Dragonkin

“TEMPEST?!!!!!!!” said everyone in unison.

“HEH, hi guys,” Tempest said with a sheepish smile.

“Wait, you know her?” everyone asked at the same time

“Ah, Ms. Babbel, I was getting worried you were not going to make it,” Shenron said with relief.

“Sorry to keep you waiting, your highness, I was just trying to make a dramatic entrance to impress my stud muffin, over here,” Tempest said as she gave Spike a hug, making him very uncomfortable and earning murderous looks from the other girls present.

“Oh, forgive us have we met before?” asked Celestia

Tempest quickly let go of Spike and introduced herself “Pleasure to meet you, your highnesses, my name is Fabienne Babbel, but you can call me Tempest, I’m 18 years old, and I’m currently the head of the disciplinary committee and spy corps at Magma University,”

“A non-draconian at Magma U. never thought I’ll see the day,” said Supernova

“Long story, but she is one of my best students,” Shenron said proudly, “anyway, back to the matter at hand… Spike, Ember, I beg of both of you to please accept the role of Dragonlords… Spike, you won fair and square, but if you are so scared of not living long enough to be a proper Dragonlord, then you can rest assured that Ember will take care of everyone, she already acted like the Dragonlord and had done a great job, so what do you say?” asked Shenron

“There is only one problem, for that to be legal, Ember and I have to get married, and well… let’s just say I’m not her type,” Spike said looking at Ember, who was going pale with Spike’s every word.

“Oh, so my daughter had a type? God, please let it be a man!” Shenron said looking at Ember.

“Yes sir, and I don’t think he’ll appreciate me stealing his Girlfriend,” Spike said with a smirk, as Ember’s face started to turn red.

Shenron sat there quietly for a good minute, one thought in his head, “So, my daughter has a boyfriend, thank you, God, and here I was thinking she was going to be alone forever… wonder why I’ve never met him?”

‘Father? Are you ok?” asked Ember, as Shenron came back to his senses

“Yes, yes, I’m fine… I’m excellent... going back to the matter at hand… don’t worry about the marriage thing, we have been thinking of altering that rule anyway, so what do you guys think?” Shenron said

Spike and Ember looked at each other and decided to agree with the terms.

“Excellent, now, the second situation I wanted to discuss with all of you is… we have been suffering massive attacks by an unknown enemy, they’re not exactly big, but they are continues, and random, just 2 days ago a small platoon of soldiers from the Seaquestria, it was a fast attack but weak none the less, they only injured 2 guards, and they were minor scratches,” Shenron said

“Ok, now THAT is random,” said Discord

“And strange, why would Seaquestria attack a city so far away from their own domain, not to mention, if they were planning to invade their first target should’ve been New colt or even Coltbec, but why here?” asked Celestia.

“Simple,” Spike said making everyone look at him, “They are not real Seaquestrian soldiers, they must be doppelgangers, seaquestrians are mostly pacifists and prefer to avoid conflict as much as possible, plus they aren’t known for attacking other nations, they usually just send an envoy to negotiate peace,” Spike explained.

“So then what do you make of all this?” asked Shenron

“There are 2 possibilities, either someone is using different measures to make the Dragonlands declare war just like that, or I am taking away credit from your opponents,” Spike said

“The only logical idea, behind what you said is the first one, someone is trying to incriminate other nations and forcing us to start a war, but who? And why? Tempest please look into this a bit more… Tempest? TEMPEST!?” said Shenron

“Huh, What? Oh, yes your highness I’ll look into it personally,” Tempest said as her attention finally left Spike.

“Ok then, now Spike, Ember, please follow Agatha to the changing rooms, please,” Shenron said

“What for?” both of them asked at the same time

“To get into proper clothes, today I’m finally retiring, and as my last act, I must present the new Dragonlord, in this case, Dragonlords, I’ll see you all in 2 hours time for the ceremony, you are now dismissed,” Shenron said as everyone but Celestia, Luna, Supernova and Discord left.

“One question Torch, what’s with the new nickname?” asked Discord

“Oh, Torch wasn’t my nickname, it was my Dragonlord name, Shenron is what my friends call me… long story, I just thought changing my nickname to something more intimidating would be better,” Shenron said

“So? What do we call you?” asked Supernova

Don’t make me punch you,” Shenron said, getting angry.

Spike and Ember walked away with Agatha, while all the girls grabbed Tempest and pushed her away to talk, and the boys just went to the nearest arcade.

“I can’t believe you almost told my dad about him,” Ember said getting red

“You have to tell him someday, he is going to find out eventually,” Spike said in his emotionless voice.

