Vision 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).