Clash of the Dragons

Chapter 5

After Twilight gathered her friends, they came to see the Dragon near the center of town fighting the Royal Guards.....and winning.

"Surround it! see if we can't attack in on multiple angles!" one of the Royal Guard Sergeants commanded.

As some of the pegasi Royal Guards tried to circle the Dragon, however, it seemed to have quickly realized their plan and started flying upward.

""Is he trying escape?" Twilight asked curiously, but she quickly got her answer.

"STRUN BAH QO!" the Dragon shouted, and suddenly the sky became thick with dark clouds and it started raining.

"You gotta be kidding, he can control weather too?" Rainbow Dash asked rhetorically, but suddenly, a lightning bolt struck just barely inches away from where Rainbow Dash was standing, which caused her to jump in surprise, "Yikes!"

Just seconds later, several lightning bolts struck at several of the Pegasi Royal Guards surrounding the Dragon, striking them hard into the ground. The Dragon then started to fly to another part of the town.

"No biggie, I'll just fly up there and put those clouds back in line!" Rainbow Dash boasted as she started to fly up toward the storm cloud the Dragon created.

When Rainbow Dash arrived to the clouds, she grabbed one the clouds and tried to move it, but the cloud zapped her upon contact, she tried to endure the electricity when she tried to move the clouds. But her efforts proved futile, those clouds looked as though they were stuck in place.

Rainbow Dash finally decided to let go of the cloud. She looked at herself to see she was heavily singed from the damage the clouds gave her.

Rainbow Dash flew back down to her friends, "Okay, scratch that idea! but maybe Fluttershy can 'stare' him down?"

"Ah should hope so, here he comes!" Applejack exclaimed as she saw the Dragon was heading right for the Mane 6.

Before Fluttershy could even prepare herself to use her 'Stare', she was startled and intimidated to see that the Dragon has quickly flown in close to the Mane 6 and shouted, "YOL TOOR SHUL!" unleashing another powerful fire breath attack.

"Look out!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she quickly pulled Fluttershy out of the way while the rest of the Mane 6 scattered away from the fire blast. The Dragon then decided to fly off to yet another part of Ponyville and used his Fire Breath shout again to engulf some of the buildings into flame.

"Okay, good news; we're all still alive," Rainbow Dash said, but looked up to see the storm clouds were clearing up, as if what control that Dragon had over weather had somehow wore off, "And we don't have to worry about lightning now. Bad news;" Rainbow Dash held up a fainted Fluttershy, "Fluttershy's fainted, so no 'stare' for us."

"It must be from that shouting that Dragon was doing," Twilight said "I saw when he first shot out fire, he wasn't breathing it out, he was shouting it, maybe the shouts shocked Fluttershy into fainting. But anyway, we'll have to try something else; Rarity and Pinkie Pie, you two get Fluttershy to a safe place then see if you can help get those fires out, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and I are gonna see we can't get that Dragon's attention. Even if we can't bring him down, we should at least be able to keep him distracted until Princess Celestia arrives."

Meanwhile, just outside Ponyville.

Dragonborn finally arrived to Ponyville, he could already tell something was going on when he saw several ponies running around in panic and several Royal Guards, like the 2 that Dragonborn has been dragging down the road with him, that were doing what they can to restore order and get the civilians to safety.

Dragonborn was quickly greeted by a group of more Royal Guards who saw that he was dragging the 2 Royal Guards by their rear legs.

But Dragonborn was the first to speak, "before you jump into any hasty conclusions, I'll have you know your two friends here are just unconscious, and it wasn't even me that caused it."

"then just stay put," one of the Royal Guards told Dragonborn, "We don't have time to deal with visitors right now, not until we deal with this current crisis."

Suddenly, both Dragonborn and the Royal Guards heard a bellowed roar coming from the opposite side of the town, and Dragonborn could recognize that roar anywhere.

"And by 'current crisis'," Dragonborn said, "You mean 'dragon attack', don't you?"

"Precisely," the Royal guard answered, "It suddenly just came here out of nowhere afew minutes ago and started tearing up the town. But some.. well-known citizens have volunteered to drawing the Dragon's attention, allowing us time to get the civilians to safety."

"Say no more," Dragonborn said, "Consider yourselves lucky that I came by then, just leave that Dragon to me."

Dragonborn dropped the royal Guards he was pulling around, pulled out his Steel Sword, and quickly ran past the Royal Guards.

"Halt!" the Royal Guards all commanded as they flew (or ran in the case of the Earth Pony and Pegasi Guards) after the Dragonborn.

"Sorry to do this, but you'll have to trust me," Dragonborn said as he turned a corner, as the Guards were about to turn the same corner along with him, he Shouted, "FUS RO DAH!"

