A calm breeze blew against the calm wind, sending a serene scent of calmness through the air. The high sun was glowing brightly along with the sky blue heaven.

On the grassy ground, a group of ponies and a single human was taking a slow pacing towards the city of Canterlot, talking amongst themselves of how great it was for having a good Prince than that other male.

"So," the human, Virin, started, getting the pink pony's attention. "If I am a Prince, what would this make that white alicorn?"

"Your mother." The pink pony, Cadance, answered, smiling calmly.

Huffing, Virin crossed his arms. "It just doesn't make any sense. How can I be the child of an alicorn if I am a human? That's just legally impossible."

"But," Cadance began. "It does. I made myself clear that your motheristhe white alicorn, whom we identify as Princess Celestia. We're just happy to have you back after so many years of depression, loss, unhappiness, and sadness."

Sighing, Virin lowered his gaze to the ground in thought. Was he really the child of that white alicorn? If so, then how come he doesn't remember her from his dreams of ponies? All of this information was just too much for him to handle.

When he gets to that city again, he would just be in his four-legged dragon form all the while. For the reason why he was in human form, was because of the insistence of Cadance, the Princess of Love, that was very persistent of having him in this form. Like the old times, to her vision.

After having Chaos temporarily stopped, the group was walking slowly to the city of Canterlot, while taking the sweet time to talk about the human in their conversations, to Virin's discomfort. He wasn't much of an talker, more like an action seeker person that wants to battle creatures of all things, to which Rainbow thought was pretty cool. Maybe that was the reason for how he got his scar? She always thought that he was the coolest, but at the same time, the most stubborn person in the whole wide world of Equestria, to which he couldn't help but disagree on. He weren't being stubborn, more like persistence in his fights, which she chuckled at, knowing the experience.

Why was he being persistence some may ask? Well, for one, his ego wasn't completely vanished. There were still a few small things from his old ego that made him win and lose some of his battles. Garble's huger for power was an example for his persistence of keeping on the fight.

At first, when she heard the name Garble, Rainbow snarled at remembering the drake, to Virin's confusion as he hadn't seen any ponies in the Lands. He weren't sure when they had gotten there in the first place. To her answer, she said that she followed the green dragon, known as Spike, to help him return to Ponyville, a location in Ponyland that was the home of Earth, a few unicorn and some Pegasi ponies. Virin thought he might visit that quiet town sometime after his visit to Canterlot again.

Twilight had thought of something when she and he talked like old times. Was he really a human? Although they were new to her, she couldn't help but examine to see if he lied or something like that, to his most discomfort expression. However, Cadance managed to stop Twilight from doing anything to her cousin.

"Well," Virin started, gaining their attention. "I don't know what, but I feel kind of hungry." The ponies agreed on that, stepping off the road they were on and took some of their lunch ready. Virin, on the other hand, took some crystals out of his backpack that was on his shoulders.

Seeing the crystals, the small, green dragon couldn't help but had his mouth covered in saliva as he looked at the delicious crystals.

"Do mind sharing, Virin?" Spike asked hopefully.

Shrugging, Virin gave a few of his many crystals to the small dragon, who thanked him as he took the crystals to his clawed arms.

Eating in silence, Virin looked at the pink alicorn with wondrous eyes. For someone as she was, she was oddly familiar, like with the pony Twilight. He weren't sure what, but he was at peace with their presence as he continued to eat silently, munching on his red gem as his strength returned from that experience with Chaos, who had him drained from strength after having taken over his body.

With the corner of her eyes, Cadance noticed the human gazing at her with a wonder expression. He must think that he hadn't seen her in years, like she was completely alien to him.

Alien? Yeah, right. They had been cousins since foalhood, which Virin couldn't remember of, to her disappointment. She had honestly thought he might remember at least some of it, but it was still all fuzzy in his mind.

After eating in a few minutes, the group resumed their walk on the road to Canterlot, with the human in the lead with Twilight and Cadance by his side. Uncomfortably, the human glanced at them one time. They were awfully close to him.

"Do you mind stepping away?" He asked politely. "This is very uncomfortable." Looking at him, both Twilight and Cadance noticed how close they even were to him. Flushing, they stepped back to the group, with the human sighing in relief as he got some privacy finally.

