Now after such a long time, we return to the castle where the Mane Six, the CMC, Ben Mare, Spike, Phobos, and all the rest of the others apart of this group were having a 'Celebration' party about now. Of course, the whole thing was Pinkie Pie's idea, and right now, she was throwing her pals a party in honoring how they managed to get by their first quarrel match with 'the' Tadaka, the Dragon that went to war against Celestia and Luna, build an army of fearsome might, who made Lorcan who he was long ago, and who was believed to be gone. It was a miracle that the gang survived such a quarrel match against a drain who was stronger than even Lorcan was when he did the invasion of conquest. The only difference between those outcomes, Tadaka didn't take the Elements of Harmony to stop him, and now Tadaka is once again gone for good. Right now though, anyone who's anyone, was making it the flashiest moment to cheer for their success.

"Thank goodness it's over." Apple Bloom said, hanging out with her friends.

"Yeah, and I'm glad Twilight dropped Lorcan's banishment." Sweetie said, squeeling in agreement.

"As long as she doesn't do it again, I'm fine." Scootaloo remarks, drinking some soda.

"You know, it's awesome using that Rainbow Power again." Rainbow remarks to her group while they're hanging. "I hope we use it again in the future."

"It depends on if it done comes out or not." Applejack said, chewing on an apple. "Hopefully Tadaka's supporters stay away fer good 'dis time."

"Right, they're scary." Fluttershy admits, yelping in worry.

But as all of this was going on, the others slowly began to see that the one not having much fun…was Twilight Sparkle. After the whole event from meeting the Dragon that Celestia and Luna once called friend, Tadaka, it was something to see the real deal during that close call. But even after that brief victory, many were starting to think something happened during that moment that distracted Twilight the most. So some of the partying guests and those that live in the place came to see what was up.

"Hey Twilight, why so glum?" Ben spoke out first in liking to know, what was on the mare he loves' mind that distracted her even from enjoying the party?

"Hugh, oh sorry, it's nothing...well, actually it is, um…." The smart mare was surprised to relax the situation at hand and tried to get herself together. "Hugh…look….It's that after everything that's happened, I feel like a real…jerk." Twilight Sparkle sighed before willingly admits that she was being something of a jerk towards someone.

"But Mommy, why would you say that?" Nyx asked a bit puzzled in not understanding why her mother would call herself such a thing.

"Because sweetie, we had someone here who's been trying so hard to prove he's a good person, and while he's been able to live for the future…I've only lived in the past." Twilight pats her daughter's head while trying to put on a smile in saying how she has been unfair to someone they all know who was trying to help.

"Wow; that is sappy. No wonder you say that about yourself." Phobos shrug off to remark what the mare was saying, only to get stared at by the others. "What! Just saying!" The Moon Dragon shrug off in feeling some watched stern pressure all around him now.

"I think I know who you're talking about Twily, maybe it's time to make amends." Shining Armor nods and came over to gently hug his sister to give her support. "Especially since Lorcan has wanted some relief from you who he hurt most of all." Even this stallion knows that the person Twilight meant was Spike's older brother, the same Dragon that caused such a tram on this mare's life so far.

"That's what your brother did, he forgave Lorcan of something he did from being blinded. Now…it's your turn to share the love." Cadance nods with an assuring smile to let Twilight open up her heart to finally give Lorcan a chance.

"Okay, Spike, where's your brother?" Twilight nods in hearing all of this from her friends as she then looks to her assistant to ask where his brother is now.

"I saw him outside the top balcony, being by himself." Spike explained to Twilight where he last saw his brother.

"Well, could you take me to him?" Twilight asked for some aid in being taken to meet Lorcan, wherever he's at.

"Sure." Spike nods with a smile in understanding how Twilight wants this, so he'll help out.

"Maybe some company could help you be brave, if you don't mind." Fluttershy spoke out in offering a chance to let Twilight have her friends to encourage herself.

"Shoot, 'dat's a swell idea, everypony has some nervous feet sometimes." Applejack nods with a smile in thinking that idea wasn't too far bad to use.

"Yeah, we'll stick to you like glue!" Rainbow Dash came near the smart pony and patted her back in assuring the group be there.

"There's no 'I' in team." Rarity responded off with a quote to let them know they stick together.

"Thanks girls, I appreciate that." Twilight nods with a smile in feeling glad to have her friends around to help her out here.

"And then we can continue the party." Pinkie Pie nods with a joyful tone in what they'll do afterwards.

"Yeah!" The CMC and the others cheered for that last one, that way they can return to celebrate.

Now the scene changes to where outside the balcony is Lorcan, keeping his hood from his cloak over his face. He looks up to the night sky Luna has made and looked between the stars that shine. But during which case, the teen Dragon pulls out something from under his cloak's sleeve to present it out into the open. The item in question was crafted from pure silver, it was shaped like a circular pocket object with a chain to allow one to hold the item to dangle or wear around their neck. The design on the front was shaped like a long-bodied Dragon with crimson ruby eyes. But once opened, was clear white-blue bottom, like the ocean with an orange sphere in the center that glimmered and a crescent moon that seem to rotate around it. It was playing a little melody, a nice, calm, gentle sound that brought peace to the night sky. Lorcan shut his eyes in trying to imagine something, something of happiness, just before...

"Lorcan!" Twilight's voice was heard calling out to the distracted teen Dragon.

"Waaugh!" Lorcan yelped and quickly shut the music off by closing the locket's lid. When he turn around, he saw Twilight was near the opening of her balcony and her friends behind her. "Oh, it's just you all." Lorcan sighs in seeing it was only the pony group, no one of a bigger threat.

"Wow wee, what was 'dat sound?" Apple Bloom responded from what she and the others heard Lorcan listening to.

"It sounded very pretty." Sweetie Belle nods with a smile in liking what they heard that sounded nice.

"It came from that item in his claw!" Scootaloo pointed in noticing the item in question was with Lorcan, who held the thing from seeing it was found out.

"Girls, girls, give the Dragon some space." Rarity spoke to polity get the fillies under control to not go too wild over one little detail.

"Still, that was a nice melody Lorcan, how'd you come across it?" Nyx spoke out in liking what was heard, as it had a nice sound to it.

"It's…an old family heirloom I brought out from storage. The Dragon Locket: Harmonious. Named after a Dragon that loved for her music to be heard far and wide." Lorcan spoke from holding the locket close to him as he explained a bit of its origins before letting it dangle from the chain necklace end. "This locket plays a melody that was used to calm me to sleep as it was something crafted with fine materials & a gift from….my mother." That last part had Lorcan look away with a deep sorrow in his voice when he said who had given him this precious gift.

This put most of the gang in silent in realizing what they have just discovered. The locket in Lorcan's clutches was something of sentimental value because it's something from his family. And even more so, it was something from the mother that gave him birth, including Spike when the baby Dragon was but an egg at the time.

"From…mom you say?" Spike slowly responded in being very surprised to realize what his brother held was really important.

"Yes, huaaagh, maybe I suppose I should have given this to you, little brother." Lorcan nods with a little sigh as he approached up to Spike in saying this to him. "Seeing as how you might not remember her much, she spoke that when we hear this music, it's like she's with us." As Lorcan was explaining the precious connection of the locket with the brothers, the elder one reached for Spike's left claw to gently place the item there.