The Dragonborn's Unrelenting Force Shout effortlessly blew the Royal Guards away and slammed them into the nearest building behind them, knocking them out, Dragonborn then continued to make his way to the Dragon.

Meanwhile...

With Rarity and Pinkie Pie helping out in combat the fires the Dragon started, and Fluttershy still fainted from the shock of the Dragon's shouting, Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash were the ones who found themselves fighting the Dragon, it wasn't easy for them in least.

The Dragon suddenly felt a strong tug on his right leg, he turned his head to see Applejack has lassoed his right ankle and tried to pull him down with the rope in her teeth and her legs wrapped around a wooden pillar of one of the buildings, however, the only thing Applejack ended up doing was keeping him from going anywhere.

"Great idea, Applejack!" Twilight praised, "he might be easier to deal with if we can force him to the ground."

"I'll second that!" Rainbow Dash said, "Besides, there's room for only one tougher-than-tough flyer in Equestria!"

Rainbow Dash started flying at the Dragon, and repeatingly rammed at either the Dragon's head, or sometimes his back, in an effort to force him to the ground. Twilight tried firing magic bolts from below the Dragon. And while it looked as though they did some damage, the Dragon seemed to be mostly just soaking up their attacks.

"He's tough, but clearly not invincible! let's try to keep it up!," Twilight said, but thought, What could be taking Princess Celestia so long? she had to have gotten Spike's letter by now, and that Dragon might destroy half of Ponyville by the time we finish him off by ourselves.

The Dragon, while he did not suffer much damage from the bombardment Rainbow Dash and Twilight were giving him, was having difficulty finding a chance to fight back, but at one point, the Dragon saw Rainbow Dash fly away to a slightly greater distance, no doubt to get better momentum for a stronger attack.

The Dragon immediately saw this as an opening and quickly shouted, "IISS SLEN NUS!"

Next thing Rainbow Dash knew, she found her entire body encased in ice. and herself falling toward the ground.

Twilight gasped, "Rainbow Dash!" She quickly forgot about the Dragon and quickly used her telekinesis to stop Rainbow's falling.

And while Twilight was busy gently lowering the frozen Rainbow Dash to the ground, the Dragon turned his attention to Applejack, who was still holding the rope that kept him in place. The Dragon used a combination of pulling the rope with his leg and flapping his wings much harder than usual that ultimately caused him to tear off the wooden pillar Applejack was still gripping tightly with her legs. The Dragon then used the rope to swing Applejack straight at Twilight, who just finished safely landing the frozen Rainbow Dash to the ground, and ended up with Applejack crashing into her, knocking them both out.

The Dragon then saw his opportunity to finish off his 3 pony opponents and decided to land in front of them.

The Dragon shouted "YOL TOOR-"

But his Shout was interrupted when a strange grey blur slammed right at the side of his face, caused his Fire Breath shout to shoot at a nearby building instead, missing his opponents. The Dragon was dazed by the impact of whatever hit him, but quickly recovered to see in front of him was a certain grey Pegasis that anyone in Equestria could recognize as only Derpy Hooves, who just sat where she was not looking at the Dragon.

Derpy looked very confused, "Wait, did the Guards tell us to evacuate this way? or that way?" She asked herself as she pointed her 2 front hooves at 2 random directions.

Derpy heard a loud snort coming from behind her, she quickly turned around to see the Dragon, who clearly looked very ticked off.

Derpy chuckled nervously and said, "Oops... my bad?"

The Dragon gave out a loud and intimidating roar, prompting Derpy to fly away to escape her scaled foe. The Dragon flew up a short height and pursued the cross-eyed Pegasus.

By the time Twilight and Applejack regained consciousness, they already saw Derpy was getting chased by the Dragon.

"Oh no! he's going after Derpy!" Twilight said in shock.

"Ah'll see if Ah can't pull Derpy's hooves outta the fire, so to speak," Applejack volunteered, "You see about defrostin' RD here, she might have better chance doin' this than either of us."

"Good thinking, Applejack!" Twilight said as she started casting a fire spell that gradually started melting the ice off of Rainbow Dash, "But you gotta hurry before that Dragon kills her!"

Applejack nodded with a tip of her hat and started sprinting after both the Dragon and Derpy while Twilight continues to trying to free Rainbow Dash from her icy prison.

As Applejack was going after the Dragon, she saw how, fortunately, the rope she got on him was still tied to the Dragon's right ankle, If Ah can at least get to that rope, Applejack thought, That should buy Derpy some time to get outta here, but right now that Dragon is flyin' way too fast, no way Derpy's gonna out-fly that fire-shouting varmint.

Unfortunately, Derpy was already well within range of another Shout, which the Dragon decided to use, "FUS RO DAH!"

