Author's Note

Sorry this might be a little short but I liked where I ended it

Chapter 22 edited

{Spyro POV}

I didn't know what was happening, but they rushed me back inside and had me scanned dozens of times before they finally calmed down a bit for me to ask.

"Can somepony tell me what's going on?" I finally asked them.

"After you stood back up your eyes changed into Nightmare's eyes." Celestia told me as the doctor finally came in.

"What did you find doctor?" I asked him.

"It seems it's sideffect of a imperfect merge, it seems your core will not completely absorb Nightmare's there is a tiny fragment that holds Nightmare's consciousness, though she seems to be in a type of hibernation for now at least." He explained to everypony.

"You mean she can try to take him over again?" Applejack quickly asked him.

"Well, she could try but it's impossible, the core has permanently merged with his while not perfect, she is unable to regain any of her magic and it seems Spyro's core is now comparable to that of an Alicorn's, makes sense since he absorbed an Alicorn's core." He said making the six girls look strangely at each other while the princess looked shocked.

"What does that mean?" Twilight asked.

"Well it means that his core has become so powerful it has connected to a natural element like Celestia's and Luna's cores. You see once a core becomes so powerful it needs something to keep it in balance, something that relates to their magic." He explained.

"So what did he connect to?" Celestia asked.

"Well seeing that he absorbed Nightmare I wouldn't be surprised if he connected to the moon or dream realm, but it also wouldn't surprise me if he was also connected to something else, this is so rare that the only time this has happened was with Starswirl when he temporarily connected to the moon when he helped Luna raise it for the first time but lost much of his power because of the forced link, if the legends are correct." The doctor told her.

"Then that would mean." Luna said turning to her sister.

"Yes Luna it does." Celestial said turning to her as well.

"What does it mean." I asked them.

"It was a law our mother made when she ruled that if there was a creature that ever became strong enough to connect to an element, such as the moon or sun they would become members of the royal family." Celestial explained.

"No no no no I don't think I want to be royalty plus we don't even know if I have or not." I told them, so they gave each other a quick glance before nodding.

"Ok we will keep a lid on this, but if you have connected to an element we will eventually have to go public." Luna suggested.

"Thank you." I told them before they left.

"Ok so now we return to our normal lives." I said getting out of bed before Applejack stopped me.

"Hold on their partner we still don't know what happened to your eyes." She said before the doctor cleared his throat.

"It's a temporary side effect of the imperfect fusion, his eye color will eventually turn to normal but his pupils will stay the same." He explained.

"Ok then now that that's out of the way, let's go I wanna get out of this bed, I'm getting restless." I said flying over Applejack then out a window.

"It feels good to fly again." I said as I flew higher in the air until I was above the highest clouds.

I let the cool air blow over my scales as I felt my muscles relax. I took a deep breath as I flew over the orchard.

"Well I guess I should tell the rest of the family the good news." I said to myself as I dove down folding my wings against my body, as I cut through the air like an arrow.

I opened my wings at the last possible moment then landed safely on the porch of the house.

I walked inside to see my parents, Granny Smith, and Apple Bloom waiting for me.

Apple Bloom tackled me as tears formed in her eyes.

"We were so worried about you Spyro." She said as she wrapped her front legs around my neck

"I know, but I'm here now that's all that matters." I told her as I hugged her with one leg.

After a few minutes Applejack returned with a scowl on her face as she looked at me.

"Something wrong Applejack?" I asked her with a nervous smile.

She walked up to my and put a hoof on my chest.

"What were you thinking flying off like that, you had only just recovered from your condition and now we know Nightmare is inside you." She yelled in my face before I couldn't hold myself back anymore.

"I needed to relax for a moment ok, how do you think this is affecting me, I know I just recovered from a near death experience do you know how that made me feel knowing I could die at any moment the thoughts that ran through my mind, I thought of how this could affect Apple Bloom and all of you, and how do you think I feel knowing there is a monster begging to be free inside my very soul, the only reason I have been able to stop myself from screaming my lungs out was because I needed to be strong for not only Apple Bloom, but everypony in this house!" I screamed in her face as she backed off at every word, and finally after I got that off my chest I took a few deep breaths.

I didn't look at her as I looked at the floor. "Spyro I." She said regretfully but I stopped her right there by holding up a claw.

"Look, let's just go about our day and cool off we'll talk about this later ok." I said before walking out of the room to head to my bedroom.

After closing the door I collapsed on my bed not of exhaustion but of regret, i never wanted to tell in in Applejacks face but something in me just snapped, and now I was dealing with the consequences.

My eyes started to feel heavy as i struggled to keep them open then finally I felt asleep.