The Dragon's Abyss

by DarklordAxel20

The Truth Behind the Past

Inside Twilight's Castle

Despite her best efforts to keep up with the fleeing Shade, Twilight inevitably lost him after ten minutes of chasing him, " He's faster than he looks....I wonder what made him run off like that, he was acting perfectly fine while we were at Rarity's,". Twilight had went home after her failed attempt at keeping up with Shade, the place she went to as soon as she got home was the library, however as soon as she got there she was in for a surprise. Sitting in the library was Shade, it seemed that as soon as Twilight lost sight of him that he immediately ran here, " Shade?, are you alright, you just ran off all of a sudden ".

She waited for him to reply, which he eventually did, but only after five minutes of awkward silence, " I haven't been entirely honest with you ". This confused Twilight greatly, Shade saw the confusion on her face and knew she was waiting for an explanation, " I haven't lied, yet at the same time I haven't told you all of the truth, the truth about who I am ".

" Wha..what do you mean Shade, what haven't you told me," two feelings were welling up inside of her, the feeling that he might have some dark secret that would ruin their new friendship, and also a feeling of great curiosity to know what he was talking about.

He looked her dead in the eyes before speaking, " You'll want to take a seat if your going to hear this,". Twilight did so, showing him that she was eager to listen to what he had to say. He closed his eyes and let out a deep sigh, " Very well, for starters, my origin, half of what I told you was true....I was born to a farm mare who mated with a dragon, but what I didn't tell you was when I was born," he watched as she eyed him with anticipation to hear the next part, " I Was born over five thousand years ago in ancient Equestria ".

Twilight's eyes opened as wide as they could go without her eyes popping out, was she really hearing him correctly, " F...five thousand years....," he simply nodded. " But how is that possible?! I know dragons can live for a long time, but even they would show some form of aging, you look as young as can be, how?! ".

He put one of his claws over her mouth to silence her so that he could continue, " I'll get to that shortly, allow me to continue,". Twilight nodded slowly, letting him continue where he was, " Like I said, I was born over five thousand years ago, when the princesses were young and so was Equestria, my mother was shunned for having birthed an abomination and to committing adultery, so...she got rid of me, put me in basket, laid me in running water, and let me go ".

Twilight held a look of great disgust on her face from hearing this part, " How could anypony do that, and to an infant as well, that makes it even worse, why I've never heard of a pony doing that, it sounds so heinous, I mean yes fillies and foals are orphaned but theres normally a reason, but it sounds like your mother did it out of selfish reasons ".

Shade stared at Twilight as she ranted, waiting for her to finish talking before responding, " Some ponies will do whatever they can to save themselves ". Twilight understood what he meant, it wasn't the first time she had heard of somepony doing something selfish to preserve their own being. " Don't delve on that thought though, I was found by a couple of unicorns who lived in what is now the everfree forest, where the princesses resided, they both served under Celestia and Luna, my surrogate father worked as a royal chef, while my mother worked as Celestia's personal housemaid, " he took a short pause to look at Twilight's facial expression, she had a look of amazement on her face, it was clear that she was soaking in every little detail he said. " My new parents loved me dearly, no matter what I looked like, and from them I learned the basics of magic, and as I grew so did my love for learning and my magical abilities, eventually I started going to work with my parents, spending afternoons watching them do their assigned jobs, and it was there I first met Princess Celestia herself ".

He was cut off by a gasp, " You knew Celestia back then, oh what an honor it would've been if I could've seen the Princess when she was that young, I bet she was as dignifying and regal as she was now, " however before she could continue talking she was interrupted by a loud "Ahem". She looked to see Shade staring at her with an unamused look on his face, " Oops," she was blushing from slight embarrassment, " Go ahead and continue ".

