[DISPLACED] Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

by Black--Soul

Chapters

Chapter 1 - One Tarterus of a introduction
Chapter 2 - Of Apples and science of Dragons 1/2
Chapter 4 - Welcome to the Clan Welp, you are a Apple now... 1/3
Chapter 5 - Welcome to the Clan Welp, you are a Apple now... 2/3
Chapter 6 - Welcome to the Clan Welp, you are a Apple now... 3/3
Chapter 7 - In the shadows of a bright world
Chapter 8 - Stepping into the dark gray territorys
Chapter 9 - Uncertain times
Chapter 10 - Day of the duel - Prelude
Chapter 12 - Duel of fates, Equestrian vs Minatorian 2/2
Chapter 13 - The days after the duel
Chapter 14 - The days after the duel - rising darkness and the return of chaos
Chapter 15 - Family reunion
Chapter 16 - Later...
Chapter 17 - Royal visits and preparations for conflicts to come
Chapter 18 - When the world is not a kids show
Chapter 19 - Consequences
Chapter 20 - Cynder third year living in Equestria
Chapter 21 - Fourth year living in Equestria
Chapter 22 - Fifth year living in Equestria
Chapter 23 - The big adventure... School time!
Chapter 24 - The big adventure of school and dark secrets within...
Chapter 25 - Days come and days go, what have we to show for in the end?
Chapter 26 - The Merchant 1/2
Chapter 27 - The Merchant 2/2
Chapter 28 - Meeting Harmony, face to Tree 1/3
Chapter 29 - Meeting Harmony, face to Tree 2/3
Chapter 0 - The End of the old and the beginning of the new
Chapter 3 - Of Apples and science of Dragons 2/2
Chapter 11 - Duel of fates, Equestrian vs Minatorian 1/2
Chapter 30 - Meeting Harmony, face to Tree 3/3

Chapter 1 - One Tarterus of a introduction

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 1 - One Tarterus of a introduction

The woman was shaking awake when she noticed the nice warmth all around her. Someone or something was shaking her hard while heating up her confinement.

Perhaps she was being rescued from the remains of the glass panel that had been falling down on her? How she survived this at all, was far beyond her imagination.
But someone was about to save her and she be reunited with her family.

A mighty collision she more heared than it was feeled by her stopped all the shaking.

When after several minutes nothing happened, did she started to panic.
She had to get out of her predicament!

To her surprise, her prison begins to cracked slowly, when she tried to escape again. With light shining through the cracks of her prison and the liquid slowly draining away.

Her head eventually popped out of whatever held her in place. When she had obtained freedom, did she notice how she was inside a small crater. Climbing out with her old body would be a pain in the ass.

When she looked around herself, did she see her former prison. It looked like a stone like egg.
"Impossible!" So she thought.

Then she noticed something blocking part of her vision, it was purple and it looked like a heavy breathing dog snout or something similar... with scales.

Impossible as it seems was she was freezing in place, when she tried to take the object in her face away with her... CLAWS?

Holy mother of all that is something important, her hands are clawed! No skin on them, but rather snake-like scales. She declined the possibility that she was really seeing what was infront of her.

She must really have suffered head trauma from the glass panel falling on her as well using her head to break free of the... Egg?

Impossible, what was going on?

She checked out her body as much she could, her neck was ridiculous flexible and when she feel her tail up and down, did she notice the muscles in them. She could move it shortly after, but she was very concerned about injuries she might sustain if she accidently moved it her way.
She had a bloody steel sword as a tail tip.

Well it wasn't literally bloody, yet.
But she sure knows what not to mess with unless she really needed to.

Something inside her mind started to calm her down. It was like a soundless voices she just know where there, but something hold them of from actually hearing them.

Despite one of them seeming to humming her a lullaby of sorts and her stress and confusion started to melt away from it, like ice in a child's ice cream cone.

Next was a different voice in her mind beckoning her to climb out. She followed the voiceless suggestion and found her claws to be excellent tools in climbing out of the crater.

She was in a forest full of Apple Trees, some of them apparently had been set on fire by something and the ground around the crater was partially burned clean down to the earth or stone? It was hard to describe how the ground looked like.

The lullaby to keep her calm continued to contain the female's anxiety and the other voice in her mind told of knowledge that sounded to be a matter of fact, rather than a suggestion.
It told her she was a baby dragon, her affinity was related to darkness, electricity and magically changed fire.

Magic? Magic was real? What was going on?
If not for the continued humming of a calming soundless lullaby she be probably lost to confusion and fear.

But wherever she was, she apparently had someone watching over her. Her personal guardian angels perhaps?

Apparently did both voices chuckled at her suggestion, despite not vocal voicing it.
She seem to have roommates in her head. Paying rent in the form of mental support and knowledge.

She was taken out of her musings when something was heard to produce a low growl behind her. The dragon hatchling spinning around on her four legs managed on instincts and substituted muscle memories thanks to her roommates to move rather swiftly.
It felt rather natural to walk on all four legs of her body, yet she somehow knew that one of the voices assisted her in moving so coordinated.

Would the voice support end, would she be stumbling around like a newborn without a doubt.

While one voice helped her move smoothly, did the other voice let her move in some kind of autopilot. She know she could override it anytime she wanted, but she trusted her guardian angels to guide her.

Not all to sudden three Timberwolves jumped out of the cover of still smoking trees.
The smoke that acted like fog really seemed to make their on their own glowing eyes even more dangerous and ominous in nature.

Her breathing was clear despite all the smoke in the area. The wooden wolves in front of her had slightly to fight with coughing though.

The ones on the sides spread out flanking her, cutting off line of sight as well they managed.

Her field of view was a lot bigger than before, even with the blind spot in front below her, a well compensated trade.

When the dragon hatchling bad luck had her potencial escape blocked. But they in turn didn't move to attack while the original middle one that was the only one approaching her alone.

She or rather the voices in her head guiding her body unlike her own wishes to walk away to denied that instinct. Her body was slowly walk instead of backwards as her human mind suggested, instead it was actually slowly walking towards its deadly aggressor.

The wooden wolf one of the voices called a Timberwolf, stopped advancing and rather slowly backed away while growling.

One of the two voices in her mind whispered and demanded her to take a deep breath through her nose, hold it and release it in force as if to shout but not to speak, rather than exhaling with all the force her lung would allow.

All three minds in her body flinched slightly, when a silent but insistent roar with a green fireball exited her mouth.

The Timberwolf tried to back away from the vibrant forest colored flame, but found itself bumping into a tree.

The Timberwolf now set on magical fire cried its own agony into the sky, before falling to ash.
The ash in turn seemed to be picked up by a strange wind and was flying towards places unknown.

When she turned around, another Timberwolf was almost snout to snout with her. One of the voices used her tail when she backflipped with all her might backwards.

The Timberwolf, unfortunately already committed to attack in a jump to catch his prey by surprise, was cleavaged cleanly in two pieces.

The three voices were confident to now manage the last Predator. Since their teamwork seemed to have trump this beasts hunting instinctual behavior with improvised combat prowess and she felt something rising from her throat.

A mighty cute roar was coming out of her throat.

If not for her displayed deadly attacks on its pack members, would the Timberwolf have fallen to pieces in laughter. It sounded like a Kitten was roaring because it scared itself after farting for the first time from indigestion.

After the embarrassing failure and a mental facepalm did she tried again.
This time the formerly old woman breathed in with her mouth instead of her nose and exhaled with all her lungs capacity.

She actually only expected a faster build up of air and exhaling of fire. Instead did she exhaled a dark lightning bolt that cracked with unstable electricity.

The Timberwolf exploded on impact and its fragmented body pelted the dragon hatchling. It's scales had not yet fully hardened and it feel like tiny ice balls showered her with slightly painful hits.
It reminded her of a hail storm actually.

After the voices had used the hatchling body to turn slowly twice in place and scanned the area further for threats, did the hatchling body from overuse of physical and magical strength started to lower to the ground.

The voices under protest had lost their control of the body and while still there was unable to assist in anything but singing her a lullaby in unison to keep her troubled human mind occupied until they guided her failing body to sleep.

Not one of the three minds of the out cold body of the hatchling was able to register the ponies coming to the old ponies and by extension her young bodies aid.

"Honey over here." A pony stallion in enchanted leather armor called over a mare in the same themed and enchanted leather armor was heard echoing over the still in smoke fogged Orchard.

The two figures were running towards the unharmed, but totally exhausted and passing out elderly mare and to their surprise a female dragon hatchling.

The Apple family was out in the field of their Orchard in the fields closest to the Everfree Forest, when a pack of 13 Timberwolfs had stormed them.

Instead of surrounding them as expected, the Timberwolfs holded 4 by 3 formation with the Alpha Timberwolf at the front slightly in front of his pack.

The Ponies of the Apple forest had not left enough of the magic rainbow apples behind for them to feed on in their opinion even if it was slightly more than last year's portion.
It was time to feed on one of them to remind them who really owned this Apple forest and the portion of the wild jungle where once a year the rainbow apples bloomed for one week.

The Apple family was unprepared for this attack, magical wards should have warned them if anything would go through or above the fence that are enchanted for alarms to sound all over the orchard.

Unfortunately did no one expected the Timberwolves to generously dig under the fence poles that already reached two meters depth.

A stallion the father of the family, a mare the mother of the family, a elderly mare the Grandmother of the stallion and a pair of foals between the legs of the parents. They all know that fleeing as not an option.

Under tears did the elder walked over to the parents of the foals and give them a nuzzled goodbye.
The Timberwolf respected this delay standing in formation. While they are Predators and superior in every way, was there no reason to not show respect to the sacrifice the elder was willing to give to pay for the safety of the Herd.
The Alpha would snap her neck quickly to end her pain and leave her a few minutes to have safely died before devouring her.

Nature was unforgiving, the ones in it in contrast had empathy unlike many expected them to show and practice it.

Before the old light green mare with silver mane and tail could walk over to her last walking while her family was wailing for her fate to be changed by any creatures miracle, did loud *bang* take every creatures attention towards the sky.

As if their call for divine intervention was heared and answered did a massive fireball come from very high in the sky towards them.
As if Celestia's divine wrath was coming for those that would dare to harm her subjects.

The Timberwolves were uncertain if this was a horned Prey trick or not.
When the Alpha checked the Herd, did he noticed no horn and they watched in awe towards the fire in the sky.

What ever trick this was, they would not fall for it.

The Timberwolfs as barked by the Alpha keep formation and ready themself for a counter attack.
Three younglings of the pack moved towards the prey to keep the elder from fleeing in a moment of distraction.

Noone expected the fireball to be actually a high velocity dragon egg that got *yeeted* by Nightmare Stellar Moon and Luna towards the planet.

When the burning egg impacted in the middle of the pack was every Timberwolf directly surrounding the impact zone instantly disintegrated to ash.

The three remaining Timberwolves and all the ponies got thrown to the ground through the shockwave.

The remaining Timberwolfs recovered and retreated to observe the situation.

Their pack was destroyed. They would need at best one hole day and night to recovering from becoming ash, three days and nights if they wanted to return to half their total strength individually.

Their Alpha would not be amused about this outcome after having renewed itself.

The Timberwolfs retreated, but keep the ponies in view, in case they charged due to the turn of events. The adults take the foals and fleeing the Apple Forest to their wooden den.

The elder lay unmoving in the grass. If it was dead or unconscious was not too important.
At least one meal was waiting for them that they had not to share with the pack... a rare opportunity.

After some time did a wingless purple not pony came out of the hole in the ground.
The hunt was on!

Author's Note

Last update for today for this story.
Other story are getting one with some hope out today as well.
Hope you enjoyed this update and visit former harlock5399 now Silas5399 to leave him a like.
His inspiration was giving this story birth :raritywink:

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/445403/reborn-as-a-dragon

Stay snuggly :twilightsmile:

Last time edited: 16.12.2024

Chapter 2 - Of Apples and science of Dragons 1/2

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 2 - Of Apples and science of Dragons 1/2

The young dragoness awakened after a while and was very pleasantly surprised to be still alive and in good condition beyond an immense thirsting for water. She was feeling as if she had been partying through a night full of alcohol and had a cotton mouth feeling, but otherwise despite what she had been through was in pretty good shape.

It was strange to no longer be in constant pain of her joints for example due to her old body breaking down a little more with every passing year.

Once she discovered what was going on in this bloody area she found herself in, would she try finding out what happend overall.

Once more, one of the voices started to sing her a lullaby and her anxiety and sorrows born from insecurities melted away.
She listened in to the ones talking around her, she opened her eyes a sliver and was surprised to see horses a lot bigger than herself to be the source of the conversation being held around her.
Either she was tiny or these horses are ridiculous gigantic.

One of the voices in her mind seems to translate their spoken words with a delay and further explaining her with memories imposed on her conscious mind, rather than words about what happened to her since she apparently had hatched from her egg.

In short:
She got found by them, rescued from the moon surface, healed magically from some kind of ailment, thrown away to 'safety' and from there on out they waited for her to hatch and then the Timberwolf fight happend.
That was one mind blowing chain of events indeed.

No one of the three know what happened after they collapse from exhaustion themselves by using magic to attack and even magically extend the range of her tail blade to bloody half one of the Timberwolves in the middle throughout its body length.

Anyway... They would listen to the horses. Or rather ponies as the soundless voices in her head called them.

"How is the little dragon doctor? That little thing somehow destroyed 10-13 Timberwolves, yet I fear she might have paid greatly for her heroic deed."
She heard one of the male equines voices say and she dared to use one of her eyes to spy on her environment. She only opened her eyes slightly but she could only observe very rough shapes.
Apparently she was not just dehydrated, but also quite exhausted enough to limit her body's functionality.

She noticed that she was actually too tired to open both her eyes all the way. Further did her environment was seemingly ridiculous bright at the moment. The voices nudged her mentally to continue to listen to the ponies.

"This hatchling seems to be suffering from physical and magical exhaustion. The physical one is not really surprising seeing how she had to fight for her life, but her magical fatigue seems to come from overuse of magical abilities, amazing how a hatchling obviously has instinctual understanding of its own magic abilities despite her just having hatched and not even reached her scale drying phase.
Usually a dragon infant needs up to a whole year to reach physical and mental stability to concentrate enough to use its ability at will.
She must have been under extreme stress to even fight off one fully grown Timberwolf, how she managed to destroy a pack is beyond me.
Even a youngling from a pack is a serious threat, this is truly a miracle of life and nature.

I guess you were right that she probably destroyed more than the one Timberwolf that you reported as cut in two pieces by her tail weapon, as unlikely as it seem to be.

This hatchling shows how pure survival instinct can make even a newly hatched dragon a threat to anyone dumb or desperate enough to attack it, even if its unguarded.

"So what species of dragon is she?
Also is she alright? I didn't see any cuts or bite wounds, but maybe she suffered from blunt force trauma?
She has two swelling points near her spine.
I hope nothing is broken!"
Asked the same male voice slightly panicked.

Another voice answered in a relaxed pace:
"I don't know for certain yet, I can not recall having ever seen any variants of this subspecies of the dragon race before.
Unless mistaken I say we have never seen one of this dragon strain beforehoove.
Further you don't need to worry about the nubs on her spine middle sides, that are her wing spawn points. Once she molts, she will grow wings from these nubs."

The doctor had apparently studied many other dragon species during his career, but this might be a new species all together.
Anyway did he see clear signs that someone experimented on the poor hatchling magically in its egg, that tail weapon showed clear indication of strictly illegal magic manipulation of life essence. The blade, while unbelievable tough, was surprisingly flexible.

A field of studies that was very strictly controlled and use outside authorities permitted magic caster without license was punished with either removal of one's magic abilities or lifetime imprisonment in Tartarus, if one would not go through mental reconditioned reformation by well trained and regulated mind menders.

As a doctor and government employee he was required by law to send a letter to canterlot and inform the Princess about this.

The ponies started uneasy to shift on there hooves for a while, until their conversation continued.

"So what is her dietary needs doctor?"
Asked a female voice.

"I scanned her and she is an omnivore with additional capacity for mineral consumption requirements. Therefore fairly common in that regard."

To hear that her dietary needs were common was good. While not poor by any means, would a specialized diet always cost more than a common one. The Apple familie was loaded, but not Gem feeding a dragon regularly as main diat kind of loaded.

While Thestral, Pegasus and Griffons are the reason many meats got sold regularly with fish being the cheapest thanks to trade with Seaquestria fish markets on shores in the market with first grade preservation spells keeping even easy spoiling fish fresh up to a year, so they don't have to worry about the omnivore part of the dietary needs.

"The mineral portion would easily be sponsored by the crown for researchIng this newly discovered species of dragon kind."
Said the doctor with a smile to the relief of the Apple family members.

After a few careful stretches was the dragon feeling more awake and alert. She carefully opened her eyes, to spare her the glare of the sun.
Well actually it was a huge light inside a hospital examination bed, but it was basically the same.

She was in a bed with a see-through blanket over most of her body, then she looked around to see three stallions and two mares talking to each other.

One of the stallions had a beige colored fur coat, he also wore glasses and a doctor's coat then she spotted higher on his skull a horn coming out of his head.

The second stallion had a stetson hat with a red mane, light grayish olive coat, emerald eyes, and his cutie mark was an apple with a star in it.

The third and last stallion had for some reason a nurse cap on his head. His fur coat and hair color was as plane as his environment. If not for the nurse cap he might have looked like a hospital camelion while hiding.

One of the mares had her mane done in a ponytail, pale gamboge fur, her mane color was normal gamboge, and her eyes were turquoise colored.

While the other was also a nurse, but she moved out of her field of vision to describe her.

They kept talking about a lot of interesting things related to her, but the hatchling throat was too dry for her to focus on the conversation. So one of the voices takes control of her tail and wiggle it around as to get them to look towards her. It worked and a glass of water on the nightstand was levitated to the little dragon, it was emptied surprisingly fast.

The water was so refreshing that the voices wondered if it was really just unaltered water.

The dragon hatchling made a visible attempt to move forward, but collapsed on the bed where it tried to stand up. As it tried to stand again, it seemed to be pushed down very gently by a sparkling light surrounding it.

One of the mares responded to the hatchling wanting to stand up. The mare picked up another glass of water with her hoof. She then let the dragon drink it as well and started to pet the dragon's head.
The hatchling relaxed and fall asleep from exhaustion not five minutes later.

Everypony took deep breaths as one of the mares set the glass down and the hatchling was fast asleep.
The poor thing was apparently too tired to stay awake longer than absolutely necessary.

"It seems she got spooked from my scan, she is only a day old if the analysis earlier about the egg state is to be believed. But everything seems to line up perfectly to reach this conclusion. So it is more than understandable that the hatchling must be absolutely wiped after that much activity."

"So how do we take care of a baby dragon?" Asked the one mare.

"You don't." Responded the stallion nurse.
The doctor elaborated: "With all due respect, you are famous for the best Apples in the country alongside all your offshore products. Dragon upkeep is so far away from this, you might ask a Griffon from Griffonia to be generous enough to give you a gold bit without them expecting to get 5 back in the end."

"A dragon upbringing depends on the species and since he is unknown for now, we will have to wait for Canterlot specialists to come here to examine him so we do what we can for her now just more tailored to the hatchlings needs." The doctor said as his horn glowed blue and so did his glasses as they adjusted themselves as he left the hospital's open viewing examination room.

The Apple family would return later, not just to visit Granny Smith. While Granny Smith had been knocked out during the eggs impact, was she mostly there on her own insisting.
In case her savior needed a hug after all the uproar of the past hours.

Once the doctor had excused himself to retire for the day, Granny Smith a bit stiff legged entered the examination/observation room. Once the guard see the pony elder to lay down besides the dragon hatchling and started lovingly hugging it before falling asleep next to it.

The guards see nothing wrong with this and with a small smile on their lips continued to stand silent guard next to the entry double door.

Later the same day, did the hatchling awakened to the feeling of someone cuddling next to it. It was a very comfortable feeling to have someone next to her on the bed.

When she looked around and see the ponies in light green coat fur color protectively snuggling her, did the memories of earlier in the day slowly returned.

Currently only one of the voices in her mind was present. It seemed to watch in amusement how the former egg inhabitant had made a cuddle buddy in her sleep.

As the mare let out a cute yawn, did the hatchling escaped a audible "dawww".

The little dragon still feeling the strain of the fight hours ago cuddle up to the mare, who in her sleep instinctually tighten her loving grip on her self elected charge.

Nurses, doctors and changing guard shifts all dawww silently on this diabetic inducing cute display of Harmony and wholesome snuggling.

The next morning did the specialists arrived. To everyponys surprise was Princess Celestia with them.
Once she had reviewed the letter about the diabolical deeds that had been done to the hatchling was clear that she had a potentially very volatile problem on her hooves.

The Princess of the sun had with four ponies following her the best experts in dragon knowledge Equestria currently had in hooves with her.

One knows all dragon strains by name and had the in and out about their behavior in his doctor thesis, another knows everything they ever learned about the different types of breath attacks and natural occurring weapons and defenses that grow in or on dragons.

Another had knowledge about all changes that had been known to ponykind occurred by volunteering or being forced into during times of war and otherwise.

The last specialist was a dragon breeder, the old stallion understands animals thanks to his cutie mark and is known to communicate with even the most difficult to work with predators. Hydras, Manticores, Parasprites or even Breezees!

This team of experts would help determine the capabilities and abilities of the hatchling. Further its ideal upbringing and who to select to try to domestically tame this dragon.

Should all this fail, would she take the burden upon herself to end this poor victim of some creatures experiments, as to end its ~~threat~~ suffering from potential mutations making it life one of suffering.

They all looked like cliche scientists with their lab coats and security googles and hoove covers.

The three mares and one stallion surrounded the currently docile dragon laying on the back of a elderly pony mare. Two of the mares had horns running scans on the body of the dragon.

The third mare was a Thestral bicorn examination currently its body only with its eyes as to not interfere with the already running scans of the other horned colleges and the stallion was an earth pony that seemed to switch his gaze between the hatchling laying absolutely relaxed on the mare's back.

The two unicorns walked around the little exotic dragon hatchling and examined its body in detail, especially the tail got attention.

"Never seen a tail like this before." One of them said while the other nodded in confirmation.

They all started writing down noteworthy details, further did the stallion noted down that the hatchling was already imprinted towards the scent and body warmth of the elder mare. Otherwise it would not be so relaxed, the parents would never allow touching it otherwise. This instinctual knowledge keeps the hatchling at peace.
They would test his observation towards the end of the examination.

Celestia herself started writing down notes on her own.

The little dragon hatchling tail was easy to move around, so she started wiggling it around lazily out of boredom.
The pony scientists worried about the mare below the dragon sustaining cuts, but the wicked sharp looking tail never cut the old mare despite being hit repeatedly by its sharp cutting surfaces.

When one of the doctors touched it carefully with a hoove did it feel blunt.

The stallion of the group of scientists explained that this tail weapon was a 'cut through will' kind of weapon. In easy words: "It only cuts, when the owner desired it"

The stallion carefully coaxing opened the younglings mouth, discovering it had no visible teeth. When he used a dragon meat treat especially made for feeding younger dragons for researching purposes, did its teeth shoot out the gums to rip the treat apart.
As expected was the dragon a switch tooth, an omnivore that used its teeth as knives to cut and rip mouth big pieces of food and then chewed it like a pony. Just with extremely tough mouth gums rather than teeth.

When he inspected the tongue of the Dragon did he see a heat resistant pattern on them.
A Dragon's breath attack could be determined by inspecting the tongue and mouth structure.
This one was obviously a fire breather, but something else he didn't see before had subtle changes in the mouth's flesh. Somepony would have to find out what it was later.

"She seems to be a fire breather." The earth stallion said, everypony takes that into their notes.

When the bicorn checked the found results of the earth pony researcher, did she accidentally rubbed the hatchling snoot tip with her hoof frog.

The Princess noticed the change of expression in the dragon eyes, she guessed it had an urge to sneeze.

"Everypony move out of the way, she is going to sneeze!" With the exception of Granny Smith, did everyone moved away so as to not stay in the path of the grimacing dragon coming blow.

A green firestream escaped the dragon.
It left a burn mark on the ground beside the bed, but more noteworthy for Celestia did the ground sparked for a moment.

When she checked the enchanted ground against fire and water damage, did she found the enchantments damaged by the magical dragon fire.

The Sun princess found this unnerving, hospitals used the second highest enchantment class available to all civilian medical facilities.

"As you deduced from its mouth attributes, she is a fire breather." The bicorn mare said to the earth pony stallion.

The stallion nodded respectfully to his horned colleague and told them about his hunch that this dragon had an alternative breath attack. But that it had to be determined later due to the Dragon younglings low Mana levels.

"One of the rare dragons with two different breath attacks than." Ask the Princess of the Sun.
The scientists all nodded as the scout report of the orchard found besides the cut in half inactive Timberwolf corpse also many pieces of a ripped apart one.
They speculated it to be some kind of explosive attack.

After many minor but not less important measurements and its vital data having been recorded for two hours and written it all down, did the examination was mostly finished...

Now comes the hard part. As the earth pony stallion named 'Silver Tongue' suggested, did they tested the progress of how much the dragon hatchling had imprinted on the elderly mare of the Apple clan.

For this do they levitated the dragon from the elders back. Its reaction was minor, it only looked repeatedly around itself and fixed its presumed mother occasionally with a questionable look.

When it got levitated in different heights around the room did it get distracted by it enough to no longer seeking its mother out, while it was 'played with'.

When the ponies with exception of the light green elderly mare left the room while levitating the hatchling with them, did it start to chirp for its mother. After two minutes without her mother finding it, did it repeatedly chirped and called for its mother.

Not 5 minutes after they had been separated did the hatchling get scared enough as to use its tail weapon. When it hit one of the walls did it cut through the enchanted fire and water resistant wall like a hot butter knife through already melting butter.

Celestia noticed again how minor sparks got emanated from the afflicted areas around the attack. Once more did the enchantments show damage to them near the hit area.

On Silver Tongue insisting did the test was aborted and the hatchling was levitated back into the room and towards its 'mothers' embrace.

This made it clear that removing the hatchling from the mare was only going to cause it to get traumatized.

When the Princess ask for elaboration did Silver Tongue put it simply: "Remove the dragon hatchling from its presumably birthmother and it will never be as docile as during the examination again!"

After a short contemplation did the Princess decree the Apple clan to be responsible for the upbringing of the dragon with royal support of financial lost interests due to duty for the crown and a security force for the ~~hatchling observation~~ Apple family safety after this Timberwolf attack. They are after all royal suppliers of the Canterlot nobility and royal family so Celestia argued.

The scientists/ researchers concluded:
"We have what we need to make a report to the science committee about this new dragon strain so we will leave now, but will return next week for more permanent observations."

With that the Princess and her herd of eggheads left the hospital and returned via chariot to Canterlot.

Meanwhile would the Apple family spending more time with the dragon hatchling until it imprinted towards them on Silver Tongues recommendations.

Author's Note

Have a great day every creature.
Read the story of former harlock5399 now Silas5399 yet?
His story 'Reborn as a dragon'
inspired this one after all.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/445403/reborn-as-a-dragon

As always:

Stay snuggly :pinkiesmile:

Last time edited: 16.12.2024

Chapter 4 - Welcome to the Clan Welp, you are a Apple now... 1/3

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 4 - Welcome to the Clan Welp, you are a Apple now... 1/3

Kinda funny mused the voices in their shared head space, noone even tried to name the dragoness yet.

She herself had yet to think about what name she wanted for herself, but she actually didn't even know how she looked like in full body view.
She would seek out a mirror once she had a chance to do so, without missing out on pony pillow snuggeling time.

The Apple elders expected more ponies to come by over the next days, but outside occasional health checks and minor medical scanning did only the feeding of the dragon caused the occasional new ponies to visit the newest member of the Apple family in their appointed hospital observatory room.

The Apple family members argued about giving her a name, but they had no idea what a traditional dragon name sounded like.
If there was one pony clan that respected traditional naming and custums, than it was the Apple family. Well also the distant related Pie family, but that was a can of gems and stones noone wanted to open if it could be avoided.

So they keep the nameless little dragon unnamed and referred to her as
'dawww your so cute'
or
'awww she really likes to nibbel on your tail', occasionally even
'Oooo for the love of Celestias flaming tits - she set my mane on fireAAA'.

Other than that, it was a surprisingly mellow week of cuddling and nuzzeling the dragon welp on Silver Tongues recommendations how to further their bonding.

Celestia had organized helpers for the farm to keep it running smoothly in the absence of the Farm ponies, while everypony usually working the farm was on the princess decree made sure that the hatchling imprinted on them as their family, so she could be easily integrated into the pony folks community.

Additional military forces build a extending to the guard barracks and filled it ranks with experienced guard ponies, it also helped sharpening the awareness of the usually bored village guardsponies now that it got the princess personal guards.
Eventually 20 royal guard ponies of the castle got stationed for the little frontier village near the 'Everfree Forest', the most dangerous Forrest that had a settlement near it.

Ponyville certainly seem to get a lot of attention from the princess of the sun and some nobel family's tried to find out what was so important that a small village got royal guard support.
After all, one does not simply was provided with elite troops.

When Celestia told them in day court how Timberwolfs attacked the 'entire Apple family' living in Ponyville that was caring for the Apple orchard that provided all of Canterlot with apples products, did everypony agreed that royal guard had to guarantee that Canterlot number one supplier of Equestrias apples and only zap jam apple producers had to be protected.

The more known nobels would never allowed any creature to threatening their favorit Applecider producers.

To the royal princess surprise did the 'rich clan' with its head of house 'Filthy Rich' and his new fiance 'Spoiled Milk' moved to Ponyville after buying a vacant place, what im turn would be Ponyville first and only Villa ever constructed until than.
They further take 10 injury related retired Royal Guard from Canterlot into their services and started to train the usualy mediocre trained village guards ponies under their own budget.

That they would mostly provide security for themself was not important enough to mention.

They vowed to protect the Canterlot Nobel family's supply of highest produce of the Apple family safe and would keep the threat of the Everfree Forest at bay for the greater good.

Celestias spys could not find any ties to illegal or suspicious activities to the 'Rich clan'. There for their intentions was most likely gaining more support and probably hoped to raise their nobel status from 5th to 4th grade nobel pony.

The 5th rank was the lowest that allowed pony family's to gain tax reduction and other perks granted by the crown.

Now a days it was rather rare to see somepony earning more prestigious ranking through hard and honest work, instead of buying it off some house in decline or marriage.

Celestias spy network if needed would support the 'Rich clan' from the shadows to aid the Apples further.

