Author's Notes:

Here's the next chapter. It was a quick one at that. So, tell me, how is this season doing for you? Is it good or bad? Let me know down in the comments.

Everything was darkness. He couldn't see a thing. For all he know, he could be dead, or worse. But, that was all false when a voice awoke him from his sleep.

"Virin! Hey, wake up!"

Groaning, Virin's eyes blinked open as he gave a few more blinks as his vision became focused. Once the focus was done, he could see an oddly familiar place he had pictured himself to be in.

It was his former room, within the castle of Canterlot.

Jolting up, Virin gave a light pained grunt as he bumped into someone's head as the person, or pony, moved away in shock. Blinking while rubbing his head with a hand, he noticed that Cadance was in his room, smiling happily at him.

"You're awake!" She grabbed him in a tight hug, as though she won't let him go.

Blinking again, Virin gently pushed the alicorn away, to her displeasure. "Look," he said with a groan. "I haven't been here for a long time. How can you treat me like this?" He wanted answers, she knew it.

Sighing, Cadance answered his question. "It's because this was your room, the very room where we used to play in. It was at next door that I found out about you from your mother, and my aunt, that you would be treated kindly into this family."

"Huh." Virin blinked once again, rubbing his tired eyes as he gave another groan. He hadn't been here in more than a few days. Wait, days? "What time is this?"

"Morning. And it is the third day after you let go into unconsciousness." Cadance answered him.

"Third day?!" Virin gaped in shock, looking out of the balcony as he walked up to it and stood by the rails. The sun was slowly coming up in the horizon, sending a warmth breeze to the land as it continued to rise slowly. He had wondered when he had woken up that he would had checked in before he left for the Lands again. But, at the same time, he liked it here. He don't know why, but he felt more at peace here than in the Dragon Lands, which was strange for him because he had lived there for seven and a half year.

Hearing hoof steps coming up to him, Virin looked over his shoulder to see Cadance walking up to him with a slightly worried look in her pink eyes.

"You okay?" She asked him.

"Yeah." He replied. "I just hadn't thought of that I would had been unconscious for three days. It was truly an experience."

"I'd say." Cadance chuckled lightly at that. "So, what are you planning to do?" She wondered as she looked at him deep in the eyes once he turned around to face her. Staring at his warm eyes was feeling like he haven't changed one bit for her. Although looking at him now, he had really changed from a stubborn kid to a calm young adult.

"I don't know-" He shrugged. "Maybe having a walk through the castle, checking in on the city and its citizens. After that, I don't know much to do."

"You could check on your mother." Cadance instructed him. "She had been worried for you for the last eight years of being separated from you. Why not do that afterwards?"

"Hm." Virin hummed, rubbing his chin with two fingers. "I might and might not. What if she overreacted for seeing me?"

"Trust me." Cadance said. "She won't."

"Uh-huh." Virin stared at her pink eyes with tension inside him.

Hearing the door opening from behind her, Cadance turned around as they watched as Twilight, the strange familiar purple pony to Virin, walked in the room. Glancing at the bed for a second, she frowned in confusion until she noticed that Cadance was standing beside the human. Smiling in happiness, she ran up to him and hugged him as he watched her in earnest confusion.

"Wha-" Was the only thing he could mutter until she had tackled him in a hug. Sheesh. These ponies really do like hugs. With a tighter hug, Twilight's eyes was watering with tears as she could only whisper.

"How are you feeling?" Was the only thing she whispered.

"Doing fine." Virin tried to soothe her by rubbing her shoulder with a hand, calming her tears as she finally let go of him, staring into his bluish-yellow eyes with a stern expression on her face.

"Good." She said sternly. "Because you had worried us so much." Virin stared at her in earnest confusion. What was she talking about? "You were unconscious for three days."

"Listen." Virin said with firmness. "I didn't worry you that much. I was just asleep-"

"Not that excuse, mister!" Twilight pointed at him with a hoof. "I know you as much as I did when we were kids. I know that excuse so well."

Sigh. That pony sure was irritating now. She was acting like a mother towards a child.

Another sigh, Virin said, "Look, I don't know that much about our childhood together. So, catch me a break, will ya?"

Befuddled, Twilight looked at Cadance for help, but she just nodded with Virin as he had just woke up. Sighing in defeat, the purple unicorn finally said nothing else. Virin gave a tired smirk of victory, but she pointed a stern hoof at him for that, to his shrug.

After a few minutes of staring at each other, Virin finally let out a sigh as he began walking towards the door, which made Twilight to turn to him.

"Where are you going?" She asked, stopping him for a moment.

"Just going out for some fresh air." Virin answered honestly, opening the door and walked out of the room from a silent Twilight and Cadance, who just stared at where he left.

Turning to look at one another, Cadance broke the ice.

"Should we make sure he make it out of the castle safely?" She asked the purple unicorn, who nodded in agreement. It had been eight years since he had been here, so he doesn't remember the place that often.

But, they were wrong.

Walking through the halls, Virin sighed again as he decided to walk to the exit as he wanted some air to breathe in. He walked a few more steps until he found the palace doors that was the exit. Two guards were standing firmly at the door, eyeing him suspiciously as he walked towards the door.

Once they saw him thoroughly, they let him pass as he gave a single nod of thanks as he opened the doors to the outside world. After walking out, the palace doors clamaped shut behind him. They didn't know that he just wanted some fresh air for the day.

