The Will of Fire

Okay so the last chapter was pretty well received. So, I am adding a little video that showcases SOME of Madara's abilities. Trust me, Spike isn't quite up to Madara's level yet....only in Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. While Spike has the knowledge of Madara's Taijutsu and weapon abilities, he was constantly growing and throwing his balance off. He can improve NOW that he is slowing down in his growth. Also, this video is in Japanese with English subtitles....but they mistranslated "Great Fire Annihilation" as "Majestic Destroyer Flame".....there was a little confusion on that part. I've looked it up...it's official name is "Great Fire Annihilation". I've also gone back and corrected the name of the Mangekyo Sharingan.

While Spike only has Madara's knowledge and abilities, some personality traits have "passed on" to Spike from the failed possession attempt. His seriousness was both installed by Madara AND Spike's Royal Guard training. Also, like Madara, Spike refers to fighting as "dancing". He will even criticize other's fighting abilities by saying things like their "steps are too narrow". Also, he inherited a hobby of Madara's....falconry....which will be useful later on....(coughPeeWeecough).

Also, Madara's statistics as compared to Spike's.

Madara: Ninjutsu: 5 Genjutsu: 5 Taijutsu: 5 Intelligence: 4.5 Strength: 5 Speed: 4.5 Stamina: 5 Hand seals: 5

Spike: Ninjutsu: 5 Genjutsu: 5 Taijutsu: 2 Intelligence: 3 Strength: 4 Speed: 3 Stamina: 4 Hand seals: 2

"This world is full of things that don't go as you wish. The longer you live the more you realize reality is just made of pain, suffering, and emptiness… Listen… In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love." - Madara Uchiha

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Spike stood glancing at the multiple Pegasi carrying the chariot that he and Twilight stood in. Much to Twilight's surprise, he didn't scoff at her notion of Nightmare Moon returning, and instead glanced at the sky while turning his back to her, revealing that the back of his special armor did not have a plate like the front, just smaller plates attaching just above his waist like a belt-letting his back spikes protrude freely. To all but Twilight and Celestia, no one was to know of the Shinigami or Madara Uchiha. These eyes were a new genetic trait....which was technically true.

"I've been sensing a foul power lately. It is why I've been practicing, so that I may dance claw-to-hoof with Nightmare Moon should she return." Spike said, before pressing a hand to a strange symbol on his left lower shoulder guard and pulling a notebook and quill out from the symbol in a puff of smoke.

Chakra is comprised of two different energies combining. Yin-Spiritual Energy gained from studies and meditation, and Yang-Physical Energy gained from training the body. Every creature has these two energies, but how ponies use them is....different. Spike wrote, Earth Ponies and Pegasi use mainly Yang energy, which is why Pegasi can carry heavy loads flying and Earth Ponies have what some call "super strength". However, Unicorns use mainly Yin energy, which they call "Magic". Alicorns are the closest to having Chakra, but so far I've only seen them flow Yin energy through their horns while they flow Yang through the rest of their bodies. Twilight Sparkle is a unique case....she has the most amount of Yang energy in her body I've seen out of any ordinary Unicorn. It nearly matches Princess Cadence's levels...and she's an Alicorn! However, the sheer amount of Yin energy in her body makes the Yang energy seem small in comparison.

He was broken from his writings when the carriage came to a bumpy stop and Spike put the quill and book back into the symbol. To prevent Twilight from reading it, he had been writing in Japanese-a language Madara spoke and wrote. Still, it was the same on Madara's world as it was in Neighpan, which spoke and wrote Neighpanese....which exactly matched Madara's language.

The last thing he needed was Twilight learning Neighpanese to read his research.

"Make friends!" Twilight griped, "That can be done later....AFTER Nightmare Moon is dealt with. Right now, I will make sure the preparations for the Summer Sun Festival are going according to schedule." She said, before spotting a pink Earth Pony wearing blue clothes.

"You there!" Twilight said, before the mare gasped loudly and ran off.

"She's....fast." Spike said, Mangekyo Sharingan following the mare until she disappeared from sight.

"And odd...." Twilight said, before shaking her head and pulling out a list. "Okay...the pony responsible for the catering is...Applejack...who this list says lives at Sweet Apple Acres."

"That's down this road according to the sign." Spike said, playing with the handle of his gunbai and stringing some metal wire to it.

"Spike. You are NOT going to attach a sickle to that gunbai!" Twilight said.

"Too late." Spike said, "and technically a sickle used as a weapon is called a kama." This made Twilight groan out as she saw the metal gleaming from underneath the gunbai.

"It's bad enough you have a giant metal fan that can break bones....now a sickle too!" She said as they walked along.

