Now was the day to finally head home, Cobalt and Harmony had their night out, and surprisingly, nothing happened between them. They had a few drinks, did karaoke, and took a walk along the beach. However, they had a certain conversation while on the beach.
"Cobalt, it's nice out here at night, right?"
"Yeah, I'm glad I decided to go today. Although, I'm still pretty pissed at you for that bullshit you pulled a few days back."
"How many times do I have to say I'm sorry?"
"Listen, what you did pushed the boundaries with the girls. Twilight already didn't trust me when we arrived, and now, I have a feeling she's even more suspicious now..."
"What? Are you trying to make her your bride?"
"No, I just don't want her to feel suspicious. I want to be her friend, you know that."
"I understand, sorry..."
"Don't be anymore. I forgive you. Besides, aren't you suppose to be mature right now? Because currently. you're acting like how I first met you. Shy, and... apprehensive recently. Is it about your brother's arrival?"
"Yes..."
"I not only hate him because of how he treats woman, but of what he's trying to do to realize your father's ambition."
"You mean subduing each nation one by one in the mystic realm?"
"Basically..."
If you hadn't known, Harmony's family love power. They loath it, but Harmony isn't like that. She likes each nation of the mystic realm to be living in harmony, hence her name. She doesn't like meddling with other nations and their affairs, nor does she want to take their power away. As of now, the nations of the mystic realm are living peacefully, but unbeknownst to them, Harmony's brother was planning to invade each nation, and subdue them.
"You can't even do anything about it. Once your brother starts his invasions, there won't be any going back..."
"Many officials have voted against the invasions, but he still plans to go with his plan."
"Won't this start a great war or something like that?"
"Well, unless someone does something about it," Harmony stopped walking as she turned to look at Cobalt, "However, I'm more worried about how you'll feel when my brother arrive."
Cobalt continued walking as he chuckled, "I guess we'll see when that time arrives. First of all, I have to get ready with my duel against Midnight, right?"
"Yeah!" She ran beside Cobalt as they continued walking along side the beach, "Can I..."? She pointed towards his arm, causing him to chuckle.
"Yeah, go ahead," She smiled and took his arm.
And now, it was time for Cobalt's long awaited duel with the current second strongest mystic in the universe, Midnight. Since the duel was so huge, they are having it in the biggest arena in the mystic realm: Myriad Arena.
In Cobalt's locker room, Cobalt was mentally preparing himself.
This was it... my duel with Midnight. This long awaited duel between us will surely be the talk around the mystic realm for centuries to come! However, I haven't dueled Midnight since her rehabilitation. I defeated her yes, but that was so long ago...
I don't know what skills she knows now. She's a crafty little mystic, so I have to prepare myself mentally for whatever she throws at me...
A knock soon sounded out throughout Cobalt's locker room, causing Cobalt to snap out of his trance, "Cobalt!" The voice was Rarity.
"Yes, come in Rarity..."
She opened the door, to see Cobalt sitting in the middle of his locker room, "Are you ready?"
"As ready as I'll ever be. Are they waiting on me?"
"Yes, shall we get going?"
"Sure thing, let's go...," Cobalt stood up as he stopped Rarity first, "Hold on, do you remember that present you girls gave me before I left for the mystic realm?"
"Yeah?"
"I liked it, but I sort of modified it slightly. Go ahead and go on to the arena. You'll see what I mean," Rarity, although confused, she walked back up to the stands in the arena.
"Yo Rarity!" Rainbow yelled from their seats, "Where's Cobalt? Everyone's waiting for him."
"He's about to come out. By the way, he said that he modified our present that we gave to him before he left. I can't wait to see what he did!" They all awaited Cobalt's entrance as they saw lights point at the other side of the arena.
"About to enter the arena, Ranked 2nd in the entire universe: Midnight Gleam!" Everyone cheered loudly for Midnight as she walked through with a three sectional staff.
"That's her weapon?" Twilight questioned as she looked at Midnight standing proudly in the middle of the arena.
