Author's Notes:

If you notice some similarities with this story: An Unexpected Life, by Alejin, then it's by mistake.

Here is the first part of a two-parter of the second season. I think that this one was good, but what do you guys think? Was it better than just the action scenes from the previous season?

A few minutes earlier

Looking through the window, Twilight couldn't help but smile in pure happiness. She had seen it; her brother and Cadance had defeated all the raging Changelings that had attacked Canterlot, even their queen, although they did get some help from her friend.

Wait. He was alive? She thought that he was dead, same with the rest of the palace. But, somehow he survived, along with having new powers. That was something you don't see everyday now and then.

"You did it!" Twilight called to the Princess of Love. "You and Shining defeated all the Changelings!" She was so happy that she didn't noticed that Cadance had already left, while leaving a now-freed Shining Armor confused.

"Twily?" Shining called to her, making her turn to face him. "What are you doing here? I thought I told you not to come." He had a stern expression on his face, looking rather angry at seeing his sister.

"But," Twilight frowned. "I wanted to help you with the decorations and the wedding. But it isn't time for that."

" "Not time" for what?" Shining asked in confusion, before noticing his sister's saddened look. "Twily? Why are you sad?"

"A miracle happened." Twilight simply replied. "A true miracle. Moon arrived to help us from the Changelings."

"Moon?" Shining cleared his throat. "Um, Twily, you do know that he's...no longer with us, right?"

Twilight narrowed her eyes at him. "I'll pretend I didn't hear that. Wait, where's Cadance?" She finally noticed that she was gone. Looking around frantically, they couldn't see a trace where she was. Realization came to Twilight as she saw her mentor on the ground, having been freed from Chrysalis' spell. "Princess!" She ran up to her, helping the Princess of the Sun to her hooves. "Are you alright?"

"Y-Yes, Twilight Sparkle." Celestia replied with a slow nod. "I'm fine. What happened? Last time I saw, was that I was beaten by Chrysalis in a beam lock. But, after that, I don't remember anything else."

"Well," Twilight played with her fore-hooves with a nervous expression on her face. Celestia noticed this, draping a wing on her back.

"Twilight?" Her mentor asked in worry. "What happened? You look like you've seen a ghost or something."

"You promise you won't freak out?" Twilight suddenly asked in a nervous gesture. Celestia raised an eyebrow.

"Twilight. I've been living for a thousand years. I don't think anything can scare me, well... except for what happened to my... you know..." She had an awkward smile as the other mares looked on in confusion.

"Well." Twilight. "About that..."

Looking through the crowd of Canterlot ponies, Cadance scowled as they cowered in fear from her human cousin. Reason for why she was calling him cousin, is that this was none other than Moon, the human raised amongst ponies from his childhood before he was "banished" from Ponyland to Dragon Lands, by a group of thieves that happened to be either dead or in the dungeons for the rest of their lives.

Looking back at the human, who had an unreadable expression, she couldn't help but let her tears fall. So, he was alive after all.

"Um..." Virin said awkwardly. "Why do you keep staring at me? I've got things to do."

"Please." Cadance begged, hugging him close, to his much confusion. "Just let me have this moment." He felt his shoulders be wet, probably from the tears of this strange pony.

So, after all the training he has done, he was defeated by the tears of a pony. How wonderful, isn't it? Even after his many tough battles with the tall dragon, Garble, he was just been defeated by the cuteness of a single pony. Wait. Cuteness? The only thing he finds adorable, was his sister, Ember. So, why would he think this pony was cute?

Thinking back to his many battles with the tall dragon, Virin finally let out a sigh as he gently putted the pony down, to her displeasure. She was obviously crying at this point, but not by the gesture he just pulled off, but at seeing him once again after eight long years of being alone with her other cousin. Moon sure has changed a lot in these years.

"Look," Virin raised a hand as she opened her mouth. "I know what you're thinking. How could I still be alive and well, while having been away for eight years?" Cadance's eyes widened in shock. How'd he knew that? Virin simply answered her inner thought. "Telepathic abilities. An neat, and unique, ability, if I must say so myself." He had a small smile as he said that.

