The Rise of Spike the Dragon

By: MasterBrony Forever

I would like to give a huge thanks to JXWheeler & NineTailBeastBall for Co-Writing, Pre-Reading, and Editing!

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“You know, I'm quite surprised that your plan actually worked Discord.” Luna stated as she, and the chaotic deity beside her, left the young dragon couple alone. “It surprises me more that you didn’t pull any tricks that would ruin their moment.” she added

Discord audibly gasped, “Luna! I am offended you would think of such things!” The night princess raised an eyebrow at the draconequus’s statement, “Okay, the only reason I didn’t prank them was because I don’t mess with true love. Especially if it lasted over what I consider two life times.”

“My, that is quite honorable of you Discord.” The night goddess said with a surprised expression.

“I'm not always chaotic Lulu. Only when I'm bored or when things are too orderly will I cause a little chaos.” He chuckled as he loop-de-loops through the air.

Luna shook her head but formed a small smile at Discord's childishness. “What am I going to do with you?”

Discord and Luna had overheard Spike’s plans for asking Glamour out that night and they decided to help. Luna sent her night guards to clear out any creatures in the area that could cause harm to the two young lovers. Discord, with a simple clap of his hands, formed whatever trees that were around him into living string and wind instruments.

The rest of their flight back to the Dragon Empire went by mostly in silence. Fortunately, this gave them time to think about what Nubuatan had told them over a month ago.
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‘The time draws near for the Scale Six to come forth and regain what they have lost. The battle that will change the world as we know it will soon be upon us.’
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Neither Discord nor Luna knew how long it would take until Nubuatan told them it was time. Luna was very eager to see what power the Scale Six contained. Discord on the other hand, wanted to witness how Spike and his small clan wielded such power, and if it could truly have been used to defeat Celestia.

Yet, what they both wanted to know, was what the items were that Nubuatan has been keeping them in the dark over. From what they could figure out, they were crafted when the Dragon Empire was still thriving. No matter where they looked, from the Sancta Sacrarium to the crumbling structure in the center of the empire that was once Aquila and Celsius’s castle, they found nothing to give them the information that Nubuatan refused to give them.

They had decided to push the issue aside. They both knew that it would take time to get things to fall into place. Little did they know that would be happening sooner than they had expected.

Back in the Sancta Sacrarium of the empire, the massive grey and white dragon was holding a empty book he had made up to test the memories of the drakes. Written in an ancient dragon language that died along with the fall of the empire.

Meanwhile, Lux was sitting on NightStalker's bed tending to his injury. The unconscious drake, was sound asleep with his head resting peacefully on Lux's lap.

‘Fortunately, the poor dear didn't suffer any serious damage. Some light bruises and head pains will only take a few days to heal.’ She thought to herself while stroking the sides of his shoulders.

Lux removed Night's head from her lap, and reached into the medicine bag Glamour made her. She took out some aloe vera and rubbed it on the small bump on Night's head. Lux was well aware that even though dragon scales were as hard as diamonds, they could still be hurt to a certain degree if they are struck in the same place repeatedly. Night had done this very often in attempt to repeat the events of their journey. With them still being babies, at least by dragon standards, their skulls were mostly still soft.

She smiled thinking about everything that had happened over the past few years after she and the girls met Spike and the others. Glamour and Cobalt would most likely be dead if those three hadn't came to their rescue. Night even risked his life getting that manticore to chase him so the others could escape. She felt close to him, even though she didn't know much about him.

‘Hopefully that will change.’ She thought to herself.

The golden scaled dragoness' mind wandered back to the old book that she had found yesterday. After Lux checked on Night one last time, she left to begin her search. She wanted to see if there was more that ancient textbook then just cover and the first few pages. Sure it was written in a new language, but that didn't stop her. However, when Lux went to retrieve the book from her room, it was gone.

She searched high and low for it, and asked Scout and Cobalt if they had seen it. Unfortunately, neither of them even knew about the book she was talking about. Lux found it odd that the book had somehow vanished into thin air, and it pleased her mind for a while. Eventually she brushed it off and went back to Night's room.

Spike and Glamour had returned home two hours later into the night. Both of the young dragons had loving smiles on their faces as they held each other’s hands. The love they had for each other was true and pure. Even if they didn’t know it, their relationship was centuries old. This just proves how powerful their bond was.

