Celestia flew down to Ponyville as best as she could. The alicorn has just been reminded with her sister whom informed her of what the two Royal Sisters has feared: Discord has been released and is most likely working for the new army.

The two sisters land in Ponyville, seeing some of it a wreck, the ponies are still recovering. Celestia said grimly, "It's as I feared. Lorcan was here already."

"He must've distracted us with the attacks on Canterlot and Cloudsdale...to make his true goal here!" Luna exclaims in alarm. "Where are Twilight and her friends?"

"Right here," Twilight exclaims as she and her group, along with Ben Mare, Nyx, the CMC alonh with Dinky Doo, Twist and Pipsqueak, Spike and Phobos rush up to her, Spike is not on her back but walking behind somewhat. "It was horrible...terrible..."

"We were attacked by some lookalike of Spike!" Pinkie exclaims, making the princesses' eyes widen in alarm and worry. "Did you know that..."

"Calm down, tell me what has happened." Celestia said grimly, although she suspected already.

The Mane Six and Ben explain what happened from the barrier collapsing to Lorcan's leaving. The Goddess of the Sun absorbs this information intensely. Luckily, he didn't finish what he himself has started.

"What 'de hay happened?" A familiar voice spoke up as Tough Apple came in. "Ah was done napping an' came into town fer lunch an' yew look like a riot just happened."

"You slept through the invasion?" Dinky ask Tough Apple in surprise and disbelief. "How can you sleep with what's going on?"

"Ah done live on 'de edge o' 'de Everfree Forest, Dinky. What's yer excuse?"

"Apparently some of our old enemies have teamed up with this...Lorcan creep." Rainbow said with a frown. "Gilda, those Film-Flam brothers, the Diamond Dogs, even that showoff Trixie."

"Even Boris's goons Boxco and Dum-Dum are on his side." Rarity said in agreement. "I am glad that fiend isn't with them for..." The white unicorn didn't get too far when a familiar dragon cut her off.

"Princess...is it true? Is Lorcan my brother?" Spike ask Lorcan grimly, making the princess's eyes widen a bit. So he does know!

"Mother, what's going on?" Ben asks his adoptive mother in concern.

Celestia saw the ponies gather to her like before, but only more grimly and somehow hopeless. The princess looks down in sadness, knowing that she must tell them.

"I think it's best if we do this in a big setting." Celestia said grimly. "Anypony who wants to stay in Ponyville to recover or rebuilt, we won't blame you for doing so. For those who want to come to Canterlot..."

Some ponies decide to stay behind but those who decided to come, like the Mane Six's group, Derpy, Tough Apple, the Mane Six lookalikes, and some more, they gather around the Royal Princesses, along with Shining.

"Boys, keep an eye out for trouble." Shining orders his men as Celestia and Luna uses their magic to teleport themselves and the ponies with them back to Canterlot.

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At the Castle of Nightmare Moon, Gilda looks a bit annoyed as she comes into the meeting room, snapping, "What gives here? We have them on the run! The least you can do is let us captured Raindow Dash!"

"Yes, we still owe her for pain made on us." Trixie remarks to Lorcan in agreement.

"Everyone, you will have your chance. Remember, the plan was to distract them with the invasions for Phrase 2 to come into play." Lorcan said, seemingly calmly. "Granted, I wished I should've finished off Twilight Sparkle...or took Spike with me instead...or finish off that..."

Lorcan grunts, growls and roars as he fires a flame right at a chair, turning it into ashes.

"Wow, you're upset." Discord said with a smirk on his face. "But then again, that's good."

"You would too if you found out that your brother has never heard of you and the fact that Celestia and Twilight didn't tell him about me or Tadaka!" Lorcan snorts furiously. "I mean, what gave them the right to do so?"

"Still Lorcan, you never told us you had a brother, the least of all it being Twilight's assistant, Spike." Trixie spoke off in feeling rather overwhelmed in learning about Lorcan's brother.

"Yes, I suppose surprises come in many shapes and forms." Lorcan spoke with a dry tone in his voice as his eyes were drifting upwards.

