Clothes? check, books? Check, pictures? Check, and anything else that shows i lived in this apartment are in the trash?? Check. I looked at my bag again, feeling proud of my work as a 14 year old boy all organized and easy to find. I had time to practice my skills since me and my family moved a lot of times throughout the year because we were running. I didn’t mind the running that much I quite enjoyed it. It was hard at first because I had to re-adjust many times but after awhile I became flexible to each apartment we’ve been through. At least I get to see many new places every time we moved.
My family moves because we’re being chased by the government. My parents are scientists studying artifacts found throughout space, they said it’s a really fun job but also hazardous due to not knowing what it could be but that’s the fun of it, always finding and testing something something new. One day they came across something they found very interesting but very dangerous. They said the government want it weaponized so they left the government. The government dealt with them leaving but after awhile they needed them back but my parents never came back. I don’t understand why the government is so persistent on chasing my parents throughout the United States but it’s what they want to do.
I looked around my clean and empty. Looking like the way I found it and how I’ll leave it. I stayed in this room for about a month so I couldn’t really do anything major to it but I was never the one to get too many souvenirs. I looked at the handiwork in my bag and closed it. I went downstairs to find my parents discussing in a very low volume, I didn’t want to disturb them so I decided to put my bags in the car. I went into the garage and find my neighbor walking his dog in the evening. I wanted to say hi but my parents told me that if they found out where we lived before our neighbors could be in trouble if they saw our faces. I didn’t really mind I had books, the internet and my parents. I placed my bag into the trunk and waited for my parents.
While waiting my jackal came out and barked happily at me. His name was Siri because how easily trained and smart he is. He learned and remembered tricks when I showed him and taught him how they’re done. I got him from an alleyway and he seems very grateful for keeping him with me, my parents even approved that I could keep him with me, as a friend I could play with. They came out a minute later and loaded the trunk with their bags.
We entered the car and drove off. I looked out the window to see the neighborhood and buildings of this town go by as we drove. My parents were unusually silent, I thought that maybe it was something they were concerned about but nothing was concerning before this point. I made sure I cleaned up my tracks and no one saw my face. This couldn’t be about me. I was about to voice my concern when we pulled up to a building.
“Get your bag Nix” my father said to me.
“.... Okay?” I said.
I went to the trunk and grabbed my things, and Siri came out with me. I looked at the building and it had the word “Orphanage” at the top. I dropped my bag in disbelief. They were abandoning me. Why would they do that? I’ve been good, I listened to their words, why was being left behind? I looked to see my dad ushering me to go inside, but I stopped.
“Why are we here?” I asked my dad.
“Because it’s for the best Nix” My dad.
“How is this for the best? I’m not an orphan”
“But we can’t take care of you” my mom said.
“How you have jobs everywhere we go”
“We can support but not take care” my dad said.
“What do you mean?”
“We home school you, feed you and clothe you but you have no friends, no idea how the real world works, this isn’t good parenting” my mom said.
“Isn’t the government after us?”
“The government is after me and your mother NIx not you, they don’t even know you exist” my dad said.
“Why don’t they know?”
“To keep you safe, we don’t want you to run for the rest of your life with us, you have a life to live and we shouldn’t control every minute of it with background checks and early morning wake up calls” my mom said.
“I don’t want to leave you”
“Nicholas, please understand that your life is what we are trying to protect. The government is an evil place that will do anything to get what it want even if it means torturing you, please we don’t want that for you” dad said.
“Fine, if you don’t want me, I’ll leave but is Siri coming?”
“Yes he can come with you
I grabbed my bags and went with dad to the front desk, I looked to see no kid in sight. I was starting to get worried but I didn’t notice dad leave. The clerk told me to come with him. We entered the dormitory to find it completely empty. She said that I have to go down to the cafeteria to have dinner with the other kids. She lead me down another flight of stairs where I saw many kids looking unhappy. I asked the clerk why but she just shrugged her shoulders. I was about to sit down until a kid called hit me on the head.
“Ow, why did you do that?” I said.
“Because it’s fun” he replied.
“That was painful”
“You complaining?”
“No I’m reporting”
“Okay, how about this” he said as he showed me my bag
“What are you doing?”
“Showing an example”
he brought out a pocket knife, he was about to rip my bag until Siri bit his leg causing him to fall down and let go of his knife and my bag. He screamed in pain while the other orphans just watched. He was wailing while bleeding out, he tried getting Siri off him but he wouldn’t get off. I called Siri back and the bully stumbled trying to get up. He turned to his buddies and they charged at me with knives ready. I brought my hands to defend myself, I waited for them to come but they didn’t. I looked to see them suspended in mid-air. I brought my hands back in fright and they were thrown back to the wall leaving cracked cement on their impact and blood on their mouths. I stared in disbelief and everyone started backing away from me. I ran away, I didn’t know where i was going but I ran away somewhere, anywhere that I could leave this place behind. I looked to see I found myself in the garden.
