It was the first Monday of May, and the very last month of school before summer. This meant final exams were coming for the students of Canterlot High.

Many of them had already begun their hard cramming and buckling down to ace their tests, which weren’t for a few weeks, but many of them wanted to pass, especially those who wished to graduate.

During a break period, the rangers and Twilight went to the school library to do some quick crash studying, and while Twilight didn’t seem too worried as she buried herself in her books, while the rangers were all bored to the bone. Sapphire on the other hand, was looking through her spell book. She wasn't worries about the exams because she caught on to all her subjects so quickly, even through she's been in the streets for two years and in a lab for about fifteen.

“Oh, this is giving me one heck of a headache!” groaned Rainbow “Math, Literature, Lightning’s History course, Biology… It’s just half the stuff I have to work on.”

“Come on, Rainbow, we have to keep going,
All this will help us keep our futures flowing.” said Rhymey.

“He’s right…” said Sunset “After all, if we want to graduate, we need to pass these courses to get the last credits we need.”

Fluttershy however looked a little sad. “You having trouble?” asked Buddy.

“Oh, no… it’s not that. I’m just worried about graduating. Remember what we all talked about when the semester began?”

The others all stopped and looked up from their books in concern. They remembered wondering what would happen to them when they all would graduate, since they wouldn’t have school to hang out at anymore.

“I guess we’ve been so preoccupied with all this ranger stuff, we didn’t have time to think about that.” said Buddy.

Now all of them felt a bit concerned about what to do, but the bell rang and they all had to head off to their next classes, “We’ll talk about it later.” said Sunset.

With that, they all packed up and headed off.

Sapphire's next class was Math, specifically, Pre-Calculus. It was fairly easy for her. But when she entered she felt the hairs on the back on her neck stand up. She brushed them off and sat down in the front of the class. "Alright class." started the teacher, "Today we'll be learning about Radian and Degrees conversions."

As the teacher talked, Sapphire felt the hairs on her neck stand up again, she looked around the class but she noticed nothing. Through her instincts told her there was something inside the classroom. "Sapphire Sunlight?" the teacher called.

"Huh?"

"Is there something wrong?" he asked.

"No... it's just-" she didn't finish when her eyes glowed and she fired at the wall near her. There was a roar and it was revealed to be a dragon, much to the classes horror. They all ran out of the class, leaving only Sapphire, even the teach ran out. There screams could be heard from all over, "What's going on?" a student asked.

"That's not good." another one said.

Even the rangers were confused cause their morhpers didn't go off. Nevertheless the school was evacuated immediately. Celesto and Celestia and Luna came on the scene. "What's going on here?" Celestia asked.

"We all heard some screaming coming from one of the room and students and the teacher running away." Sunset explained.

Then there was the sound of glass breaking ans Sapphire crashing to the ground with a dragon, hissing at her. "What the heck is that?" Rainbow cried.

Flashback

Everybody had ran out of the room, screaming but Sapphire stayed put and circled the dangerous dragon in her class. It was red with orange edged wings and a cream underbelly. It had side horns protruding from head. Antennae with leaf-like lobes. An underbite and a nasal horn. The dragon roared and lunged at Sapphire, but she leaped over it and punched it, sending it into the Smartboard, damaging it. The dragons roared and leaped onto the wall and changed color, camouflaging it with the wall. "You can't hide." Sapphire smirked and turned to her heat vision. She could see the dragon's warm-blood signatures radiating off the wall. "Got'cha!"

She lunged at it and actually pulled it off the wall and tossed it along the ground, knocking all the desks out of the way.

The dragon hissed at her and fired it acid spray. Sapphire dodged and rammed the dragon, sending them both crashing out of the window and they landed in front of the school where everybody else was.

Flashback Ends

"What the heck is that?" Rainbow asked.

"What I sensed when I first walked in the class; A Changewing."

"Changewing?" Celesto questioned.

The Changewing fired it acid. "Watch out!" Everybody spread out and the acid hit the grass creating a hole in it. "It melted right through the grass!" Lightning cried.