" Thank you, now as I was saying, after weeks of working with my parents, putting my magic to use, I caught the attention of Celestia herself, she was quite interested in me, I am an odd creature after all, but it wasn't myself she was interested in, it was the fact I could use magic despite being mostly dragon, it was this factor that would impact her next decision, making me her very first student,". He awaited another gasp, but he didn't get one, instead Twilight was speechless, not only was her new guest thousands of years old, but he was also the very first pupil under Princess Celestia, " Speechless I see, I find this better than being interrupted, no offense, " this earned another blush and a slight laugh from Twilight. As soon as she was ready to listen again she nodded to tell him so, he nodded in return and went back to speaking, " It was under her I developed most of my magical prowess, yes it was abnormally high for a unicorn foal, but the tutoring and training I received increased this prowess tenfold in a short time, and even more than that as I grew and as my studies furthered, " he took a very short pause before turning his head towards the window, " However I couldn't remain her student forever, eventually I learned everything I could learn, but by that time Celestia had already seen me as the younger brother she never had, my parents had no objections with letting me stay at the castle, in fact they were more than thrilled to learn that I would be staying there ".

Twilight looked him in the face as best as she could form the angle she was at, " It sounds like you were in the life of luxury, but the tone your speaking in is more somber than reminiscent, why is that, " she awaited a response from him which was quickly delivered.

He turned back to face her as he started to speak, " It was also that time that Celestia assigned me a task, one that I had a hard time fulfilling, that task...that task was finding a pupil of my own so that he could not only learn from Celestia, but from me as well, I chose one alright, his name was Starswirl, he was a young unicorn foal, but he had great potential when it came to magic, I took him under my wing, he was like a younger brother to me, although when it came to appearances we both looked rather young,". When Shade took another another pause he looked at Twilight, who at the moment was being rather silent, he was expecting her to ask him a question, yet she sat there, mouth agape, eyes widened, " Twilight, are you alright? "

She shook her head upon hearing him call her name, she looked slightly dazed for a second, but just moments later she looked back to normal, " Sorry about that, it's just your pupil, hes THE Starswirl the Bearded, one of the greatest unicorns in all of history, if you taught him everything he knows, well then you gotta be as amazing at using magic than he was! "

Shade stared at Twilight for a moment before turning away, " So that foal did grow to make a name for himself....good for him ". He cleared his throat before continuing on about his life, " As I was saying, Starswirl was my pupil, a little brother in my eyes, I taught him to the best of my abilities, life seemed good for what it was, until Equestria got two unlikely visitors, but before I go on, I have a question of my own I'd like to ask you ".

Twilight nodded, ready to answer him, " Ask away ".

He looked around the library, as if taking in his surroundings, I've seen pictures of you around here, yet you weren't an alicorn, how is that, and how did this castle come to be ".

" Well let me start on how i became an alicorn," Twilight stated, " I was originally a unicorn, but through the magic of friendship and all the experiences I've been through, I became an alicorn princess,". Twilight let out a sigh of reminiscence, only to be brought back to reality by Shade, " Oh yeah sorry, and how I got my castle, well there was this evil centaur, his name was Tirek, he somehow escaped Tartarus where Princess Celestia had sealed him away in, he started reeking havoc all over Equestria, he, " she however was promptly cut over by Shade putting his claw over Twilight's mouth.

" He Drained the populace of all their magic, growing stronger with every ounce of magic he absorbed until he seemed virtually unbeatable ".

Twilight was at a loss for words, he knew exactly what she was going to say about Tirek, " How exactly do you know that, the only other ponies to have faced Tirek were Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and a young Starswirl the bearded ". Then something dawned on her, she remembered everything Shade just told her and it hit her, " Oooh, that's how you know, cause," once again she was cut off.

Shade nodded, " Cause I was there, in fact if it weren't for me, they would've never sealed him away to begin with, I remember the battle as if it were yesterday, allow me to show you," his horn had shined for a moment, and suddenly a mirror like object appeared in front of them, " This is a mirror image, it allows the viewers to watch the memories of the being touching it, now watch and try to refrain from talking please, " He grabbed a hold of the mirror, his eyes turned white, and finally an image began form on the mirror.

