Chapters Wolf-Dragon: Draca's story
In the world of Equestria, everything is calm and happy. No one remembers Nightmare Moon or Discord, for they have yet to appear to this world or in our case reappear, but there have been battles between full grown dragons and ponies. Sometimes the ponies would kill a dragon, other times the dragon killed a few ponies. For seventy years these killing have stopped with a treaty between the two groups. Now our story begins in Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, where a pearl coated filly with a minty blue mane in a braided pony-tail and tail with angel wings and halo on her flank and green eyes. In front of her was a silver egg with dark grey spots. Above the filly was four adult unicorns, looking like they were to be doing something else, and behind her were her parents, giving her encouraging looks. The filly took a deep breath and focused on the egg with her magic. The filly then heard a soft chirping voice saying, "mama where are you mama". The filly was surprise to hear this but stayed calm and walked over to the egg and spoke softly to it.
"It's okay, I don't know where your mother is but I will take care of you."
"You will?" the voice replied.
"Almost there." the filly said as the crack appeared to grow larger. Then the egg cracks open, showing a silver dragon hatchling with a dark grey under belly and slight fins on its cheeks and a slight bladed tail. The hatchling started to suck on its tail, but the filly still heard the voice.
"Thank you" it said as it started to fade away.
The filly walked over to the hatchling and nudged it, "your welcome". The hatchling grabbed the filly's nose in a hug, the filly just stayed that way until one of the proctors came down.
"Miss Grace," proctor said to the filly that lifted her head up. There was a long silence during which the dragon hatchling hugged one of the filly's front legs. Then the proctor said, "You have now passed the exam. Now you are not only responsible for not only keeping your school work in line but also the dragon you hatched. Do you understand?"
"Yes I do." the filly responded.
"Then you began in a week." The proctor said as they walked away.
After the proctors left the room the filly's parents congratulated her on passing the exam.
"We're so happy for you Angel." The filly's mother said to her.
"We can take care of the dragon so you can focus on your school work." Angel's father offered looking at the hatchling.
Angel shook her head, "No dad, I'm responsible for her and to push her off would be wrong."
"Alright dear just remember if you need some help with your dragon then you can just ask us." Angel's mother said knowing that a baby can be a handful.
"Alright I will." Angel said rubbing against her parents. Then they heard a soft a soft snoring coming from the dragon, this invoked an awe from Angel.
Ten years later (The Cutie Mark Chronicles for the show's timeline)
Angel had just finished her studies for the semester and was heading back to her home when she heard a boom and saw a wave of rainbow colored energy go over her head.
"Hmm...That was strange." She said trotting off, and then she heard a loud snap. She turned her head to see a dragon's head pop out of the exam room for new students. Angel lets out whistle, "that one must be a powerful." She turns back to the way to her house.
She lived in a cottage outside of Canterlot; it was two stories tall it had blue for the two stories and a tiled roof. Angel entered the house and levitated her sadder-bags over to her closet, then call for her assistant.
"Draca, can you please come down here." She called up the stair leading to the upstairs bedrooms.
"Coming Ang." came the response in a higher voice.
As Angel trotted off to the kitchen, a silver dragon with a grey under belly, fins, and spikes. Draca quickly walked, with her hook-like tail blade flopping behind her, into the kitchen to see Angel levitate some fruit onto the kitchen table. The young dragon (spike's size in the show) hopped up onto one of the chairs near the table and asked.
"So how was school? Are you done for awhile?" She asked as she took a bite of an apple.
Angel chuckled at how this little dragon acted like her mother, "You get you flu one time and she thinks it is her job to take care you." She thought to herself then spoke, "It was fine, I'm done for now but something strange happened on my way home."
"What would that be that colt that you like finally said hey to you?" The dragon said as she finished her apple.
Angel blushes and turns away from the dragon. "No, some filly made their dragon grow."
"Wow, must be talented." Draca said grabbing an orange.
"Yes, they must be." Angel turned her head back to her friend with a smile. "Also I have something for you."
"What would that be the reason for that since you know I don't need anything?" The dragon looked confused at her friend.
"Well here is something that I got for a special day, and that day is here." Angel said as she levitated a box with a silver bow on it. "Happy birthday, Draca."
Draca was awestruck, "How did I forget my birthday?" she thought to herself as she took the present. "I don't know what to say I honestly forgot my own birthday." She admitted with a blush from embarrassment.
Angel giggled at the blush, "Are you going to open it and see what I got you?"
Draca opened the box and saw a necklace; it was a big blue gem cut in the shape of a heart and was embedded in a silver chain that matched her scales. The young dragon was so happy that her best friend would do this for her. "I love it, Ang but you know that this will be too small for me when I get older."
Angel nodded, "I know but I enchanted it so when you get older it will still fit."
"I'll carry it always." Draca said with a tear in her eye. The two hugged and had a quiet moment then a knock on the door cause them to split.
"I'll get it Ang." Draca said walking to the front door. Draca opened the door and found a mail pony standing there with an envelope.
"Is this the home of Angel's Grace?" the mail pony asked.
"Yes it is and I'm her assistant so I can take any letters for her." Draca said with pride.
"Alright here you are." the mail pony gave Draca the letter and trotted off. Draca shut the door and headed back into the kitchen. When she got into the room she saw Angel making a cake for her.
"Hey Ang, you got mail." Draca said laying the letter on the table.
"Thanks Draca, I'll get to it later." Angel said as she finished making the batter. Angel then transferred it to an oven safe dish and put it to the oven. Angel then turned to Draca. "Hey, how about we head out for a few while this cooks?"
