New Wolf-Dragons in Equestriaby Toa CoyChaptersNew Challengers AppearDestiny doe not play fairWar Room at WarNew Challengers AppearNew Wolf-Dragons in Equestria By Toa Coy Based on “A New Dragon in the Crystal Empire” By Vedues Trying another story, if this is out then I got approved. ~Toa Coy~ Chapter One: New Challengers Appear Equestria, a normally peaceful place was now at war. This war was not caused by a jaded pony who wanted to make the world a better place. This was done by the Dragon Alliance, the DA for short, a group of drakes, wyrms, and wyvern fighting to get land once theirs over several thousand years ago in the Crystal Empire, By this point the drakes had exhausted most of the gems in the other lands and going to the Empire as age old claim that were ‘stolen’ by the ponies. Peace was tried early on but that failed due to both sides being rocks when it needed to be water. Now many on each side have died on both sides, at this point both sides have want to just give up and let the bloodshed end. The main issue was the leaders of the wyvern faction of the DA wanted nothing but total elimination of the ponies and those associated with them. Given the majority of the vote held by these Hurricanes, a name fitting for such a blood lust group that don’t want a repeat that lead to them leaving their ancestral home, and to this point went to the Tartarus of this world to get monsters that were once enemies of their enemies. Which has lead to this moment that two world hoppers come into this story,two wolf-dragons in armor looking from high above this battle that was shielded from the outer world with the purple aura around the city. They both could see the large group outside of the shield waiting for it to go down and attack, from what the twins think as one is using her wings and the brother hanging below by holding on the sister’s arms. The moment that shield began to break the two saw an opening for them to see how bad it was in there, the brother did see a drake about to move. Following the eye line to two ponies nearly surrounded by golems with killer looking weapons, killer as in deadly not as in cool. With a plan of attack the two moved quick and the brother let go with his feet aimed to land on the one ready to attack the ponies. While the sister moved to either be a look out or look for injured beings that the golems may have caused. Silver Tail, one of-no The-drake leader and among the minority that wished for peace now that a wyrm had solved the whole conflict with one rune, was confused at what just shot into the Crystal Empire. It was almost quicker than his eye could see, from what he was seeing there was two beings in armor but no arm like the equestrian armor but beyond that he could not guess the real build of it as they be going quicker than he could stay on top of. He could identify that the one with wings to be a drake while the one hanging below must be a wyrm hanging below. “Who was that?” Silver heard in his head from the telepathic link that the wyrms of the DA weaved and linked. That message was from Typhoon, one of the hurricanes and de facto leader of the group, who sounded annoyed after being shot down about going in for more death for both the Equestrian and the DA if they got in the way of the Requiem Guard, large armor golems from a time of when the minotaurs fought and killed ponies for similar manner to this war. “I have no idea but they were not there when the shield was brought up.” Silver replied as the sound of metal on metal reached the dragon’s ears. Turning attention back to the guard and saw one of the guards crushed under the no winged one of the beings standing up before it jumped back from a thrust of a spar. Seeing that just one took down a guard that Princess Luna and a squad of five to damage just one. Most of the dragons were surprised to see this, but Silver thought about it. ‘At the speed they were going and the possible weight could have just been the fact that they hit the right balance to overcome any magic holding the armors together.’ The thought came to Silver as the rest of the army was still in shock. But the guard only formed up around the fallen one, even the injured one facing the fresh combatant. This was about all the bloodshed that Silver could stand, he could see the blood from here as well as a drake’s unnatural gray body. “Heart Echo,” Silver sent to the wyrm that was the representative that dragon race of the DA. “Connect me to Providence, it is time to pull out.” Heart Echo nodded and used her magic to connect to the minotaur leader and felt a shiver run down her spine. “That’s enough,” Silver sent through the link. “Fall back, I think you made your point.” Silver got a gruff reply but agreement from the golem. The drake was already thinking of what to do if the guard was not satisfied with the fight but there was hope. Let’s rewind back to when the brother crushed onto a guard. With just a moment the brother counted the non-golems, one dragoness that was bleeding from the mouth and two ponies that was somewhat battle damage. He could see one was Princess Luna and the other Big Mac, but that moment was interrupted by another of the golems going for him made the brother jump back. From what he could see the group was forming up as both defense and attack, it was only now that the brother saw another weaker one that he might have beaten it but was a bad idea. The fact he could see the one he crushed was getting up and reforming. Out of instinct that comes with being put against a wall and the need of a weapon caused the flash that he knew might happen. Normally it would be his overly large shield weapon and smaller sword but in their place was a combined weapon of mostly blades. With this the brother was ready to fight, but the golem with the hammer stopped the rest and spoke. “Coount yoursellf lucky, Mistress of tthe Night. You aand the resstt of yourr misbegotten kind wallk the pathh to oblivion, but my quarrrel iss with yourr sister, and sso I will alllow you to livve a shorrt time longer.” It said to Luna, who was battered and beaten, then shot a look to the armored being. “Requiem Guard,” as the crushed and injured began to lean on others and then Silver’s message came to him was all that he need. “ffall back.” The one that had the hammer picked up the fallen one’s weapons and move away to the rest of the guard moving to the wall, breaking a hole in it and leaving. “Ponies of the Crystal Empire,” Silver Tail’s voice echoed across the distance between them. “Do not attack our caves again, or I will order the Requiem Guard to attack the Empire once more.” Then he and the rest of the Alliance began to fly away. The equestrians waited and watched the DA go away. This was just something that cause a lot of heartache and a lot of time. “It would seem,” Luna said at last, “that a new strategy is required if we are to be victorious against the Requiem Guard.” The group took a moment to think of all this stuff that happen and talked between the trio before turning to the armored being. The blade was on it’s back while waiting for them to speak. “Who are you?” Luna spoke her gaze narrow and ready to fight if need be. “And why did you come here?” With a tap on his shoulder armor and the light that enveloped him leaving him in an outfit with bits of the armor in places like the shoulder he tapped and his gloves that covered his hands. His wolffian and draconic appearance to the trio, the bushy tail that ticked behind him made that clear. “Do you want the simple one or the epic that could be told in many days?” The wolf-dragon retorted with a slight smirk but just turned into sad smile. “I’m Coy and as to why I came here.” He said with thought to how not just sound crazy. “Fate may have done it or just random selection. Personally I think I come to these places because I’m meant to be there.” The dragoness began to get up and go but Coy pulled his weapon and held it to the sky. The trio was about to jump and defend themselves from what they thought was an attack but then a green light began to engulf them for just a moment. “WHAT IN THE TARTARUS WAS THAT?!?!” The dragoness spoke, which shocked her as her voice was not horse and not hurting to speak. “Just a bit of healing magic I know.” Coy replied letting the weapon disappears into light. “Now do you need me to help with healing or search and rescue.” The dragoness and stallion looked to Luna as the defacto leader at this moment, while the Princess had to think about this. Another healer would be useful and she did not see any mark from where the spear of the guard scratched her. With a sigh the Lunar Princess took a breath and looked at the wolffian. “Stick with Fire Eye,” Luna spoke pointing the dragoness, Coy only now seeing the armor that covered her and the ponies. “While Big Macintosh and myself go to the other leaders of the Equestrian Army to inform them of what happen here.” Coy bowed. “As you wish your majesty.” The male’s voice did not hold sarcasm but respect. “Very well.” Luna nodded in reply before turning to Big Mac. “Big Macintosh follow me until we find my sister and the rest of the army.” “Eyup.” Mac replied his face not changing from the stoic but the sad thoughts and the horror was clear in his eyes. With that the ponies left, the dragoness got up and sized up the wolf-dragon. The cyan eyed blue furred wolf dressed in navy jacket on top of a white shirt with gray jeans and brown heavy shoes watched as the red eyed and silvery white scales enclosed a darker silver of the armor that she wore walked around him. “Come on I got someone that might need your help.” Eyes said and was about to head off when a look came over her face and started to sprint in a direction. “I feel like making a quip here but she might break my arm right now.” Coy said to himself before jogging to catch up to the dragoness. Coy’s sister landed a bit farther away than where she dropped her brother off at. Her reasoning was sound if that dragon army was anything to go off with staying grounded, the lupa-lina did noticed the grey and almost ash like body of a dragon. The harlequin armor of crimson and gunmetal being began to look if there was anyone left alive, which looked bleak from what she to see. The place looked wrecked and bodies looked about as well as the dragon near them, the only difference was these ponies still had color. It kinda made the female want to go back the desert wasteland of home, but that was nothing more than a happy thoughts with all of this death. From what she could see it was only adults in this mess, a drop of joy in an ocean of negativity. By the time she heard the announcement by the assumed dragon leader she had headed towards the greater sound that made her hope of still living ponies. When she got closer there was what could be called Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, but seeing dragon and ponies rush from wounded to wounded kinda made her just move on. Well until she saw one of the constance whenever she and her brother came to this part of the multiverse. With a sigh and shake of the head the female deactivated her armor with her normal gray jacket with red stripes on the arms and small parts of armor on her shoulders with a crimson shirt with her tan belt holding her gunmetal jeans with her harlequin boots of crimson and gunmetal, she began walking towards the dragon that she knew of but he would not know her. It must have been the rush of the ponies and dragons that even caused her to be just ignored or just brushed aside. Kneeling down