"Okay." Cadance replied with a nod. "How did you manage to earn those abilities? If you don't mind me asking."

"Well." Virin rubbed his chin with two fingers. "For how I was able to learn them, is that I have a friend whose unique ability is psychic. It's an handy way for me to levitate and see through things with only my mind, even been able to hear the thoughts of other beings close enough, like how I was able to hear you thoughts of how I did it."

Cadance's eyes widened in shock. He's able to levitate objects, see through a mind and hear their thoughts?

"As a matter of fact, yes." Virin nodded, having heard her thoughts. Cadance looked at him in shock. How'd he able to hear these thoughts? Wasn't it against privacy of other beings if he can interfere with them? "While I know it's a matter of privacy, I don't do it all the time. Although I can be able to hear them, I won't tolerate in their privacy of wanted it. I do it respectfully. Only allowing myself to do it with their permission, like how my family gave me their permit of hearing their thoughts."

Cadance frowned. He was having a replacement family of some sort? By who? By ponies, or those from the outskirts of Ponyland? She was going to find out soon enough. All this infomation was useful for her, as she could say it to her aunts, but one of them was still asleep.

"Although I don't get what you're saying about an replacement family," Virin frowned himself. "I don't have a family in Ponyland, or the outskirts of it. Having lived all my teenage life with winged creatures, not griffons. Nor bats." He was going to give her a small riddle of getting it through her. "They live in the volcanic regions, having wings of bats and have the body of a lizard."

Cadance's eyes widened in realization. "You've lived with dragons, haven't you?" Some of the older guards had heard it, lowly gasping in shock. How would a single human live with dragons? He wouldn't had been living in a few days. But, somehow, he lived with them for eight years, having been separated from them as much as their ruler.

Virin frowned again, not understand what he had heard of their thoughts. What did they mean having been separated from their ruler? Was it that he had been living with ponies with his other half? He still needs to find it, though. So he'll let it go for now.

The Princess of Love noticed his frowning, not sure what he had just heard from his psychic abilities. He was going to be stronger even than her aunts and Discord together if he keeps that training of his up. He had also explained to her that he had been training for the last eight years in intensity, having his muscles grown to be at least limited as well as his powers and other abilities, like transforming into a dragon himself.

Cadance wasn't surprised that he was able to undergo an transformation. She'd seen it from his battle with Queen Chrysalis, the ruler of Changelings. As they continued to talk amongst themselves, the ponies slowly started to warm up for the human, having seen him speaking with their Princess of Love.

As they continued, a voice bellowed from above on a balcony.

"WHAT?!" The voice bellowed with a Royal Canterlot voice. "Twilight! How can you say that?! My son's alive all this time?! I need to see... who is this imposter?!"

Cadance face-hoofed for the clumsiness. How could she forget that her aunt would had freak out by seeing her cousin alive? Looking at him, he had an enraged expression as he stared daggers at her.

"I knew I couldn't trust you!" The human spat with disgust. "Maybe this was a bad idea coming here, and "helping" you guys out. Maybe I should just go home right now."

"No!" Cadance cried out in shock. "Please wait!" A bright red light shined against her eyes, blinding the ponies for a moment. As the light died down, they saw the human gone as he fled with wings on his back as he flew from the city.

Seeing her cousin acting like this, Cadance couldn't help but be angry at her aunt Celestia for scaring him away from them. Now she had just gained his trust, and had a nice conversation with him. He was also just been able to warm up to her, and not being scared of talking with her.

"Cadance!" Twilight ran up to her and hugged the smaller Princess, who hugged her back. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Cadance replied with calmness and reassurance, smiling at the purple unicorn before staring angrily at her white aunt, who looked confused at this moment.

"Cadance?" Celestia frowned in confusion.

"How nice." Cadance suddenly said as she spat. "And just when things were going to be great."

"What are you talking about?" Twilight asked in worry.

