Starting a new term at the Lunar Academy of Advanced Learning, a university gifted to Princess Luna shortly after her return, where students could further study given subjects to better their understanding. Since its opening, the university has an equal race policy, catering to a variety of species over the years while also supporting a mixed sex dormitory program which is still mostly experimental.

Dragging a decently sized suitcase up, what had to be the second flight of stairs, while also negotiating with a black messenger bag over his shoulder, a well-built royal blue dragon failed to find the space necessary to accomplish sufficient movement.

"You appear to be struggling brother." A deep voice states from an iPhone in the dragon's opposite hand.

Narrowing his gold eyes at the offending blue box, he growls lightly, "Maybe if you hung up I could use my other hand to keep my bag in place."

Chuckling, the voice spews something seemingly to another individual before continuing, "I'm not the one forcing you to be on the line."

"Good to know." The dragon goes to hang up before stopping as he hears the voice again.

"Hey! Don't go to hang up on me, sheesh..." The Voice orders abruptly, sighing deeply, "Either way, make sure to text me your room number so I can pop by and see you later. I'd be a poor brother if I didn't help you settle in properly."

"So long as you don't lull some poor innocent pony with you trying to get me some... I told you, I'm fine." The dragon states getting a few more steps further.

"Sorry... I didn't quite... Catch that... You're breaking up..." The voice feigns crackling before hanging up.

Rolling his eyes, the dragon shoves the phone into the pocket of his blue jeans. He then unzips his ice blue jacket for airflow and glances up the remaining steps.

"Fucking out of order... Stupid elevator..." Growling, he continues onwards, the wheels of his suitcase clunking against each step.

Finally reaching the third floor, the dragon fishes into his chest pocket and retrieves a piece of folded paper, which reads 'Flat 24/3'. Sighing at the larger number, he begins wandering the floor to find the supposed room. Passing by the designated flat twice, he stops before realising his stupid mistake, rolling his eyes before grabbing the key and unlocking the door. Heaving a sigh of relief, he turns the handle and walks forwards into the door, bumping his nose.

"What the fuck?!" Growling, he rubs his nose before turning the key again, this time properly unlocking the door.

Turning the handle a second time, he opens the door and carefully navigates his way into the medium sized short hallway beyond. Glancing to his right after closing the door, is a wall-mounted hanging rack for coats etc, to his left appears to be a rather decent kitchen with an island in the middle and a rectangle cut out, viewing straight into the living room. Setting his suitcase down past the hallway for a moment, he takes the time to examine his surroundings. The living room is decently sized, with enough space to support a three seater sofa, an angled armchair beside it in the corner, a coffee table in front of the sofa and a TV with a stand beneath it on the other side, against the wall. Nodding to himself, the dragon grabs his suitcase, progressing into the slightly longer hallway to the right of the living room. Before him sits two doors on either side, the open right one appears to hold the flat's bathroom, which contains a toilet, sink, bath and glass shower. Hearing a noise from the closed door on his left, the dragon slowly opens it with a cautious expression, peeking inside.

"Oooh, it feels good to finally get out of these awful heels!" A voice emitted from a female changeling before hearing the sound of shoes clapping across the carpet.

The changeling stood next to the comfy white bed, stretching out her arms to the ceiling showing off her perfect hourglass figure. A long and elegant, crimson red mane flowed over the left side of her face, falling down as she lent over to now stretch sideways. Her eyes a pale amber like a soft peach that complimented her tender gaze. She stood back up right, brushing the dust off her D-sized chest before sorting out her dark, opulent red dress.

Turning his head sideways, the dragon gives the changeling an odd look as he examines her up and down, "I didn't realise it was my birthday." He states, opening the door fully to step into the room with his belongings.

The Changeling abruptly shifts her head towards the open door, her eyebrow raised in confusion over the sudden intrusion, "Do you know it is rude to walk in on a lady..." The crimson maned Changeling states as she turned around placing both hands on her hips with a questionable tone. For a few moments, she sized up the blue Dragon now in front of her, forcing her neck to arch upwards just to see his head.

"In all fairness, I was not aware there was a..." The Dragon looks her up and down again, "Lady, in this room when opening the door." Sitting his suitcase next to the opposite bed, he is finally able to set his messenger bag down, freeing up his neck. Sighing lightly, the dragon removes his jacket, revealing the flexibly taught white shirt below.

Smoothly sitting down on her bed, the Changeling scoffed in silence towards the Dragon before leaning back with her arms behind her as supports wearing a faint smile, "Are you perhaps my roommate for the next few semesters?"

