In a large brick building, in the center of a village during its annual celebration, a red dragon slept during the festivities. She had a large black egg, clutched in her arms and pressed to her ample chest. The egg lightly glowing red and the dragon's wavy white spines making no movement as she slumbers. A pair quietly enters the building and approach the red dragon, the youngest of the pair is a baby dragon and quietly approaches the sleeping dragon. The baby dragon is small and purple with rounded emerald green spines, matching her eyes and her lack of wings like the dragoness before her. Her green frills angled down as she approaches the sleeping dragon, lightly shaking her shoulder to wake her up. The red dragoness sleepily opens her eye revealing eyes matching the young dragon’s own.

“Mom, can you tell us a story while we wait?” asks Barb innocently, the elder of the pair, a pink filly sits waiting expectantly.

“Of course,” answers the dragon smiling sweetly, her voice melodic, she places the egg in front of her and motioned Barb to sit next to it.

“Come over here Screwball, you’ll wanna hear too,” beckoning her closer. Screwball smiles and goes over, sitting on the other side of the egg.

“Now then my little ones, this will more of a tale of how each of you came into this world and how we came to be what we are so it will involve a bit of history,” said Redmoon smiling

“I guess you could say it all began with the fall of the Empire. We don’t know much of how it happened or why it occurred, even our oldest living elders and scholars have no idea. What is known of it comes from the surviving relics held from those days along with the old scrolls and books. What is known is that it was a tragedy and took many lives but we, the clans and others, were the survivors.”

“The clans are each known as: Incendia the masters of fire, Naga of the Sea, Ark the shining light, Titan the earth movers, Razor the riders of the wind, Styx the keepers of the dead and us Loki the world benders. The clans and peoples of this land were not always in tune with one another, my children there was once much violence among us.”

“Why?” Asks Barb curiously.

“I do not know why there was so much fighting among us; the fighting had being going on long before I was hatched, none of us even remember what started the fighting.” shrugs Redmoon.

“You could sum it up like this, of why we may have been fighting: some wanted to dominate, believing they were superior to all others, or some just wanted more land and resources or some of us just fought so we would not be subjugated. If that’s the case of why it happened, our clan fought for the latter of the 3. We didn't go looking for trouble but it came to us, that's why we were originally called the Dire clan, the clan that always go the worst of it.” Redmoon tilting her head downward a bit, prompting her daughters to hug their mother a more closely, returning her to the tale at hand. She brightened up again and proudly smiled.

“Nobody tried harder for peace then me, I was always trying to branch out and connect to the other clans and peoples, sometimes I had to dodge or fight or jump off a cliff to get away when I failed with some but I kept on trying and got some of my fellow clandrakes and the other races to work with me.”

“Why did you try so hard?”ask both girls in unison. She then affectionately rubbed their heads.

“Well it was because I was tired of the fighting and mostly for my first mate Jade.” Redmoon says with a bright smile

“I meet Jade at the border river when we were kids and about a couple of years older than you two, and I saved his life before he could drown. I found out after I did that he was Incendia, but we didn't fight. He was grateful for me saving his life and asked if there was any way to repay it so I said."Come play with me here tomorrow.” Redmoon attempting to mimic her younger voice.

"He agreed to it and so we meet each other at the river and played, I brought along Discord and we became a trio of best friends."

“Dad?” asks both girls surprised

“Yes your father was a wanderer before he came to the village and he just stayed. No one seemed to mind him since he didn't cause any trouble. I approached him and asked if he wished to be friends, and he was pretty surprised when I did. It seemed that no one approached him before and he just felt glad that someone wished to talk to him.” upon saying that she received skeptical looks from her daughters.

"I know it seems hard to believe knowing how loved your father is but it’s true, and you two should really stop mimicking your father or your faces will get stuck like that if you do." Redmoon wagging her finger at them in mock scolding.

“After a while the friendship between me and Jade grew, with some help from your father we were able to keep our relationship a secret, and one day we kind of confessed our feelings to each other ” said Redmoon smiling and getting a bit redder as she remembers.

