Legacy of the Kirin

A lone pony walks along the streets of Ponyville in a strange sort of cloak that covers it's whole body. The figure's build is male. The stallion walks past a lavender unicorn and purple and green dragon. They step out of a chariot and look around. The figure's eyes widen slightly as he notices the mark on her forehead, it looks like a blade was held there.

He smiles softly before walking on. He notes how strange the houses are here. They resemble the humans houses before they were wiped out. The tiled roofs, then the wooden houses. It notes the styles of the town as it reminds him of the Stalliongrad homes. He nods his head softly, before he see's an orange mare with a blonde mane and tail. Her hips show an apple as her cutie mark, as she gets ready to take down the stall before her.

He watches her fumble around slightly, as she works alone while a yellow filly with a red mane and tail runs off after two other fillies. He moves closer, and hears the mare muttering to herself.

"Dagnabit Apple Bloom, you were supposed t' help me." She mutters. He places a hoof onto her shoulder, making her jump slightly.

"How about I give you a hoof?" He states. She turns and see's the stallion standing before her in hi brown strange cloak. She gives him scrutinizing gaze.

"Why would ya'll wan' t' help me?" She asks. The stallion chuckles lightly.

"I believe in helping others, is a reward. To help your fellow pony is a must for me." He tells her. She stares at him for a few moments, mulling over his words, before gaining a thankful smile.

"Why thank ya'. Not very many stallions who are willin' t' help out a mare with this sort o' thing. They genrally want somethin' from ya'." She tells him as she goes to hook herself up to the cart, before he stops her.

"I understand. And allow me to pull this." He states. The mare gives him a slight glare.

"Ya'll sayin' I ain't strong 'nough t' lift this 'ere thing?" She asks with a slight hiss in her tone.

"No." The stallion says. "I know you are. I just don't like to see others doing something that could harm them, when I can do it myself." He tells her. She nods her head slightly before stepping aside, and gaining a smug look as he has trouble in hooking himself up to the cart. He sighs and the connecter moves on it's own an hooks him to the cart, the mare's gaze becomes one of surprise.

He starts to walk and much to the mare's surprise once more, the cart follows him with little to no trouble at all.

"How in the hay are you doin' tha'?" She asks. He chuckles.

"I had to train my body in order to fight." He states. She looks at him warily.

"Fight? Why?" She asks. He looks at her, and she can see is icy blue eyes.

"Because where I come from it was mandatory. Many things were different back...there." He states. She caught his slight slip-up, but let it slide. They walk down a dirt path towards Sweet Apple Acres. They pass through the gate, and it reminds the stallion of his old home back in Neighppon. He follows the mare towards a lrge red barn where she ushers him into it.

He unhooks himself from the wagon and walks past the mare.

"What's yer name?" She asks.

"Give me yours, and I'll give you mine." He tells her. She nods her head slightly.

"The name is Applejack. What's yer's?" She asks.

"Spirit." He tells her. She see's a small smile cross his muzzle as he watches a lavender unicorn approach the farm. She smiles as well.

"Somepony you know?" She asks. He nods his head.

"Yes, but the last time I saw her, she was but a filly. It has been years since I last met her." He sighs out. He turns and goes to walk away, until AJ stops him.

"Don' ya'll wanna meet 'er again?" She asks the stallion. He chuckles softly, almost as if he was in pain.

"I do. But it has been so very very long since then. I doubt she would remember me. Farewell, my pony friends." He states as Twilight approaches. She stops and stares at the cloaked stallion with wide eyes. She catches a glimpse of his eyes and a small smile, before flickering away in he blink of an eye. Memories flood back into her mind an she gallops to were the stallion was, lookin arundfrantically.

The young dragon and AJ give each other strange glances.

"No...not again..." She whispers out sadly. The dragon speaks.

"What's wrong Twi? What are you so sad about?" He asks.

"I just missed my best friend again..." She sighs out sadly. AJ's eyes widen. Could it have been that the stallion and her knew each other before hand? She said best friend, but how? The dragon is surpised.

"But you don't have any friends!" He yells out. AJ gives him a quick glare.

"I met him back in Neighppon when my father was Celestia's Captain of the Royal guard. They had found him and chased him, but he as leading them me and my mother and brother." She explains.

"You went to Neighppon?" The dragon asks. AJ starts to connect the dots. She had heard of a 'Spirit of Neighppon', but chooses to stay quiet.

