The trio and the creature were almost at the border of the mountain, walking silently without a word to each other. However, the trio have been wanting something from the creature that they gave to him...

"So... We haven't heard where you come from, Mr... Creature," Cozy Glow said to the infectious beast.

"Yes, we've all told you our stories, and now I think it's your turn," Said Tirek.

"You know that we're all in pain, so now it's your turn to tell us what your motivation of pain is," Says Chrysalis.

"Of course, of course. Where shall I start?" The creature said.

"How about the beginning, were you always like this?" Said Tirek.

"No, I was once whole as Chrysalis once was. If this is your choice, I only warn you that this is no tale for those faint of heart and feeling," The creature stated.

"I'm fairly certain we can handle any story that comes our way," Chrysalis said with a smirk.

"If this story is relative to the tune you were humming, I might cry again..." Cozy said sweetly, truthfully.

The creature simply stared into darkness, whistling the same tune as he began to observe in the beginning of his life…

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There was nothing but darkness all around, a void of blackness and nothingness.

Then, a pair of eyes opened to see a very elegant and beautiful dragoness and a strange monster with a strange head and burning eyes.

"I was once a rare species of dragon. A dragon that would be charged to protect all of the Cosmos. My dragonflight was the chosen brood of the Titans of Light, the devoted guardians of their beloved creations, the children of stars, the avatars of spirits."

"We were... the Neutron Starwyrms."

"The Titans of Light themselves have proven to be the most powerful entities of the Multiverse, and have given only a small piece of their power to five individual dragons that started out as small drakes. They were of course: Alexstrasza, Ysera, Nozdormu, Kalecgos, and Neltharion. Eonar granted Alexstrasza the powers of Life and Ysera the powers of Dreams, Aman'Thul granted Nozdormu the powers of Time, Norgannon had first granted Malygos the powers of Magic until he became corrupt, and now the powers of Magic are given to Kalecgos, and Khaz'Goroth granted Neltharion the powers of the Elements. Over time, seeing the young Aspects doing good with their powers unto Azeroth, the Titans that granted them a small piece of their power, began to see them as their own children, and they taught them everything about their powers as mothers and fathers."

The pair of eyes looked happy and comforted at the sight of their mother.

"However, the Titans decided that they would add a sixth Dragon Aspect. She would be the Aspect of the Cosmos, Sylindrania, Queen of the Neutron Starwyrms. Our mother. She had power over the many universes of the Multiverse, moving stars in their exact positions, causing the swirls of galaxies, the births of Pulsars, Neutrons, even Black Holes. She was the primary guardian of all living things in the Titans' place as they discussed an important matter."

"At the time, my mother was not yet betrothed, until she was deceived into mating with a creation of the 'One Who Is Bound'. A creation not of this world, but of another... N'Zoth, the Corruptor. An Old Titan of Shadow, Void and Nightmare."

"Once N'Zoth and Sylindrania were married... They had me. And I was named 'Nutron'."

"However, my mother began to fall to a terrible corruption of the soul, heart, mind and body. With what little conscience she had left... she sent me to a world far from her reach and the reach of my father."

The pair of eyes saw themselves being sent through a portal and through the fabrics of space and time. Once they passed through, the portal closed behind the eyes, and they saw that they were on a strange world without a sky.

"We were sent here, the Equestrian Universe, but not in Equestria."

The pair of eyes began to cry for their mother for hours. The only thing that came was a strange creature never seen before.

That creature... was Princess Luna herself.

"The Princess of Night found me on her beloved moon in the Dreamscape realm. Seeing as I was supposedly abandoned, and seeing no guardian around to nourish me, she decided to raise us herself."

Princess Luna took the baby dragon to Equestria and showed him to her big sister, Celestia. The two sisters were only fillies at the time as their parents ruled over Equestria.

The eyes looked to see a dark lavanderish-blue filly and a snowy-white filly looking at him with warm smiles and comforting eyes.

"The Two Sisters gave us a prosperous and happy life, and Luna was my new mother. She would often take us to the moon and its beautiful Dreamscape Palace."

The pair of eyes were as tall as a filly and saw an older Luna and Celestia talking with their father, sadness in their eyes.

