Wings In the Fireby Altered AraxChaptersThe DiscoveryWell that hurtGood Ol' GroundThe Fuck Are You?!The DiscoveryVision blurry, Check. Claws dull, Check. Splitting headache I've had for 3 days, Double Check. Well I'm still alive, bummer. Anyway I better explain myself my name is Arax, a young black dragon raised by a tyrant of a pony named Violet Curse, well he wasn't always this bad but that is beside the point. You see Violet Curse brought me into this world by use of force and gore, he thinks he has done the right thing but my life has been misery since that fateful day 18 years ago. It was December 7th, and the princess had just announced that any dragon eggs found in Equestrian borders were to be brought to Canterlot for 'scientific' reasons, but really it was just for storage. So my egg was found next to the corpse of my mother and carried to Canterlot castle by means of saddle bags, my egg was abnormally small, it was a long journey back to Canterlot Castle and for some reason I just couldn't shake the feeling something bad was about to happen. You see to collect the eggs the so called "Princess Of the Sun" sent out squads of 4-5 royal Equstrian guard members to collect said eggs in case there were complications, such as a fucking full grown BLACK DRAGON! My brother who wiped the floor with the guards, in the frenzy he grabbed the egg I was encased in and launched my fully formed body in a shell across Equestria, well that's one way to learn to fly. Since I was headed towards the palace I figured my brother was stupid, he threw me towards the place is was headed any way, but as I started to descend I noticed something, this wasn't gravity working against me, this was magic. It was weak magic but none the less magic, I was pulled toward a small unicorn, charcoal black coat with a poison like purple and green mane. Well this was turning out better than expected, getting flung across the country side to a palace for storage then being abducted by a small colt, oh wait one last thing, I WAS ABOUT TO HIT THE FUCKING GROUND! Now being an unborn foetus dragon, I don't know much about forces and gravity, one thing was for sure though, this was going to hurt. Brace for impact in 3, 2, 1............ nothing? I open my eyes (being fully formed and inside a dragon egg you can see through) and notice I'm being held in mid air in front of the little charcoal black unicorns face, he saved me, now that I was not expecting. I guess now I'm going to the castle anyway, so this little colt starts walking away from the castle to what I can only assume at the moment is his home, skipping through the door gleefully he gets his parents attention by yelling "Mom, Dad I'm home, and I found a weird rock thingy that was flying at me from the sky, it has a pretty purple pattern on it." The weird 'rock' thingy was my egg and it did not have a pretty purple pattern, it had a totally badass purple flame pigment around the outside, I could tell this kid was going to get on my nerves. Just as Violet Curse was about to set me down his father, we will call him Ass, ran out to Violet and 'punched' my egg with enough force to shatter the shell and launch me straight out the door, I wasn't even inside for 5 seconds and I was already kicked out onto the streets without anything to protect myself with, fucking great, wait no I'm hovering back inside in Violet's magical grip once again, it felt like a dozen warm blankets so I drifted off into dreamless sleep. When I awoke I was in a cardboard box full of pillows and blankets, the box was an old dinning set box, remember how my egg was abnormally small well lets just say spike probably could hold it in one hand without a problem. So a tiny drake in a box for dinner plates and bowls surrounded by pillows and blankets, oh I forgot to mention I had the Princess of Equestria in front of my arguably 'adorable' little face and this hadn't registered with me as I had no clue who they were or what they wanted, so I proceeded to spew flames into Celestia's face. This act elicited a little giggle from her and looks that could kill from 'Ass' and his spouse who I had now realized were also in the room. With introductions out of the way she turned to 'Ass' and spoke unto him "This young drake seem quite harmless, I do not understand why you would want him off your hooves other than to return him to the custody of Equestria, you are allowed to keep post-hatched dragons as of yesterday" 'Ass' spoke back "With all due respect princess, this certain drake could've killed my son, I want it removed from the premises immediately" It was at that moment Violet Curse came from his hiding place around the corner with tears in his eyes, "But dad, you said we could get a pet, so what if this one nearly killed me I want to keep it, it is mine I found it and I named him Sparkles" it is at this point I chose to get up and start crawling around while Violet was being lectured. "If you love this drake so much then why don't you go back to the palace with it you ungrateful lil' shit" Celestia decided to intervene at this point, casting a spell that plunged the room into silence, all the spell did was knock 'Ass' out and me being the little smart ass I am laughed maniacally, Celestia sent me and Violet out of the room while she spoke to his mother. Violet Curse headed into the small living quarters the family shared with me in magical tow, it was now that I decided to speak for the first time "I don't like that name" A screech from Violet and being flung at a wall with a sickening crunch summoned the Solar princess from her meeting with Violet Curse's mom, she took her time and walked in casually "What is the problem My Little Pony" and Alonzo screamed at her "That lil' ass fucker just spoke!" Celestia stood there mouth agape at the small colts language "And to top it all off she doesn't like her name, what an ungrateful lil' shit she is" I then looked at him dead pan "I have a dick, that means I am a guy, 'he' not 'she' and for your information my dead mother already gave me a name ass-hole" It was his turn to be shocked "Wait your mommy is dead? How did that happen?" I then looked to Celestia almost with a burning desire to kill "Don't want to talk about it, and my name is Arax you'd do best to remember that or I'll have myself a carcass to eat." Violet Curse just stared at me from that point, then our benevolent ruler dragged my sorry little ass outside and flung me back across the country side, doesn't that seem familiar. Feeling a magical grip pulling me back towards Violet Curse I wondered if reality was fucking with me, nope this time I slammed into the ground at just under Sonic Rainboom speeds, well if my bones weren't broken before they sure as Tartarus were now, I must've blacked out from the pain as I woke up again inside the same cardboard box being carried through a hospital ward. Author's Note If you are reading this I guess you've given my story a read, Thanks! I don't exactly know where I'm going with this but it won't be a simple one shot, I intend to keeps this going for a long while. The first few chapters will explain what brought Arax to the situation mentioned at the very beginning of this story. Now the thing about dragons is I don't know too much so don't go crazy with the fact that Arax can see through his shell, it's just something I came up with to make the story flow a little better, it wouldn't