Chapter 7: Anger Management

Spike was sitting before a plain white grave-stone, holding in his arms and in front of him a nearly charcoal looking helmet. It wasn't a special looking helmet by any means, standard royal gaurd design, its pristine gold color still shinning on some parts. The only truly abnormal thing about the helmet were the scratches, and damaged/missing parts to show how old it was. Yes, your regular solar gaurd helmet, yet the name inside made it the most important thing for the dragon. It was the same name adorned on the tombstone that lay before him.

“Here lie the remains of the noble royal guard, Phalanx.

Who gave his life selflessly in the line of duty to protect our beloved ruler, Princess Celestia.

May his sacrifice never be forgotten.”

Spike read out the inscription for the umpteenth time, drawing his claws over the scratches of the helmet, closing his eyes remembering the promise he had made the day before.

It was hard to believe that just yesterday so many bad things happened and that his friend had died to protect his mother without a second thought. The ceremony of Phalanx was fast, mostly because it had been Celestia herself who preceded the ceremony just two hours after the attack of Wrath.

Spike clenched his fangs hard, feeling anger and hate inside of him, he had come to take him away, to kill him, to kill his mother and everypony else just because he was a mad and insane dragon, many questions popped inside his mind but none of them mattered, all he knew was that he wanted to keep his promise and to make that horrible dragon pay, make him pay for everything he had done yesterday and in the past.

“Even if I don’t know how.”

Spike sighed, he wanted to keep his promise and fulfill it, but he wasn’t sure how, he could join the royal guard but that would take him too much time and Wrath could attack any moment again, he could ask Discord or Shining or his mother to train him but there was a little problem with that, he couldn’t do magic and they had too many responsibilities. He could search for an older dragon to train him but since he was the last gemstone dragon he was different from other dragons. And how could he awaken or use his dragon powers? Like those dragons from the book did.

Spike felt something soft below him lift him up a bit and saw something sit down at his left side, looking at his left he saw Discord looking down at him sorrowfully.

“Hey,”

“Hey,”

“………So…..the changeling was a friend of yours?”

“Yeah, I didn’t know he was a changeling until…….yesterday.”

“Was he close to you?”

"Yes, he was my first friend,” Spike snorted a little. “When I first met him I was a year and a half years old,” Spike began while Discord only listened. “I was with mom in her room playing a little when he came with an urgent message for mom, she asked him to watch over me for a couple of minutes,” Spike smiled cheerfully, closing his eyes. “Mom came back ten minutes later and found him on the ground saying ‘The dragon is too strong for me, I am defeated bluuaarggg’ while I was jumping on top of him!” Spike laughed at the memory. “Y-you should have seen how red he was when mom started to laugh!”

Spike’s laughter increased in volume for a moment before dying down slowly. “After that he started to hang out when he was free or when mom asked him to watch over me and soon he became my very first friend in the castle,” Spike returned his attention to the white marble grave-stone in front of him. “And now he is gone……..because of me.”

“Pfff are you stupid Spike?” Discord said snickering a little. “Because of you? Don’t be silly, he died because of Wrath, not you, it’s not your fault and believe me, it took me a long time to realize that what happened to Moonlight was not my fault, I could have done something but I didn’t know what was going to happen, so don’t beat yourself about it and keep moving forward.”

“But what can I do then, Discord?” Spike gripped the helmet a bit tighter. “How can I be able to fight? To protect my mom, my friends and those who I care for when I don’t have the strength to do it.” Spike glared at the grave-stone. “All I feel is anger inside me, anger at that damn dragon, anger at everything and anger at myself, tell me, what should I do?”

“I know how you are feeling little guy, but that is something you have to decide for yourself, Spike,” Discord patted him on the back lightly. “And who knows? Maybe your strength will come when least expected or when you truly need it”. Spike looked up to him expectantly. “In the mean time all I can do for you is to give you two pieces of advices.”

“First, never ask for power, instead ask to be able to control your power,” His eyes softened a little after saying that line. “And second, work to achieve the power you desire but never lose yourself in the process.” Discord sat up dusting himself off a little. “I could tell you what to do or not to do, but where would the fun be in that? Only you can decide what you must and can do, Spike."

“I see,” Spike said looking at the helmet. “Discord?”

“Yeah?”

“Thanks.”

“No need for that, you did something for me, I’m just returning the favor,” Discord smiled at Spike and he smiled back standing up. “Where are you going?”