Next, the eyes saw themselves on Luna's back, fillies behind her soaring with her to the moon.

"Luna's Children of the Night worshiped us as their brother and prince, showing us their love and affection for our past of abandonment...

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But nothing... lasts forever..."

The pair of eyes saw their transformed mother fighting their aunt. Then they saw their aunt bringing out strange colorful rocks. Seeing that their aunt was about to blast at their mother, the eyes quickly flew up to their mother...

The eyes and their mother were banished to the moon, their mother being furious and angry.

"Once her banishment had begun, she became a monster..."

The pair of eyes were thrown all over their mother's chamber, crashing into furniture and walls, bruises and cuts all over their body.

Next, the pair of eyes were being whipped upon or spat upon by their former brothers and sisters, the dream creatures throwing rocks at them.

Finally, the last thing they saw was a dagger coming towards them in the face, turning everything black.

"One day, we took it no longer..."

When the young dragon felt a slap on his left cheek, he bared his claws and felt a scratch on his mother's right cheek. After a few moments of silence, the Alicorn monster left.

Nutron slumped on his haunches and started crying into his lap.

"And then... our fate... had come."

When the dragon heard his mother coming closer, he suddenly felt his wings torn off of his body, feeling the blood gush from his back and onto the ground and his body. Next, he felt his lower legs cut off from his upper legs, more blood gushing out. Then, he felt himself being lifted into the air and slammed to the ground multiple times, knocking him unconscious. And finally, he felt a massive jab in his chest and a burst through his back, groaning and wheezing in pain... Then, he was lifeless.

"We were mutilated..."

Nightmare Moon started dissecting and ripping the drakeling to limbs and organs.

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"Disemboweled..."

Nightmare Moon carried a large sack that was dripping with fresh blood across the halls towards the Graveyard.

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"Thrown away..."

Once Nightmare Moon took the sack to the graveyard, she placed it by a dead tree with an evil grin.

"Enjoy the darkness," She gawked, then she laughed sinisterly and walked away.

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"But, in a way... we were saved..."

After 20 years had passed, the bag was old and rough and attracted flies because of a very powerful stench from it. Then, these black, skeletal demon hands with ruby-red crystals came out of the ground with this black and red portal underneath the sack, and pulled it in. Then the portal vanished.

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A small dragon body was placed into a hybridization chamber, and a strange scientist was experimenting on him. The scientist had a humanoid body, but he had a draconic face, forelimbs, lower legs, and a tail. He wore a very tattered and smeared lab coat and a pair of glasses. His scales were black and he had ruby-red eyes with very slit pupils. He also had 3 rows of large blood-red spines on his back.

He inserted a vial with this black liquid inside of an incubator. Then he pressed a pad button, and the liquid entered the chamber. Then, the dragon inside started to change in appearance. His scales started to turn onyxian-black, his fur began to deteriorate, and his horns and tail began to mold into something new.

"Beginning Mutation," Said the computer.

The scientist looked at the dragon with hoping eyes. "Come on, Neutron Starwyrm... Come on," He said quietly. The dragon's new form was almost finished...

"But we failed to be made again..."

But then, tragedy struck when the dragon simply burst into the crystal's the creature would eat.

"Mutation Failure."

The scientist sighed in disappointment.

"Try again professor," Said a dark voice.

[size=18 1/2]"Yes, my emperor." The scientist returned to work.

"And many a time, we failed..."

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The scientist entered another vial into the incubator.

"Beginning Mutation."

The dragon started forming again, but then the heart monitor gave out a long beep.

"We failed..."

"ERROR - Brain Deterioration," The computer blurted.

The scientist looked over at the computer and saw that it showed the dragon's brain deteriorating rapidly and turning into dead tissue and rotten holes. He sighed again.

"Mutation Failure."

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"And failed..."

Next, the dragon started bulging, and the bubbles popped with living tapeworms coming out of him.

"Mutation Failure."

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"And failed..."

Then, various parts of the dragon started detaching and falling limp on the ground.

"Mutation Failure."

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"And so forth..."

Then, the dragon turned to crystal and shattered.

"Mutation Failure."

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Then, a vital organ would simply burst or deteriorate.

"Mutation Failure."

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Finally, the dragon would keep bursting into crystals.