Smiling in a pleased way, Virin walked towards the city's streets where the citizens looked at him with suspicious eyes as they stared. Ignoring the stares, the human continued to walk around the city as he made a stop when a gang of ponies stood in front of him. One was a brown colour, the two others were white with blue eyes while their leader had black eyes.

"Can I help you?" Virin asked the gang suspiciously as they stared at him.

"Yes." The leader replied. "We want you to leave our city this instance. We don't want somepony like you to be around these parts. We will fight you if we must in order to get you out. If you'd accept our challenge, that is if you're not a chicken."

"Chicken. Bah." Virin spat in disgust. "I'm not like a coward who runs away in fear. I like challenges, especially the hard ones. Fine. If I can prove myself worthy of being here, then I'll duel you, not to death, though. I'll playnicelywith you."

Gritting his teeth, the leader of the three ran for the human with a hoof ready, but a blinded red light caught his vision as he squeezed his eyes shot as he wanted to avoid the blindness that came from the light. When the light disappeared, they saw a four-legged dragon standing in front of them with a confident smirk, as though he was ready to kick some butt.

"Shall we begin?" The dragon asked them with confidence.

Letting out a growl, the leader of the gang sped towards the dragon, whom dodged the strike easily. Deciding not to use his flames, Virin chose to use his martial art skills to defeat them. He began to run to the two white ponies, who tensed as they prepared themselves for the attack.

Virin jumped in the air with impressive speed, to their amazement and bafflement. The dragon had a kick ready as he kicked one of the white ponies hard in the back, causing him to cry out in pain.

Hearing the cry of pain, the citizens began to watch the fight with interest and a few disgusted expressions.

Ignoring the citizens, the leader of the gang growled at the dragon and rushed forward as he punched the red dragon in the face, to his small pained cry. Raising an eyebrow in surprise, the leader was kicked hard in the stomach by the dragon as it lunged forward with a kick, knocking him back as the leader fell to the ground, groaning in pain as he was beginning to rise up.

One of the two white ponies of the gang ran and punched in the dragon's side as the winged creature slid across the ground, grunting in slight pain. Looking at the one who dared to hurt him, Virin punched the white responsible for the punch as the pony rolled across the ground with a grunt. The dragon continuously punched and kicked the same white pony consecutively all over his body as his martial skills was reaching a new level.

Crying out in immense pain, the white pony managed to grab an incoming punch from the dragon, making the dragon to raise an eyebrow at the move. But, to the white's surprise, when he had readied his own punch, the dragon steadily moved out of the with swift movements.

Gathering together, the gang of ponies looked at each other with nods, which made Virin to raise another eyebrow at the small exchanged words by the ponies. The leader ran for the dragon, punching him continuously in the face, which made some blood to appear from the mouth of the dragon. The two white ponies ran also for the dragon, kicking him mercilessly all over his body as the dragon cried out in pain as he was being hit all over his body.

Deciding enough was enough, Virin finally let out a roar that pierced the heavens, causing everypony in the area to cover their ears from all of a sudden. Virin punched the two white ponies in their faces, making them stumbling back in surprise. Kicking the leader in the stomach, the pony stumbled back as well as he gritted his teeth as the duel was more intense now than it was earlier.

With his eyes glowing a brighter colour, Virin let out another roar as he charged at the leader, but the two white ponies stepped in his way as they both punched him in the face, causing him to stumble back in little surprise. Virin, though, didn't back down there. He let out an threatening growl as he charged at the leader with his horns ready, hitting him in the stomach, which caused a small amount of blood to fall on the ground.

Gasping in shock, the leader let out a small roar, which caused Virin to laugh at the display. The dragon let out an higher roar, which caused the leader to cover his ears from it. The brown pony ran for the dragon, punching him in the face as Virin stumbled back from the sudden punch. Grunting, the dragon made his own punch at the brown's face, which made him stagger back in shock.

Virin decided to end this as he let out a third roar, his body glowing as he kicked the brown pony hard in the stomach, which caused him to cough up some blood as he laid on the ground, defeated. But, the duel was not over. There were still two white ponies to deal with. So, he turned to them with intense eyes, to their growling reply as they prepared themselves.

The brother of the first white pony ran for the dragon, ignoring his own sibling's cry of stop. Virin smirked as he punched him back, which made him stagger back in pain as the pony leapt into the air and got onto the dragon's back, surprising him as he tried to shake him off to some success as he managed to get him off, making him fall to the ground as he laid there. Virin kicked him with a left back leg, which made the pony to roll over to his leader as he groaned in pain.

Looking at the remaining pony, who stared back angrily, and ran for him, Virin jumped to the side as the pony cried out in surprise. The dragon kicked and punched the pony's side continuously as the white cried out to stop, but the dragon didn't listen, continuing with his assaults. Ending with one last punch, Virin managed to get the white pony over to his leader, lying by his side in pain as he groaned.

Panting heavily, Virin fell to one knee as his breath was hard until it calmed down in a few minutes. That was some duel, he'd say, but he enjoyed it all the while. It felt good to have at least some fights in Ponyland. It reminded him of his times in the Dragon Lands, but the latter was more dangerous than here.

Hearing hooves clapping in a cheery way, Virin was surprised to find an audience looking at him with amazement and some disgusted looks. Ignoring the latter, Virin transformed back into his human form as he bowed his head to them.

"I'd say, that was some display." A kind voice caught his attention. Virin looked over to see a business pony walking up to him with a white unicorn that was quite beautiful. "If you don't mind me asking, what's your name?"

