Child of the Dragon

by lori180

Rating: teen
Tags: Sad, Main 6, Princess Luna, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Other, Adventure, Discord
Length: 4893

I've been in my bed, thinking... Again. What is wrong with me? I've been always like that but still... The cutie mark on my side is again burning. Every day and night I walk around with that black dragon. I have no friends because of that m

I've been in my bed, thinking... Again. What is wrong with me? I've been always like that but still... The cutie mark on my side is again burning. Every day and night I walk around with that black dragon. I have no friends because of that mark. Now Princess Luna is looking for me and I think she can help me...
Do anyone of you knows someone who can make good cover art?

Published 2013-06-17 17:40:02 UTC
Last updated 2013-08-23 10:39:48 UTC

Bright Night, Dark Day

Another day, another cloudy morning.

My life is never changing. I should get up and get somethink to eat but no one is going to care what happens to me.I had family or maybe I still have but they left me. I have no friends which could make my life brighter and happier. But somehow I still want to live so I get up and I eat my breakfast. I hear ponies outside bustling around. I thought I would wake up earlier so no one will see me. Why? Because they are scared of me. I don't know why... Maybe my magic scares them or... Anyway I need to get out and face my fears. I stood in front of the doors for the moment and I went out.

All of them were looking at me with their big,light eyes. Yes, their eyes,they are mostly pink or purple. So why are mine yellow? They look like the eyes of the beast hungry for pray. No one dares to look into them. I don't really know what they are looking at. Maybe at my dark crimson fur or at my fire like mane and tail, or maybe at my... Cutie mark. I think it's the most interesting think in me and most scaring. On my side is writhing dragon, as dark as night. He has glowing eyes which glow in the light of the sun. Everypony is scared but why?

Last ponies which I wanted to meet now were Lightbell and Angelnotes. Don't be fooled by their names, they are bullies number one. They hate me and I hate them. They are trying to make my life worst than it is already. But today I had no luck and I bumped into them in the middle of the road. Lightbell, strong, white pony with golden like mane and tail stared at me with his evil look when Angelnotes smaller, grey pony was hidding behind him.
"You're lucky Drakefire, today will be your most memorable day" Angelnotes said with the evil smile. "You have one way ticket to the world of the light"
I knew that wasn't anything funny I tryed to get through them, leave them behind but Lightbell is too fast and I had just two choices now. Use my magic or give up. If I wanted to get out of here still in one piece I need to use my magic. But there is an disadvantage. I will stay in one piece but the town won't! So I just gave up and I was waiting for what will happen when all unicorns around me, one by one, started to scream in agony. It sounded like they were torn apart by some powerful magic. All other ponies looked straight on me. I felt how fear started to flow slowly to my head. I looked around everyone was looking at me. Now fear started to work, my legs moved by themselfs. My walk turned to run. I was moving faster and faster. I just wanted to go back home, hide there and sink to my bed where I could forgot about that and make me think it's just another nightmare. Screams started to became louder and louder. I was runing through dirt path to saw my wooden house. Than I looked back and I saw worst picture I could ever imagine. All unicorns were lying on the roads screaming, their hornes were glowing with dark magic. I looked up and I saw dark clouds. Poniese were runing around, few of them were just standing with fear in their eyes. I turned back to have my eyes on my house. When I was just there I saw someone in front of my house or something. I knew what was that, it was somethink no one wanted to meet.
Discord...
"No!" I shouted "No! It can't be real!"

I was still runing, my eyes were closed I didn't know how far I'm from my home but I knew that I need to get past him and get inside where I can be safe. Then I stoped. I didn't want to but somethink stoped me, some powerful magic beacuse I'm safe from most of these easy spells. I opened my eyes, I was surrounded by green, glowing magic. He was in front of me but then I decided I will do somethink, somethink that I would never do. I concentrated and then I looked straight in his eyes, but then when our eyes meet he steped back, I saw how fear appeared in his eyes. Than he turned me to look at me side. Than he stood still for a moment,like a statue, his eyes where still looking on my side, than I realized he was looking at my cutie mark.
"Let-Me-Go!" I shrieked.
Than somethink crazy happened, the magic disappeared and I was set free but he still was looking at me once in my eyes than at my side. That was really weird, first time in my life I was happy I was diffrent.
"Now move aside"
He moved and I could came in but I had better idea.
"Was that you that made other unicorns like that?" I asked
He turned. He looked like he would never dare to speak.
"You can speak" I said
He still wasn't moving but he was understanding.
"N-o-o" He was really scared, I couldn't believe Lord of Chaos was scared of me.
I came in to my house. When I closed the door immediatly I felt dizzy. I came up the stairs and i jumped into my bed. Softnes and warmth of my bed turned all horrible things into beautiful dream.