Inside the Castle of the Two Sisters, Over Five Thousand Years ago

A young shade slammed against a marble pillar with incredible force, he had blood running down his right front leg, in front of him stood his attacker, Lord Tirek, who towered over the young dragon many times. " You Won't get away with this! your brother has already turned against you, " Shade exclaimed, "Your all alone in this Tirek, just surrender!!! " he charged the hulking centaur with all of his might, Tirek attempted to swat him away as he did last time, but Shade wasn't falling for this, he swiftly leaped onto the monstrous hand, and lunged right for Tirek's face with his claws ready to strike.

He was mere inches away before he snatched out of the air by Tirek's other hand, " You've amused so far abomination, but I've grown tired of you pestering me, it's time I ended you, " Tirek declared with his titanic voice. He grasped both of his hands around the captured dragon, and proceeded to literally squeeze the life out of them, having exhausted himself, Shade had no means of escape, he was seemingly helpless as Tirek slowly crushed him. Tirek however, delved in the screams of pain from the dragon, " Awww does it hurt that bad, maybe it's time you go to sleep, permanently, " he began to apply more pressure, eventually he could hear bones slowly cracking.

The screaming soon stopped, but Shade was far from dead, in fact he wore a confident smirk on his aching face, " I always eat a snack before I sleep!! " He opened his jaws wide, and clamped his razor sharp teeth down on Tireks' hand, resulting in the tyrant yelling in pain and releasing his grip on the dragon. Shade clung onto Tireks hand as though his life depended on it, even after Tirek fought through the pain and grabbed him again, Shade still refused to let go.

" You insolent insect!! how dare you bite me, I'll squeeze the life out of you!!!!! " but before he could continue crushing Shade, a peculiar smell hit his nostrils, the smell was smoke, his eyes looked in the direction his nosed led them too, only to see smoke leaving the edges of the dragons mouth, suddenly a sharp pain hit his hand. " AARGH!!!! " You filthy abomination," he lifted the hand that Shade was clung to in the air, and thrusted it towards the ground, it proved to be enough to get him to let go, cause as soon as his arm was thrusted downwards Shade was slung against the floor and bounced across the room from the impact. Tirek looked down at the dragon with a look of disgust on his face, " How could such an ugly creature exist in this world, well no matter, soon he nor any other pony who would dare oppose me will exist anymore, " a glowing red orb began to form and soon expand in between his horns, " Say goodbye!! " he launched the orb right at the downed dragon with the intent on erasing him permanently.

He watched as the orb impacted right in front of Shade, causing an explosion that engulfed him, making him seemingly disappear from total existence. Tirek watched and waited for the smoke to clear, only to see a sight that would greatly disappoint him, where his destructive orb had impacted wasn't a crater like he expected, instead there sat a barrier that had covered Shade, as well as the pony holding it up, which was revealed to be a young Starswirl, he used most of his magic to shield his mentor from the massive magic blast, " Nopony....hurts my friend," the brave colt passed out upon uttering those few words.

Tirek was furious at this point, but he did his best to restraint himself, " Well at least that's one nuisance out of the way, now for the abomination," but when he looked where Shade was laying he didn't see him, " WHAT?! Where did he go!! ". He began to look around the room, smashing pillars that Shade would possibly be hiding behind, tearing walls apart and even tearing the floor apart, but Shade was nowhere to be found.

" Hey why don't you open your eyes, you big ugly bastard!! " Shade had been attached to the ceiling while Tirek was in his enraged state searching for him. His claws detached from the roof and he quickly descended from the roof onto Tirek's head, where he began slashing at the tyrants vulnerable face with his blade like claws, causing the tyrant to shout in great pain, " It doesn't feel too good does it!!! ". Shade however was interrupted from his viscous assault by Tirek's large hand grasping his body, " Oh no, we will not have a repeat of this again," Shade's eyes began to glow red along with his horn as his magic began to build up at an incredible rate, surprising Tirek in the process.

