Hello veiwers. This is my first shot at a story so I'd appreciate positive comments and constructive criticism only. I own nothing except my OC whose name will be stated later in the story.
Tales of a Draconequus
Chapter 1: Where am I?
When I wake up, my mind is in a fog. I feel groggy with unbearable pain all over my body. I spot a lake and I slowly crawl over to get a drink, paying no attention to my reflection. Soon after I have my fill of water, I slip back into unconsciousness. When I wake again, I feel no different from the first time but my head says I have to keep moving to survive. Now that I'm a bit more awake I notice I'm in what appears to be a forest. When I try to move, I find that I lack the strength to walk. So I crawl instead. Bending my knees is very uncomfortable for some reason so I stretch my legs out to full length. Strangely enough, it feels better and more natural. On my walk, or should I say crawl, my mind weakly ponders things like how I got here and where here was. After a seemingly endless time of crawling I feel extremely fatigued, but I spot a small town in front of me. As exhausted as I am, I continue to trudge towards the town. As I near the small town, my vision begins to blur and dim. I spot different colors all dart away from me, but my mind is too weary to identify them. My vision grows darker and darker still as I reach a house that appears to be a large tree. I crawl up to the door and knock as hard as I can before I black out.
When I awake, I found myself tied up and in a small, dark, and dank cell. I could barely keep my eyes open and I soon passed out once more. When I awoke the first thing I thought was 'Wow, I already passed out four times? Isn't that a funny?' As soon as I thought that, I was slightly taken aback by my relaxed demeanor. It is then I heard a voice. Despite being feminine, it held a strong sense of power. "Who are you?" the voice asked quite angrily. Despite this, I still managed to casually reply "well hello to you too, my name is…uh is…..I forgot." I was shocked; I had forgotten my own name. I didn't even remember who I was or where I came from. However, my tone didn't show a hint of how shocked I was. The voice was not at all pleased with my response in the slightest. "You will tell me who you are and why you are here NOW!" The voice yelled. "No need to get all hot under the collar" I replied "And plus, you come asking me who I am and you haven't even told me who you are." The voice fell silent for a moment before I heard the clicking of hooves and what should stand before me than a very regal looking alicorn. My mind was screaming at me that alicorns where the things of legend. Myths. However one stood before me now, a flowing tricolored mane, pure white coat, and a mark on her flank resembling a sun. Despite being taken aback on the inside, this newfangled personality made me as calm as ever. "Your name is?" I asked. "Celestia" replied the alicorn. "Good, now that were acquainted, could you let me out of here?" I asked as kindly as I could. "Hold on, you have yet to tell me who you are and why you're here" Celestia replied angrily. "Now as I said before, I have no idea who I am and I don't know why I'm here either." I honestly stated. "LIES!" Celestia yelled. As soon as she yelled that I felt myself griped in a strange force. "A Draconequus would not come to Equestria for nothing so tell me why you're here!" The force gripping me made it quite hard to breathe but I gasped out "A what?" After I said this, the unseen force vanished and I fell to the stone floor. "If I am not mistaken, the name of your species is draconequus, correct?" Celestia asked quite forcefully. I replied by saying "Lady, I don't know who I am, where I am, or how I got here and you expect me to know what I am?" I said loudly but with a bit of a humorous tone. "I don't even know what a….draconicis is much less what one looks like."
