Well then, ponies...

Ok, let’s stay calm. So I’m going to be a dad, that isn’t so bad. But Rulia is going to demand a wedding right away, I doubt she’s going to wait for all the human arrangements so it’s going to be a draconic wedding. What do I know about those? Let’s see they usually take place in a volcano where the mates dive into the lava and come out as a married couple, something about how our souls are like metal or something. Umm what else, I’m supposed to forge her a necklace. Stupid master forger dragons set the bar way too high. Umm, what else? Oh yeah! I’m a magic user so I have to fuse our souls together, a painless process but we’ll be able to read each other’s minds no matter how far away we were and we could feel the other’s emotions…. Oh god she’s going to kill me! Alright, I need to start on her necklace without her knowing, if I remember correctly there was a spa around here. Does she like spas? Crap, I really need to listen more often. Well, here goes nothing, “Hey Rulia.”

“Yes?”

“How’d you like to go to the spa today?”

“So you do listen, I would love that.”

Oh yeah, shot in the dark hits the heart! “Great, I’ll set everything up. Shall we depart my princess?”

she put the sleeping dragon on a chair and kissed me on the cheek, “I’ll be at the inn.”

As soon as she left my smile disappeared and I started running around the room, “oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no!!!!”

“What!?” Twilight had woken up and looked very concerned.

“Quick, where is the nearest spa and forge!?”

“Well the spa is in the middle of town while the forge is just outside of ponyville, why?”

“I couldn’t keep it in my pants!”

with that I ran off using my magic to replace the odd parchment dress and replace it with my robes before taking to the sky. I found the spa immediately and touched down right in front of the doors before bursting in scaring the blue pony at the counter, “I need to get an appointment for my fiancé today and I will pay any price!”

she was scared, that much was obvious, “Th-that will be fifty bits for the full treatment and we can get her in in twenty minutes.”

“Warning, she’s a creature like me.”

I put the bits on the table and teleported to the inn. I took a second to calm down and tame my hair before walking calmly in, “It’s all set up, they’ll be ready for you in twenty minutes.”

“Perfect, I can’t wait to relax.”

I hugged her before heading back to the door, “I need to take care of some things at the city hall, the mayor wants to make sure I’m not going to obliterate her town.”

She gave me a nod before she started rummaging through my packs. As soon as I got out of sight or the window I bolted straight into the air and saw the smoke coming from the forge a small ways away. I damn near matched the speed of a draconian as I blasted towards the large building and slammed the doors open. The old unicorn Blacksmith didn’t even flinch, “What can I do ya for?”

he took a slow look into my mad eyes and shaking body before I spoke, “I need to use your forge, now.”

“I don’t see any problem with that, as long as you’ve got the skill.”

As soon as the grave sounding words left his lips I was at the forge putting in some soul-gold. It was a gold that would never melt after it was forged, quite useful for what I was doing. I worked like a madman breaking two hammers before I just made a shadow one. My strength is nothing compared to the dragons but I’m stronger than most other things alive, and that’s necessary in order to forge anything that had to be this pure. I slammed my hammer on the large hunk of metal making the curve just a little more prominent and smooth before wiping the sweat from my forehead.

“You work like your life depends on it boy.”

I grunted a response as I went back to work, “It does.”

“And what exactly are you making?”

“A necklace, for a dragon.”

He nodded and watched me work for another hour before walking away. I don’t know how long I had worked for but the end result was amazing, it was huge! So big I had to teleport it out of the forge. It was almost pure gold, the exception being the ruby in the middle. The forge master walked out and gave a whistle, “That’s some mighty fine work, you ever think about becoming a blacksmith?”

“I was at one point, well an apprentice.”

“Why’d ya stop?”

“My brother and I had learned that we were skilled at magic, skilled to the point that the church wanted us trained. So I was taken away from the fires of my father’s forge and was placed in a dusty room with books that were thousands of years old.”

“Sounds like a dream come true.”

“It was, for my brother.”

“And what about you?”

“I hated it, I felt like I had let my father down. Sure I had great opportunities which I had taken advantage of but I always missed the smells and sounds of the forge.”

“Well if you ever want to finish that apprenticeship I’ll take you on in a heartbeat.”

“I might take you up on that when I retire.”

He nodded and we went back to looking at my masterpiece. “Crap.”

“What is it lad?”

“How am I going to tell Rulia she’s pregnant?”

“I’M WHAT!?”

