The Familiar

A Fiery Wake Up

Azrael's POV

Light started to peer through the curtains and into my eyes as morning came. I slowly started to wake up and open my eyes, when fully opened I saw that I was still sitting on the arm chair; no wonder my back is killing me. I looked in front of me and smiled as I saw the adorable sight of Luna, my new master, sleeping peacefully. I then looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it is still 4am, "Still pretty early, I guess I could sleep a bit more." I whispered to myself. I quietly reclined back into the chair, careful not to disturb Luna, and slowly fell back to sleep. Yep, don't have to worry about anything anymore since I made peace with equestria. Finally, I can sleep in peace without being woken up by surprise attacks, or alarms or bombings anymo--

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why do I even bother. I quickly got up and stomped to the window to see what the fuck that was when a massive fire ball came flying towards me. Acting quickly, I raised my hand and erected a red energy barrier, easily stopping the fire ball. I turned around and saw Luna awake and surprised by the loud attack.

"Luna...get dressed." I said in a calm tone, although I'm sure she could see the irritation seeping through me.

"Wait...wha-" she tried to question.

"Now."

Getting the message, she leaped out of bed to prepare as I dropped the barrier. I looked back to Luna to see her standing next to her dresser holding her dress, fidgeting and flushed. "Well?" I asked.

She said nothing, but she pointed to the door. This confused me for a second before I remembered that you got to remove....your...clothes...
ohhhhhhhhhh...now I get it."Right...sorry...forgot." with that said, I quickly made my way out the door flushed and hoping that Luna doesn't know what a pedo is.

Ten Minutes Later

I opened the door to the room Luna said was the throne room and entered with her behind me. Inside the room was Stella, her three nieces, and a pegasus that I've never met before, our entrance gained everyone's attention as they all turned to us. Apparently they saw my not so happy face since they looked a little intimidated when they looked at my face...although it could be the usual. "You all have till the count of five to explain why I woke up to a fireball in my face, before I shove a ten foot pole up all yo asses." just as I said that, I reached into my pocket and pulled out three steel marbles. Using my powers, I reshaped the three of them into a ten foot pole which was apparently thick enough it made everyone in the room either pale, faint, gulp in nervousness or to my surprise look at in intrigue. "One." I said calmly.

"It was the dragons!" Pudding shouted in fear.

"Pardon?" I asked.

"Dragons are by far the most fierce race here on Equis and from our neighboring country called the Drake Kingdom. They are notorious war mongers and conquers and apart from that, their King, Drago, is an elitist. He believes that dragons are the most powerful race on Equis, and that they and they alone should rule over all the other races." Stella clarified.

"Ohhh." I said, "So now their targeting Equestria?" I received a collection of nods from everyone. "Great. Just fucking great. Just finished one war and now I'm dragged into a new one." I lowered my head and dropped the pole.

"Azrael." Luna said as she grabbed my arm with both of hers as she stared at me with sorrowful eyes.

I was silent for a moment before I spoke, "Why? Why must I always be forced to fight?" it was silent again before I turned around towards the door, picking up the dropped pole as I left.

"Azrael? Where are you going?" Stella asked, stopping me in my tracks.

I stopped just in front of the door "My home was taken from me once already." I transformed the pole in my hands into my scythe and turned my head just enough so that she could see my eye whitch was now glowing red full of anger and determination, "I'm not allowing that to happen again." with that said, I left the room, ready to protect my new home.

On The Battle Field

2nd POV
"Have those fools responded to our attacks yet Leonidas?" King Drago asked his general as he sat on his throne. Drago's scales were jet black and was wearing golden armor, in his hand was a long golden staff with two dragon heads decorating the top.

The dragon to his left was his general Leonidas, his scales were red and was wearing armor that looked like it was made of bones and was carrying a sword.

He bowed before speaking, "No my lord, we haven't received any massages of any kind from the ponys."