To this Celestia looked surprised "You don't remember anything, do you?" she asked semi cautiously. "Nnnnope." I said "Not a thing." Celestia glared harshly at me for a moment before turning away and yelling for some guards to assist her. Now I may have amnesia but I'm no idiot. I put two and 2 together and figured she must be someone important, a queen or princess judging from her crown. The gaurds she called where regular ponies wearing bright golden armor and with pure white coats. With the help of her guards they were able to almost completely detain me, but for some reason, I towered over them. Celestia brought me over to an object with a mirrored surface. "This is what a draconequus looks like" she said. At first I was confused but then I realized she meant for me to look into the mirror. When I do look into the mirror, I am extremely surprised. I look like someone threw several animals together in a blender and hit frappe`. To describe myself would take a while so I will. I had a head of a horse with a deer antler and a gazelle horn. I had a snaggletooth sticking out of my mouth. My eyes had different sized sapphire pupils and the whites of my eyes where green. I had a jet black mane and beard that resembled a goat. My body was snake-like with dusty brown fur and my two arms where of a tiger and a bird of prey. Further down my body, my legs weren't any different. One leg was a blue, two-toed lizard leg and my other leg was that of an ox. My legs marked the start of my new tail. My tail was blue with rounded scales running down my tail. At the very end of my dragon tail was a large tuft of black fur. It was then I noticed something else on my back. Two mismatched wings, one of a macaw, and one of a bat. The sight of my own reflection was the only thing so far that caused my relaxed demeanor to crumble. "No. I-it's not possible. This can't be. IT CAN'T BE!" I had started screaming and attempting to break myself free of the guards and my bonds. "Th-that isn't me and I KNOW it! Let me go!" just as I was about to break free, I was overcome by a strange sensation. My mind clouded and I felt dizzy. The last thing I saw before I blacked out was a frightened Celestia with her horn glowing.
This time when I woke up, no longer was I in a cell, I was instead on a very soft, cushiony bed. "How are you feeling" a voice said which I instantly recognized as Celestias'. To this I replied "Fine, fine a bit shaken but other than that fine. Tell me Celestia, what's the record for most times being unconscious in one day?" I questioned. "Uhh…four times I think, why?" Celestia asked. "Then tell that record holder to scoot over" I stated enthusiastically "because I've been passed out 5 times today!" I said while propping myself up and holding out my talon before realizing I only had four fingers and held up one more. Celestia giggled at my enthusiasm and action. "Do you know why you're here and not back in the cell?" Celestia asked me. "No, why?" I questioned back. "I sensed you had no intentions of evil or negative origin or any intentions at all." "Now how the heck could you sense that?" I asked, quite surprised. "I used a trustworthiness spell to-" she was cut off by my laughing "A spell as in MAGIC! HEHHEEEHAHA! Oh that's rich, there's no such thing as magic. Ha heh hee phew. That was funny." But when I looked at Celestia, she looked as serious as can be. "You-you weren't kidding, where you?" as to confirm my statement, she levitated over a tray of food to me and said "No I wasn't" in a slightly snide tone when she saw my surprised expression. "Now eat, you need to keep your strength up" I was about to say something but my stomach was more interested in the food, giving a loud growl. Anything I was about to say was forgotten when I spotted the meal.
It consisted of a vegetable soup that smelled divine, a few rolls of pillow soft bread, some milk, and a small bowl of salad. The entire meal was gone in seconds, not even a small bite was in one of the bowls. "My compliments to the chef" I said contentedly. I felt so content, relaxed, and blithe. 'Blithe, why does that word just mean something more to me' I thought 'Hmm blithe, blithe, blithe, just rolls off the tongue, now that I think of it, that word describes this new personality of mine. Maybe, just maybe…'"I could be called Blithe" I thought aloud. Celestia had left during my time eating and I was now alone to ponder over my new, self-assigned name. "Yes." I said more excitedly "I could be called Blithe, it is the perfect name. I've got to tell Celestia this!" I yell excitedly. As I, Blithe, run quickly to the door, I am stopped by a force similar to the one that almost crushed me earlier. "Whoa." I say, not at all expecting a field of some sort. 