My Little Dragon Z

“Haa!” a blue energy blast raced towards Shining Armor who sidestepped the blast before firing a yellow one back at his opponent. His opponent grinned before back flipping out of the way and crouched low in a ready stance.

Shining Armor smiled before standing back up and wiping some sweat off of his forehead. “Alright, I thinks that's enough for now.” Shining Armor and his opponent bowed to each other as they sat at the kitchen table to rest.

“I'm impressed with how far you've come, Spike.” replied Shining Armor to his student.

“Thank you, Shining Armor.” replied the now identified Spike who now stood nearly as tall as Shining Armor, and with a different look he attained through the years. He was now a teenage dragon with a similar build to Shining Armor from the years of training. He wore a vibrant red sleeved jacket with two long thin tails hanging from the back. Under it is a black shirt with three red belts. He wore a pair of black gloves with a red shell on the backs of the hands. He wore a black hakama and steel-toed red boots. (Ragna's outfit.) His tail could be seen to be longer with a sharp tip at the end.

“Spike, I’ve already told you before, just call me bro.” replied Shining Armor who had been trying to get Spike to see him as an older brother. It only made sense considering he had raised the young dragon since he was a child.

“Sorry, guess I’m just use to calling you by your real name.” replied Spike scratching his cheek in embarrassment.

Shining Armor shook his head and leaned back in the chair while holding his hands behind his and stared up at the ceiling. “Remember when I told you I had a sister?”

Spike pondered it before nodding. “Yeah, you told me that she loves knowledge. Why?”

Shining Armor sat in the chair correctly before looking at his student. “I'm asking because I fear she might be in danger.” replied Shining Armor shocking Spike.

“But Shining Armor, what makes you say that?” asked Spike to his mentor.

“Remember when I taught you to sense power levels? For the pass few years, I've been feeling an odd power in equestria. This power seems to be seeping over equestria at a slow rate, but it's still dangerous. I think my sister is in danger as I last saw her as the student to princess Celestia.” Shining Armor looked down at that statement.

“Well, you chose to live out here and get stronger Shining. I'm sure if you met your sister now, she'd understand.” replied Spike trying to cheer him up.

“I know, but if my choice caused her to get hurt, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself.” Shining Armor shook his head before looking up at Spike. “Say, how bout we see how that new move of your is coming.” suggested Spike's teacher getting up.

“Sounds good to me. I've been dying to try it out.” Spike followed Shining to the training room and both fighters took their stances.

Shining Armor grinned before disappearing and reappearing behind Spike and delivered an open palm strike that hit the dragon's back and sent him flying to the wall. Spike quickly turned his body around in the air and opened his mouth before shooting a mouth blast at Shining Armor. His teacher back-handed it away and saw Spike use his tail to launch him at him from the wall and dodged a right hook he tried to send.

Shining Armor used the momentum to grab Spike's fist with his right hand and grabbed under his arm with his left hand and sent Spike crashing into the wall behind him with the increased momentum.

He turned around and jumped over an energy blast from the blast and saw Spike appear in front of him. He crossed his arms as Spike blasted him into the wall with an energy blast at close up range.

Spike landed on his clawed feet and got into a ready stance as he already knew that attack didn't have enough power in it to keep him down. His cautiousness was proved correct as Shining Armor stepped out of the smoke cloud with a few scrapes.

Shining Armor was impressed with Spike's counterattack. It may have been just a few scrapes, but he was giving it his all. “Not bad Spike. Why don't we see how strong your attack is?” Shining Armor held his two hands together and to his side as a blue orb began to charge up.

“Sounds good to me.” Spike held his arms out but close to his body in a ready stance as he began to charge his energy. He brought two fingers from his right hand up to his forehead and began to charge his energy into the two points as small sparks of electricity wavered around his fingers.

They were both about to unleash their devastating attacks, but Shining Armor suddenly stood up while stopping his move. Spike was confused and saw his mentor turn towards the cave entrance. His face showed slight fear before it turned to anger. He turned to Spike. “Spike, I can sense a few power levels nearby. One of them is my sister.”

Spike was shocked and could indeed sense a few power levels converging on one smaller one. He looked and saw Shining Armor powered up and shot out of the cave. Spike followed his lead and powered up as well before following his mentor to help.

(Outside the cave)

A figure ran through the forest as they were being chased by three timberwolves that found them as a good prey. The figure kept up their running before tripping over a log and ended up landing in a spot where some sunlight snuck past the branches of the trees.

It was female as the light brown outfit they wore hugged their body and showed their curves. The outfit had a pink six pointed star on the right side. The left sleeve of the outfit had what appeared to be a badge of a unicorn. She had a light pink bandanna around her neck that seemed to compliment her lavender colored skin. She appeared to have short purple hair that had a pink stripe going through it. Her hair was slightly parted to let her horn out. She had a tail going out the backside of her outfit that had the same color scheme as her hair.

Twilight pushed herself up and felt the stinging sensation of her knee as she looked down and saw that it was hurt. She looked behind her to see the three timberwolves come closer, but slowly, as though they enjoyed watching their prey in pain.

