Reborn as a dragon

It had been a few hours since mine and Applejack's embarrassing moment with the girls and Spike, but something was very very wrong, Spike and I were being called by the dragon lord way to early, it seemed the dragon scepter or whatever it was didn't have the same effect on me, since I only felt a tugging at the back of my mind. I could only guess my dark magic was fighting off the majority of the effects.

Twilight and the others didn't know what was going on though. After bringing him into the house, he was desperately scratching himself while sending Celestia the letter.

"How long do you think?" Suddenly there was the sound of teleportation spells outside.

"Never mind." I said, as the Princesses walked inside the house as everyone bowed at their presence.

Twilight asked them all kinds of questions about what was going on, until Luna answered.

"Not much is known about dragon culture, but I believe I know what's going on." She told Twilight before walking over to me. "But if what I'm thinking is true, I don't know why young Spyro is unaffected."

"I wouldn't say I'm unaffected for a few hours now, I've felt a tugging at my mind." I told her, she lifted a hoof to her mouth in thought.

"Then it is true Dragon lord Torch is calling on all dragons. Do you believe it's because of his injuries?" Luna asked her sister leaving everyone confused.

"What injuries?" I asked her a little worried that this was caused by my actions many years ago.

"It was during the massive earthquake that shook the world." Celestia said stepping forward. "The cave he was sleeping in collapsed bringing an entire mountain down on him. He lost one of his front legs, and his wings, it's possible he feels he's not strong enough for the responsibility as dragon lord anymore." She theorized I was filled with guilt hearing this.

"Ok, but how do I make this stop." Spike rises desperately rubbing his back on the wooden wall trying to get rid of the itch.

"The only way to stop it is to answer the summons, but recently the relationship between ponies and dragons has become strained, another effect of the earthquake, forcing several dragons to leave their homes to look for another." Celestia informed us.

"All we can do is wish you luck." Luna said.

"But what if Spike gets hurt." Twilight panicked, and Applejack stood beside me, she was worried for me.

"I'm sorry Twilight but the longer he refuses the summons the worse it'll get, Spyro seems fine for now, but it is best for both of them to head to the dragon lands alone, I would allow you six to go with them if the state between our kingdoms wasn't what it is, but it's to dangerous." Celestia said, shaking her head.

I walked over to Twilight, and said. "I'll keep him safe, you can trust me." I told him placing a claw on her, she looked to be deep in thought, before nodding.

"Here take this, and don't forget your book." Celestia said before summoning a compass. "This will lead you to the dragon lands, from there just follow your instincts." Celestia told me. I took the compass from her magic before heading up to get my book.

*SCRATCH**SCRATCH* I looked at a window ro see the midnight wolf scratching it. I walked over, and opened the window.

"Hey girl, you doing better?" I askedwith a smile, she was a little injured after the fight, but she was quickly recovering with Fluttershy's help. She whimpered before licking me.

"Hey don't worry, I'll be back soon you just stay here, and look after things." I told her before grabbing my book of spells.

I went back downstairs to see Twilight was packing gems for Spike, while mom and dad packed food for me, mostly preserved meats they kept just in case.

They put it in a bag that they put around my neck, then Spike put his bag on my back. "Take care of yourself out there." Mom said, placing her head against mine.

"This might be my first adventure, but I'm not careless." I said chuckling.

"I know, but I felt the need to say it." She told me with a smile.

"We'll stay safe, but you should also worry for yourselves while we're gone." I told them before separating from mom.

"Come on Spike we should leave before it gets too dark, if I remember correctly it should take three days to get there." I said, gesturing for him to get on my back. He did so, as we walked out the door with everyone waving us goodbye, I took off into the air with him on my back, as we reached a good height, ahead of us we saw the deadly nadder we saw not long ago.

I sped up a little to catch up to her, after getting closer we saw she was glowing like Spike. "Nice to see a familiar face." I said spooking her a bit, her bards standing upright, but laid back against her tail when she looked at us.

"Oh, it's just you two, don't sneak up on me." She told us.

"Sorry, I just thought you'd be long gone by now." I told her.

"Had to drive some manticores from my cave, so I was a little busy.' She explained.

Spike decided to ask the dragon. "So what is this about the dragon lord calling all the dragons, I'm still confused on that." He asked her.

The dragon turned her head to us before she started explaining. "When the dragon lord feels like he or she can no longer lead us, they call all of us to hold a competition to decide the new dragon lord, it used to be a race with several challenges, but I've heard rumors that this one will be very different." She said which worried me greatly.

"Any idea on what that is?" I asked.

She lifted her head. "I can only guess that maybe, he'll use the old ways." I had no idea what that was.

"And what are the old ways?" Spike asked for me.

"It was during the early days of the dragon lands when the dragons were leaderless so one of the more ambitious dragon thought of a competition, using ancient magic he created the dragon scepter, but only after every single dragon provided a drop of their blood so whoever won would control the dragons." She explained, now looking forward. "The first ever competition to decide the dragon lord was a massive free for all with the last one standing would be pronounced the leader, many dragons died during that bloody battle, so that was the first and last free for all held to decide the dragon lord." She told us looking off into the distance.

"And you believe that this will turn out the same way?" I asked. She nodded, and I could feel Spike shaking in fear on top of me.

"All of the younger dragons will be forced to fight while the older dragons watch from above. I just hope I'm not thrown down into the category that'll fight, this is going to get messy." She said, shaking her head from helplessness.

"It's ok Spike. I won't let them touch you." I told him quietly before we continued flying towards what may be the most dangerous adventure of our lives.