Fighting Freedom

It was going to be a long day. Hell it was going to be a few long days. Might as well make that a long month. Explanations suck, mostly because its repeating the same thing over and over to different people. At least the first round of questions weren't directed at me. Well the first serious rounds of questions anyways.

As the sun greeted me in the sky, I could almost smell the panic and confusion coming from Canterlot. Even the princesses had little clue as to what happened, and now their precious core was missing. Rarity was sound asleep in the corner she had rolled up in. She was a mess, mane and tail in horrid arrangement. I could swear pieces of rock were in her hair.

I prodded her awake carefully, trying not to claw her up. She almost flipped again when she saw me looking down on her. Thankfully she didn't scream though, and my head was left in peace. She stood up groggily, and waited for something to happen. I tried to think for a second, about how to get to the tower in the first place. I wasn't exactly going to fit through the front door. Then there was a wall protecting the tower, although I had no idea how high it went. Then again, I had no idea how high the actual tower went on for.

I stared up in the sky, fighting the sun. I motioned for Rarity to get on my back once again. I felt like speaking would ruin the precious calm we had at the moment. As if my words would act as a knife to cut the thin veil. When she was secured, I stretched out my wings. My body was clamoring for some type of food, but I ignored it for the moment. I wasn't even sure what I could eat, besides gems that is.

Air rushed to greet me as I took off into the sky. Rarity held her breath as we lurched into the sky. It only took me minutes to find the location of the tower, invisible as it was, by finding the waterfall. I wasn't going to go through that, and even if I wanted, I wouldn't fit. I supposed the best thing would be to draw Morkar out.

I flew very slowly, trying to locate the tower. As I did so, me and Rarity discussed what I was doing. She sat on my head, and held for dear life onto my horns.

"So this is the other human you were talking about?"

"His, if he is a he, name is Morkar. Apparently he's some sort of powerful mage guy. At least he knows a lot of things, or is good at making stuff up that just happens to fit with the situation. He told me about the core, and the body issue."

"So if he knows all this, why didn't he just do it himself?"

"I don't know. Eventually he did, if in an unusual way. Right at the end, after all that work, he just steps out and grabs it. Could've at least said hello or something, but he just kept his nose in a book."

"That seems… Well I don’t know"

My wings kept beating slowly, creating a lot of background noise, and Rarity had to shout for me to hear. Me, being a dragon, just had to speak normally. My voice had this way of carrying itself through all kinds of noise.

"Anticlimactic? Annoying? Aggravating? I'll move on to the B's if those don't work."

She finished by saying,

"Unorthodox."

"I think aggravating fit better there."

She gave a small huff, and I was glad to see she was feeling a bit more comfortable. I looked down for a second, just to check my position, and that's when I hit the wall. Even though I knew it was there, on some level, it still surprised me when I seemingly ran into nothing. For a moment, I felt the urge to ram the wall, but I ignored the instinct. I doubted I would be able to break the wall by just slamming into it.

There was nowhere for me to land, the trees were too thick below. I put my claw up slowly and pushed it against the wall. I felt the solid wall underneath my claw, solid as stone. I pushed against it even harder, but it wasn't going to budge. I think Rarity was asking me something, but I couldn't hear her very well. It wasn't just the wings blocking her out.

When the wall failed to even bend, I gave a mighty roar through the woods. I probably scared the death out of a few small animals, and a few shaky ponies as well. Rarity nearly fell off, but I managed to keep her on. I wish I could've seen her face though, it must have been priceless.

For a few seconds nothing happened, except for a dull thumping on my head. I assumed Rarity was trying to get back at me for the scare. I didn't think I would have to tell her how useless that was though. If a crazy magic body couldn't bring me down, I doubted a dress maker could. Still though, I couldn't help chuckle in my head.

