Trixie and Descent continued to hover above Spike, as the sorceress spoke, "Surprised to see me again?"

Spike's look of shock turned to a look of anger, and answered, "I'm furious to have to look at your face again, you bitch!"

Trixie smirked, "Ooh, getting all tough I see. I'll have to remember that look when I kill you again."

Spike's angered look grew, "You're not killing me this time around!"

Descent looked to Trixie, "Was he always this loud when you dated him that day?"

"Actually, he was much quieter." she chuckled.

"I see. Well perhaps I can shut him up a bit." Descent flew down to strike at Spike, only for the boy to jump aside and avoided his attack.

"Whoa, that was close." he gasped.

Descent turned around as he floated, "You're lucky, not many can dodge my attack like that."

"Who're you supposed to be?" Spike asked.

"I am Descent; a shadow pegasus." he grinned.

"Shadow pegasus?" Spike asked himself, until he took a whiff of the air and knew Trixie was behind him ready to strike.

Before Trixie could blast him with magic, he once again jumped aside. Trixie frowned, "Why won't you die so easily like before?!"

Spike smirked, "Because I'm not like I was before." he concentrated and assumed his dragon form and let out a roar.

Trixie and Descent were surprised, as Trixie spoke, "So it's true, you have bonded with the dragon king."

"Yeah. That's what I was told." Spike confirmed.

"Well, you're not the only one with an alternate form." Trixie stated, as she started glowing and assumed the form of an anthro unicorn with her mane the same style as her hair and a tail of the same color, while her coat was azure blue.

Spike was taken aback by this surprise, "Well, this was unexpected."

"Lets see if the so called dragon incarnate can match against a unicorn and a shadow pegasus." Descent said, as he and Trixie got ready.

Spike got ready himself and thought, 'I don't know if I can take both of them on, but I have to try.'

"Attack!" Trixie called, as she and Descent went on the attack.

"Time to go airborne." Spike said, as he spread his wings and flew up.

When all three were in the air, the battle commenced. Descent flew around striking at Spike with a round of punches. Spike defended himself by crossing his arms across his body to block the blows. When Trixie tried to blast him with lightning magic Spike flew upward to avoid it.

"You can't dodge us forever!" Descent called.

"You're right I should try going at you!" Spike called, as he flew in attacking Descent with his own fists.

Appearing close to them on ground level was Twilight and the girls who saw what was going, "There they are." Fluttershy gasped.

"And there's Spike." Pinkie added.

They looked up and saw Spike and Descent going at it, with Spike holding his own, while fighting Descent and dodging both him and Trixie.

"We got to do something." Twilight said, as she was prepared to power up, only for Applejack to lay a hand on her shoulder stopping her.

"Hold up, Twilight. Let's see how this goes."

"Applejack, you can't honestly expect me to..."

"Actually, I agree." Rarity spoke up.

"Rarity?"

"We've put him through a weekend of training. I think we should see the results."

"But against those two?" Twilight asked.

"Hey, he's got a score to settle with that witch, Twilight," Rainbow reminded her, "Let him have this."

Twilight looked up and saw Spike was holding his own and didn't look like he needed their help just yet, "Ok, but if it looks like he's at his limits we're jumping in."

"Deal." they agreed, and made sure to mask their presence from the three until they were ready.

Back at the fight, Descent was once again striking at Spike who was taking the blows but due to his dragon hide was able to stand them. As the shadow pegasus fought, Spike thought recalling Applejack's lesson, 'Make your opponent give you their all... And when they leave themselves open, take them down!' he threw a punch at Descent's gut making the shadow pegasus groan in pain.

From their hiding spot, Applejack watched and smiled while thinking, 'That's the way, partner.'

Trixie frowned at Spike, "Let's see you try that on me!" she began blasting him with magic, and he used his wings to fly around avoiding her attacks.

As Spike flew he recalled his training with Rainbow and Fluttershy, 'Using the wind can guide me through the air.' he used the breeze to help guide him through the air making him fly faster and maneuver better.

Trixie was getting angry, "Hold still so I can kill you!" she unleashed more magic attacks.

