Felix Caetus

The Second DayBy LunarGuard12

Canus wasn't tired from the days events which was weird since a lot happened that day he looked to the clock he got as a gift and it said the time was ten fourty seven and since he wasn't tired he decided to pull out one of the books and start reading. He pulled out a random book and it turned out to be the one on dragon biology 'wow this might answer why I can't sleep.' He opened the book and checked the table of contents and found a chapter on sleeping habits and found out why he couldn't sleep "Ahhh dragons sleep in cycles. For me I can stay awake for twenty four hours and sleep for four and be fine. Heh sounds like that time I went to that lock in." Canus read more 'So I'm a kakiri dragon the dragon equivalent of a pegasus. Can walk on clouds, cool. Can manipulate clouds too, useful. Can't breath fire though man that sucks. Well I can just magic some fire if I really want to breath fire.' he continued to read well into the night then finally Canus got bored of that book and moved on to the Animals of Equestria and after skimming through that he looked at the time and saw it was getting close to two 'At least I killed most of that time.'

Canus then got up and stretched a little bit before he moved to a window and looked outside. The sky was still dark and he had no idea when sunrise was and he couldn't even make a guess because he didn't know what season it was either. "It's not too cold so I could go for a little walk." Canus said to himself. He left out the front door and walked out towards a hill that was near his place. he took a seat at the top of the hill and looked up into the sky "So many stars. Seems like there are so many more here than at home." Canus continued to look at the sky only thinking about things before a soft rustling of grass caught his attention. He looked to where he heard the sound to see Luna walking towards him. "Hey Luna what's up?" Canus said nonchalantly. Luna didn't seem phased by Canus's remark and asked "Why are you not sleeping?"

"Can't sleep. Probably won't get to until tomorrow night either since my body's natural sleep cycle is a six to one ratio. I don't really sleep unless I feel tired."

Luna took a seat next to him and the two looked up at the sky. they both sat there for a while before Canus asked "No royal duties to attend to?"

"No. Most ponies are asleep this early and my guards are not much of the conversation types."

"Well when I'm awake you're welcome to stop by if you need someone to talk to, I'm not much of a conversation starter though."

"I have a few questions about you if you will indulge me." Luna asked looking over to Canus.

"Only if you answer two of my questions first." Canus said as he made eye contact.

"What questions?" Luna asked raising a brow.

"What time of year is it and what is the date?"

"It's mid spring and the date is the twenty second of Greenleaf."

"I guess that means I need to learn a new calender then."

"Will you answer my questions now?" Luna asked.

"Yeah go ahead and ask I'll answer to the best I can."

Luna looked back up to the sky seeming to think about how to ask her question "I won't bite Luna, just ask." Canus said drawing her attention to him and a friendly smile on his face. Luna looked to the night sky one more time before asking "What is a blood price?" The question caught Canus off guard a little because he thought if anyone from this world would know what that was it would be Celestia or Luna.

"Well it's the offering of ones own blood for magical power or focus. It's a dark form of magic to me and the idea of causing yourself pain sickens me which is a good thing, I won't be so tempted to use it very often if at all."

"I see." Luna said deep in thought.

"Let me guess you asked Celestia and she dodged the question."

"Yes." Luna said surprised "How did you know?"

"I can we make it easy and say I just know things and not explain how. Besides I don't know everything and I'm learning new things as well. I didn't know there were different kind of dragons kinda like ponies as well and I'm a kakiri dragon which is a pegasus like dragon." Luna took that in 'Seems Celestia was right to consider him.' Since luna seemed to be deep in thought again Canus looked up at the sky and only thought about what possibilities lay ahead.

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Luna left shortly after she and Canus had finished talking and Canus just sat on the hill waiting for sunrise to come. When it did rise the colors were beautiful the deep red that formed into a light pink then into the dark blue of the early morning and when he saw all those colors he knew that this particular day was going to be great. 'Mornings always decide how my day goes and today looks like it's going to be great.'

