It's never easy to kill and it's startling how much easier it gets after a while, just boom dead move on

Spike stared down at the little kid shaking in her soiled shorts, this was the last one. "Please mister why? Why did you do this?!" Spike looked around her, the blood red snow and gore laid around him. "Because of your kind, you're not evil but you are negligent, your rot has spread, has continued to spread, would have continued to spread far and wide. You attacked hundreds killed thousands because of all this." Spike held out his hands pointing to the rot and decay that tried to grow even now in the frost before it was cut down by the sheer cold. "I knew if I wanted to end this I had to kill as many of you as I could. If I hadn't targeted everyone more would just spring up and take up where you left off. I am no fan of genocide but if this is what it takes I will do it."

The girl swallowed hard. "I won't kill you I'll let you run from here, go somewhere and start again but this will not be forgotten nor forgiven by you or me. If you choose to hate me then so be it, I've long since made my peace with that." Spike put his sword away before placing a cloak over her body.

"It'll be cold here for some time, stick to the frozen earth paths and you shall be fine." Spike left leaving the girl to her fate as he disappeared in a flash of light.

Applebloom yelped as she was blown back. Her vines grabbed the tree next the her as she passed stopping her from flying away as Scootaloo charged her like a twister of dragon. Applebloom whistled and Timberwolves flew out of the forest. "Hey that's cheating!" Scootaloo yelped as they tried to dig their teeth into her arm only to break on biting. "Not my fault my plant magic let's me command them!" Applebloom was smug as Scootaloo discharged enough electricity to turn them into charcoal. "*huff, huff* Doesn't mean you have to spam them!" Applebloom chuckled as the sounds of Sweetie Belle and pipsqueak's fight became more obvious.

"Yeah but I'm still going to." Applebloom put her hand on one and its form shifted to look more organic, coming to resemble a flesh and blood wolf rather than a pile of logs. "I like this one I'll call you Cedar. I'll keep you." Cedar seemed to like that idea Scootaloo scoffed at that. "Take this!" A gale of wind slammed into them forcing them down as the leaves rustled for miles. "Aaaahhh!" A loud scream made Scootaloo stop and drop down to the ground as Sweetie Belle and Pipsqeak (covered in the residue of Sweetie's last attack) soon ran up to them. The four waited for a couple minutes before Rainbow Dash came out picking twigs out her hair.

"Stupid forest. Huh?" Scootaloo blushed as she tried not to look guilty, Pinocchio could tell you the sky was green and it'd be more convincing. "H-hey Dash how yu been?" Rainbow raised an eyebrow at them. "Why are you covered in gems?" Pip squeak blushed as he wiped away the pieces. "I um fell into a cave full of the stuff?" Rainbow sweat dropped. "Didn't that hurt?" Pipsqueak looked confused. "Didn't what hurt?" Sweetie Belle face palmed. "Is that a timberwolf?" Applebloom started to sweat. "Yeah, yeah it is." Rainbow's eyebrow raised further. "Aren't Timberwolves really aggressive?" Applebloom gulped. "He's a vegetarian?" It seemed like she was asking if that excuse would work, it didn't.

"Oookay don't tell me what's going on but just make sure you don't stay out to long." Rainbow Dash shrugged before making her way back into the forest. "That was to close." Applebloom looked at the three. "Why don't you tell your families about this? I mean I don't like hiding from my sister but what can I do about that? Oh our grandmother was a knife wedding maniac so Spike killed her and burned all the evidence." Scootaloo twitched nervously. "I live at an orphanage where the matrons are just as bad as the kids there, I'll be a freak!" Sweetie Belle looked down at the ground. "My family hasn't been to cool with the whole scerpent thing for the longest time, what do I say when it turns out I'm something worse?"

Pipsqueak looked around at everyone else. "I'm the youngest of six, my parents don't care about me and my brothers always beat me up when they can get away with it, the only good thing about my family is that they're not around that often." The three girls where hit like a house fell on them. Pipsqueak was hardly ever with anyone, he'd also never really talked about them either. "I guess our situations are pretty messed up but you could come live at the sanctum. Queen Luna is really nice and wouldn't mind making room for you." The three stopped to consider it.

