It was an bright and early morning where we find Crystal Diamond practicing how to fly with Rainbow Dash as her coach. The Equestria Queens, the Mane 6, Iris and her friends were present to watch her as well as Winter. Crystal flapped er wings lightly and ascended into the air, wobbling a little and holding her arms out to keep her steady. Rainbow came to her, "You have to flap them harder." she said. Crystal nodded and flapped her wings hard and fast... sending her into a nearby tree. "Oof!"

Crystal shook off the crash and Rainbow came to her. "Maybe not that hard." she added. Crystal tired again but she moved her wings separately and not in sync with each other and she fell to the ground. "Woah! Oof!" Applejack and Mai came to her. "Lookin good up there, Crystal." Applejack said.

Crystal rubbed her side and sighed, "This is tougher than I thought."

"Don't worry, Crystal. You'll get it." Mai added.

Chi and Iris came over. "Mai's right. All you need is practice." Iris said.

"You'll be flying like your dragons in no time." Chi added. Winter came up to her and nuzzled her, warbling. "Hehe, thanks you guys." Suddenly she felt a small tickle in her nose. "Ah.. ah..achoo!" she sneezed and closed her eyes for a second and when she opened them she saw... a scorch mark on the grass?

"A scorch mark? Where'd that come from?" she asked. She looked at her friends who all held surprised faces. "... What?"

"Crystal... when you sneezed.. you kinda..." Iris started.

"shot lightning from your head." Akari finished.

"Lightning?! No way!" Crystal exclaimed.

"Yes way." Twilight said. She used her magic to make the images of the past few minutes. Crystal saw for herself. When she sneezed a white, bolt of lightning came out and struck the grass, making the scorch mark. Crystal and Winter were speechless. "I... did that?"

"Apparently so." Hiro said. Pinkie suddenly came up at Crystal's face and spit her hair down the middle. "Woah, look everyone!" she exclaimed. Everyone looked and saw sprouting from Crystal's forehead was a small unicorn horn?!

"A unicorn horn?!" Korra exclaimed.

"Unicorn horn? Where?" Crystal asked. Rarity took out her handheld mirror and passed it to Crystal. Pinkie held her hair to the side and she saw for herself. A small peach colored unicorn horn. "W-What's going on with me?" Crystal stammered.

"I don't know. Nothing like this has happened before." Celestia said.

"It is beyond our knowledge." Leliani added.

"I believe I can answer that." a mystical voice stated. Everyone looked to the skies and saw the Sentinel dragon descending from the ground. "The Sentinel from before!" Luna recognized.

Yes, hello again everyone." the Sentinel replied.

"Mr. Sentinel, do you know what's going on with Crystal?" Iris asked the Boulder Class dragon.

"Yes. Crystal has acquired the magic to wield all of the elements of nature like the Avatar Korra and Iris."

"WHAT?!" Everyone exclaimed in shock.

"How?" Mai asked.

"When Crystal threw her element into the spell, the element adsorbed all of your elements. To cope with this new magic, the element forced Crystal into growing a horn so it would not be overloaded." the Sentinel replied.

Everyone was amazed and shocked at the news. "So how long until her horn grows fully?" Korra asked.

"Unicorn horns are slow to grow but in time it will be the same length as Princess Twilights'." the Sentinel answered. "Crystal.. with these new powers you must be very careful. You must learn to control your new magic."

"Don't worry, Sentinel, we'll teach her." Twilight said. The Sentinel nodded, "Good luck everyone." and he flew off into the air disappearing from sight. Crystal was still taking in everything the Sentinel just said. First, she squires the Element of Dragons and now she has the magic to wield Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning and Ice.

"Crystal... are you alright?" Crystal was snapped back to senses by Iris who looked at her with concern. "Yeah.. just.. alot to take in." she replied.

Twilight came up to her, "We know, but we're here to help you control your magic." Crystal smiled at Twilight. "Thanks."

"Now should we get back to your flying practice?" Rainbow asked as she came over.