After walking for another 3 minutes they finally arrived at the changing rooms.

“Here are your clothes,” Agatha said

“Thank you, ma’am,” Spike said politely

“Thanks, mom,” Ember said as Agatha walked away

“Wait… Mom?” asked Spike

“Yup, my dad’s head maid is also his wife… and my mom,” Ember said

“Talk about forbidden love,” Spike said sarcastically

“Actually, my mom and dad are actually childhood friends, but once my dad was appointed as Dragonlord, she thought that he’ll forget about her, so she decided to join the household as a maid, of course, the plan backfired since my dad used to go to her old house, and find it empty, it made him think she left, and he hated himself for that, and it was the same thing for 6 months, every day he would go to her house, every day she would go with him disguised as his personal maid… at this point, I just can’t believe that my dad hadn’t noticed that his head maid was mom, but he can be the densest motherfucker around, even more than you, and that’s something… anyway the last day my dad went to her old house, he decided to give up, and head home, he was heartbroken, but as fate will have it, my mom is a bit of a klutz sometimes, and that night as she was leaving my dad’s room she tripped on the carpet and fell on his lap, her veil, fell off, and well one thing led to another and 20 years later here we are, my older sisters and I, still I don’t know why my mom like to dress up as a maid, everyone knows she is the Dragonlord’s wife,” Ember said

“Maybe she likes the dress, and…” Spike began

“And what?” Ember asked impatiently

“Maybe... Your dad has a… maid… fetish,” Spike said brassing himself for a punch, which never came.

“You might be right, what about you, any fetishes?” Ember asked with a sly smile

“No… by the way, what do your sisters think of you being a dragonlord?” asked Spike

“Marie prefers medicine and prefers to become a doctor and Dahlia… well she is a confusing person, on one hand, she loves being a warrior, but on the other, she also loves being a housewife, so I’m kind of confused,” Ember said

“Why?” asked Spike

“Well, she married Jared Whitefang, another warrior who currently works as captain of the coin guard, and royal guard, and they have a 2-year-old son, but they are never home, it’s usually mom and me who take care of Ethan… my nephew,” Ember said

“I see nothing wrong with it, in my eyes, it makes the perfect practice,” Spike said

“Practice? For what?” asked Ember

“For when you have your own bundles of joy,” Spike said making Ember blush madly and clam up, “Oh, come on Ember, don’t tell me you’ve never thought about it,” Spike said

Ember just stood there motionless for a while, before saying “I… I… It’s… it’s not that I haven’t thought about it, I just don’t know if I have the patience for it, or what…”

“What he thinks about children… knowing him, he wouldn’t mind having a couple,” Spike said as he walked out of the room already dressed, leaving Ember alone, as she blushed madly at the thought.

WITH THE GIRLS, IN ANOTHER ROOM

“Ok, Tempest, spill it out,” Sunset said

“Spill, what out?” asked Tempest

“Everything between you and Spike,” Rarity said

“Oh, that, there is nothing to worry about, Spike and I are just friends…” Tempest said

“Ha, yeah thought so, still...” Gabby interrupted

“For now at least,” Tempest interrupted back, earning a look from the Sunset, Rarity, Fluttershy, Moondancer, and Gabby.

“What do you mean, for now?” asked Fluttershy with venom in her voice

“Well, Spike and I are destined to be together for eternity, he is my one and only,” Tempest said with a blush on her face.

With the mention of that Rarity and Sunset began to get angry, Fluttershy just stood there frozen, and Moondancer and Gabby just tried to make sense of what she meant. As for Pinkie, Twilight, AJ, RD, and Sugar Belle, they were sitting on the sofa munching on some popcorn Pinkie had brought, and were enjoying the scene unfolding.

“There is no way, you and Spike are eternal lovers, I’m his first after all,” Rarity said confidently

“So you were the whore that took his first, well big deal I can make him forget you in an instant with my own feminine charm,” Tempest said as she struck a sexy pose.

By this point, Rarity was ready to kill Tempest but Fluttershy intervened

“Tempest, even if you could make Spike forget about Rarity, you’re still rather late to the race for his heart, you see, Rarity was his first, Sunset was his second, I was his third, Gabby his fourth, and Moondancer his fifth, and due to the fact that we know he couldn’t choose one of us, we decided to create a harem… my point is, at most, you would only manage to become his sixth girlfriend,” she finished

“You girls claim to be his girlfriends but compared to me you don’t know much about him,” Tempest said in a challenging way.

