One hell of an adventure

The airship made clicking noises as we passed above the sandstorm, to be honest and looked like we were sailing on sand, it looked so cool! I turned to look at Kate and by the the way she has been acting pregnancy was taking effect with mood swings, no joke she cried before we left and now...

“What the hell are you looking at?” She hissed at me and pointed her demon spoon at me. I quickly turned around and just stared out over the side in a cold sweat.

‘Oh Jack, I’m going to FUCKING kill you....’ I almost growled. The ship came to a stop and one of the lead dogs came up from below deck.

“Here we are, the dragon sleeps below the sands here.” I nodded and turned to Kate, this time with a glare just as powerful as hers.

“ ‘Come on Kate, you get to beat the shit out of some down der!’ “ I pointed a claw over the edge. She grinned like a little school girl about to get a pony and jumped up onto my back. I laughed and jumped off the side, trying to fly slowly so I didn’t run into the ground. We landed shortly after and I looked around. “ ‘Right, cover your ears Kate cause it’s going to get very loud.” She did as told and I took in a breath again.

----Princess Sapphire Lotus----

*ROAR!*

The sound flooded the throne room and nearly defend all who were there. “Its already fighting!? Let us hurry quick! Where did it come from?” I spoke excitedly, I loved watching the previous fight! I should make dragon fighting a sport of some kind.

“The west balcony, quick!” My new assistant said getting up.from the small stand next to me and rushing out of the west side door, myself in pursuit with a few guards. When we got there I didn’t need the spell to see the fight it was so close. I almost threw myself over the edge watching.

----Austin----

FUUUUUU- again. This dragon was BIGGER then the last one! And smarter to, that’s not good. I ran circles around him, having to avoid his claws AND his bucking tail that was covered in spikes. The tail slamed down right in front of me as I stopped. “WATCH IT IDIOT!” Kate punched me in the back of the head.

“ ‘I’m doing the best I can here!’ “ I hissed and started climbing up its tail.

“ ‘REMOVE YOURSELF FROM MY BEING!’ “ The dragon roar and Kate held her head. This dragon is going to have a thwack from the spoon soon. I got onto its back as it began to fly.

“ ‘FUCK! DOGS OPEN FIRE! SHOOT IT! BURN IT WITH FIRE’ DO SOMETHING!“ I yelled at the dogs on the ship, I saw them scrambling around on the ship. Soon small doors opened up on the side of the ship and it began to fire......Balls of sand? When the sand hit the dragon it exploded and sent sand everywhere at speeds that could rip flesh. I had to fly like my life depended on it to avoid getting hit. The dragon screeched in pain, even though it hardly put a dent. I guess some of the sand got under the scales and did some really bad- Oh theres the blood. Blood had begun to seep out from under its scales. “ ‘Awesome.’ “ I chuckled. “ ‘Maybe that loosened up the scales a bit, now we can-’ “ I was cut off by the fucking dragon grabbing my tail with one of its claws and moving me right up to its face.

“ ‘You shall pay, foolish beast.’ “

“ ‘Let’s not and say we did.’ “ Before I could make my escape he cut off my tail with one of his claws and let me fall to the ground. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! FUCKING OWW! DAMMIT ALL TO ALL KINDS OF FUCKING HELL! GRAHHHHHH!” I roared and curled up in the sand. Kate got a REALLY worried look on her face as the dogs kept shooting balls of sand at the dragon, who was kind of bleeding to death.

“ ‘Austin!? Hang in there!’ “ I looked at her for a few minutes then found out who I was going to release my anger on.

“JACK! I BLAME YOU FOR FUCKING EVERYTHING! I WILL MAKE SURE YOU FEEL THE SAME PAIN I DID WHEN ALL THIS SHIT HAPPENED TO ME! YOU HEAR ME YOU FUCKING CAT!? YOU, WILL, PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYY!” I roared as loud as I could then passed out.

