Legacy of the Kirin

Spirit and Nightmare fall. Nightmare rams her hooves into Spirit's chest, making him wince slightly, before he bites her shoulder and pins her to the side of the cavern as they fall. She cries out in pain as Spirit uses her to break sharp rocks and even a few ledges. Nightmare growls and bucks Spirit into the other side of the wall. She conjures a magical sword and swings it down.

It is blocked by Spirit's own magical sword. He pushes her back and whips her head to the side with his tail before stabbing his claws into her sides and uses her as a makeshift landing pad on a stone bridge. They reach the underground mines beneath the old castle when the wars had started. Nightmare stabs her horn into Spirit's shoulder, making him roar in aggravation. He jumps back with his right claws still in her side and slams her into the stone bridge repeatedly, making her body jolt everywhere.

He throws Nightmare at the other side of the bridge. She bounces, but then spins and lands onto her hooves. She slides to a stop and glares at Spirit. The two have a dangerous staring contest before Nightmare's horn forms a sphere of magic at the tip, and Spirit has a large ball of red hot flame in is mouth. The two release their attacks which collide with each other, making a slight wave of energy fly through the air.

Nightmare teleports quickly after seeing her magical beam coming back to her. She appears above where she was and see's his fire melt the stone. She growls down at him, before diving down with a spin. She flies towards Spirit, who sucks in air, and sends out another torrent of flame at the Night Goddess. Nightmare cast's a spell of fire-protection at last second and soars through the fire. She impales her horn into his side, making him hiss in pain.

He swings his claws down and cuts Nightmare's face, making her move back away from him, screaming in pain as she covers her right eye which has four cuts over it, her black corrupted blood drips onto the bridge before he mighty hooves. Spirit whips his tail against her chest, making her slide against the bridge once more. He roars and slams hi claws into the middle of the bridge and it starts to crack before collapsing.

The two fall once more. But this time they each have swords floating or in their claws. Nightmare stabs at Spirit, who parries with his blade, before swinging upward, making a cut form on her chest. She hisses before stomping a hoof into Spirit's chest, pinning him to the side of a stairwell, making it crack and crumbles. However, unknown to them, Twilight and the others were on said stairwell, chasing after one of the stones.

"Oh buck me sideways!" Daring exclaims as Spirit's back crushes the supporting beams of the stairwell. She grabs onto the side of a platform, the stone in her mouth. "HHHRRR!!!" She yells out. Rainbow grab Daring's hooves and pulls her up to the platform. Daring gives Twilight the stone and pants slightly. "Next time, you get the damned stone." She says.

"Damned?" Twilight asks?

"Spirit word." Daring explains. Twilight makes an 'Oh' look, before placing the stone into her saddlebag. She turns and see's a white glint coming from the other side of the wide cavern. She looks at Rainbow, Shy and Daring.

"You three need to go over there and receive that stone!" Twilight orders. Rainbow and Shy nod or salute, before flying over. Daring, however, isn't as easy to order around, she is currently staring at Spirit, who seems to be growing more and more. His body is being covered in more scales. She feels the need to help, but then Twilight places a hoof onto her shoulder. "We can help him once we have the Elements. For now, we NEED to find them." She tells Daring.

"Your right." Daring sighs out. She jumps into the air and follows Dash and Shy. Daring reaches the two as they land onto the platform and Shy grabs the stone. She looks at the other two and nods her head firmly. They takes off once more, heading back to Twilight and the others, that is, until Nightmare appears before them.

"You think you can stop ME!?" She roars out. She conjures a rapier, and thrusts at them, only to have a whip coil around the blade. They look to Daring, who has a smirk.

"I'll deal with this bitch till Spirit arrives." Daring tells them.

Daring karate kicks Nightmare onto a stone bridge, which she lands on. She stands on her hind legs, whip in hoof. She cracks the whip once more and it leaves a small scratch on Nightmare's neck. She growls before thrusting her rapier at Daring, who coils the whip around the blade once more, but this time she flips Nightmare over her form, slamming Nightmare onto her back, making the bridge tremble slightly. Daring cracks the whip once more shattering Nightmare's rapier with ease.