"Still, a tall, slender, and muscular dragon like you, with your physical superiority that seems far to powerful to have a brother who's...well...like that." Trixie spoke to try and get off on Lorcan's good side, stating about his physically built stature & abilities to, well, hard to give more detail about Spike, being he's a baby dragon. "I once recalled hearing in gossip that he stood up to a dragon teen named Garble during some event, but that guy is nothing compared to your mighty physical stature & looks." The pony showmen lean closer to the one she's deeply fallen for, but hearing these facts and info about not only himself, but about Spike did seem to catch a bit of his interest.

"Trust me, Spike and I are brothers, through our blood, despite him looking not as fearsome as ponies should fear of him because he's still young." Lorcan looked to Trixie in proclaiming a serious notion about him and Spike and their connections are not something of a mistake.

"Too bad that Moon Dragon wasn't so much cooperative," Boxco shrug off about reminding the group of Phobos and how rude he was to their leader.

"Yeah, he even called you 'short', I don't get it!" Dum Dum exclaimed out puzzled, even this pony whose not so bright, doesn't get why Phobos calls Lorcan short when the dragon villain don't look the part.

"Basically, Moon Dragons have the tendency to brag in being in another league then normal dragons from what I heard." Gilda dryly stated out in recalling about Moon Dragons having the act to be all better than others except for those they serve, which clearly, Phobos serves Nyx.

"He's someone that once knew me long ago, even though not much time passes by to those sealed away, he's still thick-headed enough to state me as being...short. When it was my bones structure that made me look thinly," Lorcan stood up to look to his members in explaining a certain tale in the subject of the Moon Dragon's sealed history, that time moves differently there then it does here.

"My, my, aren't we in a tempered mood?" Discord floated while in a swirly pose in looking to Lorcan, sensing tension was in the air and he was loving to cause a little...chaos to go along with it.

"Enough of this boring discussion, time to get down to other matters." Lorcan waved off Discord's remark statement, as they have other matters to attend to. "Boris!" The dragon looked to Boris nearby in wanting a response.

"Yes, Lorcan," Boris responded in hearing his name and awaiting the orders.

"How goes our army?" Lorcan asked from tapping his fingers in wanting to know of their standard strength.

"The Diamond Dogs leader trio is having their soldiers working in constructing some of Flim & Flam's designs for new weapons as we speak." Boris humbly explained in knowing what the Flim-Flam Brothers are doing with the Diamond Dogs, constructing their machines for war
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"Good, then it won't be long before you all have a chance to get your revenge." Lorcan smiles to remind the members here of what shall soon come to pass for them. "But remember, stick to the plan I pacifically commended. Once the moment is right, Phase Three of our grand conquest shall be at hand." The dragon villain issued out in wanting the members to follow their Phase Three Plan to the letter, once done, all shall be within their grasp.

"Yes Lorcan." The other members nod to humbly hear and obey those orders.

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The Royal Sisters and those with them appear in the throne room; Tough Apple exclaims, "Heehaw; Now 'dat's service!"

"And you would know?" Feathermay ask her love with a smirk.

Some of the ponies who came mumble a bit though Luna spoke up, "Everypony, calm down. The incident has goes up to level red!"

"Since when the hay did we adopted the Earthlings' terrorist system?" Time Turner ask in concern and alarm as Megan, the princesses' old friend, has told them how the U.S.A. got something that alert them to terrorists.

Celestia waits until the ponies calm down before she spoke of something that could be a big problem.

"This world has faced greater threats in the past. Both night and chaos...and they have been defeated. But this time..." Celestia pauses as her face now looks sad and regretful. "We are doomed." Celestia paused for a moment before looking up in speaking these next words in sorrow, "Because Lorcan has returned."

The ponies look worried...or confused. Derpy ask a bit, "Whose Lorcan?"

"A monster and a fugitive as you can tell and know by now. As you know, he is planning on conquering Equestria with his grant army. You saw most of them but not the last two. One of them...is Boxco and Dum-Dum's boss...the one we thought that we would never see again."

Twilight say, "Boris! But I thought he was trapped in the Void!"

"Lorcan helped him escape...Boris was here, distracting me from Ponyville." Celestia said looking upset. "He actually tried to be his ego self and try to woe me."

Phobos got out a paper bag to throw up in and then quotes, "An evil jerk trying to smooth talk the princess, now I lost my lunch from picturing it! It's like seeing the princess and Twilight making out and falling in love!"