Spike gave a salute to the grave-stone before putting the helmet at its base. “With my mom,” Spike turned around looking happy yet serious. “I’m going to join the royal guard.” He said before turning around and running off to where Celestia was.

Discord looked at him go for a second before smiling proudly. “That ‘a boy.”

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-Canterlot Castle- Court room-

Celestia was sitting on her seat surrounded by her sister, Twilight, prince Shining Armor and many other political and noble figures around Canterlot and Equestria, they were discussing the topics of the assassination attempt two days earlier, the treaty with the changelings and the surprise attack of the dragon.

Thankfully the word that the green dragon was the legendary Wrath was confidential, and instead labeled as an attack of a rebel group of dragons. This however brought a serious problem to Celestia, because so many saw she had been defeated by the dragon many had demanded an explanation and worse of all many started to see her as a weak ruler, one unable to protect her subjects. The only good thing that came out of it was that the reveal of Phalanx being a changeling all along, it created a slight acceptance from her subjects about the changeling treaty.

The assassination attempt was frowned upon and passed judgement quickly, mostly because princess Twilight was involved, but most of the noble houses and other political figures showed how much uninterested they were about the fate of her son, and because of the letter sent to the griffon king the commotion about it was dealt with swiftly.

The treaty with the changelings was something delicate and filled with mixed opinions, some were welcoming, others were full of hate and doubt, while some even went as far as to say it was another trick made by them and that they would finish the job. However the treaty was complete and all that was left was for Chrysalis to sign it. According to Shining they had already signed their treaty with the Crystal Empire, and speaking of the Empire.

“Shining Armor, care to explain to us why Cadence is not here yet?” Celestia asked her nephew-in-law.

“Ah, yes….about that, well, you see your highness,” Shining sighed, seeing the attention of the entire table was on him. “After…..after Discord made his appearance on the Crystal Palace and gave us the dire news about the attempt on your son, prince Spike, and princess Twilight, the news about the event traveled fast within the Empire and thus many of our subjects were ‘demanding’ justice for their saviors, therefore my wife----“

“Ha ha ha ha,” Laughed a pompous looking stallion at the other side of the table. “The crystal ponies demanding some sort of justice for something they have little to no jurisdiction whatsoever? You must be joking ‘prince’ Shining Armor”

“And why do you say that, sir Gold?” Shining answered.

“Show the proper respect I deserve, boy, you may be a prince of the Crystal Empire but here in Equestria you are still just a minor noble and an Ex-captain of our royal guard,” The stallion smiled smugly. “You shall address me by my full name, Massive Gold, headmaster of the Gold noble house."

“Very well, sir Massive Gold,” Shining said through gritted teeth. “Please explain to me how is that attempt irrelevant for my subjects? After all the two victims are held as heroes of our country.”

“I see no point, prince Shining, because your Empire are allies of Equestria, they shouldn’t even care about this poorly executed assassination attempt.” Massive Gold smirked, pointing at Twilight with one hoof. “princess Twilight was, thankfully, unharmed and the assassin dealt with according to the previous report, there is no reason to worry more than what it deserves.”

Many of the political figures and noble houses nodded content with the explanation.

“But my good sir, it seems you had forgotten that our new prince was also a target of such a dreadful attempt against his young life,” A white stallion with a stylish mustache said. “And it is no secret that our dear allies, the crystal ponies, have a very high opinion of our dear young prince, why, they held him as a hero of their nation and I might add, even loved, to a personal level. So it’s only natural they would worry just as much as we,” The stallion said, earning glares and light grunts from most of the nobles present. “Or do you disagree?”

“Thank you, sir Fancy Pants,” Twilight said, Fancy Pants nodded lightly at her. “prince Spike saved my life during that attempt, if it weren’t for him I would have died,” Twilight shot a glare to Massive Gold, making him feel uneasy. “or are trying to say you don’t care for him?”

“O-of course not princess Twilight!” Massive Gold pointed out at all his fellow nobles. “All of us were very worried about our dear prince and furthermore—“

A sudden knock at the door made him jump slightly on his sit, the door opened reveling a royal guard.

“Sorry for interrupting, your majesties, but princess Cadence has arrived with queen Chrysalis.”

“Let them through,” Luna commanded, seeing her sister shudder in pain a little.

