Chapter 4: The Great Dragon War

The orb exploded in a bright blue light, blinding all those that were present, for some moments they kept their eyes closed and ever so slowly began to open them, when their vision was finally clear and clean most of them gasped at what they saw, they were on top of a mountain, below and around it and as far as the eye could see towers, houses, walls and all kinds of decorative buildings of many different sizes stood firm and proud shining with red, blue, green, gold, and most of all, purple lights from the sun’s reflection over them.

The sky was blue and only a couple of clouds could be seen passing by, the great valleys and forests that could be seen in the distance promised wonder, beauty and life to anything that dared enter them and view their wonders. A great river passed in the middle of the great structures providing fresh water. A splendor of every form entered their sights and even those paled in comparison to those who were flying all over the sky and walking in the streets of what could be said was a massive city, almost everyone was a dragon that came in very different sizes and forms, some had wings, some were as big as normal dragons, some were flying and even a few sea serpents could be seen swimming in the nearby great river, they could also see many alicorns and some draconequus among the dragons, but what the most impressive sight was that more than half of all the dragons they could see shared the same colors Spike himself had.

Realization hit them hard, they were watching the past of a once great civilization, a dragon civilization at that.

“This is Gemstoneguard, the main city of the Eternity Empire” Waldarys said looking at the city below them, “this is the past, only a reflection of my own and the collective memories of all those who died and gave their life to destroy Echidna and our enemies, this book is our history itself, you cannot interfere with it and, no matter what you see, nothing will be able to harm you.” she turned around to see them.

“Long ago,” she began, “this planet was a place of despair, death and pain, demons and foul creatures of darkness ruled the planet.” The scenery around them changed in the blink of an eye, the city was gone and it was replaced by a barren wasteland of black sand and a red sky, horrible creatures none of them had ever seen before ran over the land, killing, tearing apart and eating anything they could catch, creatures with purple hides, long arms, strong feet and several sharp teeth were doing a massacre out of any kind of animal and living thing they caught and even between themselves and all those present in the illusion could do nothing but watch in horror of how they did it.

“We don’t know how long this lasted but three species united to stop them, tired of such misery and bloodshed, to free this world from their evil and their foulness,” all of those creatures stopped to a halt and turned their heads towards the group, looking right through them, they also turned around and saw hundreds of figures covered in darkness “The Draconequus,” the shadows that represented the draconequus illuminated revealing them wearing pieces of some unknown metal making, most likely, an improvised armor, “The Alicorns,” the same thing happened with their shadows but they wore nothing on them, bare into the field of battle their eyes glowing white with pure energy, “and The Dragons.” the dragons were using gems of all sorts, carved meticulously over them, as armor and some even carved the gems over their claws, all of them in many sizes looking furious and ready for battle.

The creatures roared and charged themselves towards their new enemy and prey, their “prey” did the same. Both sides collided and the fog of war began, screams, roars, flesh, intestines, body parts and blood flew around the battlefield, right around them, Fluttershy screamed in horror and vomited her breakfast, once it hit the ground is simply vanished, but the shock was so great she couldn’t pass out, the same thing happened with Pinkie Pie and Cadence.Waldarys looked at the three with pity all had similar look of disgust and horror, even Celestia wasn’t immune to the sight, but she had to continue, she must continue.

“We were few in numbers, no more than ten thousand against hundreds of thousands of them but we were stronger,” the scene changed again this time they were in space seeing the dark planet turn blue and green little by little, “the war against darkness and the demons was short, it only lasted twenty years until they were defeated, we hadn't stopped there, we hunted the remaining demons and creatures down and only a very few survived,” the planet turned bright with color and showed them the colors they knew as normal.

