There was once a dragoness who believe that they could be the next dragon Emporer leading the dragons and changing the rules of how they live, but since she wasn’t that strong or even be able to breathe fire. She could not take the role as a dragon Emporer, so she continued her life as normal and lived her life being unable to breathe fire and to catch any dragon’s attention of a strong dragoness. This lonesome dragoness has spent thirty years alone, she spent her thirty years watching other species that traveled by. If dragons would have seen her doing this then they would think that she was just being a stalker, but during the time of her years she developed certain skills that most dragons would mock her for.

Life wasn’t so kind to this dragoness because of the other dragons around that bullied her. However, the dragoness did not care if they mock her for developing skills and learning. What she lacked in being a dragon she had gain with different skills that could rival a dragon itself. Barely any dragon could draw like her, she knows how to use a longbow and make arrows for it, navigate by using the stars, bargain with traders, and fight like a noble warrior cat morph. She could have been a dragon Emporer now with these skills, but she knows that if she did become the Emporer it would just pull her down and keep her away from freedom.

Dragons would normally just stay in their territories and kill anyone that dares to disturb their slumber, but this dragoness wasn’t like the rest. Although she may have been alone for thirty years and other dragons who know her have only seen her as a breathless dragon, one teenage dragon actually seen this dragoness as someone special.

Shy as this dragon was he didn’t know how to approach her as he only seen her from afar, a love stalker if someone had seen him. He was like the rest, having a common color of blue, having fire breath, being able to become Emperor of the dragons if he ever wished to be, and was apart of the dragons able to get a mate with one of the other dragonesses, but the young dragon’s heart was captured by the breathless dragon. How she managed to capture this young dragon’s heart was a time at a nearby waterfall called Aldurian’s Tears, a carved dragon stone head that has water pouring out of the eyes. Their time was short as they were bathing they only had a couple of minutes getting to know each other, though to the young dragon it felt like hours. Their talk about each other and who they helped both dragons become friends. However, the small talk they had didn’t make the dragoness not want anymore, she loves the young dragon’s shyness and has seen him watching her every time she does something that an ordinary dragon wouldn’t do.

Whenever she bathes in the river, near Aldurian’s Tears, and senses the young dragon’s scent or feels his presence, she would purposely expose herself to him, letting the young dragon see what he likes. All of this may seem like a show for others when observing, but it was a weird way for the dragoness to show that she liked the young dragon despite being twenty-two years older than him. With big hints from the dragoness, many would know what they mean, though not the young dragon as he does not know of flirting.

This gone off for a year before one day at the same waterfall both dragons met, the male had a noticeable blush under his scales and holding a handful of flowers in his claws, the female was in shock. On that same day, the dragon had confessed his feelings for the dragoness, his heart was pounding, redness on the cheeks, and tail wagging side to side. If a common dragoness have seen how shy a dragon was and holding flowers in his claws than a handful of gold and gems then he would have been turned down, however, this dragoness wasn’t like the rest. When she first saw the shy dragon hold the flower in front of him, blushing mad and fidgeting, and confessing his love for her in words that made her feel warm inside.

After that confession, they shared a kiss and then became a couple, a weird relationship it had started out from. Although this would be a pony or a passive herbivore method of becoming a couple, the dragons didn’t care about how their relationship has started. Throughout the years of being together, the dragoness had an egg. The color of this egg was a dark blue spotted with black dots.

Sadly the mother couldn’t stay as the Dragon Emperor had found out of this relationship between a common blue dragon and a breathless black dragon, he had demanded that the mother would stay out of the dragon territory and never see her egg and mate again. With the Dragon Emperor’s order, she left the land and her family. The father had shut himself out of the world and kept himself and his mate’s egg safe from any dragon that dares to torment him or threaten the egg. If one did try to harm the egg then they would feel the wrath of a dragon father.

A few months later the egg hatched, a baby dragoness having dark blue scales, yellow eyes, and black horns. Everyone thought that this dragon would not have a fire breath like her mother, but they were proven wrong when the dragoness had her first burp. White flames came out of her mouth, an uncommon fire breath that is extremely rare to see and to have. Every dragon that was around when the father was helping her burp saw it, they were all suprised at this. Never have they thought would the baby dragoness have that fire breath, whispers had gone around about this dragoness on how unfair it was that a youngling like her could have a rare flame, how it’s interesting to see what she could do and talks on how much a freak she was.

“Death is always waiting for you no matter how much you try to prevail if there is no way to avoid death. So if you wish for death to take you, a young boy, then let its cold grasp take you to the afterlife, but if you wish to live then you must take cautious of your action. A hunter does not cast away his life to be bold, they never do it for fame, neither for money, they risk their lives to protect what they can and slay any cursed beast that dares to be tainted by the black blood. Remember this boy if you ever forget this then know that your life is always at risk, even at a safe place.” The words that I read aloud from the books made me shiver from the thought of a “death” that Cazador’s mentor had told him. I may be in heat and burning like the depths of hell; the last word I started to use since I heard it from Cazador.

