Reborn as a dragon

It had been several hours of nonstop flying, but we finally found a place to stop for the night, the three of us decided to stay together till we got to the dragon lands. Spike still glowed, but he no longer itched like he did before. I was busy gathering up some twigs and dead branches for a fire. The other dragon also finally told us her name, which is Sapphire, she was eating some fish she found in a nearby lake.

I dumped all the wood in a pile before setting it ablaze with my fire breath. Sapphire tilted her head a bit.

"So, you're a fire breather?" She questioned, but I smirked before turning my head to a large rock nearby.

With a single lighting bolt it exploded into pieces. "I am a dragon of many talents." I told her after my little demonstration.

"I can see that, never heard of a dragon with." She didn't get to finish before I interrupted her

"Three breaths, the third one is related to my dark magic." I said. "I know it's a little hard to keep track of everything I can do."

"I see." She said with astonishment. I took in the cold night air, and relaxed. It was nice camping out at night. I never joined Rarity or Applejack on their little camping trips, because the puppets needed my instructions to help around the farm.

Now I guess Applejack, and the others might have their hands full without me. "Let's get some sleep, we have a long flight ahead of us?" Sapphire suggested. Spike had already fallen asleep after eating a few gems.

"Yeah." I said yawning before laying down next to the fire, but I took a few bites of my food before going to sleep.

(Next day)

After waking up and doing some stretches we got back on our journey Spike was now on her back instead of mine, I might be a good flyer, but having him on my back is tiring.

I got to see parts of Equestria not shown in the show's like several towns I've never seen before, it was exciting, but I stayed on course.

During the flight I tried reading some of my grimoire, but the pages were shaking due to the air. I closed it, and put it in my bag for now. The flight was very boring with nothing to do, but we had to get to the dragon lands as quickly as possible.

"So, do you think we'll meet up with any other dragons along the way?" I asked looking around to see clear skies except for the occasional bird or two.

"Don't know, Equestria is a large place, I wouldn't say it's impossible though." She told me, I was kinda excited to see other dragons, and seeing how there are deadly nadders and terrible terrors, I was excited to see Nightfuries, and Monstrous Nightmares.

"I see." I told her, but I guess now was a good time to go train my powers, I had a few I rarely use. I slowed down just a bit so Sapphire didn't see me.

I hadn't used a certain ability in a long time, my whole body turned into a black smoke. One of Cynders ability called shadow dash it turns her into a shadow invulnerable to damage. I didn't really need it since my scales were practically indestructible. I've done a lot of testing to see what my scale's limits were, but I haven't even damaged a single scale, but my internal organs don't have that invincibility, so if I were to get crushed my scales would be unharmed, but I would still get squashed. I could also use her black lighting, but it drew from my magic so I didn't use it often, I try to keep as much as possible for my dark mist. I can also call down thunder, but I can only do it during storms. As for her ghosts I haven't really figured it out yet.

I returned my body to normal before catching up again. I didn't want to fall too far behind.

"Hello." I heard. I looked around to see no one else was here except the three of us, but that was definitely Nightmare's voice.

'Can you hear me?' I heard, but now I knew this was in my head.

'Nightmare?' I thought confused.

'Oh, you can hear me, good seems our connection has grown stronger.' She said.

'Wait a second, care to explain what's going on?" I asked.

I've been trying to form a mental bond with you, so we can talk without you being asleep, I'd thought you'd want somepony to talk to.' She told me.

I smiled. 'Thanks, I appreciate it.' I told her, it was good to know she was alright, but I had a feeling she was hiding something. 'So then, Nightmare, anything you want to say?'

I could hear her chuckling in my mind. 'You could tell, very good, yes there is something I want to tell you, I doubt it'll be how this deadly nadders says, I don't think it's where who is the last standing, but whoever is the strongest.' She told me. 'The first dragon lord was a coward, and let them all fight while he hid, then took the scepter for himself.'

'What are you getting at?' I asked.

'I sense you have no desire to become the next dragon lord, so I'm warning you to hold back, your power is already greater than an Alicorns, while your spark is on par with one, and your connection to an element hasn't happened yet, but it's nearing, so it'll be very difficult to hold back.' She explained.

'I see. So do you know what my element is?' I asked her.

'Either darkness or shadow, but either of them will also give you a limited control over light.' She explained.

'Wait what, how does that make sense?!' I asked.

'How do you think my dear Sister controlled the moon for a thousand years.' She said chuckling. 'What are you afraid of your potential, I'm almost glad to be part of such great power.' She said lustfully, making me blush.

'Your potential is limitless, and you will only grow stronger once your connection is made, but don't worry, I'll help you every step of the way.' She said gleefully.

'This is gonna be a long trip isn't it?'

'Yes but I don't mind.' She joked.