"Harmony's New Flame"
Chapter 4: Dragons Rock
Hey everyone Nova Pyro here once again bringing you my forth chapter. Last time in Harmony's New Flame Pyro and the others arrived in Ponyville and went to their designated homes. Now we will learn what happens when dragons live with ponies. Will it be a dream come true or a living nightmare, or both? Read and find out, and make sure to leave a review.
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Once again Celestia's sun rose over all of Equestria and bathed the land in its warm glow. As the morning suns rays reached through the windows, Pyro's eyes opened once again. The red dragon stretched himself out and looked around.
When he got back from his hunting last night, he didn't get a good look at Twilight's home. Speaking of Twilight Sparkle, he looked over to see she was still sound asleep, and so was her #1 assistant.
Pyro then thought, "Ah, why wake them?" The dragon king decided to get a head start on the day. He walked down the spiral stairs of the tree and arrived down stairs.
As he looked at his surroundings he was in utter shock. There were books all over the floor. In the corner there was ink stains and left over debris from what looked like a science experiment.
Pyro was completely surprised and appalled by the scene before him. He then said, "Th-This, this is just unacceptable. I'm cleaning this up right now." The red dragon jumped down the stairs and got to work. First up were the books.
Pyro opened his wings and flew over the floor picking up the books, reading the titles, and placing in the place that seemed most appropriate. He then flew over to the writing area. As he landed he noticed the letter on the tabled and that it was not finished.
He then thought, "Twilight must have been recording the data for her experiment over." As he read he noticed that this letter was for something else. He realized it was data for a new spell she was working on. It looked very complex yet doable in the right hooves or in his case paws or claws.
Pyro read the data and placed one paper on top of the other while numbering them. He then used his tail to grab and wet a towel. He then used it to clean up the ink and whatever was on the floor from the experiment.
He then walked over to test area and picked up the glass, which were the remains of a beaker or test tube. He didn't have to be careful because the glass couldn't penetrate his steel like scales.
As he finished cleaning Pyro heard a very familiar noise, his stomach growling. Pyro then thought, 'Ok everyone else is probably still asleep, so I should be able to get to the Ever Free Forest before they wake up.
Pyro then thought, 'Wait, there going to be hungry when they wake up. Pyro then looked at the fridge in the corner of the kitchen. He then said, "Well I've already cleaned up the place. What's one more thing on my way out anyway."
The fire dragon then walked over and started working his cooking magic. All that could be heard were things flying in the air along with utensils and shakers being clacked together.
With that Pyro walked over to the door and made his way outside.
As the door closed Twilight and Spike both woke up and began to get ready. Spike stretched out his back like a kitten and let out a small yawn. Twilight let out a yawn too as she got out of bed. She then said, "Ok first things first."
The purple unicorn walked over to her mirror and looked at herself. She had a very bad case of bed head; meaning her hair looked like Medusa's snakes. She used her horn to levitate her hairbrush over to her. With a few quick strokes her mane looked like normal.
Spike then said, "Well I'll go make breakfast and clean up the place." Twilight nodded and said, "Okay, I'll be down in a minute. Let me just wake up Pyro." As the purple unicorn turned to where he was supposed to be sleeping, she found that he was gone.
She then called down to Spike, "Hey Spike, Pyro isn't in his bed. Is he down stairs with you?" Spike quickly replied, "No, but you might want to see this Twilight." The purple unicorn made her way down the winding stairs and saw what Spike was talking about.
Twilight's face looked like when she first came to Ponyville and saw Rainbow Dash clear the sky in ten seconds flat, minus the hair of course.
Her entire down stairs had been cleaned, her books organized, and her experiment files neatly stacked. Not only that there was a whole family style breakfast on the table: Eggs, pancakes, orange juice, and a few gems for Spike." The purple unicorn just couldn't believe what Pyro had done in the time gap of their awakenings.
Spike then spoke, "It usually takes me half a day to do all that. It at least takes me 20 minutes to make breakfast for both of us."
Twilight could only nod as her face remains in shock. It was at that exact moment that she realized something, the dragon king wasn't here. She then looked down and asked her assistant, "Where is Pyro anyway?" Spike took a quick look and said, "I think he left."
Twilight's eyes suddenly shrunk to the size of a marble. She then said, "We have to find him before all of Ponyville goes into a panic!" Spike then said, "Twilight, take a deep breath and calm down. I'm sure Pyro's fine. Let's just eat breakfast and we can go look for him. Besides everyone's gonna have to get used to him and the others sooner or later right?"
Twilight had to admit that Spike was making sense, but she at least wanted to introduce Pyro to everyone. It was plainly obvious after yesterday's fiasco that finding a dragon in your home isn't exactly the best thing that can happen. Also that breakfast did look and smell really good.
