My little pony X
Deeper Thoughts on Family
Previous ChapterNext ChapterA page was shown at the beginning of a book, showing Draco with Spike and Twilight, showing what built up to them living in Ponyville in book form. The trio were seen talking to each of their new friends in respective order from when they met whom. Draco was seen confronting Nightmare moon with his siblings behind him. Twilight was seen showing everyone about the Elements of Harmony. The group was seen walking through the Everfree forest in hopes of finding the Elements of Harmony. The group's struggles were all shown as the pages turned, one event at a time. The tasks of the Elements of Harmony were shown as well in exact order of when they were made. Draco and the others were seen confronting Nightmare moon and successfully did so, ending with Draco hugging Queen Luna. Draco and the others were seen with Queen Celestia as she just allowed the main trio to move to Ponyville. The last page showed Draco becoming surprised by what he found in the ruby in the alley. Just then a red flash covered up the screen and to changed to another motion.
The magic tree house anime movie song Message plays during the credits as Twilight's voice is heard singing No other bond.
Events from the pilot were shown from the first few lines of Twilight's song. "I may have given up on friendship, long ago." But my brothers helped me regain, it so. In spite of how stupid they, can be. I still love them with all my heart. They helped me see the light, at the end. It was a tunnel that made an, awful trend. But these dragons, one cocky, and one timid. Kept their friendship amazing from the start." Other events to occur in season one were then shown for the rest of the song. "True neither of them are perfect, but I honestly will never care. Us and our friends will remain, until the, end of time. Even when these brothers fight, there love lasts with all their might, and they showed me once again, the truth that i lost back then. The best of friends they will sure be, forever in harmony, No other bond i've seen before, protecting and loving one another to the core."
Draco and his friends were shown in a picture at the end of the song.
Draco was seen writing in his journal as he snickered on a past memory he had offscreen. "I still can't believe Twilight got hit on the head with an anvil, let alone a cart full of hay stacks." Draco laughed at the memory as he pounded his fist on his bed. "I bet she looked so dumb in that body cast."
Spike peeked up to Draco and saw what he was writing in. "Writing about some past events Draco?"
Draco flinched and closed his book, glaring at Spike and getting serious. "Don't touch it; it's private!" Spike nodded as Draco put his book away and set it under his pillow, right next to the ruby. "I've written some stuff in there about our mother and I can't let Twilight know about it. Whatever my mom did she clearly doesn't want me to know about it; if she even did anything in the first place that is."
Spike saw the scenario at first glance and wished he could help Draco in some way. "If only there was a library we could go to besides the Canterlot library. The last thing we need is a second Ryu on a rampage."
"Maybe there's another place we can look where there's a library." Draco suggested, willing to do anything to find out more about his mother. "There has to be another place with more knowledge and everything we can find."
"Yeah, but it'd have to be in a place where we can't go to." Spike got an idea upon his words. "What about Cloudsdale? They most likely have a library."
Draco thought for a moment and figured that it couldn't hurt to try. "That could work like a charm. (Sighs) But we need a pegasus to go there. You wanna invite Rainbow dash or Fluttershy?"
Spike and Draco were seen at Rainbow dash's house with Draco knocking on the door, hoping that she would answer. After waiting for a bit, Rainbow dash answered and saw Spike and Draco. "Oh, hey guys. You need something from me?"
"As a matter of fact, we do." Draco stated as he butt bumped Spike to the side a bit and spoke for everyone. "How would you like to join us for another round of beat up a bunch of baddies in a library of they wanna beat us up?"
Rainbow dash thought for a moment and seemed skeptical on the whole scenario; and rightfully so. After all, it wasn't like she forgot what happened the last time they went to a library and fought others. "You sure this isn't gonna be like the time we brought Ryu back to life?"
"Trust me; this isn't going to be from the Canterlot library." Draco assured Rainbow dash, while also hoping that she would comply. "See, we were actually hoping that you'd maybe take us to the Cloudsdale library. Mostly me, but ya know."
Rainbow dash thought for a moment and felt like it could be fun to show Spike and Draco some more of her hometown. "Why not? I'm always happy to show others what Cloudsdale's like."