-----A few hours later.-----

I woke up in intense pain and looked around the room I woke up in before. ‘I really hate being underground, there could be spiders and shit.’ One of the dogs I learned was named Kazi, one of the alphas in the crazy ass den, walked in with a sad smile.

“Hello Austin, I have some bad news and good news.” I facepawed and looked at him. “Bad news is we could not save your tail.” I groaned at this, no more awesome poison tail powers. “The good news is the dragon has been slain and we have made you a new tail from the spines that were on its tail.” Oh well thats good I gue- wait what? I looked down where my tail is and saw metal go right up and into a ball that was almost the color of sand.

I had a fucking mace as a tail, sweet. He smiled wider when I grinned. “So you like it?” I nodded and lifted it up slowly, wondering how it reacts to my mind. “I’m sure you're confused on how you are able to use it,” Pretty much! “We recently had a unicorn come into our protection and we asked him to connect the tail to your mind, so it would feel like you never lost your tail.” I grinned wider as I waved my new mace tail thing around.

“ ‘Awesome!’ “ I chuckled.

“Yes, awesome.” He laughed with me.

“ ‘Wait,’ “ I looked at him. “ ‘You can understand me?’ “ He nodded.

“That same unicorne made us be able to understand you.” I nodded and got up slowly, hey being a big ball of deadly fluff makes it hard to get up sometimes.....

By the gods I’m getting old.

“Are you feeling well enough for your last assault?” I yawned and nodded. Might as well break in the new tail, might just be able to break scales.

“ ‘Alright, where is Kate?’ “

“Um, miss Kate woke up this morning and was very ill, did you know she was-”

“ ‘Makin dem babies? Yes, and I am going to brutally murder the father, bring him back to life, then skin him and wear him as a coat made to fit a manticore.’ “ We both laughed, seems he still has a little hatred for cats. (Fun fact: To me you need to be a member from the same species to reproduce, unless said otherwise by one of the higher-ups.) We both walked through the tunnels that if I described them I would not be able to stop. Soon we began to asend in the system of crazy loop-ti-loop underground sand tunnels that I still don’t know how they stand.

“You are lucky this time around, you are dealing with the smallest of the brood.”

“ ‘Lucky me, still going to be a pain in my now-awesome-looking tail.’ “ I growled. “ ‘You guys going to help again or are you going to see if I don’t get my ass kicked again?’ “

“I bit of both.” He chuckled. “If you are failing then we shall step in, and we will take care of this ‘Kate’, she will share a chamber with most of the to-be mothers, they will help her through her time holding a little one.” I sighed.

“ ‘No really, I’m going to kill him, making me have to go through this shit.’ “ I growled again. “ ‘I’m like the very angry father here.’ “ The dog nodded as we FINALLY got out of the cave. The ship that had taken us on our second run was hovering about 10 feet away. “ ‘Need a lift?’ “

“Yea, thank you.” Kazi jumped onto my back and we flew up and onto the ship. “SET SAIL FOR THE FINAL STORM!” The ship came to life.

----Princess Sapphire Lotus----

I waited, that's as much as I could do at this point. From what my new assistant told me there was only one dragon left so the manticore would come back, but we didn’t know when he would come back. “Princess!” One of the guards ran in, a very excited look on his face. “A ship has been spotted! It is the one from yesterday!” At that I shot up and bolted out of the throne room.

This time I was going to get up close. Nothing will stop me from observing my new pet.

----Austin----

Ok, so we had set sail to say and we were very close to the palace, too close for my tastes. “ ‘Can we get a little further AWAY from the palace? I don’t want to get yelled at.’ “ Kazi was standing beside me.

“Why would they yell at you? The way the princess was cheering last time I’m sure she would not be angry with you, she may very well be your biggest fan.” Whoa, awesome!

“ ‘That’s kinda cool, why would she do that anyway? I don’t even know her name.’ “ I mumbled, he just laughed. He always does when I don’t know stuff.