"Really…wow." Spike responded when he accept the locket from being so stunned as Lorcan gently close that fist gap to hold the item carefully as to say not to lose it.

Soon Lorcan was walking pass the others inside the castley before leaping off the second floor to land in the center of the room without breaking a leg.

"Lorcan…wait." Twilight spoke in wanting to say something, as she and the others took the stairs down. "I have something to say to you." The smart pony stated out quickly in wanting to let the older dragon know something.

"Yes, what is it?" Lorcan asked from being a bit curious to what Twilight wanted to say, to him of all creatures.

"I wanna say…that I'm sorry." Twilight Sparkle took a deep breath and let out what she wanted to say to Lorcan.

"Sorry, for what?" Lorcan responded a bit unsure, what was Twilight saying 'sorry' for, it was kinda puzzling him.

"For always giving you the benefit of the doubt that you've changed and become a good person from who you once were." Twilight Sparkle exclaimed out in stating the fact that Lorcan has changed from his evil ways. "I always thought I still be suffering from what happened long ago, with me and Starlight." The mare paused for a moment when she brought up something relating to her little brother. "I blamed you for that day when I lost my little brother, and did things later on with Spike in worrying what would happen to him if you two ever meant. Would I lose him like Starlight…I was afraid." Twilight looked away with a sorrow face in knowing how much she feared of a result, should it come to pass.

"So you say, but if you feel that saying you forgive me for that act, I can understand if you don't mean it." Lorcan response with self-guessing that deep down, Twilight still holds a grudge even if she says she's sorry. "After all, what I did was a great sin of harming a foal who wish to protect his little sister." Lorcan stated out in holding his heart in feeling, knowing that what he did was an act that was unforgivable.

"That's just it, if Starlight was here and saw that you were a changed Dragon, he might ask that I forgive you." Twilight stated off to let Lorcan know something in which case, her little brother might have been the forgiving type than her. "He was always a thoughtful colt back then, and if I don't move on with my life, it'll almost be like when I thought I lost Ben Mare." Twilight looked to her love, she lost one person in her life; she can't let that be done again. "Can I at least ask that…we be friends?" Twilight looked to the ground, then up to Lorcan in asking for this small request.

"Unbelievable." Lorcan shook his head from processing all that he was hearing from this discussion. "You, who fueled my hatred, you who I once believed took everything dear to me? Now ask for my hand, or claw in this case, for forgiveness?" The teen Dragon stated out in feeling that this was awkward, the very pony mare that he held a grudge, was now asking they be friends now. "I rather be shocked you still carry hatred towards me, even if I have changed." The guy stated to himself in seeing that in his cloak, his appearance is a mystery, he's doing many things, but for Twilight to wanna get along with him now suddenly is too surprising to believe.

"Hatred destroys us, blinds our thoughts and turns us into monsters, I saw how that was true…from Tadaka." Twilight spoke of stating the workings of such hatred as proof showed what became of someone like Tadaka, who let rage blind his judgment and act rational without a second thought of the consequences. "If I let my old hatred towards you carry on now, then I'll eventually be consumed, I don't want to do that and do something hurtful." The smart pony stated forth her objective on the matter and why she must not let anger and hatred, cloud and judge her path. "To my friends…and my family." The girl looks to those around her as they smiled, so did she, as Twilight must be sure to protect them, not hurt them, even if that means letting go of her anger of what happened in the past with Lorcan.

"It would seem you've given this much thought." Lorcan spoke from a deep thinking of his thoughts before looking up to the mare he caused such trouble. "Then if you're brave enough to move on from what happened in the past, then it's the same for me." Lorcan proclaimed out in seeing that if someone, even Twilight, can move on forward from what happened in the past, then so can he.

Soon Lorcan took Twilight's right hoof and they both shook, signing forth their sign of friendship towards another.

"About time!" Rainbow exclaims with a smile. Looks like Twilight and Lorcan has buried the hatchet.

"Actually, there appears to be signs of hesitance in Twilight." Azure said, noting a look of concern on Twilight's face. "But when the time comes, someday they will all be dissolved."

"At least now, Twilight would be less like a barbarian." Rarity said, relieved that Twilight is showing signs of some change towards Lorcan.

"Well bro., I gotta say I'm proud of you." Spike approached his brother to happily give him the proud pat on the back. "And you know what? If our mother was here, I think she be happy to see how lucky we are." Spike stated from holding up the locket Lorcan gave him as for both brothers to look at.

"Hmm…yeah, being surrounded by loved ones, that be just like to be so pleased we are living…a happier life." Lorcan nods a bit in understanding that very well, and then he looked at the locket Spike held to just rest a claw on it.

"TRsivhhm-fruvhpvhmm…" Just then, when both brothers held the locket in their claws, it unleashed a bright glow that flashed across everyone's sights.

"Waaugh…." The crowds yelp out in surprise, they had no idea what was happening, but they were now blind as bats by the glow.

"What's happening?" Pinkie Pie asked out to her friends in not understanding what was taking place.

Suddenly, something was being heard in the background, a familiar music from the locket.

"Hey, that sounds like 'Galaxia's Locket Music' by extended version." Nyx broke the fourth wall in explaining out the melody that was heard by the gang.

"Man, I gonna learn how to break fourth walls like you and Pinkie do!" Phobos turned to say this to Nyx, seeing that doing that whole Fourth Wall Break thing was really something else.

Soon something began to happen as golden sparkle particles were dancing out from the locket, and soon began to take shape of a large Dragon within the room. This Dragon was mostly in the form of a light golden aura color theme, from the scales to spikes, to horns, tail, wings, claws and teeth, you name it. But there was more, once the forming of this creature made from golden magical particles was formed, it was shown to be a pink big Dragon with yellow hair and red scales, some could almost believe that was it's, no, her true form. In some way, it was hard to say if this being was of magical or spiritual origin, or of a mix from the two.

"Wooh! Is that…." Rainbow Dash was slowly starting to say, but someone finished for her.

"A Dragon?" Rarity exclaimed out in what appeared to be a Dragon of some kind.

"But it looks different." Applejack raised an eyebrow in noticing this was no ordinary dragon, it didn't look 'too' mean.

"Wait girls, that's a female Dragon?" Fluttershy spoke out in seeing that whatever this surprise dragon of magical energy was, it was female.

"That's not just any female Dragon! That's…" Lorcan slowly stated out with his eyes behind his hood, before he soon took the hood down, and he magically shifted from his small form to his teenage form from its effect. "Our Mother! Sindell!" Lorcan announced hence forth in who the dragon before the rest was that he knew.

"WHAAAAH!" The other ponies responded in surprise in what they just heard Lorcan just go and say now. The very magical image of this Dragon was the deceased Sindell, the wife of Tadaka, and the mother of Spike and Lorcan?

"That's…mom?" Spike slowly responded in a wide-eyed surprise reaction, this mystical Dragon was…his mother?

"AHHHH! THE GHOST OF TADAKA'S LATE WIFE! SINDELL, HAS COME TO HAUNT US!" Phobos cried out with wide eye panic, thinking this Dragon wanted some payback or something other.