"Awesome!" Draco replied when he pumped his fist. "It'd be kinda like a mini tour before we arrived there."
"Just keep in mind that the reason we're inviting you is because we need a pegasus." Spike revealed for safe measure. "Just letting you know so it doesn't turn into a secret hiding moral."
"I'm cool with that. It'd be great to see the place again outside of a competition." Rainbow dash figured that Fluttershy might like this too. "You mind if I invite Fluttershy to join us?"
"Hey, look at that; we could've invited both of them with us from the start." Draco said instantly after Rainbow dash's request, with Spike chuckling a bit and rubbing Draco's head as Rainbow dash smiled towards him. Rainbow dash's smile also made Draco blush a bit, and I think we know why.
Draco was seen on a trolley to Cloudsdale with Spike, Rainbow dash, and Fluttershy, looking out the window with a smile. He seemed to be excited to explore Cloudsdale some more, despite knowing why they were going there. He looked at Spike, who seemed nervous about their mission. "Let's hope the library there has some of the info we need Spike. I can feel the knowledge on our family coming towards us right this minute."
"Yeah, but don't forget that we've never been there before Draco." Spike reminded Draco, feeling as if there would be some requirements to enter. "We might have to get eye scans or something like that to go in so they don't think we're evil."
"Don't worry Spike. It'll be just fine when we get there." Rainbow dash assured Draco with a chill tone. "The first time I went there I started complaining about why I had to do that boring reading on some old legend and they didn't even flinch."
"But you ended up liking the legend, remember?" Fluttershy reminded Rainbow dash, looking back on the memory itself. "I remember you rented the book and took it home, even using it as a pillow."
Rainbow dash giggled upon the memory, finding it to be pretty silly and dumb. "Yeah, I remember that. (Looks at Spike and Draco) It was this really cool one where this pegasus ended up defending some of these other dudes from a group of angry dragons, not like you, and he was labeled as a hero ever since."
Draco took a liking to the legend, respecting anyone who could stand up to his kind. "Seems like a cool guy. What was the name of the book?"
"Oh, I never read the title." Rainbow dash admitted. "I just read it a whole bunch and put it down without ever bothering to read the cover." Draco gave a smirk with Rainbow dash shrugging. "I find reading reeeeally boring." The trolley was getting close to Cloudsdale with the beauty of the entrance shining.
Draco and the others arrived in Cloudsdale with Draco looking around and taking a liking to what he saw there. Despite the fact that he's seen bits and pieces of it when he came to support Rainbow dash in the Best young fliers competition, he never got the chance to see it at first glance. He was more than impressed at the world the Pegasi have created with clouds along, wanting to know how exactly they did so. But he couldn't ask that now, as he had a mission to do. A self entitled one at that, but still a mission.
Spike walked up to Draco and put his claw on his shoulder as he smiled towards him. "Good thing that spell Twilight casted on us was permanant. This place is way to gorgeous to not be seen by other kinds."
Rainbow dash and Fluttershy flew up to Spike and Draco with Rainbow dash speaking up. "And this is just the beginning. Wait until you see the snack shop."
Draco became enlightened at the sound of there being a snack shop, looking at Rainbow dash with excitement. "I could go for a chocolate shake right about now, if the library isn't one of those stuck up ones that hates fun." Rainbow dash snickered a bit at Draco's words, liking his self awareness towards how boring libraries can be. She and Fluttershy then led Spike and Draco to the snack shop, feeling that they could get a bite themselves.
Draco was drinking a chocolate milkshake at the snack shop with Rainbow dash snarfing down on a chili cheeseburger. Fluttershy then thought about what Spike and Draco's mother would be like. "Your mother must be very beautiful in both personality and design. If she made elements of harmony then it must be true."
"Maybe." Spike replied, being curious about their mother himself. "Although I'm not as determined to learn about her as Draco is, I admit that it'd still be pretty cool to see what she looked like."
Draco finished his shake and let out a belch, pulling out some bits for another one. "This will be the second one due to that. I usually have more, but I gotta make sure I can afford the book when we go to buy it. If we do anyway." The waitress came by and Draco took his opportunity. "Yo. Hook me up again." Draco slid his glad over to the waitress, who caught it and nodded, heading off to get him a refill, with Rainbow dash being fond of her chill mood.
