WARNING – some graphical descriptions on this chapter.

“Oh, that's interesting,” said Kazuki.

“What?” asked Jewel curiously.

“The dragoness in the cave is similar to you, aside from the color of her magic and scales. Would you know a red dragoness very similar to you body wise?” asked Kazuki as he witnessed the group find out the Fluttershy was afraid of dragons. Jewel facepalmed and groaned when she heard that description.

“That's probably my sister, Charir Miirik is a bit difficult to deal with, but we always got along,” said Jewel with a bit of nostalgia on her tone.

“Are you close?” asked Kazuki as he saw Twilight's negotiation fail.

“As close as two clutch-mates could be. She is a bit vain though,” commented Jewel ironically just as Rarity tried to charm the dragoness into leaving.

“Anything else to add?” asked Kazuki as Pinkie was about to enter and try to make the red dragoness leave.

“She really doesn't like to be confused for a guy in her beast form?” said Jewel referring to the fact that all dragons regardless of gender have a deep and rumbling voice due to the thicker vocal cords in their bigger beast form than in their smaller anthro form.

Not long after Pinkie's failure Rainbow got impatient and tried to get the dragoness to leave by kicking her in the face. Needless to say that the Element of Loyalty failed and only got a angry dragoness to deal with.

“Be prepared to intervene,” said Kazuki as he got off Jewel's shoulder.

“Why?” asked Jewel just before she shifted into her beast form and because of the reduced weight and invisibility she dug her claw on the mountain and was sticking on its surface almost like a gecko.

“They are the bearers of my fruits,” said Kazuki but the way he phrased it caused her eyebrow to twitch and her claw to tighten unconsciously. Kazuki saw this and said, “I will explain later, also the techniques will be dispelled the moment you jump so be careful.”

Jewel decided to trust her master, so she just got ready to intervene if things went south. Both her and Kazuki focused on the Element of Kindness, who just came out of her hiding place and started to scold Miirik.

“How dare you... How dare you! Listen here. Just because you're big doesn't mean you get to be a bully! You may have huge teeth, and sharp scales, and snore smoke, and breathe fire. But you do not- I repeat- You do not! Hurt! My! Friends! You got that?” said Fluttershy firmly.

“Oh, it seems Fluttershy has a natural pair of Magan(魔眼, Mystic Eyes) with two effects, mainly Anji(暗示, Suggestion/Whisper) and a minor Sokubaku(束縛, Binding). If wasn't for the fact that she bears the Shinsetsu no Mi(親切の実, Fruit of Kindness) I would be tempted to do a few experiments on her,” thought Kazuki when he saw the effects of the “Stare” on the dragoness’ brain with his Byakugan.

“But that rainbow one kicked me,” whispered Miirik with the deep voice associated with that form.

“And I am very sorry about that. But you're bigger than she is, and you should know better. You should also know better than to take a nap where your snoring can become a health hazard to other creatures,” said Fluttershy as she kept herself in the air just at eye level, Miirik’s eyes that was.

“But I-” started Miriik only to be interrupted when Fluttershy said, “Don't you 'but I' me, mister. Now-” but the pegasus was interrupted when Miirik caught the pegasus with her right claw and asked in a rather angry tone, “what did you call me?”

“Oh boy, the anger was enough to release herself from Fluttershy's ‘Stare’. She really doesn't like to be called 'Mister’ or anything similar,” thought Kazuki before he turned slightly to the left to face Jewel, or more specifically her right eye, and nodded.

“‘Mister’, I called you mister,” said Fluttershy meekly once again overwhelmed by her fear.

Miirik was about to say something but Jewel chose this moment to jump on her sister, the surprise caused her to release the pegasus, who went back to her friends that just saw a equally huge green dragon appear out of nowhere and tackled the red one.

“Anhew!!” shouted Miirik as she was pushed to the ground, her sister on her back immobilizing her wings, her own body was over her left claw while her right was being held by Jewel's right while the left was holding her head down.

“Hello sister,” said Jewel calmly in an equally deep voice, almost identical to her sister’s.

“Wait, that's a girl!” shouted Rainbow and AJ, rather loudly, much to the ire of Miirik but luckily for the mane six Jewel pushed her sister down, which caused the stone beneath them to crack.