Maybe they finally find a lead to who created the dragon hatchling and she could start to hunt the responsible parties down to the last members of their family.
Corruption of that scale was not to be underestimated and would be made a example of!

When the dragon with her more or less ever present company woke up the next morning on the day the princess and the scientists would return, did a well known to the hatchling orange filly with emerald eyes stare at her in childish curiosity when it would be time for another round of tongue wrestling.

The dragon welp had made it a daily routine to fight off the orange filly into submission.
The red colt already had learned to surrender before the tongue wrestling ended in tummy tickeling.

The adults had become accustomed to this routine and started betting on how long the welp needed to defeat their darling daughter in tongue to hoove combat.

A gurgling of delight escaped welp and filly when the next epic fight 'adorable' versus 'absolutely diabolical cuteness' would start.
By now even the nurses not on call and off shift guard started to stay a little longer to witness the event.

When one day a snack vendor started to organize betting pools with sweets for the losing participants of the bets, was a new harmless gamble tradition was born.

"Hello Mayor Mare, congratulations on your first election to the Ponyville leadership position." Bright Mac said and the mare burst into giggles when the stallion compliment the brand new head of Village.
His wife Butter Cup to her surprise followed the stallions lead and mayor mare wondered why nopony had told her the perks of being elected the Ponyville mayor when the Apples nibbeld the 'poor poor' new mayors ears into submission.

Her predecessor had warned her that the Apples had a hoove for negotiation and trade, but she had no idea why he had always smirked towards her when he had mentioned it in passing.

Moving from Manehatten to the little Village of Ponyville was the best decision of her life.

The Apples chuckled as they see how they managed to nibbel the new mayor mare into submission even before the dragon welp had managed to tickel their foal into defeat.

By the time Celestia of the Sun and her followers of knowledge arrived, did no trace of the gambling or the epic fight adorable versus absolutely diabolical cuteness remained.

With exception of their in giggles twitching orange filly and the tongue tied dragon welp.
That one was new...
A tie to be determined later...

The dragon welp recovered faster and was wobbly walking towards Granny Smith who was busy straight out the young colts wild mane into something resembling a mane.

Celestia had actually no idea what peeked her more interested:

The Dragon hatchling using it sharp looking but blunt willed tail weapon to climb up the standing elderly mare.
The 'Mayor Mare' that keep twitching on the ground while the Apple clan tried to hide their involvement in
'negotiations of the pleasurable nature'.

Celestia was quite amused.

The research party behind her was confused.

The dragon hatchling was climbing the Apple family oldest mares head to stand on it like a kitten that got the bird.

The orange filly of the Apple clan had stopped giggling, but was still twitching away at the hospital room floor.

Eventually did the new mayor mare stood up but her legs were a little wobbly. When she noticed the Princess of Equestria smirking down on her, did she excused herself with a red head that resembeld Big Macintosh fur coat color.

When they heard the door closing, did Celestias followers already started to approach the dragon welp of 8 days. Silver Tongue untangled the dragons tongue knot and remarked that he would probably retire into Ponyville if they had at least one more pink haired mare in the Village.

Celestia remarked that she had once pink hair before the night of her sisters Nightmaremoon and Luna incident that got them accidentally banished to the Moon for ten thousand years.

With exception of the still twitching Applejack filly one could have hear a needle drop to the ground.

It was Applejack's father 'Bright Mac' and his wife named 'Butter Cup' who broke the silence:
"Anyyywaaayyy-" started 'Butter Cup', "It is time for you to inform us how we will continue to proceed or at least fake a idea how we are to continue to raise our newest family members darling to your satisfaction."

As Celestia explained the plans about the dragon hatchling and the Apples family involvement in them, did the royals on the moon listen to their big flanked sister and learned about the currently standing of their nation Equestria.

It was clear that despite her best efforts and a well build spy network some elements had to be at play that Celestia was not aware of.

Celestia had officially one spymaster that was anonymous for easy to guess reasons.
While she had inofficially one more to take care over black operations off the book missions and keeping its official counterpart safe and sound.

Despite Celestias extensive reach inside and outside of Equestria was it clear that some big player either just stepped into the game with someone that know the ropes or was bloody lucky not to have tripped over one of countless infiltrated splinter groups inside and outside the gavourment one has to face eventuelly.

She herself controlled and supported half of them, i case she needed to guide ponies or non ponys to extremist to show them the error of their ways.

Or what unfortunately happens more often than Celestia liked to confess, to dispose of unredeemable elements.
For example a serial killer that had relapsed despite all their efforts in therapy and magical mind mending specialists at work.

Or a Necromancer Griffon that worked for her gavourment for years, that helped civilian and military sectors.
That unfortunately didn't stop him from growing old and becoming senile.
Retaining his Necromancer knowledge and skill, but forgetting all about his morals.

This few rare exceptions needed to be set free from their un-harmonious way and then given a proper burial as to end there journey in this life and their paper trail... the paper work on things like that always seem unnecessary complicated, it being in triplicate was just overkill.

Nightmare Moon had respect for Celestias calculated actions, while keeping herself as mutch down to the ground as she could allow herself to go.

Luna was dissapointed that Celestia had more than started the same path as Nightmare Moon had been forced to walk back in the old days as Queen.

Being a true Ruler more often than not unfortunately made one thing apperent:
You are either a excellent leader and a bad individual, or a great/good individual and at best a passable leader... the rest often got faster deposed than a Griffon that could get their talons on a tourist vacation money.

After over a hour of explanation about her plans to raise the mutated Dragon hatchling with the apples help and use its existence to root out corruption hiding within and outside her Princessdom.

After all: One do not simply ignore / write off a high value experiment just like that.
For the next 10 years would the hatchling be a state secret, covered in illusions to let it appere like a normal dragon, that had not its claws and tail covered in weaponized appendages.

Once it had reached its tenth hatchday in 10 years, would Celestia slowly leak information throughout Equestria as to lure the enemy to the hatchling with 'Black Hoove agents'
(royal assassination personal)
ready to defend the hatchling and the Apple clan and catch the unknown enemy.

Celestia would from this day forward slide her Black Hoove agents and her S.M.I.L.E. agents to Ponyville as new joining population. When Celestia would be leaking in 10 years the information would at least 1/5 of the Ponyville population be either elite troops with a well established background, or early retirement royal guard ponies that wanted to settle down for raising their family in a relative peaceful and absolutely unimportant Village outside the Zapp Apple Jam production.

The three adult Apple Clan members agreed to use a Geas on them as to keep the information save from escaping their lips, hooves or minds.
While retaining it all.

Further did Bright Mac and Butter Cup would receive Earthponys combat training for the event something went wrong.
Better safe than sorry.

With that the meeting was finished after the researchers had recorded all that was important about the hatchling, before they all received voluntary a mind memory wipe over the last 5 hours of their day and be debriefed.

Silver Tongue was excluded from the mind memory wipe to become the very first agent Celestia would place in Ponyville as retired gavourment agent.

Butter Cup formerly known as Pear Butter was very concerned about the future of her new daughter, but she had faith in her goddess to know and act as to keep them all safe while burning away the darkness away threatening them all... if a Alicorn could not fix it, it usually was literally impossible to deal with.

With hope for a brighter future for them all, would she try for another foal or three in a few years time.

Bright Mac would have to accept more help from outside the farm, his new duty while giving him more time for his family, would need him to be stronger than ever.
He would keep his family safe.
He would start on raising his foals as hard and honest farm ponies, while slipping self defense lessons in between. Better safe than sorry.

When Celestia returned to her castle that night did she summon her most trusted subjects in her government and informed them about her new plans.

She wondered very troubled if her run away beloved ~~adoptive daughter~~ Sunset Shimmer had anything to do with this all.
Unfortunately did her former magic prodigy was a genius in blood magic and magic essence manipulation, that made her a big suspect in this all... that Celestias former faithful protégé might turn so extreamly against her was almost unthinkable.

Celestia cried herself to sleep that night, worried about Sunset Shimmer unclear fate for the last years and in the future... she could just pray to receive one day closure on this.

Author's Note

To be continued...
dun duun DUUUN !
Just click next, no need to wait and guess what is to come :raritywink:

Stay snuggly everycreature :pinkiehappy:

Last time edited: 29.01.2024

Chapter 5 - Welcome to the Clan Welp, you are a Apple now... 2/3

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 5 - Welcome to the Clan Welp, you are a Apple now... 2/3

"Look who's up", said Luna as the dragon welp looked at their first challenger of the day.

Yesterday did Nightmare Moon defeated the colt and the filly by giving the welp suggestion and comments at how to act and when to attack or retreat. Almost like a trainer would guide his charge.
The welp was humming about some musical number with the catch phrase:
"Got to catch em all !" It was very confusing...
the dragon welp had the most out of the box thinking ideas.

While the second fight was technically a tie, did Nightmare Moon celebrated her victory through proxy on the elderly cuddlebuddys head. The welp was rather good by now using its weapon tail as some kind of fifth leg.

When Luna guided the dragon hatchling to victory, did they started to converse with one another.

"Thank you for helping me." said she to her currently action guiding guardian angel.
When they finaly started to understand one another thanks to Nightmare Moons efforts, did the dragon froze up the first time they conversed.

That didn't get unnoticed by the ponies around the little dragon, but a flaming burp straight into the ceiling fixed it.

Unfortunately did that started the
fire suppression system.
At least they had skipped a shower that way.

Luna was rather surprised how well they could communicate with one another despite the magical translation matrix being occationaly ridiculous inaccurate.

Like the time they tried to make the hatchling understand it's position:
"Your a Apple clan now."
"I am a Apple?"
"No, i mean your a Apple clan member now."
"But i am a dragon!"
"Yes, you are a dragon, but also a Apple clan member."
"I am a dragon apple?"
"No, you are a Apple clan member in a dragon body."
"But i am a dragon and i don't look like a Apple."
"Nevermind..."
"I like bananas..."

At this point Luna had just given up. The buck was a banana anyway?

Luna had complained about the translation matrix mixing words up on the dragon hatchling end, when Nightmare Moon told her sister to fix it herself did the dragon hatchling was seemingly convinced to be a wizard, than a dragon. Only to end in the understanding that she was some kind of wizard dragon.
That conversation just got out of hoove and Luna never questioned her sisters efforts in translation matrix configuration ever again.

When Nightmare and Luna started to speak like the lower class citizens, did the translation matrix finally started to work as expected:

"So you can talk at your age." Stated Luna, something she try to ask earlyer, but only now could both sides understand one another.

"Yes, i don't know why it was so difficult at the beginning though." She said as both sides just genuinely enjoyed being understandable.

Both sisteres were curious how the dragon hatchling could talk at all. The welp should rather communicate with concepts and images than translation supported words.

Especially since she was a hatchling less than two weeks old.

But their conversation had to wait when Bright Mac walked towards her and the orange filly and picked up the foal.

Then he placed her on his back as well and started slowly to trotting over to their house. The first time the dragon had been in there and remembering it.
They had left the hospital one hour prior together.

Two hour and a half earlyer.

"I Celestia, high princess of Equestria, bringer of the day, shepard of the sun etc etc. Here for name this hatchling
SPYRO!"
After the first Dragonlord that ever existed.

Everypony was doing something, like scratching their head, looking away or kicking away imaginary pebels. But noone cheered Princess Celestias chosen name.
After half a minute of holding her regal pose, did she broke the silence by sitting down and asking with a deadpan expression what was possibly wrong with her decision that everypony else noticed.

Silver Tongue informed his Princess that her decision was bluntly put 'Horseapples'.
Since Dragon Lord Spyro was a male dragon and the hatchling was female.

Celestia grabbed the dragon welp in her magic grip, turned it around and tried to check its gender.
She complained that dragons seem to all look the same down there and she really only found there correct gender by listening to their voices...
That full grown dragon males could show off a building sized dragon hood was mindblowing, they could literally be claiming to be females and she could just take their word for it.

Apperently had the sharp eyed and sharper tongue Princess a perception disability towards dragon genders if they didn't show clear indication of genders like pony stallion having more prominent facial features like a blocky face and thicker legs.

When Silver Tongue suggested the second Dragon Lord to ever exist that happen to be named Cynder, did Celestia repeated her royal pose and line and replaced the Spyro with Cynder.

Still noone cheered when Celestia should have gotten a reaction out of them, did Silver Tongue suggested that she might stop levitating the dragon welp now named Cynder. While it was kinda hilarious how Cynder was performing swimming motions mid air, did it really steal all attention from the solar matriarch.

Celestia set the dragon hatchling named Cynder gently on the ground and chose a connor of the round observation room to sulk for a minute or two.

She effectively was pouting at a wall.
Meanwhile did Silver Tongue made a improvised necklaces out of three dragon hatchlings treats and put them around Celestias neck.

When the questioning gaze of the Solar Princess landed on the stallion did he said:
"You looked like you could need something to cheer you up, with the three treats around your neck should Cynder be willing to play around with you a bit... probably."

On the moon where two royal princesses.

The moon was surrounded by a vacuum.

If the vacuum of space did not exist, would one have heared the unrestrained laughter of the Queen of the Night and Equestria, 'Nightmare Moon'. She was rolling around in the ash of the moon while trying not to suffocating on her laughter.

How she did that without air in her lungs in the first time was a mystery, but Celestia just managed to sulk in a connor of a round room.
Alicorns just pulling of the impossible was a norm of the universe.

Luna in the meantime 'shouted her laughter into the eternity of space' while somehow creating shockwaves of laughter so strong, she keep backflipping countless times in the low gravity of the moon while floating in place.

The Princess of Equestria eye were twitching, Silver Tongue held a perfect dead pan poker face and the royal guard ponies clenched their buttocks so hard together from suppressed laughter, that they might have crushed coles to diamonds.

2 minutes later did, Cynder was climbing up Celestias body, snached one of the treats up with her tail, roasted it over the in flame standing mane of Celestia and enjoyed a flame bath while laying over hear head.

Silver Tongue was profusely sweating do to the rising heat of the room while Celestias royal guards evacuated the room of the Apple family and the hospital of it personal.

Lucky did at this time no creature was bed bound do to sickness or injuries.

Unlucky did the Silver Tongued stallion started to dry out and,ask the Princess of the Sun, that name a marvelous impression of a Solar Nova if she could conjure up a glass of water for him.

She give him three.
One to drink, one to splatter over his face and a third to cool down the bed in the observation room.

Celestia cooling down to her usual temperature but still standing on fire did said to the stallion:
"You - me - bed - now."

At that the stallions poker face broke.

That day Silver Tongue got questionable lucky.

Prince Blueblood was born 1 day and 11 months later.

Cynder and Celestias sisters got a one of a kind show that day, since she was kinda still clinging to the head of Celestia while she was riding the Tarterus out of the poor stallion.

Author's Note

Where did i get my ideas from?

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/495613/foundational-story-equus-story

Silver Tongue sure likes to play with hot cakes on burning coals.
This time he got burned for it...

Stay snuggly :rainbowdetermined2: 👍

Last time edited: 29.01.2024

Chapter 6 - Welcome to the Clan Welp, you are a Apple now... 3/3

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 6 - Welcome to the Clan Welp, you are a Apple now... 3/3

"Look who's up and about, welcome home Apples" said one of the royal appointed farmers to help take care of the Apple Orchard with all coming benefits of working for the gavourment.

6 groups of eatch 5 farmer would assist the Apple Orchard of the Apple clan with their work. To be precise, 2 farmers as in Earthponys, 2 Unicorns as help to the Earthponys and one Pegasus for weather control.

To Bright Mac's and Butter Cups absolutely horrific discovery, did the hired help had their work duty on the Apple trees the wrong way around.

Instead of the Earthponys bucking the Trees and filling the enchanted boxes with Apples and the Unicorns storing them for transportation, was the Unicorns picking the Apple with their telekinesis and the Earthponys moved them to storage.

For over a week did they worked that way and contaminated all Apples they worked with. Since they managed the workload of what Bright Mac would have needed 3 months for was unfortunately the stock of compromised Apples huge.

To show the new helping hooves the difference, did Bright Mac let them all taste test one 'Red Delicious' made 'the Earthponys way' from picking to loading into the crate and them tasting the same with Unicorn influences.

There was indeed a different after taste after the consumption in their mouth.

Bright Mac was furious that he had a week worth of help with three months of profit that could not be sold to their usual customers.

When Celestia learned of this, did she buy all afflicted Apples through her own personal Cake fund and sold it of to the Griffons in Griffonia at 1/3 price.

The Apple clan had not lost any profit or reputation and the Griffons of Griffonia were very happy with her spontaneous generosity.

So mutch so that many poor Family's throw away their piss poor origins in their home land and immigrants started to flood Equestria of the poorest of Griffonias citizens.

While Celestia had some seriouse problems of organization to get them well enough housed, feeded and integrated into Equestria, did the additional help in working power and filling out Equestrias military ranks out, payed big time years down the line.

Funny how Harmony sometimes worked.

The Nobel Griffons of Griffonia suspected a dark ploy from the Pony nation, but their investigation simply showed that the Griffons immigrants were the lowest level of citizens they had and most of them had not more than the basic education.

In the end did the Griffonia nobility ignored this massiv migration and only years later learned how mutch they screwed themselves over losing so mutch working forces and low grade income and tax paying population.

Three weeks did it take for the Apple clan to learn in their new work force and settle into a lifestyle between half time farmer and full time filly & dragon hatchling raising low level nobility.

The Apples had since the longest time enjoyed the 5th rank of Nobel status to give them a 10% discount and selling bonus from Equestrias gavourment. With their direct service to the crown under Princess Celestias orders did they got officially raised to Nobility of the 4th rank.

A 4th rank nobel could buy stuff from the gavourment at a 20% discount but still only received only 10% bonus selling to them.

Sometime the nobels tried to change that they never received more than 10% selling to the gavourment no matter if 5th or 1th rank nobels, but the economy would not be tanked by greedy individuals like some half braindead Apes.

While the Apple family of the Apple Orchard in Ponyville settle into their respective new responsibilities and their training regiment, did the Foals enjoyed more family time than ever before. The dragon hatchling was already used to being carried up and down stairs, while walking all over the house and occationaly on the farm side by side with its siblings.
Life was good!

Life was anything but good.
Celestia had a new stud for booty calls, but he more often than not had to be let go after ten rounds of bed gymnastic's with him having to leave the same day later to continue his duty in Ponyville, by helping to care for the dragon youngling Cynder.

At least his earth pony nature allowed him to participate the first three rounds and endure fourth to six, while surviving seven to ten.

That stud had more endurance then 10 unicorns stallions combined and twice their output when properly watered and potions force-fed.
Good times... Good times...

But recently did her bodys magic was on the fritz and the royal physician wanted to make additional test before committing to results that in his words: "Would not unnecessary stress her if unfounded."
Tomorrow would she have definitely a answer for her magic unstability and her strange tasting buds malfunctions.

Celestia had a bad feeling about this, yet somehow she was giddy anticipating the result behind this odd occurrence.

The rumors had already started to spread all over Equestria from her having some Alicorn sickness up to her being knocked up by the inofficially existence of a supposed to existing Royal Guard harem. Guess it serves her right starting that after forgetting to wipe her productiv stud eggnog from her face before ordering her bedroom chamber guards to ask a maiden to ask the chef cooks to make or bake a hollow cream pie.

That sure had the maiden of the castle grounds tittering in inappropriate but accurate jokes.

Bright Mac was slowly starting to panic, he could not seem to find his little trouble makers.
After they had received brand new enchanted cardboard boxes that weigh only a fraction of a wooden box, did he lost sight of the foals and the usualy easy to find hatchling.

Not only did he couldn't find them, someone was pranking him by placing three boxes of the ones with a picture of a orange, a red delicious apple and a purple grapes wine bottle near where he already searched his foals.
Instead of gloating that the Black Hoove ponies could move unseen, should they help him find the three run aways before something happens to them.

Meanwhile Bright Mac was continued to be followed around by 'empty cardboard boxes'...
Somewhere in the multiverse Solid Snake feel proud all of a sudden.

Three black hoove agents watched in amusement and slight admiration how Bright Mac was followed around by the ones he was looking for.

They agreed that as silly as the younglings had used the Cardboard boxes, it worked as long their hiding boxes did not seem to be out of place or in a obstructing way in the room.

Example:
Alongside the walls and near doors, while not being placed as to give somecreature reasons to move them.

They would have to add this silly yet effective way of hiding to their arsenal.

As the apple stallion looked around and showed clear signs of distress, did two of the black hoove agents played distraction for the foals benefit and as one group was presented without cardboard boxes hiding them, to the stallion.
The hug the younglings got was to mutch of a incentive to not again pulling that trick once more in the future.

"Thank you for helping me finally finding them, i really started to get desperate. No matter that i know 6 black hoove agents in two teams of eatch 3 are on the orchard at all times with sentry guards watching the Orchards fences." He said and he froze in a shiver when he remembered how the Timberwolfs not to long ago had a drop on them... luck like that usually wasn't something one should relaying on.

"So you can talk sooner to me next time you find them sneaking away from me to play
'hide and seek', i think its understandable that at their age danger assessment isn't up to stuff..." he said.

The black hoove agents politely nodded their head in affirmation and once more dissappear into the darkness.

When Bright Mac watched them reposition, did he admitted to himself that he never see anything like it.
Bespite being inside a well illuminated barn, did the black hoove blended into it without leaving traces behind.

One climbed a ceilling pillar and observed from there the area and everything in it. He resembeld a fruitbat in waiting.

The second one almost melded with a semi dark shadow near some piles of the new cardboard boxes. To Bright Mac surprised eyes did he seem to take on the color around him and become a misshaped but still fitting in object.

Clearing out a table, did one last black hoove take a sit on it. It was redicules how the assassin just sit there like a out of place picture in a empty room. When Bright Mac lifted the foals of the ground and on his back with Cynder claiming the space below his hat, did the agent that prior had been just simply sitting on a table, dissappeard.

Something keep Bright Mac's eyes to busy to avoid him from watching the point where he know to last see the Black Hoove agent sitting like a Fluffy pony in the middle of a empty room.

Yet no matter how mutch he tried to force himself, his line of sight where the assassin still had to sit, refused to acknowledge the pony in his resting place.

Butter Cup and Granny Smith were rather amused that they hear later how the three younglings manage to hide in plain sight from Bright Mac.

"Yes, I don't know how but why ever the black hooves insisted that the foals never left the barn and messing with me by reposition cardboard boxes behind me as to probably test their skill of stealthy walking around me, did i had the feeling that the three muffins on four legs vanished
into thin air. It was so bizarre..."
He said to his wife and his mother.

"I am genuinely curious how the three pulled it off."

While the adults talked did the Foals and hatchling used their father as improvised warm bed to nap.

While it was decades from happening, did Nightmare Moon and Luna decided it was time for them to train a new generation of dream walkers for their service to them. Once they returned to Equestria with the end of their magicaly imposed banishment.

Cynder was to learn the basics about
'dream walking'.
While it would keep her slightly mentally fatigued after eatch training lesson, would it greatly help her and others to be armed with this knowledge.

Since theoretical everycreature can learn to use 'dream walking' with the right training, was there a huge difference between the abilities of one that merely manage to observe dreams and someone that, actually could effect them.
The most powerful could even dare nightdream parasite hunts.
While it was dangerous to perform it, did it reward was potentially endless.

Starswirl the bearded become as powerful as he was because he feed regularly on the parasitic lifeforms plaging the dream realm. This race of vermin practiced cannibalism on their own vile kind to become stronger and evolve.
That why some of them had over the decades or even centuries become stronger, smarter and most dangerously: Adaptive.

A regular nightdream parasite wasn't more than a instinctualy driven fear devouring being.
After a not researched and clearly not defined threshold is reached, they evolve to become as smart as a rabid puppy.

From there on out they have multible stages of evolution, but eventually they become self aware and the most dangerous and from then on potencial lethal, are the sapient nightdream parasites.

Newly evolved ones might make the mistake killing their victim and leaving a trail behind for the before Lunas banishment established royal 'Dream Guard' to find and hunt them down in the dream realm.

The most dangerous are hitting the category 'Tantabus' and are as smart or smarter as every sapient counted species.

The eradication of their vile Species is practically impossible do to their nature, but they can be indeed be culled with enough effort to be a manageable threat.

Cynder would serve Equestria and other nations well, while growing in strength and eventually become a master of the dream arts.
Unlike ponies that had a maximal life span of 200 years as a Earthpony tribe member, could Dragons life up to ten of thousands of years before a fellow Dragon eventually slay them.

It would be a interessting idea to explore if the hatchling Cynder could be used as political figurehead.
If the Equestrian royal family could manage to make her their Dragon High-Lord one day, could it be attempted to forge permanent ties to the dragon race once more.

Perhaps the on extinction edging Kirin/Nirik could get new bloodlined added, once dragons started to mate with ponys that are compatible with some of their subraces like the Night Terror or the Colossus dragon strain.

Nightmarem Moon was expectedly
Tackle-Hugged by the dragon hatchling.
Since they had established one months after her hatching a viable and well working verbal connection, did Cynder and the royal sisters become fast friends.

The now not even half a year old hatchling was unexpectedly intelligent, but very playful. There wasn't a singel dream realm meeting that didn't start or end with a tickel fight.
Sometimes Luna conjure pillows up and the three found themselves in a war, where they would try to storm a pillow forged Castle in their well crafted pillow armor.
It was sometimes very silly, but always very entertaining.

But it was not all dream realm lessons & fun games.

Actions have consequences.
With Cynder's growth in dream walking, did she become like a Lighthouse for many minor nightdream parasites.
When ever Luna and Nightmare Moon had Cynder actually rest and simply dream herself, did a rather large number of parasites try to feast on the fears of the hyper intelligent hatchling.

If one could bleed in the dream realm, the royal sisters might have to be wary of drowning in rivers of blood from slaying wave after wave of intruders into Cynders mind.

But to be fair... The royal sisters had not for countless centuries so mutch fun and entertainment.

If they slay the vile invaders with Ice/Fire-Sword and Dream-Scythe or bare hooves was objectively a minor detail.

Save to say noone had a laugh at the end other than them, feasting on their magical energy.

Their through magical means staying alive body were is rough shape do to neglected muscle training and lack of superficial things like food and nutrition, but they could help themself with the additional magical strength they gained to rebuilding their bodys slowly.

Instead of bearly alive husks of bone and skin with bearly enough muscles to hold them standing, would they be back at their peak strength as if never banished in the first place.

Of course would they have to worry about weakened immune systems and getting back to slowing down their magic consumption that had become a requirement for them to staying alive on the moon.

When they would finally return on the 10.000 Summer Solstice after their banishment, would everything change...
Beginning with making the dragon youngling family. The Alicorn royals had to thank her for all she did when appearing on the moon as a egg, up to the day the would finally meet in pony.

Author's Note

Have a great day every brony.
Read the story of former harlock5399 now Silas5399 yet?
His story 'Reborn as a dragon'
inspired this one in its frame work :ajsmug: 👍
As always:
Stay snuggly :pinkiesmile:

Last time edited: 29.01.2024

Chapter 7 - In the shadows of a bright world

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 7 - In the shadows of a bright world

Canterlot, ~~Evil counsel~~ Pony first meeting.
Meeting starting in the Canterlot Catacombs.

Main Speaker Naysay with a stern expression:
"Did everypony read the reports?"

Everypony else in the meeting present gives a silent and uneasy nod.

Main Speaker a unicorn named Naysay:
"This is unacceptebel from many standpoints... Everypony else outside this chambers has done there job or paid dearly for failing us. For many Centuries we have guided Equestria from the shadows and put non-ponys in there place. We showed many misguided souls the way to cut ties with non-ponys outside businesses contacts and contracts.

Yet this might all become undone by one huge mistake from our misguided Princess.
How could one decision of her end in the failure for all we worked for?!"

Secondary speaker a bicorn named Crow Inkwell:
"Is this a bad joke? We might get way more non-ponys than we imaged in our worst bad dreams to set their Talons into Equestria, but they are low grade Citizens that will artificially create many opportunities for Celestias plan and our to work in everyponies favor!"

Main Speaker Naysay:
"How in the field of Elysium and the pits of Tarterus, did you turned this horseapples into anything but fertilizer?"

Second speaker Crow Inkwell:
"First of all, fertilizer is one of the most precious goods farmers can have. Work on your metaphorical remarks Naysay...
Secondly will the Griffons fill in many types of jobs many ponys avoid like the Nobility do with the Peasantry."

Many ponys start to murmer and giggle in content about that remark.

Second speaker Crow Inkwell continues:
"We have seriously understaffed City and Village Guards, as well do we need road patrols very badly for Centuries. Yet ponys are simply not made for that kind of grunt work.
The Griffons as predators will make excellent guards and soldiers.
They will be treated even by our most stubborn members of this council better than many are in Griffonia!"

Some ponies show how disgusted they are how Griffonia treated their own Citizens.

Crow Inkwell continues in his function of second speaker:
"Once the refugees from the Griffon main nation will settled they will celebrate our natural tendency to care for one another.
Further did our lowest paying jobs are almost twice as mutch as the one Griffonia pays their citizens."

Everypony in attendance shows pride in their basic guidelines.

Main Speaker Naysay:
"Let me guess, you want to use the Griffons for increasing our national security standards and probably get rid of our rodent problems in our City's and villages? It is also feasible that the increase in predators will helping us get the general ponys more aware of self defense and home security?"

Second Speaker Crow inkwell nods in affirmation:
"Exactly, that and more is what Griffons native to Equestria will give us. More importantly will we take the uneducated Griffons and educate them, that by itself will win us their gratitude and loyalty.
Once they take pride in being Equestrians, they do anything to protect us so they are cared for by us.

We have keep non ponies in check as long we could, but times are changing and so must we..."

Uncertainty rises in the ranks, yet everypony stay respectful and relatively silent.

Main speaker Naysay:
"As long Ponies stand first, this counsel will stand strong. We shall change from exterminating non-ponies to subjugating them."

Everypony give their agreement with many showing mischievous grins on their faces.

Second speaker Crow Inkwell end his speech with:
"Griffon Equestrians will be our newest lowest citizens, i plan to muster ponies out of servant jobs and armed travel routes patrolls. They will have dedicated jobs paying them better than Griffonia ever did, while keeping them low enough for ponies to be better off.
Further once our Alicorn Royalty will return as stated in our legends, will we work on building a Empire for ponykind to rule fairly above any other race.
Fair but under ponykind.
May Harmony guide us all."

Everpony reverently murmers the guiding phrase.

Before the meeting could come to a end did the main Speaker Naysay ended the meeting with:

"The subject that should not get 'lost' is that Griffons will not be allowed to join our Nobel ranks unless we have elevated everypony in attendance to 4th rank and made sure only 5th rank is ever granted non-ponys. The leadership in our hooves should never be allowed to get reached by any other race.