I froze, if I don’t move, she won’t see me. “Why didn’t you tell me this earlier?”

her voice was calm but I knew there was hell to pay if I didn’t word this right, “Well, I learned only today and I figured you would want to relax while I worked on your necklace.”

She looked at me then the necklace, “You spent all day working on it?”

“Yes.”

“And you’re sure I’m pregnant?”

“If my magic works the way it should then yes.”

She walked up next to the necklace and tapped it a few times, “You made it yourself?”

“I did.”

“What’s it made out of?”

“The main structure is soul-gold while the ruby is the one that was once the heart of dragons.”

Her eyes narrowed, “Where did you get it?”

“it was a parting gift, from the mage’s college.”

“And you never told me?”

“I had forgotten about it, I had made a trip back to get it.”

“Where did you get the soul-gold?”

“There are tons of magic spheres around here; they don’t have a conduit so I used them. I can gild it if you want, blood steel would look nice.”

“It would, but what about crimson veltrite?”

“it would be better but I don’t have a way to get any, I could get some shadow sneaks to find some but it’s so rare that it might take years and I can’t mine for it without my brother having to come fight me.”

She nodded her head and thought for a minute before responding, “What about the transmutator?”

“It works in theory but it would take weeks before I could get the required neutral crystals.”

We were so involved in our conversation we didn’t notice the forge master leave and come back, “Is this what you two are squabbling about?”

in his hoof was a large chunk of pure crimson veltrite. “Where did you find that?”

“I have entire rooms full of the useless junk, can’t forge it for nothing.”

I looked at the beautiful metal then to the pony, “Because you used regular fire, this stuff isn’t called the blood of gods for nothing. To forge this, you need fire hotter than the sun.”

“Boy are you pulling my leg?”

“Watch.”

I picked up the metal and started gilding the necklace, my hands were burning off and being replaced the entire time. It hurt like hell but the end result was worth it, half of the necklace had red twisting and flowing designs that made it look much better. “Alright, just a bit more and it’ll be good.”

I looked back and saw a small hill of the stuff, “Habwuda mclurdenbwuata?”

“Stop spouting nonsense boy and take this stuff off my hooves!”

I looked at the kingdoms worth of metal in in front of me and smiled, “And just like that my shadow forge is going back into commission. I never asked your name, mine is Jacob.”

“Fine Forge at your service, how exactly where you able to shape this Celestia forsaken stuff?”

“Magic, very painful and powerful magic.”

“Think ya could teach me?”

“Not unless you can regenerate your body as it incinerates. The only reason I can use this kind of magic is because my power rivals the gods.”

“That’s a mighty bold claim.”

“Oh it’s no claim, I’ve fought gods and come out on top.”

“You’re kidding me, right?”

“Nope, the problem with gods is that they are too proud, they think they can’t be beaten. They forget that they too were once mortals.”

“Deep thoughts from one so young.”

“You get used to it.”

I sat back as Rulia looked over the necklace sometimes spitting out some fire to test it. “Now it ain’t my place to judge, but what are you?”

I chuckled, “You know, I don’t really know. At one point I was human, but becoming a mage warps you. You can turn into any animal or creature you can think of, and some that come from instinct. Rulia is a dragoness, but the same problem persists with her. With her magic she can change forms making it hard to tell. My favorite answer to that question is that I’m whatever I want to be, but sadly this is not the case.”

“And why would that be?”

“Dunno, just doesn’t feel right.”

“Hmm, if ya don’t mind me asking, how old are the two of you?”

“I’m twenty-two while Rulia is around three-hundred give or take a decade.”

His eyes widened slightly at that, “She a goddess or something?”

“No, dragon princess. Pretty sure I already went over this. I’ll probably live to be about four-hundred and she’ll live until she’s killed.”

“Do all humans live that long?”

“Nope, they average out at about sixty years.”

“Well sounds like magic is helping you along just fine.”

“Ya, if I turn into a dragon I’ll live just as long as she does so there’s a way to beat my own mortality if I want. If I do Hades is going to be furious, not like he can do anything about it though.”

“You just get crazier and crazier boy.”

“If I wasn’t crazy I would be dead, or boring, and that’s no fun.”

“You know that sounds familiar, you a fan of discord?”

“You mean the sealed up demon?”

“Wait, you ain’t a brony?”

“You are speaking words that have no meaning to me good sir.”

“Well I’ll be dammed, thought you were from earth.”

“I am, but from the way you’re talking it’s probably alternate dimensional earth.”

“Aw hell, looks like I got trolled.”

“I’m sorry, what did you say?”

“Trolled, punked, pranked, whatever you want to call it.”

