One hell of an adventure

Both Kate and I had our mouths dropped in amazement, a whole city filled with different races of every kind! Including dragons! “You have a good day ma'am, keep him out of trouble.” The guard walked back out of the gate and it closed slowly. I walked forward a bit as I was looking around. There was a unicorn selling enchanted items, a griffin was selling things for map making and drawing, and a bronze colored dragon sitting by a large circle of stones built up some ways. This one got my attention.

‘Kate, think that dragon over there is a blacksmith?’ Kate turned to look at the dragon for a moment.

“More than likely, want to give him the scales we have?” I nodded.

‘Ya, might get armored up! We have enough for that right?’ She nodded and pulled the strung up six bags of gold, gems, and scales in front of her.

“I think we could, I mean we have more then enough money to pay for it and then some! Let’s go!” I walked towards the dragon happily when a D-dog stopped us, his fur was the same color as sand and looked hungry.

“Excuse me kitty lady, but could you spare a gem or two? I have not eaten in 3 days.” Bullshit, he looked just about ready to pop. I growled and took a step forward, which made him flinch back. “I’m sorry! I’ll go!” He ran off after that. Kate patted me on the head.

“Good job, now keep going.” I grumbled some swears and kept walking until we were in front of the dragons ‘forge’. “Excuse me?” I could hear the fear in her voice, I couldn’t blame here, we just got away from the father of all dragons after all. The dragon lifted its head and looked at us.

“Yes? nomag si letoclo wux?” It spoke in that fancy language. “Ah, an calti xiekiv, to what do I owe the pleasure?” It got a soft look on its face, as if it was talking to a wild animal and didn’t want it to run away.

“Um, I was wondering if you could forge some of my dragon scales into armor for Fluffy and I.” Oh I must plan revenge for this, SHE WILL PAY! She opened three of the bags and dumped out the scales and some bits.

“Ah, fekiw ternocki, golden scales. This will make for good defence, but they are not the hardest of scales, seltur shar versvesh. For a few bits more and a diamond I will donate one of my scales, tonnilt hak aurix. What do you say? vi bensvelk deal axun?” It spoke while looking at the scales. I turned my head to look at Kate, who looked to be deep in thought.

‘It’s ok Kate, we have more then enough money to pay for this.’ I thought and looked back at the dragon, who was looking at me with interest. I got an uneasy feeling and just stared back when Kate finally spoke up.

“Alright, how much will it cost?” She said reaching for another bag.

“Wait, wer price tepohaic thirkua, all I require is the diamond and I will work for free.” We both gave him a shocked look when he said that. He just smiled at us until  Kate gave him a large diamond. He gave it a look over before tossing it into the pool of lava that was suddenly in the circle of stone, since when did he do that? Kate gave him all of the scales and he tossed them as well. “Your armor and weapons will be done when the sun comes up tomorrow.” He curled around the stone wall and blew some fire into it. I looked up at Kate with a questioning look to get the same look in return.

‘Let’s go find a place to eat, I’m hungry again.’ She nodded slowly and looked at the dragon as we walked away.

“A bronze dragon.... I did not think there were dragons like that.” She muttered as we got a few feet away from the forge. “And what was he saying? Was that something only dragons can talk in?” I nodded, still thinking about what it said. It said something about a price when it said it would do it for free.

“wer price tepohaic thirkua....” I repeated then stopped dead in my tracks. I just spoke with no problem when I talked like that. ‘Kate, I think we need to learn this language.’ I muttered and looked at her, she also had a shocked look similar to mine.

“I think your right. First let’s get something to eat then find someone who can teach us.” I nodded and kept walking around. We passed many different kinds of merchants, some selling jewelry, some selling scrolls claiming they hold ancient magic to reduce dragons to dust. I was more interested in the griffin selling meat products, nice and cooked. I walked over to the stand and took a whiff.

“Ah, your pet has a good nose. I suggest the sand gecko meat, for your beast nose hovers over that the most.” He sounded nice, and he was right about the sand gecko, the stuff smelled like gods cooking!

“Fine, how much?” Kate grumbled and pulled a bag forward.

“20 bits for two steaks.” He held out a claw and waited a moment to let Kate bring out the 20 bits. After he got the bits he tossed me a steak and I grabbed it in my mouth. He put one on a plate for Kate so she could eat it without burning her hands, I do not know why it did not burn my mouth. “Thank you for stopping by!” He called as I turned to walk away.

‘Let me tell ya that steak was cooked to perfection.’ She bopped me on the head with her free hand then continued to eat. ‘What the hell was that for?’

“For almost attacking his stand before I could pay stupid.” She bit into her steak while I walked. After a few hours and the sun starting to go down we found a inn where they would allow me to sleep in a room.

‘We are going to blow through out bits at this rate.’ I mumbled as I fell into the godly soft bed across from Kate’s.

“Oh don’t worry, we could always do street shows,” I glared at her while she gave me the cat person version of a troll face. “Well hey, at least we can get some armor tomorrow, maybe we could even get him to give us lessons in the language of his.” I had to agree with this. I was excited that I would soon be able to actually talk! The excitement kept me up almost half the night but I soon fell to the army that is sleep.