"Ang are you sure that is a good idea since it would burn down the house...again." Draca said with a sweat drop on the end of it.
"Draca you know it burned down last time from you having a sneezing fit when you had that cold." Angel replied pointing her horn at the oven. The light blue glow appeared around the horn and the oven. "There that time spell should turn the oven off if we run late."
Draca looked at Angel and then the oven then back at Angel.
"Alright Angel if you say so." Draca said still not happy about this.
"Come on you get to chose where we go." Angel said levitating her saddle bags and Draca onto her back.
"So to the gem store then." Draca said as Angel locked her home and headed to Canterlot.
"But I wanted them." Draca wined as she followed Angel into the house.
Angel put her saddle-bags on the table and turned to Draca. "You don't remember your first birthday do you?" She asked as Draca placed her sack down on the ground.
"What kid remembers their first birthday?" Draca asked back with her arms crossed.
"I do," Angel answered staring down the dragon, "and the reason you don't remember it because we gave you too much and you started to grow too quickly so I had to tell you that no matter how greedy you got you would always be my baby dragon. After that you just hugged me for a month."
Draca deadpanned, "So that is why she and I had to move to the guest house at Mama's and Papa's." She thought to herself. "Sorry I might be going through a want phase."
"I understand but right now let's get that cake out so we can decorate it, then eat it." Angel said with a smile. Draca said yay and got out the cake decorating supplies, while Angel got out the cake. It took a few minutes to get the cake just right, it was a single tier with green frosting and half covered in gems.
Draca's jaw gaped at how amazing it looked. Angel this and levitated a washcloth over to the young dragon to wipe the drool off her mouth. "Draca you know that a lady never drools." Angel said with a chuckle.
"Since when have I been a lady?" Draca replied with a giggle.
"Well I did say that I would read it later and it is later." Angel thought to herself as she open the letter. It read:
"Dear Angel's Grace,
Angel finished reading it and thought about it. "Magic...hmm...that name seems familiar and I remember Mr. Mystic..." She then starts remembering that class and how a black colt with a white mane, green eyes, and a wizard's hat as a cutie mark joked with her about how useless it seemed they needed to know how to change a rock into a hat. "Ah now I remember him, I did wonder what happen to him after our graduation since I choose to continue to study to be a mage for the princess."
Angel starts to head up to the bed room that she shared with Draca and she thinks of the choice she was given. "I could bring Draca with me but there might be some dragon hunters still around since I remember reading that the ones on the outer borders use to hunt them." Angel got into her bed and tried her best to go to sleep and put the decision off until tomorrow.
Her dreams did not comfort her about this, it began her and Draca meeting Magic and his family they had a fun time. Angel blinked and Draca had disappeared from her back. Angel looked around her to see if she could find her little dragon. She took just took a step and heard the crunch of a gem under her hoof. She looks down to see it was the necklace that she had given Draca and then she hears the whooping of a crowd as they gathered around a silver and grey lomp on the ground. Angel screams after seeing this, it was her little dragon...her sister...her daughter. "Draca! Draca!" Angel screamed as she rushed to the sill form of her friend and cried.
"Angel!" a voice said as something started to shake her. Angel just shoe them off all she wanted was to have her little dragon back and to hold her.
"Angel!" Angel felt a slap on her face and she opened her eyes and saw she was in her room with Draca looking at her with a fearful look like she saw a horrible sight. Angel saw this and just hugged her.
"Ang, what is the..." Draca started but was stopped by another hug.
"It was all a dream, just a dream." Angel said hiding her sadness in her voice. Draca just hugged her back as Angel cried out her pain.
Angel had just woke them up as the sun began to rise. Draca tried to get Angel to tell her what caused her to scream like she did, but the young dragon got nothing. Angel just said that she was going to the town that the letter was sent from, which turned out to be Lake of the Woods.
"Draca you will be staying with my parents while I'm gone." Angel said getting their breakfast ready for them. The unicorn levitated fruits for the dragon and oats for herself.
"Not that I don't like spending time with mama and papa, but why can't I go with you?" Draca said still staring down the unicorn not going easy at all.
Angel keep her poker face on and said, "As the person that is both legally and morally responsible for you I say that you are to stay at my parent's house while I'm on this trip and that is final." Angel stood up after that statement and went to pack her things.
Draca looked at her food and rolled an orange around on the table. "Whatever caused her to have that nightmare must have shook her to her core." Draca thought to herself as she started to eat the orange and then the apple that Angel had gave her. After Draca finished her breakfast she walk to the stairs where she sees Angel levitate her saddle bags onto her back. Draca tapped her on the shoulder and looked down while she rocked on her heels.
"Ang, I'm sorry for being bratty." Draca said still looking at her feet. Angel didn't reply to Draca, she just put the dragon onto her back and trotted to the front door. She opened it and locked it; she then shut the door and head to Canterlot.
When the two got to Angel's parents' house it was midmornig, there house looked like a typical canterlot house for the middle class. As they entered the front yard a forest green mare with a blue mane with a metal gate with clouds under on her flank with blue eyes. She came over and hugged Angel.
"Sweetie, I haven't seen you in ages and how has my little dragon been." the mare said to Angel and then nudging Draca.
"I'm fine mama, Angel got me this necklace for my birthday." Draca said tugging on the necklace around her neck.
"That is very kind of you Angel." The mare said looking at the still stone faced pony.
"Mom," Angel said keeping her stony look on her face, "Do you and dad mind if you watch Draca for me while I'm out of town."
