An Ally of Blight

The trio and the creature were almost at the border of the mountain, walking silently without a word to each other. However, the trio have wanting something from the creature that they gave to him...

"So... We haven't heard where you come from, Mr... Creature," Cozy Glow said to the infectious beast.

"Yes, we've all told you our stories, and now I think it's your turn," Said Tirek.

"You know that we're all in pain, so now it's your turn to tell us what your motivation of pain is," Says Chrysalis.

"Of course, of course. Where shall I start?" The creature said.

"How about where you turned into something that sounds dead?" Said Tirek.

"Are you certain of that choice? This is not a tale for the faint of emotions," The creature stated.

"I'm fairly certain we can handle any story that comes our way," Chrysalis said with a smirk.

"If this relative to the tune you were singing, I might cry again..." Cozy said sweetly.

The creature simply stared into darkness, whistling the same tune as he began to observe on the tragedy of his life...

1,122 Years Ago...

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Somewhere in the chamber of Luna's Dreamscape Castle, a young dragon was sitting at a corner with his head on his knees and his arms wrapped around his legs, softly weeping in a time of grief and pain.

This dragon had a head similar to Spike's. His ears were shaped like a vampire-bat pony's, he had two medium horns under larger ones that had three smaller ones in it and a smaller horn on the front of his nostrils, and the bottom of his jaws were jam-purple. His eyes were shaped like Chrysalis', except they were a deep magenta color.

He had fur on his chest and stomach, back, lower legs, forelimbs, and and covering a third portion of the end of his tail. Also at the end of his tail was a 3 fingered claw, and the toes on his feet were shaped like 3-fingered hooves. The scales of his stomach were jam-purple and had rounded W-shaped grooves. His wings were a deep slate-blue with deep cobalt-blue feathers at the bottom. The shape of his spines were similar to Spike's, but they all curved backwards.

His primary scales were a deep denim-blue, his thick fur was brunette-brown, and his horns were hickory-brown.

The dragon was softly weeping in a corner about his treatment from his corrupted Night Mother, Nightmare Moon. And of course, by cruelty's fate, the Mare in the Moon came to him.

The dragon softly turned to her, when suddenly... Everything went black after a sudden blur and a puddle of blood.

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Nightmare Moon carried a large sack that was dripping with fresh blood across the halls towards the Graveyard.

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Once she took the sack to the graveyard, she placed it by a dead tree with an evil grin.

"Enjoy the darkness," She gawked, then she laughed sinisterly and walked away.

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After 2 hours had passed, the bag was old and rough and attracted flies because of a very powerful stench from it. Then, these black, skeletal demon hands with ruby-red crystals came out of the ground with this black and red portal underneath the sack, and pulled it in. Then the portal vanished.

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A small dragon body was placed into a hybridization chamber, and a strange scientist was experimenting on him. The scientist had a humanoid body, but he had a draconic face, forelimbs, lower legs, and a tail. He wore a very tattered and smeared lab coat and a pair of glasses. His scales were black and he had ruby-red eyes with very slit pupils. He also had 3 rows of large blood-red spines on his back.

He inserted a vial with this black liquid inside of an incubator. Then he pressed a pad button, and the liquid entered the chamber. Then, the dragon inside started to change in appearance. His scales started to turn onyxian-black, his fur began to deteriorate, and his horns and tail began to mold into something new.

"Beginning Mutation," Said the computer.

The scientist looked at the dragon with hoping eyes. "Come on, Midnight Scalewyrm... Come on," He said quietly. The dragon's new form was almost finished...

But then, tragedy struck when the dragon simply burst into the crystal's the creature would eat.

"Mutation Failure."

The scientist sighed in disappointment.

"Try again, professor," Said a voice over the com of the room. The scientist simply nodded and went to work on improving...

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The scientist entered another vial into the incubator.

"Beginning Mutation."

The dragon started forming again, but then the heart monitor gave out a long beep.

"ERROR - Brain Deterioration," The computer blurted.

The scientist looked over at the computer and saw that it showed the dragon's brain deteriorating rapidly and turning into dead tissue and rotten holes. He sighed again.

"Mutation Failure."

Next, the dragon started bulging, and the bubbles popped with living tapeworms coming out of him.

"Mutation Failure."

Then, various parts of the dragon started detaching and falling limp on the ground.

"Mutation Failure."

Then, the dragon turned to crystal and shattered.

"Mutation Failure."

Then, a vital organ would simply burst or deteriorate.

"Mutation Failure."

Finally, the dragon would keep bursting into crystals.

"Mutation Failure."

Every time he was remade, the dragon would go through these bizarre events, and the scientist would grow much more despair.

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The scientist was looking over blueprints and schematics of the hybrid he was trying to create, wondering where he always went wrong. He looked over at a container of the crystal and simply gazed. then, something caught his eyes below the crystal label. He looked below and the label said, "2 minutes old". The scientist gasped, "That's it!" Then he turned a small knob that would change the age of the crystal.

As the crystal aged, it started turning up with the alien mold, it started cracking, and the tarry substance started leaking out. Then the scientist stopped when he paused the knob at 7,351 centuries old. Then he took the container with the crystal to the lab.

