Rebellion of Caribous Kingdom

Ox just raided the cart in the night. She admits that this one is too easy for them when they just come there and get those while the guards are just running away when her soldiers come there. Ox is collecting the foods, weapons and slaves while Silver just wait there.

Ox comes to the eagle with the slaves are lining up, "All right, you can check."

"Fine," Silver stands up. "Everyone, walk one by one. I promise that I won't hurt you."

The slaves nod and step near the eagle. Silver puts her beak to their forehead to check them. First slave is fine, and another , another. When she checks the last slave, she sees a magic circle. The eagle puts her left wings to the slave's forehead and cast a spell to disables it, then she takes it off to see what kind of spell is it.

Ox collects the foods and weapons done. She walks out of the base to see what Silver is doing. When she meets Silver, she asks, "Hey, is there anything happening?"

"Just a tracking spell," Silver spins the magic circle. "At least I have been taught to make this thing touch physically."

Ox gives her a smug, "... Bet that the Black Mage taught you right?" Silver glares at her as the minotaur walks away, "Just a guess."

"Fine," Silver stands up and turns to the soldiers. "I'm done checking, you guy can retrive these slaves to somewhere." The soldiers lead the slaves to the safe place. Silver goes to the bedroom to think about the spy test for the candidates.

Bell is opening the door and waits inside a room. The yellow caribou is not sure about it when she hears that Trevor wants to invite her to training together. After waiting for a while, Aria and Sabrina walks into the room

The female sighs, "Why must I join this classroom? I thought this was for Trevor."

Sabrina teases, "Well, you know the reason." Bell blushes and turns away. The changeling asks, "Trevor will come later. Anyway, why do you like him?"

Before Bell can answer, Trevor walks into the room as the female caribou wraps her front hooves around her mouth. The brown caribou uses his antler to levitate the notebook and feather pen. Sabrina whispers to the old mare, "I didn't know the caribou could do that."

"Only the male," says Aria. "Because they have antlers."

Sabrina steps back, "Wow, sounds unfair with the female, right?"

Trevor notices Sabrina and Aria are whispering about something. The caribou coughs as the duo turns back to the caribou. Trevor sighs, "Look, if you want to teach me, at least you have to be serious."

"Nah," Aria shakes her head. "Anyway, can we ask you an outside question?"

"Sure," Trevor puts his left front hoof on his cheek. "Go ahead."

"What is your feeling about Bell?" Sabrina smiles as Bell blushes. "Just answer honestly. No one knows."

"Oh, about that," the brown caribou rubs his chin. "She is my best friend." Bell is holding her chest as the brown caribou continues, "Honestly, I just don't know why she always comes to my room. But nevermind, I just think she doesn't have enough sleep." The female caribou breathes heavily as the changeling knows that she is dying. She gives the sign to stop but Trevor continues, "Silly that she always wants to work too much."

Aria waves her front hoof, "So a friend? nothing more."

Trevor shakes his head as Bell smashes her face into the chair. Trevor turns to the female caribou and asks, "You ok?"

"I'm fine," Bell raises her front hoof. "Just a little reset."

"Okay... " Trevor turns to the old mare. "Can we start the class now?"

"Fine. If I continue this thing, someone will get some doctors," Aria takes the books under the desk. "All right, let's start with an introduction first. My name is Aria, I used to serve as Celestia's guard in over 100 years." Trevor looks at the old mare in a suspicious look. Aria shakes her head, "Oh, should I reveal my secret now?"

"Keep it," Trevor huffs. "I doubt that you can teach me this thing."

"I take that challenge," Aria takes out the chalk. "Now we start the first lesson to become a ruler of a land : Balance."

Bell tilts her head, "Balance? What kind of balance do you want to say?"

"Military, economy and the faith of your subject," explains Aria. "Those three must be balanced if you want to keep the land peaceful."

"Oh," Trevor starts writing and asks, "But I thought the faith of subjects is enough."

"Eh no," Aria shakes her head. "Think about it. If your military is too weak, other countries will try to invade you." Trevor rubs his head as the old mare continues, "And if your economy is poor, how can your subjects be full in their meal?"

Trevor asks, "But I have to gain their faith, right?"

"You're right," Aria points at the caribou. "Everything I just said is just basic. They can exchange with each other. For example, you can risk the faith of your subjects to increase taxes." Trevor glares at the old mare as Aria waves her front hoof, "That just example. I don't tell you to do that."

"Better not be," Trevor huffs. "Better trade something for the raised taxes."

"Well, that will do." Aria puts a lot of books. Trevor stares at the books and feels something is not right. The old mare leans against the book, "Now you two will have many fake situations and stuff on your homework."

Trevor sighs as he writes something on the paper while Bell retorts, "hey, can I go out of this class?" and she receives a knife on the table. Bell gulps, "nevermind."

