What is a Stratadon?

STRATADON (Stra-Ta-Do-N)
Stratadons are a rare and powerful breed of Dragon. Just as the Alicorns are at the Apex of pony kind, the Stratadons are the Apex of Dragon kind. Dubbed, as the Kings of the Dragons Stratadons are the largest type of Dragons known in Equestria, even to the point of being worshiped as Gods in old societies even long before the Royal sisters were in power.

Physical Appearance/Sexual dimorphism
Stratadons are very large Dragons twice the size of the average full-grown Equestrian Dragons. The Males of the species have an extremely muscular build to them, Their Scales are a Dark Lavender color with Emerald Green Spines down from their heads to their back and tails, Large powerful fore arms with four sharp claws, powerful back legs, Long thick tails and four Massive Wings. The Males also have a set of tusks outside their slightly long snout like mouths, which have rows of sharp teeth inside.

The Females are vastly different in build. While very muscular in build (though not as much as the males) The Females store Fat in some areas on their bodies mainly around the tail, thighs, some fat around the stomach, and the Chest area giving them a “Buxom” and or “Curvy” appearance to them. The Females also have different color scales while the Males only have the one uniform color; the Females snouts are much shorter. Another trait among Female Stratadons is that 80% to 90% of them are born with no wings though hybrids (like Ember) have only one pair on rare occasions.

Abilities
Like all dragons, Stratadons can emit a powerful blast of fire from their jaws. Other attributes that they have are heighten sinses of smell, and acute hearing. They are also physically strong with the ability to split a small mountain in half with their claws.

Diets
Much like Most Dragons Stratadons take a liking to eating Gems they are mainly omnivorous feeding on fish, plants, Hydras and Rocs and on some occasion’s ponies. Due to their ravenous appetites, most creatures tend to stay out of sight of them to avoid being the Stratadons next meal.

Social life/Sexual Reproduction
Despite their brutish size, power and appearance The Stratadons are very social Dragons. Much like the African Lion, male Stratadons tend to be surround themselves with a group of Females (Stratadon or otherwise). It has been rumored that the male Stratadons are the most “Endowed” of any Dragon or of any creature of Equestrian history all together. Males are rumored for also possessing two genitalia to ensure breeding. When getting ready to mate Females will usually lift their tails up slightly and will perform a wiggling motion with their hips to get the males aroused. Males can have up to three to four mates and females can lay over one hundred eggs at a time.

What are Viperichonyc?

VIPERICHONYC (Vi-Per-Ee-Cho-Nyc)
Their names come from the words Viperidae (Viper family) and Onychonycteris (ancient species of bat). The Viperichonyc are the deadly enemy of all dragons. These monsters go out of their way to try killing Dragons and feed on their eggs.

Physical Appearance/Sexual dimorphism
The Viperichonyc have a serpentine body with large Bat like wings and legs. The Viperichonyc have Bat like facial features and ears. Their bodies covered in black matted fur, a tan scaly underbelly and have hook like claws on their wings and feet that can slice through dragon’s skin (though Stratadon scales are far tougher). The Viperichonyc also poses a pair of lethal fangs in their maws along with a row of hook like teeth. While the females large and deadly it's actually the male who is easliy twice the size and the most dominate of them all.

Abilities
Viperichonyc use their serpentine bodies to constrict they're prey like the normal Python. They also don a pair of lethal fangs in their maws along that house an extremely potent venom that could make even the biggest prey woozy along with a row of hook like teeth. The Bat like wings around their arms and legs enable flight. At the ends of their limbs they have hook like talons which are used for cutting up prey, these talons can also cut through a dragon’s tough hide (though Stratadon scales are far tougher).

Author's Note

This is just a bit of an intro of what Stratadon would be in MLP FIM. They did bring back Tirek as the big bad for season 4, The Smooze was brought back in season 5; and while in the original show The Smooze was a genuinely terrifying semi-sentient being, especially giving the setting it was in - with the ability to grow to gargantuan sizes it spread across all of Ponyville and buried anything (living or not) in its path completely ruining the land and turning once paradise-like fields and castles into barren wastelands. While the newer incarnation was just Slimer with no eyes wearing an Orange Tux, and even Grogar was mention albeit in a book as an in universe story book villain