After a bit of waiting, something materialized in the invisible wall. It wasn't the wall itself, but was a large metal sheet. It looked much like a garage door as if…

The sheet opened, rising up into seemingly nothing. Proving my suspicions right, a large hanger waited behind the metal. There weren't any planes or anything, but the half cylinder shape of the roof made it clear. There was also the fact that it was big enough to fit 20 of me in my current form.

Morkar, in robes of brilliant blue, stood near the door, head still buried in a book. The cover of this book seemed to move, as stars swirled about it. He didn't look up at me once, not when I was outside, and not when I had touched down inside the, apparently invisible, flying, hanger. He still didn't look up when I turned to face him.

He only looked up when he heard Rarity hit the floor, as she had fallen off. He heard her huff at me, and then she greeted him warmly. He didn't even really look up then, just one pupil rose to look at her. After she said hello, he whipped one of hands out very quickly.

Black ropes flew out of nowhere, and bound Rarity. Her back legs were ties, as were her front. Her mouth was forced closed, and her horn was covered with a black sheet. If it wasn't for the nonchalant way he had done it, I might have moved to stop him. As it was, I could only stare, and chuckle a little as Rarity mmmed on the floor.

"I gave you too much credit."

Morkar spoke directly, with a small hint of discipline in his voice.

Working my rather large lungs to be quiet was rather hard, and I wasn't very good at it. So almost shouting at the man I said,

"What do you mean?"

"What did I tell you about the core?"

"… a lot of things I guess."

"What did I say it would do with the locals?"

"Use them?"

"Exactly, and what did you just do?"

His round of questioning was very stern, and I couldn't help but feel I was in trouble. He was just much worse than any teacher I ever had that's for sure.

"Um… landed?"

I heard him sigh, and he closed his book. Finally tearing his eyes away from it, he said,

"You brought a local into the place which might as well be a prison for the core. If it were me, I might use that mistake greatly to my advantage, don't you think?"

"Oh… You make a good point there."

"That's not the only mistake, no that’s the first of many. The fact you aren't imprisoned or mutilated merely shows the amount of luck you have."

I could tell he was ready to tear into me, and I made a effort to defend myself.

"So I made some mistakes, I won in the end though."

"Only because I came to get the core myself. It was starting to interfere with my towers first line of wards, and that can cause the alchemy room to get a bit volatile. So I needed to take care of that."

"Well at least I killed that magical thing."

Morkar looked about ready to smack me.

"How can you kill something that isn't alive? The golem simply dispersed because it had used up too much energy at once. The fact the golem was there in the first place is a monument to your mistakes. How you managed to do that is beyond me. Turning your own body into one of those."

"That was a golem?"

"It's what they're usually called. Any magical construct that can move of its own volition."

"Oh, I thought my body had gone crazy or something. And what do you mean it dispersed?"

"Its components are scattered now. It could reform, or it could simply stay dispersed. Never can tell with energy golems though. Since they don't actually have to have a bind."

"A bind?"

"A connection between… Never mind, you don't have the talent to produce one normally anyways."

He was talking rather fast, and in a very displeased tone. I countered him by saying,

"Technically this is your fault. You gave me the crystal thing in the first place."

"I told you to use it against demons did I not? Not to use it against some unicorn thing. I thought you might be able to actually do something. Too much credit as we can see."

At this moment Rarity gave a rather large MMmf. She was struggling in the ropes, and it may have been attractive. However, my mind was more likely to want to eat her then do her, so I tried not to think on it. Morkar looked down on her and nodded,

"This really is a rather uncomfortable place. Let's go inside shall we?"

The hanger door slid back closed, shutting out almost all light. Only a small blue light allowed me to see. Rarity was lifted into the air, still bound, and floated through a doorway. It wasn't big enough for me, that was for sure. When I didn't come through the door right away, Morkar poked his head back out and said,

"Aren't you coming?"

"I don't think I'll fit."

"Sometimes I forget you're useless."

