DragonHeart

Prologue

The afternoon sun shone on Ponyville, breathing life into everypony, bustling with energy to do what they need. For the pony AppleJack, her chores were done. Deciding to relax at her favorite spot, her and her faithful companion, Winona, started their miniature journey. As they ran to their destination, AppleJack noticed that a pure black cloud was looming over Everfree Forest.

“That’s mighty strange..” She pondered, “The weather ponies should have cleared any cloud near Ponyville today.” She stared with curiosity at the unusual cloud, but soon it was joined by a pure white cloud as well. “This is getting stranger by the minute, I need to get RainbowDash to clear these” she bolted off into the other direction, leaving the anomaly behind as both clouds shot lightning, one pure black, the other pure white…

“uhh….” A voice was heard in the clearing of the forest, “whe…..where am i?” The owner of the voice had raised his head from the ground, vision blurry from the travel.

“This ain’t Kansas, I’ll vouch for sure..” Another voice greeted the quiet. After the daze wore off, he looked up and he saw a pony of pure white, a long, wavy, white mane, as well as a horn, donning his head and his ears was cut at where they would make a point. His piercing blue eyes shone brightly with a heroic defiance. A gray vest donning the pony before him.

“Dray…Drayga, is that you?!” the voice said, a smile appeared on his face, “you…you look…..cuddly….Bwahahahaha!!!!!” He started rolling on the forest floor laughing while tears ran down his face.

“You do too, Dragoon.” Drayga had remarked, a smug look on his face. After he settled down, holding back a chuckle, he looked to see Drayga was right. Dragoon was a pure black pony with a pulled back mane to match and his ears were similar to the white stallion’s before him. His trench coat had stayed on him as well. His eyes were a piercing red but he did not have a horn as the pony in front of him did.

“Sonofa…. How come you’re a unicorn and I’m not?” He questioned. Drayga looked smugly at Dragoon and replied “How else can I stop your dark powers if you go evil here.” Dragoon snorted “Here is a loose term now. Where ‘Here’ is, is our real question.”

He then turned and started trotting off, “Whoa whoa whoa, where are you goin?” Drayga asked, putting a hoof on Dragoons shoulder

“Out of this place.”

“And if you end up on the wrong side…?” “I’ll turn around.” And smugly he continued his march. “okay… but we end up lost, I don’t know how to use my magic here…”

Minutes into their trek, the two stallions reach the edge of the forest and spot a small town in the distance. They also spotted two figures rushing to their position. “More ponies?” Dragoon asks, his voice filled with his usual dark calmness.

“Probably”

“Ah told ya, there were some strange clouds over here and I wanted you to do your job” One of the ponies stated to the other, her voice thick with a southern accent.

“Well I don’t see any clouds over here so I think you and Pinkie are pulling one over me." The other replied, Pride heavy in her voice. They soon slowed to a stop and began bickering at each other. Drayga looked at Dragoon and smirked “Hold on, I’ve got this” he whispered. Dragoon rolled his eyes at the white stallion. As he moved closer he decided to size up the two arguers. The southern one was an orange pony with freckles near her eyes and nose. Her eyes were a calm green and she wore a stenson on her head. He noticed that she had an apple on her flank as well. The other was a light blue pony with red-violet eyes, her mane the colors of the rainbow. He noticed that she too, had a mark on her flank, though it was a rainbow bolt, shooting out of a cloud.

“Jeez, the way you two fight, you sound like sisters..” Both of the other ponies stopped their argument and turned to the new voice.

“Who’re you?” The rainbow one asked.

“The name is Drayga Hyru, Paladin captain of the Holy Corps. The sullen one behind me is my brother Dragoon Hyru, a Shadow Knight Chieftain.” Both looked dumbfounded by the explanation from the stranger. “You’re a what now?” The southern one asked. “Sorry, I thought my entrance was understandable.” He replied, looking like he wasted his breath.

“Smooth, brother” Dragoon said as he walked up, “ allow me, I’m Dragoon and this is my brother Drayga. We come from…uh.. I really can’t be sure you’ll know or not so I’ll leave that blank.”

“Oh….kay?” The orange pony replied “Well a’hm AppleJack and this here is..”

“Rainbow Dash!” The other had said, flying in the air.

“…Yeah, she’s a might bit cocky but a good pony nonetheless. Anywho, where ya’ll headed?”

“I truthfully don’t know?” Drayga said, smiling suddenly.

“Why don’t ya’ll come with us till you figure out where your headed.” Drayga shot his hoof forward

“Deal.” They shook and the two mares had turned to where they had run from. The two stallions had followed their lead and Drayga leaned close to his brother’s ear and said “Told ya I could get them to stop fighting..”