“So we worked together to help end the fighting, we gained others on our side and worked to make peace against those who wished to keep us in war, my clan was behind me especially after discord taught us new ways to use our magic, sadly some of our fellows were not so fortunate. Those who joined our cause were taken in by us of the Loki and we became stronger with the new array of skills and were able to fight as a unified force, though what truly ended the conflict was a challenge that united all of us” said Redmoon as she now adopts a more serious expression for the mood prompting both girls to lean in closer.

“We simply called it The Red Frost” Redmoon whispers ominously and remembering the events

“Wh-What happened” asks Eris scared, Barb having gone quiet.

“It occurred in the middle of summer, A great winter descended upon the land coming so fast and strong that none of us were prepared for it. Crops and animals dying in waves, game nearly nonexistent as animals had fled before its arrival or died in the ice and snow ,some falling into a never ending sleep and some simply dropping dead.The worst of it was when They came.”

“Wh-who” asks Barb quietly.

Redmoon sighs.

“Some called them the hate taken flesh, come here to devour us all. They were the endless hunger, almost all caught were devoured by them and No matter how much they ate they never were sated, few could rest due to fear of being devoured while they slept , the creatures,the monsters,the wendigos. My entire family fell to the beasts and I became leader of the Loki. I called a summit to meet the other leaders of the land, even the stubborn bastards and bitches who were originally so insistence on continuing the fighting agreed with me that we needed to work together. On the way back to the clan I found Discord and Jade out there, fighting them… both badly wounded.”

“Dad…wounded!?” Both asks shocked.

“Yes they were plentiful, and though your father is strong they were resistant to his usual chaos magic. I jumped in but,I wasn't enough and just when I thought we were done for, something unexpected happened. Two massive shapes came from the sky blazing flames upon the beasts ,we were saved by two feral dragons. With their help we were able to kill enough for us to escape. The dragons were Rio and Diablo."

“Uncles Rio and Diablo!?” both girls surprised.

“Yes they came to our aid, seemed they had hoped the clan drakes would help them, from the marks on their bodies I could tell they had been attacked by hordes of the beasts. I let them join Loki, and they became part of our plan to strike back.”

“We pooled our resources together to survive. Your father, Jade, and several clandrakes were able to create an endless spring over the land. This saved us and weakened the beasts and we struck while the moment called for it. Any of us brave enough or those who could transform attacked and killed as many as we could. I properly earned my name on those days and nights.”

“What do you mean?” asked both girls

“My flames burned them to nothing, my shouts blew them to pieces, and I slashed them to ribbons with my sickles" Redmoon pointing to one of them leaning against the wall.

"The blood of the wendigos and my scales shined in the moon, so I truly earned my name,” said Redmoon proudly as she slowly becomes downtrodden

“One day their onslaught just ended, I didn't know at the time how long we had been fighting them, it all felt like a blur and I couldn't speak for a while after it was over. The celebration lasted days and eventually I regained my voice. We rebuilt and pressed on, we held a mass funeral for those we had lost, burning a massive pyre to them: some letting the bodies be burned, some burying them, some doing other ceremonies, different traditions for each I guess. Me, Jade, Discord, Rio and Diablo were hailed by all as heroes, for our parts in the battle against the wendigos. We couldn’t so easily all go back to being separate clans after the ordeal, so we made pacts and treaties becoming more unified, the other leaders who survived even allowed me to become Archmatriach of the clans and me and jade were able to become mates, we were finally free of the conflicts of the past and were marching forward” said Redmoon her face still solemn

“Then why are you still looking so sad?” Asks Barb.

“We had one more conflict after that to deal wit.” Redmoon sighs out.