She looked at Spike and said, "Ok, let's eat, but after that we are going to look for him. Twilight then took a bite of the scrambled eggs Pyro made. Her eyes shot open and a big smile came to her face as she swallowed. These were the best eggs she had ever tasted. She and spike started chowing down without a care in the world.
After eating and digesting their food the purple pony and dragon both left to find their red dragon companion.
While they were walking the happy faces of everypony in Ponyville greeted Twilight and Spike. Spike then thought of something. Everyone was calm and acting like normal. Normally that would be fine, but with Pyro here it seemed odd.
The purple and green dragon leaned down and asked, "Doesn't it seem a bit quite to you?" "Well yeah, it's like this every morning." Twilight responded wondering what he meant by that. Spike then continued, "Don't you think that someone would have seen Pyro and started a panic by now?"
Twilight could have bonked herself in the head for forgetting something like that. How could she forget that Pyro was a dragon and would likely cause a panic if someone saw him?
She then said, "Well he made it back last night without anyone seeing him. So maybe he did the same this morning." "Yeah, but that was at night. Everypony was practically asleep by then, its morning now, and everyone's up and moving around."
As the purple unicorn was about to respond she saw her friends waling towards her and spike. As they all approached each other they noticed they all had the same worried looks on their faces, which meant they were all having the same problem.
Applejack was the first to speak and said, "Let me guess, your dragon disappeared this mornin too." Twilight nodded and said, "Well, one of them anyway. How about we go sit down and talk about this? We've been looking for a while, and I guess you guys probably have too."
They all nodded and headed towards 'Sugar Cube Corner'.
Twilight then decided to say, "I know we're all worried and stuff, but I gotta say having Pyro around might not be as hard as I thought. I woke up this morning and found my entire downstairs cleaned up. My books were put in their proper places, me experiments were cleaned up, and he even made us an awesome breakfast before he… disappeared this morning."
Rainbow Dash then said, "Really, well that's a coincidence. I woke up and found my entire house completely reshaped and compacted. I also found a nice breakfast of fruits and a smoothie waitin for me. That's not all either, after I ate I was going to go for my morning fly, and as soon as I took off I was flying as smooth as you wouldn't believe. Somehow Skye made the air currents flow around my house all morning. It felt like I was just gliding everywhere. I didn't think flying could be so easy."
Applejack spoke next and said, "Well I had a decent mornin too. As soon as I woke up I was ready for work. I walked outside and found a breakfast of toast, eggs, orange juice, and cereal. After me and the others were done eatin we headed outside to start on the chores in the field, but as soon as we got out there we saw more than half the chores had been done. The trees had been bucked and apples collected, all the critters had been rounded up, the fruit had been mashed, and the dirt was plowed. I couldn't believe it, and when I tried to find Ethan, I find out that rock dragon don disappeared of somewhere."
Fluttershy then said in her usually whisper like voice, "Oh, I saw Razor before he left this morning. He woke after all the critters in my house started making a lot of noise. He came down to see what the problem was, and found me with my hooves full trying to help everyone. Then he let out a big roar and got all of them to be quiet. Once they all were settled down he read their minds and figured out what they all wanted. I've never had such an easy time helping my little friends. After that was done Razor prepared a wonderful fruit breakfast for me and… then he left while I was eating."
Pinkie Pie giggled and said, "Wow, sounds like Razor distracted you with food."
Rarity then asked, "Well Pinkie, how exactly Conner greet you this morning?"
Pinkie thought for a minute and said, "Oh, oh, oh, I remember now. There was a great breakfast of hey, chocolate milk, fruit, and a cupcake waiting for me. I went upstairs and found my chores done, and the cakes told me that he helped them with an early delivery so I could sleep in. Wasn't that nice of him?"
Spike then said, "Wow, I didn't think they'd do all that. Wait a minute, so they all got up early fixed, did these awesome things, and then just disappeared? So where did they go?"
Suddenly explosion went off in the Everfree Forest and they all turned around. Rainbow Dash then said, "I think it's a safe bet they they're that way."
Twilight then said, "Ok girls, common. We have to get to them before someone see's them. Spike you better come too, I don't think they'd be able to come back to our homes during the day anyway. Ok everyone, let's go!"
As they arrived at the border they all stopped in their tracks.
They looked inside as the fog of the forest leaked out and brushed past their hooves getting them to shiver in fear. If that wasn't enough, they could hear the many different noises coming from the many creatures and plants that were in there. No pony ever went in here for many reasons, but reason number one was how creepy and scary it looked.
Spike then asked nervously, "Twilight, d-do we really have to go in there?" Fluttershy backed him up and said, "Yeah, I'm sure they're fine. I mean they're dragons."
Twilight then said, "We have to go in. If they get hurt it will be our faults. We promised the princess we'd look after them, and that I would help Pyro learn magic, I can't do that if he gets hurt."