Walking towards the cliffside, the group stopped right at the end of the grassy road. Staring at the majestic city of Canterlot, Virin closed his eyes as he transformed into his four-legged dragon form, to the confusion of the group.

"Need a way to the city, don't I?" He wondered.

"That won't be necessary." Cadance pointed to another road, just down to the right. Looking incredulously, Virin shifted back into his human form with a shrug afterwards.

With a smile, Cadance led the group doing the road to the city, of which Virin inwardly sighed at. He already had an experience with that city, because the guards there were being rude to him for helping them. Cadance had told him that it doesn't matter.

After what seemed like hours of walking, the group managed to get to the front of the city without much trouble. As soon as they saw them, the citizens immediately looked frighteningly at the human for his second visit. Ignoring the stares, the group walked forward, but somepony stepped in front of them with an rather stern expression.

"Do you have a problem, pony?" Virin asked rather irritably, raising an eyebrow as the pony answered his question.

"My problem is you, creature." The pony had a cold voice. "I don't know you, that's true, but you're dangerous enough to be considered a threat. You must be one of them Changelings, intending to invade our city once more. Isn't that right?"

Sheesh. How rude.Virin thought with an irrational expression. "No. I do not plan on invading your beloved city. I am just waiting for something to happen to me, that is all."

"Right." The pony rolled his eyes, unconvincingly. "Do you want me to believe that, creature? Or do you prefer to be locked in a cell in the dungeons for coming back here? I'd be happy to be one of those reasons."

"Sorry, mister." Cadance shook her head in bemusement. "But, he's here to see our ruler, because there's some connection with him and her."

"You can't believe in this creature, do you, Princess?" The pony asked in frustation as the creature wouldn't leave.

"Please refrain from calling him, "creature"." The Princess impolitely sneered at the pony. "His name is Virin. He's a kind "human" that wanted to help us reclaim our home from the Changelings. Do you have something against that noble act?"

"As a matter of fact, yes." The pony replied. "I do have something against this "human". He's a unkind and strange individual that must be locked in the dungeons. Princess, if you won't do it, then I will. Creature, you are hereby apprehended for attacking our beloved city-" His mouth was clamp shot by the human's harsh interrupting, with a hand on his muzzle.

Rainbow smirked, while the other ponies looked displeased.

"I'll say this one, and only one, time," Virin said threateningly, growling at him angrily. "If you finish that sentence, I won't mind breaking you into pieces. Do you understand me? I won't hesitate to do it." Shivering in fear, the pony rapidly nodded as the human removed his hand from his muzzle. The pony ran to his house and rushed inside it. Sighing in relief, Virin turned to his audience of ponies, who looked quite displeased with his action.

"Sorry 'bout that." Virin apologized. "I'm tad to get threatening when something like that happens."

"You don't need to be sorry." Rainbow smirked pleasantry. "I quite enjoyed that moment." Her friends shook their heads in bemusement, although they couldn't help but agree with the blue mare.

"Rainbow, if that's what your name is," Virin looked for clarification. The mare nodded. "I can teach you on how to be threatening, but that will most likely boost your undefined ego to a new level. So, I will not do that. Understood? Only be that in certain circumstances, but not all the time."

"Okay, dude." Rainbow smiled at him. Nodding in an rather pleased moment, Virin turned to the pink alicorn, who had a displeased expression.

"I wasn't enjoying that, mind you," she said firstly. "But, I'll admit, that was rather enjoyable seeing him being frightened for your next appearance. But, please don't be that when we go see the ruler, okay?"

"Sure. Whatever." Virin gazed down to the ground with his eyes. Cadance looked worried when he did that, but knew that the other citizens was in the area. She turned to them, and called out.

"Please, excuse us for a moment. We'll be on our way." She called to them, the nobles shrugged and returned to their homes to spend the rest of the day with their families. Sighing in relief for the privacy given to them, Cadance glanced back at the human with worried eyes.