The doors opened letting both Cadence and Chrysalis walk inside the room, they walked in a calm phase showing both authority and respect, Cadence mane showed a bit of struggle and was slightly tousled. Chrysalis was looking fine, except her face showed a bit of exhaustion, being both emotion detectors they could feel the eyes set on them, most were indifferent but some were full with resentment and anger, those last clearly shot at Chrysalis.

“Sorry for our late arrival, princess Celestia,” Cadence bowed once she was in front of her older aunt. “But it was until a few moments ago that we finally calmed the commotion on the Empire.”

“We?” A noble mare asked.

“Yes, we, if it weren’t for Chrysalis and her changelings, things could have gone out of hoof.”

Murmurs began to be heard across the room and the tension lessened a bit.

“I see;” Celestia said. “Please, take a seat,” They sat taking two free seats near Shining Armor. “Now that queen Chrysalis, ruler of the changelings, has arrived we shall proceed to sign the final treaty, making the changelings official allies of the kingdom of Equestria as well as granting them a small fraction of our territory and the materials necessary for them to build their home.” Celestia stopped and groaned, just loud enough for Luna and Twilight to hear.

“Are you alright, my sister?” Luna asked in a low tone, growing more and more worried about these small pains of her sister.

“I’m alright,” Celestia whispered. “In return they shall aid us when and how we see most fit and will be under the watch of our royal guard, are there any objections?” The room was silent for a few seconds before she continued, “Phala---Guard, bring forth the treaty”

A royal guard behind her used his magic to levitate a scroll and placed it in front of Celestia, using her magic she unfolded the scroll and brought forth a quill and ink and signed it, then she passed it to Luna who did the same and finally she passed it to Chrysalis, once the three signatures were written the scroll vanished and all stood up.

“The meeting is concluded." The noble and the other ponies bowed and leaved the room, some of them shooting glances at Chrysalis before exiting, once all of the other ponies and the guards were out, Celestia closed the door with her magic and then fell to her knees, groaning in pain as she fell.

“Sister!” Luna shouted as she used went to her, the rest of the presents also approached, concerned about the sun ruler. “What is wrong with you?”

“My necklace,” She said, stifling a groan in her throat. “Take it off,” Luna did so and everyone present gasped, there was a large burn under her royal necklace, and for the looks of it, it wasn’t even treated yet.

“Auntie, did that awful dragon did this to you!?”

“Yes……if it weren’t for Phalanx, I could have died." She said as all but Cadence and Chrysalis shared a mournful expression.

“Phalanx? Isn’t that the name of your personal bodyguard, Celestia?” Chrysalis asked a bit confused but after seeing and feeling the cringe of pain of Celestia she knew what had happen to the guard. “I’m sorry Celestia, I know what it feels to lose faithful and loyal subjects,” Her own expression turned sorrowful for a second before closing her eyes. “I’m sure he was a great pony.”

“Changeling,” Twilight said. “Phalanx was a changeling.”

“W-what?” Chrysalis asked, shocked at the revelation. “B-but you told me he had being your personal bodyguard for almost forty years, you never said he was a changeling Celestia!”

“Neither did I know what he was until the wedding of Shining Armor and my beloved niece.” Celestia said, still on the ground, the burn being too painful for her to keep a straight face anymore. “When I found him, he was but a mere child, he was hungry, he was cold and he was alone, I felt pity for---“ A loud groan of pain interrupted her. “For him, so I took him with me and cared for him.”

“Soon he recovered and begged to stay with me, he showed me his powers and abilities and bowed loyalty to me, he even started calling me his queen---” Another groan of pain interrupted her again while the presents listened carefully to her tale. “My old personal bodyguard retired, soon he adopted the form of a normal cloaked royal guard pegasus and I named him my new personal bodyguard.”

“Sorry for interrupting princess, but you never knew he was a changeling until my wedding? Yet you trusted him with your life, literally?” Shining asked her. “What made you do that? What made you risk yourself so much to a total stranger?”

“I’m surprised that you ask me this, Shining,” Celestia sighed and groaned at the same time. “His loyalty to me was the strongest I have ever seen, after he came back from his forced vacations he was the most shocked about the attack."

“We changelings pride ourselves to be loyal to a fault to our leaders,” Chrysalis said smiling. “But that doesn’t answer why you didn’t tell me he was a changeling.”