“Why? I kept running, lost my parents and now I hurt people, why am I different?” I asked no one.
“Because you’re special Nix” A voice replied.
“Who’s there?” I looked around for the voice of this person, but all I saw were plants and flowers of the garden and no other sign of a another person.
“Someone who can give you a future” the voice responded.
“What kind of future?” I asked.
“A future in a world where peace prospers and quarrels don’t exist”
“What kind of world is that”
“One that is very far from your own”
I thought about my situations right now. I was abandoned by may parents, Siri bit someone and I hurt the others will these powers. I think this place would give me up to the government for testing and I don’t want that and I don’t want to hurt anymore people here, I’m probably labeled here as someone to be afraid of, I lost the chance to make friends already and escaping the orphanage would warrant a search party. I have to start over, my life right now or what it could turn out to be isn’t good.
“Alright, I’ll go” I said to the voice.
“Excellent child” he said.
I waited for something to happen as I closed my eyes but I didn’t feel anything. I waited and waited but nothing happened, I was thinking a bright light or pain but nothing. I opened my eyes to find myself in space. I looked to see my body was gone as if I were just a pair of eyes floating through space. I looked at the universe to each part of it coming to me. I looked to see asteroids were forming my torso, it formed to be slim and long with a tail, nebulas were compacting together to form legs. Stars’ fire were coming and forming a flame on my tail and my arms. Planets’ crusts were forming my elongated neck and face and Black hole’s energy were creating my wings on my back and fins on my neck. I looked again to see I became a dragon.
“You are now the second draconequus to have ever lived in equestria” the voice told me as light from the farthest point in the universe suddenly engulfed me.
I woke up with the bright light and the cool air hitting my face and body. I opened my eyes to see a desert all around me, I stood up and noticed that I was lying on something soft and scaly even though the surrounding ground was sand and stone. I looked down to see a black dragon. I jumped off in fright and fell down in front of it. The sudden movement caused its’ eyes to open revealing a slit pupil, it was moving slowly towards me. I shielded myself with my hands for whatever was coming but it did nothing instead it started to lick my arms.
“Siri?” I asked the dragon.
The dragon widened its’ eyes and sat down. I approached him and he began licking my hand. he jumped up and lunged at me, I fell down under his weight and began rubbing his head on me affectionately. I scratched his head and he stood up. I looked at my arm and it was orange. I looked at the rest of my body and my torso was gray and my legs were red, I looked behind me to see I had wings. I would’ve freaked out but I remembered the process of how I came to be in this body. I’m made up of the universe.
“Where are we?” I asked myself.
“I don’t really know” a different voice answered.
“Who’s that?” I asked.
“Siri, I’m right behind you”
I looked behind me and Siri waved his claws at me. I looked around the desert and saw in the distance a small village. I stood up and began to test my wings. They flapped considerably slow and I couldn’t take off. I turned to Siri but he just shook his head meaning he doesn’t know how to fly. I sighed and began walking towards the village, but considering how short my legs were it was going to be a long walk.
I saw many stones and plants growing in the desert, with the abilities I have, which I never knew, I stopped and tried making the rocks fly. I closed my eyes and began imagining them flying up the ground. Nothing. I kicked the rocks out of the way and continued trekking. I turned back to Siri and he doesn’t seem to have problems with the heat even with his black scales. He must cold-blooded to survive this, I must be too.
The sun was past its peak when I had a good view of the village. It seems to be very bland with only twelve houses with 6 on either side and one small house in the middle and at the end of the village, and the most interesting detail is everyone was a horse, brightly-colored horses as if I was in a show for little girls and maybe older men. I could even see pegasi and unicorns in the village. Wherever I was in the universe, I would freak out but moving from one neighborhood to the next and seeing different culture makes want to assess this predicament first before complaining, plus maybe they can let me live here.
We walked toward the village, I was feeling uneasy about this because I didn’t look like them at all, I looked more like a bipedal dragon with powers I don’t know about of if I even have them. Once I entered the village everyone just looked at me. Someone screamed and they all ran into their houses but one was heading for the small house at the end. I was about to turn around until someone called out to me.
“Excuse Mr. draconequus”
I looked back to see a horse coming towards me. She has a pink coat, purple and teal mane and tail, and a mark on her flank, a purple and white star with two blue glimmering streams she came up and looked at me, examining me from head to toe. She looked up with a curious expression. The other horse however was cowering from a safer distance behind starlight, the other horses were looking through their windows as if waiting for me to leave or do something that would grant them fear of me.