"Virin." The human answered with suspicious in his voice. "What's yours?"

"Fancy Pants. And this is my friend, Fleur." Fancy Pants introduced himself. "Although I don't like violence, that was an unkindly fight, you know."

"Sorry." Virin apologized. "But, from where I'm from, that's all I had to do in order to survive." He didn't lie; he indeed only fought with others to live.

"I see." Fancy responded, before smiling kindly at the human. "If you don't mind me asking, what kind of species are you? I hadn't seen one of your kind before. I know that you're a dragon, but what is that kind of "form"?"

Deciding to answer his questions, Virin replied honestly, "Human."

"Never heard of that species before." Fleur said, blinking a few times.

"Not surprised there." Virin said. "There's only one of a kind from my species, and that's me. No others. Sorry for the inconvenience."

"Don't be." Fancy said, smiling at him. "I'd like to get to know you more, if you don't mind walking with us for a moment."

"Hm." Virin hummed, rubbing his chin in thought. "Well, I don't have anything else to do. Okay, why not? I'll walk with you guys." Smiling again, Fancy let him go through the crowd of ponies, leaving the defeated bodies back at the center of the crowd.

Walking through the streets, the trio had made some stops at the Joe's doughnut shop, to which Virin approved of as he couldn't live on eating gems and crystals. Fancy raised an eyebrow at the mention of that.

"Why do you eat crystals?" Fleur also asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Part of the reason why I'm half dragon." Virin answered, eating his doughnut happily as he took a small bite on it. "Hm. This is delicious."

"I'd say." Fancy chuckled. "This is one of the recent recipe of them. Though, they won't tell us, of course."

Virin rolled his bluish-yellow eyes fondly as he continued to eat his doughnut. Fleur looked at his eyes for a moment, before he noticed her stare.

"Is there something the matter?" Virin asked her. She leaned back, shaking her head as she gave a response.

"I've never seen eyes like those before." Fleur replied. "How did you get them?"

"The blue inner colour was given to me by my mother." Virin answered. "The yellow colour was gifted to me by my father. So, I kind of had both of their eyes. Though, I do't know why I have them, but I didn't care for the moment I was told why."

"Uh-huh." Fleur hummed in interest, eating more of her doughnut as she gave another humming sound, not by curiosity, but from the delicious food. "You wouldn't happen to see two small hatchlings going around, do you?" She asked him all of a sudden in a low voice.

"What?" Virin asked just as low. "What do you mean?"

"Well," Fleur whispered. "There has been rumoours going about that two small dragons had been lurking around in the alleyways of Canterlot. Though, I don't know why they are. They're a bit of an mystery, if you ask me."

"Two...dragons...?" Virin was at a loss of words now. How would two small dragons be at Canterlot? Don't they know that this place was a bit dangerous for a none-pony race? Well, for him, he had no problems, that's for sure. But, he don't know about those two dragons. He hadn't seen his kind for a few days, and already, from what he was told, two of his other species were here. When he meets them, he want to know why they are here, and for what reason to be even here.

A shadow lurked in the alleyway of Sweet Apple Acres, going as far as to not reveal itself to the owners. It took a couple of red, fresh apples from a tree near it and walked over to the smaller shadow by the hidden alleyway of Ponyville.

"Here, sis." It handed the small shadow an apple. "Eat up. You're going to need the energy that you need."

"Thanks, bro." The small shadow, revealing to be a female, thanked gratefully as she took a bite from the apple.

Looking to the horizon, the brother of the female looked at the majestic city of Canterlot, giving a low sigh as he watched his sister eating. With his tummy giving a small growl, he began eating his own apple.

After being done with eating, and paying Joe with the amount of bits, Fancy and Fleur led Virin out of the shop and began looking around for two small dragons that were happen to be in Canterlot.

After a fragile search, they gave up on it as they walked back to the castle, with Virin in the lead as he turned back to the duo.

"Well," he said. "It was nice meeting you two, Fancy, Fleur. I hope to be seeing you two again."

"And us, as well." Fancy nodded in farewell as he and his friend walked back into the streets of Canterlot.

Sighing, Virin turned and was about to open the door when a pink aura opened it for him. In the doorway, was Cadance looking at him with a saddened expression as she tackled him in a hug, before motioning him inside as they walked in the castle, with the doors going shut behind them.

"Where were you?!" Cadance finally asked. "Have you realized how worried I was when you left?!"

"Gee, sorry." Virin apologized. "But, I had a fight in the city and talked with two friends. Nothing too big." He was being honest; he knew that she could be trusted.

"What do you a "fight" in the city?" Cadance asked in confusion, before realizing what that roar earlier was. "Wait, you don't mean that those ponies I saw was fighting you, do you?"

"Ding." Virin made a dinging sound. "We have a winner."

Cadannce flushed at that, but not before she had a more stern expression now. "You should've told me sooner that you were going to have a fight in the streets. What we ponies don't like, is the violence of your species."

"But, Cadance." Virin gave a small whining sound. "What else was I going to be defending myself with? Flames from my mouth? As if I would burn your citizens to death."

"I like that you're being honest," Cadance said. "But, you should be more careful now before you're having more fights in our home." With his eye twitching a bit, Virin let out a small cry of pain as he clenched his temples with a hand. "You okay?"

"Yeah." Virin replied. "Man, this headache sure is getting on my nerves."