After what he had said, Virin couldn't help but look worried with that moment. What if Chaos had returned in front of them? What would he even do to them? Luckily, he hadn't come back yet. So, that was by luck he guess. After that display, he were worried for what his father would say to him when he's going to tell him about his discoveries in Ponyland. Would he still be considered a son tot he Dragon Lord? He hopes so, especially like a brother to Ember.

Giving a small humming sound, Virin looked at te majestic castle of Canterlot with a renew interest. If that alicorn really was his mother, then he finally had new parents other than his already dead ones. Although it pained him to admit it, he was rather lucky to have found replacements to his dragon family. For what he knew, this alicorn was really worried for him for the lat eight years. Was it true? Was he really gone for eight years from Ponyland? It was all still a bit fuzzy and funny to admit it, but he liked to have returned home.

If she was indeed his mother, he would finally feel complete inside. He had a father and sister now. But, it wouldn't hurt for him to have a mother with them. From what Torch, his father, had told him. His new dragon mother, Torch's wife, had been dead for a few years after an accident involving a war with the Yaks, a brute species that have the strength of a bull. Although he didn't know what a bull or Yak is, he was going to find out soon enough, if it was only possible when he's about to return to that white alicorn that had missed him for the eight long years of losing him.

Pained, he was actually worried for that white alicorn. Although he hadn't seen her yet, he found her voice beautiful when he had that first dream about them before that race. He was also going to tell her all about his life in the Dragon Lands, but he's hesitate to tell her everything, even about his scar. Though, she would most likely see it when her first glance at him happens.

"Virin?" Cadance's voice interrupted his train of thoughts. He looked at her with an unreadable expression, like he had seen a ghost or something like that. "Are you alright?"

"Fine. Just fine." Virin responded. "Was just in my thoughts." Nodding in understanding, Cadance turned back to their worried audience, with her addressing them in an authority voice.

"Alright." She said with authority. "Let's get going. We don't want to be out here all day, do we? Then, let's get going to the castle. We can take a break after Virin has seen the ruler of our land."

The ponies nodded firmly, agreeing with her on that.

Walking towards the castle, Virin was hesitating to even open the doors when the castle guards stepped aside. With his hand shaking, Virin looked at it for a moment before finally opening the door to the inside of the castle.

Worried for her cousin, Cadance walked up to him, before giving him some distance from her. "Are you okay? You looked hesitant just now." She said worryingly.

"Just fine." Virin lied, walking on the red carpet that led to the throne room once more. The white pillars was hanging at the walls and was holding the rooftop from collapsing down on them. There were a few strain glasses of the rulers of this land. A dark blue mare with a horn and wings, along with two others. A white alicorn and a pink alicorn. They were in the halls of legends.

"Wow." Virin breathed, hearing a giggle from Cadance.

"That's the first word I did when I first walked through these halls." After a while of looking at the strain glass containing her aunts, she said, "Let's get going, shall we?"

Virin nodded in agreement and got his gaze away from the glass of the white alicorn. While he had finally looked at her, she looked kind of beautiful for a ruler, but he's not here for sightseeing. He was here to find answers to his childhood.

Walking down the carpet to the throne room, Cadance addressed him. "Wait inside the throne room. I'll be here shortly." She walked off the scene as Virin shrugged as he stepped inside the door to the throne room. His blue and yellow eyes wandered around the room. It looked completely white, but with some dark blue walls. There were two thrones at the pedestal, indicating that there were two rulers.

Sighing, Virin walked behind the thrones and sat cross-legged as he meditated in his thoughts.

Smiling in her sleep, Princess Celestia was having the dream of her life. She had been wanting to see him. Her son. He was here.

With a nice picnic, Celestia was sitting on the blanket as her son was filling her cup with tea. He had a nice glint in his blue and yellow eyes, like they were going for adventures. Although she didn't want it, when he grows up, he was going to have his own kingdom soon enough and rule over it. But, that was in due time. She was going to enjoy this moment for now with her life.

"Son?" She whispered with a purr. Moon looked at her with wondrous eyes. "Do you mind coming here?" Smiling in knowing, Moon came over to her as she hugged him tightly, not intending to crush him, of course.

"Mother?"

"Yes, son?"

"Do you love me?" Moon suddenly asked, rather mysteriously.

"Of course I love you." Celestia answered warmly. "We're family. No matter what happens between us."

