Dragon's Light

Chapter One: Making A New Friend

Starlight Glimmer watched as her best friend Sunburst left her after getting his cutie mark, she felt like she was being torn apart from the inside out now then.

But after he left she started to cry and didn’t come out of her house for a very long time until she started to hear the screams and cries of something out there, some creature, beast or animal, and she slowly went outside to see what it was, and when she finally eventually did she saw a strange unusual and also very highly odd black dragon sitting outside all alone as it started to rain now then.

It was very little and tiny compared to what she had formerly expected before.

“Well hello there, little guy, what’s your name exactly?” she said very gently trying not to scare it or make it angry, but by its face it was rather sad instead.

“Axel,” the dragon said now then, “But what is your name strange pony?”

“My name is Starlight Glimmer, and it’s very nice to meet you, but what type of dragon are you exactly? I’ve never seen your race or kind around here before.”

“I am a Night Fury, and I am all alone, I have no one else here with me now, no friends, no family, but I just have one question for you, want to be my friend now?” he said then. “Uh, well I don’t really know,” she said very nervously now then. “Oh don’t worry, I don’t expect you to answer that fast, but he might.”

“Wait, who’s he exactly?” Starlight Glimmer said now then. “Oh, he’s just some African American boy that fell through into the world with me, although I’m not sure if we’re from the same timeline or world at all either, but come on now, let me show you to him,” Axel said with a big huge wide vast smile on his face now then as he slowly led her over to a nearby house and entered it. “Leo, it’s okay, I’m here now, you can come out now, don’t worry,” he said, and with that a very small human child slowly came out of the shadows. He looked about twelve or so if Starlight had to guess his age and had black curly hair and skin with an orange shirt and red pants. “Hey there,” Starlight said, “How old are you exactly?”

“Twelve,” he said very nervously then with great fear in his voice. Starlight was right in her guess. “Where did you two come from exactly?” she said very curiously now then. “Alternate worlds and universes, but trust me I’m cursed to be a dragon in every one that I’ve been to so far, but I don’t mind so much so long as I always have a friend there with me, or maybe even two since I’ve talked with Leo and have gotten to know him, like our favorite color is blue, but some other stuff I don’t really know that well since he seems to be from a different timeline, like he likes classical and rock music and fantasy novels too as well, but if you’ll take us in to be your friends then we’ll never leave you ever at all.

And I can most certainly promise you this, that I will always protect you."

“Well that’s nice, but I don’t know, I just lost a friend to a cutie mark…”

“What’s a cutie mark exactly?” Leo said very curiously now then. “A mark of one’s destiny that you get on your flank when the time is finally eventually right, and my friend Sunburst, well his was in magic of course, which figures since he always seems to know how to do everything, and me, well I always needed his help before now.”

“Well maybe you don’t need his help, but just the help of your friends in general instead,” Axel said smiling now then, “So, do you want to be friends? And before you answer please consider this, having a dragon that also just so happens to be an undiscovered race to your whole entire land with special cool awesome radical amazing powers can be very beneficial to you later on in your life.”

Starlight considered this problem for a few short moments before finally eventually answering. If she did make friends with them it would certainly help her out in her time of grief, sorrow, pain, and agony, but if they ever left her then she just didn’t know how she could deal with her thoughts, ideas, emotions, and feelings again, especially if they were the exact same. But then again, they made a promise to never leave her, and friends always kept their promises no matter what, and once you broke it you were no longer a friend anymore of course.

To have friend, or not, that was the question to ask indeed, but slowly she reasoned with herself with logic, it couldn’t hurt her right now if she made friends with them, and it could really help her out now and later on, after all, what did she have to lose now? After all, they were alone just like her, no friends, no family, completely and totally alone and only wanting and wishing for a friend or just to be a part of the family instead. She took a very deep heavy sigh before she gave her answer. “Yes, I will be your friends, but don’t expect me to give you all my stuff or all the answers because I’m still trying to figure life out, oh, and we’ll also have to figure out sleeping arrangements, food stuff, bills, and other various random things and stuff like school, learning, books, education, free time, fun time, snack time, nap time, and talking to my parents first as well too of course.

But that can wait until later, for now I think that I should get you out of this rain and somewhere nice and warm and very cozy, after all, that’s what very good or best friends do, right?” she said uncertain of all that friends did for each other.

“Uh, sure thing,” Axel said uncertain of where to go with this. “So then, what do you think? Are you ready for some hot chocolate and maybe a bedtime story?”

“Uh, sure thing, why not?” Axel said not certain what either of those things were (you do have to remember that he was a medieval Viking warrior, sort of).

And with that said Starlight put on a very big huge wide vast smile.

