Chapter 2
Twilight's POV
I couldn't believe what I had just witnessed. One minute Trixie was standing up here bragging about here skills, then when me and my friends were about to go up there and stop her out of nowhere this unicorn stallion comes up and completely humiliates Trixie with his magical skills. The thing is, he used magic I had never seen before, magic of fire and illusion, whoever he is he has some sort of power that I've never seen before. I need to keep an eye on him, and inform the princess on his presence, she will be very interested to know about this.
With that I headed back home to send her a letter explaining.
Void's POV
Well, as far as I knew I was stuck in this place with no way of getting home so I might as well make the most of this situation. I needed to find a place to rest for the night, and then I would search for some sort of guild of magic in the morning.
"Okay, there has to be an inn somewhere." I thought
I searched around town until I found a building with a sign outside with a bed on it, assuming that that was the inn. I walked in to be greeted by a woman standing behind a counter, she was a unicorn same as me.
"Hello, and welcome to the Ponyville inn. Can I get you a room for the night?"
"Yes, I would like that very much."
"Alright, that will be 5 bits for tonight."
"Bits?" "Shoot, I just remembered I have no money with me, I only took the bare essentials on my journey and didn't bother with my coin purse."
She gave me a look of displeasure "Don't tell me you don't have any money with you."
"Well uh, you see…."
I was about to defend myself but I was interrupted by a series of grunts and groans.
"Uggh! Agh! Eh! Ow! Mommy!"
Suddenly, a black pegasus came tumbling down the stairs and landed on his back. Clearly, he had tripped and was in a great deal of pain.
"Oh my gosh, sir are you okay, can you move?" the attendant asked concerned.
He tried to get up, but then went back down after an audible crack.
"Grrg! No, my wings are sprained and I think I broke one of my legs."
"Oh this is bad, this is very very bad." The woman was now pacing the floor in a panic. Suddenly I had an idea.
"Well as much as I'd like to see you panic my good lady, I have a proposition for you."
"And what might that be?"
"Well, this man needs medical attention and I need a room. I will heal him in exchange for a room for the night."
"What? Even if you were a doctor you couldn't…"
"No I couldn't fix him with surgery I have something much better, and I suggest unless you want this man to take legal action you let me help you."
She considered it for a moment. "Alright, you have a deal."
"Good." I walked over to the pegasus, leaned down and pulled out one of the healing potions I had crafted.
"Listen, I need you to drink this liquid okay? If you do, I promise you'll be able to get up again."
He nodded and opened his mouth. I popped the cork off of the bottle and put it in his mouth; he drank it without much of a problem. Within a minute, there were audible cracks again but this time he was able to stand up.
"Many thanks good sir, that elixir you have cured all my injuries. Although, it does have a rather bitter aftertaste."
"Yeah, it's one of the side effects of potions. You can make a potion to give a pony super strength, but you can't make it taste good."
He laughed at my humor. "Say, if you ever want to have a good drink I know of a pub in town with some really good ale."
Now, I'm not normally one for making friends but when a man offers you a drink I find its best to except. Heck, I met some of my old friends at a bar. "It sounds like a fun night. But tell me, what is your name so that I can find you later on?"
"I am Night Fury, and who are you my equally dark haired friend?"
"I am called Void. Now miss, about that room."
"A deals a deal, here you go." Then, an aura surrounded her horn and she levitated the key over to me.
"How did you do that?" I asked
"Huh?"
"That…thing with your horn."
"You mean levitation? Every unicorn can do that, why? Can't you?"
"I don't know, but I can do this."
I used my magic to summon a giant spider into the room.
"AHHH! SPIDER! Kill it! Kill it with fire!"
"Geez relax."
I used my magic to unsummon the spider, leaving that mare still in shock. "Well, I'm tired I guess I'll just head up to my room then, thank you very much and Night Fury maybe I'll see you later for that drink."
I made it up to my room. It was just a room with a window and a straw bed but I've slept in worse. I laid down on the bed and tried to get some sleep.
Twilight's POV
"Spike, take a letter."
Spike pulled out his quill and parchment.
"Dear Princess Celestia, I would like to report a mysterious pony in our town. At first he seemed like some normal unicorn stallion but then I saw him perform magic unlike any I had ever seen. He created copies of himself, fire balls, darkness in the middle of the day, and colors from his horn; it's unlike any magic I ever knew existed. Since you know more about magic than any other pony in Equestria I was wondering if you could come down and investigate. Spike are you getting all this?"
Suddenly Spike spit up a letter. "Uhh, I think the princess may be ahead of you on this one."
"What? Let me see."
I levitated the letter over and read it, but it wasn't what I had expected.
My faithful student Twilight Sparkle,
I'm writing to inform you that there is a dragon near the vicinity of Ponyville. For now he is sleeping, but he one of the more violent dragons and he may become violent. Please deal with him so that no pony comes to harm.
Your teacher,
Princess Celestia
"Spike, I think we may have bigger problems than a mysterious unicorn."