Nightmare hisses in pain as she gets to her hooves. Her horn ignites once more before two falchion's form. She swings them around at Daring, who watches the blades closely and dodges Nightmare's swipes easily, until she reaches the side of the bridge. Nightmare gains a glint in her eye before swinging down, and makes a cut going down Daring's side.

"Damn it..." Daring curses out as she places a hoof on her cut. She looks up to see Nightmare about to stomp her head. She roles to the left and then cracks her whip, making it wrap around Nightmare's foreleg. Daring pulls back, making Nightmare slam back onto the bridge, making it crack.

"Daring!!" Twilight yells out as her and the others rush to Daring Doo's aid. Daring curses under her breath. She looks back at Nightmare who gets back to her hooves. Daring watches as Nightmare conjures a magical whip, which she cracks and it makes a flash of light form.

Nightmare cracks her whip at the others, but it is blocked by Daring's whip. Daring pulls backward, making Nightmare stumble forward slightly, before rearing up onto her hind legs and stomps at Daring, who backflips away at last second. She cracks her whip and Nightmare's magical whip shatters.

"You! WILL NOT DEFEAT ME!!" Nightmare roars in anger. Daring moves her head down. The brim of her hat hides her eyes as she smirks. The others wonder why she smirks. What they don't see is Spirit flying upward at the bridge.

Daring holds her whip at her side, before cracking it. Her whip slams against the crack in the middle of her and Nightmare. The bridge trembles.

"YOU! SHALL NOT PASS!!!!" Daring roars out as she cracks her whip as hard as she can, shattering it. Nightmare falls and yells in anger. However, she conjures a magical whip that she whips around Daring's left ankle. She pulls back, making Daring slide onto the edge.

"DARING!!" The group yells. Daring looks up at her friends and gives them a sad smile.

"Later." She tells them calmly before letting go. "GO! FIND THE ELEMENTS!! I'LL DEAL WITH NIGHTMARE!!" Daring yells up at the group before grabbing a sword from a broken knight. She dives down after Nightmare, sword in hoof.

"DARING!!!!" Rainbow screams out as she gets ready to jump off after their new friend, but Twilight stops her.

"We need to find the Elements!!" Twilight yells. Rainbow growls.

"DO YOU PLAN ON LETTING HER DIE!?" Rainbow roars at Twilight.

"NO! BUT IF WE FAIL THEN SHE'LL HAVE DIED IN VAIN!! THINK ABOUT IT RAINBOW DASH!! IF WE FAIL EVERYTHING DIES!!" Twilight roars back at Dash.

Rainbow stops and mulls it over. She looks down and see's Spirit and Daring fighting with Nightmare. They look to be winning. Rainbow sighs before looking up at Twilight.

"Fine. But let's hurry." Dash orders. Twilight nods with a smile.

"I think I know what the spark is now, so when we have the stones, we'll be able to summon the Elements." Twilight explains as the group rushes back through the door they had came from.

The group rushes down giant stairs and go through corridors. They reach another bridge, but it is broken this time. They can see another stone sitting on the edge on the other side of the cavern on the other broken bridge piece. Rainbow gets a smirk.

"I'll get this one!" She yells before taking off and flies towards the stone. However, the stone teeters off of the edge as an explosion shakes the whole cavern. Rainbow dives down after the stone, and catches it. She holds the stone in her hooves and laughs.

"Did you get it!?" Pinkie screams.

"Yeah!" Rainbow yells back up to the group. However, another explosion happens, and bits and pieces of wall start to fall off of stairs and walls, even bridges.

"Rainbow Dash! Get out of there!" AJ yells. Rainbow looks around and see's a doorway. She looks back up at her group of friends.

"I'll wait for you all to get to me! I'll be in that chamber!!" Rainbow screams up at her friends, before diving into the room. She lands and looks around. She notes how strange this place is. It holds a large bed with large pillows. There is a bookshelf on it, next to it is a podium that holds an open book on it.

She grows curious and walks over to the open book. She see's strange text form on the blank page.

'As us a question, and learn what has happened. As us to show history, beware the story.'

It reads. Rainbow grows even more curious. She thinks of something to ask. She then remembers what Spirit said, about being a Dragon-Son. She looks down at the book.

"What is a 'Dragon-Son'." Rainbow asks.

The book lights up as words start to form, along with pictures.