Lux noticed them coming in and smiled. “I take it the date went well?” she asked playfully.

Glamour returned her friend's smile and sat next to Spike. “More like 'magnificent' my dear.” she lovingly stated as she rested her head on top of Spike's shoulder. A faint blush appeared on the purple drake's face.

Lux giggled at this, “I'm glad to hear it.” she said smiling.

Glamour giggled to herself seeing her drake blush before looking at the moon outside of the cave, “As much as I hate to say it, we should be off to bed.” she said with a yawn.

Batting her eyes, Glamour leaned to Spike's ear “Let's go out again sometime darling~” she purred before walking off to her own room. Before she walked into her room, she turned blowing a kiss to Spike and gave him a wink before closing her door.

Lux could see the love-struck look in Spike's eyes and snapped her fingers to get him out of his trance, “Everfree to Spike, Everfree to Spike, we need you back here.”

Spike shook his head as he returned from his little daydream. He smiled sheepishly, “Sorry Lux, my mind kinda wandered off.”

Lux giggled, “I could tell, but Cobalt and I need to tell you something.” She said motioning for him to go sit at the table in the kitchen.

He gave her a look of confusion but went to the table as he waited for Lux to go retrieve Cobalt. Only a few minutes later the two walked into the kitchen, both of them had stern looks on their faces. To Spike’s surprise, he was actually intimidated by them. He felt small under their death stares, he knew the dragonesses were the deadliest when they were angered.

Finally, Spike calmed down remembering Cobalt and Lux are his friends and looked into their eyes “Okay girls, what's wrong?”

“Nothing's wrong.” Lux answered gently.

“As long as you don’t do anything stupid.” Cobalt said. Spike just raised an eyebrow.

“Now you see, Glamour is like a sister to us, and we like seeing her happy. And judging from the look in her eyes, you had made her happier than she had ever been before.” Lux said sweetly.

Cobalt reached forward and grabbed one of Spike’s ear to make him to face her. “However, if you break the girl’s heart, her feelings won't be the only thing getting hurt. I will go so far as to turn you from a Spike into a Barb.” she threatened.

Spike crossed his legs instantly as his eye twitched at the thought of what they would do to him if he messed up. Angry dragonesses were even worse than several fully enraged drakes. Looking at Cobalt, Spike saw that she had every intention of keeping her promise.

“Alright, I got it.” Spike said slightly nervous. “Cobalt can I have my ear back please?” The blue dragoness smirked and released her leader's ear.

“Glad we understand each other.” Lux said in her usual sweet tone.

The two dragonesses went to their respective rooms leaving Spike to think. Several moments of silence passed before Scout came into the room.

“Ah overheard what jus happened.” Scout said as he took a seat next to Spike.

“Yeah, it seems like they don’t trust me with Glamour's heart.” Spike said tapping his chin.

“Ah think that was jus ta’ intimidate ya’ ta treat the fine thing right.” Scout suggested.

“Well I plan to,” Spike said with a chuckle. “I am gentledrake and I'll do everything I can to please her.” Suddenly a thought came to mind about how he had done the same thing for a certain marshmallow unicorn mare, who shall not be named. Despite the love Spike showed her, the same white unicorn never returned the feelings that Glamour did. Thinking of that inconsiderate mare made Spike’s blood boil. A wisp of green flames flowed from his mouth and his eyes slowly began to turn white.

Scout took notice and shook him, “Spike! Snap outta’ it!” he yelled trying to calm him down.

Spike’s eyes faded back to normal as he put a palm to his forehead groaning. He dropped to knees as a huge pang of pain ran through his body. Scout dropped with him so his friend to lean on him for support. He kept calling out to Spike trying to wake him up. Suddenly he felt a slight stabbing at the back of his own head.

A similar feeling was moving through the rest of the small clan's heads, they all fell to one knee and collapsed, as their body temperatures started to rise. Groans and screams of pain echoed throughout the cave, they could not only feel the pain that surged through them but also the pain the others felt. This only caused them even more agony.

Spike's eyes started glowing and his body became encased in green flames, “ENOUGH!!” He roared in a deeper two tone voice as he shot himself up standing.

