Dragon Warriors
in The Art Demon
In East Liverpool, the Warriors sat on top of a building together and eating snacks, while they watched a good view of the sunset.
"Nothing to do, but see the city." Vault said with a smile.
"Yeah." Connor agreed. "No evil dragons, no monsters, and no Origa. Maybe it's because of the fall season," he said.
"Actually, I think Origa doesn't have a plan yet," said Alicia.
Then suddenly, Shade heard something which grabs the Warriors' attention.
"Something wrong Shade," Connor asked. Then Shade began acting like a dog trying to warn his master.
"I think he wants us to follow him," said Maia.
"Well then, let's go," he said, and they got on their dragons and allowed Shade to lead them.
Shade led them to the park, they got off their dragons and looked around.
"What do you think Shade's taking us?" Prim questioned.
"I don't know, but Shade's gonna take us to the source of the problem," said Connor.
Then the Warriors followed Shade, and they made it to the basketball court, where they spotted the Auxiliary Riders.
"Guys!" Connor called. "What are you doing, here?" he asked.
"Our dragons are acting strange," Neon answered. "That's why they led us here," he said.
"It could be something else." Sugarcoat suggested.
Later, they continue to follow Shade. Then he finally stopped and he pointed to the forest behind a brick wall, that's surrounded by paint.
"I think he's leading us to the forest?" said Vault.
"Hey!" Everyone turned and spotted a girl with light-blue skin, blue hair with light-blue streaks, wears a black and white hat with a blue star. A black shirt with a moon with a paintbrush painting a sapphire line. And wears a jacket with blue striped on the sleeves, a black belt, a skirt with black stripes. Black fingerless gloves, black leggings, and purple boots. And her name is Sapphire Night. "What are you people doing here, we're trying to paint," she said.
"Sorry, but my dragon is leading us to find something," said Connor, and Sapphire let out a huff.
"Fine. I heard a noise coming from the left side of the park, and keep those animals away from the paint." Sapphire said sternly at the dragons, which they growled in anger.
After taking Sapphire's advice, the Warriors and Riders made it to the left side of the park.
"Are you sure, this is the place Shade?" asked Luu Luu. Shade responded by a nod.
Then they heard chattering, they peeked behind the trees and spotted... the Rainbooms.
"The Rainbooms?" said Connor, then Rarity spotted them.
"Sunny Flare! Sour Sweet! Indigo Zap! Sugarcoat! Lemon Zest! How good it is to see you, darlings!" Rarity exclaimed.
"It's been a few years since, the music video contest." said Sugarcoat.
"Music video?" Vault repeated. "Yeah I watched that video, that song was kinda catchy," he added, as Connor scrolled down the videos from his phone.
"And there are also sightings of magic coming from Canterlot City five years ago," said Connor.
"You must be Connor Nickell," Twilight spoked. "My name's Twilight Sparkle," she said, as she shook his hand.
"And these are my friends. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Sunset Shimmer."
"Land sakes, I couldn't thank you enough for, saving Mike," said Applejack.
"Hey, that's what knights do." he said.
"You guys must've been cool fighting monsters." the Warriors looked down and spotted, Spike. "Hi," he greeted.
"A talking dog!" yelled the girls in fright.
"Yeah. Spike's been hit by magic ever since, the Friendship Games." Twilight explained.
"Connor, your dragon is amazing," Fluttershy exclaimed, as she rubbed Shade's chin, which causes him to purr.
"Anyway," Grave spoked. "The Night Fury heard something in this forest, do you know what's going on?" he asked.
"Well, we notice a plant that has, scales." Sunset informed the Warriors.
"Scales?" the Warriors said, together.
"And the petals have teeth," said Pinkie Pie.
"Teeth?"
"And it has a scent of, chocolate," said Twilight.
"Chocolate!?" the Warriors put those things together, and they know just what they're talking about.
"Well, what you got here, is the Devious Snaptraper!" said Connor, as Vault took out the Book of Dragons.
"The books says that the Snaptrapper attracts its prey with its scent, and it begins to shed it' scales and claws, but they all grow back." Vault explained.
"Isn't there anything else in the book," asked Sunset.
"Yes," he said. "It also says that the Snaptrappers love rain and play in the mud."
"We usually use the rain to, strike it down," said Connor, which causes Fluttershy to gasp. "But this time, we're gonna train it. All we need is rain," he said.
"How are we gonna find rain," asked Maia.
"We need to find, a hose," he suggested.
Back at the park, Equestrian magic float down and landed in Sapphire's paintbrush. And Owen noticed it and took the brush.
Behind storage shed is Chloe, Gorg, and Troox standing around doing nothing.
"Guys! I spotted some glowing magic and it landed on a brush." Owen explained.
"Magic?" Troox questioned. "But why would magic infect a paintbrush," he asked.
"I don't know. To make bad art," he said, and Owen began painting on the shed.
