Hear the voices of Samuel/HTVO: Arc 1: Samuel

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Magic vs. Strife

"Magic, I want to fight you so I can grow stronger." Strife said causing Magic to look at him surprised and then says, "I know that I don't have a chance of beating Dexilus with my current skill." Strife looked away as he asked him, hating that he had to ask for another's help in getting stronger. Strife was stubborn and mostly went better off in training himself, but this was new and important to him.

The house stood quite as the others looked on, Magic grows a humble smile and says, "Sure…but can it wait until after breakfast?"

"You should eat Strife. Both of you should be at your full strength if you're going to battle." Dream said walking over to him and then sitting down at the table followed shortly by Dash, Spike, Fluttershy, and Pinkie. Strife sighs quietly and proceeds to sit at the table as well.

After breakfast, the group is in the woods on the edge of a giant meadow, at a decent distance away from Ponyville. Dash is lying down on a tree branch with her arms behind her head as Spike and Pinkie are excited and Fluttershy is worried. Dream looks on, slightly impatient as he's never seen them fight each other.

Magic and Strife stand in a large meadow that stretched as far as the eye could see, the meadow was like a sea of yellow due to the all the flowers growing there. "Magic, I don't want you to go easy on me." Strife said getting ready by summoning 10 swords and a shield.

"I figured." Magic responded as he started to stand on his hind legs and look more like a bi-pedal anamorphic rather than a regular pony. Strife and Dream raise an eyebrow as the others look on surprised with Pinkie and Spike becoming starry eyed, "That's so cool!" Both of them say.

"Magic." Strife calls out, "I've never seen that form of you before." He said looking at him.

"You like it?" Magic said smiling as he shows his forelegs and hooves turning into arms and hands, "This form allows a lot more precision and power while still keeping speed and agility."

Dream becomes intrigued as to how this form functions, as he didn't even know Magic could do this.

"Just tell me whenever you're ready Strife." Magic said smiling as Strife readies his weapons, the meadow and forest became quiet as the wind blew and some pedals from the flowers swirled around in the sunlight.

"Ready!" Strife yelled as he shoots five of his swords towards Magic, but before they could even get a few inches away from him Magic appears in front of Strife and throws a few water drops at him.

Time seemed to slow down as Strife just notices that he was next to him but before he could do anything the water drops struck him with the force of a shotgun, causing him to immediately hit the ground along with his weapons.

The others look on, shocked that Magic can move that fast and take down Strife with just a few drops of water. "Strife!" Fluttershy yelled as she is about to fly over to him.

"Fluttershy dear, wait." Dream said looking at the pink mane pegasus and then says, "Strife needs to get stronger in order to beat Dexilus, if you interfere, you'll rob him of that."

Fluttershy looks at Dream then lands on the ground and continues to watch, albeit uneasily.

Strife is screaming on the ground while holding his face, "You have to develop higher pain tolerance!" Magic says, yelling at him encouragingly. "You also have to decrease the amount of time it takes for you to react!"

Strife gets up in a hurry, summons four huge shields to protect himself and twenty various weapons, and fires them towards Magic. Magic runs directly towards the incoming weapons and dodges all of them while grabbing a halberd and a katana with his hands from the bunch.

Magic them zooms over to Strife and swings the halberd's axed edge towards his shield. It makes contact with Strife's shield and shatters it while he also rapidly swings the katana and dices the second shield.

Strife's reaction caught up with him just as Magic was swinging both of the weapons towards him. Strife quickly uses his remaining shields to block both of them but within a second they break, however Strife was still able to dodge away from him.

"You also have to increase your defenses along with your offenses." Magic said when he throws the katana towards Strife. Strife quickly summons a shield to protect himself and the katana almost immediately strikes it, but doesn't shatter, instead it gets stuck in the shield.

"Very good." Magic said immediately appearing behind Strife spinning the halberd and then swings it towards Strife's head. Strife barely ducks in time as the halberd strikes the shield and shatters it.

"Your reaction time is also slowly getting better." Magic said when he grabs Strife's head and throws him to the ground. Magic then swings the halberd overhead, but Strife quickly rolls out of the way causing it to break upon impact with the ground.

Twenty long swords then appear above Magic and fly down, impaling him and kicking up a ton of dust. Strife is breathing heavily and bleeding while the others are breathless, "So this is what that form is capable of, such immense power." Dream says, looking on while biting his lip.

Fluttershy has her hooves over her eyes not wanting to watch what comes out of the dust, or the fight for that matter; while Dash, Spike, and Pinkie are all wide eyed and open mouthed.

The dust settles down and out of it comes Magic, standing with multiple weapons pierced through him. "I finally w-" Strife said but was interrupted by Magic punching him in the gut causing him to fly back and into the ground where Magic immediately teleports over there, grabs Strife's head, and then throws him back to his original spot causing him to tumble over himself once he landed.

"I apologize for being so rough, but you shouldn't let your guard down. You're not dealing with a normal pony here. After all, you of all ponies should know that I feign damage in order to fool others." Magic said, as Strife gets up and just stands there.

Everything becomes quiet as Strife looks at Magic. Magic then charges towards him at an insane speed and tries to punch him, but Strife quickly dodges it, and then summons a sword and fires it at Magic.