Yet we can't risk to grab any Alicorns attention. We survive because we have never existed in the public eye.
Keep it that way and we Nobel ponies will continue to truly rule Equestria, while the Alicorns might enjoy our success as figureheads.
After all: If we ever need a scape goat, who would be better beside non ponies or Celestia to take the fall..."

It had been a hole month since Celestia had her newest Stud Muffin and he sure did a number on her. She was pregnant...
Celestia was in tears...
Tears of joy for having her first foal growing inside her, but also dread because she had adopted young fillys from time to time, but never raised a foal from the very beginning.
Also what would happen once her sisters returned?

Her royal physician had warned her about her using magic at all do to her body naturally reroute a lot of her magic into her womb to make the foal grow strong and healthy, while protecting it with antic magic as old as their race was from illnesses and physical harm.

Yet while a certain prozentuale magic body capacity is used for the foals benefit, is anything beyond basic levitation highly restricted.
By nature and by doctors for the well being of the new foals growing within a mare.

The magician guild would have to lower and raise sun and moon for at least two years to come... in theory they prepare form the formation of Equestria to help Celestia doing it every second day instead of emergencys that had not happened for at least the last 1000 year or so.

Equestria was already celebrating the news of the solar Alicorns filly coming into their life's.
Many speculating if it would be a colt or a filly.
Would it be a sturdy earthpony?
Perhaps a magicaly gifted Unicorn or even Bicorn?
Per chance a Pegasus or a Thestral?
Some even dared to wish for a natural born Alicorn.

What ever the Filly or colt would be... unless it end up being twins?
This was the beginning of a new age.
Some suggested that the age of the Alicorns was to return! In 20 years did the legends stated the return of the royal family would take occurrence on Celestias 20.000 Solar Solstice.
To imagen the legendary Nightmare Moon and Luna would return, it was heavenly. The fields of Elysium shined down on ponykind.

In many non pony nation was the news of Equestrias Alicorn Princess being with foal was bringing dread to it enemies.
One Alicorn was already more troublesome than some opportunity driven nations could handle. With the old legends stating the return of two of Celestias sisters was the future grim for races like the Yetis that had it made their national treasures business to invade and plunder nations like the Abesinian Queendom or the Hypogriffons of Mountain Aris.

Was it so mutch to ask that the Storm Kings agents would be able to break the filthy neck of Celestias spawn once it is born?
How mutch would he love it to silence it forever himself.
He and his royal family had a already foolproof plan to execute their dominance over any other race.
All they needed was two missing pieces for their plan to get set into motion.

Their every civilian had military training.
Their mines had produced for over 2000 years anti magic stones.
Their stores were the largest in the known world!
Many ponies had been by his nation be acquired for experimental procedures to one day defeat them in a war.

His family already had managed to start the production of anti magic weapons and armor, while having found ways to re-direct what could not be canceled outright.

He would rule any sapient being one day. It was his right after generations had worked towards it.
He was the 'Storm King', he would rule them all one day... he would rule or see the world burn.

A few extraction teams in the different nations keep acquire materials, knowledge and artifacts of old, but they keep failing to get the last two pieces of their plan.

A antic magical staff named 'Staff of Sacanas' that was rumored to be once used to raise and lower sun & moon.
And the 'Alicorn amulet' that is rumored to give one individual the Alicorns immortality.
Namely to its wearing master.

Once they had both, would world domination just be a matter of time... he would not like his Ancestors or his parents wait patiently any longer, he alone would rule or set the world aflame for failing to bow to him.

They can't delay this glorious future to him indefinitly, but he would not wait for mutch longer.

He wasn't getting any younger and he would be out of his prime in 40 years.
20 years he would give his underlings time, if they don't get their shit together than heads would roll. Literally!

A Minatour lifting his left eyebrow displeased when he see a filthy dragon walking along ponies.
It's kind had ruined his family business because their family collection and business was
'what they love to eat the most'.
What a redicules reason to rob his family by literally eating it all... how dare they ruine generations of honest work and diligence of spending the money they earned.

He had come shamed from his nation to Equestria to start a new life. Equestria was a land of many races, but Dragonkind are not one of them.
That was why he chose to settle here.
Yet there she was...
A purple dragon hatchling walking alongside pony foals.
But not for long... at least fate provided with some justice after all.

His unfortunate rather worn down transportation wagon would unfortunately lose its breaks very soon.
He was uphill and the worn in chariot grooves in the ground would make it easy to aim the path his wood loaded wagon would follow.
Time to get a little bit of coping out of a roadkill with scales... it might make for a good scale handbag.

Many places in Equestria keep losing guard to retirement, when the guards started to lose ground versus criminal elements, did the future seem to become Grim.

When Griffons started to immigrate to Equestria did boh side be it justice or corruption found relieve in new blood. Most of the Griffons wanted a honest and honorable life. This strengthen Equestria guard security forces and the military overall.

Yet every basket has its foul eggs and some criminal organizations found new blood joining their ranks.
The whole system got a minor overhaul on both sides.

The good guys and the bad guys both have to adjust to sudden increase in population.
Many abandon City parts and hole Villages got suddenly new life to them.
This shifted many things in Celestias favor.
But in time would the shadows thrown from the light become deeper and darker... it seem to be a inavoidable cycle.

With new and old blood mixing did many bad elements started to failing recruiting forces when opportunities where given.
This would buy a certain group of ponies and non-ponies time to grow up and change the world forever.

If this would keep up would even the most skeptically ancestors celebrate their descendants accomplishments.

Bright Mac set Applejack & Big Macintosh from his back down next to the selling stand of his Apples. Than he placed the scaley daughter of his from under his hat near her siblings.
Bright Mac had bearly started to help his wife Butter Cup to sell all his Apples to the line of ponies in waiting to buy their produce.

Three Blackhoove agents watched the youngest three Apples to play in the streets in sight of their parents.

While they usually are all business, did the on shift working 24 Black Hoove agents dedicated to the security of the Apple family officaly and to Cynder security and observation did grow attached to their charges.
While unprofessional did noone really could blame them for enjoying their duty by observations of the innocent younglings to play and care for one another.

Unfortunately did in 7 out of 10 times was guard duty boring, 1 times it get usualy interrupted by something unimportant and only 2 times did it really was needed to be viligant to be on duty.
Today unfortunately was one times were slacking vigil was going to cause some creatures life to be ruined forever... while saving countless others as a result in the future.

Cynder the dragon hatchling had fun with playing with her sister Applejack the orange Earthpony filly and her brother Big Macintosh the red earthpony colt. She was of course keeping the younglings out of harms way where she could, while keeping them entertained.

Unfortunately did one could not be as vigilant as one needs to be all the time and it often only needed someone missing to pay attention in the wrong place, at the wrong time... when peaceful day become the norm, than tragically events hit all the harder.

When a wagon filled with wood was rolled deliberately towards herself and her siblings did only the shouted out warning of a pony that could not be seen due to very powerful magics used by spys and assassin give her warning that death on four wheels approached her.

When Cynder see the wagon coming for her did Applejack and Big Macintosh had been in pounce stance to one another. Her Guardians had tried to save the dragon welp by leaping away, but Cynder would not sacrefice her family for her own safety, she override their muscle control over her body.
Once more did it seem that she had to give her life for her beloved family.

So with a regret born out of longing for the times she would not have with her new family, did Cynder grabbed the foals with a tail and her mouth gums eatch and spin herself in place to use her strength to let both be catapulted to the sides.

Earthponys were redicules sturdy, even the foals.
But not a wagon full of wood tough.

When the fillys landed safely away from the coming death on four wheels did Cynder had no time left to safe herself.

Preparing for the last brutal moment in her life, did she closed her eyes with a tear of sadness for the pain her passing would bring the Apple family.

Three hours earlier

Granny Smith was collecting the three youngest apples on the farm in their shared room.
As expected did they enjoyed a free for all.
Cynder hat one of Big Mac's hindlegs in her mouth and tugging on it while Applejack had to endure a nuggy from her brother.

The three stopped when their Grandmother started laughing at their sight.
Shortly after did the aged mare lay down so the fillys could climb on her to get safely downstairs.

On her back was rising the future of Equestria, so thought the Apple Matriarch. How mutch she was right about it would she see over the last 33 years of her life.

Butter Cup called to her mother in law:
"Breakfast is ready, where are all the hungry mouths to make it dissappear?" She got her answer when three fillys on their mighty steed come to battle all the apple and non apple products that their breakfast was holding ready for them.

Butter Cup had also prepared a breakfast in the living room for the Blackhoove agents in the morning shift.
By the time the Apples had eaten theirs the food in the living room was consumed and either a thank you note had been on the table beside the stacked utensils or a collection of three roses without thorns.

As Bright Mac walked into the house coming from the livestock barn, due to having fed the pigs and other meat animals. He could smell the delicious food at the table, one of the reasons he loved waking every morning was the delicious company and their good enough breakfasts.

After Bright Mac had nuzzeld the house Matriarch a good morning and give his beloved mate a kiss 'hello i am back', did the family started to enjoy their breakfast together.

Granny Smith does look a lot younger than many Earthponys her age do to her still being active with farmlife, even with her applebucking and storing day long in the past.
Like 10 years or so...
This days she was sorting in the background produce and hooving the management. Further did she focus on making the best soft and hard cider their Apples could possibly produce.
Business was great as usual.

As to be expepted did Cynder had fun rescue Applejack and Big Macs food from their portions while sacreficing it to herself.
While she keep occationaly adding non herbivore food to them.

To the Apples surprise did the Fillys actually liked to eat it in small portions.
The dragon at least didn't try to sneak gems into their food. Apparently did the dragon welp know that they are only for her diat.

As to be expepted at this point did the younglings needed the occational reminder to stop playing at the food table.
So they could continue to play once food was off the table.

"Well looks like someone's awake we were worried about you." One of the Farm helpers said to Granny Smith.

The old Apple appreciated the younger generation missing her still well shaped flanks absence. So she at least told herself with some tittering.

Butter Cup started laughing when she looked at the Farm helping pony for what almost sounded like a slight flirt. Bright Mac appreciated the compliment her mother still get on occasion, even if he only see it as hollow gesture to compliment the old widow.

The Apples noticed him mentaly drooling after spotting Butter Cups made breakfast and offered him some. He enjoyed a Apple pie peace before informing Bright Mac about them having to check the sales wagon for wear and tear before loading it up.

Wiping some crums away did he give his offspring and his favorite dragon daughter a nuzzeld
'see you later' and went back with the Farm helper to the barn to check his wagon before loading it.

The Apples are still surprised how mutch the dragon welp could fit in her body.
It was like she was bigger on the inside with all that she eat over the day.
Her plate had always fish sticks and scrambled eggs with some gems on it just as Silver Tongue suggested as a ideal morning breakfast.

He could never explain how the welp could once he actually weight all Cynder was eating fit
3 times her body weight in food...
Noone could explain how it worked, but giving the little dragon more gems, did indeed sated her faster than any other food managed.

When Silver Tongue finally had arrived at the apples family house was only one hour left before they would go to the market to sell their products. Especially Granny Smith 'out of season' soft cider would be drawing attention today.

Silver Tongue enjoyed a improvised breakfast made by Granny Smith for him.
He had to stay well feeded and hydrated after all the duty he was performing for land and princess~♡
With a blush discoloring his head for some time did he indeed eat plenty.

Apple Matriarch Smith explained to the stud of the nation: "We are going to be expecting massiv company today near the stand, keep a eye out for the younglings if you could?"

Silver Tongue untangled the mass of Apple produce from his tongue and give affirmation to the old mare.

Author's Note

Had a car crash at the day of this chapter release. Fuck... did i got luck only my car is dead...

Anyway my coping mechanism to stress and pain is writing or listening to text to speech stuff on Fimfiction ...

So enjoy the chapter i made over the last 7 hours and 30 minutes :twilightsmile:

Stay snuggly :ajsleepy: 👍

Last time edited: 12.08.2024

Chapter 8 - Stepping into the dark gray territorys

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 8 - Stepping into the dark gray territorys

Beeping, endless beeping. Merciless beeping in the earholes of Cynder the dragon welp.
Her body feel very heavy, her mind was slow yet consistently trying to try catching up with all the noises around her.
But the beeping was ever present, never ending and relentless beeping on.
If her body wouldn't be so incredibly heavy she be finding out what ever produced the infernal beeping noise and shut it up.
Even if she had to chew the reason for it into stopping.

Why was nobody stopping the beeping? It must have been the singel most infuriating sound she ever heared in both her lifes.
It was so very familiar yet she couldn't remember what it was... So familiar, yet her mind could not catch up to it. Why was noone stopping this dreadful sound from continuing to stop her mind from distracting her from...
What happened again?

After a while her guardian angels named Luna and Nightmare Moon joined in her sorrow of this annoying sound keeping them from a restful relaxing laying around.

At least it was warm and cuddly, she smelled earth and apples, salt and sweat. A very familiar smell that made up over time for this horrific sound reminding her of her inability to keep up with her surroundings. She was sooo tired, maybe sleeping some more, yes this would eventually fix it all, it has to...

Doctor Mending Heart had done all he could, but it looked bad, really bad.
The details of the incident had been unclear, but by now in the two days Cynder had been in his care they found out that the incident was a deliberate attempt at the Apple family younglings lifes.

The motivation was still under investigation, but it was clear that the immigrant from Minatoria a male Minatour had confessed under magical examination that he tried to murder the dragon welp and would have cared very little if anyone else like for example the pony siblings of Cynder would have been killed as long he succeeded in killing the welp.

Nothing more was know to Doctor Mending Heart, but he seriously hoped they fixed the Minatours mind soon, otherwise the Apple clan would undoubtedly call for the antic law that allowed to determine the punishment of the guilty party in clan matter be resulted in a duel to the death between a champion of the Apple clan branch of the harmed party and the offender.

The Apples are known throughout Equestria, if the investigation result of what the Doctor already know would eventually be released?
The Minatour male would be dead meat one way or another.
If poetic justice would be served, he would become not just a murderous criminal killed for the preservation of anyone elses offspring, he literally would be feeded to any carnivore on the meat waiting lists in Equestria.

But what would it matter in the end for his patient? The dragon welp was dying... that was a undeniable fact.

Somehow the dragon welp performed a unknown magic feet with unknown dark affinity readings that had her saved from any physical harm, but over extended her magic essence core to the point of cracking.

What a world... The welp had to fight for her life from the very first day of hatching. She had survived versus a full pack of Timberwolfs only to die to a mentally obviously sick non-pony.

Her damaged core lost its charge as fast as it could produce it, making it impossible to repair itself. Further who ever played around with the dragon welps core had done quite a number on it.

The capacity was unable to be measured by any of their or Canterlot teleported in equicment.
If the Apples had a nobel class rank of 2th or even 1th they could demand Celestia herself helping with the assessment of their dying daughter, but as it standed:
Cynder was dying and there was nothing they could possibly do to fix it.

Mana infusions of all known and stored affinities where rejected by the body of Cynder.
A unprecedented case world wide.
Not even neutral filtered mana was absorbed by the core.

It was if all known and stored mana typed are incompatible with the core so far.
Normal wild magic in the environment always changed when captured eventually.
Silver Tongue suggested something redicules, outright illegal and if he didn't know the stallion being sane, he be sending for a arrest warrant for the stallion for suspected dark magic influences.

Silver Tongue suggested to temporarily free one of the un-curable in Tarterus indefinitly holded prisoners and try using their corruption infested parasitic dark magic as possible mana infusion for the welp.

Even if it would work, it would destroy the welps mind! Fully grown and adult ponies and non-ponys had fallen to its influence. Why not rather leave the welp to peaceful die pure of corruption of any kind, than forcing her to grow up and eventually die alone in a isolated cell in Tarterus?

What was Silver Tongue thinking?
Yes, there was a strange kind of dark magic residue left from what ever Cynder instinctualy had done to save herself, but it was to faint as to make any collection possible to study its composition.

Further what lunatic would suggested this in the first place? Yes, they were desperate to save the life of someone that saved the Apple family clans members life twice... but unless the silver tongued stallion could manage to change the law, this was never going to happen.

Silver Tongue after a heated debate had convinced his mate to try his last ditch attempt at saving the dragon welp Cynder.
He most certainly stepped over the line in asking Celestia if she would do it for their unborn foal if it ever came to it.

Celestia in tears of the merely suggested idea break considering it, she give in to Silvers arguments.
This one time she would make a exception. Nopony was ever to find out about it, but they would try it Silver Tongues way.
They temporarily would free one mare and one stallion by random with a lifetime sentance due to security concerns for Equestria and other nations security.

If Cynder would survive that way, than so be it.
But Celestia made it clear:
Cynder would spend the rest of her life in a isolated cell until she had died of old age.
For a dragon that would be in a few ten thousand of years... would a execution not be the more equine way to end its suffering?

At least she would save one life, even if she damned it to a eternity of isolation.
No un-curable would walk free in her Queendom ever!

Three days later

The Tarterus watch guards had been a well trained and hazard payed division of the royal guards. They are besides the dream guard headquarters the only ones allowed to be near one of the two entrances to Tarterus.

They are very loyal, yet when even their beloved princess Celestia made a call that was so clearly wrong, did the Royal Dream Guard
'Red ~~Shirt~~ Dream'
followed his orders and escorted two un-curable Tarterus inhabitants with a big squad to the Canterlot crystal caves for a more than questionable medical procedure.
He would let his father know of this situation.
Should Princess Celestia be Faust forbidden be mind controlled or dark magic influenced, he would know how to save her.

Their second nobel class rank would allow for a investigation for the well being of Equestria and of the last Alicorns in Equus existence.

"This doomed to failing experiment is only the top of the ice mounten. Celestia is certainly compromised somehow! Further did we keep losing guard to retirement or have to execute sudden deserters and badly failing personal and recruiting is falling short... just as it did for quite some time.
If this keeps up we can't expected anything else than shame if we all eventually walk before our ancestors!"
Did Naysay thought to himself.

His son a young but gifted and in power rising young royal dream realm guard 'Red Dream' has just send him a dragon fire scroll message.

What he learned from it was highly concerning.
First to his protest did Celestia freely allowed many Griffons outside war and climate catastrophic events to immigrate to Equestria.

Now she free her own to lifetime sentanced former subjects for a black ops medical procedure for a non-pony.
Celestia might have get a pass on it somehow, when Crow Inkwell might have given some good arguments. But his wife and his father in law was the ones she used for her experiment!
This was a step Naysay would never forgive her.

Celestia had taken family from him because parasitic dark magic influenced ponies are to dangerous to be left lone if not in Tarterus imprisonment.

He would not stand for all this! Time for a emergency meeting of the 'Pony first' Counsel.
This would blow up in Celestias face one way or another!

Two days later

All preparations had been done.
The two un-curable had been restraint to medical operations table borrowed from the canterlot royal hospital wing.
Cynder was laying limb with a IV infusions of liquids and a breather device in her snout that take over the breathing, when she lost the strength to do it herself yesterday.

This would work or the welp would not leave the cave again. These Crystal's absorbed magic and filtered it into neutral magic and used the magic it converted to grow existing crystals or spawning new ones.
Cynders body would be layed to rest here if the experimental procedure would not save her life.

All in Tarterus imprisonment prisoners that died of old age or being executed for attempting to flee for the last 2000 years had been layed to rest in the Crystal mines under Canterlot.
Hundred of thousands in unmarked graves littered this undergrounds running carved tunnels.

High Princess Celestia would soon run out of space if she didn't find a alternative to bury the Tarterus and otherwise dark magic infested bodys here.

It had been time, Silver Tongue had suggested it and he would be here to witness it from start to end.

Celestia would not come near the caves that could potencial harm her unborn foal.

The old light green Apple clan Matriarch under tears nuzzeld the welp a last time before she was escorted out of the chamber.
Ten doctors made evenly out of eatch five bicorn and five unicorns had been called to perform the operation.

The two un-curable had been chemicaly sedated and prepared, a direct mana infusions from the ponies to the dragon welp and back was formed.
A closed system that would allow circulation between all three parties involved.

Tail hair crossed, did everypony in revulsion see the corruption in the mana of the ponies enter the welp. Cynder body didn't reacted at first as expected, but after half a hour did the two un-curable ponies reacted instead to everyponys surprise.
Impossible as anyone in attendance would have swore on their cutie marks, did the ponies started to lose their dark taint in mane, tail and fur coat.

The life signs of the dragon Cynder was returning to stable parameters and when the dragon hatchling come to it and pulled the breather and its air hoses out of her throat did everyone in attendance that had not yet his muzzel dropped open, done exactly that.

The dragon welp not even a year old somehow managed the literally impossible as before today.
It had not just managed to absorbed parasitic dark magic without physically getting corrupted, she even healed the corruption out of others connected to her.
Once she was confirmed to be healed completely or even partially, it would not surprise anyone present if the nobility of Equestria and the royalty of other nations demanded to breed the fields of Elysium and pits of Tarterus out of the dragon female once she was of age... her welps would be seen a valuable commodity instead of sapient respectable beings.

The impossible had been witnessed today:
Dark parasitic magic could been partially if not completely be healed.

Tarterus ten of thousands imprisonment for lifetime dark magic un-curable would potencial be able to be returned to society.

Cynder the dragon of the Apple family clan was going to change the world with less tha a year old age by being the only viable discovered cure to dark magic corruption!

Celestia could not belive it. Well she could, but only after having the papers confirming it in her hooves. Silver Tongue had once more rocked her world. The dragon Cynder that got experimented on as a egg with a enchantments destroying tail weapon and breath attack, had been confirmed to be the cure to dark magic corruption.

This was huge.
This was a bloody mess!
Ten of thousands of prisoners would be released once Cynder was hooked up to them and she would have cured them.
Celestia would lose all the money the other nations payed her for every singel prisoner yearly in Tarterus for safe keeping.
This would unfortunately be starting a economic crisis in Equestria...

Unless... Hm... yesss.
High Princess Celestia had a very - VERY unsettling smile on her face... she was about to be brilliant.

Author's Note

The difference between a lunatic and a genius is their success...

Once more do my pains of being alive denied me sleep...
Enjoy the results :raritywink:

Stay snuggly! :pinkiesmile:

Last time edited: 29.01.2024

Chapter 9 - Uncertain times

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 9 - Uncertain times

Naysay was absolutely flabbergasted.
High Princess Celestia had spontaneously invited him with a escort of six Royal Guards to her paper work room. He had expected a lot, so many possibilities what she could want from him or tell him that his Tarterus imprisoned familie just had died for example.
He didn't how ever expected to see his wife and elder before him. But while they looked very thin and had lost a lot of muscle mass in 10 years in Tarterus, but the corruption he had seen them last in was gone.

He could not stop his tears from falling when his lips meet that of his wife. Something he had longed for so many years.
While he hugged his lost believed family, did his princess had a honest smile on her lips instead of that of her political mask.
It was moments like this that made it worth to work decades on end to archive a goal many had given up.

It was pure luck that this has fallen in her hooves, but she would milk it for how mutch it was worth.
As beautiful as this moments are and they temporarily give her a few options more in the never ending political game between royalty and nobility, eventually everypony returning to their side.
But for now Naysay would play for how ever long it lasted on her side.

As Celestia give them about half a hour to catch up, did the purified ponies eventually run out of stamina and had to return to the medically supplied castle internal hospital wing.

Naysay only need a few minutes to get himself back in his well practiced political mindset, while he unexpectedly don't force a mask of neutrality on himself.

Naysay politely ask how this was possible and whatever she wanted in return for this miracle.

Equestrias ruler would not ask for anything in return that was not freely given already.
Further did she ask him if he really thought it was random chance that his son stationed near Tarterus happen to escort a black ops operation of a experimental medical process that healed his wife and most respected elder of his family.
Or that she didn't know about the communication between them.

To Celestias pleasure did Naysay was absolutely flabbergasted once more.
Celestia told Naysay she prepared for centuries for the successful cure of dark parasitic magic with a very high success rate.

Of course did she lie the Tarterus out of the blue to keep him off guard and his associates would try to find clues to her claimes.
She had prepared a few well aged documents open enough to interpretation for a similar enough topic to get them to belive it.

In the end did she just needed Naysay to bring news to the nobels about her great deeds and how she unfortunately needed financial support after having funded all her research by herself so far.

Unfortunately was this no longer sustainable and so she give their current cure a 8/10 rating of successful purging corruption from anypony afflicted body.

If Naysay helped her to convince the nobility to stand down 1/10 of the monthly payments the gavourment of Equestria to the nobels class for the next 200 years at the very least, she might find a way to increase her research to 9/10 successful curing of dark parasitic magic afflicted for ponykind.

To further bolster Equestria finances short term and increase other Nations relationship long term, she proposed to release the information of a break through in magical medical science in two years.

From than on all Equestrian citizens get released after getting cured and reintegration into sociable circles can be assured.

Unfortunately did Celestias research only was that effective on Ponies, she would need somepony to traveling from one nation to another to bring research overview and results to their allied forces, further was it in the long term cheaper to buy a Tarterus the cure that unfortunately currently and probably for the next 100 years cost exactly 5 years of Tarterus maintenance costs for the prisoner.

Just in case they managed to somehow collect the money short term, so they don't pay long term.
After all: 5 years payments was definitely better than paying for their remaining natural life span.

When Naysay swallowed hook, line and fisherboat, did Celestia freely allowed herself a very satisfying smile and a fore hoove pumping in the air out in joy for her success once Naysay had left the room.

It would be a redicules pain keeping everyone in the dark about her 'research and the curing methods and needed materials'.
But the little dragon hatchling Cynder, had just become Celestias number one dragon.

The doomed to failing experiment was apperently far from being a prototype if it had a 8/10 successful rate of curing afflicted individuals. Further was it only natural that she focus on Ponies, since her citizen had a higher priority and with the other nations being indefinitly in her pockets as the sole owner of the cure, was everyone forced to play nice.

He had underestimated his princess... he blinked a few times after that thought registered in his mind.
Naysay was surprised how Celestia just had earned her titel back in his mind.
This mare sure had done the impossible.
Perhaps he wrote her off to prematurely.

O horseapples... he just started a witch doctor hunt two days prior in the pony first counsel.
He needed Crow Inkwell help to fix that post haste.

Also how did she manage to keep the official declared cure against parasitic dark magic as impossible declared 300 years ago, so long ago a secret?
Unless she wanted to keep the research indeed exclusive to ponies... he had indeed underestimated his Princess.
She was anything but expandable after all.
The Griffon immigration was still against his believes, but he would support her in it.
That mutch he owned her after selecting his family as example how effective the cure was.

The dark stain on his family tree was gone.
He would get rid of the dark arts materials before his wife could get herself in trouble again... she was a stubborn mare like that, when she put her head to it.
The stuff was worth two fortunes on the black market anyway. He already new who to sell it to via indirect payments.

Crow Inkwell just had a meeting with his close associate Naysay. What he was told was amazing in very concerning. Celestia might suspect Naysay to be in one of many Canterlot nobel organization that wasn't answering to the Princess, but how mutch did she know really?

Further did they keep losing guard and maid staff to retirement or other unfortunately tragic ends. They keep failing to have acquired personal for their spy and smuggling networks. The Griffon immigrants are to blindsided by Celestia titel and her deeds to be swaying for more profitable factions.
The recruiting will be falling short for years to come.

Their information network was apperently not nearly as efficient as he had been assured time and time again. Research and the funding of it always left a paper trail. To have it only revealed because Princess Celestia did it herself... how curious.
They had indeed a lot to accomplish in their lifetime as to improve their heirs chances to keep up with the Alicorn of the Sun and if the legends finally come true, her sisters as well.

But what was more pressing the finding out the secret to the cure, was to keep it in ponies hooves. Once in two years the knowledge will be spread, every damn non Equestrian spy will be over Equestria newest biggest secret.

Unfortunately had he first to put out the wildfire that Naysay had started... not the first time, BUT hopefully the last time.
These are going to be very busy two years indeed.

Nobelpony of the 2th rank Naysay thought to himself that he should use the incident, when a Minotaur attempted to get a sloppy assasination on the entire Apple family clan youngest generation through unpunished as a tragic accident.
While the newest addition of a dragon would not be missed, a non-pony almost successful murdered pony foals. Even Equestria highest Pony First supremacist member don't go so low as to murder foals or adolescents.

He would help the Apple clan to get this lunatic terminated. He heard Minatour meat was going well with red wine. He would at least try it once.

In other news was his son a young but gifted and in power rising young royal dream realm guard, but 'Red Dream' has just been caught send him a dragon fire scroll message on a black ops mission. He better pull his son of Tarterus and get him station closer to home. He wanted his current post only to see his mother, when she occasionally got lucid enough to talk with family.
Time to make up for lost time.
Time to become a loving family once more.

Bright Mac and Butter Cup just learned from Cynder being saved from deaths barn gate, how it was achieved on the other hoove was highly concerning.
To their silent protest did Princess Celestia freely allowed a experimental medical preparation outside anyone's expertise to save their adopted daughters life.

Celestia had made it clear that even if it worked, Cynder would probably spend the rest of her life in Tarterus unless somehow a cure to corruption
spreading parasitic dark magic is found.
What was officially declared impossible 300 year-ish ago!

Yet this experimental medical procedure uncovered that their darling Cynder was the very first being to naturaly cure other dark parasitic magic afflicted ponies!
There are currently 6 Black Hoove agent around her bed to keep her safe. Their savior from the Timberwolfs might in time become without exaggeration the one to save the world from dark magic corruption world wide... perhaps they even find the source of it in the future.

Princess Celestia herself come to their Orchard to escort them to Cynders bed. While her core was already regenerated was she still weak from a cold she had catched while her magic immune system was down for the count.
While they had to occasionally dodge a black lighting cough of the little death by adorable, was the world no longer so grim.

Once they reached a conclusion about that Minatour... a example of one kind or another had to be made.

Further did Butter Cup & Bright Mac are about to receive serious training and their family owned lands that had Ponyville standing on it was about to become a lot more busy with Celestia making Ponyville into one of the biggest military training grounds of Griffons to hide Equestrias biggest secret known to the world in two year time.

It was only a matter of time, until Cynder was found out to be a piece to the 'Cure'. There for it was only the question WHEN they come to get Cynder through abduction.

Cynder had just become the most valuable commodity in Equestria and beyond.
Should she ever have hatchlings on her own, would they might have to accept selling them off into 'pseudo slavery' if their military was not up to other nations.