"Don't you think that it could be your amnesia?" Twilight's voice came, walking up to them with her friends. Pinkie was about to tackle Virin with a hug, but, with his quick movements, he jumped above just as she was about to hug him. She slid to the doors, nearly hitting it with her nose as she whirled back round as she jumped back on her hooves with a disbelieving expression.

"Sorry, pink pony." Virin said. "But, I'm not in the mood for hugs right now."

"Hey!" Piinkie exclaimed. "I'm not a "pink pony". My name is Pinkie Pie."

"Sure. Whatever." Virin rolled his eyes in boredom. He turned to Twilight with an serious expression. "Also, what do you mean by, "my amnesia"?"

"Well," Twilight recalled in thought. "If you don't remember much, having an headache, and not sure about what to do, that is what an amnesia is. Thought it's mostly the first if you don't remember very much about your former life."

"Huh." Virin hummed, rubbing his chin. Then, as though remembering the white alicorn, he gave a small cry of pain that surged through his body. He still don't get it. Why do he have this amnesia? And, for that matter, why him? Why couldn't he remember that white alirocn, nor Cadance? It just doesn't make any sense at all.

After a while of worrying about him, Twilight decided to change the subject. "Why did we hear a roar from outside the castle, Virin? We thought we didn't hear something until that moment."

"I had a fight in the streets. Nothing too big." Virin replied. "Why? Is that bad?"

"Yes." Twilight said. "Attacking a pony in Canterlot could be called a crime. You could be in the dungeons for your life if you weren't careful enough. You didn't use your powers, did you?"

"No." Virin replied simply. "I used only kicks and a few punches. Nothing too serious about their injuries. Though, I wouldn't say about their leader in that gang, however." He gave a slight snicker at that thought.

Twilight raised an eyebrow at that. "What did you use instead of your powers?"

"Meh. Martial arts." Virin shrugged. This caught Rainbow's attention as she looked at him with interest.

"Really?" The blue mare asked. "Did you say that you used martial arts?"

"Yes." Virin nodded in confirming. "My kicks and punches were a part of the martial arts. Though, I was a rookie a year ago about understanding it. But, as the months passed by, I was more understanding in terms of using martial arts instead of my fire all the time. That is how I "beat up" the gang, consisting of two white ponies and a brown one."

"Was it three against one?" Rainbow asked again. "Man, wished I could've been there with you. I had my own martial arts that I wanted to work on."

"Meh. They were no match for me." Virin shrugged. "I was too quick for them." There was a strange glint in Rainbow's pink eyes.

"Could you probably train me?" She wondered in a beggar tone.

"I'm sorry. Did you say "train" you?" Virin sought for clarifications.

"Yes." Rainbow clarified. "I was hoping to find someone to teach me. But, I was out of luck because not everypony could use martial arts."

"Hm." Virin hummed, rubbing his chin in thought. "Well, I could, but at the same time, could not. I don't want to spoil my skills to a rookie like you."

"Hey!" Rainbow shouted. "I'm not a rookie! I'm a black belt in martial arts! You need to show some respect."

Virin raised an eyebrow. She was an black belt? Then she didn't need him r´for that matter. "If you're a black belt, then you wouldn't need me for training." He said simply and finality.

Sighing, Rainbow lowered her head in disappointment. Here she thought she could use some teacher to teach her new skills, and all her hope were crushed. Virin looked at her disappointed expression, sighing himself as he began walking from them.

Twilight noticed his walk, and caught up with him, as did the others. Walking together, the group decided to pay his room a visit to see what it was like for a few years ago. After a few minutes of walking in silence, the group made a stop at Virin's former room, with him opening it as Pinkie bounced inside. Chuckling quietly to himself, Virin walked inside his old room as he began looking around properly.

There were a few shelves with books on one wall, with pictures of him and this Celestia pony on the next shelf. Curious, Virin walked up to the pictures, with Cadance following him. Examining them, Virin saw that the small baby child was his younger self as he remembered some of what his real parents told hm about his other self's living place. Maybe it was here his life began, he wondered in his thoughts.

"Are the pictures about me?" Virin asked Cadance, who nodded in confirming. "Well, I'd say that this was some life for me back then." He clenched his temples as he gave a little cry of pain, because of his amnesia still intact.

"Don't push it so hard," the Princess of Love told him comfortingly. "One day, the amnesia will go away."

"Man, this bites." Virin sighed, lowering his head in shame as he couldn't remember a thing about this Celestia pony. "Here I thought I could remember her, then after a moments of hesitation, she really was my "mother". But, don't thing that I still don't says the fact that I was with her in my childhood years. Because, from what my father told me, I was raised by ponies. Tell me, is that true?"

Cadance looked at him worryingly, knowing what he meant by that. Deciding to answer his question, she only said, "Yes. It's true."

Sighing again, Virin lowered his gaze to the ground as he began to think this thoroughly through. What was he going to do? Was he really going to let his life with his sister and new father away? No. He couldn't just ignore for what they had done to him. All of his years of training, being taught about life, having fun with them, and learning to fly, was all the same as his other self's life here. But, at the same time, it wasn't like that. This stinks.

Cadance decided to let him be and walked over to Twilight, the unicorn looking suspiciously at her. "He's confused by all of this," Cadance said lowly. Twilight nodded; she'd noticed. She sure was worried for her childhood friend, he wasn't the same as he was back then, that's for sure.

Leaving Virin with his thoughts, the ponies left the room to check up on their Princess.

Sighing in relief, Virin looked more closely at the pictures with sharp eyes as he was in a void of nothingness just then. Out of the bloom, a silhouette of his younger self playing with an crystal coloured mare as she held him with her hooves.