"It's about him." Cadance pointed to the fleeing human with wings on his back as he continued to fly north of the city. "We were having a wonderful conversation, until you decided to interrupt and making me lose his trust. I was also nearly gaining with him coming back to us."

Looking at the flying human, Celestia was feeling a bit sick now. Her head was swirling back and forth. He was alive? How? For all she knew, he was dead and didn't come back to her. Until now that she saw the same human from her dreams about a future invasion. It must've been at Chrysalis' invasion that her son would had come back. How did he manage to beat Chrysalis, then? With his...

"Guards!" A flock of guards came up and saluted with a fore-hoof.

"Please, auntie!" Cadance begged with sadness. "Don't do this. We can't further lose his trust in us." However, Celestia didn't care.

"Bring back the flying creature." Celestia ordered the guards. "If either of you try to strike him, then you'll be set in the dungeons for the rest of your lives!" The guards shivered in fear at her tone and nodded in understanding. "Good. Then spread out, lock up any field from where the creature might be landing. Do not attack. I repeat. Do NOT attack him. If you even comes in the slightest failure of attacking him, you'll be in the dungeons for your life of eternity. Am I clear?!" The guards nodded again, spreading their wings as they flew after the fleeing human.

With Virin...

Continuing to fly above the green scenario of the lands, Virin was in deep thought. Who was that white alicorn? Was she the one from his dreams? Although she was from his dreams, she was different in real life. She was bellowing at him. That wasn't nice. He was enraged at the pink pony, too. He shouldn't had trusted her that well.

Now, all he gotta do, was go to the outskirts of Ponyland, making his way home and forget all of this and never speak of this to neither of his father or sister.

As he continued onwards to the nearest cliff, Virin stopped to catch his breath for the moment. He hadn't flown this much since the time with that strange song from his head. Going all the way across the mountains of the Lands, and made his way towards the Griffin kingdom.

Narrowing his eyes at the small flock of pegasi, Virin scowled as he stared angrily as they descended from the air to the ground, having angry expressions, not feeling happy at this moment.

"Halt!" The leader called out. "You're coming back with us, either being scolded or be put in a royal dungeon for your life." Although he was scared as heck as he said that, his ruler would most likely punish him for saying that single line.

The human, though, just scowled at them as he spouted, "I'm not coming back there, little pony. I am just about to get home to my family. Is there a problem with that?!" He was so enraged at them stopping him, he hadn't felt the darkness in him growing stronger.

"Of course there is." The leader replied sternly. "Our ruler was missing a part of her, something she couldn't say to us. But, we know that it's you who she's missing." The other guards nodded, having seen the human from his childhood in the palace.

Virin scowled at having heard their thoughts. So, this was the group of ponies that was having a good time with his other half? It sure looks like it.

"Oh, please." Virin spat in disgust. "There's no way that she has been missing me her whole life. I was with the dragons, remember? So, she should just had visited the Lands, and she would be happy." Although it pained him for saying that, he was having none of it.

"It's not so simple," the leader shook his head, dismayed at his stubbornness. "She was having a hard time coming out of the palace for a whole year. She wasn't so convinced that her son was dead."

An eye twitched in annoyance, Virin seems like he can't convince them to leave. So, all he gotta do was battling them until they're exhausted. Seems fair enough. These pegasi looks like they had been well trained in their years, he gave them a crude smile, to their eyes widening in shock. He's not serious, is he?

With his wings spread out majestically, Virin flew straight at the leader of the guard squadron, knocking him back for a moment. Virin was surrounded by a bright red light, blinding them for the moment. As the light died down, they saw a different dragon standing in front of them with a crude smile. He was standing on all four, having a spiral-shaped end of the tail. He had a yellow underbelly, like before. He had an angered expression on his face, ready for the rumble that's about to start.

Uh oh. The guards thought in nervousness. Virin charged them, knocking the leader down again. The leader was so nervous that he weren't going to fight back. Noticing him not fighting back, Virin gave a rude smile as he let out a fireball from his mouth, but it was blocked by a pink shield from out of nowhere.

