Starlight Glimmer stood in the middle of the road under the rain and stare at the balcony glass door where I was. “Dammit” I said to myself and hid by the wall. Oh no, what did I get myself into. My first thought was to run away but Lyra was caught by the mob. This make it the second time I have to rescue her, if I get out of here in one piece, I’ll have a conversation with harp. I don’t need a damsel in distress with me every time I get in trouble.

“Oh Bree, were waiting for you” I hear her condescending tone through the glass door. I was creep out, but I don’t need to be nerves not when I’m an expert magician. All of the sudden the electricity when out and my only source of light was the moon, but it was cloudy because it was still rainy. I peek through the balcony and all the lights from the town when out and the citizen carry small lantern with then.

Ok, I’m not going to lie, I was a little itty-bitty scared and against my better judgment I got up and walk down the stairs, cautiously open the front door. When I step out of the house the towns folks open a path for me to meet the leader. I step on the dirt converting to mud and stop on the road, feeling the rain getting on my short hair. From inside Starlight home a yellow filly with white mane and a sun for a cutie mark exit the house carrying a roll up rag on her mouth as she passes my side.

The filly handed the rag to Starlight and she offer a smile and a nod before the kid ran back to the crowd next to a pony who I presume was her mother. The crowd stay away close to the building leaving the road for my opponent and me and a chain up Lyra next to a muscle stallion. The purple mare took the rag and open it up to expose a wooden staff with circle carve scatter around.

“Ok mut, this is how thing will go down. You’re going to be put on a leash like a good little human and where going to wait for our guest”. Like hell that going to happened. I grin of the thought of showing this cocky baster that I’m no ordinary human. I scavenge for my surrounding to see what a can use against her like tool instruments, table, lanterns, chairs and other useless items. This doesn’t need to be a long fight not when I have the, element of surprise!

I lift my right arm and throw one of the chairs at Glimmer, but the chair was consumed by the darkness and disappeared. I try to adjust my eyes, but I couldn’t see anything and then I was struck in my back, the force of the impact repels me forward landing on the floor. bursting the wooden chair that appear from my back. I wince at the pain I felt through my entire back. I hear Harp call my name, but I was trying to figure out what happened. Starlight had a gloat in her smile “Trixie was right, I gotta say I almost didn’t believe her when I hear it. A human doing magic, ridiculous”

“Shut up stupid. I won’t let you harm Bree” Lyra mouth off the leader while pulling her chains but she was halt by a stallion.

“Please, you should be thanking me. To you have any idea how dangerous magic is for a human that can’t control her emotion”. It actually felt good to be defend by Lyra, but I utilized this distraction and I got up to cast fire. A light appears from my palm and a blaze sprung up like a flamethrower, but it quickly got extinguishes by the rain. Starlight brought back her attention and laugh at my misfortune. “Is all fun and game until someone get hurt. I’m not the bad guy Bree but magic is no toy you could hurt someone” she said.

Ugh, why don’t you shut up already. I grab my right hand with my left one and focus on a feeling of a firecracker. “Again, with this fooli-“ she was cut off when I produced a large ball of fire that lunch across the town.

Starlight eyes wide in awe but her body language was confident. The flaming ball light up everything around me but the consequence was that it was too bright, and it would hurt my eyes. I almost didn’t notice the ball of fire returning. In a moment of panic, put my two one together and split it open and the ball did the same, scattering into smaller pieces. Some of the folks scream and coward when the heat got too close to the public, but the fire fade. I was glad I didn’t hurt anyone but when did she return my attack?

Lyra raise her eyebrows discovering the attacker secret “Bree, there portals! It that stick!” she yells but before she continues the stallion took hold of her.

“Keep her quite you dunce” Starlight cry out.

The stallion seen hurt by the comment but follow order. “Your too talkative” the burly stallion said while putting a cloth around Lyra mouth. Glimmer when quiet and glare at the onlooker looker.

“Portals?” I murmur to myself. I wish I had read more information on them. I can’t attack from afar because she’ll send them back, maybe she doesn’t have any magic herself so all I have to do is get close to Starlight and take that stick away from her. I ran directly towards her and manage to get close, but I was lift up flying over Starlight landing pretty roughly on the ground. ‘argh’ I whimper when I hit the floor rolling on the mud stained my cloths and getting soak in the process. Glimmer hasn’t move from where she stood giving me a sense of over-confidence. I put my hands on the mud to grab a rock and threw it, the flying rock started to glow and magically turn into a feather that slowly fell to the ground.

“Come on girl, you haven’t even move me from my spot yet and here I thought that you were some kind of threat” she spoke with scornful in her voice. I punch the ground in frustration and watch the mud splash. Starlight is basically toying with me because she doesn’t see me as a threat. I could exploit that, but I don’t have any idea what to do.

