Canterlot Academy Trials

Immediately after ripping the gangster that killed his mother to shreds, Fang redirected his fury towards Odu himself. The rest of his team would focus on and eliminate as many gangsters as they could in order to give the royal guard an advantage. Meanwhile, the queens were preoccupied with fighting a battle of their own within the castle itself, which left everyone to fend for themselves with civilians trapped in the middle of the fighting.

“Come at me, dog!” Odu cackled as Fang rushed at him with his new gauntlets. The tiger’s arrogance from winning their last encounter resulted in him not taking this one seriously at all.

Fang was seeing red at this point, unable to speak or think beyond ending this tiger’s life as he rushed at Odu with all he had. His gauntlets enabled him to strike constantly, but to no avail as Odu merely held up his hand and cast a magic barrier around himself. The amount of dragon’s blood he had ingested allowed him a few new abilities to defend himself with.

But soon enough, Fang would break through the defense, much to Odu’s surprise. So much so that Odu would actually find his hand scratched by Fang’s claws and realize that he wasn’t exactly invulnerable in this fight anymore.

“...so it seems you’ve got a new trick up your sleeve, then?”

Fang didn’t respond. Instead, his rage continued to drive him forward, throwing punch after punch at the tiger man. Odu found himself dodging and weaving around each attack as he realized what exactly those new claws were made of.

‘...so they figured it out.’

Odu knew that he’d be done for if a fatal blow was struck on him with those weapons. So he did his best to keep his distance. After landing a quick punch to Fang’s gut, he leapt back, but the dalmatian man was fiercely determined to not let him escape. Fang’s spotted body moved like a monochrome, heat-seeking blur that the tiger man was unable to escape from no matter how hard he tried.

Then things only got worse.

A potion flung from a certain zebra crackled upon the ground, releasing a toxin into the air that eroded at Odu’s magical enhancements from the dragon blood. From there, he was tackled into the nearest building by what could only be described as a living yak bulldozer.

“Gaagh!” he screamed as Rufus charged him through an empty pub building.

The tiger man quickly threw a punch to stagger the yak and knock him away, only for Rufus to leap back onto his hooves and blow steam from his nostrils.

“Tch…swine. Do you think we could come to an--”

CRACK!

The sound of wood splintering into dozens of small pieces could be heard as Rufus threw an entire table at Odu and charged at him once more. The table itself served as a distraction that allowed Rufus to close the gap with a quick headbutt to stun the tiger man followed by a dropkick into a nearby tree. The force of Odu’s body slamming into it was enough to send the tree falling over nearby.

“Rrrgh! How…?!”

Before he could react, the sharp edge of a rope dart was flung and lodged itself into Odu’s chest. The plutonium that the metal was infused with was enough to finally lower his power as Lee pulled him towards herself. The monkey woman was tiny compared to the beastly tiger, yet she somehow managed to lift him over her head and suplex him into the ground behind herself!

To finish it off, Fang would approach him for one final confrontation and toss away those nuclear-powered gauntlets. Now that the playing field was properly evened, he wanted to finish this off properly as the rest of his team arrived to back him up.

“Rrrgh…damn you…” Odu swore into the ground, “Outsmarted by a bunch of children with no experience…”

Fang, Spear, Rufus, and Lee said nothing. They simply surrounded him on all sides as they got ready to make their final move…

When Odu sprung into action and leapt at Fang, driving his claw into the diamond dog’s body to break one of his ribs, but Lee was quick to intervene, kicking Odu dead in the face hard enough for teeth to be dislodged as he turned and grabbed her arm, breaking it in an instant. Rufus charged in next, grabbing Odu’s tail with his teeth and flipping him over in order to follow up with an elbow drop that broke the tiger man’s midsection.

Odu could only react by scratching his claws through Rufus’s neck, causing the yak to bleed as Odu kicked him off. Just as he stood up through, Spearklip jumped in and bucked her hooves backwards, driving them into his kneecaps with enough force to shatter them and force Odu to drop to his knees. But she’d be met with a punch from his paw so powerful that she was tossed aside with her body slamming into the nearest rock.

Fang extended his own claws and sought to put an end to this once and for all. Even with a broken rib, he stomped his way up to Odu ever so slowly…

“...No matter what you do,” the tiger man sputtered in between a cough, “...someone else will take my place…your family will always be at risk. Everything you ever do will lead to pain and suffering for those around y--”

Fang sunk his claws into Odu’s neck and twisted his paw ever so slightly so that he could speak his final words to the tiger.

“...Talk all you want. But to everyone else in this world…”

He reeled his other hand back…

“YOUR LIFE MEANS NOTHING!”

With a swift punch, Fang delivered the final blow, punching Odu’s head clean off of his body before kicking the decapitated tiger’s corpse away. Before promptly collapsing on the ground with the rest of his team. As he looked into the sky, all he could do was think to himself.

‘...mother…I’m a failure who brought this all unto you…please forgive me.’