Cade's Chronicles

Equestria's Dragon

Prologue: What the hell happened!?

By, Vladimir

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A lone teenage boy sits atop of a large three story building wearing white pants that are three sizes too large, a black shirt that clings tightly to him and a blue old trench coat that is torn up at the bottom that is nearly as long as he is yet is somehow tight onto his form as it stays open showing the design of a flame circling itself in white. This is Cade. He's just turned fifteen though it wasn't the magical experience one may think.

He lowers his chin to his knees as he pulls out a red IPod he had been given by his best friend Trevor, the only real gift he's gotten from anyone in his life besides his trench coat and clothes. He puts his earbuds in and flicks the IPod on and flicks through his song list that his friend Trevor had helped him set up during their lunch and free periods at their school. You see, it was the last day for them before summer started, but it was never the good time many would dream of.

No, Cade longed to be wanted, rather than seen as some sort of mistake or trash that the people at the orphanage he lives at treats him like. He just wanted to be around others that would accept him, and while he may have his best friend Trevor, he was still seen as a freak. Sure, he was a nerd and a Brony, but he wasn't normal. He could do things like no one else could and was chastised for it.

Life was most certainly not easy for him. But then again, when you have the universe out to get you when is it ever? He flicks to his favorite song "I Wish I Had An Angel, by Nightwish" as it brings him some peace from his harsh life. The cold night air wisps by like a thin sheet of cool air. He looks up at the moon as it is full and positioned high into the sky signalling his birthday had just begun, for it was midnight.

He sighs softly and watches as a shooting star passes by and he watches it with his ever different eyes. As the star moves closer to the moon he wishes that he could be someplace else and maybe even learn what it means to be loved.

I wish I could be somewhere else. Someplace far away from here where I won't be known, where I'll have a fresh start with others. Someplace where I can be truly happy. He thinks as the star just passes before the moon. It was nice thinking that wishing upon a star would actually help him with his problems. But he knew that it was only a fairy tale , just as his favorite creatures were nothing but myths and legends or part of fairy tales where reality doesn't exist.

He sighs softly, and looks back up at the moon to see a curious sight. Why it looked to be a light moving down at him. Wait a second, it actually was moving closer and closer to him. He gets to his feet and staggers backwards. He moves to get away, but his foot slips out from under him and he falls onto his face on the tiled roof. The light grows brighter as it gets closer to him and he feels a fear rip through his chest as he scrambles to get up, but pain shoots through his leg.

Looking down he see's that a broken piece of tile is embedded into the side of his left thigh. He sighs softly and rolls over onto his back so he can meet his end face to face. So this is how I die, huh? He thinks as the light grows closer and closer, and he notices that it looks like a ball of light that as it grows closer he feels peace moving through him.

He smiles softly as warmth washes over him, and then nothing as the ball of light collides with him and all he see's is white and nothingness.

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The smell of pine greets his senses and he opens his eyes to see massive pine trees that stand like towers of wood and green pine leaves. He sits up groggily as he has a high pitched ringing sound in his ears and he looks around. Where am I? What happened? He wonders as the scent of rain looms down on him like a dense fog. He remembers the events of last night and his eyes widen.

The ball of light! The wish! It worked, it really worked! He thinks excitedly before frowning slightly as he looks around. But why does everything look so cartoony and why am I in the woods? He wonders as he runs a hand through his long black hair. He stops and looks at his hand as his nails look to be longer as well as black and claw like. He blinks in surprise before pulling out his IPod and looking at himself in the reflective black screen.

I look like an anime character!? What the hell!? He thinks as he pulls the collar of his shirt down and see's that his birthmark looks more like a strange tattoo that anime characters would have whenever they'd have a symbol or birthmark of some sort. He blinks in surprise and then a new feeling surges into him as pain shoots through his body. He grips his head tightly and cries out in pain.

He feels his body growing larger as strange things burst from his back and moves down towards his tail bone just as something forms from his tailbone. His cries of pain soon echo out into roars of agony as he feels his entire body go ablaze as if he were being burned from the inside out. Forcing his eyes open he see's large purplish black claws instead of hands and he yelps in surprise and flails onto his back where he cries out in pain as he feels two new appendages being squashed beneath his weight.

He rolls over onto his stomach and pushes himself up using his new claws. Wh-What the hell happened to me!? What am I!? He thinks in a panic as he gets to his clawed feet that reminds him of strange bird feet with more toes and how their fan out. He looks forward and runs awkwardly as he feels a second knee joint bend and he stumbles forward slightly, but manages to regain his balance and keeps moving forward.

