Dragonbourne

It took them a
long journey before they arrived back at Lioness city. Spike had made sure to spare their ration's, as they were almost out, hoping to get more from The Ringmaster. Spike went to the secret, business area in the long dark alleyway which led him to the underground area his business partner first took him to. Chrysalis followed close behind, being completely clean after she found a nearby lake to freshen herself up after her time with her master. Spike looked at The Ringmaster who looked up from his workbench, sensing his business partner's arrival.

"Ah....good to see you again young Dragonbourne, glad that you are able to come to do the job, but I'm guessing you need more ration's?" The Ringmaster asked, as Spike looked at him with complete suspicion.

"How exactly did you know I was going to ask you for ration's?" Spike asked, as the Ringmaster chuckled.

"When it comes to your powers Dragonbourne, it takes time for you to fully master your potential, with each demon dragon you defeat, the more powerful you become. This power system that I'm talking about is a part of you power's that work in way's, that you have yet to learn, or in a comic's case, you could say (level up)" The Ringmaster smiled, as Spike looked at him with curiosity.

"And how exactly did my victory, made me learn a few new thing's that I couldn't do?" Spike asked, as The Ringmaster grinned.

"That's where the job comes in....there is one of the big Lioness museum's that is going to be open tonight. There is a powerful dragon artifact that look's like, a tiny white diamond....that diamond will help you out on your journey, but you have to steal it from this specific museum that has it on display. Right now their is a mafia that have been disguised, as part of the guard's to steal the gem with the alarm off. Bust in, kill every mafia member you see with your power's, and then get out....one more thing I should mention....in your Dragonbourne form it seem's the wings you had on earlier, are now trying to enter a stage of evolution....for now, you can't fly."

The Ringmaster explained, as Spike chuckled.
"Well then, I had better make this worth while" Spike smiled, as he made sure to let his plan be thought out before going to do The Ringmaster's job.

*****
The lonely security guard seem to be walking down the hall's of the museum near the end of the day. Truthfully, he wasn't really alone, as the other security officer was helping him out. They each checked the final part's of the museum, and making sure no one would steal anything, while the guard's themselves were on security. The final pony guard, let the light on his horn dim, as he walked up to the other guard, and waved. "Hey man, everything on my end finally checked out, and it's all good...anything on your end?" The pony guard asked, as the dragon guard smiled.

"Nah man.....everything is all clear, typical Lioness museum's, they are alway's so quiet" The dragon smiled, as the pony laughed.

"At least our musuem hasn't been hit by any mafia yet, but it's only a matter of time before we run out of luck" The pony smiled, as the dragon rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, I am glad that the Mafia are sticking their own business into other places, but if it weren't for the Mafia this place would be too quiet at night" The dragon smiled, as the pony chuckled.

"Good thing we have you on patrol, and a pony guard doing security up in the loft with those camera's....it make's everything safer" The pony smiled.

"Yeah, Diddo that" The dragon agreed, as the pony looked at him.

"Hey, you ever hear about the albino guy....The Dragonbourne, they say he saved a town of innocent ponies from demon's" The pony asked, as the dragon scoffed.

"He's just a myth, it's not like he's real" The dragon snarled, as the pony guard smiled.

"Alright, well it's time for me to take off, you got everything taken care of.....see ya" He smiled, as the dragon guard waved at him, while the pony checked himself out, left, and walked home. The dragon guard made sure that everything was in the correct order before opening a private channel.

"Homeroom, this is Lookout one, ready to proceed with the operation" He said through a walkie talkie, as the pony assigned to watching the camera's....smiled.

"This Homeroom, I've hardwired the camera's so that they only watch you, and have turned off the security alarm, continue Lookout one" He replied through the comm's, as the dragon made a "Come here" hand gesture, as many Mafia ponies, and other species came out of the shadow's with their weapon's in hand just in case.

