A Real Shocker!

Chapter 6: Dragon Slayers

(Thoughts)
"Attack Names"

Today is the day Spike begins his training, he was so excited he came early... Way too fucking early. "Spike, its 3 in the morning, what the fuck are you doing here," I say to the diminutive drake. He brought a backpack full of supplies and everything, he looks like a child who just came for his first day of school.

"Twilight told me you wanted me to come extra early, so you could go over the training regimen with me! Did I show up too late?" Oh, my fucking god. I used to like Twilight, but this just killed the relationship we could have had. No one should wake up this early. But now that I'm up, I won't be able to go back to sleep, I step aside to let Spike into my house. He charges in and sits down on the sofa. "What are we gonna do first! Are you gonna teach me how to shoot lightning like you? Oh, Oh, or maybe you're gonna teach me how to do a double backflip! Aw, that'd be so cool! Or maybe you-"

At this point, I grab his mouth, tired of his rambling. "First, we're gonna have breakfast. Then, I'm gonna think of a way to train you without outright killing you. After that, Everything else depends on if you still feel up to it. Do you understand?" I ask.

When I say the words, "Outright Killing you" his pupils become pin sized."W-What do you m-mean killing me?" He manages to stammer out.

"What do you mean by what do I mean. If you went through even the littlest bit of my training, you'd probably die of blood loss, exhaustion, blunt force trauma, getting crushed, getting cut in half, and that's just the beginning. You came to me for training, I'm gonna make sure you survive it... Maybe. Did you sign the waver?" I joke, trying to alleviate some of his stress.

Ok, now he just looks like he's gonna piss himself. "W-what waver?" And now I think he literally just pissed on my sofa. Smacking my face I ignore the question and make my way into the kitchen. I make the both of us breakfast as he asks questions about what I can do, and what I can teach him.

"I'm gonna teach you how to fight. The style I'm gonna teach you is called "Rokushiki": The Six Powers. The powers are "Kami-e", "Soru", "Geppo", "Rankyaku", "Tekkai", "Shigan". I'll be teaching these to you in that order. We'll start with "Kami-E": Paper Drawing. The technique will allow your body to become like paper in the wind, able to avoid any attack that comes their way. Follow me and we'll begin a demonstration." I say.

Pulling out my phone I see that it's about 8:30 in the morning. Before we make it to the door, Spike burps out some fire, and with it, a scroll comes out. "A letter from Princess Celestia! I wonder why she sent one so early in the morning?" Opening the scroll, he begins to read, his face becoming more and more concerned as he gets further into the letter. "Sorry Arthur, we'll have to do this tomorrow. There's a dragon sleeping in a cave, the Princess wants Twilight and the girls to get him to leave before the smoke he's spitting out causes any issues."

Smiling, I turn to the little drake, "I'll go with them, and you'll come with as well. This'll be the perfect time to show you how Rokushiki works in action!" And with that, we go and gather the girls, ready to set off on our journey.

(Timeskip)

"All right girls and boys, listen up. I'm mapping out the fastest route, but we've all got to keep a good pace if we expect to make it up the mountain by nightfall." Twilight says.

"M-m-mountain?" Fluttershy stammers. She looks terrified at the idea of climbing such a large mountain. Either that or the idea of fighting a Dragon.

"The dragon is in that cave at the very top." She declares as she points at the barely visible cave.

"Looks pretty cold up there." Applejack states.

"You bet it is. The higher you go, the chillier it gets." Rainbow Dash Informs.

"Good thing I brought my scarf." Rarity says. Looking over at her, I see that her outfit has stayed roughly the same, but she's wearing a scarf that's about the same color as her hair.

"Listen, are we just gonna stand here and blab on all day, or are we going to go fight a dragon?" I question, noticing that the conversation is going off track.

"Why are you and Spike coming with us anyway?" Rainbow Dash asks.

Smiling, I turn to Spike. "This is the first part of your training, we need to build up some muscle or you'll never be able to use Rokushiki. You're going to climb this mountain with us, but you're going to carry this backpack I brought with me. It has weights in it that will hold you down. Now don't be afraid, if you fall I'll catch you."

I take the backpack off and give it to Spike, He tries to lift it, but he can't even lift the straps. "What did you put in this thing!?" He shouts.

"Like I said, Weights. Now let's get going, we've got shit to do." Finally managing to put the backpack on and starts dragging himself behind me, as the girls look at us confused as to what's going on.

(Timeskip)

Coming up to a small gap in the side of the mountain, Twilight jumps over it. "Right this way everyone!" She shouts out. As everyone follows her example, I see Spike has started to fall behind. Walking over to him, I pull a water bottle out of the backpack and give it to him.

"Remember to stay hydrated, It wouldn't help you at all if you passed out now." He greedily takes the offered water bottle and begins to drain the thing. I let him drink the entire thing because I have a few more in the backpack.

"C-Can I please take this thing off now? My body feels like it's on fire!" I shake my head and he sighs. "Can I at least take a break?" Looking ahead, I see that Fluttershy is stuck at the gap, unable to jump across.

"Yeah sure, why not. Just take a couple of minutes, but when I say you're done, get right back to work. Shortly after I finish, he falls on his back, panting like a dog.

After a few minutes, Pinkie Pie sings something that helps Fluttershy gain the courage to jump across. Considering you could easily step across the gap, she begins to blush. "Alright Spike, let's get back to it."

