Equestria: The Dragon Child

Guilt... that's all I felt.  It's been nearly a month since they passed and I still couldn't take it.  I still have nightmares of them... blaming me for their deaths.  I think they're right.  I was there, but I couldn't do anything but watch them get shot down.  I couldn't bare to see the blood pooling, so I left.  I left, hoping that it was just a nightmare in which I could escape, but no.  It happened and it was my fault in not stopping it, I was the hero, and I had the powers to stop them.

I sat up in my bed in a cold sweat.  It was the same nightmare I've had for so many nights now.  I got up and wiped my brow, looking around my room I saw a simple setup.  A dresser on the back wall, a bed-side nightstand, a bed obviously, and door at the front side of the room.  I walked to my dresser and grabbed a black shirt and a pair of jeans.  I then walked out the door and to my bathroom.  The first thing I look at is my reflection.  I have somewhat pale skin, deep blue eyes, black hair, and a light blue dragon wing tattoo on my face just under my left eye.

"*sigh* Another day of living like I am," I rub the bridge of my nose, "I'll get through today, but it won't be much longer until I go insane and he comes out." I shudder with a long forgotten memory that made me aware of it.

I continued on with my daily routine until I go to the mail.  The people around me stared at me.

"Of course, when somebody normal walks by they don't care, but when I walk by they stare.  Sometimes, I hate being the hero." I mutter to myself.  When I grab the mail I notice a brochure, I would usually throw it out, but I noticed it was from scientists.  This got me interested in what it was so I looked through it while walking back inside.

Amazingly, this brochure detailed about an experiment that could get rid of my powers, and the test subject would get a lot of money afterwards.  I didn't care about the money I cared about what it would do.  If I got rid of my powers I would be normal and also rid of the monster that is inside of me.  Plus crime has been at an all time low, and the police have been complaining that I slow down so they at least get a couple of them.  Honestly I don't see any downsides to this.  Another plus would be getting rid of the thing that caused me so much guilt.  I had a small smile as I thought of this.

"Guess I better call and schedule for it." I said walking towards the phone.

"Hello, this is the Five Cross Labs your speaking to.  How may I help you?"

"Hey, I was wondering when you're doing this experiment on the brochure?"

"Which brochure?"

"The one that can suck powers out of a person."

"Oh, that one.  It starts around three, why do you ask?"

"I want to be the test subject."

"Okay, come by around three thirty so we can have everything ready for you."

"Alright, see you there." I hang up.

***

Alright, I'm a bit nervous, but that's normal, right?  I mean having your powers taken away doesn't hurt, should it?  I just stare at the building for a couple of minutes thinking those thoughts.  After a few more minutes to gather my courage I step in and was greeted with an abundance of noise.  Drills, bubbles, an explosion here and there, and hammers.  I thought this was a safe environment, but when science is involved I guess it's never safe.

"You must be the test subject am I correct?" I look towards the voice and noticed a lady in a lab coat with a clipboard.

"Yeah, so where's the testing site?" I ask.

"Right this way." she turns away and walks through a door.  I hurry so I don't get lost in this building.

We arrive and she turns back to me, "Alright, first we need to scan you for your powers.  We need to know which state of your body it is in so we don't have any accidents with pulling the wrong part." I nod while she pulls out a table from a device that looks like a CAT scan.

I lay down on the table while it goes through the machine, scanning my body with this electric blue light.  After it stops humming I step off and look towards the scientist.

"Incredible, it seems your powers are all on a spiritual level.  They're not connected on a physical plane.  Harold set the machine up with this data.  Now, don't worry we've run simulations about this so we know what to do."  she gives me a gray jacket with black edges and a fluffy interior.  I look at her quizzically and she says, "This is a special material that should protect your body from the residue power left behind." I nod in understanding and put it on.

It fit comfortably, but I didn't feel like zipping it up so I left my inner shirt visible.  I look at her with a 'let's do this' face.

"If you are ready please stand just inside of the conductor ring." I look at where she pointed.  My jaw dropped in amazement at the machine that would do the job.  It was gigantic, with symmetrical machines on either side and a humongous ring in the middle.

I quickly recover and stand in the middle.  The scientist nodded to the control group and they started up the machine.  It hummed and the ring started to shift, then spin.  I wasn't affected because I stood on a small platform.  The faster the ring spun the louder it hummed until the noise was barely tolerable.  The air started to shimmer around me as I felt a tug on my body, though I didn't shift.  Little pinpricks of light came out of my pores and floated towards the outer edge of the ring making it glow a light blue, almost a teal.  Then something went wrong.

The entity within me started to come out in a dark crimson red light.  This baffled the scientists, but it worried me.  The light wasn't floating like the rest it started to jerk around trying to get back to my body.  Doing this the scientists upped the power thinking there wasn't enough.  Then I didn't realize that this experiment was playing with the planes of reality, and upping the power was a bad idea.  The crimson light couldn't fight any more so it went willingly, but it started to drag me with it.