Placing a bookmarker, it’s just a thin cloth I found in a random book and closing the book, I set it on a nearby table and looked at the fire in the fireplace. The fire has been burning for a long time Lenny had told me it had continued burning for while before he even found this place. The previous owner of this house was an alchemist and a griffon too, but he had sanity problems thanks to some ghosts that intruded his house and started to mess with his mind and physical logic. He didn’t explain anymore of the previous owner of this house and what happened to him, the ferret just went silent and stared at the fire with me.

My thoughts slowly began to drift off to Cazador. I never had the chance to know him personally he was still a stranger to me than I was to him, his actions is misleading because how his voice tone and his appearance would mistake him as for someone who doesn’t care much about others, but the small stories those fillies had told her of the man’s personality and what he’s like. If I was going to train under him then I would have to know some things about him from the man himself than just hear things about him and read a book about his past. And he has known about me and what I like and hate so when things come to around of something I am afraid of or disgusted then he would know. Just knowing so little about each other, I’m starting to think I should have asked some questions about him and tell him a bit of myself, but I didn’t as I was still a bit unsure about him as he has that weird feeling that I can’t really explain well.

When I first saw him, I wasn’t sure if he would help or dared to stop the dragons from forcing me to mate with them. Though I was wrong since he helped me and scared off the other dragons. Although he had threaten my life with that revolver, I still followed him without thinking if he would just cast some spell to knock me out and do something to me or kill me in the woods, however, I didn’t really think of that back then as I was wanting to repay him for what he did. Though I didn’t get the chance to repay him or actually thank him for helping me.

I guess I would have lined myself for the worse if Cazador wasn’t the type of man that he is today, or things would have become different than now. He may still be a stranger to me and we barely know anything about each other, I just have that strange feeling of comfort and want of proving him that I could become a Hunter and show him that I can survive. I can tell that my stupid dragon pride is dragging me down in this, but I don’t regret being dragged down to something new; even though I can’t train in my need of mating with a male.

“What was he like as a youngling?” I asked myself, my mind was now filled with the thought of Cazador. I can just imagine a young version of Cazador wearing different clothes, but I couldn’t really imagine what he actually looks like without his current clothes. My thoughts of what Cazador was like as a kid changed to what he looked like without his clothes. Soon my cheeks began to burn as I imagine Cazador’s silver eyes staring down at me like a...predator.

Soon after I shook my head of the image before more of it could develop into something that would worsen my need of being breed. Imaging what Cazador looks like without his armor was a bad idea, just his eyes were all it took to make my cheek burn. I could feel the spot between my thighs begin to burn and the waistcloth I began to wear had a small wet stain in it. What is wrong with me?

“Hey dragon girl,” My eyes snapped up above the fireplace, there Lenny was sitting on the edge staring down at me. “There seemed to a small family of ponies with bat wings and two feather heads at the front door, all of them have been knocking on the door for the past ten minutes. Gonna let them in or have them get the message that you don’t want them here?”

I immediately got up from my chair and stumbled my way to the front door. The knocking that Lenny had mention grew louder with every step I took to the doors, whoever was behind the door seemed to have grown a bit impatient of waking for me to open the door, though I can understand that as I did make them wait for ten minutes. When I made it to the front door, the being that was knocking on the door decided to stop.

“Are we sure that the dragoness is even awake, she could be asleep?” I heard a male voice asked on the other side of the door. Curious on who was the creature that knows about me being here I slowly stumbled my way over to the window, but while I was making my way there I heard another voice answer his question.

“Cazador told me that Cynder is here, but there is a chance that she is in bed asleep or too weak to walk here.” That voice I knew who it belongs to. When I made it to the window and looked out of it I couldn’t believe who I saw, Shade and her daughters were here along with a small group of griffons! Stumbling quick as possible to the door, nearly tripping out a few times, I unlocked it and opened for them.

“Seems like she’s awake,” Another male voice I don’t of said.

As soon the doors were wide opened, two certain bat fillies ran through the wide opening and latched onto my legs, nearly knocking me over. Both fillies were giggling and smiling as they looked up at me, their light blue eyes made my heart feel heavy with so much adorableness that it makes me question why do the ponies have this cuteness. Before the two little fillies had the chance to say something, Shade flew up to my face and rest the side of her foreleg on my head, mumbling to herself.

“Head is warm, the smell of a female’s pheromone is clear as day, cloth has a small noticeable stain around that “area”, and her chest is a bit perky,” Hearing most of what she said, my cheeks began to burn like fire and my sudden pride of a dragon not blushing in front of others was suddenly smashed into a million pieces as the girls and griffons -outside the house- could see my cheeks turning red. “But all in all, you aren’t sick or have a deadly fever flu, so you are healthy as a newborn baby foal!”

Shade chirped happily and landed on her hooves. She had the guts to say those in front of my face, but the mother knows I can’t do anything to her or deny the fact that I am in heat. This mare is a brave one I have to give her that.

