EQUESTRIA'S ESPADA

Chapter Three

By, Vladimir

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Dash rubs the black spots out of her eyes and blinks a few times as to clear them fully. She looks around and stares at the two large thrones that reach up to the ceiling. Looking around more, she keeps going into awe as the room is pearl white, the carpet is crimson red while the windows are painted with...her and her friends defeating Nightmare Moon?

'What? How....How did this happen?' She thinks to herself. Looking at the paintings, she notices that there are "paintings" of Celestia and Nightmare Moon fighting, Luna and Celestia fighting Discord, even her preforming the Sonic Rainboom from when she was a filly. Looking over the paintings, she then see's an egg being passed down to Celestia from a strange looking dragon-like-creature.

The egg was dark purple with bright emerald green spots all over it. The egg itself looked to be the size of one of Celestia's breasts, while the spots seemed to be the size of her own eyeball.

She wonders what had happened to the egg.

"Wondering about the egg, huh?" Celestia's voice says from behind her. Dash jumps slightly, and turns around. Looking up at her Sun Goddess, she nods her head dumbly. Celestia looks towards the egg and says, "He hatched on the day Twilight earned her Cutie Mark. The egg had become my son. Many times had I tried to hatch it, but I simply could not, so, I used it to test Unicorns on their magic if they were powerful enough to do so. When Twilight earned her Cutie Mark, the egg hatched.

After a thousand years of trying to hatch it, it hatches when my most faithful student opens her magical pathways, and with that magic, sent it into the egg, and helped it hatch. Unknown to her, however, I had soaked my magic into the egg as well, and thus, the two combined magic ultimately made him grow before returning back to his baby form." Celestia says. Dash raises a brow.

"Who's he?" She asks dumbly. Celestia giggles softly, motherly before turning to a certain painting. Dash looks to it, and gasps. There, she see's Spike as a baby sitting in Celestia's lap with a young Twilight next to him.

"Spike?" She asks. Celestia nods.

"Yes, Spike is my son." She says softly.

"And I wouldn't change that for anything!" Spike's voice states from between them, making Dash jump and fall over, while Celestia simply snickers playfully. Spike grins down at Dash, who huffs and gets back up to her feet, before dusting herself off. Looking Spike over, her eyes go why as she notices that there are three Zanpakuto that eerily resemble Kurosaki Ichigo's Zanpakuto.

"No fucking way...you can't be fucking SERIOUS!!" She roars out as she whips out Pantera from it's sheathe. Spike whips out Murcielago, and spins around. His eyes widen as his pupils seem to dilate.

"How...?" He asks breathlessly. Celestia looks over towards the three floating swords and sighs.

"These three swords were found during Nightmare Moon's attack being stabbed into the Gates of Tartarus by a strange masked creature who looked to have escaped from Tartarus itself..." She states. Dash's and Spike's eyes seem to widen more in surprise, before strange memory flashes move through their minds, causing the two of them to clutch their heads and drop to their knees in agony, their cries of agonized pain booms throughout the room.

The Zanpakuto glow and then ignite with power that makes strange flaming pillars that break through the roofs of the palace. The one near Dash starts to gain color but instead of the cleaver being silver and black, it is cyan black and blood red, while the cloth is rainbow colored.

The two cleavers change colors, as one becomes white and purple with a black cloth while the other is black and gold with white cloth. The two blades both appear onto his back, while Dash's cleaver forms into her side as it is less wide and long as Pantera itself, and Spike's new "swords" are just a but longer than Murcielago.

The two groan as their "new" Zanpakuto seem to send waves of calm over their very beings, then the new swords seem to turn into energy. Dash's new sword flows into her neck piece, while Spike's new sword flow into his wrists where strange obsidian black and bleach white cloths form going up to his elbows.

They pant heavily as their pains recede back into their "cages" and then become locked away. Rising to their feet, the ponies note that there is a powerful aura around them that just screams, "We-Are-Beyond-You-All-Now". Spike's hair suddenly gains a bleach white streak to it while becoming longer down to his mid back while his Hollow Hole seems to double in size. Dash's hair gains a black streak through it, while her own Hollow Hole grows slightly smaller than before.