“It was going to be a surprise, to show you even if for most of his life I had no idea what he was I still accepted him willingly.” Celestia said smiling at Chrysalis. “Phalanx was like a little brother to me, even if he never saw me more than his……..queen.” Celestia’s smile dropped a bit. "He always did everything I asked him to do, always with a smile on his face, he was my bodyguard, my closest advisor, my spy and a great and dear friend………..and now he is dead, because of me.” Celestia filled her eyes with tears, letting a couple run down her cheeks.

“Sister…”

“Princess….”

“Auntie…..”

The ponies in the room let the sun monarch cry her sadness out, she hadn’t sleep or eaten in almost three days, she was forced to use long range teleportation spells, the political and royal affairs were nonstop, her battle with Wrath had left her almost powerless and on top of that she had to bury a long time friend of hers. Luna knew that her sister was utterly exhausted, so much that she didn’t even had the strength to cry her heart out.

A sudden green light caught their attention before noticing a beam of green light shot at Celestia’s burn mark, making her groan loudly, almost shout but quickly die down, all eyes turned to Chrysalis.

“Our magic let us change shapes, harden our bodies and heal, between other things.” Celestia looked at her with a sincere smile on her face. “It’s the least I can do after all you have done for us in these past two days, also don’t be thanking me yet,” Chrysalis smiled apologetically. “This will hurt a lot, I suggest you hold her down.”

Nodding Luna moved to her sister right side holding her neck up, ready to comfort her sister and keep her connected to Chrysalis beam, Cadence and Shining pressed their hooves on her back, making her sit down completely and keeping her steady, Twilight moved to her left side and did the same as Luna.

“One question first,” Twilight said looking at Chrysalis. “So what I saw you doing to my brother wasn’t the mind control spell?”

“Twiley…..this isn’t the time.”

“It’s alright,” Chrysalis said. “And no, it wasn’t, I was really healing his awful headaches.” Twilight groaned in frustration a little as the rest of the royals laughed a little at her antics. “Ready?” Chrysalis asked, charging her horn.

“Do it.” Celestia said.

The beam of magic became thicker and brighter as Celestia closed her eyes and groaned painfully, trying to stay as still as possible, small beads of sweat started to form and fall from her forehead. The pain grew more and more until it became too much to bear and she let down a painful scream, held down tightly by her family so she couldn’t move, all Celestia could do was to try and be as quiet as possible.

“Almost done.” Chrysalis said cheerfully as the burn mark on Celestia became smaller and smaller. “Just a little mor---“

The doors of the room opened roughly making all them look up to the culprit.

They all saw prince Spike standing there in the entry way, with wide eyes and a blank expression adorning his face.

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*10 minutes earlier*

Spike was walking through the hallways of the palace towards the court room in search of his mother, after realizing he had run off without knowing where his mother even was he smacked himself for his foolishness.

As he was walking he saw the girls sitting patiently on a bench, or in Rainbows case, hovering over bored out of her mind, and decided to ask them what they were doing, getting closer Applejack spotted him.

“Howdy, Spike!” She said making the rest of her friends turn their heads towards his direction. “Where ya goin’ partner?”

“Hi Applejack, hi girls,” He said waving at them all “I’m going to see my mom, what are you doing here?”

“Really now? What a coincidence my sweet Spikey-Wikey!” Rarity jumped from her seat to squeeze his cheeks a bit, making the dragon blush. “We are waiting for your dear mother to finish her duties.”

“Ish zhe bushy?” Spike asked through the affections of Rarity against his face.

“Yuppers! Princess Celestia told us to wait for her until she finished; she said we have to be ready!”

“Ready for what?” Spike asked, freeing himself from Rarity.

“I have no idea!”

“Yeah, and that meeting or whatever they are doing is taking forever, princess Cadence and that changeling queen came by a minute ago, hope they finish up quickly I hate waiting so much.”

“Hold yer horses Dash, Ah’m sure the princesses must be doin’ somethin’ really important.”

“I say, couldn’t we just attend the meeting too? After all, we are the bearers of the Elements.”

“It doesn’t work like that Rarity, this kind of things only important or noble ponies can attend and only if they are summoned by royalty, they are talking about a possible alliance after all.” Spike smiled a little at them. “You may be heroes and all but you are still ‘normal’ ponies.”

“Then…ummm, why are you here, Spike? You are a prince, I mean if that is ok.”

“They don’t really need me, since I don’t have a position yet, besides, I was doing something else,” Spike smiled at Fluttershy. “Had to think for a bit about, things.”

The group turned silent, the mane five knowing that Spike was still hurtful about the sacrifice of his old friend, granted they didn’t know much about their relationship but enough to feel bad for the little drake.