Applejack then said in a stern voice, "Twalight's right. There are friends and we need to help them. Let's go everypony!" With that they all charged in full speed ahead and started looking for their reptilian friends.
As they arrived Pinkie Pie was being her usual or should I say unusual self. "Oh Twilight this is really bad! I mean they could've gone anywhere. They could be back at 'Dragon Mountain' again, they could have gone on some crazy dragon quest, they could have eaten somepony, or they could have been eaten themselves!"
Rainbow Dash finally decided to stop this craziness; it was just to early for this. "Pinkie, I doubt those guys would have been eaten by anything. I'm sure they're just… doing whatever it is dragons do."
As they made their way further inside Spike suddenly stepped in something that caused to stand lopsidedly. He looked down and saw it was dragon footprint at least 3 sizes bigger than his, which meant only one thing, teenage dragon.
He then yelled back, "Guys over here! I found one of their footprints." Everypony came by and took a look. Applejack took a closer look and said, "Not just one, all their footprints are here. That means they all met up right here."
Rainbow Dash then said, "It looks they went that way after they met up here. What do you thing they came out here to do anyway?" Rarity then said, "Well whatever they came to do, I just hope it was worth going through all this trouble."
Pinkie then said, "Oh common Rarity, it's not so bad. I mean they did make us all an awesome breakfast and did nice things for us this morning." They smiled as they remembered the surprised they received as they woke up and began their routines this morning; before the sudden surprise that they had all disappeared.
At that moment a ding went off in Spike head. The young dragon then smacked himself in the head and said, "Of course, how could we be so clueless?"
Twilight then asked, "What's up Spike?" "Think about it Twilight, Pyro was probably hungry and he needs to hunt. So where would they go?" Suddenly an explosion went off in the Everfree forest catching everyone's attention and getting them all to turn around slowly.
Spike then said, "Remember what happened yesterday when we got back. They come out here for no reason, they came out here to get their own breakfast, to hunt." Suddenly all six mares felt like they had an anvil dropped on their heads.
Twilight then said, "Ok so we know why they came out here, but we still don't know where they are." Spike then said, "Uh Twilight." As she turned around she saw that all of them had terrified expressions written all over their faces. The purple unicorn then heard something breathing against her neck.
She swallowed as she turned around and looked up to what it was. What it was completely sent a wave of fear down her spine. The creatures were hooded, ghost like, and floating creatures that moaned like a zombie. Twilight began to back away along with the others until they were suddenly surrounded by these strange and disgusting creatures.
Twilight then looked to the one that had been behind her she was about to cast a spell, but the beast soon started inhaling. The magic on her horn soon dissipated and it felt like her strength was being sucked away from her.
Soon the other creatures joined in and began draining the strength from each of the mares and baby dragon. Twilight felt her strength fade faster and faster as her legs began to give out. She saw the beast move closer as it continued to drain her. Twilight then thought in her mind, 'Is this it, no it can't be. Please someone, anyone please, help us!'
Suddenly a loud and thunderous roar echoed through the forest. The cloaked figures then turned around to see 5 dragons standing before them and boy were they mad. Twilight and the others looked over to see it was Pyro and the others.
Pyro took in a deep breath and unleashed a giant torrent of flame getting the monsters to flee in fear away from the girls. He then nodded to Ethan who sprung into action immediately. He jumped over to the girls and covered them, spike, and himself inside an earth dome.
Razor and Conner then stepped out covered themselves with their energy. As the beasts came closer the dragons let out their own energy pulses sending the beasts away and into the air. Now it was Skye's turn. The wind dragon began to spin around at super speeds and formed a tornado.
He then flew out and sent the tornado at the creatures swirling them up and smashing them into each other. Pyro then stepped forward and unleashed another fire stream onto the tornado lighting the giant twister on fire. Now it was a fire tornado.
The beasts were incinerated and turned to dust. The dragons had earned another victory. Pyro then called out, "Alright Ethan, their gone! Come on out!" Ethan smashed the dome open and walked out with the girls close behind.
Rarity then asked in a frightened tone, "What were those monstrous creatures. They were so, so horrifying!" Spike then said, "I'd say they were ghosts, but last I checked ghosts were white and went through stuff."
Pyro then said, "They were Ghouls or as know in our world Gowels. They also have another name, Dementors- spirit like creatures that feed on the life force of another to survive. You all are very lucky, very few creatures can face those things and live to tell the tale."
Razor stepped next to him and said, "Except dragons that is." He then looked over to see Fluttershy on the verge of tears and shaking like she was on a frozen mountain. He figured he should try and calm her down.
He walked over to her and stepped in front of her getting her attention. He then reached out his paw in an attempt to help her up. Before he could react Fluttershy jumped up and hugged him tightly surprising the psychic dragon.