“Ok, Ms. know it all, tell us what you know about Spike,” Sunset said

“Well… Spike’s current parents are his uncles, his favorite superhero is Spiderman, his favorite Video game is Ghost Recon, he doesn’t believe in the paranormal, his first ever video game was Zelda ocarina of time, his favorite author is Stephen King, he is ambidextrous do to breaking his left arm when he was 9, his favorite video game character is Cole MacGrath but you could say he also loves Banjo-Kazooie, his biggest dream is to one day be cured and have a family, when he was a kid he wanted to be a police officer, he is considered the densest person on the Dragonlands, the only reason he learned Japanese was because he didn’t want to be reading the subtitles on the screen, his favorite ice cream flavor is Pistachio, his favorite soda is Mountain Dew, he doesn’t like Rom-coms…”

And like that Tempest spent the next 30 minutes telling all of Spike’s secrets to the girls.

“His favorite movie is Black Panther but he also loves the Avengers series, he hates the Simpsons, his favorite song is “Lead me out of the dark”, he has been treated for ADHD, ADD, depression and anxiety disorders, he has a fetish for big boobs, he likes both classy and sporty girls, he finds nerdy girls attractive too, his biggest fear is to die and leave his lover and possible child alone, and he is terrified of a person called Applebloom…”

“Wait, what?” said AJ

“Ok, first off… can you blame me, second no one was supposed to know that,” Spike said as he walked past them in the hallway.

“What did Applebloom do to him for him to be terrified of her?” asked Sugar Belle

“It’s best you don’t know,” AJ said

“Ever since she developed her body she’s been trying to get in Spike’s pants, he is particularly afraid because once she actually crawled into his bed while he was sleeping naked, and almost went all the way with him if it wasn’t for the person you call Big Mac, plus she has claimed in several occasions that she and Spike are a couple, getting into fights with 2 other girls called Sweetie Belle and Babs Seeds,” Tempest answered making all the girls change their expressions to shock horror.

“This girl knows too much, she definitely is dangerous,” said Sunset

“Sweaty Belle? Don’t tell me she also likes my Spikey Wickey, if she even dares to flirt with him, she will be sorry,” said Rarity

“Applebloom and Babs, oh brother, I know Babs is a bit more composed but Applebloom, she can be a succubus when it comes to Spike, I mean she is almost as developed as me,” said AJ

“That was fun, good thing I don’t have this problem with Mackie… right?” Sugar Belle said in her head as she started to feel insecure all of a sudden.

“Tell me this, how did you and Spike meet?” asked Moondancer

“That’s a… very interesting story… do you really want to hear it?” asked Tempest as everyone nodded. “Ok then…”

VANHOOVER 4 YEARS AGO

“Back in the day, Vanhoover was the epicenter of the worst gang war in history, crime was at an all-time high with even vigilante gangs turning to crime, I belonged to a gang known as the Storm creatures, I was a lieutenant and right hand of the leader of that gang, his name was Kenneth Steward, but we called him the storm king. Like I mentioned before Vanhoover was a mess, there was so much crime that even the police had turned its back on people and created their own gangs, but there was one gang that was even more powerful than any other, they went by the name of The Rouge Flames, they were a vigilante gang, the best of the best, everyone wanted to defeat them, but they were basically unbeatable. One day The king told us that he was going to send some of our best men to fight for the territory that they protected (which was roughly around 68% of the whole town), the group was led by my then-boyfriend, Richard Xavier. That night they decided to strike, and headed for the central base of the Rouge’s territory, they thought it was going to be easy but…” Tempest narrated

“Dude, you sure it’s a good idea to go against one of the most powerful gangs with a group so small?” asked one of the guys in the group known as Grubber

“Yeah, strike fast, quietly, keep the punches simple and we will win this,” Richard answered

“I don’t trust this plan,” Said another member

“Too late to pussy out, we’re here, look there are some members down there, get ready to attack,” Richard said as he and his group arrived at liberty’s plaza, and saw there were only 4 members protecting the area, and didn’t look to be heavily armed.

“Are you sure about this?” asked Grubber

“We have bats, pipes and knives, they don’t have anything… ready… CHARGE!” screamed Richard.

With that they all charged towards the group of delinquents catching them by surprise, Richard swang his pipe towards one of the delinquents, and just as it was going to make contact with their head, He caught it.

“You know, attacking someone by surprise is not exactly brave,” said an emotionless serious voice

“I hope you and your friends are ready to dance,” said a female voice

With that Richard and his guys finally realized that who they were up against, Richard retreated to where the rest of his gang was.