“You will not harm those ponies,” said Jewel while she held down her sister.

“Since when do you care so much about ponies, sister?” asked Miirik.

“Wait that's another girl!” shouted RD and AJ, again but not as loud as before.

“I could care less about them Miirik, but my master wants them to live for some reason. That's the only reason I’m stopping you,” said Jewel.

“Master? Who is the lucky Drake that managed to dominate you?” asked Miirik, the way it was worded caused Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow to blush unlike Twilight who was more interested in the information she was gathering from this exchange and Pinkie who was being Pinkie.

“Who said my master was a dragon,” said Jewel and this caused smoke to come out of Miirik's mouth.

“How could you let yourself be humiliated by losing to a non-dragon?” asked Miirik indignantly.

“You should know better then judge strength by species Miirik,” said Jewel as she tried not to hurt her sister for insulting Kazuki.

“Indeed you shouldn't,” said Kazuki as he landed silently in front of the sisters with his Byakugan deactivated.

“Master,” said Jewel, which caught the attention of the mane six. They saw the cloaked figure, at first they imagined it to be male, but did that with caution since the recent experience with the dragons was still fresh in their mind, by the size they guessed that he was most likely a pony since he was more or less about the average size of a pony and because Rarity and Twilight, more so Twilight than Rarity, could few a great deal of magic from the one in front of them.

“Before we talk,” said Kazuki as he turned his head to look at the mane six, while the shadow of the hood obscured his face, and activated his Sharingan. All they saw before their minds went blank was his red eyes almost glowing in the shadow of the hood.

“There, they won't interrupt us and I also put a barrier around us so the alicorn sisters won't interfere either,” said Kazuki before he directed his attention to Jewel and ordered, “make sure they are safe while I deal with Red here.”

Jewel unceremoniously got off of her sister before she shifted back into her anthro form and approached the mane six. She took note of their eyes, red with three comma like marks on the iris swirling around the pupil, while they were frozen in their position like statues, the only indication that they were alive was the movement of their chest as they breathed. So she sat cross legged in front of the group facing her sister and her master.

“Would you like to change forms?” asked Kazuki politely only to receive a growl as an answer, so he added, “very well then.”

“What do you want?” asked Miirik, who didn't believe that her sister would bow to such a seemingly weak creature, he demonstrate some skills and tricks but nothing to gain her respect, yet.

“I want you to leave my territory,” said Kazuki in a serious tone while he released some of his Sakki.

“And if I refuse?” asked Miirik as she felt Kazuki's bloodlust and while that was enough for her to take him seriously it still wasn't enough for her to just accept his word.

“I will either kill, mutilate or make you submit to me,” answered Kazuki plainly only for a claw to seemingly crush him.

“Then I refuse,” said Miirik before she turned to her sister and asked, “honestly, how could you lose to him?”

“Because she underestimated me,” answered Kazuki as he had his left leg over his right while he sat on the edge above the cave’s entrance as he looked at Miirik with a bored expression.

“How?” asked Miirik as she lifted her claw only to see that she crushed a few rocks.

“Just a simple Kawarimi(変わり身, Substitution),” answered Kazuki before he looked at the rock that were under her claw, so he asked, “is that your final answer?”

“Very well then,” said Kazuki since her response was a glare and a growl. So he just looked at the red dragoness in the eye with his still active Sharingan and she froze.

From Miiriki’s perspective rods of metal were piercing her body in multiple places also pinning her on the ground and keeping her in the same position while heavy spiked chains were tightly wrapped around her. From Jewel’s perspective she just saw the same red eye pattern appear on her sister's eyes.

“What did you do?” asked Miirik with great effort as the red dragoness felt chains around her muzzle, much to the surprise of Jewel since she thought that Kazuki did to her sister what he did to the mane six.

“I just put you under an illusion,” explained Kazuki as he let a hint of a smile appeared on his face.

“Impossible,” said Miirik in disbelief since this was far from a illusion as she understood it.

“No it isn't. My brand of illusion works by manipulating the energy inside your brain and by extension all your senses. That's why you are not feeling the pain of the illusion you are in, it’s because I don't want to. Here let me show you,” said Kazuki as he did a hand seal with his right hand.