"How much bigger?"
"Dragon sized problems."
"Oh, that is serious."
"I'd better round up the rest of the girls quickly."
I rushed out of the house and quickly got Pinkie, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy (who was reluctant to come) we were getting our supplies together to set out and take care of this dragon.
"Okay girls, the fate of Equestria is in our hooves, let's do our best and stop this…."
"RAAAAAAAAAWR!"
"Eeep!"
Fluttershy quickly dove for cover from the loud roar.
"What is Equestria was that?" I asked.
Void's POV
I was resting happily in my bed until I was awoken.
"RAAAAAAAAAWR!"
A noise that was so loud, the ground shook and knocked me out of my bed.
"Ugh, what in the nine hells was that?"
I looked outside my window, at first I didn't see anything that was problematic, but then I heard it.
Fwoosh-fwoosh-fwoosh
Wing flaps. But not just any normal flaps, they were loud and belonged to some huge beast. Then, I saw something dash across the sky and recognized it right away, it was a dragon.
"Oh no."
I had to run, and try to warn everyone to get out of the village, if a dragon attacks they could all be burned to ash. I ran out of my room yelling down the hall.
"Dragon! Dragon! Everyone get as far away from here as you can. GO!"
Everyone quickly ran out of the inn including myself. People began to spread the word, ponies started to evacuate but it wasn't enough. The dragon landed on the ground and roared ferociously, it was gigantic, over fifty feet tall with white scales and sharp spines; it was destroying everything in its wake causing everyone to flee in a panic. But suddenly, it was approached by six ponies who looked they were trying to communicate with it.
"What are those idiots doing? They'll get themselves killed."
I ran over to their group hoping to stop them before they got eaten.
"Great dragon sir, why are you attacking us? We have done you no harm." A purple unicorn said.
"Si tepoha confn ekess clax spical sia thaczil."
"What the buck is he saying?" a blue one asked with rainbow hair.
"He is speaking draconian." I stated, alerting them to my presence. They all turned around and noticed me.
"You, you're the one who upstaged Trixie earlier today." The purple one said.
"Yes, yes, fun times we can look back upon it later when there isn't a dragon destroying the town."
"Right, so can you understand what he's saying, can you translate for us? Maybe even speak to him and calm him down?"
"I'll try."
Thankfully, I speak the draconian language. I once went on an adventure where I had to learn the ancient dragon magic to defeat a necromancer(aah, good times) so naturally I learned to speak the language.
"Darastrix, si sweekmon vin audience mrith wux." I said, asking to speak with him.
"Zi algbo, wux nomag renthisj." He replied.
"He says that he'll speak to me." I relayed to the ponies behind me.
"Good, ask him who he is and why he's here." The purple one said.
"Svaust re wux jennu vur versel darastrix?" I asked who he was.
"Si mi vucat lae Vrok, wer aussir denthanus."
"His name is Vrok, but the ponies know him as the white terror."
"Kii re wux tenpiswo janikup vrok?" I asked why he is here.
"Si tepoha confn ekess clax spical wer thaczil batobot belhalic ekess ve vur sia darastrix isthasyi."
"He says he's here to retake the land that belongs to his kin."
"But this land had been occupied by ponies for decades, the dragons moved and found their own land. How does he not know this?" the purple one said
"Nomeno thaczil tepohaic coanwor latere ini jiviri ihk bekipesi, wux tepoha ehtaha z'ar epanomisi ekess waph. Kii tir wux lowd jaka?" I asked why he attacks now when his brothers had found new places to live.
"Svabol? Nomenes faessiri, astahii re thric kluchud di sini."
"That's confusing. He calls these dragons his spawn, what does that mean." I told them
"Kii tir wux relgr nomenoi darastrixi dout kluchud? Svanoa juanth re wux jennu fueryon?" I asked why he called dragons his spawn. Where was he from?
"Si mi ir di wer annyo jennu darastrixi di wer grapwol di whedabra, si jahus buried persvek wer verthichai ihk asildk owier eorikci nkyorlir wer return di sia isthasyi. Shar astahii nurti confna, vur si tepoha coanwor lorita persvek nomenes verthichai rinov li birkvi jikmadair duulo."
After that, I was honestly left speechless.
"What is it? What did he say?"
"He…he is one of the original dragons."
"Original dragons? What does that mean?"
"Where I am from there is history of the very beginning of dragons. They began as inherently evil creatures, each ones with different magical powers indicated by the colors of their scales. The original colors were red, blue, green, white, and black. However, over time there were dragons who tapped into the very essence of the earth, learning its secrets and gaining its knowledge, they began to care and change form. These dragons were good and were given the name of minerals: gold, silver, copper, brass and bronze. He says that he is from the time when dragons ruled over the earth, he was sealed in those mountains for over ten thousand years."
"Ten thousand years? That explains why he has no idea what's going on."
