Author's Note

Sapphire's speed is probably equaled or barely bested by Rainbow Dash. Her combat skills equalivant to the royal sisters.

Chapter 1: Recruits

Sapphire was one of a few thousand fresh recruits signing up, it was a beautiful summer day. Out of all the unicorns and pegasi, there were a few Hippogriffs and Griffons. The commanding officer was a unicorn named General Coldheart, he was a tall stallion with a frozen heart. He watched everypony with interest and already identifying which ones wouldn't make it through basic........ Sapphire made eye contact and felt his stare coldly at her. The desk sergeant assigned to get recruit names saw Sapphire and he snapped when he saw a dragon. To him, all dragons were the same, and didn't know that the dragons of the dragon lands were different from her species a highly educated breed called
dynatós polemistís in the common punish meant 'Mighty Warrior'.

This breed had all the normal abilities of the dragon race combined with the abilities of a bat coupled with magical powers only matched by an alicorn. It was rare to find ones like Sapphire who could change eye color for night vision and thermal heat vision.

"You should go back to hell where you came from we have no use for you."

"I would, but I am here on orders from my Lord. It's either join the royal guards or serve time for smuggling and theft. I got this letter for General Coldheart and........"

At this moment Coldheart walked up after noticing the disturbance.

"Ahh, Ms. Sapphire I was waiting for you Lord Inferno wrote saying you were coming and that her Highness Princess Celestia has agreed to the arrangements. Sergeant Lightfeather I'm dismissing you for the next month of active duty for your behavior." Sapphire felt short compared to Coldheart she could tell he hated dragons because of the wars and the death they caused.

When all the recruits were all signed in and the Luna and Celestia appeared to watch raw demonstrations to see where each recruit stood and build from there.

Two groups charged each other but it soon turned to a two thousand to fight for all of the recruits wanted to show that they could take down a dragon. The catch to the training was all hoof to hoof or claw, Sapphire adapted and booked it. Her speed was a blur and they barely could track her movements. After a few minutes, she stopped and curled into a fetal position and lay there; the other recruits thought that they had her. With a burst of fire and smoke, she used its momentum to spin a full three hundred sixty degrees and sent the closest attackers flying. Her fire suddenly became ice and the suddenly cold air slowed and stiffened the attacker's assault and the club at the end of Sapphire's tail started swinging. When the exercise ended the recruits glared because they couldn't pin a single dragon. Luna and Celestia wanted to have a go at it for fun.

Sapphire felt tiny next to the princess, "My little dragon there will be no limitations we want to see you're best. So give us your best."

Sapphire gulped and braced herself. Luckily for her it was now dark and alights burned, she was a dragon born for night combat. The area was lit up by magic blasts and Sapphire threw up two shields and teleported behind the princesses and since she had multiple horns hit both princesses with a stun spell and went airborne Luna gave chase. Celestia followed and they both suddenly realized they lost all advantage being airborne. They froze as a shrill whistle was heard and they barely dodged a black and blue blur.

"Sister if we live this I'm gonna kill you!"

"Lulu! This is but a poor decision!" Luna and Celestia quickly got to the ground and stood back to back and watched the area around them. They failed to see the missle flying right at them! The next thing they knew they were flailing and Sapphire ground the dirt and left a small trench.

The fight ended Celestia and Luna were very sore from the whole hour ordeal, Sapphire wiped the blood from her nose because Luna slammed her face magic blasts a few times head-on.

Celestia breathed heavily, the little dragon I see you got a great future."