Adjusting his collar with still little effect, the dragon suddenly removes his shirt in an attempt to balance his temperature, "Pretty much, my name is Glacier." He states, turning to face her, giving the changeling a full view of his upper body.

The Changeling pauses for a second before rolling her eyes as she stands once more to give a small curtsy, "Cresent Rose, it is a pleasure to meet you, Mr Glacier. I do hope we get along just fine over the next few years." Rose sits down on the bed once more in an upright position, her gaze straight at the Dragon's face, "If it were any other girl one would think you are showing off, but I know you need to cool down."

"Familiar with dragon anatomy I take it? It's normally not much of a problem... Unless we get into the warmer months and one is forced to fail negotiations between himself, the stairs and his luggage... Fucking Stairs..." Glacier sighs as he lays down on his designated bed, "I'd offer the same lack of dress to yourself to be even, but I feel you may be too proper for the invitation..."

Rose smirked as she stood up with a chuckle, "I was going to undress before you rudely interrupted me." The Changeling walked over to the chest of draws at the opposite end of her bed and stared at the Dragon once more with the same smirk on her face, "So can you please leave?"

Glacier sighs as he glances up at Rose, "Lady... I just walked up three flights of stairs not designed for dragons, dragging a decently sized suitcase with an uncooperative messenger bag... I'd be extremely grateful if I didn't have to move in the near foreseeable future."

"What, the elevator too mainstream for you?" Rose snarled towards the Dragon before opening the drawer and pulling out a pink 'I love Canterlot' nightgown. She rolled her eyes, staring back at Glacier with an agitated stare, "You're just gunna lay there ain't ya?"

"If the building had roof access, I'd of flown... Apparently, the elevator downstairs is out of order, according to the mean gryphon accommodation lady." Glacier states sitting up, choosing to ignore her vocal shift, "Would it help if I closed my eyes?" He asks, trying to bargain with her.

"Don't be an ass about this okay..." Rose states before placing the nightgown on the drawer and lifting the dress over her head, pulling her assets up with it. Tugging hard, she managed to take off the dress, exposing her red chitin abdomen along with her white bra and knickers. Picking up her nightgown, she quickly unbuckled her bra clip and threw it on her bed before taking a huge stretch backwards making a satisfying groan, "Boy does it feel good to not to be constricted!" She then puts on her nightgown that drops level to her knees.

Staying silent for several moments watching the scene unfold before him, Rose giving him no time to actually close his eyes in preparation, Glacier could do little more than stare. "I was entirely prepared to make a comment towards the nightgown... Though, I'd be lying if I didn't say it actually compliments... Well... You, figure wise, I suppose..." He comments, opting to open the nearby window between their beds, just a little for airflow.

Rose giggled before making a straight face towards the Dragon, "I've heard that so many times I'm so bloody sick of it." The Changeling jumped onto her bed before lifting up the back of her gown releasing her wings with a satisfied moan. "You aren't so bad yourself, but moving on. What sports course are you doing here?"

Glacier chuckles as he begins unpacking his suitcase, "Fine Art," He replies, choosing at this time to retrieve a couple of drawing pads and metal pencil case from his messenger bag.

"Fine Art?" Rose rested her head on her hands as they kept it raised with a surprised expression, "That's a weird sports course you're doin', what do they do, fight each other with canvases?" She giggled as she started to kick her legs back and forth with a now girly smile, hoping to get a reaction from the Dragon.

Glacier gives a little chuckle at the mental image, "That honestly sounds rather amusing to watch," Not having much in his suitcase, Glacier finishes unpacking and sits down on the bed, opening his drawing pad on a fresh page before seemingly sketching something idly, "What about you? Any of the beauty courses? Maybe even a modelling course given your flexibility."

Rose laughs aloud before placing her head into the bed for a few seconds. Lifting it up, as she faced the Dragon once more with an amused smile, "I'm on the A/V course, gotta keep my technique in the works so I get to become famous."

"Ah, I suppose I should expect to be out of the dorm while you 'study'?" Glacier throws her a glance as he continues to sketch, reaching to grab an odd looking fine eraser.

"Boo! You're no fun!" Rose stuck her tongue out towards the Dragon, her face returning to normal shortly after, "Not the response I wanted. Plus my Dad would actually kill me if I did any of that. I'm on the psychologist course, since I'm a Changeling etc, and under Father's orders."

Glacier glances up at Rose again, "Don't even get me started on familial problems..." He sighs deeply, using the eraser gently, "To be honest, I suppose I feel somewhat relieved."