"I always liked how chill she was." Rainbow dash admitted. "Like, this one time I had really bad gas after eating their burritos and she was nowhere near as upset as I thought she'd be. That's something I can respect in someone; when they can just be chill whenever they want to."
Draco thought for a moment and considered ordering their burritos before Spike spoke up in protest. "No." Draco shrugged and then his second shake came up and he started drinking it.
Draco and the others arrived at the library with Draco still drinking up his shake. Draco sighed of relief after finishing the shake, letting out a burp and throwing his cup away. "Let me tell you Rainbow. Your shakes, life's dream."
"Those were my first words when I had one of their shakes." Rainbow dash replied. "So good that I never wanted to leave."
"She threw a huge tantrum over it and bit her dad." Fluttershy revealed with Rainbow dash speaking bluntly.
"You know I was a huge brat at the time." Rainbow dash stated. "And luckily they used sleeping gas before it got worse."
"Sleeping gas?" Draco asked with shock. "Geez; how hard were you to deal with at the time?"
"Well I mostly just got explosive for a minute or so." Rainbow dash explained. "Usually because they either managed to stop me or I just got tired. Those shakes were more than good." Draco and the others walked inside with Draco being impressed by how easy it was. "Told ya. Anyway, I'm glad I'm more mature now; even if I'm still cocky and all that."
"Honestly Rainbow, I'm glad I didn't know you when I was a baby." Draco laughed a bit, thinking about how horrible it'd be to be friends with Rainbow at that time.
Draco and the others looked around the library with Draco looking in the D section while hoping to find something useful. When he started looking through it however, he started to wonder if they could ever find any info on his mother. He knew it wasn't impossible, but what if it was just too hard for them? That said, he couldn't give up. His determination was too strong for him to back down on, and he knew that this was something he'd have to know about, even if the world didn't want him to.
Spike walked up to Draco and noticed his serious look, rarely ever seeing it on him before. "You hardly ever look serious Draco. You must be invested in this."
"It's our family Spike. Of course I'd be invested." Draco looked at Spike and stood up. "If our mother did something back then that helped us get where we are, or if there's something going on, then I have to know. I don't care who tries to stop me; they won't lay a claw on me or any of my friends."
Spike seemed to wonder some things about his mother as well; although he didn't admit it, he wanted to know some stuff just like Draco did. One of those things was why their mother abandoned them. If she did anyway. "Now that I think about it, there's some stuff I've wanted to know myself. Though it's pretty tragic."
Draco sighed, feeling as if they were almost lost in this case. Then he heard Rainbow dash's voice. "We'll find her." Spike and Draco looked at Rainbow dash, who found a book on dragons that might be able to help them. "If we can find your dragon but in adult form then we should be able to find out who your mother is."
Fluttershy walked up to the three of them and became intrigued by the book. "Ooh. You found something."
"That's right. And now we're gonna see what we can-" The bookcase opened up and surprised the four of them when they saw it. "Look at it."
Draco and the others were walking through some sort of room that the bookcase revealed. Fluttershy noticed Spike looking fearful and rubbed his head with kind affection. Even though Fluttershy was scared as well, she couldn't let it affect the mission. "It's gonna be okay Spike. Just try your best not to think about the dark times."
Spike smiled and hugged Fluttershy, who greatly appreciated it, with Draco rolling his eyes. "You two are pretty much made for each other in the scaredy cat line up."
Draco and the others saw something up ahead and walked over to it with Rainbow dash commenting on it. "Cool." The dragon looked familiar to Draco, almost as if it was his mother. This caught the attention of Rainbow dash, who saw his confliction. "You okay Drac?"
Draco flinched and rubbed his arm with a nervous smile. "Yeah, I'm fine. Not getting unnecessary levels of confliction or anything."
Spike felt something familiar about the dragon and touched the pedestal that showed it. "She's so...majestic."
