Persecuted

Chapter 5

“The Prophecy of Elek’ro”

[Spike's Point of View]

The cobalt scaled creature smirked at us. Razre and I just stood there looking at it, expecting some sort of attack. The cobalt dragon's expression turned to one of confusion.

“Why are you two looking at me like that?”

The voice was feminine, meaning that the cobalt scaled dragon was a dragoness.

“Sorry for making you feel uncomfortable but we thought you were going to attack us,” I replied.

“Now why would I do that?” she asked in an innocent tone.

“You wrapped me with your tail when I got my claws on the gems,” I pointed out. “You were also suffocating me underwater.”

“I'm sorry if I nearly killed you but there have been some dragons that have stolen from me.”

“Really?” Razre and I asked in unison.

“Yes, three dragons that looked like from a draconic military, marched through here with their general.”

“How did they look like?”

She described a dragon that was almost my size, grey scaled with obsidian armor. I knew who the dragon was. General Ignus and his allies have stolen from the dragoness. She then asked us if we knew where they were.

“I know who stole from you and where he is,” I replied.

“Really? When I find them, I'll make sure their corpses are full of acid,” she smiled wickedly while also exposing her small fangs.

“I'm afraid you can't.”

“What? Why not?” she pouted like a little hatchling.

“They have been taken care of,” I replied.

“I don't understand…” she said slowly.

He face-clawed. “They have been killed.”

The dragoness looked at me before saying that she didn't believe me.

“You can always ask my witness,” I said while directing my claw to Razre. The black scaled dragon nodded his head in approval.

The dragoness seemed to accept the answer. She started to twirl her claws nervously and direct her gaze away from me.

“Umm… are you okay?”

“Y-yes,” she stammered.

“My name is Spike, what's yours?”

Five seconds passed before she finally spoke up. “My name is Sapphire.”

“Nice to meet you!” I extended my claw to her. She shook it and replied, “Nice to meet you too!”

“Could you help us on finding food around here?” I asked.

“I might have some extra food, hold on,” she said as she did a backflip and dove into the lake.

Thirty seconds passed before a dripping wet dragoness appeared with lots of gems in both of her claws.

“Here, a small gift from me,” she said while giving me the gems.

“Thank you Sapphire for giving us these gems. How did you find so much in very little time?” I asked.

“I have lived here for nearly six years. I have survived all this time here.”

“You haven't lived here all of your life here, right?”

“No, I used to live in the Dragonlands. I was forced to leave because my parents shunned me as if I wasn't their daughter. My life there was miserable. Every other dragon or dragoness hatchling had caring parents but not me,” she ended with a sad tone while also drooping her ear-frills and her head.

I saw a tear fall to the ground.

“Sapphire?” I asked with concern.

She looked up at me with her watery, cerulean eyes and ran up to me. She hugged me afterwards while also crying heavily into my chest. The action took me by surprise and I did the only thing I could do at the moment. I tried to console her, saying that she was alright and that it was the only thing that mattered.

“I wish my parents would change and care for me,” she bawled into my chest. I patted her on the head gently, hoping that it would cease the crying.

“You're not the only one,” I said, “To be honest, I have never met my parents before,” I confessed.

She looked at me, our faces barely inches away while her body pressed into mine.

“Really?”

I shook my head.

She let go of my body and stood there, not knowing what to say.

“Hey, don't worry,” I said while waving a dismissive claw at her.

She shuffled a little and kept her gaze away from me. I looked over to Razre who had been awfully quiet all the time. He gave me the ‘Let's go’ signal and I proceeded to do so.

“Sapphire, I'm afraid we must go,” I said.

She glanced at my direction and whispered, “Okay.”

We both started to leave until I heard Sapphire call out to me.

“Spike, wait.”

I turned around and saw Sapphire pawing the ground lightly while also keeping her gaze at the dirt.

“Yes?”