However, Magic catches the sword with his free hand, but then a knife flies from behind him and cuts his cheek. Magic becomes shocked and immediately backs up, he then runs his hand across his cheek, looks at it, and sees blood.

"Impossible." Dream said as he looks on, shocked.

"What happened? It's just a cut." Rainbow Dash said looking at Dream.

"It's not "just a cut" Miss. Dash. From Magic's reaction, this is the first actual injury that he's ever gotten." Dream said still shocked beyond belief.

Magic smiles, "Very good Strife! However…" He says as he heals himself, "you still need to improve. Your reaction time has improved dramatically but everything else is still sub-par."

Strife is still breathing heavily as he nods and summons multiple swords and axes, and readies himself. Magic zooms over to him, even faster than before, and punches him in the gut but unlike last time, Strife doesn't go flying instead he holds his ground, albeit getting moved back a few feet by the force of the punch.

Magic noticing this, throws water into Strife's face causing it hit him with extreme force and has him collapse to the ground, while coughing and bleeding. "Always be ready for a counter attack!" Magic yells, "However your pain tolerance has improved." He smiled seeing Strife get up.

"We're going to continue to train like this for the rest of the day, okay?" Magic says as turns his hand into sand. Strife just nods as Magic rushes towards him and creates a crescent with the sand; Strife dodges it and notices that the ground has become dried up.

He quickly summons various axes and chucks them at Magic. The first one hits Magic in the shoulder but the others fly through his sandy body. "I get it know, I just have to react quicker than you." Strife said.

"That's the ticket." Magic said smiling as he holds out his finger and suddenly two beams of light shoot through Strife, causing him to collapse again. "You shouldn't say stuff like that out loud, you never know if your enemy has a way to counter act his downfall."

The fight continues on well throughout the day and into the night. The meadow has been practically destroyed, littered with broken weapons and craters as the group continues to look on.

Dash, Pinkie, and Spike are still looking on in awe as Fluttershy is trying to not to interfere. Dream is surprised but trying not to show it, "Amazing. This is truly some grueling training he's being put through." He thinks to himself as he looks on.

Strife was bleeding heavily from his legs, chest, and head while also struggling to stand up. Magic was unharmed due to him healing himself as he points his finger at Strife and shoots a light beam.

Strife almost immediately dodges it, but due to his legs, he gets nicked by it. "Reaction, Check." Magic said as Strife summons a volley of weapons and shoots them at Magic. There were so many weapons that it blocked out the light of the moon as Magic looked at them.

"Offense, Check." Magic said as the weapons start to hit the ground around him and he immediately starts to charge toward Strife at an incredible speed, getting impaled multiple times by the weapons raining down on the scenery. Magic quickly summons a serrated, diamond sword in one hand while also increasing his mass along with the muscles in his arm, and swings it at Strife who then blocks it with a shield causing some dust to be blown away.

"Defense, Check." Magic said as he quickly teleports behind Strife faster than light speed, and then throws a puddle, instead of drops at him. It strikes Strife and blows up, but Strife didn't move more than a few inches and just smiles as blood keeps running down his face.

"Pain Tolerance, Check." Magic said as he smiles back at him, "Your training is complete. You should be more than enough of a match for him." Magic says as he transforms back into his normal pony form.

Strife only response back to Magic was simply coughing out blood falling to the side passes out. Fluttershy yells, "Strife!" She flew towards him, landing by his side.

"Don't worry Fluttershy, he'll be alright, trust me. That stubborn bastard can take a curb stomp to the head and still get back up, sometimes." Magic said. Fluttershy had paid no mind to Magic, due to her shedding tears over Strife.

Magic shrugs and then says to Dream who was still watching him from a far, "Hey Dream, we should probably take snarky here back to the H.Q."

Dream nods his head and then says, "Okay, but you'll be carrying him, and I already have a Cello on my back as you can tell." Dream pulled out a mug of coffee from the pocket of his suit.

Magic shrugs his shoulders again and then says, "Whatever, it's not like I haven't carried him anywhere else when he was knocked out." Magic trotted over to Fluttershy.

"Hey Fluttershy, I have to take Strife back, you can come with us if you want, okay?" Magic asked, smiling at Fluttershy. She looks at him and then at Strife. She knew Strife was badly injured and it was best for him to stay in his bed resting.

"O-okay, M-Magic, be careful with him." Fluttershy said wiping her tears away.

Magic nods his head and picks up Strife's body onto his back. Opening his wings wide preparing to fly, Magic looks back at the others and says, "See ya all back at the Headquarters!" Magic then flew away heading back home.

To be continued

(I hope you enjoy that fighting chapter. Give your credit to EpicAeromancer33 for creating it. Finally, Strife and Magic had for once fought each other. This battle all about Strife and Magic, should have been use before I gave you the chapters about Strife's past, but it didn't come into my mind and thus, I had to ensure this chapter was at least done because well...come on imagine that, I know you at least had thought 'Hey, what would happen if they fought one another?' Well anyway, yeah here you go. Now I am off on my surviving adventure against the Time Eater, while editing the other chapters. Not only that, I'll be making a new chapter for two of my stories. This one and my other story 'Restart, The father of Time.' See ya, my dear readers!)