“No, it can't end like this.” whispered Twilight in fear as she tried to crawl away.

The timberwolves were about to go in for the kill, but stopped as a blue energy blast hit near their paws. They turned their glowing green eyes and saw two tall figures standing there. The first was a white unicorn wearing a karate gi, while the other was a purple dragon with a red coat.

Shining Armor saw his sister stare in surprise and shot her a quick grin before turning to the three beasts. “Spike, you watch over Twilight. I'll take care of these three.” Shining Armor stood between his sister and the beasts as Spike walked over to Twilight.

Spike bent down and saw the wound on her knee. He reached into his coat and pulled out some gauze and some salve.

He looked up at the unicorn. “Don't worry. This might sting a little, but it should pass quickly.” Twilight nodded her head and watched as the dragon applied some of the salve to her injury before taking some of the medical gauze and wrapping it around her leg.

“Do you need some help?” asked Spike who wanted to make sure she was alright, but didn't want to give his mentor the wrong impression.

Twilight nodded her head and let Spike reach around her body and lifted her up to try and stand. The salve seemed to be doing its thing as she could barely feel the pain.

Both of them suddenly heard a loud explosion and turned to see a large crater with the three timberwolves all beaten up. Shining Armor stood over them with a dark look in his eyes.

“If you ever harm my sister again, I’ll end you.” Shining Armor held up an energy orb to emphasize his point. The timberwolves made the right choice and ran as fast as their injured bodies could take them.

Shining Armor turned to Spike and his sister, and was surprised to feel his sister crying into his gi, but soon wrapped his arms around her in a hug. He looked down and saw she was staring up at him before crying some more into his gi.

“It's alright Twilight, they're gone.” Shining Armor gently pulled her off as she began to calm down and wiped the tears from her eyes before giving him a smile.

Shining Armor turned to his student and gestured to Twilight. “Spike, this is my sister, Twilight Sparkle.”

Shining Armor turned to his sister before doing the same thing. “Twilight, this is my student, Spike.”

Twilight turned to Spike before bowing her head. “Thank you.”

Spike was surprised by the bowing but just smiled and waved it off. “It was nothing, just some basic first aid.”

Shining Armor just chuckled. “That's just her way of showing thanks. She use to do that all the time when we were little.”

Twilight turned to her brother with a pout that didn't help with her cheeks a light pink. “Says the one who left years ago.”

Shining Armor sighed before walking back to the cave. “It would make more sense if I explain it at home. Spike, could you make sure she doesn’t fall?”

“Sure.” Spike made sure to stay close enough encase Twilight fell, but not too close. He had heard Shining was protective of her, and he did not want to get his teacher mad at him.

When the three of them finally made it home, Twilight made sure to sit across from her brother as he gave the explanation.

“Twilight, I’m sorry. The reason I left years ago was because I wanted to hone my skills. And I know you would say I could have done that home, but I needed a place where I could be pushed to my limits. The Everfree Forest was the only place nearby. So I needed to train here and get strong. I know you're mad, but believe me, I just wanted to stay strong so I could protect you.” finished Shining Armor.

Twilight sighed as she looked down at her hands. “I know, but I just wanted to make sure you were alright. But I guess it's better that you moved out here. Things haven't been going so well in Equestria. The princesses have gone rogue.”

Shining Armor was confused and worried about what she was talking about. Twilight saw her brother's face and continued on with what she had to say. “It's true. For some reason, the two princesses began to act strange. They began to enact laws that limited peoples rights. Such as accusing people of betraying them, or sentencing people to the dungeons for small crimes. I don't know why, but princess Celestia acted like her old self before sending me off to search for something called the elements of harmony.”

Shining Armor held his chin as he let all the info sink in. if that were true, then his sister needed to find these elements, and fast. The reason why she would be here in the first place would be if the elements were near here. If that's the case, she would need some protection against the creatures of the forest.

“Alright, I know what we can do. Me and Spike will join you in your journey.” replied Shining Armor shocking Twilight and Spike. “If we go together in search of these elements, then Twilight will have the protection needed to safely find them.”

Twilight gave her brother a deadpan look before responding. “Shining Armor, I’m not a little girl anymore. I took martial arts, remember?”

“I know that, but it doesn't hurt to still have some company to help along the way though.” responded Shining Armor.

Twilight could tell her brother wouldn't change his mind so easily, so she just nodded with the idea.

“Alright, Spike, go get some provisions ready.” replied Shining Armor as he got up to help his student while his sister took it easy on her knee.

Twilight looked at her brother and Spike, and couldn't help but smile. For some reason, maybe this could work out after all.

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What the two unicorns and dragon didn't know, was that 100 yards from the cave, was someone who had seen the whole thing.

One set of red eyes looked at the entrance and pressed the button on the device that was in front of their left eye. They waited and read the three readings from the life forms in the cave.

“Hmm, not bad. This I gonna be fun.” replied the figure as they disappeared into the darkness to wait for the right opportunity.