Four months have gone by since school started and yet another pony has been lucky enough to learn about DarkHeart's dark magic and the two spirits, the spirit that dwells with the Heart of Light, Nova and the manifestation of the darkness within his own heart, Shadow; as well as earning himself a little recognition in school, though that is only because of the rumors that his longtime enemy, Stone Digger, had spread around saying that he was a crime against nature being part pony and part dragon, but of course there were many who had been skeptical of the bullies claim and thought that he was just spreading such a rumor around because DarkHeart kicked his ass without laying a finger on him.

But I think that's enough of a recap if shit we already know, now on to what's been happening after the first day of school. DarkHeart simply goes through school with ease as he manages to keep up with his school work with ease while brushing off any assaults from Stone Digger who for the last four months, has been trying to get him to reveal his draconic eyes again to prove to everypony that he wasn't crazy. He also had Ms. Tender Heart watching over him, helping him to cover up any incidents that he has with his dark powers every now and again, keeping Stone Digger at bay and preventing him from accomplishing his new goal to make DarkHeart's life miserable, and teaching him how to better control his new abilities. Ever since she had asked DarkHeart how it had felt to control such magic, she understood what it was that made his incidents occur at all, after running everything she had heard around the inside of head for a few weeks, and found a way to help him control it and was really doing wonders for him as the incidents had been getting less and less frequent and the level of power released from them decreased as well.

Now it's the last Friday of the semester as their winter break and, in a week or so, Hearth's Warming and so the entire school was filled with excitement as the final two hours of school came around and the entire school was called into the gym for an assembly.

"I can't believe that Hearth's warming is almost here already." Nova said excitedly.

"I can't believe DarkHeart is actually in a good mood, usually there's too much cheer in the air for either of us to stand." Shadow joked.

"I can't believe you two aren't shutting up I'm trying to actually enjoy today and hearing you two sounding excited isn't helping, your shrill voices are beating against my ear drums." He smirked on that last comment knowing that it would provide him some joy in getting the two to try and get him back for comment, especially Shadow.

"HEY, I don't have a shrill voice!" he heard him shout with a voice that was a few octaves lower. Which got both Nova and DarkHeart immediately reacted to as they were trying to hold in their laughter.

"You. . . . Shadow, . . . . it . . . . doesn't help, pfft ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!" DarkHeart no longer being able to hold back starting laughing his ass off it lead way for Nova to join in, all to the displeasure of the dark spirit who would've been shooting glares at the two of them if he was in his physical form.

"Not cool guys, how would feel if I made fun of something that was suppose to be a sign of masculinity, or femininity as the case would be with Nova." he asked disgruntled.

"I'd probably just blow it off considering I don't give a shit on what anyone says." DarkHeart quickly replied.

"And I doubt you'd be able to find anything on me I am, in all sense of the phrase, a perfect mare so I thi-" she was interrupted by another bout of laughter coming from the guys. "What's so funny?" she asked getting a little miffed with the two males.

"I'm sorry Nova, but you. . . . the perfect woman, please. If you were the perfect mare you wouldn't be walking around inside the amulet practically naked, you'd put some clothes on to be little miss prim and proper." DarkHeart replied.

"Why would I do that, the interior of the heart is my home after all, and I should be allowed to do what want in my home." she argued.

"Even with the golem there and being able to hide anywhere and watching you during your 'private' time." he said raising one of his brows up and getting a blush from her, but lucky for her he couldn't see it.

"I. . . .I. . . . oh just shut up I'm done with you two." she stuttered embarrassedly.

"Oh come on Nova I was just joking with ya, you know I don't care if you're the perfect mare or not right?" he asked apologetically.

Nova just sighed before giving him her answer. "Yeah I know, but you know it's not really real fair teaming up on somepony like that." came her reply.

"Oh so now you care about being fair, you didn't seem to care about being fair making fun of my voice, but now that we're talking about your little love affair with the golem you want us to back off, I don't think so." he said angrily.