Draco saw the same thing about the dragon and put his claw on it as well. "I feel like I've seen her in a dream before." The room started shaking with Spike and Draco wondering what the heck was going on. Just then, another door opened up and they all walked over to it. "Let's hope this room is just as much so." Spike nodded in agreement, not wanting to see anything traumatizing.
Draco and the others arrived in a room that was full of all kinds of gems surrounding it. This was something that Spike and Draco were especially fond of, as the dragon brothers had a natural love for gems of all kinds. Rainbow dash found this room to be really cool herself, with Fluttershy being a bit scared about going in. The four of them went in anyway, and they all seemed to take their own interest in the room. Draco in particular thought he could sneak a few. "Looks like a pretty tasty resort."
Draco went to sneak a few gems away until Spike stopped him from doing so. "Draco, no. What if someone lives here?"
"Pssh. Yeah. Because a dragon would hide his gems, in the middle of the secret room of a library, that I'm pretty sure even the one who hid them would lose track of, and live here." Spike saw Draco's point despite the smart aleck tone he used and shrugged, with both of them taking a few gems for themselves. "And besides. What's a little greed without generosity?"
"Oh, Rarity would love to hear that one in my poem to her." Spike said with a romantic thought in his head. "Mind if I use it when I'm done?"
Draco gave his older brother a blunt look, finding his attempt to be rather pathetic. "Dude, you are a wimp. And I don't care." Draco ate his gems and went to grab some more, but then his ruby started to glow. When he pulled it out and looked at it in private, he hoped that it led to something he could find later on. When Spike tried to look over him, Draco put the ruby away quickly. "It's nothing."
Rainbow dash and Fluttershy looked around themselves with Rainbow dash loving the huge find they made. "This is really cool, wouldn't you say so Fluttershy? If we show these gems to the world then we could make millions! Not that I care about money, but I could really use it since I'm in debt."
"But how could you possibly be in debt?" Fluttershy asked with confusion. "You make money every day when you do cloud patrol."
"Yeah, but I got involved in this gang that tried to con be for my cash." Rainbow dash explained. "I beat the heck out of them and they told me that I had to pay for their hospital bills. Heck, they even had the star class hitman on their line." Fluttershy seemed shocked by what Rainbow dash just said, being that the star class hitman was the best one of all. "Yeah dude. That's how serious they are."
"If you like I could lend you some of MY money." Fluttershy offered with a smile. "I got plenty of it after babysitting Diamond Tiara. Well, it was more or less her demanding stuff, but still."
Draco's ruby glowed again and it made him worried that someone else would see it. He then saw some kind of sapphire in the gem pile that was glowing as well, making him curious to why it was glowing. When he took it out, he looked at it and took the ruby out. He then saw that the two of them were glowing in sync; it couldn't have just been a sheer coincidence. This could be a way for Draco to get closer to seeing his mother, and if it was then he was going to take it. So he put both gems away and hoped that he could keep them safe. "So, Spike. Hypothetically, what would you say if I-"
"Had a glowing ruby in your non-existent pocket that you hide all the time?" Draco flinched and took out the ruby, confused as to how Spike knew about it. "Yeah dude; it's not too hard to tell when you can go under your brother's pillow and see the only red thing on it."
"Stalker!" Draco stated as he put his claw on Spike's arm roughly, with Spike then rubbing his arm. "Look. I can't let anyone else know until I know it's safe to do so. Keep quiet about this so we don't risk anyone dying." Spike nodded, knowing that Spike was being serious about this. "Okay, good. We'll keep this between us until the time is right." Draco looked at the ruby and hoped that he could use it without abusing it's power.
Draco and the others were walking around Cloudsdale as Draco thought about the ruby. He had a large amount of confliction over whether or not he could protect his friends or not. 'What if the ruby ends up attracting a bunch of evil forces to where I live? I can't just let all of Ponyville down either. And what if I end up sending them away to a location that a bunch of people live at? That's way too far out of the question.'
Rainbow dash noticed Draco's conflicted look and got worried for him. "You doin okay Draco?"
Draco flinched and looked up at Rainbow dash, not wanting to worry her. "Yeah, I'm all good. Not facing some major conflict over whether or not I can protect my loved ones or anything; that's for sure."