looking between the dragon she knew of to the one that he was trying to heal. From the look of it they were related, sibling was what popped into the female’s head, and the other dragon looked like he was thrown around like a ragdoll. She doubted that even curaga could fix that arm but she had to help Spike out, after the last world they met healing someone would be easier than trying to fix that. With a white dagger hidden between her wings and back she focused all her energy into the spell. To say Spike jumped as a flower bloomed over the other dragon would be a bit like saying seeing a girl that was not next to him last he checked. The lavender wyrm with green spikes and a olive underbelly in that armor the wolf dragon saw around looked ready to fight her right then and there. “Being jumpy after a battle is good, Spike.” The female said with a cheeky grin on her maw. “But many a good fighter have jumped the gun and cause things that come back to haunt them.” For a moment the wolf-dragon thought she broke the dragon, his mouth ajar and his eyes dilated in shock. “How do you know my name?” He spoke in disbelief looking at her. “Not just my name but a name I gave up years ago.” “Do ya what that right now or help me get this one to a better place than this hard ground?” The half she-dragon replied back as she saw two ponies near them get the look of battle form in their eyes. “I think I got everything but that arm fixed and he might wake up, soonish.” Spike looked down at the other wyrm, the ribs were fixed but that could still be internal injuries and the arm was better only to the point of looking less torn up but the bleeding stopped. Looking to this strange thing she seemed like some made up creature, then again he was going to an uncle to a hybrid of his brother and Fluttershy so strange was normal to him. It was about then that both hybrid and pure dragon hear coughing come from besides them. The other dragon seem to be breathing easier as his lungs filled with more oxygen than a moment ago. Spike had chosen to ignore the strange female and check on the dragon. “Cliff. Cliff. Come on bro, I don’t want to tell my sister-in-law that died trying to be a hero.” Cliff began to stir either hearing that or just waking up. “The magic I used should have also refreshed him since that was meant to be like two weeks of healing and rest in just a moment of use.” The female said thoughtfully. “But I did have to purge the darker magic that was fighting it. However it was tricker so I had to force it to the arm that I heard you mumble if it would be better to cut it off.” “It would be preferable to all the pain in it at the moment.” Cliff responded with a groan and a hiss. “But I would rather just keep it so I can study how to counter it.” Spike wanted to both slap Cliff and then hug him but just shook his head. “I know you have been more studious out of the two of us but ever since you got the crystal heart back you are giving our sister a run for her bits.” Cliff was still laying on the ground when he opened his eyes and looked to Spike. “Come on Spirit, you know her ears burn when you say things like that.” With that comment he began to sit up. “How long was I out and...who is this?” It was only fully sitting up did Cliff felt the pain in his arm, and biting his tongue from screaming. “My name is Dracana,” The dragon hybrid grinned with sympathy for the injured dragon. “I was the one that was able to help you with just having an arm problem rather than a bed rest problem.” Both dragons looked at her with cocked heads and puzzled looks on their faces. It was not a if with this as Spike/Spirit was there so it was more of how given if she did that would mean she should be exhausted. Yet she did not look any more drained than a being that just stopped jogging. However that was about the times of Fire Eyes coming around the corner and rushed to hug the older Wyrm before hitting him in the shoulder. Cliff did not relay his pain from the hit but he could see that the dragoness noticed the look on his face. “That was for almost making me break a promise to my sister.” Eyes said with a bit of a huff but then looked at his arm. “But I’m glad you are awake. Which confused me, how did ya do that?” By this time Coy had caught up to Eyes and moved for his sister. Cliff pointed to Dracana before speaking. “According from Spirit, she casted some magic that gave me two weeks worth of rest but she seems like it took nothing out of her.” Cliff said causing Eyes to look at Coy. “Spirit did it look green and a bit floral?” Eyes asked the youngest Wyrm. “It did, but how did you know?” Even speaking it Spirit followed her eyes to the new male that joined Dracana. Cliff put two and two together but before he spoke the new being spoke. “Ms.Eyes given how you are looking at us I can guess the magic that I used after the guard left was the weaker version of what my twin sister used on your friend.” Coy guessed getting a nod from the red eyed female. Then something hit the brothers there and the older sister. “Wait you two are sibling?” Spirit asked with a claw pointing from one to the other. The pair just smile and nodded, but held off on the whole what they were until that could get to a large enough group so they could only say it once as it gets to be a pain of repeating the Q&A after the sixth time. Author's Note I wonder how the rest of this universe's Princesses will react to this or Zephyr seeing these strange beings? Destiny doe not play fairNew Wolf-Dragons in Equestria By Toa Coy Based on “A New Dragon in the Crystal Empire” By Vedues Now we start. ~Toa Coy~ Chapter Two: Destiny does not play fair During the rest of the day the wolf-dragons began to use the healing magic to make many of the gravely injured beings to be so the doctors, both ponies and wyrm, would not be overly drained. Fire Eyes and Spike keep watch on them while Cliff was taken to a more sterile location as his arm was still mangled and injured. Coy and Dracana would chat with the injured as they worked through them leaving living and reinvigorated patients in their wake. A few of the far off island, where drakes and ponies lived in harmony and had offspring, gave the twins strange looks. Dracana’s wings raised a question to asked about the twin’s birth for as far they and the rest of the world knew only their island had non-draconic hybryds. Added in the strange armor and magic it left many questions to where the hybrid came from. It was evening by the time shift changed for Spike and Fire Eyes with Rainbow Dash and, much to the mare’s chagrin, Blue Blood. The mare had learned over the course of this war to deal with the stallion, trusted him, and fight alongside him but respect was still far off from table. They came to where Spirit and Eyes said they would be and found the two newcomer...in a camp site with about ten beings around them. From the look of it it seemed like they had a grill over the fire with corn on it and several ponies, griffons, wrym, and even two drakes eating with them. “So what lead to you two coming here?” Spirit asked the twins as Coy flipped over the corn. “We have been here about three years,” Dracana replied noticing the two ponies and waved them over. “It was near a griffin village but they were high up and ignored us as we farm the land and it was only after we saw some griffons in military uniforms that we even knew of this war.” “But how would that tell you that where was a war here?” Fire Eyes spoke an eyebrow raised skeptical of that statement. “How do you think we got the seeds for the corn?” Coy retorted back. “We did have some contact but we were more or less by ourselves.” “That brings up another question, where are you storing all this food.” Rainbow broke into the conversation bringing attention to her and Blueblood. “Pocket storage in a personal space that has time being relevant to it.” Dracana responded. “I think this is two years old and still fresh.” That kinda confused some of the group and made others nod but still a bit on the fence. A rumbling was heard just then, this made all of the beings there want to rush to the sound but it was across the city with the cries of pain and death on the wind. As ponies, dragons, and griffins rushed for equipment and tools, the wolf-dragons snuffed out the fire and left the grill away from the tent and to keep a fire from being added to the list of bad things that happen this night. Armor on in a minor flash of light and weapons in hand they followed the soldiers but it was too late. It was hit and run. Even with Coy and Dracana there, no survivors and the evidence was clear the Requiem Guard had hit this group from the tunnels below and left without even being seen. The current non-curable magic was in the major hint to the armored minotaurs being here and not a random DA attack. The wolf-dragons helped moved the remaining bodies that was left of group; civilians, soldiers, some old and some younger. Not a child among this group of the now gone, this did raise a question to the twins but they did not voice it due to hope that only a few of these had children and were alone in this world. For no one should see a loved one like this, either dulled as magic has been taken with life or disemboweled and not knowing what parts belong to who. The last body was one that cause Spike to freeze up for a moment before the grim look on his face deepened and a wave of dread mixed with anger passed through a few of the others. This was notable from those close to him beyond the army. “This is Lieutenant Liberty Valiant.” The dragon spoke as he began to remove the armor around the pony. “I can only imagine Verre will take this hard, but I wonder how Autumn will handle this.” Rainbow, Eyes, and Blueblood moved to see what caused him to feel like this, while the rest kept to their own armor removal and kept it near the bodies of the soldiers while moving the civilians to another part of the street to make way for a way to transport them to the mortuaries that had sprung up after the fighting had gotten more intense. That did leave a hole in the road that would make it easier to get this grim task finished, in addition to the fact it is another way for the DA and Guard to attack from. “We need to get some more crystal ponies here to seal that hole before somepony falls in at night.” A unicorn soldier telled to a subordinate near the twins. Hearing that Coy moved to the closest part of the whole to him. Not many paid attention to the wolf in armor, well not until the sound of rock moving up from the whole and the shaking might have caused more if not for how quick it was. The unicorns in the group did notice a shift in magic from the ground but not from the armored being, they noted it and would report it to the higher ups. Cliff could not sleep, not because of his arm or him chastising himself for being reckless, his mind was elsewhere and thoughts of what could have happen. All of them grim with either him dying from the guard or Fluttershy seeing him nearly broken and half dead. Thinking of the first battle she had seen and how she was after it, imagining her seeing that nearly hurt as much of his arm and their daughter...he might have never got to see her in person. The loud rumbling from earlier did not help the wrym’s grim thoughts, and the lack of living beings coming from it along with the movement of the doctors and nurses did not fill him with hope. It was about thirty or so minutes and another rumble was heard again but it was not followed by anyone rushing unlike before, which brought