Crystal sighed sadly, "Okay."

And once again, Crystal staggered into their air. However, everyone was unaware that a pair of eyes were watching them from afar.

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The next morning, Iris was walking into the kitchen where she found Crystal sitting at the table.... with her head down on the table, fast asleep. Iris immediately took noticed to how messy her hair looked. She went over to Crystal and gently shook her, "Crystal? Crystal." Crystal slowly woke up and looked at Iris who gasped at the sight of the horrible bags under her eyes.

"Crystal, what happened?" Iris asked.

Crystal let out a huge yawn, "I've been.. yawn... practicing my magic for.... yawn.... a week straight."

"A week?!" Iris exclaimed, receiving a nod from Crystal.

Korra and Mako entered the kitchen, "Iris, what's with the l- Oh my goodness, Crystal!"

Korra and Mako went over to her, "What happened to you?" Mako asked.

"She said that she's been her practicing her magic for a week straight." Iris answered.

"A week?!" Korra exclaimed.

Crystal let out another yawn, "Come on Crystal, you need some rest." Mako said.

"B-But what about my magic.. yawn. lessons?"

"We'll take care of them, but you desperately need your rest." Mako stated. He carried Crystal up to her room and placed her in bed. Winter, Shimmer, Skyspike, Mist and Spark were in the room and watched as Mako placed their trainer in bed. "Girls, boys, make sure she stays in bed. She really needs her sleep." Mako said.

The four dragons nodded and Mako left the room to leave Crystal to a peaceful and well-deserved sleep.

Mako returned to his family. "I have the dragons keeping her under temporary lockdown until she's fully rested."

"Good. She's been really pushing herself to control her magic." Korra said. "Poor thing."

"Yeah, I know she wants to learn but there is such a thing as over-doing it." Iris added.

"How about we talk to her once she wakes up again." Mako suggested.

Korra and Iris nodded.

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Hours later, Crystal woke up, feeling completely rejuvenated. She stretched and got out of bed, seeing her dragons awake as well. "Hi guys." she greeted. "Winter, Skyspike wanna go for a flight?"

The Light Fury and Deadly Nadder warbled happily. "Hehe, I'll take that as a yes."

The three headed outside and Crystal mounted Winter. "Alright girls, let's go!" The girl dragons roared and flew into the sky doing a loop in the air before zooming over Harmony City. Soaring downtown and past City Hall. The dragons were doing all kinds of aireal tricks; loops in the air, somersaults and etc. Crystal was laughing happily at her dragons antics. They were flying over the park when something black caught Winters' eye and she slowly stopped flying and hovered over the park. Skyspike noticed this and flew over to her. "Winter, what's wrong?"

The Light Fury descended down to the ground and began walked towards some trees. "You sense something?" Crystal asked. Winter turned to her and nodded. That's when another warble was heard. Winter warbled back and slowly but surely, from behind the trees came dragon.

This one looked a lot like Winter, but it was black with lighter spots and had more ear appendages. It looked a little bigger than her. About 26 feet long with a 45 foot long wingspan.

The resemblance was amazing. The new dragons walked over to Winter and at first she gave a roar and a hiss at the dragon. The new dragon was taken aback but it circled Winter, curiously. Winter was still acting hostile and gave a hiss at the new dragon. The new dragon walked right up to Winter and they both gazed in each others eyes. Winter and the new dragon warbled at each other.

Crystal and Skyspike only stared as the two dragons stared at each other for what seemed like forever. But when the new dragon layed eyes on Crystal, it growled aggressively. Crystal was shocked and backed away abruptly, "Easy fella, I was just watching." she said. But the new dragon didn't listen, instead it fired a plasma blast at her. "Wah!" Winter leaped in front of the blast and blocked it with her wing. Winter gave a hiss at the new dragon who was low to the ground, snarling while keeping it's eyes on Crystal.

"Why id he so aggressive towards me?" Crystal wondered. That's when she saw something wrong with it's tail. Normally, a dragon like Winter would have two tail fins on the ends of it's tail, but this one only had one fin. The other was gone!