He drew a ladybug and suddenly, it came to life and flew away, much to their surprise.
"That paintbrush can bring drawings to life," said Gorg. Which causes Owen to come up with an idea.
"I know what to draw, next," said Owen.
Then he began drawing seven girls, and jumped off of the shed and created ink doppelgangers of the Rainbooms. But those Rainboom are different.
Ink Twilight's skirt has a purple star with no white star behind it.
Ink Applejack's shirt has three green apples instead of red.
Ink Rainbow Dash's shirt has a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt upside down.
Ink Fluttershy's dress has three blue butterflies instead of pink.
"Ink Pinkie Pie's has two blue balloons on the top and one yellow balloon on the bottom.
Ink Rarity's belt has two diamonds on the top and one diamond on the bottom.
And Ink Sunset Shimmer's shirt has a sun on it, but it's in reverse.
They're the Rainbooms ink doppelgangers, the Meanbooms.
Later, the Warriors have gathered a few hoses to reach the Snaptrapper.
"This is a great idea, Connor," said Vault. "If we can make rain, we'll be able to train the Snaptrapper.
"That's right. All we need, is a faucet," said Connor.
As they're finding a faucet, they discovered that the park has been vandalized.
"What happened here?" Kaguya questioned in shock. Then a park ranger came along.
"Apparently seven girls came and wrecked everything," he explained.
"The Rainbooms?" questioned Conor. "But we saw them at the forest 10 minutes ago." he answered.
"Is there a security room around, we'd like to see it for ourselves," said Prim.
"Sure."
The Warriors and Riders are now in the security room to look at some footage and the park ranger wasn't kidding.
"How could they do, that?" said Sunny Flare in shock.
"Someone's pulling a prank on them," Grave suggested. Then Connor noticed something different about them.
"Hey guys, check it out." Connor pointed at the screen. Everyone looked at it and noticed that the Rainbooms are wearing different clothes.
"So they wear different clothes, what's the big deal?" said Indigo.
"10 minutes ago, we saw the Rainbooms wearing today's clothes. And 10 minutes later, they're wearing different clothes today," he explained.
"So that means, their not the Rainbooms." Vault answered.
"Then we're gonna find out, who they are," said Connor.
Back at the park, the Warriors are looking out for those ink doppelgangers.
"Any sign of them?" asked Connor.
"Nope. Not a thing," said Maia.
"How do we know which is, the fake one?" Alicia questioned.
"Look for one Rainboom with a different personality," he said. The Luu Luu spotted something.
"Guys, look." Luu Luu pointed. And they spotted Ink Pinkie going to the other side of the park.
They soon followed her, then she went into a cabin.
As they were about to take a peek, they heard a hissing sound. They turned and saw a lamia wearing armor.
"Sweet mother of all dragons!" Grave yelled in shock.
Then the lamia charged to attack. The Warriors avoided the lamia, and it tried to strike them.
But they blocked its attack, as Grave was busy fighting the lamia, they heard stomping.
Then they spotted a minotaur. Vault blocked its sword and it tried to punch him, but Vault dodged it and Connor slashed it. And the lamia and minotaur ran away.
"How did they get here?" Vault questioned.
Then Connor looked at his sword and noticed a black substance on it. He checked it and sniffed the stuff.
"Ink?" said Connor. "Guys. I think someone's creating the Rainbooms and the monsters with magical ink," he said.
"But how could someone possibly use magic around here?" asked Kaguya.
"Maybe someone who doesn't like the Rainbooms," Prim suggested.
Later, Sapphire is checking on the paint to see if she has everything. Then the Warriors came.
"Hey uh, Sapphire is it." Connor spoked. "We just want to know if you ever painted the Rainbooms before?" he asked.
"No," Sapphire answered. "I didn't paint the Rainbooms, and why would I paint them? They're just a bunch of show-offs who impresses everyone with their magic and music," she said.
"Wait. They can do magic!" Alicia said in shock.
"I didn't know that," he said.
"Yeah. Anyway I wanted to make sure that I have everything to paint a mural," said Sapphire. But then, she noticed something's not there. "Hey, where's my paintbrush?" she said.
Suddenly, Owen and the others came out, from behind the wall.
"Oh, you mean this," Owen showed everyone the magic paintbrush. "I just wanted to paint something, before I paint the Dragon Warriors," he smirked. Then Sapphire spotted her paintbrush, and she snatched it back in anger.
"You! You're trying to sabotage everything!" Sapphire yelled. "I can't believe you would do this, I mean why would you do that!? I'm sick of everyone trying to beat me. I'm sick of everyone stealing my ideas. And I'm sick of the Rainbooms!' she yelled in fury.
Then Sapphire absorbed the magic, and ink began to cover her. She now has black and purple lines, sharp claws, dark eyes with white pupils, pointed ears, and waving hair. She became Inkphire.
"Whoa, didn't see that one coming," said Owen, as he looked at Inkphire.