The ponies all heard what disturbing thing that Phobos just said, most of them shiver or cringe. Even Luna, the Goddess of the Night, felt a shiver up her mare spine.

Luna, recovering, said, "And the other one, it's..."

"Princess," A familiar voice exclaims. Everyone turns to see a familiar guard, exhausted and trotting into the throne room. It's the same one who was guarding Discord's statue when he was freed.

"Private Kenny!" Shining exclaims in surprise. "You're alive! When we found your body, it was...oh sweet Herd, I cannot even say it."

"I apologize. I used a spell of a double in my place. It wore off to the point where I manage to escape by a thread of my life, but it was so close of a calling, that I was almost completely exhausted."

"What happened?" Apple Bloom asks the guard in worry. "Yew look like yew went through Tartarus!"

"Some hooded figure has stolen Discord's statue." Private Kenny said to the group grimly, much to their shock. "It's some sort of small figure with a scar on his face."

"What? Someone stole Discord's statue?" Fluttershy gasp in fear and worry.

"Yes, I was lucky to match against Discord when I saw him, but strangely stronger." Luna say with a groan.

The others look shocked with Applejack asking, "Discord! He's back too?"

"Great, our biggest mistake come back to haunt us!" Scootaloo groans, recalling how her fight with Apple Bloom and Sweetie has cause Discord to be freed once more in the first place.

"No one really blames you girls." Cheerilee said to the CMC with a sigh.

Luna explains about how she handled his craziest exploits, "Discord has done a lot of things during our fight like flying silver Razor Fish, snap-trap Eating Clams, and singing birds sounding like…screeching chalkboards.

Phobos gets near a chalkboard and scratch it which irritate the others, and he responds, "What? Just testing it; can't tell if ponies either die from this or just have painful aches."

"Phobos," Nyx said with a sigh of annoyance.

"While Discord and Boris are big threats, Lorcan is their leader and may be the strongest one yet." Celestia said grimly. "He was involved in some adventures since the Devil's Red Sun event, like during Nyx's birthday party."

"Oh wait, I think he's the same guy who I ran into and who shot at me." Derpy said in remembrance.

"That jerk," Ben exclaim furiously. "He almost ruined my daughter's first birthday!"

"I can't believe how low he went." Twilight said as some of the others look upset by the fact that Lorcan was the one who almost ruined the birthday party.

"The monster hates ponies, even go as far as to insult too." Celestia said grimly.

"Shoot! Ah just remember something!" Tough exclaims with a frown. "He must've been 'de same voice 'dat nearly got 'ta me when Ah was done taken 'ta some place before during mah self-exile."

"Tough, why didn't yew tell us 'dat," Applejack ask Tough in surprise and disbelief.

"Shucks, Ah done wanted nothing 'ta do wit' 'dat no more."

"Wow, who knew that he tries to give a lot of trouble to us ponies?" Twist asks her friends grimly.

"Yeah, I know." Pipsqueak said with a nod.

"Okay, okay! Enough!" Spike exclaims in annoyance and impatience. "I demand to know what's happening and why Lorcan is my brother?"

"Spike, it's nothing to worry about." Twilight said to Spike nervously. "We just..."

"Twilight," Celestia said with a sad sigh. "We need to drop the act. We can't cover this up anymore."

"But if we tell, it would hurt him."

"Tell what?" Nyx ask her mother and her adopted grandmother in worry.

"Okay, mind telling us the whole story!" Cherry Pie demands to the princess and her student, "Because even we have the right to know."

Twilight sighs and said to Spike, "Spike, Lorcan is your brother. We...we both knew all along."

Spike looks shocked and disbelief as some of the ponies look surprised. The baby dragon was affected the most: Twilight and the princess knew that Lorcan was her brother? And didn't bother telling him!

"Awkward!" Pinkie and Phobos said at the same time, awkwardly.

"But... then... why; How," Spike asked, still in shock and disbelief.

Celestia looks down a bit, looking worried then she spoke up, "Tell me...what do you know of Tadaka?"

"Well, I heard his voice and name in a dream one time...and that's both that I used in Rainbow's third Dasheresque film." Spike said in remembrance.

"Yeah, I was wondering about that." Rainbow said with a nod. "I also asked Twilight about it when a e-mailer send me an e-mail about Tadaka. She got nervous and slams the door right in my face when I asked her."