"Oh, Moony, I just like you," the mare said, cooing into his ear.

"Do you really like me?" The younger human, named Moon, asked in surprise.

"Of course." The mare nodded her head. "You're our beloved Prince, no matter what you are." Moon smiled as he hugged his caretaker with soft and short arms.

Seeing them like this, made Virin smile a little. Maybe he really were raised by ponies. This flashback proved it; he belonged here just as much as he belonged in the Dragon Lands with his other family. Though, he was in small pain by this memory. If he were coming back to his younger self, would his family forget him for what he had done to them? It couldn't be like this. No. They would just miss him if he'd were here all along, even if he were to regain his lost memories. He were going to go tot one place to the other somehow. It was then he realized something, he'd need to check on this Princess Celestia pony if he were going to be coming back to this land of ponies as their beloved Prince.

By regaining his lost memories, would he lose his newer ones if they were happen to disappear? If it was going to be like this, then so be it. He were going to get them back, no matter what happens.

Walking down the halls to Celestia's private room, the group made a small stop to see on how Luna had it. She were tired, no doubt. After leaving Virin to his thoughts, the ponies were worried for him. What if he were happen to run away? They would just chase after him, though.

"Do you think Virin would be good in this palace?" Twilight asked Cadance, whom looked at her in confusion. "I mean, he did say he still hasn't accepted the fact that he were raised by ponies, after all. Maybe he just needs to get some help with that. But, at the same time, not."

"I don't know what you mean, Twilight," Cadance replied honestly. "But, I do know that Virin needed to be left in his thoughts to know the truth about that fact. He's just confused, that's all."

"I know." Twilight sighed, stressful. "But, I just can't help it. He needs to be told the truth about this. Although I don't like the idea of forcing it into him, he still need to be told."

"I know." Cadance gave a small nod in agreement by that statement. He did needed to be told the truth about this "fact" that he was raised by them. No matter what happens, he would still be her little cousin, even if he were happen to be half-dragon in his blood.

"Welp, we're here y'all." Applejack called, making the group stop in front of the golden doors to Princess Celestia's room. Politely knocking on the door first, Applejack heard a voice coming from the other side of the door.

"Come in." The soft voice of Celestia came.

Opening the door slowly, the group made their way inside as they watched their ruler sitting on the bed, clearly confused by what had happened to her in the first place. The bed were at least a few feet high, but it were the perfect size to fit for a Princess. Its blanket were a red colour, with the pillow being a golden colour. On the floor, there was a blanket as well. It was a blue colour, with a few stars in the center. There was a fire, lighting up the place with golden and orange colour.

"What can I do for you?" Celestia asked them, gaining their attention instantly.

"Well," Twilight began, playing a little with her hooves shyly. "You can tell us what happened back there, with the fight of the Changelings."

"Honestly, Twilight," her mentor replied. "I don't know much about that battle after I was knocked down by Chrysalis. She was just too strong for me."

Sighing in regretful way, Twilight began answering her a few unasked questions. "Would you believe me that a creature happened to fight off the Changelings instead of us?"

"Wait, what?" Celestia asked, dumbfounded. "What do you mean by that?"

"Well, a creature came, telling us that he was a dragon. He was mostly sent here by the Dragon Lord you told me about, Princess. But, he were really strong against Queen Chrysalis. He bested her in single combat, even her army of Changelings, without breaking a sweat. He sure was something else in a whole other level."

"Why would a dragon be here in Ponyland?" Celestia asked her student in confusion. "And, can you describe what he looked like?"

"Well, he was red as blood," Twilight began, describing the dragon she had spoken with. "His eyes were a bluish-yellow colour. His tailblade was a spiral-shaped at the end. He looked quite strong with muscles on his arms. He had a scar on the left eye. He even had green spikes on the back. That is all what I can remember of him."

Taking in this information, Celestia began realizing something very important. If the dragon had red scales, then he must have had that from her son's red jacket. And, those green spikes must had came from his shoes. But, what about that tailblade? It was something entirely different. It weren't like Spike's tail end, that's for sure. But, red as blood? That was sure something o be told.

After a few moments of silence, Celestia began to speak again. "If he's what you've told me, Twilight, then I need to see him for myself."

"Um," Twilight started, "I don't think that that's a good idea, Princess. He's very stressed right now, and is in deep thought about what to do."

"What do you mean?" Celestia asked. "You mean that he's already here, in this palace?!" She was shocked by the revelation that a dragon would be in her castle and dear city.

"No need to fear, Princess," Applejack spoke up just then. "From what we've seen, or heard of, he's actually quite nice once you get to know him. He's in one of the rooms beside yours. However, he needs to be alone for a while, right now. If you don't mind him, that is."

"Huh?" Was all Celestia could reply with, clearly confused.

"We will leave you to gather all of this, Princess." Rainbow began shoving her friends out of the room.

As she watched them close the door, Princess Celestia was in deep thought. If he had bluish-yellow eyes, then what could he possibly be? Could he really be her long lost son, that was gone for eight long years? He must had been. But, she was worried for him, as he had taken on an whole army of Changelings all by himself. What if he were injured? Or worse, dead? But, from what Twilight told her, he had not taken serious damage nor injuries through that invasion. So, that was lucky, she thinks.

Walking down the halls to Virin's room, the group stopped in front of his door, but froze when they were about to open it. What if he were still stressed, or worse, angry with them? Anything could happen with him, but they were unsure what it could be.

