The Dragon Law

General disclaimer: I do not own MLP, characters or otherwise, it belongs to Hasbro and such. Aside from the occasional original character I own nothing but the love of the show and its fanbase.

The Dragon Law

00. Life Left Behind [Prolog]

Woo Hoo its twelve-thirty Monday morning, I know what that means! Ha Ha! Time for Ponies! Just a short walk in the dark and I’ll be home in bed catching up on the weekend of updates I missed because of... Work... bleh. I don’t hate work by any means it’s just that I didn’t study Culinary Arts for two years to be washing dishes for a franchise whose mascot is a dopey looking giant boy carrying a even more giant hamburger. Aw well in this economy you take what you can get, am I right? Actually it’s pretty good, I only work three days a week, yet still make enough to pay bills and still have some spending money left over.Clocking out and bidding the night manager a farewell I started the short trek home. The first few times where a bit worrisome, walking home in the middle of the night, I don’t really have any reason to worry I live in a safe part of town and the chances of getting mugged/kidnapped again are very low.

Ten minutes this time, I’m getting faster. After using my super ninja skills to get from the front door to my room, I may or may not have woken everyone in the apartment up in the process. I changed from work clothes to nightwear and got into bed, booted up my laptop and immersed myself into the world of Love and Tolerance until about eight in the morning at which point I all but passed out from kindness overload, or exhaustion from working thirty five hours in three days, whichever.

--Decidet ad Ponticum--

Around four forty five, I was up, showered, and groomed. All and all ready for the day. I went for a walk, something I started doing more recently, not only because it's healthy but mostly because I don’t have a car, or my license for that matter. Seriously! I am almost twenty-two and I still don’t have my driver’s license, when people ask I say it’s because I have horrendous eyesight even with these thick glasses, or because there are already too many idiots on the road already why add one more.

But those are more excuses than anything. I haven’t gotten my license for two reasons: I’m terrified of driving and I’m incredibly lazy. I do not, I mean Do Not trust myself behind the wheel of a motor vehicle; bad eyesight, easily distracted, and the recurring thought of accidentally killing someone all add up to one silly phobia. I am also a very lazy person, I am content to sit home and do nothing most days and going to the DMV, waiting in line, all the bureaucracy I don’t think it’s worth it; as a famous shinobi said “what a drag”.

A ten minute walk brought me to L&C Parkway and all the Shops and Stores I needed to pass the hours. If my roommates were with me I would head to the mall, but by myself...not today; too many people, too many eyes. After three or four blocks I stopped for a late lunch, well breakfast but when you work my schedule you tend to eat dinner for breakfast just about every day. It was a small ice cream place that sold shakes, malts, floats, sundaes, and slushies of all flavors. The hot dogs, oh the hot dogs, of every style and preference the selection was amazing. I settled for a Barbeque Bacon Chili dog and a banana shake, yeah healthy! I haven’t had a good meal since Thursday, I deserve this.After I paid and received my food I went and sat near the back of the outdoor seating area. It was a fairly nice sunny day with a cool breeze that blew swiftly enough to keep you cool, but strong enough to keep you weary of your paper goods. I’m not a crowd person, that’s another reason why I like it here; it’s busy enough to be popular but not so much to be crowded.

I pulled out my laptop and brought up EqD and looked at the posts while enjoying my shake and hot dog. I had just finished the season two finale. Changelings! The fic writers are going to have a field day with this! But they did seem to nerf Celestia quite a bit, either the changeling queen is alicorn tier or a thousand years of peace and quiet has left the sun princess a tad rusty, and what was Luna doing the whole time! All in all I thoroughly enjoyed the finale. After the credits ended and I closed YouTube I got the strangest feeling, turning around and there is a little girl maybe nine to eleven from the looks of it in a green dress looking to be made up from a mesh-mash of different fabrics staring at me, but not just me my laptop as well. She was currently drinking from some forty ounce something-or-another when she said with a straight face, “You know that show is for little girls, right?”

I am not a closet brony but I also don’t shout it to the world, so the best answer I could come up with was a flat, yes. She just stared at me and I stared right back at her. The staring contest went on like that for a bit, I broke the silence by defending my bronydom, “actually a majority of the fans of the show are in my age group, and I’ll have you know that in this troubled world it’s refreshing to have something innocent like this show to lean on,” I explained.

She just took another drink of her beverage then she mockingly rebuked, “Innocent, more like watching little girls. You're a dirty freak.” That got me to laugh, love and tolerate right, I’m not one to lose my temper least of all to a silly little girl, “you are going to have to try harder than that if you want to bother me, anything you say I’m sure my little sis has already gone over it,” I replied.

Her response was something I was not expecting, “You're boring, and I bet you wouldn't be much fun anyways.” The Hell’s that supposed to mean? What was this kid thanking? People nowadays, shesh. I’m not one to be goaded easily but this rude little girl was getting to me. “Oh yeah, that’s me a boring little wallflower. If I were in Equestria I’d be less noticed than the background ponies. I’m going back to my show for little girls now, why don’t you run back to your mommy or daddy?” I calmly retorted.

As I was turning back to my laptop the girl's eyes widened and seemed to grow even greener for a second, probably a trick of the light, before her even expression became very serious. Kids and their tempers, HA! “You think that ‘innocent’ magical fairyland is so great! I bet you just wish you were there don’t you! Always partying with the prancing ponies! Living in their perfect world” she yelled a tear showing in her eye as well as getting the attention of the few people near. Damn, I didn’t want to make the kid cry.  I’m trying to be as polite as possible, she’s a kid a stranger at that. I don’t want to get chewed out by her parents over this.

What happened in the next few moments changed my life forever. She then dropped her drink and reached for my laptop and ran off with it. Sitting at a picnic table it took me a second to get up and give chase, I’m a bit overweight and my legs have had some problems in the past, still, I was pretty sure I could catch her. She rounded the corner of the shop shortly followed by me, but when I turned the corner a foot came out of nowhere and sent me careening towards the ground. As I was falling I got a glimpse of who tripped me, the girl! There was something was wrong with her face, but I didn’t have time to worry about it because the ground was coming up fast. The world went black.

[Note to viewers]

This being my first attempt at storytelling, the grammar Nazis will have a good time with this. Very much of this story has been inspired by Rust’s Ballad of Echo the Diamond Dog and BlackWing’s Griffin the Griffin, both authors are great at their craft you should check them out of you haven't already. I don't want it to be a clone so I am trying to be as original (well as original as a HiE story can be) as I can. My roommates are doing their best to pre-read for me but I trust them as bout as far as I can throw them, sorry for any mistakes missed. Let me know and I will get to fix ASAP. Bahumat, hear my plea and don’t let me make a fool of myself for trying this.