Teaching through mystical eyes

“Mom look what I made!” I said and handed her the Ice statue that looked like her, but a little bit messy and dripping off water.

“Oh it looks beautiful Mesrian, but would you mind it bringing it out? It’s making everything wet here... “

I looked disappointed at her… I thought she would gladly accept it but then nod and brought it out and when I turned around...

I woke up.

“Why do I keep see those dreams...“ I muttered and stomped slowly out of the cave still thinking about the dreams that I had in the last few days. with every lazy step of mine the earth shakes under me.

Once outside at the entrance of my new cave, I placed my right claw on the earth under me, dug it open and shoved the dirt behind me.

“No wonder there was another dragon here before, the ground is swarming with gemstones. I said and took aa big claw of the diamonds and stuffed them into my mouth, chewing them and then swallowing, I looked towards the horizon and now waited for the sun to come up.

“Now we play the waiting game... “

While I waited. I formed like every time when i was bored figures out of smoke. I began with normal smoke clouds, then advanced with smoke rings and then the famous ship Nao Fillyctoria...

Some think that only Unicorns have magic to do things like this, but what am I trying to allege here?

For millenniums these Ponies have not seen a ‘normal’ dragon... only these beasts... I am very ashamed to see of what they have become.

I waited and waited looking sternly to the horizon, waiting for the sun to show up.

A couple of minutes passed by and then the tip of the sun was peeking out. I looked around to see a sign of the whelp but no.

“I knew it...time to ‘wake’ him up.”

I took a deep breath and then shouted in a loud tone so that the air in front of my mouth exploded “BAUTWAEL!” the shout echoed around the mountain. I then took off and flew to the Village.

“I will show him to come late at his first lesson...”

When I saw Ponyville under me I circled around and shouted again so that the air around me exploded and sounded like a thunder hit the ground. “WHELP!”

After that I saw how the Ponies gathered now outside to look at me, I could also hear some panicked screams of them but I didn't mind them and searched for a good landing spot, I then found the meadow nearby of the town, it must have been the park of the village.

I landed carefully so I wouldn’t destroy anything by accident and then sit on my hind legs, waiting patiently for the young dragon to come which didn’t last long.

He came with his Fostress to me, she of course was looking angry ay me, but I didn’t mind her either and only stared down at Spike, waiting for his excuse.

He then said.

“I...I am sorry… I completely forgot it..” he said and I just grunted saying:

“Oh you will be sorry... your punishment for coming late to your first lesson and let me fly all the way over here.” I took a deep breath and then concentrated, I breathed frost onto the ground leaving a thick ice bolder at the same height as the unicorn besides him.

“You will melt it... with your fire Whelp, till there is no more ice on the ground.”

“But isn’t it a little bit too big fo-” I cut off the lavender colored unicorn by grunting and frowned to her direction.

He smiled and snickered at me, and then nudged twilight’s side

“Don’t worry Twilight! That is easy.” he said while waving off with his claw.

“Is it so? Then begin...” I said and then looked at him also slightly smirking.

He then took a deep breath and then spit a little pathetic green fire but, something peculiar happened. The Ice vanished into nothing leaving now a little wet spot in front of him.

“Spike what did you do? Oh no!.. I hope you did not send it to her...” Twilight now looked panicky around “I need something to write on... “

“No need to” I said in an calm voice and then drew my attention to spike again.

He stared now confused to the spot and then turned his head to me looking baffled, but then in the next few seconds he burped out a letter that he then proceeded to read it aloud.

“Dear Twilight... I know the summer is hot and I love the way you worry about my condition here in Canterlot, but I don’t need a big Ice block… Yours truly: Princess Celestia.”

“Interesting... you already got the teleportation magic... but as I assumed you only know that spell... or more precisely... that ‘breath’, concentrate your inner fire, don’t just spit it out, without thinking of it.”

Both listened carefully and by both I mean Twilight too, I could swear she had more interest in it than the whelp.

“Before I again forget and you start with your punishment, I will now explain you of what i will teach you in the next years.” I said in a calm deep voice and I could see in the distance some ponies coming closer to us.

I frown slightly to that, but again continue.

“Listen Whelp, we Dragons display the Elements of this world, these are Fire, Water, Earth and Air. In the past we were and still are one of the superior races of this world.