more concern given he was almost non-movial without a good amount of painkillers to dull the injured arm. Tonight was going to keep him up for a good long time. Luna had to deal with the activities of the night as well as this latest attack from the guard, a part of it was unlike her sister, niece, nephew-in-law, and the respective heads of the many branches of the army had been drained from the battle while she and those healed by the pair of wolf beings had restored stamina in addition of the healing of wounds. She had to deal with the writing of the letters to the families back in Equestria that either mother/father/brother/sister/son/or daughter have been killed in action. Using her magic she wrote on one piece of parchment. Dear Families, I regret to inform you that________________ has been killed in action. Please send a reply to the E.U.P operational headquarters for burial arrangements. On behalf of Equestria I am truly sorry for your lost. -Princess Luna With that short letter wrote she began to use a duplication spell until it fit the number of the reported dead from the army with in the past day. By the time a crystal pony came to see if the lunar princess had almost all of her corner of the war table filled with death notices. One of them seemed small and the pony thought the princess would be done soon, that was until they saw that that was where the current one was placed. Not breaking training of letting emotions out because they were meant to leave their life once they started their shift but seeing all those stacks and how few the princess had done just...kinda froze them. They had not kept up with the count as they wanted to just ignore this horrible travesty that was only second if not above when Sombra enslaved the empire. “Princess do you need anything?” Luna turned her head and looked at the servant. “"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” With that she went back to work with the servant noting that down and doing as the princess asked. They did not envy the princess or any of those doing the real fighting. A part of them also knew that even with all the power that those had could not be done without beings like them supporting them and even then it might be creature comforts but it was something. A slight quicken of pace had the servant go through the many layers of the bunker to the kitchen to fulfill the request of the princess of the night. Coy and Dracana were lead by a soldier to an empty barracks with bedding, The soldier told them where the restrooms were and that guards are going to be posted until they were deemed safe to be left alone. The pair understood and waved goodbye as the soldier left them. Around them was cots most of them was not made just empty, given all of the rooms they had to wonder if this was common or just a spare room. “I know we told them a bit of a fib but I think we should have told them we had hopped into similar universes before hence why we knew Spike and the other commonalities.” Dracana said making the bed for herself while her brother began to open a portal to get a bag of clothing. “I feel ya sis but here is the thing. We tell them that we have met before in alternative timelines then Twilight and others like her would just want notes. Remember that one where we were in our kid forms.” The wingless sibling pointed out. “In that world Twilight saw the need to have a generation of dragon hybrids due to a possible future. Given how this world is already at war rules that out anything like that.” “Don’t you think that is a bit pessimistic?” She said sitting on the cot. “I mean you seemed to be the happy person when we travel around.” “There is a few beings that can make war funny.” Coy replied laying down looking at his sister. “We best get some sleep knowing them we get up early and either be tested or do mock battles.” “If you say so I’m going to have a shower before turning in.” The winged wolf spoke getting up and asking one of the guards posted outside their door. Spirit had chosen to be the one to tell his marefriend and her mother that somepony close to them died. He knew that Autumn might be a bit callous to this idea while her mother might just break down from her husband being killed. All of his day weight heavy on his mind, a lot of stress was taking away from stillness, but he had a job...no duty to be there when both mares hear the news. This also meant shutting his mind off from the web of connections he had dragon magic can only help when it is truly felt and not just spoken words. In his somewhat robotic, if not lack of perception, the wrym came to the house of his lover and her mother before he knew it. If he was not in the stillness he would feel nervous, tired, and concerned. Now he still felt those things but it was like a thought that you had for a moment and just a moment but could not recall it. The door stood there still unopened and a light on in the window, with only a deep breath and the stillness Spirit moved to open the door. The soft creak of the door was his only announcement as he stood at the threshold, choosing not to enter to see who was there. It was Autumn's mother, Verre, that he saw first. He almost lost his focus on the stillness but his training held and with his movement he made his presents known and his task was to begin. Fire Eyes was glad to get out of her suit for repairs but having to watch the twins that appeared at the end of the battle and healed most of the still living beings giving them energy so every being was not as tired. This left the natural white dragoness stained with her blood and metal cutting into her scales, both things that she did not mind but by this time of night it had gone from annoying to irritating. While she would have liked to have bathed in lava it was too dangerous to have in a war zone, so a hot shower would do. It did surprise her to see a mare standing guard outside of the shows, the female wyrm knew of some males that would sneak peek of females for sport or for perverted reasons so this was not that odd to see also most did not wear clothing so that added to a bit of confusion for the dragons. “I take it that another mare is in there at the moment?” Eyes asked the guard passing by her. “Nope.” The mare replied. “The female of the pair that we were asked to guard until Celestia and the other members of the council have seen them.” “Okay, thanks for the information.” Fire Eyes responded walking in. The shower area was like any public washing area stalls with shower heads and faucets, curtains were not added here as it was seemed as a waste of material. It was not hard for the white wyrm to see the crimson hair of the hybrid but something surprised the female when looking at the side view of the she-wolf as the blue eyes looked towards the dragoness. The nude form of the crimson wolf brought the image of a young female drake but hybrid had mounds on her chest with strong pectoral muscle under them. Fire Eyes was sure she had seen similar mounds on mares but only with extremely young foals, which caused more questions to form in the wingless dragon’s mind. “I know I look nice but I’m not ‘stare forlong’ worthy,” Dracana quipped. “Besides I’m almost done it you want some just right water for those with a bit hotter than ponies.” Eyes broke her stare searching the benches for something other to look at, mostly to gather her thoughts. Something that did catch her eye was a neat stack of clothing she had seen Dracana in earlier. The sound of the shower turning off finally snap Fire Eyes back to her normal attitude. “So what is with the things on your chest?” Fire Eyes opened up with the obvious. “I mean I’ve seen them on mares but lower and normally with young foals near them.” “I see.” The wolf replied stepping out of the stall wet fur matted from the water and shampoo that was once in it. “Bipedal Mammalian Anatomy 101: breast develop at a young age to show that she can bear children but the process takes a number of years to complete to maturity. So they are the same as you have seen on mares but unlike them mine are always visible due to me being upright.” Well that explain what Eyes wanted to know and that satisfied her curiosity for the moment about the hybrid. Then a ring of fire enveloped the wolf however before Eyes could say anything it was out and the crimson wolf was a bit fluffier but not singe at all. This did raise more questions for the dragoness, but the wolf just moved to her clothing. “I would be a poor dragon if fire could kill me.” was the reply Dracana spoke as she began to add layers of clothing to herself. “True.” The white dragon replied going to the show stall and began the show. Dracana was fully dressed and headed out, but before leaving the hybrid turned back to Fire Eyes. “Even if that was a bit akward moment it was nice meeting you outside of all the armor and battle.” Fire Eyes just nodded and starts scrubbing the dried blood off of her scales. Author's Note I would say sorry for the long wait but as I said I do this when I have time and my time was crazy for the past...six months...I will say four mostly because I got another story chapter out in april and a have a weekly art challenge that I do and life so yep this is what I have. Here is hoping only a three month gap. War Room at WarNew Wolf-Dragons in Equestria By Toa Coy Based on “A New Dragon in the Crystal Empire” By Vedues Alright here we go a bit more OC insert story and a bit of copy and past. ~Toa Coy~ Chapter Three: War Room at War Spike held his marefriend close to him, the past night was not easy for anypony in the house. When he told them the news he let the stillness go while sent comfort and love to them both, Verre was in a state while Autumn was trying to keep her feeling to herself. The mares had disagreed on the stallion that was apart of their lives, one knowing the choices he made for protection versus the ones that had to deal with those choices from over a thousand years ago. Autumn excused herself to her room while Verre had to calm down and think about what she had to do for the final arrangement. Spike asked the widow if he could help with anything, but the mare put on a brave but melancholy face and said they planned for this it was just getting it started was the hard part. Spike understood and followed Autumn to her room, he wanted to knock on the door but the sounds of her crying could be heard by the dragon’s ears.Softly he opened the door to see the crystal mare facing away from the door and a blanket untouched beyond the fact the mare moved it as she lay on top of it. Spirit was as quiet as he could softly shut the door and laid next to her and waited to see what happened which lead to what he woke up to but beyond that he let his wyrm magic try and heal with his own joy and love for her but that only could only mask the pain and sadness. Waking up that morning was not that great, far worse than they were able to catch Yol Toor. Spike knew that he would have to pull double duty at the meeting when he got up but for now it was about keeping the one that held his heart from feeling the pain even if he could feel it. He knew it was possible to go back in time and change it, but from what he and his brother have been through with that fate said no. The sky blue crystal pony did start to stir, the volume of her purple mane and tail was gone with a shimmer of sadness on her coat. It reminded the dragon of the first time he met her, the real first time and not at the ball in Canterlot, he had seen how dull and limp her mane and tail were as well