I awoke in a similar cabin style house except this time in a bed. The man from before, the one that threw the brick at my face, was cooking something on a stove that had not been there before.

“Oh goody, it’s you again.” I mumbled sitting up and rubbing my face, remembering the brick made my face hurt.

“You sound disappointed! Come on up to the table, eggs are almost done.” Eggs......Sounded good actually. I removed the covers from myself and got up, I was still dressed in the cloths I was in before arriving in the new world I was in. I walked over to a table that had formed when he said ‘table’ and sat down.

“So why was I in a bed this time and why are you making me eggs?” I asked him as he hummed a tune and set the plate of scrambled eggs in front of me.

“Well you found a loophole in my little contract thingy so you have earned a little more respect from me. I might have to give you a gift when I think of one!” He gave me a fork and offered me ketchup, which I took and put some on my eggs. “Hurry up, for time moves a little faster here so you might wake up before you finish!” He chuckled and sat at the other side of the table.

“You going to tell me your name now?” I asked as I shoved some eggs in my mouth. He grinned and shook his head. “Thought so. How about to explain why you sent me here a little more?” He looked like he was thinking about this when he shrugged.

“Why not? You see Austin I was invited to a game, like a big game of chest, and I needed a piece.”

“So you picked me?” He smiled a bit more.

“Well, you said yes, so I picked you. You could have picked something a bit more awesome but noooo, you had to try and be a smart ass. You could have picked anywhere in the world! But you never did.”

“You never said there was a whole world outside of Equestria! Now I’m in a desert town with a cat lady companion!” I pointed my fork at him and ate some more eggs.

“You never asked!” He laughed. “Anyway, you have about a minute before you wake up, by the way.” I scarfed down the rest of my eggs and glared at him. “Hehehe, anyway, I thought of something I could gift you.” He stood up. “Now this is a one time thing, but if you need something better then your badass mode, just say the three words ‘fuck it all’. You’ll only have like, 10 minutes? So make it count.” He snapped his fingers. “Bye bye!” Oh god dammit! The room blacked out again.

I woke up in the room at the inn we had slept in the day before. I lifted my head to look around, Kate was awake and checking the bags in case someone came up while we were sleeping and took something. “Sweet dreams Fluffy?”

‘I will find a way to burn you. I hope you know that.’ She laughed and walked over to me, strapping the bags to me.

“Come on, we need to go get our armor.” I sighed and nodded. We left the inn, paying extra for me shredding their pillows while I was sleeping. We walked through the market like area again until we reached the gate where we first saw the dragon. I looked around until I saw the forge from yesterday but this time it had a table set up in front of it with some armor and what appeared to be some weapons on it.

‘I don’t think we ordered weapons.’ I muttered and made my way over to the forge. The bronze dragon from before lifted his head off the ground and looked at us with a warm smile.

“Ah you have returned, nomeno ui bensvelk! Your armor and weapons are ready, filki tepohaic promised!” He turned his head to the table and reached forward with his claw and took up a large piece of armor that looked like it would fit me. “This is for the manticore, lesla litrix. I will help you get it on.” I looked at Kate and she shrugged, jumping off of me with the bags so I could get on the armor. The dragon picked up a smaller set of scale armor and gave it to Kate, who put it on with ease. “Now for your weapons.” He picked a sword up carfully by it’s handle and gave it to Kate along with its sheath. “This blade, losvir di ternock, will cut through even the strongest of dragon scale.” Kate looked at the blade with amazement. I’m not suprised, that thing is crafted by skilled hands-er claws. He went back to the table and picked up a battle axe like thing. “This axe is to be latched onto your tail, ekess gewj lae vi aryte garurt.” He leaned over and latched it onto my tail, the thing is it wasn't all that heavy.

“Whoa,” Kate muttered and I just nodded. “How did you get so good at this?” The dragon chuckled at this.

“My mother taught me.” Was all he said. I looked at Kate.

‘Remember, we need the teachings for that language thing.’ She nodded and looked at the dragon.

“Could you help us with one more thing?” I had to laugh at that. The dragon chuckled as well.

“I already know what it is you want, and I do not have to teach you.” We both gave him a confused look that was beyond anything that could be described as confused, such a confused look a kitten would start to cry. The dragon extended his claws toward the both of us and pocked our foreheads. I will not be able to explain what I saw, but I will say this, I learned EVERYTHING! Well almost. From what I could tell we had not learned it all, the language that is. “To learn the rest you must travel to Scientia, the city of knowledge. Here is a map.” He gave Kate a map out of nowhere, how the fuck does he keep doing that? “I will leave you to it then.” He laid back down and closed his eyes.

‘I hope someone steals his table.’ I grumbled and turned to walk away. Kate jumped onto my back and we made our way to the front gate. The guard from before walked out of the little side room and smiled at us.

“Leaving already? Very well, we hope to see you again soon.” He let out a whistle and the gate opened. I swear that whistle will make me deaf one day. We walked out of the gate and it closed behind us.

I took a deep breath and smiled like a mad man. “tairais ihk visek!!!” I let out and charged forward.