He notices how little sound his feet make as he thunders through the woods. He moves through a pair of tree's before flopping around into a grassy clearing with a lake nearby to where he is. He crawls towards the lake but finds it difficult as his claws sink into the earth like a hot knife through butter. He flops around in attempts at standing but only manages to hurt himself more and more.

He stops and breathes in through his nose and out through his oddly long mouth. Breathe, if I keep panicking it'll only keep getting worse. I just have to calm down. He tells himself and his heartbeat slowly comes to a slow as he becomes completely calm. Opening his eyes he smirks. Alright, now let's try this again. He thinks as he slowly gets to his strange feet feet and holds his arms out for extra balance.

"Okay, we got standing down, now let's try walking." He mumbles out loud to himself and lifts his right leg before putting his foot down to the grass. He smiles as he takes another step and another before he is quite literally doing baby steps towards the lake. "Alright, now let's see what the hell happened to me." He mutters out in annoyance as he then trips and drops to his knees in front of the lake.

Looking into the lake he stares wide eyed as he no longer looks human. His face was reptilian as he had a short snout or maw filled with razor sharp fang like teeth that reminded him of Alucard's teeth from "Hellsing Ultimate/OVA". His cloths and skin look to have melded together as they had turned into black scales and he wonders if they were brown or grey if the sun had been out. His hands had turned into long claws as his feet were like talons and as he examines them more he notices how they remind him of strange birds feet mixed with some sort of reptilian.

His neck had grown slightly but ultimately was not long nor that wide. He notices how he resembles an anthromorphic version of Spike if he had black/grey scales a red and green eyes along with strange blue crystalline horn that looked like Destoroyah's from his favorite movie of all time, "Godzilla vs. Destoroyah" along with sharper spines that were white like snow yet had inner spikes that were black as night along with looking like crystals.

Moving his hand to his underbelly scales which were white like strange crystals that felt harder than they looked as he looks onto his back to find no wings, just spines. Grabbing his tail he inspects it and finds that it has a crystal like claw of sorts at the tip making him wonder if he was a strange rip off of Space Godzilla and Spike fused together.

Getting to his feet he notices how thin he is let along that he doesn't have much muscle yet he can tell that if he wanted to he could tear through trees with ease or rip through steel. He feels around for the muscles in his tail he manages to get it to swish from side to side before he moves it in a stabbing motion. Let's see if these crystals can be broken He thinks to himself as he stabs his tail at a nearby boulder and watches in amazement as the crystal like claws stab into the rock and shatter it.

So my strength is above what I though, I barely did anything. Hm, I wonder if I can breath fire to? He wonders as he closes his eyes and thinks of fire. He feels something rise up into his chest as his back heats up along with his underbelly. Opening his eyes he breathes out, a puff of grey smoke. Lovely. Well that sucks, must be something to do with eating gems perhaps? Or maybe I just need to practice? He wonders as he places a clawed hand to his chin before a thought occurs to him. Wait, how can I change back? I know I was human before and then that pain struck. But that doesn't explain how I can turn back. He thinks.

Thinking back to the pain he wonders what may of caused it and why it started in his mind before moving into his body. He places a hand to his chest where his birthmark was and notices that the scales look to be darker than the rest and begins to wonder if perhaps he is capable of changing back with a thought as he was thinking of a dragon when the pain started. Okay, this doesn't sound so hard, just think myself as a human, no problem. Now uh, let's do this. He thinks as he mentally braces himself for the pain.

His thinks of how he looked as a human with his clothes and everything and he feels everything new slowly and painfully sliding back into his body. He cries out in pain as his bones shorten and his face becoming human again. He feels strange heat around his body as if fire is burning his scales off of his human body and freeing him of his "prison" yet feels that he is being imprisoned in his skin as he trembles in pain.

He feels his horn shrinking into his skull, but then stops as his birthmark burns painfully so and he opens his eyes and looks back into the water. His horn was now a gem in his forehead as it reminded him of that diamond dot that Tsunade from "Naruto" had in the show and manga. Okay, that's pretty cool. He tells himself with a light smirk as he pulls out his IPod and blinks in surprise as the battery doesn't show up and the small device seemed to have grown and gained a speaker.

"I wonder what else changed." He says aloud as he flicks through his options he finds that it has apps and grows curious. He taps on one that looks like a map and it pulls up a large world map of multiple small masses of land as there are very few continents, if they were even called that here, soon realized that they didn't have any names. He finds that there is a purple dot which he assumes is him and how he is some sort of woodland area near a mountain like area with a large stone castle built in the side of a few mountains.