" So I see you were hiding something from me, an incredible magic within you, it's a good thing I didn't destroy you, it would have been such a waste of good magic, " He tightened his grip around Shade, making the dragon lose his focus, at this point Tirek began draining him of his magic until it was all gone. " There, all mine," He simply tossed Shade aside before turning away, " So much magic in one little dragon, how amusing ". He then smashed his way out of the castle walls before leaving the castle grounds entirely, leaving Shade and the young Starswirl, out cold in the ruins of the room they were in.

As Tirek walked away from the castle, another being entered the very same room , that being was a young Princess Celestia. She looked weak and brittle, having been drained of her own magic by Tirek, she weakly stepped near the down Shade, " Shade, please wake up Shade....Equestria needs you, the ponies need you..I need you...please...wake up, " a single tear left her eye and dropped down onto his snout.

His eyes shot open only a second after the tear hit him, he felt all the strength that had been sucked out of him being rejuvenated , but something was different. He turned to see Celestia on the ground at his feet, " Princess?! are you OK?! I'm sorry I failed you....but I've got my strength back I don't know how, but I think it has something to do with me being part dragon, I'm going to fix this just rest, he kissed her head, spread his wings, and took off out the whole Tirek made in the wall, and into the sky. It wasn't hard for him to find Tirek, all he had to do was follow the monsters path of destruction, and in a matter of minutes he had found the tyrant. Tirek was enjoying all the power he had as he terrorized the country side, Shade wasn't going to stand for this, " TIREK!!!!!!! " he took a nose dive from the sky right towards the tyrant, he shifted from a nose dive to a shoulder charge as he slammed into Tirek's side, knocking him over over in a single shot, " You've pushed me too far!!! DIE!!!!! " he sucked in as much air as his lung could hold without bursting, and in an instant he shot an intense wave of searing flames all over the centaur, which quickly engulfed him, " That was for Celestia and Starswirl ".

As the flames went out, Shade looked upon Tirek, he was laid out on the ground, covered in dirt and soot, but the tyrant was far from done for. " How is it possible," Tirek said as he started to pick himself up off the ground, " I smash you, I crush your body, I drain every ounce of magic from your worthless body, yet you still stand to defy me, tell me, how do you still have the strength to face me, what is your secret ".

A smirk formed on Shades face as he flew above the monstrous centaur, " There is no secret, my true power comes from my undying will, and the need to protect those closest to me, also, you only saw the unicorn in me ". The expression on Tirek's face turned into that of a slightly curious one as he said this. " Now," Shade then began to bare his teeth and growl deeply, " It's time I show you my inner dragon!!!! " he took another dive at Tirek, but instead of going for a body shot like last time, he swooped by Tirek's face, striking the tyrant across the left eye.

Tirek moved his hand to his eye that had been struck, he felt a warm liquid on his face, that attack had actually left blood, at this point he was far past furious. " I'M GOING TO SMASH YOU UNTIL THERE'S NOT EVEN DUST LEFT, YOU FILTHY CREATURE!!!!!!! " he began to throw punches and swat at the flying dragon, but he was so blinded by rage that it seemed impossible to hit him, which only furthered Tirek's anger and frustration. The tyrant began gritting his teeth and squeezing his fist so hard that blood dripped from him, never once had he been made such a fool of in his life, " Your just an insect to me!!!!! An Insect!!!!! " he began to charge up another orb of destructive magic, this one far larger than the last, and in a matter of seconds he was set and ready to fire, but as he shot off the blast something went wrong, the ball shot into the air instead of at the dragon.