as the look of sadness in her along with the rest of the empire. Before this war that sight of a thousand years of banishment to who knows where was the worst ‘the Great and Honorable Spike, the Brave and Glorious’ had seen from any of them. She started to move out of his grasp and while he wanted to fight it but he could see some of her emotions on her coat but there was something much deeper. He knew it had to do with her father, the drinking herself under the table when the dragon met the stallion. “You know if you want to open up about your father I am willing to listen to it and ignore the morning meeting just to be here for you.” Spirit spoke softly into her ear only for her to fully untangle herself from the dragon’s limbs. “I know I should forgive him now that he’s dead, but I just can’t. I cried over every pony and dragon that died in the Everfree Platoon, but with him …” She shook her head. “I don’t know what I feel. Anger, perhaps.” She squeezed his hand. “I need to get going, but … if,” she looked at Spirit with an expression that he couldn’t decipher, “if you want … we could … talk about it some more when I come back.” “Take your time,” Spirit said with a kiss on her head. “I’ll always be beside you no matter thick headed I am or stubborn you are.” “Charming as always.” Autumn giving a small sad smile before going to the door but turning around to the dragon on the bed. “Thanks Spirit.” With that Spike watched his marefriend walk out her room. Outside the window as the sun began to slowly rise. Eventually Spirit reached the Crystal Bunker, he still missed the castle but that was another thing that could be rebuilt after all this was done. Shaking his thoughts and focused on the task at claw as he worked his way down to the meeting room. When he got to the room his pony sister(Twilight), royal mother(Celestia), aunt(Luna), sister-in-law/cousin(Cadence), pony brother(Shining Armor), captain of the wonderbolts(Spitfire), captain of the earth shakers(Jadeite), his draconic mother and father were present. The respresitive of the Solar Unicons, Trixie, was suspiciously absent though. Spirit decided it was better not to dwell what she and Blueblood might be up to given what he saw before Dracana appeared. Also in the corner one of the palace maids was there if any creature need food or drink like usual. Twilight and Luna giving each other a death glare, which was out of character but not uncommon given anything decided upon here could affect everyone. “Did something happen while I was asleep?” Spirit slid into an empty seat next to Twilight. He motioned the maid over. “Could I get a cup of coffee, extra strong?” She nodded. “Right away.” Celestia cleared her throat. “Good morning, Spirit. We were just discussing the viability of using the Rainbow Harmony Blast to defeat the Requiem Guard.” Spirit thought about it. “Well, handling monsters from Tartarus is sort of what that power’s for, but we’d have to wait until Fluttershy gives birth first. I don’t know what it would do to Miracle if Flutters went all rainbow powered before then.” Then a thought came to his mind. “Didn’t Coy and Dracana manage to flatten one of the guards?” “While I saw the male crushed the guard it was still able to reform so beyond them weakening it the rainbow, tis a negligible risk,” Luna said still not breaking the glare with the younger princess. “The power of harmony would never harm an innocent life.” “Except that kirin development is different than any other known species,” Twilight said, anger tempered by the years of political talks. “Everything about Miracle’s DNA was decided by Fluttershy and Cliff’s DNA fighting for dominance. Her fundamental makeup isn’t harmonious at all. Discord even said that her body generates chaos energy to keep her pony and dragon parts working together. All that harmony energy might make half her organs fail or try to rip her in two at a genetic level. Meanwhile we have two fully grown beings shown to do feats far beyond some of our best healers able to do, and crush a guard to the point we might be able to beat them without using the Blast.” Luna rolled her eyes. “It would not do either. Pinkie Pie generates chaos energy as well, and the magic of harmony has never harmed her. Additionally we know none of the limits of the siblings beyond healing.” “But Pinkie doesn’t need chaos energy to live.” Twilight folded her hooves across her chest. “I know that the Requiem Guard needs to be stopped, but I’m not going to risk Fluttershy’s daughter.” “Also not to but in but from what I heard and saw Coy at least was able to pull earth to fill in the hole made by the guard after we cleared any soldiers that were in or around it.” Spirit added in trying to weight it so his niece was not endangered for the “greater good”, how he hated that mentality. “Then are we to simply wait for the Requiem Guard to attack again?” Luna narrowed here gaze at Twilight. “Thousands of ponies could die before Fluttershy gives birth.” Before turning to Spirit, the same glare and anger deep in her eyes. “Even if these beings were at some power beyond my sister and myself what is to say they won’t betray us when we are weaken by this war.” Celestia cleared her throat causing the bickering trio to stop for the moment. “As I understand it, Zephyr is our expert on kirins. We should get his input before we come to a decision.” Twilight took a deep breath and sighed looking at her draconic brother who patted her on the back. “I’ll ask him.” There was a moment where only the sound of breathing and the hoof steps of the staff outside with the maid returning to get Spirit his coffee. Celestia had a minor idea during this but her cheerful smile did not return. “Another option,” Celestia said with a slight sigh, “is to induce early labor.” “What?” Twilight stared at her anger there but also sadness. “I can’t ruin Miracle’s birth like that!” Celestia calmly returned her gaze the face of a kind teacher gone with the face of a ruler and general in its place. Twilight slowly looked around at all the other faces in the room, many of them family and they would agree to what her teacher had said. Her expression, much like her heart, fell. “This is supposed to be Fluttershy and Miracle’s special day. Not something to rush through so that we can get back to killing.” She could have whispered that but the weight behind could be a yell. “I think,” Celestia said comfort in her voice but look on her face kept a somber feel to it, “that Miracle would be proud to know that she saved hundreds, maybe thousands, of lives, by being born a few days early.” “But …” Twilight paused, the weight leaving her for now with her head sank much like her heart before it. “I’ll see if Fluttershy is willing.” Spirit gripped his sister’s hoof with one hand and took a long drink of coffee with the other. “We’ll talk to Cliff after the meeting see what he thinks before traveling.” He turned his attention to the rest of the room. “Alright, what’s next on the docket?” Jadeite, the leader of the Earth-shakers, stood up. “As you all know, the Empire’s shield was adjusted to keep out diamond dogs as soon as we learned that they are working with the Alliance. However, last night’s sneak attack proves that we haven’t found all of their old tunnels yet. We need to map the tunnels out as soon as possible, but exploration teams would be easy targets if there are any members of the Requiem Guard still around down there which may cause the civilian bunkers might be unsafe.” Spirit’s mind began to wonder maybe they could have Coy and Dracana at least be able to check the tunnels since that could close them up or find ways to have them monitored for movement in them. It was going to be a while but he would like to talk with the pair at the end of the meeting . Near the end the dracowolves were brought up. Where Spirit gave his experience with the pair and did not leave the pair until he headed to tell Autumn and her mother of the lost of a loved one. From what he had seen they are able to be good assets to the war effort and could close up the tunnels dug by the diamond dogs. “I agree Spirit,” Luna voiced her approval but her eyes still scanned the report. “But would it be a good idea to have them spar with your grandmother and Fire Eyes?” “Knowing my grandmother she would jump at testing new blood just to see how she can improve them and what spell they can handle.” Spirit sited before moving to his next point. “Out of Everfree Company Fire Eyes is either the first or second in terms of skill and spells, then again being the apperntiace of Fire Claws kinda makes it so you have to be on her level or high to get a fight over a round of plowing fields and doing logging.” Spirit’s parents nodded having spared just to show both of them could protect themselves when they were off looking for Spike’s egg many years ago. Celestia also looked at the report and agreed, it would also be a much need distraction from the funearls that had occurred that day. Coy and Dracana lounged around the barrick that they slept in, from the natural light from sky it was either dawn or just after it. The pair were early risers, mostly due to how different times they appear in places, so they heard the changing of the guards outside their room. Not wanting to cause trouble they decided to play a game of cards while waiting for someone to come in and either give them food or be taken somewhere. The pair understood the reasoning to them being under guard, two unknown combinations that seemed to match enemies that had soundly beaten or killed anything in their way. Then after all that the pair then almost fully healed all the injured without collapsing to the ground, the hybrids did notice some fear in a few of the beings around them before the rupture in the ground and Coy’s pulling of the ground to fill it.The pair did have something to talk about over the cards, the dragoness by the name of Fire Eyes. “So she came in when you got done with your shower?” Coy asked as he moved his cards around with strand of darker blue fur hanging between his eyes. “Yep.” Was Dracana’s reply with her crimson and gunmetal fur that was better made up versus the bed head of her brother. “She seemed a bit embarrassed about it, thought I was either pregnant or going into season.” “From what we have seen from our limited travels of these parallel universes it is not like nore bipedal females are mamailian, so I can see where she is coming from.” Coy surmised showing his cards. “Three of a kind, jacks.” Dracana looked at her blue furred brother and grind. “Royal straight Flush Clubs.” If this was for money that would have caused aggravation but this was to pass time and just a smirk between the pair. It kept on like this until breakfast was brought to them; eggs, pancakes, toast, and apple juice. A fairly filling meal compared to the corn they had before the attack but the pair still noticed a bit of a glare from the guard that delivered the meal to them. While not empathes they did have some mental abilities and did notice that this guard was linked to those outside but neither of them knew how as this was out of the norm. Once finished with the meal the guard collected the dishes and left, only for a few moments later the guards from outside of the barracks and say that the pair where to follow said guards until they got to the end destination. The pair just rolled with it and followed while still not letting down their guard. Author's Note Next time: My Characters VS Vedues's Characters. Who will win and who will lose? I must do research to Vedues's page on spells and how they work.