"The Dragon-Son is an old race that was created by accident. Their blood line is that of a human woman/man and a dragon male/female. There were very few that existed, and only two survived the purge."

The book reads out with a woman's voice similar to Princess Celestia's. Rainbow looks back down at the book, and see's more text showing up.

"Dragon-Son's were unnatural beings. They were part human and whatever dragon they grow to adore. Some of them adored fictional dragons or live ones. However, they were feared by all for their unnatural or unholy ability to take the souls of nature, man, dragons and even gods. It was said that the last two Dragon-Son's were turned into Kirin in the war against the dragons back in the time of 2056 for the Human Race."

The book reads out. Rainbow's eyes seem to widen.

'If Spirit was a Dragon-Son, then wouldn't that mean he is the last of two?' Rainbow questions herself mentally. She then looks up and thinks. 'It would explain how he can handle himself so well and the knowledge he has acquired...' Rainbow thinks. She sighs before looking back down at the book, finding more text.

"The two remaining Dragon-Son's were male and female, and had been a couple. Before the female was killed. She was struck down by Discord, thus caused the male to become enraged. It was known to the world that a Dragon-Son is FAR more fierce than Discord or Sombra could be. This Dragon-Son went on a blood lustful rampage and desired to make the world burn. Discord was faced by the Princesses and this Dragon-Son along with the other Kirin. The male was quelled by the spirit of his old lover. He was then convinced that Discord needed to be stopped, and thus he desired revenge"

The book states. Rainbow feels a bit of sadness I her chest, but not enough to warrant it as 'important'. She barely knew Spirit, she doesn't honestly care about him. Except. She does. She feels bad about his past, but not to the extent she probably should. She berates herself for being so uncaring.

She looks back down at book, only to see a human with horns, wings as well as a tail. It's a male and he glares at dragons and Draconequi, even Alicorn's. She watches as the man in the picture runs towards the three races, flame weapons form in his hands as he cuts down dragons left and right.

She watches as the man sucks in air, before sending out bright red and yellow fire that burns the earth's plants and ground to ash. He roars as dragons try to stop him, but they meet death by his claws, and a light from their bodies is sucked into his chest. He roars once more, before stomping a foot, causing lava to explode from the ground in large spires.

He stomps another foot as the spires circle around him before sending out lava whips out and dice the dragons to pieces. He looks at the Draconequi and rushes at them, before they vanish and a flash of light forms before him. He is consumed by the light, as are the other Dragon-Son's. The light dies and they are now Kirin. However, the man from before looks more like a dragon, much like Spirit's strange form he is in now.

The Kirin roar together before breathing their own types of attacks. The first Kirin sends out strange fire. His fire is bright red with sickening yellow rings forming around the stream. Rainbow can see the faces of those who have passed, be it by himself or those who have died.

She watches as the Kirin scar the very earth and push back the dragons into submission, before they give the final strike. She notes that some dragons had sided with the Kirin and even helped the out, before going into hiding, most likely to slumber. She watches as the Kirin all seem to roar at the sky before activating their magic, and help the Alicorn's mold the world once more.

She watches as the Kirin she notes resembles Spirit. She watches as he takes a female Kirin and the go into hiding. She goes to read more of the text, however, she is interrupted by Twilight and the others arriving.

"Rainbow Dash! Thank goodness your...What is that?" Twilight asks. Rainbow looks back at the boom.

"I think I just found out what Spirit is, or at least was." She explains as she drags the book for the others to read. They look through the passages and even watch the pictures move. Fluttershy looks like she is going to cry, AJ looks as if Winona was killed. Pinkie's mane and tail are completely strait. Rarity passes out, like a total drama queen!, while Twilight and Rainbow stare at each other.

"Do you know what this means?" Twilight asks.

"No?" Dash states.

"This means that Spirit is the case for when the world was torn apart, and all over the fact that he lost his mare-friend." Twilight states. Dash stares at her friend with wide eyes.

"Wouldn't you have done the same?" Dash asks. Twilight shakes her head.

"I would have simply moved on. It's not like they were married or anything." Twilight states. Dash has a strange sense of anger build up in her chest, and she back-hoofs Twilight, hard. "What was that for!?" Twilight yells. The others stare at the two. Dash looks pissed.

"Are you sure you are his best friend?" She hisses at Twilight. Twilight scoffs.