I was standing on the green hill looking up into the stars. Moon was shinning, stars were blinking from the above. Then I saw sun going up to the moon. It was still night but sun was shining like it always did in a day. The sky was dark, sun moving slowly up to the moon never changed sky's colour. Than moon and the sun started to change their shapes. They changed to ponies which looked exactly like Princes Luna and Princess Celestia. Than one of the stars started to grow. It changed colour to purple. When it did it turned to Princess Twilight. They flew down to the ground, they lined up in a straight line with Princess Twilight at the left, Princess Luna at the right and Princess Celestia in the middle. Their royal eyes where put staraight forward. I felt my side burning again but more painfully than noramlly. I couldn't stand anymore and I started to fall down the hill. When I stoped at the bottom of the hill I saw a dragon floting just above me. It's golden scales where glowing in the light of the stars and the glow from Princesses themselves. It's eyes where like burning torches.I thought princesses will prepare for a fight or they will cast a spell which will knock the creature down but no, they didn't moved...

I woke up. That was just a dream, but it was so realistic. My side was like a flame again. I looked outside.
"It's the middle of the night" I thought, even if the moon gave the same amount of light as the sun...

Author's Note

My first story.

Idea came from... I don't really know where it came from so you need to forgive me.

I know, I know, I'm sure I made thousends of spelling mistakes :P
I hope you enjoy!

Questions...

That night was just too light

I was looking on the moon. It was shiny, too shiny. That made me feel kinda weird. Why is it so shiny? Why is moon lighter than the sun? Is that just my imagination?

I came back to my bed. Was that incident with unicorns just a nightmare? I had too much questions. My head started to hurt. That was annoying. With my head sore and this amount of questions flowing in and out I would never fall asleep again. I got up and I moved myself down the stairs. In the kichen I had some juice. I sat down and I though about my dream. My head was still sore after that amount of questions. I needed to find answers. The only pony which I thought could have an answer was Princess Twilight, but everyone know that she was away for the meeting in Crystal Kingdom. Who else can have answers? Maybe other princesses but will they even have some time to speak with me, a unicorn which puts everyone in a deep fear?
"But, I need to try" That was what I said to myself. "There is nothing bad that can happen with sending a letter, is there?"

Next morning my letter was fit and ready for it's journey. Now the hardest part awaited me. Going to the mail box. I think everypony in town, think that what happend yesterday was just
my fault.
"It's going to be veeeeery hard" That was my first thought, but I didn't really botherd about that, now the most important was to send the letter.
I looked out the window. That was strange.I saw just a few ponies walking around. They never been in such a mood. Althought that was obvious I couldn't really believe that. I saw just Earth ponies what was really weird too. Normally I can see Pegasi swooping through the sky but today I saw none. But it's good, there was a chance that no pony will saw me going to the mail box. I turned to the doors and I made my way to the mail box.

I was bathing in the Celestia's sun on the side of some hill. (Yes, I managed to go through the town without anyone stoping me!) Today, it was especially hot and light. It gave a feeling that nothing can go wrong. But somethink needed to go wrong.

My eyes were closed, I listened to singing birds. This day was beautifull. My letter was taken around two houres ago. Answer should came somewhere at the evening. I felt warmth of sun on my body. Then, shadow appeared. I opened one of my eyes to see who was that.
"Princess!" I jumped straight away when I saw dark blue alicorn in front of me "What can I do for you?" I bowed in front of her, I didn't want to show her my eyes or my cutie mark.
"Why do you hide your eyes when uou speak to us?" That was a question which I didn't want to answer.
"Your Majesty, I..." What could I do? If I will show her my eyes she could became terrified like the other ponies or maybe no...
"It's okey, anyway we need to find a pony called Drakefire, do you know where that pony can be?" Her voice was loud and strong, that's why she is my favourite princess, but why was she looking for me?
"I do, Princess" Why is she in such a hurry? Now I started to fall into hands of fear "That's me, Princess"