He was literally holding her off the ground with one of his arms as she clung to him. He sighed deeply and pushed her up onto his back where she clung to him even tighter; he had to admit he wasn't complaining about this.
Pyro then asked, "What are you all doing in here? It's dangerous." Rainbow Dash then zoomed up to his face and asked, "What are we doing here?! We were looking for you! You guys just disappeared and we find out you came here! We worried sick!"
The red looked behind him to his friends who shrugged in response. He then turned back to the ponies and said, "Um… Sorry. But it really wasn't necessary, we can take care of ourselves."
Rarity then butted in and said, "Darlings, do you think we could have this discussion outside the forest… before those things come back." Everyone looked at each other with wide eyes before taking off out of the forest at full speed.
As they exited the forest Twilight turned to Pyro and the others and said, "Guys look, I know you like to go off on your own, but you just can't. If somepony sees you before we explain everything it will cause a huge panic. Not only that you can't keep going in there. If something happens to you, not only we will never be able to forgive ourselves, but the future of both our homes will be in jeopardy! You have to stay in Ponyville."
Razor stepped forward and said, "Well that's going to be a problem Twilight." Rainbow Dash stepped forward with her usual attitude and said, "Why's that, dragon boy?!" Razor glared down at her and growled as he said, "Because we're Dragons!"
Razor's roar was so loud the rainbow Pegasus actually fell backwards. Ethan stepped forward and said, "He's right, we're not pets or something, we can't stay cooped up in your houses all day. We're going to do what we need to do, it's our nature. That means we not only need to hunt, but we also need to train to keep up our strength, fly around to stretch our wings, and run long distances for exercise."
Spike then said, "Wow, I didn't know dragons did all that." Razor looked down at Spike and said, "Well you probably wouldn't know that Spike. You're still a kid, and you don't exactly act like a dragon anyway."
Those words hit Spike in the head like an anvil. He then asked, "I-I don't." Pyro looked to Razor with a 'what the heck dude?' look on his face. He then cleared his throat and said, "Anyway, we still face a common problem. We can't keep sneaking out every day just so we can eat; it's too much of a hassle. Also we need to make sure we can learn more about this place without scaring the locals."
Twilight then thought of something. It was risky, but it just might work. The purple unicorn then asked, "Hey, I've heard that all dragons possess the ability to change their form. Is that true?" Skye nodded and said, "Yeah, that's the one magic every dragon knows how to do, but we need an ample supply of power from the world around us if we want to change into a creature from that world."
Fluttershy then asked in her usual whispered tone, "Can you absorb power from the nature?" Razor turned to her and said, "No, it's not that simple. We combine our elemental cores with the raw energy of the world we're in; however Pyro is the acception."
Apple Jack then asked, "What do you mean acception? Does that mean he doesn't need that raw energy stuff?" Pyro nodded yes and replied, "Since I already have an infinite supply raw energy in my body I don't need to absorb any from the worlds I go to."
Twilight then looked up and saw her horn. She then said, "Of course, why didn't I think of this before?!" Pinkie Pie then asked, "Think of what before, jumping up and down, cartwheeling, and sun bathing, Zecora?" Razor couldn't take anymore of this and used his psychic power grab the pink pony, held her mouth shut, and sat her on the ground.
He then said, "Now I'm going to let you go, but when I do you are to absolutely quiet, UNDERSTAND." "Mhh-hmm." She said through her closed jaw. Razor then let her go and said, "Now you were saying Twilight."
Conner then sat next to Pinkie and said, "Don't worry he's always been a killjoy. We can have some fun later." Pinkie smiled up at the yellow dragon that smiled up at him.
Twilight then said, "Right, as I was saying, you guys could absorb my magic." The dragons all said in unison, "HUH?!" She then continued and said, "I can generate enormous amounts of magic. If you guys could absorb that you'd have what you need to change your shape." They all thought about it for a moment and Razor said, "Yeah, yeah that could work, but we'll to account for our infection response."
Rarity then asked, "Infection Response? That sounds like something you use against a disease." Conner then stepped up and said, "It is, we dragons have this response to ward off not only diseases but foreign harmful magic, poisons, and other stuff."
Twilight then said, "Well this presents a whole other problem." Rainbow Dash suddenly thought of something and said, "Why don't you just mix Twilight's magic with your Pyro's golden energy stuff, that way you can get a good mix so and your bodies won't feel threatened by Twilight's magic." Everyone turned to Rainbow Pegasus with shocked and confused looks. She then asked, "What, bad idea?"
Pyro then shook his head and said, "No, no that's perfect. That could really work, alright let's try it out!" Twilight then stood before Pyro and the others stood behind him ready for the test. The dragon king then shouted, "Now remember we have to start at the same time and shoot the same amount of power! Spike you give the signal!"
Spike stood at attention and saluted Pyro and prepared to give the signal. The purple and green dragon held his hand up and said, "Ready, Set, GO!