Celestia would build up her military over the next 20 years for the day when 'no' was not longer unfortunately sufficient to hold others off to come for Cynder and her future hatchlings...
Dark times would await them all once some entiteld idiot would try monopolize the cure and unlike Equestria it would not be shared for the greater good, rather are there always some idiots that would run interference for their own gains.

Many guard as loyal a they are, started to wonder what was going on. High Princess Celestia had just now set free two of her own to lifetime sentanced former subjects officially removed from the Tarterus prisoner list.

They all know a black ops medical procedure for something had been performed and probably cost the prisoners their life's, since parasitic dark magic was impossible to cure.
But why did a roster was released to start in two years a weekly release of prisoners?
They had send out a dedicated Tarterus squad and a royal dream guard squad to investigate the legitimate nature of these orders given and would come with a by Celestia own magic marked magic scroll to accomplish verification.

High Princess Celestias seal had been impossible to manipulate or to artificially fabricated without it being successful uncovered to be one on closer inspection without failure within a day.
Especially since it changed its signature during day and night in a way noone managed to copy so far.

But perhaps someone had finally finished to fabricate a legitimately looking forgery?
It had to...
It was about 300 to 350 years that High Princess Celestia declared in a world leader summit her parasitic dark magic influenced cure research program as failed and subsequently the curing to be impossible.
Making the imprisonment or execution of found out individuals afflicted with its influences a law that got supporters in many other King/Queendomes.

To suddenly have the Equestrian leader Celestia somehow suddenly without reason changing her mind over night/day? Impossible!
It had to be... one does not simply change his mind for no reason about something like that.

Major Faithful Wings had to get behind this. He would not be falling for this like any common soldier might do under pressure of a seemingly perfect fabricated false strings of orders.
Once he found out who managed it, he personaly would investigate this horseapples filled plot.

He had surprisingly many vacation days on his back hoove collected. His most loyal soldiers would accompany him to the Princess in pony to ask her. Somecreature might have smuggle this inofficially given orders past Tarterus messages service, but let see what his princess had to say about this blatantly ludacris scam.

Two weeks later did Major Faithful Wings was before his princess and she confirmed her previously send out orders.
She like the initiative of her loyal soldiers and give them a field promotion and a new assignment that had ponies of their loyalty and quality be placed where they are truly needed.

After taking a week to running background checks on them, did they received their new orders.

Lieutenant Colonel Faithful Wings was to be the pony of the hour to oversee the structuring and training of the new Equestrian Griffon forces, after ten years would he receive a one of a kind mission that literally would have him having a hoove in changing the world for the better.
The present soldiers had one chance to get out of this, because their princess had no doubt about the lethality of their true mission starting ten years from today... if everything would run according to plan.

Fat chance.

By the end of the meeting did Princess Celestia had the perfectly loyal soldiers and if needed be 'expandable guards', for the safety of Cynder the dragon of the apple family clan.

The public made case of Iron Faith was about to be commencement by noone less than 'High Princess Celestia Solaris Stellar' in attendance of the 'hole' Apple clan. Directly or indirectly affected by the Minatours actions.

Since it was a high profile case with massive implications, did the Ambassador of Minatoria had been in attendance as well.

To Celestias horror did the Apple clan Matriarch and father of the almost killed foals and dragon hatchling declared the use of a antic law he was entitled to call upon, that would force the criminal to fight him to the death if he accepted.

With the threat of losing any remaining shred of dignity and respect Iron Faith had to accept.

In 1 month would 'Bright Mac of the Apple family clan' fight 'Iron Faith from the Iron horn family clan'.

Two would entry the arena alive, only one was going to leave it, if at all... only time would tell.

Author's Note

Hope you enjoy the chapter :pinkiesad2: 👍

Further more enjoying the future chapters as well :pinkiesad2: 👍

Stay snuggly :pinkiesmile:

Last time edited: 10.04.2024

Chapter 10 - Day of the duel - Prelude

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 10 - Day of the duel - Prelude

Bright Mac had done what was needed to secure his family safety, further would today be a turning point for his family. They would either be strong enough to make others think twice before messing with the apple clan of Equestria and his youngest family members. Showing them withstanding anything and anyone that would wish them harm.

Or:

They would see him die, trying to defend all he hold dear and loved with all his heart and dedication.

But either outcome, blood would be spilled.
Be it in bloody success or bloody failure... harmony was lost upon this situation.

Celestia had taken the apple family dedication to keep their foals out of harms way from anyone to lightly.
Now it was partially out of her hooves... things like that never ended to mutch in her favor.

If this duel would end in the Apple clan losing, than Equestrian nobility might lose face.
If this duel would end in the Apple clan winning, than Equestrian nobility might keep their face.

》BUT《

Celestia might lose face with her rather trying to keep peaceful relationships, until her military was ready to take a more aggressive approach to demandings of other nations with currently superior military standing.

Equestria was a nation that had a good military standing, but nothing geared toward offensive action. They are specialized towards repelling other nations short term, until she herself could pull her 'Alicorn of the Sun' politics metaphorical joker-card out of her petral. She actually had really one in her petral, two actually.

One with her 'trollestia' face on it, the other with her in royal armor displayed while a Solar Lance burning down her surroundings.
It was even a animated card!

Anyway...

With all the Griffon immigration and making them a part of Equestrias new foundation, in time Equestrias standing as:
We are a bastion of trade and culture and magical science.
Become:
We also have enough big sharp sticks to defend ourselves in offensive matters.

But until than,
Celestia needed to fake it until she make it...
surprisingly it always works out in the end.
By now she know her sister ~~Prisma~~ Chrysalis was the one fixing Celestias oversight up for everyone to benefit, especially her lings.

Surprisingly she managed all her reign with this internal sentance to rule Equestria.
In peaceful time and in conflict, in good times and in crisis.

A singel Alicorn might level a City or ten.
But the sledgehammer to the face only worked as 'area of affect' attack, while being a lousy defensive option.

For example:

If someone is building a army outside her borders, she simply 'Solar Lance' the Tarterus out of the enemy forces.

》But《

If for another example they are inside Equestrian territorys, than the massive sledgehammer of the Sun could not be used without turning the surroundings into magicaly charged glassware.

The threat of parasitic dark magic influenced was indiscriminately harming and killing everyone equally.
Any mortal!
Pony or Griffon?
Minatour or Abesinian?
Diamond Dog or Yeti?
They all are equally fucked raw, the moment they are afflicted by the parasitic and contagious magicaly based sickness following corruption.

Unless one is a immortal, a Sphinx that is counting as the former OR already dead/undead...
It wasted away their body and sanity.

It was to dangerous to be left alone. So when Equestria with her leadership take care of everyone's corrupted individual, was Equestria all of a sudden out of everyones
'nation shitlist'.

Tarterus originaly is a magicaly dead zone due to it being constructed out of anti magic stones, supplied by the Yeti nation.
It is used as the latrine for undesirable waste of the world in point of individuals hated or feared by everycreature.
It was the ultimate anti magic prison. There for it was the go to point for imprisonment of potencial world ending threats that got defeated in battle like:
'Tirek' - The magic stealing Centaur.
Or
'Grogar' - The eternal Necromancer and father of the undead.

After Celestia found out that corruption of afflicted individuals before nearly unstoppable and unpredictable due to environmental magic spread, was now unable to spread withhin its walls due to no magical field feeding it.
Stopping its spread and containing it within its host.

A new and viable solution was found to keep 'it' contained, thanks to Equestria anti magic prison. Instead of the old solution to throw them in a vulcano and hope it stayed there... because sometimes it did not and caused even more troubles down the road.

The SCP: ' Seperated - Confinement - Prisons ', had been carrying the threat on their shoulders and flanks to keep the world free of its death spreading threat.

For a fee, did Equestria house any prisoners there.

Bright Mac and Butter Cup walked from their guests suit in the castle near Celestias tower towards the medical wing of the castle near its center and picked up Applejack and Big Macintosh from the royal garden.
Butter Cup was to far away from a heat season to conceive a foal from her husband, but they sure liked to try it anyway.

Further has Bright Mac donated his seed for the national seed banks, in return to have 2 of 5 loads reserved for his wife. If he should perish today in the duel, would she be still able to raise one or two foals from him.
A string of stasis spells would keep his seed fresh and viable for years to come... not that it actually would, because realistically speaking some accident always happened and who ever was responsible for it got caught and punished for it.

When Bright Mac arrived alongside his wife in the room reserved for Cynder, did the door got opened by a greeting Black Hoove agent.
Once they went in, did the Black Hoove assassin / bodyguard closed the door air tight shut and dissappeared into apparently thin air.

Big Macintosh and Applejack got placed on the for the fillys huge bed of their ill dragon sibling.
They cuddle their coughing sibling lovingly in between them and shared their body heat as well their scent with her.

The two nurses on duty give the apples a friendly greeting and informed them how Cynders new magical suppressor collar worked.
With it activated by clipping a special dog tag like magical seal on it, was even her hardest coughing harmless in matters of breath attacks.

Cynder had further fore and hindleg bracelets that would keep a bluntness magical field around her sharp areas that would start to self sharpen, when she reached her second year after her hatching.

On her tail ring was also a bluntness charme, better safe than sorry.

After the Apple family parents had learned it activation code phrase and deactivating phrase, did the Nurses continued with their halted tactical 'children card games'.

Once the time come for Cynders medications to be taken, did the Apples learned how tightly the hatchling could hold its muzzle shut.

After Bright Mac ask if they had Cynders medication as rectal suppositories, did Cynder mouth fall open in shock.
Suddenly was the rectal suppositories no longer needed, with Cynder willingly swallowing medicines.

Bright Mac enjoyed the remaining hours he had with his family, until it was almost time to prepare.
Once he had told his three foals a goodnight story, did he wish them a peaceful night.

His wife give her husband a tear filled 'good luck' kiss, before they parted away from one another.

The time had come.

Two would enter the arena, only one would be allowed to walk out of it alive.

Both combating parties receive a medical check up.

A drink and a last meal was offered. The water was accepted, while the meal was declined by both.

After the examination and declaration of them to be healthy, was a testament given to protocol in case one or both perished.

Than both entered the area on opposite sides of the dueling grounds.

High Princess Celestia with Ambassador declared with amplified voices the rules:

Unarmed combat, no armor or clothing as protection was allowed.
The fight was to the death as agreed by both parties.
If one or both perished, was their bodys to be given over to the society of carnivore nutritional needs.
No time limit, if they died due to battle inflicted injuries or exposure was irrelevant.
Two entered the area, only one would leave it on his hooves. If at all... only time would show and tell.

Both combatants acknowledge to understand the rules.

Since the Minatour had natural weapons, did Bright Mac had a right of a alchemist made bleeding suppressor. The Minatour combatant ask, how he know if this was not going to end in foul play.

Bright Mac ordered two flasks, the Minatour would select the one he would drink. He himself might indulge himself of a flask as well.

After the Minatour Iron Faith selected the flask Bright Mac was to drink, did he declined his share. Blood thickness potions made brutally painful bruising, occasionally even weeks after the trauma was received.

The Minotaur Ambassador elaborate what would happen if his pony opponent lose by dying and Iron Faith survived.

He would be exiled from Equestria, never to return or he would have his trial continued and with attempted homicide of minors, he would be at best be permanent housed in Tarterus or out right executed publicly.

Before they started they get the chance to say some last words. Both accepted.

Bright Mac was given the first chance by his Minatour opponent.

So Bright Mac spoke:
"My name is Bright Macintosh of the apple family clan, you tried to murder my family.
Prepare to die!"

After a minute of silence, did Iron Faith spoke up:
"My name is Iron Faith of the Iron Horn family clan, what i tried was pest control.
Your foals were never my target, but that dragon scum needed to die.

I have not been told if the dragon shitstain has died or not... but it would have been well worth dying for, to spare the world another monstrous snake with wings.

Yes i am sorry that i put your blood and flesh foals in danger and if i die today, know that i hope they live a long and healthy life to carry your bloodline into the future for your nation well being.

But this draconian shitstain is not worth breathing the air it uses up.
I hope that one day their race is wiped off this planet for the good of all races.

That is all i have to say... for now."

After a minute, did Bright Macintosh spoke up again:

"My name is Bright Macintosh of the apple family clan, you tried to murder my family.
Blood related or not.
Prepare to die!"

Author's Note

Universe 13 of the 'Draconequus Continuum' Synths Hiveship
Chapter 3: Arrival in Pandora, Capitol of Abesinia
&
Chapter 4: Establishment in Abesinias City's
Is roughly the political situation in the world of Equus/Equis.

Just in case you want to know the roughly shaped political/Nation situation. Minus the Synths that don't exist in this 'Displaced' story.

Inspired by me playing
'Civilizations V'
While i control 12 factions in the 'Hot-Seat' game mode.

Stay snuggly :applejackunsure:

Edited last time:
10.04.2024

Chapter 12 - Duel of fates, Equestrian vs Minatorian 2/2

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 12 - Duel of fates,
Equestrian vs Minatorian 2/2

Bearly did they standed face to crouch area, did Bright Macintosh tried to rear up to strike with his forelegs, but accidentally jumped back about two meters.

That had saved him from a knee to the face and when the Minatour charged, did both pony and his charging bipedal enemy are equally surprised for a moment, when fore hooves meet his fists knuckles with bone damaging effect.

Both flinching in pain when the attack left a mark on them both, with Iron having blooded fists and Bright Mac suffering painful hairline cracks in his forelegs and hooves keratin outer layer.

While the Minatour was surprised how swift his opponent had reacted and countered, did Bright Macintosh was without showing it outwardly slightly panicking that has body coordination just went to Tarterus in a hoove basket.

While Iron Faith was attacking and wondering how a farmer was giving him trouble breaking its defenses down, did Bright Mac desperately tried to keep his body under control.

When after two minutes the Minatour had to halt his assault do to being out of breath, did Bright Mac desperately attacks his enemy. His missed presumed headbutt attacks and missed forelegs punches. Yet it didn't betray how uncertainty and fear guided his hooves overall.

Only the Black Hoove Agents present and a few Pegasus royal guards see how mutch Bright Mac struggle to hold his body in check or how uncoordinated his body was responding under his body transformation.

Meanwhile did the ponies in the audience cheerful shouted praise about Bright Mac combat prowess.

Iron Faith was to busy to notice Bright Mac real situation with him having to deflect his clearly stronger opponent endless attacks and the growth of pain in fists and leg hooves, that deflected the attacks and suffered more and more damage through blunt force trauma wasn't helping along.

It had been merely 4 minutes since Bright Macintosh was using his Black Hoove learned technique, but both opponents where masking their pain in war cries.

Bright Mac had totally overestimated his ability to use this technique and underestimated everything else. Pure desperation guided his cracked forelegs, until the pain was to mutch and he closed his eyes for long enough for Iron Faith to get behind him.

Iron Faith had no longer any feeling outside pain in his fists, this demon of a pony was ruthlessly attacking him and he had no doubt that his fists are about to break.

So he needed to get behind his enemy and land one quick stab to the stallion.

No matter how well trained this farmer was, that technique had to really have major drawbacks on his stamina. He know from reading zebra potion books, that hulking up and beserker potions overworked the heart.

Sooner or later would he have to collapse, he just had to... he could not die here, because he tried to kill that little shitstain, there isn't existing something like a innocent dragon.

Just one good stab and his own muscles expanded mass should make the bleeding suppressor irrelevant. It had to or he would die... die to a monster in the disguise of a peaceful pony.

Celestia had seen a lot in her long difficult rule in Equestria, this was just another day in her office that she hated the most.

Bright Macintosh had 3-4 minutes roughly left until he would collapse.

When he closed from the body strain and pain his eyes for a moment to long, did the Minatour had naturaly taken adventage of it to get behind him.
Usually a bad idea with a earth tribe ponies strength being in its hind legs, but Bright Macintosh redicules frame blocked his view from behind. The neck muscles simply to crowded through bloating to perform as usual.

When the Minatour tried to stab Bright Macintosh, did both factions of the fight had taken a critical blow.

This fight had to be ended in 2 minutes and 30 second tops by Bright Macintosh or Iron Faith was walking free.
Black Hoove level of techniques are for efficiency and well timed use, the apple farmer had neither.

Iron Faith was now clearly in the winning to a well trained eye, after simply waiting for Bright Mac to die shortly after the technique wear off.
Do to internal bleedings would Bright Macintosh not make it to the next sunrise without seriouse medical assistance.

While the bull Iron Faith probably didn't know how mutch Bright Mac had ruined his own body in record time, would even a fool recognize a out cold enemy in a duel to the death.

Time was ticking and Lady Death was patience incarnated. Someone was coming her way very soon... if not both parties of this duel.

Iron Faith and Bright Macintosh shouted their agony into the air and the audience went instantly dead silent.

Bright Macintosh had blindsided by his condition and enemy movement hoped for the best and blind bucked where he hoped to hit something.

He hit and was hit at the same time in return.

Iron Faith had just lost his right horn, when Bright Mac blind hindleg buck hit it.
In turn did Iron Faith managed with his left horn to hit Bright Macintosh left hindleg thigh.

Iron Faith was bleeding from the horn stump, while Bright Macintosh was bleeded from the pierced left thigh.

Both opponents backed away in pain, but unlike Bright Macintosh that had his hole body starting to quit, did Iron Faith had only his fists and right horn ruined.

Roughly 2 minutes would be seeing the very bloody end of this duel.

Bright Mac frame visibility reduced when he lost control of his body, once he was stabbed.
To his luck did the stabbed area got pressed together by his body returning to normal size and working in concert with the alchemy bleeding suppressor, giving him a chance to go down swinging.

Iron Faith partially in delirious combat 'fight or flight instinct' kicked in and he grabbed the hindlegs of his enemy.

While wildly swinging the pony in a circle, did his grip slipped eventually and the pony crashed besides his broken off horn right into the wall. Headtrauma meeting everything else, did bad become worse when Bright Macintosh cursing internaly was down for the count temporarily.

But the pain of his body overall brought him with all his adrenalin back enough to notice the broken off horn.
With him having lost fighting fair, would he have to fight dirty.

This debacle is not over yet.
He had been almost defeated, but they would see him go down swinging.
'Who wins' was perhaps not so important as who would 'following him into defeat'.

He would make his clans enemy bleed for their victory.

What could a farmer do that their enemies aren't willing to?
How does this affect all those involved left behind?

Their was the physcial and the mental price of ones actions. In victory or defeat, there was always a after.

If Bright Macintosh Apple could manage to make it do so that any victory is to costly, perhaps that would make enough threats back away...
To give his family a chance of normality.

The point of interest isn't in 'who wins', it is in how much he would make the enemy bleed for it.

In a fight to the death, was that just to be expected anyway.

Iron Faith was furious, he had just lost his right horn. Minatorian bulls and cows did take a lot of pride in their horns, as symbols of strength and health. This pony would have at the latest now a death warrant earned from Iron Faith, if not already in a death duel.

He staggered slightly clutching his bleeding horn stump with little success stopping its flow painting the grounds crimson.
Since they both bleeded and he had a open head wound was time of the essence.

Time to end this with his own hands, instead of waiting for the pony to kick the bucket from his stabbing wound.

While the bull Iron Faith walked toward his fallen pony opponent, spraying thin high pressure blood stains all over the arena, did he continuously started to wonder if his vendetta against dragon kind had really been worth losing so mutch.

His wagon, his standing in Equestria, his horn...
Perhaps after he killed this asshole infront of him, he actually was going to try find a nice cow and lay low. Unlike the pony in a few minutes, did he had to see what the future would bring him.

Naysay was very displeased how it looked like that Minatour bull Iron Faith was going to win this.
Bright Macintosh Apple wasn't getting up, probably do to the stabbing wound and his secret family technique having taken to mutch out of him.

Bright Macintosh was laying in a puddle of liquid that most likely was him bleeding out at the moment.
Horseapples sucking non-pony was walking towards his fellow layed low nobelpony to strike the final blow... getting of free upon winning this duel.

Naysay wasn't expecting to miss his opportunity to talk to Bright Macintosh Apple about his familys secrets combat technique. The stallion was at least hoping that his wife might could get the information.
His wife was a capable mare, she might coax out the knowledge of the Apples family out of Butter Cup Apple.
It was always worth a try...

The Minatorian Ambassador was in one way pleased that his fellow Minatour had apperently the victory in hand, unfortunately did he suspected Princess Celestia would not be so generously toward them the next trading agreement that was coming around as a result.

Worse, calves murdering Minatours of any race really got his fatherly instincts raging. Dangerously dancing on his discipline edge.
He would have to bite his teeth down on his tongue, not knocking the bullshit out of him verbally or physically.
He would be doing his duty, but this bull better never meet him again after they parted ways when they left Equestria behind.

Iron Faith stand right behind Bright Mac that was still facing the wall, he had been thrown into head first. The blood puddle below him was noticed despite the twilight growing darker.
The Minatour know that his enemy was done for.

He probably would have ended the fight fast and without any monolog, if the pony hadn't bucked off his horn to places unknown.

So he wouldn't miss the opportunity to drive in his victory before ending the duel.

"Where is all that hot shit you spouted just like a minute ago? Remind me what did you tell me again?"

The Minatour smirked in satisfaction.
It didn't even slipped when the dying pony slurred his phrase for a last time with conviction...

"My name... is Bright Macintosh of... the apple family clan...
You... you tried to murder... my family.
Blood related... or not.
Prepare... to die..."

This would be the last time he would say it today.

When Iron Faith turned his enemy around to have the satisfaction to see his enemys eyes lose their life when he would choke him to death, did he not noticed what Bright Mac wide right foreleg hide with its girth.

When the Minatour started to choke him, did Bright Mac stabbed Iron Faith right in his genital sheet and janked it out.
Before the Minatour could cover his dick up that had now two holes in it instead of one.

The Minatour screaming in pure agony his pain into the air with exposed neck, quickly changed into a gurgling when Bright Macintosh ripped with the acquired horn the bulls throat out.

The Minatorian bull tried to step away from this monster of a equine, but after only 2 steps he fall to his knees.

Right hand clutching his sheave and left hand trying to stopping the bleeding of his ripped open throat, didn't the dying bull see in his shock how the pony was rearing up to buck at him.

He could not understand why he was suddenly infront of Princess Celestia blood stained face surrounded by a glow.

But when Iron Faith heard Celestia words, did his mouth dropped open with the knowledge hitting him with realization what was going on.

"The dragon is alive and well, you just lost life and head for nothing. Rest well in the knowledge that you thrown away a life of peace in Equestria, where Harmony embraces everycreature.
Dragon kind included."

Ambassador of Minatoria got handed over the hornless head of the former Minatorian citizen
Iron Faith of the Iron Horn family clan.
He would be set to rest in his homeland,
freed of all sins in life acquired.
May his death settle all his tabs.
May the eternal milk rivers keep him feeded,
until the end of times.

The announcement of the end of the duel was not followed with cheers or celebration.
For today nothing was gained and mutch was lost.
Stallions morn the passing of a fellow stallion.
Mares for having lost a worthy sire for a foal.

Consciousness fleed the stallion Bright Macintosh Apple even before the light of Iron Faith life faded from his eyes.

Not learning of him actually decapitating his enemy, instead of just knocking him out to spare him a dreadful death.

For he was lead into the darkness before Iron Faith was embraced by it, following his opponent into the realm after ones body had expired.

Bright Macintosh did not leave the arena that day a proud winner.
The twilight before the night, hiding the growing crimson pool of his dying body.

Author's Note

Sometimes life and death are unkind.

Until next time in:
Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

Stay snuggly :ajsleepy:

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10.04.2024

Chapter 13 - The days after the duel

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 13 - The days after the duel

~~Pear~~ Butter Cup Apple is a very loving mare, very calm to many outside her market sale hours of the day. Many not knowing her, see the mare as reserved. The farm ponys working in her orchard and her friends know better, especially with her not being to shy to nibbeling on ones ears to get what she wants.

She would be the type to not lose her temper easily and have it exploited or allow anger to fester within without a bucking good reason.
Butter Cup is the type to not hold a grudge easily and forgives, if it is earned with honest intend.

But if you hurt her family or friends, you had better hope you meet Celestia before she gets hold of you, because Celestia will show mercy.
Butter Cup hooves could be gentle as the breeze of the Elysium fields, while bringing Tarterus to the ones deserving.

But when she got hooved over the still blood stained Stetson of her beloved and father of her foals, did all strength in her was lost and she was embraced by the darkness of unconsciousness.

Cynder had her siblings besides her, they had a nap after roughhousing for about a hour straight.
Cynder was feeling cold, not from her current sickness or because the room was not heated.

The nurses thinking themselves ignored and the apples to young to understand, talked quietly about the 'duel to the death' of yesterday.
First Cynder disliked simply the idea that the cute pony society had them at all, with them mentioning it being the Minatour that deliberately tried to kill them was her interest peaked.
When they noted that their Father was fighting for them the Minatour to the Death so they are safer, was it all she allowed herself to focus on.

They told of the chilling stand off that had them locking eyes for a hour or more so.
How the Apple Patriarch had suddenly become alpha stud material only comparable to the legendary Rockhoove himself.
How his elegant stride hide his indomitable strength and will.
How he declared again and again:

"My name is Bright Macintosh of the apple family clan, you tried to murder my family.
Blood related or not.
Prepare to die!"

How he dodging his opponents first attack with the swiftness of a Royal Guard.
How he countered every blow and kick send his way.
How he in turned exchanged literally bloody blows in turn.

And finally how in a moment of distraction rumored to be caused by something within the audience, to get him distracted for but a moment.

A moment that his Minotaur enemy used to stab him in his genitals!

How he returned the favor later, when the Minatour taunted him and tried to choke him to death.

How he used the horn of his enemy that he had ripped off with a buck prior, to slit open the bulls vile throat.

And finally how he decapitated his opponent and by devine will, send it directly infront of Princess Celestia who is rumored to have told him 'she was sorry that he had chosen to be a criminal, instead of being a friend and be befriended in turn in harmony'.

Cynder coughing unfortunately ended the recollection prematurely, but when her adoptive mother come with a blood sprayed Stetson into the room. Was it clear that the Minatour had sold himself very dearly.
The Stetson was that of her adoptive fathers, with what she was told next was Cynder life suddenly a lot grimmer and the world was a lot darker.

Even if Butter Cup Apple thought to talked to herself and was trying to cope, did Cynder know enough to suspect that it was her fault that her siblings would have to start getting used to not longer having their father around them.

Since she could think back, did she had Bright Macintosh around them. She loved to hide below his huge at her size Stetson and enjoy his pear sented shampoo made by her adoptive mother herself.

Right now all she could smell was the copper of the blooded Stetson and the bile in her throat.

Today nothing was rousing any reaction from her.

Tonight would she morn her adoptive fathers absence that she would have to make somehow up.
It was all her fault after all...

Would they hate her for it?
Would they throw her out the moment they are sure she could be seperated from them?

After all, they belived that besides the apples, the stallion Silver Tongue was one she had imprinted on... as ever present family friend.

When the revelations and implications had set in, did it hit all minds in this tiny body with overwhelming weight... what cruel turn of events.

When the apples didn't return the next day and the day after that?
Did Cynder silently cried into her bedsheets, when the day after that not even Silver Tongue was around anymore... to soothing the dragon welp lonely heart, did her heart and mind fall into dispair and not even her guardian angels could calm her broken will.

And when the pain become to mutch...
did something reached a boiling point!
Something came out of her, something that looked like a living shadow. Perhaps a darkness born out of the void in her heart?

When it stopped coming out of it's pit in her heart, expelled from her stomach...
Did the hole room started to be consumed in darkness and the dragon hatchling know no more... a new darkness was given birth that day.

'Pear Butter Cup Apple', when the mother of two told her mother in law how she feel about all that had happened and that she blamed Cynder for everything that had happened to them and how she had decided to give away the dragon hatchling, did Granny Smith Apple called her out of her full name.

That was when she knew she bucked up.
When her mother in law backhooved her, not with more force than a foal might had used to shove a loving nuzzling parent away, to make it a point across how seriously she had just bucked up, did Butter Cup internal had begged for the apple elder to have her rather thrown through the walls of their properties than see her elder shed tears of disappointment.

Bright Macintosh Apple had given everything he had to make a stand and proudly declared to the world what he loved most and would defend to his dying breath, only for his own wife to abandoned the very thing he had suffered and bleed the arena grounds for infront of Princess and many others!

Bright Macintosh a peaceful and loving stallion had bucking murdered a sapient being for the safety of all his foals, pony or dragon.

Yet was the bloody Stetson of the stallion filled with determination given to somepony that just had straight up abandoned one of them!
To be cared for by a friend of the family.
Instead of her family if not by blood, than by heart.

Was it not exactly that what was the reason she had left her birth family and founded this apple family clan branch with fruitful harvests.
Feeding not just themselves, but all of Canterlot and Ponyville?

How Pear Butter Cup Apple wished she had been in Bright Macintosh place...
How could she face her foals knowing that she had abandoned one of them, only because she had not brought her into this world by the seed of her stallion.

Maybe her father was not wrong to be disappointed of her, because just as he had said before they parted ways:
"You are not a disappointment to the 'Pear family' clan because you love a apple, but because you rather turn tail than stand with 'your family' when the tides of fates are washing destiny undesirable to you before your hooves."

She would only be allowed to return, once she learned of dedication, determination and the will to stand against all odds for the sake of their 'family'.

It was now that she had noticed how her father had said 'family' not 'family clan'.
This day did Pear Butter Cup Apple finally had understood.
Tomorrow would she get her shit together and ask for forgiveness from her apple elder, than she would get her abandoned daughter in Canterlot back and once they are together again, would she get her other half of the family back.

They might be of two clans, but they would be of one family!

A screaming of two nurses had the Black Hoove Agents at high alert in seconds and even before the nurses come coughing out off the room without the most valued possession of the Equestrian Queendom, did summoning crystals had shattered to summoning all assets stationed for the safety of the dragon that could cure dark magic corruption right outside the medical wing.

No amount of Pegasus or Thestral wing beats moved the dark smoke, when the Unicorns and Bicorns detected dark magic was everyone backing away.
Somecreature had come for the hatchling and wasn't playing around.
Without windows in the isolated room was only the door a possible exit.
The best anti teleport and blink or warping wards stopped even High Princess Celestia from entering the medical wing directly.

So it didn't surprise when something holding the unconsciously laying hatchling captive in their grasping talons, come out of the room.

It was a Golem clouded in dark magic mist, making it very hard to make out its actual features.
Seconds later did another intrusion was joining the first intruder, outside the room the dragon hatchling had been cared for.

Two intruders had dared to try foal nap the future cure of a impossible to cure affliction of parasitic dark magic influence. But only over the dead corpses of every Black Hoove Agent in Canterlot.

