Canterlot Academy Trials

Meanwhile, with Chang…

The Emperor had found himself busy with the emergency happening nearby. Seeing various children caught in that burning building was something that he couldn’t ignore, so he made himself useful by rescuing as many of them as he could.

‘Damn. I’ll have to hurry. Hopefully the others can handle the situation until I return…’

What he was unaware of was that it was the perfect diversion…

Back at the palace…

The battle had already ensued between Hei Se and the trio that had tried to restrain him.

Thiasus started off by casting pillars of light from the sky via his tome, but Hei was fast enough to dodge them with swift rolls to the side. The monkey man charged at the trio, only to be met with Blue who had summoned his own lance made out of flames.

Surprisingly, the two matched each other strike for strike when they crossed spears with each other. However, even though Blue was the stronger of the two as a dragon, Hei had far more years of skill on his side.

With a quick sweeping kick, Hei knocked the dragon off his feet, then sent him flying with a single palm strike. Afterwards, he flipped his spear around…and fired two rifle shots from the base!

“...!” Blue held up his arms. His scales protected him from the bullets being able to penetrate his skin, but they still broke them off of his body, resulting in a harsh sting that caused him to recoil as he stood up. “Grrgh…what the hell? That thing is a gun?!”

Mistwalker appeared from a puddle behind Hei and leapt at him with a dropkick. But the primate was faster, and was able to grab her by her hoof--though she immediately turned to water a moment later and dropped back into the ground.

As it turned out, it was a distraction for Thiasus to conjure another spell.

But he wasn’t fast enough.

Before the buck could react, the primate had charged to his position, and struck him with his palm hard enough to break his hold of his tome and send him flying into the nearest bush. Blue flew at Hei once more, and started breathing a wall of fire to block the primate’s visuals.

“Gah…” Hei shielded his eyes with his left arm as Blue rushed in to deal him a right hook, but the primate ducked just in time to avoid the attack, and rose backup to grab Blue by his leg out of the air, and slam him down onto the ground with a meaty--CRUNCH!

“Blaargh!” Blue screamed as he coughed up blood from the impact.

Using her quick thinking, Mistwalker conjured a thick fog around the courtyard that limited Hei’s vision.

“...not bad,” he muttered as he walked through the fog in search of the trio. “But you won’t last long hiding…”

For the moment, that was all they could do.

Mistwalker had found Blue and Thiasus hidden behind a hedge nearby.

“Oi. You chaps alright?”

“...my back…” Blue muttered, “...this asshole is strong.”

Thiasus was visibly shaking in place, panicking in silence until she spoke to him. “...I…I thought I knew what I was doing. This wasn’t supposed to happen…”

“...Git yerself together. We can’t beat him, but we can stall him just long enough until the emperor returns, ya ken?”

“...what’s the point?” Thiasus muttered with his eyes bloodshot wide open, “Nothing’s going to work against him. He dodged all of my fastest spells and I can’t match him in physical combat. No opponent that I’ve ever been up against has ever presented me with this much of a challenge…a-and you seriously think we can last against him?” He held his hooves to the side of his head, “...this is it…it’s over…I don’t even know why I’m here…”

The futility of it all was starting to weigh on the group. However, there was one thing they didn’t account for…

BANG-BANG!

The fog was lifted and the group could see a certain monkey man standing there with his guns pointed at Hei.

“...well toss my caber…” Mist whispered as the group looked over the hedge.

“Shì nǐ--So you’ve decided to show yourself after all, clown,” Hei flicked his tail upon glaring at Bullet, who had indeed made his entrance at the 11th hour.

“I was in the neighborhood when I found some dragon kids being brought ashore,” Bullet commented as he casually twirled his pistol on one of his fingers. “The Council of Deities already knows what you’re planning so it won’t work.”

“Hmph…foolish child,” Hei shrugged his words off, and continued to smile wickedly, “The gods can be swayed by anything. You on the other hand, won’t matter once you’re gone. No one will remember you.”

With a snap of his fingers, Hei summoned dozens of monkey soldiers with various weapons to the field including swords, spears, axes, nunchaku, maces, and other blunt objects.

“Argh…” Bullet scratched the back of his head as he noticed Blue from the corner of his eye. “Well this is gonna suck.”

“Wait, dragon kids?” Blue shouted as he flew into the air to rejoin the scenario alongside Bullet, “What the hell are you doing to my kin, you bastard?!” He screamed, letting out a newly formed purple flame as the muscles in his body started to tense and pulsate erratically.

With Bullet in the fray, Mistwalker and Thiasus had also regained their motivation and joined Blue in this battle to back them up.

Hei simply smirked and replied, “...trophies for the highest bidder.”