“She is princess of the Southern Dunes, Sapphire Lotus, and she must be happy you are eliminating the dragons and sandstorms.” That seems logical. We got steadily closer until the ship stopped just outside of the sandstorm.

“ ‘Alright, let’s do this!’ “ This ones for you Disdain. “ ‘ LEEEEEEERRROOOOOOOOOOOOY JIIIIINNNKEEEENSSSS!’ “ I shot off of the ship and into the sandstorm right after I took a deep breath. When I was in what I think was the middle of the storm and reared up and let out the sonic roar. It pushed the sand outwards and away from the area. I looked around while I waited, what I saw was a huge ship fit for royalty.

I think it was.

The ground made a sound, I expected a rumble. Right below me something shot up and hit my family heirlooms. I fell over in pain and started tearing up. “ ‘LADY LUCK! WHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?!’ “ I cried up and slowly pushed myself up. “ ‘Take it slow Austin, really slow.’ “ I then saw what had almost de-throned me.

A bronze dragon the size of Spike, and it had a very aggressive look but I also saw some nervousness. IT WAS SO CUTE! I tackled the little guy and hugged him. “ ‘YOUARESOFUGGINCUTEIWANTTOKEEPYOUANDFEEDYOUANDNAMEYOUSAMMYSUE! Sammy Sue doesn't fit you though, hows about Sands Of Time? No, might get sued.’ “ I thought about it for a while, while the dragon tried to talk to me through my furry hug. “ ‘I GOT IT!’ “ I set him (Or her) down. “ ‘I shall name you, Bronze!’ “ He was looking at me confused.

“ ‘U-um, why did you wake me up mister fluffy thing, and c-can I have another hug?’ “ Oh my gods it's a he and he is SO CUTE!

“ ‘YES! FOR THE LOVE OF THE GODS YES!’ “ I scooped him up. “ ‘And I needed to stop the sandstorms, when you guys sleep you stir up storms, and a lot of people and ponies don’t like that.’ “ He nodded in my fur. “ ‘So, only sleep somewhere there is no sand. Plus you're going to be coming with me from now on, alright?’ “ He nodded again, this kid is just so damn cute. “ ‘Alright, come on.’ “ I held him close to my chest as I began to take off. When we got back to the ship I had begun to explain Bronze, why I took him with me I do not know but he was too damn adorable to kill, and ‘almost going to cry’ face later proved that to all of them.

“Well, you stopped the storms at least.” I nodded at Kazi with a huge grin on my face. “Let us return to the den, you must expect a summons from the princess soon after.” I nodded then stopped.

“ ‘Wait what?’ “ He just laughed at me as he retreated below deck.

-----A few hours later.-----

Kate stole Bronze...

No really, as soon as she saw him she snatched him up and never let me have him back. As of now he is being held hostage by a bunch of mothers-to-be who thought he was too cute to be seen with a big fluffy manticore.

I was sitting in my room reading a bit about the history when Bronze walked in while shivering a bit. “ ‘Hey little man, cold?’ “ He nodded a bit and extended his arms, which made me gladly pick him up ad set him on my back.

“ ‘T-they let me go, then it got cold...’ “ I nodded.

“ ‘Women have that effect on ya buddy, as soon as they let you go it gets really cold.’ “ He leaned down and nuzzled into my fur. “ ‘I’m not a-.......Nevermind.’ “ I grumbled and kept reading when Kazi walked in. “ ‘A word from you about Bronze I will set you on fire.’ “ I growled. He coughed and thought of something else to say.

“The princess has summoned you, she has allowed us to be able to dock right in front of the palace. Kate will be coming with us.” Of course she would, now she wont let me have time alone with Bronze.

“ ‘Alright fine, let’s get this over with.’ “ I grumbled again. As soon as we were on the ship Kate kept saying Bronze looked way too cute sleeping on my back.