With currently roughly 200 having been called via summoning to serve and if necessary die, this would have to be almost impossible odds to overcome.
Unless they rather kill what they could not have.
Usually noone could be that stupid, but with dark magic users was 'insanity and bullshit crazy stupid' going hoove in hoove... making them unpredictable.

The eyes of the Golems seem magical in nature and told of calculating and battle hardend puppet masters behind their magical gaze.

One was testing out the limitations of the construct it was remotely controlling somehow.
Impressive magical feet with anti scrying spells and glyphs in place.
Quick orders given confirmed them still in place and functionalities running optimal.

Someone had just managed to crack the cipher of the royal castle!

This might just be a 'Alicorn of the Sun' requirement of 'Solar Lance' for who ever was behind this.

Princess Celestia was currently in talks with the Abesinian Queen and Minatorian King, when 2 of her personal Black Hoove Agents had been summoned away.

That was impossible... The only one designed to be higher in priorities was...

"O HORSEAPPLES!"

The Abesinian Queendom and Minatorian Kingdomes royal guard and personal assassins had just stormed the negotiations room, when High Princess Celestia cursed up a storm.

When she told them to protect everycreature with their life and that she be dealing with the invasion forces herself was the chaos perfect.

A certain statue had just very prematurely received a cracked surface. A dark chuckle was to hear in the royal garten of the castle grounds.

Harmony shuddered in dread, something just had been set in motion that could not be longer stopped... this major change in her plan could no longer be overlooked and tolerated.

Destiny and Fate shifted every so slightly and a paradox was growing, that would in time shake the foundation of this world to the very core!

Author's Note

Harmony is in panic mode.
Disharmony is spreading.
Fates carefully weaved into the Tapestry of Destiny had become lose and might entirely be undone in time.

When a Pony mage with the name Starlight Glimmer could change the world with a singel spell and deed...

What had just been done this day?

Stay snuggly :fluttercry:

Celestia be like:

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10.04.2024

Chapter 14 - The days after the duel - rising darkness and the return of chaos

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 14 - The days after the duel - rising darkness and the return of chaos

Celestia was furious, her spell work was already messed up by the growth of her foal indide her womb, if she was calm in body and collected in mind.

Her armor 'Elysiums Embrace' refused to be answering her summoning do to the second magic field inside her body, the sentient armor judged her current magic signature to be a attempt of a foreign mage to trick it into obeying.

At least her flame sword and flame combat scythe heeded her magical calls.
'Daybringer' her solar flame sword and 'Daybreaker' her solar flame war scythe are sapient weapons that had not been forged in the sun's solarite core for her, but her mother's use 'Faust Stellar Galaxy'.

Yet when 'Faust' was taken away by 'Discord', did her armor and weapons remained and chose her solar affinity blood daughter to be her successor.

Celestia was enjoying a far greater agility without armor, but when someone of her level was fighting against her, than without her former mothers battle armor, did Celestia feel very exposed.

It was 'Elysiums Embrace' that stopped 'Tireks' magic draining abilities to take hold on her.
Giving her enough time to use 'Daybreaker' to greatly wound 'Tirek', before 'Daybringer' managed to cut of Tireks horn and forcing him to bleed out all stolen magic of the Minatorian and Deer Kingdom nations population.

It freed magic had returned to all living counterparts that didn't die do to expire recently do to exposure to the elements, when their magic drained bodys suffered the mentality exhausted end state to a degree where they didn't noticed their bodies demands for water, food and shelter.

When Grogar returned after having been declared dead for a long time, did only the combination of her mothers inhereted battle armor and both weapons allowed her to keep the undead busy, until her sisters had build the beginning of a anti magic prison that would be known centuries later as
'Tarterus' - The eternal anti magic prison.

Right now did Celestia switched between flying and galloping between rows and rows of uncloaked, fully battle ready Black Hoove Agents in the highest concentration outside the Hive.

Her Black Hoove Agents are the best of the best, the elite of the elite of her youngest sister
'Prismia Nova Exterminaty', going these days by 'Queen Chrysalis of the Everfree Castle Hive'.

The Changeling had build a cover existance for them as Shadow Ponies, blessed by her father 'Solar Nova Exterminaty' to be the defenders of pony kind.

Of course did the Changelings also created cover races for other species like the Abesinian enjoying the 'Black Kitten', or the Minatour having their 'Black Horned' counterparts.

Only the Alicorn Royal family know about it, that also only on her youngest belived lost sister's trust.
Her family was to keep it a secret beyond their grave.

Anyway...

While they parted despite them standing shoulder to shoulder, before Celestia presence parted them in her way like a Pegasus or Griffon parted the mist in the morning in one of two Cloud City's currently in existence.

By the time Celestia arrived close to Cynder with her solar weapons ready to strike, did the situation seem to have escalated into fighting.

The clashing of weapons was to hear and somehow did the Black Hooves manage to keep talking with her despite them standing meters apart.

It was actually very other worldly how Chrysalis managed to speak to her with the Black Hooves in that moment stand beside her, eatch only managing a singel word before the ones before her a meter infront continued:

"Celestia - it - has - already - happend, the - unknown - dark - forces - have - the - hatchling - in - their - grasping - talons.
So - far - the - dragon - welp - seem - only - to - be - unconscious, but - tears - are - streaming - from its - eyes - and - its - breathing - is - irregular.
If - this - continues - we - might - lose - the - youngling!

The - fight - has - already - started, - two - enemies - total. One - is - keeping - the - dragon - in - one - of - its - blunt - talons - that - remind - me - of - slim - Minatour - hands - actually, - but - is - making - petting - motions - that - I - suspect - are - cloaked - glyph - writing.

They - have - apparently - breached - the - royal - castle - anti - scrying - cipher, - if - we - can - not - free - the - dragon - before - they - breach - the - anti - transportation - defenses.
Celestia!
Cynder - is - our - only - hope - to - save - all - afflicted - mortals- with - parasitic - dark magic!

This - can - not - be - allowed - to - come - to - pass!"

Celestia agreed, there would be no monologs or dialogue of any kind. The attackers would be killed on the spot and after the security Cipers are changed out, would they see how the unknown enemy entered in the first place!

15 Black Hoove Agents lay out cold with head trauma in the medical wing, that with coordination are passed from hoove to hoove to be safely evacuated outside the combat area.

The purified Naysay clan ponies and all medical personal was already evacuated.

Once the dragon welp was secured, would they rain death and destruction on the attackers.

The warstaff master of the invading duo keep using the bodies of the Black Hooves attackers as cover against anti magic stone weapons.

The Golems manipulation was perfect, no wasted movement what so ever. Worse, it started to look like the puppet master started to predict its opposing combatants more and more.

It occationaly 'liberated' some equicment it could snatch up from attackers.

3 of the out cold 15... Correction, 17 Black Hoove Agents did get knocked out by their own knock out devices.

Magic spell casting so far only resulted in one Agent losing his cloak to fire and another one had his chameleon cloak malfunctioning and giving everyone with a sense of fashion a heart attack with it stripes of rainbows with changing polkadot appearing and disappearing by random.

They just hoped that Princess Celestia or their Queen in her disguise come in time before they lost the only cure to corruption covered in scales.

The Minatour King and the Queen of Abesinia standed back to back, what shit for brain had the ludacris idea to start a invasion so close to winter?

This better not be the Yetis again... They are the only race not just preferring to fight currently in cold as tits climates, but since they only have to shave themselves according to climate conditions, are they the only nation in the world giving a shit on temperature difficulties or food shortages in combat situations.

Far from the smartest beings, did the Yeti excelled through toughness and their disregard of morality and personal safety in all kinds of warfare. Noone was as feared all year long to be attacked like the Yeti nation under the Storm Kings leadership was.

Literally the only nation without defenses to speak off, do to them all being soldiers from young age.
Surviving by waging war against everyone at one point of time or another and retreating so far into the 'Frozen North territorys' where not even 'Snow Wolves' would follow them.

While many nations flee the slowly growing ice areas of the world, did the Yeti enjoy uncontested territorys. Farming nutrition rich, but absolutely inedible for everyone but Yetis race roots grow under deep layers of Ice.
That why many wonder if the Yeti race have working taste buds at all!

Anyway...

The Yeti keep their greedy and war mongering armys away, after Celestia once melted a wide area of the Yeti invaders border areas near their territorys to drown the tunneling soldiers there.

He could not be possibly that stupid to attack again... for that matter, how did they reached Canterlot Castle unnoticed?

Once Celestia was back, was the trading agreement probably having to wait. So once the situation of the attack can be elaborated and be addressed accordingly.

If the Abesinian Queen and Minatorian King are lucky, than they have the chance to see a 'Solar Lance' attack with their own eyes. Historically reported that it was always a sight to behold.

The last one was 200 years or so ago, when Celestia glassed a Pinguine army inside Griffonias borders.

The Griffons lost only one minor City that was mostly evacuated, the Pinguine lost all their offensive military standing in return.

That was a historical crystal memory recording even used in today's educational elementary schools, when they teached
'Why not to mess with Celestia'
or her ponies inside Equestria and its allied forces.
Or the one lunatic that somehow managed a raiding of Celestias cake vault.
That guy was forced to eat it's content.
Twice.
Observed by all of Canterlot.

Apparently was death by sugar a thing if one was not a Alicorn or Hippo... only their metabolism could handle that much sugar.

Anyway...

Once this drama was over, than they all could sit down to tea and cake again and get the trading agreement renegotiated and trading routes renewed and modernized.
That way could be assured that future commenced Yeti attack would be less profitable and Bandits have a harder time in general.

When Celestia arrived at the scene, did she give herself one minute roughly to study the enemy and spot Cynder who was hiccuping with tears streaming from her body. Her body was limply laying around the in dark magic mist covered Golems the Black Hoove Agents talked about.

Cynder was apparently emotionally hard to decipher at the moment, but her emotional distress seem to be extream.

Suddenly before her eyes did Celestia was seeing in the haze of 'a vision' a Yeti Black Hand Agent, a actually assassine organisation that wasn't made out of Changelings and pretending to swear absolute loyalty to their royal family for the purposes of gaining total information network access of a King/Queendom.

It had a Foal in its hands, Celestia just know that it was her as of yet unborn pony colt!

He was perfect! He had her so bright pink coat fur that it looked white, he had a blond mane and tail as sunny as her sun. It was very young and had not its cutie mark as a result, but it was definitely had her stallions features despite being so young.
A Unicorn with the build of a Earthponys! Her heart was jumping in joy!

... ... ... Only to be crushed when the masked assassine showed himself to be one of the Storm Kings many children with his red eyes and signature cruel smirk on his face, as he killed him.
Killed him in cold blood.

KILLED - HER - FOAL - IN - HIS - DIRTY MOTHER-BUCKING - HANDS!

Celestia had just a internal vision...
'A true vision'.
Something she was able for as young as 30 years after her ascension.
A 'true vision' had come always true so far...
She would have to find a way to break the unavoidable fate.
Nothing would be taking her one and only foal from her, ever!

Luna had the fun of a lifetime. All that uncut and unrestrained combat with intend to kill. She could let lose because her body was that of a Golem and suffered no strain nor the dull pain, but still give the full adrenaline rush of full on combat to the death!
That had been denied her for thousands of years of isolation on the Moon.
Finally thanks to Cynder unfortunately out of grief and heartbroken pain new bloomed Golem-mancer ability.

The living puppet had a bipedal body, one resembeling the ones of the in Starswirl portal mirror resembeling Humans.

It was very rough shaped overall, but had hands like Minatorian had just more nimbel and dexterity unchallenged in precision. Fighting like this through Cynder instinct driven motor function memories really give her a range of motion that while more limited overall, allowed for faster and more precise results.

Though it was strange that a quadruple walking dragon has bipedal walking instinct and knowledge about optimal movements in different stances.
A mystery that would hopefully be revealed eventually to their satisfaction.

It's like she used to fight with a thin butter knife all her life time, now she had a scalpel!

The what she had learned
'Black Hoove Agents of Equestria',
the elite of the elite come to free Cynder in their misguided attempt of saving her.
In truth was Cynders heart suffering from having her perceived losing of her new and only family in her mind. Worse it seemed that misguided pain of her adoptive mother was directed towards Cynder!

This had to be corrected!
Heartbroken syndrome was no laughing matter!
It caused enough mental pain to create extream internal chemical reactions that deactivated self defense mechanics.
Cynder was currently running a cold, that combined with her Heart broken syndrome and she might actually perish!

So while Luna enjoyed her new found freedom through Cynder, she feared to lose it and her at the same time.

The Black Hooves would not give her a chance of signing language.

Since it has been a while she had used it out of boredom, was she a bit rusty anyway.

Once she defeated enough to have them trying negotiations would she...

Wait, what is that bright fire in the entrance of the roo- O SHIT!

Nightmare Stellar Moon was giving Cynder physical reassurance by petting her, while it helped was it only delaying the inevitable.
Cynder needed to be reunited with her family, especially her pony siblings or she would perish before the next time the sun rises.

She observed the surroundings she had to work with. She was in a dead end area of a long very bright made hall that might by some lesser citizens are considered a entry hallway in width and height.

Still it was a dead end, infront of her was a huge force of the best Equestria had to offer in military matters.

How was she to get Cynder to the Apple Clan Familys Orchard ? This Golems had further no flight capacity and all its magic was currently dormant. Bearly giving them a seemingly well balanced combat staff, to fight with.

So far her sister Luna Dreemur Stellar had defeated 17 Black Hoove Agents with non lethal head trauma, knocking them out cold.

While it was fun to feel the battle rush of her sister thanks to being connected via Cynder, was her growing distress at her slow progress the same as her own.

Unfortunately did she could not risk to join the fight, Cynder would not survive in her weakened state as mutch as one combat spell accidentally hitting the well natural armored, but still young body.

She suddenly spotted her sister Celestia, she had unexpectedly not her armor on, but hadn't spared on offensive matters.
While the lack of 'Elysiums Embrace' would give her superior aerial and ground ability and agility, did her defense was greatly weakend.

What was she thinking t-
Wait... Was she turning Nirik?
Alicorn become masters of at least four aspects of the pony race.

Celestia had:
- Kirin are pony-dragon hybrids, the absolute defense and offense options of the 'Firemancer' pony variation. A requirement to merge with the solarit reactor they used as Sun.

Earthpony of the day, strong and superior in stamina. Celestia body embraced the full strength of the peak performance of anyone's body.
That mare would never grow fat or anything but muscular.
Pegasus of the day, she had the endurance and long range capacity of the most sturdy Pegasus. Her wind manipulation was unfortunately rather pathetic, but her resistance towards electricity was absolute.
Unicorn, one horn and a lesser capacity for multi casting of telekinesis or spells. But a wider range of magical affinities.
Celestia was a firemancer, white mage healer, light knight combat priest, combat spell buffer and telekinesis combat war mage.

Celestia Solaris Stellar was no laughing matter...
She could 'Solar Lance' the horseapples out of any large military collection of troops and equicment.
She was physically and magicaly with her Sun, the sledgehammer of the royal family.

For some reason she just took personal offense to what happened, Lunas Golem construction no matter how tough, what it wasn't...
Was plainly fucked...

... ... Yep, pierced by Daybreaker and vertically sliced in half by Daybringer... And burning...
Now Celestia was looking at her...

O SHIT!

Discord had planned to make a big entrance, but this was way more entertaining!

Aaannnddd there goes Celestia and ends the fight versus Lunas controlled Golem in less than 10 seconds flat...
She could have made this 20% cooler if she pulled a Trunks versus Frieza... really disappointing.

O Shit... He better make a appearance, the
'false vision'
he just give Celestia about her future foal being murdered was perhaps a bit over the top for a prank for the stone prison shit she pulled on him... alongside the tree of Harmony.

Time to save the Golem of his Wife... and announce his return to the world.

Discord apperance was well timed but badly placed, as his magical Avatar just got shish kebabed by Fausts sword Daybringer.
"Ouch... That sure is a warm welcome..."

Author's Note

Bloody Tarterus... where do i get my ideas from?

' Foundational story: Equus Story '

See you next chapter!

Stay snuggly ♡

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Chapter 15 - Family reunion

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 15 - Family reunion

"Ouch... That sure is a warm welcome..."

Stated a surprised Draconequus.

Discord had just been run through with Daybringer while holding the already in swinging Daybreaker mid air in his tail grasp, before it could hit the dark magic construct.

Celestia absolutely livid state of mind changed into absolutely bottom of the Celestial sea rocks in her stomach. 'Discord - ~~God~~ Lord of Chaos' and former inoffical mate of her mother Faust, of currently still officially to her oldest sisters Nightmares Stellar Moon married Queen of Equestria, had just stopped her cold in her tracks as she was about to dispose of the foal napping Golem.

If Discord would take Cynder away or make her ability to cure parasitic dark magic invalid...
This day got from really bad to absolutely ape shit crazy... no offense to apes.

Without the element support of Harmony was Equus doomed to his every wimpy mood... unless Nightmare Moon keep him busy ~♡

Nightmare didn't know if she was delirious or if her husband had finally freed himself from his stone prison in the royal garden.

He looked just as good as ever... how she loved to have him draped all over her and thrusting his ever shapeshifting... hm... thoughts better continued after Cynder was saved.

Every not knocked out Black Hoove agent was knelt before their lord.
While Discord never truly ruled in the traditional sense, was he the father of the Changeling race when the Draconequus changed the 'Alicorn Princess Prismia Nova Exterminaty' into 'Changeling Queen Chrysalis'!

'Their God' had just returned to them!

A certain Queen just squeal in joy out, her brother in law had finally returned. She would hug the stuffing out of the Draconequus the next chance she got.

Luna watched through the Golems eyes that Nightmare currently remote controlled, thanks to her connection between Cynder and her own magic core.

Discord was free of his stone prison.
Maybe it wasn't so bad to stay on the dead moon surface anymore... his pranks never lasted more than a day or two, but are often quite unforgettable events.

Discord pulled himself free of Daybringers flaming embrace inside and out. The sapient flame sword had not even dated him before, how rude... he was a married Draconequus anyway... unless Nightmare Moon wouldn't mind to share the bed with the heat based weapon to warm their bed?

Anyway he had stuff to undo and places to make, probably a few laws of physics and magic to break. Not to forget to pay his debts back, the little dragon in the Golems hands needed help yesterday... or today as soon as possible.

So Discord talon over his sister in laws toys of war back to her, give the place where the Golem should have his mouth a short kiss and take Cynder in his lion paw.

Celestia begged him not to hurt the dragon, at that the Draconequus scolded Celestia. He had a lot on his list of deeds and misdeeds, but he would never suffer the consequences of existing with the knowledge to have killed something that hadn't reached physically and mentally the ages to be considered a adult.

With a snap of his Griffon talon was a second Golem as the one Nightmare Moon controlled poofed into existance.
Another snap had the Golems a wooden frame resembling the Mares on the Moon.
With the next snap, did he changed out the Golems with the Mares on the Moon position.

Another snap of his Griffon talon had the Moon restored to a time before Celestia had accidentally turned it to ash.
Just without any buildings or infrastructure.
If they wanted it reclaimed, they have to start from scratch.

The last snap of the day left the Draconequus exhausted, but all the chaos magic stored durring his prison in stone time was well spend in him teleporting himself, Celestia, Luna, Nightmare Moon and Chrysalis towards the Apple Orchard.

He slowly collapse into a air empty Ballon version of himself and pawed over Cynder to his Wifes hooves.
Discord told them in a helium voice that explanations had to be coming later, the dragon welp Cynder needed to be reunited with her family.

With him having reunited his family on Equus, was he spend for the next 20-ish... Years to come, so he told them.

Further that they are all welcome, they would see what he means the next time the Moon rises again... unless they are colorblind towards green.

Pear Butter Cup Apple had the shock of her life when three Alicorn and a Bug-Horse thingy was standing infront of her houses entry.

After a minute of her brain short-circuit, did Cynder got hooved over to Butter Cups hooves.
The dragon welp was unexpectedly lovingly embraced by the pony and the heart broken dragon welps world started to mend... she still would need a lot of bedrest though.

This day was absolutely madness incarnated... but at least it wasn't boring.

Celestia stopped making sence of this day. Unfortunately could she not drown herself in Apple Clan hard cider... or the near future after the birth.
She was pregnant after all... maybe a cake or three would do the trick.

Applejack and Big Macintosh had no idea what was going on, but they had missed their purple sister. When they started snuggeling the coughing dragon sibling.
This simpel gesture changed dragon tears of dread and hopelessness into tears of joy.

Discord had just singel taloned used up millenia worth of chaos magic by restoration of the Moon surface to a lush jungel.

Currently it only had plants, trees and a lot of insects on it, but it would not longer be a to ash burned lifeless miniature planet.

Noone could say that Discord never had done anything useful or good ever again.
Even it had wiped him out and would have him dormant for 30-50 years in truly meaningful ways.

If some wanne be Tyrants come after Equestria?
'Sorry i am all out of magic', try again in half a century or so... hejust know they be all whining about himno fixing every damn world ending threat. Typical spoiled demi gods and mortals.

Luna and Nightmare could not belived their youngest sisters wasn't just alive, but had a few ten of thousands of sons and daughters and grandchildren like sons and granddaughters.
This was crazy to think about... what a fitting thing to do today.

Celestia could not belived how Discord just had saved her sisters from the dead moon surface, next she knew he turns the moon back to a living environment or into cheese... or cake?

Chrysalis was hugging the metaphorical stuffing out of all three eldest sisters in a group hug. She had to shape-shifting her legs into snakes to fit them, but their family was complet once more.

Somewhere a in stasis hold dead pony body come back to life. It made absolutely no sence, his body was numb and painfully overworked, but the stallion used his neck to work himself from the bed he was on, down to the ground. His family and clan needed him... He had to meet them again, even if he had to drag his sorry carcase of a body from Canterlot to Ponyville.

Bright Macintosh Apple was filled with determination!

Meanwhile did Canterlot was still in lockdown and the Abesinian Queen & Minatorian King keep unnecessarily a high alert in the negotiations room of the castle with their royal guard and assassines not waving in their determination to keep their rulers save from any harm.

No assassine or invasion force was going to catch them off guard... but noone would see the Draconequus coming in time.

The Tree of Harmony just had her plans all ruined... The only thought she had at the moment was:

"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!"

Author's Note

Where is that stuff all coming from?

'Foundational story: Equus Story'

Discord might not be what the Equus population wanted him to be, but he is the god they deserved.
Besides, fuck the Tree of Harmony plans for the world.
Discord and disharmony rules ♡

Stay snuggly :twilightsmile:

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Chapter 16 - Later...

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 16 - Later...

Hours later... Did surprisingly little happend.
Ignoring that 3 Alicorns and a Griffon come to Canterlot and had the City in chaos of celebration and confusion.

Somewhere... Well actually on the Apple Orchard where Discord collapsed into a empty ballon earlier, did a certain Draconequus shaped ballon received enough wisps of Chaos magic to retreat into his long abandoned chaos realm. He really needed a lemonade bath right about now... maybe with sprinkles!

The green glowing Moon that night was a picture of legends and was added at historic event in any historical book. Yes, even the Yetis... education on history was quite high in their uncivilized civilization.

~~Evil counsel~~
Pony first meeting:
Crow Inkwell: *confidently standing up*
"We are fucked... like really hard.
Yes, we do what we can to get to learn how this all come to be... than again it will not make our position any better.
Something we don't have but need is time.
We have personal shortage inside Canterlot guard ponies and maids working for us. We might have mountens of gold and gems, but we can't just buy us out of this. Messing with the Solar Diarch might cost us everything if we mess up... if we are not paying already way to mutch in influence and material wealth.
Worse, the legends had been partially false!
The royal family was to return roughly in 20 years, but they just returned yesterday with Canterlot going bat-shit-crazy!"

Somewhere a Thestral pony take offense to that and Bicorn Crow Inkwell shortly apologized for his choice of words... he was usually more perceive and careful with his wording.

A long silence in the meeting room, their plans for the years to come are in ruines and Naysay was nowhere to be found.

The temporarily main Speaker double facehoof and say with a cold blooded voice:
"If this is not resolved soon...
So Celestia help me we all pay deerly for our failure... not just money this time.
This meeting shall continue later! I hope for all of us this start to look better soon or our Ancestors have our heads for it."

Meeting of the Pony First counsel end.

The Alicorns found themselves all shortly after in the Royal Castle medical wing with a very giddy Abesinian Queen and a flabbergasted Minatorian King.

Celestia had a check up on her unborn foal, after all the magic she had used and that was used on her.
She was perfectly fine. To everyone's joy, so was her foal in her womb.

Luna and Nightmare in contrast needed months if not years of recovery.
Malnutrition, damaged hooves and frogs, moondust in their lungs and guts, their mana was so over the roof that the doctors hoped they didn't spontaneously exploded into gibblets and worst of all...
They had morning breath like only the undead could withstand. If they had a working sense of smell.

The foreign rulers didn't get to meet the Alicorn family for long, but a Black Griffoness assured them that they be reasonable ready to be meeting them in the next years nation rulers summoning.

The royalty of Minatoria and Abesinian had their trade agreement renegotiated the next day and departed three days later with eatch having a group hug picture of the three Alicorns.

Abesinian and Minatorian alliance was never stronger since a millenia, than after that few days.

The Storm Kings spys reported months later the return of the Alicorns decades before expected and the Storm King had fumed. The storm king had few vacant places underneath him a day later. For the first time in the Yeti history was a non Yeti in a commanding and leading position.

A young mare going by the name of 'Tempest Shadow Storm' had earned her place under him, by blowing her superior in a duel to the death up. For someone with a cracked off horn, this little pony was hardcore. He hated her squishy appearance, but loved her ruthlessly killing any opposition any Yeti give her.

Perhaps she would find the
'Scepter Staff of Sacanas' for him if he told her some bullshit about it being able to heal any wounds if it absorbed 2 Alicorns magic affinities or so. He could kill her if she succeeded in her given orders obtaining it.
Probably as target practice of the Scepters powers. This was going to be fun.

To the surprise was the dead declared stallion Bright Macintosh Apple found to be crawling with the strength of his neck muscles alone, dragging himself up the start of the dungeons where they had stored his body to be given alongside Iron Faith's body to the organization for carnivore needs.

He was very thoughtfully and in detailed put through examination, he was definitely not a undead. His body was stiff and damaged through frost bite, but he would make a full recovery by the next years end.

He would have to stay in the Royal medical wing for that time. He needed the best the nation had to offer and to make sure no mare snuck into his room to milk him for a Rockhoove level of foal service.

If anyone was to milk his balls, it would be his wife... or at least having his wife agreeing to it.
Fortunately did he offered his seed if it was really so mutch demanded. For a price... monetary or payed in favors.

Celestia just know how mutch his seed was going to make on the black market alone...
His arena performance and him coming back to life, after having been officially declared dead...
Bright Macintosh Apple bloodline would be spread all over Equestria at some point... what a archivment!

It was a very tear filled reunited Apple family, that his mother and wife called a miracle of the gods.

Discord chuckle in pride at that.

Cynder had never happen to experience happiness in that degree, after she had been reborn in this magical world.
This day everything was promising that no matter how hard the days ahead of them would be, with determination and love would they work through it all... together.

Near the end of the year, did everything looked a bit brighter. Cynder had become healthier than ever, especially after Celestia prematurely started to heal ponies in secret.

Unfortunately did she had to keep them in Tarterus for 'observation purposes'. But Tarterus interior got overworked for million worth of bits.

To Tirek and Grogars surprise did Discord the God of Chaos had returned.
Unexpected did he offered them freedom in a bit more than 22 years time, IF they behave themselves in the meantime.

The undead and the magic sucker were no fools and agreed.
With Tarterus suddenly having a rather high rate Spa at their disposal and instead of bearly eat able military rations, 5 star cooks at their wims, did 22 years might not even be that long lasting after all... not in comparison to what they had to endure previously.

Before the year ended had Butter Cup returned to her birth family and brought her three youngling and Apple elder with her. The start was a bit uncertain and wobbly, but after Butter Cup offered to unite their clans with the seed of her husband, could the mares of the Pear clan not fast enough agree to become the Apple-Pear clan.

Bright Macintosh Apple become questionable lucky the next years heat season... he even managed somehow not to suffer friction burns!

By the time Cynder become two years old had she not mutch grown in size, but her physical and magic capabilities and capacity had grown redicules in comparison to any other two year old dragon welp.
There had been 20 year old dragon adolescents before their molting that had bearly half the stamina and endurance of Cynder.

All thanks to Celestia weekly bringing into the Crystal caves prior un-curable ponies to be cured by Cynder.
After some time Cynder didn't need to had her mana paths to be connected to a sick pony to get cured.
It strangely was enough if she started to lick the faces of the ponies like a puppy and her slowly ciphoning the parasitic infection out of the afflicted ponies without actually having to remove their mana.
Unfortunately did her saliva didn't hold its detoxification attributes for longer than a hour once it left its owner mouth.

Celestia was reminded of Tireks abilities, Cynder just was only effecting parasitic elements of dark magic.

To Celestias displeasure did many ponies keep a dark magic affinity after being cured. To her surprise did they are agreed to be registered as dark magic users and be training one another to use it for the well being of society and nation demands.

If this worked out? It would be seen in the coming decades... and beyond.

The summoning of the Nations in the second year of Cynders lifetime in Equestria had to be slightly delayed.

A pink Griffoness chick bearly 4 years of age had after a rather redicules story ascension archived.

Mi Amore Cadenza, short Cadance:
Had ascension archived at the age of 4 years old. All Alicorn suspected Discord pranking them, but he swear on his nuts that he had nothing to do with it.

The Griffonias nobility demanded her to be taloned over to them.
The Alicorns unanimously declined.
When the Griffons threatened war, did Celestia send them her two signatured cards. The one with her Solar Lance and the one with her trollestia face.

Further had Nightmare Stellar Moon & Luna Dreemur Stellar send their own cards as well.

Luna with a Ice Sword surrounded by a army of frozen enemies
and
Nightmare with a ice battle Scythe showing the same as Lunas.

The Griffonia nobel Griffons also got reminded that their usual army population pool had just become Equestrians and would not mind coming home to make a permanent change in governmental leadership.

The Griffonia counsel of nobelgriffons unanimously declared 'Mi Amore Cadenza' a Equestrian citizen with a honorary Griffonia one as well... it was the best they could come up with.

Cadance become a fully adopted member of the Alicorn royal family.

Mutch later was Cynder joining them as well...
but that was not happening for many years to come.

Before the second year was over, could Cynder breath out dark magic mist out of her mouth that could transform trees into living puppets that stayed permanently.