Their eyes gain power to them while their natural Spiritual Pressure builds up and presses everyone in the room down slightly through the floor before they reign as much in as possible and locking it in all at once. Dash looks down at Pantera and notices that an orange streak moves down the blade, while on Murcielago a black and white streak moves down both sides of the blade in strange intricate lines.

Dash then remembers that attack Kurosaki Ichigo had used so many times against her in her "past life". She turns to Spike, her lips are graced by a feral grin. "Wanna test out our new powers?" She asks. Before Spike could answer, familiar black and new blue flames form around Pantera, before pointing directly at Spike's chest. A strange looking mask starts forming around her face starting from her "collar". GeTsUgATENSHOU!! A large beam of black and red flames form into a beam, encompassing Spike's entire form and obliterating most of the castle wall and a few small spires.

The ponies stare with wide eyes and slack jaws as they see Spike standing there with his left hand outstretched and completely unharmed. "Was that all? Pathetic..." He says coldly, emotionless. He booms behind Dash and points his finger right up against her shoulder as a blue ball of lightning starts to form."Hado No. 4: Byakurai..." A beam of lightning shoots through her shoulder the size of his tail, sending her face first into the floor.

'Fuck....' Dash thinks to herself. 'Wasn't expecting THAT...ow...' She booms above Spike and fires a bala, which is deflected by Spike's right wing right back at her, sending her flying through a column and wall. Dash recovers quickly and stomps onto the floor, making walls of pearl rise to protect her, while she booms high above the castle with Spike and the Princesses following after while the ponies below watch a screen once more.

The two soar higher and higher into the sky into the center of monstrous storm clouds. Thunder booms as lighting licks the sky and earth as if it were spears of the heavens and were pissed.

Celestia and Luna reach just below the storm but cast a spell as to see what goes down for the ponies in the castle below.

Spike and Dash circle each other as they leave air rings around behind them as they enter Mach 4, causing the winds and thunder to grow faster and louder. They then soar towards each other, Dash with a feral grin and Spike with a serious expression, and clash swords, making a shockwave that rips through the air, yet somehow makes the clouds darken and grow more fierce. They swing away fro each other, making strange black and white walls of energy clash against each other, adding to the lightning affect.

They circle each other once more, though Dash seems to be bleeding from her forehead, as a blood trail goes down over her left eye. She smirks widely and swings Pantera, sending out another Getsuga, but it is cleaved in half by Spike's left hand before he sends out a Wide Cero from Murcielago that forces Dash to use Sonido to dodge and get behind Spike all at the same time without being caught.

Dash appears behind Spike, only to be knocked around like a ragdoll by his long whip-like tail that sends her flying through the electrified air. She grows and feels a strange sense of power course through her body, more specifically, her "collar".

Use me....Use me to show what we can do....Rainbow Dash!

A voice calls out to her through her mind. Pantera is then sheathed and she summons her new cleaver that radiates with strange power. She then swings downwards, sending out a blue crescent shaped wave that fires out and jets across the sky through the clouds and slamming into Spike, making a large explosion that sends Spike flying across the sky and bounce across the "ground", before bright blood red flames flicker across the cleaver, as her Element shines brightly from the "collar" while her body seems to become covered in red lightning.

Her face becomes covered with a strange looking mask that forms from the Element and is bright red as her hair becomes covered in strange energy and becomes longer as well as sharper and moves on it's own like tentacles.

She grips the hilt tighter and swings to the side, sending a red crescent shaped wave down at Spike who just manages to block it with a green Cero. The explosion rockets Spike through the air, but is then shocked by red lightning which is guided by Dash's cleaver blade which pulsates the red energy once more. The air around Dash seems to pulsate with a strange rainbow colored energy, her hair covers her eyes making them look as if they don't exist.

She lifts the cleaver and points it directly at Spike and a spiraling ball forms at the tip of the blade with rainbow and blood red lightning circling it in a typhoon like fashion. GeTsUgA CERO!!! She states calmly with her strange voice as a mixture between a Cero a Getsuga fires down at Spike, causing his eyes to widen, she then swings the blade down at the attack just starts to fly, and becomes a Getsuga.

Insane laughter roars in her mind and she inwardly screams in pain as she feels something else begin to take control, her aura seems to darken more and more, as the whites of her eyes begin to become covered in strange black flames.