Suddenly Miirik was overwhelmed by pain and when she instinctively tried to escape and roar it only got worse as the spikes dug further into her flesh, she felt them pull and press against her bones and organs, it was the most painful experience of her life. Just as suddenly the pain disappeared along with the chains and rods, so she fell on the ground mentally exhausted from the ordeal.

Jewel got worried when she saw her sister thrash around and roar in pain, but she refrained from leaving her position because she trusted her master, but she also knew how merciless he can be since she spent time with him this last month.

Kazuki jumped of the edge and landed on the ground below, but the moment his sandal made contact with the rock he sent a pulse of chakra, which caused a giant hand of stone to come out the ground and hold Miirik’s neck.

“Since you attacked now you have two options Ms Song, submission or death. Choose,” ordered the Ōtsutsuki as he approached her head and looked directly in her eyes.

“Submission,” said Miirik in a tired tone, not even questioning the fact he called her by the translation of her name, which was Red Song.

“Tch, I was hoping you would choose death, it’s been a while since I tasted the meat of a dragon,” said Kazuki, much to the alarm of the sisters. He summoned a scroll, went inside the cave and sealed the hoard on the scroll. When he came out of the cave he saw Song in her anthro form passed out and being held by Jewel. She was almost identical to her sister, if wasn't for that fact that her scales were red instead of green, her breasts were slightly smaller and her hips slightly wider.

“Did you had to be so rough with her?” asked Jewel worried about her sister.

“This coming from the one that got most of her body burned because she refused to be civil,” argued Kazuki as he approached the sisters before he placed his right hand on Jewel's shoulder.

“Touché,” said Jewel as the trio was teleported back to the castle by the use of the Hiraishin no Jutsu (飛雷神の術, Flying Thunder God Technique) since he tagged the castle. He made sure to release the mane six from the Genjutsu and alter their memories slightly just before he left the six confused mares.

Castle’s Library few minutes prior

Kazuki's Kage Bunshin was looking at a small crystal ball on the center of the small table, in front of him on the other side of the table was Nightmare Moon, who just witnessed what a Genjutsu was capable of through the Tōmegane no Jutsu(遠眼鏡の術, Telescope Technique).

“And I can do the same thing?” asked Moon just as the original Kazuki released the Genjutsu on the dragoness.

“With practice,” pointed out Kazuki's Kage Bunshin.

“I see,” said Moon as she contemplated the potential of chakra since she knew how powerful it was but not how versatile.

Her introspection was broken when she hear static noise similar to a teleportation spell but not exactly the same. She looked at the source and saw Kazuki with a hand on Jewel's shoulder, who was kneeling while she held her unconscious sister.

The Bunshin nodded before he dispelled himself and sent his memories back to the original Kazuki.

“Master, may I take care of my sister?” requested Jewel and Kazuki nodded, so she with the help of Moon took her sister to her room while Kazuki remained in the library.

With Moon, Jewel and Song on Jewel’s room.

Jewel and Moon laid Song on the bed to let her rest, after that Jewel motioned for Moon to sit on a nearby chair since she wanted to talk. The chair was bigger than Moon needed since Kazuki remade the furniture to match Jewel’s usual size in her anthro form, which was little more than double of the average pony.

But that different wasn't as massive because of the height of the alicorn, while Jewel was 11ft Moon was 9ft. Dragons weren't known for their hospitality but she made some tea for her and Moon, like Kazuki and Zecora –much to her chagrin– taught her.

“So what you wanted to talk about?” asked Moon while she took a sip of her tea, a little bitter without sugar since it was done eastern style.

“When we confronted my sister master Kazuki said that if she died he would eat her. That was the first time I heard something like that,” said Jewel as she looked at her tea.

“So what? It’s not like dragons or other carnivores haven't tasted the flesh of a dragon before,” asked Moon.

“Yeah, but on those cases only a dragon would kill another and they never did so for just food and while other carnivores would sometimes find a dead dragon, both cases are very rare, but the way master worded for the first time in my life I felt like a prey,” explained Jewel before she took a sip of her tea.

“Did he ever tell you about his clan?” asked Moon and the Jewel shook her head so she started to explain, “Ok, first thing to get out of the way, he is an alien.”