"Sure, but why aren't you taking her with you?" Angel's mother ask her daughter.
"It is to far away and I want to make sure she is safe, also I want to make sure that the ponies in that town aren't "hunters"." Angel replied with a wink on hunters. Angel's mother understood and levitated Draca off of her daughter's back and onto her own.
"Have a safe trip, my sweet little Angel." Angel's mother said kissing her on the cheek. Draca waved to her as Angel walked away, only stopping to wave back.
Wolf-Dragon: Draca's story
In this part we will switch from Angel's POV and Draca's POV. Also wolves are now canon in the show, my wolf will not be a timber wolf but a gray wolf. Warning this will have blood and a look at a pony half dead, note this will be down played.
Enjoy
~Toa Coy~
Angel's POV
I felt guilty for leaving Draca with my parents, even through she in capable hooves. Still that dream...that horrible dream has haunted me since I woke up, I really need to get my mine off of it. I lost track of time and walked into the train station, with a sour face. I was thinking of ways to get the dream out of my head when I bumped into the ticket booth. It hurt but I just shook it off and saw that the mare, who was the ticket taker, smile at me in a friendly way. She must like her job or she is just hoping to leave soon, I thought to myself as I asked, "Excuse me but can you please give me a ticket for a train heading to the Lake of the Woods." I smiled trying to hind my worry and pain.
The ticket started to print and the mare said, "Your in luck this is the last train heading that way for some time."
I stood there wide eyed at this but I went back to normal and asked, "When would the next train be going that way?"
"About two weeks or so, that will be twenty-five bits for the ticket and overnight charges." The mare said with a smile.
I levitated her the bits and took the ticket. I read it and it seemed I had a ten minute waiting period for boarding on the train. So I went to a bench and sat there but to avoid the horrible thoughts of Draca's end, I thought of the colt she always liked, and Draca always teased her about. I close my eyes and I see a dark navel blue colt with a blue and black mane and tail, his leathery wings wrapped around me and his muzzle next to mine. In my mind I was about to kiss him when a whistle awoke me from my daydream.
I looked at the train and then at my ticket, "Twenty-Ten". This was my train and I trotted onto it. It was twenty minutes before I left the station. During that time, I wrote down information of when I would be back. Spell checking my letter I sent it to Draca, hopefully this won't cause her any trouble.
Draca's POV
It has been a few minutes since Angel left, I hope she has a good time and haves fun on the trip, and Mama had just took me inside of her and Papa's house. It still looked the same: Same old fire place that I remember falling asleep in front of, Same plush sofa and chair that Angel would read to me in, and the same old rug that cause Mama to have black mail pictures of the two of us. I took a deep breath and smelt the same old scent. "It's good to be home." I said as all the past memories came to me and all the ups and downs that followed them.
While I was caught up in nostalgia Mama went into the kitchen, I know this because her voice came from there. I turn and thought to myself, "I can always come back." I sighed and ran into the kitchen, hey when your legs are shorter then your arms you tend to run instead of walk. When I got there I saw that she was chopping up vegetables and putting them into a pot. I looked at her and asked what did she need?
"Nothing I just wanted to tell you that you needed to wash up for dinner." She replied as she starts to stir the stew.
I nodded and headed towards the bathroom and after climbing the stairs, why nopony thought of putting one on the bottom floor is beyond me. I entered the room to see the same setup as Angel's and my house. I was washing my hands and under my claws when I heard the front door open and close. I didn't know if it was papa or not but I still dried my hands and ran to the stairs. Once I had a clear view of the door I saw a the white stallion with a light brown mane and tail and a gavel on his flank. I knew only one pony that could be and I took the stairs two at a time and then I dived bombed him yelling with glee, "Papa!"
He turned just in time to see land on his back and had the look of "Oh No!", when I was younger I would always do this when they watched me. I just laid on his back and remembered all the good times we had together; the time he taught me how to fish, when he made me a leather backpack for my items I would bring over, and the time he took me gem hunting.
He must have seen the look on my face and that I was reliving past memories with him. Since I got old enough to take care of myself I saw less and less of my mama and papa. He just trotted into the kitchen and kissed mama. I stayed like this until dinner was ready.
I had a displeased look on my face but when the stew was put in front of me and that was all but forgotten. I was about to dig in to the stew when I felt some thing like a burp and my fire coming up from my throat. I hopped up and ran to the front door. When I got there my normally silver and gray face had turned beet red and swelled up like a squirrel's when it stores it's nuts. I made it to the front door and opened it. I sent a pillar of blue fire above the walk way and when it was over I saw a scroll laying on the ground. Angel really needs to use that more often that was bigger than the last one, I thought of myself as I picked up the scroll.
"What was all that about? Was it the stew. Because I can make something else for you." Mama said as she started to levitate the stew but I shook my head and held up the scroll.
"How did you get that?" Papa asked with a raised an eyebrow.
I went to how after Angel started her higher magic I started having to send her work in less as she learned to do it her self and since I don't use it much it increases even if I just get one thing. They looked surprised but nodded all the same.
"So what does it say?" Mama asked putting the stew down.
I read it off and I deadpanned at the end. Two weeks, I have two whole weeks with Mama and Papa but that is two weeks without Angel. Oh fate you are a double edge blade, I thought as I heard mama call me.
"Draca are you okay?"
I just thought of it and smiled, I'm been given a chance to spend so time with my Mama and Papa, since I read that dragons live a long time I'm going to us it to my advantage.
"I'm fine." I said with a smile and returned to my seat and started eating my stew.
