Solice panicked, three wisps of fire swiftly orbited around her.
Struggling to remember a water spell, she screamed.
It finally came to her, first she started to chant "aqua les de aus mi aide. "
After four times, she was disturbed by the fires nearing her.
Restarting, she made it to the fifth one, feeling intense heat coming from the flames, but the heat ebbed away, as water emanated from her horn, burning out the flames.
Quickly orienting herself, she began an ice spell, but her attempts were quickly disrupted as a cold mist rose from the floor.
Abandoning the icy spell, Solice put a minor protection spell on herself before looking around for her attacker.
She heard a small shuffling sound behind her, then spun around, only to feel Zodiac tackling her to the ground.
She countered this by using the force of the impact, and a kick of the hind legs, to send Zodiac flying past her.
Rolling, Solice fired a light sweep spell, which spawned eight blazing hot spheres that sped to the now defender.
Zodiac stopped each with a strange hybrid of lightning and water, before teleporting behind Solice.
confused, Solice teleported randomly.
She saw Zodiac in a corner, but Zodiac teleported again, right next to Solice.
Solice teleported to a different place, then the room was struck with a volley of teleportation and magic attacks which flew around uncontrollably.
Finally, the two were speeding at eachother, head on. each shot out a very powerful beam of magic at each other. An eruption of sound filled the room.
A ball stood in between the two beams, and for a minute, the beam continued like a backwards game of tug of war.
The ball neared Zodiac, slowly making its way to her horn.
Loosing control, Zodiac seemed to push the ball with all her strength, resulting in it blowing up, and blasting Solice away.
After the intense pain, Solice got up, and red glow around her. With nothing left to do, her magic levels becoming depleted, and Zodiac pacing towards her in an evil-like trance, she searched for a spell to take out her enemy, Solice decided on a petronal charm.
Focusing her mind, a trio of crescent-like disks spawned behind Zodiac, who was now feet away from Solice.
The charm was speeding like missiles at Zodiac.
The attacker's horn glowed a hazy violet.
Now the disks were only inches away, but it was too late.
Zodiac couldn't cast her spell, for the disks had made it to her, and knocked her to the ground.
Struggling to get up, Solice groaned as her head ached, the magic sphere really hit her hard.
She weakly made her way to zodiac, and finished her off with a minor spell.
Zodiac glowed red, but the red faded to a jet black.
Suddenly, a royal sounding voice announced,
"And the match's Victor is... Solice De Fluer!"
A crowd erupted with cheers, and whistles.
Smiling, she went to help her friend Zodiac up.
"Wow Solice... That last move was unexpected!"
She exclaimed, putting a hoof around Her.
Solice smiled and listened as the announcer spoke out to her.
"Congratulations Solice, you are now in roll for the grand Finales. "
She nodded at the announcer before making her way to the ladies locker room with Zodiac, hoping a small rest would stop the dull pain after the magic duel.
"Haha, I didn't know you knew the treth-vith spell at all! The mist really had me surprised. "
Solice complimented her friend.
Zodiac walked a bit closer to Solice.
Solice noticed the slight change but shrugged it off.
The two chatted and giggled about cute stallions, and fierce unicorns to battle with in the sports.
But all that time, Zodiac seemed a bit upset.
Finally, Solice questioned the sadness. Suspecting it was because she was the winner in that duel.
"Hey what's the matter? Why're you down?" She asked.
Zodiac sighed before barely speaking.
"I just wish you'd see me, the way I see you. " whispered the dark grey unicorn, sitting down on a bench.
Surprised, and kind of curious at the response, Solice sat next to her friend, and asked.
"And how do you see me?"
Zodiac sighed again, before getting up and walking away.
Trying to stop her friend, Solice reached out to the grey mare, but Zodiac just flicked her hoof away.
Solice felt kind of hurt by Zodiac's reaction.
Left alone in the locker room, Solice went over a few thoughts.
Zodiac was a cool pony, but ever since today, she was becoming a disappointment.
After reviewing a few details, she finally came to a conclusion.
Maybe Zodiac liked her. Was that what all the looks and insane laughing fits at ALLLL of her lame jokes meant?... 'Wow!' Solice thought to herself.
'How the hell did I not see this?' Deciding to go to her friend, Solice thought a about why she didn't really feel attracted to stallions.
Why she sometimes had fluttering in her stomach when she heard Zodiac laugh... And why she felt hurt that Zodiac was a bit down.
Also the way she loved it when that grey mare gave her a certain look.
She got up, walked out of the locker room, and found her way to the schools magic duel room.
Solice smiled after she found the dark grey unicorn in the bleachers, watching the current match.
A few ponies noticed Solice and congratulated her on her victory a while ago, and wished her luck on the next battle she would have to face, where she nervously smiled and made her was around them when they were done complimenting her.
Finally, she was able to go to Zodiac.
Sneaking up on her, Solice whispered into her ear,
"Boo."
Zodiac tensed up, a bit startled, before frowning at Solice, and becoming silent for a few minutes.
"Hehe, hey..."
She said to Zodiac, trying to make the grey mare talk a bit.
But Zodiac just glanced at Solice before looking back at the game.
The crowd exploded with cheering.
Solice looked at the two competitors, simply astounded by what one was doing to the other.
A small little blue mare was engulfing a large, heavy stallion in an even heavier ball of water. How in bloody Equestria would Solice beat that little unicorn if that's what the unicorn's skill level was?
The ball fell to the ground and the water vanished. The announcer announced,
"And the match's victor is... Aquaberry."
Solice noted her name for later reference.
She then turned her attention back to Zodiac, who was still uninterested at her attempts to cheer her up.
"Hey, umm... Zodiac?"
Solice asked.
Zodiac only looked at her.
"I wanna tell you a little something in the locker room..."
Said Solice, trying to see if what she thought was true by bringing Zodiac into the locker room and doing something or two.
Zodiac shook her head, but then froze as Solice leaned on her, with her hoof enveloping her body.
"Umm... Solice?" She asked.
"Yes?"
Responded Solice, in the cutest she could manage without raising suspicion of her intentions.
"Why... Uh... Why do you have your hoof around me?"
Awkwardly, Solice took her hoof back, but Zodiac grabbed it and kept it there.
Zodiac blushed a bit, before looking off into the next match.
Solice leaned in a little closer to the grey mares body, letting in the silky feel of her fur.
The two watched the rest of the games like that, before Solice's turn against that little pony, Aquaberry.
Aquaberry won the round, but Solice didn't really care.
She walked Zodiac home, and gave her a small hug, and all that day, she thought of what to do to Zodiac for the next time they met.
