War For Equestria

The sun was blazing down upon the arena that hot afternoon. A body fell to the ground as blood seeped out as a sword blade slid out and another body fell on all fours to catch his breath. Up in the stadium there were three other ponies watching the cadet as one of them sighed and turned to a guard, "Call in a medi..."

"Have him do it again." One pony told the soldier.

"Sir?"

The other grinned, "You deaf son? Have him go through another exercise."

The soldier sighed as he looked at his young cadet panting but looking calm.

Come on, if you are wanting more I can give you more... the cadet thought to himself as he was looking up at the arena.

The pony nodded to the gate keeper who opened up a much larger gate. The ground already began to shakeas dust began to blow. The young cadet took a deep breath as he lifted his sword as a dark blue aura surrounded the handle his silver armor glared into the sun as he looked through his visor as he felt sweat go down his face. Standing before him was a beast, a minotaur with horns sharper than the blade it carried. The blade looked rigged and dull, but at any point he could get crushed with that blade. With a mighty roar the cadet grinned under his guard as he braced himself and watched the beast charge at him swinging the blade around its back ready to strike. The cadet waited a few more seconds and disappeared as it slammed the blade into the ground kicking up dust. It tilted its head.

Suddenly it roared as a stream of smoke rose from its back. The minotaur turned and saw the cadet swing his blade back and forth intimidating the beast. It gave in and slid its hind leg launching itself at the cadet. He raised his blade to block the hit and grunted as he felt the weight of the sword blade slowly come down. He was worried that his sword would break as it started to bend. he used his magic and teleported away with a big bang from the sword blade. The cadet appeared and fired another blast of his magic making it roar. The beast ran at the cadet as he sighed, "Just wont give up huh?"

He clashed his blade several times, the last time he was slammed into the arena wall. The cadet shook his head as he looked at his armor already dusty and dented he saw the minotaur roar as he readied himself to charge at the beast. He made a run for it as the beast started to slide and began to swing its blade. He jumped over the blade as he lunged at the minotaur's chest and disappeared again. After a couple more seconds the cadet appeared sliding and breathing heavily. The beast slowly turned around and looked down at its chest noticing a stab wound from the cadet's blade. It roared as it fell down on all fours scratching and pounding at the ground. He shook his head looking at his blade seeing blood drip from the stab. He took a deep breath closing his eyes letting the sweat roll down his face feeling the movement of the beast as he began to charge at full speed. Suddenly, he opened his eyes and fires a blast of magic to trip the beast. He jumped up and spun around aiming his blade at the minotaur's back. As he was ready to plunge the blade he got knocked back with a blast of magic being slammed into a wall.

The three ponies watched as they soon saw a white alicorn with a flowing pink mane walk over to the minotaur and examined its wound. Her horn began to light up a golden yellow as the wound slowly began to heal. She then calmed the beast and walked over to the cadet to check him for wounds then turned to the three ponies, "You call this training! It's nothing but pitiful! You two up there should be ashamed!"

The three looked frozen as the alicorn slowly picked up the cadet, "Get him to medical now! And you two need to see the queen!" She soon walked off leaving one of the ponies to walk off.

The other one sighed as he looked at another guard, "Get medical." He said as he walked off leaving only one more to watch the cadet. He grinned watching him lift his visor and guard and was limping. The pony sighed as he walked out.