Legacy of the Kirin

"Nightmare." The dragoness says to them. Twilight's jaw drops.

"Your....your..." She stutters.

"Yes. I am Nightmare. Kirin-Son." She giggles out. Twilight's mind seems to stop, because she passes out onto the floor. "Is she okay?" Nightmare asks. Spike nods.

"Yeah. She tends to do that." He says nonchalantly. Nightmare looks to Spike and smiles.

"Ah, my son." She says softly, making Spike gulp slightly. She looks him over. "A wonderful Drake form, but what of your Kirin form?" Nightmare asks. Spike gives her a strange look, before looking to Spirit for help.

"His egg was placed too far into the Dragon-Lands. I had to place a spell on it so that it would be seen as a Drake, their dragon." Spirit explains. "Evidently, that spell is still on him." He continues explaining. Spike looks at Spirit with an incredulous look.

"You...You tried to protect me from the Drake's and placed a spell on me?" He asks. Spirit nods his head softly.

"I did. I was hoping to raise you normally, but then I was drawed away when..." He goes quiet and looks away, a sad look in his eye.

"When what?" Nightmare hisses out. Spirit looks at Nightmare with a stern gaze.

"I was lured away by that dreaded red Drake. He was after my egg in hopes of gaining me to give HIM one." He hisses out. Nightmare leans in.

"Did you?" She asks.

"No. I fought him, it took a minute, since I blasted a mountain atop of him." Spirit explains. "But, he managed to keep me away long enough for the egg to roll away..." Spirit says with a sigh. Nightmare nods her head, before narrowing her eyes and tail-whipping Spirit into a column.

"Aah!" Spirit cries out in pain as the column collapses atop of him.

"You managed to FAIL in protecting the egg. Such a waist!" Nightmare hisses out. Spike looks up at Nightmare.

"What would you have done?" He asks.

"I would have stayed near the egg, and had a fun time~" Nightmare giggles out. Spirit groans and stands up, the column rolls off of his form.

"That's the difference between you and me though, Nightmare. You'll let it happen and have a second child, while I would fight to protect my family." He growls out. Nightmare giggles.

"How cute. You still think I would let anything live if they were to rut me? Well, besides you, of course." She purrs out with a grin. Spirit blushes and looks away. "I think it is adorable as to how you think no female can make you blush, yet here I am doing so." She says from behind him, making him jump.

"Stop that!" He yells. Nightmare giggles and nips at his neck, making him shiver.

"Oh, but why?" She asks. Spirit looks away, his blush deepening and his eyes are looking to Celestia for help, she nods her head and seperates the two away from each other.

"I believe that kind thing should be for the bedroom." Celestia says.

"Bedroom?" Nightmare asks. Celestia looks at Spirit.

"She doesn't know what it is?" Celestia asks.

"No, um, it's just we never did THAT in the bedroom. It was at a nest I was making and she sort of just, came in." Spirit explains. Nightmare giggles.

"I came in sooooo many times~!" She laughs out. Spirit's blush only grows more. Dash holds her sides harder as she barrels over laughing, crying and coughing. Spirit groans.

"Shut up!" Spirit yells at Nightmare, making her giggle.

"Fine." She says before looking to Ander. "Oh, hello Ander. Rutting a princess again are we?" She asks. Ander nods his head.

"Yes, and if you go on about it, I WILL beat the tar out of you." He warns. Nightmare giggles.

"Fine." She then turns and goes to walk away, but then Spike pokes her leg, making her turn her head around. "Oh, what is it that you want, hatchling?" She asks.

"How can I become a Kirin?" He asks.

"You already are one. You just need to get that blasted spell off of you." Nightmare says to him. He nods his head and looks to Spirit.

"Can you?" Spike asks him. "Er...mother?" he asks.

Spirit blushes and sighs. He nods his head.