“Okay then!!!” she said with great joy and delight as she slowly led them back to her house (emotions and feelings that she hadn’t had ever since Sunburst left, which was very recently by the way). And once they finally got there she continued to smile as she tucked Leo into a bed very gently and softly not caring that he was a completely new different species, because so long as he was a friend and would always stick by her side no matter what then she didn’t really care at all. “Okay then, what story should I read first to you two?” she said still smiling at the two of them now then (an expression she had also not used ever since Sunburst had left, which again was very recently). “Uh, whatever you want I guess, I mean I haven’t really heard any fairy tales or stories at all, ever,” Axel said now then. “Oh, really?” she said now then. “Yeah, I was kind of, tough not really sort of a Viking warrior back home, but I was different from my clan, group, and even family, I was always the smart creative thinking one, I always had the new best most brilliant genius ideas even if nobody ever really listened to me.”

“Well you have me to listen to you, but not today, and certainly not right now tonight after that soak you had in the rain, perhaps maybe you could tell me your ideas tomorrow when you’ve rested and got some sleep in, okay?”

“Alright, fine then, just get on with your story,” Axel said smiling now then.

“Very good them, fine, thank you very much, now then my story is a very old classical one, and one of my own personal favorites because it was published by the princess herself although she claims to have heard it from her own mother before, it’s called The First Alicorn,” she then cleared her throat before continuing onwards now then, “Once upon a time in a kingdom very far away…”

“…and they all lived happily ever after, the end,” she said closing the book.

“That was much shorter than I expected,” Axel said yawning now then.

“Well it was a fairy tale, what did you expect, and amazing radical awesome and very cool epic about a ten-year war? I don’t think that would be very appropriate for children or kids at all,” she said smiling as she put the book back on the shelf. “Well that was very nice, but I think that I’m going to get some sleep now,” Axel said yawning very loudly as he slowly closed his eyes and lay down on the floor which had a very soft bed under it since there were always at least two spare ones that her parents had kept for guests, and for right now they were guests in her house. “Well then I think that was very lovely, but what’s an alicorn exactly?” Leo said now then. “It’s basically like a unicorn with wings, or a Pegasus with a horn, it can work either way depending upon your worthiness and readiness too, after all, it isn’t every pony of every regular normal days and life that can become and ascend into an alicorn,” she said now then. “Wait, you can become an alicorn?” Leo said with great shock and surprise in his eyes and voice too as well. “Yeah, and it’s my dream to hopefully become one too someday.

After all, you do become a princess if you are one, and that means you get all the special love and attention and wealth and praise and glory just by being royal and regal, but I doubt that’ll ever happen because there’s only three princesses, the one of the Sun, Celestia, the one of the Moon, Luna, and then finally there’s the one of Love too as well, that would be Cadence, but she very young and little just like me, she still has a very long way to go before she learns her true real destiny or perhaps maybe even discover the full power of her special talent, but if she hasn’t then I really question why she ever became one at all in the first place,” she said smiling now then as she made sure Leo was securely tucked in.

“Well I think that you should pursue your dreams no matter what happens to you, after all, you can’t let the words or actions of others ever let you down, you just have to believe in yourself and then you’ll finally be able to do great things, you’ll see,” he said smiling now then. “Oh, well okay then, thanks a lot.”

“Sure thing, anytime, I’m full of wisdom, and also very sarcastic jokes too.”

“Oh, a comedian, I’m starting to like you already,” she said smiling now then.

“And I think that a dragon should get his sleep,” Axel said now then.

“You’re still awake?” Starlight said with some slight shock and surprise.

“Well yeah, duh, of course, I can’t get to sleep if the light is on or if somebody is talking, or rather in this case some specific pony,” he said slowly opening his eyes to glare at her with some slight anger, hate, wrath, and fury too as well.

“Alright, fine then, I’ll leave you now, just make sure that you get some rest and have a good night’s sleep, I’ll see you when the morning finally comes.”

And with that said she turned off the lights as she smiled and slowly shut the door behind her. Yes, success, her first night with not one, but two new friends, and they already seemed to like her, and she thought that she was starting to like them too as well, and who knew, maybe these two would start to grow on her and not be so annoying after all, and just maybe perhaps losing Sunburst wasn’t such a bad thing after all if she got the two of her new friends in his place.

But she shouldn’t be glad about that or feel like he had been replaced, because no one could ever replace him, no pony, no human, no dragon either. He was special and unique and talented and different too, and losing him was very hard on her, and she knew that she could never ever replace him, but perhaps just maybe her new friends could help her through this, help her out with her emotions and feelings, help her to overcome them and improve and strengthen the good best ones of herself now then. Yes, perhaps just maybe, but only time would eventually finally tell that, and so with this though in her mind she read a book and then eventually finally went to bed herself once she was finally done.