The Pain Goes HERE!

Applejack paces back and forth in the castle's dining room, they were having lunch there which the food was prepared by Spike, Rainbow Dash was enjoying her salad with Fluttershy while Rarity was speaking with the dragon, Discord had left after the meeting to work on his intro card, no one had a clue on what ever that meant. The farm pony was too worried of the new problem than to eat lunch, when Sombra came back, the mane six almost lost their home, and they could have lost for sure, but their friendship was strong enough to deal with the evil tyrant, she just hopes that it would be enough to take down the newest threat.

The doors suddenly swings open to reveal Ember with her new axe in the doorway, she walks over to the table with a displeased look before placing the buzz axe on top of the table as she sat down on one of the free seats. Spike hesitantly pushes a bowl of gems in front of her, Ember picks up a single gem and began eating.

"So, how'd it go?" Spike said as she eats another gem, the ponies in the room were curious as to what he means and why the dragon lord has an intimidating weapon.

"To be honest, I kinda feel like he doesn't like me."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well, when I was coming back from the place the pink one works at, I just noticed how much he kinda dislikes me, and I don't know why."

"Um, just out of curiosity, who are you two talking about?" Fluttershy spoke, her friends leans closer to find out.

"Oh, Smolder's older brother, Krieg." Answered by Spike.

"Krieg? Now why do you say he doesn't like ya', that dragon is awfully friendly to me and my family." Applejack said, the only pony in the group who had met the beast besides Pinkie.

"That's the thing, he's friendly to everyone but me! I mean, he only gave me this thing because Smolder told him to." She pointed towards the axe on the table.

"Wait," Rainbow Dash cuts in. "this guy gave you this awesome looking thing?"

"Yeah, he actually had one just like it on his back, still wondered where he got it though."

"You're forgetting something." Spike playfully said as he inches away from the other dragon, Ember looks at him before scowling.

"Spike, if you say it, I will stuff your nose with lava."

"Say what?" Said Starlight as she enters the room, she was busy reading a book, which made her late for lunch. The other ponies were even more curious as to what they don't know.

"Ember is in love with Krieg!" The young dragon said loudly before diving behind Starlight for protection.

Ember face palms as she silently cursed Spike and the mares especially Rarity gasped by the reveal.

"You are!?" The fashionista said as she held Ember's cheeks with her hooves. "This wonderful darling!"

"Its not that of a big thing." Ember tried to calm everyone down, but Rarity did not listen to her.

"Yes it is Ember, love is the most beautiful thing out there, oh, I can already hear the wedding bells. Details, I need details of this dragon!"

"Nothing much," Applejack spoke. "taller than princess Celestia, well built muscles, always wears a mask, kinda shouts a lot of unrelated things. He's really a strong one too, almost took down one of my apple trees with a single punch."

"You know what I'm getting from this?" Rarity said to Ember, who only shrugged her shoulders. "Krieg, a tall mysterious dragon, who could easily defeat an army of villains, has come to this little town to be your knight in shining armor! It is destiny for you to be with him, you must not let this moment go darling, or you will never see him again! Go Ember, go claim his heart and be with him, for love!"

"Uh, what?"

"Work with me dear, and you'll win his heart in seconds."

"Yeah, no, I don't think I need help in this one. I kinda understand what I should do, so you don't need to do anything." Ember gently pushes the pony away. "Maybe I'm doing this all wrong, I tried to be friends with the pony way, I think I should do it the dragon way."

"Are you sure darling? My help could really be useful." Rarity said, trying to convince the dragon to let her help with her expertise on love.

Ember stood up from her seat, not finishing her lunch. "Yes I'm sure. I'm going to do this the dragon way, but first, I need to find him again." She picks up her axe before leaving for the door.

"This I've gotta see." Spike said, following the older dragon out.

"Wait, I wanna meet this guy too!" Rainbow Dash flew after them in a blink of an eye.

The ones remaining could only watch as they disappear through the doorway, now that the moment had passed, the ponies decided to return to whatever they were doing before they gathered in the castle. Though Rarity was a bit curious to what the new dragon truly is, she still had stuff to do back home, but she still wondered what her little sister is doing.