Groaning he sits back up, and we meet back up with the girls. "Let's keep it down. According to my map, we're entering an avalanche zone. The smallest peep could cause a huge rock slide." Twilight whispers.

"An... an ava... ava..." Knowing what's coming next, I put my hand over Fluttershy's mouth.

"Shut up, or you'll get us all killed. Let's just keep going." She nods and we continue on our way.

(Timeskip once more)

Finally, we make it to the lip of the cave. Twilight is telling the girls some strategy to "negotiate" with the dragon. Walking up to Spike I say, "Alright, you've done well. To be honest, I didn't expect you to get this far with that thing, I was expecting you to drop that thing and leave it. Good work, from here on out you can take a break." I don't get a reply as he drops the backpack and lays on the ground, breathing heavily. "Hey, Twilight!" I call out to her.

She turns to me, "Yes Arthur?" she replies.

"I'm gonna go fight the dragon, you guys take a break." Spike sits up quickly, barely registering that I just ran head first into the cave. Twilight and the Girls yell at me, but I ignore them. "Hey, You big-ass overgrown salamander, Wake the Fuck up its past noon! Get your life together!"

Opening its eyes, they lock onto me with surgical precision, Turning towards Spike and the Girls, I begin my demonstration. "The first power of Rokushiki is "Kami-e," or Paper arts. The Dragon lifts it's left claw and swings at me. "Kami-e." I calmly say. My body becomes as thin as paper, and, much like a blade of grass, I begin moving in the wind of the attacks.

After a small amount of time, I continue. "The Next thing, I'm gonna show you is "Tekkai," Or Iron Body. You flex your muscles and tense them with such strength, that they become like Iron. Standing still, I say "Tekkai," and take the offending claw strike, causing all of them to gasp, as I'm thrown outside of the cave, with the dragon charging out after me.

"As you can see, nothing happened to me. The force behind the attack may have thrown me out of the cave, but now I can show you the next technique, "Geppo."" Jumping high into the air, I begin jumping higher and higher into the air, as the dragon follows by flying. ""Geppo" or Moonwalk, allows the users to actually jump off the air itself, allowing them to stay in the air for much longer than usual. The thing about the technique is that your legs need to be extremely strong in order to use it, otherwise you're muscles will literally tear themselves apart." I say as I dodge the dragon's attacks. "Now, we move onto my favorite skill, Soru."

I land on the ground and wait for the dragon to attack me. It lands on the ground in front of me and swings his tail at me. "Soru." I calmly say as I disappear and re-appear on his back. "Soru," allows the users to move at extremely high speeds in order to avoid attacks, as well as to attack at higher speeds and with greater power. Once again, your legs need to be tough. You have to be able to kick off the ground 10 times in the blink of an eye. It's my favorite skill, because I've always liked being able to dodge attacks." As I say this, I continue using "Soru" to dodge the dragons attacks.

"Now, we go into the fighting part, of the Rokushiki. The first of which is "Shigan", I don't think I'd be able to pierce the scales of the dragon with either of the techniques, so I'll show you those later. Let me take care of this menace first." I turn the dragon, "Kamisori." I say, disappearing and re-appearing above the dragons head. I swing my fist down on the dragons head, throwing it into the ground with such force, that its head leaves behind a crater.

"Now listen here shit head, I'm not gonna kill you if you do something for me. I want you to leave Equestria and never come back. Can you do that for me?" I ask the dragon. Slowly it nods and starts to fly off. "Well. Now that that's taken care of, I believe I owe you guys a couple of demonstrations." I turn back towards the group of people, and I see their jaws are on the ground. "I think I went a bit too far. Well, I'll just cover the other two techniques later. Bye!" I call out as I start walking back down the mountain.

The only one who manages to snap out of their shock is Spike. He picks the backpack back up and places it on his back. Excitedly, he asks, "That was awesome! Can you show me the other two techniques now!?"

"Hehe, Sure. The first one is called "Shigan," Meaning Finger-gun. "Shigan" is a close-quarter combat technique, in which the user pushes their finger into a certain target at a very high speed, leaving a wound similar to an arrow wound." To demonstrate, I use "Shigan," on a nearby rock, causing my pointer finger to go all the way into the rock.

"The Second technique is called "Rankyaku," or Storm leg. "Rankyaku" is a powerful projectile technique, in which the users start by kicking at very high speeds and strength, sending out a sharp compressed air blade that can slice objects or people in half." I lift my right leg and kick towards a nearby boulder. "Rankyaku!" I call out, causing a blade of wind to fly towards the large stone, cutting it in half.

"So, Any questions?" I ask, turning towards Spike. His mouth is literally on the ground. (Fucking cartoon physics man, how is that even possible?) I lift is jaw back off of the ground. "Let's just continue your muscle training, for now. okay?" I ask. Finally, he snaps out of it and starts walking next to me, with a renewed vigor in his step.

(Looks like this won't be too bad after all!) Spike thinks.

(Timeskip)

"Keep Running Short Stack!" I shout at Spike, as I continue to throw rocks at him. He's carrying weights while running back and forth. I'm throwing rocks at him to help him learn to dodge attacks, I thought of doing it the Piccolo way, but I don't think that'd work at this point in time... Maybe later though, for now we'll just keep doing baby steps.