Legacy of the Kirin

Light leads the others towards the ruins of the fallen Crystal Castle as they prepare to find the Crystal Heart and deal with any unsavory visitors. She brings he trident off to the side before spinning it as Crystal Minions flood before them with their weak shields and swords drawn out in hopes to fight her and the others off.

She spins the trident faster before what looks like a miniature cyclone forms as the rain downpours harder than before. She gains a cold glare as she grabs the trident's bar before she twirls around. The miniature cyclone flies off of the trident and zooms out. It grows as it crashes into the minions as the ponies and Twilight- even Dusk, seem to freeze up slightly from their screams of pain.

She gains a horribly darker look in her eye as she flickers just as the cyclone ends but the minions are still standing before she flickers back with the others. Her body having strange icy blue shimmering flames rising from her body as they take a few step back from the pissed off Dragon-Son.

Light sucks in air before opening her jaws wide enough to for the others to hear popping sounds. Dusk gains a grave expression before he lifts his cloak and wills it to cover himself, Twilight as well as the ponies. Light breaths out a torrent of blue flames that manage to make the outside and part of the inside of the cloak to boil slightly.

Dusk curses under his breath as he is forced to strengthen his own technique to counter-act Light's. Once the boiling ceases, he retracts his cloak quickly before it forms into an ever moving and incredibly long scarf. Twilight stares at him for a moment before she feels a strange sensation rise in her chest. Dusk gains the same feeling as he stares back at Twilight.

The two blush before looking away quickly, however, the others gain sly grins or smiles, knowing that their young Twilight Sparkle has finally found love. However, the moment becomes ruined by the howls of a monstrous beast along with a series of explosion making themselves known from behind the group.

They all turn slowly before freezing up as they watch a larger Sombra swings his sword around sending out wide beams of energy that collides with the ground while Spirit dodges them. They watch as Spirit has a gash in his left shoulder before it heals up quickly. Light watches in awe as Spirit spins around like a dancing version of herself. She notes that his body seems slender and more feminine than before- much how he used to be when he had met her.

They then watch as Spirit slams his palm into Sombra's chest before a shockwave of power surges through the air. He then proceeds to kick Sombra in the stomach repeatedly. He then spins around once more and his three tails slam into Sombra's side, sending him flying across the air as well as bouncing across random house roofs.

He bounces around more as his sword changes into what Light and Dusk both silently agree to be his Kusanagi blade. They both knew he would only bring out his Kusanagi whenever a threat was too large for his standard weapon. But they become surprised as his original sword forms in his left hand but only shorter. He gains strange gold and black energy that covers his body only to become darker as a fourth tail forms.

He releases a howl before quite literally flying through the air after Sombra who is still- and very comically, bouncing from roof to roof. He swipes with his left blade and a pillar of power rises into the air. He flickers back in the air just before the others holding his smaller blade like a dagger while his Kusanagi blade rests on his right shoulder while the hilt rests limply in his right palm.

His tails swish about slowly as if they have minds of their own before they extend to the length of trees yet become thin like vines as they zoom forward and block Sombra's sword while his body seems to be covered in steam or smoke. The two have a deadly staring contest. Sombra glaring death down upon Spirit, who stares up at the mad king with a neutral and unemotional look.

Suddenly, out of nowhere Spirit's hair grows longer than his body and splits apart as it gains strange looking quills and even jaws with razor sharp fangs. Sombra's eyes widen before he pushes himself back, or at last, he tries to. The tails stab into his left leg and arm before he manages to fully get away from Spirit.

Sombra growls in anger as well as possibly slight pain as his blood trickles down his injured limbs. Spirit however gains a bored and tired expression as his 'mane of death' chases after the mad king. Sombra slices the heads of the man off, but even that doesn't last long as the heads seemingly regenerate.

Sombra gains a smirk as his body heals quickly before his own hair becomes a mane with jaws. The two have yet another staring contest before vanishing and meeting up in the middle on the ground. Blocks of the earth shoot into the air as the two powerful beings clash their blades against one another at high-speeds going beyond the movement of sound.