“Listen, I have no intention of fighting tonight, so I’m giving you the chance to walk away, and we will forget about this whole situation,” said the emotionless voice

“Oh, come on man, that just wouldn’t be fun,” said another of the delinquents

“I concur, with my brother, they were nice enough, to come all this way, it would be unfair for us not to fight them,” said the other

“What is your call?” asked the female

Richard and his group just stood there, some of them were afraid but they hid it very well.

“There is no way I’m retreating, we have the numbers, and the weapons, so we won’t run, ATTACK,” said Richard as he and his group attacked the 4 members of the Rogues.

Richard lunged towards the central figure and started to hammer him with the pipe, he landed blows on his head, stomach and shoulders, and even one on his knee, but this guy didn’t go down he just continued to receiving every blow and not counter striking, Richard then pushed the guy into the fountain, and turned around, what he saw was terrifying, he saw as the female member grabbed to of his goons and broke one of the arms and legs of each like if they were twigs, at the other side he saw some of his men on the floor bleeding from their noses and mouths, while some others tried to stab or hit the other 2 figures.

“Was that all your strength? I mean you have enough reasons to be proud, I haven’t met a baby stronger than you, so congratulations,” said the guy, making fun of Richard’s short height.

“YOU MOTHERFUCKING BASTARD!” Richard screamed as he swang at the dude's head again, but this time his pipe was caught by the guy's hand.

“I believe it’s time for me to take this fight seriously, I already let you play long enough,” he said as he started to melt the pipe.

Unknown to everyone Grubber had managed to dial The King, telling him about the fight.

“I was 3 blocks away with my own group when the king called us,” Tempest narrated

“King, how can we help?” Tempest asked

“I need you to hurry and get to Liberty’s Plaza, I just received a call that the guys had made contact with Rogues…” King said over the phone

“So you would like us to head that way to assist in defeating the enemy?” asked Tempest

“Shut up! I need you to go there cause I think that the dumbass of your boyfriend picked a fight with the 4 terrors, and I don’t want to jeopardize our advance into their territory,” King finished and hung up the phone.

“When he told me that I went pale, I knew Richard doesn't know how to back out of a fight, so I told the other and ran towards the plaza,” Tempest continued narrating

Tempest and her group finally had the plaza insight, once they got to the steps, they saw their fallen friends all over the floor, unconscious or twisting in pain, they quickly ran towards them to help them.

“Rick, Rick!” Tempest cried out as she ran towards her fallen boyfriend.

“It’s a massacre… hey stop right there, fight us you damn cowards!” said one of the members of her group towards the silhouettes of 2 of the members that were running away.

“Stand down, we need to get them to…” Tempest said as she heard ambulances getting closer and closer.

“Tempest,” said Grubber as he crawled towards her

“Grubber, what happened?” she asked

“It was the girl, the “Empress” she did this to Rick,” Grubber said

“At that moment I looked towards the silhouettes that had almost disappeared, and I felt rage in every last cell of my body, I wanted revenge, but I cared more about helping my boyfriend and comrades survive their injuries,” Tempest explained.

“I just don’t understand,” Grubber said

“What?” Tempest asked

“Rick had started to fight with the Demon, but this guy was taking the blows like if they were nothing, then he pushed him into the fountain, and continued to fight against him, but now the Demon was just pushing him back, trying to make him stop fighting, then the Empress kicked him to the ground, and was about to strike finish him but was stopped by the Demon, Rick didn’t like that so he pulled out his knife and lunged at the Empress with it, but he ended up stabbing the Demon in his right arm, he knife actually stayed logged in his arm until he removed it, the Empress entered a fit of rage and just grabbed Rick and started to punch him mercilessly to the point she had to be restrained by the Demon, the Terror, and Beast, but she still tried to get lose and kill him, the Demon actually got close to Rick to see his condition and even called 911 then they heard you guys coming and started to run away,” Grubber said as both Police officers and medics arrived on the scene.

A whole month went by, Tempest was still obsessed with revenge, she did all she could to find out who the Empress was, but as soon as she was getting close to find out who she was, she got the devastating news that Rick had disappeared, and no one had seen him in at least 3 weeks, she was devastated and the thought that he left without telling her made her even angrier with the Empress, she thought that he had left because his honor had been gravely stained by the defeat.

After another week of searching, Tempest finally discovered the identity of the empress, “Elizabeth Rachel “Ember” Fafnir, age 14, a first-year student at Vanhoover High… well what a coincidence, Vanhoover high is Mareview's biggest rival… I will make you pay,” Tempest said.