Twilight and Pyro both shot their beams in perfect unison. As the beams were about to collide, Twilight and Pyro made them both shot up into the sky. Pyro and Twilight focused on their individual powers and made the beams twist together as they flew further into the sky.
As this happened the two of them received a shock as the power circled around each other they suddenly fused together and a new silver beam was created.
The beam then flew back down and blasted the dragons full force, then before anyone could react, the silver light exploded sending out a shockwave that blew the six mares on their backs and Spike onto Twilight's stomach.
As the light faded they all got up and shook themselves out of their dizziness. Twilight was the first to speak and said, "Well didn't see that coming. Is everypony ok?"
They all looked at each other and Pinkie said, "Looks like we're all okie-dokie-lokie, and boy was that one shiny show, until the explosion sent us all falling backwards."
Spike then asked, "But what happened to the guys?" All of them looked around and Rainbow called out, "I don't see them!" Fluttershy then said, "Hey look, over there!"
They all looked over to a nearby hill where Fluttershy was pointing. In the distance they saw five shadowy figures standing on the hill. As they looked closer they saw the figures were five teenage stallions; it was them.
First they saw a grey unicorn with a spiky silver mane; instead of being a normal shaped mane his looked like silver spikes and his horn was silver as well. He also had bluish lines beginning at his collarbone and ending around his back legs. On his flank was a symbol of a two shadowy stallions staring at each other with a wavy line connecting their horns. This stallion was Razor.
Next up was a muscular and well-toned earth stallion. His main and hooves were a wood like brown and his tail was the same. His eyes shined an emerald green color. On his flank was a symbol a stallion holding up a giant rock. This stallion was Ethan.
Next up was another earth stallion with golden like fur. Like Razor his mane was spike but his spikes were shorter and were in greater number. His hooves were silver in color and shined like his fur. On his flank was a symbol of a stallion with wheels for feet surrounded by a blue circle, obviously meaning speed. This stallion was Conner.
Soon another stallion stepped up. This one was lean and had a rather thin figure. He was a sky blue Pegasus with wings that looked like that on an eagle. His mane was dark blue with a light blue stripe in it, his tail was the same. On his flank was the symbol of a stallion flying out of a tornado inside a dark blue circle. This stallion was Skye.
Finally the last stallion appeared. This one was not an Earth pony, Unicorn, or Pegasus, he was an Alicorn. His fur was a bright crimson red and his mane looked like flowing fire. His body was tall, lean, and strong; a true picture of perfection. He had golden like hooves and his horn looked like a golden knight like blade. His tail was just like his mane, a fire like hairstyle that burned complemented his red fur. On his flank was the symbol of 3 suns, one red, one blue, and the last was white. This alicorn was Pyro.
The girls all had their jaws dropped. Not only had their plan actually worked, but the boys looked really good as stallions.
Twilight then said, "It-It worked! We did it, I can't believe it, and we did it!" The girls all smiled and cheered for the success. Razor stepped forward and said, "This body is going to take some getting used to, so how do we look?"
Fluttershy then said, "Oh, you look very dashing Razor. I bet you'll make a great unicorn." Razor then looked up to see the blade like horn. He then said, "Well, I guess this is okay, I mean this could have gone way worse."
Skye then said, "I think this is pretty cool. Not only can we go around freely now, but now we can get a new experience and perspective in this new world as one of the locals."
Pyro looked at himself and asked, "How come I have wings and a horn. Twilight took a close look and said, "You're an alicorn. That's incredible, it must be because you're a king and the magic must have turned you into a prince." Pyro took another look at himself and said, "Cool."
Conner then asked, "What are these symbols on our legs for? I've been wondering that for a while and what these weird symbols mean." Pinkie then said, "Oh those are just your cutie marks."
As those words left the pink pony's mouth the boys all looked at each other in confusion. Pinkie Pie then asked in her own confused yet still peppy tone, "What?" Suddenly the newly born stallions fell to the ground and burst out laughing as they all rolled across the ground. Each of them was either holding their sides or crying tears of laughter.
Ethan then said, "Yo-You ha, ha, ha c-chant be serious! Bwa hah ha ha ha ha ha!" Conner then yelled, "Pffffft, that's the most pitiful name for anything I've heard yet. Hah ha!" Everyone then halted their laughter as Pyro spoke, "Common guys, we better call the (snicker) 'Power Puff Girls' and tell them they've been oh-out done!" With that they all fell on their back screaming their laughter to the world.
Twilight and the others felt a little insulted since they all had cutie marks and worked real hard to get them. Twilight then cleared her throat and said, "If your finished." The boys all looked up to see disturbed and angry faces of the mares.
Razor got up and said, "Sorry, but even you've got to admit, that name is just ridiculous." Applejack responded with a serious and stern attitude as she said, "Cutie marks are nothin to laugh at."