Dash stares in awe as these two move past Mach 1 with just simple martial arts movements. She also notes how dangerous their powers are becoming. While Sombra's air was simply scary, Spirit's seems to be purely demonic in nature, as if saying he is an even BIGGER threat to her and all the others in the area. She moves uneasily as the very ground quakes as they manage to leave crevasses in the crystalline earth before the air screams in agony.

Twilight looks to Dusk and Light to see their reactions, but she becomes more afraid to see their grinning faces. They both seem to know what is going down, yet, she feels the urge to NOT ask questions, yet. She turns back to the fight just as the sky lights up bright orange as a wide beam jets throughout the sky destroying the dark clouds, however, the beam keeps traveling south. Everyone starts to pale as they know Equestria is JUST south of here.

Light moves her face into her hands as if there had been a great calamity. And she was right to think so.

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CANTERLOT; EQUESTRIA

CELESTIA

Celestia sits on her throne thinking about their 'Mini-Adventures', as many had called them. She had witnessed the singing voice of Spirit and Light, as well as even witnessing Spirit's power. She grows slightly pale as she remembers one attack managed to dry up and entire ocean that took MONTHS for Light to remake. Neither of them had expected that kind of firepower- well except for Spirit, who had been the one with a happy grin plastered into his face. But, she digresses.

Suddenly, the sky starts to burn bright orange. The water molecules bubble in her potted plants before they burn to ash, the pools all inside the castles interior dry up in an instant. The marble column floors, walls, columns, pillars and even the roof of he castle start to grow increasingly hot.

Celestia's eyes widen as this intense heat feels the same- as does the glowing sky, as when Spirit made that beam happen. She rises to her hooves and gallops at her full speeds towards her leading defense towers. She reaches the doors of the first tower which is being guarded by a ash gray unicorn stallion with a red mane and tail.

She reaches him and as he goes to salute her, she pushes past him breaking down the doors. She gallops towards the new "Head Captain" named "Flash Century". He is a well made orange coated Pegasus stallion with electric blue mane and tail. His eyes are bright hazel that resemble windows to his very- yet large for some odd reason, soul.

"Princess Celestia! Is everything okay!?" Flash asks. She looks at him before pointing a hoof towards the small beam of energy coming closer and closer, creating a sort of impending doom to these mortal and frayal beings.

"Raise the magical barriers! Put them at 89 percent power! NOW!" She bellows. Flash nods and heads towards a strange floating gem as large as Celestia's current form. He taps it a few times before multiple smaller gems float and circle around the larger one. A massive blue beam of magical light pillars up into the sky. Celestia see's that in the distance she can see multiple beam rise into the air before a large force field in the shape of a giant shield moves over all of Equestria in an attempt to block the powerful beam.

Damn it Spirit, Celestia thinks. When you get back your soooooo gonna get flamed! She thinks as she grinds her teeth. However, she grows pale as the beam is wide enough to take out part of the Everfree Jungle. She turns but then sighs in relief as the castle sends out a shockwave before it too forms a large shield that even forms mirrors as it to redirect the attack. Still, your inventions are very useful in a time of need. I just hope you won't let it go to your head!

She turn back around as the shield rises and quirks a brow. Flash starts to flip.

"This isn't supposed to happen! Some pony managed to mess with the barriers!" He exclaims as the crystal starts to radiate a bright gold light while strange black markings form around the gems themselves. She notices the beams start to go into the same color pattern as the shield separates and form into strange mirrors. She smirks.

I see, so you managed to go with that promise to protect out 'Great Nations'? Well played Spirit, well played. Celestia thinks. The beam crashes into the first mirror before the other mirrors glow in a bright light and the beam separates and flows into them. The amounts of energy becomes amplified as strange wires jet out from behind the mirrors before diving into the ground.

Celestia grows pale before turning to Flash Century.

"Gather the S.S. AERO team!" She orders before chasing after the rising and diving wires that seem to have more branch out towards the other smaller towns or cities. It then dawns on her. The wires are made of magic as to not send electrical currents through the ground until they connect with the 'plants' that Spirit had made for each town, city and even his own castle.

She notes that the energy chases after the heads of the wires as if begging for a release. The wires then vanish as they dive down deeper into the earth before she can feel them connecting with those 'plants'. The Wonderbolts arrive next to her and stare in awe as all buildings and lamp posts alight with more energy than electricity in this day and age could ever allow. Celestia feels a sense of pride as the energy flow doesn't seem to stop.