“Excuse me?” Daring said, “But if you were so few against so many of them, how did you win?”
“It is quite simple little brave one, we fought as one they fought individually, you see demons and creatures of darkness can’t fight alongside others they spent so much time fighting against each other and against us at the same time that they were doomed to lose, now as I said before some survived and escaped and for what can I see you have already fought against three and defeated them,” she turned her attention towards Luna, “A Nightmare,” Luna lowered her head in shame, then Waldarys turned towards Twilight and her friends, “The ice demons, Windigoes,” their eyes opened in surprise, finally she turned to Spike, “and of course Darkness,” all Spike could think was ‘Sombra’.

The scene around them changed again and a group made of dragons, alicorns and draconequus were in front of them discussing something they could not understand, “After the war we decided to become the protectors of the world, alicorns decided to protect life, spreading joy and happiness to all living things and to keep the sun and the moon orbiting around the planet, draconequus decided they would protect the balance so that the evil and darkness we defeated may never return, and we the dragons decided to protect the world itself so we divided into five casts, the wyrms would protect the earth, the sea serpents would protect the water, rivers and oceans, the drakes would protect the fire and the world from fire itself, the draconians would protect the wind, the skies and be always watchful and ready to stop any kind of threat against other races, and we, the gemstone dragons would protect the other races and bring them civilization to all those who could form a society in this new world and alongside the draconequus we would fight against darkness” all of the haunts present nodded in agreement and put their claws, paws and hooves together, the scene around them turned black.

“It was difficult at first, diving territories and rising cities was a challenge for us all and for five thousand years we advanced slowly but we expanded and many more races joined us,” a new scene took form Cervadians, Zebras, Camels, Griffons, Ponies, Donkeys, Muses and many more were showed, “they asked us, the gemstone dragons to help them build a society and a civilization and we helped them raise their cities and their own unique cultures”.

“We were finally about to reach our goal, all races united and coexisting in peace and harmony but then, it happened,” all turned black around them and a sinister laugh was heard, then the figure of a draconequus shined in red light before them revealing a monstrous version of Discord with fangs all over his mouth, eyes red and full with bloodlust, dark fur and grey scales covered him, “His name was Valtarnech a fierce guardian of balance and veteran of the old war, the perfect vessel for a Nightmare, he was possessed by it and opened a gate to let those same enemies we fought back into our world but we acted on time,” A new battle was showed this time only alicorns, draconequus and gemstone dragons could be seen, there were no signs of the other dragons but the massacre and bloodshed was still the same, “We fought in a secluded area for three days until we were able to push them back and kill Valtarnech,” the scene now showed the battle was over and the survivors checking the wounded and picking their dead, “and then something happened to us,” all the survivors began to shine and suddenly it ended, nothing seemed to change except for the fact that the wounded were fine now, “we were granted with immortality.”

“How?” Celestia asked, clearly confused, she had always believed they were immortal since the beginning.

“We don’t know dear sister, but we suspect it was Valtarnech doing, his dying gift if you will, how he did it or why he did it we don’t know and probably we will never know, sadly it only affected those who were present and that was only the beginning of our problems”

“Many demons escaped and started to cause war and havoc between other races, tainting them or possessing their leaders, we did as much as we could ………so many died over the years, until the only ones that were left were the ones who became immortals, we succeeded again and exterminated the demons that were causing the havoc,” she paused for a moment letting a sad sigh escape her lips.

“Immortality was also bestowed to our offspring and it changed us all, alicorns became one with the sun, the moon and life itself, draconequus became one with the balance and the void, letting them do great and magnificent feats, but we, the gemstone dragons changed in a more drastic way, our paths to maturity were changed, our cycles were changed and even our talents were changed, we feared that our draconic brothers would hate us for our change,” the scene around them changed and now a group of every kind of dragon was around the gemstone dragons and suddenly all of the other dragons bowed before them yelling again something they could not understand, “but they saw us as the leaders of dragons and so the King and Queen of dragons were named, my husband Thorn as the king and me as the queen.” the scene around them changed to a great mountain and valleys in the distance, almost the same sight they saw first but there were no buildings.