Third person POV
Angel had a lovely dinner on the train and Draca enjoyed her time with Angel's parents. As night fell on both of them they dreamed of each other, but one of them began to have another nightmare of the other dying in their hooves. While Angel is having the nightmare, Draca started to toss and turn as if something was on her back. Little did she know she was changing from a baby dragon into a young dragon.
The two weeks passed quickly for Draca and over that time she grew to Angel's height. During this time she spent most of it with Angel's mother, since Angel's father worked for the justice department as a judge. When Angel's father had time off he went fishing with her and gem hunting. Almost every day Draca would receive a letter from Angel until one day when the letters stopped. Draca was worried about this but she couldn't do anything but wait.
Another week passed and Draca grew another foot and it was getting hard for her to get out of the house. Finally Angel's parents had to kick her out of their house, not out of spite but because they might cause them to lose their house.
Draca had tears in her eyes as she moved out of the house for one last time. Angel's parents tried to sooth her but it only helped a little. Without a home to return to Draca did something that she should have done a week ago and that was go and look for Angel. One problem, her wings were underdeveloped, but she knows of one person who might help her.
Draca ran as fast as her, now longer, legs could carry her. She was out of breath as she treked to a cloud house; it was gray but silver outlined. Draca tried to flip her wings, and got lift, but she just couldn't get up high enough. So did the next best thing, a signal fire. She took a deep breath and a pillar of blue fire shot through the cloud.
[inside the cloud house minutes before]
A dark navel blue colt with a blue and black mane and tail, leathery bat wings, and three circles in the form a triangle on his flank was laying on a coach thinking of a certain a pearl coated mare with minty blue mane and tail.
"My kind and beautiful Angel, where are you?" The colt asked himself when a pillar of blue fire caused him to have a hole in his floor and a hole in his ceiling.
The colt looked down and saw Draca standing with a worried look, she did just cause damage to somepony's home.
"What the hay is wrong with you, you could have fried me!" the colt said with an angry look on his face.
"Sorry Leather Wing, but I need your help." Draca said apologetically.
Leather looked at Draca in surprise, since he wasn't called anything other then freak. Then he did a double take and remembered how when he was with Angel she talked about her dragon and how she loved her. He then spoke again only with a little bit softer voice.
"Your Angel's dragon?"
Draca nodded and waited as Leather flew down and saw that she was a head or two higher than he was. He then did another double take. Leather then started to laugh at some unknown joke. Draca looked at the colt with a confused look.
"You can't be Angel's little dragon, probably can't even fit on her back." Leather said in between laughs.
Draca was rather miffed at this and proceed to jump, flap her wings to slow her down, and landed on Leather's back. It was safe to say Leather was not happy but he brought it on himself.
"Fine I believe you, now get off." he said as started to buckle under the weight of the dragon on his back.
"Sorry but you brought that on your self." Draca said with a smile then her smile turned into a scowl. "Now the reason I'm here is because a week ago Angle stopped sending letters to me while she was at The Lake of the Woods."
"The first week was about how much fun she and her friend, Magic, were having. She went on walks into the forest around the town and looked at the tree farming that they do up there. Then three days before she was so post to come home she wrote that a stallion in a cloak with an eye patch started to follow them from place to place." Draca was about to continue when Leather interrupted.
"Why didn't she just zap him with so magic? She is pretty tough."
Draca nodded and thought the same thing, but she remembered that Angel once said if I always relied on my magic then I would be weaker then if I just relied on my hooves.
"I don't know but she always preferred a straight up fight over using her magic." Draca replied.
Leather just faced hoofed and shook his head. "Well buck, that girl has such a hard head."
"and yet your madly in love with her." Draca said with a playful smile causing Leather to blush.
"Come on we need to get to the train station and get on a train heading to The Lake of the Woods." Leather said while he used his wings to hide the blush on his face.
"Sorry to disappoint you but the ponies over there have already told me that I can't fit in the passenger cars and I don't want to travel in a cargo car." Draca said wearing a scowl again.
"So how do we get there?" Leather asked not liking the look he was getting from Draca.
"We fly there or rather I fly as far as I can then you carry me with my wings adding some lift." Draca answered.
Leather sweat drop and fell down with the look of disbelief on his face.
"Oh come on I'm not that heavy and if we don't get moving then you going to have to carry a heavier dragon." Draca said with some blue flames coming out of her mouth.
Leather got up and got off the ground, Draca then grabbed his forelegs. Draca told him that the town was in the wooded area to the northeast of Canterlot. It took three days for the pair to get to the town, due to Leather stopping for rest and Draca getting hungry along the way, when they walked in to the town most of the ponies just ignore them. Some where friendly and helpful, one even pointed to Magic's house. The pair thanked the pony and headed to a small shack that has seen better days. When Draca knocked on the door it fell off.
"You need to learn how to control that strength of yours." Leather said as a black unicorn colt with a white mane came to the open door way shaking.
"Who are you people? Please tell me that your not with Hoodwink, please!" Magic said as if death was on his door step.
"We don't even know who you're talking about, we are just looking for a mare by the name of Angel's Grace." Leather replied to Magic.
"Then you're to late she might be..." Magic started but then he flew back into a wall with Draca grabbing the fur on his chest and crying.
"Don't you bucking dare finish that sentence, she is alive and until I see proof otherwise she still is!" Draca said crying her blue eyes out.
Leather just looked at Draca, a powerful creature that just broke down and cried like a foal. Leather walked in and put a hoof on Draca's back.
"It will be alright we well find her." Leather said in a soft voice and then turned to Magic. "You were the last one to see her so you must know where this Hoodwink took her."