"And those goons named their army after Tadaka." Fluttershy said meekly.

"So what is Tadaka anyway?" Derpy ask confused. "Is he a dragon like Lorcan and Spike?"

"More than that, Tadaka is a dragon...who used to be our childhood friend." Luna said seriously. "He is also Lorcan and Spike's father."

Some of the ponies gasp with Spike looking stunned. The same Tadaka who Lorcan's army is named after...is his father.

"Mind giving us the story?" Rarity asked as she gave a look of worry to Spike. "Because I have a feeling Spiky-Wikey is going to lose it unless you do."

"It was years ago right after Megan, Danny and Molly left for the last time...when until recently before their return before the Gala...." Luna said with a sigh.

"Go to a flashback, go to a flashback!" Pinkie squeals while bouncing up and down. "I love those!"

"Pinkie, you are SO random." Rainbow said.

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In the flashback, we see the two alicorn fillies known as Celestia and Luna, missing their good friend Megan who last for the last time after what happened.

"I missed them, Tia." Luna said to Celestia sadly. "I wished they didn't have to go."

"I know...but without the Rainbow Bridge, how can they come back?" Celestia asked Luna seriously. "But we must have faith. One day, they will return. We learned enough during their stay and will do our best to make Ponyland...no, Equestria raised to be a good place for ponies and everypony else to live in."

Suddenly, something fell from the sky, landing near the two fillies.

"What's this?" Celestia asked curiously as something came out of the ground that his head was stuck in temporarily. It appears to be a small dragon with sharp teeth and fangs, green slits for eyes, and a horn that matches Spike's, their dragon friend who hasn't been seen since he has grown up and left to be ruler of the Dragon Clans, on his head to his tail, he has a purple body color and has groomed hair. "Who are you?"

"Oh, sorry," The dragon mumbles a bit sheepishly while rubbing his head. "I was practicing my flying...I keep forgetting that I don't have wings!"

"Oh, that's okay." Luna said with a smile. "You're from the Dragon Clans, right? Where did you fall from?"

"I fell off my father's back. Oh, man, he's going to be upset when he finds out that I'm gone." The little dragon groaned a bit.

"It's okay; we will help you once he comes for you." Celestia said to the little dragon gently. "What is your name?"

"My name is Tadaka." The dragon said with a nod, "Yours?"

"My name is Celestia and this is my sister Luna." Celestia said to Tadaka while introducing herself and her sister. "We are the princesses or future rulers of Equestria."

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In the present, Celestia continues, "Tadaka was our friend after that, helping us to be rulers of Equestria." The princess chuckles a bit. "He got some crazy idea about a world of dragons. That's a bit silly."

"I have to agree. It's not that we hate dragons...but where would we ponies be?" Luna remarks with a nod of agreement.

"Never mind that," Spike snapped impatiently. "What happened next? Get on with it already!"

"Spike, come on." Nyx said to Spike with a sigh. "I know what happened..."

"I want to know why I wasn't told of it before, so don't tell me to 'come on'!" Spike snapped angrily to Nyx, making some of the ponies yelp in worry. The baby dragon almost never snapped at her like that.

"Well, then came the day when Discord arrived in our world." Celestia said as she continues the story.

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"How long is this going to take?" Celestia asked in worry as she stood outside a cave in the land of the Dragon Clans. She glances to where Equestria is. "Our land is already being messed around by Discord and I don't know how long the Flutterponies can hold him."

"We can only hope the Dragon Clan's Blacksmiths can repair and make two sets of the Rainbow of Light for us in time..." Luna said with a sigh then turns to an old friend of hers. "Oh, BTW, thanks for helping us get here, Tadaka. We needed all the help we can get."

Tadaka, years older, nod a bit, saying, "Thanks...though I hope you don't mind a suggestion.

"Which is?" Celestia asked Tadaka, wondering what suggestion he is going to give.

"Why bother still calling it the Rainbow of Light since they are split into two sets? Or in this case, six different elements," Tadaka suggested to his friends, making the alicorns look thoughtful. "Come to think of it, they represent six different emotions or something like that."

"Yes...like Honesty, Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Loyalty...with one more left unknown." Luna said thoughtfully.

"Yes, they represent Harmony..." Tadaka said in agreement.