At that moment I felt a sharp object falling from above quickly I roll out of the way and a staff with two horn impales the ground. When I look at It, it was the same stick Glimmer had in her hoof but this one didn’t have any design like the one she carries. I touch the stick to confirm that it was a fake and I finally got a glimmer of hope and quickly form a plan. I’m going to try something stupid but is not like what I been doing is already dumb. I got up and clean my face while Glimmer glare “Your starting to piss me off, why can’t you just stay down”

I stare right back in defiance and pick up the staff. Bree calmly walk toward Starlight and waited to see what she would do. Her smile grows in anticipation while the girl approach and stood fourteen feet away from the mare. It not a perfect plan but is all I have, I slam my foot down to uplift a wall made of mud covering each other view. Starlight sneer and quickly broke the wall too see Bree right behind it but she was expecting that trick until she saw that the girl had her eyes cover and a small flame on her hand and the fake staff was missing. The small flame the girl carry was in between her middle finger and thumb and she snap her finger.

Starlight was confused by the action and the small blaze created a flash fire leaving everyone with open eyes momentarily blind. The mare was blinded and blink multiple time but all she saw was white, she could still hear the girl hard step against the ground. Starlight became aware of how dangerous and smart the girl was. When she was inches away from grabbing the stick, she yells “Enough!” and everything when white momentarily.

My body felt like I was under an incredible pressure, but I could say the same for her. Starlight hair would flail and her vein on her forehead would pop out like she was under an extreme level of concentration. I was so close to getting what I want but yet so far when I compare our skill level. “This is getting exciting now!” she spoke with mischievous in her tone. She took parts of the broken chair from the start of the fight and lunch them to me hitting me on the stomach, legs and one caught me on my right eye. When I felt in control of my body again, I promptly step back and check my right eye because It didn’t open, it wasn’t bleeding so I’ll take that as a good sign. “As fun as this been Bree, I have to end this”

I agree, and the first part of the plan is done, now for phase two but I need to throw her off her game. I had an idea cooking in the back of my head, but I really don’t really want to do that, but I’m limited on options. Starlight impressively stop the rain midair and gather it into a mesh to make a circle of water. I put my hand forward and made a gun sign pointing at the mare and put an image on my head of a ray shining bright and cutting through the darkness, after a while I manage to create a small orb from one of my finger slowly growing. I never done this so I’m praying my stupid plan to work but still need catch her off guard. She finishes creating her own orb of water and spoke “I don’t really want to kill you, but you brought this on yourself”

“Bite me!” I yell loudly and clearly. Starlight eyes bug out while taking a step back. When I saw her stun I didn’t hesitate to release the light building up in my hand and a yellow beam flew in the air like a bullet shoot from a gun, air bust from my hand and the force jolt my body back almost falling. The mare face turn from scared to dread in a matter of second while the golden ray closes the distant just to disappear through a hole in the shape of an oval open in front of Starlight. It was a portal that open like it rip through reality and a second one open shooting the beam up into the sky. Inside the hole was a pitch black and it quickly disappear when my attack was over.

The orb of water fell from the sky and consuming me when I was distracted, and I was trap inside while the rain fell from the sky again. I try to walk off the liquid, but my hands stop by the edge, it felt like I was inside a fishbowl. Starlight was in a deep state of mind to keep her spell up and my screaming would form little bubble that would float up to the top. I try not to panic and look at my alternate until my eyes fell on Lyra as she watches in horror.

I stare right back at her as to say, ‘do something’. Harp look around but she didn’t have any resources and she couldn’t move very far because she has this stallion next to her. Then a light bulb appears on her head. She remembers seen this before and she started to jump on the spot making as much ruckus with her chains as possible.

This visually irk Starlight and she turn to yell at Lyra “Be quiet!” losing focus momentarily making it possible to push one of my arms out but that was it. I cough again and felt my lung hurting. It came down to me making a difficult decision. Let see if she cares for her people as much as she claims.

I flick my view to the audience as they stare back with uncertainty in their eyes. I focus my attention on the orange filly from before and an aura glow around her body and I forcefully drag her to me. Her mother scream and try to grapple her child but I pull with enough strength that she flew all the way toward me landing inside the circle of water. I been drowning for a while now, but the filly was screaming and kicking. Wasting air, I wouldn’t be surprise if she kicks the bucket before I do but Glimmer seen determined on drowning me even if I had this filly with me.

The burly man stare at Starlight who held a small grin plaster on her face and back to the filly. He let go of Lyra chain and tackler the magic user who drop the staff. The sphere of water disperses, and I let the filly ran back to safety. I saw the stick in the floor free for the taking and I race for it. The purple pony pushes the stallion off and quickly got up to pick up to pick up the staff.

Lyra was closer to the stick and ran to it with the clanking sounds of the chain and she kick it closer me, but she was push to the side by the purple mare. Rapidly approach the magical item we both jump to touch the staff at the same time. Creating a portal on the floor sucking us in. “Ahh!” I cry out a high pitch scream.

