… The urge, to protect… why did appear now it this situation? He didn’t care about the mare, the only thing he did care about to return to middle-earth and again gather forces and strike again the elves and kingdoms of men. But why did he feel like he was lost and could not return? That was a strange feeling and some stupid emotions won’t stop him!

Save this creature, get help, rebuild Mordor, come back, and conquer Sauron thought with a little rage in him while watching the show in front of him.

That was the plan he had in mind. Now it’s the problem in choosing one of the plans he had in mind how to save this alicorn, killing the dragon could make him a warrior and he could get a lot of attention. Attention isn’t that bad but if he wanted to stay under the radar he needed not to be in the center of everyone’s interest.

Grabbing her injured could resolve in her just running away and no other thing then using his shadow powers could get a quick run from this situation. The alicorn could react to him as he was a monster and a demon that controls shadows. This would bring even more problems than he has already.

Scaring the dragon is another way and when he will do so he could scare her too. But on the other hand after scaring the dragon by giving him some injuries and speaking to him would be enough for the dragon to at least to run. This plan was the most reasonable one but also while escorting her home if she will tell everyone how he did save her he would get questions and more questions that ware not needed at the moment.

“P...please.” a whisper so quiet and full of regret was all he heard before something snapped in him.

He didn’t even think, as if an instinct just did turn on in his mind telling him to do anything. Be it killing the dragon punching a mountain or just doing good things, a strange burning feeling appeared in his chest appeared and he didn’t know what to do. He started sweating and looked where the dragon with her pinned to the ground was. He could see a light glow going through his neck to his mouth, he knew this is the end if he won’t do anything… NOW

He used his powers to transform into a big shadow, he flew quickly and while flying he got past the flames as there was nothing not even heat was to be felled and the time he got there the dragon was breathing fire. He got no other thing to do then to shield the mare with his shadows and then after the attack quickly lunch himself at the dragon.

----------The Alicorns POV--------

The dragon was looking at her with cold fury and rage. What did she think when she entered its cave during the training, aunt Twilight is going to kill her and again give her a lecture if she will even see the next day’s light. But it was hopeless to fight the dragon she knew no spell to harm it enough or to run away from it while still being faster.

She looked at the dragon… she was weak and stupid to even think the flag was going to be in the cave, who would hide a flag in a cave… only someone stupid to think no animal lives in it. She didn’t want to die… she had a whole eternity before her and she wanted to see her mom and dad again.

She closed her eyes and really wanted that something would give this dragon a nice beating and the pony that will save her will a noble or maybe a knight and she will fall in love in him even if he would be the ugliest pony in Equis.

And a last breath she muttered out the word that will change the whole history of Equestria and Crystal Empire.

“P…please.” she muttered out with hope and plead that someone would hear her and help.

And she waited for the fire and pain to strike her like the mane six did with the elements to discord and Tirek, Nightmare moon and other villains that have haunted Equestria in the past. While waiting she reminded herself how much she was loved by her parents and how much did she learn from aunt twilight. The lessons with Rainbow dash that thanks to she learned how fly really fast.

…

…

She opened her eyes and looked in front of her… a giant black wall as if smoke or energy was in front of her and a strange orange light was coming from behind, she was speechless… something actually did show up and save her, or at least something happened that did save her.

She wanted to stand up but she felled pain coming from her left front leg. She looked at the leg and tried to move it but when she tried it did hurt her. She examined her leg better and she could see a purple maybe lavender colored bruise and she knew this meant she had broken her leg. But then sunlight came from the way where the wall was.

She looked forward and couldn’t believe it, a dark and shadow like cloud was beating the crap out of the dragon. The cloud moved in front of the dragon and dark like fog erupted from the front of the cloud and it hit the dragon so hard that a CRACK could be heard and it knocked back the dragon so much that it was at least three-hundred meters away now.

The shadow then attacked the dragon but the dragon started to breathe fire again, but the shadow just cut through the fire and with high speed slammed into the dragon again tossing it at least another three-hundred meters away… that was incredible that there is a being with such power to make a dragon look like doll.

