//------------------------------// // New Challengers Appear // Story: New Wolf-Dragons in Equestria // by Toa Coy //------------------------------// New Wolf-Dragons in Equestria By Toa Coy Based on “A New Dragon in the Crystal Empire” By Vedues Trying another story, if this is out then I got approved. ~Toa Coy~ Chapter One: New Challengers Appear Equestria, a normally peaceful place was now at war. This war was not caused by a jaded pony who wanted to make the world a better place. This was done by the Dragon Alliance, the DA for short, a group of drakes, wyrms, and wyvern fighting to get land once theirs over several thousand years ago in the Crystal Empire, By this point the drakes had exhausted most of the gems in the other lands and going to the Empire as age old claim that were ‘stolen’ by the ponies. Peace was tried early on but that failed due to both sides being rocks when it needed to be water. Now many on each side have died on both sides, at this point both sides have want to just give up and let the bloodshed end. The main issue was the leaders of the wyvern faction of the DA wanted nothing but total elimination of the ponies and those associated with them. Given the majority of the vote held by these Hurricanes, a name fitting for such a blood lust group that don’t want a repeat that lead to them leaving their ancestral home, and to this point went to the Tartarus of this world to get monsters that were once enemies of their enemies. Which has lead to this moment that two world hoppers come into this story,two wolf-dragons in armor looking from high above this battle that was shielded from the outer world with the purple aura around the city. They both could see the large group outside of the shield waiting for it to go down and attack, from what the twins think as one is using her wings and the brother hanging below by holding on the sister’s arms. The moment that shield began to break the two saw an opening for them to see how bad it was in there, the brother did see a drake about to move. Following the eye line to two ponies nearly surrounded by golems with killer looking weapons, killer as in deadly not as in cool. With a plan of attack the two moved quick and the brother let go with his feet aimed to land on the one ready to attack the ponies. While the sister moved to either be a look out or look for injured beings that the golems may have caused. ---- Silver Tail, one of-no The-drake leader and among the minority that wished for peace now that a wyrm had solved the whole conflict with one rune, was confused at what just shot into the Crystal Empire. It was almost quicker than his eye could see, from what he was seeing there was two beings in armor but no arm like the equestrian armor but beyond that he could not guess the real build of it as they be going quicker than he could stay on top of. He could identify that the one with wings to be a drake while the one hanging below must be a wyrm hanging below. “Who was that?” Silver heard in his head from the telepathic link that the wyrms of the DA weaved and linked. That message was from Typhoon, one of the hurricanes and de facto leader of the group, who sounded annoyed after being shot down about going in for more death for both the Equestrian and the DA if they got in the way of the Requiem Guard, large armor golems from a time of when the minotaurs fought and killed ponies for similar manner to this war. “I have no idea but they were not there when the shield was brought up.” Silver replied as the sound of metal on metal reached the dragon’s ears. Turning attention back to the guard and saw one of the guards crushed under the no winged one of the beings standing up before it jumped back from a thrust of a spar. Seeing that just one took down a guard that Princess Luna and a squad of five to damage just one. Most of the dragons were surprised to see this, but Silver thought about it. ‘At the speed they were going and the possible weight could have just been the fact that they hit the right balance to overcome any magic holding the armors together.’ The thought came to Silver as the rest of the army was still in shock. But the guard only formed up around the fallen one, even the injured one facing the fresh combatant. This was about all the bloodshed that Silver could stand, he could see the blood from here as well as a drake’s unnatural gray body. “Heart Echo,” Silver sent to the wyrm that was the representative that dragon race of the DA. “Connect me to Providence, it is time to pull out.” Heart Echo nodded and used her magic to connect to the minotaur leader and felt a shiver run down her spine. “That’s enough,” Silver sent through the link. “Fall back, I think you made your point.” Silver got a gruff reply but agreement from the golem. The drake was already thinking of what to do if the guard was not satisfied with the fight but there was hope. ---- Let’s rewind back to when the brother crushed onto a guard. With just a moment the brother counted the non-golems, one dragoness that was bleeding from the mouth and two ponies that was somewhat battle damage. He could see one was Princess Luna and the other Big Mac, but that moment was interrupted by another of the golems going for him made the brother jump back. From what he could see the group was forming up as both defense and attack, it was only now that the brother saw another weaker one that he might have beaten it but was a bad idea. The fact he could see the one he crushed was getting up and reforming. Out of instinct that comes with being put against a wall and the need of a weapon caused the flash that he knew might happen. Normally it