About fourty five minutes later Canus got up and stretched his stiff legs and headed back to his house 'Gotta pick up that little stash of bits the girls gave me so I can get breakfast.' After getting the very small pouch of bits he went into town to see what diners were around. 'Probably not going to get bacon for breakfast.' he thought to himself. When he got to town a few ponies who were early risers were up tending to their gardens or starting to get their shops ready and Canus gave a "Good morning" to a few of them and smiling to all of them. After ten minutes of searching the town had started to fill up 'I guess most ponies are the early riser type.' he thought to himself. Canus found a little stand that was selling a variety of fresh baked muffins and he looked over what kinds were being sold before reaching over to grab a chocolate chip one felling the heat of the oven still present on it and as he picked it up a grey pegasus mare with golden yellow eyes that focused in two separate directions flew down and asked the mare attending the stand "Do you have any chocolate chip muffins ready?"

Canus looked to the grey mare and immediately knew who she was before the mare attending the stand even said "I'm sorry miss Doo he just grabbed the last one." She said pointing at Canus "But we will have fresh ones ready in about an hour if you come back then."

"No I can't wait that long Dinky has school in and hour."

"Um Ditzy?" Canus asked hoping that was the correct name. The grey pegasus turned to him and saw he was holding the muffin out to her "Here you can have this one there's other muffins I can eat right here. Besides it's for your daughter so I'll gladly give it to you." Canus said Ditzy quickly took the muffin saying a quick 'thank you' as she flew off. 'Like I thought today is going to be a good day.' Canus thought to himself as he picked out a couple of lemon poppy seed muffins and as he started to pull out his bits the mare at the stall said "Don't worry about that you can have those two muffins I'm not going to lose much profit off that." Canus thanked the mare and started to think about what he was going to do today as he took a bite of one of his muffins 'Gotta talk to AJ about work. Need some sort of income. Probably should get a geology book too to figure out where to look for gems so when I get the gem detection spell from rarity I can find them.' Canus's thoughts fell along those lines while he walked around town before he headed out to the Apple's farm to find Applejack 'she's probably up and working in the fields already.'

As Canus approached the farms outskirts around seven and he could see the unmistakable shape Big Mac in front of the barn. As he got closer Canus could see Big Mac was getting a cart that he assumes was to carry apples out from the orchard and as Canus approached Big Mac looked over at the white dragon. Canus stopped in front of Big Mac not sure if he should say anything or not. After a few moments of looking him over Big Mac spoke "You Canus?"

"Eeyup." Canus said unable to stop himself from doing Big Mac's signature yes.

"Applejack talked about you. Said you weren't so bad. What are you here for?"

"Looking for some work. No job right now need an income all I have to my name is what's in my house and this." Canus said raising the little pouch of bits.

"Ever work on a farm?"

"Not an orchard but I do have a little experience."

Big Mac looked him over again and said "If Applejack says yes then you can work here. Tell her I say you look like a strong worker."

"Ok but where is she?"

"Out in the eastern orchard." Big Mac said pointing "Just head out that way and you should be able to find her. Just listen for the sound of hooves hitting a tree."

"Thanks, see ya later Big Mac." Canus said as he walked towards where Big Mac pointed. Big Mac's Followed Canus as he left and after Canus was out of sight he thought to himself 'Interesting guy.' and continued on his chores

Canus found AJ rather easily since like Big Mac said just listen for the sound of trees being hit. Canus found Applejack in mid buck knocking apples out of the tree right into the baskets that she had set up at the base of the tree. He walked up unnoticed and said "I never understood how you were able to knock the apples into the baskets every time."

"What the!?" Applejack shouted turning around to find Canus behind her. "Oh Canus it's you." Applejack sighed "How can i help ya?"

"Sorry didn't mean to surprise you did that to Fluttershy yesterday. I have a bad habit of being so quiet most people don't notice me." Canus said with a sheepish smile. "Anyway I came to ask if you have any work you need help with. Big Mac said i should talk to you and he said to say he thinks I look like a good worker and I could use the work to make a few bits too."

"Sure there are a few things you can help with. For starters how about you help me take these baskets up to the house."