Sweetie Belle could only joyfully giggle as she and the other two crusaders sat on top of Krieg's shoulders as he ran across the field of grass, they all held on to his horns as he hops over a rock before making a sharp turn around a tree where Sandbar and the others were watching the four from with their axes leaning against the tree. Krieg soon ran towards the young six before diving into the dirt and he slides closer to the tree, the crusaders were having a blast as the dragon they were riding stops, Krieg laughed louder than the young fillies as he pulls his face out of the dirt.

The crusaders hops off of Krieg as he stood up, patting the dirt off of himself. He then began taking out the watermelons that was impaled on a long stick from his sack and walks a few steps away from everyone to plant it down as far away as needed, the fillies were trailing him as he does so.

"Krieg looks like he's having fun." Said Gallus, the others nodded in agreement. "Ever wonder where he even comes from?"

"What do you mean?" Silverstream asks the griffon.

"Well, these guns are kinda weird," Gallus presents his Vladof pistol to everyone. "I doubt anyone had made these, we would have heard of them from history books or something."

"Gallus brought weapon, what for?" Said Yona.

The griffin shrugs his shoulders. "I just really like it, feels great to have it around."

"Maybe he's actually an alien!" When Silverstream told them her theory, they all just looked at her funny. "Oh come on, it makes sense!"

"Silverstream, he is just a dragon, simple as that." Smolder said as Krieg returns with the fillies behind him. "Hey big guy, where you from anyways?"

"I am from the land of horrors, bloodshed, and rabbit pie!"

"Yeah, we aren't gonna find out." The younger dragon was not at all disappointed by his answer, she had expected it. "What are you doing anyways?"

Krieg lifts one of the watermelons he had and shows the side where he scribbled what could be the face of princess Celestia with yellow crayons, Sandbar was about to compliment Krieg's drawing skills, but the beast crushes the melon in his hands and splatters it's juices on everyone but the crusaders.

"Fun!" He plainly said before swiping the Caustic Infinity from Gallus who was displeased by his action, he aims down towards the melons in the distance before firing a few shots, destroying the targets with Celestia's face drawn on it. After he was done he hands the gun back to Gallus, and gestures him to do the same thing he did just now. "Fun!"

Gallus understood what the psycho wanted, but he also knows that Krieg had drawn Celestia's face on the melons, so this technically counts as heresy against the country of Equestria, sadly he does not have a choice as the psycho stared at him, waiting silently.

"Fun." Gallus said with a strange smile on his face before he aims his gun towards the melons, he pulled the trigger, the recoil was too much for the griffon as he was pushed back, and he did not land a single shot on the melons in the distance.

Krieg playfully laughs at his failure , the others soon joins in as well, Gallus could only grumble to himself, he really needed to practice more on his free time.

"Mister Krieg, could we finally use the big one?" Sweetie Belle asked the psycho.

"Yeah, we wanna see it!" Scootaloo wings flutters in excitement.

Krieg nodded to the young ponies, he then took his rocket launcher from Yona, the yak was glad that she didn't have to carry it anymore, Krieg heaves it over his shoulder and aimed at one of the melons in the field. He pulls the trigger back and launches a single rocket, it flew straight towards the melon, the young six and the crusaders watches in awe as the rocket hits it's target and explodes into a fiery blast that scorched the ground it was on. The fillies cheered loudly at the destruction Krieg created, but that was not all, the psycho fired a few more rockets and burns even more patches of grass in the field.

"Yeah!" Cheered Scootaloo. "Burn the planet!"

"I like chicken-loo, she knows how to have fun!" Krieg said as he picks up the orange pony.

"I'm not a chicken!"

Scootaloo tried to correct the dragon, but he ignores the filly and places her on his shoulder, Krieg then took out three sticks dynamite and began juggling it in the air. Everyone was too entertained by his tricks to see what he had planned, which was actually just tossing dynamite at the melons, just as the sticks were about to hit the melons, Krieg took out his shotgun and shoots the dynamites in just two shots, thanks to the spread of the pellets it caused all three to explode and destroy the melons.