“Our three races united under one banner and we called ourselves brothers and sisters alike for we faced the same horrors and fought against them, we lived together, we died together and we loved and cared for each other as real family,” day turned night and night turned day faster and faster around them, “each one of us formed our homes, we formed Gemstoneguard, alicorns formed Equestria taking the leadership of the ponies who were at war with each other at that time and the draconequus formed Arcadia.” as she talked the land changed and the city they saw earlier began to form slowly.

The princess of the night decided in this moment to interject. “……..noble Waldarys thou said the cycles of your people changed, pray tell, how did it changed?” Waldarys turned towards her.

“Our eggs would take three hundred years to be laid and to hatch them it would take an enormous amount of magic or five hundred years of constant hatching ritual and, as we ourselves, they were also immortal and could only die if they were crushed, normally it takes twenty years for a dragon hatchling to learn how to speak and to start breathing fire, our hatchling could do it in less than a year and also they could begin talking soon after their hatching, we could also use magic in some extent and many other minor things such as our diet, gemstones are our favorite food and it’s really hard to resist them you see,” she gave a small cough, “but two things changed so much that we actually feared them, the first was our maturing process, normally a dragon only has four different types or maturing and that same process determines our aspect, intelligence and personality, the first and the most famous is greed.” She turned to Spike.

“And I must congratulate you young one, you have surpassed and suppressed that greed, but be careful, it may return, if you let it come out again this time you will not be able to turn back and you will become a monster, do you think the greed dragons you know of are bad?” Spike nodded, “greed gemstone dragons are monsters that crave for everything, be it gems, trees, water, skies, mountains and even life, they will take everything they see, they cannot be controlled and only death can stop them” Spike paled a little in fear.

“The second path is time but this takes hundreds of years even for us, a dragon who follows this path usually lives for fifteen thousand years. The third path is through honor, when a dragon finds something they value more than treasures, more than their own lives and want to protect it they become stronger than most dragons and much bigger, they also become very intelligent. The fourth path is magic, when a dragon is feed with immense magic energy that they accept willingly they mature in a matter of seconds, they become friendly, docile and highly intelligent.” an image appeared before the group, a circle with several other smaller circles around it, in the center of the biggest circle was a dragon much like Spike and around him words in the same language they saw when the book was presented to them, Spike was reading them with a quivering mouth.

“But for us it changed drastically and several paths were now open to us and only us, you can read them don’t you, young one ?”

“Yes……I can……..so……so many…………Greed ……….Love ………….Loyalty ……….Magic ……….Vengeance ………….Time ……….Fear ………Honor ………Justice ……….Hate ………Sacrifice ……..Lust …… What’s all this?” he said reading just a few of them before turning to Waldarys.

“Our paths, our destinies, we can choose what we want to become and what we should avoid, but in some cases we can’t choose, it all depends entirely on how strong we are inside.” A moment of silence was heard before the image disappeared. “I cannot tell you what to choose but I can tell you that you must follow your own heart, young one”

“……….And what was the second thing that changed, lady?” Spike asked looking down to his feet.

“Our immortality is different, we can only die if another gemstone dragon or immortal kills us,” she held her claw in front of him, a small object formed over it, a dagger made of diamond, Spike looked to the dagger and then to her eyes, “take it and push it through your heart young one.”

Celestia became enraged while the rest of the presents were shocked at her order, she was about to leap over Waldarys when Spike grabbed the dagger and impaled it over his heart, he screamed in pain and purplish blood erupted from his chest and then he fell to the ground creating a small pool made of his own blood, everyone held their breath and could only stare in disbelief at what Spike had done, Celestia and Twilight began to form tears on their eyes and were beginning to sob their loss when his claws twitched and effortlessly got up, his lost blood evaporated, the dagger turned to nothing and his wound closed leaving nothing, not even a scar, over his scales, Celestia and Twilight watched not believing what they just saw, Spike on the other claw looked slightly confused before getting wrapped between his mothers hooves and be smothered in kisses by her while she gave small thank you’s in between kisses.