"Sure thing." Canus said as he picked up three of the baskets, two in his arms and one balanced on top of them leaving one left for Applejack. Canus talked with Applejack a little bit on the way back just as they got to the house three fillies came out one yellow earth pony with a red mane and a pink bow holding it together, a white unicorn with a two tone pink and lavender mane and a orange pegasus with a purple mane. The three of them stopped and stared at Canus when they saw him. Canus and Applejack put the baskets of apples away in the house and the three fillies followed them looking at Canus the whole time. "You know to some people staring is rude." Canus said looking to see what kind of reaction he would get from them both Applebloom and Sweetie shied away a little while Scootaloo just continued to look at him. Canus shrugged and looked to Applejack and asked "What's next on the chore list?"

"Well there's more trees that need buck'n." Applejack said but Applebloom ran up to her and said "But sis ya said ya would help with fix'n up the tree house with us after ya finished bringing in those apples." pointing to where Canus and Applejack had dropped off the apples. "Aww shucks sorry sugarcube I would but I ain't done yet." Applebloom started to give Applejack the puppy dog eyes and unfortunately Canus caught the look. He could not say no to the cuteness.

"You know I could help them with that. I used to tinker from time to time I could probably help them out while you finish up." Canus said. Applejack's face scrunched up in thought before saying "Sounds like a good idea but be careful." She said to her little sister and her friends and all three of the fillies cheered and left out the door. Canus was about to follow them when Applejack ct him off and said in a very serious voice "If anything happens to her or her friends the demons of tartarus won't stop me from getting you." The amount of venom in Applejack's voice scared Canus he didn't know ponies could even show that much malice but then again Applejack was Appleblooms older sister so she would be protective. Canus collected himself then answered "Don't worry AJ I had a brother. I know you would come after me. If she was my sister I would probably be the same way."

Canus left and followed the three fillies who had gotten over their initial fear of him and started asking him questions. Most he was able to answer with no problem and after a while he started asking his own. "So any of you know what your cutie marks might be?" The topic had come up between them and he decided to see if he could lead them in the right direction.

"Not really." All three said in unison a small frown on their faces.

"Heh all of you already did what your cutie marks are and you don't even notice." Canus said chuckling to himself.

"What do ya mean?" Applebloom asked looking confused.

"I mean all of you could easily figure out what your cutie marks are if you were to figure out what you love doing most."

"I don't get it. Oh we're here." Scootaloo said pointing to a clearing that had the tree house Canus recognized from the episode that had it.

"So what was it you wanted to do?" Canus asked still looking over the tree house.

"Well we just wanted some help painting it a different color." Sweetie said. Canus got a cocky smile as he said "You sure you don't want a few upgrades?" The three fillies looked at him confused an then Scootaloo asked "Wouldn't we need supplies to do that?" Canus only looked at them with that same smile as he asked back "Don't worry about that but what would you want to add if you could add it?"

"Well I would want a lookout with a working lift system on top of the tree house. Somewhere I could see all of the trees on the farm." Applebloom said first.

"Would want a bigger crafting area so I could try more things at once." Sweetie said looking at the tree house.

"And I would want a half pipe so I could do some tricks on my scooter while were here." was Scootaloo's response.

'Wow these three are thick sometimes. Appleboom's is a basic thing that any budding mechanist would want, sweetie doesn't realize but hers sounds like it could be a stage for her singing, and Scoot's natural stuntman side would want a half pipe above ground for a more extreme experience.' Canus thought to himself as he looked over the tree house 'Wonder if I can use magic to make that happen. Heh can't hurt to try.' Canus's eyes slowly closed and he raised his hands towards the tree house. The fillies caught this and Scootaloo asked "Canus what are you doing?" Canus didn't answer since he was focusing on his magic at the time. Canus wasn't doing as well as he hoped he was making progress but he was having trouble focusing it to do what he wanted 'Holy shit. Working magic is like trying to grab water.' he thought to himself as the spell he was trying to form kept shifting and changing. 'Damn almost there.' Canus's hands and the tree house started to glow silver before the tree house changed. The main room expanded, a tower with a pulley system to form a crows nest sprouted from the top and stairs formed so anyone can access it, and finally the half pipe formed along the side with a safety net of vines quickly grew in place. The Three fillies watched in awe as their tree house grew the new additions and then all three in unison said "Thank you Canus." Canus didn't respond though and Scootaloo went up to him "Canus you all right?" She touched him with a hoof and he fell over landing hard, unconscious.