Rainbow dash knew there was more to this story and figured that Draco was hiding something. She didn't want to say anything though, so she acted like she didn't suspect anything. "Your call." Draco sighed of relief with Rainbow dash wondering if he was up to something. Although she knew that he'd never plan anything evil, at least not willingly, she still wanted to make sure that everything was okay with him.
Spike and Draco were shown in the living room with Twilight scolding them for leaving without permission. "And you two could've gotten attacked by another mythical being like Ryu. Now to be fair no being could ever be as dangerous or as powerful as Ryu, but that's no excuse to go out and look for trouble."
"How is looking for information on our mother 'trouble' Twilight?" Draco asked, trying his hardest to stay calm. "Cause last time I checked, I had every right to know about my family."
Twilight sighed, seeing Draco's point since she knew what he meant. "I know it's hard to handle Draco, but you can't rush these sorts of things. You'll find your mother when it's necessary; I promise."
"Was it necessary for Pinkie pie to sing that stupid song at the buffalo convention back in Applejack's cousin's town?" Draco asked, looking back on a past memory. "This isn't anything like that Twilight. That was just Pinkie being Pinkie; this is a part of my culture."
"Yeah, as much as I hate to admit it, he's got a point there." Spike backed Draco up, despite not liking to do so. "I personally feel like he should know at least a few things about our mom, or our family in general."
Twilight figured that Spike and Draco wouldn't be hidden from the truth forever, so she didn't fight it. "You do have a point. Just promise me that you won't do anything too risky from now on." Spike and Draco nodded with Draco crossing his fingers behind his back, doing it well enough to where Twilight didn't see it.
Draco was lying down on his bed while playing with his paddleball as he got a knock on his bedroom door. "Come in!" Rainbow dash came into the room and saw that no one else was there, glad to see that she could talk to Draco alone. Draco was surprised however, as he didn't expect any company at this time. "Oh, hey Rainbow dash. Didn't expect you to come over."
"Yeah, I figured it'd be nice to just drop in rather than sound like a suspicious stalker on the phone." Rainbow dash flew up to Draco and stood atop the ladder that helped him get up to his bunk. "Talk to me Draco. You seemed really conflicted on something when we were walking around Cloudsdale and I didn't wanna say anything before. What was that about?"
Draco became worried about how Rainbow dash would react to what he was hiding, not wanting her to get any more involved than she already was. Especially considering that this could get much worse than simply going to a library in a different town. "It's nothing Rainbow. Trust me." Rainbow dash gave a blunt look to Draco, who sighed and spoke some more. "I don't wanna talk about it right now Rainbow. It could lead to a huge amount of danger if I say anything, and I don't want anyone to get hurt."
"Yeah, that's understandable." Rainbow dash admitted, not wanting to act too hastily too early. "If it's serious enough to get YOU caring, then I'm fine with it." Draco punched Rainbow dash softly, with Rainbow dash chuckling a bit. "I'm joking on the care part dude. Just keep in mind that if you ever wanna talk to someone who's awesome, I'm your mare."
"You got it." Draco replied, and then his ruby and the sapphire were shown under his pillow. While the two didn't glow for Rainbow dash to see, the sapphire showed the dragon that was shown in a few post credits sequences.
Draco was sleeping in his bed as he thought about the possibilities of finding and meeting his mother. 'What could've happened to mom? Why did we end up getting seperated? Is everything I know about my family back home a giant lie? Am I a whiny emo brat? Well, I could debatable be the last word in that, but still.' Draco's nightmare was shown with him walking around in a state of fear, having survived a terrible fate. "Where the heck am I? Is this hell?"
Draco saw what looked like a picture of someone and walked over to it, picking it up and seeing a gray unicorn. For some odd reason, Draco had a seething hatred for him, and so he lifted up the picture and saw these words: The unicorn that psychologically tortured me. These words shocked Draco, and he then looked to see a statue of a necromancer and he walked over to it. When he saw the words My mentor, he became confused.