"Of course I am." She states in a haughty tone. Dash growls.

"No your not. You don't even care about the fact he was in pain. His mate was MURDERED by DISCORD. He stopped the dragons and even killed Draconequi to ensure that our world survived!" Rainbow roars out. A stone starts to glow.

"And? He caused a calamity! He made the world burn for a hundred years! He- " Twilight is cut off.

"He stopped Discord, he only burned the world because it took away his love! He was forced to watch his mare killed by Discord. He was enraged and hurting. Yet, when he could have killed all life, he only managed to split countries apart to what they are today. He created the dragon lands, badlands, Equestria's very own forest soon became a jungle! We ponies forced him into hiding after he became the last of his kind!!" Rainbow roars.

Twilight's ears go back against her head. She thinks about what he had told them. About the wars, how Nightmare corrupted the other remaining Kirin, and he had to lead a half-Kirin race to war. He had to slay his brothers and sisters from old. She sighs sadly.

"I get it..." Twilight mutters out.

"Do you!?" Rainbow roars.

The stone that Rainbow had gotten starts to glow, and causes them all to look at it. The stone shatters and the pieces circle around Dash, before clamping down around her neck, making a golden necklace with a red lightning bolt on it. She looks down at it, and she see's the face of one of the Kirin from the pictures. She smiles softly, before looking up at Twilight.

"I am always going to be Loyal to my friends, even if I don't know them very well." Rainbow states before flying out of the room and down the cavern, going after Daring and Spirit to help fight against Nightmare Moon.

Twilight sighs sadly.

'Am I a bad friend?' She thinks.

"Don't mind her, Twi." AJ states, her southern drawl missing for some reason. "Last time Ah saw 'er like this, it took weeks to get 'er out o' 'er funk." AJ tells Twilight softly.

"Right. But she does have a point, darling." Rarity states. Drawing the others attention to her.

"Oh?" Pinkie asks.

"Rainbow makes a good point. I know for a fact that if I had been in Spirit's shoes, I would have done the same thing." Rarity explains. "But, I would have also given him my advice and help him, I would be generous and help him through his emotional problems. I would NEVER let a friend down when it is not warranted." Rarity explains.

Another stone lights up, and does the same as Dashes did. It's pieces clamp onto Rarity's neck and becomes a silver necklace with a cyan blue diamond on it. She marvels at it, before smiling at her friends.

"I will ALWAYS be Generous to my friends, much like how Rainbow is Loyal to those she has met but barely knows about." Rarity states before conjuring a diamond sword and jumping off after Rainbow Dash. Twilight sighs and looks down at the book. She then gets an idea.

"Does this book tell of who created it?" She asks.

"This book was made by the Goddess of the Sun, Celestia."

The story states. Twilight grows surprised.

"Was Spirit married?" She asks.

"Yes."

The book states.

"Who was he married to?" She asks. The others become curious. Twilight grows sad that her best friend seemed to have lost his wife.

"Spirit was married to a Dragon-Son turned Kirin named, Light. She died by the hands of Discord."

The book tells them. Twilight's chest fills with despair. Her own best friend, she neglected that fact that he was in pain. She neglected the fact that he had his wife KILLED by the ancient Mad God, Discord. She wasn't acting like how a friend should be. She was acting like a pour foal who saw Spirit as an evil beast who instead of destroying the world, he helped it form into what she knew today.

She feels a deep deep pit form in her heart. Her sadness flows through her and grows more and more. But then she hears Spirit's words form in her mind.

'Don't pity me. Stand up tall and always remember that what has happened to me is all in the past. Nothing will change it, but we can learn from it. Even me. So stand up tall and take one step before another, and then, your walking. Soon, you'll be running.'

She sniffs softly and smiles gently.

'You must have known this was going to happen? Hm? Spirit?' She thinks to herself before looking up at her friends. A twinkle in her eyes.

"I know what we need to do." Twilight tells them.

"What is it?" Pinkie asks.

Twilight walks over to the edge as she places the book into her saddlebag.

"We go down there and kick some plot! We help our friends, free Luna from Nightmare Moon's grasp and save the world!" Twilight orders out. They smile and nod their heads.

