My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Dragonshy
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CHAPTER TWO: MISSION ONE: FIND THE DRAGON
One hour later, the Mane 7 were once again at the library and they were all ready to go… well, most of them were ready, Fluttershy wasn't looking forward to going up the mountain to confront a dragon. She didn't say anything at first, wanting to hear the plan before letting them know that she didn't want to go.
"All right girls, listen up," Twilight Sparkle said seriously, pacing a little. "I'm mapping out the fastest route, but we've all got to keep a good pace if we expect to make it up the mountain by nightfall."
"M-m-mountain?" Fluttershy whimpered, staring in the direction of the mountain that the smoke was coming from.
Twilight Sparkle nodded. "The dragon is in that cave at the very top."
"Looks pretty cold up there," Applejack remarked, eying the top of the mountain, which was covered with snow that was being blackened by the smoke.
"You bet it is," Rainbow Dash agreed. "The higher you go, the chillier it gets."
"Good thing I brought my scarf," said Rarity, magically removing a pink scarf from one of her bags and wrapped it around her neck.
"Ooo! Pretty!" Pinkie Pie praised.
Rainbow Dash snickered. "Heh, oh yeah. That'll keep you nice and cozy," she teased.
'Here we go again,' Sunrise Blossom thought as the two ponies began arguing.
Gulping, Fluttershy went over to Twilight Sparkle, who was looking at a map to figure out the best way to go up the mountain quickly. "Um, excuse me, Twilight?" she asked politely. "I know you're busy, but…"
"Uh-huh," said the purple unicorn, not really listening as she examined the map. "Well, we could go this way."
"But if I could just have a second…" the yellow pegasus continued, taking advantage of her friend's lack of attention, hoping to hear something that would mean she could stay home.
"Uh-huh," said Twilight Sparkle and shook her head at something on the map. "No, we want to avoid that."
'Here's my one chance,' Fluttershy thought. "So, um, I was thinking that, um, maybe I should just stay here in Ponyville," she offered.
Still staring at the map, Twilight Sparkle nodded. "Uh-huh."
"Oh! Good," said Fluttershy, walking away. "I'll stay here and-"
"Wait!" Twilight Sparkle exclaimed, putting away the map and blocked her friend's way. "You have to come! Your way with wild animals will surely come in handy."
"I don't think I-" the yellow pegasus began.
"Oh, and don't worry about your little friends in the meadow," the purple unicorn cut in. "Spike's got it covered while you're gone."
Spike walked up with Angel and the other animals. "You can count on me!" he promised, only to have the white bunny kick him in the head, and they all ran off. "Oooh! Hey! Hey! Wait!" And he ran after the fleeing animals.
"I don't really think he's up to the task," Fluttershy protested. "Maybe… But… But… no!"
Twilight Sparkle opened her mouth to speak, but Sunrise Blossom came over. "Twi, let me talk with Fluttershy, ok?" she offered.
Her twin agreed and turned when Rainbow Dash flew over to her, and was clearly concerned about the yellow pegasus, who was now talking with the orange unicorn.
"Are you sure you want Fluttershy to come along?" the blue pegasus asked. "I mean, that pony's afraid of her own shadow. She's just going to slow us down."
"Oh, she's just a little nervous," Twilight Sparkle said reassuringly. "Once we get going, I'm sure she'll be fine." But she regretted those words when Fluttershy insisted that she couldn't go and hid in the nearest bush. "Seriously?"
Sunrise Blossom sighed. "Looks like we'll just have to haul her with us, sis."
Twilight Sparkle nodded, agreeing that it was their only option. "All right girls, move out!" And working together, the six ponies pried the yellow pegasus out of the bush and ran toward the mountain with her on their backs.
"But… but…!" Fluttershy screamed, terrified. She was going to the mountain whether she wanted to or not.
It didn't take the Mane 7 very long to reach the base of the mountain, and they were about to start on the path when there was a loud snoring noise that shook the whole mountain, and a surge of black smoke came out of the top, heading toward Ponyville. The noise made Fluttershy duck behind Applejack.
"Whoa. What was that?" Rainbow Dash asked, having never heard anything so loud before.
"That is what it sounds like when a dragon snores," Twilight Sparkle informed them.
"Even Spike doesn't snore that loudly, and he's just a baby," Sunrise Blossom.