Much to Tirek's surprise it was no accident that caused the misfire, in fact it was the very source of his rage, his front legs were being risen into the air by the dragon he sought to destroy, " What's the matter big guy.... i was just gonna give you a taste of your own...Medicine!!! ". Shade had actually managed to lift Tirek's entire body into the air by his front legs, a seemingly impossible feet to even the strongest creatures, and yet this mix of a dragon and pony was doing it, with some struggle however, Tirek's sheer size made it difficult for Shade to hold him up for long. " Let's....let's see how you like being thrown like a doll!!!!!! " using every ounce of strength his front limbs could muster, Shade heaved the behemoth higher into the air, before hurling him a great distance into the side of a mountain. Shade stumbled over after tossing the monster, his body sore all over from the incredible feat of strength, " It's......not fun....is it..." he clenched his teeth shut from the burning sensation going through every muscle in his body, but he couldn't stop now, he needed to stand, he needed to end Tirek.

After being slammed into a mountain by a creature that he could consider an ant to himself, Tirek was beyond furious, he was completely enraged at this point, " I've had enough.....NOW YOU DIE!!!!! " without warning he charged up another ball of magic, and fired it right at the exhausted dragon, " There's nothing that can save you from this one!!!!! ". Shade's eyes widened as the orb of raw destruction hurled at him, he dropped to the ground at the last second however, letting the ball hit the earth behind him, resulting in an explosion that tossed the already exhausted dragon a good distance until a tree stopped his flight. " I know your still alive!!!! I won't stop until every little piece of you is wiped from existence!!!!!," Tirek began rapidly firing in different directions, he was so blinded by rage that he didn't care which direction it was, just as long as it would hopefully hit Shade.

As Shade was laid out in the branches of the tree that caught him, he slowly began slipping in and out of consciousness, " Can't.....give up.......got to......stop him ". The branch was was on eventually gave out, dropping the dragon onto cold hard ground, luckily enough, he managed to land on his feet, although he was a bit shaky when it came to standing. Having mustered as much strength as he could, Shade began to walk towards the enraged centaur who was still firing in random directions, despite the pain going through him he held a calm and cool demeanor, blood poured from both his mouth and head, he had a visible gash across his back thigh that you would think would hinder his walking capability, yet it didn't seem to do much of anything to the determined hybrid. He sucked in a good amount of air, and fired a ball of pure fire right at Tireks face, it didn't hurt him, but it sure got his attention.

Tirek felt something hot hit the side of his face, his eyes turned towards the direction from where the ball of fire came from, only to see Shade standing there, as defiant as ever. Tirek, still enraged, could only manage to get one word out before charging at Shade, "ABOMINATION!!!!!!! ". The earth beneath him shook as he neared the dragon that pestered him, this time he would crush him thoroughly.

Shade braced himself as the behemoth came crashing towards him, one wrong move and he would be as good as dead. He waited right until Tirek was right over him to make his move, he jumped at Tirek's leg as it was about to trample him, latching onto it with his claws. From there he began to scale the titanic centaur until he was on the back of Tirek's lower body, " Alright big guy, let's see how well you handle back pain, " he lowered his head, and rammed his horn as hard as he could right into Tirek's back. The impact caused the behemoth to come crashing to his knees, and bringing his charge to a halt, he shouted in pain as he could feel the horn buried right into his spine. Although Shade's blow to his spine dealt a great deal of pain to Tirek, it didn't hinder him completely, cause he was still able to reach around and pull Shade away from his back before tossing the dragon into the sky. This however is exactly what Shade wanted, on the ground he would have a tough time moving, but in the air he has the perfect vantage point, from there he could gain a greater height to achieve his next move.

Upon regaining his composure after being impaled in the back, Tirek immediately began looking around him for the dragon that had gone from a minor nuisance to a thorn in his side, " Where are you, this time I won't miss!!! " Another destructive magic orb began to form within his horns. He was just about to launch the orb when he heard a loud whistle noise, his ears twitched and he looked in into sky where the noise was coming from.

