The Combat Specialist

Chapter 2

A Familiar Introduction

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The library was quiet, with nothing moving except for the occasional slight twitches the two bodies laying on the floor. Twilight was near one of the library windows when a slit of sunlight aimed perfectly at one of her eyes started to agitate her. She woke up from unconsciousness, blinking her eyes, but immediately regretting it as sunlight got directly in her eye. She quickly closed the curtains with her magic and tried to remember what happened to make her black out. She closed her eyes mentally think of what had happened.'Okay Twilight, think of what happened. I had breakfast with Spike, performed the spell, then summoned.. A.. Familiar.' She slowly turned her head around to find what she expected to be a type of diamond dog, rather deformed to.

A smile slowly started for around her mouth as she realized that it was her familiar, though she could have sworn it should have looked like a animal she was familiar with, like a phoenix or timber wolf. After all, the spell said the familar was supposed to call upon a spirit and take the form of something you recognized, but she had no idea what this was. She felt safer though, realizing that it was supposed to be her familiar. She decided to walk over towards it and take a closer look.

As she got within a meters length of it, she saw that it didn't look like a diamond dog at all. It was laying on its side with its back turned towards her so she couldn't get a good look at its face, or if it even had a face.  It did share some similarities with a diamond dog, the most noticeable is it looking like it is supposed to stand on two legs as well as arms, but that's where the similarities end.

The familiar didn't have fur anywhere on its body except for its head, it also didn't have paws, but instead had something similar to Spike, though something was covering it. He also wore clothing Twilight has never seen before, and this surprised her. She had always thought being friends with Rarity would help her keep to date with the latest fashion, but she had no idea what kind of clothing it was.

The familiar wore clothes that shrouded its upper body in black and he wore a type of clothes on his bottom half that had a tan appearance to it. It also had what she thought were horseshoes, though they seemed more flexible than any metal could be, so once it had awaken she would definitely ask it about them.

She walked over to the other side of the familiar and discovered that it did indeed have a face. Although it was very different from what she had expected. It didn't have a muzzle like diamond dogs, it instead was pretty flat in comparison. It also had ears sticking out from the sides of its head, and in more of a shell like shape compared to diamond dogs or ponies.

She wondered what her new familiar could do. What defenses it had or if it had been better at magic, but she realized something as the thoughts ran through her mind. Is it alright? Is it still alive? She was panicking at this point. She was so caught up in examining her familiar that she complete forgot if it was alright or even alive for that matter.

She tried to see if there was any inflation in the chest to see if it was breathing. Thankfully she could see it slowly moving, even under the baggy clothes it wore. She let out a breathe of relief and decided it was time to wake up her new familiar and introduce herself. Gathering some magic in her horn, ready to fight if she needed to, as Star Swirl said 'Prove your worth' to the familiar, she started to nudge it with her hoof. Nothing, she nudged again, except a little harder, nothing. She decided that it probably would be better to just let him wake up naturally than to force it, so she discharged the magic in her horn and picked a book from one of the shelves and read it.

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Familiar's POV

'Did I really anime style headbutt a demonic circle... I'm a fucking idiot' I was laying on the floor on my side when I finally came to. I had such a headache, maybe slight concussion as well. I decided to flip over onto my back, and while feeling more comfortable I noticed that the wood I was laying on didn't fell the same against my head. I expected to slide along a hardwood floor since I should be in my workout room, but instead the wooden floor was much more grain like, almost as if it had just plain unrefined wood. I opened my eyes, hoping to be greeted with my white ceiling, I was instead looking at a brown roof that looked to be made out of wood. I blinked, again, again, and again, but it was still there.

I sat up and looked around, still a little out of it. Though that still didn't stop me from seeing a floating book suspended in mid air near a..Well, I'm not so sure what it was. It looked like a horse, smaller than a normal one. It's eyes were bigger than any animal that went through evolution had the right to have, Its head also seemed a little too big, but could pass for normal I guess. The thing that really irked me though was that it had a horn....'Well, I'm going to lay down until things start making sense again.' And so I did. I put my hands behind my head, laid back down, and dosed off.

Sometime later I woke up, still seeing that same brown ceiling, though on the plus side my headache was gone. I was about to get back up until I heard some voices.

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Twilight's POV

"I'm sorry Twilight, I don't think I can help your.. Familiar, I've never seen a animal like this, except for diamond dogs. And I hardly think anything I know about them applies to it." Fluttershy said in a almost apologetic way. I couldn't help but sigh."I know Fluttershy, it's just that I'm not so sure if it's hurt or not. I summond it a while ago and it hasn't woken up yet. Though it did change the way it was laying down while I was waiting."

I looked back at my familiar. It had its arms crossed behind its head while it slept, something similar to how Rainbow would relax and dose off. Though I don't think anything pony related could be used for my familiar. For all I know it could be regenerating any injuries it's sustained, or it could just be relaxing, this is really agitating me.

"Look, please Fluttershy, I just want to see if my familiar's okay." I decided to try to give her puppy eyes like I've seen Sweetie Belle give Rarity at times."A-alright Twilight, if it's for you." Fluttershy walked cautiously over to my familiar and looked closely at it, she then looked confused."Uh, Twilight, I can't see its body." I face hoofed and answered,"Alright then let me see if I can get them of-" That was as far as I got before my familiar quickly got up and, nearly scaring Fluttershy half to death causing her to faint and began to speak in a voice that sounded male.

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Familiar's POV

"No, offence, but no one undresses me unless I want them to. And you certainly aren't one." 'Wow, way to sound like a major asshole, first meeting with a unknown species to, smooth.' It didn't matter really though, the one near me fainted and the other one, Twilight I think, was so shocked that I got up so quickly my words passed right over her head.

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Author's Notes

So I couldn't get the author's notes to work so I'm just going to do it down here.

So, chapter two of the rewrite and some answer to your questions if you have them.

1.Yes there will still be fighting contests.

2.Yes I did decide with them speaking the same language. Specifically because it was hard as hell to copy words from different languages and put them together to make a sentence.

3.Yes I do need a editor.