“As you just saw,” Celestia and pretty much everypony else except Spike glared death upon her, “we cannot kill ourselves either.”

“That was not nice of you!” Rarity yelled.

“You could have just told us! What in the hay where you thinking?!” Cadence shouted too.

“You did it because it was necessary, right?” Spike asked her.

“Yes, young one, thank you for trusting me, now please look around you,” they did what she said, although reluctantly, what they saw was the same city, Gemstoneguard, they saw first, “Between the war and all the troubles the demons brought with them we barely noticed that one hundred thousand years had passed, but we had finally achieved our goal, peace was finally achieved, for a thousand glorious years peace, prosperity and harmony reigned, until Echidna arrived.” The sky turned dark and a dark dragon flew at blinding speed towards the unknown.

“She was a normal hatchling, a hundred years old that still could not choose a destiny for her own, something happened inside her, something cracked and she became the most powerful being we have ever encountered, she practically became a God but she became a God of darkness and corruption, she desired to control everything and everyone in the planet, simply because she believed it was her right and if someone rebelled against her word,” Equestria came into view and a city ten times as big as the Crystal Empire was on flames, corpses of ponies, alicorns, griffons, dragons of all kinds and draconequus could be seen laying in the ground, some burning and even some impaled on flag posts, “she would destroy and annihilate them”.

“She drew many dragons, creatures and other races under her banner, fearful of her wrath and power or blinded by the promise of wealth and life, before she could attack we called our brothers and sister to battle.” alicorns, gemstone dragons and draconequus were now around them in silence, preparing to stop Echidna, putting on their war armor in their personal coat of arms, gold, green, yellow, purple, red any color they wished to wear over their armor, three of them, one of each helped each other to put on their armor, the scene changed to a battle formation, small bipedal gemstone dragons holding long emerald spears or diamond swords, barely taller than their alicorn brothers, were in front of an army made from thousands of them and their allies, both in the sky and in ground, alongside them draconequus and alicorns holding in their paws, claws or magic axes, swords, spears and many other kinds of weapons, up in the skies winged gemstone dragons together with many of their brothers and sisters stood ready for battle, behind those lines, massive gemstone dragons were also ready to do their part and commanding them was Thorn, the dragon king himself, the scene focused on three of the army members, the same alicorn, draconequus and gemstone dragon from earlier, silence could be heard and small roars in the distance as well, after some moments the draconequus began singing in a rough voice, a song not heard for eons.

“Kote

Kandosii sa ka'rta, Vode an.” His brother dragon began to sing alongside him.

“Equis’anta a'den mhi, Vode an.

Par naak, darasuum naak,” Their sister alicorn began to sing alongside them, in perfect unison.

“Jorso'ran kando a tome.

Sa kyr'am nau tracyn kad, Vode an.” The entire unit they were began to sing it too.

“Kandosii sa ka'rta, Vode an.

Equis’anta a'den mhi, Vode an.

Bal... “Now every un it in the army began singing it, sending tremors through the land and the skies themselves.

Motir ca'tra nau tracinya.

Gra'tua cuun hett su dralshy'a.

Aruetyc runi cet slarycina solus ash’amur

Motir ca'tra nau tracinya.

Gra'tua cuun hett su dralshy'a.

Aruetyc cet slarycina runi ash’amur

Sa kyr'am nau tracyn kad, Vode an!”

The song ended and a tear fell down from Waldarys’s eye, the army of Echidna was massive, dragons of all kinds, even some of their own brothers and sisters, greed breed dragons, griffins, ponies, zebras, there wasn’t a single race or species on the planet that wasn’t there at that moment, fighting against them but Echidna was nowhere to be seen, the dragon king took flight and flew towards the dark clouds above them smashing against Echidna herself, they began to fight above their armies and with a loud roar the battle began.