I was immediatly taken by her. But she wasn't taking me to the castle in Canterlot. She told me that. We were heading to Ponyville. It was my big chance to see place where Twilight Sparkle and her friends had learned about Friendship. Yeah, I know that because you see I was in my house most of the time so I needed to do something to kill the sense of boredom. So I found some books and newspapers to read. Anyway, I never been so high before,(I never really been flying before) I could see green fields and tranquil streams, high montains and deep volleys, but there was one thing which caught my eye. Right behind one of the mountains was dark cloud which made a shelter for a bright, surface of the moon. I never seen such a thing. It made a feeling of moon trying to push sun away but it was too strong to give up. That was interesting, is that why Princess Luna needed me? Did she wanted to take over Equestria? But she don't need to do that, she is a princess already. Still somethink can stand in her way or somepony... Oh no, did she want to use my destructive power to wipe out Princess Celestia?
"Princess? What-t is that?" I pointed at the dark cloud.
After saying these words, Princess Luna fall into deeper sadness. I shouldn't ask that question. Then I saw a giant, pink bubble. I knew what was that. The same bubble was used by Princess Twilight when she and her friends battled with NIghtmare Moon. That means Princess is in Ponyville! Or somewhere near to Ponyville...

Going through the bubble was hard. Princess Luna didn't seemed to be struggling. I had a bigger problem. When my body touched the smooth surface of the bubble, I was hit by thousands of invisible needles.
"You need to stay strong, we need to get through" My heart was telling me whole the time but pain was horrible.
Then everything stoped. Now I'm surrounded by darkness. I can't open my eyes but I can feel it. From time to time I can hear ponies talking over me. It's not like I can understand what they are saying. Now there is somethink new, a warm blast of magic, flowing through my body. Maybe I'm dead and someone is trying to revive me? What? Wait, I feel some ground under my hooves. I can open my eyes now! What? There are so many images around me. Is that me? But I'm so small, and why am I in a cave? There is something scaly in the darkness. Oh no! I have too many questions! My head is going to explode!
"Help..." These were the only words which I could say now. Then I fell unconcious...

New Friends

The darkness is everywhere...

My head is still sore. I tried to get back on my hooves but that's impossible. I looked around. I'm lying in the bed under the cover with night pattern. My head is resting on white pillows. I heard voices. Voices which I heard already. One of them was very close to me. Too close... I think I have enough strength to say something.
"Wait.. are you..." That's all. I couldn't say anything more. But there was no need for asking. I know who is that.
"Oh, so you are awake" The voice was full of anxiety and relief. "I think you know who I am, I think everyone knows"
"Twilight, don't be so sure" The other voice, more calm and confident, came closer to where I am lying. "She was away from the world for quite a long time"
"Sorry. It's just... You know ..." Wait a sec. If that was Princess Twilight just speaking, why was she worried?
"Twilight! Twilight!" Another voice! That one was more happy and cheerful than the other ones.
"What is it Pinkie?"Twilight said a little bit calmer.
"We are all here!" Why was she so happy? "Are we going to make an awesome Rejoin Party?"
She is so excited, but isn't she one of the element's? And what did she meant by "we are all here"? Did she meant the other elements? I would like to ask them so many questions, I would like to see them.Why am I so weak? What happened? I remember that pink bubble and that dark place but there is nothing more. I need to move, to look at them but.. I can't. I used rest of my strength to say these few words. Or maybe I'm just dreaming and that's why I can't move?
"Is that her?" I heard doors opening and patter of hooves on the wooden floor. 'Twilight what happened.?"
I felt sleepy. Softness of the pillows and the warmth of the bed put me into a deep sleep.

I'm standing face to face with Nightmare Moon. Her eyes are glowing with an anger. Her mane and tail are flowing around here covering her like a shield. Her wings are spread when she stands in the light of the moon. The moon which was her prison for ages. I'm alone in the middle of the dark throne room. Outside I hear screams of the ponies. Than the light appeared and the Nightmare Moon turned into Princess of the Night. Beside her, Princess Celestia showed up and as fast as she did, she disappeared with her sister leaving me alone in the darkness of the night. Suddenly everything shifted and now I'm standing on the road with lined rows of statues beside it. These statues are showing all kinds of animals, even this ones which I never seen in my life. Most of them broke and some of their parts started to join into a new statue. It has the head of a pony, tail of a snake, wings of the bat and the bird, horns of the dear and something else, etc. It came alive and I was standing in front of a a creature which I think I hate the most. It is Discord the one who was once scared of me but this time he isn't looking at me but he is looking up in to the sky filled with the stars. I saw someone behind me. That was Twilight Sparkle but she has no wings. Her eyes are glowing with a bright white color and her horn is overflowing with magic. She sends a rainbow which goes through me and when it reaches Discord I'm moved somewhere else. Now I'm surrounded by Changelings and...

