Reborn as a dragon

Cynder took us to a cave that looked to be mined out to resemble a restaurant. The smell of delicious meat filled the air, mostly the only meat I've had is fish, so the smell alone was almost making me drool.

"You glad, you followed me?" Cynder asked me with a smug look. I sighed.

"Yes, I'm glad we did, thank you for showing us around." I told her. I looked over to Spike to see him drooling at the smell of the goods. I admit I chuckled at the sight of this, but I snapped him out of it, so we could find a table.

Menus were already laid on the table. I picked up mine to see what was available. THEY HAD BURGERS, I've been craving a good burger for years. They also had a good selection of gems perfect for Spike, seems Cynder already knew what she was getting, since she didn't pick up her menu.

I looked at drinks, they had a good selection. Just as I picked a drink a bipedal female dragon with green scales and pink under belly walked up with a notepad.

"Hey Cynder, I take you'll you be having your usual and did you make some friends." She said getting a good look at me and Spike.

"Love the black and grey, is that natural or did you dye your scales? though it might not be the best look for a cutie like yourself." She asked. I had no idea I could dye my scales.

"It's all natural, but how do you dye your scales?" I asked, she pulled out a small canister, from where I do not know.

"It's a new product, it's very popular among female dragons, but enough about that, what will you be having?" She asked, pulling out a pen.

"I'll be having a burger with onions, cheese, and lettuce, and a soda." I told her.

"Do you want fries with that?" She asked, writing my order down.

"Sure." I told her, she now turned to Spike.

"And what about you?" She asked.

"I'll have the gem salad, and soda." He told her, after writing it all down she walked away.

"So what's Equstria like?" Cynder asked suddenly.

"It's nice, I grew up in a small town called Ponyville, I was raised by the apple family there, for the most part my life was pretty normal except for a few things." I told her.

"Like what?" She asked.

"Well first when I was still a baby I was put in charge of the protection of the town." Cynder burst out laughing at this nearly falling to the ground.

"Wait wait, you mean those ponies put a baby dragon." She couldn't finish because she started laughing again.

"Yeah, not an ideal childhood, having so many ponies expecting you to protect them." I said as the dragoness was now returning with our drinks, before leaving again.

"So what can you do?" Spike asked Cynder.

"Well, I wouldn't normally tell others but I guess it's ok, I can breathe bolts of lightning, turn in a black cloud, and I have latent psychic powers, I haven't got a handle on it yet though.

I mentally face palmed, I completely forgot about Cynder's psychic abilities. She could find the best route to any destination, find hidden objects, put up physic blocks to keep others from tracking her, also she dispels the magic Malefor used on the Skylanders, I have no idea if she had more abilities like telepathy or not, but I would find out in time.

"Spyro can do that, but I don't know those psychic powers." Spike said as Cynder looked at me shocked.

"Can you really?" She asked, I turned into a dark cloud for a brief moment before turning back.

"I don't use this power very often, and I do have psychic powers, but I've only accidentally used them. I can find the best route to any destination, find hidden objects with ease, but I don't know if that is the limit of my psychic abilities, or not." I explained.

Cynder looked really excited, which for some reason made me happy. "That's so cool, I never thought I'd meet a dragon with the same abilities as me." She said, clapping her claws together, just as our food arrived, I didn't expect them to make it so quickly.

Cynder got almost the same thing as me, the only difference was she also had a side of hash browns along with her fries.

I picked up my burger, and took a big bite out of it, it was even better than I remembered, it was perfect, I could barely describe it, I sat there chewing as a tear rolled out of my eye savoring the taste I longed for many years.

"You seem to be enjoying yourself." Cynder said with a smile.

I swallowed before answering. "The only meat I've had is fish, and sometimes Fluttershy would get me some preserved meats. This is a whole new experience for me?" I said, not a complete lie this my first time having a burger in this body.

"Wow, I don't know what I would do if I only had fish." She said.

"Well it wasn't that bad, plus with a roof over my head and a bed sleep to in, I had everything I needed." I told her, she looked at me in shock.

"You still sleep in a bed, I stopped sleeping in a bed when I was ten." She said I would have raised an eyebrow if I had any.

"What, then what do you sleep on?" I asked.

"My hoard of course, once you sleep on your own personal horde, it's almost impossible to go back to a bed." She exclaimed.

"Well, I don't know why a treasure hoard feels so nice, but it's not very common unless you're a noble to have a pile of treasure, my family are apple farmers, not very profitable after you take out the expenses, usually we use our extra money to go out to eat." I told her.

"Wow, I kinda feel sorry for you, how about after this I take you back to my place and."

"No no no, I think me and Spike can find our own place to stay." I told her, she looked at me with a smug grin.

"And where would you find a place to stay, dragons aren't very good at sharing their living space." She said.

I put a claw on my face before taking a deep breath. "Ok, ok."

"But like I was saying, before I was interrupted, I could let you take a nap on my hoard." She finished.

"Why is that important?" I asked, taking a bite out of my burger.

"I just want you to experience it." She told me.

'First, she gets uncomfortably close, then invites me to her place, finally, she wants me to sleep on her hoard, what next is she gonna tackle me to the ground, and kiss me, at this point, I wouldn't really be surprised.' I thought, now finishing my food. I drank the rest of my soda before we left with full stomachs. It took a while to get to her place. The entrance was massive enough to let a fully grown dragon to walk-in with ease, but it seemed we were the only ones here, on the back of the cave was a hill, no, a mountain of gold, jewels, and treasure.

"Wow." Was all I could say.

"Yeah I know it's a lot, but it's only been getting bigger, because of my allowance," Cynder said, walking in front of me.

"How much does he give you?!" Spike asked.

"Not that much what you see here is years of savings, and also I can't find anything to spend it on, you don't find many stores in the dragon lands." She said before wrapped her tail around my neck to drag me to the mountain.

"Is this really necessary?" I asked, trying to pull back, but I couldn't get any traction.

"No, but it's fun, I don't really get many guests." She said with a bright smile on her face.

"I wonder why?" I said sarcastically, behind me I could only hear Spike struggling not to laugh. Cynder whipped her tail, throwing me into the hoard.

"Go on, make your way to the top, and experience the best sleeping experience ever." I fly to the top Cynder flying not far away from me. I landed on the top, I looked at Cynder to see her smiling at me.

I laid down for a split second before getting to go back down. Cynder was in front of me the moment I took a step.

"Na ah ah, you are going to sleep, even if I have to tie you up." She threatens playfully.

"This isn't a really nice way to treat your guests." I told her.

"Well you grew up around ponies, we dragons have our own ways of doing things." She told me, I really didn't want to fight right now.

"Ok, ok, I'll do it." I told her before going back, and laid down, it was for some reason comfortable. I excepted the gold and jewels to dig in my scales, but in fact, it felt like one of those expensive beds that mold to your body and cradle your pressure points.

My eyes started to get heavy, no matter how hard I tried to stay awake, they only got heavier. "Well, looks like you're enjoying yourself, why don't you get some sleep." Cynder whispered to me just as my eyes fully closed