make sense for him to know what was going on in any other way. Once his life story is told I want this to progress to Ponyville where he meets Spike and the CMC. With some help from MasterBrony Forever this story will piece together slowly, he has been a huge help in this first chapter and I hope he puts up with me long enough to help with a few more. Now concerning age MasterBrony Forever said "Twilight starts school at 5 years old. Becuase that is when one would start kindergarten. She hatched Spike around this time. So Twilight will be 5 years older then him. And sense she is more or less out of school (this would include college) and she is living on her own she would be between 21-25. So spike would be 5 or more years younger. But this is how I see his age." and from this I drew the conclusion that most people see Twilight as around 23 making Spike 18 at the moment, to stay sort of cannon I wanted Arax to be hatched the same year as Spike so that is where I got the 18 years thing from. Speech not even 5 minutes after hatching is a big risk but from what I've seen and read on dragons (which isn't very much) they can be walking around and communicating with their elders and peers within 10 minutes of hatching, but the walking comes with observation, speech they pick up while inside their eggs which would explain Arax talking but not walking as dragons and ponies walking are pretty much polar opposites. The next chapters pace will slow down a fair bit but may also skip forward every now and again, I'm not going to write a chapter for every day in his life, the most traumatic experiences will be looked at in detail which is why this is labelled as Mature & Gore, now the Comedy and Adventure tags may not seem all that relevant at the moment but as we progress through this Arax shall become a massive smart ass. I need suggestions on what should happen next, any ideas? Send me a PM if you've got one. Thank you to MasterBrony Forever for helping with massive amounts of this first chapter, and thank you, the reader, for giving my story your time of day (or night depending on your preference). Well that hurtI passed out again shortly after arriving in hospital due to immense pain all over my body, and during this time I was turned into a fucking pincushion, I had IV drips, various needle like objects protruding from my skin, some metal bar thing bolted to the bones in my left arm just above the wrist and to top it all off I was strapped to a hospital bed with Celestia and Violet Curse sitting in a chair towards the far corner of the room. Apparently I was only out for around 5 minutes otherwise Celestia would've left by now, she notices me struggling to move and tightens the bonds around my arms and legs, Violet picks up on this and summons a magical hoof which he then uses to promptly bitch slap Celestia until she loosens the straps that bind me to this fucking terrible bed. I had a bit of a chuckle at this. Violet Curse has seemed to taken a liking to me, maybe the kid ain't so bad after all "Oi Sun Butt, that be my job" And there it goes, just as I was starting to like him he has to go and say something like that, he wasn't kidding either he tightened the bonds so much it nearly cut of circulation, I decide to yell at him "Oh well it's not like I need my arms and legs to survive or anything" What a little sod, he goes from good to evil in a split second, saving me then launching me at a wall, then putting me back in the box (I think?) only to try and remove my limbs, thank who ever the ruling spirit is over this world for getting Celestia to intervene at that point by teleporting good ol' Violet Curse out the door and locking him out, she then cantered up to the side of my bed and spoke. "Alright no one can hear us, I want you to tell me exactly how you came to be with this little colt, all the details, who you were with at the time and what you were doing, I must hear everything" So I spilled the beans......... "........ and then I was being magically held in front of his bad excuse for a face" She looked horrified for a moment before saying "I'm sorry, I didn't know that had happened, I'll debrief the surviving guards myself" I looked at her slack jawed "You mean somebody, somepony however you guys say it, survived my brother?! I don't believe you, he's stronger than 5 ponies, I bet he is stronger than 100 of you ponies put together, he could kick your ass into next Tuesday, who's going to raise the sun then hmmmm, certainly not you" She dead panned and spoke softly "Then why is he dead hmmm?" It was at that point my dream of escaping and going back to my brother were thoroughly crushed, I didn't think it was possible for him to die he seemed so strong and indestructible like nothing could touch him, nope Celestia then took out a picture of him missing massive chunks of skin from all parts of his body. It hit me a wave of adrenalin that gave me enough strength to rival Sun Butt herself, I broke from my bonds and pounced pinning her to the ground then I proceeded to roar in her face while breathing fire, she obviously was expecting this as the blocked it with a spell and proceeded to throw me out the window. Flying through the air once again I thought to myself, 'dude, I really should learn to use these wings', well with the ground fast approaching I tried them out and ended up pointing head first at the ground. I clench my fists ready for impact and open my wings hoping that they might slow me down, slow is an understatement I stopped dead a few inches above the ground and floated harmlessly to the floor, I started a full sprint away from the wretched building with two very pissed of ponies chasing me (Violet Curse and Celestia) through the busy city streets. Weaving in and out of the crowd I finally managed to get away from them both, wondering through alleyways is definitely not my favourite pass time but it will have to do for now. Well I have two options, get the fuck out of the city or turn myself in the latter being my least preferable option so I start my long quest to find a weapon worthy of my time, completely forgetting that I can breath fire or that I have razor sharp claws. So heading in the general direction of nowhere through a maze of alleyways, great thinking, hoping to find an exit to this city and go back to my brother. I've been here for ages! I swear I actually grew a bit while I've been in here, I have to find an exit soon or I might die in here, okay a little over dramatic but still anything is possible. In the distance I hear some hoof steps, very much like what I heard from Violet in the short time we spent together, I looked down at my claws then to the cobblestone building to my right and back to my claws, in my mind I'm screaming "START CLIMBING YOU LITTLE BITCH!" but alas, I stood there like the dumb fuck I am and waited, just stood there and waited. Violet Curse's hoof steps start going away from me, being a black dragon rules because the dumb ass couldn't see me. Now I decide to climb the building to my right as quickly as I can to gauge where I am. I reach the top after about an hour of climbing and look down to see where I am exactly, I'm on top of the MOTHER FUCKING PALACE! To be more specific the very tippy top, the spire of this monstrosity. I decide that since I am able to float with my wings I'll try my hand at gliding, it's the fastest way to get away from here at the