Legacy of the Kirin

Spirit and the other appear in the throne room before Princess Celestia and Princess Luna as they are speaking to a new griffin that none of them had seen before. Spirit raises brow and looks up at his second mate who gives him a sad look. His heart begins to sink as he notices the two burning figures underneath cloths atop of beds of wood. He catches the scent of Gilda and her father.

'No...' He thinks to himself. He shakes his head as he rushes towards the two burning beings on their wooden beds. He goes to grab the purple shall, but he is stopped by many of the griffin guards. "GET OFF ME!!" He bellows out as he backhands the griffin's, sending them flying into the walls behind him.

He grabs the head of the purple cloth down, and pulls it down. His heart sinks deeper and his breath is gone. Tears roll down his cheek as he stares down at Gilda's closed eyes and peaceful face. His hands tremble and he closes his eyes, bowing his head in respect as his tears drip onto her face onto her closed eyelids before running along the ridge. She looked as if she were crying.

He wails loudly and the floor beneath his feet cracks as thunder booms through the dull grey skies. He wails louder as tears run down his face like waterfalls. He grips his hand to his chest as his form trembles. He slides down onto his knees after he places the cloth back onto Gilda's face.

He sniffs at this passing before his eyes open. He rises to his feet and turns and gazes at everyone present.

"What the FUCKING HELL HAPPENED!?" He roars out. Thunder booms as if to show his anger. "WHO THE FUCK DID THIS!?" He roars. The new griffin walks up with a posh and uncaring look.

"The emperor and Gild were assassinated a few days ago while you were out dealing with that mad king Sombra, was it? The assassin was captured and brought here for the Princesses of Equestria to deal with." He drawls out. Spirit feels his anger rises from the depths of his stomach towards this griffin. "Now then, let us talk about trade between yours and MY country, Spirit." The griffin says boldly.

Spirit's pupils dilate and he appears before the griffin, holding the bird up against a wall by his throat.

"That is "Lord Spirit" to You, FILTH!" He snarls out. The griffin looks calm.

"Come now, surely you wouldn't damage your allies new Emperor, would you?" He asks with a smirk. Said smirk vanishes as Spirit slams him against the wall. Hard.

"You are of no ally to me! I was allied to Griphyxia because Gilda was precious to me." He growls out. The griffin in Spirit's grasp widens his eyes before glaring.

"I see. Then that makes us enemies, no?" He drawls. Spirit growls and summons his pistol.

"Make any move and you'll know what one sphere can do, Filth." He hisses out before tossing the griffin away from himself. Celestia watches in sadness as her lover is being torn apart from the inside out. Spirit growls and stares the griffin dead in the eye. "Leave." He says softly yet it was filled with such malice. The griffin sneers at Spirit before flapping his wings and moving away. "Very well. Then consider us enemies!" He hisses out before the griffin mages open and portal and they take their leave. Celestia watches this with a pang of satisfaction that the new Griffin Emperor was no longer in her home, but extremely sad of Gilda's passing.

She approaches Spirit slowly.

"Spirit?" She asks. Spirit in a swift movement wraps his arms around Celestia's neck as she stands stock still, her mane moving in that ethereal wind as usual.

"I'm sorry...." He whispers out. Celestia sighs and rubs his back gently with a hoof.

"It wasn't your fault, you were just busy with Sombra." She tells him softly. Spirit sighs sadly before moving away from her as he stands at the railing.

"Where are Nightmare and Vinyl and Daring?" He asks. Celestia giggles.

"They have been trying to get their minds off of Gilda's death, and decided it would be best to travel towards Nightmare's old home." Celestia says. Spirit gives her a small smile as sad glint flashes in his eyes.

"That is good. However...." He goes silent.

"What is it?" She asks.

"I have accepted my Dragon. I accepted Fate." He whispers out. Celestia stands stock still and with wide eyes.

"You... You managed to get her on our side...?" She asks. He nods his head lightly.

"Yes, and her powers and abilities are coming to m slowly, but I can feel them forming, bubbling just under the surface." He explains. Celestia sighs.

"Why does she go by "Fate" when her real name is- " She is cut off.

"Don't say it, not yet." He says softly with his head bowed. Celestia nods her head before being pressed down by an unseen force as Spirit starts to tremble. "Where is that griffin?" He growls out as his right eye becomes black as night.