"Don't blame me, I'd rather be over-prepared for a dance of death than be found...lacking." Spike said.

"ENOUGH WITH THE DANCE COMPARISONS!" Twilight screamed, making ponies around them back up in terror and surprise.

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Once they arrived at Sweet Apple Acres, Spike deactivated the Sharingan to appear less threatening....as nonthreatening as a dragon in specialized Royal Guard armor could appear.

"Well howdy there." A bright voice called out and they turned to see an orange Earth Pony mare with a blonde mane and tail in farmer's clothing waving at them.

"Greetings. I am Twilight Sparkle and Princess Celestia sent me to see how preparations for the Summer Sun festival were coming." Twilight said.

"Well howdy-doo Miss Twilight! A pleasure makin' your acquaintance!" The mare said, "I'm Applejack." She said, shaking Twilight's hand so hard she was constantly lifted of the ground slightly. "And who is this feller?" She asked, taking in Spike's appearance.

"I'm Spike. Mom sent me to keep Twilight out of trouble." Spike said, shifting his shoulders slightly when Twilight slapped his right shoulder.

"Spike. Don't speak of Celestia so lightly!" She said, and Applejack's eyes nearly popped out of her skull at those words.

"Princess Celestia is your MOTHER?!" She screamed.

"By blood adoption. It gave me the unique magical ability to teleport letters through a magic fire." Spike said, "And I can see that preparations are coming along nicely with the catering."

"Please stay, we're all about to have brunch." Applejack said, her eyes darting between Spike and Twilight.

"Well I really must be going..." Twilight started to say right before her stomach growled. "Maybe just a bite...."

"SOUP'S ON, EVERYPONY!" Applejack shouted.

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"Next up is the mare in charge of the weather....Rainbow Dash..." Twilight said.

"I just wish that...Applebloom filly hadn't tried playing with my gunbai so much. It is not a toy!" Spike said, readjusting the gunbai and kama on his back.

"She's just a filly." Twilight said, before staring at the sky. She frowned when she saw clouds scattered across it. "It seems that someone isn't doing their job."

With the regular three-tomoe (first stage) Sharingan (not the Mangekyo), Spike could see a rainbow-colored tail protruding from one of the clouds. Throwing some metal wire at the tail, he wrapped the wire around it and tugged, pulling a cyan mare in sports shorts and a Wonderbolts T-shirt with a rainbow mane and tail down from it.

"Hey! What's the big idea?!" The mare exclaimed.

"You weren't doing your job....Rainbow Dash." Twilight said, "I am Twilight Sparkle and this is Spike Solaris...we're here checking on the Summer Sun festival preparations."

"Don't you now who I am? I am the one and only Rainbow Dash! Future Wonderbolt!" Rainbow Dash said, "I can clear these skies in ten seconds flat!"

With that, the mare took off in a high-speed rainbow blur, and the skies were quickly cleared of clouds. The blur than stopped n front of Twilight, covering her in mud.

"Ten seconds flat!" Rainbow Dash bragged, before spotting Twilight covered in mud. "Don't worry, I'll clean you off with my Rainbow blow dry." With that, the blur wrapped around Twilight before Rainbow Dash stopped and Twilight was cleaned...but her mane and tail were in tangled messes. "Can't wait to hang out some more!" She said before flying off.

"Well...next is decorations....done by a...Rarity..." Twilight said, checking the list.

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"Okay so the decorations are coming along nicely." Twilight said as the duo approached the city hall. Entering inside, they were greeted by a white unicorn with a curled purple mane and tail in a fancy sky-blue dress which had slits going up her legs, giving glimpses of her triple-diamond Cutie-Mark.

"Hmm...she seems...sophisticated...." Spike said, absentmindedly brushing off a shoulder plate.

"Good afternoon..." Twilight started to say, but was cut off when Rarity held a hand up.

"Just a moment, 'I am in the zone', as it were. Oh yes, sparkles always do the trick." Rarity said as she hefted a ribbon onto a column using her magic. After appraising her work, she turned around and her eyes widened in shock as she saw Twilight's disheveled appearance.

"Oh my stars, darling! What ever happened to your coiffure?" Rarity asked.

"Oh, my mane? It's a long story. I am just here to check on the decorations, which look....." Twilight started to say, when Spike glanced at the decorations.

"Amazing." He said.

"Yes, what he said. So we will be going now, so we can get out of your hair." Twilight said.

"Out of my hair? What about yours? Come with me, I will gave you looking gorgeous in no time." Rarity said, dragging Twilight out of city hall.

"Spike! Help me!" Twilight begged.

"Oh this is good. Sorry Twilight, you aren't getting out of socializing."

