Famous 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.

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“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).