Jonathan's Wish

Jonathan’s Wish

Chapter Two

The next morning Jonathan woke to the sounds of birds chirping and a pleasant if slightly brisk breeze. “Huh, must have left the window open last night,” he thought, eyes still closed. He rolled over to get some more sleep, but that's when he noticed he wasn't in his bed, he was laying on the ground. Slowly opening his eyes, he blinked a few times, and looked around. This wasn't his house. Hell, it wasn't even a park that he recognized. It was some sort of orchard, and he was laying at the end of a moderately sized rut. "How the hell did I get here? And where is here?"

Looking around he saw that the top of one of the trees near the start of the rut had been snapped off. “Must have come in pretty hot to do that.” He tried to stand up only to fall back over as his body was way heavier than he remembered. Looking down at himself, he blinked in confusion as what greeted him was a scaley amethyst hide and a tail.

"Well that's different." he said aloud, only to freak out as his voice deeper baritone than usual. Letting out a scream of surprise, a jet of flame erupting from his maw, which he belatedly realized had turned into a muzzle. Jonathan hiccupped a cloud of smoke, as his eyes rolled upwards and he passed out.

Meanwhile in Ponyville, the Pegasus weather team was scrambled with reports of a fire in the abandoned pear orchard. Rainbow Dash assembled her crack team to take care of the blaze before she flew ahead to assess the situation. Upon getting there the billowing smoke was too thick for her to see anything on the ground except for the orange glow of the fire. “What could have caused this?” She wondered. “Well no time to think on that right now. First we need to put out that blaze.”

Rainbow Dash ordered her team to condense any clouds they could get their hooves on. She was interrupted by a ferocious roar. “Shit! You guys make with the rain. I’m going to get the other Elements.” She shouted before exploding towards the castle with her trademark sonic rainboom.

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Down on the ground Jonathan had come to, and the first thing he noticed was being in the middle of an out of control blaze. He screamed in panic but it came out as a deep bellowing roar. That snapped him out of it and he realized that he wasn’t burning. In fact he wasn’t even feeling hot. “Wait... if I’m a dragon then this fire shouldn’t hurt me, right?” he thought as he sat down on his haunches. Taking a moment to assess the situation, he focused on what he might have on hand to deal with it. He gave himself a better look. “Well I appear to be a western dragon, and wow would you look at those wings!” he thought as he flexed them experimentally and admired how they shifted in color from purple to blue to green.

“Just like an aurora borealis, cool. Well Jonathan doesn’t fit for a dragon, guess I should call myself something different. Might as well go with Aurora. Fits with the wings and all, plus I prefer descriptive names anyways. Now, how to get out of here and figure out where the fuck I am.”

He spread his wings and gave them a powerful flap, then another as he only got a few feet off the ground. “Oof, this flying thing is harder than they make it look in the movies.” He grunted as he strained to take flight. He got as high as the treetops before a gust of wind and rain sent him careening into them and back to the ground. He roared in pain as he felt a branch pierce one of his wings. The pain was so intense that it caused him to pass out a second time.

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Rainbow Dash crashed through one of the windows of Friendship Castle in her rush to find Twilight. Coming to a skidding halt, she looked around and spotted Spike. “Spike, I need Twilight! It’s an emergency! There’s a monster burning the abandoned pear orchard!”

“I’ll go get her. Wait right here and try not to break anything else.” Spike said as he hurried down one of the hallways out of sight.

Rainbow Dash pranced in place trying to reign in her nerves as she waited impatiently for Twilight. About five minutes later with the telltale pop of teleportation Twilight was standing before her. “Spike said something about a monster burning the orchard?”

“Yeah, we need to get the others and take care of it before it gets to the town! Come on, we need to hurry!”

“Oh my, this does sound serious. Wait here, I’ll collect the others.” Twilight lit up her horn and teleported away, leaving a fuming Rainbow Dash behind.

A few minutes later she was back with the rest of the group. “So what kind of monster is it this time, Dash?” Apple Jack deadpanned.

“It’s um… Well I don’t know exactly. I just heard it roar and left the weather team to put out the blaze while I came to get you gals.” Rainbow said, rubbing her neck sheepishly. “It sounded big though.”

“ Are you sure you need all of us?” Fluttershy nervously whispered.

“Darling, we’re a team. If we need to use the elements we need to all be there.” Rarity admonished.

“Alright it will be faster if I teleport all of us there.” Twilight said as she turned to Rainbow Dash. “Where exactly did you say this monster was?”

“At the abandoned pear orchard. Sweet Celestia! I left the weather team there by themselves! I hope they're okay.” Rainbow replied.

“Okay, no time to lose. Ready girls?” Twilight said as she powered up her horn and teleported their group to the edge of the orchard in question.

By the time they got there most of the fire had been put out by the weather team and they were starting to break up the rain clouds. Thunderlane landed next to the group and took a second to catch his breath. “It’s a dragon, but it seems to have knocked itself out somehow. It's just a little ways into the orchard, that-a-way.” He said, raising his hoof to point the way.

The girls looked at each other for a second and Fluttershy said, “Oh my, I hope it isn’t terribly hurt” causing the other girls to look at her funny.

“Well we won't know till we get a look at it. Come on girls, we got a job to do.” Apple Jack said as she led the group into the orchard.