"That's because I was asked to not talk about it." She says.

"So who is this guy then?" The dragon asks.

"Spirit, Spike. His name is Spirit." She tells them.

"Why does that name sound familiar?" The dragon asks.

"Because he is the 'Spirit of Neighppon'. He had stopped the Tsunami and many other things. He saved me from death with his magic, before it was too late." She explains. AJ's and Spike's eyes widen. AJ looks back and see's Spirit standing there in a tree with a smile on his muzzle, before flickering away.

"Ah met him today, he was kind hearted. Helpful too." AJ states. Twilight nods her head softly.

"Yeah. Well, since he is in town, I try to find him later, but for now." She turns and smiles at AJ. "I'm Twilight Sparkle, and I a here on behalf of Princess Celestia on the food services." She explains. Spirit watches from the tree's and smiles once more before flickering to onto a roof and curls up. He closes his eyes, and waits.

Hours pass, before he is awoken by loud music that comes from a lit up tree across the street from him. He see's Twilight laying there on her bed looking up at the moon. He looks up at it as well, and see's that it still holds Nightmare Moon, but he knows that tonight she will return. He turns his attention back to Twilight, who is now staring at him. He smirks and flickers onto her porch.

She scrambles to her hooves and pushes the door open.

"Spirit?" She asks.

"Yes, Twilight." He tells her.

Tears form in her eyes as she rushes and hugs him tightly, nocking the cloak off of his form. She hugs him tighter around the base of his neck, and he wraps his forearms around her form as well. He rubs her back gently, as they share this moment, that they both had waited for so long to have once more.

Spirit looks down at the sniffling Twilight.

"You have grown into a beautiful mare, Twilight." He tells her. She blushes and giggles slightly.

"Yeah, well when your best friend doesn't age, I guess I tried to make myself prettier." She jokes. He chuckles happily.

"I see." He says.

There is then a nock on the door, and Spirit is quick to vanish from sight, except Twilight can still see him. The door opens as Spike walks into the room with a lampshade on his head.

"Come on Twi. We need to get going." Spike tells her. Twilight nods her head softly with a sigh.

"Right. We need to prepare for Nightmare Moon." She states sternly. Spirit's eyes widen slightly. When had his friend learned about his old Enemy? Spike groans.

"Give it up Twi, the Princess sent you here to make friends." Spike tells her.

"But I have a best friend!" Twilight exclaims. Spike laughs.

"Nope. Your 'best friend' isn't around and doesn't even come to you. So far, no friends." He states. Spirit makes a slight audible growl, making Spike jump slightly. "What was that!?" He yells. Spirit appears behind Spike.

"Me." He states. Spike turns, and see's Spirit's form. Spike stares at Spirit as his wings fan out and his feathers shine in the moonlight. Spike stumbles back into Twilight, who gives Spirit a small smile.

"Okay! Okay! I get it! Your best friends!! Sorry!" He exclaims. "Please don't hurt me!!" He screams. Spirit places a claw onto Spike's shoulder.

"I do not hurt those, who are not evil." Spirit states. He then looks at Twilight sternly. "When did you learn about her?" He asks.

"Who?" Twilight asks.

"Nightmare Moon, my old...friend." He states.

"You knew her!?" She exclaims. Spirit nods.

"I did. in fact, I fought her." He states. He rub his chest slightly as there is a slight scar.

"But...how?" Twilight asks. Spirit sighs.

"I am FAR older than you think." He states before the door budges, and he jumps up, before turning invisible and floats around in the air. AJ rushes into the room and looks around.

"Wha' happened!?" She yells. Spike goes to speak, but Twilight covers his mouth.

"He um..." She is cut off as Spirit walks into the room from the balcony.

"He saw me and thought I was going to hurt him." He states from under his cloak. AJ sighs in relief.

"Aright. But be sure t' not do that." She says to him. He nods his head softly. "Good. Now we all need t' go t' th' celebration. Alright?" She states. They nod their heads. They walk out of the room and down the stairs. Where the party is rapping up, however, a pink mare gasp at Spirit and appears before him.

"Your-new-here-and-I-need-to-throw-you-a-welcome-to-ponyville-party!!" She exclaims. He blinks before shaking his head.

"No thank you." He tells her.

"But WHY!?" She screams.