Fluttershy stared up at the distant top of the mountain. "It – it's so… high!"
"Well, it is a mountain," Rainbow Dash stated. "I'm going to fly up there and check it out!" She stared to fly upward, only to be yanked back by Applejack, who clamped her teeth onto her tail. "Wah!"
Applejack released the blue pegasus' tail. "Hold on, now," she advised. "I think we should all go up together. Safety in numbers and all."
"Oh, all right," Rainbow Dash agreed sourly.
Twenty minutes later, the ponies were making their way up a cliffside and Rarity shared something that she'd heard about concerning dragons. "I hear the only thing that sparkles more than a dragon's scales are the jewels they use to build their nests," she remarked. "Ooo, if I play my cards right, I might be able to convince him to part with a few!"
"Welcome to my cave, Rarity," said Pinkie Pie, pretending to be a dragon. "Care for a diamond?" And she let out a silly roar that resulted in the ponies laughing.
"Girls!" Twilight Sparkle snapped. "This is no laughing matter! Fluttershy, you're the expert on wild creatures. What do you think the dragon will be like? Fluttershy?" She stopped and looked around for the yellow pegasus. The other ponies also looked and then they spotted her hiding behind a bush some feet behind them.
"Hey!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "What are you waiting for? An invitation?"
"Ooo, I think I have one in my bag!" Pinkie Pie dug through one of her bags and she did pull an invite with a number of party sounds and an explosion of confetti that left her mane and the manes of Rarity, Sunrise Blossom, and Rainbow Dash standing on end.
Fluttershy inched out of her hiding place, but that's all she did. "I-it's so… so… steep."
"Well, it is a cliff," Rainbow Dash snapped, annoyed with her friend. "You could just, oh, I don't know, fly up here?" she suggested.
"Come on, Fluttershy, you can do it," Pinkie Pie encouraged her. "Flap those wings!"
"Yeah, come on, Fluttershy," said Sunrise Blossom with an encouraging smile.
Fluttershy gulped. "Oh… okay." She began flapping her wings and rose until she was level with her friends. Just then, there was another loud snore from the dragon, and her wings snapped shut so she fell out of the sky with a soft cry.
"Augh," Rainbow Dash groaned while the yellow pegasus stood up, and she was trying to unstick her wings.
Twilight Sparkle also groaned. "Uh, we don't have time for this," she complained when Applejack suddenly removed the map from her bag. "What are you doing?" she asked.
Applejack opened the map and she looked it over. "I'll need this if I'm going to take her around the mountain another way," she announced.
Rainbow Dash groaned again. "Around the mountain?" she repeated. "That's going to take them forever."
Giving the map back, Applejack slid back down the mountain to join Fluttershy, who smiled nervously at her after failing to get her wings to unstick, and then the dragon snored once again, and the yellow pegasus stiffened to the point that she toppled over like a fainting goat.
"Don't worry, Twi," Applejack promised. "We'll be there lickety-split."
Some time later, the other ponies had reached the top of the cliff and they were waiting for Applejack and Fluttershy. While Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash were pacing, Sunrise Blossom was writing down ideas for new potions and/or remedies, and Rarity and Pinkie Pie were busy playing tic-tac-toe.
Pinkie Pie drew three circles and cheered. "Whoo-hoo! I win again!"
"Ugh. That's thirty-five games in a row," Rarity complained, and around them were over thirty tic-tac-toe games. "Best of seventy-one?" she asked hopefully.
Just then, Applejack, who was panting with the tip of the yellow pegasus' tail tied around her hat, came into view, dragging Fluttershy, who was still frozen, with her. "We. Made. It," she announced, wheezing.
"Told you it was going to take them forever," Rainbow Dash grumbled from her upside position floating upside down next to the purple unicorn.
After unfreezing the yellow pegasus, which hadn't been easy, they resumed their trek up the path. Making good progress, they soon came to a gap, and they all jumped across it easily, except for Fluttershy, who gulped and kept her distance.
"Your turn, Fluttershy," Twilight Sparkle called out to her.
"But… it's so… wide," Fluttershy whispered uneasily.
"Come on, Fluttershy," Twilight Sparkle pleaded, "we should be much farther along by now."
"You could just leap on over," Applejack suggested helpfully.
