Twilight gave a heavy sigh as she stepped into the large dimly lit bar, immediately rinkling her muzzle at the thick aroma of alcohol that permeated the building. Looking around, she couldn’t help but note that the large amount of the Customers were hulking Minotaurs and humans, drinking heavily with one another as a soft jazz song played from the jukebox in a corner on the far right.

Ignoring her burning nostrils, she made her way to the large elderly gray minotaur behind the counter, casually talking to a wealthy looking white unicorn wearing a dark blue suit.

“I’m telling you Brick, my stallion’s going to beat that poor fool into submission,” the stallion said with a confident smirk on his face. The minotaur, Brick, gave a soft chuckle as he shook his head at the pony.

“I don’t think that’s going to happen, Cuffs. Besides, your guy should be coming out right... about...” he paused, turning to face a door on his left, and as if on cue, a dark blue Pegasus came stumbling through covered in bruises and blood that seemed to be gushing out from his mouth and nostrils. “...now.” The battered stallion collapsed to the wooden floor, panting heavily as two humans rushed over to try and help him back on his hooves.

The unicorn’s eyes went wide for a brief second, before narrowing in anger at the wounded fighter. Placing a bill on the wooden counter, he hopped off the stool and stepped before the pegasus’s face. “What the hell happened to you? You told me you’d show that bald ape and get me my cash.” The Pegasus shrugged off the two large men, and narrowed his eyes at the unicorn before him.

“I’m done,” he spat, flakes of blood splattering on the ponies face. Cuffs ignored the blood, and gave a frown in confusion at the Pegasus.

“Done, what do you mean you’re done?” The Pegasus pointed at the now closed door with a glare.

“That, that thing is what I mean. If you want your damn cash so badly, then you can go into that fucking cage and try to get it yourself.” He pushed pass the stunned unicorn, who quickly followed the pony as he exited the building, telling him that he would up his pay. Twilight watched the two leave with a shake of her head, slightly pitying the Pegasus on what he had been through. Turning to the minotaur, she gently cleared her throat to get his attention.

“Ahem, Sir?” Brick looked down over the counter to see the purple unicorn looking up at him with a polite smile on her face. Frowning, he gave her a raised eyebrow.

“Can I help you, Miss?” Twilight gave him a nod as she used her magic to pull out a folded photo from the depths of her jacket.

“Actually yes, I’m looking for this man. Do you happen to know if he’s here?” She unfolded the photo and levitated it over to the minotaur, who looked it over with a critical gaze. He gave her a suspicious look before speaking.

“Perhaps, depends on who’s asking,” he said, leaning on the counter with his left arm, while the other was beneath the table. Twilight noticed his posture and frowned. Then, her voice took on more of a serious tone when she answered.

“A friend of his. I don’t suppose he mentioned a miss Twilight Sparkle?” At that, his posture relaxed, and he gave her a soft smile.

“As a matter of fact he did. Please, follow me.” He gestured with his left hand over to the door the Pegasus had came from, and the unicorn eagerly trailed behind him. Walking through the door, the two entered a long dimly lit hallway with several barrels of alcohol on either side of them. On the other side of the hallway from where they had come from, was another door that was made from metal, and as they drew closer to it, Twilight could hear the distinct sound of heavy rock music playing from the other side. “Alright, he should be in here. Just note that he might be busy at the moment.” Twilight gave a nod, and opened the door.

Stepping inside, she winced and flattened her ears against her head from the blaring music that filled the room. Looking around, she saw dozens of Minotaurs and humans surrounding a large metal cage in the middle of the room, roaring and throwing their fists in excitement as two figures stood within. Squinting her eyes, she could make out that one of the fighter’s was a tall muscular blue minotaur, while the other was a human that came just below his shoulder. Slowly, Twilight made her way through the crowd, wanting to get closer to the match to see if the man that was inside was the one she was looking for. Once she made it to the front, she heard a loud bell go off, and watched as the human ran to the minotaur with a bloodcurdling roar, leaped in the air, and slammed his foot in the creatures chest, causing him to go flying backwards and slam his back into the hard metal.

Gotcha,] she thought with a smirk. She knew only one man in the world who could send a fully grown minotaorus crashing into a steel wall with that much force. Looking to the man, her suspicions were even more confirmed when she saw his dog tags dangling from around his neck. However, her concentration was broken when she saw the minotaur charging towards the man with his fist drawn back, but instead of ducking away from the blow, the man stepped to the left, grabbed the Minotaur’s arm, and used his momentum to spin the creature’s face into the wall. Then, without warning, he drew his fist back and punched him in the back, causing the horned beast to loose his breath. Twilight watched as the man grabbed the minotaur’s horns, and pulled his face to his raised knee, where he slammed his muzzle repeatedly before releasing him.