"Then, why did you lose me?" Moon gave a small growl of anger. She felt it. He was angry with her.

"What are you talking about?" Celestia wondered curiously. "You're right here. With me. Nothing can go wrong, right?"

"Then, why did you let them take me?" Moon's growl grew angrier every small sentence he said.

"What are you talking about?" She repeated curiously. "I didn't let "them" take you away from me. I was searching for you. You know that."

"Well, guess what." Moon started angrily. "I don't love you anymore. You let them take me away. You promised to keep me safe. But, guess what happens? You didn't kept me safe enough. That's why they took me and was nearly about to do something to me." His growl was more visible now, with it echoing through the void. The picnic was now replaced with darkness, with the small boy growing into something terrifying.

Celestia's eyes widened in horror as she watched her son transforming into the most terrifying dragon she had ever seen. It had black scales, it had blood-red eyes. It was standing tall and mighty, along with standing on all four legs. It had the sharpest tailblade she had seen, like it was ready to cut her to pieces. The wings on its back was black as well.

"You monster!" Celestia shouted, before covering her mouth for what she said. But she didn't take a second of this. "How dare you ruin this moment between us!"

"Guess what? I don't care."The dragon's voice was dark and evil, more than anything Celestia had fought in past with her sister."All I care about, is ending you right here and now, so they can be freed from the tyranny of you, "Princess"."Her heart shattered in pieces, Celestia lost it.

"You dare interfere with the beautiful ruling of me?!" Celestia shouted angrily. "That's it! You're going to Tartarus, you foal creature!" She tried to make her horn lit up, but it didn't. The dark dragon laughed evilly, feeling an enjoyable sense in it as it watched her failures of making her horn light up with magic.

"You can't do anything in this darkness."The dark dragon laughed evilly again."But I can do something like this."It blew dark flames towards Princess Celestia, who screamed until something stepped in between them, shielding her from the flames.

"This stops now." The being shouted with anger. It looked like Nightmare Moon, but it was like a lighter version of her, to Celestia's shocking eyes. The dark dragon only laughed evilly even more, like it was enjoying this moment of anger and rage.

"Oh, how delightful."It said darkly."Just what I needed. Daybreaker, was it? You're the more angrier version of this oh-so supposed ruler of ponykind. I like it, actually. Maybe if I defeat you right here and now, I can feed on your rage and darkness, as it fuels me with energy."

"I won't let that happen." Daybreaker shot a reddish coloured beam at the dark dragon, shockingly vanquishing it with one attack. After a sigh, Daybreaker turned her head towards the shaking Princess of the Sun, asking, "Are you alright?" She had an oddly soft tone in her voice.

"N-No." Celestia shook violently. "That was the most frightening experience I had faced. But, thank you for coming."

"It's my job to protect my bearer." Daybreaker replied, giving her a soft smile. "Do you wish to see him?"

"Who?" Celestia wondered.

"Your son, I mean." Daybreaker clarified softly. "He's at the castle. I saw him when he entered. He has grown quite strong lately. From what I had heard, he took on an army of creatures known as Changelings in single combat. I'm amazed by him."

Taking in the information, Celestia's eyes soon widened in shock. Daybreaker nodded in confirmation at what she had said to her.

"He is indeed back." Was the last thing she said before she vanished into Celestia's body.

Waking up with a start, Princess Celestia gasped in shock after what she had dreamt of. Looking out to the balcony, she walked towards it as she looked down on the streets of Canterlot. If her son was back, then he must had saved the day from those Changelings. She was actually impressed by his single handedly of combat from what Daybreaker had told her.

Thinking back to Daybreaker, Celestia was in train of thoughts. Was she really the one that saved her from that dark dragon? If so, then she was thankful for her then. She looked like Nightmare Moon, but was soft to her, which was strange for an entity like her to even be that. All she ever had wanted was to be with her son, but he transformed into a dark dragon. What if he did that in real life? What was she going to do then? Would she kill him? She shivered at the very thought.

No. She couldn't bring herself to kill her own son. He was everything to her. He meant her whole life. So, she couldn't bring herself to even kill him. If he was going to be transforming into a dragon, what kind of dragon would that be? She didn't know that her anger was growing at the thought of her son being a dragon in front of her very eyes.

