Author's Note

Flashback Chapter 3 is out, thanks to the help of user called Viper Pit, who is also helping me in creating this story.

Flashback Chapter 3

Some weeks later

Night Light has slowly begun to adapt to a place where not everything is nice. The teachers at the school where he started to study were actually very nice to him. He also had good grades.

However, not everyscaly liked it.

"Hey mop head!" The red dragon hatchling and his gang, approached a small blue colt.

Night Light didn't wanted to talk with them, so he was just looking in his locker and ignoring a group of little dragons near him.

"Stop ignoring me, when i'm talking to you!" the red dragon indignantly closed his locker before Night's eyes.
"What do you want from me Garble?" the blue colt raised his eyebrow.

Garble smirked.

"Give me your lunch money!"
"We've talked about it many times. NO!" the blue colt protested.

Garble in anger lifted Night by the neck, as his gang cheered on him.

Other students avoided them with a wide arc.

"Even if these high numbers on your tests make you unique? THINK YOU ARE BETTER THAN US?"

"HEY!" cyan dragoness hatchling appeared next to him. "LEAVE HIM ALONE!"
"Who are you at all to tell us to do?" the red dragon stared at cyan dragoness.
"Let's say ... that this whole school belongs to my father …" Ember smirked.

Garble's horrified eyes expressed everything, slowly putting Night on the ground.

"This is a princess! RUN!" he shouted to his group.

After a moment, he looked at Night, holding on to the neck.

"I have not finished with you yet" the red dragon murmured, before disappearing into the crowd of other dragon children.

Ember laughed, but she looked at Night.

"Are you alright?" she asked lightly, worrying about his neck, but the blue colt just smiled.
"It's okay ... Don't worry!"
"But you have an entire red neck … Are you sure?" cyan dragoness child asked again.
"I'm not 6 years old … I'm 10!" he still protested.
"Bu-" Ember tried, to help him get up, but he still smiled.
"No buts! I'm fine!"

The sounding bell made it known that this was the end of the lesson.

"It's time to go home" Night Light smiled at Ember, still holding his neck with a hoof.

Night Light and Ember began to get along with each other since they first met. Together, they started to play in the same sandbox, they had the same taste for movies, and they both liked to fish in a river.

Torch, as usual, sat on his throne, looking for when Night Light and Ember would return.

As always, the door to his throne room was opened by the guards, because his children were too weak to open them.

"Daddy!" the cyan dragoness squealed happily, when she saw her father.

She hurried to Torch to hug him.

"It's good to see you too" Dragon Lord Torch gave back her hug.

Ember's smile disappeared, when she saw Night Light staring on the ground.

She looked back at her father.

"Dad?" she asked.
"Something is wrong sweetie?" the gray dragon asked when he saw the sadness in his daughter's eyes.
"Night Light is not appreciated at school" the cyan dragoness child looked into his red eyes. "Can you take care of him today?"
"Of course sweetie" Torch smiled. "Go to the dining room, there are gems waiting for you that Masticate has prepared"
"Thanks" Ember hugged her father's claw.
"No problem" the gray dragon smiled.

When cyan dragoness disappeared behind dining room door, Dragon Lord looked at the blue colt.

"Follow me" he gave him a claw sign to follow.
"O-ok" Night Light nodded.

Torch and Night Light began to traverse several long corridors until they came across some doors. When Night for the first time crossed the threshold of this room, he froze.

There were quite a lot of huge portraits on the walls, but the gray dragon came up to one covered with a sheet.

"Who are all these dragons Drago - I mean Torch?" the blue colt was still looking at them.
"Those are Dragons, who had the chance to put their claws on the throne of Dragon Lands"
"You mean previous Dragon Lords, sir?" Night Light raised his eyebrow.
"Exactly" the gray dragon nodded. " … And as you can see, my portrait is at the end" he pointed to the corner of the room.
"Does it mean that you are the current Dragon Lord?" the blue colt tapped his chin.
"Point for you" Torch laughed. "But this Dragon Lord will be the subject of our conversation"
"Which one?" Night Light looked around the room.

The gray dragon slowly removed the sheet covering the portrait of one of the dragons.

"This one" Torch also blew dust from the portrait to make it look better.

The portrait was a dark purple dragon with a light green belly and a hair-like thing on his head. Hair was protruding from under his shoulders. His eyes were green, and there was something like a "mask" on them, and the dragon itself looked dangerous.

"Tell me … Do you know who is this?" Torch asked, sounding a little weird.
"No … not really" the blue colt said with sad expression on his face.
"This is Gaius … he had similiar ideals to you" the gray dragon continued. "Do you know, what happened to him?"
"No … not really sir" Night Light looked closer at the portrait.
"He paid for his goodness with his throne and crown, he trusted the little pink little dragon Scales" Torch hissed.

Night Light drew back anxiously.

"He ... lost the throne ... because of his trust?"
"I … was his subject …" Torch laid sad on the floor.
"I'm sorry, I … " Night Light nuzzled Dragon Lord.
"It's okay" Torch hugged a blue colt. "Promise me that you will have weak trust"
"I will try" Night Light smiled.

They both stopped the hug.

"What grade did you get today?" Torch asked.
"B+" the blue colt bowed.
"I think I have a gift for you" The gray dragon said looking in his armor.
"A gift?" Night raised his eyebrow.

After a moment, he took out a small helmet adapted to the head of a unicorn.

"It's for you"

the blue colt slowly took the helmet, using his magic, and began to look at it from all sides.

"You did not have to" Night Light smiled sheepishly.
"Do not be afraid. You can wear it" Dragon Lord insisted.

Night Light sighed, and slowly put on his head. He had to admit that it was convenient.