"She uses a three sectional staff after her rehabilitation. She used to use a flail, but changed afterwards," Harmony explained, "She's much more powerful and dangerous with the tri-staff. Although, Cobalt also had a weapon change, which took him a while to adapt to."
Before anyone else could say anything, the light shined to the other side of the arena, "Now, introducing, Ranked 3rd in the universe, you know him for going on a 2 year losing streak! Here he is: Shiiiiiining Coooooooobaaaaaaalt!" The crowed exploded with cheers as Cobalt slowly walked out wearing Japanese-inspired armor that was lightweight, and was light on the armor. It was more stylish rather than battle ready.
"Wow...," They all stared at Cobalt as he slowly walked towards the middle of the arena to meet Midnight, "He looks great!" Rarity, along with the others, were soon enticed at Cobalt's attire.
Soon, the two mystics were eye-balling each other, "Midnight..."
"Cobalt..."
"Quite the crowd we stirred up, correct?"
"Yeah, I'm looking forward to how much you've improved..."
"I should be saying that to you Midnight."
"Oh well," They both turned away from each other to gain some distance between the two of them.
An official rose from the side of the battlefield to explain the rules, "As you know the rules, the timer will be set to 5 minutes! If your hit points reach zero, the duel is over! Once time is up before then, the one with the most hit points will be declared the winner! Remember, this is no holds barred! Anything goes you two!"
"Right!" They both yelled.
"Are both fighters ready?"
"Ready!" Both yelled again.
"Very well," The official soon went away as a timer started to countdown.
5...
This was it...
4...
Cobalt...
3...
I want you to know...
2...
I won't hold back!
1... GO!
And so it began...
The two mystics charged at each other, and came into a shockwave inducing deadlock. The two stared each other in their deadlock, both smirking brightly at each other.
The two stepped back away from each other before circling around the arena, "I have no idea what she could throw at me. Right now, she has the agility... I have the dexterity due to my loose clothing..., but how can I determine what she'll use to her advantage."
"Shattered Wall!" Midnight yelled as a large mirror-like maze filled the arena.
"Headmistress, what is Shattered Wall?" Twilight questioned, "Cobalt has talked about said ability, but he never really taught us about its use..."
"Shattered Wall is a spell that uses deception. Similar to a hall of mirrors at a carnival, it uses reflections to fool the opponent's field of view to confuse them on the user's presence. With Shattered Wall, she can bypass Cobalt's 6th sense skill easily. However...," Harmony stated, "she doesn't know how well Cobalt prepared for this said spell."
"Huh, Shattered Wall... nice try...," Cobalt held his hand to the ground, unleashing a purple shockwave throughout the arena. A shriek sounded out throughout the arena, causing the mirrors to disappear.
"Huh?!"
"What Cobalt just did was disable all deception magic from the field. Another incomplete ability called: Nullify. He's able to disable any magic based on category. Shattered Wall is, like I said, a deception spell, so he disabled that, along with other deception spells. However, this makes deception spells for both the user and the opponent useless."
"Damn it Cobalt?! Why'd you ruin the fun so early?!"
"Because this duel is only 5 minutes, and there's no way in hell I was going to let you win by default. We gotta give the duel the people wanna see! Besides," Cobalt teleported behind Midnight, and attempted to hit her, but Midnight's reaction time was fast enough to block it with her tri-staff, "I'm not going to go easy on you."
"I don't plan to either...," Midnight attempted to roundhouse kick Cobalt, but he flipped away from her. Cobalt leaped into the air, attached his katana to his foot, and charged downward towards Midnight, surprising her, "Whoa!" She jumped back, and dug her foot in the ground before jumping up towards Cobalt. She held her foot out, and it soon surrounded itself in a icy dome. Her foot came in contact with Cobalt's katana, freezing it to his foot.
"Damn it!" Cobalt stomped into the ground as he tried to free his foot, but he saw Midnight out the corner of his eyes smirking.
"Good night...," Cobalt's vision was now blackened to where he could only see a few feet in front of him.
"I thought I..."