She looked around and fined out that all the fire that was there was gone and the burning trees. Then again she looked at the ground where the dragon stood and had her pinned down to the ground and was ready to burn her alive… wait, wait, wait, wait, wait… he had her pinned down to earth…

“How did it… free me, and why didn’t I notice.” she whispered and looked around to find a clue what just happened.

She looked where she was and behind on the left and on the right but there was nothing to say that a hand of a dragon was just placed here… there was no blood or scales or even a tiny piece of evidence that she was pinned to earth, no imprint to say that he had done this.

SMACK!

The sound got her attention and she saw something that only could appear in sci-fi or fantasy novels. The cloud was holding the dragon with its shadow like energy and choking it to death, she could also see that the scales ware not enough to defend against the cloud and its attacks. The dragon was bleeding and the injuries ware in high numbers, the left eye was cut and the dragon was half blind now, his stomach had six or more deep cuts and blood was pouring out of it. His tail was cut off partially, the dragon was gasping for air and slowly the dark cloud approached the dragon. From the cloud was coming out a yellow orange light as if a little tiny sun was in the center

How is it…doing that? she was asking herself in disbelief.

--------Sauron POV-----------

How am I doing this?! Sauron thought while the dragon was struggling to get some air.

He was holding the dragon with his force while not even wanting it to happen, Sauron was desperate to find out how is he so powerful in the first place, he lost his ability to shapeshift after the fall of Numenor, and the precision of control the shadows… that is very weird and he had to find out why did he get back his ability. This was very strange and if he got back his ability it could be that he got bigger and that the animals didn’t get smaller… it could also mean that he is on a different continent and maybe he should restart his Reconquista from here making a new empire.

What was even more surprising Sauron wasn’t the cloud of shadows and darkness… he was IN the cloud and the cloud was coming from him and defending him while he just moved forward to the dragon, in this form that somehow activated because he just wanted to save the alicorn for some reason. This could mean that he changed completely but if he did he still was Sauron the dark king of Mordor…he could be actually called the High King or Emperor because only these two have kings under them. So if he had the Haladrims and Easterlings under him, Witch king of Angmar and the eight other Nazgûl ware also former kings this actually did make him a High King or Emperor not just a lord or king of Mordor.

While thinking about it the dragon slipped away and started running from him, and he wasn’t lucky in the decision where he begin to run. The dragon was running from him in the direction where the little alicorn was waiting for the battle to end but she was unlucky because the battle was going in her direction. He had to act quickly because again something very strange like a burn in his chest appeared and he just had to do something and protect her at all cost.

Why do I want to protect her… I have never felt like this before. Sauron thought debating the situation in his mind.

He saw as the dragon was coming closer and closer, he started to fly in her direction to and his movement was quicker than the dragon and while he disappeared behind the dragon as if he just teleported in front of him. The dragon stopped and tripped over and desperately wanted to stand up and run the other direction.

However Sauron had other plans in his mind…

He ordered the darkness to encircle the dragon and make a wall that not even his fires will be enough to harm and with his will he started to lift the dragon up, of course the dragon started breathing fire when he saw what was going on and the fires ware impressive he had to move his hand to protect himself from the fire. This meant that even if he was powerful he still could get injured. He had enough of the dragon if he had to he will him or use his ring to take over control of the beast and command him to his biding for the rest of his life.

The second option was tempting but he couldn’t risk that the dragon would get out of control and accidently destroy a village or damage a city this would be very bad for his relations with the locals. The dragon was now very tired because the shadows did drink from him a good amount of power and strength, now he just had to scare the beast and if won’t work then there is only two ways to end this…

KILL

CONTROL

He ordered the shadows and darkness to let go of the creature and drop on the ground, and the shadows did obey its master and released the dragon, then the ocean of darkness begin to come back into his body as if he just consumed them. His sphere was getting smaller and smaller and the dragon was looking at him or rather at the sphere that still covered his body. The dragon looked behind him and saw the Alicorn siting there and waiting what what will happen. The dragon cringed when he realized the Alicorn was actually impressed by this show of dark power that the dragon never saw before.