Rarity stepped next to her western friend and said, "I must concur with Applejack, our cutie marks are a symbol of our hard work."
Twilight then continued Rarity's words, "They show that we have found something that we can do ourselves. They are a symbol of who we really are." The boys all looked at each other in a bit of confusion. Conner then whispered, "Awkward."
Razor then thought of something. He then asked, "So, can we like change back because I don't want to stay this way." "One of use should try just to see if we can, and if we can't then we got a problem."
Conner smiled and said, "I'll try it." With that he closed his eyes and began to focus on changing back to his dragon form. As he focused his mane and tail began to spark with electricity surprising everyone. The electricity spread out and covered his whole body. Soon a large ball of lightning engulfed the stallion's body and everyone had their eyes glued to him (especially Pinkie Pie).
As the light faded Conner was revealed back in his dragon form. Conner opened his eyes and said, "Well that explains that. I'm back!" Pyro smiled and said, "Good, now that we've got this covered why don't we get started on my training."
Twilight smiled and said, "Ok, let's start with basic levitation." The purple unicorn looked around for something for him to levitate and saw a large rock the size of one of them. She then thought, 'Well even if he can't lift it, he should be able to move it'.
She turned to him and said, "Why don't you try and move that rock over there." Rarity walked over to Twilight and asked, "Um Twilight darling, don't you think that might be a tad… uh hard?"
Twilight then leaned over and whispered, "I don't expect him to lift it, I'm just seeing if he can move it." Pyro then focused his mind and imagined himself moving it. As everyone watched, his horn began to let off a golden glow.
Twilight then looked at the glow of his horn and thought, 'Huh, why does that glow seem so familure? I can almost swear I've seen it somewhere before."
The purple unicorn's attention was called away as the rock was covered by Pyro's magic and began to lift off the ground. Rainbow Dash then asked in a surprised tone, "How can he move something that big on his first try?"
Pyro began focus more and the rock began to rise even higher. Then suddenly his eyes shot open and rock shot into the sky like a rocket getting everyone's jaws to drop; especially Twilight's. Pyro was surprised himself, but not as much as the others.
Everyone's eyes then went from the still flying rock, to Pyro who had a bashful look on his face. He then said, "Sorry Twilight, I couldn't control it and it just shot up like that."
Pinkie smiled, but suddenly her tail began to shake. She then looked up, and said, "Pyro."
Twilight then said, "How, how did you do that. I trained for years and I couldn't lift something that big until the Princess's 6th lesson." Pyro shrugged and said, "I don't know. I just did what you told me, and I remembered everything you said about using magic and poof."
"Pyro."
Razor then said, "Pyro's ancestral energy must be just as powerful in his stallion form as it is in his dragon form. But his power isn't used to being in this stallion form, so the mix of magic makes his power flux out of control."
"Pyro."
The red dragon finally heard the pink ponies words and asked, "What's the matter Pinkie?" The earth pony then pointed upward and said, "That rock you threw is coming back."
Everyone looked up to see that she was right, and began to back away. Fluttershy however didn't move, as the rock was straight over her head.
Razor then yelled, "Ah Crap!" He then narrowed his eyes and focused his mind. Jus as the rock was five feet above Fluttershy it stopped above her head. Razor then breathed a sigh of relief, but just as he did his horn blade pulsed and the rock began to crack. Then before anyone could react it was destroyed.
Pyro then said, "Well that doesn't surprise me very much. Everyone once again looked with shocked faces. Conner then smiled and asked, "So what do we do now?"
Pinkie Pie then asked, "What do you guys want to do?" Skye quickly said, "Why don't we go back to Twilight's so we can get to know each other better." Rarity quickly said, "That sound fabulous. Let's go everyone."
The group of mares and stallions, and Spike, who was riding on Pyro's back, made their way back to the library. As they walked Pyro began to notice that a lot of the locals were staring at them.
He then leaned over to Twilight and asked, "Why are all these ponies staring at us?" "Yeah, it's freaking me out." Razor said following up his friend's statement. Twilight then said, "I guess they think you guys look cool."
Ethan then asked, "What do you mean?" Rarity then said, "Well, as far as stallions go, you boys are attractive." The boys couldn't help but blush as they heard that. Pyro then looked out again and said, "It looks like they're kind of surprised."
Twilight then said, "That's because you're an alicorn." The red alicorn then asked, "What's that mean?" "Alicorns are all royalty, and symbols of power in our civilization, so I guess they must be surprised to just see one walking through here normally."
Soon all the mares and stallions arrived back at Twilight's place and settled down. As they all got comfortable, Spike made some sandwiches for everyone to eat while the pyro and the others, who had gone back to their dragon forms began to tell their stories.
Ethan was first.