Virin growled angrily as he saw the Mane Six and the Princess of Love coming towards the group of guards. Looking at the four-legged dragon, they were confused. Where'd that dragon come from? They were going to find out soon enough.

Cadance had a worried expression, staring at the dragon form of her cousin. He was totally different from his battle with Queen Chrysalis. Did he change? She were so unclear that Virin answered the question for her.

"OF course I'm not different." The Mane Six's eyes widened in shock. "I am the same old halfling from the Dragon Lands, looking for some fight. Will you battle me?" Applejack's teeth gritted in anger. She was ready to fight him, but Cadance held her back.

"No." Virin blinked in uncertainty of what he had just heard. "I'm looking for a conversation with you, you know, before the ruler interrupted us." The four-legged dragon sighed angrily, but didn't change back to his human form.

"Tell me," Virin sought for the conversation. "Why did you follow me here? I was only trying to get home."

"We know." Cadance replied. "But, you can't go back to the Dragon Lands. Those lands are dangerous for a creature like you to live in. How about living in this nice place, Ponyland? I'm guessing you'll find it lovely here, just like how you found the dragons' home lovely."

Relaxing at the tone of her voice, Virin sighed with uncertainty. "I'm not sure. Your ruler sounded pretty upset. I am not sure if I can go back with you guys, especially not after that fight with that ugly bug." Rainbow snorted in good humour, almost slipping away with a laugh.

Twilight glared at her rainbow friend, before looking back at her childhood friend. "Do you remember me?"

Rubbing his temples, Virin said slowly, "I...remember a little about you. But not much, since I couldn't quite remember our time together as "friends", how my mother described it once." Twilight raised an eyebrow, interested at finding out about his mother.

"And who's your mother?" She asked in a slow pace, not wanted to cause him a headache.

"Her name is Susan, a purple dragon from my people's legends." Virin answered her question as he continued to rub his head.

Rainbow titled her head. A purple dragon? From legends? That was just a fairy tale, with the purple dragons.

"And, who's your father?" Twilight asked again. This only caused Virin to rub his head as he suddenly let out a cry of pain. Her eyes wide, Twilight nearly got close to the four-legged dragon until a pink hoof stopped her.

"I...his name was Jonathan..." Virin let out another cry of pain as he rubbed his head continuously, not feeling well about these questions right now. From within him, the darkness was growing as it heard his cry of pain, wanting to come out to play with the ponies. Virin, though, held back the darkness in him as he slowly panted from his sudden cries of pain.

Cadance looked at him in worry, afraid that Twilight might had hurt him with her curiosity. Panting for his breath, Virin slowly raised his head to look at the worried ponies staring at him.

They were worried for him? That was weird.

"Are you alright...?" Cadance hesitantly asked, not wanting to get on her cousin's bad side, not after having seen him in a bad mood against Queen Chrysalis.

"I...I am fine..." Suddenly, he rubbed his temples as he let out another cry of pain from the growing headache. He continued to let out cries of pain, as he unexpectedly cried out, "Stop it!!" The ponies stepped back at his raised voice as he suddenly was beginning to glow with darkness

Let me out. Chaos' voice ran, strangely, smoothly in Virin's head. I can help you get rid of them, because they had caused the pain in you. C'mon, young one. Let the darkness take control of you.

"Make it stop!!" Virin cried out aloud, causing the ponies to take defensive stances as they watched the four-legged dragon glowing with darkness. His body couldn't take it anymore, the darkness took over as the wind was suddenly blowing against the ponies' fur, which made them take cautiously steps back. All was silence. Not even the ponies could breathe in the air, as the clouds above was now a reddish black colour, with the then blue sky to a black colour.

Looking up at the heavens, the ponies gasped in fear as they had never seen such darkness in the world. Not even before Nightmare Moon had arrived in the world.