moment. "Here goes nothing" I whisper to myself, I jumped forgetting momentarily that my life is in incredulous amounts of danger, with wings spread I start gliding down from the spire away from this hell hole, I noticed I was pointed toward a forest on the out skirts of a small village. With my course set and a nice up draft keeping me gliding through the air I should be at the forest within the next week, maybe I can sleep mid air with my wings splayed out. Author's Note Well with the progress slowing down a bit I can go more into Arax's mentality, a good example of his mentality would be in this song which was pointed out by Tattered Ribbon. With the information of ages and sizes out of the way I can finally explain the story a bit better. Arax is somewhat an extension of myself being hot tempered and small compared to societies standards, always getting into some form of trouble that could be life threatening. So this is somewhat a self insert, with that out of the way I would like to ask for any suggestions or guesses on where this story is going. Thank you to MasterBrony Forever for helping with parts of this chapter, and thank you to Tattered Ribbon for the song link as what I was going to use was going to focus on getting slammed into the ground, thanks to you the reader for giving my story your time of day (or night depending on your preference). Good Ol' GroundFamous last words "maybe I can sleep mid air with my wings splayed out", the answer is no I cannot sleep mid air. It worked (I think) for the first few minutes, I must have dozed off as I had been in the air for about 4 days straight, not so good for a baby dragon and neither is falling from 14000ft but hey, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger right? Ha ha fuck no, nearly dying makes you weak and broken you feel like digging your own grave and crawling in it just to stop the pain, but I'm a dragon I have to be strong fast and almost immortal, according to the laws of physics that ain't happening. Luckily I smashed into the ground face first, that softened the impact with the crumpling of my face and scraping my soft baby scales across the gravel ground of the village I saw when I leaped from the palace. I blacked out, I know this because I was once again in a hospital (without my cardboard box), ‘wha- what is this, I'M A FUCKING PINCUSHION AGAIN!’ It's like these ponies are a bunch of sick freaks, turning me into a test subject as soon as I hit government property, this time however I'm not bound to the bed and have a little red button resting beside me. You know how it is with children and shiny red buttons, PUSH ALL THE BUTTONS! I hear some clopping of hooves and 10 doctors run in, all at once through the tiny door that could barely fit 2 ponies 10 fly in, one complete disregard to physics later and I'm being swarmed by doctors, nurses and anyone else that wants to see the dragon that slammed into the ground for no apparent reason. Not used to big crowds, so I curl up in a ball and pull the blankets over me only for them to be removed by some wanker who wanted a picture for his wife or kid for whatever reason. I decide it's best to get out of here, 3 burnt manes later and being reverted back to a dragon instead of a pincushion I'm running through the halls of the Ponyville General Hospital B Wing with 10-20 ponies following me like a bad smell. Being the super genius I am I ran straight out the front door flapping my wings madly 'Come on fuckers work!' and slowly but surely I slammed into a building across the street from the hospital. Well I have successfully barrelled through two houses and I am now halfway into the third, it is only now that my eyes open and see my awesome destructive power. With the walls out of the way finally, I now find myself in what looks like a market place. Surrounded by doctors and nurses with pointy objects I don’t like the looks of, 'Ha ha, ha…… FUCK THAT!' with that I ran back into the last house and up the stairs 'Maybe I can fly if I can just get off the ground…' I slowly start to realize something, this wasn’t a house, THIS WAS A CELESTIA DAMNED DENTAL CLINIC! It took me a short while, but I found the hatch up to the roof- I may have scared a colt into losing a tooth on the way- now I have to just open it and I’m home free. With doctors coming down the hall and no way to open the hatch my next best option is the open window, and it was easy to get to too, like someone stacked the shit just for my escape, so I jumped up and bolted out the window… turns out the window wasn’t open, I thought to myself ‘I just ran through three fucking houses, a window shouldn’t be too bad,’ boy was I wrong! Shards of glass went flying everywhere coupled with a random dragon equals something a certain draconequus would have a field day with. I am now floating through the air facing backwards, and flipping the doctors off because I can do what I fucking want… I forgot to use my wings, How could I forget that!? It was the simplest part of my plan, just flap the wings and everything would be alright. It was a second later that I found my head stuck in a melon, and it took me a while to get my head out and keep running… no clue where, but the forest was a good start. ‘Wait… forest… dragon… flames… BEST IDEA I’VE EVER HAD!’. I destroyed a lot of this town getting out, but I got to the tree line and they finally stopped chasing me, good thing too, even though I got my head stuck in a melon I didn’t get to eat, it’s been a few days since I’ve eaten anything at all. After some rather hungry thinking I decide to go hunting. About 3 hours later I have found absolutely fuck all, zero, zilch, nadda. I sensed that it’s starting to get dark and that I knew shouldn’t be out in the open at night, so cave hunting it is! Okay, it’s official, caves suck, there’s nothing to eat but Lizards and it smells like mold, I don’t want to eat the Lizards ‘cause it feels like cannibalism, and I don’t feel like testing the shrooms. “Maybe I should just make a fire, try hunting again in the morning” I say to no one but myself. I proceed to gather sticks from the cave entrance and then look for a Flint rock for a few minutes before lighting the fire myself, ‘cause I totally didn’t forget that I can do that. Now that I had a light though I looked at the walls praying for a Gem and still found absolutely fuck all. I crawled up next to the flames and curled up into it before falling asleep. POV shift; ??? Who knew following this scrawny hatchling around would be so entertaining? Seeing as he just started running about making a bunch of noise in town for an hour and stirring up a panic before fleeing into the Everfree, then ‘stalking’ around like he was looking for something. Took me awhile to figure out he was trying to hunt, if you call ‘running about like a fool’ hunting. ‘He smells like loneliness among other things, marks him as one easy target.’. I started to feel bad just watching and not helping, but how was I supposed to help him with out him seeing me. I need to gain his trust first, should be easy he is young. I’ll wait and see where he sets up camp, at least he better it’s not safe in here at night. ... “Looks like he’s heading for a cave, smart Drake.”