Rose's expression turns dark as she faces forwards towards her pillow with a resentful tone, "You don't know my Dad and siblings..." Shaking her head, the mare's smile returning. "Relieved about what? Hang on, let me guess, worrying about what kind of roommate you would have?"

Shaking his head, Glacier stands up before passing Rose the piece of paper, "Not particularly, if you were the loose type, we wouldn't be having a conversation." He begins to walk towards the door, "I'm going to check the fridge quickly." Leaving the room entirely, he allows her to instead look at the paper, displaying a fairly decent sketch of the mare in her current attire.

Rose sat up before looking at the drawing given to her, tilting her head sideways whilst keeping a curious look at the picture, "Colour me surprised a Dragon drew this." Her ears twitched before realising what Glacier had said a moment ago, "Hey! Did you assume I was loose because I was a Changeling?!" She stood up before gasping towards Glacier through the open door, "Stay away from my mum's cooking!!!"

After a couple of hours, Glacier and Rose are sat in the living room, both on the sofa. In front of them is a huge open pizza box, which starts from the coffee table and has the last inch or so resting on the TV stand. Half of the 40' is already gone with Glacier having only a quarter slice left on his plate.

"My one and only comment is thank fuck for magic," Glacier states putting the whole quarter in his mouth to chew.

Rose sat on the other side of the sofa, watching the pizza on the coffee table abruptly disappear in a matter of seconds. Her expression clearly showing amusement as her eyes witnessed his dinner leave the table and into the Dragon's mouth. Slowly feeling left out, "I am just as surprised as you are... Seeing how you didn't even give me half of it..."

"You said you didn't want any, that you had your mother's cooking. There's more then enough if you want some." Glacier comments, pointing to the still fairly huge half that is left.

Without replying to a single word, Rose leant over, folding the half of the pizza in her hands. She turned her head towards the Dragon with a malicious smirk "I'm savin' it for la'er." before taking a gorging chomp out of the slice with satisfying intent.

Raising his eyebrow questionably as Rose manages to not only fold the half that's left but pick it up and eat it like a sandwich. "If you were that hungry, you could have said something... Damn..." Glacier states opening a large 10L soda bottle to pour some into two glasses.

The Changeling swallowed the huge chunk of pizza before looking at the Dragon with a weird gaze as if he was foreign, "I do hope you are just joking around with the glasses?". She placed down the crust before swiftly taking the bottle out of the Dragon's claws, putting her mouth over the rim, downing a third of its contents. As she finished, her bowls rumbled before exhaling through her mouth, which echoed through the entire flat, "Beat that, Dragon calf-ling."

"Well... That was, interesting..." At that moment a knock was heard at the door, making Glacier get up and go to answer it.

As it opens, he was greeted by the face of an equally large, if not heavier built dragon in pitch black with a mid-grey underside which is seen by his neck. "Why didn't you use the elevator when I called you this morning? Worked fine for me."

Glacier gives him a deadpan expression as he leaves the door open, returning to the sofa. The black dragon enters, letting the door close behind him as he followed through to the living room.

"Rose, this is my brother, Smoke." Glacier states drinking half his glass.

"This is a surprise, I kinda expected your roommate to be a dude. It's nice to meet you." Smoke states, moving past the pizza box to sit on the armchair.

Rose's expression abruptly changed to worry as her body shot up from the sofa, placing the bottle on the table before facing the new Dragon in the room. She lowered her head whilst her eyes closed, politely responding with a curtsy. "Greetings, thou, Smoke. It is an honour to congress with one of my lodger's kin."

Glacier visibly shivers slightly with a tiny cringe at Rose's apparent personality change. "Yeah... So, this is my roommate. Clearly not a dude."

"I can see that all too well. If you were bolder I'd encourage you to try something, I'm tempted to be honest." Smoke comments, silently praising the figure he can see.

Glacier's expression subtly flinched for a second before seeming normal. "If I wasn't engaged and it'd piss mom off..."

Rose's head turned towards Glacier with a curious articulation, trying to ignore Smoke's comment on her figure, "Thou art engaged to the luckiest maiden. I am pleased with this information, thou must praytell of this engagement at a later date." Her hands clasped together as her back straightened signifying her status as a lady, "Sir Smoke, I do hope we shall flourish in our relationship as well as I and Glacier have done this past evening." she bowed.

Smoke gives her a very weird look, "As you're his roommate, getting along would be preferred." He glances at the time, "I would stay and talk more, but I should be getting back before my roommate does something stupid."

Smoke gets up with Glacier as he shows him to the door. As soon as it closes, Glacier can be heard exhaling a very anguished groan as his head hits the door.