Waves of energy pulsed off his body at this one word and the unbearable torture the Scale Six had gone through vanished. Spike looked at his hand and saw green flames surrounding his claws.

Scout opened his eyes to see cracks forming in the earth he was standing on. When he lowered his tail, it seemed to shake the cave when it hit the ground, “What in tarnation?!”

Spike looked behind him and saw A hellish black claw shoot out from his shadow, it waved reaching for whatever was nearby. Spike turned and grabbed the claw and pulled. Night was pulled from Spike’s shadow and collapsed onto his side, he seemed to have healed from his injuries faster than expected. However, seeing his friend pop out from his shadow is what had the Spike's attention at the moment.

“Night how did you do that?” Spike asked. Before Night could answer, the cave shook causing them both to turn around to face Scout. The large drake had just stood up allowing his tail to strike the ground. The large round end had formed a small crater on where it had landed.

Seeing everything that was happening, Spike's mind wandered to what could be happening with the girls. His worries grew as he dashed down the cave hallway with Night and Scout following.

“Lux! Cobalt! Glamour! Where are you?!” Spike shouted.

“Spike up here!” The three drakes looked up and saw Cobalt floating in the air as her arms flailed around. Night felt a smirk growing on his face and soon burst out laughing. “And you call me an airhead Cobalt!” he said wiping a tear from his eye.

“You know, you really should consider all the vile things I can do to you when I get down from here.” she stated with a glare that instantly shut the black drake up.

Scout smiles at this before saying, “Well now that we know you're okay-” He was interrupted as Cobalt hit a stalactite. “Well for the most part okay, but what about...” Two screeches resonated through the cave.

Spike and Night's heads snap in the direction of where those screams came from.

“Glamour!” Spike shouted before he raced off to find her. His eyes began to glow slightly and his feet left scorch marks on the ground as he dashed.

“Lux!” Night yelled as he ran off to her room, but yelps as he falls through a shadow. “Oh come on!” he yelled in frustration as he traveled through another shadow. Not even a second later, a shadow that was the spitting image of the black drake ran from shadow to shadow making his way toward Lux’s room.

“It seems I'm pretty useless at the moment.” Cobalt stated as she continued to float uncontrollably in the air.

Scout looked up at Cobalt, “Ah’ll find a way ta getcha’ down, just stay there.” he told her.

Cobalt rolled her eyes “Where am I gonna go?” she asked sarcastically.

“Just try not ta float out your window.” Scout retorted looking around for anything that could help.

Meanwhile, Night was racing through the shadows of the cave trying to get to Lux. He was starting to get the hang of his newfound power, but he didn’t have time to enjoy his abilities, he was worried about Lux. He reached for the doorknob and saw a blinding light shining through the door. Growing suspicious, he climbed out of the shadow and turned the knob.

The brightness all came from one large white light in the middle of the room. There, Lux floated screaming in agony. The raw power now coursing through her veins, was becoming too much to handle.

“Lux!” Night called out to her. “Lux can you hear me?!” he tried again not certain if she heard him.

The glowing dragoness looked down to see the drake she cared so much for up and well. Tears flowed freely from her eyes before she closed them back shut and let out another screech of pain. Lux then slammed her claws into her head, the pain was unbearable and seemed to be eating away at her.

“N-N-NIGHT HELP! IT HURTS!” She screamed.

Night couldn’t watch Lux suffer like this anymore, he cared too much for the silver and golden scaled dragoness. Seeing her in this much pain was killing him faster than anything could. Without a moment's hesitation, the black drake rushed to her as fast as his small legs could carry him.

“Lux hold on I’m coming!” He shouted as he approached her, but the closer he got, the harder it became to move forward. The force of her power somehow seemed to be pushing him back.

Lux looked to him with hope before dropping down as indescribably bright light got brighter. This energy was unbalanced, and was beginning to overload. Night’s eyes flash completely red before a coat of darkness traveled around his body. The bursts of power from the dragonesses didn’t cause him any harm, but the room was beginning to slowly fall apart.

“N-N-Night...” Lux whimpered as she reached out for him.

She felt her hand fall into his, and the waves of energy suddenly ceased. The burning pain faded away and was instantly replaced with a slight calming sensation. The next thing Lux felt was someone's arms wrapping around her. She looked to see Night holding her lovingly as well as, small trindles of black energy being mixed with her pure white energy.