"Ok when I was young, I was just your basic youngling. I always dreamed of being one of the royal guards though. Fighting for the city against threats, improving my skills, and learning what I could really do. As I grew up I trained to become one of the best earth dragons ever. I was always working on becoming one with the earth around me. I always tried to do my best everyday and helped out anyone I could. That's how I was."
Apple Jack smiled as she heard the story. In truth it reminded her a lot of herself as she grew up and even as she was now.
Ethan then continued, "Now I got my wish. I've become one of the most powerful dragons in the city, and now I'm one of Pyro's top generals. Now we train together and make each other better in many ways."
Rainbow Dash then said, "That's a pretty cool story. I know where you're coming from and I can respect all your hard work."
Fluttershy followed her friend's lead and said in her usual whispery tone, "I agree. It must have been a lot of work." "Yeah, even I tried my best when I became princess Celestia's student, so I know it was worth the effort."
Rarity smiled as she said, "Oh I must conquer darling, and one cannot achieve anything without a little hard work." Apple Jack smiled and said, "Yeah, I'm really glad you told us about you're childhood. It sounds a lot like my own."
Pinkie Pie then said, "Ok that's one earth dragon down. Now let's see whose next… YOU!" She said pointing to Skye. The wind dragon had a confused look but shrugged his shoulders as began to tell his tale.
"When I was a kid, there was nothing more I loved than feeling the wind all around me. I always climbed into high mountains or to the top of trees just to feel the breeze against my scales. When I finally learned how to fly, my parents could barely keep me on the ground. I was flying almost all day, and soon I became one of the best flyers in the entire city. I began to learn new tricks, maneuvers, and techniques even some adult dragons had trouble learning. The elders told me I had a natural talent for feeling wind flow and said I could be a dragon who could become one with the sky. I began to practice reading the wind and using it to my advantage whether it is in a race or in a fight. After that I continued my training in the sky, where I felt I was meant to be, and sometimes I felt like I never wanted to come down."
Rainbow Dash was mesmerized by this story and could almost feel like she could relate to him (probably because she could). Rainbow then said, "That's a pretty awesome child hood. Not as awesome as mine, but still awesome."
Skye gave her sideways smile and glance, which made her smile bashfully with a slight blush.
Fluttershy then turned to Razor and asked, "Um Razor, why don't you tell us about you… if you want to that is. If you don't want to, I'd completely understand."
Razor shook his head and said, "Nah, I'll tell. I was your average kid, but I was born into a noble family and was raised as one. I received the some of the best training that could be provided to one born of pure dragon blood. But my parents only got me that training so I could get exercise, so I wouldn't have an excuse for not focusing on my studies. It was only a matter of time before I became a top student. Even with all that I was never happy.
The girls all made sad faces as they heard this. It was something from a sad novel, and Fluttershy was obviously feeling sad. She placed her hoof on his shoulder and gave him an understanding smile, which he returned thankfully.
The dark scaled dragon then continued his story with a much happier expression on his face this time, which obviously meant it was going to get better.
As I got older I sought something beyond my boring rich guy life style. I tried to find an outlet where I could cut loose and be myself, and then I found it, the Battle Arena. In there I could put all my skills and battle reflexes to the test. I tried out for a tournament that was coming up soon and got into an entry fight. As I fought I felt something inside me awaken for the first time and light my spirit on fire. I had a natural talent for battle, that no one had ever seen since the king himself fought in a tournament over a hundred years ago. I had one flaw though, I couldn't use my element yet, but all the other dragons could; that put me at an obvious disadvantage. As I fought in the tournament, my parents found out about my extra curricular activity and weren't very happy about it, but I didn't care. I continued to fight to my hearts content. When I reached the semi-finals I began to have difficulty facing my opponents. Someone finally started pushing me to my limits, but also kept making fun of me, because of my handicap. He made me so angry that I dug deeper then I ever had before and called fourth my power. My body erupted with psychic power and I knew what my element was. I won the tournament and my parents couldn't have been more proud of me; not only were they proud of me for winning the tournament, but also wielding one of the most rare elements in the entire dragon city."
Twilight smiled and said, "Wow that sounds incredible. I can relate to being smart and raised like a noble, but I never did anything like that."
Pinkie Pie then said, "Wow, you must be really, really, really, really, really, REALLY smart. I mean you were taught by a lot super smart people, then you got a really smart power."
Rarity then said, "I must say, I don't know why you would ever give up the life of a noble to live a life as ruffian. I cannot say I would make the same choice"
Apple Jack then gave her a stern look and replied, "Last I checked you weren't a dragun from a different dimension. Besides this was Razur's choice and he made the choice to be himself, and no one can criticize him fur that."
Razor smiled as he heard those words.
Rainbow Dash then cleared her throat and said, "Well that's 3 down, and 2 more to go. So your majesty let's hear your story."