Spike points his left index finger and a black Cero forms.

Cero Oscuras... He states and a black beam jets out. The two attacks clash. Dash's attack devours Spike's own and seems to grow larger, stronger and much faster. His eyes widen more in surprise and before he can even react, red lightning arches bind his limbs to a red lightning cross, his eyes then narrow as his body starts to pulsate a pitch black and sickly green aura. The wave crashes into him like a freight train and then explodes into a massive black and blue dome with red lightning arching off of it.

The ponies down below gasp in horror as the sphere keeps expanding before, quite literally, exploding once again, causing thunder to boom, the castle and building of Canterlot seem to shake from the sheer octave levels. The Princesses stare as they see Dash holding spike by his wing and then throws him to the side as her eyes are now black and red, a mouth of concave teeth forms and horns jet forward.

She roars loudly as her clothes become tattered for some odd reason, the smoke that surrounds her adds to the disturbing situation. Between her horns forms that same attack once again and she fires it down at the ground straight at the Princesses. Celestia summons a strange looking halberd and points it up at the beam. A sun gold orb forms and then a massive sun gold Cero booms, blocking Dash's own Cero, making a monstrous explosion.

"This is becoming too dangerous to let continue!" Luna exclaims as she stares at Spike's deranged form. Celestia nods her head as some fear creeps into her chest. 'I hope he is okay....' Luna thinks to herself before summoning a crescent moon scythe and sending a Cero of her own up at Dash, who backhands it away, before sending out a black and blue Getsuga that roars down at the two Goddesses.

Luna fires again and again while Celestia sends sonic rainbooms in the shape of crescent waves. The attack collide and Luna's attacks jet at Dash, who flickers from side to side making her look like a blur even to them and then appears behind them with a Getsuga ready to go off.

They spin around and fire off Cero's that make Dash's Getsuga explode in her face, but does not harm either of them. Luna rips her hand through the air, sending a cerulean wave of energy that knocks Dash back while Celestia kicks her in the stomach, making the possessed ex-Espada rocket higher into the air.

They both point their weapons up and fire a gold and cerulean beam that roars up towards Dash, who's horns charge a Cero the size of a cartwheel before it fires into a mile wide beam that collides with the Princesses own. The two beams fight for dominance, before simply exploding, making the clouds burst and send down needle like rain particles.

They squint as to keep the wind from damaging their eyes, but then widen them as Dash flickers before them while firing off a Getsuga that roars towards their faces. They both move their weapons in front of them and form magical barrier shields that manages to block the attack and then absorb it as well. They spin their weapons, making mini-tornadoes fly at the possessed ex-Espada, who simply stands there.

Her eyes narrow and she swipes her clawed hand to the side, sending five smaller Getsuga's fly forward and cut through the tornadoes. Celestia punches the air, making a golden crescent flame the size of a Dash's powered up Getsuga surge forward and knock out the five mini ones. All the while Luna teleports to Spike's body, and stares wide eyed in horror at his body.

His left wing is missing, his left arm and both legs are gone while his tail looks to be split in half in the most painful way possible. His eyes are covered by his black and white hair, but she can see blood trails moving down from them over his tear marks and trailing down his cheeks. His whole left side if missing while in his right side is a sizable hole. Blood pools around his prone form as his chest remains still.

She places her head onto his chest and sobs softly as her "bonded" is "dead". A cut on her cheek unnoticed by her, drops some blood into his slightly open mouth. She sobs harder, but soon grows startled as she hearts a loud *THUMP THUMP* and she raises her head. She see's her blood drop onto his pale and black lips and she begins to feel his energy reach out to it. Her eyes widen in realization.

She takes a deep, shaky breath, before places her "bonded" head to her neck where she forces him to bite down. She winces slightly, but soon feels her blood beginning to leave her, and Nightmare Moon beginning to stir, but, oddly enough she whispers for Luna to keep feeding him their blood. She complies happily as she watches Spike's body begin to heal quickly through strange black liquid and her magic imbued blood.