New Challengers AppearNew Wolf-Dragons in Equestria By Toa Coy Based on “A New Dragon in the Crystal Empire” By Vedues Trying another story, if this is out then I got approved. ~Toa Coy~ Chapter One: New Challengers Appear Equestria, a normally peaceful place was now at war. This war was not caused by a jaded pony who wanted to make the world a better place. This was done by the Dragon Alliance, the DA for short, a group of drakes, wyrms, and wyvern fighting to get land once theirs over several thousand years ago in the Crystal Empire, By this point the drakes had exhausted most of the gems in the other lands and going to the Empire as age old claim that were ‘stolen’ by the ponies. Peace was tried early on but that failed due to both sides being rocks when it needed to be water. Now many on each side have died on both sides, at this point both sides have want to just give up and let the bloodshed end. The main issue was the leaders of the wyvern faction of the DA wanted nothing but total elimination of the ponies and those associated with them. Given the majority of the vote held by these Hurricanes, a name fitting for such a blood lust group that don’t want a repeat that lead to them leaving their ancestral home, and to this point went to the Tartarus of this world to get monsters that were once enemies of their enemies. Which has lead to this moment that two world hoppers come into this story,two wolf-dragons in armor looking from high above this battle that was shielded from the outer world with the purple aura around the city. They both could see the large group outside of the shield waiting for it to go down and attack, from what the twins think as one is using her wings and the brother hanging below by holding on the sister’s arms. The moment that shield began to break the two saw an opening for them to see how bad it was in there, the brother did see a drake about to move. Following the eye line to two ponies nearly surrounded by golems with killer looking weapons, killer as in deadly not as in cool. With a plan of attack the two moved quick and the brother let go with his feet aimed to land on the one ready to attack the ponies. While the sister moved to either be a look out or look for injured beings that the golems may have caused. Silver Tail, one of-no The-drake leader and among the minority that wished for peace now that a wyrm had solved the whole conflict with one rune, was confused at what just shot into the Crystal Empire. It was almost quicker than his eye could see, from what he was seeing there was two beings in armor but no arm like the equestrian armor but beyond that he could not guess the real build of it as they be going quicker than he could stay on top of. He could identify that the one with wings to be a drake while the one hanging below must be a wyrm hanging below. “Who was that?” Silver heard in his head from the telepathic link that the wyrms of the DA weaved and linked. That message was from Typhoon, one of the hurricanes and de facto leader of the group, who sounded annoyed after being shot down about going in for more death for both the Equestrian and the DA if they got in the way of the Requiem Guard, large armor golems from a time of when the minotaurs fought and killed ponies for similar manner to this war. “I have no idea but they were not there when the shield was brought up.” Silver replied as the sound of metal on metal reached the dragon’s ears. Turning attention back to the guard and saw one of the guards crushed under the no winged one of the beings standing up before it jumped back from a thrust of a spar. Seeing that just one took down a guard that Princess Luna and a squad of five to damage just one. Most of the dragons were surprised to see this, but Silver thought about it. ‘At the speed they were going and the possible weight could have just been the fact that they hit the right balance to overcome any magic holding the armors together.’ The thought came to Silver as the rest of the army was still in shock. But the guard only formed up around the fallen one, even the injured one facing the fresh combatant. This was about all the bloodshed that Silver could stand, he could see the blood from here as well as a drake’s unnatural gray body. “Heart Echo,” Silver sent to the wyrm that was the representative that dragon race of the DA. “Connect me to Providence, it is time to pull out.” Heart Echo nodded and used her magic to connect to the minotaur leader and felt a shiver run down her spine. “That’s enough,” Silver sent through the link. “Fall back, I think you made your point.” Silver got a gruff reply but agreement from the golem. The drake was already thinking of what to do if the guard was not satisfied with the fight but there was hope. Let’s rewind back to when the brother crushed onto a guard. With just a moment the brother counted the non-golems, one dragoness that was bleeding from the mouth and two ponies that was somewhat battle damage. He could see one was Princess Luna and the other Big Mac, but that moment was interrupted by another of the golems going for him made the brother jump back. From what he could see the group was forming up as both defense and attack, it was only now that the brother saw another weaker one that he might have beaten it but was a bad idea. The fact he could see the one he crushed was getting up and reforming. Out of instinct that comes with being put against a wall and the need of a weapon caused the flash that he knew might happen. Normally it would be his overly large shield weapon and smaller sword but in their place was a combined weapon of mostly blades. With this the brother was ready to fight, but the golem with the hammer stopped the rest and spoke. “Coount yoursellf lucky, Mistress of tthe Night. You aand the resstt of yourr misbegotten kind wallk the pathh to oblivion, but my quarrrel iss with yourr sister, and sso I will alllow you to livve a shorrt time longer.” It said to Luna, who was battered and beaten, then shot a look to the armored being. “Requiem Guard,” as the crushed and injured began to lean on others and then Silver’s message came to him was all that he need. “ffall back.” The one that had the hammer picked up the fallen one’s weapons and move away to the rest of the guard moving to the wall, breaking a hole in it and leaving. “Ponies of the Crystal Empire,” Silver Tail’s voice echoed across the distance between them. “Do not attack our caves again, or I will order the Requiem Guard to attack the Empire once more.” Then he and the rest of the Alliance began to fly away. The equestrians waited and watched the DA go away. This was just something that cause a lot of heartache and a lot of time. “It would seem,” Luna said at last, “that a new strategy is required if we are to be victorious against the Requiem Guard.” The group took a moment to think of all this stuff that happen and talked between the trio before turning to the armored being. The blade was on it’s back while waiting for them to speak. “Who are you?” Luna spoke her gaze narrow and ready to fight if need be. “And why did you come here?” With a tap on his shoulder armor and the light that enveloped him leaving him in an outfit with bits of the armor in places like the shoulder he tapped and his gloves that covered his hands. His wolffian and draconic appearance to the trio, the bushy tail that ticked behind him made that clear. “Do you want the simple one or the epic that could be told in many days?” The wolf-dragon retorted with a slight smirk but just turned into sad smile. “I’m Coy and as to why I came here.” He said with thought to how not just sound crazy. “Fate may have done it or just random selection. Personally I think I come to these places because I’m meant to be there.” The dragoness began to get up and go but Coy pulled his weapon and held it to the sky. The trio was about to jump and defend themselves from what they thought was an attack but then a green light began to engulf them for just a moment. “WHAT IN THE TARTARUS WAS THAT?!?!” The dragoness spoke, which shocked her as her voice was not horse and not hurting to speak. “Just a bit of healing magic I know.” Coy replied letting the weapon disappears into light. “Now do you need me to help with healing or search and rescue.” The dragoness and stallion looked to Luna as the defacto leader at this moment, while the Princess had to think about this. Another healer would be useful and she did not see any mark from where the spear of the guard scratched her. With a sigh the Lunar Princess took a breath and looked at the wolffian. “Stick with Fire Eye,” Luna spoke pointing the dragoness, Coy only now seeing the armor that covered her and the ponies. “While Big Macintosh and myself go to the other leaders of the Equestrian Army to inform them of what happen here.” Coy bowed. “As you wish your majesty.” The male’s voice did not hold sarcasm but respect. “Very well.” Luna nodded in reply before turning to Big Mac. “Big Macintosh follow me until we find my sister and the rest of the army.” “Eyup.” Mac replied his face not changing from the stoic but the sad thoughts and the horror was clear in his eyes. With that the ponies left, the dragoness got up and sized up the wolf-dragon. The cyan eyed blue furred wolf dressed in navy jacket on top of a white shirt with gray jeans and brown heavy shoes watched as the red eyed and silvery white scales enclosed a darker silver of the armor that she wore walked around him. “Come on I got someone that might need your help.” Eyes said and was about to head off when a look came over her face and started to sprint in a direction. “I feel like making a quip here but she might break my arm right now.” Coy said to himself before jogging to catch up to the dragoness. Coy’s sister landed a bit farther away than where she dropped her brother off at. Her reasoning was sound if that dragon army was anything to go off with staying grounded, the lupa-lina did noticed the grey and almost ash like body of a dragon. The harlequin armor of crimson and gunmetal being began to look if there was anyone left alive, which looked bleak from what she to see. The place looked wrecked and bodies looked about as well as the dragon near them, the only difference was these ponies still had color. It kinda made the female want to go back the desert wasteland of home, but that was nothing more than a happy thoughts with all of this death. From what she could see it was only adults in this mess, a drop of joy in an ocean of negativity. By the time she heard the announcement by the assumed dragon leader she had headed towards the greater sound that made her hope of still living ponies. When she got closer there was what could be called Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, but seeing dragon and ponies rush from wounded to wounded kinda made her just move on. Well until she saw one of the constance whenever she and her brother came to this part of the multiverse. With a sigh and shake of the head the female deactivated her armor with her normal gray jacket with red stripes on the arms and small parts of armor on her shoulders with a crimson shirt with her tan belt holding her gunmetal jeans with her harlequin boots of crimson and gunmetal, she began walking towards the dragon that she knew of but he would not know her. It must have been the rush of the ponies and dragons that even caused her to be just ignored or just brushed aside. Kneeling down looking between the dragon she knew of to the one that he