As Twilight stretched Dazzle's wings for all they were worth, she stopped suddenly as a jolt of power passed through her. Judging from Dazzle's reaction, she had felt it as well. She gave Amber a concerned look. "What was that?"

Amber shrugged her head as she and Blister watched the pair. "That was something new for me too. Pretty close too if I felt it right. Las Pegasus again, maybe? I haven't looked at a map in a while. I felt something smaller a few days ago. Right after Celestial's awakening. "

Dazzle gave Blister a puzzled look. "Does it always feel like this? I felt both of them as well." Twilight nodded, showing she had as well.

Blister shook her head. "No. This felt different for some reason. But I can't say why. It almost felt like when Orchid and Lilly joined with their dragons. And yet, not at the same time. I do not understand it. We have felt Celestial joining her dragon. This is something else."

Amber rolled her eyes as she stretched their wings. "We can figure this out later. Right now comes the fun part." She smirked. "I've taught you everything I know, Twilight. Time to see if you've been paying attention."

Twilight frowned. "Hey. I always pay attention when learning anything."

Amber giggled as she took flight, forcing Twilight and Dazzle to do the same. "Maybe. But this is not the same thing as being Princess Celestia's personal student. I won't hold back or coddle you. If you can't keep up, then you don't deserve to be a Knight or even be a princess."

Twilight growled. Oh, that was it. Question her all you want, but the moment you even insinuated that Princess Celestia had made a mistake in making her a princess or anything else? Then the gloves were off. With a roar, she forced Dazzle into an attack.

Amber smirked as she directed Blister to dodge, but felt her heads snap to the side as Dazzle slapped her with her tail, earning a growl from her dragon. Grabbing the dragon's tail in her claws Blister threw the other pair to the ground with a resounding crash heard for miles around.

Twilight groaned. Okay, That had hurt. She watched as Amber flew higher and higher, before diving again, a look of pure bloodlust in her eyes. Twilight watched as the filly's cheeks puffed wider and wider, readying her breath weapon.

And Twilight loved it. Her own blood was running hot. Maybe it was the thrill of combat, or the power of Magic pulsing threw her and Dazzle, but she did not care anymore. Right now, every part of her being demanded blood, and Twilight was more than happy to give them it, even as Amber and Blister unleashed a cloud of poison gas on them.

Twilight responded even before she could think of it, unleashing a wave of flame from her pony and dragon mouths. The clash of the opposing breath weapons created a shockwave that flattened trees for miles around them.

Amber felt herself being pushed back, inch by inch. How? Since when was Twilight so strong? Nothing had ever been able to push her back before. It was a rather novel experience, but it only made her and Blister angrier as they put all of their power into their attack.

After a moment, however, Twilight and Dazzle's attack ended, earning confused looks from her fellow Knight and dragon as they cut off their own attack, and found empty skies before them. Had Twilight really run off? That was really lame of her if she had.

With a loud pop of teleportation, Twilight and Dazzle appeared right behind Blister. Amber barely had time to turn her head before Dazzle grabbed them, and threw them off into the distance, she and Twilight quickly behind them.

Amber groaned as they crashed to the ground some distance away. That had hurt. No more mister nice Knight. But before she could do anything, Twilight and Dazzle landed on top of her and Blister, knocking the wind out of them.

Twilight smirked evilly as she leaned down till she was snout to snout with Blister. "Do you yield yet, my little pony? Or do I need to knock you around some more?"

Amber glared at her, fighting to break free, but froze as soon as she felt a claw next to her filly head, poised to cut it off if Twilight so much as twitched. No one had ever been able to do this to her but once. Only Lumena had. How?

Twilight's smirk grew by the second as her claw came closer and closer to the filly's head. "I can do this all day, Amber. Don't think that I can't What about you? My blood is up, and I am all for taking this to a messy end. Are you?"

Amber gulped. She rather liked staying alive, thank you very much. Finally, she relaxed and smirked as well. "Okay, okay. I yield. I rather like my head to still be attached after all of this. You passed."

Twilight blinked, as she finally came to her senses and what she was about to do. leaning back, before getting off of Blister's body. "I am sorry about that. But I was ready to rip you to shreds. I do not know why. I've only been this angry when I fought Tirek."

Amber nodded, as she and Blister got back to their feet. "It's your Dragon Blood. You have it no matter what form you're in. The angrier you are, the more powerful you become. You're strong as it is, Twilight, being an alicorn. Add on whatever the Element of Magic is giving you..."