"He's in the dungeons, we kept him there till you returned to us." She explains. 'When did he start having mood swings?' She winders to herself.

"Take me to that filth" He says as the word "filth" is said with a woman's growling voice. Celestia nods her head as she moves through the hallways of garnet and into the hallways of stone. They arrive at two large wooden doors with two bat-ponies standing guard.

"We are here for the prisoner." Celestia says. The guards nod, but stop as they stare at Spirit.

"Lord Spirit? You are home?" The first guard asks. Spirit growls dangerously at the two.

"Open the doors....please!" He growls out, as if he were having trouble controlling himself. The guards quickly move open the doors and Celestia and Spirit move into the dungeons quickly before tailing them. Celestia starts to grow fearful of Spirit as the shadows seem to become darkness as they move along Spirit's body before he jumps off of the long and high up staircase all the way to the bottom.

Celestia catches a glimpse of his Dragon as she has a look of pure hatred in her, and Spirit's, eyes as he dashes forwards. Celestia teleports down and gallops after Spirit. She watches as the shadows rage around him while taking on forms of strange human-snakes as they release dragon roars. Her eyes widen as she stares at the shadow beasts moving around him like guards. She even catches a glimpse of large snakes and drakes forming from the shadows as well.

He suddenly stops, as do the Shadow Beings before dancing around him like flames, and stares into a single cell. She stands next to him, though she is weary of the Shadow Beings that they had battled so long ago. She looks ahead and reads "Cell No. 43" on a plack just above he bar doors. She looks inside and see's the griffin assassin clinging to the back wall in pure terror. She looks over and shudders as Spirit's eye's bore holes into the griffin's own.

"So," Spirit starts, "your the one who murdered my Gilda and her father, hm?" He asks out in an even and emotionless tone that sends shivers down Celestia's spine.

"W- What of it?!" The griffin squeaks out in fear. The bars start to heat up as Spirit waves his hand over them, and they melt away, he then takes a step inside and raises his hand, making the bars reform but they are much thinner.

"I'm here to find out why and how you managed to do this. Of course." He says in an even and emotionless tone. The griffin whimpers.

"I'll never t- tell you a- anything!" The griffin says with a quivering voice. Spirit chuckles darkly.

"Who ever said I need you to speak willingly?" He says with a sadistic grin forming on his face. The griffin gulps.

"What do you mean!?" He shrieks out. Spirit chuckles darkly once again.

"Oh it's quite simple, you see, I can just force you to tell me everything I wish to know, with or without the torture." He says in a bored tone as he studies his nails. His sadistic grin reforms on her face. "Of course, where is the fun in that?" He says as his eyes flash pitch black for a brief second. The griffin shivers uncontrollably.

"I- I'll never tell you!!" He shrieks out. Celestia shudders as Spirit cackles.

"Oh please, enough with your version of heroics! I have very little patience for that." He says in a mocking tone. The griffin stares wide eyed.

"Y- You can't! Your Lord Spirit! Your supposed to be against all manners of evil!!" He yells out. Spirit grins maliciously.

"Then it seems that your little myths had gotten it wrong~" He mocks as he makes a slicing motion with his right pointer finger. The griffin cries out in pain as his left paw is sliced off from nothing. "I wasn't always the good guy, only when it was useful to me~" He purrs out as he grabs the griffin's chin. "Your punishment can be avoided if you simply, spill what you know~" He purrs out softly. The griffin shakes his head and Spirit makes another cutting motion and the griffin's left wing is sliced off.

The griffin screams in pain as blood spurts all over the wall behind him. "I- I'll talk! I'll talk!!" He screams out. Spirit smiles softly and pats the his cheek gently.

"There, that wasn't so hard, was it?" He asks mockingly. The griffin shudders in fear and shakes his head. "Good boy~" He purrs before glaring down at him. "Now talk!" He hisses out.

"I- I'm part of a group that despised the old Emperor and that bitch Gilda! We had heard that Gilda was to be wedded with you, and our boss wanted Gilda gone so he could make you his pawn in your time of grief!" The griffin cries out. Spirit has an unreadable look on his face.

"What else?" He asks.

"H- He had planed on using you to awaken his master from his s- slumber!" He cries out. Spirit tilts his head to the side.

"Who is his master?" Spirit asks. The griffin doesn't speaks. Spirit's eyes narrow before making a slicing motion and the griffin's left arm foreleg is cut off, he cries in pain. "Who!?" Spirit roars out.