“Golly me! Is that you my dearest lady Rarity?”

The six friends looked up to see no other than Fancy Pants himself walking towards them in his usual regal poise, behind him an increasing number of noble ponies and guards approach.

“Fancy Pants!”

“Sir Fancy Pants!”

“Fancy!”

The group moved closer to the coming stallion. “I am so glad to see you again my dearest Rarity and your friends as well.” Fancy looked at Spike. “My little friend, it is so good to see you again after so much time, I must admit, that crown looks very proper on you.”

“Hehe, thanks Fancy, your mustache looks as good as ever……lucky you,” He said smiling at him, barely mumbling the last part.

“What was that my friend?”

“Nothing, nothing!”

“You know each other?”

“Why yes Miss Pinkie,” Fancy said grabbing one of her hoofs and kissing it, making Pinkie giggle. “My wife Fleur send her gratitude for her fabulous party, it was a total success.”

“Hey, how come you know Spike?”

“Rainbow Dash! Fancy Pants is a proper gentlestallion; at the very least address him with proper respect!”

“It’s alright my dear,” Fancy said laughing a little at Rainbow’s brashness. “As for how I know dear young Spike, well, when I was younger he saved my life!” Everypony gasped.

“I still think ‘finding your bit purse’ hardly counts as saving your life, Fancy.” Spike deadpanned.

“Nonsense my boy, if it weren’t for you and your heroic acts I would have went into bankruptcy."

“Sometimes I think it’s a shame you didn’t, Fancy.” A mare said behind him. “You constantly bring shame to the rest of the noble houses.”

Turning around the group saw a small group of noble ponies looking at them disgustingly; most of the passing nobles shot glances at Spike as well as murmurs began to rise up between them.

“Silver Plate, Red Carpet and Massive Gold,” Fancy’s face transformed from joyful to annoyed his voice still retaining his usual chipper tone. “To what we owe your presence?

“Just look with what kind of ponies you merge with,” Red Carpet continued, not bothering to answer Fancy. “Nothing but common and worthless ponies.”

“What the hay did you just say!??”

“Oh, an apple,” Massive said. “Should have known by the smell of filth and dirt in the air, now I know why the Orange’s didn’t come, I would be ashamed too if I was related to your kin.”

“Ah will show you some manners you bucking vermin!!” Applejack said trying to jump at Massive but was held back by Rainbow Dash “Let’go o’h me Dash, nopony insults mah family and gets away with it!!”

“Calm down Applejack!” Rainbow said, doing her best to keep her friend at bay while she tried to free herself.

“What’s this? The wonderbolt wannabe? Why am I not surprise you only find friends in failures, Fancy?” The silver coated mare said, pointing her snout to the skies a sudden sound of snapping teeth caught her attention and opened her eyes, Silver jumped back frighten seeing Rainbow’s almost close enough to bite her. “Such barbaric beasts! How dare you try to bite me?”

“And what gives you the right to insult us, HUH? Just because you think you are sooo high and above, doesn’t mean I won’t gladly kick your flanks if you insult me or my friends again!” Rainbow said now trying to free herself from Rarity’s magic aura while Pinkie held Applejack down.

“You little disrespectful arrogant! GUARDS!” Silver shouted making five royal guards approach. “Take this insolent ‘ponies’ out of the castle immediately, they just made a threat against our safety.”

“Say what??” Applejack and Rainbow said at the same time, the royal guards nodded and move forward to them.

“Stop,” Spike said, making everypony stop and look at him. “You may retire, royal guards.”

“Oh, so finally the lizard comes to ‘stand up’ for his friends, how noble of him.” Massive took a step forward to Spike. “One of my servants saw what that overgrown monster did to you and what you did after that.”

Rainbow and Applejack stopped their struggling and looked at Spike, never breaking his gaze from Massive Gold. The trio of noble ponies plus some that had stayed behind to see the show looked both disgusted and angry at the young dragon.

“What’s worse was that our ‘all powerful and mighty’ princess Celestia was easily defeated, again, this time by a mindless beast, like her dear son, who has a strange power to regenerate,” Massive sighed. “Sometime I wonder if she is fit to rule anymore, she can’t even protect herself, well, at least you can, with that strange power you can protect your masters well, lizard.”

“Guards” Spike said, his voice steady and calm. “Please escort these ponies out.”

All of the ponies present where shocked at his command, nopony moved an inch.

