Ash

Ash, the remnants of something destroyed by embers and flames. The name was given to me by my captors after I burned the cage I was born in, to cinders with ease. Though, it severs them right to put a baby dragon into a wooden cage in the first place, but they made sure I didn't escape afterwards. In a monotonously grey stone prison with only candle light from outside a steel door was my home.

I spent many days counting the time alone and shunned from the world. The only times where I came close to the outside world was when a blue mare with wings and a horn came to visit to give me food and small gifts of comfort. Her name was Princess Luna and I think I considered her a friend. My only friend at the time. The Princess would tell me stories about a world filled with warmth and life like no other. Each time she spoke with her motherly tone about the outside, my heart was contempt with being in my prison until "They," appeared.

The ponies in gold armor claiming that I belonged to them came one day without explanation and bound me into another cage made out of metal. They made sure that I couldn't see anything or hear anything. I called, I cried, I begged for help, to return to my grey stone box to be in the safety of Princess Luna, but no one came, no one heard. For what it seemed like days within my cramped cage, there was a brief pause of movement before I was able to hear again, to see again. That's when I saw the outside world for the first time.

At first I was frightened, terrified at all the color and at the same time, I was amazed. I stared in awe at the tall brown things that towered over me with small green things that swayed to a gentle, unknown force called the wind! Below that, strange creatures scurried over a mosaic of other vibrant colors. Some had white horns that dwarfed me and others with long ears and bushy tails that were much smaller than me. I could not take my eyes away, nor could I move from the paralyzing sight before me.

"This is Equestria, the outside world that Princess Luna told me about in her stories!"

Once I finally got hold of my barrings, I turned around to see if she was there to greet me, but she wasn't nor were the golden ponies that brought me here. M y heart began to race as panic start to sink in. Fear crept up within me as the feeling of abandonment took over.

"Hello?" I called as I frantically searched for any signs of those that left me, but I couldn't find anything.

The sudden sense of everything around me was monstrous. The sounds of the outside world was painfully deafening. I ran to the closest tall brown thing to hide. Never have I felt so afraid before in my short life. I curled underneath my wings to protect me from the blinding light in the sky. I wanted to go back to my dark grey box. I wanted someone to save me! "Anyone, I don't care, but please take me home!" I cried, but after hours of begging. Nothing came, no one came.

I laid there underneath the tall brown thing until the bright light in the sky turned white. Tired and very much alone, I looked around to see that the wild around me was dark and quiet. I couldn't understand what was going on until I looked up and saw the roof. There in the sky, I think, was her moon and her neighboring stars, Princess Lunas night watching over me. It looked just like what she described in her stories. The night sky that loved the dwellers into a peaceful sleep filling their hearts with dreams. I looked up to the night sky feeling a sense that Princess Luna was watching over me, but the thought quickly deteriorated because she wasn't there.

I was alone, abandon. Left in the middle of nowhere with only stories of the world, I am in. I was afraid and happy that I was free, but I am lost and don't know what to do or where to go.