"Yes, but it also means he's extremely old and powerful so be on your guard. I'm going to try and reason with him."
"Jennu darastrix, svadrav wux jahen gethrisja youwei tepoha thirkua. Gethrisj ehtah dout isthasyi vur nomagqe wux shilta tlush vi z'ar tobor." I told him to go and find his brothers so that he may have a new life.
"Thric! Sjek astahii shilta ti frivin nomenoi plythu jiviri loupon si tuor ehis ekess tir mrith astahi. si nishka dronilnr persvek vi z'ar grapwol di aryte vur ixen."
"Oh, that's not good. He says he doesn't want peace and plans to usher in an age of war and destruction."
Without warning, the dragon pulled back his head and prepared to breathe on us. I noticed this soon enough to put up a ward spell to protect us from his icy breath.
"Batobot ui ulph coi soti! Wux lowd sia okarthel, tsruvon sia thurirli, vur agmasaon svent ve svadrav si tepoha authot wux thric nomeno, wux nishka zahhar loerchik putole dout ricin." To put it simply I said that it's on bitch.
"Ha Ha Ha! Vur svaust re wux ekess relekihl ve?" he basically taunted me.
"Girls, get out of here NOW!" I commanded.
"What are you going to do?" the purple one asked.
"I'm going to stop this beast once and for all."
I had no choice; I had to use one of my strongest spells and a difficult one at that. The strongest spells I have require concentration and spoken words. I invoked the spell.
"Virtus amet, mihi forma draconis."
I used one of the strongest spells I had: greater shape change. With this spell, I turned myself into a great wyrm form of a dragon. I grew to roughly the same size as the dragon except I was red. With my new size I began to fight the dragon, I ran up to him and clawed him in the face leaving a scratch mark, and then he retorted my biting my claws. I had to head butt him to get him off, as he was launched back. He tried to breathe Ice on me but I managed to get out of his way and fly up into the air. Then, I retracted my wings and dive bombed him, knocking him on his side. Suddenly, I felt this heat building up in my throat and I released it in the form of a mighty fire breath, singing the beasts body and melting a few of his scales. In a rage, he used his tail to knock me off my feet and then proceeded to slash at my stomach. It hurt incredibly, but I managed to kick him off of me. In a fury, I slashed at his eyes scraping one and proceed to choke him. I would have killed him, but I knew he had to be spared dragons were fairly rare and each one deserved life.
"Jaseve nomeno goawy vur nurti lowd coi tenamalo." I told him to leave this place and never return.
"Si nishka ti confn spical. Wux tepoha gjahalla ve persvek vargach vur si mi tiichi ti ekess confn spical. Wux put vi bensvelk slathalin naeck vur si nishka ti coi." He said that he wouldn't return, he was honor bound by dragon code and even congratulated me on my battle prowess.
With that done, I couldn't hold my dragon form any longer and shrank back down to my normal size. Our fight had caused quite a bit of damage to the city as well as myself but at least no one was crushed. As I turned around I saw not only those six ponies but also a crowd, who then began to cheer for me.
"That was incredible."
"Thank you for saving us."
"Who is that great pony?"
Suddenly, one of them came up to me. She was a white mare with a purple mane and diamonds on her rear.
"That was the most incredible thing I've ever seen. You good sir are the most amazing unicorn I've ever seen. I wish that there was some way we could thank you."
"There is a way you could repay me."
"What is it?"
"Forget."
"Huh? What do you…"
Before she could finish, I cast a wide spread amnesia spell on everyone in the crowd. I just wanted a peaceful existence here, nothing special, and I knew people would be afraid of my power so I had to make them forget what they saw.
The white one was the first one to speak.
"Twilight dear, do you remember what happened? All I remember is a dragon appearing, ponies being afraid, and now we're here but nothing in between."
I spoke up to fill in the blanks. "Oh well, when the dragon arrived I talked to it and I managed to convince him to go find somewhere else to live so that he wouldn't disturb anyone."
"Oh yeah? Then why do you have scratches across your stomach and front hooves?" the purple one said. She really was too smart for her own good.
"Well, he was opposed to the idea at first and made a few swipes at me giving me these injuries. It took some serious convincing to get him to leave."
The purple pony looked a bit skeptical at first but eventually accepted it. "Well, since you saved Ponyville from that dragon at least let me help you with those wounds."
"Yeah, that sounds…great"
Suddenly, I fell to the floor. I don't know whether it was the blood loss, the loss of adrenaline, or using up all that magic in my body but I felt nothing and couldn't keep myself up.
"Oh my goodness, are you okay? Please be okay."
"You…unicorn, what's your name?"
"Twilight Sparkle sir."
"Twilight, what a… pretty name." Then, I passed out.
Wow. That was…AWESOME! I apologize if some people got bored because of all the language you couldn't understand but I thought it was cool. Next time, we learn a little bit more about Void's history and how he came to be in this unique situation. Please review, favorite, and check out my other stuff because it's equally as awesome.