“Since that Monday I spent 5 days tormenting her, sending threatening emails, messages, hacking her social media and uploading fake images, I even destroyed her bike, but then on Friday that same week I had enough of fighting from afar so I decided to fight her head-on, so I told her to meet me at Vanhoover’s King Edward Park to finish this for good, and just as I thought she came,” Tempest continued narrating

“So you’re the one behind all of this” Ember said as she laid eyes on Tempest

“That’s right, and it’s time we finish this,” Tempest said as she lunged at Ember.

Ember easily dodged the attack and started to defend herself, blocking punch after punch, thrown by Tempest. After fighting non-stop for 5 minutes, Tempest decided to use magic, and she fired her skill “Black lightning” towards Ember repeatedly, none stop, Ember could only duck out of the way and hope that she wouldn’t be hit by the lightning.

Tempest continued to fire until she ran out of Magicka, Ember then got up from the ground and supported herself with a flag pole. Tempest then pulled out a knife.

“This ends now, you bitch!” Tempest said

“Stop this right now!” came a male voice.

Both Tempest and Ember turned and saw three figures running towards them, it was the Demon, the Beast, and the Terror.

“Spike stay out of this!” Ember said

“Negative, there is nothing left to prove,” Spike said in his emotionless voice

“Oh, but there is, she will pay for what she did to my boyfriend, even if it's the last thing I do!” Tempest said as she lunged at Ember with the knife.

Spike quickly used some of his fire to melt the knife’s blade, angering Tempest.

“Stay out of this,” Tempest screamed at Spike

“No, if you have a problem fix it with me, Your boyfriend did stab me, remember,” Spike said as he showed her the stab wound in his arm.

“Listen, I don’t know what they told you, but the only reason we fought your boyfriend and his friends was because they came up to us for no reason,” The Terror said

“Yeah right, you want me to believe that, I know they went to claim your territory, and you retaliated,” Tempest said

‘Territory? The Plaza doesn’t even belong to us, it’s Blue moth territory, we were only hanging out… it is true that we did heckle your friends, but Spike told them he didn’t want to fight, he even avoided to fight him for a long time,” The Beast said

“So then why did he go there?” Tempest asked

“My guess, your boss told them the wrong info, or he was an idiot who was just looking for a fight with anyone,” Ember said “We only acted in self-defense”

“So then why did he leave?” Tempest said as she started to cry

“Your love life is not my problem, come on guys let’s go grab a bite,” Ember said as she and the Beast and Terror walked away, leaving Tempest in tears.

‘What’s his name? Your boyfriend?” asked Spike

“Richard Xavier, Why?” asked Tempest

“I know him, ever since the fight, I’ve tried to talk to him to tell him that all’s forgiven, I even went to his school, and I finally was able to make peace with him,” Spike said

“Lier, we go to the same school, and he hasn’t gone to class in almost a month,” Tempest said

“Really, which school do you go to?” he asked

“Mareview,” she answered

“That’s not the school I went to, I can take you to him, on Monday, meet me at the metro station, we’ll go together,” he said

“Why Monday?” she asked

“We have exams until 12 that day, and I believe your school is doing the same thing,” Spike explained

“How do I know if to trust you?” Tempest said

“You’ll just have to have faith in me,” Spike said walking away.

And so the weekend went by fast and Monday arrived almost unannounced, just as Spike said he did have exams that day but he was finished by 10 AM, then he decided to walk towards the metro station.

He arrived at around 11 AM since his school was far away from Vanhoover Centre Mall, and so the waiting game began. After 5 minutes Spike got bored and got out his guitar, and started to play

Spike actually managed to gain quite the crowd and were offering him money, but he refused it, saying he was only playing cause he was bored.

Just as Spike was going to continue playing he heard someone say.

“So you can play and sing? Color me impressed,” said Tempest

“I’m not the best but it’s fun,” Spike said as he looked at Tempest who was wearing a sports jacket, and pants, plus sneakers. Spike got up and put his guitar away, “Ready?” he asked, receiving a nod from Tempest, and walked to catch the metro.

During the 45 minute trip, Spike and Tempest had a pleasant, though small, talk in which they learned a bit from each other.

