One hell of an adventure

The fire we had built made that crackling and snapping sound that calmed me, don’t know why but it always has. “We should be able to make it to Scientia tomorrow if we don’t get any more distractions.” I yawned and looked at her.

‘I hope there aren't any sand worm things out here.’ Kate slowly got a glare on her face.

“I thought you said never to say something like that!” I laughed at her reaction.

‘I said for YOU to not to say anything like that, for me it’s different. When I need something to do I say those words, now what way do we need to go?’ I let off another yawn while Kate just rolled her eyes.

“Southeast, it should take us at least 9 hours to get there, 24 if what you said comes true.” I laughed. “Now get some sleep, you're yawning way to much.” I just nodded that time cause if I talked I would yawn again. I laid my head on my paws and allowed myself to enter one of the realest dreams I have ever had.

*ROAR!*

An roar filled almost half of the battlefield as large airships began to enter. “My lord,” A d-dog with a sand colored pelt walked towards a large manticore that was looking over the front of the ship and at the battlefield. The dog dropped into a bow. “What shall we do with the civilian ship?”

“spol astahi ekess z'ar canterlot, ir escort nishka gethrisj mrith astahi.” The manticore spoke as it turned to face the dog.

“Yes my lord, anything else?”

“si tuor voran protection ihk wanotreyxkaiv Kate, EHIS touches jacioniv.” It growled darkly. The dog gulped and stood up.

“Yes my lord! The prinsess shall not be harmed!” The dog ran off and to the side of the ship, where it made a mighty leap over to another ship. The manticore let out a long sigh and turned back to the battlefield.

“I’m sorry.” The manticore spun around to a tall standing being, a human.

“For what? I should be thanking you.” The manticore spoke as it turned back to look out over the field. The human got a surprised look on his face.

“What for? I may have just caused your death by sending you here...” The manticore let out a soft chuckle, further surprising the human.

“Yes, that may be true. But you gave me meaning, not only did you SAVE my life, you did as I said, gave it meaning. If I had a chance to change everything I would just let it happen again.” He let off another soft chuckle. “You did me a grate serves Dark, I could not thank you enough.” The manticore turned back to the human with a grin. “Besides you gave me a chance to woop Jack’s ass for what he did, I could hug you for that.” The human, Dark, laughed at this.

“Give him a extra kick for me.” They both laughed when the ship rumbled. “Looks like you need to get to work.” Dark nodded and vanished. The manticore spun around to the front of the ship to see a bunch of flyers coming towards their ships, lead by none other than a shade dragon. Its shadowy skin made it look like it was nothing BUT a shadow, its pure white eyes burned right at the manticore. It let out a roar and began to lift off the ground.

“nif ixen shafaer wer flyers! si nishka lokri wer sekeolath darastrix!” The manticore roared and began to flap its wings. The ships that had combat abilities opened compartments on their fronts and sides and began to fire compressed balls of wind and sand at the small volter like shadow beings. When the spheres made contact with the rather small creatures they exploded sending sand shooting off like tiny bullets. The manticore let of another loud roar and charged down towards the shade dragon to meet it about half way. The dragon opened its mouth and blasted off a stream of black flames at the manticore. The manticore growled and swung its mace like tail to meet the flame, redirecting it down to the ground where it evaporated some other shades.

The dragon snorted and from its chest tendrils the same color as its skin shot forward to grab at the manticore. The manticore’s wings grew a bit and it shot forward and past the tendrils, right into the chest of the dragon. It released a roar of pain and began to claw at the manticore as the shadowy skin began to bring it in. When the manticore was fully engulfed the world seemed to hold still, the dogs and ponies on the ships paused and watched, as did the flyers. After a long and painful 5 minutes the dragon let out a roar of pain, louder than before as cracks began to form in its skin. After a moment the dragon exploded to show the manticore, its mane now appeared on fire. “ihk wer sands!” It roared in triumph. The beings on the assault ships cheered and howled as they began to shoot down the flyers again. The manticore flew back to the lead ship and landed with a thud. The dog from before lept back over to the lead ship and bowed before the manticore.