"Okay, this is pretty cool." He says with a grin before tapping the map and options menu pulls up again and he looks through all of the new options he had gained and found that many of them were survival tips that someone or something had uploaded onto his new IPod-XL, his idea, and flicked through his music to find it was expanded to a never ending number. "Oh, I like, I like a lot!" He chuckles out in an odd manner as he rubs his hands together before wondering if he could change parts of his body like that character Jake Long from that dragon show that used to play on the Disney Channel before it became trash.

"I just hope I don't have to say the words constantly..." He grumbles out as he holds his hands out before him. "Dragon Claws." He says calmly and in a flash of fire he couldn't think of the color at the moment, his claws returned and moves towards another boulder nearby and swings his right claws downward splitting it apart into five pieces. "Okay, this is awesome!" He exclaims with a goofy stupid smile on his lips before rain drops patter lightly against his opened claws and in the lake behind him.

"Oh come on!" He groans out as he looks around for a covered area and spots a cave nearby and weighs his options on something that might try to kill him before thunder booms and lightning flashes against the boulder next to him. "Oh the hell with it!" He growls out and sprints to the cave and just barely slides into it as lightning clashes against the spot he entered into the cave. "Okay, so I attract lightning to myself. Not a good thing." He mutters out darkly as he looks about the cave and growls in annoyance at how he can't light anything ablaze to make some sort of light before face palming and pulling his IPod-XL and flicks it on.

Looking about he finds that the cave is indeed empty, but that it goes on for a bit and would make for a good place to stay where he can get away from the harsh weathers to come, and the one that goes on now. He lays against a wall and puts his ear buds in and puts on "Moonlight Sonata, by Beethoven" to help him sleep. He closes his eyes and feels sleeps claws drag him from reality and into the dream filled lands.

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Opening his eyes Cade yawns and sits up while stretching his arms to wake them up more as they had partially fallen asleep on him. He runs a hand through his hair and walks outside and into a light mist or fog of sorts that lightly tingles his skin. The clouds are a dull gray and light sprinkle of rain washes over him but not in a storm like manner like it had been yesterday and last night.

His stomach growls and he places a hand onto his stomach and groans as the last time he had eaten was the day before while he was still at school and that damned orphanage. He hated it there, he always hated it there.

I need to find something to eat, but what? He wonders as he looks around before smacking his palm against his forehead and crystal. "Oh my god I'm stupid!" He exclaims as he turns to the lake. "The lake would obviously have fish and fresh water." He mumbles out while mentally scolding himself for his slow thinking. "Alright, now let's find out if my thought is correct." He grumbles out as he jogs across the soft squishy ground leaving his footprints in the dew covered grass as he moves through the light fog towards the lake.

Kneeling down at the waters edge he begins to wonder if there is more than just fish in it as it is a large looking lake and could be deep enough to house something else other than fish and possibly a few bugs of sorts. But how can I find that out with nothing? I mean I could stick my head into the water, but then something could end up chomping my head off. Hm, maybe if I tossed in a rock? He wonders while picking up a sizeable rock and flicking his wrist so it skirts the water.

He watches it closely as it bounces across before finally sinking into the reflective water and vanishes from his vision. Well that wasn't very helpful damn it! He growls in his mind as he huffs. Guess I'm stuck with using my head. Well, here goes nothing. He says to himself as he takes a large gulp of air and dunks his head into the freezing water. Blinking he looks through the water and notices how clear it is under the surface, and that there are hundreds of fish of various sizes.

Looking down, or up in this case, he looks into an abyss that just screams "Horror Movie" and freaks himself out by imagining that great white from the movie "Jaws" coming up at him from the deep. Pulling his head out of the water he gasps as cold as ice air rushes into his lungs like water as he runs a hand through his wet hair. "Well now I know there's fish, but that abyss makes me uneasy. I really hope I don't have to go down there at some point." He whines aloud like a child who had just been told that they had to eat they're veggies.

He looks to his hands and nods. Alright so if I were to make a sort of pond like Brian from "The Hatchet" did, then maybe I could catch some fish. He thinks to himself as he sighs softly. "If only life were like a...oh wait. It is." He deadpans and looks to his hands. "Dragon Claws." He says evenly and his hands morph into his claws and he stabs them into the edge of the lake making a smallish pond before taking some rocks and forms a small wall to allow fish in, but not out. "I just hope this works..." He mutters out and gets to his feet after his claws return to being hands.

Looking to the woods he wonders if he could make some sort of tools to help him with making a bed, maybe even find a rabbit. With that in mind he jogs over to the woods that surround the clearing and cave in search of food and then wonders what else could be in there that might be a danger to himself. The thought leaves his mind as he remembers that he can turn into a freaking dragon and gains a new found courage.