Slowly, the head of the dragon rose. It had a dark smile on its face, looking rather evil in the ponies' eyes. The wings were a dark red colour, the underbelly was a darker yellow as well. The horns was also a darker tone in colour. They were a dark golden colour. The eyes of the dragon was blood-red, meaning this was the evilest creature of the darkness the ponies had ever seen or met.

"It sure is nice to get out once in a while." The dragon said with an evil and dark tone in its voice.

"W-Who are you?!" Cadance's voice was full of fear that she was trembling, not sure about what's happening right now.

"I, my dear, am none other than Chaos." Chaos introduced himself. "The mastermind of darkness. Creator of the universe, or should I say, multiverse." He gave them a crude smile, feeling somewhat happy to make his introduction again for so many years.

"Chaos?" Twilight pondered for a moment. She was sure, that Discord was the only one that was a mastermind of chaos. But, she sure was wrong now.

"That's right, my dear." Chaos replied with a dark chuckle. "The one and only. If you had thought that Discord was the first creature to wield the other technique besides Harmony, it's me. However, unlike him, I have full control over my chaos. It's so simple to get used to, especially if you're the multiverse's creator." He gave off another dark chuckle.

The ponies stared at the dark creature in confusion. Multiverse? That was impossible. There were only one universe. This one. There couldn't possibly be more universes. But, in scientific way, there could be other universes. It was so confusing.

Chaos got into a offensive stance. "Let's get this party started." He charged at the ponies, who gasped as he was coming near them. Those that had horns, teleported away from the charging dark dragon, who growled as he kicked some of the pegasi guards with its hind legs, knocking them back.

Although it pained her for attacking him, Twilight had no choice. Her friend was being possessed by this dark being, and she was going to free him no matter what. She fired an lavender magic beam from her horn, hitting Chaos in the stomach, causing him to stumble back. He smirked evilly as he got onto her nerves as he had possessed her first friend. He could feel that he was already victorious.

While it was frightening them as heck, the pegasi guards couldn't help but charged at the dark dragon with their might, knocking him back. It scared them as they had heard what their ruler had said. They shouldn't had attacked him, but with an good explanation, they wouldn't be in the dungeons for the rest of their lives. They just hope that she would be able to understand them.

Chaos sneered at the guards, let loose a dark fireball from his mouth, but a pink and lavender shield blocked the fireball from hurting the guards. The master of chaos snarled at the ponies responsible, hurling himself at the taller pony than the purple one. Rolling on the ground, Chaos held Cadance with a paw right at her neck, causing her to sweat drop as he was about to do what wasn't necessary. But, with a blast of two magic beams, the dark dragon was knocked away from her, and to the trees.

Gasping for air, Cadance smiled in thanks to Rarity and Twilight, who smiled back before their smiles faded away as the master of darkness let loose dark fireballs at them. Creating shields to protect them, the fireballs that was coming at them was slowly beginning to fade away as Chaos was suddenly panting for breath.

This was their chance.

The pegasi guards charged at the dark dragon, knocking him to the ground as the guards held tightly on the dark creature. With her horn charged, Twilight performed a magical spell that somehow looked like it was from Harmony itself. It was a golden light, stronger than the darkness that held her friend. Eyes widened in shock, Chaos was hit by the golden light, causing him to roar out in pain as his darkness was fading away from Virin's body.

Coming back to reality, Virin held back the darkness from controlling his body once more. It was fighting back, but Virin was holding nothing back. He was going to seal it away to the inner core of his soul, to make sure it won't come back out.

With the darkness gone, Virin panted as he sweat dropped while he laid on his belly on the ground. He was exhausted. That's for sure. He fought back the darkness, that was an accomplishment. But not much of an accomplishment. He had just hurt his "friends" because Chaos had control over his body. That was uncool of the dark being.

Taking cautiously steps towards her cousin, Cadance asked, "Are you alright?"

"I...think so..." Virin replied slowly, giving her a single nod. He will need time to think about coming back to that city with them. Yes. He had decided to take a scroll into the city of Canterlot once more.