"I don't think I can do that my sister would notice if I disappear again." Scootaloo shrugged. "It's not a bad idea, no one at the orphanage would miss me." Pipsqueak agreed for the same reasons. "Well then grab your stuff and let's go."

SPIKE

"oh for god sakes what do you want?!" They'd been following them as he sat on the carriage for the past hour ever since they left. They didn't say anything or talk but Spike knew what they were, Changelings. Their shape shifting was impressive but Spike could always tell. "Queen Chrysalis would like a word with you." Spike felt his blood freeze and not in the good way. "What?" It was quiet but the sheer intent in his dracos was enough to make Celestia fall to her knees and grovell as his slave. The three poor changelings stood there like the world had collapsed in on its self.

"Say that again." Soi fon gulped deeply. "Q-qu-queen Chrysalis h-ha-has requested your help in sealing the tears that plaque her lands." Spike appeared next to them grabbing all three. "Which way?" The changeling pointed back towards their homeland and Spike was moving already.

INSIDE

"so what convinced you to come?" Argent sighed thinking about it all. "He fascinates me in many ways but it's mostly the way he talks to me, you hardly spent time among the Elves but they don't respect me, my father, or the one who played the role or fathering me was a Valkyrie, I don't know how she did it though. But no one likes hybrids and all my life I have been an outcast, even the elves leader who gave me such a job of prestige looked at me like I was worthless. He was the first one in a long time visitor or otherwise who seemed to genuinely respect me. Other than you four of course." David shrugged, after introductions and explainions things had gone well. "Crowfather my I ask why you wear that cloak?"

David shrugged. "All sages never part with their clothing at all times, we make it as comfortable as possible because we hardly take it off. Baring the obvious exceptions."

Eliza shrugged. "How can you have two mothers, do Valkyrie have that kind of equipment?" David chuckled shaking his head. "No most likely they compiled magics in order to reproduce, it is how the lich bounced back from near extinction so fast. I hold many things in reverence but that is truly a blessing." David smiled sadly. "I wish I could hate him but what he did saved so many, it's hard to feel the sins of negligence crawling on our backs, their are those who hate us for it and I hardly blame them or Spike for what happened. In the end it was a hard pill to swallow but we did it and now even six millennia later we still deal with it. Many do not forget sins of the father, we are lucky Spike does not believe the same."

SPIKE

The dragon blood in question was running as fast as he could in the direction he had dragged the changelings, he was halfway there when a scent caught his attention. "That's not possible." Spike appeared next to a group of dead Manticore looking down at the pool of blood. "This scent, it can't be but it smells just like him." Spike picked up a shield and his eyes nearly popped out his skull as he traced the special runes engraved on the inside slightly hidden by blood. "This isn't right. It can't be more than a few weeks old but the smell is to fresh, like Dracos. Micheal? No-no can't be." But a shadow of doubt was already in his mind, Chrysalis was apparently alive so what about him.

It wasn't off the table, Spike tensed hearing something. "Do you hear that?" Soi fon raised an eyebrow before listening closely. "Faintly but what is it? A celebration?" Spike's eyes flashed red. "No it's an execution." In the distance maybe three miles from here a town was having a bonfire, and a hanging. The child they were gleefully dragging by her chains could be any older than ten but that didn't matter to them.

Mary, the poor girl being hanged, struggled even as her brothers screamed her name. Varten and Drey were weak from fighting but they'd been overwhelmed and the three captured. As the noose was pulled tight everyone froze some quite literally as a hush ran through and with it the cold seeped in Mary felt a freezing hell wash over as she lost control of her bladder and peed her ragged pants, the cold was something the Lich feared, more than anything or anyone, they feared the cold, because the could meant HE was near. There was one thing Lich feared, that was the ice dragon and the cold meant he was coming. Come he did as slow deliberate steps.