“Why did you join the gang?” asked Spike

“I had nothing better to do… I moved here with my mom after my parents divorced 3 years ago. It was never a nice situation, I loved my dad dearly, but he and my mom were always fighting, and one day he just had enough and gave my mom divorce papers. If you’re wondering, no, I don’t know what they were arguing about, so then they divorced and my mom moved here to be closer to my grandparents. She was always promising me that we would always be together, but that only lasted 4 months, I always suspected it, but I didn’t want to believe it. I grew suspicious of why my mom returned home so late at night, so one day I decided to follow her, and sure enough, I managed to confirm my suspicions, my mom had been going in speed dates, for almost over a month, I followed her for 2 weeks in secret, and every time, it was someone different, until he came along,” Tempest said

“Who?” asked Spike

“Some business tycoon that called himself “Gladmane” but after I did some digging I discovered that his real name was George Maddison, he had 3 failed marriages before my meeting my mom, and he had 6 children, to add insult to injury he was 20 years my moms senior, but that didn’t matter to her, after another 4 months of dating him my mom left for Las Pegasus with him, and abandoned me, the last thing I heard was that they were now married and I had 2 new siblings,” Tempest said with tears in her eyes.

Spike just remained quiet as she continued

“I tried to contact my dad, but when I managed to find him I found out that he too was married to a younger woman, and had children with her… My grandparents took care of me and even enrolled me in Mareview private academy… but my Grandma died last year at the age of 90 and my grandpa died at the beginning of this school year… the headmaster of the academy felt pity for me so he allows me to stay in the dorm free of charge, but this is my last year of school I’m going to have to move out and see where life takes me, I joined the gang cause they were the first ones to treat me like family, what about you?” asked Tempest

“Family tradition,” Spike said

“What?” Tempest asked in disbelief

“For Draconians, being in gangs or at least involved in some sort of fighting is mandatory as it helps us get a grip of our powers and teamwork skills, of course, my parents are really strict with the “No killing, no Stealing thing” that’s why I joined,” Spike said and from there on they remained silent until they reached their stop.

After walking for 15 minutes they finally arrived at Richmare Secondary school, just in time to see every student leaving.

“This is it, do you see him?” asked Spike

Tempest looked around towards the big wave of students leaving for summer break, but couldn’t find her prince.

“There he is!” she said until she finally saw him, and started to walk towards him, her heart filled with happiness, she was about to call out his name but then a girl ran up to him, to which he greeted her with a hug and a passionate kiss on the lips, then they walked away hand in hand.

Tempest just froze, her heart broke to a million pieces, her prince, her first love, had forgotten about her so easily and had found another girl.

“Why did you not tell me?” Tempest said

“Cause I knew you weren’t going to believe me, plus, the old saying says “seeing is believing” that why I brought you here,” Spike explained

“So that’s it, he leaves without telling me and gets another girl?” Tempest said shocked

“That’s where you’re wrong, that girl you saw kissing your “boyfriend” has been dating him for almost 2 years, he was actually cheating on her with you,” Spike said

“How do you know?” asked Tempest as tears fell from her eyes

“After the fight, I went to visit him at the hospital, I even asked his parents for forgiveness and explained the situation… they were angry, yes, but mostly with him, that’s when that girl Alexis, came rushing into the room… I don’t know if Ember’s blow to the head made his brain start working, or if he just had too much guilt in him, but he started to sing, he came clean with his parents and Alexis, about everything, skipping school to be at your school, his gang involvement, and even his cheating with you only to have the power inside that gang, you can imagine that she was furious, but he begged for forgiveness, with tears in his eyes, and she forgave him, that same day he left town and moved closer to this school… Now he is an honor roll student and top of his class,” Spike finished.

“I don’t believe you… he said he loved me, that jerk… I’ll make him pay,” Tempest said as her magic started to get out of control.

Spike feared that she would go crazy so he did the only thing he could think of, he lunged at her and hugged her.

“Tempest… I know you’re hurt, but doing this won’t make you better than him, remember “Forgive but don’t forget” believe me I know how it feels,” Spike said

“I don’t believe you anymore,” Tempest said as her powers got even more out of control.

“Tempest… tell me what do I gain from lying to you… ever since I was 8 I’ve been on death row, living with the constant fear that my body will give out on me any second, and that I would become either a real Demon or ash… there is no worse feeling than knowing you’re going to die and there is nothing you can do about it,” Spike said as Tempest powers finally started to calm down.

“What are you talking about?” she asked

“Rage-Growth Syndrome, I’ve been suffering from it since I killed the Bahamut at the Crystal Empire,” Spike said, still hugging Tempest.

“Ok, I believe that no one would ever lie about that syndrome… can you stop hugging me, it’s getting kind of awkward,” Tempest said as Spike let go of her

“Now what are you going to do?” asked Spike

“I don’t know,” Tempest said as tears started to fall from her eyes.