"Both of you shut up before I go in there and kick both your asses, especially you Shadow, Nova isn't used to be treated this way, despite how long she's joined us, so shut up your I'm making sure you can't even take a piss on your own." DarkHeart ordered as his mood quickly shifted from happy to angry in the blink of an eye.

"But. . . but . . .but," Shadow stuttered.

"Didn't I just tell you to shut it!" DarkHeart's voice had changed as he was trying to get his point across. The only response he got from the spirit was silence.

Satisfied with his compliance, DarkHeart was going to start walking back to the gym, when he felt a tap o his left shoulder. He quickly took a look over it to see Ms. Tender Heart standing behind him with an inquisitive look on her face.

"What was the voice changing thing about DarkHeart." she asked.

"Nothing, just trying to keep the two of them in line, and driving me further off the deep end." he responded, his voice reverting back to normal.

"Is that the first time that's happened." She said, hoping that maybe this wouldn't be something they would have too work on if it was recurring thing.

"Yeah, my voice has changed before, but I can control that so you don't have to worry about it." he answered her trying to alleviate her fears.

"Are you sure? I mean if you need help putting that under control too, I would be than happy to help." she told him cheerfully.

"That's okay Ms. Tender Heart, I'm okay really, my voices changes were the first thing I learned how to control, seeing how it was the easiest to do and probably to most dead giveaway of my changes." he stated.

"Alright then if you're sure, but should you need any help at all, just let me know and I'll be more than happy to lend you a helping hand." she said with a smile.

"Thanks for the offer Ms. Tender Heart, I'll be sure to remember that whenever I feel like I can't control something on my own, but I think for now we should be heading over the assembly." he said remembering the assembly.

"Right, well then lets get goi- *CRASH*, she was interrupted as they both heard a loud crashing came from the gym and saw dust spewing from the double doors as they flew open.

What the hell was that!" DarkHeart shouted. As to answer his question crowd of students came running out of the gym yelling "RUN! There's some monster tearing apart the gym!"

"A MONSTER!?" They both yelled at once.

"What could a monster possibly want from a high school?" Ms. Tender Heart asked.

"A building full of ponies to eat, cause thousands in property damage, miss it's a monster it doesn't need a reason to terrorize a town they just do it." DarkHeart as if it was a joke.

"DarkHeart this is no time for your jokes we need to make everypony got out of the gym ok." Nova told him giving him a task to focus on.

"Right, I'll be safe thanks to my training and dark magic, but whoever is in there, if there's anypony still in there, they won't be able to defend themselves against whatever beast decided to make the school their target." He said getting serious about the situation.

"WHAT!? ARE YOU MAD!!? There's a dangerous creature in there a you're going back!?" Ms. Tender Heart shout semi-hysterical.

"Well... Yeah, I have been training myself to fight off brutish creatures no matter what their size, and besides who would I be if I didn't go in and try to do what I can to help, huh?" he responded sounding as confident as he felt, and right now he felt pretty confident with himself right now.

With that said said and done, DarkHeart headed towards the gym to see what damage the beast has done and retrieve anypony that may still be trapped inside. Stopping inside the doorway, he surveyed the area, what he saw astounded him.

The bleachers had been pulverized to small planks of wood, a hole in the ceiling gave the gym a new, big skylight, every single window was either shattered or had an extended area that went from the ground to the middle of the wall, a humongous crater lie within the center of the floor, and a hole, the size of the crater, was in the left wall that had giant foot prints in the soil outside that looked to be headed towards the front of the school.

"Oh shit this isn't good, whatever it is, it seems to be looking for somepony." DarkHeart said wondering what it is this creature wants.

"Well at least it looks like everypony got out okay so at least we don't have to worry about that." Shadow chimed in.

"Maybe not, but now we got to worry about either destroying this creature ourselves, or stalling it long enough for help to arrive." Nova added.

"Woah woah woah, what is all this we crap, last I checked I was the one who was doing all of the fighting, you two just sit around in your own domains and distract me from my mission." DarkHeart argued with the two.