. A few Gems and a Rabbit may help my odds in gaining his trust, I’ll run home and grab the Gems, if I’m lucky I’ll nick a Rabbit on the way back. Author's Note All right this time around I would like to thank Tattered Ribbon (Ribbon) for helping me write a majority of this chapter, without Ribbon there would likely be no 3rd chapter. POV SWITCH . With a new character things could go south quite quickly! Thanks again to Ribbon, YOU ARE AMAZING! Thanks to MasterBrony Forever for a few ideas for this chapter and thanks to you the reader for giving my story your time of day (or night depending on your preference). The Fuck Are You?!POV Shift: Arax Mmmmm, is there any better way to wake up than in a fire? I didn’t think it'd still be going, I must of slept for awhile, and it’s still going… wait, I’m missing something here... Why am I buried under the fire wood? Why is there a sack of gems? Why is there a rabbit being roasted!? Did somepony see the fire and just settle in or something? There’s nopony here now so I’ll just- “I see you’re awake.” I jump up ready to burn somepony’s face off, but there was nopony at the entrance, the cave was empty, I looked back into the cave and still nopony was there. “Who’s there!?” “Well there’s me, there’s you and that’s the fire. Say ‘hi’ fire” the voice said. I slowly looked up at the ceiling to where the voice originated from and saw a sight for sore eyes, it was a pony looking thing with holes all through it’s legs, I think I know how it felt, like a Celestia damned pincushion. “AHHHHHHHHH!!!” We both screamed at each other. “Why are we screaming!?” “The fuck are you!?” “I am a changeling!” she exclaimed “The superior race to ponies because we have an ability called Mimicry.” When she exclaimed ‘mimicry’ she threw her forelegs up, or down I guess, which caused her to fall from the ceiling, and land with an ‘oomph’. “Aaaaaand the fuck is a Mimi-what's it now?” “MIMICRY!” She exclaimed again as she righted herself. “Its something almost all changelings have, mimicry is like camouflage if you will. It allows us to disguise ourselves as almost any living being.” “Soooo you’re a shape shifting master race?” “Pretty much yea… so what’s your name?” “I uhhh don’t have one?” I don’t fully trust this changeling thingy. My best option is to beat around the bush, maybe give her my name if I deem her worthy. “*GASP* But everyling has a name, my name is Scout number 227. But I prefer Tattered.” “your name is ‘Scout number 227?’” “Yea, but, I don’t use that, I just use Tattered” “Okay well I still don’t have a name…… How does Draco sound?” “GENERIC!” “Carlisle?” “what are you, a pony?… No you’re not. TRY AGAIN!” “Marco, Krados, Kaltex, Fluffles, Arax, Jeffer-” Fuck…. I used my real name. “WAIT, GO BACK!” “What…. Fluffles?” “No no no no no no…. No.” “Arax? That one really?” ’SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT’ “Yeah yeah, Arax the midget baby dragon! Ahahaha...” “Yeah ha ha ha, laugh it up miss ‘I’m a super magical shapeshifter’ or I’ll burn you to a crisp!” “Why? Would you prefer Fluffles the midget baby dragon?” She says while looking as if trying not to laugh at me again. “Don’t call me a midget!” “So just Fluffles the baby dragon?” It’s like she’s trying to piss me off. “Don’t fucking call me Fluffles either, just call me Arax.” “Okay Arax shut up and eat, I didn’t go out of my way to catch that Rabbit for nothing” The changeling said, pointing a hoof at said rabbit by the fire. With the rabbit looking fairly fresh and a pile of gems bigger than me just laying around I could stay here for weeks, but I’m fucking hungry now so I’m eating all of it! Three hours later and I have a pile of rabbit bones laying next to me, some gem dust on my swollen belly and a passed out changeling for some reason. It’s still early morning so I can’t go outside safely yet… curling up with the thing with holes it is! POV Swap: Tatters Huh… what’s this, the little dragon’s curled right up with me… Why was I out in the first place? So many questions… maybe he trusts me, that was easy. Guess that means I got a new toy. I might use mimicry to disguise myself and head back into town… and take the Dragon with me, but first I need him to wake up so I can set some ground rules. With a series of pokes I try to rise the little Drake “Hey wake up, wake up we need to go.” I said while still poking him. “Go away.” “Get up or I’ll stuff you in my saddle bag.” “And what pretell is a saddle bag?” “You want me to describe a bag?” I said with a chuckle “Umm yeah, why else would I be asking? Dumb bitch.” “Umm, Okay it’s two pouches with a strap and buckle so I can carry it.” “Ohh, and why am I going in there?” “You’re going in there so I can take you into town without the ponies freaking out” “Ohh yeah, I forgot I kinda wrecked the fucking town. I am the worst at sneaky shit” “I kind of noticed when you barreled through ‘Ribbon Smith’, remember that?” Arax POV the day before. After barreling through another wall I find myself in a warm fuzzy place with fire and metal stuff everywhere… I love it! Too bad I can’t stay here otherwise I would have a field day in here. It couldn’t hurt to just take a look around could it? Hmm, fire pit, some weird metal handles with fabric in the middle and some random metal thing with hammers and various other tools on it. The doctors and nurses will be putting up posters of an escaped patient or in other words me, so it’s best not to stick around... the angry looking mare is also a good reason. Arax POV Present day. “Ohhhhhh, so that was you… Sorry?” Shit, shit, shit I hope she doesn’t murder me or something. “You best be sorry, you blew a hole in my wall, wreck my shop and I’m still nice enough to give you some of my gems. You owe me.” “Yes, I know I owe you, I owe you big time but lets discuss this when we’re not in some creepy fucking forest shall we?” Meanwhile I’m walking to the edge of the cave trying to get out of the closed space. Judging by the sun, it’s safe to assume it’s midday “So how’s this going to work?” I must admit, I was a bit curious about how she intends to… I don’t want to say ‘take care of me’ but I don’t know what else to say. “Well I was going to start with some ground rules, first is you probably shouldn’t leave the house for a few days-” “WHAT!?” I cut her off there “I’m not going to be stuck in inside all fucking day!” “I know that! Now if you’ll let me finish, you shouldn’t leave the house for a few days until Ponyville calms down. Then we can maybe worm you into society.” “Ha… Do you want your shop to be wrecked more? I’ll go stir crazy if I sit inside all day!” “Deal with it! I also don’t want you eating all my gems ether, I need those for my more rare customers.” “What do you need gems for I thought you were a blacksmith?” And here I thought she was going to give me all those gems, damn. “I can make lavish pieces meant for showing off instead of protection too ya know. Now stop whining and lets go.” “I was not whining!” “Yes you were. Now get in the bag we need to go.” Grumbling to myself, I climb into her… Saddlebag I think she called it, and we’re on our way back to town. Woo, I can barely contain my excitement. Author's Note Hoo we, this one took a bit but it's finally out. I would once again like to Tattered Ribbon for being badflank and helping with every chapter so far like a SUPERVISOR! Uhh... Arax? What is it Tatters? It's said "Like a Boss!" not "Like a Supervisor!" Oh thank you Tatters. Yes like a BOSS! I would also like to thank Normal for proof reading this chapter. And thank you, the reader, for giving our story your time of day (or night depending on your preference).