Pure dark mist Golems just stayed a month, before dissolving into dark morning mist and returning to their source.

Further did the royal family members had all connected themself to Cynder magical core.
The corruption cleaning core had untold potencial and while Cynder gained massive mana restoration and overall magical capacity, did the royals get a instant communication to one another in turn.

When Queen Chrysalis connected her magic core and unknowingly to the Changeling race, did they all had to go for a few days into hiding.

Her Changeling children reacted physically violently to it, but once their bodies adapted could they send and receive over twice their old Hivemind range.

Further did they all gained dark magic affinities and for some reason their need for 'Magicaly charged Love' decreased by 1/3.

Queen Chrysalis suspected that they all had unknowingly got affected by parasitic dark magic prior that spread over the Hivemind connection, that got healed by Cynder accidentally.

By the end of the adaptive cycle, did their Shape-shifting improved a lot under less strain to body and love reserves.

Cynder not even two years of age had changed a lot of life's for the better.
What would she bring next to the table?

Celestia delivered with the help of Discord a perfectly healthy and very stallion like shaped colt to the world.

Equestria celebrated a golden Age!

The Tree of Harmony was raging in silence...
as she always did.
All her plans in ruines... even if they are often a patchwork of improvisation.

How could she turn it all around? Or at least gain enough power if Equestrians would not feed her with new chosen Element users to regain old strength.
Unless... perhaps going of script to returning to it was the key in this situation.

Harmony ploted it's come back... it would be glorious.
Even if Harmony had to drag them towards their glorious future.

Not even the personified chaos of this world could stop the harmonious future, its choices for this world would make it a paradise of its making.
The Tree of Harmony will would be the law this planet would run on!

Author's Note

Hope you love that Chaos.

Thanks to a story that showed me a Griffon Celestia, something that had never crossed my mind before.

I had the idea to make Cadance a Crystal Griffon :twilightsmile:

How will this all effect Harmonys script for Equus?
Never suspected the Tree of Harmony to be the root of all evil, when noone else volunteered?

Stay snuggly everyone ♡

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Chapter 17 - Royal visits and preparations for conflicts to come

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 17 - Royal visits and preparations for conflicts to come

Granny Smith walked to the room of the children and picked up Applejack, Big Mac and Cynder. Once they had been as always placed on her back, they slowly enjoyed the daily ride to the breakfast table. While they might probably be able to safely go up and down the stairs, did Granny Smith enjoyed being used as their mighty steed.

When they arrived downstairs, after breakfast was ready, did they unexpected enjoyed the Griffon Princess Cadance to be with them.
Apparently did Cynder somehow managed to win over the shy Griffoness chick.

Apparently deliberately pulling a 'puppy licking your face act', really win you many snuggeling points.

As Granny walked down the corridor to the kitchen with four than her usual three passengers, could they already smell the delicious food that would wait for them at the table.

After getting to the table and getting in a chair as usually, did Cynder get unexpected grabbed by Cadance and Granny Smith with her daugther in law enjoyed the heart felt affectionate feeding Cynder received.

It was some time no longer needed that Cynder had to sneak part of her carnivore elements of her food partially to her siblings. Since at some point they wanted to have some at every meal.
Everypony was surprised how a little meat in their diat improved their stamina displayed during roughhousing and hide and catch games.

It become a surprisingly common occurrence that the Royal familie come alone or as a group to the Apple-Pear Family clans Orchard.

Many minor non Unicorn nobels migrated to Ponyville and the sleepy little Ponyville village that had her highness foal daddy in it.
Bright Macintosh didn't like that everycreature thought he was Prince Solaris Bluebloods father, but Silver Tongue suggested it to keep it that way.
Let them think he is just a suck up wanting something from the Princess and Prince.
He could protect that way his family all the better!

Meanwhile had thanks to the excellent leadership of Colonel Faithful Wings this former badly defended Village become a impressive military fortress base with a very high civilian population density. Many Black Hoove Agents enjoyed their selection of ponies they could imitate do to revolutionary new spell that was extreamly complex, that let pony Black Hoove Agents turn into anyone so they can enjoy the civilian life.

Ponies giving consent to being added to the list of the Agent using their forms got compensation for their contributions to the cause.

Noone minded to make observing parties unsure if a pony had just been a agent disguise as themself or they actually managed to kick ass of Timberwolfs that keep starting to become more bold in the last month to attack the
'fortress frontier village'.

Once Cynder had her food feeded to end by her Griffon friend, did they all rested snuggeling for a few minutes before they as usually started to do their things.

By now it was not unusual to see military training resting Griffons around and in the orchard.
Some Black Hoove Agents made a game out of it to used improvised pea shooters to see what Griffons managed to defend themself from the annoying assault by taking cover and returning in turn, self made pea shooters fire.

While it was silly fun at first, did it also helped the Changelings pretending to be Ponies to find recruits for the 'Black Beak' Agent program that was planned to be created in about 8 years time.

Life was good and relatively peaceful.

Bright Macintosh had started to recover from his arena duel.

For some unknown reason had he massive coordination problems in his 'unbuffed' state.
So when Bright Macintosh started to make magic buffing a part of his usual physical state, did Butter Cup really had to start bucking advancing mares off her husband... literally in some cases.

The mares just could not help themselves around her alpha stud... Bright Mac at some point considering to hire bodyguard to shield him from horny mares.

"Well looks like somepony has finally awakened, since the Appletrees didn't sway under unexplainable tiny earthquakes, do i wonder if the mighty Bright Macintosh Apple-Pear were actualy enjoying sleeping in."

Bright Macintosh got acquainted and used to the friendly ribbing his workers give him. It was in all good fun and slightly jealous wish to be like him.

When his little trouble makers come into the Barn to play around, did Bright Mac was surprised to see the shy Griffon Equestrian Princess Cadance laughing following them around.
He was used to see them play with the youngest Princess as if she was a sibling, but that was the first time she visited so early in the morning.

When Cynder come up to him, did he nuzzeld his little darling.

Cynder had reached her second year of life and had unfortunately started to instinctualy and magicaly sharpened her spikes, claws and tail.
It needed spell casting and smithing of the Alicorns themselfs to keep her sharper aspects safely in check.

How the carefree and playful dragon welp seem to know when her leg, tail and neck bracers needed replacing was beyond him, but he was just happy noone got accidentally hurt.

Bright Mac spoke up to his daughter:

"I was very worried about you last night, when I keep hearing you whimpering in your sleep.
Again bad dreams troubling you?"

Unfortunately did the dragon welp had to nod in confirmation, sadness paintings body language and facial expression. Her growing dream realm affinities had the Alicorn Royal family overworked to slaughter ten of thousands of nighttime attacking parasites Cynders mental defenses at once.

On one hoove Equestria never had enjoyed so mutch good sleep like the day of the royal sisters returning, but as Cynder was literally pulling nation spanning populations of this parasites to her, did the Alicorn as strong they are simply got overwhelmed at their numbers... quantity is a quality all on its own... nothing to underestimate.

Cynder's mind often got overwhelmed in her sleep and she wake up in fear and tears screaming for her family in her squeaky noises.

The Dream guards got finally the praise they yearn for, when the fought night for night to defend the dragon welps mind as long they managed, increasing their mental and physical might from month to month.

For some reason was Cynder unable to speak like a sapient being with her vocal cords, but she had learned to use of a formerly dormant ability to make up for it with telepathy.

Strangely did her voice sounded very mature. If their family didn't know she was a two year old dragon welp, they might mistaken her for a noble pony with a alluring voice that tried to charm them with her voice alone.
It was very unreal, once more Discord swear on his nuts that he didn't had to do anything to do with it.

This time everyone doubt him after he give all of Canterlot adult population occasionaly foal voices, while the fillies and colts sounded mature.

Mid day when the family and the workers sit down to eat in the middle of their orchard, was a knock on a door to hear.
Bright Mac went to see who it was, knocking noises in mid air usually had Discord behind them.

Instead of just teleporting in, did he liked to bend space and time and connected doors in Canterlot to appearing doors in mid air to announce his coming through.

Lord Discord who didn't want to be called King for some reasons.
He had his wife and sisters in law accompany him.

Nightmare had a tray of non Apple or Pears desserts with her.
Luna brought alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks with her.
Celestia brought cake and doughnuts with her, also some meat dishes for her hosts.
The cakes and doughnuts are always for herself, unless Cadance and her crew manage to liberate the poor sweets in their own stomach.

A sneeze revealed Princes Solaris Bluebloods in his mothers neck covered nest of Celestias flowing mane.

The colt got levitated to his best friends in the world and they feeded him one after another.
Applejack apples, Big Mac pears, Cadance meat and Cynder grapes.

The little rascal was living it up like a King already.

After the meal did Celestia excused herself with her Foal into the Apple-Pear Orchards house.
Discord had planned to say Celestia that her 'True vision' back than was a fabricated prank from him, being sour about her leaving him in stone and banishment of her sisters by accident, when they wanted Discord returned.

But he thought better of it. That way Celestia had Solaris at her side 30/7 with her and none would manage to ruine the foal with nobel Canterlot ideas and non-pony bullshit... easier said than done.

Besides, the Yeti Storm King had legitimate wishes to see the foal dead and worse done to others.

Unfortunately was Discord limited to little pranks and illusions, until he recovered in many decades in the future decades.

The Yeti Storm King empire of Yeti Kingdoms and thiefdoms had massive populations thanks to being uncontested in the coldest areas of the world where for Yeti delicious ice roots grow deep underground.

Yet while this Wookie like horned predators preferred meat instead of vegetarian lifestyle and there solution to growing old was to start wars and die in them, did no nation know them not to start a war every 20-40 years with one nation or another.

The Diamond Dog and Gem Wolf population was their only allied forces.
The bipedal dogs always needed slaves to work themselves to death and get than made into minced meat for the Yetis to establish a meat supplemental trading chain.

Unless the Yeti outright kill their 'accumulated work force' as snack in between transportation.

Noone could really stand the Yetis, not even the Diamond Dogs who put profits over sympathetic trading partners.
But they are better trading partners than making them a enemy and becoming one of their meat selections.

The other nations know that fact and excused the Gem Fido population more greedy population their support of the Yetis.

It had also the nice side effect being able to free their slaves for a surprisingly equine ransom that even low income citizens of Griffonia could pay.
The Yeti could never really make out the increased fish meat prozentuale part as long strong spells keep the meat fresh and odor free.

Win-win for everycreature involved.

Somewhere in the Dragon lands...

A dragon named 'Malefor' was 1 of 10 remaining specimens of his subrace of dragons that thrive under parasitic dark magic influence and night dream parasites attacks to feed themselves, improving their already impressive natural strength.

He heard rumors that Equestria had finally found a way to have his deliberately spread parasitic dark influence neutralized.

Malefor had to find out the ingredients of the cure and destroy as many of them as possible, the more the better. He could put some of his least tasty followers towards this task.

But unfortunately was he currently hold up, his newest experiment was underway.
A Dragon egg of unique making had been found by his followers that believed to be saved by him, since he could feed on dark parasitic magic.

Idiots didn't think about him eating the corruption meaning that he would devour them in their entirety.
Foolish prey... delicious meals on legs, coming willingly to their demise.

Once the unique egg was thoroughly corrupted with dark parasitic magic, than he would try share his dark essence with it, so he could have a strong hench dragon that still was below his might.

He thought the first Dragon Lord's name: 'Spyro'
Would make a excellent name for his future not blood related son.
Or rather privileged slave?

All his previous sons and daughters had not been able to inherit his dark affinities, this time he would succeed.
No emotional attachment to spare this egg the procedure to guarantee success after all the time he wasted previously on his own blood and flesh born.

Without a protective mother to fend him off once they learned of his plans. Spyro would become a ruthless tyrant like him, shackled by respect to his strength and fear of a punishment of it would dare disappointing the might of the future dark dragon high-lord:
MALEFOR

Author's Note

Hope you enjoy slow burning stories.
After all: The heros and the villains need time to grow in power for the times of conflicts to come...

Stay snuggly! :rainbowdetermined2:

Last time edited and improved: 11.04.2024

Chapter 18 - When the world is not a kids show

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 18 - When the world is not a kids show

After all that had happened and had been discovered by the Royal sisters, was a lot to be change over the years.

For example would now at least once a year the royal castle and military fortress installations change the Cipher out. While it was not cheap and making some security glyph makers very unhappy due to new demands and regulations that they had to satisfy their customers with, did thanks to Luna and Nightmare Moon was clear that a Cipers being 10 years or older was unacceptable.

While they never actually breached it rather than, sidestep it via a very rare loophole that would be kept open for the royal family convenience, did Luna and Nightmare Moon learned through a 'compromised guard that wanted to come clean' before his goddesses, that the current Cipher had been compromised for as long as he was working for them... with him being at least 21 years in service that meant some personal had to be fired that was responsible for even allowing so vast security leaks to stand for so long.

Many organizations had a lot of the more... should they be called morality flexible guards?
It was the more polite way for greedy beyond reasoning traitors to be described... in their pockets through bribes and services provided that in themself would have them serve decades of jail time at the lower end of things.

Other had family's that got pressured and had to obey or else... apparently did many ponies got way to inspired by criminal novel books to come up with very eccentric ways to make someone suffer.

Clear to say that 20 former pony nobelhouses had been terminated for high treason and the possession of highly illegal materials and pieces of knowledge stolen from the royal library by making copies of them.
Thoughtful that something was like illegal and highly illegal was distinguished would need closer examination at a later date.

Family clans like for example 'the Naysays' are partially pardoned, because no highly illegal dark magic or other regular illegal stuff was found in their clans possession.

While many interessting sums of gold and other valuable goodies had changed hooves, did Naysay had believability on his side after he let himself on his own insisting scan for magic manipulation and other means of making someone more susceptible to outside influence.

While it was only trace amounts that he could've taken for a eventualities like this to happen over years, did 'High Princess of Equestria Celestia', give him the reason of a doubt and for a price... that was basically a personal minder and a placement on the watch list for troublesome individuals, let him and his family clan of the hook.
For the time being.

Nothing as empty as gold or gems would do to strengthen trust between them, but informations on the other hoove would be welcomed.

For example how he himself and his dearest friends, got gang pressured to follow through with activities and them giving financial support to groups like: 'Prey first' or 'Advantage of high grade self defense for the civilian sector'.

The Black Hoove Agents did a excellent job in ripping large networks of corruption out of the hearts of Canterlot with these new informations.

Manhatten and Cloudsdale in particular seem to be besides Canterlot the hide quarters for this scum to reinforce their roots into Equestrias economy.
Many opportunists found themselves caught, when they try fill in the power gaps forming by having so many nobel ponies arrested and executed.
Surprisingly they preferred to fight to the bitter end, when told to surrender and be guaranteed to be spared death.

Apparently did they had learned how crowded jails in Equestria for the really dangerous criminals had become, for self entitled and whining wanne be masters of crime, they had surprisingly mutch spine to fight to their dying breath.

The royal familys house cleaning was very effectively crippeling crime lords and many corrupted elements in their justice system, according to Sir Naysay and Sir Inkwell, who confirmed that all their associates that are not gang pressured into following had been apprehended or killed.

They thanked their majestys for their mercy to spare their family clans, since they get
'pressured into compliance'.

Celestia would keep a eye open for them, they get one chance to redeem themself and no more.
Their usefulness had bought them at least that mutch.

The dream guards had received a strong infusion of financial aid and recruits.
It was unacceptable that the Alicorns are to keep Cynder mind safe for the sake of everycreature in Equestria and beyond and keep failing at that...

The purge of the dream realm of this over millenia festering problem need to be finally addressed. It might take decades,
but Equestria had the means and the obligation to purge the dream realm as efficient as they could for everycreature safety.

As a side effect they had eventually redicules strong guards physically and mentally. All by regular consumption of dream parasites magic release upon their termination, was just the metaphorical cherry on top.

Research was started to collect the released magic of dream parasites and used it for non dream guards.
The potential to increase military strength was huge... if they could actually pulling this exotic idea of.

Though Luna would have to keep a close eye on it, because that mutch activity hunting in the dream realm would not go unnoticed by the older Tantabus inhabitants and might force them to take unexpected action against a intrusion of their realm to a extent, where mutual respect towards ones hunting grounds was no longer stopping one side from harming the other.

This might yet present a set of unforeseen complications for the future to come.

Tarterus continued to get modernized and while it was a huge risk, did Discord ask the two main inhabitants to be let out of Tarterus to regenerate mana and help in their unique ways to modernized Tarterus inside and out.

Grogar with the help of the freshly executed former nobel ponies as tireless and cheap work force and Tirek by having dream guards mana stores partially absorbed and the Centaur physical strength temporarily restore, to help with
'the heavy lifting' and other more dangerous tasks.

How Tirek reluctant verbally protesting agreed, but regardless without fail returned his 'borrowed magic and mana' after completing his assignments, give them all hope that Grogar and Tirek if not reformed, at least leave to where they come before their attack on Equus.

Grogar and Tirek had been rulers of their own kingdoms in the far past after all.

Everyone especially Tirek and Grogar agreed that a eternity in Tarterus makes things like world domination really undesirable.

They further would have to return to their domain and most likely start from scratch to build their lost kingdom into a state that even allowed them to be a threat once more.
Something that would keep them busy for centuries if not millenia.

Their time in Tarterus would most likely be enough to ever return to this realm of existence ever again.

The Tree if Harmony was fuming in rage... the script she was following was falling apart piece by piece.
Two less pawns for her plans... main assets!
She would improvise and compensate as always.
But power houses like Tirek and Grogar didn't grow on trees...
Unless...

'The Tree of Harmony' continued to plot... it would fullfill its role in the greater picture yet.
... or see it burn.

Cynder training continued to progress, slowly but with success that could be measured depending on the excercised aspect.

Currently she could breath 10 firestreams for 8,5 seconds over a range of 10 meters or alternatively full recovered 20 fireballs over up to 100 meter range, before her throat started to become painfully sore from overstrained use.

She managed up to 10 bolts of dark magic lightning attack from her mouth, but fall unconscious shortly after, caused by magical exhaustion rather than physical fatigue.

Luna and Nightmare teached her to turn into a black cloud that was save from physical damage,
but increased her injuries substantial when attacked by light or fire magic.

Cynder also showed latent psychic powers, unfortunately was she to young and mentally not mature enough to unlock them. With exception of the telepathy ability.

Cynder most likely would develop in time psychic abilities, as for example telekinesis.

She was to young for combat training and her currently full day and night cycles, had been filled with activities one way or another.

If Cynder wasn't trying to sleep properly and become the dream realms biggest light tower, due to her inability to hide herself anymore... the weight of strength and its price for obtaining its power.

Did she started to participate in dream parasite hunting. If she had to endure being attacked when she tried to rest her mind instead of keeping it busy, than she had to at least try making the best about it.

Interessting enough did she didn't get effected the same way others did, the only thing it seem to do to her was increased temporary mental and physical and magical regeneration.

While the only permanent effect seem to be a increase in speed and agility as well durability of her spikes and claws.
Her tail already seem to have become as sharp and destructive to damage any kind of defense.

While noone would test it, would even the Alicorn battle armor
'Elysiums Embrace' eventually be broken down, given enough time... because if three Alicorns strained against her tail attacks in sparing matches, a real fight would have it broken through, if given enough time to do so unchallenged.

One thing Luna and Nightmare Moon had to learn the hard way was how not everything harmless looking was actually that way.
Yes they are no fools, but even a millenia old goddess or two could learning a tough lesson or three.
For example:

Only because there was a colorful bottle that seemingly got knocked over and had colorful looking candys, always read the labels and if in doubt:
DO - NOT - EAT - IT !

Another hard lesson they both had to learn was:
"It was only a prank!",
don't protect you from:
"Here is the medical bill of the victims."

While they had only fun and games in mind, things and actions have consequences!
Even if royal immunity can get them out of the worst... mostly.
Do not act before thinking of consequences and implications of seemingly inconsequential things.

For example was another lesson:
"Don't prank the guards with pointy magical improved sticks."
A spear thrown towards a potencial danger might just hit next time something more important, than just cutting someponies tail hair centimeter over the dock end cleanly off.

At least the ponies enjoyed a new short tail hair trend, when nobel ponies visiting the castle see their Queen having her marehood at full display.

Although some suspected her to be a shameless flirt or a really thirsty mare... something they all would love to help with., stallions and mares alike.

Fun fact: Even if the mane and tail hair look like mystical clouds, they are still just that, tail hair bleeding of mana in a spectacular manner.

Many stallions learned that their self control wasn't as good as they expected. So Queen Nightmare just had given by accident, what she was getting back... quite the sight to behold.

It was a time where pony eyeplates just showed how big they could apper to grow with the iris taking all available space...
be it out shock, focus or curiosity.

These days at least the royal guards didn't complain about boring patrol duties, once their Queen walked past them.
Not to mention the lucky guards following her around on occasion, when she traveled through Canterlots most populated areas.

Author's Note

Remember:
Children and some adults don't think before they act!

Keep them save by telling them if they make mistakes and store medications out of children and adults with childrens maturity mindset out of reach...

Stay snuggly :twilightsmile:

Last time edited:
10.04.2024

Chapter 19 - Consequences

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 19 - Consequences

Consequences sometimes come immediately, more often than not they take time, but there are always consequences for one self or another.

As the royal sisters that had spend countless time on the Moon just learned, didn't all thing could be fixed or ignored with sufficient magic thrown at a problem.

A lot of their problems could be fixed with water, food and sufficiently potent potions that might have raised the dead and make them dance the tango... or what ever dance they learned through their lifetime.

But some problems just had to be fixed the hard way...
For Example:

Since they didn't use massiv amounts of mana to merely keep themselves alive on a dead moon that was more of a miniature planet, did they had to spend it somehow else.
By example using their magic to blow tiny mountains up that are supposed to be harvested for materials.

Unfortunately if someone has a ice affinity it might cause a short time climatic change when the blast zone is covered in meter thick areas of ice as a result, that every Pegasus in weather jobs have to correct over time...

Tornadoes are no laughing matters.

Having to be put under the scalpel, because the lungs had over millenia breath in tiny amounts of moon dust, adding up in clogged lungs.
The doctors had seen smoker lungs of chain smokers over decades that looked like clean sheets in comparison... apparently did God's and Demigods could survive things that would have killed mortals very long ago.
Having Stallions and Mares around in estrius season... or the chronological thirsty ones.
Having admiring Stallions and Mares that wanted to court the sexy imortals. Especially with one cutting her tail off to show of her marehood like a 'all you can eat' open invitation...

Luna and Nightmare had not as mutch to laugh the first 2 years of their return as they hoped...
the dentist was a very brutal experience, yet it was a lot less painless than in the past.

Alicorns don't do filling of tooth due to teeth decaying or root canals procedures.
They literally grow their teeth anew, after having them pulled all together.
To day the dentist wasn't in awe and slightly miffed to be unable to show their skill of restoration through teeth healthcare science was quite the let down.

After the purge of over the half main string pulling nobels in Canterlot, Cloudsdale and Manehatten, did a lot of crime subtlety got lost.
Crimes with backhoove deals dissappeared and the Griffons that had becoming Guard and Police forces really stopped certain parts of high population centers to be burned down by junkies that could not get their shit anymore. On the other appendage, lower level gangster that had read to many thriller and murder case novels and thought they could just pull stuff one to one.

The most ruthless idiots got themselves and their followers arrested or killed, before the one without shit for brains actually started to make a decent job.

Over the next decade would crime again grow more subtleties and would need another purging.
But right now everyone agreed that open crime was to common and to sloppy executed in general.

This alone ruined a lot of tourismus for Equestrian City's and Villages.
Apparently is cutting out tumors leaving large bleeding holes that need patching over time...
Unlike Alicorn, mortals healed only slowly and scar free wasn't a thing.
Metaphorical and literally.

Many benefits the corrupted organisation brought like a stable economy, suddenly collapsed and the 'Golden Age' was surprisingly fast over.

At least all the money and art pieces taken from the criminal familys and organizations had helped to balance it roughly out.

With not to many open ponies actually capable to fill the holes in the nobility and the knowledge to do them correctly, did many trading agreements needed to be renegotiated. They ended off worse for the Equestrians, since they had partially really nasty delays.

When a certain Apple-Pear clan had the food ready, but transportation and storage and finally distribution failed, did Equestria had to become for some time very dependable for outside help.

That brought surprisingly issues on its own, but that should be explained by someone that actually knows how to write stuff like that...

The Naysay and Inkwell clan become the foundation of the recovery effort of Equestria, yet while they managed very well all things considered, did someponys spread the idea that the economy collapse was caused by Griffons, rather than the royal family 'cleaning house'.

Suddenly was the friendly Griffon next door not longer looking so friendly and many insecure ponies insisting on self defense training and gimmicks to be sold.

Years later would two sibling con artists thrive in this environment... though they produced a few of good things to leave authorities undecided if to lock them up for good or wait for one of their revolutionary rare inventions.

With Equestria in a economy weakened state, many helps to Yeti attacked nations started to fail to come early enough to count and the national community cooperation started to slowly fall apart.

When the Griffon nobility managed to get themselves killed because all their horded wealth, was not be able to be exchanged into food and other things the population needed, did a internal war ripped Griffonia into pieces.

Many minor nobel houses tried in vain to flee, when the lower class needed a scapegoat to pounce on.

Many Griffon Chick's supposed to be only in Equestrian schools for a year at a time or two suddenly become orphans.
The orphanages could not keep up.

A certain Griffon chick found in all this chaos a new family that take her in, when a multi colored foal told her parents that her best Griffon friend had nowhere to go... Rainbow Dash new adopted griffon sister Gilda Flash-Dash joined Equestria permanently.

Fates shifted and destiny could not longer hold course.
Paradoxes in the previous writen history events started and in time would one fundamental change, bring historical supposed to happen events to their knees.

Apparently who ever designed fate and destiny has not counted with a tiny but mighty Dragoness and a Draconequus to play like it like children building spaceships out of Lego-Playhouse sets.

That day the world would shake, as if it tried to losed a stone that had blocked its clockwork.
That fateless day a hard restart of a long working system was going to end in disasters untold.

The tapestry of the world destiny would have to be fundamentaly renewed and the balance of the world have to be restored in ways noone could predict.

One thing that got a massiv boost was the orphanages and the school system in Equestria, effecting unexpectedly many years later other nations by mimicking its concepts.

Construction of new buildings and renovation or extensions got added to already existing infrastructures.

Still home schooling was rather common for many families, especially the nobility preferred it that way.
What had in turn often socially less outgoing and adaptive individuals as outcome.
In exchange did they had in general a lot more education thanks to their parents and grandparents not getting the usual school teacher problems, like overcrowded classes and students that rather focused on learning to not get in trouble than causing trouble.

Cynder learned a lot of stuff she had noticed, but needed someone to teach her anyway so it stuck to her memories properly.
Example:

The day and night lasted 15 hours eatch.
Giving a weekday 30 hours.
7 days made a week.
4 weeks ended in a month.
12 months ended in 1 year.

Week days are named:
1.- Monday - Moon Day
2.- Tuesday - Prismia Day
3.- Wednesday - Nightmare Day
4.- Thursday - Lunar Day
5.- Friday - Faust Day
6.- Saturday - Solaris Day
7.- Sunday - Sun Day

Though depending on the nation week day names might change, though it was widely used for international trading and the economic different system to get a common ground to work on.

Other things like how their alphabet looked like, really give her slightly problems.
Until she noticed that the alphabet looked like 'Pokémon'.
My Little Pony Equus used 'Icognito-Alphabet'.

Funny coincidence.

At least that was all their world had in common with the anime. Cynder would have hated to have to accept that any meat dishes would require sapient beings to die for it... as would be the consequences of having every animal as a Pokémon.

Besides the standard educational system was also a magicaly educational system in place, not important if Kirin, Yak, Pegasus, Dragon, Diamond/Gem Dog, Bicorn, Griffon, Minotaur or Earthpony, they all learned it because everycreature had magic and even if not very talented in it, everyone could work it!

Glyph writing made magic possible for any race. What and how well they could work it was determined by internal mana pool or substitutes like Gems infused with magic.
A red ruby could for instance be used for fire magic mana substitute to be used alongside ones own mana.

But a Gem holding water affinity mana would not work fire spells. Magic was simply that way...
further was there three sets of Glyph languages, that worked quite differently from one another.
But usually a mortal only learned one set and its variations to effect the magic within and their environment to archiving a desired effect.

The biggest consequence to all recent events of economical world unstability was that many nations stopped giving one another military support outside key Citys, outside of major events that reached beyond a village or two like pandemic outbreaks or wanna be revolutionary groups trying pretend to know better than the countless millenia old immortals either leading a nation or traveling the world to life their existence as they see fit, under the radar of law and order ideally.

Though tax evasive behavior was commonly overlooked on their part.
Apparently some ascension blessed creatures, are not worth the trouble with them behaving otherwise... by Royal decrees when they become to mutch of a hassle.

Equestria helped only by sending Celestia out to 'Solar Lance' Yeti areas out by random for activ military intervention.
Though Equestria was still the only nation that send ~~human~~ equine-itarian aid for smaller and bigger desasters all over the world.

Usually military intervention of demigod powermoves would get any race towards the community of nations communication range to get stuff like that to stop, any sane leadership would also try to get equine-itarian aid for their people.
Unfortunately did the thousands of dead Yeti corpses helped ice climate predators population to explode and the Yetis race suddenly enjoyed more home grown meats... Yeti standards where really hard to understand, especially if they shifted depending on situation.

Not to forget that all the increased moisture in the world atmosphere from melting huge areas of ice into steam made rainstorms and wild wind storms so problematic, that Celestia was approached to stop roasting the Yetis...
at least via 'Solar Lance' abilities.
The verbal burning of these barbarians never stopped.

Of course would the Moon vacation sisters of Equestria had a high demand to catch up with laws and social standards to start helping out in any ruling capacity.
One do not simply continue with a 10.000 outdated law system and moral standard.

At some point do the Alicorns wished for a free day on the Moon or two, with them realizing that in Celestias care law and order had expanded and become so complicated that hole professionally trained branches had to be established to keep it running and minimizing loopholes to keep order in a sea of rules and regulations.

The Equestrian law and order military and non military institutions once freed of noblepony corruption, did a stellar shining job in keeping government and its citizens in order.

Especially Celestia needed help ruling Equestria and guiding it allies, since she was a newly baked mother.
Thanks to her 'True Vision' fabrication, was her foal and more often than not, her real foal daddy with her.
Keeping the royal bureaucracy in waiting for once.

Making things more often complicated beyond imagination. Unfortunately making some aspects slower than they should be.