With that he pointed at me, and I felt pain. Like I was being pressed down, and then stretched out. After that I felt like I was being molded into a ball, then all other sorts of shapes. When it all finally stopped, I was much smaller.

I was about 6'0 in height, and stood up straight. I was glad to see I had hands once again, even if they were clawed. I still had a tail, but had lost the wings. For lack of a better term, I was a humanoid dragon. I was still covered in scales, and I still had horns. After a test, I made sure I could also still breathe fire.

Seeing that I was still in need of something, Morkar handed me a robe that also came from nowhere. He was quite good at that, having things that weren't there. The green mixed well with the scales, but the robe overall didn't fit with the draconic appearance. It was more of a bathrobe if I'm honest.

I walked into a large room with plush couches and a nice fire place. There was no fire, and it wasn't really the time to have one. Rarity was laying down on one of the couches, still bound by ropes. Her eyes opened wide when she saw me, and then they narrowed. I could feel anger pouring off of her, but I did not move to free her. Instead I said,

"Don't worry, you look good in ropes."

I heard her mmf at me, but nonchalantly sat down next to her. I stared at her for a second, looking her up and down. Her mane and hair were still a mess, and her coat wasn't exactly perfect, but somehow she still looked good. My eyes lingered over her bound body, and they somewhat glistened over. Seeing her tied up and helpless like that gave me all sorts of ideas. I ignored those ideas though, deciding that eating my friend would be bad manners. Especially in someone else's house. As if he was reading my mind, Morkar said,

"Please do try to restrain your instincts here. I'd rather not have a mess to clean up. Besides I don't think you're friend appreciated that."

I looked over at Rarity to see a little bit of fear in her eyes. For her part, she was being very brave. After everything that had happened, she should've been scared. However, she put on a brave face and stuck with me.

I looked over at Morkar and said,

"Can you untie her now."

"Give me a few minutes, I'm working on something here."

Some very odd minutes later, and he returned.

"Alright then."

The ropes vanished from Rarity, and she stretched herself out a bit. Then she looked at me. I couldn't tell what was going on behind her eyes, and that made me sort of nervous.

"How dare you! I am a lady, not some ruffian from the streets!"

"The core can't influence things in my tower, but I like to be safe. After all that's why I'm still alive."

"You could at least show some respect. Your actions were just foul."

Morkar sneered and said,

"Like your stench you mean?"

Rarity narrowed her eyes, and I took the moment to scoot away from her. Powerful mage or not, I did not want to deal with an angry woman. She did nothing, but I could tell she was ready to explode. Seeing that she was going to be quiet, Morkar said,

"Now do you want to explain why you so rudely showed up here?"

Sitting on the couch was a weird sensation, with the tail in the way. The wings at least folded down, but the tail had to be pushed out of the way. Even then I was still sitting on it a bit. That was when I decided that I didn't like having a tail. In response I said,

"Well I was kinda wondering why you just showed up when before you hadn't even made an effort to help."

He looked at me with one eye and said,

"Didn't I explain that already? You were taking too long, and the core was beginning to become a bother. How was I supposed to know you would take a whole week to get what I wanted?"

"If you could just step in and take it, why didn't you?"

"I make a habit of staying out of world affairs. Keeps me breathing longer I find. Besides I didn't really feel like finding out where it was. You did that for me at least, so I suppose it wasn't a total waste."

"So have you fixed the core?"

Morkar let out a booming laugh.

"If only. The core is ancient magic, or very advanced magic, I'm not sure. I haven't had one up close like this before. I might start on it in a bit. I'm in the middle of something else at the moment."

"So what am I supposed to do in the meantime?"

Morkar shrugged,

"Do I run your life? Do whatever, as long as it doesn't involve me"

I sat up a bit, trying to make a point.

"What am I supposed to tell everyone? There's a missing priceless artifact, and a whole lot of unexplained stuff."

"I usually just let them figure it out. Why bother explaining what people don't understand."

I crossed my arms and laid back,

"I think your just lazy."