"Tadaka, you are a true friend and a genius!" Celestia exclaims with a smile. "Hence forth, the Rainbow of Light shall be renamed the Elements of Harmony. They shall help us fight off against Discord and restore balance to our world."

"Thank you, I try." Tadaka said with a smile, knowing that his help will guarantee the safety of Equestria.

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In the present, Luna continues the story, "Right after the Elements of Harmony were repaired into separate sets, still the Rainbow of Light but more powerful, we return home and use them to defeat Discord, turning him into a statue...though at the price of Morning Glory being discorded and Queen Rosedust then cut off herself, the Flutterponies and the Swarm from Equestria until Megan's recent return."

"At first, we thought to kill Discord...but Tadaka suggested the stone treatment since we don't know if breaking him would kill him or release the monster again." Celestia remarks with a scoff. "I don't know what Tadaka was even thinking back then."

"So what happened?" Nyx asked curiously as Twilight felt more uncomfortable. "What turned Tadaka into your friend into something that Lorcan and his pals represent?"

"It's...my fault." Luna said in sadness and guilt. "It happened on the day that I became Nightmare Moon..."

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Tadaka yelped as he dodged a blast. The dragon and his bodyguard watched as Celestia was taken down by her sister...who has turned into an armor wearing menace known as Nightmare Moon.

"Luna, please, stop!" Celestia pleaded to her sister in sadness.

"I told you before, Celestia, Luna is gone now!" Nightmare Moon snapped evilly to Celestia. "Only Nightmare Moon remains and soon eternal night is here forever!!!"

"Luna, please! See reason!" Tadaka pleaded to Luna in concern. "You shouldn't be upset that most ponies prefer to sleep during the night. Even they need their energy!"

"As usual, Tadaka, you saw the weak vision. You should've at least joined me and I can make dragons more equal to that of the ponies!" Nightmare Moon sneered evilly to Tadaka. "I can forgive you for your comment if you do so!"

"I cannot do that..." Tadaka said sternly.

"THEN PAY THE PRICE!" Nightmare Moon roared as she fired a blast right towards Tadaka. He prepared for the end, but to his surprise, it didn't come. "Yes, I said for you to pay the price, but I didn't mean your death, rather, but someone else's."

Tadaka turned slowly and saw what Nightmare Moon meant: his bodyguard got hit by the attack and fell to the floor...dead.

"No, no!" Tadaka exclaims as he almost fell to his knees.

"Farewell, the conquest of Equestria awaits," Nightmare Moon taunts, laughing as she disappears in a bunch of smoke.

Celestia groaned as she got up and trots over to the horrified Tadaka. The alicorn said, "Tadaka, I'm sorry for what happened to your bodyguard. It wasn't..."

"Why...why the Tartartus didn't you do something to help your sister sooner," Tadaka snarls furiously to Celestia. "You knew that something was wrong with her but didn't act sooner! Now my bodyguard is dead, one of my closest friends and IT'S ALL YOU'RE FAULT!"

Celestia is stunned and saddened. First, her sister has turned evil...now, one of her remaining friends from her childhood is blaming for what isn't her fault.

"Tadaka, please; Try to understand." Celestia said, with tears in her eyes. "It..."

"Shut up, just shut up! Nightmare Moon is right, I have seen the weak vision...I am going for the strong, one without you ponies in it!" Tadaka snapped furiously. "You are pathetic!"

"Tadaka, come to your senses!" Celestia insists to her friend, not wanting Tadaka to lose his temper.

"Oh, I have...enough that I'm going to get an army, destroy you all and take Equestria for the rightful kind: dragons! I will see you in Tartarus, Celestia!" Tadaka snapped as he jumps out a window, leaving Celestia alone with the dead bodyguard.

"Tadaka..." Celestia said in sadness as tears came out of her eyes. She lost more than just her sister today, but her childhood friend as well.

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"Wow," Fluttershy said sadly. "That's deep."

"You are all aware of the war that was fought between me and Nightmare Moon that send Luna to the moon for thousands of years." Celestia said grimly. "But as we were recovering, Tadaka came back with dark magical powers and an army of dragons, those who are loyal to him and not to King Spykoran the Old."

"Oh, wow." Ben said with a gulp. "That must've been terrible."