" INCOMING!!!!!!! " Shade made a sharp nose dive towards Tirek, but instead of slamming headfirst into him, he re-positioned himself so that all four of his legs were pointed right at Tirek. The tyrant had little time to react as all four of the hybrids powerful limbs slammed into his exposed gut, knocking the wind out of of him and leaving him dazed, " You're wide open!!! " Shade used Tireks gut as a surface to launch himself into the air and boomerang around the winded centaur, and strike the center of his back in the same manner he had struck his abdomen, this time knocking Tirek to the ground entirely. Shade jumped off of Tirek and onto the ground as he collapsed, however Shade himself nearly collapsed upon landing, his legs were weak from the amount of tension he put on them, " Serves.....you....right, " he said between gasp for air.

At this point Tirek was so mad he could explode, not only had this nuisance troubled him far more than any other, but he had also managed to physically harm him. Tirek slowly picked himself up, he didn't speak as he had done before however, he was far past the point of words. He turned towards the struggling hybrid who was only a few yards away, he used all four of his powerful legs to charge at full speed, giving Shade little to any time to move out of the way even if he could. Upon reaching Shade, Tirek lifted up one of his front legs and slammed it down on Shade's back legs as hard as he could, resulting in a loud breaking noise and a blood curdling scream of pain. The enraged tyrant began laughing wickedly as he picked up the broken dragon, he tossed him in the air as if he weighed nothing, but before Shade could hit the ground, Tirek pulled his arm back and threw a devastating punch that hit Shade directly.

The force of the punch was enough to send Shade flying, he skipped across the ground like a pebble in a pool of water, before finally slamming into the castle. Every ounce of pain he had before was magnified nearly tenfold, added on with the devastating injuries he had just received, it seemed that even breathing was becoming a tough task for Shade, his eyes began to slowly shut, and as he faded from consciousness a single thought went through his head, " I'm sorry Celestia.....I let everypony down ". He would have entered eternal slumber right then and there, had it not been for a weak but beautiful voice.

" Please, you need to wake up, please you cannot leave us! " the voice pleaded.

Shade did his best to open his eyes, yet the best he could do was barely cracking them, "...Can't..." he weakly said in his mind.

" Yes you can, that is an order, you need to get up now and stop Tirek, " the voice said, this time in a more demanding tone.

This time he had just barely managed to get his eyes open, yet it didn't seem to do much, as his vision was rather fuzzy at the moment, "...whose....there..., " he wheezed as he spoke.

" Shade, you need to open your eyes all the way, I know you can, " the voiced pleaded once more.

" That voice.....Princess...Celestia... " he let the order she had given him soak in for a moment, and his eyes shot wide open. Although at the moment his body was broken and bashed, he could still move his eyes to look at the solar princess. " It is you, you're OK...thank goodness ".

Celestia looked down at her former student, a slight pain went through her as she looked at his broken form, " Shade, the few ponies who did not have their magic taken, They have a gift for you, they all gathered here while you were battling Tirek, and they transferred all of their magic to me, I wouldn't be much help in my current state, and with you how you are i doubt you would..but we have another solution ".

It was right then a much younger alicorn princess walked in towards the two, it was Princess Luna, who had been hidden within the castle during Tirek's assault. She walked up to the crippled hybrid, eyeing him closely, " You're hurt, here, I'll use my magic to heal you to the best of my abilities, just please....defeat that monster, " Shade gave a firm nod in response, which was responded with a nod of Luna's own. Her horn began to glow a dark blue, and along with her horn, so did Shade's body. As the young princess healed him, Shade slowly began getting back on his feet, he had a look of surprise on his face as the pain left his body, until eventually all of it was gone. Luna looked at the revitalized dragon before nodding once more, " I've done all I can.....well...not exactly...here, take my magic...show him just what happens when you threaten our home, " she flapped her wings as hard as she could, her horn glowing at the same time. She floated towards Shade's face, and touched her horn to it, both of their eyes glowing in the process.