“Interesting, are you sure you aren’t insane?”

“Forget about it, I just miss having fingers I guess.”

“No problem, I can turn you back in no time.”

“Really!?” I took a quick look into his mind and smiled adopting an older voice, “I can do it because I’m a wizard, and I run this game like blizzard.”

His jaw dropped, “You said you weren’t from my earth!”

“I’m not; I just took a quick peek into your head. And I have to say I never thought dimensions could look into each other like that without magic.”

He looked like he was about to have a seizure, “Can you bring other humans here!?!?”

“Yes, but I’m not going to.”

“But why not!?” he was starting to sound like a little kid.

“Because if I do then I’d have to watch over them and I just don’t have that kind of time.”

“Man that really sucks.”

“Your voice is changing.”

“Crap, ah well. I’m younger than I look, sixteen years old.”

“Magic, some crazy shit right there.”

Next part is written by my little brother James, he’s 7 so cut him some slack okay? Although he’s probably better than me TT_TT

I sighed as I looked at the sun, “This world truly is peaceful, other than all the giant bears that is.”

Forge smiled, “I forgot that you were the one to do that. Thanks for that by the way.”

“No problem, it woke me up.”

He gave a small laugh before Rulia sat next to us, “You did a good job, and no-drake will be able to say you didn’t put enough effort into it.”

I felt a bit of pride from her words, she was happy about this. All three of us sat there until the sun was almost gone.
“Well, I have an order to fill so I better get started.” Said a content Forge.

He got up and walked into his forge leaving me to shrink the necklace and put it on Rulia, “What do you think?”

“It’s beautiful.”

She put her head on my shoulder as I wrapped my arm around hers as we watched the sun set and fell asleep. When I woke up I was in a cage high up in the air with Rulia sleeping next to me. I felt a flare of anger nut it passed leaving me mildly irritated. Looking around we were about to land and my anger flared again as I saw a sign: Canterlot Zoo. I took a deep breath and decided to just wait instead of ripping the bars off. We landed softly a few minutes later and a teal earth pony with a whip on his rear and a white mane took a look into the cage, “One of them is awake, not sure if they are male or female due to their coverings."

A smaller blue pegasus with a silver mane and no mark looked up at me, “Are they dangerous?”

“Not sure, but we have a few guards on duty if they are.”

He opened the gate and attempted to walk towards Rulia, an attempt quickly stopped by me stepping in front of him and growling with my arms crossed and my glare set to three. He tried to step around me but no matter how he tried to get past me I would always be in front of him. “Guh! Fine take the protective one first!”

he backed out letting two guards walk into the cage with ropes which they proceeded to lasso me with. No matter how hard they pulled I didn’t budge and when their grunts started to wake Rulia up I put a finger to my lips and motioned at her. When they figured out they couldn’t move me physically they tried magically only to have their spells bounce off me, “What kind of animal is this!?”

I glared at the guard, “A sentient one. Whom you have made angry.”

Rulia groaned as she got up from the hay on the floor, “Torch them.”

“Gladly your highness.”

I set my hands on fire and forced them to stay put using their shadows. They were all too scared to even try to move though. I walked up to each one of them branding above their marks: Dunce until I got to the one who didn’t have a mark who was crying, “P-please don’t hurt me.”

I let the flames go out and let my hands gain a warm glow, “Don’t worry little one, you are innocent in this.”

I put my hand on her head causing her to flinch but the magic washed over her making her fireproof, irony suited her. “W-*sniffle* What did you do?”

I knelt down so I was no bigger than the other ponies and smiled, “You are now fireproof, now you can never be marked as these mules were.”

“We’re not mules!”

“SILENCE. I would be less inclined to set you all on fire if you would all shut your yaps.”

As expected, they shut up. I got up popping my back before helping Rulia up, “Where to my princess?”

she looked up to the castle, “Who lives in there?”

I scratched my chin, “If I remember correctly that would be the Celestial palace, two goddesses live there. One controls the moon and the other the Sun.”

it took a second but a small grin appeared on her mouth, “Oh let’s screw with them.”

I grinned at her, “and that is why I love you.”

I let my shadow cover us and we were transported to the throne room in the shadow of an end table. “Princesses, he is a monster. I hate to say it but I don’t think even you could beat him if he got serious.”

Said the white captain from the other day. There were two alicorns looking slightly surprised, one pure whit with a light rainbow mane that flowed in a nonexistent breeze and one that was midnight blue with a mane of stars. Rulia chuckled before whispering in my ear, “Alright, you know the plan.”