"What we, well I, don't distract you, I try to help you with coming up with tactical strategies." Nova said, insulted that he would call her a distraction.

"Oh yeah sure you come up with battle plans..... that are utterly stupid and so I have to step in to give advice about the-" Shadow was saying before DarkHeart interrupted him.

"This is what I mean, you two are always arguing with each other that it starts to irritate the living hell out of me and then I can't fucking think of a way to accomplish my mission. So this time I want the two of you to shut up and let me handle it, and if I want your help I'll ask for it and even then I'll one of you specifically to help me alright?" DarkHeart wanted to concentrate all his efforts in fending off whatever it was that had attacked the gym, but knew he couldn't if he didn't stop the two spirits from bickering with each other.

"Okay." they said in unison, agreeing to DarkHeart's terms.

With their agreeing to his own plan DarkHeart headed out, following the gigantic footprints that were heading towards to main entrance of the school, where he was already hearing the screaming and yelling of his classmates and teachers which made him pick up his speed.

Finally rounding the corner that was blocking his view to the front of the high school DarkHeart at last saw what it was he was going to be fighting. It was a dragon, but it didn't seem like any ordinary dragon, this one seemed to walk on two of its instead of on all fours that took it maximum height to about 70-90 feet, and appeared to be holding some kind of weapon in his left claw, its tail and wings were shrouded in violet fire, and its eyes seemed to be glowing a sickly green color.

"Damn, if it wasn't for the fact that that thing is ripping up the school I sit here admiring the dragon, it looks fucking awesome, now I wish I had fire engulfing my tail, well you know without burning it of course." DarkHeart spoke up.

"For some reason I don't think you're suppose to be standing here gawking at it DarkHeart, you got a job to do, sooooooo.......GET TO IT!" Nova ordered.

"He...he...right, alright lets get going then, I can't allow it to do whatever the hell it wants." DarkHeart said to himself, and was off in an instant, running towards to creature and getting the weaponization spell ready. He got in front of the creature in a couple of minutes and was catching its attention.

"What in tartarus do you think you're doing here, dragon, why are you here tearing apart this school? I know it's not for treasure because I doubt that there's anything, especially from teenagers, that we ponies would have that you want." DarkHeart interrogated.

A few moments passed before the dragon spoke, "That's where you're wrong little pony, there is one thing that your kind has that I want, and heard it was in this town and that it was a teenaged colt that has it and I'm not going anywhere until I- Wait a minute what is that you're wearing around your neck...... is that........THE HEART OF LIGHT!?" The dragon said immediately turning his attention towards DarkHeart and his family's most guarded treasure.

"So then you were looking for something. Well guess what buddy, you're not getting your claws on this amulet, not as long as I'm around. As the Guardian of the Heart of Light I will do everything in my power to make sure that it doesn't fall into the wrong-" DarkHeart was interrupted by a shouting that was coming from the partially destroyed entrance of his school.

"Seriously just give him the necklace for Celestia's sake, then he'll go away and we can go on with our lives." he heard a mare say from the crowd that was immediately followed by a "YYEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!"

"Well it would seem as though they've made the decision for you, little colt, I guess they don't care about it as much as you do." the dragon said with a short chuckle.

"So what are you going to do then little pony, are you going to hand it over willingly, or would you rather I take it by force and endanger your fellow classmates?" he asked wait to see what his response is.

DarkHeart didn't even have to think about what his answer was, "Hey dragon what's your name?" he asked calmly.

Slightly taken back a bit from his question, the dragon answered him. " I am know as Spirit, the soul stealer, why do you wish to know colt?" he asked curious as to why DarkHeart would ask something so trivial at the moment.

"Because......I need to know what to carve into your gravestone after I kill you." DarkHeart's voice had shifted to his deeper, scarier sounding one and a shroud of dark energy enveloping him.

Surprised by the shroud of darkness, Spirit took a step back before realizing what he was doing and then returned to his fearsome composure. "So you want to handle this the hard way huh? Well fine then, their deaths will be on your hands then little po-" He was interrupted as a small blast of dark magic skimmed his right cheek.