“Yes?” I answered to the pink horse.
“Are you a young draconequus?” she asked.
“I’m fourteen”
“Explains why you walk instead of using your wings. Are you lost?”
“I have nowhere to go”
“Would you like to stay with me?”
She offered me a place to stay and it’s with the only person that didn’t freak out by my appearance. She’s a unicorn so maybe she can change my appearance into something less strange to the others, and maybe learn a lot of this place’s cultures and maybe what am I because she calls me a draconequus. I looked at Siri and he shrugged his shoulders. I didn’t know if I could trust her but the voice did say that peace prospers here so maybe she can’t be that bad.
“Okay” I said.
“Excellent, but your dragon has to stay outside for awhile because I don’t think he can fit inside, but there is something I could do for him” she said.
“Alright, are you okay with that Siri?” I asked Siri, my dragon.
“I’m okay with that” he said in my head.
“It’s okay” I said to the pink horse.
“Alright,hold still” she said then she charged up her horn and a teal aura surrounded Siri, with a bright light he turned into a small dragon, he looked younger.
“How do you feel Siri?”
“I feel the same just smaller” He said.
“Well, now that’s done follow me gentlemen.
I followed her to the small house at the end of the village, everyone was still looking at me and the horse that was behind starlight left to another house. I saw the house up close and it looked like every other house in the village except smaller. Once we entered I was impressed how everything fits inside. There was a stone chimney at the far left corner. A table on the right with a pitcher on it and a single chair, a bookshelf with kitchenware on the bottom shelf and a cabinet on the bottom, a bench on the left side, a door at the end next to the chimney and stairs leading up to somewhere.
“You two be sleeping in that room over there” she pointed out to the door next to the stairs”
“Thank you. Before we forget my name is Nix and this is Siri, it is a pleasure that you’ll let us stay here” I said introducing ourselves
“My name is Starlight, pleasure is all mine” she said
Author's Note
special thanks to dragon whisper 243 for the idea
I looked at her again and I can’t tell if those eyes are misleading but I couldn’t just trust a voice or a stranger even though they said this place was harmonious. I looked out the window and those creatures are looking out their doors thinking if it’s safe to come outside or if I’m safe with one of their citizens. I looked back and Starlight seems to be examining both me and Siri, although Siri is bothered by it as he keeps tracking her movements.
“She’s making me uncomfortable” Siri said telepathically to me.
“Excuse Ms. Starlight” I said which got her attention.
“You can just call me Starlight” She said with a smile.
“Okay, Starlight do you know what I am?”
“Yes I do Nix. You’re a draconequus, and probably the second to have ever come into existence in equestria or in history"
“The second? Who was the first?”
“Discord, however unlike Discord you’re younger and inexperienced. I can help with that”
“Why would you help me?”
“A draconequus’s purpose is to bend reality into what’s best for all ponies. Discord however bended reality into his own twisted imagination, not until princess Celestia encased him in stone”
“So my purpose is to help others with my powers?”
“You’re a very powerful creature Nix and you should use that potential”
“So how do I use it?” I asked Starlight.
“I’m going to teach you the basics, after that we move on to advanced and you can control your life after that”
I consulted with myself again to make sure I make the right choice. She seems friendly but can I actually trust her? She does have a noble intent for me on why she wants to teach me, although I don't know if she has an ulterior motive, but I don’t know much about this world to know what’s good to them and what’s bad for us. I have no basis to make sure I make the right choice and all I can rely on is the voice’s words and I couldn’t see another town for miles and what chance do I have to meet someone that’s accepting as her?
“Where do we start?” Nix asked.
“We can start with a simple transfiguration spell” she said as she used her magic to turn the pitcher into a potted plant.
“Now you try”
“How?”
“You know that ponies say that they use a certain amount of cerebral capacity to understand and take in information about the world. Earth ponies are able to understand and feel the ground beneath them making them good tillers of fields or pegasi are able to walk on clouds and control the weather. Unicorns on the other hand use much more cerebral capacity than the average earth pony and pegasi, allowing us to control the matter around us at a more exponential degree, however Draconequi can use more than an Alicorn’s cerebral capacity at a theoretical degree, and they use a combination of Earth ponies, pegasi and unicorns” She explained.
“That sounds very interesting,” I remarked.
“And it gets even more interesting. The way magic works is that it’s tailored to how we imagine matter to become or how we want it to move. What makes an object, an object? What is it made of?”
“Molecules” I answered.