"Is he gone?" Rose asks bewilderingly, moving towards the Dragon bashing his head on the door.

"Thankfully yes..." Glacier replies, glancing back in her direction as he hits his head again.

"Thank Chrysalis!" Rose let her body slouch, basking in the privacy of their room. She giggles lightly, as she looked at the Dragon in front of her, still hitting the door, "You could have told me your friend was visiting, I mean, you should have at least warned me! I would have changed into something more, regal!"

"'Brother', given how late it was getting, I figured he found some young girl to keep him company and wouldn't visit... I'm not overkeen to hear that alternative personality you tap into again either..." Glacier walks back to the living room and grabs the soda bottle to down a healthy amount, the glasses left neglected, "I think I'll need something stronger for his visits..."

Rose blinks for a few seconds, her left hand lifting across under her chest to hold her right arm as she looks down before shaking her head putting a fake smile on as she sat down next to Glacier, "Get used to it, Mr sensitive." A small sigh came from her mouth as she stared at the Tv with a simper, "Plus, ah don' touch tha' crap, gives meh a beer belly."

"Right... I gravitate towards whisky for my more complicated problems." Glacier sighs deeply, leaning forward to close the pizza box and down his glass of soda, "Considering I have nothing in particular till Monday... Did you have anything in mind left for tonight?"

"Besides waiting until I meet up with my sisters tomorrow at 2 pm, no..." Rose raises an eyebrow, slowly thinking Glacier might have something to do before then, "Why, got anything the common folk might do that I do not?"

"There is a lot that common folk do that neither of us does. Considering we don't partake in the obvious past time my brother indulges... I honestly can't think of much." Glacier comments stretching.

Rose hummed to herself for a few moments, trying to come up with what Glacier's brother does. The Changeling's eyes widened with her cheeks blushing beet red from the sudden realisation of what Smoke does, "W-w-why bring that up?! Is your brother 'loose'?"

"When single, without a doubt, yes, hence why he is still single..." Glacier chuckles and tilts his head as he glances at her.

The Changeling's cheeks became like the sun as she shook her head and hands towards the Dragon in front of her, "N-no! Don't get the wrong idea!" Her expression suddenly died down as she was now pouting whilst tapping her fingers together not looking Glacier in the eye, "My sister mentioned the AV-thing once and told me about it... I just thought that your brother was a bit loose like the rest of the drooling idiots that aim for me, that's all..."

Glacier hums for a moment, "Did you assume I was another drooling idiot this morning?" He asks, likely assuming the answer already.

Rose let out a sigh, dropping her shoulders "Well, yes and no..." The Changeling crossed her legs as she started to play with her crimson red mane, "You are just hard to interpret, is all. Any other male... Or female in other cases, would try to swoon me over with a cup of coffee, a dinner in the afternoon, a movie... Or even flat out, 'Hey how 'bout we just find a private area'... So many arseholes that I wish I could just tear into and pull out their kidneys..."

Glacier leans back and nods his head, "You'll find that a lot, sorry. As you noticed this morning, my attempted compliment failed me... Least with art, I can say what I mean. In terms of the second half... I'll admit your attraction, but other than that?" Glacier shrugs, "Any girls time would be better spent than in a relationship with myself." Glacier offers the rest of the soda bottle to Rose.

Rose bowed her head kind-heartily towards the Dragon, holding the soda bottle in her hands before taking a small swig of the cola, "Don't knock yourself over with that, it was my first time being presented with a portrait of myself laying down in my secret casual clothes..." Laughter of the Changeling filled the room before she tilted her head towards the Glacier with a gentle smile, "Thanks for that picture though, it actually shocked me. Plus don't sell yourself short, I am a hundred percent sure you could win over any mare you wanted... Or stallion, both even, if you swing that way, with your art skills."

Glacier chuckles, "I am extremely straight, just saying. I don't think many appreciate art as you do or think many others do, besides... Even if I did find a mare I had an interest in, it wouldn't get very far... Especially if my parents found out."

Rose instantly caught on to what Glacier was saying, lightly chuckling as she looked away from him, "All I said was 'a Dragon can draw', not like I haven't seen artwork before."

Glacier stands up, "Well, either way... If someone did have an interest, they'd also have to deal with 'her'..." Glacier shivers and groans, "I might head to bed, not sure..."

"Her?" Rose curiously asks before standing up and wiping some crumbs off her nightgown.

Glacier cleans up and heads to the bedroom, "The fiance I mentioned being engaged to earlier... Hence why it's to deter any interest in me." Glacier comments, vanishing into the bedroom.