Morkar said nothing, and Rarity finally said something,

"So what now?"

Morkar looked between the two of us and said,

"Am I a counselor? No? Then why are you asking me? Go do whatever, eat, sleep, mate, whatever the locals do."

"People think I'm dead Morkar."

"Then tell them you're not."

"Because that'll go over well. I don't even look like me anymore."

"Yes you did rather screw yourself over."

I raised an eyebrow at him and he said,

"When you took the form of one of the locals, several things happened. The core stopped focusing on you, which is why the battle was much easier then it should've been. Secondly, you became for a lack of a better word, immortal. That body does not die, and the core makes sure of that. A serious advantage to be sure, but the easiest way out of this situation is also gone."

"Alright, so I can't just die now. What else can I do?"

Morkar scratched his beard and said,

"I don't really know. Not being an unlocked soul myself deterred me from learning about such things. I guess you better figure it out."

"How?"

"My word man. Do you have no independence at all? I think it's time for you to leave, before I have to feed you."

"Can't you just change me back?"

"I could I guess… but I don't really feel like it."

Rarity opened her mouth again, but we suddenly weren't in the tower now. I was dumped in the pool outside, still in my smaller form. A splash next to me confirmed Rarity was in the same situation. When we had dragged ourselves out of the water, we sat by the edge. I was lucky to avoid getting water in my mouth, either that, or I no longer had that weakness. Silence lingered for a few seconds as we thought about things.

I guess taking on the village would be the next big task, and then the even bigger task of the princesses. Morkar didn't seem to be willing to help much either. Then I didn't even have the core in hand, and the princess might not appreciate that. I looked at Rarity, whose damp fur clung to her in a almost sexy way, and then said,

"You really did look good in ropes."

She looked at me for a second, and then I was lifted up by magic, and dumped in the water again. She laughed hard, and continued to laugh. I joined her when I pulled myself out, and laid back on the ground. I took off the robes, which were now completely soaked, and threw them on the ground. They disappeared, almost acknowledging their ruined state.

After we had a long good laugh, I finally stood up. The sun was still high in the sky, and the day had only just begun. I would need to talk to Morkar again at some point, but that would have to wait. Me and Rarity got on the trail to Ponyville, but she didn't stay quiet.

"So what are you going to do?"

"Hmm… not really sure."

"Well you can't just waltz in there and say, 'oh look at me I'm Silver.'"

"Huh, best plan so far."

Rarity huffed and then said,

"Of course. No one is going to believe, you look more like an adult spike."

"I guess I'll have to prove it somehow. Too bad the funeral is already over."

"You weren't going to crash your own funeral?"

"The thought had crossed my mind"

Rarity sounded exasperated when she said,

"Is there anything you wouldn't do?"

I smiled at her, revealing sharp teeth,

"You."

She huffed at the response, but let it go for now.

"So who do you plan on talking to first?"

"I suppose whoever I meet first. Is there anyone who I have to talk to? Couldn't I just ignore the problem?"

Rarity's exasperation came back as she said,

"At least talk to Rose. She thinks you're dead now."

"I suppose that is an issue…"

"Of course it's an issue, along with the relationship in itself."

I scratched my now scaly chin and said,

"I stopped thinking about it."

"Sorry?"

"I guess I just got wrapped up in other things. Besides she's probably over me by now. It seemed like a fling if anything."

Rarity stopped walking and looked up at me in doubt,

"She certainly seemed to think there was more. Is that how you view it?"

I shrugged, "I dunno. She seemed to just want a certain something from me."

She huffed and didn't move to walk again,

"Well maybe she just wanted your attention!"

I turned around, shocked at the random outburst.

"Woah, where did that come from?"

"Rose really cared about you, anyone can see that. Now you just want to shrug that all off?"

"No, but…"

"But what?"

"It just all seems to be too good to be true."

"… That's your reason?"