"Bah! I didn't come all this way to wait! We have given them enough time to respond to the attack, they should have at least prepared enough to fight back." Drago stood up and raised his staff, "I've waited long enough! All warriors open Fire!" upon his command, his army let out a barrage of fire balls towards the kingdom. However, they didn't get far as they all suddenly exploded all at once.

"What?!? Impossible! What happened?!?" Drago asked Leonidas.

"I-I don't know my lord." Leonidas answered surprised by the sudden turn of events.

Suddenly, a massive red lazer was fired directly at the king. Acting quickly, the king and Leonidas dodged the attack, however the soldiers in front of them and the servants carrying the throne were instantly vaporized.

"What a powerful attack! Where did that come from?!?" the king asked frantically.

"My lord! Over there!" Leonidas pointed towards a lone figure holding a scythe, walking steadily towards the front of the army. The lone figure was of a species they have never seen and was wearing black noble cloths. The figure suddenly stopped and looked up to where the king and Leonidas were flying.

"Are you King Drago?" the figure said loud enough that Drago heard it.

"And what if I am creature?" Drago asked.

"Listen closely meat. Unless you and your army want to be turned into manure, I suggest you leave...now." the figure said.

"HaHaHa! You must be a powerful creature to be able to do that much damage, however, you can't possibly defeat all of us."

"You have no idea how wrong you are with that." the statement angered the king. "However, while I would love to destroy you all...I never said that I would be the one to fight you all." the figure then raised his hand was about to snap his fingers before adding, "Oh, by the way my name is Azrael, nice to meet you." with that said, he snapped his fingers and the ground started to shake, confusing everyone present.

In The Throne Room

Every one was watching the events unfold below them as Hurricane asked everyone a question, "By the way...where did that robot army of his go anyway? My men couldn't find them after we took Azrael back to the castle."

On The Battlefield

Suddenly thousands of black mechanical squid like robots burst out of the ground.

Back In The Throne Room

Everyone looked back to the commander with faces that said "Does that answer your question?", "Ohhhhhhh." was all Hurricane could say.

On The Battlefield

The dragon army stood in fear as the sudden appearance of the new frightening army terrified them, their king on the other hand was not so intimidated. "HaHaHa! What are a few strange land squids going to do to us? Fire!!" although reluctantly the dragons let loose another barrage of fireballs towards the machines. The result was a large explosion that Drago was sure destroyed them all; however, when the smoke cleared Azrael and his army were completely unharmed. Drago's reaction to this development was...well...

"Did I mention that we are all fire proof, and that those spears and swords of yours ain't strong enough to pierce their armor or my skin." after Azrael said that, the entire dragon army suddenly looked a lot paler. "Now, how would you like to be slaughtered meat bags? With or with out your limbs?" all the sentinels then pointed their tentacles to the opposing army and exposed their sharp claws,.

Most of the dragons present either ran away screaming, soiled themselves or dropped their weapons and surrendered.

"Wow. That was anticlimactic." Azrael said, gaining a round of nods from the sentinels.

"No! Get back here you cowards!" Drago shouted to his fleeing army. He looked back to Azrael with hateful eyes, "You! I will burn your eyes out of your skull!"

"Oh? Is that a fact? Fine, how about a bet." this seemed to peek Draco and his remaining soldier's interest.

"What kind of bet?" he asked.

Azrael put on a smirk, "Since it's obvious that you can't win with your army, and you are still willing to fight, I'll compromise. If you can beat me in a little fight to the death, me and my army will leave and won't interfere with your invasion."

The king thought before answering, "Very well, but what do you get if you win?"

Azrael scrached his head, "Hmmm...what you got?" he asked.

The king thought again before holding out his staff, "This is the "Staff of Elders", a tool of untold power and is owned only by the king of the Drake Kingdom. If you win I give you the staff and my place as king of my kingdom." he said.

Azrael raised his scythe and pointed it towards Drago, never losing the smirk on his face. "Deal." he said.

And with that, the battle that will decide Equestria's fate has begun.