Shaking out of her frozen state, Rainbow knocked on the door firstly.

"You may enter," came Virin's voice from the other side. Looking at one another, the blue mare opened the door and they walked in the room as they watched Virin standing by the balcony with his arms on the rails, frowning in confusion and uncertain shock.

Wait, shock? That was something entirely new to them.

"Do you mind if we came back inside?" Twilight asked him.

"Sure, I like company," Virin said sarcastically, rolling his eyes. "Seriously, come in. We need to talk."

Looking at one another, the Mane Six sat in the center of the room. Pinkie and Fluttershy sat close to each other, with Applejack and Rainbow by one another. Rarity and Twilight sat a few meters away from each other. Cadance sat in front, ready to reply to Virin's speech.

Walking into the room, Virin let out a heavy sigh, fear overtaking him. "A-as you may not understand, I had taken sometime to think things thoroughly. I have almost, and almost, decided to be living here again. From what I've seen of your city, this is an actually nice place. I met up with two nice fellows, both of which were good to me as we talked about some things.

"But, that doesn't mean that I will take my job just as seriously. For what my job is, it's called something like Predator Hunting, like how you play it. But, this isn't a game to be taken likely. It is quite dangerous, as I had a few injuries from it. But, with a couple of red gems, I managed to heal back to full health. I'm no expert to this kind of hunt, but after a trial that happened in Dragon Lands, I somehow managed to defeat a dragon named Garble."

"We know him." Rainbow gritted her teeth in anger, same with Rarity and Spike "He were a bully to poor Spike. That wasn't nice."

"I know." Virin nodded. "And, he's my rival. We've been at each other's throats for at least eight years, with many duels happening from place to place in the Lands. From what you may not had seen, he had powers similar to mine. However, unlike his power-hungry attitude, I was more compassionate than my own hunger for power. I was more careful with planning strategies than going head-on against an opponent. You may know it as distance fighting, as I attack from a distance than close combat from my time in the Dragon Lands.

"I think I've trusted you long enough for you to hear my long tale of living in Dragon Lands. Will you hear about it?"

"We'd like to know, darling." Rarity nodded in approval, same with the others.

Taking a deep breath, Virin began from the beginning. "Let's start from the beginning, shall we?" The ponies nodded in agreement. "Alright, it started like this. When my life were nearly ruined by a great river, I was found by the Princess of Dragons, Ember, whom I viewed as a sister back then. After she had taken me to a small cavern for her to heal my injured arm, I was treated with a red spirit gem, which are gems that can heal wounds.

"Afterwards, we began our journey to the land of dragons, which she told me was called Dragon Lands. But, on our way, I found a rude, tall dragon going by the name "Garble". After a threat he made to me, I was determined to change his ways of fighting, to which Princess Ember agreed on. By the time night were nearly about to fall on the land, I met up with Dragon Lord, going by the name Lord Torch, father of Ember, also my then soon-to-be father. He spoke that he knew my race of humans, my half-blood other than my true inner powers.

"After a talk, he decided to train me the next day after I told him about a rude dragon by the name Garble, to see if I could beat him in a fight. Three months later, we were about to have a flying race in the Dragon Lands. All dragons, from youngling to adult, were there, as they wanted to watch who would win the race.

"After a terrible move made by Garble, who had swiped his tail at my feet, I fell behind as the last in the number of dragons that attended the race. However, a friend of mine, called Nightwing, backed me up as he waited for me to catch up to him. He was generous enough to wait for me, As we came over to a volcano, I was pushed in by a dragon going by the name Azam, who was a violent dragon that obeyed every order given to him by his leader."

The ponies gasped in shock and disgust. How could Azam do something like that?

"After I had been thrown in the lava of the volcano, I wasn't dead." Virin continued with his story. The ponies looked on with curious eyes. "Instead, I somehow withstood the lava of the volcano, as if I were immune to it. It soon came for me to realize that it was indeed true: dragons were immune to lava and fire.

"As I sped up from the bottom of the volcano, I glowed a brighter colour and my eyes glowed an bright colour. When I demanded for who had pushed me, the trio of dragons froze in place. As soon as I realized who pushed me into the volcano, I attacked the one who dared to do that. When I were nearly about to finish him, an elderly grey dragon roared the heavens, stopping our fight as I glanced at him with a furious expression on my face.

"When he asked who started, I immediately pointed to the "innocent" Azam, blaming him for the push and threatening gesture. After the race, Garble won it and I lost. It was the first time that I lost to him in an official race. However, I didn't stop there. As soon as I lost, I immediately began to train more intensely back then."

"But, why intensely?" Fluttershy shyly asked.

Smiling at her kindly, Virin replied, "Because I didn't want to feel weak to him, my dear. After three years of intense training, I was ready for my first actual mission, which was going to be proven as one of the best moments. However, it was ruined because of my inner darkness had taken its toll over me. As I was that angry, I was merciless and more threatening than my real self. When I lost consciousness, I couldn't remember a thing about the mission, which still bites.

"After what had happened, I began to train even more intense, with training at least eight hours per day from then on. As I was training, there were times when I had reached my limits. However, I couldn't stop as the trial was coming closer every day. You may wonder what kind of trial that was, right?"

The ponies nodded again for clarification.