“So Cazador would soon be in this Crystal Empire to help defend it against a pack of wolves that have similar body shapes, but different features, just so he could have some random pony that the Sun Horse to watch over me until the season of needing a mate is over?!” I’m at the point of blowing up from rage of knowing that I have been used, sure Lenny had told me about it in small details that the princess had lied to Cazador that I had some sort of deadly fever and made a false deal him, but knowing that I was used to creating this deal of my trainer going out into a war that has no involvement on us! If that horse of the sun was here I would strangle her in front of her “subjects”, hell I might even see if she could handle a ten-foot spear up her ass!

I will not have some random pony watch other me just because their princess had commanded them. I rather have Shade take care of me --an embarrassing thing to say-- than some pony I do not know. Although that was the reason why she was here, Shade had told me that Cazador wrote a scroll to her about moving here to take care of me while also being outside of the Equestrian borders, so the sun horse doesn’t have another way of manipulating him. Actually, I wonder if she even knows about Shade and her daughters since the bat-pony had met Cazador before and talked to him like they both knew each other for a while. If I were to pick who would take care of me, I would pick Shade and her daughters because how I can trust them than some random pony.

“Lucky Cazador had his suspicions on this has he couldn’t trust the Princesses and their word. He knew something wasn’t right and how you suddenly collapsing after the Princess arrive was not coincident. However, being a female and having a breeding season, I can say that it was just bad luck on your part. Although since you are on your feet and able to walk a few steps, I can say that it hasn’t hit you fully yet.” My body froze up as soon as those words left her mouth. I have experience being in heat once a year ago and it wasn’t bad other than me slightly burning up and difficult to walk, but if I was in some sort of the first stage of being in heat then I am nervous of what would the other stages be of being in heat.

“Do mares, or bat mare, get these kinds of seasons like dragons to do?” I asked a simple and dumb question, wanting to ease my worries. When Shade shook her head and pointed at her stomach she said.

“You do know that every female in this word have different signs of being in season, and there may be some that have similar stages of being in heat. I know that us mares all have the same seasons, some may start sooner or later than most mares, but I know that mares have their own attitude when being in season.” I averted my eyes away from Shade when she pointed between her legs, giving me the “message” of what she meant in her explanation. Of course, all females of different species have different ways of going or being into season, I should have known that but my brain couldn’t reason with itself on what question to ask Shade.

“R-right,” I cleared my throat and asked another question, “Has Cazador said anything else about me or-” My eyes landed on Lenny, who was behind Shade, wearing clothes and pointing at what he was wearing. Soon my eyes widen as I remember the order that Cazador made at the tailor.

I know thinking about clothes right now was not the topic that, and clothes aren’t important to this subject of talking about Cazador and they aren’t really neccassory for me to wear as they are just clothes and nothing else. Why am I thinking too much on this? By the current dragon lord’s name, I am making too much of a fuss about this.

“Cynder is there something wrong?” Shade’s voice brought me back from my small fuss about clothes to the reality of her staring at me with concern. I shook my head and cleared my throat before saying something.

“No, I just remember that Cazador ordered clothes that he wanted custom designs on it for me, but since he’s not here and I’m not able to walk well without stumbling I won’t be able to get those clothes. It’s not a big deal to be talking about this. This is just some dumb thing that I just remembered.” I smiled and nervously laugh, talking about this now just doesn’t feel like it’s necessary to talk about. Clothes are just clothes and they don’t belong in this type of conversation about Cazador or my season of being in heat.

“You mean those black clothes made from wolf pelts and ursa hides?” Shade’s question made me look at her with a raised scaly brow. How did she know that my clothes at the tailor’s place was made out of wolf pelts and ursa hides? I nodded my head, telling her that that’s what the material they are made out of.

“How did you-”

“When I arrived at Crow’s manor, a griffon wearing clothes gave me a paper bag and told me that hope your dragoness friend is alright. I was confused on why she gave me the paper bag full of clothes that don’t look like it would fit me, but I remembered what she said and assumed that the clothes are meant for you. Never thought you would want to wear clothes.” Shade crossed one of her back hoofs over the other and give me a smug look that I didn’t like to see.

“It was Cazador’s idea,” I mumbled to her. It was his idea since we made an agreement about being friends. The bat mare’s smug look soon dropped as she sighs and chuckles to herself.

“Of course, he always the one who would want someone to wear clothes. Though I think he had the right idea to say that because how you are basically naked and being in heat makes it worse.” Her giggles made my cheeks burn as well made me tail stiff. “I rarely saw him take his clothes off ever. And whenever he does, he always washes them to keep them clean, even his mask and hat too. The last time I saw him clothless was when he was in the bath, bathing himself.”

My cheeks felt like they were on fire now, thanks to Shade’s help of making me imagine what Cazador looks like without clothes. I slowly got up from my chair and slowly stumbled my way out of the library, but before I left I asked Shade something.

“Has he ever mentioned of having a mate before?”

Author's Note

My mind is about to become clueless! AHHHHH! However, I am trying to write down what ideas I have for the story, but putting them in words and making a story of them is difficult as it seems. Although it is difficult, I can say it's worth it.

I hope you all enjoy this chapter and I wish you a late Valentine's Day, or a good day if you read this on a random day or holiday.