"Auntie Celesita?" Cadance called from outside the door. "Do you mind if I come in?"

"Oh no. Please come in." It wasn't her aunt's voice, which was strange.

Shrugging, Cadance slowly opened the door as she walked inside the room of her aunt's. What caught her off-guard, was the fact that it wasn't her aunt that stood in front of her. It was like a light version of Nightmare Moon.

"Guards!" She shouted. A group of at least twenty unicorn guards came rushing to their Princess.

"Cadance?" Daybreaker's voice came through the body. "What's the meaning of this?" The unicorn guards' horns lit up with hesitation.

"Bind her!" Cadance shouted. "She's not the Princess!" The unicorn guards' magic was forced to get Daybreaker down to her hooves as she struggled to get free.

Cross-legged and meditating, Virin was in deep thought as he calmed himself down.

Was he really the child of that white alicorn? He repeatedly asked himself in his thought that it was legally impossible. If he really was, then he would had been a pony and not a human nor dragon to begin with. From what he was told by his father and the King of Griffins, he was the only human in this world to be here. There really wasn't anymore of his species, but it was rumoured that there had been humans in legends and fairytales in Equestria. He had a strange feeling that he wasn't going to be seeing another human in his life other than himself. That really was a bummer.

Suddenly, the doors exploded open, to his open-wide eyed shock and anxiety. He was feeling cold inside. This was it. He was going to be meeting his "mother".

"Oh, son." Daybreaker's voice, unknowing to him, called with a singing tone. "Where are you? Let's have some fun." She hummed as she looked frequently around for something, most likely him. "I wonder where you could be. Maybe behind the curtains?" She blasted the curtains with a reddish magic beam from her horn, destroying the curtains in a second. No human there.

"Oh, well. At least I tried." Daybreaker continued to look frequently around for him. She blasted a strained glass in a second, nothing there. She shot another reddish beam at another set of curtains. Still nothing.

Growing angrily, Daybreaker looked at the thrones with mild interest. "You're behind the pedestal, aren't you?"

Damn!Was the only thing Virin could think of as he thought that white alicorn was crazy.

"Auntie Celestia!" Cadance came rushing into the room with the Mane Six and a few guards along with Shining Armor, whom was unknown to Virin because of his fuzzy thinking. "Please stop this madness."

"But, he won't show himself." Celestia's saddened voice came through the muzzle. But that quickly faded as Daybreaker's voice was harshly interrupting her.

"What? Stay out of this, Celestia!" Came the voice of Daybreaker. "He'll either show himself, or I have to destroy this castle from above him!"

Alright that was enough.Was the think Virin could think of. He finally transformed into his four-legged dragon form and made himself known to the ponies as he stepped out of behind the thrones, staring curiously at the white alicorn.

Daybreaker looked behind her, and finally saw the dragon. It was completely calm, which was strange because of that dark dragon. It had red scales instead of black. It had bluish-yellow eyes instead of blood-red. It was standing on all four. It had red wings, yellow curved horns and a yellow underbelly. It was staring at her with an intense expression, which was also strange from that dark dragon in Celestia's dream and thoughts.

"You wished to see me?" The red dragon asked calmly, giving her a small smirk of confidence.

Her expression blank, Daybreaker finally shook herself out of her glance on the red dragon, glaring at him for not being like that dark dragon.

"As a matter of fact, yes." She replied finally. "I would like you to meet your mother, me."

"Sorry, but you're not her." Virin was unfazed by the glare. "And, for that glare, I'm not scared of you. I can take you on anytime." Daybreaker smirked evilly, before her horn lit up with a reddish aura. She fired an red beam at the dragon, who stood still as the beam made contact with him, causing smoke to appear in the area.

Cadance and the other ponies' eyes widened in shock at what they just saw. Was he dead? No. It couldn't end like this. But, to their surprise, with the smoke clear, the dragon stood there, unscratched from the attack by the nightmare, Daybreaker. How did he do it? Was all they could think of.

"What?" Daybreaker yelled impolitely at him. "How can you withstand that attack?!"