'I've got to get out of here I' I think 'but how.' As I ponder the situation, I get hit by a cool breeze. I look up to find that a window is open, impossible to climb, but to fly is a different story. I look to my back and experimentally stretch my wings. "I never learned how to use these, but it's worth a shot!" I think out loud. I start by flapping both wings slowly, and then quicken the pace gradually. Soon I'm floating a few inches above the floor, then feet, and finally yards. "Now all I need is forward propulsion and directional control" I say to myself. I achieve forward propulsion without a hitch, but I don't get the same luck with directional control. I crash into the wall by the window. I must have alerted a guard or Celestia because the windows closed and a field of energy prevents me from nearing the windows. "Darn it." I say to no one in particular "Trapped again." Back on the ground I pace back and forth in front of the door "Come on there has to be another way out." I say to myself "Think, think, think" snapping my talon with each word. It is then I notice small silver bolts of energy are jumping from my fingers. I ponder this for a second and come to the conclusion that I can do magic. "Magic huh, well two can play at that game….I think." Being as inexperienced in magic as I, my attacks on the barrier yielded no results. That is until I leaned on the force to rest. I felt a warm, tingling sensation run up from my arm to my body and then to my very core. The new sensation caused me to flinch but then I realized I was absorbing the magic in the barrier. I replaced my hand to allow myself to continue to siphon off the magic. It wasn't long before the entire shield was depleted. "YES! Now I can finally share my new name!" I shout and quite literally fly through the door. On the other side of the door, the guards glance towards me and return to their original positions. I greet both guards warmly. "Helloooooo! My name is Blithe. Nice to meet you!" I say to the guards who do little else but blink in response. "See you later" I yell back at the guards. About halfway through the castle, I realize something important. I have no idea where I'm going. At this realization, I break gravity by stopping in mid-step. My wings realized that gravity might realize its mistake and flapped to keep me airborne. I pondered my situation; I was hopelessly lost in a castle larger than a small town. I needed to ask for directions, but from whom. It was then that I turned around and saw two regal looking doors. "This must be the throne room" I said to myself. I ran up the stairs leading to the door and knocked while saying "Oh Cel-es-TIA~. Are you in here? I have something to tell you." The doors slowly creaked open so I literally waltzed in. It turns out I interrupted a very important meeting. "Am I interrupting something Celestia? Oh and hello other alicorn I don't know! And hello to you other ponies" I asked Celestia, said to a dark blue alicorn with a crescent moon on her flank a star spangled mane blowing in an invisible breeze and told some other well-dressed ponies
"H-how did you get in here, and how did you manage to escape your room? I magically locked that door and your room!" Celestia seemed mad but quite intrigued at the same time. "Oh that, well funny story. Maybe later I can tell it to you but first would you mind telling your guards to heel?" I asked. Celestia hadn't realized that the guards had surrounded me, a potential threat, to ensure the welfare of the royals. "Guards, as you were." Said Celestia, and the guards surrounding me returned to their previous positions. "Thanks Celestia, for a second I thought I was a goner, anyway the real reason I barged in here is to tell you something. I finally have a name!" "I don't see how that's importa-" Celestia started but was interrupted by me "Its Blithe." I said "So what do you think?" Celestia stared at me for a minute before saying "Well, it certainly suits you." "Thank you very much." I say "I'm sorry for bursting in here though. Do you know what time it is?" I apologized and asked. However instead of Celestia answering, the other alicorn did "THE TIME IS 8:50! TIS ALMOST TIME TO RAISE OUR MOON! WE THANK THEE FOR REMINDING US BLITHE, FAREWELL!" The other alicorn said quite loudly before exiting the room. "I'm sorry Silver Dollar, we'll have to see about your business plans tomorrow." Celestia said. The other pony in the room looked slightly deflated but decided that in the morning he will succeed. "As for you Blithe" My ears perked up at the sound of my new name "Yes Celestia?" I said. "Since you managed to annihilate both barriers, you will start magic training tomorrow. Understood?" "Yes ma'am" I replied before returning to my bedchambers to rest up for tomorrow. "Oh and Celestia can you show me back to my bedchamber?" "Very well" Celestia sighed.