“You dare--!”

"Massive Gold, is it," He spoke. "I have heard of you, great pony from what I've heard." His smile though seemingly genuine was forced. Closing in near Massive gold's ear. "It would be a shame if they had to learn of the debts the princess had to cover, especially when they learn what for."

"Now see here-" Sliver began oblivious to the words that caused Gold to freeze.

"Yes, Silver Plate, such an honor to make your aquantance." He moved to shake her hoof and whisper words. "Does your husband know about Shinning Moon? I'm sure he would be interested in your and hers relationship."

"Red Carpet, charmed I'm sure," Spike kept his distance, this pony was famous for his underground activity, even if the evidence was still not enough to invriminate him he was one to anger easily, though harmless enough if not directly provoked.

"I do not really appreciate you all talking about my friends, the elements of harmony, thrice savior of our glorious kingdom of Equestria, and the reformer of discord, in such a pompous tone. You are nobles worthy of respect, yet these five "common" ponies have done more than enough to earn yours. So show a little courtesy." He said his voice plain, even and above all cold. Now if I'm not mistaken I asked if you could escort the nobles out." He looked at the guards stock still and if not a bit in awe. " Right. That is an order, escort them, now.” The last word made the guards and the noble ponies shiver in fear and quickly obeyed him.

“Y-you will pay for this outrage, monster!” Massive Gold shouted once he was at a safe distance.

Silence fell between the group of friends as the noble ponies were escorted out of their sight, the eyes of six ponies fell on the small figure of their dragon friend, all ponies reacted at the same time.

“That. Was. AWESOME!” Rainbow exclaimed. “I didn’t know you had it in you, Spike!”

“Way to show ‘em who’s boss, Spike!”

“Spike was all like waaaaahhh! And those meanie-weanies were all like Aahhhh!!!, and we were like----“

“My little Spikey-Wikey is so brave!” Rarity said kissing his cheek. “Standing up for us in front of such ruffians!”

“That was amazing, Spike, wohoo!!”

“My, my, my boy!, I dare say I have never seen them so frightened before in my life.”

The compliments continued but Spike was not paying attention to them, he was busy trying to calm himself down, he had kept his cool this time and was able to hold back but those insolent ponies had pressed his most sensible button, insulting his mother in front of him.

“Spike? Are you alright lad? Spike?” Fancy asked.

“Yeah, I’m alright,” Spike gave a long sigh, seeing his friend had stopped their compliments and were now staring at him worriedly. “I just need to—“

Just then a scream of pain, just loud enough for them to hear, assaulted their ears, the effect was instantaneous. Spike pupils shrank down as he froze completely, he knew that scream of pain, then without any warning he ran faster than anypony had ever seen before, knocking down Fluttershy and Fancy in the process.

Spike kicked open a pair of doors reveling his mother being held down by her niece, her sister, Shining and Twilight while Chrysalis was shooting a magic beam towards the base of her neck and a burn mark behind the magic beam, he froze up again, trying to understand the situation.

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*Present-Time*

Inside the mind of Spike. Time seemed to stop as the scene before him threw him into a thinking frenzy.

'They are hurting her,' Spike thought. 'They are hurting my mommy, the changeling queen is harming her, she is controlling them, controlling Twilight and Shining and Cadence and Luna'

The scene before him changed to an old familiar one, Celestia was lying on the ground, defeated and hurt by Chrysalis, he could hear her again, gloating on her victory, claiming to be more powerful than his dear mother. He could also feel the pain and the shame of his mother, knowing she had to hold back to protect her subjects.

He could hear them, those arrogant fools, those ungrateful bastards, that bitch laughing in her false victory, that bastard taking his mother for granted, but most of all he could feel his anger, his hate, all those pent up feelings he had to bottle up deep inside were now emerging stronger and faster than ever.

'She is laughing, she wants to hurt mommy, she hurts mommy, they all hurt mommy, they pay!' His voice was turning colder, tougher and darker. 'Spike will protect mommy, Spike make them pay!, Spike….kill.'

'Spike….Kill'

'Spike, KILL'

Outside of his mind the six royals were still shocked by the sudden interruption, unaware of the thoughts inside Spike’s head, Celestia was the first to react.

“Spikey?”

“SPIKE, KILL!” The monstrous roar let out by the little drake pulled the rest of them out of their trance.

Green fire appeared around Spike’s body before he disappeared and reappeared in front of Chrysalis face making her gasp in surprise.