Next, he burst into a mining depot under the lab. "I need a shard of Xorzite, immediately!" He said to the miners. One miner quickly grabbed a shard of this strange element and threw it to the scientist.

It was made of a very dark asteroid material with speckles of shadow-grey dust and visible portions of this garnet-red crystal inside.

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The scientist placed the corruptive crystal and the shard of this Xorzite into a larger incubator, along with a vial of the tarry substance, and a vial with this much blacker liquid with eerie shadow-grey light in the shape of tapeworms, and they both pulsed around like living worms in a salt bath. Once the scientist pushed the pad, the process began to start.

"Beginning Mutation," The computer said. The scientist looked to see that the body was starting to form well. Then, the crystals started growing out of the specified parts of the body: head, arms, legs, back, tail, and horns.

"ERROR - Amygdala Deterioration, Hypothalamus Deterioration, Wing Finger Deterioration," The computer blurted. The scientist felt dread, but then he shook his head and went over to the computer, and started typing in the command to keep going. "Are you sure you want to proceed?"

"Is the heart sustainable?"

"Yes."

"Then proceed," The scientist said as he pushed the affirmation icon.

"Very well."

The scientist looked at the chamber and saw the creature twitch its fingers. "Come on, my hybrid... just a little longer," The scientist said softly.

Then the computer beeped a happy tune. "Mutation... Successful. Now extracting hybrid profile..."

The scientist sighed in relief and great joy. After all those years 1,113 years of failures and hard work, his project for his master... was complete.

"Project name: Tantronus UR-H VI. Designed personally by Professor Hibrogandroc and Emperor Valunight, this creature has the intelligence of many comparable animals and creatures, also given the adaptions of enhanced strength, speed, agility, and flexibility," The computer said.

The scientist looked at the creature known as the Tantronus for short, and saw that it was slowly getting up on all 6. The creature itself gave a very demonic, vibratory bark at its surroundings. Then it saw the heart of the scientist as averagely white. He stood up in his hind legs, arched his back, and then slammed on the floor and gave a most powerfully demonic and vibratory roar at the one who made him.

"He's alive!" He exclaimed as he laughed with joy and pride, "HE'S ALIVE!!!" He shouted with profound bliss. "I shall call him... Nighdrak." Then the scientist known as Professor Hibrogandroc, laughed sinisterly as the creature rose up again and roared at the sky if he could see it.

The creature was made, and thus... his life had taken the toll...

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Present Day...

Then the creature known as Nighdrak, the Tantronus UR-H VI hybrid, finally whistled out the end of the tune. Cozy Glow was simply in tears from the tune, Chrysalis simply gave an empathetic look, and Tirek was simply astonished by how much this hybrid had gone through.

"Not everypony or everyone is simply born with a happy life, but they always learn to talk it over... unlike us," Says the hybrid.

"I'm... sorry to hear that. Don't read in to anything when I say sorry," Says Chrysalis. Nighdrak simply nodded at the statement.

"So your motivation of pain is Nightmare Moon?" Asks Tirek.

"Not the moon ghoul in general, but also the one who listened to her lies."

"Ahh... So Princess Luna started all of this with you?" Asked Chrysalis.

"Yes, and for her crimes, I shall find a weapon to purge her and her beloved 'Children of the Night'," The creature said, black silvery saliva dripping from his guys, his head and arms twitching a little.

The trio looked at each other and nodded.

"Cozy Glow wiped away the tears in her eyes and looked at the creature with so much empathy. She flew out of Tirek’s grasp and over at Nighdrak.

Nighdrak extended his arms, and Cozy Glow landed in them.

“D-Don’t worry, Nighdrak. We’ll help get revenge on Luna. And we promise that we won’t do anything mean to also. Right guys?”

“Of course,” Says Chrysalis.

“Obviously,” Says Tirek.

“Thank you,” Nighdrak says almost happily.

Then the quartet was silent for a moment. The villain trio looked at each other and nodded.

"Nighdrak?” Chrysalis asked.

Nighdrak turned his gaze to Chrysalis’ heart.

“ We were wondering, if it’s not too much of a concern to you… Perhaps you would like to join us at Grogar's Lair? It's not exactly home as it is here, but at least it doesn't get very cold inside," Said Chrysalis.

“Yeah, I can show you whe- Tree,” Cozy Said quickly.

Nighdrak heeded the filly’s warning and walked around the trunk that he almost tripped over.

“I can show you where my room is if you’d like. It’s a little small, but I think we can make a little more space,” Cozy offered.

“Although, there isn’t really anything alive that you can feed on,” Tirek pointed.

“But I can make cupcakes,” Cozy remarked.

Nighdrak started thinking on the offer. Being part dragon, it was dangerously cold on this mountain, but he did have the ability to store up more body fat to keep out the cold. And being up on this mountain was rather a little lonely, so he wouldn’t mind a little company. However, he took the word ‘cupcakes’ into account, which meant that he would have to make his own moldy and rotten food. However, that didn’t seem to bother him.

"Very well, I accept the offer," Says the creature.

The trio simply smile at the hybrid's exception.