"Yes. Come here my child." He tells Spike. Spike nods his head and walks up to Spirit, who's horn glows slightly and a flash of light forms around Spike. When the light dies, however, there is a different being standing there. A Kirin. This Kirin has purple fur and green scales. It's horn is a large sail-like-spike while it's tail is long and sharp at the tip. It's back has two large sail-like-wings that connect to it's forearms. It's hind-legs are much like a ponies, but sharper and spikier.

It's eyes are Cerulean colored as it's muzzle is slightly longer.

"Spike?" Rarity asks.

"Yeah?" Spike says.

"You look amazing!" Dash exclaims.

Spike blushes, but then bows.

"Thank you." He says.

Spike spreads his arm-wings and the last two 'fingers' unfold and fan out. He gives his new wings a test and flaps once. He flickers into the air and smirks. He flaps gentler and he moves forward rather quick, making Dashes jaw drop. He spins and lands onto a column. He looks down at the ponies and dives down. He goes and lands next to Rarity. He is triple her size.

"My, what a wonderful stallion!" She says in awe of Spike's new form.

"Thanks." He says. His head and neck and the rest of his body, is snake-like. He nuzzles Rarity gently. "But you look better." He purrs. Rarity blushes, but smiles.

"Why thank you, MY Spikey-wikey." She tells him.

Nightmare clears her throat in annoyance.

"Yes, we get it. You both love each other, big deal." She groans out and rolls her eyes.

"Don't you love mom?" Spike asks. Nightmare laughs in his face, making him give a nasty look to her.

"Love? No. I don't love Spirit. I adore him. He is a wonderful male and even better female when he wants to be." Nightmare explains. "I enjoy his presence more than you all may think." She says.

"Then why tease him?" AJ asks.

"It is nature for female Kirin to tease males. Spirit did so to me, and I do it to him. It is a way we show affection when we aren't exactly in a home or buying each other things." Nightmare explains to the group, rather than just AJ.

"Oh." AJ says before sitting down.

Nightmare looks to Spirit, only to see him glaring out of the window, his tail flicks a few times in anger. She walks over to him.

"Something wrong?" Gila asks for Nightmare.

"Yes. Something dark and sinister is moving towards Equestria from the Bad-Lands. I think it is one of HIS servants." Spirit says. Nightmare hisses in fury.

"Then we KILL whatever it is!" She growls out. Spirit shakes his head.

"No. It could be a trap to lead us away from the castle, however, I should head back to mine. I can sense that something isn't right." He tells her. Gilda and Nightmare both step forward.

"We are coming with you." Gilda states.

"No." He says.

"To bad. We are coming with you damn it!" Nightmare hisses out. Spirit growls and stomps as he turns, cracking the whole floor.

"No means no. I will NOT lose another wife. And I certainly won't lose two wives, damn it!!" He roars out. Nightmare sighs.

"But I am Nightmare. I can destroy whatever I please." She says. Spirit sighs.

"No. Just do this for me, okay?" He asks. Gilda sighs before nodding her head.

"Fine. But you owe me a LOT of lost time, got it?" She threatens. Spirit nuzzles her gently.

"I'd only hope you'll accept me when that time comes." He says before flickering away towards his castle. Nightmare sighs.

"Who is 'HE'?" Spike asks. Nightmare places a claw onto her childs head softly.

"Discord. He had made many servants to do his dirty work. A race known as Changeling's are one such servant. They are good people, but some are still twisted to serve their master and cause chaos." Nightmare explains.

"What's wrong with chaos?" Pinkie asks. Nightmare hisses in her face.

"Because DISCORD IS CHAOS!!" She roars in Pinkie's face. "HE IS SET FREE BY CHAOS!! HE IS THE ONE WHO KILLED MOST OF OUR RACE!! I AM BUT A DRAGON!! SPIKE IS A HALF-BREED!! SPIRIT IS THE ONLY KIRIN LEFT ALIVE THANKS TO HIM AND SOMBRA!!!" She roars in Pinkie's face. Pinkie's mane and tail go strait.

"I'm sorry..." Pinkie sniffs out. Nightmare sighs and pats the pink mares had gently.