The DiscoveryVision blurry, Check. Claws dull, Check. Splitting headache I've had for 3 days, Double Check. Well I'm still alive, bummer. Anyway I better explain myself my name is Arax, a young black dragon raised by a tyrant of a pony named Violet Curse, well he wasn't always this bad but that is beside the point. You see Violet Curse brought me into this world by use of force and gore, he thinks he has done the right thing but my life has been misery since that fateful day 18 years ago. It was December 7th, and the princess had just announced that any dragon eggs found in Equestrian borders were to be brought to Canterlot for 'scientific' reasons, but really it was just for storage. So my egg was found next to the corpse of my mother and carried to Canterlot castle by means of saddle bags, my egg was abnormally small, it was a long journey back to Canterlot Castle and for some reason I just couldn't shake the feeling something bad was about to happen. You see to collect the eggs the so called "Princess Of the Sun" sent out squads of 4-5 royal Equstrian guard members to collect said eggs in case there were complications, such as a fucking full grown BLACK DRAGON! My brother who wiped the floor with the guards, in the frenzy he grabbed the egg I was encased in and launched my fully formed body in a shell across Equestria, well that's one way to learn to fly. Since I was headed towards the palace I figured my brother was stupid, he threw me towards the place is was headed any way, but as I started to descend I noticed something, this wasn't gravity working against me, this was magic. It was weak magic but none the less magic, I was pulled toward a small unicorn, charcoal black coat with a poison like purple and green mane. Well this was turning out better than expected, getting flung across the country side to a palace for storage then being abducted by a small colt, oh wait one last thing, I WAS ABOUT TO HIT THE FUCKING GROUND! Now being an unborn foetus dragon, I don't know much about forces and gravity, one thing was for sure though, this was going to hurt. Brace for impact in 3, 2, 1............ nothing? I open my eyes (being fully formed and inside a dragon egg you can see through) and notice I'm being held in mid air in front of the little charcoal black unicorns face, he saved me, now that I was not expecting. I guess now I'm going to the castle anyway, so this little colt starts walking away from the castle to what I can only assume at the moment is his home, skipping through the door gleefully he gets his parents attention by yelling "Mom, Dad I'm home, and I found a weird rock thingy that was flying at me from the sky, it has a pretty purple pattern on it." The weird 'rock' thingy was my egg and it did not have a pretty purple pattern, it had a totally badass purple flame pigment around the outside, I could tell this kid was going to get on my nerves. Just as Violet Curse was about to set me down his father, we will call him Ass, ran out to Violet and 'punched' my egg with enough force to shatter the shell and launch me straight out the door, I wasn't even inside for 5 seconds and I was already kicked out onto the streets without anything to protect myself with, fucking great, wait no I'm hovering back inside in Violet's magical grip once again, it felt like a dozen warm blankets so I drifted off into dreamless sleep. When I awoke I was in a cardboard box full of pillows and blankets, the box was an old dinning set box, remember how my egg was abnormally small well lets just say spike probably could hold it in one hand without a problem. So a tiny drake in a box for dinner plates and bowls surrounded by pillows and blankets, oh I forgot to mention I had the Princess of Equestria in front of my arguably 'adorable' little face and this hadn't registered with me as I had no clue who they were or what they wanted, so I proceeded to spew flames into Celestia's face. This act elicited a little giggle from her and looks that could kill from 'Ass' and his spouse who I had now realized were also in the room. With introductions out of the way she turned to 'Ass' and spoke unto him "This young drake seem quite harmless, I do not understand why you would want him off your hooves other than to return him to the custody of Equestria, you are allowed to keep post-hatched dragons as of yesterday" 'Ass' spoke back "With all due respect princess, this certain drake could've killed my son, I want it removed from the premises immediately" It was at that moment Violet Curse came from his hiding place around the corner with tears in his eyes, "But dad, you said we could get a pet, so what if this one nearly killed me I want to keep it, it is mine I found it and I named him Sparkles" it is at this point I chose to get up and start crawling around while Violet was being lectured. "If you love this drake so much then why don't you go back to the palace with it you ungrateful lil' shit" Celestia decided to intervene at this point, casting a spell that plunged the room into silence, all the spell did was knock 'Ass' out and me being the little smart ass I am laughed maniacally, Celestia sent me and Violet out of the room while she spoke to his mother. Violet Curse headed into the small living quarters the family shared with me in magical tow, it was now that I decided to speak for the first time "I don't like that name" A screech from Violet and being flung at a wall with a sickening crunch summoned the Solar princess from her meeting with Violet Curse's mom, she took her time and walked in casually "What is the problem My Little Pony" and Alonzo screamed at her "That lil' ass fucker just spoke!" Celestia stood there mouth agape at the small colts language "And to top it all off she doesn't like her name, what an ungrateful lil' shit she is" I then looked at him dead pan "I have a dick, that means I am a guy, 'he' not 'she' and for your information my dead mother already gave me a name ass-hole" It was his turn to be shocked "Wait your mommy is dead? How did that happen?" I then looked to Celestia almost with a burning desire to kill "Don't want to talk about it, and my name is Arax you'd do best to remember that or I'll have myself a carcass to eat." Violet Curse just stared at me from that point, then our benevolent ruler dragged my sorry little ass outside and flung me back across the country side, doesn't that seem familiar. Feeling a magical grip pulling me back towards Violet Curse I wondered if reality was fucking with me, nope this time I slammed into the ground at just under Sonic Rainboom speeds, well if my bones weren't broken before they sure as Tartarus were now, I must've blacked out from the pain as I woke up again inside the same cardboard box being carried through a hospital ward. Author's Note If you are reading this I guess you've given my story a read, Thanks! I don't exactly know where I'm going with this but it won't be a simple one shot, I intend to keeps this going for a long while. The first few chapters will explain what brought Arax to the situation mentioned at the very beginning of this story. Now the thing about dragons is I don't know too much so don't go crazy with the fact that Arax can see through his shell, it's just something I came up with to make the story flow a little better, it wouldn't make sense for him to know what was going on in any