“Spike Kill!” The little drake roared again before punching Chrysalis square in her right cheek, sending her backwards and crashing against the wall making her cry out in pain.

Spike landed on the floor as purple and green fire emerged from his claws and feet, his scales slowly turning a more deeper shade of purple and his spikes turning sharper and thicker, his eyes were no longer green, they were but mere white orbs filled with unrivaled hate.

“Chrysalis!” Cadence shouted as the rest of the royals had their gaze locked in Spike, shocked and seemingly paralyzed.

“You hurt mommy.” Spike said, his voice dark and low, almost as an animalistic growl. “Spike kill you!”

Spike went to all fours ready to jump at Chrysalis, Chrysalis for her part got up with her yellowish blood dripping from her cheek and saw the dragon leap out at her, she locked gazes for a second with his eyes and all she could see was hate, fury, anger and rage, directed to her and only her, his eyes were the eyes of a monster, a predator ready to destroy it’s victim and then devour it while it was still alive. Chrysalis panicked.

“BY CELESTIA!” Chrysalis shouted as she evaded the dragon, who smashed against the wall and got up ready to attack again. “HELP ME!” The dragon roared in anger as she tried to evade him, barely succeeding, but the dragon was too fast and too agile for her, out of desperation she took flight only to be followed by the dragon jumping at blinding speed from one pillar to a nother, eventually reaching her. “AAARRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!” Chrysalis shouted in pain as the dragon destroyed her wings making her fall to the ground in a loud *thud*.

Spike landed in front of the fallen Chrysalis, spitting the remains of her wings and ready to stomp on her head “Spike protect mommy!” Chrysalis looked at the dragon in disbelief when out of nowhere a white blur knocked the dragon to his side.

“SPIKE, SNAP OUT OF I---URRRGHHHH!!” Shining shouted at the dragon below him but was cut short as a kick to his stomach sent him to the hooves of Luna, Spike got up and roared again, this time his attention focused on the rest of them.

A blue beam of magic hit him in the neck, creating a leash trying to hold him against the ground, Luna groaned as the dragon fought back against her power and to her terror Spike began to grow in size “HOLD HIM DOWN!”

Shining got up, spitting a mouthful of blood before using the same spell as Luna around his left arm, Cadence focused on his right arm, Chrysalis, out of her panic attack and shock, also used her magic to hold his tail down, Spike trashed and roared against the magic ropes trying to free himself.

Celestia was still on her spot, trying to understand what was happening or at least comprehend what was happening to her little Spikey. Twilight was stunned and shocked that her best friend, her number one ex-assistant was trying to kill Chrysalis and had hurt her brother without a second thought.

“SISTER, TWILIGHT, WE NEED YOUR HELP!” Luna shouted as Spike size was now almost the size of an average adult pony. “HE IS FAR TOO STRONG!” Twilight shook her head and saw Luna was right, Spike was starting to win against the magic ropes, deciding it was the best to help him return to normal she also created a magic rope against his legs, sending him to the ground.

Fancy and the rest of the Elements arrived in time to see Spike roaring in anger against the floor, trying with all his might to get free from the magic ropes of the five grunting royals, Rarity gasped in horror, Fluttershy almost fainted and the rest were just rendered stunned on the spot, not knowing what to do.

“FLUTTERSHY!” Twilight shouted, groaning and sweating due to the immense effort it took her to hold Spike down. “USE THE STARE! USE THE STARE, CALM SPIKE DOWN!!”

Fluttershy was terrified just by seeing her dragon friend so savage and angry, she wanted nothing but to run away and hide, but seeing her friend and the rest of them struggle so much against him and the wounds on Chrysalis and the blood of Shining dripping from his mouth, she knew that if Spike got free he could potentially kill them.

“How dare you!” Fluttershy said, flying towards him. “How dare you hurt your friends like that, you should be ashamed of yourself mister!” Once she was in front of him she locked gazes and used her stare on Spike, then she gasped, there was nothing, nothing to bend to her will, nothing to feel regret for, no conscience, nothing, it was like the same as when she tried to use the stare on Discord.

Spike for his part was still trashing around, little by little winning the struggle against his captors, looking forward he saw his mother, looking at him, then he saw the burn mark and his rage did nothing but increase tenfold, getting up in a swift jump he torn apart the magic rope of Twilight and to the utter shock of the rest of them grabbed the magic ropes and tossed them around, sending the owners of said ropes crashing down against the table, breaking it instantly.