Both sides charged against one another, the alicorns smashed, with their supernatural strength, their opponents, impaled them with their horns, crushed them with their magic, kill, burn, destroy or obliterate them with spells or simply hacking them with their weapons, the draconequus fought melee against the bigger opponents like manticores or minotaurs, some were using their supreme aerial maneuvers and agility to fight against multiple opponents, some were using their magic to change the shape of their enemies weapons, block attacks, switch places or make things out of thin air to attack, like blades, spikes, boulders or anything they could think of, the real battle was done by the dragons, burning and smashing , clubbing and tearing, eating and killing everything on their paths, screams of pain and death filled the air, they saw first claw how a greed dragon ate a small gemstone dragon only to grab its stomach in pain and the being ripped apart from the inside, covering all below on blood and intestines, corpses also fell down from the skies from the aerial battle where only small clashes could be seen.

While the battle on the ground was being won by the ancient brotherhood the battle in the skies was equally balanced, as for the battle between the leaders seemed to have no end, both of them had their claws burning in purple fire, hitting each other once they got to melee and breathing fire against the other only to be matched, suddenly an orange dragon flew out of nowhere above Thorn and spit a massive red fireball against him hitting him straight in the back of his head, it knocked him out for a second but that was all it took for Echidna to grab him by the throat and pierce his heart with her other claw, Thorn not willing to give up like that grabbed her by the throat too and took a bite out of her neck-side, she dropped him and flew away bleeding while the orange dragon followed her.

Thorn landed in between the armies startling them, his own army came close to their defeated king, he whispered something and those who heard him nodded, then he died turning from purple to grey, the enemy army renewed their charge not even noticing their leader was gone. The scene suddenly changed to the outcome of the battle field almost all of the enemy army was destroyed but the army of the deceased king Thorn also suffered heavy casualties, the scene focused on three figures laying in the ground, a draconequus turning slowly into stone, the upper half of an alicorn and a dying gemstone dragon were barely looking at each other, they shared one last smile together, the alicorn extended her hoof and her brothers did the same with their paw or claw, they united their limbs, they said “Vode an” their smile widened and at the same time gave out their last breath of life, the alicorn turned to light, leaving only her armor and some ashes behind, the dragon turned grey and motionless and the draconequus turned to stone and cracked leaving small pieces of stone and dust on his dying spot.

All turned to darkness, only a small light coming from Waldarys illuminated the group who were all in tears from the display, except for Discord who only had his arms crossed with a sour look on his face, they took a moment to calm themselves before Waldarys continued.

“My husband died in that battle but he discovered part of her plan, she wanted to exterminate all of the immortals so that no one could end her rule, even going as far as to destroy our eggs, she even destroyed her own egg,” Celestia gasped in horror, “To fulfill her plan she started with the draconequus, out of fear for our heritage I sacrificed myself into this book to protect it from the inside, with the help of my alicorn brothers they killed me and bounded my soul to this book,” she turned to Discord and went silent for some moments, her eyes shining, “now I know who you are brother, I had my suspicions but if these memories are right then you were the last hope of the draconequus”

“Wait a second,” Discord said walking right up to her, “What do you mean with ‘Last Hope’? If you haven’t noticed I’m Discord, god of chaos, spirit of disharmony?”

“So you don’t even know about your own beginnings brother?”

“Why should I bother? I know who I am and what I do; there is no need for me to know such meaningless things.” he crossed his arms.

“Then you must know.”

“I refuse to know about it!” His face turned into a scowl.

“Why do you evade the answers to your past?”

“Because I don’t need a past, I only need the now!” He was getting furious.

“Is it because you know nothing about your own species?”

“Shut up!” he said creating chaos energy spheres in his hands

“Or because you don’t know what your life means?”

“I’M WARNING YOU BITCH!!” he aimed his sphere towards her.