After a while, they ended up inside a building called Carousel Boutique, where Rarity quickly fixed up Twilight's mane and tail. Afterwards, she started trying out different dresses on Twilight.

"Oh Spike was it? Will you please hand me that yellow dress?" Rarity asked.

Spike picked it up and glanced at it. "Huh. Matches my armor." He said, passing it to her.

"Thank you. Your armor is quite dapper. It reminds me of the Royal Guard armor, yet it is different at the same time."
She said.

"I'd hope it'd be different. This is the new Royal Guard Special Attack Forces armor." Spike said, once again brushing it off.

The dress fell out of Rarity's hands. "Wait....Spike.....Royal Guard Special Attack Forces....a large gourd-shaped metal fan...." She said before her gaze turned to him. "You are THE Spike Solaris?! Adopted son of Princess Celestia and one of Canterlot Magazine's top ten most eligible bachelors?!"

Spike's gaze shifted nervously. "Um....yes?" This response got a loud squeal from the mare and Twilight, sensing an opportunity, grabbed Spike in her magic and ran off, trying to get away from this...overzealous....mare.

After meeting a relatively normal-the overly shy Fluttershy (who took an interest in seeing a friendly dragon), they ended up in their future home: Golden Oaks Library. However everything was dark. Twilight turned the lights on to reveal.

"SURPRISE!"

Just about all of Ponyville.

"Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie, and I threw this party just for you! Were you surprised? Were ya? Were ya? Huh huh huh?" The pink mare from earlier said. As she started the "welcome to Ponyville party", Twilight accidentally drank a cup of hot sauce by mistake and ran upstairs. Spike chuckled softly, before he sensed something and frowned. It was something he'd been sensing recently.....something dark......

And his feelings were proven to be true when Nightmare Moon returned when Princess Celestia was supposed to raise the sun.

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Spike waited until Twilight and the five other mares-Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie-had left by making them think he had fallen asleep from sheer exhaustion. In reality, he had been meditating, preparing himself mentally for the upcoming fight. He could clearly sense where Nightmare Moon was hiding, her magic radiating throughout the land. It had been surprisingly close which meant.....

"Nightmare Moon had been spying on them!" Spike realized in horror.

Running out the door (but closing it behind him), Spike jumped to the treetops and started leaping from tree to tree throughout the Everfree Forest. Avoiding the beasts in the forest were no problem-and neither was jumping across the river or chasm that blocked the Castle of the Two Sisters off from the rest of the Everfree.

Just as Nightmare Moon shattered the orbs that once held the Elements of Harmony, she started taunting Twilight as the five other mares ran down to help her. "You see, there is no real way to stop me."

"But I can try!" Spike's voice rang out, surprising the six mares as he jumped through the roof and onto the floor. "I will be your opponent!" He called out, brandishing the kama and gunbai, the large fan being held in his right hand and the kama being held in a reverse grip in his left.

"Spike?" Twilight asked as he stood up straight.

"It is my job to keep you safe. I am Spike Solaris....and with my inheritable genetic trait...my....kekkei genkai...I can stall her long enough for you to find the power you need to defeat this menace. You see, Nightmare Moon....all living beings have both Yin-Spiritual-and Yang-physical-energies in their bodies....but they can never harness both at the same time...but I can, and with my chakra, your defeat is certain."

"You think you can defeat me? I shall take pleasure in killing my sister's son." Nightmare Moon spat out.

"You've just sealed your fate.....Mangekyo Sharingan!" Spike called out, revealing to the five new friends Twilight made his unique eyes. "Now....let's dance!"

Spike started off in a slow jog, but quickly sped up. Nightmare fired a blast of magic at him, but Spike twisted his body and kept moving. "Go! I'll stall her!" He yelled to the mares.

Nightmare Moon scowled and gathered shadows into horrendous monsters, but Spike jumped into the middle of the hoard of creatures, turning his body to avoid attacks and slashing down with his kama. A creature charged at him, but locked eyes with Spike.

"Genjutsu: Sharingan." He yelled.

Spike noticed that these things were "bleeding" shadows instead of blood and quickly dispatched the paralyzed monster with a blade to the head.

"It's...almost like a....dance...." Rarity said, watching his movements.

"Spike! Look out!" Applejack called.

"Huh?" Spike said, his eyes widening as a blast of magic struck his kama-with him barely moving his hand away thanks to his Mangekyo Sharingan's precognitive powers. The kama was obliterated, shattered into shards of metal and wood.

The impact sent Spike flying, landing on his feet.

"Now you're helpless....little dragon." Nightmare Moon said with a smirk on her face.