"Well, everything happened so fast. I mean, I'm in a whole different world for one thing. Then this mare gets all over me, which is weird in so many different ways."

Rarity just shook her head at me.

"I think Rose just fell for you the moment you met, for whatever reason, and desperately wanted you to like her back. When you didn't show much interest beyond friendship, she tried to rile you up."

"Why does it have to go beyond friendship? We only just met, she can't be that interested. Besides magic was involved and its probably worn off."

"She might be afraid you'll find someone else. You should talk to her about this. Why don't you want this to work out?"

"Truthfully? Because it's not supposed to be me. I never wanted a relationship, why should that change on a new world?"

Rarity walked closer to me, as if to offer some comfort,

"Why not? Maybe you found somepony who makes you feel good?"

I looked at Rarity, trying to impose a serious face.

"But I love traveling."

"Take her with you then."

"What if she gets hurt?"

"Would you let her get hurt. Besides according to you, we can't get hurt, too badly. All I'm hearing are excuses."

"… Fine. You win, I'll talk to Rose. I'll be 100% honest with her and everything. Don't expect too much though."

Rarity smiled at me and then said,

"So what are you going to tell her?"

I looked at her, almost able to see the matchmaking gears whir behind her head.

"That's for me to know, and Rose to find out. I don't see how you are involved at all."

I started walking again, leaving Rarity to stand by herself for a moment, anger and disappointment on her face. After a small huff, she managed to catch up with me.

Ponyville wasn't much farther, but in the remaining distance, we managed to come up with a solution to the body crisis. Martin had managed to go from human to pony, so why wouldn't other transformations work? All I had to do was ask Twilight for a favor, most likely in exchange for my wondrous story, and presto, good as new, bio degradable human body.

We reached the archway in front of the town, which Rarity was able to see now, and we walked inside. I parted ways with a disappointed Rarity, and tried to find my way to Rose's house. Of course all the third ring condo's looked exactly the same, so it was a bit difficult. I was lucky however, when I spotted Rose through one of the windows.

She was sitting on the couch in the main room, just staring at the wall. Her eyes were puffy, but no tears fell from them. She made no movements, and didn't spot me through the window. I heard something behind me, and I turned to see Rarity behind me. She had the decency to look embarrassed about being caught snooping, but she didn't move to go away. Instead she looked through the window with me. I poked Rarity after a short period of time and said,

"See she's totally over me, she's not even crying anymore."

Rarity just stared, disbelieving, at me.

"Are you serious dear? She looks in worse shape than I've ever seen. Looks like she's trying to just deny the truth."

"Besides, didn't I tell everyone I couldn't die?"

"Well yes… but there is a difference between being told that, and actually believing it. I think it would have taken solid proof to get even Pinkie to accept it."

"I suppose, I guess I just assumed you would get it, being surrounded by magic and all."

"Silver dear. In the past few weeks, you've done more things with magic than I've seen in a long time. Sure we're always by magic, but never any complicated magic like being immortal. There's a big difference between that and levitation."

I turned to face the window to look at Rose before saying,

"She looks so…"

"Hollow…"

It was said in a whisper, but strangely it was the loudest thing said between us. It was true too, Rose did look rather empty. Like she was devoid of any happiness, but how could that even be possible? I don't care what anyone says, we weren't THAT close.

Rarity interrupted my thoughts by saying,

"Yes, that fits nicely, if in a grim way. I think you should go inside now."

"What if she doesn't believe me? Wouldn't be the first time someone's doubted me."

"Then convince her otherwise."

"Can't you just tell me what to say?"

"Just tell her about private moments or something, be clever, as hard as that is for you."

I nodded, and backed away from the window. I was still hungry, but I knew I probably wasn't going to eat for another few hours. I steeled myself, but I wasn't really feeling nervous. I guess as a dragon, I didn't really have much to feel nervous about. More to do with having a different body and mind I assumed. Although having a different mind altogether is a strange concept.