"I am the one who should be sorry. But Discord is the cause for so many things that have happened. It is hard to get by." She sighs out. Pinkie then hugs Nightmare gently.

"Then think of Spirit. I can tell he makes you happy." Pinkie states.

"How can you know that?" Nightmare asks. Pinkie smiles sadly.

"Because he makes all of us happy too." She explains. Nightmare smiles softly and nods her head.

"I see." She says. Pinkie nods her head, before letting go and dashing off with a large smile on her face. Nightmare looks at the others. "Will she be okay?" She asks.

"Yep." AJ says. Nightmare nods her head, until something flies through the window and pins Shy down. She screams in fear as a bug-like-pony with strange cheese legs bites at her face. She pushes the strange pony away, or at least tries to as it pushes back down and chomps at her more and more.

Nightmare growls, before ten more barrel into her and push her into the far wall. She hisses in fury as she rears her head back and spews out black fire that consumes the bug-ponies, turning them into nothing but goo. She stomps on another one as hundreds more rush in through the windows.

Pony guards swing their weapons and block with their shields. Gilda grabs a curved long-sword and cuts the bugs in half. She then grabs another curved long-sword and she jumps and spins through the air, slicing the strange ponies into pieces. She backflips from a large bug-pony with a strange scorpion-like-tail as it stabs at her. She spins to the side and pushes her paws on the ground, small green lightning sparks form under her and she flickers above the bug.

It roars in fury, before Gilda stabs both of her swords into it's head, making it stare blankly ahead before she swings her swords upward and crossing her chest, making an 'X' with the blades. She then pushes off of the body and flickers back onto the floor, holding the blades at her sides as the dead bug-pony tank and five smaller ones explode into a gory mess of blood. She then flickers again as a bug-pony swings a giant hammer down onto the spot where she just was.

Spike appears behind the hammer wielding bug-pony and breaths out a torrent of emerald flame that consumes it. He then flaps his arm-wings and flickers above a group of bug-ponies. He rears his head back before breathing cerulean flames down upon them, turning into icicles before they fall onto the floor and shatter into frost. He then flaps again and flickers away as a large bug-pony tank stabs it's tail at where he was.

Celestia's horn ignites as a large ball of fire forms at the tip and she points it forward, sending out a massive beam of magical fire that goes through the wall, killing the strange beings. She then stomps onto the floor and large shard-like-spikes pop out of the floor, skewering the bug-ponies before she jumps back and swings her head down in an angle as a large crescent shaped magical attack flies out and cuts multiple bug-pony tanks into pieces.

She then teleports away as Luna fires a massive blue-beam that consumes most of the bug-ponies as if they were nothing. She then bucks a bug-pony tank in the head, decapitating it. She stomps her fore-hooves onto the floor, making the same spikes as Celestia had done before her. She teleports away as well as Ander whips his tail and sends bug-ponies into each other and into walls, some even landing onto the spikes becoming impaled and bleed to death if he impact didn't kill them.

Twilight and her friends watch horror as their monarchs and friends kill bug-ponies like it wasn't a problem for them. They watch as Spike and Nightmare both breath fire, killing the bug-ponies before Ander clubs the beings to death with his tail. Celestia and Luna fire off magical attacks that end the bugs lives.

"How can they all be so brutish?" Rarity asks as she stares at Spike sadly.

"They have been in wars before. It would only make sense they wouldn't care all that much, well, maybe except for Spike." Shy says. Dash nods.

"Yeah, but how can they all take another life like it doesn't matter?" Dash asks.

"Because they have dealt with this kind of thing before." Says Spirit who flickers next to the group. Twilight looks at him.

"Why?" She asks.

"Because war is war. When one goes to war and survives it's many problems, they tend to be stronger than it, and don't let the thought of death cloud their minds." Spirit sighs out. He then looks out of the hole in the wall. "And there is something coming, it will be here in possibly a year, maybe much much less." He tells them.

"Who?" Gilda asks. Spirit looks back at her and the others with a grave look in his eye.

"Changeling's."