//------------------------------// // War Room at War // 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 Alright here we go a bit more OC insert story and a bit of copy and past. ~Toa Coy~ Chapter Three: War Room at War Spike held his marefriend close to him, the past night was not easy for anypony in the house. When he told them the news he let the stillness go while sent comfort and love to them both, Verre was in a state while Autumn was trying to keep her feeling to herself. The mares had disagreed on the stallion that was apart of their lives, one knowing the choices he made for protection versus the ones that had to deal with those choices from over a thousand years ago. Autumn excused herself to her room while Verre had to calm down and think about what she had to do for the final arrangement. Spike asked the widow if he could help with anything, but the mare put on a brave but melancholy face and said they planned for this it was just getting it started was the hard part. Spike understood and followed Autumn to her room, he wanted to knock on the door but the sounds of her crying could be heard by the dragon’s ears.Softly he opened the door to see the crystal mare facing away from the door and a blanket untouched beyond the fact the mare moved it as she lay on top of it. Spirit was as quiet as he could softly shut the door and laid next to her and waited to see what happened which lead to what he woke up to but beyond that he let his wyrm magic try and heal with his own joy and love for her but that only could only mask the pain and sadness. Waking up that morning was not that great, far worse than they were able to catch Yol Toor. Spike knew that he would have to pull double duty at the meeting when he got up but for now it was about keeping the one that held his heart from feeling the pain even if he could feel it. He knew it was possible to go back in time and change it, but from what he and his brother have been through with that fate said no. The sky blue crystal pony did start to stir, the volume of her purple mane and tail was gone with a shimmer of sadness on her coat. It reminded the dragon of the first time he met her, the real first time and not at the ball in Canterlot, he had seen how dull and limp her mane and tail were as well as the look of sadness in her along with the rest of the empire. Before this war that sight of a thousand years of banishment to who knows where was the worst ‘the Great and Honorable Spike, the Brave and Glorious’ had seen from any of them. She started to move out of his grasp and while he wanted to fight it but he could see some of her emotions on her coat but there was something much deeper. He knew it had to do with her father, the drinking herself under the table when the dragon met the stallion. “You know if you want to open up about your father I am willing to listen to it and ignore the morning meeting just to be here for you.” Spirit spoke softly into her ear only for her to fully untangle herself from the dragon’s limbs. “I know I should forgive him now that he’s dead, but I just can’t. I cried over every pony and dragon that died in the Everfree Platoon, but with him …” She shook her head. “I don’t know what I feel. Anger, perhaps.” She squeezed his hand. “I need to get going, but … if,” she looked at Spirit with an expression that he couldn’t decipher, “if you want … we could … talk about it some more when I come back.” “Take your time,” Spirit said with a kiss on her head. “I’ll always be beside you no matter thick headed I am or stubborn you are.” “Charming as always.” Autumn giving a small sad smile before going to the door but turning around to the dragon on the bed. “Thanks Spirit.” With that Spike watched his marefriend walk out her room. Outside the window as the sun began to slowly rise. ---- Eventually Spirit reached the Crystal Bunker, he still missed the castle but that was another thing that could be rebuilt after all this was done. Shaking his thoughts and focused on the task at claw as he worked his way down to the meeting room. When he got to the room his pony sister(Twilight), royal mother(Celestia), aunt(Luna), sister-in-law/cousin(Cadence), pony brother(Shining Armor), captain of the wonderbolts(Spitfire), captain of the earth shakers(Jadeite), his draconic mother and father were present. The respresitive of the Solar Unicons, Trixie, was suspiciously absent though. Spirit decided it was better not to dwell what she and Blueblood might be up to given what he saw before Dracana appeared. Also in the corner one of the palace maids was there if any creature need food or drink like usual. Twilight and Luna giving each other a death glare, which was out of character but not uncommon given anything decided upon here could affect everyone. “Did something happen while I was asleep?” Spirit slid into an empty seat next to Twilight. He motioned the maid over. “Could I get a cup of coffee, extra strong?” She nodded. “Right away.” Celestia cleared her throat. “Good morning, Spirit. We were just discussing the viability of using the Rainbow Harmony Blast to defeat the Requiem Guard.” Spirit thought about it. “Well, handling monsters from Tartarus is sort of what that power’s for, but we’d have to wait until Fluttershy gives birth first. I don’t know what it would do to Miracle if Flutters went all rainbow powered before then.” Then a thought came to his mind. “Didn’t Coy and Dracana manage to flatten one of the guards?” “While I saw the male crushed the guard it was still able to reform so beyond them weakening it the rainbow, tis a negligible risk,” Luna said still not breaking the glare with the younger princess. “The power of harmony would never harm an innocent life.” “Except that kirin development is different than any other known species,” Twilight said, anger tempered by the years of political talks. “Everything about Miracle’s DNA was decided by Fluttershy and Cliff’s DNA fighting for dominance. Her fundamental makeup isn’t harmonious at all. Discord even said that her body generates chaos energy to keep her pony and dragon parts working together. All that harmony energy might make half her organs fail or try to rip her in two at a genetic level. Meanwhile we have two fully grown beings shown to do feats far beyond some of our best healers able to do, and crush a guard to the point we might be able to beat them without using the Blast.” Luna rolled her eyes. “It would not do either. Pinkie Pie generates chaos energy as well, and the magic of harmony has never harmed her. Additionally we know none of the limits of the siblings beyond healing.” “But Pinkie doesn’t need chaos energy to live.” Twilight folded her hooves across her chest. “I know that the Requiem Guard needs to be stopped, but I’m not going to risk Fluttershy’s daughter.” “Also not to but in but from what I heard and saw Coy at least was able