Thank you...Spirit...

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CRYSTAL EMPIRE

SPIRIT

Light stares up in awe as Spirit stands there in the air with his mane's swaying around and drooling in hunger as if expecting another 'meal' to occur. However, she freezes up as she notices has thin and lengthy. However, he was calm enough to make everyone think that this was how he was supposed to look, instead of the strong muscular man they had all come to know and love.

Light then notices a very strange change in his figure. He has the structure of both a male and female fused together as well as being flat chested. His four tails swish around slowly and predator like. A smirk plays on her lips as his energies seem to be more like Discord's was when he had reached close to his peak of power.

But, her smirk vanishes when Spirit turns around slowly with piercing white eyes and a strange small that looks like it was cut out of his body with fangs being part of his lips becoming a sadistic smile or grin. The inside of his mouth is pitch black as if it were an endless void capable of devouring everything in it's path.

Everyone then covers their ears quickly as a bloodcurdling howl resonates through the air and shakes the very crystalline earth they stand upon. They had closed their eyes on instinct, but when they open their eyes once more, they become wide an filled with terror. Standing before them is no long Spirit, but a truly nightmarish monster that sends terror into Dusk and Light for the first time in such a long time.

He growls as Sombra walks out of the smoke from the beam with a cold glare on his face which leaves quickly and turns into a look of shock as well as terror as his opponent has become a beast far more disturbing looking than the half rotten ponies, Slender-Mane or even Discord during the time he had decided to take everyone seriously.

Sombra's purple tremble before he seems to steal his emotions and holds up his sword. Spirit however, simply stares at him before his eyes squint and his smile rises before tendrils sprout from his shoulder blades and sides. Large clawed hands form at the ends of the tendrils as they jet out at the mad and terrified king before them.

Spirit's swords seemed to have vanished along with his mind as his arms start to spin like a wheel- even hearing the crunching ad reconstructing of bones could be heard, as all the claws curled into fists. Sombra was knocked around throughout the sky by the outrageously sized glowing fists that left searing burn marks.

Spirit then proceeds to vanish before forming above Sombra with his fists held together as well as Sombra being sent down into the ground. Spirit roars an unholy roar that makes the whole area tremble before a large Black Crystal Spire rises from the ground. It rams into Spirit's chest before it turns into a strange serpent as it digs it's fangs into his shoulder.

Or, at least it tries to. The fangs shatter as they move down upon his body before he growls and the spire/serpent shatters revealing an injured Sombra. He snarls before materializing behind him in a puff of smoke and uses his tails to club the pour king back into the ground. Spirit lands right on top of Sombra creating a large rater.

Light shields her eyes with a hand as she watches through the gaps between her fingers. She gasps in surprise as Spirit is thrown across the battlefield before being struck by a wave of black magical energy. However, the wave is cut in half by Spirit's claws as two more of his hands rise from the ground as they grab him by the ankles before swinging him around like a ragdoll.

Spirit has a massive monstrous grin on his face as he pulls upwards and two tentacle rise up and swing Sombra around like a toy. The tentacles are coming from his right hip and left shoulder as they move with lightning fast speeds. However, Sombra twirls around in the air and his sword glows bright blood red before Spirit is being held down by a large chunk of the castle.

Out of nowhere a bright holy light blasts off and zooms past Sombra's head. He growls before large blue hands punch him through a few buildings while Light appears where he stood with large angelic wings and her body covered in silver with strange black markings as well as her tail swishes like a cat's does.

She twirls her trident to create blue flames that then shoot out and chase after Sombra. She stands there with a smug look on her face before the chunk of the castle starts to move and creak. She slowly turns around as an immense pressure presses down upon her, making her breath hitch.

She feels a deep sense of love, yet an intense amount of hatred as well as compashion before selfishness. The being was Spirit, however, he still looked the same, yet his colors were much, much brighter than before. His eyes even slit pupils in them once again. His smile was downgraded by a lot while his power only doubled in size compared to before.

His swords were back- while the Kusanagi was sheathed and sit limply on his lower back, as he was using his 'dagger' to lift the chunk off of his form. He pants slightly as he starts to regain more human qualities once again. However, his pupils started to pin and soon became an 'X' as diamonds formed in the crevices of the strange pupil.