"Alright boy's the diamond's not too far, let's get it, and ditch this place" The dragon smiled, as they all nodded before breaking the glass case of the strange white diamond that seemed to pulse with a chameleon energy. They grabbed the small diamond, and put it into a small case. "Homeroom, package is secure, we're waiting on the final check from you over?" He asked through the walkie talkie. Silence, he didn't hear anything on the other end. "Homeroom, respond" He replied, as on the other end of the comm's, the disguised mafia guard couldn't speak with Spike's sword impaled through his chest.

Spike checked the map to where he was to where the camera was showing his enemies who had his prize. "Gotcha" He smiled, before disappearing from view. Back at the same place, the dragon himself was panicking not hearing from Homeroom.

"Something's wrong....Homeroom is not responding, everyone stay sharp, I've got the feeling that we aren't alone" The dragon snarled, while pulling out a pistol. Spike emerged from the wall nearby, like a Chameleon revealing itself from it's positon. All of them turned to the white dragon with their pistol's armed. "QUICK OPEN FIRE!!!!!!!" One of them shouted, as both of them began firing their gun's. Time slowed down for Spike, as his super speed kicked in. His body became super blurry, as he smiled before slicing every bullet in half, coming to a complete stop.

"FOOOOLLL'S!!!!!!" Spike roared, using his super speed, to run back, and forth...turning almost every single mafia being into an explosion of blood, gut's, and organ's that littered the floor. Spike stopped in front of the dragon disguised as a guard, and split his pistol in half. "Pathetic, you call yourself a dragon, and yet you carry a stupid pistol, wasting the power you carry" Spike snarled, as the dragon before him, looked like he was about to pee himself. Spike raised his sword high, as it glowed in it's huge bright white energy.

"Your not even worthy to breathe in the air, that your body so badly need's to survive" Spike snarled before slicing the dragon's head off. The dead mafia dragon body collapsed to the floor, as he made is wav over to the white gem that one of the mafia Equines were carrying, but also seeing that it survived. The white gem was glowing like his dragon form, longing to become whole with him. He had made the camera footage of him, killing the mafia, and stealing the gem for himself for the authorities of this town to discover. "I'm outta here" He scoffed, as he used his super speed to go out the front door, and race to where he needed to go.

*****
"Perfect.....you have finally come back with the gem I seek.....good job Dragonbourne, and thank's to you, I have a bit more control of this cities underworld than I previously did" The Ringmaster smiled, as Spike stepped forward.

"I've got you what you wanted, now you need to pay up, and get me the supplies I need" Spike told him, as The Ringmaster smiled. "Oh I can so more than give you enough supplies.....I managed to improve your cart, so both of you should be carrying over two months of food in there for your travel's, and I've even thrown a list of more of those demon dragon's for you to hunt. Plus, there's a spare royal room I have you to use, and it's going to require the help of your slave" The Ringmaster explained, as Spike nodded before turning to Chrysalis.

"Come on Chrysi, I'll be needing your help" He told her.

"Right away Master" She replied eagerly, as she began to walk over with them, curious of what this was suppose to be like. The Ringmaster led them to a very nice room, as he stepped to the side, and turned to Spike.

"Dragonbourne, please lay down on the bed belly first, and have your slave sit on top of you" The Ringmaster motioned, as Spike nodded before doing, as he told, while also telling Chrysalis his advice. "Okay, now to get to work....." The Ringmaster smiled, as he pulled out the white gem that Spike had stolen which was now pulsing brightly. He reached down, and opened a secret compartment on the collar on Spike's body that was the shape of the diamond. The compartment closed, as Spike felt something full of bright liquid being injected into his body. Once it had finished, the diamond compartment from his collar withered away, as a pair of ancient dragon symbol's appeared on his back.

"Excellent, your ready for your next evolving technique, now Chrysalis hear's where you come in....." He explained, as the ancient symbol's on Spike's back began to re-arrange like the gears of a clock. ".....Changeling, in order for you to trigger the next evolution process, the ancient symbol's you need have to change into a number. When finished this number will turn into a tiny ancient tattoo on his back that translate to the number. You can use your hand's to take apart each symbol, and form it into the number 1, then the next evolution will be 2, and so on.....considering the different types of species....he will have 18 evolution's total....the 18th only appearing after The Demon Lord is slain."