Spike just stood back up, brushing off a shoulder plate and stared at her before making a strange symbol with his hand-almost looking like a church. (Hand seal: Horse)

"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!" Spike called out, before he inhaled and literally exhaled a wall of flames.

Nightmare Moon cast a huge wave of magic to counteract it, and the two forces found themselves in a stalemate. Her minions, however, were turned to ash.

As the two attacks cancelled each other out, smoke filled the room.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Shower!" Spike revealed himself to be in the air-surrounded by twelve gigantic fireballs, which struck the stone and shattered it-charring it at the same time. Nightmare Moon barely dodged the attacks, and jumped back just as Spike swung his gunbai.

"Gunbai Fanned Wind!" The gale-force winds struck Nightmare Moon and sent the lightly armored evil princess into the wall. Spike glanced at her and frowned. "Your dance moves are stale, your steps are too narrow." He said, hefting the gunbai onto a shoulder.

"Take THIS!" Nightmare Moon roared and fired a gigantic magic blast at the dragon-who had turned to the side of the room to avoid getting the mares in the crossfire.

"Kamui" Spike said, as a vortex appeared around it, sending half of the blast into another dimension. However, that still left half of a magic blast hurtling towards him. Holding up the gunbai, the fan closest to the helmet seemingly....absorbed the magic?!

"Why don't you take this back?" Spike taunted. "Uchiha Return!" With that the tomoes on the gunbai glowed and launched the absorbed attack at Nightmare Moon, who teleported out of the way.

"The Elements of Harmony are not truly destroyed! They are still with us!" Twilight said, as the shards of the orbs started to rotate around the mares.

"Finally." Spike said, jumping back to observe the Elements of Harmony.

"Applejack, who asked my to trust her, represents the Element of Honesty!" Twilight said, and an orange apple-shaped gem appeared on a gold necklace on the Earth Pony mare.

"Fluttershy, who calmed a manticore, represents the Element of Kindness!" A pink butterfly gem appeared on the Pegasus' necklace.

"Pinkie Pie, who helped us confront our fears by laughing, represents the Element of Laughter!" A blue ballon gem appeared on the Earth Pony's necklace.

"Rarity, who moved a sea serpent with a generous gift, represents the Element of Generosity." The Unicorn's tail grew back as a blue diamond-shaped gem appeared on her necklace.

"Rainbow Dash, who stayed true in the face of temptation, represents the Element of Loyalty!" A red lightning bolt appeared on a necklace on the Pegasus.

"You still don't have the sixth Element! The Spark didn't work!" Nightmare Moon called out.

"But it did!" Twilight countered, "A different kind of spark! A spark that ignited inside of me as soon as I realized that all of you....are my friends!" When the Elements are ignited by the...spark that resides in the heart of us all, it creates the sixth Element! The Element of...Magic!" With that, a pink spark on a tiara appeared on her head and a rainbow blasted out of the Elements and wrapped around Nightmare Moon, who shouted in defiance before being silenced.

The light cleared revealing a smaller blue Alicorn laying on the ground and the Elements no longer glowing.

"Well don, My Little Ponies...as well as my son." A regal voice called out, and they turned to see Princess Celestia standing in the rubble of what used to be a blocked-off doorway.

Walking over, she knelt down by the other Alicorn. "Luna...for all these years I've missed you so much."

The other Alicorn opened up her blue eyes and stared at Celestia. "Sister?" She called out weakly.

"I failed you so badly...I failed to see the pain you were in and help you out before you succumbed to Nightmare Moon. Can you ever forgive me? Can you accept my friendship?" Celestia asked, holding a hand down to Luna.

"Of..course sister..." She said weakly, grasping Celestia for support.

"By the way Spike..." Celestia said and the dragon tentatively walked forward, looking uncertain, "This is your Aunt Luna. I'm sure you'll want to greet her." At those words, Spike bowed slightly.

"Luna, Spike here is my blood-adopted son, blessed with an unusual combination of what he calls Yin and Yang energy he calls 'Chakra', and a unique eye trait called the Sharingan-Copy Wheel Eye. The eyes you see are it's final form: Mangekyo Sharingan: Pinwheel Copy Wheel Eye." Celestia said.

"Spike, 'tis a pleasure to meet you...forgive us, but we are rather tired at the moment." Luna said before falling asleep in her sister's arms.

"Twilight. I have one last task for you. I want you to stay in Ponyville and send me everything you learn about the magic of friendship in a report. Can I ask this of you?" Celestia asked.

"Of course Princess!"

"Spike, keep her and her friends safe." Celestia said.

Spike smirked slightly and said "Of course mom."

Pinkie Pie suddenly jumped in front of everypony and shouted "This calls for a party!"

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