"Well, it was called "Dragon of Courage", a name gifted to dragons that managed to pass it." Virin continued once more. "After three more years of training, I met up with a dark being by the name Hydra. The creature had only one head, while its body was purple with purple spikes all over its body. Its horn were also purple, while its eyes were blood-red. After an hard-fought battle, I managed to at least making it a tie after using an move called "Ultimate Boost". However, by using that, I lost consciousness again. Before he came, however, the Trial of Courage had undergone its way. I managed to win the second phase of the trial with Garble as the second one to win the phase. After that, the battle phase had begun.

"We fought a really long battle, with neither of us backing down. But, at the last minute of the battle, I won it by managing to stand up while Garble fell to his knees, defeated."

Spike perked up at this. He defeated Garble? Really?!

"After the trial, and with that Hydra guy," Virin continued once more. "I ceased my intense training to a normal level as I was given another mission by my then-father, Torch. He gifted with me a mission to the Griffon kingdom. At the kingdom, named Griffinstone, I was appointed the new bearer of the Amulet of Darkness." He looked at the amulet around his neck in question, nodding at it as the ponies watched it in wonder.

"As I was the new bearer of it, it was at Griffinstone that I had fought with Hydra," Virin continued again. "In one of the years, I had fought an cyborg creature going by the name Helios. He was hard as heck. That ability to regenerate himself was annoying, mind you. So, with that ability, I had to come up with a new strategy, by fusing myself with my own abilities. Who knew it? It worked! I was happy that Helios' ability was broken by that strategy. As you may know by now, I was a strategy planner in my fights, carefully analyzing my foes closely when they're using their moves and abilities."

"That must had been some fight with that Helios guy," Rainbow said in surprise.

"Tell me, Rainbow, it was," Virin nodded his head. "After one half year more, I begun my journey to here. When I managed to reach the outskirts to a forest, I met up with the Glare family, three generous unicorns who weren't afraid of my sudden appearance. They fixed me some meals, as I was planning to head out to Canterlot. After that, you know the rest." He crossed his arms as he finished his long story and speech, his breath almost out.

"Wow." Twilight breathed. "That was...a long story coming from you, Virin."

"Man, all of this information is making my head spinning, " Pinkie swirled her head to the sides as her eyes nearly popped out of their holes. Virin chuckled at this.

"You tell me," he said to her. "I was out of breath from telling you in the first place. It is such a long story to tell."

Twilight gave a low humming sound, rubbing her chin as she thought about all of this history about Virin. He had a rough life, no doubt about it. That Azam dragon must hd been the reason for why he had that scar in the first place. She wondered...

"Virin?" She called to hm, making his head turn in her direction. "How did Azam get you that scar? I've been wondering how you got it in the first place."

"To tell you the truth," Virin sighed. "I got the scar from when he bit me in the eye, nearly taking it out when he reared back. But, he didn't stop there. He began to clawing in the wound on my left eye to worsening it even more. There were a lot of blood for a few days, but with a few red gems, it managed to heal but the scar remained there for the rest of my life. And that is how I got it in the first place."

"Gosh, fella." Applejack breathed out. "I've never thought he was that brutal, this Azam fellow."

"He was more brutal when Garble gave him orders, mind you." Virin reminded her. "For how they met, I do not know." He gave one final shrug afterwards before silence overtook him.

Cadance was in deep thought. That Azam drake seemed to be too dangerous if he were to come here. Luckily, thhey had their own nations for protection. But, there were a tournament happening in two years here in Canterlot.

"Virin?" The pink pony finally got his attention as he glanced at her. "Do you know about the Gladiator Tournament?"

"No." Virin simply replied, crossing his arms. "Why?"

"Well," Cadance began thoughtfully. "It is going to happen in two years, and I thought that maybe you would like to participate in the tournament, to see if your powers are going to get any stronger than Garble. What do you say? You up for some challenge?"

"Hm." Virin hummed, rubbing his chin in thought and decision. "Well, I may not be able to continue if I lose, right?" Cadance nodded. "Okay. Sure, why not? I'll participate in the tournament, just for you, Cadance." She gave a slight blush at that, with Twilight giving a low giggle.

Celestia hated it, but she overheard everything that was being told inside his room. Although she didn't like eavesdropping, this was a special kind of situation. She wanted to hear his voice again for so long. And now she had heard it with a much more serious tone. She had one thought about this.

What happened to her son?

With her head giving a small spin, Celestia walked away to go out to the garden of the castle, to rest there for a moment.

With the Mane Six leaving the room, Cadance stayed behind as she watched Virin going over to the rails of the balcony again, to gather his thoughts bout the Gladiator Tournament coming in two years.

After all of the history she had been told by Virin, Cadance was gathering her own thoughts about his old life here in the Canterlot castle. She gave a beautiful humming sound from behind Virin's back.

He'd heard the humming sound. What was she thinking this time? It all soon came to realization that she had been gathering her thoughts about something, but what?

To answer his inner thought, Cadance called to him. "Virin? Would you like coming here for a moment?" She heard a sigh coming from him as he turned around and walked over to her as he began to sit by the bed, with legs crossed while his arms were folded.

"What is it?" He asked in confusion.

"Well," Cadance started. "Since I've heard about your story, how about you heard about my story about your childhood? I think that it might be for the best for you to at least hear about it."

"Hmm." Virin hummed, rubbing his chin again. "Sure. Why not? I've always wondered what my life had been here. Tell me about it." He gave a small narrow of his eyes after that last line.

Not intimidated by the stare, Cadance began from the beginning. "Let's start from the beginning, shall we?" Virin blinked, before giving her a little nod of his head. "Well, it started like this. You had been found by my auntie, Princess Celestia, after she had told me when I was a bit older, that a wooden box had appeared in the White Tail Forest behind the castle.