Everyone had to agree with each other, though it was bit chaotic, the destruction that the psycho made was actually great. It was really cool how Krieg was an expert on explosive, and skillful with his weapons, if only he was mentally stable.

"That was AWESOME!" The young six froze for a second, they all didn't really want to look up to find out who the voice belongs to, but they did so anyways, and when they did, they saw the Rainbow Dash hovering above them with the two other dragons in town.

Rainbow Dash, Fastest Mare In Town, both captions were above the pegasus while the background became what one could describe as a Wonderbolt poster, with Rainbow Dash's silhouette at her bottom left, saluting to the symbol of the sun on the top right.

"Rainbow Dash, hey!" Scootaloo stood up on Krieg's shoulder to greet the cyan pegasus. "Hey, come meet Krieg!"

Krieg watched the trio as they landed on the ground, the small dragon stood close to Ember as they approach him, Rainbow Dash looks him over before holding out a hoof towards him, Krieg gently shook it with his massive claws, the action made Ember a bit jealous of how he treats the others. "Nice to meet you, AJ was right about how strong you look, plus you're very good with that metal thing you have and whatever that big thing was! I'm Rainbow Dash, fastest pegasus you'll ever meet!"

"I taste the colors, each screaming in agonizing pain as the demons shoves them into the machine of death and sorrow, the blind sheep could only watch as they cry multicolored tears from their eyes, and they cry because of me! KRIEG!"

"What?"

"Don't mind him, he likes to make things weird." Smolder said as she walked over to Krieg's side with Sandbar and Ocellus. "So, uh, why did you three come all the way here?"

On cue, Ember steps closer to them and plants the axe firmly on the grown. "Krieg, I am here to challenge you to a fight, name a time and place. The rules are also up to you."

"Wait what?!" Literally everyone said the same thing at the same time, even inner Krieg.

The psycho gently puts Scootaloo back on the ground, he took a few menacing steps closer to Ember, said dragon lord became completely stiff when he looms over her, an intent to maim in his eyes. "Thank you!" He said before walking a away from the group, he turns around once he was far enough and pointed at the challenger then gestures her to come closer.

"Oh, he wants it now..." Ember was about to take a step, but the young six quickly stops her.

"What are you doing!?" Smolder said, thinking about why her dragon lord has a death wish. "You can't fight him!"

"Why not?" Spike spoke for the first time since they arrived.

"Because he can rip you to shreds!" Gallus tried to convince them.

"I can handle myself in a fight, but I'm glad you guys care for my wellbeing." When Ember attempted to walk around, Yona kept her from moving forward.

"Dragon not understand! Big dragon is strong, Krieg beat bigger manticore easily, Yona and others saw big dragon do it!" Yona said, still keeping Ember from getting closer to the beast.

"You guys really think he's strong, I'm also strong, so you all don't have to worry about me, I can take him."

"Sandbar, talk to Krieg." Smolder told Sandbar, he gave her a nod before running over to the psycho. "Listen, if we can't convince you, then I'll give you an advice, don't set him on fire."

"How can dragons catch on fire?" Dash said, the other dragons were also curious as to what the Smolder meant.

"He has fire magic, simple as that. The thing is, if he's on fire and you hurt him in someway, then a magical fireball chases after you and it could really hurt. I mean, really hurt."

"Woah, now that's so cool!"

Sandbar walks up to the psycho, as he got closer he could hear Krieg talking to himself, but he stops when he notices Sandbar coming closer. "Sand pony, go back to safety!"

"Later Krieg, but first we need to talk about Ember."

"Don't worry sand pony, I'll protect you from blue flame."

"Protect me?" Sandbar asked him, but then rembers what Krieg had mentioned back at the elevator. "Krieg, were you protecting ponies from dragons, your own kind?" He said, now realizing the fact Krieg had killed dragons in the past.

"They are greedy, always preying on the small and weak like sand pony, only me and little man could do something, they are deserving by the day I saw them!"