other way. Once his life story is told I want this to progress to Ponyville where he meets Spike and the CMC. With some help from MasterBrony Forever this story will piece together slowly, he has been a huge help in this first chapter and I hope he puts up with me long enough to help with a few more. Now concerning age MasterBrony Forever said "Twilight starts school at 5 years old. Becuase that is when one would start kindergarten. She hatched Spike around this time. So Twilight will be 5 years older then him. And sense she is more or less out of school (this would include college) and she is living on her own she would be between 21-25. So spike would be 5 or more years younger. But this is how I see his age." and from this I drew the conclusion that most people see Twilight as around 23 making Spike 18 at the moment, to stay sort of cannon I wanted Arax to be hatched the same year as Spike so that is where I got the 18 years thing from. Speech not even 5 minutes after hatching is a big risk but from what I've seen and read on dragons (which isn't very much) they can be walking around and communicating with their elders and peers within 10 minutes of hatching, but the walking comes with observation, speech they pick up while inside their eggs which would explain Arax talking but not walking as dragons and ponies walking are pretty much polar opposites. The next chapters pace will slow down a fair bit but may also skip forward every now and again, I'm not going to write a chapter for every day in his life, the most traumatic experiences will be looked at in detail which is why this is labelled as Mature & Gore, now the Comedy and Adventure tags may not seem all that relevant at the moment but as we progress through this Arax shall become a massive smart ass. I need suggestions on what should happen next, any ideas? Send me a PM if you've got one. Thank you to MasterBrony Forever for helping with massive amounts of this first chapter, and thank you, the reader, for giving my story your time of day (or night depending on your preference).
Well that hurtI passed out again shortly after arriving in hospital due to immense pain all over my body, and during this time I was turned into a fucking pincushion, I had IV drips, various needle like objects protruding from my skin, some metal bar thing bolted to the bones in my left arm just above the wrist and to top it all off I was strapped to a hospital bed with Celestia and Violet Curse sitting in a chair towards the far corner of the room. Apparently I was only out for around 5 minutes otherwise Celestia would've left by now, she notices me struggling to move and tightens the bonds around my arms and legs, Violet picks up on this and summons a magical hoof which he then uses to promptly bitch slap Celestia until she loosens the straps that bind me to this fucking terrible bed. I had a bit of a chuckle at this. Violet Curse has seemed to taken a liking to me, maybe the kid ain't so bad after all "Oi Sun Butt, that be my job" And there it goes, just as I was starting to like him he has to go and say something like that, he wasn't kidding either he tightened the bonds so much it nearly cut of circulation, I decide to yell at him "Oh well it's not like I need my arms and legs to survive or anything" What a little sod, he goes from good to evil in a split second, saving me then launching me at a wall, then putting me back in the box (I think?) only to try and remove my limbs, thank who ever the ruling spirit is over this world for getting Celestia to intervene at that point by teleporting good ol' Violet Curse out the door and locking him out, she then cantered up to the side of my bed and spoke. "Alright no one can hear us, I want you to tell me exactly how you came to be with this little colt, all the details, who you were with at the time and what you were doing, I must hear everything" So I spilled the beans......... "........ and then I was being magically held in front of his bad excuse for a face" She looked horrified for a moment before saying "I'm sorry, I didn't know that had happened, I'll debrief the surviving guards myself" I looked at her slack jawed "You mean somebody, somepony however you guys say it, survived my brother?! I don't believe you, he's stronger than 5 ponies, I bet he is stronger than 100 of you ponies put together, he could kick your ass into next Tuesday, who's going to raise the sun then hmmmm, certainly not you" She dead panned and spoke softly "Then why is he dead hmmm?" It was at that point my dream of escaping and going back to my brother were thoroughly crushed, I didn't think it was possible for him to die he seemed so strong and indestructible like nothing could touch him, nope Celestia then took out a picture of him missing massive chunks of skin from all parts of his body. It hit me a wave of adrenalin that gave me enough strength to rival Sun Butt herself, I broke from my bonds and pounced pinning her to the ground then I proceeded to roar in her face while breathing fire, she obviously was expecting this as the blocked it with a spell and proceeded to throw me out the window. Flying through the air once again I thought to myself, 'dude, I really should learn to use these wings', well with the ground fast approaching I tried them out and ended up pointing head first at the ground. I clench my fists ready for impact and open my wings hoping that they might slow me down, slow is an understatement I stopped dead a few inches above the ground and floated harmlessly to the floor, I started a full sprint away from the wretched building with two very pissed of ponies chasing me (Violet Curse and Celestia) through the busy city streets. Weaving in and out of the crowd I finally managed to get away from them both, wondering through alleyways is definitely not my favourite pass time but it will have to do for now. Well I have two options, get the fuck out of the city or turn myself in the latter being my least preferable option so I start my long quest to find a weapon worthy of my time, completely forgetting that I can breath fire or that I have razor sharp claws. So heading in the general direction of nowhere through a maze of alleyways, great thinking, hoping to find an exit to this city and go back to my brother. I've been here for ages! I swear I actually grew a bit while I've been in here, I have to find an exit soon or I might die in here, okay a little over dramatic but still anything is possible. In the distance I hear some hoof steps, very much like what I heard from Violet in the short time we spent together, I looked down at my claws then to the cobblestone building to my right and back to my claws, in my mind I'm screaming "START CLIMBING YOU LITTLE BITCH!" but alas, I stood there like the dumb fuck I am and waited, just stood there and waited. Violet Curse's hoof steps start going away from me, being a black dragon rules because the dumb ass couldn't see me. Now I decide to climb the building to my right as quickly as I can to gauge where I am. I reach the top after about an hour of climbing and look down to see where I am exactly, I'm on top of the MOTHER FUCKING PALACE! To be more specific the very tippy top, the spire of this monstrosity. I decide that since I am able to float with my wings I'll try my hand at gliding, it's the fastest way to get away from here at the moment. "Here goes nothing" I whisper to myself, I jumped