The Combat Specialist

Warning: This is fucking horrible and I'm rewriting it.

Chapter 1

A Familiar Way to Say Hello

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Whoa Black Betty

As the music started he went to do a mental checklist "Let's see, Weights?" He looks over to the side of a medium sized room to find a pile of unorganized weights of all shapes and sizes as well as some looking older than some, though they all had a fair amount of scratches and marks on them showing they've been used often."Check. Sparing dummy?" He looked over towards one of the corners of the room to see a peach colored dummy, modeled after a heavy built man, as well as with the titled B.O.B at the botom of the stand it was on."Lookin' fine. Sap gloves?" He takes a pair of gloves that weighed quite a bit come paired to others. He originally bought them as self defense weapons, but never really found a need for them so he often used them as weighted gloves."Alright, I guess it's time to get to training.... As well as to stop talking to myself."

As he went towards the weights he felt a small pull on his shirt, but decided it was nothing. That was until he fell flat on his face from a strong tug to the legs. He looked behind to find the source of his aggravation, only to find himself slack jawed at what he saw. Right behind him was a glowing red circle suspended in the air, strange symbols glowing on it. The symbols were pulsating a deep red color, while the rest of the circle kept perfectly still and unchanging. His mind was in a frozen state, unknowing of what to say. Though as soon as he thought about it, he's seen enough horror movies to see where this was going. "Oh Hell No, I am not going to be Satan's fucking sacrifice today!" He went for the door as fast as he could, well, as fast as he could while the pulling of the force got stronger every second.

As soon as he got a hold on the door knob, he fell again, only this time he wasn't as lucky as the first. As soon as he lost his foot hold, he began sliding along the hard wood floor. He desperately tried to find something to grab onto. As soon as he had the opportunity he grabbed the biggest weight he had, though something wasn't right, he couldn't get a grip on it. He looked at his hands to see that they were partially transparent."Well, didn't think it'd end like this, but it'll be a cold day in hell if this thing thinks I'm going out without a fight." 'Wow, major cliche sentence, but I'll be damned if it isn't true' He started to stand back up only to feel the pull get more powerful.

A massive grin formed on his face as he jumped into the air. Free of friction, the force pulled him towards itself at remarkable speeds. And since the man's arms were already gone and his shoulders were partially transparent, he decided to meet the satanic circle with a headbutt so violent it could shatter stone. Or at least that's what he thought, As soon as his head met red, he was out like a light.

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Two hours earlier at the Public Library in Ponyville

"Twilight, it's time for breakfast!" A purple dragon in a apron was working his magic by the stove, while a purple unicorn with bags under her eyes was sloppily making her way down a flight of stairs. After coming down stairs and getting situated by the table she let out a yawn as Spike laid down a plate of eggs and hay bacon where she was sitting."Don't tell me you were studying all night again Twilight." He glared at Twilight disappointingly for a while, she swiftly ignored it while she thought of a reply."Well I have to know as much as possible for the spell Princess Celestia sent me. It's only half way completed, not to mention It's Star Swirl the Bearded spell. It's supposed to be a spell to summo-" She was interrupted when Spike closed her mouth with his claws, not hurting her obviously."Yeah, okay Twilight, you can tell me all about the spell once you eat and get at least five hours of rest." She nodded with Spike's claw still on her mouth."Good." Was all Spike said as he went back to cooking his own meal.

"Oh yeah, and Twilight do you have anything I need to do, because Rarity invited me over by her house today to help with some dresses?" Twilight shook her head."No, it's alright, you can go by her house for the evening, just make sure to be back in the evening." Spike smiled as he dug into his food, which instead of bacon was some rubies and gems.

After Spike had left the house Twilight went back up towards the top floor where her bedroom was, but a sudden urge hit her. The urge that haunted her ever since she opened up her first book, curiosity. She wanted to preform the spell so badly, the spell that she had spent all last night trying to understand and perfect. She had gotten the basics down for the spells, especially the more exotic magic that required symbols. Though she was very unfamiliar with that type of magic, it being foreign to Equestria. She still had enough knowledge about it to perform the spell correct, and at the very least attempt it.

So with that thought in mind she went to perform the spell in the center of the library. After putting the closed sign outside the door of the library she started. She need chalk, a magic dictionary, and magic, lots of magic. As she stood in the middle of the library she started draw the magic template, a circle. Next was the odd symbols she needed to draw around the edges and ones going around the middle. They all had to be connected for magic to flow through it and perform the spell, so after she finished them she couldn't help but feel almost scared at how evil the symbol looked.

Though she still didn't feel threatened, for she still had the thirst for knowledge on her mind. With the circle done she only had one thing to do, gather enough magic for the spell to actually work. This would probably take around an hour or so. So she sat down next to the circle opened a book and started to read while she gathered all the magic she could in her horn.

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In the morning in a small apartment room, with a man sitting down with a cup of coffee

"Today's going to be a great day, I can feel it. Might as well start today's exercise." He sighed as he headed off to another room in his small apartment.

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An hour later in the library

Twilight was panting heavily in the library, her horn was glowing as bright as when she carried that Ursa Minor. She couldn't help but smile as she carefully lowered her horn towards the chalk drawn circle on the floor. She was about to do it, the spell she had studied for over the last couple of days. As her horn touched the chalk, all of her magic was transferred to it, making it grow as bright as her horn was. Twilight couldn't contain her happiness, she was about to preform a spell Star Swirl the Bearded only half completed, it took her days, but her effort was about to show."Finally, it's about t-" She was interrupted by a long yawn, as well as drowsiness, she remembered she hadn't slept in the last two days.

She started to get a little dizzy and to her complete obliviousness, one of her hooves swiped across one of the glowing purple symbols, smearing it. Once out of her daze, she concentrated back towards the spell, which was turning a tint of dark red. She wondered if she had done the spell, but quickly went over it in her mind again, checking off a mental checklist of what she did.

She had gotten everything right, so through her carelessness, and maybe a little lack of sleep, she decided that it was normal for it to turn a different color. It had, after all, been quite a ancient spell. So switching from nervous to happy, she looked at the circle on the ground which started to hover then turn on a ninety degrees to where it was facing her. A million thoughts were going through her mind, all of them hopeful. After the circle started to glow brighter, she knew something was going to come out of it, something loyal only to her.'Finally, it's coming, my own familiar.' She was about to summon the most loyal creature a unicorn could own, as Star Swirl the Bearded said in a description he left of what the spell was supposed to do. She was hopping around with glee, that was until she saw something come out of the circle at a extremely fast pace hitting her square in the head.

She felt pain, she was loosing consciousnesses fast, either from pain or lack of sleep she could hardly keep her eyes open. Though she did catch a quick glance at what she had conjured to be her familiar, what she saw mystified her. She had expected it to be a animal of some kind like Star Swirl said it would be, but she couldn't recognize what type of animal it was. That was all she could think of as her vision quickly started to fade to black.