"Sure that's what I'll do." Spike answered in sarcasm, as he continued flying around. Rainbow and Fluttershy watched him feeling proud at how he used his wings

Descent flew after him in equal speed, and the two grappled in mid air. Descent spoke, "For a newbie who just became a dragon, you're surprisingly good."

"Thanks. Wish I could say the same, but I don't know you very well. And quite frankly, I don't wanna know ya." he threw a punch at Descent knocking him back causing him to lose balance, but regained it.

Trixie came at him from behind and managed to nail him with an electric attack, shocking him. The girls looked worried, and Twilight wanted to jump in, only to see Spike look back at Trixie growling.

"I'm gonna make you pay for killing me!" he roared and attacked Trixie with all his strength, while the girl used magic shields to block his blows. As Spike's anger intensified he felt his insides heating up, and thought, 'Oh man my stomach feels like it's burning up. Wait a minute, my dragon fire. It's heating up. Now's my chance to use it!' he opened his mouth and started spitting fireballs at Trixie who was surprised.

One fireball was strong enough to have overpowered her magic shield causing it to shatter. Spike took the opportunity and flew in delivering a punch to her face. Trixie took the blow and fell down landing on top of a building roof.

Trixie looked up revealing her bruised cheek, "You punched me in the face!" she cried.

"That was for deceiving me," Spike began, as a fiery aura surrounded him, "And this is for killing me!" he unleashed a blast of fire straight at Trixie who was ready to take the blow, only for Descent to fly in and take the attack himself.

Descent rolled across the roof look burned, while Trixie was shocked, "Descent, are you ok?"

"Oh, fantastic for being barbequed." he joked.

Trixie couldn't help but smile at his joke before seeing Spike touch down on the roof, "I will kill you and leave no trace of you this time!"

Spike who looked worn from all his fighting and massive fire blast, still stood strong, but knew he probably wouldn't last too much longer. When Trixie was ready to attack, another blast of magical energy was fired at her from above.

Trixie jumped aside, as she and Spike looked up seeing Twilight and the girls in anthro form landing on the rooftop protecting Spike.

"You mess with my friend, and you mess with all of us." Twilight warned her.

"So answer us this, Trixie," Rainbow began, "You feeling lucky all of a sudden?"

Trixie knew she was outmatched by all seven, and knew she had to get Descent out of here, "Another time perhaps!" she quickly opened a magical portal, grabbed Descent, and escaped through it.

"Yeah, you better run!" Pinkie called.

"Girls?" Spike asked, as they looked back and saw him panting from over usage of fire.

"Spike!" they cheered, as all but Twilight gathered around him congratulating him.

"That was awesome!" Rainbow cheered.

"You saw all that?"

"We sure did. You were all." Pinkie was making noise affects to describe his fight with Trixie and Descent.

"We were worried something would happen to you." Fluttershy said.

"But you pulled through. You made my hair stand on edge." Applejack chuckled.

"I thought you were absolutely brave back there." Rarity said.

"Uh, thanks," Spike said, as he blushed. He noticed Twilight approaching, "Hey, Twilight, what'd ya think of that, huh? I was pretty good wasn't I?" he was taken by surprise, and Twilight threw her arms around him, and hugged him close while burying her head in his shoulder. The girls themselves were also surprised at her move. Spike could hear her sobbing, "Twilight?"

"Oh, Spike, I was so worried about. I was afraid you would've died again," Twilight cried, before looking at him with tears in her eyes, "Promise me you'll be more careful next time."

Spike seeing how worried she was for him answered, "I promise, Twilight. And I'm sorry I worried you."

Twilight smiled, "I should've warned you to be more careful when going home. But next time, we'll fight together. And, Spike... You did well."

Spike seeing Twilight happy for him smiled back, "Thanks, Twilight." he started groaning in exhaustion.

"Spike?" Twilight asked.

"I'm feeling tired. Gonna catch some Zs. Nighty night." Spike fell forward, landing face first into Twilight's breasts. Twilight held him close and he changed back into his human form.