would be his overly large shield weapon and smaller sword but in their place was a combined weapon of mostly blades. With this the brother was ready to fight, but the golem with the hammer stopped the rest and spoke. “Coount yoursellf lucky, Mistress of tthe Night. You aand the resstt of yourr misbegotten kind wallk the pathh to oblivion, but my quarrrel iss with yourr sister, and sso I will alllow you to livve a shorrt time longer.” It said to Luna, who was battered and beaten, then shot a look to the armored being. “Requiem Guard,” as the crushed and injured began to lean on others and then Silver’s message came to him was all that he need. “ffall back.” The one that had the hammer picked up the fallen one’s weapons and move away to the rest of the guard moving to the wall, breaking a hole in it and leaving. “Ponies of the Crystal Empire,” Silver Tail’s voice echoed across the distance between them. “Do not attack our caves again, or I will order the Requiem Guard to attack the Empire once more.” Then he and the rest of the Alliance began to fly away. The equestrians waited and watched the DA go away. This was just something that cause a lot of heartache and a lot of time. “It would seem,” Luna said at last, “that a new strategy is required if we are to be victorious against the Requiem Guard.” The group took a moment to think of all this stuff that happen and talked between the trio before turning to the armored being. The blade was on it’s back while waiting for them to speak. “Who are you?” Luna spoke her gaze narrow and ready to fight if need be. “And why did you come here?” With a tap on his shoulder armor and the light that enveloped him leaving him in an outfit with bits of the armor in places like the shoulder he tapped and his gloves that covered his hands. His wolffian and draconic appearance to the trio, the bushy tail that ticked behind him made that clear. “Do you want the simple one or the epic that could be told in many days?” The wolf-dragon retorted with a slight smirk but just turned into sad smile. “I’m Coy and as to why I came here.” He said with thought to how not just sound crazy. “Fate may have done it or just random selection. Personally I think I come to these places because I’m meant to be there.” The dragoness began to get up and go but Coy pulled his weapon and held it to the sky. The trio was about to jump and defend themselves from what they thought was an attack but then a green light began to engulf them for just a moment. “WHAT IN THE TARTARUS WAS THAT?!?!” The dragoness spoke, which shocked her as her voice was not horse and not hurting to speak. “Just a bit of healing magic I know.” Coy replied letting the weapon disappears into light. “Now do you need me to help with healing or search and rescue.” The dragoness and stallion looked to Luna as the defacto leader at this moment, while the Princess had to think about this. Another healer would be useful and she did not see any mark from where the spear of the guard scratched her. With a sigh the Lunar Princess took a breath and looked at the wolffian. “Stick with Fire Eye,” Luna spoke pointing the dragoness, Coy only now seeing the armor that covered her and the ponies. “While Big Macintosh and myself go to the other leaders of the Equestrian Army to inform them of what happen here.” Coy bowed. “As you wish your majesty.” The male’s voice did not hold sarcasm but respect. “Very well.” Luna nodded in reply before turning to Big Mac. “Big Macintosh follow me until we find my sister and the rest of the army.” “Eyup.” Mac replied his face not changing from the stoic but the sad thoughts and the horror was clear in his eyes. With that the ponies left, the dragoness got up and sized up the wolf-dragon. The cyan eyed blue furred wolf dressed in navy jacket on top of a white shirt with gray jeans and brown heavy shoes watched as the red eyed and silvery white scales enclosed a darker silver of the armor that she wore walked around him. “Come on I got someone that might need your help.” Eyes said and was about to head off when a look came over her face and started to sprint in a direction. “I feel like making a quip here but she might break my arm right now.” Coy said to himself before jogging to catch up to the dragoness. ---- Coy’s sister landed a bit farther away than where she dropped her brother off at. Her reasoning was sound if that dragon army was anything to go off with staying grounded, the lupa-lina did noticed the grey and almost ash like body of a dragon. The harlequin armor of crimson and gunmetal being began to look if there was anyone left alive, which looked bleak from what she to see. The place looked wrecked and bodies looked about as well as the dragon near them, the only difference was these ponies still had color. It kinda made the female want to go back the desert wasteland of home, but that was nothing more than a happy thoughts with all of this death. From what she could see it was only adults in this mess, a drop of joy in an ocean of negativity. By the time she heard the announcement by the assumed dragon leader she had headed towards the greater sound that made her hope of still living ponies. When she got closer there was what could be called Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, but seeing dragon and ponies rush from wounded to wounded kinda made her just move on. Well until she saw one of the constance whenever she and her brother came to this part of the multiverse. With a sigh and shake of the head the female deactivated her armor with her normal gray jacket with red stripes on the arms and small parts of armor on her shoulders with a crimson shirt