"I don't like parties." He states.

"Oh...okay then..." She says solemnly. He sighs.

"How about this you make a get-together thing for me and Twilight here. It has been forever since I last saw her." He tells the pink pony.

"That sounds fun!" She screams. "Can I add your other friends too?" She asks. Spirit sighs.

"I only have Twilight, but that's fine with me. I'm an...antisocial pony." He tells Pinkie.

"Now wait 'ere just a minute!" AJ exclaims. "Ya'll do 'ave more friends. You 'ave me an' Spike. Now ya'll 'ave Pinkie Pie too." AJ tells Spirit.

"Hey! That's right!" Pinkie screams out. Spirit nods his head with a small smile.

"I suppose that is true enough. Very well, do that and any other friends I may make please." He tells Pinkie, who squee's happily before vanishing in a puff of smoke. He chuckles softly. He walks over to the door, only to be tackled by a cyan colored Pegasus pony. Her mane and tail are rainbow colored, her eyes are lavender-ish. Her cutie mark is of a cloud having a rainbow colored lightning bolt fly out of it.

He looks up at the Pegasus, who glares down at him.

"Who are you?" She orders. He sighs.

"I have no beuisiness with you." He states before flickering onto the ceiling, making everyone's jaw drop. "I have business with Twilight and my friends. Not somepony who attacks me." He states in mild annoyance before flickering next to Twilight. He looks down at her from his cloak. "Shall we go?" He asks. She nods her heads and they leave a confused and pissed off Pegasus pony behind.

They walk through Ponyville and into town-hall, where they watch as a grey mare talks about how it is an honor to have their sun goddess(to them is it Princess) and how they cherish her day. Spirit looks up out of the window and see's that Nightmare Moon is free. He growls softly so only Twilight, Spike, AJ, and unbeknownst to them, Rainbow Dash, who spies on them.

"What is it, Spirit?" Twilight asks.

"She is free." He growls out.

"Oh no!!" Twilight exclaims softly.

The mayor then catches their attention.

"And now! Princess Celestia!" Mayor Mare exclaims However, when the currents move to the sides, they see no pony. The room grows quiet, until a slow clap forms. The ponies turn and see Spirit standing on his hind legs, clapping slowly as if it was part of a 'good show'.

"My, that is such a way to keep us in suspense. But please be a dear and come into the light, dear Moony." He states with a slight hiss with his 's's. Lightning flashes outside as the moon seems to glow brighter, and a whirling purple mist forms on the balcony. Then the mist dissipates as a lone mare stands there. She meets Spirit's height, however, her fur coat is black as night, her mane and tail are clumped together stars.

On her head she adorns a cyan blue helmet. Her eye's open revealing cyan slit eyes. She laughs loudly, exploiting her fangs as she rears up on her hind legs and stomps her forelegs down, making the walls and windows crack slightly. She looks down at the ponies, before she stares at the cloaked Spirit.

"Have we met before?" She asks. Spirit growls slightly, and the ponies see his eyes change colors quickly and are slit more, but at the tips they have a sort of 'crown' like shape to them. He chuckles softly.

"Oh, have we? Dear, Moony?" He states as he grabs part of the floor with his claws and rips a large chunk of it out. "I'm sure that our last encounter was...beneficial to both of us." He states with a hiss. He crushes the large chunk of floor like a simple stick. He looks up at her, and growls. Nightmare's eyes seem to widen, before narrowing dangerously.

"YOU!!" She screams in anger as she fires a blast of magic from her horn at Spirit, but he opens his mouth and fires a torrent of yellow flame, the magic is strong, but does little to knock him down or back. He roars, making the fire become a stream that flies out at her. She jumps off of the balcony and fires another beam of magic, however, it is knocked aside by his clawed hoof.

"You think you could stop ME with mere MAGIC!? HA!" He laughs and roars out at the same time. He breaths in, but instead of fire, he breaths out lightning. Nightmare dodges the lightning bolt by flying to the right, before she is forced to dive down slightly, as fire roars at her. Spirit growls dangerously, much like a dragon would if one disturbed it's lair.

"You are still just as dangerous." Nightmare mutters through grit fangs.

"The more to stop you, once again!" He roars out as he pushes himself off of the ground and spins. He kicks Nightmare out through a window, and she smirks, before turning into mist and flies away. Spirit roars loudly, making the whole building shake, and the houses nearby windows and other glass objects to shatter.

