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The great game

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The grass rustled softly as the group of 6 ponies made their way across the sunny meadow in which they found themselves, the one at the head if the group, an orange pegasus with a casually worn brown mane and eyes, took a moment to ponder why they had been summoned, shrugging slightly he eventually decided he would find out soon enough, the others apparently did not share his thought process "so...this friend of yours never specified why we have been called here." Said a blue unicorn with a red mane, looking at the lead pony, the aforementioned pony looked back at him, "I'm afraid not magus, but I'm sure she will tell us once we arrive." Magus was a unicorn from a wealthy family and loved to read and learn, especially about the aspects of magic, A white alicorn with a icy clear mane and bluish - white eyes gave a small snort "usually these situations end up in an ambush of some sort." He said with a slightly bitter tone. This was burning frost, an alicorn born through accidental magical tampering and trained as an assasin, He was then nudged by a glowing neon blue pegasus with a neon yellow mane that was a bit messy, his left eye was mechanical and his right iris was yellow, his wings are also mechanical and a speaker was implanted into his back "Frost can you just lighten up dude? You know for a guy who has ice magic you have a hard time chilling out" he said with a small chuckle,"you can trust gideon, we're all friends here right?" This was dubstep, a pegasus inventor and do who was badly injured in an accident in a magic lab, his body still glows as a result. At the right edge of the group a black unicorn with a white mane and sea green eyes decided to speak up, "I'm in agreement with Dubstep but we should exercise caution regardless or risk a horrible demise." The speaker being tombstone, this unicorn's past was shrouded in mystery The final party member to the left of the group smirked,"you know I get why your name is to tombstone, your pretty grave sometimes." He chuckled, this was berserker blitz,a yellow pegasus with navy blue wing feathers and mane, icy blue eyes twinkling playfully but that can change with him in serious situations, he was trained from a young age by his father to use a sword, sadly soon after his father was framed for murder and his family has had a reputation ever since. And the one in the front was gideon, born in another land his mother perished upon giving birth, his father being a tyrant who delved into the dark arts, brutally trained his son to use the darkness infused into his very DNA, since he moved to equestria he has put his skills to use as bodyguard to celestia and luna

After that exchange the group walked in dead silence, they knew their destination was not far and all were eager to sate their curiosity, the sun had reached its noontime spot in the sky and the group had a seat to get off their hooves for a little bit, Gideon was a small distance from the group, stretching and gazing around at the surrounding landscape when there was a bright flash of light, suddenly two large figures stood over them casting large,dark shadows, one was purple with with a mane that was slightly darker purple and red and red eyes, the other was yellow with a red and white mane, blue eyes and a massive leaf on her back like a cape, both were unicorn mares about a hundred feet tall, "Excellent, your all here." The purple one said with a grin, Gideon wasn't disturbed by the being who had spoken, in fact he smiled "Ah starlight dazzle, it's good to see you again." The others looked shocked "uh..bro, you know these two?" Dubstep asked, Gideon smiled at the others "I know starlight, she's the one who summoned us here." He let that sink in a few moments then spoke to starlight "While we are on that subject who is this friend of yours? And why DID you summon us?" The yellow unicorn spoke, her voice speaking with pride " I am midnight eclipse!" Starlight nodded, "midnight here is an amazing shaman and a mare I can respect" she chuckled. "As for why your here, I asked midnight over for some company, but we got bored...so I decided that I should bring you and your silly friends over to entertain us, and I had a fabulous idea to do so!" Gideon nodded up at her "this should be good, what's your idea?" He asked. Starlight cleared her throat "Well we COULD use you the normal way, you know, turn you into cushions, transform you into sock and such for us to wear, smear you into butt tattoos, but I decided it would be interesting to play a game, it's the ultimate game of hide and seek, there is also a prize for the winner! Now the rules are simple, only eclipse and I can use magic, there is no flying, and we can't search for you at night if it lasts that long, now those who are caught...they will be used as playthings during the night until only one is left standing, that lucky colt gets a gentle and warm hug from the two of us..this is an offer I wouldn't pass up." Gideon grinned at the others, "What do you say guys? Up for it?" The others looked a bit unnerved by the conversation and hesitated "consider this a challenge." The others looked at each other for a few moments and then shrugged and agreed, Midnight chuckled and grinned "this is going to be great, prepare yourselves for you will be tested to the extreme!"

As it turns out the game was well set up for a long haul, each member of the group was given saddle bags with some supplies for camping out for a while, they were then given an hour to spread out into a nearby forest, that was the boundary area, the rules stated they had to stay in the woods for the duration of the game, Gideon was trotting through the densely packed trees and undergrowth, considering his options, the way he saw it he had to remain hidden at all times, if they saw him there was no chance of out running them, even if they chose to not use magic which they likely would. The sun was beginning it's decent into the western part of the sky, Gideon rifled through his bag to find that he had a couple days worth of food, a small medical kit for emergencies, and a couple water canteens. Returning the items to his bag he continued walking when suddenly his head was filled with the voices of starlight and midnight, their voices booming those cannon SHOTS " TIMES UP!" Starlight declared "READY OR NOT HERE WE COME!" Midnight said with glee, and like that, the great game began.