“And the way we perceive them is how we want them to be. Tell me, does creativity lead to imagination or does imagination lead to creativity?”
“It’s a two way street. Imagination is something in the mind and creativity is the physical form and with the physical form in our perception, we can imagine it to be anything else”
“Good. Between imagination and creativity, what’s the similarity? How do you make them work together to make an output to your liking? What is the one thing about that output specifically that other people may interpret differently?”
“The finer details” I said.
“You’re pretty smart. Now ask yourself this, how do you think I transformed that pitcher into a potted plant?”
“From all the questions, I say you look at the molecules and imagine what you want them to be. With creativity, you made it into a plant the way you like it. Seeing the plant made you think of another way to make it special, so with the finer details, the functionality is different from other plants”
“I’m very impressed that you can understand all this even when you’re fourteen. Yes, this plant looks and acts different from other plants. Can you guess the functionality?”
“Imagination stems from the creativity of a physical form. Since you had the idea of a pitcher and a flower and that they both gather water, but if it’s different from an ordinary flower, then I would guess it’s a plant that gives off water”
“Very good,” she said as she levitated three glasses next to the plant. She covered the plant with her aura and water came out of the plant, landing in the three glasses.
“Thirsty?” she said to both me and Siri.
“Thank you, Ms. Starlight” Siri said to me telepathically.
“Thank you from me and Siri” I said to Starlight as we all drank our water.
“Okay Nix, your turn. Make anything an object you want” Starlight said to me as she levitated the glasses to the table.
I looked around the room for anything to base my imagination on to have a better grasp at creating finer details. I looked around and saw the glasses we drank from, and it reminded me of the telescope I once had. Remembering how light reflects through a telescope and the internal angles and schematics of a telescope, I looked at the molecules of glass sitting on the table. I imagined them changing shape and density as well as material to make the outer parts of a telescope. I watched as the glasses shattered into pieces. I was about to reform the molecules until the glass shards started multiplying, then angling themselves to make the inside of the telescope. The remaining shards clustered together around the lenses, forming a rough cylindrical shape until smoothening out, forming a white telescope.
“It’s a telescope, with a button that activates an x-ray vision mode”
“Hm, the form looks good but I wonder about the functionality” Starlight said as she examined the telescope. She pointed the telescope out the window next to her door and smirked.
“You did a good job on your first try, how do you feel?” She asked me.
“Satisfied and accomplished” I said.
“You learned a transfiguration spell and did it perfectly on your first try, with some style”
“Thank you for the compliment”
“Now try it on other things around the house”
“Because I have to practice?”
“Yes, and because you’ll have to transfigure yourself”
“Is it because other people will be afraid of my true form?” I asked apprehensively.
“Discord was the only draconequus to have ever come to Equestria, and until now, the only one thought to have ever existed, and because of his behavior, all ponies think is that Draconequi are evil, so it’s best to have a cover”
“I see. What would you like me to transform next?”
After a few hours of transfiguration, I turned almost every piece of furniture into something that reminds of home, and every time I did Starlight would check to make sure I did them right. I was good to know that Starlight kept watch because I wasn’t too sure about my powers just yet, transfiguration was easy in one way to another. After all the practice, it was night time already but before we went to bed, Starlight asked if could do one more transfiguration spell. This time on myself.
“It’s time to use the spell on yourself” Starlight said to me.
“You have a disengaging spel in case something goes wrong?”
“You know the difference between a reversal spell and a disengaging spell?”
“Reversal spells revert the object back to it’s previous form even if it was still affected by magic while a disengaging spell removes any effects of a spell done to an object”
. “You’re keeping up. Yes I do. Make your pony form the way you want, although I would suggest you be a unicorn because they can do magic without being conspicuous. Also a stallions body is bigger and a bigger muzzle”
“Okay” I said.
I focused on how I want my body to be. A normal stallions body has a bigger body than a mare and I should have a horn to show I can do magic. I focused to see how my insides would form to fit the new body, how my fur and mane should feel and look like and how my mark should look like. This is even more complicated than objects because I would have to see how everything should work, I would have to use my knowledge on anatomy to see the functionality of this body work in the world. After imagining the pony body’s inside and outside look I thought of how my molecules would change. I have to keep in mind the the different molecular structures that form the body and what they make.
I started to feel a tingling sensations around my body, I looked down to see my neck was shrinking, my hands were coming together to make hooves, my torso was becoming a barrel, my wings were withering into air. My horns were becoming one and my jaw was becoming a muzzle. After the structure was done the finer details were made. My scales were and fur withered into nothingness and black fur sprouted. My fin withered and a dark blue mane with a darker streak of blue in the middle sprouted and my tail shrank, with the fire going out and hair he same color as my mane was sprouting out. My eyes changed from slit eyes to circular eyes with a darker blue iris. Finally the design of my mark, I based it off Starlight’s mark, I created a dark blue, six point star with three white, lightning bolts around the star and a smaller white, six point star in the dark blue star.