His body trembled slightly before the chunk- which looks to be held upward with ease, shatters into smaller chunks or ever shards. His pupils go back to being slit while his energy starts to become dense enough as to look like flames rising from his form. The energy- instead of being red, was a rainbow color with only a few colors sticking out more than usual.

His body trembles before vanishing and appearing above her as he slices a pillar of Black Crystal in half before it could reach her. He lands before her with a deadly look in his eye as he turns to look over his shoulder as he stares at her.

"I can give you a day before being forced to release more power. Go get the artifact and protect the other." He orders out calmly. Light nods her head before he grabs her by the chin. "But, before you go" He the kisses her deeply- much to her happiness. "I love you." He says.

"Be careful." Light stresses out. Spirit nods his head before turning back around and lifts his dagger up to his shoulder while a ball of purple energy forms in his right hand. Light jumps into the air before flickering back to the others. She notes that Dusk is in his "Reaper" form as his scythe glows in hunger.

She nods to him and his hood nods back before the two turn to their right/left and stare at the ponies.

"We have a day before Spirit is forced to take this fight more serious than it already is. We- " She is cut off.

"More serious!? Are you bucking kidding me!?!?" Dash exclaims. "I thought he was already serious! How can it become more so!?" She screeches. Light gives her a flat look.

"He has gained MUCH more power than before, so much so he apparently rivals Discord himself. He managed to burn and mark this world as HIS and HIS alone. He is quite possibly the most dangerous force of nature on this world along with Discord. Sombra is FAR weaker than the two of them, but, while Spirit can handle Sombra, he can only do so in this state for what I can assume a day before becoming corrupted once again." Light explains with a harsh tone.

She leads the others towards the collapsed castle before they jump down into the large pit that looks to travel far into the earth. As they fall, however, they hear what sounds like roars and the explosions of intense combat. Light sends a silent prayer for Spirit's safety and sanity.

When they land it is on a pile of silver coins and such. Spike rises to his feet before walking around until what looks to be a massive black crystal is spotted. He squints and see's the Crystal Heart sitting just before it, however, there is a spot on the crystal where he can tell the Crystal Heart is meant to go.

"Hey!" He exclaims.

"Yeah?" Dash says.

"I see it! But it looks like it's a key for something else!" He exclaims. Light looks towards the crystal before she freezes. While the others can't see this- save for Twilight, Cadence, Dusk and herself, she can see what looks to be another Spirit, but he holds the same amount of tails and is growing more solid by the minute.

"Let's go!" Dusk orders as he floats towards the heart, but he is stopped by what looks to be a large black dragon rising from beneath him. The dragon is massive as it's head reaches the ceiling before it sniffs the air. It's nostrils flare a few times before he looks down and slithers around the room.

"I smell you all. My master has put me in charge over this cavern to protect the artifact." It says with a hiss like voice. Dusk growls before he feels his energy being sapped as the dragon sucks the air in before releasing a spiral of flames. Dusk jumps back before swinging his scythe and the blade ends out wave of energy, but said energy is absorbed into the creatures body as if it was nothing but water.

He growls in annoyance before it slithers out of the silver and a wave of fear grips his heart. The creature coils up and a forked tongue flicks through it's lips while it's eyes are closed.

'Oh shit...' He thinks. The large serpent opens it's eyes and the slit pupils zoom in on Dusk and a cruel sadistic smile forms on it's lips.

"Ah, Dusk Grave. I see you have betrayed us as it was predicted." The serpent hisses out.

"How?" Dusk asks.

"I knew since the very beginning." He hisses out once again but with a slight roar.

"Who are you!?" Light yells out. The large serpent looks towards Light with a glare.

"Manda."

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SPIRIT

Spirit dodges a beam of light as Sombra bellows in rage. His sword pulsating with dark energy.

"Let us finish this!!" He roars out. Spirit gains a smirk and nods.

"Fuck yeah!" He exclaims. He draws his kusanagi blade as lightning sparks to life along the blade. "Let's end this." He says with a strange tone as if a woman is answering the same time he is.

"Who was that?" Sombra asks. Spirit gains a grin.

"Karma."