Sauron immediately begin to release again the shadows and the dragons flinched hard at it and begin to back away with his last resort of strength. But Sauron only did this to scare him and not to cringe at the little alicorn behind him because if he can be in his shadow form like the one time he was fighting Gandalf in Dol-Guldur then he could transform into more advanced form, and if the dragon would only knew what awaited him he would commit suicide rather than see it.

He then again absorbed the shadows into his body and when he did it the dragon was still looking at him. But the dragon didn’t expect what happened next… Sauron begin to again transform himself into himself before the fight. The dragon looked with a scared look what will the monster or dark powers do to him, he could expect a monster with big scary eyes and horns bigger than a dragon could have… but no the shadow transformed into a bipedal creature with a blue robe and the most scary part of it was that it didn’t have a face! It had endless darkness.

The creature was big, compared to the ponies huge, it was at least four times higher than Celestia and seven maybe six times bigger than the little alicorn behind him.

But then the unexpected happened… the creature begin to shrink with the robes to the point where it was the size of Celestia. The creature made one step forward and the dragon didn’t even move but he couldn’t hide the fear that he was feeling, the dragon wished the creature would just go away and leave him be in peace the dragon had enough for today but it wasn’t the end for the dragon because the creature just did the impossible for him… Sauron has spoken to him.

“Go away and never return beast!” As Sauron spoke the clouds immediately turned black and the sunlight was cut off, the ground shook and an echo was to be heard miles away

The dragon with fear in his eyes begin to do what he just said…the dragon started to run not because Sauron has ordered the dragon to go away…he did this because the language Sauron has spoken pumped him with fear so much that the dragon just wanted to get out of here and never return to this place.

Sauron saw that the beast obeyed his command or at least he thought so, and turned to see the alicorn that now was looking at him with fear had tears in her eyes. It made his heart hurt for some reason and he wanted not to make her cry. He knew that he made her cry with his appearance. He slowly begin to get closer to the alicorn and he saw her with his every step sob in fear that he will do something to her… and if he would want to do something to her(and he didn’t…for now) he would have done it before. He has even used his magic to shrink himself only that he won’t look scary because of his size.

--------Alicorn POV moments before Sauron speaking-----

The alicorn was shocked to death with what has she just seen… the cloud turned into a bipedal creature that wore robes with a blue color, and first he was giant and terrifying but then he begin to shrink and was the same size as aunt Celestia.

She was amazed by this person or maybe even pony she didn’t know but her certain that someone actually did hear her and saved her from that dragon, when she goes home with him and tells everypony what he did and surely her father will be in awe and her mother will give him treasury bigger then mountains! But still she was scared… some pony with the power to make a dragon look like a midget pony was scary but exciting, aunt twilight will have many questions for him.

But why do you loo- The alicorn thought but she was cut off by something so scary and loud that not even the tales of nightmare moon ware scary compared to this.

“Ukh-kraat agh narkû nauk-avurn!” the clouds turned black and a voice so scary and demonic was all she could hear. The voice was deep and dark it did belong to a stallion and the echo of this voice was to be heard miles away.

The voice was so terrifying and stunning she begin to lose hope that she is safe with this… this… monster. The memories of the most beautiful things were crushed under this voice as they were nothing, she could feel the cold and sadness mixed with anger in it.Her soul was being smashed by the power it was spoken with and every word felled as if someone beloved just died… it was a horrible experience and she wished she would never again in her whole life hear again this language.

She looked as the dragon begin to run and a little spark of hope appeared in her that said that the creature in front of her just said it with such an power and dread to only scare the dragon and when he will turn to her he will be gentle and calm treating her the best he can.

But as soon as she thought so she saw the most terrifying image she saw in her entire life…

The bipedal creature had no face! She started to panic and wanted to run but she had a broken wing and leg she couldn’t run, she tried to look away but something made her look at him as if a force that bonded her stare to him. She tried to blink but it was the effect when she tried to turn her head away, she could see the creature doing step after step he was closer and closer.

She started crying and wanted to yell but no one would even response, and even if she did she couldn’t because the fear that the creature in front of her will do something to her was to big to brake it. When the creature was in front of her, it said more words in some unknown to her language…

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