt. He was at the a Canterlot High School playoff game, when the ball was shot into the stands made for earth ponies and unicorns by the team captain.

Scoscvisc picked up the ball and made his way out the door to head back to Tulipe's apartment. I'll play a nice friendly game with Leif and get to know him better since I will know him for a long time.

Scoscvisc exited his house and made his way to the Skyball field. On his way there he began to think about what his strategy would be for the shoot-out. He began to think out some complex moves that would surely throw Leif off guard. Scoscvisc smiled to himself

"He won't know what hit him." Scoscvisc said with a mischievous grin.

About 10 minutes later, Scoscvisc found himself at the Skyball field. He looked up to see a very shocking sight; Leif was in a Skyball uniform, but not just any uniform. A Canterlot High School jersey. Scoscvisc threw every strategy that he had out the window.

"Oh horseapples!" Scoscvisc muttered under his breath

Scoscvisc remembered that he had to use some magic to make the wings, he concentrated all of his mental power onto his back, then he began to imagine wings. The wings that he was imagining were on the smaller side so that he could navigate the air faster and smoother. He was quickly running through a few tests on the now existing wings.

'Flap' he thought, and they did just that. After a few more tests, he was ready for what he knew would be the hardest shoot-out of his life.

Now that his wings were solidified, he flew up to where Leif was, looked him in the eye and said, "Liar."

"Does that change anything?" Leif replied casually.

"Well… yeah it does!" Scoscvisc yelled "How am I supposed to go up against somepony who actually played the sport, somepony who was a player-"

"Captain of the Team" Leif interrupted.

"Whatever, let's just get started." Scoscvisc said while using his magic to fly up to the spot where they would be shooting the ball.

Leif flew in front of the net and began to stretch, "Don't go easy on me just because I'm older." He yelled to Scoscvisc while stretching his forelegs.

"Don't worry. I won't!" He yelled back "Are you ready?"

"Yeah!"

"Okay, let's GO!" Scoscvisc yelled as he pressed the button on the ball and kicked it higher into the air. He used all of his strength in one flap, and then he twirled his body and delivered a roundhouse-type kick to the ball. He realized that he didn't put enough spin on it and it would go just under the net.

Leif quickly flew over to it and caught it so that it wouldn't go barreling into the ground. Leif had to admit, that ball was flying extremely fast.

He started flying over to the shooting area and as he passed Scoscvisc he turned and told him, with a grin, "Nice shot, but now it's my turn"

He could see Scoscvisc quiver in fear.

Leif released the ball and yelled to Scoscvisc, "Are you ready?"

"As ready as I'll ever be." Scoscvisc said with a little bit of fear in his voice.

"Ok then." Leif said as he got ready.

He went into his "Shootout mode," in this "mode," his mind would tune everything out but the game. He dove down towards the ground, shot up and delivered a crushing blow to the ball. He was going to go easy on Scoscvisc so he didn't put any spin on the ball and had aimed a few feet from him. To save it would require unbelievable reflexes.

THUD!

Astonished, Leif looked at the now flipping in place Scoscvisc. He had managed to get his hooves on the ball AND hold it. Leif then realized that this would require a little bit more effort.

Meanwhile…

Silverwing Streak and Lizzie Tyle were walking through the park when they heard a deafening thud. They quickly looked towards the source of the sound and were stunned when they saw Scoscvisc having a shootout match with what looked like a CHS Skyball player.

Silverwing looked towards Lizzie and asked, "Who is that that Scoscvisc is playing against?"

Lizzie looked towards her Colt-friend and shook her head, "You're the Skyball player, not me"

"Let's go check it out. I'll carry you"

"Sure."

Scoscvisc got ready to shoot. He was thinking about what he could do. An idea came into his head, a "Riser".

"You ready old man!" Scoscvisc yelled playfully

"As ready as you are arrogant!" Leif yelled back with his own joke.

Scoscvisc laughed then, out of nowhere, began to drop out of the sky. Of course he was still in control; he was just getting into position for his shot. He stopped when he was about 50 feet below the ball, quickly shot up and delivered a bicycle kick onto the ball. The ball flew in a way that looked like it was going to go under the net. Leif began to dive for the ball when it suddenly changed direction, it went up into the top-left side of the goal.

"GOAL!" yelled a voice that Scoscvisc was not expecting to hear, Silverwing was jumping around on the cloud-made stands. Lizzie was sitting next to him, just laughing at his antics.

"Nice shot!" he heard being yelled from far below him. He looked down and saw Tulipe waving towards him. He was surprised to also see a crowd beginning to gather at the park.

"Looks like we're putting on a show." Leif said flying towards Scoscvisc.

"Well let's not disappoint them, I'm up a point and you only have 1 shot left. Do your best" Scoscvisc said with a smile.

Scoscvisc flew away. Leif laughed to himself and muttered "you have no idea what I'm about to do."

Leif began a ritual that he hadn't done since he was an all-star in high school. He flew in place, clearing his mind, the shot that he was about to do would take every bit of concentration that he could have. At last he was prepared. He gripped the ball with his shins and did a backflip, launching the ball straight into the air. He flew at it and began to twirl at an impossible rate. Scoscvisc realized what Leif was doing and prayed to Celestia that he would mess up the shot. He didn't.

CRACK!

"OH HORSEAP-" Scoscvisc screamed.

THUD!

The ball struck Scoscvisc in the chest and pushed him not only into the net with the ball, but through it. Scoscvisc was knocked right out. He was unconscious and was plummeting towards the ground. Silverwing reacted quickly and flew towards Scoscvisc at a break-neck speed. Inches above the ground he caught Scoscvisc, pulled up, and flew to a nearby bench. He set him down on it and began to slap him.

"Snap out of it Scoscvisc, snap out of it." He said, trying to bring his friend back to reality.

slap

Slap

SLAP!

"I'm Ok Silverwi-" Scoscvisc tried to say

SLAP!

"OUCH!" he yelled

"Oh, sorry" Silverwing apologized.

"Silverwing, where am I?" Scoscvisc asked

"You're in the park, you just took a "Leif-Shot" to the chest and was launched through the net." His friend responded, checking him for and damage.

A Pegasus, that looked like he was probably in college, walked up to Scoscvisc and yelled at him, "YOU JUST GOT KNOCKED THE BUCK OUT!"

Scoscvisc was surprised at Silverwing's reaction. He stood on his hind legs, whipped around and delivered a spinning back-hoof that could be considered legendary. The Pegasus' head jerked to the side and he dropped like a sack of bricks.

"Sweet Celestia Leif! You just floored him!" Scoscvisc expressed his suprise

"Little bastard deserved it." Silverwing growled