"Krieg, she doesn't deserve to die, Ember is not like the dragons you fought, she's kind and she respects everyone she meets, though she is still trying to fit in with everyone, she is what I could consider a friend."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes! Can you please call this fight off now?"

"No, I won't hurt her too much I promise, blue flame wants to fight, AND I WANT IT TOO! TELL HER WE WILL ONLY USE FISTS!"

Seeing that the beast was set on fighting the dragon lord, Sandbar decided to return to the others, but he was glad that Krieg promised not to hurt Ember too much.

"Any luck?" The pony looks towards Gallus, the griffon was obviously being sarcastic, they all heard what the beast wanted.

"Kinda, he promises not to hurt Ember too much, but that's all."

"That's good, Smolder is trying to convince Ember not to fight, but I don't think she'll listen. What do you think is running in her head to ask for this?"

"I don't know, but I hope she isn't turning into those cult creatures." Sandbar whispers to Gallus as they watch Ember walk towards Krieg, leaving her axe leaning on the tree with the other buzz axes.

"Woo! Kick his butt Ember, show him what's what!" Dash cheers the dragon lord, seeing that her hero cheered for Ember, Scootaloo joins her side even though she actually prefers Krieg's.

Ember stops just a few feet away from Krieg, she stretches her limbs for a second. "So, do we count to three, or-"

She could not finish as Krieg was already in front of her, his fist was about to land at her face, but she immediately ducks from it, she threw an uppercut at him, but that did not fazed the beast. Krieg laughs as he gently kicks Ember, she held her arms in front of her chest and caught his foot in time, the kick sent her a few feet away from Krieg, and she quickly opens her wings and recovers midair. She dives towards the beast and cleared the distance in a matter of seconds, just as she gets close, Ember switches her dive into a kick straight towards Krieg's chest, she lands a clean hit but the psycho did not budge. The smaller dragon sent her right fist to the side of Krieg's head to try and knock him down, the psycho only stared at her for a second before he headbutts the blue dragon off of him.

"Ember!" Spike became worried for his friend, but Sandbar places an assuring hoof on his shoulder.

"Don't worry Spike, Krieg promises not to hurt her too much."

The dragon lord gets back on her feet in time as Krieg almost stomps over her, she was about to try and blind him with fire to make an opening for her, but Smolder strictly instructed her not to do so. So she decided to slam both her claws on his face, this proved to be a useless effort as Krieg reaches over and holds the back of her head then slams her face on the ground. Rainbow Dash cringes after the beast slams her one more time before tossing Ember back at her feet, the dragon was disoriented but she still stood on her two feet, slightly swaying side by side.

"When you guys said he was strong, you guys weren't kidding." Rainbow Dash said, now doubtful to the chance Ember could win.

"Yeah, but you haven't seen him fight dozens of golems twice his size!" Ocellus spoke, the crusaders and Spike stared at her with curiosity. "Yeah, he kinda likes to show off."

Krieg waited for Ember to recover, he always did like playing with his food, but sadly he couldn't finish today's meal, he promised Sandbar not to hurt her too much. When Ember regains her balance, Krieg was quick to grab her by the neck and tosses her high in the air before wrapping his fist around her tail and throws her towards the tree the others were under. Ember didn't have enough time to counter Krieg, she had already slammed against the tree and slowly slide down against the bark of the tree to the roots. When she attempted to stand up, she quickly drops back down to dodge Krieg's fist, the tree behind her was the victim instead and was split in half.

"TIMBER!" Krieg loudly said as the tree falls down, thankfully it didn't fall towards the audience.

"Krieg!" Smolder yells at him. "I thought you promised not to hurt Ember too much!?"

"Tree is dead, not her!" He argues back, Smolder couldn't really argue back as Ember unintentionally sets the beast on fire. The others were lucky Krieg took all the fire or they would've gotten burned, Krieg turns around to glare at the dragon lord.

"You really do catch on fire, woops." Just as she finishes her sentence, she lifts her right arm in time to block Krieg's fist, she was sent much farther than she was before.

"Feels so right!"