"I know...the war went on for many eons." Celestia said grimly. "Then, one day 51 years ago, it ended in the Nests of Dargoth."

"Now why does that place sounds familiar to me?" Pinkie asked a bit puzzled, scratching her mane a bit.

"My goodness," Rarity gasped in terror. "That's where Celestia has found Spike's egg!"

"How did you girls know that?" Feathermay ask her friends in concern.

"Well, Twilight told us about that part." Rarity said with a shrug. "Not best to keep every secret now, is there?"

"Yes, we found it after a long time of searching: Tadaka had hid himself in the nests of good dragons, even forcing them to help him or suffer. My royal unicorn guards broke into the dragon castle and..." Celestia looked down a bit then she continued. "And they ended up murdering Sindell in the progress."

"Sindell; who's that," Sweetie ask Celestia worried.

"She is Spike and Lorcan's mother." Celestia added grimly, making Spike gasp in shock and horror.

"My mother," Spike asked in shock and horror.

"Listen well, what happened was an accident. Sindell was wanting to give up peacefully but one of Tadaka's dragon guards attack, causing the Royal Guards to defend themselves." Celestia said in sadness. "But one of their spells hit a part of the ceiling, causing a cave in. My guards got out of the way in time...Sindell...she didn't."

This got Spike horrified; enough to bring tears to his eyes. Applejack sighed as she hugged Spike saying, "Shucks, Ah done know how yew feel. Apple Bloom, Big Mac an' Ah felt sad after we done lost our own folks."

"Right and mine as well as..." Rainbow's tears came into her eyes, remembering her adoptive father from the other world. "Well..."

"What's wrong, Rainbow?" Plumsweet asked Rainbow in concern.

"I rather not talk about it. Please!" Rainbow groans as she turned around to cry about her adoptive father whom she has to leave behind to regain all her memories of Equestria.

Celestia sighed as she said, "Tadaka was captured and at his trail, I sentenced him to death, sealing his army into a void between realities."

"Is that where you were from, Phobos?" Nyx ask Phobos in surprise.

"I was...but I hated it there. I never met Lorcan before, but I hated him and Tadaka for the imprisonment!" Phobos exclaimed furiously. "I don't want to be an enemy of ponies, I wanted to be a good dragon and be friends with them!"

"Awww, that's sweet." Fluttershy said gently.

"Right after Tadaka's captured, the Ursas rampaged through the nests, not leaving much. It was there where I found Spike's egg." Celestia explained sadly. "I took it in order to keep the young one from falling into Lorcan's paws. As you know, I learned that Tadaka has produced a son who is evil as he is. A while later after I took the egg and Tadaka's execution, Lorcan appeared and vowed one day that he would return and we will all pay. He fled, taking his father's book of dark spells with him."

"But then, it happened." Shining said in concern. "You see, right after Twilight's acceptance into the academy and Ben's...disappearance." He glances to Ben who nods. "Our...our little brother Starlight...was killed."

"Remember that nightmare I told you about, Spike?" Twilight ask in sadness. "The one I have besides Ben's disappearance?"

"Yeah," Spike said grimly, fearing where this is going.

"That was the one..." Twilight said in sadness.

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In a cave, Lorcan growled furiously while mumbling, "She killed him, she killed him...that filly will pay...somehow."

Just then, Lorcan spotted something, two ponies, a familiar filly and a little colt, trotting through the cave. The scarred dragon smirks sinisterly, revenge...

"Wait, what's that?" Starlight asked Twilight in concern as he hears a noise.

"Starlight, we can't dawdle. I got to get these mushrooms back to the academy by tonight." Twilight said as she picked some mushrooms that the princess wants her to get for her lesson. The pony didn't bother bringing much friends, she didn't make any more since Ben's disappearance.

A familiar hiss is heard, startling the two ponies. Starlight asked, "Twilight, what's that?"

"Precioussss, yesss, good to see you at lassst, little preciousss," A familiar voice hissed out. The two ponies gasped as Lorcan came out of the shadows. "Welcome to my cave, say the ssspider...to the doomed fliesss!"

"What do you want?" Twilight asked in fear as she hid behind Starlight. "W-w-who are you?"

"My name is Lorcan...and I believe you took ssssomething from me." Lorcan remarked insanely. "I don't like that, little one...esssspecially from ponies!"