was trying to heal. From the look of it they were related, sibling was what popped into the female’s head, and the other dragon looked like he was thrown around like a ragdoll. She doubted that even curaga could fix that arm but she had to help Spike out, after the last world they met healing someone would be easier than trying to fix that. With a white dagger hidden between her wings and back she focused all her energy into the spell. To say Spike jumped as a flower bloomed over the other dragon would be a bit like saying seeing a girl that was not next to him last he checked. The lavender wyrm with green spikes and a olive underbelly in that armor the wolf dragon saw around looked ready to fight her right then and there. “Being jumpy after a battle is good, Spike.” The female said with a cheeky grin on her maw. “But many a good fighter have jumped the gun and cause things that come back to haunt them.” For a moment the wolf-dragon thought she broke the dragon, his mouth ajar and his eyes dilated in shock. “How do you know my name?” He spoke in disbelief looking at her. “Not just my name but a name I gave up years ago.” “Do ya what that right now or help me get this one to a better place than this hard ground?” The half she-dragon replied back as she saw two ponies near them get the look of battle form in their eyes. “I think I got everything but that arm fixed and he might wake up, soonish.” Spike looked down at the other wyrm, the ribs were fixed but that could still be internal injuries and the arm was better only to the point of looking less torn up but the bleeding stopped. Looking to this strange thing she seemed like some made up creature, then again he was going to an uncle to a hybrid of his brother and Fluttershy so strange was normal to him. It was about then that both hybrid and pure dragon hear coughing come from besides them. The other dragon seem to be breathing easier as his lungs filled with more oxygen than a moment ago. Spike had chosen to ignore the strange female and check on the dragon. “Cliff. Cliff. Come on bro, I don’t want to tell my sister-in-law that died trying to be a hero.” Cliff began to stir either hearing that or just waking up. “The magic I used should have also refreshed him since that was meant to be like two weeks of healing and rest in just a moment of use.” The female said thoughtfully. “But I did have to purge the darker magic that was fighting it. However it was tricker so I had to force it to the arm that I heard you mumble if it would be better to cut it off.” “It would be preferable to all the pain in it at the moment.” Cliff responded with a groan and a hiss. “But I would rather just keep it so I can study how to counter it.” Spike wanted to both slap Cliff and then hug him but just shook his head. “I know you have been more studious out of the two of us but ever since you got the crystal heart back you are giving our sister a run for her bits.” Cliff was still laying on the ground when he opened his eyes and looked to Spike. “Come on Spirit, you know her ears burn when you say things like that.” With that comment he began to sit up. “How long was I out and...who is this?” It was only fully sitting up did Cliff felt the pain in his arm, and biting his tongue from screaming. “My name is Dracana,” The dragon hybrid grinned with sympathy for the injured dragon. “I was the one that was able to help you with just having an arm problem rather than a bed rest problem.” Both dragons looked at her with cocked heads and puzzled looks on their faces. It was not a if with this as Spike/Spirit was there so it was more of how given if she did that would mean she should be exhausted. Yet she did not look any more drained than a being that just stopped jogging. However that was about the times of Fire Eyes coming around the corner and rushed to hug the older Wyrm before hitting him in the shoulder. Cliff did not relay his pain from the hit but he could see that the dragoness noticed the look on his face. “That was for almost making me break a promise to my sister.” Eyes said with a bit of a huff but then looked at his arm. “But I’m glad you are awake. Which confused me, how did ya do that?” By this time Coy had caught up to Eyes and moved for his sister. Cliff pointed to Dracana before speaking. “According from Spirit, she casted some magic that gave me two weeks worth of rest but she seems like it took nothing out of her.” Cliff said causing Eyes to look at Coy. “Spirit did it look green and a bit floral?” Eyes asked the youngest Wyrm. “It did, but how did you know?” Even speaking it Spirit followed her eyes to the new male that joined Dracana. Cliff put two and two together but before he spoke the new being spoke. “Ms.Eyes given how you are looking at us I can guess the magic that I used after the guard left was the weaker version of what my twin sister used on your friend.” Coy guessed getting a nod from the red eyed female. Then something hit the brothers there and the older sister. “Wait you two are sibling?” Spirit asked with a claw pointing from one to the other. The pair just smile and nodded, but held off on the whole what they were until that could get to a large enough group so they could only say it once as it gets to be a pain of repeating the Q&A after the sixth time. Author's Note I wonder how the rest of this universe's Princesses will react to this or Zephyr seeing these strange beings?
Destiny doe not play fairNew Wolf-Dragons in Equestria By Toa Coy Based on “A New Dragon in the Crystal Empire” By Vedues Now we start. ~Toa Coy~ Chapter Two: Destiny does not play fair During the rest of the day the wolf-dragons began to use the healing magic to make many of the gravely injured beings to be so the doctors, both ponies and wyrm, would not be overly drained. Fire Eyes and Spike keep watch on them while Cliff was taken to a more sterile location as his arm was still mangled and injured. Coy and Dracana would chat with the injured as they worked through them leaving living and reinvigorated patients in their wake. A few of the far off island, where drakes and ponies lived in harmony and had offspring, gave the twins strange looks. Dracana’s wings raised a question to asked about the twin’s birth for as far they and the rest of the world knew only their island had non-draconic hybryds. Added in the strange armor and magic it left many questions to where the hybrid came from. It was evening by the time shift changed for Spike and Fire Eyes with Rainbow Dash and, much to the mare’s chagrin, Blue Blood. The mare had learned over the course of this war to deal with the stallion, trusted him, and fight alongside him but respect was still far off from table. They came to where Spirit and Eyes said they would be and found the two newcomer...in a camp site with about ten beings around them. From the look of it it seemed like they had a grill over the fire with corn on it and several ponies, griffons, wrym, and even two drakes eating with them. “So what lead to you two coming here?” Spirit asked the twins as Coy flipped over the corn. “We have been here about three years,” Dracana replied noticing the two ponies and waved them over. “It was near a griffin village but they were high up and ignored us as we farm the land and it was only after we saw some griffons in military uniforms that we even knew of this war.” “But how would that tell you that where was a war here?” Fire Eyes spoke an eyebrow raised skeptical of that statement. “How do you think we got the seeds for the corn?” Coy retorted back. “We did have some contact but we were more or less by ourselves.” “That brings up another question, where are you storing all this food.” Rainbow broke into the conversation bringing attention to her and Blueblood. “Pocket storage in a personal space that has time being relevant to it.” Dracana responded. “I think this is two years old and still fresh.” That kinda confused some of the group and made others nod but still a bit on the fence. A rumbling was heard just then, this made all of the beings there want to rush to the sound but it was across the city with the cries of pain and death on the wind. As ponies, dragons, and griffins rushed for equipment and tools, the wolf-dragons snuffed out the fire and left the grill away from the tent and to keep a fire from being added to the list of bad things that happen this night. Armor on in a minor flash of light and weapons in hand they followed the soldiers but it was too late. It was hit and run. Even with Coy and Dracana there, no survivors and the evidence was clear the Requiem Guard had hit this group from the tunnels below and left without even being seen. The current non-curable magic was in the major hint to the armored minotaurs being here and not a random DA attack. The wolf-dragons helped moved the remaining bodies that was left of group; civilians, soldiers, some old and some younger. Not a child among this group of the now gone, this did raise a question to the twins but they did not voice it due to hope that only a few of these had children and were alone in this world. For no one should see a loved one like this, either dulled as magic has been taken with life or disemboweled and not knowing what parts belong to who. The last body was one that cause Spike to freeze up for a moment before the grim look on his face deepened and a wave of dread mixed with anger passed through a few of the others. This was notable from those close to him beyond the army. “This is Lieutenant Liberty Valiant.” The dragon spoke as he began to remove the armor around the pony. “I can only imagine Verre will take this hard, but I wonder how Autumn will handle this.” Rainbow, Eyes, and Blueblood moved to see what caused him to feel like this, while the rest kept to their own armor removal and kept it near the bodies of the soldiers while moving the civilians to another part of the street to make way for a way to transport them to the mortuaries that had sprung up after the fighting had gotten more intense. That did leave a hole in the road that would make it easier to get this grim task finished, in addition to the fact it is another way for the DA and Guard to attack from. “We need to get some more crystal ponies here to seal that hole before somepony falls in at night.” A unicorn soldier telled to a subordinate near the twins. Hearing that Coy moved to the closest part of the whole to him. Not many paid attention to the wolf in armor, well not until the sound of rock moving up from the whole and the shaking might have caused more if not for how quick it was. The unicorns in the group did notice a shift in magic from the ground but not from the armored being, they noted it and would report it to the higher ups. Cliff could not sleep, not because of his arm or him chastising himself for being reckless, his mind was elsewhere and thoughts of what could have happen. All of them grim with either him dying from the guard or Fluttershy seeing him nearly broken and half dead. Thinking of the first battle she had seen and how she was after it, imagining her seeing that nearly hurt as much of his arm and their daughter...he might have never got to see her in person. The loud rumbling from earlier did not help the wrym’s grim thoughts, and the lack of living beings coming from it along with the movement of the doctors and nurses did not fill him with hope. It was about thirty or so minutes and another rumble was heard again but it was not followed by anyone rushing unlike before, which brought more concern given he was almost non-movial without a