Do You Like Red?

Everyone makes mistakes in their life, some worse than others. I for one am prone to rather large mistakes, like dropping out of high school, not paying back that shady guy who gave me a loan, oh and sleeping in a cave near the top of a mountain in magical pony land without looking deeper inside for possible threats like oh I don’t know another dragon that's much larger than me and very peeved at me invading his home and sleeping near his horde of gems and gold. Looking up at this mountain of dragon before me I felt something that really hasn’t bothered me since I was a kid, fear.

This thing could step wrong and I’d be flat, it looked down at me with a glare before speaking in a deep voice.

“What are you doing in my home young one?” I could tell from the cold tone and undertone of venom that my next words would decide if I was an afterimage on the cave wall or not.

“I-I’m so sorry mister I didn’t know this was your home I’m so sorry please don’t eat me!” I managed to cry in a shrill voice before ducking and covering my head with my claws.

The silence that followed was deafening as I waited to be vaporized or eaten or crushed. The look on the giants face was something between bemused and slight pity before turning hard once again.

“Leave here at once.” never in my life have I fled at such a speed tears streaming from my face as I ran.

Since when did I cry? Or stutter or cower? I’ve always been dead to the world and cared little what happened to or around me but now I’m crying and laying under a tree nearly hyperventilating, I was truly terrified my life was going to end and that scared me even more.

Dealing with these new emotions brought about new thoughts, did I have new hormones with my new body and gender? If so this was gonna be a lot rougher than I expected. Walking for a few hours in the dim light of dawn I decided what better place to avoid trouble than the everfree forest. A few hours later and I was deep inside the everfree and regretting every life choice I’ve ever made. Seriously how many timberwolves can one dragon attract? After the 17th wooden wolf I decided I’d find something some shelter, as in I just blindly wandered into the most dangerous place in equestria and found an old castle I assumed to be the castle of the two sisters. My assumptions were proven true when I came across the the elements, or atleast the stones that are probably the elements. Wondering deeper into the castle I came across an old library, kitchen, and a bedchamber with a only slightly rotted bed inside.

I decided I’d just make the castle my own since no one else was around and the only major issue in the near future would be nightmare moon and all that drama but that's future me's problem for now I needed to focus on food, this was affirmed by my stomachs deep rumbling and sudden pangs of pain from my gut. Wandering out into the nearby woods I soon found a small river running near the castle and sat near it taking a few gulps to sate my thirst as I watched the water for fish. As i mindlessly watched for fish I noticed my reflection and remembered I hadn’t even seen myself fully yet so I looked over my own reflection spotting two horns tannish in colour sprouting near the back of my skull a solid 5 inches long, not to big yet but sure to grow, I looked over my features noting my deep red eyes with slits for pupils along with the array of sharp teeth and lack of any way to properly eat any vegetation properly (no more fried potatoes I guess) I started wondering if my taste buds changed, looking back over my scales I noted that I was a bright almost candy red with darker colored scales over my neck and chin going down over my stomach, the only other really noteworthy thing was the slightly deeper red fins along my entire spine and down my tail.

After examining myself for a few moments I sighed and looked back down into the rivers depths noting that my eyes could focus much better now, I could even see the minute details of rocks sitting at the other bank of the river, guess I had really good sight now. I also noted I could smell a lot better now, like I could smell the nasty timber wolves roughly 3.5 miles downstream from me a little to well now. After a few hours of watching the river I saw a rather large fish with blue scales swimming past, I dived forward as fast as I could manage and tasted the blood and bile of the fish I had just bisected the other two ends mindlessly drifting with the current huh guess I have some power jaws to. After repeating this to a few fish and realizing the taste was really good like, I’d found myself salivating after this little fishing excursion at just the thought of raw meat, I decided to see if my claws and tail matched up in terms of damage. Swiping at a nearby tree with my claw I tore out a large chunk of wood and bark, after this I swung my 3 foot tail I cracked the tree near the chunk I took out and the tree toppled over. Huh guess I got plenty of strength on my side too guess I’m not totally useless out here.

After my little hunting/learning excursion I decided to head back to the castle and sleep for a bit. The walk there was uneventful until I arrived and opened the door to the bedchambers where a small purple dragon with butterfly wings stared up at me from my newly claimed bed.