So the Author would just ignore the details and move on... seriously unnecessary stuff that got mentioned but never explained to mutch in detail

Cadance the pink Griffon chick had her royal family more often than not to busy to raise her, so Cynder got a new honorary sister.

Cadance would not grow up a singel child anymore. Further would she know the plight and benefits of growing up mostly as a normal citizen.
Unless someone overstrained the Black Hooves patience and see that being raised like a common citizen didn't mean 'being as unprotected than the usual citizen'.

The Tree of Harmony was metaphorical fuming with rage and throwing up a tantrum in frustration that was noticeable as a earthquake within the Everfree Forest.
If this continued she just stopped to compensate and just would start events to wipe the world of its ruling nations and start a new.

Harmony was now widening her contemplations... maybe it was time to stop playing exclusively for the 'good guys'.

Cynder was three years of age now.
From here on out her rather simple yet eventful life would get a lot more... event filled.

Author's Note

Hope you liked that stuff.
At least now the canon chaos of the world is properly enough explained.
Also some if its order.

Stay snuggly :pinkiesad2: 👍

Last time edited and improved:
10.04.2024

Chapter 20 - Cynder third year living in Equestria

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 20 - Cynder third year living in Equestria

After Cynder reached her third year living in Equestria, did things became a bit more busy.
While education was still rather light as to not overwhelming the younglings, did the Apple-Pear clan started to build excercises courses for the younglings and the adults.

They even become popular under the Griffon soldiers in training, with some additional difficulties added with airborne elements.

Some enchanted training dummys completed the course.

From:
- Do not accept candy or toys from stranger or wanting to show them their 'bunnys'.
To things like:
- Hit the stranger there, when they grab you to take you away without you wanting to follow them.

The Black Hooves flinching slightly, when Cynder showed proficiency in hitting and slicing off parts noone wanted ever see hit that way again... preferably ever.

Later a way more difficult and dangerous parkour got made by the Griffons to add more variables to their training.

Air Griffons, Earth Griffons or Mage Griffons, all had their strong and weak sides running it through. But every Griffon was to be able to manage to make it through. Even if they could not finish in certain time frames.

When Cynder was going one night out of her house towards the Village, did the Black Hoove learned to never let themself be slacking in their diligence, when on 'Cynder watch duty'.
Who expected the dragon hatchling to sneak into Sugar Cube conor through a open window for a midnight snack?

The panic was short lived, but Cynder being no longer in her room with Applejack, Cadance and Big Macintosh was discovered, when during the shift change her bracelet and necklace got pinged on as standard procedure.

While no audiable alert was raised, did a certain Queen was displeased to be awakend during the night. When she learned that the dragon welp was no longer in the Orchard, did roughly 200 Black Hoove Agents and sleeping cover agents converge on the village sweet and treat bakers house in case of foul play.

While Cynder was found unharmed and alone with a belly aching due to sugar poisoning, did the situation was still not acceptable.
This time it was a false alarm, but with the information of a cure of parasitic dark magic influenced being able to be produced in Equestria made public, even Ponyville had one or two 'known spies' that might have been responsible for Cynders relocation...

Noone was replaced, but a certain shift of Black Hooves Agents got blue hooves from all the extra work they had to do as part of their punishment for slacking in guard duty to the most important unique being on Equus.

Blueberry cider was getting more accessible the next season thanks to the extra work the Ling got put up to, making a mare named Berry Twist a very famous and slightly richer pony.

Since Chrysalis was a diligent and reliable sister and Queen, did she not try to cover up for her children's failure. Still did her sisters only started to calm down, when the standard 3 agents with reinforcements summoning crystals got raised to 9 Black Hoove Agents with summoning crystals and dragon fire scrolls to alert the stationed Griffon and Pony militia, 'WHEN' not 'IF' it actually wasn't a false alarm anymore.

Cynder would next time she sneak out of the Orchard unfortunately have learned a new ability to concealed herself and the bracers signature.
This time a full blown search was started, until Cynder was found sleeping off a meat food coma in the local meat shop selling fish.

The intervals of Cynder bracers to get pinged got raised to one ping a hour and her new bracelet and collar, could not longer be concealed by her new ability.

Unfortunately didn't anyling expected that Cynder might take off the bracers and necklace. When they needed to call the royals to locate the dragon welp, was noone happy how often up to this day Cynder could have been potencial be taken away... it just needed to happen once to ruine everyone chances if they ever would get infected after all.

With Cynder being found in the Ponyville Guard food storage having raided the MRE -packages for their treats... leaving many open to spoilage rations behind. Something the on watch standing agents get blamed for, having let her get to them in the first place.

But better all this small alerts with leaks in security found and eliminated, than having someone doing it for them with the intention of keeping Cynder for themself.

When Cynder tried tricking the 'take off alert', by Cynder first using concealment and than removing them. This made the Black Hoove Agents stop panicking who got the night shift with Cynder, to be punished when she again tricked them all... the dragon welp stayed unpunished, since she revealed a mountain of flaws that needed fixing over time.

Unfortunately did Cynder started to play hide and seek during the day with the Black Hoove Agents with increasingly more clever or abstract hiding places.

The little trouble maker sure was doing it deliberately by now.

The Black Hooves relished the challenge.
Every time the disguised Changelings needed the bracers and necklace location spell to be found, did Cynder got a Gem to nibbel on as reward.

While Chrysalis enjoyed the dragon welps ability of concealment, did she wondered how a three year old could be possibly that clever and deviously creative:

The closet
Under the bed while under the fresh bed sheets
The cookies jar insides, after eating all the cookies to make place for herself
The ceiling structure wooden aid top side
The backside of a sleeping pig
The inside of a empty barrel
The insides of a lamp shade
Under the sink using chemical cleaning bottles as cover
The insides of the running oven
The backside of the dusty refrigerator
A bread basket filled with flowers
Behind the showers curtain fixture in the room conor
Inside the cloak of a out of duty Black Hoove Agent taking a nap
Inside a stack of cardboard boxes
A digged out hole of a dead apple tree
The empty waste bin
The dirty laundry basket
Under the table curtains
Pretending to be a Cynder plushy inside the foals plushy collection ( she literally didn't react the thirst three time the Black Hoove poked her, until a meat treat make her break the act )
And finally on top of various furnitures.

That was when Chrysalis learned from Luna and Nightmare that their connection to once magic core allowed for them to voiceless talk to one another.

Queen Chrysalis was very impressed, how well spoken and polite the dragon was.
Something to be investigated later.

Before the third year was over and Cynder settled down with her hiding acts she pulled all year...

Did Cynder gained the Ability to summoning a strange Glyph card that let her summoning 1-10 living Puppets. Golems that acted like living beings even if their roughly designs Golem exterior didn't show their versatile nature.

Cynder somehow showed the royalty of Equestria how to connect to them to a degree, where they could use them as if they are their original bodies. Minus the limitations that the Golems body had.

When the royals started to drill their pony and griffon Guards, Black Hoove Agents and Cynder herself in their free time, did their abilities to use presets of abilities got eventually discovered, even if they collapse before properly forming.

Apperently was the quality of the Golems mirroring Cynders maturity. Until a certain threshold would be reached, would the living puppets just be good to be used under direct control if not given simple commands.

The Golems only do what Cynder told them in her squeaky voice and noise commands and what they are told over telepathy or the tethered connection magic core to magic core.
Further was Cynders command always in higher priority and only after Cynders order got sufficiently followed through, did the Golems accepted the royal orders.

Still telling them to do stuff was partially extreamly clunky, so direct control was usually needed to have any use out of them.
Currently at least these orders seem rather to be relatable be followed, when given by the Royal sisters:

Go to point 'A,B,C'.
Follow individual 'A or B'.
Defend / attack that area.
Stand by for orders.

With the knowledge that parasitic dark magic influenced beings could be cured came the skepticism. That was when Celestia with every allied nation witnessed how Tarterus got opened up and slightly malnutrition, but healthy ponies come out to enjoy the sun and started Picknicks all around them.

When Celestia with her foal and her personal advisor joined them, was clear that Celestia had full confidence in them being completely healed.

When they ask why it was only ponies, did Celestia ask who would raise their foreleg if they invested millions worth in bits for the cures efficiency on their own race.

Only Celestia raised her foreleg.

When the Abesinian ask how effective the ponies cure was on a non-pony, did Celestia of course lied that it only had a 2 in 10 chance on the optimistic side. Stating that biological differences are vast, something that wasn't even a lie in itself.

As expected did all Kingdom and Queendom started to pay one of many huge sums of money for research and offered their scientific best personal they had in the medical field.

Celestia ask if they had any ways to protect the researcher from parasitic infections?
At that they dropped the offer and increased the money flow rates towards Equestria.

Of course was there nothing to research, Cynder had a 100% cure chance, but she had to make up old cure attempts bill's that had never been filled out and the psychological medical staff alone wasn't cheap either.

So in a few years time healing would be increasingly be more efficiently than the years before. In 20 years would it even raise up to 5 out of 10 chances! While a 50/50 gamble was still very high and low at the same time would at least one of the currently foreign sick royal family members be healed, mentally patched up and the cure would unfortunately have not worked on others.
Research take time and money after all.

All that money would be actually stuffed into war recovery efforts of the allied nations over time and hold Equestrias own economy to get stabilized.

Equestrias standing was the standing of them all with the Yetis leaving Equestria mostly alone...

Cynder often started to nibbeling during her third year the tail and mane hairs of the Alicorn when they come for a visit. Bright Mac and Butter Cup often nibbeling on the royal mares ears to get them embracing their more sensual and social aspects of their new era in Equestria.

Chrysalis tried to chicken out on it, by turning Griffon what left only ear holes.
She did not expected Bright Macintosh to hold her body down while Butter Cup ruthlessly give her belly raspberries, until her laughter got to mutch spread to the 'Hivemind of the Changeling
race' to alleviate the sensory overload and she surrendered to have her ears nibbeld on.

Her sisters laughed unhaulted at this silly display of affection.

Life was good.

The Tree of Harmony crossed out the Changeling invasion... some other race would have to invade but who had shape-shifting... hm... unless...
yes!
That would work!

The Tree of Harmony chuckled mischievously for once, what sounded inside the cave system she resided in like wind chimes blowing their merry tones into the wind.
Discord suffered a strange itch in his right ass cheek, while two pink coat colored ponies to be destined party pony filly's had a strange itch at the same time at the same place on their body. There crimson red stoic sister just raising a eye brow in wonder what their sisters predicted this time around.

Author's Note

Thanks to all my followers, rating giving and comments giving readers.

You motivated me so far to write more actively.

Stay snuggly :twilightsmile: 👍

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10.04.2024

Chapter 21 - Fourth year living in Equestria

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 21 - Fourth year living in Equestria

Cynder enjoyed her end of the third and start of the fourth year living in Equestria with family and friends watching as for once more Luna and Nightmare performed the Summer Solstice event with Celestia sitting that event out once more, despite being there to witness it.

Little Prince Solaris Blueblood and
Princess Mi Amore Cadenza absolutely loved the event.
Cynder always seem to be flabbergasted, until she snaps out if it and runs a few minutes wild around for some unknown reason.

Celestias actions made the civilian sectors become a lot more busy, when Celestia released all healed ponies from Tarterus that got cured.
Unexpectedly did many citizens in awe of this impossible to cure before sickness, seem to see Lunas and Nightmare Moon return as a significant point to this.

Celestia know about the story how Cynder as a egg meet her sisters. The parasitic infection cure was probably a combination out of Cynders vile manipulators and her sister helping what they could to undo it. One more reason to belive that eventually someone would come for Cynder. Experiments of that scale are bloody expensive after all...

Anyway...

Many ponies and non-ponies that are citizens of Equestria give freely funds to support the non-pony research to cure them, so their families could be reunited as well.
The royal Alicorn family was very proud of that fact.

The cutest donation was probably the one foal that had donated her freshly of her own pocket money bought cookie to princess Cadance, so she tell her family to help non-ponies to get their mommys back as well.

While Celestia had to fight her mind for it, did a few unsuccessful attempts of cure in general lead to a few cured non-ponies. That mutch Celestia could give for the foals heart felt donation to Cadance.

Meanwhile education was still rather light towards the younglings as to not overwhelming them as they showed more physical than mental development for the moment.

Cynder started to enjoy physical excercises more and more and showed her speed, agility and climbing on walls and ceilings more often.

Her siblings unfortunately could not keep up with her.

When at last Cadance started to slowly fly very close to the ground around, did Cynder was always there to cheer her on.
Cynder seem to be at awe at that aerial display, especially when Silver Tongue told her she have her wings one day as well.

When Cynder ask via telepathy when, did Silver Tongue told her in probably 20 to 30 years. Since she was a unknown dragon species, he simply did not know it yet.

Cynder almost got shining eyes when ever Cadance started to glide and fly low to the ground. Cynder told of her wish to kiss the sky on her own strength one day.
In the mean time did Luna, Nightmare Moon or Chrysalis Black Hooves occasionally let her experience flight on their backs.

One interesting thing they learned that the connection of the Alicorns and Changeling give her a few passive abilities:

Cynder could touch, manipulate and stand on clouds like a Pegasus. Unfortunately was she lacking the Pegasus natural cold resistance so a cloud bed would not be to long enjoyed by the welp, until Cynder started to shiver from hypothermia.
Cynder could adjust her tail, spikes and claws length.
The Changelings guessed this partial body shift come from the connection to them.

Cynder had started to training with her Golems once her own body was to exhausted from running around and made some rather strange body excercises that are rather entertaining to watch. Many wonder where she get the ideas from... One does usually don't make climbing motions with its backlegs or training their tail like that as well.

But her muscles showed a surprisingly good increase in strength output.

Cynders training with the pony and griffon via living puppets even become more popular under the soldiers, when squads started training take downs. While Cynder tried to keep her puppets activ as long she could and coordinate them outside direct control.
Her success was slowly coming along.

Cynder added some additional difficulties, when she learned that the puppets borrowed her experience in things.
If Cynder know how the combat staff the constructs could used was actually used efficiently, did they become as good as Cynder was with it herself.

When Cynder got archer classes with long bows and crossbows, did the puppets had her proficiency in their use shortly after.

Unfortunately could the puppet not return the favor. Nothing others tried to teach the puppets, was learned by Cynder and once the out of dark mist puppets made Golems dissappeared, stuck around in form of learned lessons.

Still once Cynder realize that all she know how to do could be performed by the living puppets, did a lot of griffon and pony citizens of Ponyville got a helping hand from them.

Older ponies had puppets aiding them transporting shopping bags around.
During estrius did the puppets had showed surprisingly well gifted touch in deep tissue massages... yes exactly what one imagen it being what it sounded like.
Pear Butter Cup Apple was very miffed about who ever teached her that...

And so on... and on... and on.

Major Mare didn't returned for her ear nibbeling for some time to the Apple-Pear Family clans Orchard, since she was very busy for some time...
not because she had anything to do with it, at all.
So she had not keep her distance out of shame and hope to let Pear Butters anger fate over time.

Luna and Nightmare learned rather fast that Cynders enchantment breaking tail attack was extreamly effective against training dummys, but her own puppets showed immunity to the enchantment damaging up to destroying effect of her tail blade.
The cause was probably that they are created by her own dark magic mana.
Noone got any better ideas that seem to be fitting, so it was accepted as the truth.

The Griffon Civil War was rather fast resolved when the population was after the few supposedly nobel griffons, which probably only lasted as long because as Celestia heard later, needed the knowledge where they horded their wealth.
It needed to be tortured out of them, before their public execution.

Corruption never got purged without the population of a nation going after it if the government had not something like the Alicorn sisters at their disposal.

The Black Hooves flinching slightly when they showed pictures how some of the corrupt griffons got... deposed.

Noone wanted ever to see these pictures again, yet Celestia insisted that they be preserved.
Let governments see what corruption could result in.

Air Griffons, Earth Griffons or Mage Griffons of Equestrias military partially returned to Griffonia to help it rebuild.
The Royal sisters wished them good luck and let them keep their armor and weapons. They are a gift to the new governments of democracy selected leaders of Griffonia.
How long that system was going to run truthful was beyond her.

All systems of governments had their strong and weak sides. With immortals being in very short access, did many mortals had to try their best running it.
Every Griffon was silently counting on
Princess Mi Amore Cadenza
to one day fill that place out for them.

Until she be a adult and be able to manage to make it as a leader, would the Griffons have to manage on their own.

Fortunately showed a experiment that Cynders living puppets had no limit how far they can be remote controlled. No matter if they are next door to Cynder or the Abesinian Queendom.
So Cynder made out of the best wood Equestria had to offer a few 'lasting living puppets'.

Nightmare, Luna and Chrysalis helped nations by having one puppet eatch in their royal Castle.

Every month did the Nations could share knowledge and suggestions that way.
The nation leaders talked, while the puppets write back, lacking a mouth to speak... and marecode only was as fast than it could be translated in.

Even if the nation leaders could not initiate the meeting, it certainly was useful every time the Alicorns started a meeting once they had been ready.

Especially once the Yeti would once more start their next acquisition war... something that would not change until the Yetis current royal bloodline was in power.

The next time the Yetis come, the Alicorns would know it. This time they see how the royal sisters returning hostile actions would look like in pony.

When Cynder was going one night out of her house towards the village with Cadance, did the Black Hoove not been slacking in their diligence.

When the dragon and griffon hatchling tried to sneak into Sugar Cube conor through a open window for a midnight snack, did the Black Hoove let them. Cadance seem to really love this night time raid for sweets.

The day after the children unexpectedly get all sweets for breakfast, Cadance and Cynder didn't participated to mutch that morning and got grumpy because of the wasted opportunity...

Cadance get a bracelet set just like Cynder. Her claws started to leave some not so nice marks on the furniture... especially the one that got passed from one generation to the next.
Cadance got added on the standard hourly procedure to get pinged on.

During Cadance and Cynders next night raid, did the house of the fish meat shop got targeted.
Unfortunately was no open window allowing them access. That was when Cynder accidentally showed the Black Hoove Agents how she could turn into a dark mist and ended the speculation how she occasionally got into other houses for a nom-nom raid.

When later reported did Chrysalis was surprised how well Cynder found alternatives for spells intended use.

The Black Hooves spotted a known griffon head hunter stalking the house the hatchlings filled their stomach in.

Just in case the griffon was after the ones they watched after, did they uncloaked before him.
The mercenary didn't even try to deny the accusations, but he had actually not been here to foal or cub napping them, the new government of Griffonia had task him with making sure nothing happend to their future leader and her honorary siblings.

The mercenary become the first inoffical Black Beak Agent of Griffonia the same year, on the Alicorns recommendation later on.

Unexpectedly did Celestia found her foal in the hands of a Yeti when she, Silver Tongue and her foal with two platoons had been visiting Minatorian.

How a Yeti made it into Minatorian grounds, no less into their royal Castle was not important.
Because her 'True vision' just flashing before her eyes threatened to shatter her mind.

But before her 'True vision' could come true, did Discord teleported into the room and snapped the assassins neck with his tail, while pawing Celestia back her foal.

With the sentence:
"Noone hurts my family ever again... if i can help it."
Did he dissappeared with his killed Yeti in tail.

Celestia never doubt Discords love for her and everyone in her family ever again... what still didn't make him in general any less of a annoying prankster.

Discord had for a relatively long time wondered how he could Celestias string of bad dreams end, that he accidentally give her that one day, he returned.

With that Celestias mind was once at ease, he restored his trust between Celestia and himself.
All it had cost was the life and slight mind bending of a already ice cold mass murderer and cannibal of Yeti kind.

A clear win-win... seriously who would ever miss a one dimensional selfish homicidal maniac without any redeeming qualities?
Not - a - singel - being - anywhere.

Author's Note

Hope you enjoyed Chapter 21.
Inspired partially by someone i don't care to mention by name that thinks democracy is perfect and things like vote manipulation are hearsay...

Anyway...

Stay snuggly :pinkiesmile:

Last time edited and improved:
29.01.2024

Chapter 22 - Fifth year living in Equestria

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 22 - Fifth year living in Equestria

Cynder enjoyed the end of the fourth year and start of the Fifth year living in Equestria once more with family and friends. Watching as for once all sisters together performed the Summer Solstice event with the Apple-Pear Family and Discord baby sitting the small ones.
The foals if the apple clan and Cadance, not ponies in general. Though he did that to in time.

Despite all Discord had done for everyone, was he not welcomed by most. He didn't care that mutch, because the ones caring for him, did all the more. He truly feel loved by his family and the Apple-Pear family clan that see him as the odd ball of the family instead of anything more negativ as most other did.

Being there to witness how Equestria shaped up for the better than his counterpart would have allowed them so early, did made him wonder what that Tree was up to... he might have underestimated that crystal plant, if it managed something like his stone imprisonment for thousands of years.

The Tree of Harmony was currently strangling a dragon to death that wanted to make a meal out of it.

Perhaps replacing Tirek with a Dragon was a bad idea after all... but the selection was rather limited overall.

Little Prince Solaris Blueblood and
Princess Mi Amore Cadenza absolutely loved the event like the last time.
When Discord added some fireworks into it, did they loved it even more!

Cynder as always flabbergasted, running around the area from awesomeness overloading her mind just witnessing the mind blowing event.

The God of Chaos sure enjoyed this chaos generating human in dragon body.
Humans are always so delightful unpredictable and chaotic.

Celestia released all healed ponies that had since be restored sufficiently and showed to be mentally stable enough to be returned from Tarterus to their family, if they had somepony left to get back to. Unfortunately had somecreatures nowhere to go, so Celestia hired them for anything they are good for.

If no open space was in that job line, she just make some space. She financialy supported them until they would stand steady on their own.
Or they died of old age... or related illnesses.
What ever come first.
Helping her citizen was always worth spending money on them.

A few that got cured, unfortunately had been in the end stages of their natural life's or their mind had been destroyed to mutch by the parasitic magical illness. There was not mutch that could be done about them.
Celestia financial support them by giving them caretakers and moved on with her life.

Discord was magicaly to exhausted to help everyone, but occasionally despite all odds, did some younger ponies recovered all on their own.
Noone could explain it and a certain Draconequus was just happy they got better all on their own, while wearing his trademark smile when noone watched.

Celestia worst fears come true about Cynder getting discovered when someone suggested that the parasitic infection cure was probably a combination out of Cynders enchantment breaking tail ability, since the parasitic magical illness could be counted as malicious enchantment in their educated opinion.
That and Cynder getting transported from Ponyville to Canterlot, but never arriving there.

They got to close for comfort to the truth, but there wasn't anything that could be done to undo it.
One more reason to increase security for Cynder and keep placing Agents in Ponyville.

That eventually someone would come for Cynder was clear, but they really hoped the dragon welp could enjoy a normal life a little while longer... every year full of cherished memories.

But with all that was dependent on Cynder, no risk could be taken.
Cadance and Cynder night food raids would have to be stopped and a bakery and kitchen addition got added to the Apple-Pear Family house with a specially hired personal staff, to get stuff ready when needed to satisfy the nightly sweet tooth.

Not ideal, but they had to compromise... life is build around compromises after all.

Cynder, Cadance, Applejack and Big Macintosh got more schooling help, as the royal family hired teachers for young students. Cynder take the best to math and magical glyph topics.
The pony foals did well to anything as expected to their age mental development.
Cadance was surprisingly good at math and magic glyph teachings just like Cynder.
She would apparently make a fine ruler one day indeed... with the right guidance and a lifetime spend with friends and family.

To Queen Chrysalis dismay did her Agents all over the world reported how their royalty demanded them to acquire information about the cure. What component had it so effective towards ponies in the first-time, what about the rumors about the Apple-Pear clan dragon being a part of it and if there was a way to steal research to see if the pony princess of the day really had problems developing non-pony cures.

It took a lot of medical and magic bullshit, but beyond superficial knowledge about 'that can't be used for a Abesinian like for a pony because it would be poisonous' or a 'Minatorian cow would potencial become infertile when certain medications are introduced', did Chrysalis do overall good enough to convince them that:

Yes, it actually is so bloody complicated as expected curing it.
No, they could not find a short cut to avoid paying for the research costs.
No, the researcher could not be bribed, or their notes could be acquired, unless they wanted to get catched by Black Hoove Agents.
The rumors about the Dragon could not be confirmed or found to be false. Especially with Cynder being passively under observation, because princess Cadance was a honorary sister.

Celestia did release a few successful attempts of cured non-ponys that in general didn't lead to a reliable cured to non-ponies in general. That mutch Celestia could give for the ungrateful alliance partners.

Just good Chrysalis had her hooves in everyones national information network.
Otherwise things might have gone south.

Cynder in general enjoy physical excercises. Her strength was her speed and agility, but she was now starting to lack behind her pony siblings more and more in physical strength.

Cynder unfortunately could not keep up with them in strength and endurance.
How well Cynder would be in flight versus Cadance would not been seen for decades to come.

But Cadance was a immortal and Cynder was a very long lived species. So noone was in a hurry to find out.
Well... maybe Cynder, but only because she was jealous about Cadance flight abilities as of yet.

When at last Cadance started to slowly increase the heights she fly in, did Cynder started to dream about flying and not even the dream parasites could ruine it for her!

Thanks to Cadance bright pink feathers and fur coloring was it not necessary for her to be close to the ground to let Cynder watch her and cheer her on.
As always did Cynder was there to cheer her on to keep her motivated.

Cynder seem to be at awe at that aerial display of Cadance making barrel rolls and loopings in high enough heights to not risk a 'crash and burn'. (Crashing on the ground and suffering frictional burn from the grass or earth ground, until she comes to a stand).

When Cynder tested her maximum telepathy range, did they measured 200 meters.
With growing age would she most likely have that increased.

Cynder almost got shining eyes, when she imagined her puppets flying. With her direct control abilities, could she experience flight prematurely perhaps?

Cynder wish to 'kiss the sky on her own strength' might come closer than expected yet... later than it could have come in use over the years before.

Cynder had continued her training with commanding her Golems, while beside them in her original body and inside a directly controlled puppet besides other puppets following around.

Her progress was slower than she hoped, but over the year did her training showed a good increase in more precise outcomes.
The intent was more important that the phrasing of the orders given.

Also a polite asked task was still higher in command structure than a Alicorn stated command.

The summoning individual was always first in the structure of command. Her order also invalidate previously by Alicorns given orders.

Cynders training with the living puppets even become more entertaining and difficult, when group/squads actions started to become part of the training.

While Cynder tried to keep her puppets actively coordinated outside direct control, did they messed up more often than Cynder worried they would. In time would she get the fine commanding out of her puppets, but this was a skill set she would have to work on.

In turn would her puppets be years later as proficient as their master upon summoning, no matter if out of pure dark magic and there for temporarily or with a sacrefice of wood, made permanently to stay.

The puppets borrowed her experiences and statistical abilities in all things that their limits allowed for. While not the strongest, fastest or to durable, they had unlimited stamina and never needed rest, sleep, water or food.

These puppets would make for very high grade guards in the future!

Cynder didn't grow in dexterity in her own body, but that didn't stop her from becoming better in her puppet control training it.
Knifes, short swords, long swords, long bow, crossbow, combat staff and spear training.
Cynder had a very busy time when she wasn't playing with her siblings or enjoyed extended napping.

Very unexpected did Luna and Nightmare discovered that puppets could be controlled during sleeping periods. It was a more sluggish control, better for any non combat related task, but it could be done.

Suddenly could Cynder keep herself busy learning or excercise with her puppets during night time.

Unfortunately was that when Cynder had the brilliant idea to continue her food raids, just with the extra step of smuggling the food into the house.

All Black Hooves hoove palmed at that new headache, Queen Chrysalis to their dismay enjoyed to see how dedicated Cynder was to get her sweet tooth filled with sugar.

When Cynder started to use squad tactics to cover her food raids from Black Hooves that tried counter raid her liberated food, was a new game born.

Catch that Candy/Fish/Muffin/Cupcake.
The game was on... just one more way to keep the mischievous yet silly dragoness entertained.

Cynder started to play dirty when up to 18 Black Hooves simply outnumbered her 10 living puppets. Cynder just invented the next day the water pistol with dark pepper combination.

Not a month later was a refined version made available for non lethal take downs of criminals!

This was not going to be the last thing Cynder bring to Equestria... the stun baton would become the go to non lethal weapons besides the pepper water rifles.

Author's Note

Working from time to time on my already released chapters as some might notice.

Stay snuggly :pinkiesick:

Edited and improved:
10.04.2024

Chapter 23 - The big adventure... School time!

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 23 - The big adventure... School time!

The 5 years Cynder had been living showed a lot of change for her personally, not a decade into this new world and everything had changed for the world as well...
Not to forget how many lives she had changed and saved by removing dark parasitic afflicted ponies and non ponies from deaths door...

Cynder had learned a lot for someone her age. She made a lot of acquaintances, had every true friends turned family or honorary family. She had acquired her abilities and trained her skills and body. Alongside her numerous skills. But her hardest challenge was yet to come... Schooling outside home and living along foals with chicks.

O girl... What horrors would await her? Not even the Black Hooves would be able to save her from children being children.
At least did this pony and non pony foals and Griffon Chick's be cuter in looks and more mindful in general. Comes with the territory of having as prey learned hitting there weak points when roughhousing and predators learning to use claws and beaks carefully as not to hurt family and friends, while not getting hurt in turn.

Applejacks the absolutely diabolical cuteness on four hooves. Veteran of many tongue vs hooves fights against Cynder and hoove to hoove fight with her big brother. As well the hoove to beak combat champion.

Big Macintosh the young sturdy colt that was the biggest of them all, second champion of many hoove to hoove, hoove to tongue and hoove to beak fights.

Cynder the undisputed absolute adorable squeaky toy of doom in tongue to hoove and beak fights. A true champion of the gentle roughhousing arts.

Cadance the pretty and pink chick. While mostly on the last place in the roughhousing pole, did she exceptionally was unbeatable in the art of making puppy eyes to get sweets for them all and tickel take downs with her feathers.
Perhaps Cadance was the most ruthless tickel monster of them all...

Even Discord feared her tickel sneak attacks.
Equus was indeed doomed the day she added tackel hugs and snuggeling with petting to that list. Cadance would be unstoppable...

The betting poll was 50/50 on Cynder or Cadance to give the world a heart attack one day as adorable younglings or probably kill males of their respective species with their puppy eyes of doom...

Anyway...

The very first open day of public school today was coming along and the younglings could bearly wait for it.
So many friends to make, mutch to learn and perhaps many coming play dates coming out of this first day alone...

They all where busy trying to wake Granny Smith up for once. The mare started to feel her twilight years to grind down her slowly failing body...
This year would be probably the last she made a point out of it to bring the foals up and down the stairs and do lifting in general.