Walking through the trees silently he moves in a crouching position as to not alert any kind of prey or predator in the area near him. The bush behind him rustles slightly making him spin around and mutter out lowly, 'dragon claws...' and crouches down lower as to prep himself for a fight that may or may not present itself to him at the moment.

A doe walks from the rather tall bush and stares at him with wide eyes as a fawn steps from the bushes and looks at him strangely. He lowers his claws and sighs softly in relief before smiling lightly at the two mammals. 'just a doe and her fawn, nothing more.' He says softly from under his breath before holding a hand out. The fawn sniffs his hand as the doe watches on with curiosity evident in her large round eyes.

He gently brushes a finger against the fawns forehead gently. The fur feels amazingly soft against his pale skin as it moves it's head closer to his hand as if it were enjoying his touch. He smiles lightly and rubs her head gently between the ears before hearing a twig snap. The three of them freeze and a low growling meets their ears. He turns around slowly and see's a large wolf that looks to be the size of a Buck.

Oh shit! He thinks as he watches the wolf eye him and the two deer with a hungry gaze before it snarls and moves in closer to them. He narrows his eyes and brings his claws back through a thought instead of speaking and quite possibly getting the three of them killed and becoming food. The wolf snarls as it lunges at them and he swings his clawed fist to the side punching the wolf upside the head and into a tree.

It yelps as it collides with the tree before getting back up to it's large paws and snarls down at him. He growls back as he thinks of his dragon form and keeps his eyes open as a slight pinch of pain shoots through him. Strange flames circle around him and as he spreads his arms out he releases a low pitched roar in warning making the wolf "roar" back before lunging at him. He turns to the side and slams his tail into the wolfs side and into another tree before it jumps at him after recovering.

He holds an arm up and the canine bites down onto his forearm. He grits his fangs as the wolfs teeth manage to lightly pierce through his armor like scales. He swings his arm down to the side ripping his arm free while causing a few of it's teeth to fly out of it's jaws. With a pain filled howl the large wolf steps back from him before dashing to the side and moves to bite at his leg with a growl. He grunts in pain as the beasts fangs manage to sink into his upper thigh and pulls him to the ground as it presses it's claws to his chest.

He growls and stabs his claws into it's shoulder making it release him to yelp and he takes this time to use his tail to knock the wolf over to it's back. He struggles to his feet and as his oddly colored blood runs down his leg and onto the soft dirt. Looking at the corner of his eye he see's the doe and fawn moving away slowly as the fawn struggles to get away. Come on, get away damn it! He inwardly growls as he rolls to the side when the wolf lunges to bite at his throat.

He uses his tail as a club and uses it to bash the wolf upside the head, dazing it slightly before punching down onto it's wounded shoulder with his sharp knuckles that tear through the flesh like knives. He moves around to the wolfs side and opens his jaws as he bites down onto the nape of it's neck with his gem crushing teeth. It howls in pain and shakes him off while losing a chunk of itself to his great jaws.

Tastes weird. He thinks as he spits out the fur and flesh before shoulder bashing it away as he turns and runs after the Doe and her fawn. He picks the fawn up and keeps running at the doe follows after him as they race away from the wolf who somehow manages to chase after them. He see's his clearing and he rushes out to it where he slips on the soft mud and slides across the ground and into a large rock.

He shakes his head to clear it and looks up to see the wolf stalking up to them and snarls at him with hate filled eyes. Oh shit! He thinks in a hurry as he rolls tot he side as the wolf bites into the rock and he takes this time to stab his claws through it's fore leg at the elbow joint severing it from the body. It howls in pain and rage as it then bites down into his left shoulder making him grunt in pain and stab his claws into it's "armpits" and pushes it onto it's hind legs.

He looks at the lake and he groans loudly. "I fucking hate you universe! Let's do this!!!" He says pumping himself up and pushes the wolf back into the lake and swishes his tail like a snake or gator does to propel himself downward towards the abyss. The wolf releases a muffled growl as he pushes them down farther and father into the dark abyss. He feels his lungs burning and his head going into a haze as he watches the wolf stop it's struggling and becomes motionless.

He pulls his claws from it's body and looks up at the surface of the lake as sunlight gently touches it. He swishes his tail and propels himself upward towards the surface and as he gets closer and closer to it, he see's black dots blotting out his vision. He pushes his body harder and harder as he breaches the surface and gasps large gulps of air into his still burning lungs and coughs heavily.

He pants roughly as he floats to the shoreline and stares up at the clearing sky as sunlight breaches the clouds which part slightly. He smiles up at the sky and closes his eyes, enjoying the heat of the sunlight kissing his face gently. And so begins our story. The story, of Cade's Chronicles.