Spike felt bad for her so he took out his notebook and wrote down his phone number, “I know it’s not much… but… if you ever need to talk to someone just call me, I’m always willing to listen and help,” Spike said, giving her the piece of paper.

Tempest grabbed the paper and looked at it, but her pride wouldn’t allow her to thank him

“Just how much of an idiot do you think I am, you’re my enemy, why would you even help me?” she asked, angry.

“Cause I’m not going to allow someone to self destruct while living a lie, I’ve seen it before and it’s not a nice path, but it’s your choice,” Spike said in his emotionless voice.

“Ha… don’t make me laugh, you brought me here just for me to become miserable and then seduce me to fall for you and turn my back on the King… well you failed,” Tempest said

“I think you misunderstand, I don’t hold any romantic feelings towards you nor do I care if you leave your gang, my reason for my acts have already been explained… All I want is for you to open your eyes and stop being a puppet of a lunatic who sends his men to their deaths,” Spike said

“What?” asked Tempest

“Your “EX,” told me that the reason he went to the plaza that night,” Spike said

“The spit it out,” She said

“The King had told him to go to the plaza and “erase” some people just because they were dangerous for the gangs' survival, “Snitches” as we call them, that’s when I told him that, we had received a message from the King to talk peace and end this gang war once and for all, we accepted and agreed to meet at the plaza, which was neutral territory, we waited for him to arrive but only your EX and his friends arrived and attacked us when I visit him I asked him why he did it and at first he said “Just following orders” but then he told me that he was planning on quitting the gang, he and his squad, and he actually told this to the King, who apparently took it rather well, to well, in fact, he said that he thanked them for their service, and to do him the favor of doing one last job,” Spike finished

“So what, he let them go,” Tempest said

“Tempest, you’re a smart girl, I think you can add 2 and 2 together,” Spike said

Tempest remained silent for a few seconds, then her eyes widen in realization

“You're lying!” she said

“I wish I was,” Spike said

With that Tempest took off running, tears in her eyes, but not of fear, but rage, she wanted answers, and she wanted them now.

Tempest ran all the way to the metro station, got on the first one that arrived, and headed for the gangs hideout.

When she got there she realized that there was no one there, so she waited for The King to arrive.

He finally arrived 5 hours later, and he wasn’t too pleased to see her.

“Tempest, what do you want?” he asked

“Answers,” she said

“About what,” he answered

“About the reason, you sent Rick to fight the 4 terrors,” she said menacingly

“Oh, that… well, Tempest, I believe both you and I know how this works, once you enter a gang, the only way out is death, he and his friends wanted out, and I didn’t want any loose ends so I sent him on a suicide mission, I must admit I really disappointed they didn’t die, do I regret my actions?... no. not in the slightest,” he said while laughing evilly

“You monster,” Tempest screamed as she fired her magic towards him, but he dodged it easily

“So you want to fight? Bring it,” he said

Tempest then started to shoot at the King but he dodged every attack.

“Ha, face it, there is no way you can hit me, I’m more powerful than you’d ever be,” he said

Tempest just got even angrier and she fired her magic at him, to which he reacted by firing his magic at her.

The clash of magic powers was destroying the base, but Tempest, was losing Magicka faster than King, and his magic was about to engulf her, but then Spike’s face and words came into her mind “I’m not going to allow someone to self destruct while living a lie, I’ve seen it before and it’s not a nice path, but it’s your choice,” and with that Tempest used all her remaining Magicka to push Kings magic back into his staff, making it overload and explode sending both Tempest and King flying through walls and out of the run-down building as it collapsed.

Tempest awoke in a hospital bed 2 hours later, as she looked around her eyes finally made contact with the other person in the room.

“What are you doing here?” she asked

“They found my phone number in your jacket pocket, and decided to call me, I told them that we were friends, and I even faked calling your parents to grant me permission to see you,” Spike said emotionlessly.
“Ha, Your quite clever, props for that,” Tempest said

“You know you never answered my question earlier, but now that you know for yourself, I ask again, what are you going to do now?

Tempest remained quiet; she didn’t know how to answer, or what to answer.

“I don’t know, leave in the streets, or in an orphanage, maybe get a job and save to buy a ticket to the Dragonlands to live with my other Grandparents, I don’t know, all I know is that I’ve lost it all,” she said

Spike looked at her getting sad and said “You know, a friend once told me that we never lose everything,” Spike said as he got up.

“Like what? Faith? Hope? What do we never lose?” she asked angrily

“A choice,” Spike said as he walked out of the room to never come back

Tempest just laid there on the hospital bed trying to make sense of what Spike meant, then her eyes landed on her cellphone, and a paper card that was laying on top of it.