Magic nodded and asked if Draca could release him, she does, and he leads them to a shady area where a cabin that looked like it was about to collapse. Magic was shaking worst than when Draca grabbed him, and with good reason, in front of the cabin was a pair of earth ponies that were a head taller then Leather but shorter than Draca.
Draca wanted to run in there and tear the one who dared harm her Angel, but Leather kept her in line.
"If there are guards here then they may have her in there and hurt her more before we can save her." Leather said in a hushed voice.
As the trio started to leave a charcoal black unicorn stallion with an eye patch, blood red mane and tail, and a single deep purple almost black eye looking at the group. Magic was now hiding behind Draca like a foal hiding behind it's mother.
"Well what do we have here." He said trotting up to the group and started to circle them, like a hunter about to go in for the kill, "A freak, a chicken, and an overgrown lizard."
He kicked dirt in each of them in turn and at was ticking Draca off. When the stallion turned his back on her she lunged at him with her claws drawn like knife blades. The stallion just in time to see that he was had made a big mistake. Draca held him to the ground with the intent to kill him but kept a level head for the most part.
"You done goofed dude, hasn't anypony told you that you don't tick of a dragon." Leather said walking over to Draca and the stallion.
The one eyed stallion just laughed at this, the laugh was one of insanity, "She was right, that hussy was right when she said her dragon would come for her." He said still laughing. "Oh she held out the longest of the mares that I had my "fun" with couldn't even touch her for a week. She kept trying to stop me and then she used up all of her magic. I finally had my fun and then I threw her out into the woods to die."
Draca lost it and started to claw at the stallion and left shallow cuts as he coated himself in magic. Leather saw this and just kicked the stallion in the head. It was enough for the stallion to be K.O.ed and then Leather got Draca off of the stallion.
"Draca snap out of it we have our chance to save Angel if we hurry." Leather said as he tried to get her to focus on the fact that Angle was justed dumped alive. Just then a howl like a timber wolf was heard. Draca got the message and ran into the woods with Leather and Magic in tow, the latter just happy to get away from the psycho. There they saw a pack of wolves, not timber wolves but gray wolves, surrounding a crimson and white lump on the ground. Draca ran into the middle of the pack. A sandy brown wolf seemed to stay away from the pack like it realized that this was not food but someone's loved one. The others of the pack just saw this as more food. Draca had held in her fire; all the pain, loss, and sadness was put into this and released in a large plum of blue fire.
This cause the wolves to run but the sandy brown one stay and looked at the dragoness for a moment and smiled with a tear in it's eye.
Draca collapsed near her beloved sister and started to cry; Angel's normally bright pearl white was painted dark crimson from all the bloody cuts,some where deep and others where shallow, all over Angel's body . All Draca felt was numbness. Then she her a voice that she missed so much.
"Hey D. what took you so long." it said in a happy tone.
Wolf-Dragon: Draca's story
This shall be the last part in my prequel for my story Wolf-Dragon's pain. There will be killing in this part. Blood only no gore. Enjoy
~Toa Coy~
Draca's eyes dilated as that one voice echoed through her mind. The voice that she thought she would have lost forever. The voice of a friend, a sister, and...a mother. Draca stayed there to, what seemed to her, years reliving her memories with Angel. A groan snapped Draca back to reality and saw Angel started to move like she was going to stand up but fell down. Draca turned to Magic and gave a pleading look.
"Magic can you heal her?" The dragoness asked as a tears formed in her eyes.
The unicorn stallion nodded and neon green aura appeared around his horn and Angel's body. It took ten minutes to heal all of Angel's minor cuts and lessen the deeper on but it wasn't long before Magic started to pant from exhaustion. When the energy dissipated Draca pleaded for Magic to keep going, but Magic argued that if he continued there would have been two ponies to carry back instead of just one.
While the dragon and unicorn had a heated discussion Leather trotted over to Angel. She smiled at him and he smiled back, but Angel's face cause him to tear up. Her once smooth and normal looking face was now dressed in matching black eyes and whelps. Leather tried to hold them but his tears flowed like rain from a dark rain cloud.
Angel knew that was in rough shape, but when she saw Leather start to cry like a foal she felt like she was in trouble. When she first started hanging out with him after some bullies were picking on him for having his dragon like wings instead of the feather ones that pegasi normally had. Leather was in rough shape, not as bad as Angel was now, but the bruises were hard to miss even in his dark coat. He was a little cold to her at first but she never saw a tear appear in his eyes, pain yes a tear not at all.
Angel put on a brave face and started to raise up but her legs were weak and she fell only to try again. Leather rushed to her side and helped her up. Angel nudged him and thanked him for his help with a kiss on the muzzle. Leather blushed hard and heard a fit of laugher from his left where Draca and Magic were.
Angel didn't care she wanted to let her feeling known to Leather but just as she was about to say it her world started to grow black. Leather used his wing to catch Angel before she even hit the ground, but one of her wounds opened and blood started to flow from it. Draca moved next Leather, who was in mild pain from holding Angel up, and tried to lifted Angel up. To her surprise, and horror, Draca lifted Angel easily and this cause the young dragoness to run towards town leaving the two stallions in the dust.
When the group got to the hospital, Leather caught up to her first then an exhausted Magic, the doctors and nurses took Angel to the intensive care unit. The group waited in the waiting room for a hour waiting for the news. A nurse pony came up and asked if any of them were her related to Angel. Draca said that she was adopted daughter since Angel hatched her egg.