"You should really brush up on your spell execution Cobalt...," Midnight appeared behind him, and landed a devastating combo on Cobalt, ending it in another fierce kick. This knocked Cobalt into the wall with a fierce thud.
"Man, spells just aren't my thing...," Cobalt stood up and stretched his shoulder out, "I guess I'll just have to get physical...," Cobalt stood back and charged towards Midnight, she got ready to counter whatever he had planned, but she felt a chill down her spine. Now, Cobalt was behind her, a red aura around his body, "Ha, I love my speed. You should be able to outclass my speed, right Midnight?"
"Ha! Let's finish this duel!" Midnight charged at Cobalt, with Cobalt easily retaliating back. They both attacked each other with such speed that nobody saw their arms. They broke apart from each other as Cobalt stiffened up as multiple cuts appeared on his body.
"What the hell? How can a staff make cuts...?" Midnight smirked as she extended her staff, which wrapped around Cobalt, "What the...?!" She pulled him back towards herself, and smirked as she caught him.
"Ready to dive?"
"Oh no..."
"What's going on headmistress?!" Rarity yelled.
Harmony held her head down in disappointment at this, "It's over from here..."
Midnight jumped high with Cobalt still in her grasp. She jumped to a daring height before turning back towards the ground, and plummeting towards it at a dangerous speed. A large fire ball formed around them as they inched closer to the ground.
Closer...
Ever so closer...
And...
They made contact with the ground, causing a large fiery explosion to fill the stadium. The smoke from the explosion filled the arena, blinding everyone from viewing the results. Everyone waited anxiously for the results of the fierce attack.
Once the smoke dissipated, everyone saw the result. Midnight stood tall as Cobalt laid face first on the ground, "And it's over..."
"It's not over!" The announcer yelled.
"Huh?!"
The scoreboard read that Cobalt wasn't knocked out yet, and still had 100 hit points left, and Midnight with 250. 1 minute on the clock, and Midnight had expected that to be a one hit K.O.
"How did that not take you out?!" Cobalt slowly stood up as his eyes lost it's color, and began to glow a gold aura, "Last Stand!" Cobalt appeared in front of Midnight, and stopped her from moving, "No!"
Harmony sat on in awe, "He survived that hit? No one has ever survived that dive attack from Midnight ever..."
Cobalt held his sword behind him as it glowed red, "Now... it's over," Cobalt swung his sword at Midnight's abdomen. He pushed his sword fiercely before smirking. He swung right through her, and grabbed her from behind, "Heads up!" Cobalt jumped high just like Midnight, but instead of charging with her, he threw her down, and followed her down. He appeared underneath her, and held his katana up.
Midnight landed straight through the katana, impaling her through, "Bolt!" Cobalt shot a beam of lightning through the katana and threw her off of it. The buzzer sounded as Cobalt knelt down on one knee panting heavily. The hit point read: Cobalt: 12 hit points. Midnight: 5 hit points.
"We have your winner, and new Rank 2 Mystic: Shining Cobalt!" The arena erupted in cheers as confetti surrounded Cobalt. He looked up, still panting heavily. Cobalt's friends ran up to him, and surrounded him in a group hug.
"That was awesome Cobalt!" Rainbow yelled.
"Yeah, we all thought you were a goner!" Applejack added.
"Hehe, I try my best..."
"That was very impressive Cobalt. You're definitely worthy of the number 2 spot," Harmony smiled brightly at Cobalt as he returned the smile. However, a slow clap rose from behind them. They all turned to see a man with white, noble armor, with long white hair, somewhat similar to Cobalt's walking up to them.
"Impressive indeed... Shining Cobalt..."
"Who is that?" Twilight asked.
"Brother?" Harmony somewhat answered unintentionally.
They all stood wide eyed as Cobalt stared down Harmony's finally revealed brother, "That's right, I'm Harmony's big brother, Brisk Wing, and now, I would like to duel you, Shining Cobalt..."
They all gasped as Cobalt stood silent, rage in his eyes as he saw Harmony's brother. Brisk smirked as he stared at the state Cobalt was in.
You finally arrive... you bastard...