“Perhaps it is because in the inside you are nothing but a hollow shell, brother?”

“SHUT UP!” he fired his spheres of chaos energy, passing through her doing nothing, but he didn’t stop. “SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!!” he attacked again and again and again until he was panting hard, Fluttershy walked next to him and put her hoof over his lion paw, he turned to see her with rage on his face, she flinched back and held her head down, he noticed what he had done and kneeled to her level taking her chin making her look up to him again, “I'm sorry Fluttershy I didn’t mean it, I would never hurt you.” He said putting a sad face.

“It’s okay Discord, it’s okay.” She smiled to him.

“And the mother?” a deep voice of a male said, both looked up and saw they were in some kind of hospital room, a draconequus wearing a crown with four other draconequus wearing armor behind him, a draconequus wearing a white coat and a gemstone dragon in front of him could be seen.

“She lost too much blood during the start of the attack my king,” the entire room trembled, “she died giving birth to……’it’.” Said the draconequus doctor.

“Are you certain about the results?”

“Yes my king, I did them seven times.”

“You may retire,” the doctor disappeared behind a door, “you four, take the infant and keep him in the borders, protect him, if our plan fails he may be the only hope for the world.”

“Yes my king.” the four guards disappeared in a flash of light.

“Excuse me for my boldness king Zander, but what are you talking about?” the dragon asked, from the looks of it a simple soldier.

“A new born like no other dear brother, can you believe darkness and chaos resides in him?”

“B-but that’s impossible! Is he a demon then!?”

“At first I thought that, but after seeing these results,” he said holding up some papers, “I also found out he has a thousand times more magic powers than me and at the same time unimagic, creating a perfect balance with this chaos energy inside him.” another tremble, this one bigger than the last pulling the dragon soldier out of his shock. “We have little time to spare, go on, take them to our alicorn brothers, tell them to find the bearers for themselves.” A chest then appeared before him in a flash of light, handing them over to the dragon soldier.

“And if they fail king Zander?”

“They won’t, they are the culmination of our efforts, a weapon of good, a weapon of balance, it will cleanse all evil and leave only what’s good behind or it will destroy the source completely, although they don’t have a name yet, any ideas?”

“I have one, but if I may ask, the little one has a name yet?”

“No, he is but a mere newborn.”

“What do you think of the newborn?” he asked while another tremble shook the building to its very core.

“What I think of him? Well……that’s quite simple, he represents our very essence, our very reason to fight, he IS balance itself but he is more than that, light and darkness, balance and chaos, his very limbs are all different, he may picture imperfection but I think he represents our most perfect form, he is like a small living representation of……harmony.” He said not looking at anything in particular but smiling for himself nonetheless.

“I see……….king Zander, may the weapon be called Harmony?”

“Harmony……..yes, our last hope….. for the culmination of our efforts, YES! A perfect name ‘The Powers’ no no no, ‘The Elements of Harmony’.” he snapped his fingers; a blue light appeared before him.

“Generosity, giving all, sacrificing everything you have in order to see others smile and do what is right when the time is right, a weapon to destroy the greedy and hunger for power, let them feel your bright hope” another snap.

“Laughter, the never ending happiness, an energy so powerful no one shall stay sad or angry for long when pure laughter spreads, destroying hate and sadness, giving the will to live and to keep fighting day by day, let them feel your bliss” another snap.

“Honesty, the brightness of truth, truth hurts but lies hurt more, living in the light even if it hurts its better than living in the darkness blinded and ignorant, let deception turn to ashes when the truth shines, let them feel heavy weight of your words” another snap.

“Kindness, to give those worthy of it peace and a chance to prove themselves to be true a weapon to show your valor when you needed the most, when kindness shines the darkness cowers in fear for it knows they are powerless against it, let them feel your wrath for no forgiveness shall come from it” another snap.