good amount of painkillers to dull the injured arm. Tonight was going to keep him up for a good long time. Luna had to deal with the activities of the night as well as this latest attack from the guard, a part of it was unlike her sister, niece, nephew-in-law, and the respective heads of the many branches of the army had been drained from the battle while she and those healed by the pair of wolf beings had restored stamina in addition of the healing of wounds. She had to deal with the writing of the letters to the families back in Equestria that either mother/father/brother/sister/son/or daughter have been killed in action. Using her magic she wrote on one piece of parchment. Dear Families, I regret to inform you that________________ has been killed in action. Please send a reply to the E.U.P operational headquarters for burial arrangements. On behalf of Equestria I am truly sorry for your lost. -Princess Luna With that short letter wrote she began to use a duplication spell until it fit the number of the reported dead from the army with in the past day. By the time a crystal pony came to see if the lunar princess had almost all of her corner of the war table filled with death notices. One of them seemed small and the pony thought the princess would be done soon, that was until they saw that that was where the current one was placed. Not breaking training of letting emotions out because they were meant to leave their life once they started their shift but seeing all those stacks and how few the princess had done just...kinda froze them. They had not kept up with the count as they wanted to just ignore this horrible travesty that was only second if not above when Sombra enslaved the empire. “Princess do you need anything?” Luna turned her head and looked at the servant. “"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” With that she went back to work with the servant noting that down and doing as the princess asked. They did not envy the princess or any of those doing the real fighting. A part of them also knew that even with all the power that those had could not be done without beings like them supporting them and even then it might be creature comforts but it was something. A slight quicken of pace had the servant go through the many layers of the bunker to the kitchen to fulfill the request of the princess of the night. Coy and Dracana were lead by a soldier to an empty barracks with bedding, The soldier told them where the restrooms were and that guards are going to be posted until they were deemed safe to be left alone. The pair understood and waved goodbye as the soldier left them. Around them was cots most of them was not made just empty, given all of the rooms they had to wonder if this was common or just a spare room. “I know we told them a bit of a fib but I think we should have told them we had hopped into similar universes before hence why we knew Spike and the other commonalities.” Dracana said making the bed for herself while her brother began to open a portal to get a bag of clothing. “I feel ya sis but here is the thing. We tell them that we have met before in alternative timelines then Twilight and others like her would just want notes. Remember that one where we were in our kid forms.” The wingless sibling pointed out. “In that world Twilight saw the need to have a generation of dragon hybrids due to a possible future. Given how this world is already at war rules that out anything like that.” “Don’t you think that is a bit pessimistic?” She said sitting on the cot. “I mean you seemed to be the happy person when we travel around.” “There is a few beings that can make war funny.” Coy replied laying down looking at his sister. “We best get some sleep knowing them we get up early and either be tested or do mock battles.” “If you say so I’m going to have a shower before turning in.” The winged wolf spoke getting up and asking one of the guards posted outside their door. Spirit had chosen to be the one to tell his marefriend and her mother that somepony close to them died. He knew that Autumn might be a bit callous to this idea while her mother might just break down from her husband being killed. All of his day weight heavy on his mind, a lot of stress was taking away from stillness, but he had a job...no duty to be there when both mares hear the news. This also meant shutting his mind off from the web of connections he had dragon magic can only help when it is truly felt and not just spoken words. In his somewhat robotic, if not lack of perception, the wrym came to the house of his lover and her mother before he knew it. If he was not in the stillness he would feel nervous, tired, and concerned. Now he still felt those things but it was like a thought that you had for a moment and just a moment but could not recall it. The door stood there still unopened and a light on in the window, with only a deep breath and the stillness Spirit moved to open the door. The soft creak of the door was his only announcement as he stood at the threshold, choosing not to enter to see who was there. It was Autumn's mother, Verre, that he saw first. He almost lost his focus on the stillness but his training held and with his movement he made his presents known and his task was to begin. Fire Eyes was glad to get out of her suit for repairs but having to watch the twins that appeared at the end of the battle and healed most of the still living beings giving them energy so every being was not as tired. This left the natural white dragoness stained with her blood and metal cutting into her scales, both things that she did not mind but by this time of night it had gone from annoying to irritating. While she would have liked to have bathed in lava it was too dangerous to have in a war zone, so a hot shower would do. It did surprise her to see a mare standing guard outside of the shows, the female wyrm knew of some males that would sneak peek of females for sport or for perverted reasons so this was not that odd to see also most did not wear clothing so that added to a bit of confusion for the dragons. “I take it that another mare is in there at the moment?” Eyes asked the guard passing by her. “Nope.” The mare replied. “The female of the pair that we were asked to guard until Celestia and the other members of the council have seen them.” “Okay, thanks for the information.” Fire Eyes responded walking in. The shower area was like any public washing area stalls with shower heads and faucets, curtains were not added here as it was seemed as a waste of material. It was not hard for the white wyrm to see the crimson hair of the hybrid but something surprised the female when looking at the side view of the she-wolf as the blue eyes looked towards the dragoness. The nude form of the crimson wolf brought the image of a young female drake but hybrid had mounds on her chest with strong pectoral muscle under them. Fire Eyes was sure she had seen similar mounds on mares but only with extremely young foals, which caused more questions to form in the wingless dragon’s mind. “I know I look nice but I’m not ‘stare forlong’ worthy,” Dracana quipped. “Besides I’m almost done it you want some just right water for those with a bit hotter than ponies.” Eyes broke her stare searching the benches for something other to look at, mostly to gather her thoughts. Something that did catch her eye was a neat stack of clothing she had seen Dracana in earlier. The sound of the shower turning off finally snap Fire Eyes back to her normal attitude. “So what is with the things on your chest?” Fire Eyes opened up with the obvious. “I mean I’ve seen them on mares but lower and normally with young foals near them.” “I see.” The wolf replied stepping out of the stall wet fur matted from the water and shampoo that was once in it. “Bipedal Mammalian Anatomy 101: breast develop at a young age to show that she can bear children but the process takes a number of years to complete to maturity. So they are the same as you have seen on mares but unlike them mine are always visible due to me being upright.” Well that explain what Eyes wanted to know and that satisfied her curiosity for the moment about the hybrid. Then a ring of fire enveloped the wolf however before Eyes could say anything it was out and the crimson wolf was a bit fluffier but not singe at all. This did raise more questions for the dragoness, but the wolf just moved to her clothing. “I would be a poor dragon if fire could kill me.” was the reply Dracana spoke as she began to add layers of clothing to herself. “True.” The white dragon replied going to the show stall and began the show. Dracana was fully dressed and headed out, but before leaving the hybrid turned back to Fire Eyes. “Even if that was a bit akward moment it was nice meeting you outside of all the armor and battle.” Fire Eyes just nodded and starts scrubbing the dried blood off of her scales. Author's Note I would say sorry for the long wait but as I said I do this when I have time and my time was crazy for the past...six months...I will say four mostly because I got another story chapter out in april and a have a weekly art challenge that I do and life so yep this is what I have. Here is hoping only a three month gap.
War Room at WarNew Wolf-Dragons in Equestria By Toa Coy Based on “A New Dragon in the Crystal Empire” By Vedues Alright here we go a bit more OC insert story and a bit of copy and past. ~Toa Coy~ Chapter Three: War Room at War Spike held his marefriend close to him, the past night was not easy for anypony in the house. When he told them the news he let the stillness go while sent comfort and love to them both, Verre was in a state while Autumn was trying to keep her feeling to herself. The mares had disagreed on the stallion that was apart of their lives, one knowing the choices he made for protection versus the ones that had to deal with those choices from over a thousand years ago. Autumn excused herself to her room while Verre had to calm down and think about what she had to do for the final arrangement. Spike asked the widow if he could help with anything, but the mare put on a brave but melancholy face and said they planned for this it was just getting it started was the hard part. Spike understood and followed Autumn to her room, he wanted to knock on the door but the sounds of her crying could be heard by the dragon’s ears.Softly he opened the door to see the crystal mare facing away from the door and a blanket untouched beyond the fact the mare moved it as she lay on top of it. Spirit was as quiet as he could softly shut the door and laid next to her and waited to see what happened which lead to what he woke up to but beyond that he let his wyrm magic try and heal with his own joy and love for her but that only could only mask the pain and sadness. Waking up that morning was not that great, far worse than they were able to catch Yol Toor. Spike knew that he would have to pull double duty at the meeting when he got up but for now it was about keeping the one that held his heart from feeling the pain even if he could feel it. He knew it was possible to go back in time and change it, but from what he and his brother have been through with that fate said no. The sky blue crystal pony did start to stir, the volume of her purple mane and tail was gone with a shimmer of sadness on her coat. It reminded the dragon of the first time he met her, the real first time and not at the ball in Canterlot, he had seen how dull and limp her mane and tail were as well as the look of sadness in her along with the rest of