"Interest?" Rose said aloud, pondering as to what it meant only to suddenly come to an abrupt reality, "Seriously?! You thought I would steal you from your wife-to-be?! Oh my, Chrysalis!" The Changeling's face widens in amusement as she followed the Dragon into their bedroom, "What the hay! Something is definitely wrong here."

Glacier laughs, "You mean other than the arranged marriage? I sometimes joke about it with him to make it feel better. Other times used as his pick up line when we visit a club together." Glacier sighs as he casually strips, laying on his bed.

Rose froze in place, staring at the Ponifel tower that was planted in between Glacier's legs as if it had been there for years. She swiftly looked back and forth away from the Dragon's tool, trying not to be fazed by it, "Wh-w-why? Doe-does he tr-try to steal the g-g-g-girls that talk to you?"

"No, well, sometimes... Often it's simply to save me from violating my non-consensual commitment I was forced into." He sighs and tilts his head at her odd behaviour.

The Changeling's cheeks bright red once more before she clenched her fist and eyes, "Does he have to be a dic- I mean- be such a snak- can't you just grab him by the hor-!" She stuttered before turning around acting embarrassed by the Dragon's behaviour.

"I wish, but he's still my brother. You're being very weird, oh-" Glacier looks at himself, "Should I be under the quilt or?"

"N-No!" Rose shouted as she turned around with her hand over her eyes, "You saw my chest and now I saw your important parts. Also, I know all about Dragon's and their heat restricting temperature, you are just one of those Dragon's that can't sleep clothed right?"

"I mean, I can be under if it'd be more comfortable for you. Not has too, but it is far more comfortable should there be a temperature shift in the night. If you like the view I don't mind, just don't want you feeling awkward... Dragon's are rather open when it comes to their lack of clothing as you can imagine due to temperature." Glacier adjusts slightly.

"Don't you dare adjust!" Rose shouted as she pointed towards the Dragon, "I don't care if I had a whore or a loose male in my room, I will keep this small spec of freedom I have obtained and you will not adjust!"

Glacier raises his hands, "I was getting more comfortable, chill. I'd offer the same kinda clothing situation to you if at any point you feel the need... But I'm sure you can imagine why I am not..?"

Rose sighs in relief as she slouches her shoulders, "Thank goodness." Stumbling over to her bed, she fell flat on top that echoed a 'pomf' around the room. Her eyes squinted open only to see the Dragon and his pipe looking at her which made her flip over to face the other way blushing like a tomato, "Yo-yo-yo-you better stay on that si-s-s-side of the room! Okay?!"

Glacier raises an eyebrow, "What in Equestria do you even picture me doing if I came over there?"

"If you come over here I will scream!!!" Rose assertively rolled over to face Glacier, only to feel embarrassed once more from his poking iron rod, "I will seriously scream before ending your life!"

"I'm likely bad for wondering in what way you'd scream." Glacier clearly teases the Changeling before rolling over to prepare for sleep.

"You fucking asshole!!" Rose screamed at the top of her lungs only to shy away as she heard the neighbours bang on the walls telling her to quieten down a little, "I am not loose, there is no way I would ever sleep with you!"

"Who said you had to be loose? You do realise not everyone who sleeps together is loose? Hence couples." Glacier sighs, closing his eyes.

"N-n-n-no!, That's not what I meant by loose!" Rose angrily threw her pillow over to the Dragon laying down on the bed, hitting him in the face, "I know about couples and how they are together and do couple stuff, like sucking out love till there's none left and how it's a special ritual that I am not allowed to know of until I get one...."

Glacier throws the pillow back, now laying to face her from his bed. "About as single as I am then it seems."

"You gave me the idiot!" Rose crossed her arms as she looked away from the Dragon with her chin held high, "But yes, It would seem thy doen'th a partner."

Glacier again closes his eyes, "I guess you'll just have to find another you can be this free with."

Rose looks down with uncertainty as she turns around on her bed, facing the wall with concerned eyes as she whispered, "I don't think that will be possible..." To herself before stating to the Dragon in the room, "...Thanks... For treating me like a friend..."

Glacier shuffles a little, "You'd be the first..." He mumbles just loud enough to hear.

Rose softly smiled as she closed her eyes, yawning aloud, smacking her lips before a strange sense compiled her to respond, "Good night, Glacier, sweet di-dream."

Author's Note

My co-author and I hope those who choose to indulge our project enjoy what we're making, offering their thoughts and feelings so we might improve the story going forward. This is chapter one of two for the initial release.