"I don't think she's a ghost Phobos." Nyx calmly patted her worried Moon Dragon to assure him, that this magical form of Spike's mother, Sindell, was not of an evil ghost.

"Unbelievable, I think I've heard of something of this spell!" Twilight spoke with so much doubt and disbelief while almost recalling something very much relative of this form of magic.

"Wait! This Dragon isn't a ghost then?" Shining Armor responded in hearing his sister right, if Sindell, who's deceased to this day, is not of ghostly origin, then of what brings her to this part of the living?

"I've read about the same thing. This spell takes enough of one's life essence to contain it within an object, thereby, leaving a part of their own spirit to watch things if the body is no more." Ben Mare explained out from recalling something very similar to this spell taking one's own spirit and encasing it in objects to live on for them. "It's a Spirit Infusion!"

"Then this is really…the mother of Lorcan and Spike? Did she place enough of her own life force in the locket, to someday see her sons from what Tadaka was doing?" Cadance spoke from being very surprised to see this, Sindell must have thought ahead that if someday, Tadaka's revenge got her caught in the cross fire, she would want her spirit to live on somewhere, to see her children.

That was a good question, as speaking of that very mother dragon, Sindell looked down to notice everyone in the room. But her focus seem to focus mostly on one, two Dragons out of the three in the room. As she soon smiled in looking down from where Spike and Lorcan were, showing their total surprise expressions at seeing a spiritual Dragon.

"So…this was mom? She's….very pretty." Spike spoke out from recovering from his surprise shock as he was now looking up at his mother, noticing how beautiful Sindell is, or was, whichever fits the bill.

"Yes….she was." Lorcan nods with a silent response as he knows all too well in recognizing his own mother.

Then Spike was near, where the mystical claw of this Dragon touched his little cheek. Sindell had wanted to rub her claw against the youngest Dragon of her family. Spike felt frozen at first, but then he suddenly was relaxing, like almost like all was fine in the world.

"I…I can feel it…her touch…its very warmth. It's so….nice." Spike spoke from smiling and then he closed his eyes for a second to hold the claw of his mother. Then the baby Dragon opened his eyes to see his mother silently tilt her head forward were the baby Dragon was looking to his brother, and got the message. "Lorcan? I think…she wants you here too." Spike responded in somehow understanding that silent message from his spiritual mother as she wanted 'both' sons near her.

"Me…?" Lorcan responded to point at himself while sounding completely surprised? "But I….I couldn't…I've…done to much to need comforting." Lorcan was nervously trying to make up some excuses, knowing full well, the last thing a former villain needs; was the comfort feeling of a mother's embrace.

"It's okay, I can't explain why but…." Spike nods his head while shaking it, saying something that's puzzling him. "Somehow, mom is saying she forgives you for all the trouble that's happened." Spike finished off from when he looked up to his magical formed mother, Sindell nods with a gentle expression as if that enough was to be convincing her elder son to listen.

"Mother...forgives me, she knows what occur? How?" Lorcan responded all too surprised, how was it, that someone deceased, knows all that he's done.

"I'm not sure, she just…knows." Spike shrugged off his shoulders in feeling that, the Dragon siblings' mother just knows these things.

"Mother…." Lorcan turned to the magical spirit of his mother, Sindell, as he approached her slowly with caution. "Your kindness warmth my heart before the days of my scar, could it still now even from everything to this day? Can you…forgive my wrong actions?" Lorcan asked in wanting to know something of equal importance, can he be forgiven so easily even when his mother is just a spirit, can anyone like the Mane Six just accept it now more than ever?

There was no answer for that, Sindell just suddenly held open her wings that unleashed a golden dust in the air. Then what happened next was something that surprised everyone in the room, Sindell's wings acted like arms, bringing Spike and Lorcan closer to her as the mother Dragon rested her head over her children. Spike and Lorcan were at first, lost by this, but then truly felt nothing to be scared of as they felt something any child could understand; the inner true emotions, of a mother's love. The dragon sibs closed their eyes, smiled while enjoying this hug embrace that neither one has felt for in many ages. In in the basic of the truth of this matter, the scene was so touching, it was even effecting some of the others?

"Gawaahahaaaaaugh….this here's TOO touching!" Phobos let out a lot of tears while holding a tissue to wipe away what he cried out.

"I know, sniff…it's like watching a soap opera. Sniff…it's beautiful." Pinkie Pie nods in feeling so totally overwhelmed by this, it's almost too good to be true, but it is.

"Well how about that, it's like a little of their family found them." Ben Mare smiles to nod in noticing, how much Lorcan and Spike are at their happiest, being with someone that's really close in the family.

"I guess…everyone that has a family, needs them…to support each other." Twilight rest her head to her lover's neck, feeling simply overjoyed in seeing this.

"Too true, even if their mother is no longer around, her love for her children remains ever so strong." Cadance nods with such strong understandings of things, Sindell, has wanted to give her love to both children, and now she has.

"We couldn't agree more to that." Shining Armor nods in agreeing with his wife, this moment looks like it would go on forever.

Soon, it was this time, the mystical energies surrounding the Dragon began to slowly fade downwards. Sindell's spirit was slowly returning back into the locket, but not before having her face her sons once more. From all open eyes, the Dragon siblings could only make one thing their mother's magical spirit form did next. 'I Love You My Sons!' It was faint, and very soft and gentle, but both Spike and Lorcan froze in hearing their mother say she loves them, it's like their life was opened to new heights at this point. Soon Sindell's head vanished into golden particles, and return to the locket in Spike's hand. It was from around here, that nice melody of the locket soon stopped and re-closed itself afterwards.

"Hey, you guys gonna be okay?" Nyx asked in seeing that the brothers seem to be a bit sad that their mother had to leave.

"We've never been better." Lorcan nods with a little recovered emotion to dry his tears off to look like his old self, but more happy. "Seeing our mother here has helped heal even my own heart from what was almost shrouded in complete darkness." He tapped his heart, where he felt the greatest warmth within, something he's missed all this time in his life, love.

"And even though I'm glad to have seen my mother, there is one family I'm still proud to be with." Spike spoke from wiping his own tears off and soon came up to Twilight, Ben and Nyx along with Phobos. "With Twilight, and all of you." The baby Dragon gave Twilight a hug while mentioning this fact out to all family and friends here.

"Awww, thanks Spike. I…um, we, feel the same." Twilight nods to hug Spike right back while mentioning this fact to him for reassurance.

The scene shows outside the castle where the lights still were on, but there was some motion of action happening. From the sounds of it, there were voice chatters, some arguments of Phobos teasing Lorcan from that whole thing ruined his image, and some laughs a bit afterwards. At this time, a lot of ponies would need to relax after the exhausting time they all had to endure, and boy, was it ever worth it. But they must always be cautiously watchful, for even with some good times, bad times are never that far away.