"Soon. this park will be my art!" said Inkphire. And one of her drops fell down, and the ink changed into the doppelgangers of the Dragon Warriors and the monsters, that are multicolored.
Inkphire tried to crush the Warriors, but they jumped away and fell down. As they're about to get back up, Connor felt something strange.
"That ain't good," said Connor.
He slowly turned and to his shock, he landed on the Snaptrapper's tail.
It roared at Connor for landing on its tail. Now the Warriors are facing Inkphire and her army, and the Snaptrapper.
"We're surrounded!" he yelled.
"What are we going to do," said Maia. And Kaguya got an idea.
"We shall begin, countermeasures," said Kaguya.
Then the Warriors split up, half of them are fighting their ink doppelgangers, while the other half are trying to get the Snaptrapper's attention.
"Hey, Snaptrapper!" Alicia grabbed the dragon's attention. "You're nothing but a plant!" she said.
And that made the Snaptrapper angry, and it tried to blast them. But they dodged it, and lead it to Inkphire.
The Warriors are annihilating the doppelgangers, while they are trying to attack them.
"Guys! Get out of the way!" yelled Maia.
Then the Warriors moved away from the Snaptrapper, after seeing the doppelgangers, it blasted them, completely melting them.
"You dumb animal!" Inkphire snarled. As she's trying to catch it, the dragon avoided her with every move she's got.
"That'll keep her busy for a while," said Claudia, but Inkphire glanced at the warriors.
"No matter. I'll just get you instead," she said. Then she captured them with her ink magic.
"Looks like we're in trouble now." Vault sai.
"Now. Maybe I can make you Warriors, into my art."
Just as Inkphire is about to finish them off, magic was blasted at her, which causes Inkphire to let go of the Warriors.
Then a diamond shield broke their fall, then they turned, and to their surprise, it's the Rainbooms using magic.
"Sorry, we're late," said Twilight.
Pinkie threw her sprinkles at Inkphire, and they exploded on her. Then she tried to attack her, Applejack grabbed a broken brick wall and used it to block her attack.
Inkphire tried to snatch Rainbow Dash, but she ran away with super speed. Then Fluttershy ran to the Warriors' dragons.
"Could you help us," said Fluttershy, and the dragons nodded as they understand her.
They began to fly all around Inkphire to try to block her view.
Then suddenly, the Rainbooms began to pony up and wearing different clothes, and they float in front of Inkphire's face.
"What!?" Owen questioned in shock.
"Sapphire Night," Sunset Shimmer spoked. "the magic that has corrupted you is no match for the magic we possess. For the magic we carry is-"
"Yeah, yeah, we still get it." Pinkie Pie interrupted. "LIGHT HER UP LADIES!" she yelled.
The Rainbooms shoot their rainbow power at Connor's sword, and Connor moved it clockwise and slashed a rainbow ray at Inkphire, blasting the ink off of Sapphire while she screams in defeat.
Owen and the others stared in shock, that a bunch of girls helped out Connor, to defeat an ink monster.
"Let's get out fo here, before we're next!" said Gorg, and they ran to retreat.
Connor looked at the now destroyed paintbrush, until he heard sniffing and turn to see Sapphire laying on the ground crying.
"Sapphire, are you OK?" asked Connor.
"No... I'm so sorry! For everything." said Sapphire.
Prim came and kneels next to her and offers her a hug.
"It's Ok, Sapphire. Everything's going to be OK," said Prim.
"It was so scary! It was like a horrible nightmare," she said.
"I've been there," said Twilight.
"So have I." said Sunset.
"Me too," said Connor.
"Now everyone's gonna hate me for what I've done too."
"I'd be lying if I said that wouldn't be true," said Sunset. "But believe me when I say everyone will forgive you in time. Just like they did with me. And like I have with you." she said. She offers Sapphire her hand and she accepts it, and they both hug.
"I hate to interrupt," Vault spoked. "But we got bigger problems." he pointed at the Snaptrapper that is growling at them.
Noticing the opportunity, Connor connected the hose to a faucet and turned it on, but only came out a small amount of the water. But Connor got an idea, he sprayed the water into a mudpuddle.
"Hey, Snaptraper! We got mud here for you!" Connor hollered.
Then he jumped into the mud, forgetting that Snaptrapper's like playing in the mud, they soon joined with Connor to convince the dragon to play.
"Come on, girls. Help us out," he said to the Rainbooms.
"We would darling, but it will get us dirty," said Rarity. Then Connor grabbed Rarity and dragged her to the mud.
"Come on!" Then the Rainbooms soon joined in and after a couple of moving around, the Snaptraper joined in to play.
A few days later in the park, the Warriors watched a mural of them that is painted by Sapphire Night and the Rainbooms in honor of their heroism.
"Heh, good kids." Vault smirked.
"Yeah. Who knew they have a lot of friendship going around," said Connor.