"DISCORD!!" The griffin cries out in pain. Spirit goes silent before looking back down at the griffin before him.

"Who do you serve?" No answer. "Well!?" He roars out.

"The new Emperor! Lord Black Beak!" The griffin cries out in fear and pain. Spirit nods his head.

"I see. You've done well, but I'm afraid you must be punished." He says with a malicious smile. The griffin stares up at him.

"No... NO!! You said I wouldn't be punished!!!" He cries out. Spirit chuckles darkly.

"I did, didn't I? But that was for helping someone attack my second home. No, THIS punishment is for murdering my Gilda and her father!!" He roars out. The griffin shakes in terror. "But I will ask you this, what is your name?" Spirit asks softly.

"S- Silver Wing...." Silver says in complete despair. Spirit smiles softly down at Silver Wing.

"It was a pleasure to have gained this new knowledge from you, Silver. Perhaps in a hundred years or so, you'll be forgiven for your crimes against me and my homes." He says with a glare. "Though I highly doubt it." He says.

"Spirit, wai- " Celestia tries, but is stopped by Spirit's raised hand.

"No, this is a matter that I must tend to. And before you ask, no, I won't banish him to Tartarus for a hundred years, and no, I will not kill him. No, he will make a wonderful lawn ornament." Spirit says with the snapping of his fingers. And with that, Silver Wing is encased in stone, with a look of horror ever present on in his wide eyes and open beak. He turns and waves his handover the bars as they melt and he steps out of the cell. "It would be wise to set him as an example for those who cross me and try to harm what is important to me." He tells her.

Celestia has sadness in her eyes as she nods her head. "I am afraid I must disagree, I do not think it would be wise to make Silver Wing an example, but that we should make it known that this will happen to those who harm what is precious to us and our homes." She tells him. Spirit nods his head.

"That does sound better, and will most likely keep our country safe from harm. Or, it could blow up in our faces." He mutters. Celestia sighs and nods her head.

"Perhaps, we should wait to make him an example, and place him in the garden, which is something of great importance I need to tell you about!" She exclaims, her eyes widening. Spirit nods his head and waves his hand a few times.

"Go on?" He asks.

"Discord has a crack on his statue!" She tells him. Spirit freezes.

"What?" He asks. Celestia nods her head.

"He had been trying to get free, but he stopped when you returned." She explains to him. Spirit nods his head lightly.

"I see, then I'll have to strengthen his prison, and move him to Tartarus." He mutters out before he is covered in a bright white light shines and soon dies. Celestia stares with a gaping mouth as the Light and a few of the others burst into the room from the magic spike. The too stare in awe as they look upon Spirit's form. His hands had become claws while his feet become sharpened hooves, all glinted in the light of the sun.

His skin had turns into midnight black scales that sends chills down Celestia's spine as she remembers the beginning of Nightmare Moon's "Eternal Night" phase. His fingers become midnight purple claws that glint ever so slightly as the sun's light seems to be sucked into them. His eyes become deep emerald/forest green with oval pupils. His face becomes elongated into a strange triangle snout that hides a mixture of pony and dragon teeth.

His tail becomes long with two fins on either side of the tip. His feet become a mixture between hooves and talons midnight purple as well. His cloths become dark blue mixed with purple going from the top of his head down his back and onto his tail fins. His wings are massive and bat-like while his ears are positioned atop of his head and resemble ear horns while some fur forms as cuffs around his ankles and wrists as well as a collar around his neck. The fur cuffs sway around majestically.

His tail gains a few cuffs just between the rigid spikes that glow in their ethereal blue/purple as if he were a ghost. His flank has the picture of the moon on it along with a long tailed bat circling itself with what looks to be a spiral of blue flame forming into a crown. On his snout at the tip is a small curved horn that looks like a dragon and Alicorn horn mixed together. He growls softly as he stretches and pops his joints.

Celestia stares with interest as she notices how slender and tall he has become, he easily stands far taller than her reaching Discord's height who stood at 18 feet, and how he looked built for speed. She feels herself blush as she meets his oval pupils and looks away.

"Do I look that good?" He asks with a soft tone of voice as he rubs her chin with a claw. "Do I look enticing to you?" He asks. Celestia nods her head softly and she stifles a gasp when Spirit presses his muzzle to hers. She leans into the gentle yet passionate kiss and close her eyes. The two of them part after a few moments and go to her room. Celestia's blush deepens as she is gently laid onto her bed by Spirit's tail.