Twilight gasped a bit, knowing whom she's talking about. Lorcan is referring to Spike, the baby dragon she hatched. Celestia, despite other ponies' protests, had decided to let the egg be raised by a family of unicorns. The princess told the young filly of the baby dragon's family and history and requested that he is not to be told of Lorcan or Tadaka, but to live a life that away from the evil.

"Naughty, naughty, little one," Lorcan hissed like a snake. The little dragon held up a claw. "Now hold ssstill and this will be done much fasssster without a fussssssss!"

Lorcan hisses as he lunges at Twilight but Starlight quickly head butts him, knocking the dragon away from his sister.

"Run, Twilight, run!" Starlight calls out. Twilight didn't hesitate or question, she quickly makes a run for it. The young filly looks back in terror as the one who spoke follows her but was grabbed by Lorcan.

"Foolish colt; you cannot run from me." Lorcan's voice hisses evilly. Twilight can watch in horror as the one who spoke raises a claw and stabs the one who told her to run.

"Starlight, no," Twilight screams in terror as she can see blood on the floor. "NOOOO..."

"And now..." Lorcan said sinisterly as he turns to Twilight. "It's your turn. You should not have taken my brother from me..."

Lorcan prepares to lunge but Twilight frantically fires off a huge blast that hits the ceiling. A bunch of rocks fell right in front of the dragon, keeping him from the filly who saw the opportunity to escape.

"NOOOOO; YOU CANNOT ESCAPE!" Lorcan exclaims furiously as he begins tossing the rocks back and forth until they are gone. But to his shock and fury, the one he wants to kill escaped, "Lost! LOST! That brat has escaped my claws, lost!" The dragon screams as Twilight ran for it, "Killer Twilight! Killer! It stole my brother! My brother; my baby brother of years ago; Killer Twilight! We hates it forever! We hates it forever! WE HATES IT FOREVER!"

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Twilight looks down as she continues, "I told my brother and everypony else about what happened...we went back but found no trace of Starlight's body. I feared that the evil monster who attacked me that day has stolen it and..."

"It's okay, Twilight, it's okay." Ben said, wrapping a foreleg around his ove. "It's over now."

"After that, Twilight has become even more involved in her studies...and Spike didn't have any knowledge of his brother...at least until today." Celestia said in sadness, noting the grim look on Spike's face.

Spike can't believe it. He has a brother who is still alive...his parents were killed off...and no pony told him this? Is the baby dragon nothing more than a replacement for the long lost Starlight? Does this mean that Twilight never really care for him nothing more...than a slave?

"Spike; Are you okay?" Fluttershy ask Spike in sadness. "This is much to take in."

"I don't want to believe...I refuse to..." Spike mumbles a bit in sadness. "But...inside, I feel better."

"Maybe it's gas." Phobos suggests mischievously, making the others glare at him. "What; Trying to help."

"Well, stop doing so; it's a bit troubling enough as it is." Rarity said as the whole room went silent. Years of secrets has been exposed just like that.

"Perhaps we should get you all back." Celestia said softly and sadly, "Captain Shining? We send Golden Heart to do some scouting. Will you let us know when he returned while I was gone?"

"Yes, your majesty of course." Shining said with a serious nod while turning to Spike, "Spike, I'm sorry..."

Spike didn't say a word; he didn't bother getting on Twilight's back as Celestia uses her teleportation power to take him, herself and the ones from Ponyville back home. Luna and Twilight watch where they were until now.

"I do hope Golden Heart comes back soon." Luna said to Shining while looking back at the sky. "I am thinking of trying to find Lorcan...get some sense into that dragon."

"He's a monster who of course killed my brother, even though we never saw much of him back then!" Shining exclaims to Luna with a frown. "He cannot be reasoned with."

"I have a feeling that this whole madness isn't over just yet..."

Author's Notes:

Indeed, Luna is right. In the next chapter, Golden Heart returns, Spike gets upset, Lorcan looks at his back and meets Luna...and is this hint of romance that I see here? Read, review and suggest, folks!

BTW, King Spykoran the Old is the G1 Spike but his name is owned by RK-Striker-JK-5. The dragon will appear soon.

There are also references to the Lord of the Rings trilogy as well, as well as the fanfic 'My Little Dashie'.