The Twilight Prince: Omakes

Opaline laughed maniacally as she held up a scroll, she had finally managed to recreate the mythical Starswirl the Bearded spell. She didn't need to capture the one living dragon if she went and grabbed one from the past. It was the perfect plan.

Opaline was dimly aware of the flight of her quarry as she stared up in terror at the alicorn that should not be, "W-w-who are you?"

"My name is Fluttershy," replied the yellow mare before twisting her neck in a way that lest loose several loud cracks, "I wrestle bears."

The following 15 minutes were an exercise in humiliation for Opaline as this 'Fluttershy' alicorn outright marehandled her out of the castle and onto the lawn where a very large number of ponies were waiting for her.

Fluttershy had opted to pull back and stalk around Opaline, giving the purple alicorn a chance to survey her surroundings.

The two feuding alicorns were surrounded by a rough circle of ponies, approximately twenty metres in diameter. All three mortal tribes were roughly equally represented, but so were some stranger things, like the odd bat winged ponies and the weird bug-pony things. And then there were entirely too many alicorns, none of which she recognized; there was one stallion - an alicorn stallion - that bore a striking resemblance to Queen Twilight - perhaps a brother, Queen Twilight had been incredibly cagy about her family - and a mare that might be mistaken for Luna if you squinted - and was drunk - but the rest were completely unfamiliar. Equestria was supposed to have only had five alicorns at this point in time, one of which a foal.

And then there was the subset of rough looking unicorns who were staring with eyes slightly too piercing while smiling and laughing with teeth entirely too sharp. Opaline shuddered.

Oh and the ponies were smiling, laughing and chatting. As if they were at a festival and not in the presence of their rightful Queen.

Some hideous chimeric serpent creature was snaking its way around the ponies accepting bets on the outcome of the fight.

Gallingly, none of the bets were on who would win. Instead they were on how long it would take this Fluttershy to beat her. Opaline was offended, she could beat this upstart in a fair fight easily. She'd just gotten lucky so far.

"Come on Shy, kick her flank." Shouted the alicorn eyesore, and the fight was back on.