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Canus opened his eyes to find black emptiness around him. "Uuuuh where the hell am I?"

"In your subconscious." A familiar voice said. Canus turned to see Dissonance behind him.

"Ok why are we in my subconscious?"

"Because your an idiot and tried to control chaos magic." Dissonance said absentmindedly flipping his coin.

"But I thought magic was something that you could control through intentions and it seemed to be working even though it was really hard to pull off. So are the rules different here or something?"

"No the rules are not different here but the magic is. You were lucky. Chaos magic can be controlled but only when certain requirements are met. Such as if it is funny, artistic, random, inspired." Dissonance stopped and looked to Canus who was giving Dissonance a flat stare.

"You knew about this but forgot to mention it."

"No I didn't forget but you never asked how magic could vary now did you." At that Canus face palmed at his own very obvious mistake now.

"You're and asshole you know that right."

"True but now you won't make the same mistake again right?"

"No because now I know a little more." Canus looked at Dissonance "I'm going to assume you won't give me a tutorial are you?"

"Nope." Dissonance said that confident smile of mischief on his face.

"So now what I just wait here to wake up?"

"Now I do this." Dissonance said walking up to Canus and slapping him across the face and making Canus's head snap to the side and blacking out from the unnatural amount of pain the simple hit had caused.

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Canus's eyes snapped open and immediately sat up and wished he hadn't. his head felt like it was going to split open and he felt the sting from where Dissonance had slapped him AND his body felt sore all over. 'Note to self punch Dissonance across his face next time I see him.' After the wave of pain passed Canus regained his senses and found all of the mane six and the CMC looking at him with looks of relief. "You're ok!" the CMC said jumping up onto the bed and making Canus flinch from pain. He looked around and figured he was in the apple homestead in a guest room or something. "Are you ok?" Canus looked to Twilight who had asked the question.

"I'll be ok now but what happened?" He knew what had happened but he wanted to know how.

"You suffered from magical backlash. You've been unconscious for twelve hours." Canus was silent for several seconds before he asked "Twelve hours?" Twilight nodded "Holy shit." The girls flinched at the foul language "Note to self; never force chaos magic again. It will bitch slap you into next week." Canus moved to get up despite his aches but Twilight pushed him back down "No you're not going anywhere yet."

"Why not?"

"Do you know what magical backlash does to you?"

"Nope never had magic before. Remember?"

"Right. Well magical backlash can cause severe physical problems. You were lucky. the amount of magic that backlashed probably would have killed a pony but if you were to move too much after that you could hurt yourself more."

"So what? I'm fragile right now since the backlash didn't kill me?" Canus sarcastically remarked.

"Exactly." Twilight simply said not catching the sarcasm. That made Canus think for a moment before saying "Thanks for helping me."

Twilight abnd the girls gave a smile before Pinkie Pie came up "Well that's what friends do silly." Canus chuckled before replying back "I know but if any of you need a favor go ahead and ask I owe you that much at least. I probably owe you a few more Applejack since Twilight is probably going to keep me here for a night." everyone got a little laugh from that and Canus thought to himself 'If this is the second day what will the rest of them will be like.'

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"The dragon is a unforeseen variable. Do we continue with the plan as normal?" A cloaked figure asked looking over a glass orb that had a image of Canus in it. The only thing noticeable about the cloaked figure being a horn from the way the hood rose off the forehead.

"No not as planed. Wait and watch for now. He may be useful. keep good tabs on him." A disembodied voice said.

"As you say." the cloaked figure faded away into the shadows.

A clawed hand picked up the glass orb 'If you join you will be spared.' The voice thought  'If not you will die.' and it crushed the orb and the image of Canus into oblivion.