I knocked on the door, and had to wait almost a minute for the door to open. Rose just stared up and down at me before saying,

"Yes?"

Her voice was devoid of any emotion as well, and any part of me that was still human, was freaked out. It was like she had lost the love of her life, which was I guess supposed to be me. I supposed just shouting surprise wouldn't work very well then.

"Umm… Hmm… how to go about this."

I'm not world renown for thinking on my feet, but I think I do pretty well when I need to. Rose looked at me, her eyes betraying nothing about her thoughts.

"So… "

My voice sped up incredibly, and became more reptilian almost, as I lost more control of my lungs.

"I'm actually Silver, hi by the way, and I'm not actually dead. See I got distracted in Canterlot and ended up nearly marrying the princess. After a nearly dangerous encounter of a sexual kind, I managed to get away, only for my body to kinda self terminate. Which I guess goes back to the beginning that I was basically really sick when I first arrived. I met this old wizard guy who told me that, and so I died. Then I came back and accidently set lose a really powerful thing, that basically killed me again. Which yeah, by the way, I can't really die permanently. At least so far any ways. Then I came back as a Dragon and managed to defeat it, but got stuck in that form. I managed to shrink into this, but for now I'm stuck until I can figure something out. So… yeah, I'm not actually dead."

I took a huge breath at the end, and looked at Rose expectantly. Her face was blank, but her eyes showed her mind working furiously to decipher what I just said. When she still didn't say anything, I added a weak,

"Surprise?"

Rose finally did something I was extremely glad to hear. She giggled, only faintly, but it was there. And then barely in a whisper said,

"You nearly married the princess, how does that work?"

I smiled ever so slightly, forgetting that it looked much more threatening than a human smile.

"Let's just say she went a bit crazy for a little bit."

Rose became empty again and looked at me shrewdly.

"How can I be sure that's you?"

So I went on to describe every private moment we had together as best as I could recall them. Form our first awkward kisses, to when she tried to seduce me in this house. When I finished she didn't say anything for a few minutes. I could see her mind warring with itself on whether to believe me or not. I could understand, it probably seemed like it was too good to be true. When I felt like I couldn't wait a moment longer, Rose finally acted.

Her body collided with mine as she hugged me tightly. Tears that hadn't existed a moment ago fell freely from her eyes. She wasn't exactly the prettiest sight at the moment. Her hair was a mess, and her face was damp, or recently dried. I didn't point this out of course, and kept it to myself forever after. Neither of us said anything, I didn't want to interrupt her moment, and she wanted to just feel comforted. When she finally pulled away from me she said,

"So this sexual encounter with the princess… how did that turn out?"

I shook my head, suppressing the urge to laugh,

"It didn't. Rarity was in the room, and I was gone before anything could happen."

I refrained from mentioning that gone meant dead, and Rose didn't seem to catch that.

"Rarity was with you?"

"I had to make sure I didn't have too much fun on the way. Someone had to be the complainer."

I heard a squeak outside, and turned to face the window. I didn't see anything, but I could've sworn I saw a purple flash of hair. I turned to Rose again, who finally let go of me.

"I think we should talk somewhere else, away from prying eyes and ears."

I heard a groan outside, and mentally laughed. Rose led me up to her bedroom, and I left the door open as I followed her. I sat on the bed with her, and continued our talk. For awhile, I just told her of the adventure to Canterlot. I didn't leave out much, unless it had to do with the stranger side of things. I would just explain that stuff later.

I spent the entire afternoon talking to her, and at one point she brought up lunch. My draconic form accepted the food begrudgingly, even if it probably just got disintegrated in my stomach, offering no nutritional value. Then again, I guess dragons might need different nutrients. When we finished discussing my journey, Rose moved on to other subjects.

"So now that you did that, are you going to stay here?"

I laid back on the bed, and thought about that for a minute.

"I'm not really sure."

"Would you spend some time with me?"