"Will you be coming back with us?" Cadance asked slowly, not wanting to hurt him more. Without a reply, Virin just nodded, as though saying "yes" to her. The Princess of Love smiled with appreciation and anticipation, while looking really happy on the inside that her cousin would be coming to them.

"Excuse me." Applejack called out, gaining their attention as they looked at the orange mare. "But, if you don mind me asking, who are anyway? You just showed up from out of nowhere and helped us. What are your purpose of coming to Canterlot?"

"That doesn't concern you right now." Virin shook his head. "What does concern you, is stopping with all those questions. I'll be getting another headache if you continue like that." Applejack narrowed her eyes at the red dragon, but he was having none of it, only looking at the pink alicorn. "Shall we?" Without replying, Cadance nodded.

As the guards smiled happily at having their good male heir back, they were frowning as he hadn't answered their question about changing to a dragon.

As the group was making their way towards the city of Canterlot once more, Virin was in thought. Who was that white alicorn? Was she really his other half's mother? That sounded a bit racist, but a bit cool that he would be a Prince once he returns to that city with all those nobles. Ugh. He hates nobles sometimes, mostly the pony ones. They were so questionable, so strict to their ruler about having new places to be here and there. While the noble ponies were strict, the griffin and minotaur nobles weren't. They were nice and all, but in their minds, they were strict to their rule.

Looking at the Mane Six of ponies, Virin couldn't help but let out a small chuckle. They sure was something you don't see everyday now and then. Two pegasi. Two unicorns. Two earth ponies. An unlikely group indeed.

"So," Virin tried to get a conversation with Cadance, who glanced at his dragon form. "What would I be if I get to meet the ruler, then? And, what would I become if I get back into the city?"

"You're our ruler's son." Cadance replied, glad that the ponies were far at the back, unable to hear them. "So, that'll make you a Prince."

"Huh." Virin hummed in interest. "Never knew that I would be a Prince." Cadance raised an eyebrow.

"That's not the kind of reaction I expected to see." She noted. "Normally, people would be freak out about being a Prince of a country. But, you wasn't. How come?"

"Mostly because it's just a title." Virin shrugged idly. "I have lived alongside a Princess all my life, not even gaining the title of Prince back home in the Lands. That may be because I was a Halfling, a cross-bred species of two in one. There were some in my family, my real family, that were Halflings themselves. But, now there's only one left. Me."

Cadance's eyes had a tearful look now. "Would your family be dead by now?" She hesitantly asked.

"Well, yes." Virin confirmed rather darkly. "While I'm the only dragon alive from my home planet, there were some exceptions. I don't know where that other living dragon is, but that's not surprising that it must had kept on hiding from my other half's people. The home planet of mine is inhabitant by creatures known as Humans, a warrant species that never rest with battle and war."

"Who is your "other half"? If you don't mind me asking." Cadance asked, wiping the tears from her eyes.

"That would be the one you seems to be calling "Moon" all the time." Virin said in admittance. "I'm still looking for it, though, because I was incomplete these eight long years of being separated from it."

"Okay." Was the only thing Cadance said in reply, not wanting for him to be having another headache, just to be safe.

Coming up to the two, Twilight asked him, "Who was your mother and father? I didn't hear it properly."

Sighing, Virin answered her question more clearly. "Their names are Susan and Jonathan. The former is a purple dragon, while the latter is a red dragon, where I got my scales and body from."

Twilight nodded in understanding, happy to have that out of the way. "If you got you body from your father, where did you get that underbelly from? If you don't mind me asking again."

"From my mother." Virin gave a small blush at that question, not feeling well after having answered that. "Are you done? I don't want to be feeling even more embarrassed." Twilight flushed herself as her cheeks turned a red colour when she realized what she had asked him.

"Y-Yes. I think I'm done." Twilight returned to her friends. Virin sighed in relief, while hearing a small giggle from the Princess. He raised a scaly brow.

"Are you done?" He asked her, making her stop with the giggles. She nodded. "Good. Then let's get back to that city, shall we?" Cadance nodded in agreement, picking the pace up, so did the others.