to pull earth to fill in the hole made by the guard after we cleared any soldiers that were in or around it.” Spirit added in trying to weight it so his niece was not endangered for the “greater good”, how he hated that mentality. “Then are we to simply wait for the Requiem Guard to attack again?” Luna narrowed here gaze at Twilight. “Thousands of ponies could die before Fluttershy gives birth.” Before turning to Spirit, the same glare and anger deep in her eyes. “Even if these beings were at some power beyond my sister and myself what is to say they won’t betray us when we are weaken by this war.” Celestia cleared her throat causing the bickering trio to stop for the moment. “As I understand it, Zephyr is our expert on kirins. We should get his input before we come to a decision.” Twilight took a deep breath and sighed looking at her draconic brother who patted her on the back. “I’ll ask him.” There was a moment where only the sound of breathing and the hoof steps of the staff outside with the maid returning to get Spirit his coffee. Celestia had a minor idea during this but her cheerful smile did not return. “Another option,” Celestia said with a slight sigh, “is to induce early labor.” “What?” Twilight stared at her anger there but also sadness. “I can’t ruin Miracle’s birth like that!” Celestia calmly returned her gaze the face of a kind teacher gone with the face of a ruler and general in its place. Twilight slowly looked around at all the other faces in the room, many of them family and they would agree to what her teacher had said. Her expression, much like her heart, fell. “This is supposed to be Fluttershy and Miracle’s special day. Not something to rush through so that we can get back to killing.” She could have whispered that but the weight behind could be a yell. “I think,” Celestia said comfort in her voice but look on her face kept a somber feel to it, “that Miracle would be proud to know that she saved hundreds, maybe thousands, of lives, by being born a few days early.” “But …” Twilight paused, the weight leaving her for now with her head sank much like her heart before it. “I’ll see if Fluttershy is willing.” Spirit gripped his sister’s hoof with one hand and took a long drink of coffee with the other. “We’ll talk to Cliff after the meeting see what he thinks before traveling.” He turned his attention to the rest of the room. “Alright, what’s next on the docket?” Jadeite, the leader of the Earth-shakers, stood up. “As you all know, the Empire’s shield was adjusted to keep out diamond dogs as soon as we learned that they are working with the Alliance. However, last night’s sneak attack proves that we haven’t found all of their old tunnels yet. We need to map the tunnels out as soon as possible, but exploration teams would be easy targets if there are any members of the Requiem Guard still around down there which may cause the civilian bunkers might be unsafe.” Spirit’s mind began to wonder maybe they could have Coy and Dracana at least be able to check the tunnels since that could close them up or find ways to have them monitored for movement in them. It was going to be a while but he would like to talk with the pair at the end of the meeting . Near the end the dracowolves were brought up. Where Spirit gave his experience with the pair and did not leave the pair until he headed to tell Autumn and her mother of the lost of a loved one. From what he had seen they are able to be good assets to the war effort and could close up the tunnels dug by the diamond dogs. “I agree Spirit,” Luna voiced her approval but her eyes still scanned the report. “But would it be a good idea to have them spar with your grandmother and Fire Eyes?” “Knowing my grandmother she would jump at testing new blood just to see how she can improve them and what spell they can handle.” Spirit sited before moving to his next point. “Out of Everfree Company Fire Eyes is either the first or second in terms of skill and spells, then again being the apperntiace of Fire Claws kinda makes it so you have to be on her level or high to get a fight over a round of plowing fields and doing logging.” Spirit’s parents nodded having spared just to show both of them could protect themselves when they were off looking for Spike’s egg many years ago. Celestia also looked at the report and agreed, it would also be a much need distraction from the funearls that had occurred that day. ---- Coy and Dracana lounged around the barrick that they slept in, from the natural light from sky it was either dawn or just after it. The pair were early risers, mostly due to how different times they appear in places, so they heard the changing of the guards outside their room. Not wanting to cause trouble they decided to play a game of cards while waiting for someone to come in and either give them food or be taken somewhere. The pair understood the reasoning to them being under guard, two unknown combinations that seemed to match enemies that had soundly beaten or killed anything in their way. Then after all that the pair then almost fully healed all the injured without collapsing to the ground, the hybrids did notice some fear in a few of the beings around them before the rupture in the ground and Coy’s pulling of the ground to fill it.The pair did have something to talk about over the cards, the dragoness by the name of Fire Eyes. “So she came in when you got done with your shower?” Coy asked as he moved his cards around with strand of darker blue fur hanging between his eyes. “Yep.” Was Dracana’s reply with her crimson and gunmetal fur that was better made up versus the bed head of her brother. “She seemed a bit embarrassed about it, thought I was either pregnant or going into season.” “From what we have seen from our limited travels of these parallel universes it is not like nore bipedal females are mamailian, so I can see where she is coming from.” Coy surmised showing his cards. “Three of a kind, jacks.” Dracana looked at her blue furred brother and grind. “Royal straight Flush Clubs.” If this was for money that would have caused aggravation but this was to pass time and just a smirk between the pair. It kept on like this until breakfast was brought to them; eggs, pancakes, toast, and apple juice. A fairly filling meal compared to the corn they had before the attack but the pair still noticed a bit of a glare from the guard that delivered the meal to them. While not empathes they did have some mental abilities and did notice that this guard was linked to those outside but neither of them knew how as this was out of the norm. Once finished with the meal the guard collected the dishes and left, only for a few moments later the guards from outside of the barracks and say that the pair where to follow said guards until they got to the end destination. The pair just rolled with it and followed while still not letting down their guard.