“I’ll go inside and tell them that you’re here, and then when I tell you that you can come in you may do so.”

Leaving the kirin behind, Twilight opened the library’s door, her home, and went inside.In the middle of it sat four of her friends and her assistent, chatting happily while eating what appeared to be cookies.

The first one to notice her was Applejack, who waved her over, “So, where’s this ‘special pony’ you told us woulda be coming here?”

“Oh, Twilight, I didn’t see you coming in, do you want some tea?” said Spike, getting up from the small stool he was sitting on.

“Sure Spike, and to answer you question Applejack, she’s waiting outside.But there’s something I want to tell you all before she comes in.”

“Is she that the creepy looking pony we visited yesterday? she didn’t seem to be in the mood for your visit Twi,” said Rainbow Dash, wiping a few stray crumbs out of her muzzle, “and you didn’t seem to like her for some reason.”

“I reacted on impulse Rainbow, I already apologized for my actions to her and she came here on her own volition.”

Rarity looked at the two mares with a puzzled expression, “Am I missing something important here?” she asked, and looking at Twilight she continued, “And what did you do to this pony that you needed to go apologize to her?”

Sighing, Twilight answered, “Girls, she is somepony very different from what we are used to, and I think it would be best if we let her explain all of it, but it appears I’ll be sitting here while our guest is outside, waiting.”

“Well then, let’s not let her wait, go on, call her in and tell Spike to make some tea for her too.”

Twilight nodded, other than Pinkie and Rainbow, all of her friends were in a state of curiosity, Rainbow looked like she didn’t care about it, and Pinkie Pie… well, let’s just say that after the visit the first thing she thought about was giving the kirin a welcoming party, she wasn’t concerned.

Leaving the room she went to the kitchen to let Spike know to brew one more cup of tea, and bracing herself she went to the door and opened it.

“Well, they’re all here, should we come in?”

The insides of the tree-brary, a name Bronze spent too much time thinking about, were very much what she expected.What she could see from the doorway confirmed her suspicions that most, if not all, of the furniture was carved from the tree itself, giving it a strange look of uniformity.

The smell of green tea was the second thing that came to her, the sweet scent making her muzzle wrinkle in distaste, she never considered herself a fan of it, and while she could drink it, she would rather not.

After walking a few steps, she found herself in the very middle of the building, if the uncountable books strewn in organized piles and shelves were any reference, forward, almost on the very centre of the place were five mares, drinking, eating, and paying utmost attention to her.

“Well, I feel like the centre of the world all of a sudden.” she slowly walked forward, feeling the weight of every step taken.The five of them, now six if she counted Twilight, were all different looking.

The first one to claim her attention was the most unnoticable of them, a butter yellow pegasus with a pink mane that covered almost all of her face in long, slightly curly at the end bangs, she looked frail enough to snap at a strong breeze, and appeared to be extremely nervous.

The second one was Pinkie something, the too pink to be real pony was looking at her with a grin that bordered on maniac levels.In contrast to the pegasus at her side she looked like she could explode with eagerness.

A white unicorn was the third to catch her attention, the cleanliness of her coat, the pristine condition of her stylised purple mane and tail screamed ‘Noble Snob’ at her with a force so grand that it might as well knock her out cold, but the curious expression on her face and the overall amicable posture seemed to suggest that she wasn’t some prissy little thing.

Rainbow Dash, now that Bronze could look at her without fear of being strangled in a purple aura, noticed a few characteristics that she hadn’t on the day before.She had a cyan color much like the midday sky, and the multicolored mane of hers was the opposite of the white unicorn, unkempt and slightly dirty.

The last one looked like the most normal of them, an orange earth pony with a long, golden mane and a Stetson on top of her head.Her expression was of mild curiosity, and if the few bite marks on her forelegs and a small scar on her face, near her muzzle, were of any indication, this pony either was some sort of guard or had close encounters with wild beasts, Bronze would keep tabs on her.

She sat on her haunches slightly away from the table, and after a final quick look on everyone present, she spoke, “Well, here I am… I guess,” she looked at Twilight, who was smiling at her encouragingly, “name’s Bronze Ashes, and I already met two of you,” she casted a look at Rainbow and Pinkie, “but I wouldn’t mind if you were to tell me your names again.”

“Shouldn’t you remove your cloak? we’re inside after all, unless…” the white unicorn trailed off as Bronze removed the hood part of her cloak, letting them see her head, “well, that wasn’t what I was expecting.”

“Ahem, my name is Rarity, and I suppose you already know Twilight, over there is Rainbow Dash,” she pointed at the cyan mare, “Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Applejack,” she continued in order, pink one, orange one, yellow one, “if you don’t mind me asking though, what are you exactly? I have never seen a unicorn with more than one horn.”

“She doesn’t know? wait, does only Twilight there knows what I am?” for a moment Bronze looked at Rarity with a dumbfounded expression, but quickly she recovered “Uhh, do you really don’t know what I am?”

“Well darling, I am not exactly sure of what you are, but the fangs and the other two horns up near your ears don’t ring any bells.”

