Chapter 5
New Age Of Dragons
Ponies have occupied Equestria since the beginning of time. That goes the same for dragons too. However, ponies are the ones that are considered the main dominate species in Equestria. Not dragons. How the heck do horses rule over dragons is beyond me. This is practically the only show that exists does this even make any amount of sense whatsoever. But this is My Little Pony we're talking about. It doesn't need any explanation. Horses rule over dragons. Case closed. What if though dragons ruled in Equestria instead of horses? What would that be like? That question would soon be answered by the spell of the Dragon Emerald. It all began one early morning in Diamond Canyon. Spike was busy at working collecting gems he was planning on use to put in a pie. The rest would be used as a snack. As Spike was collecting the usual types of gems, one suddenly caught his eye. After digging it out, Spike began to admire his new find. It was an emerald unlike any other. It was bigger than a normal emerald and there was a small black fire design in the middle of it. At the time Spike thought it was just a big emerald with dust inside it, but little did he know that it was something that would soon change the destiny of every single pony in Equestria. After returning to Ponyville, Spike began to show off the abnormal emerald to Prince Flareon and Princess Twilight. They were visiting once again for the weekend. As Flareon and Twilight were admiring the emerald, Rarity, Jasmine, and Summer appeared.
"I'm telling you Twilight! This is the find of the century!" Spike proclaimed confidently.
"I admit it's impressive Spike, but I doubt this will get you on the cover of Elite Equestria," Twilight replied with a smile.
"Oh! Can I touch it!" Summer exclaimed as she reach out with her right hoof. Not even a second after she touched it, Spike yanked the emerald away from Summer and pulled it close to his chest.
"Hooves off! This little baby is mine," Spike replied sternly. He soon noticed Summer's hoof left a smog on the emerald's surface. "Great...now I have to clean it again." After using his right elbow to wipe Summer's hoof print off, Spike lifted it to his mouth and carefully blew fire on it as a finishing touch. Just then, the emerald started to emit a blinding green light that quickly engulfed the entire town of Ponyville. After it went away, Spike immediately thought something bad happened to his precious emerald. To his relief, the emerald was still in perfect condition. However, there was a more pressing problem at hand that was about to present itself. "Ok...that was weird. What do you think Twilight?" When Spike looked up, he froze in shock. Spike couldn't believe his own eyes. There was no way this was real. It had to be a dream. Twilight, Flareon, Rarity, and Jasmine had somehow transformed into dragons. However, they didn't seem to notice as they were too busy staring at Spike's horrified face.
"Dad? You ok?" Jasmine asked.
"Dragons!" Spike burst out. The others continued to stare at Spike as if he was crazy. As Spike looked around, he noticed not only were Flareon, Twilight, Rarity, and Jasmine dragons, but everyone in Ponyville was a dragon too. Somehow everyone became dragons. When Spike first told them they were dragons, they didn't believe him, but when they saw their reflection, Flareon and the others were dumbfounded. It wasn't long before the entire was thrown into a state of panic after noticing they were now dragons. It took all the efforts of Spike, Flareon, Twilight, Rarity, and Jasmine to calm everyone down so they could asset the situation peacefully. After telling everyone they would find a way to return everything back to normal, Flareon and the others headed for Golden Oak Library. Later on, after searching through practically every book in the library with the help of Summer, they were unable to find out anything regarding their sudden transformation or the emerald Spike found. Was it possible the spell they were under was irreversible? Would they being dragons for the rest of their lives? Everyone absolutely refused to accept it. Everyone except Spike. It wasn't that he didn't want them to return to normal, it was just that he sort of liked not being the only dragon in Ponyville anymore. Spike choose to hide this from the others. He didn't want everyone to think he wanted them to stay as dragons. After going through every book in the library at least three times, they decided to search the Canterlot Achieves for answers. After arriving at Canterlot, they went to meet with Princess Solana. It took a lot of convincing to Solana that the dragons before her were indeed her parents. Flareon and Twilight were literally forced to go through a tense question and answer session by Princess Solana to prove to her Spike wasn't just pulling some prank. After Flareon and Twilight answered all of her questions perfectly, it took Solana a few seconds to wrap her mind around the fact that her parents were now dragons. They soon followed Princess Solana to the achieves to search for answers. A couple of hours later, after going through piles and piles of books, Spike suddenly found a page in a book regarding the emerald he found in Diamond Canyon. After everyone gathered around him, Spike began to read aloud.
"The Dragon Emerald is a rare emerald that has the ability to transform a pony into a dragon. It can only be activated by the fire of a dragon. It was supposedly made during the Dark Ages as a way to turn the tide of war into Alexei's favor. However, there is no record of the Dragon Emerald ever being actually used for that purpose," Spike read.
"How do we turn back to normal? Does it say anything about that?" Twilight asked.
"No," Spike replied as he looked over the page again, "There's nothing about to how reverse the spell."
"So what? Are we going to be dragons forever?" Flareon asked, "Don't get me wrong, I mean I do kind of prefer being a dragon compared to a pony, but I don't think anyone else does. There has to be someway to undo the spell. We can't give up yet. Anyone got any ideas?"
"Leave that to me," Solana replied confidently. They soon followed Princess Solana out of the achieves and into the research room. Solana was then shown hooking up the Dragon Emerald to a particular looking machine. "This machine here should be able to force the Dragon Emerald to use its' spell in reverse. First we'll give it a test run by turning Rarity, Jasmine, and my parents back to ponies. Ok Spike...listen carefully. This machine is very sensitive. Just blow a small amount of fire on the Dragon Emerald and it should work."
"Got it," Spike said as he turned to face the Dragon Emerald. Right as Spike was preparing to breath fire on the emerald, he suddenly found a sneeze coming on. It was a really big one. Spike tried his best to hold back the sneeze, but it was so strong, he was unable to contain it. As a result, Spike blew a roaring fire on the Dragon Emerald as he sneezed heavily. The Dragon Emerald instantly emitted a blight green light that not only engulfed the room or Canterlot, but the entire world of Equestria. After the light disappeared, the Dragon Emerald broke into pieces and slowly vanished. There was not a trace of it left. When Spike turned around, he was shocked to discover Princess Solana had also transformed into a dragon. It turns out by Spike breathing such a large amount of fire on the Dragon Emerald, the spell was extremely boosted by the machine instead of it being reversed. "Oops. Well...I think I hear my mother calling me. Bye!" Spike quickly ran away before the others could put their claws around his neck.
"Spike!" everyone yelled angrily as they started chasing him throughout the castle. In the end, Flareon, Twilight, Solana, and the others never found a way to return to normal. Without the Dragon Emerald, there was no way for them to go back to being ponies. Over time, the memories of their former ponies selves slowly faded from their memories as everyone in Equestria got used to living as dragons. In truth, it wasn't so bad being a dragon. Heating up popcorn was a breeze! Not to mention, having claws instead of hooves was like a receiving a gift from the gods. Having claws so convenient that no one complained about being dragons ever again.