“C-could I… g-go w-with… you?” she asked timidly.

I looked at Razre, who had a nervous expression on his face. I gave him an annoyed expression and he sighed almost inaudibly. He shook his head and I smiled at my victory.

“Sure,” I replied.

The cobalt dragoness looked up at me with a smile and ran up to hug me. I blushed a little and attempted to hide it as she pulled back.

“Thank you!” she happily said as she ran somewhere.

I chuckled softly to myself as she started to wander off in another direction.

“We're traveling south-west,” I said.

Sapphire blushed as she realized where she was going. She started to walk our direction and a few seconds later, she caught up with us.

“Let's go everyone,” I said.

We started walking south-west and Sapphire walked in front of us. I caught Razre staring at Sapphire's curvaceous rear and nudged him on the side.

“Hey Razre, you're staring,” I whispered.

He got nervous and I chuckled lightly. He then got a blush on his face.

“Please don't tell her,” he pleaded.

“Why? Do you like her?” I teased while smirking.

“W-what? N-no… I'm just,” he said before I cut him off.

“I'm just teasing with 'ya,” I smirked.

He gave me a glare of annoyance and I waved a dismissive claw at him.

Sapphire stopped at a hill and we both followed her to the hill and stopped as well.

“So, where are we going?” she asked.

I looked over to the horizon and saw a town with a giant tree sticking out.

“We're going to an old place that I like to call ‘home’.”

[Spike's Point of View]

“That's your home?”

Sapphire looked at the distant town that surrounded a huge tree.

“Yep, that's where I live. It's time to pay a visit,” I said.

“Does Razre also know that you lived there?” the cobalt dragoness asked.

The black scaled dragon with crimson spikes spoke up to Sapphire.

“As a matter of fact, yes. When I was marching with my general, I saw Spike getting ready to attack us,” Razre explained.

“Wait… you were one of the general's fighters?” she asked in a menacing tone.

Way to go Razre. You screwed up.

“Uhh… n-no,” he stammered.

“You were the general's fighter?” Sapphire screamed with rage while she leaped on him and pinned him on the ground.

“I will kill you!” the dragoness said in a dark tone.

Sapphire gave Razre a deep scratch on his chest. He blew a fireball at Sapphire, resulting for the sea dragoness to be knocked on a tree. The dragoness proceeded to form small water orbs on her palms and waited patiently for Razre to attack. The black scaled dragon didn't attack her.

“I'm the one who saved Spike. I didn't follow the general's orders,” he yelled at the dragoness.

“LIES!” she hissed.

Both of them were now preparing to attack each other. Razre's claws, wings and tail were ignited with his fire element while Sapphire held two orbs of boiling acid on her palms. I watched both of them launch their attacks at the same time and I intervened at the last second before their attacks hit each other.

“STOP!” I roared.

Everything was stopped and held in place as I surrounded my magical aura over both dragons and their attacks.

“You're a… magical dragon?” she asked in awe.

“Of course he is. What'd you expect from him? Be the Element of Gems?” Razre spat at Sapphire.

“Shut up, both of you. There is no need to fight,” I said in a menacing, dark tone. “If you continue to fight,” I threatened, “I'll make sure your death is painful and your carcass is in the darkest pits of Tartarus. Do I make myself clear?”

Both dragons nodded nervously at me.

“Then, DO. NOT. FIGHT,” I snarled. With a snap of my claws, the attacks that were launched to each dragon, dissapeared and I released my telekinesis aura from them. Afterwards, I left by myself to go to Ponyville.

[Sapphire's Point of View]

Spike left. Me and Razre were left on the hill.

“Look at what you did!” I snapped at him.

“Me? You're the one who's trying to kill me,” he replied with a snarl.

“Well, you were the one who stole from me!”

“I already told you that I never stole from you. I saved him from the General and we both killed him.”

I wrapped my tail around Razre's waist and started to suffocate him.