Spike gave a mighty roar, shattering the windows in the room, before spinning around using his tail to hit Fluttershy, sending her to the ground and the hooves of her friends. “FLUTTERSHY!” They all shouted seeing Fluttershy crying and trembling in pain.

“You hurt mommy!” Spike shouted, walking towards the ones trying to get up from the debris of the table “You die!”

“STOP!” Twilight shouted, hugging him from behind. “Please sto—“ Spike simply grabbed her by her neck and sent her crashing against Luna. “S-Spike?” For the first time in her life, Twilight was truly afraid of her best friend, he did not recognize her, he was blinded by rage and couldn’t recognize between friend or foe, Spike was going to kill them all, in his eyes they were all enemies.

“SISTER!” Luna shouted, desperate to snap Celestia out of her shock. “CELESTIA!” But she did not move, glancing to Spike she saw he was ready to attack again, thinking quickly she created a barrier around them fast enough to block the first hit. “ARRGGGG, SUCH FORCE!”

“SPIKE KILL!” He shouted hitting the barrier again, creating cracks on it. “SPIKE KILL!” Hitting it again the barrier began to crack. “SPIKE PROTECT MOMMY!” With the final blow the barrier fell, shattered in millions of tiny pieces, Spike raised his claw ready to deliver the final blow but it never went down.

“That’s just about enough.” A voice behind him said “what do you think you are doi-nnngggghhhhH!!??”

Spike turned around and used his other free claw to shred the left side of Discord’s face, sending his blood to fly through the air as the Draconequus held his other claw tightly, wasting no time Discord spun around and sent Spike to crash down against a pillar, breaking it down. Discord used his eagle claw to hold his nasty injury, suddenly a stream of deep purple fire emerged from the dust cloud right against him, with little time to think he split in two to avoid getting hit.

“OUUHHMMPPPPF”

A loud muffled scream of pain echoed in the room making Spike roar in anger and charge out of the debris to attack whoever had hurt his mother, once he was out he stopped.

There was purple fire burning down over Celestia’s coat, the pain finally snapping her out of her coma, she saw the fire and then to Spike, finally noticing the change of his form, a small tear fell from her visible eye to the ground. Spike took a step backwards.

“M-mommy hurt……..Spike hurt mommy………Spike bad……….Spike no hurt mommy………Spike loves mommy, no hurt……..but, I hurt mommy……..I hurt mommy, I-I didn’t mean to…..” Spike babbled as he returned to his small familiar size, his colors returning to his bright normal ones and his eyes reverting to his joyful green ones “I-I would never hurt you mommy……….I----“ finally at his normal size and back to his senses, Spike noticed his surroundings.

Luna and Cadence were hurt, small bruises a nd cuts over them; Shining was spitting blood from his mouth and was in the same conditions as the previous two.

Chrysalis was looking at him in fear, yellow blood dripping from her face and her wings at the size of a new born pegasus foal.

Discord was holding the left side of his face with his claw, blood dripping every so often from his wound.

Twilight was sharing the same condition as Luna and Cadence, but her neck showed small burn marks and blood stains.

Looking back he saw Fluttershy being held by Applejack and Rainbow Dash, one of her eyes open as a thin dribble of blood fell down from her mouth, her hooves holding her right side tenderly, he could see some blood stains and a horrible forming bruise. The rest of them were looking at him in shock and disbelief.

Then he saw his mother, she was looking at him not with shame, disappointment or anger, she was looking at him worried out of her mind, he could feel it, he could sense it, there was only worry for him but he also felt a tinge of something else, something he despised, he felt fear.

His mother was feeling fear, she feared him, only now he could also feel the fear all around him.

“I…..I didn’t……I……please……….I couldn’t……….I-I-I would never………….I’m noble……….I….I….”

“Spikey,” Celestia said spreading her forelegs, offering comfort to her child. “It’s alright my little child, it’s alright, come.”

Spike took a step forward but then he saw the purple flames die down, revealing a horrible wound over her coat, panic and fear struck in his heart, turning around he ran as fast as he could passing by Pinkie Pie at the same time tears fell down from his eyes.

“SPIKEY!!”

Was the only thing he heard as he ran away.

Chapter seven end

Author's Notes:

My thanks to all of you who read my story, you are the reason I keep on going!

Special Thanks to Bennet001 for proofreading and minor editing!