with her tan belt holding her gunmetal jeans with her harlequin boots of crimson and gunmetal, she began walking towards the dragon that she knew of but he would not know her. It must have been the rush of the ponies and dragons that even caused her to be just ignored or just brushed aside. Kneeling down looking between the dragon she knew of to the one that he was trying to heal. From the look of it they were related, sibling was what popped into the female’s head, and the other dragon looked like he was thrown around like a ragdoll. She doubted that even curaga could fix that arm but she had to help Spike out, after the last world they met healing someone would be easier than trying to fix that. With a white dagger hidden between her wings and back she focused all her energy into the spell. To say Spike jumped as a flower bloomed over the other dragon would be a bit like saying seeing a girl that was not next to him last he checked. The lavender wyrm with green spikes and a olive underbelly in that armor the wolf dragon saw around looked ready to fight her right then and there. “Being jumpy after a battle is good, Spike.” The female said with a cheeky grin on her maw. “But many a good fighter have jumped the gun and cause things that come back to haunt them.” For a moment the wolf-dragon thought she broke the dragon, his mouth ajar and his eyes dilated in shock. “How do you know my name?” He spoke in disbelief looking at her. “Not just my name but a name I gave up years ago.” “Do ya what that right now or help me get this one to a better place than this hard ground?” The half she-dragon replied back as she saw two ponies near them get the look of battle form in their eyes. “I think I got everything but that arm fixed and he might wake up, soonish.” Spike looked down at the other wyrm, the ribs were fixed but that could still be internal injuries and the arm was better only to the point of looking less torn up but the bleeding stopped. Looking to this strange thing she seemed like some made up creature, then again he was going to an uncle to a hybrid of his brother and Fluttershy so strange was normal to him. It was about then that both hybrid and pure dragon hear coughing come from besides them. The other dragon seem to be breathing easier as his lungs filled with more oxygen than a moment ago. Spike had chosen to ignore the strange female and check on the dragon. “Cliff. Cliff. Come on bro, I don’t want to tell my sister-in-law that died trying to be a hero.” Cliff began to stir either hearing that or just waking up. “The magic I used should have also refreshed him since that was meant to be like two weeks of healing and rest in just a moment of use.” The female said thoughtfully. “But I did have to purge the darker magic that was fighting it. However it was tricker so I had to force it to the arm that I heard you mumble if it would be better to cut it off.” “It would be preferable to all the pain in it at the moment.” Cliff responded with a groan and a hiss. “But I would rather just keep it so I can study how to counter it.” Spike wanted to both slap Cliff and then hug him but just shook his head. “I know you have been more studious out of the two of us but ever since you got the crystal heart back you are giving our sister a run for her bits.” Cliff was still laying on the ground when he opened his eyes and looked to Spike. “Come on Spirit, you know her ears burn when you say things like that.” With that comment he began to sit up. “How long was I out and...who is this?” It was only fully sitting up did Cliff felt the pain in his arm, and biting his tongue from screaming. “My name is Dracana,” The dragon hybrid grinned with sympathy for the injured dragon. “I was the one that was able to help you with just having an arm problem rather than a bed rest problem.” Both dragons looked at her with cocked heads and puzzled looks on their faces. It was not a if with this as Spike/Spirit was there so it was more of how given if she did that would mean she should be exhausted. Yet she did not look any more drained than a being that just stopped jogging. However that was about the times of Fire Eyes coming around the corner and rushed to hug the older Wyrm before hitting him in the shoulder. Cliff did not relay his pain from the hit but he could see that the dragoness noticed the look on his face. “That was for almost making me break a promise to my sister.” Eyes said with a bit of a huff but then looked at his arm. “But I’m glad you are awake. Which confused me, how did ya do that?” By this time Coy had caught up to Eyes and moved for his sister. Cliff pointed to Dracana before speaking. “According from Spirit, she casted some magic that gave me two weeks worth of rest but she seems like it took nothing out of her.” Cliff said causing Eyes to look at Coy. “Spirit did it look green and a bit floral?” Eyes asked the youngest Wyrm. “It did, but how did you know?” Even speaking it Spirit followed her eyes to the new male that joined Dracana. Cliff put two and two together but before he spoke the new being spoke. “Ms.Eyes given how you are looking at us I can guess the magic that I used after the guard left was the weaker version of what my twin sister used on your friend.” Coy guessed getting a nod from the red eyed female. Then something hit the brothers there and the older sister. “Wait you two are sibling?” Spirit asked with a claw pointing from one to the other. The pair just smile and nodded, but held off on the whole what they were until that could get to a large enough group so they could only say it once as it gets to be a pain of repeating the Q&A after the sixth time.