“Give up, mountain oyster?” he asked, causing several of the humans to burst out laughing, while it merely made several minotaur’s glare at the man in annoyance. However, the one that was in the cage bellowed out a roar of anger, and charged at the man with his horns aimed at his chest. The man stepped to the right, while jokingly yelled, “ole!” as he ran past him and slammed his head against the wall. Twilight winced as she heard the metallic clang as the minotaur’s skull slammed full force, and watched as he collapsed to the ground, completely out cold. The crowd gave groans of frustration, while a few roared in glee as bills were passed to one another.

“Well, never in all my years have I seen anything like this.” Twilight watched as a dark yellow earthpony stallion stepped before the crowd, and listened as many of them yelled in agreement. The pony grinned as he looked around at the crowd before continuing. “Telll me, are you just going to let this man, walk out with your money?” Once again, the crowd roared, this time in disapproval. “Then who’s going to come up and challenge the king of the cage?” Before anyone piped up to take the offer, Twilight’s voice called out calmly.

“I’ll fight him!”

At the sound of her voice, a few men bursted into laughter as a few others simply stared at her as if she was crazy. “Y’all really think you can take him? Ha, you’d might as well fight a hydra instead,” said a dark skinned man on her right. Twilight merely rolled her eyes at the man’s comment as she began to make her way to the cage.

“I think I can handle him,” she said in the same calm tone. However, she stopped when she felt the man’s hand rest itself on her flank. Without warning, she bucked her hind legs into the man’s shins, causing him to collapse to his knees. Then, she spun on her left foreleg, and gave a hard right hook to the left side of the man’s jaw, causing a spurt of blood and a few teeth to be knocked from his mouth. She heard the crowd roar in shock as they watched the display, and practically pushed her over towards the entrance of the cage, where the stallion stood waiting for her

“Damn, that was some fine work you did back there little lady. Where’d you learn moves like that?” Instead of answering, Twilight removed her jacket, revealing a pair of similar dog tags to the one’s the man was wearing. The stallion gave a impressed whistle at the sight of them, and gave her a respected nod. “Well, that explains that. Ahem, now the rules are simple, anything goes except death. However, I’d advise you don’t buck him in the balls.” Twilight gave a confused look.

“I thought you said anything goes?” she asked. The stallion gave a shrug as he looked over at the man.

“Yeah, but don’t take it personal.” She gave him an understanding nod, and stepped inside the cage with the man. She looked to wear the unconscious minotaur had been laying minutes prior, but the only indecation that he was even there, was a puddle of blood on the floor as well as a few teeth.

“So Rex, who’s ass am I goin–“ Twilight turned her head to see the man staring at her with a frown on his face. She couldn’t help but note on how different he looked since the last time they had met. He had cut his long black hair that used to run down his shoulders, and had grown a bit of stubble around his face. However, the rest of his body seemed to have never changed over the last decade. She watched as his lean, pale skin tensed at the sight of her, only to relax a second later, and felt his emerald green eyes bore into her soul.

“What the fuck are you doing here, Twilight?” he asked through gritted teeth. The unicorn gave him a flat look before sarcastically replying.

“Good to see you too, Cain. It’s been what, ten years since I last saw you?” Cain narrowed his eyes as he spoke.

“Eleven last time I checked. Look, Twi, I don’t know why you came here, but we both know I don’t strike girls. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to get my cash.” He turned to leave from the other door that lead into the cage, but the unicorn wasn’t going to be per-swayed so easily. Lighting up her horn, she shot a blast of telekinesis at his back, and watched as he flew into the bars with an audible clang that echoed around the arena.

“Funny,” she began, watching as he turned to face her. “Because I remember you always wanting to spar with me back on the base.” She watched as the man’s eyes narrowed in anger, and heard a low animalistic growl from his throat.

“You know, usually I’d be the better man and just walk away from a fight I didn’t start, but you’re an exception.” Cain bolted forwards towards the unicorn, who waited patiently as he drew closer and closer with each stride. Then, just as he came mere inches from her, she teleported with a flash of purple, and blinked back into existence behind him, while once again shooting him in the back with a telekinetic blast.