The girls gathered around as Fluttershy asked, "Is he?"

Twilight heard Spike lightly snoring, "He's asleep."

"Can't blame him. He's had quite a long day." Applejack said.

"No kidding." Rainbow agreed.

"We should get him home right away." Rarity suggested.

Twilight nodded, as she wrapped her arms around Spike letting him use her breasts as pillows. She flew up and started slowly flying in the direction of Spike's place, as Fluttershy took Pinkie's hand and flew off after Twilight, followed by Rainbow who held onto Applejack, and Rarity using her unicorn magic to levitate herself after them.

They arrived at Spike's place and noticed the lights were out, meaning his parents probably already went to bed. Rarity used her magic to open the lock of Spike's balcony screen door. They went inside, and Twilight laid Spike on his bed, and used her magic to poof him out of his clothes and into his sleepwear.

Fluttershy covered Spike with his bed covers and straightened his pillow to make sure he was comfy enough. She whispered, "There we go, Spike."

"We better get going. It's gonna be a long day tomorrow." Applejack said.

"I concur," Rarity agreed. As the girls left the room, Rarity looked back seeing Twilight looking down at Spike's sleeping form, "Coming, Twilight?"

"Be right with you," she answered, as Rarity went on ahead with the others. She continued to look at Spike sleeping and whispered, "Don't worry, Spike. I promised I'd take good care of you. And I mean it," she leaned down and kissed his forehead, "See you tomorrow." she walked out to the balcony and used her magic to lock his sliding screen door before flying off.

Meanwhile in a dark lair, Trixie had finished using her magic to heal Descent up, "How is that?" she asked.

"Oh, much better. I didn't know dragon fire could be so hot." he answered.

"You're lucky you survived that attack. Though why did you take it for me? Trying to get on my good side?"

"Hey the scorched look doesn't suit you." he chuckled.

Trixie smirked, "Yeah. It's more your thing." they laughed.

Suddenly they felt a shadow cast over them and saw someone approach. It was an anthro alicorn like Celestia and Twilight with a black coat, and blue armor. The two were scared as they saw she did not look happy, "So, you not only failed to kill the boy again, but you got your asses tossed around by him?!" she bellowed.

"Mistress Nightmare, please." Trixie pleaded.

"He got lucky that time. Next we meet..." Descent was cut off by their superior.

"Silence, Descent! I warned you there would be consequences should you fail me," she began, as the two looked frightened, until she finished, "Fortunately for you, I don't have time to deal with your failure. Consider yourselves lucky." she walked away leaving the two grateful and relieved.

Nightmare walked through a corridor containing cells housing monstrous creatures roaring and growling at her while trying to claw at their cells bars. Nightmare walked through it without even flinching or blinking before entering another room containing a throne. She sat atop it and her horn glowed projecting three screens containing three figures shrouded in dark. What was noticeable about them was one had a gnarly shaped horn, one had a curved horn, and the third had two long shaped horns.

"Nightmare, glad you could make tonight's meeting." one said in a female voice.

"What is the word on your part?" the one with the two horns asked.

"I'm afraid we've hit a problem. The dragon king has been reborn." Nightmare began.

"What?" they asked in shock.

"How is this possible?" the one with the curved horn asked.

"The boy I sent my apprentice to eliminate who I believed was a potential vessel for it was reborn with the dragon's power."

"This is unacceptable!" the two horned one bellowed.

"Oh simmer down, Tirek, or you'll make yourself more red than you naturally are." the female spoke.

The one with the curved horn spoke, "This does pose as a problem. If the dragon king has been reborn inside of someone already, then it'll be just a matter of time before his vessel awakens his full power. We cannot let that happen."

"I'll see to it that the boy be dealt with." Nightmare assured them.

"Very well, Nightmare. We'll leave you to it. But remember, if you cannot handle the task we may have to drop a member out." the one known as Tirek warned her.

Nightmare frowned at his threat, but answered, "Understood," she ended their transmission, and held up a blue crystal ball seeing Twilight and her friends in it, "I will not let you girls stand in my way. One by one, you will all fall."