forgetting momentarily that my life is in incredulous amounts of danger, with wings spread I start gliding down from the spire away from this hell hole, I noticed I was pointed toward a forest on the out skirts of a small village. With my course set and a nice up draft keeping me gliding through the air I should be at the forest within the next week, maybe I can sleep mid air with my wings splayed out. Author's Note Well with the progress slowing down a bit I can go more into Arax's mentality, a good example of his mentality would be in this song which was pointed out by Tattered Ribbon. With the information of ages and sizes out of the way I can finally explain the story a bit better. Arax is somewhat an extension of myself being hot tempered and small compared to societies standards, always getting into some form of trouble that could be life threatening. So this is somewhat a self insert, with that out of the way I would like to ask for any suggestions or guesses on where this story is going. Thank you to MasterBrony Forever for helping with parts of this chapter, and thank you to Tattered Ribbon for the song link as what I was going to use was going to focus on getting slammed into the ground, thanks to you the reader for giving my story your time of day (or night depending on your preference).
Good Ol' GroundFamous last words "maybe I can sleep mid air with my wings splayed out", the answer is no I cannot sleep mid air. It worked (I think) for the first few minutes, I must have dozed off as I had been in the air for about 4 days straight, not so good for a baby dragon and neither is falling from 14000ft but hey, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger right? Ha ha fuck no, nearly dying makes you weak and broken you feel like digging your own grave and crawling in it just to stop the pain, but I'm a dragon I have to be strong fast and almost immortal, according to the laws of physics that ain't happening. Luckily I smashed into the ground face first, that softened the impact with the crumpling of my face and scraping my soft baby scales across the gravel ground of the village I saw when I leaped from the palace. I blacked out, I know this because I was once again in a hospital (without my cardboard box), ‘wha- what is this, I'M A FUCKING PINCUSHION AGAIN!’ It's like these ponies are a bunch of sick freaks, turning me into a test subject as soon as I hit government property, this time however I'm not bound to the bed and have a little red button resting beside me. You know how it is with children and shiny red buttons, PUSH ALL THE BUTTONS! I hear some clopping of hooves and 10 doctors run in, all at once through the tiny door that could barely fit 2 ponies 10 fly in, one complete disregard to physics later and I'm being swarmed by doctors, nurses and anyone else that wants to see the dragon that slammed into the ground for no apparent reason. Not used to big crowds, so I curl up in a ball and pull the blankets over me only for them to be removed by some wanker who wanted a picture for his wife or kid for whatever reason. I decide it's best to get out of here, 3 burnt manes later and being reverted back to a dragon instead of a pincushion I'm running through the halls of the Ponyville General Hospital B Wing with 10-20 ponies following me like a bad smell. Being the super genius I am I ran straight out the front door flapping my wings madly 'Come on fuckers work!' and slowly but surely I slammed into a building across the street from the hospital. Well I have successfully barrelled through two houses and I am now halfway into the third, it is only now that my eyes open and see my awesome destructive power. With the walls out of the way finally, I now find myself in what looks like a market place. Surrounded by doctors and nurses with pointy objects I don’t like the looks of, 'Ha ha, ha…… FUCK THAT!' with that I ran back into the last house and up the stairs 'Maybe I can fly if I can just get off the ground…' I slowly start to realize something, this wasn’t a house, THIS WAS A CELESTIA DAMNED DENTAL CLINIC! It took me a short while, but I found the hatch up to the roof- I may have scared a colt into losing a tooth on the way- now I have to just open it and I’m home free. With doctors coming down the hall and no way to open the hatch my next best option is the open window, and it was easy to get to too, like someone stacked the shit just for my escape, so I jumped up and bolted out the window… turns out the window wasn’t open, I thought to myself ‘I just ran through three fucking houses, a window shouldn’t be too bad,’ boy was I wrong! Shards of glass went flying everywhere coupled with a random dragon equals something a certain draconequus would have a field day with. I am now floating through the air facing backwards, and flipping the doctors off because I can do what I fucking want… I forgot to use my wings, How could I forget that!? It was the simplest part of my plan, just flap the wings and everything would be alright. It was a second later that I found my head stuck in a melon, and it took me a while to get my head out and keep running… no clue where, but the forest was a good start. ‘Wait… forest… dragon… flames… BEST IDEA I’VE EVER HAD!’. I destroyed a lot of this town getting out, but I got to the tree line and they finally stopped chasing me, good thing too, even though I got my head stuck in a melon I didn’t get to eat, it’s been a few days since I’ve eaten anything at all. After some rather hungry thinking I decide to go hunting. About 3 hours later I have found absolutely fuck all, zero, zilch, nadda. I sensed that it’s starting to get dark and that I knew shouldn’t be out in the open at night, so cave hunting it is! Okay, it’s official, caves suck, there’s nothing to eat but Lizards and it smells like mold, I don’t want to eat the Lizards ‘cause it feels like cannibalism, and I don’t feel like testing the shrooms. “Maybe I should just make a fire, try hunting again in the morning” I say to no one but myself. I proceed to gather sticks from the cave entrance and then look for a Flint rock for a few minutes before lighting the fire myself, ‘cause I totally didn’t forget that I can do that. Now that I had a light though I looked at the walls praying for a Gem and still found absolutely fuck all. I crawled up next to the flames and curled up into it before falling asleep. POV shift; ??? Who knew following this scrawny hatchling around would be so entertaining? Seeing as he just started running about making a bunch of noise in town for an hour and stirring up a panic before fleeing into the Everfree, then ‘stalking’ around like he was looking for something. Took me awhile to figure out he was trying to hunt, if you call ‘running about like a fool’ hunting. ‘He smells like loneliness among other things, marks him as one easy target.’. I started to feel bad just watching and not helping, but how was I supposed to help him with out him seeing me. I need to gain his trust first, should be easy he is young. I’ll wait and see where he sets up camp, at least he better it’s not safe in here at night. ... “Looks like he’s heading for a cave, smart Drake.”. A few Gems and a Rabbit may help my odds in gaining his trust, I’ll run home and grab the Gems, if I’m lucky I’ll nick a Rabbit on the way back. Author's Note All right this time around I would like to thank Tattered Ribbon (Ribbon) for helping me write a majority of this chapter, without Ribbon there would likely be no 3rd chapter. POV SWITCH . With a new character things could go south quite quickly! Thanks again to Ribbon, YOU ARE AMAZING! Thanks to MasterBrony Forever for a few ideas for this chapter and thanks to you the reader for giving my story your time of day (or night depending on your preference).