"S- Spirit! What if the others come in?" She stutters out. Spirit gives her a soft smile as he places his left clawed hand against her left cheek. She moves her cheek deeper into his clawed hand and closes her eyes. Pleasure jolts through her body as his thumb gently brushes her lips.

"I know. But I need you to do something for me, love." He tells her. She opens her eyes and looks up into his.

"Anything." She whispers out. She shivers as Spirit breaths softly onto her ear.

"I need you to get some rest, love. You need it." He whispers softly. Celestia nods her head softly and feels a strange feeling clouding her mind. She moves her eyes upward and see's Spirit's horn glowing the same as his glowing spots.

"Spir....it...." She mumbles out before passing out. He rises from her bed and turns, but stops as he see's Dusk and Light standing their with raised brow. He feels something prod his cutie-mark and looks down to see Twilight poking it with a hoof.

"What does this mean?" She asks. Spirit chuckles softly and quietly.

"All in due time, dear Twilight." He says with a soft voice before herding them all out of Celestia's room and into the hall. He closes the door softly before turning to the others with slit pupils. "War is on our doorstep's. Light," He turns to her, "alert Ander and Chrysalis. The griffins' have allied themselves with Discord." He orders. Light nods her head and vanishes in a cloud of blue mist. He turns to Dusk and Twilight. "Dusk and Twilight. I want you two to gather the other Elements of Harmony and meet me in the statue garden." He hisses out before walking away.

"Why?" Dusk asks Twilight's thoughts. Spirit stops and looks over his shoulder at the two.

"Because the end is coming near. And we need to prepare for final battle against Discord, no, the final battle against Chaos itself." He growls out before looking forward, and vanishing into the sky, leaving noting of his presence like a ghost. Twilight pales while Dusk snarls in rage.

"Let's go. We need to stop him." He hisses out, and the two set off to find the girls. Twilight is grabbed by Dusk's left clawed hand before they puff into black wispy mist.

Seven miles north of Canterlot

Spirit booms down from the sky towards a village on a simple island that has large stone towers reaching to the skies covered in moss. The village is far older than anything on the planet as the huts(or houses?) stand with holes and walls missing as glass windows are shattered. Spikes and pillars of ice stand up from the ocean surrounding the small island as some pillars are jetting out from the houses as well.

Ash lays where there was once grass and beach shores are covered in what looks like dried up patches of blood. Along the stone streets are puddles of dried molten rock forming large boulders. A house atop of a hill stands semi-tall as a dragon statue, or what's left of it, stands tall on the decayed roof inside of said house. The roof is covered in what looks to be rusted and decaying iron that glints softly in the full moon's light.

Spirit looks at the house sadly before looking upward and towards a mountain covered in snow standing tall, and unchanged. He growls lowly and softly before rising up into the air and climbs up higher and higher until he reaches the very top. He shakes himself slightly to get rid of the soft frost that had formed on his body rom the climb up. He dives down towards the mountain's tip here a hole sits.

He moves down so fast that a whistle comes from his slightly open mouth, the warm and cold air mixing and bending before he vanishes in a blur of black. He travels down farther and farther, before landing onto a single, but wide, stone slab. It's smooth and circle shaped with strange runes or markings as if it were an ancient and dead language. He looks forward and bows his head towards the darkness.

A soft hissing sound is heard before a chorus of chirps and growls and soft roars echo throughout the cave system. He looks up and he see's two similar pairs of eyes just like his staring back at him, before multiple pairs of eyes reaching the billions open and show themselves. The clacking of a shoe and metal resound throughout the cave. Spirit stands tall as he stares at the being before him with wide eyes.

"Hello, brother."

Canterlot

Dusk and Twilight along with the girls rush into the statue garden, hoping to find Discord's statue, but find something much worse. Discord's statue, was shattered, and a single crater left behind as other statues are broken and scattered around.

"Oh no...!" Fluttershy exclaims loudly. Pinkie Pie's mane and tail erupt and becomes completely flat. Rainbow Dash glares while Rarity faints into Spike's arms. Applejack lowers her hat to her chest and gains a grave look. Twilight's eyes grow hard as Light an Dusk growl in anger.

"Discord...is free..."