He lands onto his hooves and claws. He gallops past the ponies and out of the door, only to have six certain mares and one baby dragon to chase after him. He gallops towards the Everfree Forest before being stopped by a lavender magical barrier.

"Spirit! WAIT!!" Twilight screams. He growl.

"Get out of my way, Twilight. This is MY fight, not YOUR's." He growls out. He turns and see's the seven of them staring back at him, some panting slightly.

"But darling!" A white unicorn exclaims. "That place is imply HORRID!!" She screams out in dismay. "Who would EVER want to live in THERE!?" She asks. Spirit glares at her.

"You mock MY home!?" He snarls in anger. The ponies and dragon become surprised.

"You live in that...dreadful place!?" The white unicorn exclaims.

"I do." Spirit informs her.

"But I thought you lived in Neighppon?" Twilight asks. Spirit chuckles darkly.

"No. I was only there because ponies chased me. I was forced to remain there for 300 years. I was seen as a deity by the Neighponese ponies. I am merely a strange creature, FAR older than you could imagine." He tells them all.

"What are you then HUH!? Are you a SPY!?" Rainbow Dash yells in his face. She quickly back peddles as he snorts out a flame.

"Hardly. If I were to become an enemy to this place, I would have already done so. No. I am something MUCH older than you ponies. I am back from before Equis was even CALLED Equis." He explains to them.

"Wha' do ya'll mean?" AJ asks.

"This world was once called Earth. It was inhabited by Humans. They were the dominant race, until the Dragon's arrived." Spirit explains. Spike gains a smug look on his face. "Which I helped slay." Spirit finishes. Spike hides behind Twilight.

"You KILLED Dragon's!?" They all yell out.

"Yes. It was our duty to thin them out so humans, or what was left of them, could live." Spirit explains. "Besides, these 'dragons' that you have is nothing but Drakes. TRUE Dragons were ferocious beasts that lived for death and destruction." Spirit states.

"Like you!?" Rainbow yells. The ponies giggle.

"Oh please Rainbow Dash. He isn't something like tha- ." Rarity is cut off by Spirit.

"Exactly like me." He growls out. This makes them all freeze. "I am a true blooded Kirin. I am no Pegasus Kirin, no Earth Kirin, and not a Unicorn Kirin. I am what you would call, an Alicorn Kirin." He explains as he throws his cloak off of his form. Twilight gasps. He looks MUCH different than he did from before.

His eyes are cold and icy blue with hoe crowned slits. His claws are sharper and thinner. His tail is longer and the fanned-out-style hairs, as now spikes. His wings are dragon like, and his horn has turned into five four of them curl back, forming a crown of sorts, while the fifth sticks out of his forehead, and it resembles a large bone sword that curls back. The 'blade part' is sharp and serrated, while the back is much like a strange scythe blade.. His height is also taller.

"Oh my goodness..." Rarity states.

"This is what a TRUE Kirin looks like, for me, that is." He states with a mouth of razor sharp teeth, and sharp needled teeth as well. His hind hooves look more like hooved-claws. His looks down at them with a shred of sadness. "I was forced to remain in the darkness for generations, while the other races grew and grew. Soon I was forced to creating disasters just to hide my presence." He sighs out sadly.

He looks up at the moon.

"I have been dreading this day. The day I would have to face my old friend turned enemy. It pains my heart to do so." He says softly.

"Then let us help you!" Twilight pleas. "I know where the Elements of Harmony are!" She exclaims. Spirit stares at her, before chuckling lightly.

"Still hitting the books, I see?" He teases. She blushes.

"How did you...?" She starts, before he stops her.

"I always said that I would be around. I was there when you took your test with Tia. I was there when you got your cutie mark. I have been around you always." He states softly.

"The why haven't I seen you?" She asks. He gains a sad smile.

"I told you that it would be for a brief second, before I had to leave. Now, I no longer need to hide around you anymore." He says cheerfully as he leads them through the Forest.

"I see. So you have lived since before us ponies?" She asks excitedly. Spirit chuckles nervously.

"Um...sort of." He states.

"What does that mean...?" She ask.

"I'll tell you later. For now. Let's head out!" He states, before taking a step farther into the forest. And so. Their journey has begun. The wheels of fate turn more, as something wicked awakens, at the under the mountain of souls.