When Draca entered Angel's room she saw that Angel was still out cold but she had a smile on her face. Draca noted on how many cast and bandages that she had on. It took thirty more minutes for Angel to wake up and the first thing she did was hug her now lager dragon with tears in her eyes, tears of joy. Ten minutes later Leather and Magic came into the room with a relief look on their faces.
Unfortunately for our group the one eye stallion started to round up all of the old dragon hunting families to get Draca out of the picture and so he can continue his fun with Angel. He never had the same victim twice, oh it would just make his fun better the pain would be fresh and the scars from their last meeting would be there.
A week has pass and Angel was doing better she now only had a cast on her right front hoof but the doctors said that she need to stay there while they check for any latent disease that they might have missed. Draca almost never left her side, if only to excuse herself. Leather wanted to do the same but the staff said that only family could stay there. Magic offered him room and board Leather agreed and stayed with the unicorn. Magic went to the law-enforcement and told them what transpired, now the one-eye stallion would be on the run.
During the eight night Draca awoke to a chanting, thanks to her new hearing that her maturing gifted her a few days ago, it sounded angry like a mob. Draca was confused by this since nopony had seen the one-eye stallion for almost a week, so why was there a mob? Then she heard the chanting and ice formed in her veins. The chanting was "Get the Dragon! Kill the dragon!". With her hearing the mob could be a few feet away or a mile away, as she had yet to determine distant with her new hearing. Draca thought of what would happen if the mob saw her with her friends would the mob turn against the ponies that stood with her. If they wanted her then they got her, the ticked off dragon that might be what they wanted.
Draca's wings grew stronger and larger during the week, so she got a running start and jumped allowing her to glide a few pony strides then landed and started the whole process again. It took Draca a few of her "gliding" to get to where the mob was at and, much to her annoyance and horror, the one-eyed stallion was up on what looked to be a stage. The stallion's acid tongue wove lies on how he saved the mare in the hospital from a horrible dragon that used the mare as a save, and how he saved the mare from the "beast". Then sent his two "friends" two take her to the hospital when a dragon-winged freak pegasus and cowardly unicorn got to her first and said that the dragon was the one who saved the mare.
The mob cheered for the lies and booed the truth. Draca was fuming as this rally went on until a small blue flame licked her lips and a pony saw that and raised the alarm to the others. The one-eyed stallion saw who it was and sent the mob after Draca. Draca made an arch of flames that blocked most of the ponies but the unicorns in the mob snuffed out the flames. While her flames failed in stopping them it let Draca do her "gliding" trick to allow her to enter the trees. In the trees she used her legs and wings to jump from tree to tree to stay ahead of the mob. Some pegasi followed her up there and started to throw stones at her.
Draca was hit by a heavy stone in mid-jump which sent her falling into the hard ground. She didn't hear a snap or felt any pain so she could still run. When she leaned on her arm she felt liquid running down her right arm. She dared not look at it and putting it at the back of her mind and ran. Draca tried and keep her arm from moving, but this slowed her down. Her wings were so sore from the evasion of the mob and locked against her body. She still had her fire but that would drain her strength if she used it, so all she could do is run. Deeper and Deeper she went into the forest until she fell on her good arm gasping for air.
Try as she might the mob was nearing her. Most of them have a murderous tint in their eyes, none more then the one-eye stallion.
Draca felt as if this was her end. She was going to die by a mob of mislead ponies. She silently thank celistia that Leather could keep Angel safe from the monster in front of her. She made her peace with herself and wait for her world to fade to black for the final time.
The one-eyed stallion saw that Draca had given up and he just smile, a creepy smile that would cause Draca's scales to crawl if she still had not shut her eyes. A black aura appeared around his horn and started to form a sword. He commanded the magical blade to fly straight and true, but as the blade near Draca a wolf's howl was heard and that was enough to cause the stallion to lose focus. Many of the others were shaking for the howl sounded like a timber wolf. The one-eyed just scanned the forest for where the howl came from when a brown blur ran from one tree to another.
The stallion thought it was just somepony afraid of their shadow and paid it no mind and started to reform his blade. Before he could fully form the blade he was tackled by a sandy-brown wolf. The wolf snarled at the stallion as it moved closer to Draca. The stallion started to get ticked off and started to charge up a powerful spell to end this meddling wolf and dragon so he could get his prize. The wolf saw this and charged the one-eye stallion with his jaws wide open. Then a wet snap was heard by Draca and the mob. The wolf released the stallion and backed up to where Draca was still laying with her eyes locked on the wolf.
The mob started to back away from the wolf, if that "mighty hero" was killed by that wolf then what chance do they have. The mob ran leaving their dying leader alone with the wolf and dragon. The one-eye stallion spoke his last words for this world.
"Wel...done you w...won, b...but you lose. They will hunt you down and make it so...so you can't sneeze with...out them being there." The stallion said and then laughed his creepy laugh that was slowly died away.
The area was quiet for a moment; no mobs, no crashes, and no howling. The world stopped for one moment then the creatures of the night began their nightly song that few listen to. The wolf walked over to Draca and started to walk around her like he was checking for wounds. The wolf stopped in front of her and spoke.
"Did that mob hurt you?" it said in a deep tenner voice.
"Not to bad, but I landed on my arm wrong." Draca said lifting the arm.
The wolf saw the wound, which was still bleeding, and shook his head in disapproval.
"You need to get to that healing place in the pony's settlement." The wolf said as he started to sniff the air.
"Your right, my sister might have woken up by now." Draca said as she got up using her good arm to do it.
"So there is another dragon in the settlement?" the wolf said as he followed Draca as she started to head back to the town.