"The name is DarkHeart, not 'little pony' you insolent pest." DarkHeart said growing irritated being referred to 'Little pony'.

"Well then, DarkHeart, what do you say we get this done and over with." Spirit was posing to strike DarkHeart already.

"You took the words right out of my mouth, Spirit." DarkHeart said while starting the spell.

Everypony in the school went to go find cover for what was surely to be a gruesome, but brief fight. They didn't really believe DarkHeart could really even stand a chance with the dragon and so were more interested in finding a hiding spot for when he came after them, well almost all of them, Ms. Tender Heart was only trying to look for a safe place to watch the battle. She would have gone to inform his parents of what was happening, but seeing as though the two were standing right in front of the exit she thought it best to hide for now and then make a break for the exit when the coast was clear.

The two stood in place, glaring at each other. DarkHeart preparing himself for the fight as he was forming the summoning ring for his blades, while Spirit was taking in large breaths of air, raising the temperature of his internal flame. They were like this for awhile, waiting for one another to make the first move.

DarkHeart's glare intensified until the point to where his right eye shifting to his draconic eye, his gaze piercing into Spirit's very soul. Meeting his glare head on Spirit caught the full force of the deadly stare before turning away, and DarkHeart, not having taken his eyes off his target, saw this and took it as an opportunity to strike.

Immediately after seeing Spirit turn his gaze away from him,DarkHeart charged forward and quickly finishing off the weaponization spell, calling forth his blades, which he decided to call Cursed and Blessing. With both his blades in his hands he leapt into the air poised to strike Spirit's wings, but unfortunately for him the dragon had turned back around in time to see DarkHeart lunging towards him and taking the preemptive strike he swung his morning star to try and knock the unicorn away from him.

"Nice try DarkHeart , but you'll have to do better than that to get the drop on me." Spirit said in an ever-so-confident tone.

With those words spoken Spirit swung with all his might at DarkHeart, who was still falling through the air towards the deadly weapon coming towards him. He didn't make any attempt to move out of its way, but instead put his arms to his sides trying to increase the speed at which he was falling, this of course confused the dragon and had shocked Ms. Tender Heart who was still watching. "I guess you got a death wish don't ya pal?" Spirit said arrogantly.

"No death wish here. Just want to get closer look at that weapon of yours." DarkHeart responded as he further increased his descending speed.

*~THWUUUUNNG~*DarkHeart had collided with his morning star at an incredibly high speed and Spirit's face turned into another one of his wicked smiles accompanied by a dark chuckle. "I was really hoping for of splat, but I'll go for what I can get.... ha ha ha ha ha ha." He continued to laugh.

As he stopped laughing he turned over his weapon in his palms to see what damaged he had done to the pony. He was coming to the spot where DarkHeart should've been.....*THUNK*...Spirit had dropped his mighty weapon as he saw something that he didn't think was possible for any pony to survive such a forceful strike.

DarkHeart just stood atop one the many spikes that had adorned the weapon, "What, did you actually think that such a simple attack like that would be enough to kill me?" He said with his signature smirk.

"Bu...but how, I have the strength of an earthquake at my disposal, how in the world could you stand that kind of force!?" Spirit, now, wasn't holding back his fear of the young unicorn.

"HA... ha ha...... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha," DarkHeart laughed a dark laugh that echoed throughout the entire school and got the attention of everypony, as they came out of their hiding spots and made their ways to where the two were having their 'fight' they finally saw the shroud of darkness that had enveloped him. The look of awe or fear adorned the crowd of ponies as they saw Spirit cower in front of DarkHeart , as he just stood there finishing his bout of laughter that had just mysteriously appeared out of nowhere before the dragon spoke up.

"Wha...what the hell is so funny about what I had asked, you....you thing!?" he stammered out of fear and confusion.