Draco had no memory of befriending a necromancer, but he then looked at his claw and saw that it had turned black. He didn't know what was happening, but he then saw spike on ahead and ran over to him. "Spike!" Draco grabbed Spike's shoulder, only for Spike to turn around and turned into some kind of dark being of pure anger. It wasn't a Changeling, and it wasn't a pony. It was a demon. A demon that even Draco had no knowledge of.
Draco was shown squirming in his bed with Spike and Twilight looking down at his horrified face. The two of them were beyond worried for what Draco could be dreaming of, with Spike attempting to wake him up. "Draco; wake up dude! Snap out of it!" Draco couldn't wake up. He was too scared to see what the real world could've potentially become. Spike made a second attempt to wake his brother up. "Draco!"
Draco gained a dark part of his face and awoke, walking over Spike and down the ladder. When he walked off, Spike and Twilight walked up to him with fear in their eyes, with Twilight speaking up. "Draco, what were you dreaming about? If you tell us about it then-"
"You'll abandon me and make me feel worthless." Draco finished, and despite getting it wrong, it left a huge impact on his siblings. The young dragon walked off and left his siblings in shock, making them question what on earth happened to him.
Spike in particular was horrified, not knowing what was going to happen. "Twilight, you remember when Fluttershy said she'd like to be a tree when we were delivering a tree to Applejack's cousin's apple farm?" Twilight nodded her head yes, wanting to know where Draco was going with this. "This is that, combined with Celestia's phoenix trolling us, combined."
Draco was walking around town as he saw Diamond Tiara antagonizing an innocent filly. "It's not my fault your family's so poor. Just take a shower, get a job, and-"
"Grow a heart?" Diamond tiara and Silver spoon looked and saw Draco walking up to them, wiping his lip and smirking. "Cause you could really use one. And this isn't the dark half talking."
"Dark half?" Diamond tiara scoffed as she mocked Draco. "Talk about emo. If you want a therapy lesson then my dad doesn't do it."
Diamond tiara and Silver spoon laughed as Draco held his claw up, launching some sort of beam at Diamond tiara and sending her through a wall. Silver spoon ran over in fear for her best friend. "Diamond! Are you alright!?"
"I got blasted through a house; alright is the last word I'd use." Diamond tiara deadpanned, and then she saw that Draco was gone. "Still. What was up with Draco? He seemed a lot more edgy than normal." Diamond tiara jumped out of the wall and looked at Silver spoon. "Let's go check it out." Diamond tiara and Silver spoon ran off to see what was up with Draco, being intrigued by his sudden change.
Draco walked up to some sort of pond and sat down on a log that lied in front of it. When he looked into the pond, he saw his dark half and wondered how he knew about it. He never looked into a mirror when he woke up. Could this be some sort of side effect to him that only he could tell? And even then, he didn't even know what his nightmare was about; why it happened or what it meant for him. He sensed someone walking up to him, and it was none other than Rainbow dash. "You knew I was here?"
"Not exactly." Rainbow dash walked up to Draco and sat down next to him, looking into the pond with him. "I know it's hard not knowing about your parents, but sometimes it could be a good thing. I mean I love my parents and all, but they're kinda over supportive of me. (Sighs) I'm bad at this, aren't I."
"Terrible." Draco replied, and then he thought about his nightmare. "A part of me just wishes that I could see my family in full circle. My birth family anyway."
Rainbow dash put her hoof on Draco's shoulder and saw his point of view. "I can understand that. Just keep in mind that lots of beings here care about you."
"I know." Draco said with a nod, and then he looked up to the sky with Rainbow dash. "Sometimes, I look up to the sky and wonder what my parents could be doing, or what they could want from me as an adult." Draco gave off a look of worry as the screen faded to black, ending the episode off.
An instrumental version of the main theme played during the credits.
Draco's mother flew through the air as she landed inside of the Cloudsdale library. When she looked for the sapphire she left there, she saw that it was missing, wondering where it could've went. It got her thinking about where it could've gone and she feared of what could've happened. Although she didn't want to assume the worst, she knew that it'd also be wrong to assume the best. She hoped that her sons were still okay, but she also wished that she could find them, having lost her only way to do so. She knew that she'd still have to try however, and so she flew off with hope flying inside of her heart.
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