- >Five elemental mages has gathered
- >they debate whose art benefits society most
- >they can’t quite seem to come to a conclusion
- >suddenly, one of them proposes a challenge.
- >they each teach their art to a different fluffy unicorn, and then the one who’s is the biggest at years end wins
- >there is understandable protest, but it ends up going through
- >they depart
- >the stone mage teaches his art to a unicorn
- >the stallion constructs many strong shelters for his kin
- >the herd flourishes, and he even manages to adopt a few disciples
- >their schooling is cut short when the smarty is crushed under a rock he forgot he was lifting
- >the wood mage is far more confident
- >he teaches his student his art
- >the herd is flourishing in no time flat
- >bushes and trees are made into shelters
- >he even taught the smarty to remove the poison from berries
- >and forgot to tell him it couldn’t be removed after they’d been eaten
- >the smarty’s corpse is 15% arsenic by volume
- >metal mage is rather confused
- >what the fuck is a fluffy going to do with his art in the wild?
- >realizes something halfway through teaching his student
- >releases fluffy in junkyard, and the herd follows
- >the unicorn is even able to make armor for his herd
- >he makes his own too tight
- >fluffy has made own mortuary statue
- >fire mage is cautiously optimistic
- >fluffies are flammable, but that can go to their advantage.
- >that herd’s fluffies slowly stop going up in flames
- >opposing fluffies start going up in flame
- >just as planned
- >the final mage facepalmed
- >who the fuck though this was a good idea
- >his subject miraculously survived the training
- >oh well, time to let this little shit out into the wild
- >fluffy is excited to show his friends the tricks the magic man taught him
- >it’s horn glows
- >fluffy ponies drown