Spike - The Kirin Goddess of Fertility

Shining watched in horror as Spike attempted to kill the closest Guard, only to be slapped away by a long tail as Discord spun into existence in front of her.

"I do apologize," Discord said to Spike as he stood his ground "but if I let you get any closer your flames could seriously hurt Fluttershy or Applejack, you probably made that guard mare's as flame retardant as a Kirin but safety first and all that, now what say we talk this out like rational Gods?" Spike's let out a scream and proceeded to throw a flaming tree at Discord. "Ah, yes throwing trees, very rational if I do say so myself," Discord rushed forward with blinding Speed and wrapped around Spike like a rope, Spike began blindly slamming herself into anything and everything in an attempt to be free. A second Discord popped into existence next to Shining and chuckled.

"You're a dumbass," He noted as he readjusted a large set of glasses set upon his face, "Kirin's flames eat away at magic, and while stabbing them might take them down, stabbing one that is beloved by a Goddess will end in disaster, so honestly you might have to sacrifice one of your guards to quell Spikes rage if I fail to wait her out," Shining fell to his knees, and Cadance got up and rushed to the Kirins.

"Is she ok?" Cadance demanded as the Kirins made room for her, Ash was still clutching her face.

"Ah," Discord nodded "Yes, I suppose if Ash is healed up there's a chance Spike might...stop trying to steal ponies' hearts in a somewhat ironically literal manner," as Discord pondered how best to keep Fluttershy and to a somewhat lesser extent Applejack safe Spike managed to Free herself and began fiercely beating the Discord that had been keeping her at bay against a rock as thought she was murdering a snake.

"This is just childish," The Discord complained as Spike's only response was more rage-filled screaming. With the combined efforts of Smoke, Cadance, and Autumn, Ash was convinced to move her hand and show the wound, the slash mark was dangerously close to her eye, but had just barely missed it.

"It's ok," Smoke assured her "It missed, your eye just hurts because blood is dripping into it, we'll get you all patched up in no time, don't worry, I won't let any creature else hurt you," With Ash's wounds being bad but easily treatable Autumn and Summer looked to Spike.

"Dam," Summer said as Spike violently beat Discord over a rock "She's dammed sexy when she's mad,"

"Say the word sir," a Guard said as several of them raised their spears "Should we advance,"

"If you wanna sacrifice yourselves in the hope it quells her flames by all means go ahead," Shining replied, waving at them to go if they so desired to, The Guards stood their ground and Shining continued to watch Spike swing Discord around in a blind rage.

"Dam she is pissed," Discord the second chuckled as he watched himself get rag-dolled by Spike, Discord leaned over to Twilight Velvet and added "I highly recommend you don't do that cheek-grabbing thing again, seeing how someone might die over this," Velvet watched her son but failed to say anything and Nightlight put his hand on her shoulder, shaking his head at her.

"Now isn't the time to play the part of the angry mom who is always right," He warned "Now is the time to be the supportive parents who love their child no matter who they decided to be," Spike began slowing down as she gained enough sense to realize that beating the shit out of Discord was accomplishing nothing and turned her attention back to the train. Discord stood at the ready but quickly went back to spectating when Summer and Autumn walked forward, both with their hands up as they cautiously approached Spike.

"Hey honey," Autumn said cautiously "It's ok, Ash's injury is bad, but her eye is fine," Spike just breathed heavily at her, her eye twitching slightly as she used every ounce of willpower to stand still and listen to Autumn speak. Summer walked closer and began slowly patting Spike's back, Spike grit her teeth, causing emerald Green flames to flicker out of the sides of her mouth, After a moment Summer slowly put her hands on Spike's chin and softly spoke to her.

"Now honey, you know how you feel about us grinding our teeth, you could chip one, and we'd hate to see you in pain," Spike looked down at Summer and, while her breathing slowed, her flames showed no signs of dying. Spike began walking, slowly towards Ash, Summer and Autumn helped keep her steady as she attempted to remain calm while practically vibrating with rage, she sat down and looked at Ash, who looked up at her and, through tears smiled at her.

"I'm so embarrassed," She chuckled "I can't believe I was the one that made you go Nirik," Spike said nothing as she raised her hand and placed it on the ground, a variety of plants began bursting to life and Spike instinctively knew what she was doing, she opened her mouth and began swiftly shoving various leaves and berries into her mouth. Ash and the girls watched as Spike filled her mouth, after a moment she cupped her hands and spat a bubbling orange sludge into them. Once the Boiling liquid settled in her hands, Spike breathed in, and even with her flames, the air around them grew cold and the boiling liquid quickly lost its heat.

"This. Will. Sting," Spike said once she stopped breathing in, each word bringing forth a mountain of flames, Smoke looked at the orange past and recognized it for old stories,

"That is definitely going to sting," Smoke agreed, Ash braced herself and did her best to stay still as the paste was placed into and over her wound. after a moment Spike plucked a large leaf and set it over Ash's face.