Fluttershy nervously edged forward. "I-" she began and froze when the dragon snored away. "I don't know."
"There's nothing to be afraid of," Pinkie Pie said confidently, hopping back over. "It's just a hop, skip and a jump. See?" And she broken into song while hopping back and forth over the gap. "It's not very far. Just move your little rump. You can make it if you try with a hop, skip and jump."
"We don't have time for this," Twilight Sparkle grumbled.
"A hop, skip and jump," Pinkie Pie kept singing and hopping. "Just move your little rump, A hop, skip and jump, A hop, skip and jump, A hop, skip and jump, A hop skip and jump, A hop skip and jump!" She returned to their friends.
Encouraged by the song, Fluttershy started forward. "O-okay. Here I go. A hop." And she started hopping while her friends encouraged her onward. "Skip." She then skipped closer to the edge when she made the mistake of looking down into the gap, and she yelped as she began to fall – only to have her hooves lock onto either side of the small gap.
"Ugh." Rainbow Dash flew over and booted the yellow pegasus the rest of the while and into their friends.
Fluttershy smiled sheepishly. "I guess I forgot to jump."
Needing to make up lost time, the ponies went running along the path toward the top of the mountain, and when they rounded a bend, Twilight Sparkle made them slow down and whispered to them. "Let's keep it down," she warned them. "According to my map, we're entering an avalanche zone. The smallest peep could cause a huge rock slide."
"An… an ava… ava…" Fluttershy began to say when her friends covered her mouth.
"Shhh!" Sunrise Blossom hissed, and after they removed their hooves from her mouth, they began walking along the trail, wanting to get out of the danger area as soon as possible, and as Rainbow Dash flew under a tree branch, two leaves were knocked off.
The leaves floated through the air and landed on Fluttershy's back. "AVALA-!" she began to shriek, but her friends covered her mouth again. When nothing happened, they let out a collective sigh of relief, and then there was a loud rumbling sound, followed by a wave of rocks heading toward them!
"Avalanche!" the ponies screamed and fled, avoiding the falling rocks as much as possible.
"Oh no!" Twilight Sparkle screamed, fleeing through the falling rocks and almost got hit a few times. "Help! Ooh!" she grunted when Applejack collided with her, knocking her to safety.
Minutes later, the rumbling stopped, and the dust began to settle, leaving the ponies all coughing and covered with dust.
"Oh my!" Applejack gasped after clearing her throat and looked around. "Everypony okay?" And her friends all confirmed that they were.
Rarity spit dirt out of her mouth and shook the dust off. "Eugh. Blech."
"Whoo-hoo! Let's do it again!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed, bouncing a bit.
"Uh! This is why a girl always packs extra accessories," said Rarity, taking out a second pink scarf to wrap around her neck, and then she looked at her bags with a concerned expression. "Oh, please tell me I brought the tiara that goes with this."
"Uh, think we got bigger problems than making sure our hair bows match our horseshoes," Rainbow Dash pointed out, and sure enough, the path was blocked by a massive pile of rocks and dirt.
"Oh boy," said Sunrise Blossom.
Fluttershy sighed guiltily. "Sorry."
"Aw, no big whoop, sugarcube," Applejack said reassuringly.
"Yeah, we'll just have to" Twilight Sparkle sighed "climb over."
Thirty minutes later, the ponies managed to climb to the top of the pile and they were now carefully making their way down the other side with Rainbow Dash monitoring their progress and suppressing annoyed sighs since Fluttershy was insisting on climbing down the pile instead of flying. It didn't take very long for the twins to reach the bottom of the pile and the others weren't too far behind when Fluttershy suddenly slipped and tumbled down the side, taking Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity with her so that they landed in a heap.
"My apologies," Rarity apologized as Rainbow Dash flew down and helped her up.
"Not your fault," the blue pegasus told her while shooting Fluttershy, who whimpered a little, a look. Once they were back on their hooves, she sighed and flew over to Twilight Sparkle. "Still think it was a good idea to bring Fluttershy along?" she inquired.
"We're about to find out," Twilight Sparkle responded, nodding to the opening of the large cave that the smoke was leaking out of. "We're here."
The Mane Seven exchanged uneasy looks. They found the dragon's lair, now how were they going to convince him to leave without getting themselves roasted?
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