Spike looked around him at all the people having fun, his eyes were a cold angry stare that hardly began to describe the rage churning in his stomach.

Spike appeared on the stands before shattering Mary's restraints and picking her up. "Enjoy your evening and third degree frostbite." Spike walked off to the other scents he detected, two unconscious boys a year or two older than the girl, Spike picked them up before teleporting away.

CELESTIA

"Don't you have anything better to do?" Lao Lang smiled as she hovered over the goddess of Equestria. "No, if you'd rather I could beat you into the ground again. After all what you did hurt me in ways you can never repay. It's either pain or annoyance, your pick." She smiled moving closer her hands finding explicit areas to grope and fondle. "Of course you could find another way to repay me, I'm sure I wouldn't dropping it if you're willing to lend me your body." The goddess of the sun sighed before turning away. "Not on your life at least be quiet while i read."

The nightmare smiled she rather enjoyed this time she spent with her. Odd as it was she liked this time annoying Cely. "Spike left for the Ketar continent he's already found his first sword he's looking for the last one. He writes to Luna." Celestia nodded as she continued reading. The nightmare kept quiet as she envoloped the goddess in a boanket of darkness, surprisingly she didn't resist.

CHRYSALIS

Her servants had returned sooner than she had expected, that in and of itself was not the biggest surprise. What was the most jarring was the dragon blood they brought back, and what he had with him. He'd grown tall strong and so handsome, Spike, the one she could remember was small almost child like with a hidden wellspring of power that he kept well contained. The young man before her was a presence that radiated power like the air around her all encompassing and ever present.

His features were so natural now before he was like a glass doll to smooth and flawless. Now it was more like a rugged pretty boy, his features were masculine without being to rough and somewhat soft without being effeminate and the eyes she shuddered looking at those eyes. Before they'd been glassy, unseeing, and unfocused. A dull somewhat unsettling gray with barely visible features that even let you know he had eyes and not blank voids. These eyes glowed like the most pure radiant emeralds and the way they widened at the side of her made her heart flutter like a storm in her chest.

She could feel her face flush with emotion as her breathing was ragged. All these years she never thought she'd see him again he was so weak so tired when she'd laid eyes upon him, his limping and tired form rushing towards her in a desperate sprint. Now he was strong and sure with every step, he was careful not to disturb his cargo either. The things or rather people he was holding were small children none could be more than 14 at most. One, the girl was getting a piggy back ride careful and scared but secure in his presence.

His arms partly looped to hold her legs were also holding two children slightly older. They were bruised and to tired to do anything but they were wide awake. He carefully set them down as he moved to greet her. One of her guards suddenly moved screaming like a maniac and before anyone could stop him he was a broken heap of tangled limbs on the ground fighting to draw breath as his sword, embedded in the wall lay mere inches from the girls head. Her eyes widened when she heard the angry rumble in Spike's throat shake the whole room softly like the walls were shivering in fear.

"Arrest that fool on the ground I will have words with him." The two beside her throne looked at her reluctantly but fearfully. "But your majesty they're-" She cut him off before he could finish. "You think I don't know they smell of the grave?! We will not attack them simply for what they are, it's has been six thousand years since that happened and they are but children. If you dare lay a hand on them I will have you ripped to pieces and strung up by your insides, and then I'll kill you myself." The guard saluted before moving to drag the poor bastard away as Spike doted on the girl, she was scared but reassured by his presence that made her feel warm and cold at the same time.

She was reluctant to be near him but now she was holding on like a lifeline. "I apologize for him, he was always a hasty one, and more than a little unstable. It seems stupid after what just happened but I must ask for your aid. Portals to Naraka have been appearing everywhere and we need a way to close it. I hear a dragon blood can make that possible." Spike paused before smiling. "Hello to you too, Chrysalis. Why not greet me like you really want to." She rolled her eyes before pulling him close and resting her head on his shoulder. "It's good to see you again Spike. I hoped this time you'll stick around."