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At this time, we enter a place that is not of Equestria, but of the prison behind the Gates of Tartarus. The entire scenery was as dark and an inferno place for only the worst among the worst to be kept locked away. But even so, there was one who reign supreme over all, the Overlord King himself; Grimmore. Even with this foe kept in a place none can escape from while Cerberus guards the gates, he is no small threat or a fool to be underestimated. But the scene mostly focuses on Grimmore's General, Ji-Ga-No, the Metallix Dragon as he was seemingly resting on the ground undisturbed within the center castle in this prison reign/ Or so it seemed, before he suddenly shot himself up with wide open alert eyes, as he suddenly felt…a familiar presence from the other side of Tartarus/

"Hmm…I sense something." Ji-Ga-No muttered from rising his head in trying to sense what he felt just now? "This magical aura, it's weak, but it feels like…" When he sharpened his senses, he suddenly came across an answer to which even he found…propitious/ "No! That's impossible! How can it be? It's…" But before he would have snapped off in what he discovered, something interrupted, or more likely…someone.

"It would seem very true, my general?" A voice spoke out to which Ji-Ga-No looked over to his left spot to see a portal of flames, and resting on his throne with his head resting on his right palm was Grimmore. "The presence we sense is none other…than Lorcan." Grimmore spoke in recognizing the presence of someone they know, someone, they believed was dead.

"How can that even be possible? That whimsy Dragon perished from that final conflict!" Ji-Ga-No responded off practically surprised to learn this, how is Lorcan even alive?

"Yes, but it seems he's back from the grave, none the least. And more surprising is joining those he wished to kill, the ponies." Grimmore spoke with his smile never drifting from bother in foreseeing how the events here are shaping up to be, especially the once Scarred Ruler siding with those he wished to destroyed.

"Ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaah! Does he actually think he'll earn back their forgiveness, a waste of time," Ji-Ga-No taunted off with a wicked cackle in hearing such news, Lorcan wants to side with ponies he tried to kill, what a laugh. "He was better off being dead from that failure." The Metallix Dragon remarked off in what position Lorcan was better suited for, being alive will only be another troublesome bother to tend to.

"Maybe so, but he's return was not 'too' hard to foreseen." Grimmore spoke from sitting himself up straight to tell his general of noticing signs of a fallen foe's return. "When he and his brother were between the realm of the afterlife, both of them return, yet the older one seem to perish again for good." The Overlord King rubbed his chin in describing the outcome that took place when Spike and Lorcan died on the battlefield, then returned to the land of living before the elder one cease existing. "But it seems he's been hiding his present's return to the living, and now that we know, things could be interesting." He smiled with a thought, if Lorcan has return to the game, perhaps things will be more interesting.

Of course, Grimmore already knew this, as well as Tadaka's return, the Demon Lords and their minions' plan but did not wish to mention this to Ji-Ga-No yet...as well as most of the forgiveness that Lorcan has been given.

"And just how is it interesting, that Tadaka's foolish elder son has return strikes as interesting." Ji-Ga-No slithered up more in just pondering what was so interesting about an enemy's return.

"Well, it'll make things less boring if he's a part of the ponies' lives." Grimmore waved off his free hand in simply thinking how much Lorcan could be seen being a part of the ponies and their lives. "But I do sense his strength is weak, perhaps the last fight has taken its toll on him." The Overlord King turned his head to rub his chin with his eyes shut, focusing in realizing; Lorcan is in a weaken state after his return. "Ji-Ga-No! Why don't you go investigate the matter and see how Lorcan is doing?" Grimmore opened his eyes to give these orders to send his general to find and see Lorcan's conditions on the matter.

"Is that wise? You know the moment I go out, I'll most likely scar the area into another battlefield." Ji-Ga-No hovered in the air asking if his master wishes for such a task from the most brutal warrior of the army.

"Well that's why you'll have to be stealthy. Do 'try' to, after all…we don't want to go scaring up folks of our approach…yet." Grimmore waved off to simply request his warrior tries to not be too noticing, they don't wanna bring too much pandemonium to Equestria…yet.

"Oh believe me, I'll try, but I can make no guarantee of what happens afterwards." Ji-Ga-No made a wicked sly smile in understanding the orders, but with him, doing that is like asking him not to be himself, and that's no surprise.

"Excellent!" Grimmore tapped his hands together to tap his fingers in a rhyme mix in seeing how things shall go for him from here on outward. "MWAH-hahahah-HA-HA-HAHAHAAAAAH!" Soon, the Overlord King was making a loud cackle that was spreading out of his castle and across the realm reign of Tartarus. It would seem that loran's return doesn't worry the villain to much at all, quite the opposite, Grimmore looks forward to seeing what Lorcan can bring forth while doing good for ponies. Truly, the days ahead will continue to look 'grim' in how things may turn up for the future.

The scene suddenly goes dark around this time, as if to change the scenery around for what's happening next.

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The scene opens up to the Everfree Forest, and it's been kinda quiet lately in this late evening. Where even now, we see two Dragon brothers in the middle of a familiar area where 'someone' saved some fillies from the Timberwolves. Lorcan and Spike were at this time, picking up some very rare mushrooms that were growing around the place as a special assignment for them to accomplish. And while Spike is now seen as a more capable dragon than before, the reason his brother is aiding is cause Twilight may wanted extra help in gathering the objects (secretly getting Lorcan out of the castle).

"Remind me again why we're picking up fungus?" Lorcan asked with some annoyance that he had to bring his brother out here, only to collect some weird mushrooms.

"Cause Twilight said she needed the rare Masa Fungus to perform a science experiment to make antidotes for it." Spike shrug off his shoulders to give a response to Lorcan's question in why they are here.

"And these are to cure what, again?" Lorcan asked a bit stumped (no pun intend) from looking at the mushroom he pulled and bagged it away in a sack.

"Oh some usual cases. Foot Fungus, Itchy Fungus and don't get me started of Bottom Fungus." Spike tap his fingers to count the number of Fungus Diseases, including one for one's bottom, which shall remain unspoken for.

"Trust me, I won't even bother." Lorcan shook his head in feeling that just asking for the answer was a bad idea. "Yet I feel she'll use one of these on me afterwards." Lorcan spoke from looking at his full sack, feeling that he'll be treated to get some fungus disease as payback for his former evil life's work against ponies.

"Aw come on, Twilight wouldn't do that!" Spike waved off to have his brother not be so depressed over such a thing. "Now if it was April Foals Day, then maybe." The baby Dragon pointed out in thinking how if it was a day to prank someone, that be the holiday to do it.

"Huuugh, she's giving you these tougher assignments now suddenly?" Lorcan responded off to change the subject, noticing that they are alone, in the Everfree Forest, known to be dangerous, and yet Twilight allowed Spike to come here alone.

"Yep, since I prove I can handle myself pretty well if I'm in trouble." Spike spoke off in posing in a mucho form in showing off how tough he is now.

"Believe me, I know." Lorcan shook his head in feeling pretty silly that Spike was doing that, though in truth, it was from the little brother, that the elder sibling was bested.

"Hey Lorcan, can I ask something?" Spike spoke out when the two were still gathering more mushrooms. "How bad was our father, really?" The baby Dragon went off to ask some personal question that was on his mind. "I mean, right before his first demise?"

Lorcan froze in hearing that question with upmost shock in being asked that. Describing his father, Tadaka, was like recalling all the past events Lorcan has dealt with in being raised to kill ponies for killing the father's bodyguard even by accident. After gathering the thoughts together, did Lorcan managed to make a response to this.

"Spike, why would you ask something about our father?" Lorcan responded back in what was with Spike to even ask such a thing. "I thought you heard all about him from the others, as well as what you saw during our big battle with him." The older brother mentioned off in learning how much of him and his father's background was explained before hand.