I stepped out of the shadow, “It seems you underestimate me captain, I wouldn’t even have to try.”

All three ponies jumped at my sudden appearance. “But before we go any further I have a question for the three of you.”

They gave a slow nod. “How do ponies pick things up without fingers?”

the blue alicorn spoke, “Easily answered, tis because…. Because…. Sister tell him.”

But the white one was simply looking at her hoof, “I, do not know.”

I really couldn’t believe it, “How in the world did you know about that Rulia?”

she giggled as she walked out of the shadow, “I didn’t.”

I turned to the three ponies, “I believe the saying is, you’ve been trolled.”

Alright, I’m back. I have to admit for a 7 year old he’s pretty mature in his writing. But enough about that, back to the story we go.

After a short while of them looking at their hooves and picking things up I cleared my throat, “Ahem, now for the reason I came here. I would like to register a complaint.”

The white one looked up, “And how can we help you?”

“Well whoever is in charge of your zoo needs to be fired.”

She looked at me with a warm smile, “And why would that be?”

“Well the short version is I woke up in a cage and was tied up. They’re lucky all I did was brand them.”

The blue one nearly screamed at me, “Thou branded our little ponies!?”

“Well not branded per say but I did make sure they would never mess with me again. They will forever have dunce written over their marks.”

They were about to say something but were cut off by a scream of pain, from me. I held my shoulder that now had an arrow through it and turned to see the same white limbed man, “We meet again demon.”

I pulled the arrow out with a sickening grunt before standing up, “That’s it, you are no longer exempt from my wrath.”

Black tendrils shot out from my shadow skewering the man. I walked over to him and used my blade to cut off his head, “This was getting boring anyway, shall we take our leave dear?”

she licked some blood off my face and nodded, “We still have a few months till the eggs are ready to come out so we can still relax for now.”

As we left there was a golden flash, when I opened my eyes the sun goddess was there, “Wait right there! What makes you think we will let you go free now that you are guilty of murder?”

“One, he was an assassin. Two, he was going to die soon enough already. Three, and possibly the most compelling point is that if you don’t get out of my way I will turn this city into a smoldering pile of ash.”

She seemed taken aback before giggling, “Yes, and I’ll grow a dragon’s head from my stomach.”

I was about to set her on fire but Rulia nearly crushed my hand and whispered in my ear, “Just make the city shake.”

I glared at the goddess and forced my magic into the ground all the way to the edge of the city making an earthquake, “I’m not joking alicorn, I grow tired of this game.”

With that I flashed Rulia and I out of the palace and back to ponyville just in time the get tackled by one miss Twilight Sparkle. “You know, I do have a fiancé. But she might not object to a little ‘experimenting’.”

Rulia smacked me on the back of the head, “Yes she would.”

I looked down to the red faced unicorn, “Sorry, no three way with us tonight.”

“N-no, that’s okay, Not that I wanted to in the first place!”

oh how do I love messing with ponies? Let me count the ways, “Well Rulia, maybe we should teach that little dragon about his mating rituals. It would be a shame if he didn’t at least learn the basics.”

“DON’T YOU DARE!!!”

her red face was now from anger rather than the embarrassment that was fueling it before. Rulia smirked as her eyes took their draconic form, “Oh but don’t you want him to be a dragon? Or would you prefer that he just grow up knowing he won’t be able to court a female? Knowing he’ll die alone at the end of a blade.”

Quick fact about dragons, the ones who can use magic, do.

“Well, no but-”

Rulia placed a finger over Twilight’s lips, “No buts. He needs to know, and you don’t have the knowledge.”

With that she picked me up and we headed to the library. As we got close I whispered to Rulia, “Are we really doing this?”

she smiled, “At first I was messing with her but now I’m getting hot thinking about having an audience.”

“We both going to be dragons?”

“But of course, that’s what we said we would do, teach the youngling.”

“What better way to teach than by example?”

“Precisely.”

After we picked up the dragon named Spike we took him to the field away from ponyville and looked at him, “Youngling, do you know what my mate here and I are going to be teaching you?”

he shook his head, “No, but Twilight says it has something to do with me growing up.”

Rulia scratched under the dragons jawline making him thrum in pleasure. “That is exactly right, all you have to do is watch.”

We got a fair distance away before I took off into the air giving Rulia room. After we had both transformed we went at it all night making sure the small dragon watched every part before we fell asleep.

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Spike sat there watching the sun come up, his entire life passed through his eyes showing him every compromising position he had ever been in, “Everything makes sense now…”