“I don't believe you,” I said darkly.

“Then don't. Believe anything you want. I don't care,” he spat.

I strangled him more. He ignited his wings on fire and it burned my tail. I hissed with rage.

“I swear that I'll slay you one day.”

Razre didn't reply, instead, he simply turned around and left in the direction where Spike went.

[Spike's Point of View]

I was trekking for a long time. I sat down on a nearby rock and summoned an emerald to my claw. I took a bite of the colorful gemstone, savoring the rich mineral taste that it contained.

When I was going to take another bite, a lightning bolt hit a nearby tree. I jumped and looked around for any clouds. There were none. My fear increased as I saw a lightning bolt hit a rock that was about ten steps away from me. I ran in a desperate attempt to avoid being electrocuted but nearly got hit as a lightning bolt struck in front of me.

I stopped and looked around again… no clouds. I set up a magical force field around me and started to walk. A lightning bolt struck my field and I felt a my right arm go numb. Another lightning bolt hit my field and it started to crack while also making my left arm go numb as well. A final bolt hit my force field and it exploded, sending me a good distance away from where I stood.

My vision started to blur. All I saw were colors and I blinked a few times to try clear my vision. As my eyesight started to clear, I saw a silver scaled dragon with gold spikes glaring at me with his bronze colored eyes. His left claw was pointing at me, flickering with electricity.

“Irwë kr’eq magh’re Dwanik*,” the dragon snarled at me.

I didn't understand what it said.

“What?” I asked.

The silver dragon tilted its head sideways.

“Do you not know how to speak Dra’Voltn**?” the electric dragon asked me in a deep masculine voice.

“No.”

“Do you live in the Dragonlands?”

“No.”

The dragon eyed me curiously. “Figures,” he muttered.

“My name is Silvre Lightbolt, Element of Electricity,” the dragon introduced himself and held out his claw.

I shook it and got electrocuted. Silvre burst out laughing.

“Oh, you should have seen your face!” he said through a fit of laughter.

“Yeah, very,” I muttered dryly under my breath.

After Silvre calmed down, he asked me what was my name.

“My name is Spike, Element of Magic,” I replied.

“Element of Magic? That's impossible! There hasn't been a dragon with the Element of Magic for over a millennia! What makes you think you have the Element?” the dragon asked curiously.

“Well, I was hatched by magic by a - ”

“Wait… you were hatched by magic, you say?”

“Yes, by a unicorn named Twilight Sparkle.”

“You were hatched by a unicorn…?”

“Yes but now she's an Alicorn or a half pegasus, half unicorn pony,” I explained. “I was an egg that was supposed to be impossible to be hatched but Twilight had the ability to do it.”

The electric dragon listened intently and when I finished explaining, he was in deep thought.

“Have you've been attacked by dragons?” he asked.

“Yes, why?”

“Oh no…” he mumbled.

“What?” I asked.

“The prophecy is true…” he muttered again.

“What prophecy?” I asked irritably.

“I'll explain it to you on the way, right now, I have to get you safe. Were you with any dragon else?”

“Yes, two dragons. One is a dragoness by the name of Sapphire and the other one is a dragon by the name of Razre,” I replied.

“Good, now, where does this Twilight Sparkle live?”

I pointed to a distant town surrounding a huge tree.

“Over there, in Ponyville.”

“Let's get those two dragons and head over to Ponyville,” he said while he started flapping his huge wings. I did the same as Silvre and flapped my own wings to pursuit him.

After what felt like thirty minutes, Silvre spotted something.

“Are those the two dragons?” he said while pointing to a blue and black dot on the ground.

“Yep, that's them.”

We both flew to where they were and I heard them yelling at each other…again. We landed in front of them and they froze.

“We didn't do anything,” Razre said.

I merely face-clawed.

“We must get to Ponyville at once,” Silvre said.

“Why the big rush Silvre?” I protested.