"I've faced many challenges in the past," Virin began. "And this is nothing compared to them. I took on many strong opponents and a far greater evil than you. Daybreaker, was it? I'm not scared nor afraid of you. I'll take on anything that you have."

Gritting her teeth, Daybreaker shot another reddish beam at him, but he finally responded with aFire Shieldthat shielded himself from the attack. Her eyes widened in shock at the quick response.

"Is that all you've got?" Virin smirked confidently at her, staring with an unbearable expression to the nightmare.

Finally lost it, Daybreaker shot red beam consecutively at the dragon within the shield, but the attacks just bounced off the shield. Angered by this, the nightmare shot a stronger red beam at the shield, creating small cracks on it. Virin raised an eyebrow at this. That was an impressive move, actually. However, he weren't that impressed yet. Daybreaker shot more red beams at the shield, creating more cracks on it as it finally broke from the force of beams that was shoot at it.

Cadance and the ponies' eyes had widen in shock at this development at the battle.

Smirking deviously, Daybreaker shot a red beam at the dragon, who jumped out of the way faster than she could blink. The dragon couldn't hold this. He shot flames out of his muzzle and fired at her, but she created a quick shield to protect herself from the flames that the dragon had blown at her.

Humming in interest, Virin decided to work on his martial arts that he had been working on from a year ago. Looking at him with curiosity, Daybreaker's eyes widened in shock as the dragon rushed towards the shield that she had made. A foolish move in her eyes. However, to her greater shock, the dragon started to kick the red shield relentlessly as he also punched it with his forepaws. What was those moves? She wondered.

Rainbow stared at him with a newfound interest. He could do martial arts? That's actually impressive.

Virin continued to kick and punch at the shield, creating cracks faster than how her beams did it to his shield. With a few more kicks and punches, the shield finally broke as Daybreaker was hit relentlessly all over her body as the dragon continued to punch and kick her.

Sorry, "mother".Virin thought sadly as he continued to do martial kicks and punches at her. His kicks and punches continued until Daybreaker was exhausted at being kicked and punched at.

Stopping with his martial arts, Virin stared at the audience that was watching the battle with a renew interest and disgusted expressions. It was mostly the latter for some, but the blue mare stared at him with interest. He'd wondered why, but he was in the middle of an duel.

Panting heavily, Daybreaker finally met his gaze as he stared at her with apologetic gaze. "Why do you feel sorry for? You can end this." She said to him, breaking him out of his trance.

"Sorry, but I need her alive, and in good condition." Virin replied with sadness. "After the duel." He added as an afterthought.

"What duel?" Daybreaker asked. "Why do you think that this is a duel?"

"What does it look like?" Virin questioned her. "You attacked me, I attacked you. That's the reason why this is a duel."

Humming, Daybreaker lost it as she fired a red beam at the dragon, who quickly let out aFire Shieldto defend himself from the attack. Consecutively, the nightmare fired red beams at the shield, creating some cracks at it after every tenth beam that hit it. After a few twenty more beams, the shield broke, with Virin being unfazed by this. He weren't going to be showing any weakness in this duel, that's for sure.

Virin let loose some flames out of his muzzle, but Daybreaker activated an shield to defend herself from the flames. Irritated by this, Virin's spikes glowed a faintly blue colour as he opened his mouth and fired an blue beam that was powerful enough to break the nightmare's shield, shocking her.

"Why use that, dragon?" Daybreaker asked him curiously.

"Because I didn't want to use my normal flames to break your shield." Virin answered rather coldly. He decided to use some of his martial arts again, rushing towards her and started kicking and punching her relentlessly at all sides, causing her to cry out in pain. He continued to use his kicks and punches until he was exhausted, which was going to take a bit longer than usual as he wasn't feeling tired as of yet.

Relentlessly, Virin continued to punch and kick the nightmare all over her body as he was starting to get tired from all the kicking and punching. He let out an exhausted pant as he stopped as he looked at an panting Daybreaker, who stared at him with a fearful expression as she looked at him with her red eyes.

"W-Who are you?" She finally asked.

"Just a dragon looking for his childhood in this palace." Virin answered, panting heavily. "And that white alicorn, not you, is going to help me find that childhood."