Hours seemed to go by as the two dragons snuggled against each other. Lux sighed silently, she felt completely safe in her drake's protective embrace.

Small bursts of memories flowed through both of their minds, they showed them that they had known each other many years beforehand. They saw that the used to be mates, and everything about them fit perfectly with the other, though they knew nothing about the connection of these memories. Right now, it didn’t matter to either of them.

“N-Night...Please don’t ever leave me.” She was surprised by what she just said, but interestingly enough, it sounded natural. It was as if she had said it before.

NightStalker just smiled lovingly, and ran his claws through her long hair frills. “I wouldn't dream of it Lux.” he responded.

Lux started to giggle softly as he continued to play with her frills. “Enjoying yourself dear?” she asked teasingly.

He chuckles, “You know I am, and I always have.”

They gazed into each others eyes lovingly, happy they had each other once again. Lux blushed faintly as she closed her eyes and moved her head closer to Night's. Knowing what was coming, Night closed his eyes as well. Their lips locked together in a silent but passionate kiss, it was the first one that the young couple had in hundreds of years. About two minutes later, the kiss came to an end. Both Lux and Night were blushing fiercely as they embraced each other once more. Though they had something nagging in the back of their minds.

“Night...” The golden white dragonesse started.

“I know. You felt it too?” He responded not needing her to continue.

“It is almost time...” She said before settling into his arms and falling into a deep rest.

What started off as floating around harmlessly, eventually turned into a raging storm as Cobalt’s powers went into its full potential. Whilst Scout was looking for a way to get her to back to the ground. Suddenly, Cobalt felt the sharp pain running through her body. She recognized it as same stinging that she felt before she started floating. Suddenly, a blast of wind seemed to come out of nowhere and several more followed.

“Now what the hell is that?” Scout said in his common southern accent.

Another strong blow whipped through the room, but a yelp of pain came with it. Scout's head snapped up to Cobalt who had just grown a pair of wings out of her back. Every flap of her new wings, caused a powerful wind to pick up inside the room. Thick dark clouds started to form in the air around Cobalt.

“S-SCOUT!” she shouted as the pain in her head increased and a roar of thunder rang in the room.

Hearing Cobalt shout his name over the clap of thunder triggered something in Scout. As if by instinct he jumped to the side just before a blast of wind destroyed the ground he was standing on. A ancient reflex kicked in and he put his punched into the cave floor and pulled out a large rock and hurled it at Cobalt.

With a flick of her wrist, she sent out another blast of wind destroying the boulder. Yet little did she know that right behind the rubble was Scout with his fist raised preparing to strike. Cobalt’s wings blocked his fist, but the impact pushed her back a few feet.

“Cobalt! What the hell has gotten’ inta ya!?” Scout barked at the deep blue dragoness. He was standing on a pillar of earth to keep him at her eye level.

Cobalt simply growled and flapped her wings propelling herself at him. She knocked him off the pillar and sent him hurtling toward the ground. He grunted as her crashed into the cave floor, her tackle didn’t hurt as much as it should have, but he was still sore for a moment.

Scout glared at the young dragoness before stomping the ground to create another pillar of earth. His eyes were glowing, his movements and choices were that of his ancient self. He rose up and looked into Cobalt’s eyes, all he saw was blind hatred and rage, but behind it and causing it was pain. He could see the young blue dragoness weathering in pain, she didn’t want to hurt Scout the way her body was trying to.

Cobalt broke through the power that was in control of her body, “Scout! Help me!” She screamed before the power took control again.

When she attacked him this time, she sent a fist of pressurized air into the drake knocking him against the wall, but this time Scout was ready for what Cobalt threw at him. His feet hit the wall creating cracks in it as he held the solid clouds back with both his claws.

He grunted as he started pushing the cloud back, getting closer to Cobalt, “I’m a comin’ Cobalt!”

Cobalt’s body let out a banshee like wail and sent several more fists of air at the drake as he approached her. Each one would strike at him anywhere they could with one blast more painful than the one before. Even though Scout’s scales were tougher than the others’, the he jumped up and used his spear shaped tail to destroy the fist that was holding him back.