She grabbed it and read it “Drake family scholarship, apply here, tell us your story,” Tempest looked at the door and then back at the card, then she grabbed her phone and dialed the number.

“I talked to Mr. Drake, about my situation, and I won the scholarship to attend Dragon High, he even both me a ticket to the Dragonlands and told my grandparents about my situation, and I was welcomed with opened arms, later I learned that Spike’s last name was Drake and when I tried to thank him I was told he had transferred schools, that night at the hospital was the last time I talked to him, until today, but I never stopped loving him,” Tempest said

All the girls had tears on her eyes, and they couldn’t stop loving the story.

“That’s our Spikey for you, always helping, I’m so glad I fell in love with him,” Rarity said

“Say, do you girls want to see him perform in a musical?” asked Tempest

This caught the attention of all the girls.

“He was in a musical?” they all asked

“Yeah, when he was 12 he had to play the younger version of the main character, that’s when he became an actor, his Mom/Aunt gave me the video,” she said as she pressed play to the song

“Oh he looks so cute,” Sunset said

“And he sings very beautifully,” Fluttershy said

“I wonder if our kids would look as cute as him… was that out loud?” said Rarity as she turned red, earning a nod from the girls

“Don’t feel ashamed Rares, I’m sure all of our kids will be cute,” Moondancer said

“I wonder who would get pregnant first?” said Fluttershy, this made Rarity, Sunset, Fluttershy, Moondancer, Gabby, and even Tempest, to look at each other in a determined manner.

“Girls, the ceremony is about to start,” Ember said as she walked past them.

With that they all got up and headed toward the great hall when they got there they made their way to Spike.

“How do you feel?’ asked Twilight

“Weird,” Spike answered

“Don’t be, you’ll be a great Lord,” Rarity said

“Thanks, by the way, what were you talking about with Tempest?” he asked

They all told him about the story and about her knowing his likes and dislikes, which made Spike turn pale.

“Is there something wrong darling?” asked Rarity

“How does she know all that, I never told her, and most of those things happened after I left,” Spike said as Ember came and dragged him towards the balcony to be presented.

The girls just turned towards Tempest who was now sitting down in the great hall, their faces were pale.

“We must keep her away from Spike, for his own good,” They all said as they walked towards their seats for the presentation to begin.

“Loyal residents of the Dragonlands, for 30 years I have ruled over you, and it has been a great honor, but alas, change must come sooner or later, and it is time for me to give up the crown to the new Dragonlords, yes that's right, from now on the Dragonlands will be in the capable hands of both Elizabeth Rachel Fafnir, my youngest daughter, and her best friend and co-winner of the Dragonlord tournament Shane Alexander Drake,” said Torch/Shenron as Ember and Spike walked onto the balcony as the crowd cheered for them, as torch used a spell on the crown and staff and it multiplies into 2 of them, and handed them to Spike and Ember. “Welcome your new rulers!” Torch said as the crowd once again went wild.

“I’m proud of you dear,” said Ember’s mom “And you to Spike, you parents are down there you know,”

Spike looked down and saw his parents, Kalleb, Yuki and his nephews all in the crowd.

Spike was about to head towards them, when the emergency alarms started to go off.

Everyone quickly looked towards the monitors and saw a large group of Canterlot soldiers marching towards the city.

Everyone’s eyes fell on Celestia, Discord and Luna

“Don’t look at us, we’re as confused as you are,” Discord said as he changed into his armor, followed by Supernova and many other warriors, while the rest of people hurried to the nearest shelter.

Spike turned to Ember who was looking at the screen

“Ember?” he asked

“Spike please tell me it’s my eyes playing tricks on me,” she said as a tear fell from her eyes

Spike came closer and saw what she meant, after using his ability “the eyes of truth”, “All I hope is that there is a logical explanation,” he said as he changed to his fighting gear, followed by Ember and Torch.

“Everyone, get into defensive positions, don’t let them enter the city,” roared Whitefang as he and the rest of the Guard headed for all the city entrances.

“What do we do?” asked Twilight

“Defend the town, but make sure not to kill anyone ok?” said Spike as the girls morphed into their armors and headed to the city entrances

Spike then turned to Ember, she had tears falling down her face

“Ember, I don’t want to believe it too, but crying is not going to save us or him, so wipe the tears of your face and get ready, we might still be able to save,” Spike said as he left

“I just hope it’s all a bad dream,” Ember said as she hurried to the battleground.