"After she had decided to take care of the child, the baby were appointed as her son. She was so happy that she was going to cry tears out of pride. When she had taken the baby to the castle, at first she was unprepared to get what it wanted. After some thinking, she sought for a foalsitter for the child, which happened to be you. When the child found the crystal pony, it wanted to not be let go, as it wanted to be in her hooves all day long. The pony, Crystal Rose, accepted its wish and stayed by its side all day long.

"One night, I had happened to come across it while my auntie slept with it under her wing. When I saw the baby, I was teary and cheerful that I had a new cousin, a playful one at that. When my auntie told me that she had decided to adopt it as her own, I was happy for her. Because, what else was going to be happy for her when her sister, whom I hadn't realized was there, were gone? She was nearly broken at that point.

"Although she had me and cousin Blueblood, she weren't at all happy, but at the same time, she were with the two of us. However, Blueblood wasn't happy one bit that a child of an unknown species were adopted into the royal family. He was going to take it out, until my auntie stopped him from doing anything reckless."

"Huh. Good for him that she was merciful." Virin said with a huff. "If I met him, I would just burn him down to ashes."

Cadance giggled at that. "Yes. I'd imagine you would. However, he were happen not to have a soft side to the child. When the child grew up, he was more disgusted with it than before. Because why, you may ask? He were fine with it being just me and him in the royal family because we were siblings.

"After the child, named Moon, was five years old, a unicorn by the name Sunset Shimmer came to be under his mother's wing as her student. Don't get wrong, she did love the child, after all. So, she hadn't taken a replacement at all."

Virin, though, didn't say anything as he continued to listen to her story. This Sunset character, she sounded awfully familiar. He don't know why, but it all just seems familiar to him, somehow.

"After a few months of getting to know each other," Cadance continued, gaining Virin's instant attention. "Sunset mysteriously disappeared."

"Why?" Virin asked finally.

"We don't know how," Cadance replied, unsure. "But, it all happened too quick for us to notice that she were gone. At first, when he found out that he were gone, Moon was disappointed that their friendship didn't matter in the end. But, he still had me and his mother, so at least he didn't disappear with her.

"After a year of her being gone, his mother took another unicorn under her wing. Moon was a bit disappointed, but was curious about the unicorn, so he would let it slip by then. After he had met up with the unicorn, named Twilight Sparkle, he were found a little attracted to her. But, Radiant Hope, a crystal pony, was more his attention than her when he found out her talents." She giggled at that. "Funny, Moon reminds me of you, Virin."

"Yeah. Maybe." Virin whispered to himself, still with his attention to her.

"After they met, the trio of unlikely friends was friends for life." Cadance continued again. "His mother and I were happy for Moon. However, only three years, a gang of thieves greedily took Moon out of the castle in a bag as they prepared to sell him for money."

Virin narrowed his eyes after that. "What happened to the gang of thieves?"

"They were either killed or put in the dungeons for the rest of their lives." Cadance answered his question. "When we found out that Moon was no longer in the castle or the city itself, we began to search nonstop for him. After a couple of hours, we soon came to the realization that he was gone for good. But, when we heard a loud crash at the borders of Ponyland to Dragon Lands between the great river, we seized the gang of thieves to the castle for personal reasons. After she gave the death sentence to the leader, Princess Celestia gave lifeless tears as her son were no longer with us. We also soon came to the realization that he were gone for good. That is the end of this tale of the childhood of Moon."

"..." Virin was speechless. "That's just... wow."

"The word I would use." Cadance giggled. "That was a truly fascinating story, right?"

"Well, fascinating or not," Virin began. "It was nothing like mine."

"I'd say." Cadance added thoughtfully, "However, it does not appear as it seems, Virin. You look identical to Moon. You even has his eyes. You may not be different characters after all."

"Now that you think of it that way," Virin started carefully. "I would like to go back being called Moon. It seems like an interesting name." Cadance gave a yelp of happiness, and was about to hug him. "However, when I'm in my dragon form, I'd like to be called Virin. Okay?"

"That's fine." Cadance nodded in understanding. Then she thought of something. "Moon, do you remember what you promised to my aunt?"

"What did I promise?" Moon asked, titling his head to the side.

"Well," Cadance began, "You'd promised to always be here with her. That is what I remembered her telling me after a few years."

Crap!Moon thought, cursing himself for that. "Man, I forgot." He gave a slight nervous chuckle after that.

Cadance narrowed her eyes at him. "Of course you did. Now go down to the garden and apologize to her." She said in a commanding voice.

"How'd you knew she'd be there?" Moon asked, dumbfounded.

"I know a few tricks." The pink pony chuckled. "Now, off you go." She walked over to the door, opening it with her horn's magic and walked outside.

Sighing, Moon's wings appeared on his back as he walked to the balcony as he watched where the garden was. It appeared to the in the middle wing. That was easy for him to notice.

Giving a good beat with his wings, Moon hovered into the air as he began descending to the garden's grassy ground. As he landed, he began to search for his supposed mother. He noticed two white wings coming out of a bush nearby. He walked up to the bush, with his wings dispersing from his back as he neared the bush.

Hearing footsteps. Wait, footsteps? Celestia's head looked up from the bush as she watched the strange creature standing really close to her. With her eyes spinning, she thought she heard his cry as she blacked out.

"Mother!" Was the last thing she heard when she lost consciousness.