Loki - Pony of Deception

“Just a little bit more of this mixture. That should do it.” whispered Loki, when he was pouring a weird green stuff into bubbling kettle.

“I must not overdo it, one drop should be enough...”

“LOKI!!!” the cream cut his contration and he poured the whole thing inside.

Damn.

Fluid in the kettle started dangerously spit hot liquir all over the place. Loki quickly grabbed the kettle by magic, throwed it to the other room and shutted the door.

After about two seconds explosion shooked the whole laboratory and the door, that Loki closed, almost hit him when it flow through the air.

He angrily looked at the newcomer.

“Pinkie Pie! What is so important that you can´t knock like every other pony?”

“Yay, that was sooo funny, please do it again!”

“I asked you something.”

“Oh yes, this! Twilight need to tell us something important.”

“Alright.”

Together they walked upstairs to the main room of library, where everypony already waited. After the fight with Nightmare Moon, Twilight let him live with her in the library, since they were both scientists.

“If you will find pit somewhere in the Ponyville, be sure that it´s not my fault.” said Loki when he saw questioning glances.

“Now we have something more important to do.” spoke Twilight. “I called you here, because of the smoke that is covering whole Ponyville.”

Loki didn´t know about source of smoke, but knew that Twilight will explain it.

“Fortunately it´s not a vulcano or forest fire. It´s a dragon.”

Silence.

“Dragon? That´s great! I have to prepare my tools!” exclaimed happily grey unicorn.

“Why are you so happy?” asked him Applejack.

“Besides that, that dragons often have magical treasures, their scales are also excelent for potions.”

“Well we have to convince him to leave, so I guess that´s a good reason for being happy.” she smiled.

“I know.”

“We don´t have much time left, so pack whatever you need and we will meet in front of library in half hour.” decided Twilight and runned upstairs. Everypony went home too, so Loki returned to laboratory to pack his stuff.

“What is dragon doing in Ponyville anyway?” asked Loki when everypony was ready to go.

“Sleeps, and his snoring couses that smoke.”

“Well, I hope that Spike will not do the same thing when he gets older.” told her with smile.

After a while, when they beginned the trip, ponies realized that there will be some troubles with Fluttershy.

“What´s up with you? You were just fine in Everfree Forest witch is basically a one big nightmare.”

But she just murmured something.

“Oh boy, please give me that map Twi, I´ll take her around the mountain.” said Applejack.

“I´ll go with you.” Loki joined to them.

“Ok, we will wait for you at the top!” shouted Rainbow Dash at them, glad that they can go faster.

“Lets carry her by magic, I don´t think that it will be useful against full grown dragon.”

“Ok, so let´s go, so others don´t wait too long.”

Few minutes they were going silently.

“Why you don´t have cutiemark?” AJ asked.

“I don´t know, propably my destiny is not set.”

“Aren´t you sad about it?”

“Not really, this way I can do whatever I want with my life, and make my own destiny as I like´d it to be. And I think that I can´t have cutiemark about my talent, because it´s not possible.”

“You mean lying?”

“Exactly, I am sure that lies and deception are my main talents.”

“Why do you lie? I don´t want to offend you, but I just can´t understand it. I was honest my entire life.”

“That´s alright. Honesty is of course important. Everypony is honest sometimes, even I just now, but you have to lie sometimes to trick enemies or protect your friends from cruel truth. The bad thing that ponies often don´t trust you.”

The sting of conscience.

“I think, that I understand you. I want you to know, that we are your friends so we can trust each other.” she looked him deep into the eyes. “And there is much more good inside of you, than you admit.”

“Thanks.” they both smiled and contined to the top of the mountain.

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Few hours later.

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“Fine, so the hardest part is behind us, now we just have to convince the dragon to find different place to sleep. But with Fluttershy, that shouldn´t be a problem.” spoke Rarity.

“There is one problem.” yellow pony whispered.

“What?”

“I am scared of d...”

“What did you said?”

“I am scared of dra...”

“What are you scared of?”

Snoring.

“I AM SCARED OF DRAGONS!” Fluttershy screamed and hide behind a rock.

“So what now?” Loki asked.

“I think that we should try it our own way.” decided Twilight.

As a first ones went Twilight, Rarity and Pinkie Pie, but they all failed.

“We have to stop wasting out time, we tried begging, charm, whatever Pinkie Pie does, now we have to use violence!” said Rainbow angrily and flew to the cave, but in her way appeared green wall and bounced her back.

“I am sorry Rainbow, but that dragon weights few more tons more than you, and when you make him mad, he will turn as to pony chips.” Loki prostested.

“So what´s your plan?”

“You´ll see, but I need some help. Applejack, get mi some wood please.”

“Count on me.”

“Rarity, I need you to find some flat thin rock.”

“Yes.”

Few minutes later, they were both back.

“OK, Twilight please set this on fire and kern that rock.”

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Later.

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“Fine, this should be enough.” said Loki when he saw a leaf catch on fire after touching the rock. He picked the rock up with magic and walked into the cave, where he put it under dragons nose. Then he poured some potion on it and teleported out of the cave.

“Everypony take cover and be careful not to breathe that steam!”

They all hid and waited for whatever the potion should do. They didn´t have to wait long. Dragon with roar flew away as quickly as he could.

“Problem solved.” announced Loki with smile of pride.

Twilight didn´t understand. “What did you do to that dragon?”

“I used one of my potions. Simply, it causes pony -or whatever alse- that drinked or smell it, strong feeling of unsatisfaction with his property and also causes him want to do something more useful. It was invented for ponies that were unhealthy satisfacted with a minimum.

Unfortunalely -for us fortunately- nobody ever corrected its two main problems. First of the potion last for about two hours and the second, he´ll have short amnesia. So that dragon will not know how to get back here.”

“Well, that´s a good idea. You aren´t specialist on ilusions for nothing.” concluded Twilight.

Everypony laught.