"Krieg!" The young six scolded him, Krieg looks away and allowed Rainbow Dash douse him with a raincloud, just as this was happening, Spike had ran over to where Ember had landed, which was a small bed of wild flowers, now reduced to a flattened plant.

"Ember, are you alright!?"

She lifts her head before letting it fall back again. "I... think my arm broke... and something else..."

"Pride?"

"No, my wing... I also think that landing sprained my ankle..." She moves her left foot to test out her theory and winced from the pain. "Yup, it is."

The rest soon came to see the result of the fight, the young six once again glared at Krieg, the psycho only shrugs his shoulder. "Now look at what you done, you could have hold back lot more, but you just had to hit her with too much energy! Dang it Krieg, if you weren't so big, then I would've slap you by now!" Smolder berated him for what he had done.

"No, no." Said Ember, still lying on the ground. "I asked for this, it isn't his fault to begin with, its all mine. Your brother was just excited, I can tell."

"No, its also his fault! He could have just give up!"

"Smolder, I order you to forgive your brother, you better obey, or else!"

"Alright fine, but he has to do something to make it up for you."

Ember places her left claw on her chin, an idea came into her mind. "Well..."

"Careful Krieg, you don't want to drop me." Ember was currently being held bridal style by Krieg, though she doesn't really know what style she was being held because of dragon culture, she only wanted to get close to the beast, speaking of which, she took the chance to press herself deeper into Krieg's hold.

As for Krieg, he didn't mind it, he just think of it as a chance to redeem himself from his mistake, though he was still skeptical of the dragon, the information he received from Sandbar was believable, and Krieg trusts the pony.

A few steps back, the young six and crusaders along with Spike and Dash walks with their own paces, as requested by Ember, but they could still hear them. The fight they have witnessed earlier was definitely one sided, but that didn't make Dash think of Krieg badly, it was quite the opposite, now she sees the psycho on a whole different level, and she wishes to reach it. Scootaloo and her friends were also thinking the same, even though someone was hurt, they see Krieg as a powerful being that was kind to all, especially now since Krieg isn't showing anger, only compassion for the one he injured. As for the young six...

"Seriously," Smolder spoke, still glaring at the back of Krieg's head. "what was Ember thinking? First she tried to befriend him this morning and then she asked him to a fight?"

"Yeah, when she said dragon way of befriending, I thought it was going to be a competition, not a trial by combat!" Spike said, disappointed that his expectations were different.

"But did you see how he felt nothing from that fight!?" Dash said as she hovers above them. "He literally punch a tree in half! I wanna see what else he could do!"

"Yeah, it was really hard to miss when he did it right in front of everyone." Said Gallus. "I just wanna know something first, why did she insist on being carried to the hospital by Krieg? Isn't that weird?"

"Oh, well, you didn't hear it from me, you heard this from Spike." After Dash finished her sentence, Spike gave out an annoyed 'Hey!'. "Apparently, a certain dragon princess has got bitten by the L-word bug."

Smolder was quick to catch on what the pegasus was trying to say, she understood completely what she was telling them. "WHAT!?" Her friends were quick to cover her mouth, Krieg looks back curiously, and when he saw nothing of interest, he went back on walking.

"You alright Smolder?" Sandbar asked her as they took their hoof or claws away from her.

"I am not alright, the reason Ember wanted to be friends with Krieg was because she's in love? We can't let that happen."

"Why not? Now that I see it, I think they look cute together!" Silverstream said, admiring what she thought was romance blooming in front of her.

"Yeah Smolder, I thought you'd be happy that your brother gets a chance with the dragon lord." Rainbow Dash teases the dragon.

"Its not because he's my brother, its because Ember could do better! Krieg is too... Krieg!"

Spike just shook his head at Smolder. "Listen, I may not be good with romance, but shouldn't we let Ember have this? Look how happy she is right now, I say we let it happen, and as one of her best friends, I give Krieg my blessing."

"Yeah Smolder, this also gives me an idea!" Sandbar said, he gathers his friends to a huddle so he could tell them his plan. "Listen, we have classes this week and we all are going to be busy, so my idea was that we ask Ember to watch over him, you know, until we finish our classes."