The Ringmaster explained. Chrysalis nodded, calmly using her hand's to touch the magical floating symbol's on Spike's back. Each change, and morphing part, made Spike growl, groan, and almost scream painfully, as the evolution began to change his body. "Good, it look's like you got this young Changeling, I'll leave you two alone, feel free to make yourselves comfortable" The Ringmaster nodded before leaving the room. Chrysalis was mesmerized by the work she was doing, as she concentrated on helping her master's evolution.

Multiple times each symbol was taken apart, and morphed ever so slightly, until it finally turned into the number 1. The number morphed into a Ancient Hyroglpyhic tattoo on Spike's body, as it appeared near his upper left shoulder. His body began to glow very bright, as Spike roared loudly. He fired a bright, albino white fire breath with black, and red part's to the flame until it formed into a white Dragon egg that floated to the ground. Spike took a huge breather, as he sighed, quickly getting use to the change.

Master is so unique, he makes me so happy Chrysalis thought, as Spike stared at the dragon egg. "Huh....I don't know how to hatch it" Spike thought, as he put the egg on one of the blanket's on the bed, as he looked at it over, and over before breathing fire on it. The egg got a tiny bit warm, but not warm enough. "If it's not my firebreath, then what will make this little guy hatch?" Spike thought, before he realized he had a second type of energy to use. He fired golden lightning from his hand's at the egg.

Instead of it being destroyed, the egg began feeding on the golden lightning's energy, as the red gem's on the egg, began to glow brighter, and brighter the more he fed it.
Spike continued feeding the dragon egg, until the red gem's began pulsing with blood red light. A huge crack formed on the dragon egg before it hatched. The dragon was rather small, almost the size of the worm, but also looked a bit bird like.

"So what exactly do you do little guy?" Spike asked, as the baby, white, and black dragon jumped into Spike's hand, and answered his question. It went into his right palm, before latching on it with his claw's, becoming a tiny, gauntlet on his hand's. The tiny dragon opened it's mouth, and spewed a dark purple magical flame that acted like a flamethrower. "Nice" Spike smiled, as the tiny dragon un-wrapped itself, before crawling behind Spike. The baby dragon went to his back, jumping off him, and growing in mid-air before fusing with Spike's back, forming his own pair of demon dragon wing's that were white...with black stripes...the same wing's that he had previously on his back.

Spike smiled, loving the new feeling on his back. "Now I can get used to this" Spike smiled, as he heard Draco speak to him again.

"Sorry, I've been silent, but I like being your weapon. This is my pet Dragon, that comes from our evolution, the more you evolve the different evolution's you have. What you stole from the museum is called a Dragonbourne gem, my guess is The Ringmaster has a tracker that know's the energy of these gem's when they become active, and for us to track down, and grab before any other parties of the criminal underworld get's their claw's on it" Draco explained, as Spike smiled.

"Then he, and I will be doing business more often, after hunting more Dragon's.....it's time we continue our journey" Spike smiled, as Draco nodded.

"Then by all mean's...do so , until your next evololution....I'll be silent" Draco explained, before becoming completely silent. Both Chrysalis, and Spike began to pack up, as they came out of the room, turning toward's The Ringmaster.

"I gave you some more money, for you to continue your journey, and already extracted my cut, it's already packed for you two to journey to the next town" The Ringmaster explained, as Spike tipped his head to him.

"A pleasure doing business with you Ringmaster" Spike toke him, as the pony smiled.

"Until next time Dragonbourne" He smiled, as Spike, and Chrysalis took their leave. After they had left, the news of Spike's robbery, and murder had spread....along with his deed of saving that one village. Many species were now questioning who this mysterious renegade dragon was....is he a criminal, or a hero?