Aria points at the door, "No one will leave or retreat from my class if it is not done. Got it?" The caribous nod. "Good, now I will start your first lesson. No more words."

Dark Razor is heading to a room. Inside that room, there is a big pool in the middle of the room. The scaled griffin starts poking to the pool by his claw.

Dark Razor laughs and says confidently, "Now, I will know where the bandits are?" The scale griffin thrown a run into the pool. The pool is turning to the black water and starts showing something, but it is quiet later. The griffin is confused as he is doing that again, but the result is just a failure. Dark Razor grits his teeth, "How... How can they know this?"

The griffin throws the lamp aways and breathes heavily, then he yells on the roof. A brown unicorn steps inside and bows to him, "General Dark Razor, I have checked the Agrou city. Everything is fine."

Dark Razor stands up and tries to pretend to say normal, "Very good, Ground Sword. Can you check the Aden city too? I have some reports that there is a problem there."

"I can. But after two days," replies Ground Sword. "Anyway, did you have something that made you angry? I saw that you threw the rune stone away."

The griffin 'tsk's and turns away, "Just some failed spell. Don't worry."

The unicorn points at the paper on the table, "It's about the bandits, right?"

"It's nothing," Dark Razor waves his claw and starts walking out, "This bandits are just mosquitos. No need to worry,"

"I see," Ground Sword looks at the griffin walks out of the room. The unicorn is sure that this is not simple bandits since they have captured Degan and no sign to release him.

Gaze, Taco and other candidates are sleeping in the room. Everyone is sleeping peacefully. Suddenly, Gaze feels cold inside as he gets up to look around to see what happens. The griffin sees the room is flooding with a magic circle making water.

Gaze yells, "Everyone, get up. The room is flooding," No one answered. The griffin jumps to the three - colors Abyssian and shakes her and shouts, "GET UP, the room is flooding.

Taco and others start opening their eyes. Taco glares at the blue griffin and pushes him away while the others just stare at the floor. They see the same. The abyssian looks around and sees a magic circle is spinning on the floor. Taco yells, "Who can dispel this spell? Raise your hoof or something up." No one answers as they keep staring at the floor. The Abyssian is feeling angry and yells, "This is not a joke. Who is the unicorn? Please raise your hoof,"

Many unicorns raise their hooves. The room is flooded in half. Taco and Gaze dive into the water as the unicorns don't know what to do. Taco swims closer to the magic circle and analyzes it. Gaze comments, "Look like this is the spell from that... stupid eagle."

Taco rubs her head, "But how can we erase this thing?"

A voice comes from behind them, "I'll do," Taco and Gaze look back and see that is the familiar unicorn. The gray unicorn points his horn at the magic circle and lightens it. The magic circle spins backward and then it does not produce water anymore. The gray unicorn sighs in relief, "I never thought learning rune magic would be useful here."

"But the room is still flooded," Taco swims on the top of the room. "I don't know what to do next?"

"Easy. Let's me," Gaze dives again and heads to the door. Taco feels something is not right as she follows the griffin underwater. She sees Gaze is kicking the door. Taco tries to stop him but it's too late, the door is opened and everyone in the room is flowing with the water.

Taco stands up and shakes her head to make her conscious. She sees the big eagle is looking at her. Taco points at the eagle, "Did you try to kill us?"

"Part of the training, Kitty," Silver pushes the Abyssian aside and walks to the blue griffin as he is looking around to see if he is outside. The eagle helps him up, "You did really good this time, Chicken. I thought you were just a speaker griffin."

"What!?," Gaze stands up and puts his face near the eagle. "I am not a chicken nor the speaker."

"For me, you are," Silver kicks Gaze away. All of the candidates look at the eagle and mumuring about her. The eagle explains, "I want to check what will you do if something bad happens."

"And why should you do that?" Taco stands up, "You nearly killed us, you know."

Silver looks at Abyssian, "And you will be a slave if this is Dainn's sudden attack, Kitten." Taco rolls her eyes as Silver turns away, "I won't test you anymore. Tomorrow will be a rough day. Good night" then the eagle walks away from the candidates.

All of the candidates are confused about what is going on while Gaze and Taco slam their claw/fist on the ground. The blue griffin huffs, "I will revenge this stupid eagle if I have a chance."

"Count me in," Taco huffs. "This is the first time someone has called me a kitten."

"A chicken is worse than a kitten,"retorts Gaze. "At least kittens are cuter than chicken."

"Fair enough,"

The candidates walk into the room and organizes their bed.

Silver head to the training room. When she opens the door, she sees Ox is training. The eagle talks to the minotaurs about training. When the blue minotaur hears that, she agrees to let her soldiers have training for security. Tomorrow will be a rough day.