Gideon decided he could better get his movements decided by watching the competition from a high vantage point, so with done effort and using a large rock as a boost, he began climbing up one of the nearby oak trees, woth a bit of struggle and toil he finally reached the top, around him the forest stretched like a massive green carpet, birds flying above the canopies and out to the south he could see the two mares looking through the forest in a grid pattern, wading through the forest like a shallow creek, so far he was in no immediate danger but it wouldn't be too long before they came this way.

He climbed down the tree and continued along the path, enjoying the scenery around him for a couple hours, and while stopping to eat a bit he heard the sound of splintering wood and hollow booms made by large hooves, quickly climbing a tree he could see midnight stomping around a patch of forest, they were a lot closer than he thought which surprised him, he watched until midnight stopped stomping and huffed a bit "I lost him." She said to starlight, "which one was it?" Starlight inquired, "Oh it was that white one, he's awful slippery." Starlight nodded then resumed searching, Gideon chuckled, it would seem frost can actually hide very well despite his bright colors, the sun was beginning to set and gideon began to suspect everyone would make it when he heard a triumphant cry from starlight and a sudden surprised yelp from magus, they were so close that gideon hid being one of the trees, not daring to watch, there was sounds of running and a sudden shaking as starlight caught magus "ahh my first cushion." Said starlight with a happy sigh, after a few seconds of a scraping noise which gideon suspected was starlight grinding magus into the dirt with her butt their footsteps receded away and the sun had set, Gideon wasn't worried about magus, starlight knew magic well and always had spells active so he couldn't really be hurt by their toying with him. Regardless it was time to rest, he didn't dare light a fire to risk giving his position away so he pulled up a sleeping bag from his supplies and rested under a tree for the night.

The next morning gideon wakes to hear trees being knocked over, surely they haven't caught another already?! Clamoring up the tree next to him he got up, sure enough, he could see the faint yellow dot of berserker being carried off be eclipse's magic,eclipse wore a satisfied smirk and happily went off to what was most likely the camp for starlight and midnight.. shaking his head gideon began climbing down just in time to hear starlight call out, in his haste to climb up again he scraped himself on the bark and winced, he watched as starlight crouched in per dust of whomever she had just found, smiling and knocking trees aside like blades of grass after a moment she pokes her hoof down and chuckled, she had pinned someone...no..make that TWO someones, she had managed to pin dub AND tombstone, they must of either been helping one another or just been unlucky enough to be close to each other, either way they were down...only frost and himself were left..

Gideon hurried down the tree and took off in a gallop, just two, surely something else would happen with so few left, his suspicions were answered when starlight voice entered his head "only two little darlings left, now you get today off..but tomorrow, each of us will use our powerful magic to track you, it's now a game avoidance, good luck little onesm" and with that all was silent once more, three caught in one morning and magical tracking tomarrow, this was going to be intense, Gideon retreated a safe distance deep in the woods, resting up, he suspected there would be a lot of running come morning time...

The next morning came, the Grey dawn providing pale illumination to Gideon as he walked, he was so jumpy that every sound made him flinch, he was on constant alert, his heart pounding, this was the home stretch of the competition, it was winner take all now.. his thought were interrupted by him bumping into frost, the two ponies looked at each other with shocked expressions and the air seemed to turn colder as they both simultaneously looked behind them, they could see the trees snapping and two faces could be seen gazing into the canopy, both looking right at them " hello little darlings." Starlight said cheerily, frist and gideon looked at each other, and ran as if the the grim reaper pony was after them.

The duo tore through the woods, branches whipping against them and bushes snagging their tails and saddle bags, all the while they heard and felt the pursuit of the two giant mares behind them, frost stated ahead with intense focus, gracefully maneuvering around the obstruction while gideon attempted to do the same, they could hear the two mares calling to them and sending chills up their spines, the cover from the foliage was the only reason they were still going, otherwise they would've been magically scooped up way before now, they ran until their legs threatened to give out and they chose hiding spots to hide gideon hid in some nearby brush, it was all up to luck now, whoever wasn't snagged first was the winner, the few seconds it took felt as if it were an eternity, but finally their was a big crash, dust flying into the air, after the dust finally settled, Gideon was still hidden in the brush and frost was being squished by a giant yellow behind, Gideon sighed with relief and nearly passed out from exaustion, "that" he said "was one crazy game of hide and seek."

Back at the camp the others were waiting, a bit sour from being caught but they were just fine, starlight and midnight presided over the group "now gideon dear" Starlight began, "you won our little game so get over here." Gideon felt a little nervous, now that the moment was here and all, but after a moment he walked up to starlight who's horn glowed as she lifted him softly off the ground and hugged him in a surprisingly gentle way,nuzzling him slightly, "your just so silly and huggable apparently." Starlight chuckled, after a moment she passed him to eclipse who did the same thing to him "this was totally worth it" Gideon said, "I feel all warm and fuzzy ." Midnight grinned and looked at starlight "now can I do it?" Starlight grinned "go on ahead." She replied, and with that midnight sat on gideon his head and forehooves the only things free, gently grinding him down "Oh..well well, he DOES make a good cushion." Midnight said happily, starlight laughed a bit "I told you." She smirked, Gideon chuckled and shook his head...some things never change.....
This is a little gift for :iconstarlight-dazzle: and :iconlabba94: a couple of awesome sauce friends (though secretly I'm very shy around starlight*cough cough*)

Anyway this is what the poll from before was all about, enjoy ;)
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