The Dragon's Unrelenting Force Shout blew Derpy out of course, causing her to bounce off a wall of a nearby building and land in the middle of the road unconscious.

"MAMA!" cried out a young voice that Applejack recognized, she saw Dinky ran out out an alleyway to tend to her unconscious mother.

"Dinky! you gotta get outta here! quickly!" Applejack called out to Dinky, who was too busy trying to wake up her mom to pay attention.

"Wake up, Mama!" Dinky pleaded desperately while shaking her mom's head in an effort to wake her up, "Come on! please! you gotta wake up!"

The Dragon landed in front of Dinky and the unconscious Derpy, Dinky looked at the dragon with sheer terror, but was unwilling to leave her mother to get killed by it.

The Dragon was about to unleash another Shout, but was interrupted when he felt a strong tug on his right ankle, he turned his head to see Applejack was pulling him back with the rope she used on him earlier.

Applejack was always strong, but the Dragon seemed to be stronger. The Dragon used his right leg to make a sudden yank on the rope, causing Applejack to get sent flying toward the Dragon.

And as soon as Applejack was within range, the Dragon swung his tail at Applejack, sending her crashing into a nearby building and knocking her out.

By the time that happened though, Twilight had just finished defrosting Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow was shivering, "Geez, first that Dragon called up a storm, next he tried to roast us, now he froze me solid! when did they start pulling these tricks up their sleeves?"

"You know we don't have time for that, Rainbow Dash, we've got to get back that dragon, he's going after Derpy now!" Twilight said quickly.

"Say no more!" Rainbow Dash boasted, "That Dragon ain't gonna smoke Derpy on my watch!" She quickly started flying toward the Dragon with Twilight following her, but thought to herself with uncertainly, At least I hope not.

Dinky tried what she could to help her mom regain consciousness, and even tried to push her away from where the Dragon was, but her efforts on either one of those things proved futile. She saw the Dragon, who managed to cease the brief interruption he had, was getting ready to unleash another Shout.

By the time Twilight and Rainbow Dash managed to arrive to the scene, they already saw Dinky and what the Dragon was planning to do, they feared they might be too late.

"WULD NAH KEST!"

"YOL TOOR SHUL!"

Dinky flinched and covered her face as she saw the sudden burst of fire, but seconds later, noticed she didn't feel any fire on her, she uncovered her face to see not only that she and her mother were completely unharmed by the Dragon's Fire Breath, but also saw a strange bipedal figure standing between them and the Dragon.

This bipedal figure could only be the Dragonborn, who managed to get between the Dragon and the 2 ponies he tried to kill, and raised his shield to defend against the Fire Breath shout.

Twilight moved to where Applejack was knocked out and used telekinesis to lift the cowgirl pony onto her back. Rainbow Dash likewise flew past the Dragon and scooped the unconscious Derpy onto her back. Fortunately, the Dragon seemed to be too busy looking at the Dragonborn to worry about what the 2 mares were doing with the other 2 mares.

As Twilight also moved pass the Dragon to rejoin Rainbow Dash. RD, Twilight and Dinky all looked at the Dragonborn with a mix of curiosity, suspicion, and awe. They noted he had horns, but could tell it was just part of the helmet, whether or not he was human, Rainbow Dash and Twilight could tell that at least he wasn't a Dremora, especially considering how the way Dragonborn was dressed made him look almost nothing like a Dremora.

The Dragonborn briefly observed the damage done to the buildings, he figured this had to be the Dragon's first arrival here, as the damage looked too recent, and there would've been obvious signs of patchwork if this was the Dragon's second coming. But he wanted clear verification.

He quickly turned to the 3 Ponies and asked, "Is this the first time that Dragon attacked?"

Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Dinky seemed slightly hesitant, but RD decided to answer, "uh, yeah! he just came out of nowhere and wreaked the whole town like he owns it!

"Yeah, technically, this has been the only time a dragon came over and attacked us" Twilight added, she figured the incident with Spike and his birthday doesn't really count, as it was more internal a threat than it was external, and the dragon Fluttershy used her 'Stare' at wasn't so much attacking the town as it was simply polluting it.

So that azure Unicorn really was trying to trick me, The Dragonborn thought, But why? maybe I'll find out soon enough.

Dragonborn then said as he pointed his sword at the Dragon, "In that case, just worry about getting to safety, you can leave this Dragon to me!"

"Just who or what are you anyway?" Twilight asked curiously.

The Dragonborn turned to the Dragon, took afew deliberate slow steps for dramatic effect, and said as he readied himself to face the Dragon as he faced many of his kind before, "I am The One They Fear, for in their tongue, I am Dovahkiin, DRAGONBORN!"