“My lord, I have done what you asked and might I say every time you slay one of those shade dragons it is an amazing sight.” The manticore chuckled and patted the dog's head.

“ouithic hefoc shar shar xihuuli coi, plus coi powers ve svern!” It laughed. It turned and watched as 7 of the ships that were at the back of the group broke off and started heading away. It sighed and turned back to the diminishing numbers of the flyers. “si charis fareip vur wer lyriki re kepatmasto, si mi shafaer sia idol...” It mutterede as the rest of the flyers were wiped out.

I shot up and panted, that was NOT like any dream I have ever had. I mean come on, me killing a dragon and my mane catching on fire, that is not very likely to happen. Kate was still napping ON MY SIDE! ‘I’m not a godsdamned PILLOW! WAKE THE HELL UP KATE!’ I nudged her side rather hard and she shot up much the way I did.

“What!? What happened!? Dragon!?” Holy shite I thought I over react.

‘Kate calm your hormones I just woke you up cause I’m NOT A FUCKING PILLOW!’ I growled at her. ‘Now come on, we need to move.’ She took a few deep breaths then climbed up onto my back. We then began our walk out of the town and into the desert, if I focused I could see our target in the distance, the so called knowledge city of Scientia, where we would learn the rest of the draconic language. He had walked about an hour when the ground rumbled. ‘Dah fuck was that?’ I looked at the ground. Kate shrugged.

“Just keep going.” I waited a moment then shrugged as well. I kept walking about 10 minutes and the ground rumbled again, this time more violent.

‘What the absolute fuck!’ I began to freak out. ‘Fuck you univers...’ I giant worm shot up and out of the game and swung around a bit until its mouth faced us, then it roared.

“Austin...” Kate muttered.

‘Yes....?’

“I hate you, SO much...” The worm roared again and dove at us. I ran to the side before it could hit. It borrowed into the ground and vanished.

‘Aim for the head when it comes back up!’ I shouted and took to the skies. After a moment the worm shot out of the sands again and, surprisingly, it had four sets of wings along its body. ‘THIS IS NOT SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS!’ I screamed in my head. ‘Or is it?’ I turned my head to look at Kate. ‘Kate, when it get’s close jump on its head and stab the shit out of it.’ She nodded. I growled. ‘Time to be a bad ass, like that dream.’ I thought to myself and spun around. The worm got closer and closer. ‘NOW!’ I shot forward, straight at it. Kate said something but the pounding in my ears prevented me from hearing it.

-----Kate-----

That crazy manticore was going to get himself killed! He was heading straight for the open maw of the sand worm. “AUSTIN! STOP! THIS THING’S STOMACH ACID CAN DISSOLVE THE HARDEST OF METALS! STOP!” I screamed at him but he couldn't hear me. I jumped off as soon as he got about 2 feet away from the worm and landed on its head. “AUSTIN!” I screamed as the worm closed it mouth and gulped. In rage I drove my blade into its skull multiple times to try and kill it quick, maybe there was still a chance to save him.

*CRACK* *SLICE* *BLOOD SOUND*

I stopped and turned to where the noise was coming from and saw Austin crawling out of a newly opened wound, likely made by him. “Austin?” I managed before the worm realized what happened and let out a hiss of extreme pain. Austin turned and looked at me with a big goofy smile.

‘THAT! Is how we did it back home on the ranch little lady!’ I couldn't help but laugh at that. The airborne worm began to plummet very fast. ‘Now then, shall we go?’ I nodded and jumped onto his back. We took off and circled around it as it crashed into the ground. ‘So Kate, safe or out?’

“I think its out.” I chuckled. “Why did you do something that stupid anyway?”