He let out a battle cry as her sailed toward Cobalt’s body. He pulled his head back and slammed into her forehead.

*CRACK*

The sound resonated throughout Cobalt’s room. After a long pause before the storm clouds dissipated and Cobalt’s wings retracted into her body as if they never existed. They were suspended in the air for several minutes. Both of their eyes were blank white as their blood landed onto the cold ground several yards below.

Suddenly, the floating stopped and they both began falling toward the ground. Scout was the first to notice they were falling, he tried to gain control of his fall but looked to the falling dragonesse next to him. He could survive the meeting with the ground only coming away with a few sore areas which would recover in only a few hours. Cobalt however, would not be so lucky if they continued falling. Her scales were not as strong as Scout’s, she was built for speed and maneuverability not physical endurance.

Scout tried to steer his injured body over to Cobalt, as they got closer to the earth. He reached out, and quickly grabbed her hand pulling her closer. He was just in time because not seconds later they were a few feet deep in a new crater in the floor.

“S-S-Scout...” Cobalt said meekly which was extremely unusual for her tough girl attitude.

“Cobalt,” He sighed in relief, “Are you okay?” He asked looking into her eyes. What he saw next surprised him greatly.

Cobalt was crying, making Scout feel somewhat guilty. She sniffled a few times before letting the dams break. She held onto Scout’s arms, and he soon wrapped his own arms around her. “I-I-I was so s-s-scared.” She choked out through her sobs, “I saw...I saw...” the crying worsened.

“It’s alright, jus’ let it out.” Scout said as he rubbed her back and held her close.

He already knew what she was going to say because he saw it too as his powers came forth. He saw what had happened to their mothers, though they couldn’t remember who did it. They were murdered, and stripped of everything that makes a dragon a dragon.

Meanwhile while all this was going on, Spike had just come to a wall of water that blocked off the way to Glamour’s room. It confused him greatly where the water had come from. Regardless, Spike knew Glamour was in there and he had to know that she was okay.

“Glamour are you alright in there?!” he called to her but got no answer. Taking a deep breath Spike dashed into the wall of pressurized water.

Thanks to his scales, the water pressure didn't cause Spike any serious harm. However, finding Glamour was becoming a challenge with him not being able to keep his secondary eyelids closed over his eyes because of the pressure. What made matter more difficult, was that the drake was slowly running out of breath, but he pushed himself to continue swimming.

Finally, Spike surfaced taking in all the air he could as he entered Glamour's bedroom and gasped at what he saw. The entire room was flooding, and in the center, Spike saw Glamour inside a pillar of twirling water. She was writhing in terrible pain as the water continued to circle around her.

“Glamour!” Spike shouted as he swam to her. Glamour turned around and saw her drake coming to her rescue.

“SPIKEY HELP!! IT HURTS SO MUCH!!” the white dragoness screamed.

Spike reached out to Glamour, but the momentum of the water pillar hurt his hand as he tried to force his way to Glamour. Spike clutched his hand in pain before trying again. “No pain no gain.” he told himself as he kept trying to push past the torrent of water.

Spike kept trying, but the speed of the twirling pillar seemed to increase as Glamour’s pain grew. Spike's rage was rising, not being able to get to his dragoness was starting to bring forth his power once again. His body began to radiate an immense amount of heat and soon, he was engulfed entirely in dark green flames.

He roared and with a flaming fist, he punched through the pillar of water and grabbed Glamour's hand, which she was quick to hold onto for dear life. She suddenly felt another jolt of pain shoot throughout her body, and the water around them seemed to form into a tsunami. The massive wave traveled through the cave breaking down everything in sight. Stalagmites, stalactites, rocks, furniture and everything else was being ripped away by the incredible power of the wave.

“Glamour! I'm here! Everything is going to be alright!” Spike said as he held her firmly in his arms. Unfortunately, her pain wasn't fading and the tsunami's power wasn't getting any weaker.

“SPIKE PLEASE MAKE THE PAIN STOP!!” she screamed as tears rolled down her cheeks. Her throbbing head felt as if it was about to break open.

The purple and green drake tilted his dragoness's head up to meet his eyes. Looking into her drake's gentle, emerald eyes, Glamour's pain finally ceased. In a sudden two-toned voice, Spike said, “Glamour, I'm here for you. Let me take away your pain and protect you. I will be your sword and shield, unwavering and unyielding.”