"But not the stuff from you, what was he like? Was he know as the biggest and most terrible Dragon of all ages from what happened?" Spike pointed out in wanting to know a lot more, and Lorcan was perfect to know if Tadaka was the worst Dragon villain around.

"Huugh, in truth Spike, there is no such thing, as 'just' good Dragons. You should know, not all Dragons as nice." Lorcan sighed and shook his head while expelling how every Dragon is not perfect, some as good and others are bad, and Spike knows that from the green dragon to the teenage Dragons the brother came across to Drago and the new Dragon Army. "But I suppose, in truth, father was only just 'one' of them. Yet there were others before him." Lorcan mentioned off in rubbing his chin, placing his father in a category among other dragons that have earned a name as terrible villains from ages pass.

"Others? Like what kind?" Spike responded a bit puzzled, this part of the discussion suddenly earned his interest.

"I don't know for certain, but the greatest Dragon that was the true terror for many that knew him, it was Smaug." Lorcan shook his head in not having all the answers himself, but did know of the legends revolving around one particular case. "He existed long before our father, even grandfather's time. But Smaug was said to be the true monster in the ancient world during another war." What the teen Dragon under the hood cloak spoke was sounding very serious stuff, no questions asked.

"Wooh, he sounds bad." Spike responded off in hearing this, and was almost blown away by this. "So, how was he defeated?" Spike asked his older brother if he knew how Smaug was finally beaten long ago.

"A small hope accord, one scale defense was weaker than the rest, an archer took an arrow, shot it, and kill the beast that not even a kingdom's army could best." Lorcan nods his head down in expressing the fact, that it was through one small loop-hole, that one individual took the shot, and managed to kill a mighty creature. "That one being, became a hero, and the story of Smaug was told ever so." The teen Dragon looked away and at the ground, knowing that telling the story always brought up a reminder to Dragons to be cautious, not of their defenses, but of Dragons as evil as Smaug.

"You know, that's funny. That's the same way Fafnir was beaten when we came back to the Human Realm."

"Yeah, but Smaug isn't careless as Fafnir was."

"So there has never been a dragon as powerful as Smaug?" Spike asked off in pondering a thought, that after all this time, no other dragon has risen to become the 'new' Smaug to this very day.

"Be lucky you and I never meet a Dragon that could be even 'closely' on pair of such evil that makes our father look like a kid." Lorcan smiled a bit while looking to his brother, as he responded this with a laid-back sense, even to make a funny joke about comparing the father to Smaug.

At that, Spike kinda laugh at that joke, it was too funny cause it's true. Soon both brothers were just about done in gathering the mushrooms, and then afterwards, Lorcan would use his portal transport spell to get them home lickety-split. But suddenly, something was happening as the clouds began to swirl with lightning coursing through it, loud thunder noises escaped from it. It was here that the Dragon siblings finally took notice of the unusual moment of a storm outbreak.

"Wooh! The Pegasus ponies didn't mention anything of rain showers!" Spike responded a bit surprised in seeing there was going to be some nasty storm on the way.

"That's cause, this isn't pony work, but of another." Lorcan stated out from looking a bit serious and concern, he could see this was not of Pegasus work, but of 'another' presence instead.

"Wahahahaha, haaahhhh!" Just then, something came out of the dark swirling cloud vortex that seemed to swim out of it…like a long serpent of some type. "At long last we meet, it's been too long, Lorcan." The creature was of Chinese Dragon, but its appearance was unlike any Spike has seen; it was bio-mechanical by its structure. It was none other than the evil Metallix Dragon, Ji-Ga-No the general from within the Grimmore Army as he slithered down in the Everfree Forest and raised his neck up high in looking at the two Dragon brothers.

"The feeling would be mutual if we were friends." Lorcan remarked off with a serious gaze in staring at the foe before him and Spike. "Just what are you doing here, Ji-Ga-No?" The teen Dragon snapped off in sounding like he knows who this unexpected being is.

"So, the rumors are true, you are indeed still alive…Lorcan." Ji-Ga-No remotely spoke in lowering his head to almost invade Lorcan's personal space from just having a look see. "My master and I felt your return, hard to forget a strong magical aura such as yours." The serpent Dragon exclaimed forth in knowing all too well in what aura of magic Lorcan uses, whether it was good or evil, they are the same.

"Drat! And here I thought it would at least go unnoticed!" Lorcan cursed under his breath, somehow, this guy and his 'master' have learned of his sudden return, and he seem to be trying to keep it in the down low.

"Lorcan? What's going on here? Who's this Dragon?" Spike asked his brother in seeing something was going on, and he's left in the dark.

"A general that serves in the one being that almost got you to kill me before Spike." Lorcan sternly exclaims out with a frown in knowing who was here before the brothers was an enemy that belongs to one who tried to kill the Scarred Ruler last time.

"Wait…as in that Grimmore guy, so this Dragon works for him?" Spike responded completely surprised, so this strange Dragon works for the big overlord king himself in Tartarus?

"Oh aren't you a smart little fellow?" Ji-Ga-No spoke with a smug expression in turning to take recognition of Spike's existence now. "We never been introduced. I, am Ji-Ga-No, the Metallix Dragon! The most Brutal General to serve under my master; Grimmore!" The Dragon boasted of his standards that were of high recommendations to be well recognized.

"Um, Metallix? What's that?" Spike responded off a bit puzzled as he's never heard of any dragon of that type.

"He's someone that last Grimmore aided me in my…'old' ways, he spoke of creating a new Dragon breed." Lorcan sternly explained out something that once happened in the past when this guy was evil before going good. "And he told me of who it was, but I never gotten to see him except to know it was a Chinese Dragon that was a fusion of biotic organs and metal alloys to create the first subject, a bio-flesh creature of metallic machinery; Ji-Ga-No." Lorcan made another serious expression, seeing that even now, the dragon before him, is a creation by Grimmore's own touch.

"Wooh, sounds nasty!" Spike yelped out to respond in finding this news almost too shocking to believe.

"I do love to be flattered of my past, but I have other issues to tend to." Ji-Ga-No spoke off in cutting between the brothers who yelped in remembering he's still here. "Such as much to see how you're situation has come to be, Lorcan, and it would appear…it's a struggled condition." Ji-Ga-No spoke in looking to Lorcan for just staring at the cloaked Dragon and noticing…the conditions this one has gone through and lost after his defeat in the past.

"I can still FIGHT, even against a soldier of Grimmore!" Lorcan snapped off back against this Chinese Dragon of metal scales. "Trusvhmm…." Then Lorcan lifted up his hood, which triggered a change reaction that covered his body and then before Spike and Ji-Ga-No, stood Lorcan in his taller, Teenage Form, of his true age.

"Hahahah-Haaaaah! Don't even kid yourself!" Ji-Ga-No laughed off wickedly in seeing what Lorcan was planning, he was going to fight him. "As far as I know it, the power you had when you had Equestria under your control couldn't compete with mine. And you stand even less a chance to try now when you’re HALF the powerful Dragon you once were!" The enemy exclaimed to pressure Lorcan down with snappy remarks of the great and heavy lost burden the former Scarred Ruler suffered.