"That's Changewing acid for you. It can melt anything!" The dragon roared and lunged again but Sapphire knocked it away from the people. "You're opponent is me, dragon!" she snarled. The rangers and everybody had never seen her this angry before; it was frightening. The dragon hissed and flew away from the school but not before looking Sapphire in the eyes and roaring at her.

The crowd was speechless.

".... Uh... what just happened?" Rainbow asked.

School was cancelled for the rest of the day due to the incident. The rangers went to the mansion and sat down with Sapphire to discuss what happened. "So you sensed that the dragon was in the classroom?" Sunset inquired, receiving a nod from Sapphire, "How?"

"Well... the hairs on the back of my neck stood up twice." Sapphire replied.

"Twice?" Spike asked.

"Yeah, like my instincts told me that something was in the room."

"Well from the looks of that battle, that Changewing won't be back." Rainbow stated.

"Hold on Rainbow, I don't think so." Sunset replied. "The fact that the Changewing happened to know the the class that you happened to be in. And the fact that you both looked really intense during the fight-"

"Okay, what are you say Sunset?" Lightning asked.

"I'm saying the Changewing didn't accidentally attack Sapphire... it targeted her."

"Targeted?!" the rangers cried.

"Yeah, the Changewing singled Sapphire out and you wanted it all to yourself." Sunset said to Sapphire.

"Yeah... you certainly did, but why?" Buddy asked. Sapphire didn't answer the question and just looked away.

"Alright, alright, let's not stress about that now." Celesto cut in, "How about we all go home and get some rest?"

The rangers agreed and they all exited the mansion and went to their respective homes. Sapphire was layed up in her bedroom, staring at the ceiling while Snowflake and Midnight were asleep at the sides of her bed. Staring at the ceiling she couldn't help but think about the Changewing Dragon. Her fist clenched at the thought of it.

Shaking her head, she climbed out of bed, being extremely quiet to not wake up her dragons and she silently opened the door and tip-toed downstairs and out the door. She dashed away from the mansion, looking back at it once before she disappeared into the night.

The next morning, Snowflake and Midnight burst through the bedroom door, shocking Celestia, Luna and Celesto into waking up. "Ugh... what's the matter with you two?" Celestia asked groggily. Snowflake grabbed a piece of Celestia's night gown and she was forced to sluggishly get out of bed and move to Sapphire's bedroom. Looking in the bed, she saw Sapphire was missing!

"Honey, Luna!" she cried.

"What is it?" Luna asked.

"Sapphire's gone!"

"Gone? What do you mean gone?" Luna exclaimed.

"She's not in her bed." Celestia stated.

Celesto's eyes widened in horror and realization. "The Changewing... she went after it... alone."

The girls gasped in horror.

The three of them summoned the rangers and Twilight and explained everything. "She went after the Changewing?! Is she crazy?!" Sunset cried.

"We've gotta find her, NOW!" Lightning said. Skystorm, Flamestripe, Smoke and Fire, Striker and Dawn and Dusk, Celestia and Celesto's Titan Wing Zippleback roared in agreement.

"I'll go to the base and she if I can track her." Twilight said.

"Right, let's go!" Sunset snapped. Sunset mounted Snowflake while Lightning mounted Midnight. Their friends mounted the other dragons (Celestia and Celesto- Dawn and Dusk. Luna - Striker. Buddy and Rainbow - Flamestripe. Fluttershy and Rhymey - Smoke and Fire. Luna -Striker) and they all took to the skies. They scouted the city. Nothing. The scouted the coast side. Nothing.

They flew over the forest and found trees that looked like they've been burned by something extremely hot. "Down there." The dragons landed and the gang examined the trees. Buddy heart was hurting seeing all the tress destroyed. "Changewing acid." Sunset whispered. "Come on." The dragons walked through the forest until they all heard a roar. "What was that?" Buddy asked.