Spike and Twilight now sat on the ground before me and looked like some children that were listening to their grandfathers story... the ironic part here is... it is me an old dragon telling to the young creatures. The thought of it made me slightly smile, I then continued.

"now to the Elements...

Fire represents our wrath and our burning courage, it is our sword against those who stand in our way, but it’s not only a weapon of mass destruction, the Dragons who mastered the fire with perfection could even awake something dead and bring it back to life, but the outcome of it is mostly horrifying.” I concentrated and made a small ball of fire that was as big as the whelp’s claw and levitated it in front of him.

He was about to touch it when the ball floated in front of him, but Twilight slapped his claw.

“Water represents our Desire, Generosity and Life, it is our shield that you should keep close to yourself and those you love Whelp, but Water can also destroy, it can flood villages and send death to those who are weak, the Dragons who mastered the Water with every passion would raise up a rogue wave out of nowhere in just one second, but also would fill a dry valley with life.”

I put my claw into the river besides me and took a scoop out of it, then held it in front of my mouth forming an icy shell around the water with the help of my breath and magic. I made it float besides the fireball.

“Earth represents our Patience and Strength; it is our armor that protects us from dangers. We dragons have such strength that we can move mountains, crack rifts in the ground and bring quakes upon those who stand in front of us. The canyon in the far west of this world was made by Dragons who mastered the Earth. They would lift and form the earth by their own will to protect or to destroy those who were against them only by the use of their strength.”

I rammed my claw into the ground and held the earth in my hand then pressing and forming it to a small ball, then putting it in front of my mouth, whispering the same magical sentence like on the other balls and let it float next to them.

“And the last Element, Air represents our free will, mind and hope. It is our helmet that keeps us far from the greed and gives us hope when we are in desperate times; we can manipulate the air to our own will by shouting and speaking. We can blow our enemies away by just only raising our voice against them or we can use the air with our wings just to lift us from the ground and don’t worry… you will get yours.

The Dragons who mastered the Air could even take out their foes by only whispering at them.”

I held my claws in front of my mouth and whispered, then let the little cyclone free that placed it besides the other three elements.

“You will learn how to use all of these elements... one after another. The first thing that you will learn is to control your inner fire and your patience, now back to your punishment...“ I again breathed deeply in and created an Ice Bolder of the same size in front of Spike.

Spike now held his claw into his air and I sighed.

“yes?”

“why... uhm do you have an Ice breath and not fire?” he asked while tilting slightly his head.

“I will tell you that later and will teach it to you as well. Now concentrate, control your breathing and let the fire rise in you, I will be here just to make sure you don’t cheat again by sending it away and if you send it away, even if it was by accident, you will start over.” I said sternly to him and he nod by grunting and then began.

***

Twilight and I stood there for the rest of the day, some ponies were also there to watch Spike and to stare at me, but they didn’t stay long and headed to their own businesses again.

He made many mistakes in the last couple of hours by sending a couple of Ice blocks to Celestia, but I must say I could see that he quickly learned from his failures.

after many hours a Canterlot Guards-colt came, send by Celestia herself to look at what was going on, I explained to him that Spike was training just like Celestia wanted and plead.

He was astonished like everybody else by my look and only nodded to me, I sighed deeply and nod to him.

He saluted in front of me and then flew back to Canterlot to bring the message back.

***

“I think I’ll go to bed… I didn’t write anything for Princess Celestia today and need to catch that up.” said Twilight while rubbing her eyes yawning.

Spike meanwhile was slightly staggering in front of the Ice block, but still was working on to melt it down.

I looked at the sky and saw the stars that Luna had already casted, I looked back at spike and said “That’s it for today bautwael, go home with Twilight and rest. You will continue tomorrow.”

He looked at me with tired eyes and then asked.

“How was I?”

“Bad...” I answered and he sighed looking disappointed of himself, but I continued talking.

“But not worse... now go” I said and then lifted off the ground by basking with my wings.

when I flew closer to my Cave and landed in front of the entrance. I walked in and saw something in the middle of it, I approached it closer and saw a Ice statue of a dragon breathing fire out in an elegant stance.

Knowing from who it was, I smiled and whispered:

“Thank you mom.. “