“Shut up!” Starlight yell back while putting her hoofs on her ears and I put my hands on my mouth. The portal we fell got away us, but the second portal was at the bottom. Free fall directly to the second portal in the pitch black vast of nothingness. I question what this place was, it almost felt like I was in one of my dreams. It was hard to breath and the ever present of malicious accompany with the foul smell made me lightheaded.

Glimmer took notice of the staff in the air and started to flair her hoof like she was swimming. I look at her funny movement and copy it. Midst our race an eye the size of three-store building opening. We stare at the thing as it stares back, watching as we slowly make our way out. What the hell was that thing, I wanted to scream but more and more eyes started to open. All in different shapes and sizes from one pupil to multiple, from vertical slit to none at all. It felt like we intruded on somebody or something home and I’m not going to be anyone lunch.

“Close your eyes!” I yell, and the mare was shocked to hear me talk ones again, but she did as request. I purposely created an unstable blazed to make a fire flash big enough to blind everyone and everything. What I didn’t expect was the different scream, some would fade in and out, other would laugh like a hyena and I swear I heard something repeating what I said using my own voice and the same tone.

Bree flail her arm from the free fall and grab something in the air before hitting the floor. The impact wasn’t that bad compared with other hit she taken in the past. We felt from somewhere really high, but at this point I’m afraid of questioning anything. Glimmer stood up to shake her head and saw that she was back on Our Town. She suddenly panics when she wasn’t holding her staff and she savage the dirt to find her weapon close to their position almost bury in mud. She ignores the fright audience waiting by the sidelines and approach the girl who was still on the floor. She had her back turn to her opponent who looks like she was hugging something.

“I don’t know what you are but anomalies like you shouldn’t exist” she spoke with no emotion in her voice tired of the fight. She put the weapon forward to send this human far away, but it didn’t work. She looks at the staff and saw that she was holding the fake one. Starlight felt a hand place on her chest and look at the girl with cold eyes.

“Better luck next time” I whisper and propelled her back until she hit a wall of one the house and bouncing right off smacking the floor. After a minute or two of nothing happening feeling the rain finally stop at the same time the fight ended. I got up with the staff in hand to look at Lyra. One of the pony tremble and rush to my friend to quickly free her. Harp shook her chains off and ran to me screaming if I was ok, I didn’t know how to answer her, so I just nodded. “Came we get out of here” I murmur.

“It’s late to be walking in the dark but I agree, we can’t stay here” she replies. I put my two hands together and made a little fire creating my own lantern. “Well, at least we won’t be walking in the dark now”

“Yeah, I don’t like the dark…” I reply. Lyra did a small laugh but had sandbag on her eyes visually telling me she was tired. If she looks that bad, I don’t want to see myself in the mirror and laugh at my own bad joke. As we walk down the dark forest.

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A tall alicorn walk down her fortified building with artwork hang up throughout the hallways giving this place a classy look. Every guard I pass bow down at my presents. I may not live in a castle, but I am the ruler of the city that never sleep, Manehattan. I couldn’t believe I almost turn this place down, but my sister convinces me to take charge and now I give the order, for the most part. Celestia still rule over Equestria so we all play by her rules even if Princess Candance defy the princess it doesn’t take much for my sister to put her on a straight line. I stop by one of the metal white doors. There was one guard next to a tall human wearing his police officer and the guard bow before speaking “Princess Luna how may I serve you”

“I’m here to see my pupil” he nods and rapidly push the door open. I walk into the dark room to see a pony with fiery messy hair in deep thought as she stares at the window. She would look at the outside world where the bright living color of the city shine through.

“Enjoying the view Sunset Shimmer” she yelps and jump back to see me standing inside her room and she quickly bows when she saw me.

“I’m sorry Princess Luna, I thought I saw a beam in the sky” Sunset coat is light amber, red fiery yellow mane with a red and a yellow shimmering sun for a cutie mark. Luna horn glow and push the pony closer.

“How is a beam supposed to help you on your studies” Shimmer head drop with shame but was pick up by Luna hoof “I don’t tell you this to make you feel bad but you have a lot of studying to do and keep practicing of your control a magic and emotions”

“I will, I swear I won’t disappoint you!” Shimmer said loudly and her face heated with embarrassment.

The alicorn chuckle and fix the pony hair giving the mare a sincere smile “That’s good but I came to pick you up, we have visitor so put your crystal on and come down stairs when your ready”. Shimmer nod and the princess slowly walk off turning back to look at the pony one last time.

Sunset saw Luna leave and walk to a table fills with paperwork. In the center was a crown with a purple star in the middle. She put it and look at the mirror. She thought she look pretty something fit for a queen, but she knew she would never be one. Maybe something smaller like prom queen. Shimmer did a quiet laugh by her lonesome and walk out the room to meet the princess.

Author's Note

(Update)

A/N: Sunset Introduction finally reveal with her own crystal and aware of another strong magic user.