A small crystal pony mare bundled in a heavy hoof nit coat trudged her way from the calm and secure confines of the Crystal Empire, the glow of its shield leaving her behind as she marched on. Her golden mane getting in her eyes before she tripped on a rock hidden in the snow, crying out as tears began to flow from her pink eyes she looked frantically around for her love. She stifled all sounds when she heard a deep roar emanate from before her form, a dark silhouette approaching her.

"Daisy is that you?" a deep voice with a graveled tune to it asked over the howling wind.

"My love, I am here!" the snow covered pony yelled in hopes that he would hear her.

"Stay where you are Daisy, I shall come for you!" he bellowed as his silhouette became larger and larger, revealing a massive form with claws, wings, and a spiked tail.

"Logantis it is time." she managed to say just loud enough for him to hear as he picked her up in a claw, closing it slghtly to shield her from the storm.

"We must find shelter my love, for we haven't much time to lose." he replied, swinging his mighty head about as green flames trickled down his snout.

She remained silent as she coped with the pain, carried by the massive dragon as he plowed through the storm. Looking up at him she could see his glowing green eyes search the snowfall for the cave that they had decided upon using so long ago, knowing that her family would never allow her foal to live if they saw him at birth. She shivered at the thought, for she had been hiding upon the edge of the Empire to avoid her family who had cast her from her childhood home when they discovered who her love was. Her thoughts were cast aside when she felt the altitude change and the storm become muffled, the green eyes of her love peering down upon her weak frame.

"You do not look well since last I saw you dear." Logantis stated, his voice soft and caring, but with a firm curiosity.

"My condition matters not, the foal is coming!" she screamed as Logantis helped her removed her long coat and other garments.

"A proud day Daisy, you did tell your parents yes?" the drake asked, lighting a flame behind her to bring them warmth.

"Yes, but they..." tears were now in her pink eyes, streaming down her coral colored fur, "They disowned me."

Logantis bore a scowl, smoke fly from his nostrils, "You are right, it matters not if they approve, what does matter is your safety, I wish you had told me earlier my love." he said softly as he tempered his rage.

"What do you think of a name?" Daisy asked, rubbing her swollen belly as it moved slightly.

"Given the circumstances that this is the mightiest storm I have seen since three hundred years..." Logantis paused, "What do you think of Tempestus?"

"Tempest, as a strong storm mixed with the High Gothic nature of our era, yes I like it, little baby colt Tempestus." she smiled before her face contorted in pain.

Logantis stroked her mane as his eyes began to glow an intense green, before him his love was lifted into the air by a green aura as she stopped screaming, her pain ebbing away with every second of the dragons magic. A dark grey head popped out of the mare womb, followed closely by a pair of hooves and wings. Soon enough a small pegasus colt with dark grey fur and a dark red mane laid in his mothers hooves, his leathery wings scrunched up on his sides as his big red crystal pony eyes stared up at Daisy.

"You are my Tempestus, you shall grow to be stronger than the storm we named you after." Daisy said weakly as Logantis eyed her worriedly.

"I am proud to call you my son. Tempestus, welcome to your new life." he soothingly said.

The foal remained silent, not a single sound coming from him as he inspected his two parents with those large eyes. Looking away from his father his eyes came to rest on his mother, who was looking at him with a loving smile.

"Tempestus," she began, a lone tear of joy trickling down her face as she gently felt her foals face with her hoof, earning a 'yip' from the said foal, "You are such a handsome little foal, and I am glad that I got to bring you into the world my little stallion." she said before coughing quietly.

"Daisy?" Logantis said, sensing something was wrong as he moved his snout closer, careful to not let the storm within the cavern.

Tempestus looked up at his father, their snouts were almost touching as the drake stared into the glassed over eyes of his one love.

Tempestus looked at his mother who held him close to her chest which was rapidly growing colder, the shimmer of her coat fading slightly. He reached out with his tiny hooves only for a claw to pick him up, turning his tiny head he watched his father shed a single tear before he covered the tiny dragon pony in his claw and left the cavern forever.

Releasing a mighty roar that suppressed even the sounds of the wind in the storm Logantis spread his wings and shot into the sky, now only concerned with his foal's well being. Food, water, and warmth is what the child needed now, not a cold cave in the middle of the frozen north.

Beating his wings hard he climbed to the appropriate altitude for travel and opened his claw slightly so his foal could see the young Princess Celestia's sun.

"The times are changing young one, soon ye shall be accepted into your race, but until then I shall protect you as a father should, my son." he said beating his wings to attain a more comfortable gliding speed.

Tempestus smiled up at him, unaware that his mother had just passed away after giving him life and that his father was a massive fire breathing dragon, to him all was right in the world.

Author's Note

And thus I begin the tale of Tempestus, or rather Tempest Knight as I have written before, though you should know that this will be the only time you see it from a third person view as it wouldn't make sense to start it in a first person view from birth, lol.

Comments about the fic below, if you have a detailed review or aggressive compliant please PM me as I would rather fix it with a select few knowing than the whole of FIM fiction knowing the screw ups. If this is too short please note that I will be aiming for 3,000 words a chapter and that this was only to explain his birth and parents ever so slightly. (As you can see by the latter it was a forbidden love, no worries as Tempest shall one day discover everything about his parents)

Enjoy

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Edit: Changed in story name from Tempest to Tempestus to fit with the time period.