"Lets do it!" Pinkie laughs out before stepping next to Twilight on her left. AJ smirks and steps onto Twilight's left. Shy stands next to Pinkie with a soft smile. Twilight looks down and see's fire being breathed and the sounds of explosions happening.

"Alright. No turning back now." Twilight states as she takes a step forward and falls. The others follow after her. They fall and fall as the sounds of the fight seem to grow louder and clearer. Twilight's horn ignites and a magical platform appears underneath them. They land softly and they see Rarity cutting down a Rotten Pony. Rainbow is sending out waves of lightning decimating Skeletal Ponies as well.

Daring cracks a now flame whip and uses it to take on a massive Bone Drake. She rolls back with Rarity and Rainbow as the three use their weapons on the opposite enemies. Daring takes the still Rotting Ponies, Rarity takes the Bone Ponies and Dash takes on the Bone Drake. Twilight conjures a magical claymore and rushes to Dashes aid. AJ picks up a spiked chain and helps out Daring. Pinkie brings out three items. Two pistol looking hand-canons that she hands Spike who is on her back. She then takes a large canon with a red cross on it, and stays behind with Shy.

"No one messes with MY Rarity but ME." Spike growls out as he becomes taller, about as tall as Spirit is. His body ages as he gains a longer neck, tail and thinner form. His eyes become black and green with crowned slits, much like Spirit's are, and his fangs become longer and sharper.

His back adorns two large wings as his head grows two large horns, his spines become large, wider and serrated. He roars loudly as he cocks his hand-canons and charges forward.

Spike rushes to Rarity's aid and he fires the hand-canons as he breaths his green flames on the ever changing fuses. He jumps over the Skeletal Ponies and spins in the air as he comes down. He fires the cannons quicker than the others thought possible. He then dashes over to Rarity and takes a emerald sword. He grows in height and age.

He looks to be a teenage dragon, which for pony years is 180 years old, and places the sword onto his back between his new wings. He pulls the triggers repeatedly and fires death upon the Skeletal Ponies before him, as Rarity cuts down the group before her. The too look back at each other out of the corners of their eyes and smirk. The two charge at their groups of Rotting Ponies and fight.

AJ and Daring stay back to back. AJ with her bladed chain in her mouth, Daring standing on her hind legs and using her hooves toe crack her two flame whips. Daring spins in a circle, cracking and spinning her whips, making them dice the Rotting Ponies to bits.

Daring then does the splits and bows her head as AJ spins her chained whip around and cut the Rotting Ponies bones into ash, before Daring lights them on fire. The two smirk as they dance around each other, both taking on groups of the Rotting Ponies with their respective weapons.

Daring then whips at the ground, and causes a wall of fame to consume some of their enemies numbers, turning them into ash. Daring twirls and cracks her whip over AJ's ducked head and it coils around the neck of a Rotting Pony. She pulls back the another group is devoured by a rising column-like-wall of flame.

AJ flips over Daring and spins her chained whip around, dicing another group to nothingness. The two lean up against the others back, before small canon balls fly around them and take out the remaining Rotting Ponies. They turn and see Spike standing there with a smirk as Rarity leans against her diamond sword.

Dust kicks up from nowhere. The Bone Drake bursts from the dust smoke and roars out blue fire down at them. They each dodge away from the blue fire and charge at the great beast. Twilight and Rainbow attack the beast with lightning and magical waves of energy.

The Bone Dragon snaps it's jaws at the two ponies hanging from it's horns. It roars once again as it stomps a foot onto the ground, kicking up more dust, making a tsunami like wave. Spike fires out his own green-flamed-tsunami-like-wave-of-fire back at the Bone Drake. The attacks collide, making smoke. However the Skeletal Drake bursts from the smoke and charges at Spike, who holsters his new hand-canons and grabs the two bone jaws of the great ancient beast.

He is holding the beast back, before it starts to push him back. Spike growls as he twists it's head and knocks it aside. The Bone Drake slams into a wall, wall it roars in aggravation. It turns around and breaths in, before sending out it's blue fire down at Spike, who breaths out his own emerald green fire back at the ancient Drake.

The two flames collide and explode. Spike breaths in again, and sends out a stream of emerald green flame into the Bone Drake's face, making it hiss in annoyance and possibly pain. Spike keeps breathing his jetting stream of flame, making the Bone Drake hiss more, before it releases a massive torrent of blue flame down upon Spike. He runs out of breath, and watches as the fire comes closer and closer.