---An hour later!---

We slowly got closer to the palace, right now we were over Oasis, sailing over to city made me feel powerful. We soon got right in front of the huge sand colored and blue castle type thing. “We will wait here for you.” Kazi said as he retreated below deck.

“ ‘Those dogs are really nice.’ “ I muttered as I jumped off the ship with both Kate and Bronze on my back. When I suddenly landed in front of the guards their faces were PRICELESS!

“Excuse me boys.” Kate spoke for me. “We were invited by the princess, she wanted to see us.” The guards, after they recovered from shock, opened the door for us and escorted us through the really fuggin huge palace, it felt like we were walking for hours when we finally came into the huge room that was the throne room.

this shall all be yours.

The fuck was that? I shrugged it off and looked around, right in the middle was a fucking pool with a bridge over it that lead up to the elegant blue and golden throne, where the princess sat staring at us, well mostly me. We approached the throne and bowed out of respect. (Kate just leaned forward a bit on my back...)

“So, you are the manticore that has been slaying all the dragons? And adopted one?” She was trying oh so hard to hide the excitement in her voice.

She will try to trick you.

There it was again. I shook my head a bit and smiled at her. “ ‘Yes I am, damn good at it to.’ “ Kate was about to translate when the princess laughed.

“Very good at it! It was like watching a favorite play! Or a show!” Huh, looks like she got a unicorn to make her be able to understand me. “I must say I’m impressed! I did not think it would be possible to break through bronze scales!” She clapped her hooves together a few times. “So I would like to tell you that you shall be my new pet and guardian!” ….....wut?

“ ‘Excuse me? Did you just say that I WAS yours?’ “ She nodded with a happy face.

“Oh its so wonderful! I was thinking about having a dragon tamed but then you came along and just outmatched everything!” She really expects me to go along with this? I began to slowly shift my face into a snarl.

‘This shit is NOT happening again...’ I growled, no one tells me what I can and can’t do. EVER

She will force you to if you do not leave now, she does this with all of her subjects, she even through her assistant off of a balcony because he made a mistake.

Aw HELL naw.

While I was thinking the princess had noticed my change in behavior. “What is wrong new pet? Are you hungry?”

“ ‘No,’ “ I growled and looked her in the eyes. “ ‘I just feel sorry for you just losing my respect, and your leadership.’ “ She got a confused look on her face for a moment then one of extreme anger.

“You dare deny me?”

“ ‘Not only that, but I am going to take your position. You don’t deserve it.’ “ I growled threataningly.

“Guards! Arrest and execute them for threatening me!” See? She is going to try and kill Kate and Bronze because of what I did!

Try, anyway.

I took in a deep breath and let out a sonic roar, making the guards that were coming at us fly back and into the walls while making the palace rumble. I quickly sprinted back into the hall we had come in from.

“ ‘You two get down!’ “ Kate was more then happy to and leaned down, clutching my fur with one hand while the other held Bronze. I broke down the front doors and, again, scared the front door guards witless. “ ‘TAKE OFF!’ “ I shouted at the dogs on the ship. “ ‘NOW!’ “ They began running around and getting things ready. Just then guards burst from the hole that use to be the front door and began shooting arrows at us. “ ‘FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!’ “ I yelled as I got to the ship and hit the deck. “GO!” I yelled and the ship began to turn around. The arrows dinged agents the armored sides of the ship as we started flying away. Soon enough we were far enough to not be getting shot at.

“What did you do!?” Kazi ran up to me as Kate and Bronze dismounted.

“ ‘Challenged her rule, she is a really bad ruler. Hell I could do better, and will.’ “ I began walked towards the opening in the floor.

“So what are you going to do?” He asked. I spun around and glared at him with determination.

“ ‘WE are going to take over, no matter what it takes.’ “

WOO! TIME TO TAKE OVER A NATION! I have been up for three or four days straight working on this, I is tired....