“You see girls our unification had brought much to us. Now that we were no longer simply fighting each other we could collaborate and work together, trade flowed in from all over the land. Gems & metals of all kinds from the land to us all: onyx, sapphires, iron, emeralds, rubies, gold and that was just some of the new found wealth, unfortunately it attracted unwanted attention. Feral drakes had begun to descend upon us, clearly they had not been spared the wendigos. They took our gems, supplies, our livestock, and even eggs and children and killed any who they could.”

She then looks over at barb and said.

“They even took your egg.”

“Huh?” said Barb, surprised.

“It is true but that happened later in the story.” said Redmoon.

“We didn't stand for any of that, so we began the 'Campaign of Retribution'. We pushed the ferals back and took their lands, fighting and killing to get back what was stolen from us." She then closes her eyes and softly said.

“Some of us didn't make it back, Jade died saving me from a feral from behind" she reopens her eyes a fire burning in them.

"Me and Discord saw that they paid for that.We had pushed them back and beaten them in the 5th year. We took the land they had dominated over and worked to make it usable, some of it even make up some of the swamplands. We gained much and made sure those who died, did not in vain. We even gained more kids due to the adoption of orphans and eggs from the campaign.”

She then looks at Barb affectionately pulling both girls in and nuzzles barb and smiling.

“We got your egg back, and later hatched you, she then turns to Screwball nuzzling her as well. You were so small when discord brought you." Redmoon nuzzling screwball, both girls now smiling happily.

"So Jade died, and dad became your mate?" Asks Screwball.

“Well yes but that happened a while later, Discord had helped me raise your sister and I helped him raise you and as time went on we came together." she said smiling and blushing as she is remembering their first night together.

"We realized we went well together and so I asked him if he wished to be my mate , and the wedding was largely celebrated, and it started because of you two really” Redmoon hugging her kids

“Us?” They ask a bit confused

“Yup!" Redmoon smiling more radiantly

"Because you two girls came into our lives and we got even closer and I realized I loved your father like I loved Jade. So you could say this egg is a testament to me and your father, just like you’re a testament to me and Jade." said Redmoon to Barb and Screwball hugging the two.

“Your the 1st testament to me and discord” said Redmoon affectionately to her daughter, Screwball.All three are now smiling and giggling in the lovefest between the mother and her daughters.

*Wobble*

“Huh?” Redmoon feeling movement.

*Wobble, Wobble*

She then looks down at the egg.

*Wobble, Wobble, Wobble*

Her eyes grow wide .

“Discord!!!” Redmoon shouts out.

“Yes, Ruby?” said a figure calmly floating over the trio and egg.

The figure, in question is an oddity at that. He is a myriad of creatures: His head is that of a goat with red pupils and instead of white, yellow surrounds them with a beard and bushy eyebrows of white. A dragon horn deer antler adorn his head. His torso and legs though covered by his hide leggings and tunic reveal some of the brown feather coat that resides underneath. One arm is that of a large cat and the other of a bird, of his visible feet one a dragon claw and the other of a hoofed animal of unknown origin. His outstretched wings are a mismatched bat and bird, and he has a mane in an odd cut is pure black. His visible tail is of a dragon but unlike his leg, which is green , the tail is red with pink spines, his tail ending in a tuff of white hair. Though it sounds as such a being massive, in truth he is not of a muscle variety but is is tall and thin.At a glance it can be seen that he holds vast magical power and a twinge of eccentricity due to the mismatch assorted rainbow colors of his tunic and leggings. As well sporting a small pure onyx ring.

“Look down at the egg” Redmoon deadpans, he turns around now looking down at them.

*WOBBLE,WOBBLE,WOBBLE,WOBBLE,WOBBLE,WOBBLE* the egg goes as it shakes, the entire village feeling it shake , as the very earth rumbles to the egg’s violent wobbling.

“What was that!” said Discord surprised as he falls to the ground and lands next to them.

“I think the egg about to hatch” said Screwball shakily , her hand now resting on the egg.

“Oh…well then… if you will excuse me”said Discord leaving the building ,a look of shock written across his face.