My body felt like it was being torn apart wanting to stay in this plane of existence, but the entity didn't want to leave with out doing something bad.  When it started pulling the ring started to slow down and slowly turned the opposite direction.  The scientists seeing the pain on my face scrambled to stop the machine.  The consoles exploded with the overload of data, and they couldn't do a thing anymore.  As the ring continued to spin the opposite way the energy that was stolen from me found it's way back, but couldn't stop the ring.  Doing the exact opposite of what it should do the fabrics of reality itself started to tear and implode around me.  Parts were being sucked in and my body was disintegrating before my eyes as I held my hands to my face.

I thought this was the end...but...I was happy about it.  I shed a tear.  If I was going to die then that means I would be able to see my family in some form of after life.  A spike of pain shot through my body as I felt most of my dissolved body go through the rift.  This didn't feel like death though and I felt him start to into a higher place in my mind.  He was starting to get free.  With the last of my willing conscience I took most of his power so he wouldn't hurt anyone badly or last as long as he would have if I wasn't already weakened.  Then everything went dark.

***

It was another day in Equestria.  The sun was shining, the grass rolled in the gentle breeze, not a cloud in sight, Canterlot in  the distance, and finally the somewhat small town of Ponyville.  Everypony was bustling with their own business and continued on their way with content smiles.  That is, everypony except the one in Golden Oaks Library.  This mulberry unicorn mare with a dark violet mane was looking for something, but couldn't find it.

"Spike!  Where's the Pony's guide to animal biology?" The unicorn asked, rather loudly.

"Have you checked in the P section yet?  Even still why do you need it?" A young drake asked.  This drake was purple scaled with green frills and back spikes, with a green underbelly.

"I'm helping Fluttershy with her animals today, so I'm going to need it as a reference." she explained looking through the 'P' section.

"Oh."

"Don't worry Spike I won't be gone long." She reassured him.

"That's not what I'm worried about Twilight." he said.

"What do you mean?" Twilight asked.

"I don't really know I just have a weird feeling today." he looked confused.

"Well, I'll take that into consideration- aha!  Found it." Twilight called to him.  lifting the book up in a sparkling magenta aura.

"Now all I need is to go to Fluttershy's house." she smiled and turned towards the door after putting the book in her saddle bags, and opened the door.

"Bye Twilight."

"Bye Spike." she walked out the door closing it behind her.  Twilight looked up with a smile on her face which quickly faltered when she looked at the sky.

Weird dark-grey clouds started to swirl into a cyclone that went up instead of down.  This wasn't scheduled by the pegasi, even if it was it shouldn't swirl like that.  Unbeknownst to her ponies from all over Equestria looked up at the phenomenon.

'BOOM'

What sounded like an explosion resonated through the area scaring a lot of ponies, making them go into a panic when they saw the accompanying fireball that shot towards Fluttershy's house.  Twilight, fearing for her friend, galloped towards the location only to see the falling object overshoot the home and into the Everfree forest creating a trench.

***

"Fluttershy!  Fluttershy, are you alright!" I started knocking frantically on the door hoping she was.

"Twilight!  What the hay was that?!" a raspy tomboyish voice came from behind me.

"I don't know Rainbow Dash, but it's a good thing you're here.  I need you to find the others.  Whatever landed in the Everfree could be dangerous, or," I raised my voice so the butter colored pegasus inside the cottage could hear me, "the animals in the forest could be injured."

"Got it Twi!  I'll be back in a flash!" she raced off with her signature rainbow trail.

"Could they really be injured?" I turned around to see Fluttershy poking her head out the door.

"Yes, and if we don't look we might not be able to help them." I smiled.

"Twi!  We got 'ere as soon as we could." Applejack ran up to us along with Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie.

"Good, now do you know what happened?  We all need to be on the same basis." I looked around quizzically.

"I was in my boutique so all I heard was an explosion." Rarity said.

"I saw the gigantic fireball do a fly by." Rainbow added.

"Ah saw both." Applejack looked towards Fluttershy.

"Um... all I heard was a loud noise scaring me and my animal friends." she concluded.

"I felt a huge doozy with a tail twitch.  I don't know what it was all I know is that it would fall!" Pinkie smiled and bounced around us.

"Okay, this means we know it was the same thing that caused the noise and the fireball, but we don't know what it is specifically.  And if Pinkie Pie's Pinkie sense is correct that means it's something serious." I thought about the situation.

"Let's just get in there already and kick whoever's flank that caused it!" Rainbow impatiently said.

"Ah'm with Rainbow on this one.  If we don' get over there, there might be more damage then the forest."

"Alright, but Applejack you have to bring your lasso." I explained.

"On it, Twi." she nodded and we set off through the Everfree, again.

***

They made it to the trench and gawked at what they saw, for the exception of Fluttershy who hid behind Rainbow Dash.  Trees were blown to the side, fire came in patches, the earth itself was torn apart.  They started to slowly walk towards the end, and saw a pile of rocks.

"This has to be the most boring climax of all time." Rainbow said.  What they didn't know is that there was a dark being in the rubble.