*Cough* *cough* “A alien? As in out of this world alien?” asked Jewel in disbelief after she choked on her tea when she heard that fact and Moon just nodded.

“He once told Luna that the Ōtsutsuki is a clan of god-like beings that travel through time and space searching for suitable world to plant a Shinju or God Tree, once they find such a world and the tree is planted it starts to drain the life of the world to grow a fruit every few millennia or so, so the Ōtsutsuki remain in that world until it becomes a barren wasteland,” explained Moon before she took another sip of her tea.

“So he...” started Jewel but let the question unasked.

“No, he actually likes this world and he is pretty content just living here. But his mentality is very alien, even when Luna and Celestia met him for the first time back when they were just children and our mother still ruled over the land. To him, it makes no difference if he eats the fruits or the ones that will die and become the fruits, to him everyone is prey. Also, we never managed to determine his age, we managed to estimate between older than Equus and slightly younger than Luna,” explained Moon.

“That's not what I expected,” commented Jewel as she reflected on what she learned before she motioned for Moon to continue.

“As far as I know he doesn't need to eat, drink or sleep unless he spent a great deal of energy. He is somewhat detached, prideful but also pragmatic and sometimes mischievous, so don't worry since it’s actually pretty hard to anger him. Unfortunately, he has an almost amoral point of view and curiosity that drove the royal sisters to betray him after the death of our mother,” Moon finished the explanation.

After that Jewel and Moon spent the rest of the afternoon talking about themselves and that brought them closer as friends, with Moon sharing stories about her and Luna's youth with Kazuki and Jewel doing the same about herself and her sister.

“By the way, I know dragons don't have a problem when it comes to nudity, but don't you want to wear some clothes just to look good for Kazuki?” asked Moon and this caused Jewel to contemplate.

A month later

On the last month Kazuki had a far easier time teaching Moon how to use her chakra, luckily her control over her own magic was being recovered and it translated well into chakra control, so there was no need for more regular lessons for her. He was thinking on teaching her how to use nen in the future.

That gave Kazuki more free time, time that was unfortunately taken up by more private lessons, this time teaching the dragon sisters about chakra, whatever freed time he had between these private lessons and the ones directed at the pack was mostly spent in the lab recreating the portal. On a side note the sisters main affinity was, unsurprisingly, Katon.

Zecora also visited and informed him that she managed to befriend the inhabitants of Ponyville, that plus a really bad storm in the previous week told him that the events of “Look Before You Sleep” and “Bridle Gossip” transpired. At least Zecora was polite and didn't reveal his existence to the mane six.

Also Song woke up the day after her defeat and much like her sister she was so smitten by his strength that she eagerly became part of his hoard. The sisters also decided to wear clothes to look more appealing to him. Jewel and Song tried many different clothes, they didn't like anything tight pressing against their scales, so in the end they opted for simple yukata (浴衣) without sandals and undergarment because it was easy to wear.

Song preferred the female yukata because it was more elaborate, but Kazuki saw no problem in letting her be a little vain. Jewel on the other hand preferred the male yukata because it was more practical. Funnily enough more often than not Song would wear shades of green while her sister would wear shades of red.

Incidentally last week Kazuki noted an increase in parasprite’s population, probably courtesy of the events of “Swarm of the Century”, but it gave him something to do while he waited for the diamond dogs under his command to find the specific gems and ore he needed for the portal. Gem and ore that he unfortunately couldn't synthetase.

The parasprite were annoying, but their magical properties and rapid asexual reproduction made them ideal for his genetic experiments. He even managed to recreate the kikaichū (寄壊蟲, Parasitic Mysterious Insects) from the Aburame clan by slicing a few modified genes from parasprites into other insects –mainly small beetles. Who knew one of Discord's creations would become this useful to him.

Speaking of Discord's creations, there was another here in the Everfree, the Poison Joke. While the blue flower didn't affect Kazuki for multiple reasons it was still fun to mess with it in his lab, unfortunately he had to stop because he didn't want that to infect his assistants, especially after the first few accidents, while funny hindered the portal’s construction.