Soon, his body heals faster and faster, and she feels strong arms wrap around her neck gently, and she around Spike's waist. She feels him drink more and more from her, his tail begins to shrink and go into his body, while his wings seem to become darker and dark while his hair becomes raven black with moon white tips. His "collar" shifts into a helmet piece with a horn, while he gains moon pale skin.

His claws shrink into fingers with black nails, and his he begins to get shorter and shorter than her while she can feel his power rising more and more. His cloths start to come back (A/N: yes his Espada uniform but black and somewhat tighter than puffier) as his wings fold up against his back.

The blood around his eyes glows and eerie purple as they open softly and slowly. His dragon/cat like green eyes shine softly with a purple hue to them for some unknown reason. He detatches his mouth from Luna, who whimpers softly from loss of contact, and gazes into a soft cerulean eyes.

They stare into each others eyes, though Luna can feel Nightmare slightly take over and her left eye becomes Nightmare's. They both lean in close and kiss each other softly, electricity jolts through their bodies as they feel their bond getting stronger and stronger. The two part from each other, Luna pants slightly from loss of breath while Spike smiles gently at her as he gains his old "Ulquiorra Looks".

"Thank you, love." He whispers softly from an inch of her muzzle. She nods her head and smiles softly.

"Thank Nightmare Moon too, she seems to like you just as much as I do...!" She pants out happily. Spike nods his head lightly.

"Thank you as well, Nightmare Moon, for helping me." He says softly. Luna's right side of her face becomes covered in a black mask that looks all too familiar to the third Esdpada Tier Hallibel's own, but with the Alicorn horn piece and crown as well.

"No PrObLeM, jUsT dOn'T dIe! FoOl..." Nightmare hisses out "lovingly" before vanishing, allowing Luna control. Spike smirks lightly before getting a serious expression and looks up at his "mother" and first "bonded" duking it out.

"This must end." He looks at the Lunar Goddess before him. "Get Celestia away from here, I'm going to end this, and bring our Rainbow Dash back!" He states calmly. Luna nods her head, before teleporting away, sending a telepathic message to Celestia, who nods and vanishes away as well.
` Down below, the ponies in the castle stare at the screen in an odd sense/fashion of odd and fear. They had just seen from Luna's perspective that Spike was essentially dead, while their solar Goddess fights off their possessed friend that is apparently the reincarnation of a male that loved to kill, fight, and destroy everything in his path. Then, they watch as Luna, along with learning that Nightmare Moon is NOT dead and is bonded to Spike, revive their fallen friend by feeding him her blood.

Now they watch as their Princesses seemingly "flee" the battlefield, leaving a possessed Dash and a now healed Spike behind to "duke-it-out".

Spike looks to Dash, who releases an enraged and feral roar that rockets across the skies. He flickers far above Dash, and grabs Murcielago's hilt, unsheathing it he points the tip of his blade at Dash. Two words echo through the air as if it were judgement day.

Tozase...Murcielago....

The air becomes far heavier than before as black and sickly green rain erupts from Spike and downpours down all over Canterlot as the whole sky turns pitch black and the sun becomes a giant crescent moon. The wind roars loudly before it booms down to the earth, making large dust walls rolls across Canterlot, making the ponies cling to something built into the ground and close their eyes tightly.

The ponies in the castle open their eyes and stare at the "screen" with wide eyes as they now see Spike's Resurreccion form for the very first time. His form looks much different, as he appears to be in a "dress" and his wings are twice as large, a large horned helmet rests atop his head while a neon green javelin rests in his hand which he summons.

Spike looks down at Dash with cold, emotionless eyes. Dash's red and black eyes stare wide as if whatever has taken control over her, is staring in fear at what is most likely going to send it back into the recesses of Dash's very soul.

"Ready your blade, don't lower your guard..." He states evenly before throwing the javelin down at Dash, who moves backwards slowly. The javelin clips her shoulder gently as she watches the javelin fly past her. She looks forward, only to see Spike before her with another javelin in his hand. He swings down. When it clashes with the cleaver the javelin detonates into a giant neon green dome.

Seconds later Dash flies out of the smoke with her left horn slightly cracked, the red and black eyes stare at Spike who flies alongside her soaring form. He swings down with another javelin and sends her rocketing down towards the old palace in the Everfree Forest and into a pillar.