He turns and looks over at his friends, sister and crush. He smiles softly at them, before pulling his emerald sword off of his back. He jumps into the air and flies up at the flames. Twilights eyes widen. Time seems to move slowly for everyone. Rarity screams Spike's name as he flies into the blue flames.

Twilight's eyes form tears at the edges. She grips her magical sword in her mouth harder, before looking up and seeing the Bone Drake's body explode in a massive dome of emerald flames. The group watches as Spike falls from the fading light. Rarity gallops as fast as she can to reach Spike.

She conjures a magical net an holds it out under Spike. He lands in the net unharmed, but his eyes are closed, and his muzzle has a smile on it. She drops to her forelegs and nuzzles the young drake gently. She see's his chest move up and then down slightly, before his eyelids move and lift up.

She smiles as her knight in purple armor looks up at her. She see's a sort of love in his eyes, just for her. She leans in, and kisses him gently. He kisses her gently back, enjoying this moment. The two part as the others rush to them.

"What were you thinking Spike!?" Twilight screams. "You could have been killed!!" She yells into his chest though sobs. Spike chuckles.

"I'm fireproof, remember?" He states. Twilight groans and forehead-hoofs. "Yeah. Now lets go help Spirit." He states. They all nod and get to their hooves, feet for Spike, and walk down a large dank corridor.

They walk and walk, and the sound of a large struggle is heard. They reach a doorway and walk through it. There, they see Spirit, roaring and tail-whipping Nightmare all over the place. She looks battered and broken, but still has the look that she can still fight. Spirit breaths in and sends out blood red fire with sickening yellow rings forming around it. It sort of looks like a beam.

Nightmare roars in anger as she sends a massive magical beam into Spirit's shoulder, making him roar in pain and pushes him back into a wall. Rainbow's and Rarity's Elements glow in a heavenly light and beams fly out and hit Spirit, healing him. He roars from the massive power boost, but he needs more.

Twilight looks at her friends and smiles.

"I know where the rest of the Elements are." Twilight states. They look at her.

"Where?" AJ asks.

Twilight looks at AJ and smiles.

"You, Applejack are the Element of Honesty for when you have stuck by my side and spoke nothing but the truth. You made me believe your honest word with Dash, the cliff, everything." Twilight explains. Stone shards circle around AJ before clamping onto her neck and forming a bronze necklace with a bright orange apple in the middle.

Twilight then looks to Pinkie and giggles.

"Pinkie. You are the Element of Laughter, for when you have been constantly making us cheer up from so many different things. The cliff, the serpent, the party, even now, you still manage to make us all laugh." Twilight explains. Stone shards circle around Pinkie, before clamping down onto her neck and forming into a bright hot pink necklace with a bright blue balloon in the middle.

Twilight looks at Fluttershy.

"Fluttershy. You are the Element of Kindness, for when you took on that Manticore, helping me, even caring about Pinkie when Spirit burned those POISON JOKE to protect her. You still care, even now that we are about Luna becoming free from Nightmare Moon. You care about ALL of us." She explains. Stone shards circle around Shy, before clamping down onto her neck, and becoming a buttermilk necklace with a pink butterfly in the middle.

The others look at Twilight.

"But where is the sixth Element?" Daring asks. Twilight places a hoof onto her chest.

"Right here. I realized that I was the Element of Magic, when I realized that you are all." She pauses as a tiara with a purple six pointed star in the middle sits atop her head. White energy forms around all of them, before they open their eyes. Twilight has a smile on her face. "MY FRIENDS!!" She yells out as a rainbow beam flies out at Nightmare, a secondary beam flies out into Spirit and heals him completely.

"NOOOO!!!" Nightmare exclaims as the rainbow beam hits her, and spins around her like a tornado. Then, a massive flash of light forms, and they all black out from the magical discharge.

An hour passes, before Spirit opens his eyes, and he see's his friends waking up as well. He looks up at where Nightmare Moon stood, and he see's a young blue Alicorn laying there. Her mane and tail are light blue. Her eyes flutter open, to see Spirit flicker before her.

He nuzzles her gently.

"Welcome back, Luna."