During those experiments Kazuki also used his nen, chakra and magic to create living creatures made of energy that mimic flesh not unlike Nen beast (念獣, Nen-jū) or Chakra beast(チャクラ獣, Chakura-jū). They were like the kikaichū, just small creatures with rudimentary intelligence.

Kazuki was in the basement of the castle where his lab was located, he was observing the kikaichū while they buzzed around in their vivarium and the chakra-creatures who took the forms of snakes, leeches, worms, slugs and similar creatures while they swam in their aquarium filled with chakra rich water.

For the Ōtsutsuki the only dilemma now was if he should let them bond with him, he can easily modify his own body to accommodate them, but he wasn't sure if he should, then his contemplation was interrupted by a knock on the door that lead outside of the basement.

Today Kazuki was in typical scientist attire, he was wearing a white lab coat, gray shirt, black pants, white socks, black sandals and a pair of safety glasses while his hair was tied in a single brand that reached his waist. He answered since he was alone today in the lab and on the other side of the door was Moon, Song and Jewel while a rock was floating behind them being held by Moon’s magic.

“Yes?” asked Kazuki.

“I brought the ore you were looking for,” said Moon as she pointed to the rock behind her. Then Kazuki looked the dragonesses.

“We were bored,” they spoke at the same time.

Kazuki just sighed and motioned them to come in. Moon recoil when she saw the myriad of insects but otherwise remained quiet. Song and Jewel didn't react to the kikaichū and just followed Kazuki into another room.

“What are those? The things in the tanks I mean,” asked Moon as she put the stone on the ground of a storage room, she noticed many long boxes of thick wood with different symbols on all facets forming a network like pattern and a bigger symbol on the center. They were neatly organized with the smaller boxes above the bigger ones giving a pyramid like shape to the rows of piles of four or five boxes.

“The kikaichū and the kiseibutsu(寄生物, Parasitic Object/Construct) you mean? They are symbiotic creatures that feed on energy, more specifically chakra but they can survive on magic and aura as well, they obey the host and refine energy in exchange for food and shelter,” explained Kazuki as he examined the stone with his Byakugan.

“Wait 'host’, ‘food’, ‘shelter’, but that means...Eww!!EwwEwwEww” thought Moon as she realized what Kazuki meant.

“What are those? They kinda remind me of the marks you placed on me and my sister,” asked Song as carefully traced the lines of Fūinjutsu and ignored Moon’s freak out episode while she recalled the day Kazuki placed his mark on her and her sister, for dragons to receive a mark like this meant that they now belonged to their new master and were part of his or her hoard, it didn't matter if the master was another dragon or not.

“Those are seals made to preserve the contents inside these containers,” answered Kazuki as he deactivated his Byakugan and placed his hand on the stone before he let a pulse of magic, aura and chakra to build a 3D image of the interior, similar to a MRI.

“What's inside?” asked Jewel out of curiosity.

“Go ahead. You can open it, just don't damage the content and close the lid afterward,” said Kazuki without interrupting the scanning process.

Curious to see what was inside the dragon sisters choose a box that was next to them, they carefully removed the lid of the top box, but their eyes widen when they saw what was inside. It was a body, those were not simple boxes they were coffins.

The body they were looking at was that of a diamond dog, although it's features were more wolf like than dog like. The coat was white like snow, but had many intricate red curved lines that were seemingly draw by a brush all over its body, the tip of the ears and tail however were black as if dipped in black ink.

In sum it was the body of a very exceptional diamond dog specimen. At this point Moon recovered and also had a surprised look on her face when she saw the body, then she looked at the other coffins on this storage room. This was one of the many rooms that Kazuki shaped by manipulating the earth beneath the castle. While the castle remained the same he built a large and complex underground facility connected to the tunnels dug by the diamond dogs.

“Kazuki, who is this?” asked Moon with apprehensive tone.

“Um, that's me,” answered Kazuki without looking and just as he finished the scanning process.

"Eh?" responded the trio.

Author's Note

If you having difficulty visualizing the size difference between Kazuki, and by extension an average pony, and the two dragon sisters, here is an approximation:

Also, please davi-escorsin's page on DeviantArt.

Just for clarification, the draconic language I'm using is from D&D, but I might mix with other languages in the future.
Also, I was thinking about Ōkami(The Game) at the end of the chapter.