Shadows Consume what Fire Cleanses

Kalib Odiv looked across the ocean from his perch on a cliff high in the
mountains.

"Son, what troubles you?" Grandial asked him.

"It's Razorback." Kalib replied.

"I taught you to protect those you cared about." Grandial told him. "Not to
needlessly kill."

Kalib turned around to face the dark red dragon, he looked into the dragon's
amber eyes and sighed.

"You know what we're destined to do." Kalib replied as he turned back around.

Grandial placed a claw on Kalib's shoulder.

"I know all that they said, but I also know you Kalib." Grandial replied.

Kalib sighed again before he stretched his wings.

"I'm going to fly, find something to do." Kalib replied.

"Be careful." Grandial told him.

"Aren't I always?" Kalib asked him before stepping off the cliff.

He savored the wind through his mane before he let his wings snap open and

soaring into the sky. He shot past Grandial as he chuckled to himself before walking into his cave and lying down.

Kalib easily landed out the library in Ponyville right as Twilight was walking out
with Spike.

"Kalib, I thought you wouldn't be back for awhile?" Twilight asked him as his
wings dissipated. "I see you've gotten to using those."

"My father helped out with basic training." Kalib replied.

"How long did it take you to get here this time?" Twilight asked him.

"Two minutes for 1000 miles." Kalib replied. "I still don't understand why they live
in seclusion."

"They may have a voice in the council now, but it doesn't change millennias of
difficulty." Twilight told him.

"It pisses me off." Kalib replied. "Discord lives in freaking Canterlot."

Twilight placed a hoof on his shoulder and he sighed.

"Did they talk to you?" Kalib asked her.

"Yeah, and I know you don't like them but it's for your own safety." Twilight
replied.

"My own safety?" Kalib asked her. "That's a hoot; tell them that I will talk to them
when they want to negotiate."

"Kalib, please we all care about you." Twilight told him.

"I know you guys do." Kalib replied. "But I'm not putting you all in danger."

Twilight just looked at him as his wings reappeared and she hugged him tightly.

"I'll miss you." Twilight told him as she touched his eye patch.

"I'll be be back, I don't know when but I'll be back." Kalib told her.

Twilight let go of him and watched as he shot into the sky.

Kalib landed in the middle of a pasture and Antigone landed in front of him and he look at the tawny Pegasus with colorful wings.

"I know why you're here." Antigone told him.

Kalib only nodded as he folded in his wings.

"You know I don't want a war, and I know you're exactly the same." Kalib told her.

"Razor won't agree to it." Antigone told him.

"I know." Kalib replied as he looked at the stars.