"What's so funny is that I thought that you would've known what's allowed me to survive your 'attack', it was through the oh so amazing power of my dark magic. I thought that surely a creature such as yourself would've known that, after all you must possess some after all since you came after the Heart of Light otherwise you wouldn't be able to touch it," DarkHeart began to explain.

"Da...dar....dark ma...ma..magic, but how do you possess such a thing you're suppose to be the Guardian of Light, so how are allowed to bear that amulet?" Spirit was getting more confused by the situation as it went on.

"You really are clueless, aren't you?" DarkHeart asked before going on to explain himself.

"There's nothing in my family's code about the Guardian not being able to use dark magic, that and the fact that my name is 'Dark...Heart', what makes you think that a pony with a name like that wouldn't possess it. If you look at my life very closely, you would see that it actually fits quite well with me, the only way for me to solve any of my problems and get through life has revolved around letting the darkness in my heart out and doing the work it needed to, to resolve it for me and the whole situation with Stone Digger has been a key reminder to that fact." He tried to explain to the creature cowering before him. "But as I said, I know how well you understand that, don't you, you've used it every time you've tried to steal the heart haven't you?"

"Bu...bu....but how did you know I've tried to steal the amulet before? It's been tw-" DarkHeart cut him off.

"Two centuries ago, the last time you had tried and failed, the rest of my family thought that they had taken you out for good during that fiasco, but I knew better than to think that you would've been overpower, especially not when you're angry." Spirit went wide-eyed at that last statement.

"How did you know about my power being liked to my anger?" He asked curious on how DarkHeart had figured out something like that on their first encounter and he hadn't even gotten angry yet.

"Because I do too, but the difference between our power is that your's increases your maximum power, while mine on the other hand just releases the locks I put on mine and allows me to use it without having, or should I say wanting, to hold back." DarkHeart went on. "And I have to be honest with you, the only reason you're not already dead is because I want to see the kind of power your anger can give you. I want to be able to fight an opponent that has the same kind of advantage I have so that I can further understand my own, but instead all I get is sniffling coward who can fight off a mob of unicorns wielding regular, old magic, but can't seem to even look a single unicorn who wields dark magic in the eyes." DarkHeart insulted the dragon's pride to try and spark off the real foe he wants to face against.

"Oh, and another thing. Why is it that want to-"

"THAT' ENOUGH DARKHEART!!" DarkHeart's insulting was interrupted by the sound of his mother's angry voice as it echoed through the air.

He looked up to the sky to see not only his parents, but also the royal guard and,

"Princess Luna and Princess Celestia, what the hell are they doing here?" He asked with a cocked eyebrow.

"We, my little pony, were called here by your parents for help to eliminate this creature." Princess Celestia said, pointing at the dragon was now hanging his head down.

"But it would seem as though you have taken the situation too far, endangering the lives of your fellow ponies' for your own selfish desires, such a waste of power that could've been used for so much good, and now has it has to be taken away before any harm can be done." Princess Luna added in, shaking her head in disappointment.

DarkHeart was shocked that the princesses had said that they were going to take away the thing that made him special. He looked to his parents to see if they were going to talk them out of it, but when he did all he saw was a look of disappointment across their muzzles as well. DarkHeart turned back to the princesses and they looked as though they were looking for his response but looked away and took in the area surrounding them to see that the every guard that had came was now surrounding him making sure that he couldn't escape. DarkHeart looked the guard barrier to see everypony in the school had came out and were looking upon the scene, also appearing like they were expecting the same thin as the princesses, and as he kept looking around he now saw that ponies were coming out their homes to see what was happening. He kept looking in circles for somepony who had a friendly expression on their face towards him, that is until he heard his parents starting to say something and immediately turned his attention towards them.

"DarkHeart you know what the right thing to do is, so I suggest you do it." Lucky Streak not hiding his disappointment towards his son's actions.

"What, but...but..you....I" DarkHeart's voice shifted back to normal as he tried to form coherent sentences but the situation he found himself in was boggling his mind.