His bronze eyes stared at mine. “Do you not know why?” he asked.

I nodded.

“Spike, do you have any idea why there are dragons sent to kill you?”

I thought about it and said no.

“Well, let me tell you WHY. You are the last pure dragon to bear the Element of Magic. According to the Prophecy of Elek’ro, the dragon with the bearer of the most powerful Element known to Draconia will either use its magic to preserve Draconia or perish it forever,” he explained.

I was deep in thought. I was the bearer of the most powerful Element known to Draconia but about that last sentence that Silvre said made me think more. How would I destroy Draconia? If I were to save it, what would I save it from?

“So I have the fate of Draconia on my claws?” I asked dryly.

The silver drake slightly nodded.

“Anything else I should know?”

“Your magic is powerful and is unlike any other. If you were to train with me, I'd help you with your magic. Something you should also know is that in Draconia, there seems to be a dispute about you. It would explain why they are trying to execute you but I don't know the reason.”

I looked at Razre and Sapphire, who seemed to have a neutral expression on both their faces.

“So… umm… what now?”

“We should get to this Twilight Sparkle in Ponyville, correct?” Silvre asked.

I nodded in response.

“Let's go before she gets caught.”

“Wait… caught?” I asked in worry.

“The dragons that want to kill you may question the ponies where you are. They will most likely go to where you lived and take Twilight as a captive, using her as a tool,” he explained.

“We must get there before the dragons get to Ponyville,” I asked with urgency.

“We will,” he said with reassurance. “I know a way we can get there faster but it will require your magic.”

“Okay. What do I need to do?”

“Do you know how to teleport from place to place?”

“You aren't suggesting that I teleport everyone to Ponyville, right?” I asked with uncertainty.

“No. I want you to prepare the teleportation spell but don't use it. I will tweak the spell a little and when I say ‘Fire,’ you use your spell,” he said.

I started to charge the teleportation spell and a green aura surrounded my body. I nodded at Silvre and he touched me. I saw as the green aura changed to a grey aura. I felt my energy draining and alerted Silvre by tapping his shoulder. He nodded and said “Fire!” I fired my spell and bright flash happened. The light faded and I saw that we were still in the same place.

“The spell didn't work,” I said defeatedly.

“It did work. Watch!” he said as he left running while leaving behind a silver blur. He returned with gems three seconds later.

“Gems anyone?” he offered. We all took a gem and thanked him.

“The spell I cast was a speed spell, right?” I asked.

“Yes but you also have fast reflexes, movements, better eyesight, better hearing and higher stamina,” he said.

“How long does the spell last?” I asked nervously.

“About five minutes or so but it can always be done again,” he reassured me. “Now, let's get going. We must get to Ponyville before dragons arrive there. Spike, lead the way!”

I started to run and I immediately felt going at about five hundred kilometers per second. As I ran, there were many trees and rocks that I had to dodge. Silvre was right about having fast reflexes. I saw Ponyville in the distance and heard Sapphire yelling at me.

“Is that Ponyville?” the dragoness asked.

I slowed down a bit but I soon regretted it as all of us crashed into each other, causing all of us to go in different directions. I was knocked forward and I hit a rock, cracking from the impact. I stood up with a headache and looked around.

We were outside Ponyville's borders.

“Let's go! We're here!” I said happily.

“Hold on,” Razre said. “I sense that another dragon is here.”

“What makes you say that?”

Razre ball his fist and then opened it. On his palm was a red sphere of fire.

“This is my way of knowing if there are other fire dragons around,” he explained. “The sphere begins to shape into an arrow as soon as it finds another dragon with the Element of Fire.”

He tapped on the sphere and it turned into an arrow that was pointing to the direction of Town Square.

“It's pointing to Ponyville's Town Square,” I said.

“Then let's get to it,” replied Razre.

We walked to Town Square and hid behind some crates. We heard a male voice and we peeked to see. What we all saw was unexpected.