"No she is a unicorn." Draca replied to the wolf.
The wolf waited a few minutes to speak up that they were going in a circle. Draca huffed and said if he knew the way then led. The wolf took point and it took a five minutes for the pair to make it back to town. By now it was early dawn, some of the village ponies started to head to their jobs; be it a merchant, a police officer, or a member of the city counsel. A pony walked by them and stopped in its tracks. Draca wasn't paying attendance to that pony she and the wolf just kept walking to the hospital. When they got there the staff saw Draca's arm and started to bandage it up.
During that time, a nurse finally noticed the wolf and screamed. The wolf just faced pawed and asked the nurse to please be quite since most of the patiences were sleeping, he doubted that any would be now. But him talking just made the nurse scream. The wolf just rolled his eyes and walked over to were Draca was. As he was about to enter the room the physician that was bandaging Draca's arm came running out to see what the screaming. The pony just ignore the wolf and went over to the nurse. The wolf just trotted into the room and looked at Draca.
"So hows the arm?" He asked seeing that the bandage was covering the top of her forearm.
"The doctor said that it should heal up in about two weeks." Draca replied looking at the bandage then to the wolf. "So what was the screaming all about?"
"A healer finally noticed me and started screaming, then I tried talking to her but she just kept screaming so I came here." the wolf said laying down on the floor.
"They tend to do that with new things." Draca said remembering when Angel first introduced her to her friends and laughed from it.
Draca then looked at the wolf and asked a question that slipped her mind in the forest, "I wanted to thank you for saving me back there...will this is awkward I never got your name."
The wolf lifted his head, looked at the sweat dropping dragon, and replied, "Your welcome and my name is Lobo, which means wolf. Kinda redundant if you ask me."
Draca started to laugh from the last part. Lobo didn't understand and just stared at her. Draca saw that look and she explained that she was named to mean dragon but draco was a boy's name so they changed the o to an a, and that was how she got her name. Lobo understood and started to talk about his life and in turn Draca told her story.
As Draca neared the end of her tale a nurse came in to see if she was okay. Again the nurse fail to notice Lobo, much to the wolf's relief.
"Ms. Draca have you seen a wolf walking around." The nurse asked still not noticing Lobo.
"Miss do you not see my friend next to you?" Draca said with a quizzical look.
The nurse turns and screams, yelling "Security! Security!" as she runs out of the room. The wolf and dragon exchanged looked of disbelief as the nurse hurried back with two stallions in covered security gab.
"Draca I think you might want to tell them that I'm not here to cause trouble." Lobo said with a slight growl in his voice.
"Wolf we are here to remove you by force if we have to." One said narrowing his eyes.
It was a stand off between the stallions and the wolf. Then Draca step between them still wearing a confused look on her face.
"Excuse me gentlecolts but why does Lobo have to leave when he is not as potentially dangerous as me?" She asked looking between the stallion and Lobo.
The stallions looked at the nurse, who was hiding behind them, and one of them asked her.
"She is right ma'am, why do we have to do that?"
The nurse shifted her eyes left and right with a sheepish look on her face.
"Well...I noticed the wolf and thought it was going to harm the patients then it talked and I freaked out." The nurse replied backing out of the room. As the nurse she bumped into Angel,who was in a wheel chair.
"Excuse me nurse but have you seen a dragon about this high?" Angel asked the nurse and used her hooves to show Draca's current height, or at least as close as she could get with her sitting.
"In there miss." And with that the nurse ran off.
Angel shrugged it off and rolled into the room the nurse came out of. Once in the room Angel took noticed of the security officers.
"Is everything alright officers?"
"Everything is fine ma'am, come on Mowgli." One of the officers said as he and the other officer left the room.
"Hey D what was that all about..." Angel started to say as turned towards Draca, but stopped when she saw the bandage on Draca's upper arm. "What the buck happened to your arm!?!?"
Draca scratch the back of her head and chuckled a little. "Well you see..."
Draca started to recount everything that happened since she left the hospital. During which Angel summoned a frying pan and hit Lobo when he moved to quickly.
After two more weeks; Angel was discharged from the hospital, Leather and her started dating, Lobo started dating Draca, and Draca grew another head. Angel went back to Canterlot with Leather, while Draca stayed with Lobo and went looking for a cave in the north as near to Canterlot as they could. Unfortunately they found that other dragons had claims there so they were pushed back to "an area that was cover with ice half the year. Draca sent Angel a map so she and Leather could come and visit them.
A few months passed and blessing were abound for Angel and Draca. Angel had married Leather and a little to much fun on the honeymoon. While Draca was expecting her and Lobo's first and only child, since at her current rate of growth might dictate that she could not gravid when she got older.
It was around Hearts and Hooves day when Lobo and Draca got some unexpected guests. Draca was alone the cave when she heard the clip clop of hooves. This troubled Draca, since Angel and Leather always sent her a note, so these noises made her under easy. Draca went to the smallest space she could squeeze into. She had her wings locked against her body and her breath ready. It might be her dragon instinct, as well as mothering, that is causing her to hide herself as she would normally be near the entrance of the cave ready to fight. She just waited and listen to the voices as they drew near.
"Would you look at this cave Just it seems like a place we ponies would live in." a deep voice spoke in amazement at the state of the cave. Draca took pride in the complement the pony gave her home.
"What do you mean dad?" a younger lighter voice asked quizzically.
"Simple wild dragons normally leave their kills remains on the ground in a heap. While here we have a tidy cave with decor as this it is simply amazing." The father replied.