"Grrrrr!" Lorcan growled under his breath when being reminded of his 'limitation' at this moment of his current strength.

"I can already tell of your condition Lorcan, and my master and I figured out your condition." Ji-Ga-No motioned forth to lean his head closer, as if trying to dig Lorcan a hole. "While you’re still recovering, somehow, during your return to life, left your body in a disarray. You can't maintain your forms right, so you need that cloak to help with the process." Lorcan frowned with annoyance, seeing that now these guys seem to have him paged now. "Without the hood, you appear as your teenage form and you have up to a good full power of your abilities you haven't lost or trying to regain, but when the hood is down, you become small. And with that, your power is cut down as you can't use them as a short shrimp!" The Metallix Dragon remotely remarked off to state that Lorcan's condition is more problematic than anyone would think.

"I'm NOT SHORT!" Lorcan shouted out against this guy for saying he's small, but then again, Ji-Ga-No was a lot bigger than him and Spike anyway.

"Hmph, such a short temper, I can see how others take advantage of it." Ji-Ga-No taunted off in seeing this former Dragon villain get upset so easily.

"Hey! You can't speak that way of my brother!" Spike frowned to protest in what this new guy was saying to his brother; bad choice of doing however.

"I WATCH THAT TONGUE, if I were you!" Ji-Ga-No soon leans his head over Spike's head as if his forehead could press the baby Dragon's head into the ground, and Spike looked to be a deer in the headlights in this situation. "The only reason you managed to defeat your 'weak' brother was not just some training from your old grand-pappy, but from the Elements' aid, mere trinkets won't save you every time!" The Dragon snarled off to tell this message to Spike, as if hammering the truth of the matter to which even the baby Dragon felt some nervous feeling in where he stands against Ji-Ga-No.

"Brizizivhmm…" Suddenly, two beam saber swords appeared with one aiming close to Ji-Ga-No's left ear. "Keep your distance from my brother if you know what's good for you." Lorcan snarled off to the enemy to not be anywhere near his brother, he won't let harm come to Spike.

"Oh my, how touchy. You both have some nerve to rise a tone or a blade against my presence." Ji-Ga-No spoke off in sarcasm in seeing how the brothers are standing up for another. "However, I came to scout out what I wanted to learn, and so now I'll return to my master's side. Within the Gates of Tartarus." Ji-Ga-No leveled himself up right in declaring how he'll now be leaving with his task done.

"Wait a second. I thought nobody was supposed to get out!" Spike responded a bit puzzled, how was any prisoner from Tartarus able to slip pass Cerberus, the three-headed dog would have noticed by now, right?

"Hahahahaha, do you think my master wouldn't have learned how to bypass such defense?" Ji-Ga-No cackled out in finding that rather humorist to hear, as if escape was not possible. "Listen carefully, the only reason he does not come here now is that he's binding his time. Waiting for the moment…to STRIKE!" The dragon tapped his claws together and then pointed them at Lorcan and Spike, stating that Grimmore's escape will come to pass, no mistake about it.

"So you ARE planning to invade? When will it happen?" Lorcan snapped off in hearing this, and demands to know when such an event will occur?

"Hard to say, Grimmore loves to see many squirm, the question remains….when he decides it's time?" Ji-Ga-No shrug off his shoulders in not knowing that answer himself, so it'll just be a surprise, he guesses. "Mhphmhmhmhm, you're both as overly worried-wort as your dear uncle." The Chinese Dragon cackled out while rubbing in a fact on how much fearful concerns the brothers are making, like their uncle once did.

"Our uncle?" Spike responded a bit puzzled and confused, what was this guy going on about now?

"Wait a second! You mean Tadaka's brother, as in the second son to King Spykoran the Old?" Lorcan responded off a bit shocked to hear right, Ji-Ga-No was referring to an uncle of their father.

"How do you know about our father's brother?" Spike looked with a skeptical expression in how someone like Ji-Ga-No, even knows something of their missing family member.

"Oh…it's not just me, but also Grimmore that knows what has truly happened to your dear uncle? I believe his name was Kenbroath Gilspotten Heathspike; yes, that was it." Ji-Ga-No spoke with a smog expression in letting the two dragons before him know that he knows of their missing uncle. "How ironic, we know where he is, and yet even the mighty King Spykoran doesn't even know of his second son's location. Truly, he's befitting his title, the Old Fool!" Then he made a wicked cackle in making a toying remark how even the great Spykoran is so old, he's barely even keeping up anymore.

"WATCH IT! You can't talk that way about our grandpa!" Spike snapped at this guy, pushing aside some fears to defend his family member.

"For once, Spike and me are in agreement, even if he's a distant family member, he's still family!" Lorcan declared out in agreement, he and his grandfather might need their relationship build up, but they were still family.

"Nwaugh-haugh-haugh-haugh, how amusing you both seem to entertain me to no end." Ji-Ga-No laughed off some more in once again, seeing the brothers try so much to stand against him. "I suppose with everything said and done, I'll take my leave…" Soon the dragon was beginning to levitate himself up and turn his back to the others. "Oh, but just one last thing I forgot to tell you." Ji-Ga-No spoke out in suddenly having something remembered that he needed to tell.

Then a big clash of thunder was heard, for quicker than Spike or Lorcan could react, Ji-Ga-No was right in their face. And once more, a strong dark-purple aura of magic was covering over him, as Ji-Ga-No soon made his shouting reminder of the upmost threatening message.

"DARE TO GET IN MY WAY AND I'LL TEEEEAR YOU APART! PIECE BY PIECE! AND BURN YOUR FLESH & BONES SO THERE'S NOT EVEN A SINGLE ASH REMAINING OF YOUR EXISTENCE! UNDERSTAAAAAAND!" Ji-Ga-No's roaring yell was so loud, it could almost shake the very foundations of the ground that trembled beneath his might, for if Spike and Lorcan get in his in even the slightest, he'll not resist to end them in the most 'brutality' of means necessary.

"WAAAUGH…" Spike had completely yelped backwards to land on his bottom, looking really wide-eyed in surprise.

"Grurarrugh…" Lorcan tried to remain where he stood, and tried to keep a serious expression, even under such a heavy pressure of Ji-Ga-No's magic that was becoming hard to breath.

"Good, you now know of the consequences…for now." Ji-Ga-No slowly spoke in amusement, seeing his message got through to the dragon brothers. "Trisvhmm-Trisvhmmm…." Soon a pillar of light shot up from the Everfree Forest that went into the clouds, rotating it in a swirling rotation. "WAHAHAHAHA-AAAAHHHH-HAHAHAHAAAAAAH!" Ji-Ga-No was heard making a loud and wicked cackle as he slithered himself up the pillar of light like a dark metallic serpent before they all fade out of existence….the Metallix Dragon was gone; for now.

"Gauaugh…." Spike then struggled to stand, and then after he got up, wiped what was on his forehead; heavy sweat. "Oh man, I'm sweating up 'this' much, and that's only from feeling his magical aura!" Spike exclaimed out with worry, whatever Ji-Ga-No is, just feeling his magical pressure at this close range, made him sweat so much, like he was trembling.