As she watched, Celestia felt that now would be the best time to give Shade the ponies magic, after all, this was their only and last chance at defeating Tirek once and for all. She too placed her horn against Shades, and then all of their eyes began glowing in unison.

Shade's eyes opened as wide as they could upon feeling all the power flow into him, and as the glow of the princesses horns died down, he knew he could do this. He pulled the two princesses into a hug, turned around to face the direction Tirek was in, spread his wings, and took off at incredible speeds before reaching Tirek in a matter of seconds.

Tirek at the moment, was preparing to destroy a village for the fun of it, he charged up a destructive magical orb and shot it right at the village, but while it was in the air, another magical blast intercepted it, knocking it off course and sending it right back at Tirek before exploding on contact. " Who did that!!, who dares interrupt my destruction," he began to look around, searching for the fool would oppose him, only to find the same dragon that he had beaten down, not once, but Twice. His mouth hung open as he looked at Shade," N...n..no...Impossible!!! I crushed you like an insect!!! You should be dead!!! " another magical blast formed in between his horns, before he started rapidly firing them at the hybrid above him, but to no avail as the blast seemed to go right by him. At this point Tirek was slightly horrified, " What...what are you?!!?! You're no abomination, you're a monster!!!! "

The terrified centaur prepared to fire once again, but before he even got the chance, he was interrupted by a multiple swift strikes from Shades claws. " It's funny that you say that, coming from the monster who stole the magic from almost every pony in Equestria and..and..and..." his eyes began to glow white as his anger reached its boiling point, " AND TOOK THE LIVES OF MY MOTHER AND FATHER!!!!!! " his horn shined as bright as ever as he prepared his own magical blast, one that dwarfed Tirek's blast in power tenfold. He swung his head right at the tyrannical centaur before firing the powerful blast.

The blast was strong enough to knock Tirek away by a few yards, it also left him burnt and singed from the blast, " D..damn..you ".

Shade wasn't done yet though, he took off straight into the sky, higher than he had ever gone before, and as he flew up, his horn shined brighter and brighter. Eventually he was at an altitude that let him see all of Equestria, but he wasn't there for sightseeing, no he had something else in mind. Upon reaching the peak of his flight he took a sharp nosedive right towards Tirek, but this time he began spinning, and the faster he spun, the brighter his horn would glow, until eventually the light enveloped his whole body, becoming a bright shining spiral. He accelerated the speed he spun as he neared Tirek, then he shot forward, hitting the centaur in the abdomen, where he kept spinning and spinning. He kept the spiral going until he eventually pierced Tirek's abdomen, going straight through like a drill leaving a gaping hole where he had gone all the way through.

If Tirek could be pale in the face, now was the moment, he knew he could heal himself using his magic, but it wasn't the wound that made him like this, it was the fact a wound such as this could be inflicted on him, until he had faced Shade he has viewed himself as being invincible, but here he was, being dominated by some abomination that shouldn't even exist. This was the last straw, he would not lose to some worthless hybrid, " THAT IS ENOUGH!!!!!!!!! " steam left his nostrils as he huffed from anger. Much to Shade's surprise, the hole he had left in Tirek's torso began to slowly close itself, " TIME TO END THIS, ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! " he place his hands in front of the arc that his horns made, it was then he began to charge a magical blast, but this one was far larger than any of the others, in fact it was so large, that had he held it in his horns like the rest, then it would have destroyed them, so he held his hands up to hold it while it formed. " NOW YOU DIE ABOMINATION!!!!! I'LL DESTROY YOU AND THIS WORTHLESS KINGDOM IN ONE BLAST!!!!!!!!!! " he raised the enormous orb above his head before chucking it right at the castle.