the empire. Before this war that sight of a thousand years of banishment to who knows where was the worst ‘the Great and Honorable Spike, the Brave and Glorious’ had seen from any of them. She started to move out of his grasp and while he wanted to fight it but he could see some of her emotions on her coat but there was something much deeper. He knew it had to do with her father, the drinking herself under the table when the dragon met the stallion. “You know if you want to open up about your father I am willing to listen to it and ignore the morning meeting just to be here for you.” Spirit spoke softly into her ear only for her to fully untangle herself from the dragon’s limbs. “I know I should forgive him now that he’s dead, but I just can’t. I cried over every pony and dragon that died in the Everfree Platoon, but with him …” She shook her head. “I don’t know what I feel. Anger, perhaps.” She squeezed his hand. “I need to get going, but … if,” she looked at Spirit with an expression that he couldn’t decipher, “if you want … we could … talk about it some more when I come back.” “Take your time,” Spirit said with a kiss on her head. “I’ll always be beside you no matter thick headed I am or stubborn you are.” “Charming as always.” Autumn giving a small sad smile before going to the door but turning around to the dragon on the bed. “Thanks Spirit.” With that Spike watched his marefriend walk out her room. Outside the window as the sun began to slowly rise. Eventually Spirit reached the Crystal Bunker, he still missed the castle but that was another thing that could be rebuilt after all this was done. Shaking his thoughts and focused on the task at claw as he worked his way down to the meeting room. When he got to the room his pony sister(Twilight), royal mother(Celestia), aunt(Luna), sister-in-law/cousin(Cadence), pony brother(Shining Armor), captain of the wonderbolts(Spitfire), captain of the earth shakers(Jadeite), his draconic mother and father were present. The respresitive of the Solar Unicons, Trixie, was suspiciously absent though. Spirit decided it was better not to dwell what she and Blueblood might be up to given what he saw before Dracana appeared. Also in the corner one of the palace maids was there if any creature need food or drink like usual. Twilight and Luna giving each other a death glare, which was out of character but not uncommon given anything decided upon here could affect everyone. “Did something happen while I was asleep?” Spirit slid into an empty seat next to Twilight. He motioned the maid over. “Could I get a cup of coffee, extra strong?” She nodded. “Right away.” Celestia cleared her throat. “Good morning, Spirit. We were just discussing the viability of using the Rainbow Harmony Blast to defeat the Requiem Guard.” Spirit thought about it. “Well, handling monsters from Tartarus is sort of what that power’s for, but we’d have to wait until Fluttershy gives birth first. I don’t know what it would do to Miracle if Flutters went all rainbow powered before then.” Then a thought came to his mind. “Didn’t Coy and Dracana manage to flatten one of the guards?” “While I saw the male crushed the guard it was still able to reform so beyond them weakening it the rainbow, tis a negligible risk,” Luna said still not breaking the glare with the younger princess. “The power of harmony would never harm an innocent life.” “Except that kirin development is different than any other known species,” Twilight said, anger tempered by the years of political talks. “Everything about Miracle’s DNA was decided by Fluttershy and Cliff’s DNA fighting for dominance. Her fundamental makeup isn’t harmonious at all. Discord even said that her body generates chaos energy to keep her pony and dragon parts working together. All that harmony energy might make half her organs fail or try to rip her in two at a genetic level. Meanwhile we have two fully grown beings shown to do feats far beyond some of our best healers able to do, and crush a guard to the point we might be able to beat them without using the Blast.” Luna rolled her eyes. “It would not do either. Pinkie Pie generates chaos energy as well, and the magic of harmony has never harmed her. Additionally we know none of the limits of the siblings beyond healing.” “But Pinkie doesn’t need chaos energy to live.” Twilight folded her hooves across her chest. “I know that the Requiem Guard needs to be stopped, but I’m not going to risk Fluttershy’s daughter.” “Also not to but in but from what I heard and saw Coy at least was able to pull earth to fill in the hole made by the guard after we cleared any soldiers that were in or around it.” Spirit added in trying to weight it so his niece was not endangered for the “greater good”, how he hated that mentality. “Then are we to simply wait for the Requiem Guard to attack again?” Luna narrowed here gaze at Twilight. “Thousands of ponies could die before Fluttershy gives birth.” Before turning to Spirit, the same glare and anger deep in her eyes. “Even if these beings were at some power beyond my sister and myself what is to say they won’t betray us when we are weaken by this war.” Celestia cleared her throat causing the bickering trio to stop for the moment. “As I understand it, Zephyr is our expert on kirins. We should get his input before we come to a decision.” Twilight took a deep breath and sighed looking at her draconic brother who patted her on the back. “I’ll ask him.” There was a moment where only the sound of breathing and the hoof steps of the staff outside with the maid returning to get Spirit his coffee. Celestia had a minor idea during this but her cheerful smile did not return. “Another option,” Celestia said with a slight sigh, “is to induce early labor.” “What?” Twilight stared at her anger there but also sadness. “I can’t ruin Miracle’s birth like that!” Celestia calmly returned her gaze the face of a kind teacher gone with the face of a ruler and general in its place. Twilight slowly looked around at all the other faces in the room, many of them family and they would agree to what her teacher had said. Her expression, much like her heart, fell. “This is supposed to be Fluttershy and Miracle’s special day. Not something to rush through so that we can get back to killing.” She could have whispered that but the weight behind could be a yell. “I think,” Celestia said comfort in her voice but look on her face kept a somber feel to it, “that Miracle would be proud to know that she saved hundreds, maybe thousands, of lives, by being born a few days early.” “But …” Twilight paused, the weight leaving her for now with her head sank much like her heart before it. “I’ll see if Fluttershy is willing.” Spirit gripped his sister’s hoof with one hand and took a long drink of coffee with the other. “We’ll talk to Cliff after the meeting see what he thinks before traveling.” He turned his attention to the rest of the room. “Alright, what’s next on the docket?” Jadeite, the leader of the Earth-shakers, stood up. “As you all know, the Empire’s shield was adjusted to keep out diamond dogs as soon as we learned that they are working with the Alliance. However, last night’s sneak attack proves that we haven’t found all of their old tunnels yet. We need to map the tunnels out as soon as possible, but exploration teams would be easy targets if there are any members of the Requiem Guard still around down there which may cause the civilian bunkers might be unsafe.” Spirit’s mind began to wonder maybe they could have Coy and Dracana at least be able to check the tunnels since that could close them up or find ways to have them monitored for movement in them. It was going to be a while but he would like to talk with the pair at the end of the meeting . Near the end the dracowolves were brought up. Where Spirit gave his experience with the pair and did not leave the pair until he headed to tell Autumn and her mother of the lost of a loved one. From what he had seen they are able to be good assets to the war effort and could close up the tunnels dug by the diamond dogs. “I agree Spirit,” Luna voiced her approval but her eyes still scanned the report. “But would it be a good idea to have them spar with your grandmother and Fire Eyes?” “Knowing my grandmother she would jump at testing new blood just to see how she can improve them and what spell they can handle.” Spirit sited before moving to his next point. “Out of Everfree Company Fire Eyes is either the first or second in terms of skill and spells, then again being the apperntiace of Fire Claws kinda makes it so you have to be on her level or high to get a fight over a round of plowing fields and doing logging.” Spirit’s parents nodded having spared just to show both of them could protect themselves when they were off looking for Spike’s egg many years ago. Celestia also looked at the report and agreed, it would also be a much need distraction from the funearls that had occurred that day. Coy and Dracana lounged around the barrick that they slept in, from the natural light from sky it was either dawn or just after it. The pair were early risers, mostly due to how different times they appear in places, so they heard the changing of the guards outside their room. Not wanting to cause trouble they decided to play a game of cards while waiting for someone to come in and either give them food or be taken somewhere. The pair understood the reasoning to them being under guard, two unknown combinations that seemed to match enemies that had soundly beaten or killed anything in their way. Then after all that the pair then almost fully healed all the injured without collapsing to the ground, the hybrids did notice some fear in a few of the beings around them before the rupture in the ground and Coy’s pulling of the ground to fill it.The pair did have something to talk about over the cards, the dragoness by the name of Fire Eyes. “So she came in when you got done with your shower?” Coy asked as he moved his cards around with strand of darker blue fur hanging between his eyes. “Yep.” Was Dracana’s reply with her crimson and gunmetal fur that was better made up versus the bed head of her brother. “She seemed a bit embarrassed about it, thought I was either pregnant or going into season.” “From what we have seen from our limited travels of these parallel universes it is not like nore bipedal females are mamailian, so I can see where she is coming from.” Coy surmised showing his cards. “Three of a kind, jacks.” Dracana looked at her blue furred brother and grind. “Royal straight Flush Clubs.” If this was for money that would have caused aggravation but this was to pass time and just a smirk between the pair. It kept on like this until breakfast was brought to them; eggs, pancakes, toast, and apple juice. A fairly filling meal compared to the corn they had before the attack but the pair still noticed a bit of a glare from the guard that delivered the meal to them. While not empathes they did have some mental abilities and did notice that this guard was linked to those outside but neither of them knew how as this was out of the norm. Once finished with the meal the guard collected the dishes and left, only for a few moments later the guards from outside of the barracks and say that the pair where to follow said guards until they got to the end destination. The pair just rolled with it and followed while still not letting down their guard. Author's Note Next time: My Characters VS Vedues's Characters. Who will win and who will lose? I must do research to Vedues's page on spells and how they work.