"Tripvhm…" Soon Spike saw Lorcan dug his own beam sword in the ground, almost looking like he'll lose his balance. "Haaauh-Haaaauh-Haaaaugh….that aura…." Lorcan spoke from trying to get in more of his lost breath from what almost overwhelmed him to unconsciousness. "Gupvhm….that's not normal. Even mine and Tadaka's auras never had such full focus of evil. It's almost like…his could truly be on near par with Smaug!" Lorcan exclaimed from each taken breath, almost exhausted, Ji-Ga-No's power, it was more overwhelming than what he or even Tadaka could even muster.

"Do…do you think Grimmore possibly made him from this Smaug guy?" Spike asked a bit worried in seeing how much his brother was so distracted, if what he asked was true, then are they in trouble!

"I doubt it. Smaug's mystery after death was said to have been lost for ages. No person could recreate him." Lorcan shook his head 'no' on that answer, there is no one that could recreate a Dragon like Smaug; he was the only Dragon of his kind with that much power. "But I see for Grimmore, he's done the next best thing, and I fear to think, there was more to Ji-Ga-No than that. And even more fearsome of his master's strength." Lorcan exclaimed out to state with much worry, Ji-Ga-No didn't look like he was going full power, and that's not a good sign, even worse is that a Dragon like him serves Grimmore, that would mean one thing; the Master is stronger than his General. "We need to head back." Lorcan stated out from finally standing up with his own strength to his legs.

"I wonder if everyone else managed to see what we saw," Spike asked off from wondering this out that if others saw what they did just now.

"Let's see, a giant light bursts forth from the ground, into the clouds as it swirls, a serpent Dragon of Chinese origin slithers up it and vanishes all entirely." Lorcan rhetorically was stating off all the actions that have taken place that if they were small, no one would notice, but that's the opposite. "I say yeah, they'll most likely have seen it." The Dragon in the cloak nods in shrugging off his shoulders, feeling practically half of Equestria saw that. "But what I really fear is how many with strong magical sensors managed to pick up this aura. I do fear to say this, but maybe even grandpa might have almost felt that from where he's very far." Lorcan spoke with deeper concerns, despite the light show, those that have truly heighten their magical senses would have surely felt that. That meant King Spykoran the Old, the Council of Dragons, the Royal Pony Sisters, Golden maybe…even perhaps those from the Mane Six's group, such as Twilight, Ben Mare, and little Nyx.

"Yeah, and after looking back from our last fight to determine Equestria, the both of us together, I'm not sure we equal half of what that guy dish out." Spike nods in feeling his brother maybe on to something, both Dragon siblings combined efforts to settle an old score would be nothing from what they just witnessed.

"All the more reason we need to be-careful and to prepare for the next day." Lorcan nods off in stating this serious motion while walking a bit away.

"Yeah, wait, what? What are we gonna prepare on the next day?" Spike nods, but then yelps in wondering what his brother was saying next here.

"The same thing I'll be doing as will you when you get the chance." Lorcan stated with his head turned to his brother, before declaring this news. "Train to strengthen ourselves and hone in our abilities while learning something new." The Dragon teen held his left grip in proclaiming what they gotta do, no matter what the next day and soon after. "I know we are not seeing eye to eye at this moment with 'trust', but please trust me when I say this….We must be strong, to protect those around us." Lorcan requested that he and his brother Spike must trust the other in knowing that 'true' danger will soon be upon them if they do not act quickly to be prepared for it.

"Yeah…I guess you’re right, bro." Spike slowly nods in giving in, he feels Lorcan is very right, the enemy in question, maybe quiet for now, but that doesn't mean another war will soon break out.

With that, Lorcan brings back down his hood which changed him back into his smaller form. Soon the brothers took Lorcan's portal transports to leave the Everfree Forest. And of course, they had to return to pick up their mushrooms, in all the excitement, they almost forgot those things. But the real fact remains, Equestria will soon be dealing with another threat in the future, the question of when, where, what, how, why, and on the 'whom' part will it all begin. It's another mystery that will leave many shocked in the near dawning to a darken day, almost like…the Apocalypse.

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Meanwhile within the secret dungeon underneath Sugarcube Corner, Pinkamena, Golden Heart, Jack Zen, Autumn Gem, Sombra & Omega are seen. But at the sudden moment, a strange heavy weight was in the air that seem to cause a bit of a shakeup. For some, they were gasping from having felt something animus & terrifying, others managed to withstand it. When Pinkamena & Golden Heart check near a periscope, they saw something spiraling up into the swirling storm clouds that look...like a black metallic Chinese Dragon, before it vanished. And when it was gone, everyone that could sense the strangely intense magic felt relief again.

"What in Equestria was that? I never felt something that horrible?" Autumn Gem asked off in looking like she was half-alive & half-scared senseless, what was that feeling that almost overtook her.

"That presence, as if death could almost be by our doorstep." Sombra stated in being in better shape than Autumn Gem, felt like he just managed to hold off against what hit them.

"You be right, cause I fear of recognizing what was just seen. The Metallix Dragon; Ji-Ga-No...has appeared." Golden Heart issued off to say this in looking dreadfully serious in announcing who has made a sudden appearance in Equestria after all this time.

"You have to be kidding me? You don't mean 'THE' Ji-Ga-No, the absolute WORSE Dragon in Equestria history?" Jack Zen asked off in hoping that wasn't the case as it maybe some cruel joke.

"Unfortunately, my brother doesn't joke around. And if we know anything, the enemy that was just here for only mere minutes before this one showed up is a bigger threat to be certain of." Pinkamena explained off to say that from having dealt with Tadaka, with the arrival sign of a new enemy, shows Ji-Ga-No is more terrible then who they already beat.

"My instruments have managed to determine the strength of this foe from our last vanished enemy. There is no error....subject: Ji-Ga-No....is worse than TEN Tadakas." Omega explained of in what his systems managed to determine, & the results made everyone feel like their furs & manes are standing on edge.

"Great! An enemy that strong & from hearing the legends of Death & Destruction when a Black Dragon is seen soaring in the skies, he's Grimmore's most powerful General of the Grimmore Army!" Jack Zen issued off in knowing how terrible Ji-Ga-No is, when that Dragon makes an appearance, all Tartarus breaks loose & the he serves as a messenger of the end to come when he's seen

"How can we stop a creature that powerful when it took so much effort to beat Tadaka alone?" Autumn Gem asked off in fear that this didn't look too good for their side.

"Even if all our group’s army brought together, we stand no chance if Ji-Ga-No wipes us off without breaking a sweat." Sombra stated that the enemy could kill them without even trying, that's how scary Ji-Ga-No is.

"There may still be a way, to take down an enemy that powerful, we have to slowly strengthen ourselves by defeating the enemies present." Pinkamena stated to say this in how they just might get by in surviving against Ji-Ga-No, by first defeating the other foes that they are facing currently in their activeness.

"The ones currently being active are the Apocalypse Ponies & the Dark Mystics, are you saying we have to beat them first Pinkamena?" Goldie pointed out the only active enemies they got dealing with, do they have to defeat those guys first.

"It won't be us Goldie, the Mane Six, Ben, & many other allied forces will have to help us stop them. Cause in order to defeat the Three Lords, we start at the bottom to work our way up." Pinkamena explained the case that to survive, they need to work their way up to defeat those that they CAN fight before going up against even seriously threatening foes.