***

I can't believe this!  My host was willing to toss away his powers, and me, just so he can forget about some lowly humans?!  That is unbelievable!  When I actually had my first time out in the world I killed somebody that caused him a lot of trouble and he doesn't even thank me.  Yes I would've killed others, but that's the point of my existence, to bring the darkness out of his body.

'That's another reason why I don't let you out, you kill people!  I'm not like that and I won't stand for it!' oh great he's trying to fight back.

'Of course I am I'm not going to let it happen again' I drowned his voice out.  Right now he's too weak to do anything, but make me hesitate.

I felt a presence coming towards me, six of them to be precise.  I smiled mentally, mostly because I couldn't do anything under this rock.  I  gathered energy with in my body making me pulse with dark energy.  I then used it to burst through the pile of rocks I was under.

***

When Twilight felt the energy emitting from the rocks she told the others to stand back.  When it burst through though, that was a different story.

Rarity looked ready to faint at the sight of it, Fluttershy jumped into the nearest bush, Rainbow Dash and Applejack stared slack-jawed at it, while Twilight looked at it in horror.  Pinkie for some reason looked ready to befriend it.  This creature was the most ghastly creature they've ever seen.  It looked like it should stand on two legs, with a black shirt some type of blue trousers (A/N: I'm going on a limb here saying that they've never seen jeans before.), coverings on the end of it's legs, and an overcoat.  It's skin was a sickly grey and it's mane was black floating like it was in water.  A mark was under his left eye that looked like a wing, but it was glowing a crimson red.  Though it had draconic wings sprouting from it's back that looked like it was made out of a black energy, it's eyes were the most horrifying.  They didn't look like any thing they were devoid of pupils and color itself, they were completely white.

"What in Tartarus is that!" Twilight screamed out.  It looked down to her with an expression of pure malice and aggression that just spoke the word: DIE!.

Without warning it launched forward at speeds that rivaled Rainbow Dash in her normal stunts, barely missing said pony by an inch.  When it landed it created a crater, it immediately turned around slashing the air where Rainbow flew up and AJ jumped out of the way.  It looked up and was prepared to leap at the prismatic mare when it got a face full of pink.  It stumbled backwards away from a very hyperactive pink party pony.

"HIYA!  I was wondering if you could stop attacking my friends so we could have a party!" she looked up with a huge smile that almost broke the boundaries of her face.

"PINKIE!  This isn't the time!"  Rainbow yelled grabbing her and pulled her away from the dark entity.  It stood there in confusion then it's face hardened  and it growled gathering up energy which worried Twilight.  When it opened it's mouth it scared everyone a whole lot more than when it appeared.  A beam launched out of it's mouth straight for Applejack which she dodged in time to see it obliterate a rock behind her.  It then spread his wings and launched up into the sky to confront the easily fastest enemy in his sights.  This surprised her and she didn't expect the force of the blow when it landed so she was launched even further in the air.

It jerked back surprising him as he let out a grunt.  It looked back to see a lasso going up and around its torso.  It looked back up to see a rainbow trail then felt a very hard thing smash into its chest launching it down into the ground.  Rarity took this as a sign to try to hold the thing down with her magic, while Applejack was hogtying it.  When it was bound Twilight took a better look at it noting that it seemed almost feral in a way, even though it had intelligence that much was certain.  The way it moved, attacked, even just looking at them showed that it was reading their abilities and how they attacked.

"Twilight it would be mighty helpful if you thought of how we deal with this...thing." Applejack said watching over the struggling creature.

"I'm thinking...I don't think that this creature is originally like this." she said electing confused faces among the group and newly entering member.

"Um...unless if you make it friendly I don't think that's going to happen." Rainbow said with slightly annoyed face.

Friendly... why did that give Twilight an idea, "Friendship that's it!  If I can use a memory spell to put ideas of friendship into it's memory it should calm down!"

"W-will it hurt?" Fluttershy timidly asked looking at the creature who started to shred the rope, just barely.

"It probably will cause some disorientation, but it should be fine." she smiled slightly hoping the idea would work.

"Well you, better get started.  That vile creature is starting to break free." Rarity took a step back.

"And the quicker it's done the quicker we can have the welcome to Ponyville party!" Pinkie was jumping in place excitedly.

She nodded and set her horn aglow.  When the spell in mind was ready to activate she stepped forward, albeit a little hesitant.  She leaned her horn down towards the forehead of the creature and cast the spell.

The creature immediately stopped struggling and it's whole appearance started to change.  It's skin turned into a pinkish white, it's hair didn't change color but it stopped flowing, it's wings turned a light blue almost cyan along with it's mark under it's eye.  Speaking of eyes instead of pure white thy developed pupils with  sky blue irises.  This appearance calmed everyone, and took them aback.  I didn't look menacing so Twilight was right, but it had the look of utter fear, pain, and sadness, but the one thing that stood out in it's eyes was curiosity, and the look of pure determination to stop.

This look didn't last long as it went back to dark and scary after five seconds and it's struggles increased tenfold.  It almost broke free when it screamed out and turned into it's lighter counterpart and passed out.  This freaked the girls out, but they looked at each other and nodded agreeing to bring it inside of the nearest house to question it.