"Don't remove the leaf," Spike said, her flames slowly dying down as Ash began sitting up, the pain rapidly dissipating, Spike nodded, unsure why she was so confident the paste would work "After an hour the wound. Should be gone," Spike took a deep breath and her flames died down, although instead of flicking out and turning back into a Kirin she simply got to her hooves, took a deep breath, a Declared loudly "I'm still fucking Pissed,", while still burning with rage her girls took note she was no longer spitting literal fire with each word. "Who the fuck stabbed my Ash,"

Spike eyed the guards, who all took a defensive position, Spike immediately took note they all had their swords drawn now instead of their spears, the spears had all been carefully discarded to the side, one sprouting a noticeable blood patch "Motherfuckers I will kick in all of your teeth if I have to, either one of you isn't leaving, or none of you are," Spike approached the guards and Shining simply sat to the side, no longer having the will to fight Spike upon seeing her as a Nirik. Discord was now eating Popcorn, clearly content to watch the guard get their asses handed to them, in the end, it was Cadance who stood before Spike at the ready.

"Spike," She said cautiously "I know you, I know you very well, well enough to know you'll feel bad about attacking these guys once you calm down,"

"A few days ago a male Kirin attempted to punch Red," Spike said simply "And for that, I turned him into a female and fucked them until they broke, and they kept going until they had no other thoughts other than what I told them to have, true that did more than just try to punch Red, but I literally did all of what I did because they 'tried' to hurt one of my girls," Spike pointed over to Ash "One of them did hurt her, and they will not be leaving this grove, and if their friends wanna stick by them, then they can all stay together," Cadance took a deep breath and looked behind her shoulder.

"I know," She said calmly "But it was an accident they were scared and lashed out, I'm begging you," Cadance got down onto her knees, placed her palms upon the ground, and lowered her head as far down as it would go "Just this one, single time, please spare my soldiers, if any of them do anything like this again I'll drag them out and throw them to you personally, but please, just once, spare them," Spike looked down at Cadance, then back to the guards, once again grinding her teeth in rage as she tried to think rationally.

"you get one," Spike said simply, still burning with rage but seeing the logic in the fact that a hord of flaming Niriks would inspire overwhelming fear if they were within inches of you, "But if any creature, and I mean any creature, attempts to touch any of my girls I will not hesitate to add them to my garden, as a gardener or as a lawn ornament," Spike turned away and kneeled next to Ash, she was immediately surrounded by all of her girls save for Ash and Solar, the latter of whom had taken up the duty of making sure the leaf stayed fashioned to Ash's face.

Solar looked as though she was about to be sick from the heat and Spike spoke up. "Solar, remind me to bless you with heat immunity, can't have you getting hurt because one of us gets mad,"

"I assure you I will remind the hell out of you," Solar promised immediately, knowing full well that years of training in the hot Canterlot sun was the only thing keeping her from succumbing to heat-related exhaustion.

Cadance was breathing heavily, still bowing at Spike even after convincing her not to hurt any of the guards.

"Cadance you need to get up," Shining said as he walked up to his wife "a Princess can't be seen bowing to..."

"Shut up," Cadance said at once, turning to her husband, her love for him the only thing keeping her from smacking him upside the head "What the actual hell do you think you were doing?" Shining looked confused for a moment before she got up and motioned toward Spike angrily "Stand your ground!?" She demanded "You caused all of this by blatantly ignoring a direct order from me," Shining took a step back from his wife.

"I didn't-" Shining attempted to defend himself only for Cadance to cut him off.

"What did I say!?" She demanded, motioning towards herself "What did I, the Princess, you're literally boss, wife or not you can not be disobeying a direct order from me," Shining took another step back before Cadance practically screamed at him "What did I say!?" She repeated.

"Stand down," Shining said as he quickly backed up to where the guards had been, only to realize that as soon as Spike had turned away they had all turned tail and rushed back to the safety of the train to disappear amount the many other guards on duty.

"Stand down," Cadance agreed "And you Immediately challenged my direct command and told them to stand their ground, you almost got our guards, the one under your care, killed for your fucking pride," Cadance motioned around "Wha...what do I do? I love you, but if your gonna try and use that fact to go around my direct command I can't have you be here with my Shining, I had to make promises, serious promises, to get Rainshine to let Spike come this way without a massive armed escort, we're both extremely lucky you didn't pull that shit in the empire, do you know what would have happened if anything had happened to any of Spikes girl by our or any of our guards' hands while outside the grove?"

"I know," Shining groaned "a war with the Kirins, I just..."

"No," Cadance snapped back "I made a personal promise to Rainshine to take care of her Goddess, and I had to put up a collateral, I had to promise something of extreme worth to Rainshine to let her have Spike leave with us," The Heat died as Spike lost her Nirik form and looked over to Cadance with a frown.

"What did you promise?" Spike demanded, concern in her voice as she failed to think of anything in the crystal empire that Rainshine would want to own.

"Not a what," Cadance groaned before turning to Shining and grabbing his hands "Shining if you or Twilight do Anything to Spike while I'm under contract, then the Crystal Empire will swear its allegiance to the Kirin and serve beneath them in their war against Equestria,"