I woke so suddenly that I nearly jumped down from the bed. I am covered with sweat even if my dream wasn't a nightmare. I looked around me. No one was here. I pulled myself up and I made my way to the stairs. I heard quite voices from the room under the one which I was now. I was going down and the only light source in the room was a candle on the small table at one side of the room. Walls are covered with shelves holding incredible amount of books on all kinds of topics. History, magic, everything!
"Hi!" Pink mare with cheerful, blue eyes jumped out of the darkness and tones of confetti with her"We made you a Wake Up Party but you are already awake so it will be you're Awake Party!"
"Yeah. thanks" I didn't really know what to say"You're Pinkie Pie... right?"
"Yes!" Pinkie started to jump around me like a ball "And you are?"
"Drakefire" I don't know how can she be so energetic?
She wasn't the only one in the room. Light turned on and more ponies appeared. Lots of ponies appeared from everywhere shouting and welcoming me. I was happy that someone wasn't thinking about me like about a monster, but I didn't dared to look up into their eyes. Party started and I get myself charmed by the music and all kinds of food.

After the party ponies started to leave one by one. I think all that took around two or three hours. I looked at the clock.
"What the?" It was 13:00.
It is still dark outside and the moon is high above our heads so why? Now only I and Pinkie were left in the room. Suddenly doors swung open with a bang and the blue Pegasii with rainbow mane and tail flew through them. She looked around and when she spotted me she appeared in front of me in a blink of an eye. She looked at me so close that I felt like she want to look into my soul. I couldn't stop myself and I looked up. Her purple-pink eyes met my glowing, yellow eyes. She jumped back as though she wanted to dodge a blow. I just realized what I did. I lowered my eyes that no one would see them.
"Rainbow?" The voice came from behind the door "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I think so-o" She pulled herself together but still she was keeping her distance.
"Dear, Rainbow" Through the door came white Unicorn "You know it;s not nice to blast through the door like that"
" I know. But when Twilight told me about that new pony in a town I was hoping that would be an awesome Pegasii like me" Rainbow said with a little disappointment.
"Still, you should try to be more gentle." Unicorn looked at the blue mare with a instructive look." This Unicorn just came here a while ago and she is not yet used to this place"
" I think you should be less sophisticated" Rainbow said more to herself than to the other pony. "Anyway, where is Twilight?"
"I'm Rarity" The unicorn just ignored the question and she put her interest on to me. "You're name is Drakefire, right?"
"That's right" I said "You shouldn't be so harsh for her"
"My dear, Rainbow Dash is too harsh, I can't let her do whatever she wants"
"Wait, what does that meant?" Rainbow flew up to the roof and back down to meet Rarity's sight.
"Are you hungry?" Rarity ignored her again
"Yeah, I think I would like to eat something"
"Why are you ignoring me Rarity! Don't play dumb, I know you hear me!" Rainbow's anger grew bigger every time Rarity ignored her.
"Came with me sweetheart. I will take to more quite place"
I came out with her. Where was Pinkie? Did she sneaked out when Rainbow came in? Maybe when I looked up she saw my eyes and \got scared? I've got more questions than answers. I think Rarity will really take me to some place where I can think.

Core of Darkness

Someone made you diffrent...

My stomach is geting full of cupcakes. But, they are soo good! Mrs Cupcake is the best cook ever.
Apparently I found out where was Pinkie when I first met Rainbow Dash and Rarity. She is really CRAZY. If she could she would throw parties all day long. When I followed Rarity to Mrs Cupcake's bakery and apparently Pinkie appeared screaming something about another party. She gave us lots of cakes and cupcakes. Rarity was telling Pinkie that she shouldn't be in such a rush to make me her friend and that she should give me a break and Rainbow Dash was.. Yes... She was just floating over our heads or she was lying on a cloud but I felt her eyes digging into my back. She is still mad. But that's not my fault! I think... But... Never mind. Okey,now they want to take me to some place where I will meet someone who I wanted to long ago. I wonder what she meant...

It's evening. I don't know should I write or should I just leave the information of what happend for myself. After all I found out why I am so diffrent! My mind is overflowing... Okey, then i will tell you what happend.