‘Oh, just something I did in a dream, it worked didn’t it?’ He laughed and I punched him in the head. ‘OW! Ok fine I won’t do it again.’ He grumbled. ‘Lady luck seemed to like us today, we crushed it right outside the city.’ I turned and looked at the city of knowledge with wide eyes and a dropped jaw. ‘I feel loved.’ Austin muttered as he began to fly towards the city. We landed by the front gates, which we guarded by two unicorns.

“We saw what you did to the sandworm.” The one on the left smirked. “Nice job manticore.”

‘It’s Austin.’

“Sorry, sir Austin. You and your companion may enter.” Wait did he just understand Austin? Austin had the same look of confusion and disbelief on his face. The two unicorns horns glowed and the huge door opened with little resistance. “Welcome to Scientia, we hope you find what you're looking for.” He did a little bow as we entered.

‘Whoa,’ Austin muttered as we entered. ‘This place looks like what Atlantis would look like.’ I had no idea what he was talking about but this place looked like it was built by the best architects the world had to offer. ‘Enough sight seeing, we need to find that dragon.’ A d-dog walking by stopped and looked at us.

“Looking to learn draconic? You have to go to the large building in the middle of the city, there just tell them what you want to learn and they will allow you into that class.” Another one? Everyone here must be smart. Austin nodded his thanks and began to walk through the huge city, we got greetings from everyone we passed and we stopped and listened to a pony talk about something involving gems and souls of creatures. Austin actually participated.

“-and with the right spell-”

‘You can seal the soul of the creature in its body, when it parishes the soul is transferred to the gem and is able to be used to enchant equipment or create spells, correct?’ The speaker looked at Austin stunned.

“Y-yes, how did you-”

‘Trust me pal, I have been at the game longer than you.’ He chuckled. The unicorn speaker huffed.

“Out done by a manticore..... Grate....” He jumped off the stage and walked into the crowd. By the looks of it ponies and other things were talking about their discoveries here. Austin got bored about halfway through the 3rd presentation, something about summoning magic, and we continued on our search for the main building. After about an hour of walking we finally found the building, guarded by......

‘Holy shit, them be some BIG dogs.’ He was right, two massive sized dogs sat at the doorway. The thing is there were no doors, it looked only like a small indent was where the door was suppose to be, and these dogs were not d-dogs, they were like the dogs you keep as pets.

-----Austin-----

‘Um, excuse me?’ One of the dogs looked down at me with a bored look. ‘Can we go in? We need to learn the rest of the draconic language.’ The dog snorted and looked at the other. It looked at its companion and let of a snort. The dog looked back at us and nodded. I must have blinked because there was a door suddenly there. ‘Wow, thanks!’ It nodded as I walked over to the door and opened it. What was inside was a huge empty room with a black dragon in the middle. ‘Um,’ I walked towards it and it raised its head to me. ‘A bronze dragon told us we could learn the rest of the draconic language here?’ The dragon stared at us for a moment then laughed.

“Oh Blaze that hope filled dragon! Very well, I shall teach you the rest of the language.” I got a huge grin on my face, we had done it! And I would be able to actually talk! Like the dragon before its claw glowed and he touched our heads.

“tira coi tawura?” I gasped. “coi tira!” I began flying around in excitment. “ ‘WE DID IT KATE! WE DID IT!’ “ I pulled her off my back and gave her a hug.

“ ‘I know! It is surprisingly easy to talk to!’ “ She chuckled. “ ‘Thanks mister dragon!’ “ We landed in front of the dragon.

“You're welcome young ones, and congratulations to you little cat.” We both gave him a confused look.

“ ‘What do you mean?’ “ Kate spoke. The dragon chuckled and poked her belly lightly.

“The kit, of course.” I got a blank look, Kate just got a stunned look.

Alright, how could this have happened? There was a few weeks ago when we ran into all those other humans, one got attacked by spiders so I had to save his ass, one got attacked by the grim reaper, then we went to the town of Gallopoli, did funny shit to one guy, almost destroyed the place, fended off d-dogs, that one guy killed a dragon at the cost of his own life, then the reaper attacked again, then......

“MANGO JAAAAAAAAACK!”

For draconic translation.