"There." Sunset pointed to a Changewing Dragon. It was the same one that attacked Sapphire. They could tell because it still had the scratches it got when it and Sapphire crashed out of the window. Sunset dismounted Snowflake and used the trees to hide herself to she could get close to the Changewing. Examining the dragon, who was sniffing the ground for it's target, Sunset could see bite marks on the side of it's body; lion bite marks which was weird because there were no lions on Mystic Island.

The dragons jolted away and the other approached Sunset. "Sunset what did you see?" Lightning asked.

"There was a lion bite mark on the dragons' side."

"A Lion?" Rainbow asked.

"But there are no lions in Mystic Island. They live in Africa." Lightning replied.

"So how could a lion bite make it's way to a dragons' side?" Luna asked. her eyes widened in realization. "There's only one way that could happen."

"I think I know how and why these two are looking for each other." Sunset replied. "... They must have fought before."

"So.... they have a history." Celesto said.

"A grudge." Luna added.

"If that's true, then how long do dragons carry a grudge?" Fluttershy questioned.

"I looked at her Book of Dragons." Sunset said with a look of concern, "Dragons hold a grudge.... to the death."

Everybody gasped. That meant if Sapphire and the Changewing fight again, only one of them would survive. "We have to find her, NOW!"

"But we don't even know where she is." Rainbow reminded.

BOOM! A large cloud of smoke was seen in the distance along with some roars and blasts of magic being seen launched into the air. "... Found her." Fluttershy said. The gang mounted their dragons and rushed off in the direction of the smoke and magic. Arriving on the scene, they were greeted by Sapphire being thrown against a tree by the Changewing. The Changewing roared at her and Sapphire gave a loud and proud lion roar back, telling it to bring it on. The two of them clashed and slashed each other repeatedly and slammed into the ground, engaging in a clash of claws verses fits and claws.

Sapphire blasted the dragons hard with her magic, sending the Changewing into a row of trees. "Sapphire, enough!" Lightning cried.

Sapphire turned to the gang and growled at them. The Changewing charged again but Sapphire rammed him into the ground. Sapphire roared like a Midnight at the Changewing. She lunged at it and blasted it with her magic once again. The Changewing roared in pain and scurried away. Sapphire roared in anger at it. Sunset dismounted Snowflake and approached her. "Sapphire, wait!"

Sapphire turned sharply at her and growled, but she calmed down and her expression turned calm. "Sapphire... we know what's going on between you and the Changewing. Let us help you, please?"

"I can't. It's too risky. I'm the one the dragon wants. I don't want to guys involved. It's between me and the dragons; it's my fight and have to finish it... alone." Sapphire replied. She flew off before Sunset could say anything else. The friends were left in silence.

"Woah." Rainbow said.

"Yeah, she doesn't want us involved, that's crazy!" Lightning exclaimed.

"Maybe not." Celestia said. "Sapphire said, it's her fight so she had to finish it."

"But-"

"What I'm saying it that we need to let her finish this battle."

"But we can't let her kill the dragon!"

"Now Lightning, you know Sapphire better than that." Sunset said.

Lightning sighed. Just then, roars were heard booming through the air and Sapphire and the Changewing crashed to the ground. Sapphire pinned the Changewing to the ground. The Changewing roared in submission and Sapphire let it go and it flew away from the area. "Looks like Sapphire won the match afterall." Rainbow said.

"I guess some grudges aren't to the death." Fluttershy said. "Thank goodness." Sapphire staggered over to the group, feeling exhausted and weak. Lightning caught her before she fell to the ground. "Woah there, champ. You need a break." he teased. Sapphire smiled at her and helped her onto Midnight, "Come on gang, let's get our champion home."

The dragons took to the sky and flew back home to Mystic Island.

At the Prison Tower, Nacluv and the minions watched everything. "Hmmm... that ranger is lot stronger than the others." he said.

"Well duh." Marla scoffed. "She had powerful magic, dragons and the Elements of Harmony. Of course she's powerful."

Nacluv growled at her, "That's not what I meant. With her strength she'll be a powerful addition to our group. All we have to do get her to join."

The minions looked at each other a little confused.