A two dragons walk up to the dracounquess. The dragon on the left is a tall one, and muscular as well. His body showing well defined muscles under his tunic, his large wings clear on his back. His body scaled green with red sharp arrow like spines and tall 7ft 5 inches, the dragon next to him a mirror image except with green spines and scaled red, both have piercing yellow eyes.

“You ok Discord?” asks the red one.

“I’m fine Rio” said Discord still shock faced.

“You don’t look fine, have anything to do with that weird trembling that just went through?” asks Diablo.

“Oh yes, that would be the egg is about to hatch.”

“Oh" they both reply happy to hear it is nothing serious.

3…

2..

1.

“What!!!” Both shout out.

“The Egg is about to hatch!!! They both shout out, all in the village square hearing that.

“What” shouts back all in the square.

People rushing into the large lbuilding, to see the egg that shook the entire village, and crashed the festival.

Diablo, Rio, and Discord, rushing to the side of their family.

The egg know floating continues to shake violently as it is about to hatch, a crowd waiting to see what the newborn looks like, as the egg floats high in the air.

*Crack*

The entire egg now covered in cracks and for a few moments, the egg brightly shines, red, white,green, grey, blue and yellow. Purple light begins to leak out of the egg’s cracked black shell. A loud audible pop goes through the building as the egg shatters and in its place is a little baby black dragon with rounded purple spines. Its eyes closed and it slowly floats into Redmoon’s outstretched arms.

“It’s a boy.” said Redmoon surprised at the random display her baby just did.

……………………… Silence throughout room, but ends as it explodes into loud cheering.

“Well that was a show.” said Diablo surprised.

“Not surprised considering its there kid." said Rio drinking some grog from his waterskin.

“Yeah I guess: Barb’s egg spitting fire everywhere and screwball when she first showed up, sneezing turning our house into fish and pork,” said Rio doing the same as his brother.

The child opens its eyes, one red and one blue neither seeming to belong to a drake, and looks at the new surroundings. The baby doesn't scream out, but opens its mouth, breathing in and out. It looks up at the creatures surrounding it and smiles. Its eyes then go to Discord and its reaches out its tiny arms to him.

“Aww he wants you to hold him.” Redmoon handing off their son to Discord.

Discord then gently holds the newborn in his arms, the newborns long and uncharacteristically thin tail wraps around Discord's arm.

“Aww look at you.” Discord goes, holding his child happily.

“Coo, coo coo.” he goes to the child lightly tickling him with the finger with the ring on it.

The infant then grabs the finger.

"Whoa, a firm grip for his ag.," Discord smiling then sees the baby drake take the ring off his claw, put it in his mouth and chew it and swallow.

“Burp.” goes the infant, smiling and giggling.

The entire crowd seeing the action, shocked while the baby drake happily giggles along with Screwball, Barb and some kids in the audience, the older members remaining silent.

“…..I thought baby drakes weren't supposed to be able to do that until they're older….." said Discord shocked.

“He shouldn't be able to do that yet…..”said Redmoon surprised as well.

"So what should we name him?" asks Discord getting back on topic, as the shock fades.

“Well he likes onyx and he is as black as Nox so how bout, Nox Onyx” suggest Redmoon.

“Sounds great.” said Discord smiling.

“Yay!” Said Nox onyx, drawing all attention back to him.

“Nox Nox” Nox Onyx happily chirps out , before yawning and falling asleep in Discord’s arms.

………. The room is now completely quiet.

“I can already tell he will be an odd child even among us .” said Discord with a smile.

Rio and Diablo just simply shrug and say to both of them

“Well he one of your kids” both grinning as they begin to laugh.

All are now laughing at this joyous occasion and the odd humor that just took place.

Nox sleeping soundly, a smile on his face.

End of Prologue

Author's Note

Well first time doing this kinda thing so plz leave comments and feedback if you would or just general praise :).Hopefully i can convey my character's feelings well enough
Thank you Panzerbrony and Trahzo for reviewing the earliest and orginal drafts and versions.