Conner and Pyro looked at each other with half worried looks. Conner then said, "Well Pyro and I lived together as kids and we did all kinds of things together with our brother Jordan. For one thing we did some treasure hunting, we became ninja's, and we were in a boy band."
The girls all had surprised faces, not only from all the cool things Conner was naming, but the fact that most of them didn't sound dragon like.
Pyro then cleared his throat and said, "One thing I loved doing when we became full fledged teenagers was becoming a crime fighter, or as the cops called me, a vigilante. We all had earned the title of martial arts masters and I decided to use my skills to help people. My brothers used their skills in basic tournaments. I tried to keep a low profile, but my brothers caught on. Since Jordan was the head of the household, he tried to get me to stop, but it didn't work all that well. Later on I figured out I was the king of the dragon city and decided to leave our current home. Jordan wouldn't allow me to leave, so I had to take him down. Once they found out who I was too, Jordan felt pretty stupid. Since then I've been doing my best to be the leader my people deserve: learning every skill and ability I could to prepare myself."
The girls all looked at Pyro with looks of amazement. Twilight then smiled as she said, "Well for what its worth I think you're a really good leader. I'll teach you whatever I can about magic so you can become an even better king."
"Thanks Twilight, I can't wait to get down to the real stuff." The red dragon said in a bit of excitement.
Ethan then smiled and said, "Now that we can go out in public, we wont have any more trouble going out in public. Not only that we can finally see what this place is really about."
Razor then cleared his throat and said, "I want to check out the Everfree forest. I think there's some pretty cool stuff out there just waiting for us to find it. Hopefully we wont have to cut our searches short to save a bunch of ponies again."
The girls shared looks of bashfulness as they recalled what happened.
Skye then looked outside and said, "Well It's getting late we should all probably get some rest." They all nodded and began to leave with their individual hosts. As they all left Twilight turned to Pyro and said, "Well I'm going to head upstairs and get ready for bed. You can do what you want."
Pyro nodded and said, "Thanks Twilight, you really are a good friend. I just hope I can return the favor somehow." "It's fine Pyro, what are friends for right."
Twilight did her night preparations and began to get ready to hit to settle down. As she did this she noticed Spike had a weird look on his face.
"Spike, what's wrong?" The purple and green dragon looked to over to her and responded, "It's something about Pyro's stallion form. There was something very familure about the way he looked, and the way his magic looked too. I just can't put my claw on where I've seen it before, and it's been on my mind for a while."
Twilight thought for a minute and said, "I was thinking the same thing, but I just can't figure out where the familiarity comes from… but I know a way to find out." Twilight horn suddenly lit up with magic as she readied her spell. She created a transparent image of Pyro's stallion form and began to look it over. Spike began to look it over too.
As they both looked at the image more closely Spike noticed something. He then said, "That's it! Twilight I know what it is. Look here, his cutie mark! It's a sun just like the princesses." Twilight circled around to see that Spike was right.
She then noticed that Pyro did not have one sun on his flank, but three. She then said, "That's weird. If this is his cutie mark, then he must have some amazing ability that has to do with the sun like the princess. Since he's an alicorn that doesn't really surprise me. I'll ask the princess what she thinks the next time we see her."
Spike nodded and decided to go to bed. As they both nested down something began to stir in Canterlot.
Canterlot Castel 9:00 p.m:
Princess Luna was up walking through the castle. As she entered the throne room she saw her sister looking out the window with a sad expression on her face.
Feeling curious and worry for her elder sister the princess of the night decided to see what was troubling her.
"What troubles my sister? You've been acting a bit odd ever since Pyro and his friends arrived here." The princess of the sun looked down to her sister and replied, "Oh Luna, I was just thinking about Pyro again. I don't know what to do. If he's the one I've been looking for it could mean new hope for Equestria, but if I'm wrong it could mean that Equestria will face even more hard times ahead."
Luna then asked, "Sister I know you're right. I felt it inside him the moment he freed himself from my spell. I know he is the one, even if he's not I know he will help us."
Celestia smiled as she heard those kind words from her sister. Luna then thought, "How will we know if he is the one sister? I mean you haven't told him about this, and after all his past ancestors didn't show the slightest hint of the gift, even the fire dragons didn't show any sign. How can you put so much faith in this young dragon?"
Celestia smiled as she said, "I'm not sure why I have so much faith in him, but I do. He reminds me so much of his father, and of ours. I will know if he is the one if he is able to use his magic to move my sun. I just hope Twilight and the others will take the news without passing out. We will just have to wait until any sign of gift becomes noticeable."
Will Pyro master his magic? What new adventures await the others as they explore this new and amazing land? And what is Celestia talking about with Luna? Find out next time in my next chapter. Don't forget to read my other fanfic Spyro meets Pyro and Pyro 2. My next chapter Spyro vs. The God of War - Make sure to leave your reviews on them. See ya later!