I walked in with Rarity into a weird place. Immediatly I realized that won't be a place I would like to be.She didn't seemed to happy to came here, but she said we need to go. From the outside that place seemed like a giant tree which had grown in a place of Town Hall. Pieces of roof were scatered on it's stalks without leaves. The walls looked like they were bursted out of their place from the inside. The tree itself was as black as night. It had little dots which seemed to be stars. Crows were siting on it and they were looking at us with their bloody eyes. That place seemed bad from the start. The only way to came in was to came through giant iron doors, there was no windows or any other holes which were big enought to fit in. The inside was empty. Actually it had just stairs which led to top floor. I heared some noises from there. Some hooves and some familiar voices. My first thought was: "Get out of here!" but no. Then when I looked up, I saw Rarity, she was already 20 steps ahead of me. I walked forward right after her. As I started to reach the top, Princess Luna started to appear. She was sad. You could even feel it around. Her mane wasn't blown by magical, invisble wind anymore. It was just laid straight, covering half of her body. Stars on it were blured and the colour of it which was always as beautiful as night blured too. I'm sure I sure I saw tear roling down from her eyes once or twice. Then I saw Princess Twilight and then... Egh.. I don't know how to say it.. It was something more horrible. It was something that nopony would like to see. In the middle of the room a big black bed was laid. It was filled with soft, fluffy pillows and on them.. Princess Celestia. She was half-dead. Her fur turned grey, and colours of her mane blackened. It seemed like all light was sucked out of her. Her horn was glowing with black light, I felt something really evil coming from it. The thing was, that evil energy in it was surrounded by good magic flowing from everywhere.Than it struck me. All unicorns seemed like that from that unfortuante day. So it all wasn't because off me. I was relived but still I felt awful. Than I looked at Rarity which now stood in the corner mumbling something to herself. Then again. The source of that madness was coming from Princess Celestia! I looked at Princess Twilight to see how she is using her magic to bring Rarity back to her senses. Than I just said:
"Why?" I whispered, I wanted to say more but my voice just stuck in my throat.
"Not here DrakeFire" Her voice sounded like melody. A soothing melody which makes you feel safe and warm.
"Take her out Twilight, please" Princess Luna said quietly "My sister needs to rest"
We walked out, with Princess at the front, me in the middle and ending on Rarity. When I stood outside of that creepy building I felt relived. Than princesses voice put me back into being nervouse.
"I know you want to ask me a lot but I won't have time to answer them now" she said
"Why?" I asked
"You see... That's just something I need to do" She looked away, trying to don't look embaresed.
"I understand..."
"By the way, if I recall right, you're never looking into someponys eyes when you are talking. Can you please do it for me and look up?" She looked back at me
"But princess I can't..." I had no idea what to answer.
"Oh please. It's doesn't feels right to talk to somepony without seeing it's eyes." She seemed really determined
"Okey, princess. I will do it" I said it but I still I wasn't sure why
"Okey, go on. Don't be shy." She said like it was perfectly normal thing to do
I couldn't disrespect a princess so I did it. I looked up to meet her violet, intrigued eyes. Then... She just smiled. She didn't even moved from the place she was. It looked like she never saw them. This yellow, beast eyes piercing throught somepony's soul.
"Better" her smile made me feel me awkward
"Uh...Princess..." more and more I was sure it's just false smile
"Yes?" I couldn't stand it. She was just too happy
"Don't you see... something... scary or... strange?"
"Not at all!" She was first pony which wasn't scared of me. I started to understand why she became a princess known of her friendship.
"Can we came back to the topic? I want to came back home and relax" Rarity joined in
"Okey, sorry Rarity. Then what do you want to know Drake?" Princess said
"Oh! I have a lot of questions! Startingb with: How did... Princess Celestia... Why..." I waan't able to say any word.
My brain was again overflown with thousends of questions. It hurt so much. I staggered on my hooves. My head felt heavy. Feeling of disiness came in. Mist started to sneak in at the corners of my eyes. Throught the mist I saw Princess running to me. Her horn started to glow. It actually seemed she didn't learned yet, magic of low level won't work on me.
"No! It's not working again!" I heard her hooves and her terrified voice.
Then something grabed me from my back. I realized that was a pony
"Applejack!" Princess shouted with voice full of relief
"Ya know it, Twi!" The pony behind me answered
My head hurt more and more. I heard some more talking but I wasn't able to concentrate on them.Then everything turned into darkness.

I woke up around five minutes ago. My head still hurts but less then before. Again I'm still in the same room I woke up before. Nopony is here. I'm alone. It seems to be somewhere around evening but I'm not sure because of the bubble barrier. I hear someone coming...