"Sure, leave him with a dragon which he obviously dislikes." Smolder sarcastically said.

"Smolder."

"Alright, fine, but if he hurts Ember, I'm going to toast you because it was your plan."

When they break off, they saw a crowd of ponies gathering in front of them, Krieg who was taller than the townies saw what the commotion was about, three metal vending machines were placed right in front of the hospital, but these weren't ordinary vending machines, these are owned by the notorious Marcus Kincaid and Doctor Zed. How it got there, is what Krieg doesn't know. What he does know is what the machines holds, so he drops the dragon lord and ran through the crowd to get to the machines.

"Hey!" Ember yells at him, but he didn't stop. "Just when I was getting comfortable."

"Sheesh, what got him excited?" Spike said as he and the others help Ember up. "Don't put any pressure on your sprained ankle."

They slowly follow Krieg through the now open area that the ponies had to avoid because of the beast, when they got near, the machine with a cross on it suddenly spoke.

"Welcome to Dr. Zed's portable clinic! What can I get for ya?"

Krieg took out his money and slides it in the slot, he began pressing a few buttons, the ponies and other creatures watches the giant work with the machine, and then poof, a few strange looking syringes was digistructed from thin air.

"That oughtta keep your insides inside." The vendor spoke after Krieg was finished.

The psycho ran towards the dragon lord and held the syringe in front of her. "Blasto bandage!"

"What?" She did not get an answer as he uses the syringe and injects it on her right shoulder, she winces by the sudden pain, but it subsides quickly. That's when she started feeling, normal, her arm was no longer in pain along with her wing and ankle, she moves her right limb a bit and puts some pressure on her ankle. "Wait, that cured my injuries!?"

"Yes! Dr. License is good or bad doctor who sells Anshin, he blessed those who are dying and brings them back to fight once more!"

Berry Punch who was passing by but was curious on what everyone was watching raised her hoof in the air to ask a question. "Wait, so the thing only takes the money you have?"

"Paper cut!" He shouted before pointing at another pony who raised their hoof.

"Yeah, um, what are the other two?"

"This one is gives us the instrument of pain, and this one makes sure we have a happy led meal!" Krieg then presented to the crowd his shotgun and fires a few shots in the air. "Beethoven's favorite instrument is the gun, he likes to sing joyful pain to his enemies!"

The crowd was not bothered by the way the psycho talks at all, they only cared about the new machines that apparently now placed everywhere in town. Seeing that they were interested, Krieg just began handing everyone a large stack of money, so they could experience the beauty of guns, this is also good because they could buy health kits and heal wounds, but Krieg hopes that he doesn't bother the hospital itself by doing this. The young six were worried at first, but thankfully the ponies were only interested on the medical vendor instead of the other two, as for Krieg, after he handed the last pony some money, he went over to give the rest some.

Rainbow Dash quickly went to speak with him. "Why are you just giving those around? You could make a lot of bits if they buy it from you instead."

"Its not about the bits colorful one, its about giving everyone a chance to taste the blood!"

"Wait," Ember spoke, catching everyone's attention. "you gave them money so they could get some of those healing stuff? You know, your awfully nice to ponies, I respect that." Ember took a step closer to Krieg, the usual fear she felt was long gone since the fight. "You are quite the hero, got any stories you might share?"

Before Krieg could answer, Smolder quickly steps between them. "Okay! It has been a really long day, and I think I should take Krieg back to the apple farm!" She wraps her arms around Krieg's right and started pulling him away from the group. "Sandbar, could you ask Ember about the favor? Do it when I'm gone."

Once the two of them were out of sight, Ember looks over to Spike. "What was her problem?"

"Meh, probably was afraid of you stealing his attention away from her. You know how some siblings are, plus the fact she has two older brothers means she probably was treated well as she grew up."

"Really, she feels threaten by me?"

"Yup, definitely."

"So princess Ember," The dragon looks to her left and found Silverstream and the crusaders standing there, a really big smile was on their faces. "when are you and Krieg getting married?"