"Then where is the dragon?"
The father snapped out of his stupor of the cave and started to shift his eyes left and right. At this point Draca deiced to move from her hiding spot to the ceiling to get a better look at the pair. From above Draca saw a red maned and white coated colt and a white maned and red coated stallion with a kanji for honor on his flank. Draca wondered where they came from then she heard a cracking, and the stalactite that was supporting her snapped and fell.
The second she felt the pull of gravity on her body one thought appeared in her mind, "I must protect my baby!". Her wings unfolded from her body and caught the air. She turned over and landed on her fore and back legs. Due to her parental mind concerned over keeping herself, there for her baby, out of harms way she forgot that there were others there.
Draca heard a gasp, then she snapped her head to the sound, and had blue flames lick the outsides of her mouth. The colt ran behind his father and was shaking at the sight of her. While the stallion had a look of amazement on his face, more so then when he saw the cave.
"Just, this is by far the most extraordinary sight I have ever seen. A dragoness gravid at this stage of development ." The stallion slowly started to move towards Draca, who still wear an aggressive look on her face.
Then the sound of padded feet echoed through out the cave. That snapped Draca out of it just enough to let logic command her mind. She noticed the stallion moving closer to her. She lifted up her hand and said stop.
The stallion listen and then spoke.
"Miss, may I ask you a few questions?" the stallion asked in a clam voice with not a hint of fear but of amazement and wow.
"Sure but nothing to personal." Draca replied in an aggressive tone.
"First I would like to know your name and the name of the sire of your eggs that you are carrying." As the stallion pulled out a tape recorder.
"My name is Draca and my mate is out hunting."
"Alright Draca, who is your mother and sire?"
"I was adopted so I don't know who my real."
The stallion was amazed then asked, "So who were your adopted parents?"
"Well," Draca said while looking toward the entrance of the cave hearing the sound of Lobo's footsteps get closer, "a unicorn filly hatched me at the gifted unicorns school in canterlot."
"So you were one of the last ones to be hatched at the entrance exam?" The stallion inquired remembering when he and his fellow members of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dragons lobbing to stop the school from using dragon eggs as a part of a test.
Draca just shrug her shoulder and shook her head and replied, "I don't know that was almost ten and a half years ago, but my mother saw a young dragon grow to a large size when that crazy rainbow thing happened a few months ago."
Before the stallion could ask his next question a howl was heard from behind Draca. The two ponies had expression that said what the hay was that.
"Ah my mate is home, if you would be so kind to excuse me." Draca said with a gleeful tone but still had the aggressive look on her face.
Draca left the father and son looking fearful and picturing what Draca's mate would be like. The stallion saw the other dragon as a little older then Draca, but knew that the only thing that was more dangerous than an angry male dragon was a female protecting her eggs or children. The colt on the other hoof was seeing a giant creature that would dwarf the dragon that just left the room.
A few minutes passed with only the sound of the two ponies breath and the sound of the cave's two occupants, when Draca came back in with Lobo walking by her and had their tails intertwined. Both the father and son went from fearful to confused in ten seconds flat.
Draca turned her head toward the two confuse ponies and said, "Sir I would like you to met my mate and father of the child that I'm carrying."
The colt's jaw dropped while the stallion looked dumb founded by this development.
"Wait until the other RSPCD member hear that a dragon mated with a wolf." Stallion thought to himself.
Lobo looked at the stallion in front of him and sized him up. A few minutes pass and the silents was broken by a rumble. Draca blushed and excused her self to the food that Lobo had caught and dragged home.
When Draca left that part of the cave the men stood there in silence until Lobo spoke.
"So what does the RSPCD stand for?"
"It stands for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dragons." the colt said still hiding behind his father.
Lobo looked at the colt and asked the stallion, "So why did you bring your son to a dragon's cave?"
"Well," the stallion started and looked down at his son and then back to Lobo, "My studies of dragons and draconian lifestyle make it so I don't spend much time at home. Since your cave was close by and it is the weekend, I brought him to not only spend time with me but also so he can interact with such amazing creatures." After the stallion finished he looked at his son with a smile, but Lobo saw a bit of sadness in the stallion's eyes.
That made Lobo think of how, comparatively, animistic his life was to this stallion's and that got him thinking of his unborn child. He knew that hunting and survival would be things that were needed to taught, but other things such as reading, writing, and math could be just as good. Lobo was deep in thought when a crashing sound was heard from the left of the room.
When Lobo looked he saw that the colt knocked over a small bookcase the Draca filled with books that she read as a younger dragon. The colt had an apologetic look on his face. The stallion just shook his head.
"I'm sorry for that sir my son wasn't looking where he was going." The stallion said with an embarrassed look to Lobo. Then he turned towards his son and said, "Just you know that you are to tread lightly in other's homes."
"I'm sorry dad." Just, the colt, said with his head hung low and then turned to Lobo. "I'm sorry Mr. Wolf for knocking over your bookcase, I would like to help you pick up the books and the case."
Lobo just grinned and said, "It is fine, Just was it, I have to get use to this type of thing. And my name is Lobo, not Mr. Wolf."
It took a while to get the books and the bookcase, Lobo having to be gentle so he did not damage the books he handle. At the end Draca came back into the room and saw Lobo sitting with the ponies chatting.
The two ponies left after awhile leaving the pair curled up together and sleeping and think of the future. The good and the bad times to come and the joys of having a child.
Alright that is the end of this part and the beginning of a new one. I have only two things to say I do not OWN Just or the RSPCD they belong to the author of "It Takes a Village" Determamfidd.