The wave of water stopped in its trail of destruction as Glamour was gently pulled closer to her drake by her waist. Old memories were coming back to her, the feeling of his warm embrace, the way he talked to her, and how he treated her like a queen. Glamour saw they once lived perfect lives with one another, and she wanted to have that life again.

“Spike...” She said softly placing a claw onto his cheek, “I remember, I remember so much.” More tears came down Glamour’s cheeks, but these ones, were tears of joy.

“As do I my love. I am glad we are together again.” he said huskily. Spike then took Glamour’s hand, before gently pressing his lips to hers once again.

This familiar sensation caused Glamour to melt into his embrace. The waves that have been running rampant through the cave halted before reverting back to Glamour’s room. The water then completely vanished leaving everything dry. The room looked as if the flooding never took place.

Right now, they were too caught up what they've experienced tonight to care much about the past horrors they've witnessed. There was definitely going to be a talk about everything that has happened tomorrow morning

Discord and Luna landed in front of the Sancta Sacrarium of the Dragon Empire. They were both been unaware of what had transpired since leaving Spike and Glamour to return home from their little outing.

“I wonder what our friend Nubuatan is up to?” Discord said snapping his fingers to open the door.

They were greeted by the aforementioned dragon looking down at them with a slight glare, “I do not wish to be disturbed,” he snarled. “Time is nearing and if I do not complete my task, I would have failed in my duty to the Scale Six.”

“Duty? Why have you not told us of this duty?” Luna inquired raising an eyebrow.

“It does not concern you as of yet. Now begone!” Nubuatan barked before spreading one of his massive wings. With a single pump, he blew the alicorn and draconequus away from the entrance to the Sancta Sacrarium.

The two quickly recovered during mid flight before looking down to where the dragon once stood. The over sized doors had been closed by the strange glow that now emitted from it.

“Why must he hide so much from us? I thought I was certain that we've earned his trust.” Luna huffed before flying off to what was now her new living arrangements. She landed gracefully onto the balcony of her sleeping quarters before lazily slumping onto the bed.

Discord decided now would be a good time to actually act one millionth his age instead of one trillionth his age, “Well Luna, he did say he would any of our questions once Spike and his little buddies return to their natural forms.”

“I am aware of this.” Luna responded blowing a piece of her ever flowing mane away from her eyes, “Yet I still feel that there is so much he is not telling us.”

Discord nodded and stood on the ledge of the balcony about to take flight. Before doing so, he simply said, “We all have secrets Luna, some are just worth keeping to ourselves.” With this, the chaotic spirit took off to his own abode not too far from Luna’s.

Luna was still awake pondering on what Discord had just said. “He’s right,” She said to herself, “It's best I allow Nubuatan to decide when he's ready to tell me more about the Scale Six.” Moments afterwards, the night alicorn was fast asleep walking among the realm of dreams. The dimension, contained her night guard who remained loyal to their beloved princess. Luna made sure to keep Celestia out of her domain so she would not learn where she and Discord had vanished off to, or what they’ve discovered since they left.

Meanwhile, in the darkest part of the Sancta Sacrarium, concealed from the outside world, was Nubuatan. He stared into the nothingness of the enchanted space allowing his mind to go blank. He let out a deep breath, and not a moment later, blood started to fall from his eyes. The falling red liquid started in small trickles, then escalated into a roaring river. As the dripping concluded, Nubuatan's body started crumbling into dust.

The wave of blood and dust started to come together in the form of a crystal ball that floated in the center of the room. After a blast of energy pulsated off of it, it began to glow an eerie white light.

“My time is reaching its end and my masters are starting to awaken.” Nubuatan’s voice resonated from the crystal ball, “Once the change is applied, my task will be complete and I can finally return home...” His voice fades into the empty space, and the room falls into complete silence.

One last thought resonated inside of the sphere, 'It is time...for you to...return... m....f...

NEW CHAPTER!

Just what is Nubuatan? That will have to wait until next chapter.

And there is a reason for Lux, Glamour, and Cobalt having a bigger power outburst the Spike, Night, and Scout did but that will be explained next chapter.