Rainbow Dash didn't go to Ponyville herself, of course. Instead, she sent a few of her subjects- ones she knew she could trust, since they were under extremely powerful mind control spells- to gather all of the contents of Twilight's former lab and bring them to her palace in Canterlot.

Now, she looked down at desks, bookshelves, boxes, some boring-looking metal equipment.... and a wooden crate containing the only thing she cared about.

There were fifteen potions left, all still neatly labelled. She sifted through them quickly. There seemed to be two of each of the pony races... one of each of all the rest... No, hang on. Dash lifted a potion to eye level. Sure enough, the it read "Griffon".

There was another one of these? Dash wondered. Huh... she must have had a reason. Whatever. Setting it down for now, Dash continued sifting... and was once again surprised at what she found. Two more potions were inspected up close by a predatory eye: she was right. There had been two of each pony race... two griffon... and two Dragon.

A moment passed where Rainbow Dash was lost in thought. So what's my plan here? Desert my griffon form for a while, go have fun as a dragon, and use the other potion to change back? It sounded good. Dragons were awesome and all, but she had a sort of... affinity for the griffon body. She flexed her claws and swished her tail in contemplation.

I wonder how big this will make me this time. Her breath almost caught at the thought. I'm already a lot bigger... and dragons can grow ten times as big as I am now without any help at all! In her mind's eye, she saw herself, a titanic blue dragon, growing so big that she began to crush the mountain she sat upon.

She shivered, and felt herself clenching down below. Yeah, we're doing that. Snapping back to reality somewhat, she regarded the two dragon potions before her. Two. The two... potions...

Hmmm. It was a thought, all right. As far as she could guess, these potions contained way more magical power than the silly little alicorn princess had intended. One had made her a titan, for a while. So two... Eyes widening, she lifted up the other potion, the one labelled "Griffon". Or three...

Rainbow Dash was definitely breathing heavily now. It was probably her imagination, but she could feel the power contained in the flasks held in her magic. She knew it might not work like she was imagining. She knew it was reckless, maybe even more reckless than her original theft of the original potion. But look where that got me.

It was too much. Rainbow had never had a lot of self-control to start with, and becoming queen of all Equestria- soon the world- hadn't helped. This was happening. But she could at least try to be smart about it. Mixing them was a bad idea. There was no telling what effect it would have, if any. Dash had been toying with magic for a while, though, and as several hapless subjects had discovered, the queen was more than willing to... experiment with her brute-force method of spellcraft. Dash was pretty confident in her ability to combine two things into one thing, even magical items. Why not try it here?

Starting with the two dragon flasks, Rainbow concentrated. It was surprisingly easy: she could feel the enchantments entangling, and with a pop, Dash held only a single flask. Smirking, she now held the hopefully-double-strength dragon potion next to the griffon one and concentrated again.

This one was harder. The enchantments didn't want to go together, there was a... difference in the... magical... it wasn't working. Narrowing her eyes, Rainbow Dash really focussed. There was something to feel out... each enchantment had two components, a simple one and a complex one. The simple one was the same in both flasks (though much stronger in the dragon flask); she sensed they would go together easily if not for the complex pattern of spellweave in the other component, which was different in each. So... hang on. The complex part must be the species thingy, if the rest of it is just the transformation spell. That made sense, right? So all she had to do was make... the patterns... mesh...

pop.

"HA!" Dash triumphantly held aloft her new potion, which was hopefully now a supercharged potion of transformation into a super awesome dragon-griffon hybrid.

Just then, her informant entered. "My Queen! Just as you asked, I have all the information we have about the dragonlands, dragonlord and-"

"Don't care, get out."

Dash shoved him out the door and slammed it, not taking her eyes off the potion. Her tongue ran across her beak hungrily. No point in putting it off any longer.

Throwing back her head, she poured every drop of the potion down her waiting throat.

Grinning, tensed in excitement, and already horny, the twelve-foot griffon felt herself lift into the air...

Author's Note

Go ahead, ask when the next chapter will be out.