And so we got to the heart of the problem. My face became serious, and I decided that I wouldn't hold back.

"Rose, this relationship we have can't keep going."

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AN: And that's the end of this chapter. I hope you enjoyed that…

JK everyone JK
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She looked at me, shook, but a small bit of understanding in her eyes. Before she could become all sad and depressed I said,

"That doesn't mean we can't be friends, or even more. It just can't keep going on like it has."

She seemed a bit more calm when I mentioned even more, and waited for me to continue.

"I haven't been being honest with you, and that's caused me some strain. Apparently that hasn't been affecting you though."

"What have you been lying about?"

"Well I don't know if you've noticed, but I've been avoiding your forward motions."

"If its about the physical things, we don't have to…"

"That's not the point. The point is that I'm not attracted to you. Not in any physical way at all."

Even less so from when I had been a human now that I was a dragon. Probably something to do with hormones and chemical things, which caused the issue in the first place. Or maybe it was something more, because Rose seemed attracted to me for sure.

"Then why are you with me?"

"Because as lame as it sounds, I'm attracted to you mentally. I like the person… pony you are. Your personality is uplifting, and I'm glad to have you as company."

Rose said nothing for a few seconds, and I let her think. Eventually she said,

"So how could we be something more than friends now?"

"Who said people in a relationship have to be sexually active with each other? Do I want to spend every day of my life with you? Honestly, probably not, but I'd like to spend a good amount of it with you. Whatever the case, I'm done worrying about it. I enjoy your presence, and am happy to see you happy. From here, it's your call."

Rose once again said nothing, and it took a few long seconds for her to do anything. I wasn't too worried about her saying no, but the longer she took the more my resolve shook. I guess I hadn't had time to consider what I would do if she would say no. And in the end I didn't have to worry about it.

Rose pressed herself against me, and she kissed me hard. This was even more awkward than when I was a human. One, I had a very long tongue and two, I had very sharp teeth. After some careful maneuvering, we managed to get comfortable. I noticed that I didn't feel the need to vomit, or anything of the sort. It still wasn't very pleasant, but I could work with it. I could feel Rose's hoofs against me, even if they felt very faint.

She backed off of me and said,

"Of course I want this."

I could see honesty in her eyes, and the knowledge that the core was locked away comforted me slightly. I decided that she really did just really like me for whatever reason. I gave up trying to reason against it, about why I shouldn't waste time on relationships. The truth was I was happy there, and I didn't want to give it up.

Rose looked down and said,

"I just realized, were both naked."

I looked down, and was very surprised to see she was right. Having the layer of scales made me feel clothed, and in a sense I guess I was. I never thought about how that might work, with the scales not actually being part of me. Maybe it worked the same way with fur, or just equestrian pony fur, who knows? I also noticed a very important change in my anatomy. Suffice to say, that I no longer hung out when not excited.

Rose looked back up at me, nervous. I made a quick decision, and got off the bed.

"Good, removes the bother of having to take any clothes off."

I walked across the room as Rose said,

"I thought you didn't want to get physical?"

I shook my head,

"I'm impartial to it. I can tell that you want to though, and I realize that in a relationship, you have to give and take. Besides I think I owe you this for being a lying prat. As a friend of mine once said, 'No matter what you rub it against, as long as its soft, its gonna feel good.'"

Rose smiled at me, nicely at first, and then it grew more raunchy as I slammed the door shut. As an afterthought, solid tails like that of a dragon make for interesting experiences. Whether just trying to sit down, or doing… other things.

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AN: Once again, I'm sorry this took so long. It should have been posted like 3 days after the last chapter, but some things happened at the beta step. Btw, my pre reader has broken his knee, and I'm too lazy to do it. So the chapters are no longer being pre read to make sure they are all nice and neat. Unless someone else volunteers, or my previous reader fixes his knee, I don't see that problem being fixed in the future. I once again offer my promise to get better, but seriously this time.