“You look nice. What does your cutie mark mean?” Starlight asked.
“It means my love for science and learning” I responded.
“That’s who you are. It’s time for bed, Good night and I’ll see you tomorrow”
“Good Night, Ms. Starlight” Siri said.
“Good Night, from me and Siri” I said to Starlight.
I looked around my room. It was small and quaint, a single bed, a bookshelf and a fireplace. I looked out the window to see everyone was out of their homes and looking at my direction, the creature I became must be someone they’re scared of or maybe someone looks like me. I checked the bookshelf and there were spells books and adventure books stacked against each other. I looked back at Siri and he was preparing to sleep on the floor.
“You don’t have to sleep on the floor. You can sleep with me” I said to Siri.
“I’ve always slept on the floor, it never bothered me” Siri said telepathically
“I know, I just want you to be close. I feel afraid”
“But we always moved. You weren’t scared once we got used to it”
“I’m not afraid of moving. I’m afraid of my powers. I’m afraid of me”
“You want me to be close by to watch over you?” He asked
“Yeah”
“Alright” he said as he went up to the bed and I laid down next to him. I pulled the blanket over our bodies and before I drift off to sleep I decided to start a conversation with with Siri, now that he can talk.
“What do you think of our predicament?” I asked Siri
“Since I bit that kid I’d wind up going to the pound and never see you again” He said to me.
“And mom and dad wanted me gone, I was being bullied in that orphanage and I hurt them. I don’t think we can go back”
“Even if we could, where would we go?” Siri asked as he turned his body towards me.
“Do you think it’s best we stay here?”
“What did that voice tell you?”
“This is a place of peace”
“Then I guess we can believe him”
“I guess. Goodnight SIri”
“Goodnight Nix” he said as we drifted off to sleep.
This is wonderful. Not only I was able to meet a young draconequus, I was able to befriend him, in time maybe. He has a dragon with him which is very unheard of. They are both reptile species but to think he made friends with such big and elder dragon is impressive, and I sensed no mind-controlling magic around him or the dragon. He is only fourteen years old, maybe that older black dragon took care of him when his parents left him at that orphanage. Being bullied for being a draconequus is a possibility because there are others who think they can overpower a young draconequus but they might end up injured.
Chaos magic is very powerful and breaks the laws of the universe as if you were the universe itself, modeling and changing the way you see fit and hiding secrets and powerful artifacts to be used by pony-kind into bending the fabric of space and time, as if you’re changing the laws the way you like. That’s a draconequus, a living artifact born from the universe to bend it to be new and shape anything to be fit for life and existence. He’s young and can be manipulated, with him by my side I can change the way ponies see their cutie marks and make sure the ones who object this philosophy will be changed forcefully.
Draconequus species are very powerful and dangerous, having a young fourteen year old could mean he’s very powerful like a young unicorn or weaker than an adult draconequus. Book don’t have the answers because Discord was the only draconequus to have ever existed in Equestria and no records can be found outside of equestria, that’ll mean I’ll have to teach him like a young unicorn. Just the basics then the advance and maybe he can learn how to create matter on his own because unicorns can’t create something out of nothing first rule of thermodynamics. We can change or manipulate matter but not create it. It’s a shame that we can’t do it so many possibilities can be done with that power. I have that power, or nix does I just have to control, make him feel safe, that I’m his family now.
I marveled at the thought of it having a draconequus as a little brother. It could be fun and he does have that dragon under control. Speaking of which his dragon is very unusual. It has the parts to be a dragon, such as being a reptile and having wings and scales but it doesn’t talk and the way it responds is by looking at his friend. A spell or perhaps a dragon that uses more of its brain’s power to talk to someone it cares about. Even when I used a mind spell on it I couldn’t read its thoughts while it was talking with Nix in their room. He’s probably a dragon of higher intelligence or he’s resistant to magic. He could come in handy as well but he could be meddlesome as if he is a dragon of higher intelligence he would separate me and Nix, or even try to make Nix run. I’ll have to experiment on that dragon but if I do his cautiousness around me will increase faster. I’ll have to do something soon.
Author's Note
the thing about starlight is that she likes studying magic but she likes to do a little reading but the way she learns is by practicing magic. I'd like to think that the way she likes to teach is by making her students think for themselves. Also I like to set a dynamic between the two characters.