“Loyalty, true to your friends, true to your rules or your subjects and true to yourself, the incorruptible wall that will always come back to those it hold dear, the perfect weapon against temptation and corruption, let them feel your mighty shield” another snap.

“Magic, you move around us, inside us and alongside us, for good and evil you can be used but your heart will decide in the end what your purpose will be, let them feel your powerful grace and might”

Another snap and all six lights disappeared “Go now, there is little time, we shall stop her as long as we can and please, don’t let our great sister Waldarys sacrifice be in vain, GO!” Zander ordered ready to snap his fingers.

The dragon soldier spread out his wings *Flash* and he was in the air high above the draconequus kingdom, Arcadia, seeing it put a mighty defense against Echidna and her forces. He turned around and flew away as fast as he could towards the alicorn kingdom.

*Arcadia defense scene*

The scene turned again, showing Gemstoneguard in ruins, the only building standing was the nesting grounds; a great shadow appeared over it and then a gigantic claw smashed it, destroying the building and anything inside it, a mighty roar followed the destruction a roar of victory.

Six shadows moved through the ruins at blinding speed, five of them carrying an egg, the other a black box and all running away from the once great gemstone empire, the six shadows were illuminated by the light the fire on the buildings gave revealing six gemstone dragons.

One of the dragons carrying an egg looked back and gasped in horror before a river of dark fire engulfed him, there were no screams and the rest of the dragons kept running for their lives, the fire extinguished leaving only a figure of ashes on the ground, another one of those dragon was caught by Echidna’s maw, devouring him and destroying the egg he was carrying in the process.

Another one tossed the egg she was carrying to the one at her left, stopped and began to grow until she was bigger than the average dragon but still dwarfed by the titanic size of Echidna then she charged against her hitting Echidna in the face, gaining her attention, the other three dragons spread out their wings and took flight, flying as fast as they could.

The one carrying the box turned his head around only to see his sister be torn apart by Echidna, but she had gave them time to flee, then he noticed a shadow above them, an orange dragon was descending upon them, he and one of his brothers evaded him but the last one carrying both eggs could not evade him in time and was caught in his claws driving him to the ground, a muffled shout of *Keep going* echoed in the sky and so they did, flying as fast as they could they left their once glorious home towards another land, the last thing they could hear was an enraged roar, no doubt made by Echidna for one egg having survived and was, now, out of her reach.

The scene split into two and were fast, the first showed the dragon carrying the box arrive to the temple, now ruins, where Daring found the book, he put it on the pedestal and left, a ray of light illuminating it. The second scene showed an isle in the middle of a small canyon, big trees and wild nature all over the place, the dragon fell upon a small cave and walked in it until he reached the end of it, using his claws he carved a pedestal and a nest made out of rock, he then took some of his scales and spit green fire upon them, they turned into some sort of blanket, he wrapped it around the nest and put the egg he was carrying over it.

“Stay safe” he said, turned around and left, in the entrance of the cave he used Moon powder and carved some kind of runes or glyphs around the small entrance, once he finished the runes began to glow and slowly began to cover the entrance with an illusion, “Stay safe” he repeated and flew away.

The scene turned again, now picturing Echidna in her full size, bigger than mountains, her red eyes promising death and her black scales blackening the skies, creating a maelstrom above her.

She was preparing to lay waste to the alicorns, her last immortal foes, she was about to strike when two dragons came out of nowhere and smashed against her, in her rage she used her breath to destroy them instead of the six alicorns below her, one of them was turned to ashes inside her dark flames, the other evading most of her flames fell to the ground in agonizing pain seeing the last moments of Echidna, she prepared to attack the alicorns this time, but it was too late, he saw a gigantic rainbow capture her.

His vision became fuzzier and the last he saw was Echidna being destroyed by the force of the Elements of Harmony, he turned his attention to the ground below him before hitting the ground, then everything turned black around the group except for the faint light coming from Waldarys.