"Understood: Then mission is determine. The Apocalypse Ponies must be stopped first, before moving onto the Dark Mystics, and lastly..." Omega responded off in having heard this to know just what they need to do here.

"The Grimmore Army & the Demon God himself. You know how things work, gotta take out the other problems before going for the TOP of the most dangerous adversary around." Pinkamena stated off to explain this serious matter to her group in how they gotta deal with the problem, take on the Three Lords from rank numbers three & two before going after the one sitting at the top. "I just hope we'll slowly get that strength before we go toe-to-toe against the best." She stated in knowing that facing the biggest threat first is just plain insanity, like asking for a death wish, so they gotta get stronger first.

"As you say Pinkamena, we have to have faith." Goldie patted his sister's shoulder to calm her.

"Thanks bro., I like hearing that." Pinkamena smiled of to feel a bit more easy in having heard that.

The scene begins to close off and fad away from here. Looks like many that have sense the mere presence of Ji-Ga-No know, that if the Equestrians even stand a chance to survive the worse to come...they need to get stronger by facing off those that are currently after their lives. Let’s hope that they can manage that before rushing off where doom & despair await...they can only hope.

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At the time being, Drago was seen having a meeting with the spirit heads of the 8 Demon Lords: Hsi Wu, Xiao Fung, Tchang Zu, Dai Gui, Bai Tza, Po Kong, Tso Lan, and his father, Shendu. All of them are still licking their wounds, to speak, over Tadaka's defest. But then suddenly without warning, a sudden wave shook the area before some strange pillar of light was seen resonating from the Everfree Forest area. That force alone made those that sense it feel some tension in the air.

"Would someone mind telling me what the heck was that," Drago asked off in feeling freaked out in what he sense, what sorta incredible magic aura was that; it felt so dark and pitch black, it was unlike anything he's seen and felt till now..

"The magical presence...I've sense it before in the past. But it couldn't be...Ji-Ga-No." Shendu spoke in having sense to realize who it was that has appeared.

"Impossible! We all heard he was badly damaged by One-Eyed Anger of the Mystics!" Tchang Zu stated off in recalling that evil Dragon's fate.

"But wait, if he's really back, then that means.....WE'RE DEAD MEAT!" Hsi Wu panics off in realizing that they are in big trouble now.

"What are you talking about?" Drago look at his father, aunts & uncles of what they are talking about.

"You know that within the Three Lords, there are soldiers & rank elites, correct?" Bai Tza spoke to tell Drago of this system of balance in power.

"The Apocalypse Ponies are 13 elite members with their own soldiers called Dusk, while the Dark Mystics have their own brand, but they also have the Demon Generals." Xiao Fung stated off in making this stated point of understanding the organization of each of the Three Lords.

"Grimmore has an army of creatures in Tartarus, even his strongest warriors: The Elite Warriors that can compete against Ultimate Warrior Rank opponents." Shendu pointed off in stating where the third Lord has his own built forces.

"The Demon Generals are said to be the strongest in Dark Curse's army, but Grimmore...has one that is exclusively dangerous." Tso Lan spoke in being dreadfully serious at this time.

"Ji-Ga-No....I've seen his power, not even us Demon Lords or all of Tadaka's Dragon Army could defeat him....he is a power that would take 3 to 4 Demon Generals from the Dark Mystics to defeat. And that's if they are lucky." Shendu spoke with much concern thought over the issue that from one certain Dragon, Ji-Ga-No, is by no means a foe to be underestimated.

"You're kidding me, Grimmore had such a powerful general? Why's he acting now after we learn about Lorcan?" Drago asked off in hearing this to be as surprise as his family.

"Believe us, we wish he didn't get involved. He's the most brutal & barbaric, if he were unleash now, there be nothing left to conquer." Po Kong spoke off in stating with much great fear over Grimmore's general, he's one who could wipe out everything and seeks thrills in brutal combat.

"Now I see it, there are so many of us wanting to destroy our enemies, the most powerful makes use of others..." Tso Lan spoke to say in slowly realizing what seems to be the case here. "Grimmore is plotting something far greater ahead, to everything....he sees as moving a game piece to observe what happens." The reason Grimmore doesn't act, is cause there are so many other evil forces that he lets them to everything, as a god lets his servants do his task.

"Dai Gui is no game piece!" Dai Gui complained to say this over the issue.

"Yet we were blinded to forget, he sees all, even of what we're up to." Tchang Zu stated in feeling cautious now, if they anger the Demon God, they're toast.

"Then he'll send Ji-Ga-No to kill us. His Dragon Messenger of DEATH!" Hsi Wu panicked off in seeing that they are dead if Ji-Ga-No comes because of what they did in speaking out of term about Grimmore.

"Nonsense, we are needed still, we're still in use of the host of the Apocalypse Ponies." Bai Tza stated in reminding those here that so long as they serve the Three Lords from the third group, they won't receive a Demon God's wrath.

"What do we do then?" Xiao Fung asked in what they do from here.

"Ji-Ga-No is about the worst thing you wanna face, he's like Kishin Akuma, but a Dragon." Po Kong shivered much when she spoke off those noted facts of two scary names.

"Drago, whatever happens, do not, and I repeat, do not push your luck against Ji-Ga-No...if you want to be breathing." Shendu warns his son in what to do and to be cautious.

"Fine, I get it...I'm not a big idiot to not know when not to cross a line after sensing that disturbing power." Drago rolled his eyes to shrug off his shoulders, he gets it, be careful, he's no idiot when it comes to facing serious big threats.

"Very wise...for now, we must go." Tso Lan nods off to say this in seeing that with this, they must leave.

With that, the spirit heads of the Demon Lords vanish without a trace now. Drago then leaves where he spoke to them, just before his three hench-dragons showed up.

"Yo D, you see that crazy pillar thing spiraling in the skies?" MC Cobra asked off in bringing the subject in the direction of the Everfree Forest.

"I did, and you better be glad 'IT' doesn't try to come kill us." Drago growls off in fury with his grit teeth while making this remark of their luck.

"Yo Dog, something trippin' you up?" Strikemaster Ice raised an eyebrow in seeing that Drago looks seriously spooked out or something.

"A lot, but we best remember this boys...if we wanna keep our heads, then you best not insult a Demon God...unless you want a death wish by his Dragon Messenger." Drago turn to point this off in giving a fair warning to his group that if they wanna stay alive, don't question that which is Grimmore, or else they'll be greeted by the one foe that will chew them out and spit them out afterwards...Ji-Ga-No.

That left Strikemaster Ice's crew feeling a bit lost as the other two were as silent as DJ Fist. And soon Drago leaves the sight to continue his own daily basics of the day. As everything begins to fade out at this time...

Author's Notes:

And thus, Ji-Ga-No made his presence known and he is no pushover. Looks like we got something to look forward to, almost, later. The final chapter is coming up. Lorcan makes a decision that will change his life for good. What will happen next? Read, review and comment! Until next time!

Kenbroath Gilspotten Heathspike is the name of the Spike who appeared in the Gen 3 series of My Little Pony. He will show up in a future story of mine.

The 'Prepare for Tomorrow Night' pun line used was reference to Pinky & the Brain series.