“Well Ah’ve to say that Ah’m with Rarity on this one, Ah’ve never seen a pony such like you before,” Applejack chimed in, “and the way yer talking seems ta me that everypony should know that, but Ah’ve no clue.”

Bronze looked at Twilight, a eyebrow raised in question, her answer was a shrug, “Well then, I’m a Kirin, a sub-type of dragons, or more appropriately a offspring of a pony and a dragon.My father was a kirin like me, fourth generetaion, and my mother is a Branzer dragon, wich explains the multiple horns,” she took a small breath, and continued, “it actually impresses me that you don’t know what I am, conciderating the story of our kind.When I entered here, I really expected you to try and stab me or something.”

In fact, she had expected to be blasted with magic, stomped and then be sent off packing.But apparently Ahken was being nice to her this time, and had decided to stop his antics with fate.

“Wait, wait wait wait, you mean to tell me that a pony and a dragon actually… went and did THAT?” Rainbow exclaimed, her cheeks turning a color darker, “I mean, shouldn’t that be impossible or something?”

“Well, I don’t need to tell you the details, but I am here, so it’s not impossible.” Bronze’s eyes twinkled with amusement, “But if you do want to know…”

The reaction was almost immediate, and as she saw everyone’s cheeks turning a color darker, she couldn’t help but chuckle.

“Well, other than those type of things, you just said that your father was a kirin, but you also said that you’re offspring of a pony,” but before Twilight could continue she cut her in;

“Well, since a kirin is both dragon and pony, it’s easier to say that our ancestrality comes from both, instead than saying that we can be both children of kirin and dragon or pony and dragon.Although the difference between a first generation is quite big if you compare with the later ones.”

“Generations?”

“Well, a first generation will have almost half of the father’s characteristics and half the mother’s, if the offspring’s mate is a pony, then the second generation will be more pony like than the first, the inverse if the mate is a dragon.You can get kirins that are almost lizard ponies, and kirins that are almost pony, but with a few dragon traits.”

“Interesting…”

The conversation died for a while, and considering all of it, Bronze was feeling pretty alright.Not only her worst scenario didn’t play, but something completely random broke the ice.Although, she couldn’t understand why Rainbow’s first question was that one, she was grateful for it.

Before anyone could restart the conversation another voice, this time male, spoke.

“Huh, so you must be the new pony right? the Keereen or something.”

Following the voice, Bronze turned her head to see something she thought she wouldn’t ever see, neither in Draconia, much less in Equestria.A very young Branzer dragon, purple scaled with a set of rounded green spikes going from the top of his head towards his tail, and very well fed, if his roundness was of any indication.

“Kirin, and who, pray tell, are you?”

“Name’s Spike, want some tea?” the young dragon said, holding in his claws a small tray with a tea kettle and two cups on top of it.

“I would rather not,” she turned her head to Twilight “Twilight, where did you find a Branzer egg?”

“A what now?”

Rolling her eyes she continued, “A dragon egg, where did you find one?”

“It was part of the entrance exam for the Gifted Unicorns’ school, why?”

“Because it was an egg, and dragons put one egg every what, two or three centuries in between each one? and only one or two at best.The mother never leaves any egg behind, so this egg was either stolen or this school of yours got it in some shady way.”

Twilight’s mouth opened to say something, but she quickly closed it, after a few seconds she finally talked, “Well, I have no idea of that, all that I know is that they said it was a infertile egg, and that it shouldn’t have hatched.”

Bronze tough about continuing with it, but she decided best to let the matter down, “Well, I suppose you’re his guardian now, and he seems okay, so I suppose it doesn’t matter now,” she let out a long sigh, “should we go back to the main topic?”

The conversation continued for almost an entire hour.Bronze explained a few things about her, but managed to keep most personal information to herself.It helped that Twilight derailed the topic to ask about her homeland culture, and after much talking they decided to finally end it, since the day was almost ending.

“To think that I would be having a normal conversation with ponies, if I had told myself a week ago that this would happen I would laugh at myself.And I can’t seem to decide if I’m more impressed with the fact that they don’t seem to care that I’m part dragon, or that they have a friggin dragon themselves… which I still want to know from where he came from.”She finally notice that she was walking around, in the town, without her hood on, and the biggest reaction she could see was that there was a radius of distance most ponies kept from her,”Alright, this town is too damn crazy.”

She sped up, and instead of going through the city she started to take the side streets, a few minutes later she was in her home.Opening the door, she let herself smile at the thought of finally having a home, one that she wouldn’t need to ditch at the end of the week.

It was then that she remembered something very important.
“Damn, I need to go see the Mayor if I want to stay”

Sighing, she dragged herself to the bathroom to wash up, and finally, after cleaning herself, she dropped straight down on top of her cloak.

“And also, get a mattress.”

Author's Note

So, the Introductory part is over, finally, and we can start with the slice of life thing that I had originally planned.
For most of the part I'll be going with the show's episodes mixed in with Bronze's life and other shenanigans that she might get herself into.
And thanks for you, reader, who stuck with this story till now.
See yall doods.