"Mutation Failure."

Every time he was remade, the dragon would go through these bizarre events, and the scientist would grow much more despair.

"All of this for over 7,300 years..."

7,347 years later...

The scientist was looking over blueprints and schematics of the hybrid he was trying to create, wondering where he always went wrong.

Finally deciding to give up, the scientist took the body and these strange crystals over to an escape pod and let the pod launch.

"After those times... we finally returned..."

The body and the crystals were found by Archipelago and Emerald Shine. But the same failing process went on, over and over and over again for another 126 years.

”And at last... we were born again...”

Archipelago looked over at a container of the crystals and simply gazed. then, something caught his eye below the crystal label. He looked below and the label said, "2 minutes old". The scientist gasped, "That's it!" Then he turned a small knob that would change the age of the crystal.

As the crystal aged, it started turning up with the alien mold, it started cracking, and the tarry substance started leaking out. Then Archipelago stopped when he paused the knob at 7,351 centuries old. Then he took the container with the crystal to the lab.

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Archipelago placed the corruptive crystal into a larger container, along with a vial of the tarry substance, and a vial with this much blacker liquid with eerie shadow-grey light in the shape of tapeworms, and they both pulsed around like living worms in a salt bath. Once the scientist pushed the pad, the process began to start.

"So... what are you thinking about naming it?" Emerald asked.

Archipelago started thinking. He looked at the screen as it told him that the base genome was Neutron Starwyrm.

"I think I will name him... 'Nydrak'."

The creature was made, and thus... his life had taken the toll...

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Present Day...

Then the creature known as Nydrak, the Tantronus UR-H VI hybrid, finally whistled out the end of the tune. Cozy Glow was simply in tears from the tune, Chrysalis simply gave a sympathetic look, and Tirek was simply astonished by how much this hybrid had gone through.

"And here we are," Nydrak finished.

"I'm... sorry to hear that. D-Don't read into anything when I say sorry," Says Chrysalis.

Nydrak simply nodded at the statement. "Not everypony or everyone is simply born with a happy life, but they always learn to talk it over... unlike us villains."

"So your motivation of pain is Nightmare Moon?" Asks Tirek.

"Not the moon ghoul in general, but also the one who listened to her lies."

"Ahh... So Princess Luna started all of this with you?" Asked Chrysalis.

"Yes, and for her crimes, I shall find a weapon to purge her and her beloved 'Children of the Night'," Nighdrak said, black-silvery saliva dripping from his jaws, his head and arms twitching a little.

Cozy Glow wiped away the tears in her eyes and looked at Nighdrak with so much sympathy. She flew out of Tirek’s grasp and over at Nighdrak.

Nighdrak extended his arms, and Cozy Glow landed in them.

“D-Don’t worry, Nighdrak. We’ll help you get revenge on Luna. And we promise that we won’t do anything mean to you also. Right guys?”

“Of course,” Says Chrysalis.

“Obviously,” Says Tirek.

“Thank you,” Nydrak says almost happily.

Then the quartet was silent for a moment. The villain trio looked at each other and nodded.

"Nydrak?” Chrysalis asked.

Nydrak turned his gaze to Chrysalis’ heart.

“We were wondering, if it’s not too much of a concern to you… Perhaps you would like to join us back at Grogar's Lair? It's not exactly home as it is at your old one, but at least it doesn't get very cold inside," Said Chrysalis.

“Yeah, I can show you whe- Tree,” Cozy said quickly.

Nydrak heeded the filly’s warning and walked around the trunk that he almost tripped over.

“I can show you where my room is if you’d like. It’s a little small, but I think we can make a little more space,” Cozy offered.

“Although, there isn’t really anything alive that you can feed on,” Tirek pointed.

“But I can make cupcakes,” Cozy remarked.

Nydrak started thinking on the offer. Being part dragon, it was dangerously cold on this mountain, but he did have the ability to store up more body fat to keep out the cold. And being up on this mountain was rather a little lonely, so he wouldn’t mind a little company. However, he took the word ‘cupcakes’ into account, which meant that he would have to make his own moldy and rotten food. However, that didn’t bother him.

"Very well, I accept the offer," Says the hybrid.

The trio simply smile at the hybrid's exception.

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