Spike sighed deeply. "I can't promise that, I wish I could but I need to be elsewhere and I need to take care of these children. They're mine." He pulled her close before pulling away stroking her face fondly. "You're every bit as beautiful as I ever imagined. I'm, happy I got to see you with my own eyes serve well and long." With that Spike was gone in a burst of high speed teleportation that left her feeling cold. Her eyes were wide in shock as she stared down at the three sitting there.

"Not possible, and yet here you are." She cleared her throat and snapped her fingers. "Fon take them to my chambers and don't let a single person near them if they intend to harm. We'll wait for their father to return before anything else." The three looked confused but were picked up and guided away by her servants anyway as the queen of the changlings rubbed her face. Somehow Spike being a papa wolf made her even more excited to see him.

DAVID

The crow father rubbed his face as he walked through the rough sand that covered this territory. The reason he was outside was because they needed a lookout and the shaking of the carriage gave him motion sickness. The desert was only a few dozen miles wide before I gave birth to the scorch lands and the frozen tundra where the fire imps and frost amazons lived respectively. David had dealings not all together unpleasant with these species of Ketar blood. They were both all female races like the Valkyrie that lived well and had a thriving culture. Each was a craft related race that held different regard to it. On second thought calling them all female wasn't quite accurate as there were male examples of the two but few and far between. Each was race was extremely long lived under the right circumstances but still needed husbands for reproduction. He'd found that out the fun way, both fire imps and frost amazons were amazing in bed and he'd found out somewhat reluctantly that he'd have no say in the matters of children, not that he had any. Being a Lich made reproduction hard as part of his species would always be bound to the grave so the chances of creating live children the fun way was an impossibility for the next few generations. It was a sad thing but it's not as if he could never have kids. David rubbed his eyes before focusing on a speck in the distance. Casting a quick spell to improve his eyesight he 'Zoomed' in to see a person lying on the ground parched and heaving.

He should have left the, but his instinct told him to go and he did the cloak on his back turning into wings that shook with force as he took off into the sky. He appeared lik a shadow hanging over head before scooping the weakly protesting man, a Minotaur blood like Amy, up and taking flight. He made it back soon before opening the door and setting the man down in the main room. "Water now." Argent handed him a cup and he gently guided it down the mans throat as he held him slightly up. "He's dehydrated and wounded, get Selena she can stop this bleeding." A vampires blood control was pretty impressive as long as the target had blood outside their veins. After a small commotion the stranger was in as a good shape as he could be expected to be and he slowly opened his eyes. "Who are you people?"

SPIKE

The elder dragon yawned as he walked back through the castle doors with no one to stop him, simply out putting enough and even the creatures coming through were only a threat in large numbers after that it only took him a day easily considering he could teleport to any place he'd even been as long as it had some of his dracos. Spike took a deep breath following the scent of his children to the chamber they were held in. It was a shock, children his children. Part of him was happy and excited, another was deeply angry.

Someone had used his power without his consent taken the energy he released into the air to stop Naraka from bleeding into their world and molded it to thier will. Drafos was more than just magic for a dragon blood it was the mind, body, and soul. It sounded pretentious yes but that didn't make it any less true. Spike was disgusting by the thought of it. The proof was the children themselves, they were propf someone took his Dracos. It made him feel violated on a deeper level than any physical invasion could ever could it made his blood boil in impotence.

But at the same time they were his children and his children needed him. He felt a great warmth roar in his chest when they were near, his power washing over them, keeping them safe. It was fulliling to be a father, but he knew just knew his life just got allot harder. Spike smiled though as he opened the door seeing Chrysalis there his kids keeping to themselves. Spike smiled as his kids his looked at him. Then he paused before sighing. 'Great now i gotta tell Luna about this'

And that's gonna be it sorry if your still reading this that it took so long for this to come out ive been writing more story ideas as they come so i dont forget, rewriting one of my old stories, going to college to get a degree in aviation engineering, dealing with family matters everything and the kitchen sink. So ill try and get more of this out if i can