Blister nodded, her confusion growing at one thing in particular. "Since when could a dragon teleport? I've never heard of it being possible."

Dazzle could only shrug. "I don't know how I did it. Only that we needed to, and we did it." She looked up at Twilight, who could only shrug as well. "But it could come in handy in the future if we can do it again."

Twilight nodded as well. "What happens now then?"

Amber smiled. "You tell me. I've got nothing else to teach you. And I am done being alone. I'm going back to Ponyville with you, Twilight. My home is long gone, and my family passed into the Summer Glens a long time ago. It's time I stop living in the past."

Twilight's smile softened as she spread her wings and took to the air once more, followed soon after by Amber and Blister. "Well then. Follow me. I have plenty of spare rooms in my castle. But we need to find a place for Dazzle and Blister to stay, and I know just the place. I hope it's still empty."

Amber and blister shared a confused look, before speeding off to try and keep up with Twilight and Dazzle.

Hours later, the group landed on what was now known in Ponyville as Dragon Mountain. Even now, many months after the incident, Twilight could still remember each and every bump and bruise she had received. She could still see the marks everywhere when she and her friends faced the drake.

Amber looked around as Twilight lead them inside. The cave was rather spacious. Plenty of room for Blister to stretch out when she wanted to. As they came to the back of the cave, she could see where the last occupant had laid. "No treasure? I was kinda hoping he had left it."

Twilight shook her head. "Apparently not. I had wondered what had happened to it. Maybe he came back and took it all? It does not matter now. Dazzle and Blister should be able to fit in here together."

To make sure, however, Dazzle lay down in the same spot as the previous dragon. She fit rather easily. But when Blister tried to fit in beside her, they found she would not fit and was painfully squeezing Dazzle against the cavern wall.

Amber snorted as they separated once more. "Okay. This is not going to work. Is there another cave around here?"

Twilight craned her neck around. In the back, she could just make out another passage. "I can see another passage back there. Maybe it leads to another chamber?"

Amber and Blister shared a look, but decided it was worth at least to be sure, and walked off, leaving Twilight and Dazzle to finally relax. Twilight had to admit that this was a rather nice spot to stay. Not as good as her bed in Ponyville of course. But she could see herself staying up here on occasion.

Dazzle sighed, as Twilight separated herself into her pony form once more. "Do you think they'll find anything?"

Twilight shrugged. "I don't know. As far as I know, no one's been here since that dragon left. I was too busy trying to nicely get him to move to look around. I didn't even know about that passage until the last few minutes."

Dazzle nodded, and settled in, while Twilight looked around the cavern. There wasn't much new she hadn't seen the first time. But now that she had the time, she could see claw marks on the walls and even scorch marks on the ceiling. Strange she hadn't seen those the first time.

At that moment, however, her Knight Mark blazed with power. Shocked, Twilight looked down at the glowing symbol. It almost seemed to be pulsing with unknowable power. "Is this supposed to happen?" She asked, looking back at Dazzle, who only shook her head, confused as well, feeling Magic blazing with power in her chest.

"Least it isn't just me," Amber said with an annoyed look as she and Blister returned, this time coming in from the main entrance. "And no, I have no idea what the hay this is. It's new for me as well."

Twilight rubbed her snout irritably. "Great. Just great. I assume you two found something since you came in the front way?"

Blister nodded. "Oh yes. There is another cavern not too far back from this one. It opens onto the other side of the mountain. Good hunting grounds all around us. I think I'm going to like living here."

Dazzle nodded. "Then I think it's settled." She smiled at Twilight. "Will you be returning to Ponyville soon?"

Twilight nodded. "As much as I've loved all of this, I want to sleep in my own bed again. And Amber still needs to find a room of her own."

Amber nodded. "Then I say we get going. I'm looking forward to sleeping in an actual bed. I haven't done that in a million years it feels like."

Twilight giggled as she re-merged with Dazzle before joining her fellow Knight at the entrance, and taking off, turning their wings towards the distant lights of Ponyville, even as the sun began to set.

Even as they did, all across Equestria and the Crystal Empire, every Dragon Knight felt something begin to stir in them. A calling they could not resist. Even if they did not know what it was or where it came from.

Author's Note

My first action scene. Not the best, I know. But I had to start somewhere. One day I will come back and show what is calling all of the Knights together. Right now, other things need to be worked on more.