“It was just yesterday for me,” she said to no one in particular, “I didn’t even know if she was defeated, the last thing I remember was being sucked into the book, and then I heard your voice young one,” she said to Spike, “ aauugggnn---!!“ Waldarys fell to her knees.

“Noble Waldarys!” Luna shouted, noticing until now that the small dragons around her were nowhere to be seen.

“My time……is almost up, soon I will join my husband and brothers and sisters.” her body began to lose light.

“Y-you said I had a responsibility, a task to do, right?” Spike asked her.

“Yes young one……….it is quite simple………….become what you want to be.” Her voice became weak and echoed around them. “Sister,” she said to Celestia, “please, protect him”

“Spike, my son, is your son also?”

“No…….he isn’t………I don’t even know who laid him, but you nurtured him, your bound in strong, in his eyes……………and his soul you are his mother……………”she said all the while becoming weaker and weaker.

“T-then I will search for another one of my kind! An old one who can train me, who can teach me how to be a dragon, a gemstone dragon!”

“Young one………there is no other one of you……..you are the last……….as I said before………”

“But how can you be so certain! There must be another one!...........there must be…….” Spike said looking at her with sad pleading eyes.

“I’m…..so sorry………” using what was left of her strength the view of the planet came before them, only a small single purple light shone, right over Canterlot, “My ability………..was to feel all those………….alive no matter………where they were………………..even if they were just eggs…………… as you can see………… I can only feel you now,” Spike fell silent, she took his chin making him look up to her and smiled.

“Young one………… Spike…………. It doesn’t matter …………your mother, friends and family …………….are with you ……………..that’s all that matters …………you ………….are ………….not ……….truly ……….alone.” Her voice turned into whispers, then she disappeared and suddenly they were back in the Librarium sitting on their spots.

It took a second for all them to notice they were back in the room, a noise made them look to the center of the table, the book was burning in green and purple fire. Spike got up and tried to put the fire out but couldn’t stop them, he began to cry seeing his efforts were in vain but did not stop until Celestia, with a sad expression, tapped him on his shoulder, he looked back to her and threw himself to her, crying over her neck, she only held him close while the book turned to ashes and the ashes into light.

For several moments everything was silent and only muffled sounds of cries from some of the presents could be heard, Discord got up and walked away.

“D-Discord, w-where are you going?” Twilight asked.

“I need to be alone…………….I must think about…..things.” instead of flashing out he simply pushed the doors open and walked away, Phalanx walked inside the room seeing him leave.

“Is everything alright your maj---“seeing the scene before him and feeling sadness and confusion in the air he decided to step back into the hallway again.

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Celestia’s Chambers 11:13 PM, seven hours after the event in the Librarium

Celestia was laying on her bed with Spike hugging one of her forelegs, neither sleeping nor awake, he was in deep thought and so was she, but not because of the events from earlier, she was worried about her son and what could this mean to him from now on, she looked down to see him and found him looking up to her.

“Mommy………….can you sing me a song, please?”

“Of course my child, do you have one in mind?”

“The one you used to sing me in storm nights” he said putting his head over her foreleg, using it as a pillow.

“Of course,” she kissed his exposed cheek, “I love you, Spike.” She whispered in a motherly tone.

“I love you too, mom.” he said, smiling.

Celestia began to sing.

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*Unknown Location*

Darkness shrouded the area, a darkness that felt unnatural to anything unfortunate enough to be inside it, a darkness that had lasted for thousands of years un-interrupted was now being disturbed by two gigantic red glowing lights.

"It is time" a voice said in the deepths of that darkness, followed by faint purple glow making its was outside the darkness.

Chapter 4 end.

Author's Notes:

Special thanks to Bennet001 for proofreading!

Images took from Deviantart, Credit to the authors of such great images!

*The war chant is in Mando'a, from the song Vode an with some words changed* the song can be found here

*The song Celestia sang is names Lullaby for a stormy night*