The ponies and the Princesses -who joined the ponies after their departcher- star in shock as Spike chases after the possessed ex-Espada, and seemingly treats her the meaning of "rag-doll-physics".

Spike knocks Dash across the decrepit castle with ease. Her mask starts cracking more and more, and the blacks of her eyes begin to fade out/away revealing bits and pieces of white underneath, while the red does the same for the magenta beneath.

He appears behind a now standing possessed Dash and grabs her mask's horns. He grunts softly and rips the horns off into different directs, causing the mask to shatter and a sonic boom to burst across the forest, sending trees flying. Dash's hair "shatters" like glass and her magenta eyes are lidded eyes as she begins to drop to her knees, but Spike is quick to catch her quickly and hold her bridal style, before using Sonido to appear before the ponies, his presence sends a sense of fear and excitement through the ponies bodies as he stands before them, his wings spread out in all their glory.

As his form returns back to normal, the sky and sun do so as well, gracing the entire land of Equestria with the suns warm and loving rays once again.

Dash slowly starts to wake up, but soon flinches in slight pain and rubs her head, "ow" she says weakly as her head pounds like a thousand drums going all at once. She looks around the room with tired eyes before she realizes that she is being held by two strong arms. Flashes of the battle wage in her mind, causing her eyes to widen and to move and look around frantically.

"Spike! Where's Spike!?!?" She exclaims in worry.

"I'm right here, My Dashy" Spike says softly into her ear. She shivers lightly, but soon wraps her arms around his neck as he holds her tighter to his chest.

"I'm so, so sorry! I don't know what came over me!" She exclaims sadly as sobs form in her throat. Spike cooes to her softly and squeezes her gently.

"Do not worry, we are fine now, My Dashy." He whispers softly. She shivers once again and looks up at him, only to be surprised as she see's Ulquiorra with wings instead of Spike's altered form.

"How...?" She asks. He bobs his head forward and she follows the motion, to find a blushing human looking Princess Luna. She blinks once, then two times before gasping in shock. "You look human! How...!?" She gasps out. Spike chuckles softly.

"That would be my fault, as I drank from her blood. But, somehow she managed to gain a human looking form, interesting, very interesting indeed." He says softly. She nods her head while Luna hugs the two of them tightly, and kisses her forehead gently, causing the "Pegasus" to blush.

"It's good to have you back, our "Dashy"." She teases with a sexy wink, causing the Pegasus to blush even more, but does not mind it much.

"Y-Yeah...?" She asks. Spike kisses her gently, catching her by surprise once again. He parts from her and smirks.

"I made the bonds between the four of us strengthen." He states. She raises an elegent brow.

"Four?" She asks.

"Nightmare Moon has joined us, and, without her, I would most likely be dead." He tells her. She nods her head lightly, before shrugging.

"Alright, I mean, we did much worse than her in our "past-lives" before being "reincarnated" into this one. Though, what I can't understand is why and how I got controled..." Dash wonders. Luna clears her throat.

"I can answer that. It's similar to how Nightmare is for me, there is an "opposite" you, but it seems to be similar to the past you..." She says. Dash raises a brow, and Luna blushes once again. "Bonded can see each others memories and abilities. I managed to transfer some of both your abilities to my sister when we fought you, Dashy." She says softly. Dash nods her head, and then leans back into Spike's arms.

"So, you know of what we did and how we didn't care?" She asks. Luna nods.

"I did, and I can understand your position, Dash, but Spike...he confuses me. He has more power than one would ever imagine, and yet, he hid it as to stay No. 4 of the Espada army, he even outclassed that old man..." She mutters out. Dash looks at Spike with a raised brow.

"Is this true?" She asks. Spike nods his head lightly.

"Yes, though, I can tell I am far beyond that point, as are you, My Dashy, as we both seem to be Primera to Cero level Vasto Lorde's." He says lightly. She nods her head, before fatigue start to catch with her and Spike, and the two pass out. The last thing Spike see's is the flash of two beings standing in his mind, both of them smiling sadly.

Author's Note

Well, there you go! Not very long, I know, but, well, I decided to let ya'll see Ulquiorra (Spike) Cifer's form changes, Resurreccion, how "Bonding" works exactly, etc.
See you all next time!
Ja ne!