“Wow, Cain, after all these years, you still go headfirst into a fight? I thought you would’ve learned something from Dash.” Twilight gave a smug smirk as the man got back up from the hard concrete floor. However, her moment of smugness was broken when she watched as Cain quickly crouched down, and swung both his legs around while balancing on his hands. She felt her legs being kicked out from beneath her, and before she hit the floor, she felt Cain’s left arm pin her to the wall, while his right gave her a hard punch to the gut, knocking the air from her lungs. She watched as he leaned his head close to her, and softly whispered in her ear.

“Yeah, I did learn something from her after beating the shit out of her.” He gritted his teeth as he threw the mare across the arena, causing her to slam the back of her head against the wall, momentarily making her dizzy from the impact. Shaking her head, Twilight got back up to see the man slowly walking over to her. Gritting her teeth,she once again teleported and reappeared behind him once again, while giving him a hard kick to the back, causing him to stumble forwards. Again she teleported, this time in front of him, and punched him with a sharp right hoof before teleporting behind him and kicking him in the back of the knee, causing him to fall to all fours. “You know it isn’t fair for you to use magic while I have nothing, right?” Cain asked, turning his head to face her.

“I prefer to fight my opponent with everything they have,” she said with a smile. Cain gave a nod in agreement, and slowly stood back up, while also putting on a determined look on his face.

“Well then, lets do this like old times. Give me everything you got, goddess of magic.” With that, the two got into a fighting stance that looked foreign to their crowd, who stood in anticipation as they watched the intense fight between the duo. Twilight watched as Cain’s stance went low, his knees bent in a way that he was expecting an attack from ground Level, while his arms were raised in a defensive position, showing an expectant attack from above as well. She thought up a strategy in her mind as she watched him, looking for a clear advantage over her opponent. Then, she saw it, though it was small, barely noticeable to anyone without a keen eye, a slight shift of his right foot, and that was all it took. Grinning, she lit her horn, and ruphly yanked on his leg, but instead of the expectant stumble like she was hoping, she watched as he firmly stayed in place.

Huh, he’s actually taking this seriously,] she thought with a frown. Looking up into his eyes, she could still see the determination burning within. Well, if he really wants everything I got, then he’ll get it.] She teleported behind him, her left hindleg aimed to the back of his head, but instead of knocking him out instantly, she watched as he quickly turned to face her, while feeling the side of his right fist connect with her rib cage, knocking her to the left side and landing with a wince on the floor. Getting back to her hooves, Twilight stared at the man both impressed and annoyed.

“What, you thought I was joking?” he asked, smirking as he rose up from his stance. Twilight couldn’t help but to give him a flat look.

“I didn’t say you weren’t, did I?” Cain shrugged in response. The crowd watched as the two fighters once again collided together in an intense dance of punches, kicks, and spells being thrown around, their lean powerful bodies beginning to Emanate sweat after what must’ve been minutes between the two. Then, they stopped, panting for breath as they stared at one another. Cain had a bloody nose that slanted to the right at an odd angle, and a bruise was beginning to form on the right side of his jaw. Twilight had sustained a swollen lip, a black eye, and a bloody nose from the brawl.

“Wh- why- why are you here, Twi?” Cain asked, trying his hardest not to double over and lean on his knees.

“Because,” she panted, taking a seat on the stone floor. “I need to talk to you about something.” Cain frowned as he eyed her.

“And what would that be?”

“Your daughter. I’ve been looking for you to talk to you about her, and let me tell you, when you say you’re going to disappear for a while, you really mean it.” Twilight chuckled as she shook her head. Cain smirked down at his friend.

“So you mean to tell me that we fought in a cage match for nothing?”he asked, his smirk quickly turning into a frown. Twilight nodded, as she stood back up.

“Pretty much, but you did deserve a good beat down for that one time in Germany.” Cain nodded as he headed for the cage door. However, before he reached the handle, he heard a member of the crowd call out to the two.

“Hey, who won?” Twilight and Cain looked at one another.

“You want this one?” Cain asked. Twilight shook her head.

“No, I just came to talk to you.” Cain shrugged, and called back to the crowd.

“Me.” The crowd groaned, and once again began passing out bills out to one another. Twilight shook her head as she followed her long time friend out of the arena.

“I’m never doing that again.”

Author's Note

This was ment to be a full story where Twilight was the goddess of magic, and Cain was the prince of Eden, but was cursed with immortality by Celestia. He eventually meets his daughter, Sweetie Belle, and has a hard time getting along with him, due to Cain leaving her and her mother, Rarity, who is also a goddess.

The ending was supposed to be where Tirek was ment to break from Tartarus, and Cain and him go out in a full on brawl, with both of them dying.

Take this story and do what you will of it.