The new dragon gave one last hiss before running into the trees and out of sight. Crystal, Winter and Skyspike all stared for a moment.

"Crystal!" Crystal turned around and saw Iris, Akari, Mai, Hiro, Chi, Nori and Gallent Seed coming towards her. "We saw everything. What was that dragon? And why was it so aggressive?" Iris asked.

"That dragon was a Night Fury, a close relative to Winter." Crystal answered.

"Night Fury? Well I can see some resemblance between those two. But why was it so aggressive towards you?" Akari asked.

"I saw that one of it's tail fins was missing." Crystal replied.

"So?" Hiro asked.

"If they lose one tail fin they can not fly and I have a pretty good idea of how it happened. Dragon hunters."

Iris and her friends winced. "So it doesn't trust humans cause it was hurt by dragon hunters. Just like Skyspike, Shimmer and Mist and Spark." Chi stated.

"Well, I'm going to change that." Crystal said boldly.

"Crystal, did you see the size of that thing?!" Mai exclaimed.

"It only 2 feet bigger than Winter." Crystal deadpanned.

"So, you can not try to befriend that dragon. It's too risky."

"I trained Skyspike, Mist and Spark and Shimmer. If I can befriend them than I can befriend the Night Fury." Iris and her friends could see there was nothing that could talk Crystal out of befriending the Night Fury.

Iris sighed, "Alright... but please be careful."

"I will."

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Soon, Crystal was back at the palace in her room, thinking so a way to befriend the Night Fury. "How can I get close to him and earn his trust?"

Crystal then through back to the Night Furys' missing tail fin. Her father once told her something relating to that...

Flashback

Six year old Crystal was sitting on her fathers' lap with Winter by her side. "Daddy."

"Yes Crystal?"

"What would happen if Winter lost one of her fins?"

"Well, if Winter lost one of her tail fins then she wouldn't be able to fly. If a dragon can't fly, it can't get away from hunter. A down dragon is a dead dragon."
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End of Flashback

The words 'Dead Dragon' echoed in Crystals' mind. She couldn't let the Night Fury die due to it inability to fly. Getting up, she went to a room in her palace that was like a workshop. It had some hammer, wrenches and other tools to build stuff. Crystal took some paper and made and sketch of Winter's tail that was similar to the Night Fury except it had sharp edges compared to her softer edges.

And she got to work building the prosthetic tail fin for the Night Fury dragon.

Once the tail was finished, Crystal went back to the park where she first found the Night Fury. The park was empty during the mid-afternoon. She brought a bag of fish to help coax the Night Fury out of hiding. "Hello?" she called.

"Night Fury? Are you here?" she looked around but didn't see the dragon. What she didn't know was that the dragon was creeping up from behind! The hairs on the back of her neck stood up and she turned, gasping at the dragons' presence.

The dragon was low to the ground, giving her hisses and snarls. "Hey... it's okay." She placed the bag of fish on the ground and knocked it over, revealing all kinds of fish. "I've got some fish for you. Salmon, Perch, Pike and other kinds." she cooed. The Night Fury sniffed the pile and went right to eating. With the dragon distracted, she carefully went back towards his tail to attach the prosthetic fin. She placed it on the ground and moved it towards the tail, which moved to the side a little.

Crystal looked at the dragon who was still eating. She tried to attach it again but the dragons' tail kept moving so she had to grab it and sat on the dragons' tail. While she was attaching the fin, the Night Fury stopped eating and felt something on his tail. Moving the other tail, fin his wings dropped and he had a shocked expression on his face. Crystal, meanwhile was admiring her work. She used a thick pink cloth as the fin. "It looks good." What she didn't realize was that the Night Fury's wings were spreading out, signaling it was getting ready to fly.

The dragon suddenly took off with Crystal on it's tail. She bounced along the ground and the Night Fury fell to the ground.... this was gonna take some work.

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