"NO!!!!! " Shade flew right in front of the orb to intercept it, he had one chance and one chance only. He landed a good stance away from the orb, but still remaining in front of it, " Here's the real deal, it's time to end this," he sucked in as much air as his lungs could hold, until it felt like his lungs would rupture from the pressure, and upon taking in a significant amount of air, he fired a massive stream of fire from his mouth that met the orb, yet it did little to hinder it, the most it did was slow it down. Despite this Shade still kept the searing hot stream of fire pushing against Tirek's blast, "I won't give in, not ever!!!! " images of the princesses, Starswirl, and of his late parents filled his head, and the more he thought of them the stronger his fire seemed to get, but it still wasn't enough to stop the blast. The longer he kept spewing the stream of fire, the more strain it seemed to put on him, " ...I'm slipping...too much...." and right then his eyes began glowing pure white.

Tirek couldn't help but laugh at how futile his attempts were, " Hahaha!!! What's the matter abomination, having difficulties, here let me make it harder on you!! " he charged up a smaller orb in his horns before firing it at the larger one, which quickly enveloped it, making it even larger.

The enlarged orb came hurdling at Shade and the castle even faster than before, easily shoving through his flames, but this didn't stop Shade. Shade's eyes glowing brighter by the second, along with his horn and soon a bright light came from his mouth where the fire was coming from. " That's it Shade, let is out...Explode!!!! " he told himself in his head, his magic began enveloping the fire coming out of him and in a matter of seconds the stream of flames turned from their original fiery color, into bright white flames mixed. Once the white flames hit the orb it started to decrease in size, as if Shade's magically enhanced flames were draining them, and that's what they seemed to be doing, because the smaller the orb became, the larger the fire that spouted from Shade's mouth became.

" Im...impossible...w..what are you...." Tirek said as he slowly began backing away, he knew if he stood there too long he would be hit by the flames.

He heard a thunderous shout come from the hybrid, " I am the thing you fear the most Tirek!!!, I am the one individual who will stop you, once and for all!!!!!!!!!" soon the white flames over came Tirek's orb, absorbing every last bit of it before blasting right at Tirek.

The tyrant had little time to react as his body was being overcame by the magical flames, pain slowly filled him as the flames torched his body. The scorching pain was the least of Tirek's worries compared to what the fire was actually doing, he received an even greater pain as magical fire forcefully drained him of every last drop of magic, and as the magic was pulled from his body, his body began to change.

The flames from Shade's mouth began dying, he too was having the magic he borrow drained from him, but it wasn't being taken, it was being replaced with his own magic that Tirek took from him.

Once the flames completely disappeared, Shade watched carefully as the smoke from the fire died as well, and where the once strong monstrous centaur stood, now stood a feeble and elderly looking centaur, so brittle looking that even the slightest touch would harm him. " W...what have you done to me..... " was all the decrepit tyrant could say before passing out.

Shade could only help but smile at his deed, " It's over..." he closed his eyes and passed out right then and there.

The image faded from the mirror and soon the mirror itself entirely disappeared, and once it did, Twilight could only look where it once was, jaw hanging wide with an awestruck look on her face from what she just witnessed. After nearly half an hour of silence, Twilight finally spoke, " I can hardly believe what I saw.....but...it was all true wasn't it, " Shade simply nodded in response. " To think the princess never told me about this, I wonder why, " she turned her head away and began pondering.

Shade turned his head away from her, " That is something you will need to ask her on your own time......as for now, stay here and read with me.....that memory always brings down my spirit, perhaps your company can lift it,". Twilight managed to smile and nod before picking out a book from the shelf and sitting next to him, where they read for the rest of the night, the things Twilight had seen would not leave her mind any time soon.

Author's Note:

Hey there ladies and gentlecolts, I hope you enjoy this chapter, i'm sorry if it's not the best, i'm not that good at writing out action scenes. Also I'm sorry for this coming out late, we just got new puppies and I've had to divert most of my attention towards them. I promise that the next chapter won't take as long unless something comes up, I hope you all enjoy reading and keep reading, I'll talk to all of you later

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Already on it, I'm just now getting back from being out of state so my full attention goes to my story and its readers.