The Fuck Are You?!POV Shift: Arax Mmmmm, is there any better way to wake up than in a fire? I didn’t think it'd still be going, I must of slept for awhile, and it’s still going… wait, I’m missing something here... Why am I buried under the fire wood? Why is there a sack of gems? Why is there a rabbit being roasted!? Did somepony see the fire and just settle in or something? There’s nopony here now so I’ll just- “I see you’re awake.” I jump up ready to burn somepony’s face off, but there was nopony at the entrance, the cave was empty, I looked back into the cave and still nopony was there. “Who’s there!?” “Well there’s me, there’s you and that’s the fire. Say ‘hi’ fire” the voice said. I slowly looked up at the ceiling to where the voice originated from and saw a sight for sore eyes, it was a pony looking thing with holes all through it’s legs, I think I know how it felt, like a Celestia damned pincushion. “AHHHHHHHHH!!!” We both screamed at each other. “Why are we screaming!?” “The fuck are you!?” “I am a changeling!” she exclaimed “The superior race to ponies because we have an ability called Mimicry.” When she exclaimed ‘mimicry’ she threw her forelegs up, or down I guess, which caused her to fall from the ceiling, and land with an ‘oomph’. “Aaaaaand the fuck is a Mimi-what's it now?” “MIMICRY!” She exclaimed again as she righted herself. “Its something almost all changelings have, mimicry is like camouflage if you will. It allows us to disguise ourselves as almost any living being.” “Soooo you’re a shape shifting master race?” “Pretty much yea… so what’s your name?” “I uhhh don’t have one?” I don’t fully trust this changeling thingy. My best option is to beat around the bush, maybe give her my name if I deem her worthy. “*GASP* But everyling has a name, my name is Scout number 227. But I prefer Tattered.” “your name is ‘Scout number 227?’” “Yea, but, I don’t use that, I just use Tattered” “Okay well I still don’t have a name…… How does Draco sound?” “GENERIC!” “Carlisle?” “what are you, a pony?… No you’re not. TRY AGAIN!” “Marco, Krados, Kaltex, Fluffles, Arax, Jeffer-” Fuck…. I used my real name. “WAIT, GO BACK!” “What…. Fluffles?” “No no no no no no…. No.” “Arax? That one really?” ’SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT’ “Yeah yeah, Arax the midget baby dragon! Ahahaha...” “Yeah ha ha ha, laugh it up miss ‘I’m a super magical shapeshifter’ or I’ll burn you to a crisp!” “Why? Would you prefer Fluffles the midget baby dragon?” She says while looking as if trying not to laugh at me again. “Don’t call me a midget!” “So just Fluffles the baby dragon?” It’s like she’s trying to piss me off. “Don’t fucking call me Fluffles either, just call me Arax.” “Okay Arax shut up and eat, I didn’t go out of my way to catch that Rabbit for nothing” The changeling said, pointing a hoof at said rabbit by the fire. With the rabbit looking fairly fresh and a pile of gems bigger than me just laying around I could stay here for weeks, but I’m fucking hungry now so I’m eating all of it! Three hours later and I have a pile of rabbit bones laying next to me, some gem dust on my swollen belly and a passed out changeling for some reason. It’s still early morning so I can’t go outside safely yet… curling up with the thing with holes it is! POV Swap: Tatters Huh… what’s this, the little dragon’s curled right up with me… Why was I out in the first place? So many questions… maybe he trusts me, that was easy. Guess that means I got a new toy. I might use mimicry to disguise myself and head back into town… and take the Dragon with me, but first I need him to wake up so I can set some ground rules. With a series of pokes I try to rise the little Drake “Hey wake up, wake up we need to go.” I said while still poking him. “Go away.” “Get up or I’ll stuff you in my saddle bag.” “And what pretell is a saddle bag?” “You want me to describe a bag?” I said with a chuckle “Umm yeah, why else would I be asking? Dumb bitch.” “Umm, Okay it’s two pouches with a strap and buckle so I can carry it.” “Ohh, and why am I going in there?” “You’re going in there so I can take you into town without the ponies freaking out” “Ohh yeah, I forgot I kinda wrecked the fucking town. I am the worst at sneaky shit” “I kind of noticed when you barreled through ‘Ribbon Smith’, remember that?” Arax POV the day before. After barreling through another wall I find myself in a warm fuzzy place with fire and metal stuff everywhere… I love it! Too bad I can’t stay here otherwise I would have a field day in here. It couldn’t hurt to just take a look around could it? Hmm, fire pit, some weird metal handles with fabric in the middle and some random metal thing with hammers and various other tools on it. The doctors and nurses will be putting up posters of an escaped patient or in other words me, so it’s best not to stick around... the angry looking mare is also a good reason. Arax POV Present day. “Ohhhhhh, so that was you… Sorry?” Shit, shit, shit I hope she doesn’t murder me or something. “You best be sorry, you blew a hole in my wall, wreck my shop and I’m still nice enough to give you some of my gems. You owe me.” “Yes, I know I owe you, I owe you big time but lets discuss this when we’re not in some creepy fucking forest shall we?” Meanwhile I’m walking to the edge of the cave trying to get out of the closed space. Judging by the sun, it’s safe to assume it’s midday “So how’s this going to work?” I must admit, I was a bit curious about how she intends to… I don’t want to say ‘take care of me’ but I don’t know what else to say. “Well I was going to start with some ground rules, first is you probably shouldn’t leave the house for a few days-” “WHAT!?” I cut her off there “I’m not going to be stuck in inside all fucking day!” “I know that! Now if you’ll let me finish, you shouldn’t leave the house for a few days until Ponyville calms down. Then we can maybe worm you into society.” “Ha… Do you want your shop to be wrecked more? I’ll go stir crazy if I sit inside all day!” “Deal with it! I also don’t want you eating all my gems ether, I need those for my more rare customers.” “What do you need gems for I thought you were a blacksmith?” And here I thought she was going to give me all those gems, damn. “I can make lavish pieces meant for showing off instead of protection too ya know. Now stop whining and lets go.” “I was not whining!” “Yes you were. Now get in the bag we need to go.” Grumbling to myself, I climb into her… Saddlebag I think she called it, and we’re on our way back to town. Woo, I can barely contain my excitement. Author's Note Hoo we, this one took a bit but it's finally out. I would once again like to Tattered Ribbon for being badflank and helping with every chapter so far like a SUPERVISOR! Uhh... Arax? What is it Tatters? It's said "Like a Boss!" not "Like a Supervisor!" Oh thank you Tatters. Yes like a BOSS! I would also like to thank Normal for proof reading this chapter. And thank you, the reader, for giving our story your time of day (or night depending on your preference).