"No buts DarkHeart, do as the princesses said and let them take your dark magic, it's become obvious that you can't use them responsibly, even after all of the training you have been through to not let such evil desires form in your heart, and here we are, promise broken and problem that should have been dealt with from the beginning is about to be solved and forgotten forever." Star Dust added in, having the same look as her husband.

DarkHeart realized that he was all alone in this matter, well almost alone, "What do you two think I should do....Nova....Shadow?" he asked the two spirits that reside within him, his voice low enough so that they were the only ones who were able to hear him.

There was a few moments before a response finally came, "I think you shouldn't do it, but not because that means I get to stay, but because the dark magic is a part of you, if its taken away from you then who are you? Whatever you're meant to do in this life has something to do with the dark magic that courses through your veins, are you really going to let them take the thing that's makes you special away from you?" Came Shadow's response.

"Hmm... what about you nova, what do you believe I should do in the situation I'm in?" DarkHeart asked Nova, wanting her opinion before he made his decision.

"Welllll.....I would say that I agree with Shadow on this. The dark magic is a part of who you are, and no pony should ever be asked to give up a part of their being, so I say you fight back and not let them take this away from you, you did get your cutiemark because of it, and I could only imagine what should become of you should you be a blank flank for the rest of your life because you'd allowed them to do this." Nova said with a steady voice.

"Well then, I guess I have my answer then." He said loud enough so that the princesses, guard, and his parents could hear him.

"So then, what will it be DarkHeart the unicorn, are you going to willing give up your dark power or will we have to use force." Princess Celestia asked sternly.

"How about this option instead, I keep my dark magic, flee from you and the guards, and live alone for the rest of my life, huh? Because I'm not planning on being a blank flank again because I let takeaway the thing that makes me special, because I let you have the thing that I'm good at, I DON'T THINK SO!" DarkHeart stated as the dark shroud from earlier returned with more force than it had last time.

"YOU HAVE MADE A GRAVE MISTAKE YOU LITTLE FOOL." boomed Luna with the Royal Canterlot Voice.

"You have indeed DarkHeart. GUARDS APPREHEND HIM AT ONCE!!!!" Celestia gave the order to the guards, as they began the close in on their target.

"It's not I who's made a mistake, but instead all of you. Now that you have so foolishly decided to gang up on me and can now display the full extent of my dark magic." He said while an evil grin adorned his features.

"But I thought you said you didn't know how to invoke the transformation again." Shadow stated.

"I didn't know how, at least not until now. I've figured out what makes it tick and I believe I can control it without allowing my rage to consume me, despite how much of it I'm feeling right from being betrayed by own parents, but I guess I can just take it out on these guards here." With those words, DarkHeart's body was enveloped by the shroud of darkness and being transformed into what he called his 'Darkness' form.

"Hurry up and stop him before he can do whatever it is he's trying to do." Luna commanded the guards.

Suddenly DarkHeart's parents felt something in their guts, a feeling that they had felt once before but weren't completely aware at the time. They looked at each other with worried looks on their faces before Lucky Streak turned towards Princess Celestia.

"Your highness, you must call off your guards now or they will meet their end today!" he warned her.

"What!? Why? What is your son planning on doing?" she asked impatiently.

"DarkHeart is shifting that he calls his 'Darkness' form, and believe me when I say this princess, the power that he emits when the transformation is complete will be nothing short of lethal to those guards when it's released." Star Dust explained.

At this, Celestia went wide-eyed, "ALL GUARDS FALL BACK NOW, AND GET AWAY FROM HIM QUICK." she hurriedly order he guards.

Usually fighting off a powerful unicorn wouldn't concern her all that much if they wielded normal magic, but dark magic on the other was far too unpredictable and dangerous so she wasn't about to risk the lives of her royal guards when it wasn't necessary.

But unfortunately for both her and the guards, she didn't give the order soon enough the dark ball suddenly erupted into beam of light and a wave of darkness, which had obliterated every single guard within a 10-feet radius of the blast's center, while everypony else got sent flying back.