"Why do you search for it in the first place?" Daybreaker panted. "What's so special about this palace to you?"

"I guess in a way you could say," Virin started, "that I feel like I was born into this place and that it was my home from when I was a kid." Suddenly, he let out a pained cry as the audience was worried for him.

"What's wrong?" Daybreaker strangely asked him, worried for a moment.

"This memory." Virin began, clenching his head with a paw. "It is starting to pissing me off. I feel like I couldexplode." He had a dark voice after that last word. A dark aura was slowly forming around him as he roared out, not in pain, but loudly as he was beginning to change into his dark form.

Daybreaker looked worried for him in a second, but it faded as fast as it came as she tried to fire a red beam from her horn, but, as soon as it made contact with the shadow, it vanquished in an instant, shocking her. As the shadow exploded around the area, the ponies removed her hooves from their eyes, as they looked in shock, especially Shining Armor, Cadance and Twilight, at the slightly darker dragon in front of them.

After the shadows had calmed, a black dragon with black wings and a darker yellow underbelly stood in front of them as it finally opened its blood-red eyes, staring at them with a cold expression.

"H-How?" Shining was the first to ask a question.

"My name is Dark Virin."Dark Virin introduced coldly."I am the dark counterpart of that goody dragon that had locked me in his very core for the sake of "safety". What he didn't know, was that I was still able to tap into his light, swallowing it, and be set free a couple of times whenever he got angry with a few creatures.

"Virin is a dangerous being, mind you. And I am a calmer version of him to be the real and original one. For, you see, I'm the one that aids him in some of his battles with his opponents, with him tapping into the darkness and setting me free to take care of the rest. We are one, but I'm more in control now because he was feeling enraged at being not able to find his awful childhood with ponies."

"What makes you think that you can just take control over him and ruin everything?" Daybreaker impolitely shouted at him. "We were in the middle of an conversation." She closed her mouth shut as she realized what she said. She was evil, not good.

"Nice try, Daybreaker."Dark Virin smiled evilly."But, who makes you think that you're the evil one here? There are other beings that are far more evil than you or Chrysalis. I won't be spoiling it, though."

"How do you know Chrysalis?" Cadance asked in bewilderment, staring at the dark dragon with an intense expression.

"My dear,"Dark Virin started."IamVirin. I am the one that helped him fight her, because I allowed him to use that strong blue beam in the first place. Because, he and another creature are related."

"And what may that creature be?" Shining asked him.

"Not telling."Dark Virin shrugged. Shining sighed in frustration, feeling irritated at not being told why Virin had used that strange, but powerful blue beam. Suddenly, a cry of surprise caught their attention as they looked at the dark dragon, whom was struggling for something."No! I won't let you out!"

"Give me my body back!"They heard Virin's voice coming from within the dark dragon. After a few seconds of struggling, the dark dragon vanished as the black scales changed back to red, along with everything else on the body.

Standing there and panting, Virin let out a sigh as he looked at his surprised and worried audience of ponies. He was feeling ashamed at letting his darkness out, but at the same time, he wasn't, which was strange.

"You okay?" Celestia's voice came from Daybraker's muzzle.

Virin's eyes snapped to the white alicorn, gritting his teeth as his headache was coming back. All of this information, pain, struggle, was just too much for him to handle. He needed to get away from this place, but he couldn't. He needed that white alicorn to help him find his childhood. Suddenly, he let out a pained cry as a paw clenched his head. The headache was coming back, rather fast.

A glint in her purple eyes, Twilight turned to her friends as she thought of something. While the white alicorn was busy with checking on the red dragon, they could use the Elements of Harmony on their ruler, to get rid of the nightmare.

"Let's use the Elements." She whispered to her friends, as they nodded with Shining and Cadance looking at them curiously. With their Elements on their heads and necks, they were engulfed in a multi-coloured light as a rainbow was shot towards a now-shocked Daybreasker as she managed to let out a scream of fear until she was silenced by the rainbow.

Looking at the white alicorn for a final glance, Virin let consciousness go as his headache was becoming too much for him to handle. He fell to the ground with a crash, closing his eyes as he was very tired.