She was 175 years of age, usually a Earthponys could manage up to 200 without big medical support, but a life of hard honest work finally had started to grind her body into the Earth that had birthed all she had worked and cared for.
Unfortunately would her body now start drastically to degrade. A Earthponys body usually if it reached 200 years of age at all, started to absolutely spectacular fail at 180 years of age.

Some guessed that the internal magical core was breaking down from overuse... But after millenia of research, did noone really know it for sure...

Today was her joy bringing youngest generation really troublesome.

"Come on wake up or we'll be late." Stated Applejack, Big Mac and Cadance. They hopped around Granny Smith like excited puppys.

Only Cynder seem to have acknowledge her state and snuggeling her face, until Granny Smith surrendered and standed slowly up.
They had refrained from shaking the old mare awake with hooves and talons, but the mare was still shaking on her hooves for a minute after she standed up.

If Granny Smith situation started to degrade further this year, might she not even enjoy being the mighty steed to the breakfast table any longer before Cynder become 6 years old...

After breakfast did Silver Tongue and Granny Smith disappeared for a few minutes. After they had returned did the plan of the day had changed.
Silver Tongue would have the honor of bringing the four younglings to school.
Three cheered the change of pace.
One almost shed tears...

After breakfast did everyone got a shower from Butter Cup, while Bright Mac was going somewhere with Granny Smith...

Butter Cup spend some time holding back a laugh as she tried to sneak tickels into her drying of her younglings in.
Cadance get free from the drying towel that Butter Cup had wrapped around her the best.

A magic hot air hair dry maschine helped the younglings to dry up.
Cadance fluffelpuff impressions with feathers are still absolutely priceless!

Once they where ready, they take the schooling supplies in her hammer space storages and Silver Tongue started to ride them to their first stay.
Accompanied by 27 unseen Guardians around Silver Tongue.
9 for Cynder, 9 for Cadance and finally 9 for the stallion of Celestias heart Silver Tongue.

The way to the school was event less and many greetings come their way.

Many of the parents bring their younglings to the school today. The Ponyville had three huge school complexes, building a 'U' shape. The courtyard was rather huge thanks to the fence between the conor of the school buildings edges.

Many Griffon soldiers roosted on the roof of the school.
Timberwolfs and Manticores had started to produce surprisingly many offspring in the last years and the food demand was not longer holding up.

While Celestia had ordered more general nutrition dispensers on the other side of the Everfree forest as to lead the majority of all predators away, did eventually new prides and hunting grounds got established and the weakest packs and singel hunters enjoyed their territorys near Ponyville.

Ponyville was a unattractive target since it had a huge collection with ponies with sharp sticks, not to forget the Griffons with sharp sticks that could fly...

But desperation drive some predators to a bad decision that not to rarely ending in the population of feral predators dropping thanks to guards doing their jobs very efficiently.

The Tree of Harmony crossed out feral Predator as death cause for Bright Mac and Butter Cup Apple-Pear death out. To strong military presence to sneak even a top nourished and well trained Alpha predator to the Village or the Orchard.

Death by Tree falling, death by rogue military or death by accident it would have to be.
Unfortunately was the military these days way better trained and patrols on every conor might make that point mute as well...

Death by Tree falling or accidents of any kind it was...

After reaching the school they all evacuated Silver Tongue back and tested out their new magical glyph tattoos located on their neck backside that give them all a transparent looking hammer space storage.
A invisible outside magic inspection version would be given once they reached puberty.

One with more storage space harder to inspect and low level preservation spells reinforced would be made available, once they all reached 30 years of age and be declared adults in Equestrias law.

With the Griffons and Pegasus as we'll Thestral having a life expectation of 160 years was 30 years a good age to be declared adult, when given enough time to mature.

The Unicorns, Bicorn and Kirin see it with only 120 years of life expectation a bit differently, but the law was the law and noone stopped someone at 25 to start acting and jobbing like a adult.

The group of younglings standed together.
Ponies and Griffons had a instinct to stay in a group, strength in numbers. No wonder later in life ponies herded often and Griffon flocked together.
But that was a topic for another time.
Probably puberty...

As the group leaded by Cynder could get a good look at their new classmates, was it not to surprising to see many air or earth griffons low flight chasing one another to alleviate tension and boredom. The mage Griffon Chick's with their colorful plumage like Cadance had it, rather flocked together as a hole and squeaked and chirped happily with one another.

Cadance was accepted by them like a common family member, the ponies got gently poked and proded to see if they are as soft without feathers as the rumors told them.

And Cynder?
Yeah...
Cynder got absolutely swarmed, the squeaky dragon was apperently the unanimously undeclared school petting mascot.

While Cadance was a bit miffed that her most favorite squeaky puppy like sister got so crowded that Cadance would not be able to sneak a head petting in, would she make up that deficit later at home.

When one chick tested Cynders tale and found it dull despite it looking like the sharpest blade to have ever existed...
Did Cynder learned that her tail blade in a relaxed state was tickling when gently attacked by a beak.

Cadance would ruthlessly exploit that fact from now on, when Cynder started to tickel her when roughhousing.

Celestia, Chrysalis, Luna and Nightmare enjoying the show by snacking on cookies and biscuits, while watching everything happening before Cynders eyes.

Their magic core connection was also unfortunate sharing parts of Cynders ticklish treatment by Griffons in rows nibbeling the dragon welp, to get it to squeak and hiss in laughing fits.

The day was filled with giggling by the young and antique equally.

Meanwhile did a certain filly lost her only friend in the world, do to him getting a cutie mark and leaving town with his family.
The innocent smile of the fillys face dissappeared that day and Harmony made a check mark at rearranging events for the timeline to come.

If the Tree of Harmony would have had a face, it would be glowing in glee.

Author's Note

Joy and tragedy, blessings and curses of fate and destiny fall upon many that fateful day...

Proofreading more in detail will be made at a later date.

Stay snuggly :twilightsmile:

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Chapter 24 - The big adventure of school and dark secrets within...

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 24 - The big adventure of school and dark secrets within...

Cynder was very surprised once the school greeting ceremony started, a magical projector showed the faces of all the teachers and director Naysay. The retired politician wanted to help 'shape the next generation' and help 'guiding it into the right direction'.

He helped funding the well armored and spell protected school from outside influences, while having occasional a griffon or ten patrol the corridors in the very unlikely situation where something harmful could have somehow get inside the school. Unlikely as it was so he insisted, would the Naysay Ponyville school for Equestrians never let the future of Equestrian be harmed by any means.

After the little speech of the director did the teachers introduced themselfs and to everyone surprised was their pool of teachers very varied.
Kirin, Unicorns, Bicorns, Thestral, Pegasus, Earthponys and a Zoney.
The Zebra-pony hybrid was the most colorful addition with having every of his stripes be a different color and his well muscled body got framed by dreadlocks that had multible colors as well.
The Zoney sure put a lot of effort into his looks.
Noone was surprised that he was the art and music teacher.

Cynder didn't recognize any of the Teachers with exception of a familiar face of a earthpony. Miss Cheerilee Sunflower.
That mare looked rather unremarkable under all the ponies, but unlike the other teachers, did she had a bright smile. The other teachers seem to be rather focus on looking well disciplined and focused.

Celestia and Chrysalis frowned, they know Naysay wanted to retire from politics but not that he would become Ponyvilles school director.
His pony first priorities seem not ideal for a school with all ponies races and Griffons in it.

They might have to send in a few Black Hooves to observe the school in general.
Also who changed the name of the school complex...
It was to be named
'United species Equestria elementary' originally!
This needed investigation... sooner than later.

When the first day ended after the general introduction off the school director and staff, did the Students got a general introduction into the school layout, a overview of emergency collecting areas and where the many toilets are with their brand new
'no toilet paper spells'.
Basically advanced and rather high cost cleaning spells.
Generously donated and maintenance by the Naysay clan.

That sure would keep the Naysay family clan remembered. Perhaps why Naysay did it?

After the traditionally celebration of school opening and first day orientation was over, did everyone enjoyed a mixed feast donated by Naysay. In the now decorated and well furnished Courtyards with rain magic shielding.
Apparently did Naysay indeed spared no costs with his ~~theme park~~ school complex.

Where Naysay got a rare and expensive Minatour steak to his red wine, was beyond anyone.
But everything was first grade food for staff and high quality for the students and their parents and guests.

Cynder had somehow fleed the Griffons students tickeling her half to death and finally stopped for a well earned rest. Near a toilet room.
Next to her was Cheerilee, opportunities not wasted did Cynder introduce herself and Cheerilee got startled from the female seductive voice, that didn't come from a specific direction.
Once Cynder ask Cheerilee if it was her first day as well, did Luna nudged Cynder by pulling on the magic tethered connection to her.

That got Cynder startled in turn and make her jump to Cheerilee eye height.
While the royal sisters all chuckled at that and Cynder swear tickel revenge upon the mares, did Cheerilee only see the dragon welp around her and ask if she had spoken to her.

Shortly after did Cheerilee learned three things:

Telepathy was apparently not that high of a mage spell, if a 5 year old could use it.
Unless she was some kind of protégé...
Don't judge a book by its cover.
Not only because clop was always looking plain...
In this case it was the 5 year old speaking like a nobel ponies, with a voice that Cheerilee wanted to pin to a wall and make sweet sweet music with it...
Also that only because you don't see teeth, there might still be something to be feared with her tail looking something a butcher griffon would gutting a Hydra with and
SWEET - FUCKING - CELESTIAS - TEETS - ON - A - SUMMER - DAY!
The dragon welp had teeth after all!
No smile looked ever so sharp before...

And finally:
- Cynders adoptive father was the alicorn level Rockhoove hunk of a earthpony stud
Bright Macintosh Apple-Pear!
Cheerilee just had to be her teacher! Perhaps she can score a foal from that absolut stud muffin!

As Cynder wanted to ask why all teachers are stallions and her being the only mare in the school staff, did Cheerilee told Cynder that the staff on the school are all residents from Canterlot and are 4th to 2th class nobel ponies that all retired from politics and want a more relaxed lifestyle and hoping to score potencial a few mares as a herd.
Cynder nodded sagely at that, before Cheerilee remembered that she talked with a 5 year old dragon welp and added: "For snuggeling and ear nibbeling only, because that is what a herd is for...
And nothing else..."

Cynder internaly snicker at Cheerilee for forgetting for a moment that Cynder was a welp, instead of a fellow mare. She could relate, the hunting game was very entertaining for both genders.
In her previous life she was a master of seductive one year stands after all.

Until she got accidentally pregnant after two decades of playing the game and never giving celebrated a broken condom as mutch as that one time that give her a son like she never knew before, that she wanted to fill the hole in her heart...
But that was a lifetime ago...

"Yeah, snuggeling is the best." Cynder said as she played the dragon welp role for the adult mares sake.

To change the topic did Cynder used her near future plans in their walked to the inside of the Courtyard, to get Cheerilee back to talk relaxed again:

"So what do you think our first lesson will be, also what do you teach us?" The clever dragon welp asked.

"The alphabet and counting up to 10 or even 20, if you are good at remembering so mutch at once." Did Cheerilee answered.

That was basically all that they could have discussed, because Cynder Apple-Pear just remembered why she had fleed the Courtyard in the first place.
Unfortunately as she just realized she doomed herself, did Cadance and the other Griffons on mass focused on her like a meat treat for free.

Cadance said aloud:
"...And if you nibbel on her tail gently with your beak while she is relaxed, she can't help herself and squeak and hiss in laughter!"

At that Cynder feel betrayed like never before, just seconds before her doom was sealed a clear deal...

The Staff of the Naysay school minus Cheerilee started their meeting:

"Welcome back to the new 'Pony First' counsel.
As i promised you all, we disposed off all fanatics and all our opposition. With our loyalty unquestioned will be build a better counsel for our movement than ever before.

A singel Guard gangpressed into service almost got us all killed.
Good Crow Inkwell had his emergency plans in place for us all.

Unfortunately will he sacrefice himself to play the absolutely uncorruptible servant for the Alicorns and will make his daughter Raven Inkwell be Celestias right hoove mare.
Crow Inkwell was a visionary like never before and while he will be uncountable for the rest of his and our lifetime, did he made sure all lose ends are cut off and we are free to do as we always did: Rule Equus eventually through Equestria as a leading nation .

I have removed the corrupt elements from the long founders list and only our true believers and heros like Crow Inkwell will be remembered.

May we all life and die in Harmonys embrace and rule over any creature fair, but with ponies at their top.

For the Pony Empire!"

*All attendance cheers in celebration*

"And what about the teacher Cheerilee Sunflower?"
Ask the Zoney.

Naysay answered:
"Singel, only mare in the staff, young and willing to take life by the teets... Perfect pure Earthpony bloodline I could even trace back as one of the very last Counselor Puddinghead clan descendants.

As far as i can tell, we celebrate tonight's school opening in the orgy room i build for you as requested.
Tomorrow we will have a delay in starting the first official school day, compensated by me giving out the same high quality food like today. And Cheerilee can sleep of the railing we will give her.

I made sure, she is one of the open minded mares. I think even a earthpony of her qualities will be out cold from pleasure, once we all had 1 or maybe 2 round with her eatch...

See you all in two hours stallions, be showered and ready to blow her mind with our collective stud efforts."

Meeting end.

Cheerilee Sunflower had the best night of her life. Unfortunately was she indeed a Puddinghead descendants... She lasted all night long and the stallions only managed, to last minute hire and fast instruct the one day staff for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

Cheerilee had just won the jackpot of her life.
She had a village worth of stallion sausages all for her own.

Her ancestors Puddinghead and Rockhoove would have been proud of her stamina and endurance!

All these stallions are her now...
It was great to be a Alpha mare...

Author's Note

Not to long and i can start with the Displaced action...

Stay snuggly :twilightsmile:

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Chapter 25 - Days come and days go, what have we to show for in the end?

Author's Note

Hope you enjoy the battle of determination to see once family unharmed.

Can't guarantee i keep up the update rate.

This weekend i will write a crossover with a amazing other displaced Author.
I will have to make it long before Cynder welp years are over.
But do not fear, i hate time skips.
So basically i just move the chapters around later.

Who will be my guest of honor?
I doubt you see it coming :rainbowkiss:
They come at night... Mostly...

Stay snuggly :pinkiesad2: 👍

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Chapter 25 - Days come and days go, what have we to show for in the end?

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 25 - Days come and days go, what have we to show for in the end?

Unexpected did Cynder and her siblings had the first activ school day delayed. By two days and the first day teaching started had longer breaks than on the teachings plan clawed over to their families showed.
All staff was walking a bit odd and did the most they could while being sit down on their mobile chairs with improved wheels.

Why they didn't use wheelchairs was beyond her.
When Cynder ask during art class her Zoney teacher, did he get a red tint on his cheeks and muttered something about nurse role plays...

Cynder smirked at that, kinky stallion.

As Cynder was told by their parents did
many parents told their offspring the basics, unless something is preventing them from it.
So usually most of the alphabet and counting to 20 is learned before one meet with other students at school to do it there.

Unfortunately is it a common thing that most parent's that are not pony nobels, let others teach their foals. Unfortunately is lack of time or simply no wish there to give their offspring a headstart in life.
Some others again don't let professionals do it for them, but prefer to only let a pony be raised by viewpoints that many social circles would not tolerate.
When they than eventually become adults, the desaster is unavoidable...

But that is a topic better left for now.
What world view some ponies or non-ponies forced upon their spawn, was unfortunately nothing that could be changed.

A certain Tree of Harmony made sure of it...

Applejack, Cadance and Big Macintosh know the first days teaching already. In fact half a year did they learned what they had been teached by their parents already.

Many were not taught by their parents unfortunately and so eventually the group got bored and started unexpectedly to help the teachers to oversee the students in math and writing classes. While reading was still something they had to master themselves, did the Apple-Pear family get a high praise for their smart, gifted and well raised younglings.

Celestia even thought to use the Apple-Pear clan younglings to teach Blueblood what they already know. Blueblood was a bit younger than them, so they made 15 minutes a few attempts at teaching, before playing and repeatedly going over the alphabet in a playful way.

Blueblood had the alphabet memorized by the month in a singing game.
How to write was beyond Solaris Blueblood, but they don't question that he would catch up in his own time.

To know that the Apple-Pear clan see the Alicorns as honorary family without any wish to exploit it, made Celestia hope that her little Colt might already have a excellent pool for a open herd far into the future.

As Chrysalis observed Cynders behavior more recently did she had to wonder if the mature telepathy voice might be a mirror of her mind maturity.

Maybe Cynders unique dark magic made her learn in redicules speeds? She thought as unprecedented as it was, maybe instead of a 5 year old, did she had the mind of a 10 year old.

That could explain a lot.

When Cynder took her seat as Applejack, Big Mac and Cadance did so as well did a new teacher walked in and introduced himself.

The teacher walked in after the bell rang with a few treats in a basket. Positiv reinforcements for positivity and productivity.
He had a brown coat of fure a lavender mane and green eyes and his cutie mark was a book and quil. The Bicorns had on one hand a calculated face expression, but his eyes are filled with passion of some kind.

"Good morning children my name is Written Script the twenty-first." He said writing his name on the board.

Cynder ask for the twenty-first was for even if she already know it.
He answered as expected and unexpectedly to the question. He was the twenty-first son of a family of twenty-five ponies.
Apparently did his family don't belive in condoms or his father had a herd of mares that loved to be impregnated.

When Cynder learned that ponies had a ratio of 1 stallion to 8 mares, did she understand why they tried so often for a colt...

Further was his family a rare breed, they only birthed 1 to 1 ratio. So the royal princess of the sun had payed them hoovesomely and giving them paid help to raise them all, since the stallion would be invaluable to keep Equestrian population stable and...

What ever he was explaining got lost to Cynder when she realized how hard it would be for her to 'get some' if Dragons have similar ratios.
That thought killed her mood and the royals all wondered why Cynder was so glum all day long.

They could ask, but mind reading was not supported by the connection magic core to magic core.

Unfortunately didn't everyone learned as fast then previously predicted and near the end of the year classes shifted.
As hoped did the Apple-Pear family related or not, stayed together.
Unfortunately was their friendly and easy going class basicly completely exchanged.
While they keep playing with their old classmates, did their old one got new friends and so a more casual lose friendship was established.

Cynder noticed that she grow spoiled to have her good acquaintances become friends and finally family. A strange thing now that she think about it... maybe Cynder maturity an common sense did development for this life after all.

Today was the last day of school and they would be going one last time over the alphabet. Everyone, especially the Apple-Pear group had it down and perfectly memorized.

After their first hour of writing, was the not mastered material followed. This time everyone struggled, even Cynder. She could read it, but she still needed to translate the Icognito alphabet to her usual english. While some of her teachers wondered why Cynder made a strange non Icognito alphabet to help her reading, did Chrysalis got very interested in this little detail.

When mathematics come up did Cynder was the best in class, but once more was Cynder going on with slightly changed up numbers.
Chrysalis let later one of her children talk to her parents and family, while she got to work on the search of this strange numbers and alphabet cheat sheet.
They didn't had teached Cynder its symbols.

Later did Chrysalis ask her sisters if they new those numbers or non Equestrian or otherwise used alphabet. Celestia and Nightmare Moon needed to search for that. But had only just remembered to have learned it from their parents. A few millenia ago... very curious.

Something was strange about Cynder, but they could not quite put their hooves on it.

The rest of the day went smoothly for the students and they where sent home.
Cadance unexpectedly didn't follow along.
She wanted to play more with her Griffon friends in the air. By now Cadance was confident enough to fly up to 500 meters in height, everything above was simply not comfortable for her yet.

Cadance would start the next year to play more and more with her fellow griffons. Cynder would smile in the knowledge that her honorary sister was finally losing her shyness and was building friendship and acquaintances outside her precious family.
A important aspect of a future leader.

Especially when old age would unavoidable eventually take all she know away over time...
But Cynder would be at Cadance side to overcome her pain losing loved once again and again until eventually in a few ten thousand of years even she would have to say goodbye to her Griffon sister...

But that was a very long time into the future, so Cynder pushed this drama to a later date.
Time to play!

The Black Hooves agents following princess Cadance did had a volatile situation at hoove.
They had standing order to let the younglings be younglings, but the emotional cocktail they tasted only promises desaster. One way or another.

Her new six Pegasus classmates had apparently played nearby, when Cadance accidentally crashed into one Pegasus after evading a Griffon student flying home that had almost collided with her.

Flinching AND sharply turning she had mid air crashed into one of her class mates. They both caught themselves in air, but the Pegasus filly had lost a primary when Cadance accidentally grabbed mid fall at her collision partner.

One crying filly and her angry friends on the ground wanted to teach the Griffon pink ruffian a lesson in attacking unprovoked.
While this was a accident that could be resolved easily. Should they? Sometimes a helping hoove given in the wrong time might leave to greater harm down the line.
But they could not let princess Cadance be beat up by 5 Pegasus fillys for a honest mistake... she was royalty after all.

Cynder was accompanied by 10 of her living puppets she had in Ponyville.

She had multible living puppets in other nation by now. But they counted currently to her magic core connected extended family.

10 for eatch:
Luna had hers as ambassadors just like Nightmare Moon.
20 living puppets made out of the best magic infused wood for Equestrians allied forces.

Celestia had her 10 living puppets in research facility, that get tested on anything that they wanted to know, even if some things are more made out of curiosity than scientists desire to learning in case it damaged a puppet.
Even if Celestia again and again told them it was perfectly fine if they all get destroyed.

Cynder could by the end of the 6th year hold 200 puppets in existence.
Only summoning cost her mana. No upkeep or maintenance.
Wild magic was all they needed to stay functional and repair themself over time until a certain amount of damage makes them
'poof out of existence' if they are made of pure dark magic.

Otherwise the wooden construction is evacuated by the dark magic and leaves the previous used body behind.

The magic without fail keep returning to Cynder.
High above ground. Under the Celestial sea.
Through seemingly closed walls.

Apparently air tight isn't magic tight.

Anyway was Cynder followed by the golems around, while having them hold eatch two baskets full of fruits and other market pre-order wares that only needed picking up.
A job for Cynder no question ask.
Her puppets would carry, she would command her workers, her family would give her nuzzeld appreciation. Win - win.

That was until her connection to Chrysalis showed her that something was happening that conserned her.

Less than a minute of explaining later, did the puppets speed walked towards the orchard while she herself sprinted at speeds she didn't know she had in her. Apparently did all her daily muscles training with forelegs and hindlegs didn't just improve strength, but speed and stamina.

When Cynder caught up to the group of her angry classmates and her featherd sister, did Cadance already had use of the self defense training practice game experience that Cynder had 'played with her'.

So far only 1 Pegasus attacked, while 4 watched impatient to see the Griffon hurt for hurting someone else.

When Cynder jumped the attacker when Cadance had lost balance and landed on her rear defenseless, did the aggravated Pegasus started attacking the dragon that just like the Griffon had unprovoked attacked.

The situation was at best complicated and at worst unsolvable, if they didn't interfere. But the Changeling Queen had orderd to wait and see. Especially when she feel the confidence of Cynder in the situation. So the Black Hoove Agents did their jobs and followed their mothers wishes with compliance.

Cynder dodged and waved between her classmates in their tantrum attacking her.
A outside observation might show Cynder bearly dodging, but Chrysalis invited her sisters to watch the dragon welp.

She was practically dancing around the attacking Pegasus fillies and she sometimes fainted a attack, she never went through with it.
Cynder had a lot of practice combat experience with her puppets, but not her own body.
Yet apparently feeding on thousands worth in parasitic magical illness afflicted individuals had given her increased mental processing strength.

Adrenaline and magic flowed through the dragon welp and the royal family wondered if this welp was really only a child.
Cynder improved her movements mid battle if she got hit. She didn't really feel pain since her body had a natural durability that might let her tank all hits, but what is strength if you can't hit your target?

Cynder was a warrior and a dancer, a trickster and a very kind soul.

She could have ended the fight minutes ago, yet she let the Pegasus work out their anger on her so they be to busy to harm a sobbing Cadance.

When after 18 minutes the puppets finally come to their master aid was one holding a first aid packet, while another had a Apple pie with him.
Just for good measure had Cynder bring her secret stash of Candys divided in multible small money bags by one of her puppets.

The 5 attacking Pegasus fillys did get absolutely winded from their attack non stop.

When they see the puppets behind them, did they fear trouble. When they get handed over sweets, did they confused take them as offered.

Cynder told them she was sorry for the misunderstanding. They can have her candys as excuse for the trouble.

The fillys that had her primary lost got the apple pie and ignored her stinging wing for a time.
After everyone had eaten, did Cadance said she was sorry for crashing in air with the fillys and give her a hug as excuse. They bring her home and everything was forgiven.

That was until after 5 minutes when everything was fine again and Cynder was with Cadance and the puppets on the way home, Cynder collapsed from overstretching her endurance.

Now the Black Hooves finally had reason to act unrestrained.

The Tree of Harmony had seen it all.
This anomaly is not natural.
In other words, fair play was no longer required...
the Tree of Harmony was shaking in anticipation of things to come... maybe she had found one of the anomalies that ruined the timelines originally planned out flow.

Chapter 26 - The Merchant 1/2

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Chapter 27 - The Merchant 2/2

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 27 - The Merchant 2/2

Cynder ask about her family and how they do after her death. It was a tough thought about them having to burying her and move on do suddenly after the incident that cost her life.

The Merchant kept track of them apparently, because he expected exactly this conversation to happen. He informed her that they mourned her passing, but they overcome the pain eventually and had been living a happy life together back than.

To be more precise he watched them for many decades, just to see if they be more than he expected them to become. One year here is a decade over there, so if they do the math with her 6 years here that the merchant watched them, he spend over 60 years on earth just to tell Cynder what become of them.

Long story short: Her beloved son never had another child, but her darling granddaughter had 4 children, three boys and a girl.

Cynders son died due to old age, surrounded by family and friends that still lived to that date.
The children had some of her grand-grandchildren and their families bloodline looks secured for all that it is worth for her now.

So she can rest easy that they both had fullfilled lives, unfortunately they all three missed a chance to make a mark in history. Unlike here where Cynder literally changed the lives of ten of thousands actively or passively.

But here in a world filled with activ magic did many a individual made quite the impact, even if their names didn't necessarily get writen down in history book or other media of knowledge retainer and their knowledge get lost to time or fools destroying the past knowledge and robbing future generations of the chance to avoid making the present unable to prevent past mistakes to be repeated in the future.

The Merchant come a long way, but he could not see a bright future for fools destroying knowledge of the past only because it didn't fit in their world view or they are simply petty.

Who cares? It's all in the past, but when wars repeatedly happen exactly because of it, than it was noones fault or everyone else but their fault, when it happend again as the mortals always insisted on.
But Cynders time would be wasted thinking about her old world, she should better care about this one.

Unlike on her old one would she stay here a lot longer and unlike as a human, she would shape this world and it's people. For better or for worse, but with immortal family members and herself going to live for centuries at the shorter end and multible thousands if not for ten of thousand years at best? She better make her life a good one.
If not for herself, than everyone else she cares about.

Cynder would probably be sad for a time, but she could finally let her past life rest and dedicate everything she had and was into her new life and family.

But it is how she react to pain past, present and future, that makes all the difference. And that is where the choices of her life come in. There was mutch to consider, the merchant had waited for this and give her a great speech:

"Think about any of your Heroes that you know of.
Then consider the Villains, what they did and why.
Both groups have one thing in common after all.
They all started in one degree or another, from a place of pain be it physically or mentally.
Even considering the ponies in this world, each one had something which he or she had to overcome in order to grow."

He obscured them both and only Discord could still listen to them:

"Twilight in the canon timeline had her own reluctance to see past her books, and her need to constantly prove herself to others, especially to her beloved mentor.
Learning that failure is a part of the way to success through perseverance.

Pinkie had her trials growing up and later with archiving her goals and spreading her joy and enjoyment of life and happyness to others.
Also accepting that not every situation could be changed for the better. Sharing tears and sorrow from time to time, so wounds could heal and the scars fade over time.

Applejack had the deaths of both her parents, she needed to find the strength in herself for everyone else to support them. She worked all her life hard to live up to the expectations she and others had of her.

Rainbow had to grow past her own self-confidence, learn to accept help and to make more reasonable choices and keep her expectations less fantasy and keep them closer to reality.
Also that stunt mares have health and life ensuring prepared for a reason before they hit the stage in the sky.

Rarity tasked herself to build a business in a world where the inhabitants usually went in their birthday suit, eventually settled down with a reasonable partner instead of a perfect mate that never existed anywhere outside the realm of books and stories.
Compromises are part of life after all.

Last but maybe most importantly Fluttershy. She is... well Fluttershy. She basically had to constantly improve something about herself, yet she had a impact like very few in history had.
For mortals and immortals alike."

When the merchant looked through the obscuring spell he had woven, did Discord give him the same smirk as he give the chaos god and a griffon version of a thumbs up.

Both the Hero and the Villain experienced pain. But the difference between the two was the hero said, "The world hurt me, and I'm going to make sure no one else ever feels this pain."

The Villain however said, "The world hurt me. Now, I'm going to make sure EVERYONE hurts just as much, or even more!"

The funny thing is, both characters believe they're in right, especially the ones being dead wrong.

So if you can convey that line of thinking in your action and teach other you will make the world a better place, one changed individual at a time.

Never try to change the world on its own, for the creatures in it shape it with their deeds and what they didn't do. If you can make your friends and should you become a leader of a group, your followers feel the experience of your pains and teach their lessons. With this you can change a lot in the world you will be living on for the rest of your life.

You and others might be able to draw them into the worlds you wish to create and make them and yourself laugh, cry or what you desire to experience.

I will give you some time to grow up and become the female you desire to become, but be warned:
No matter how well you are prepare or you waste your valuable time because you didn't, you will have the sweet fruits if your success and the bitter lashes of your defeats and if you suffer them all on your own or with others, it will be all on you.

I wanted to have your entire family with you as a starting benefit, but it was not to be. It seem the fate I wanted for you to follow had a mind of its own and you have more in some manners and less than I planned for. Make of it what you will, your card have been dealt and you better make the best of it. We all have to, from the most powerful immortal to the preceded weakly mortal.

Before I will be dispelling our privacy a little warning for both our benefits:
Don't trust or mistrust easily, things are often mutch more complex than can be seen and some of the darkest villainous creature have deserved more of a chance for redemption than any shining heros earned anything they preceding to be owned.

Even good deeds have consequences and some cruel actions can have very wide spread benefits.
That is all, what you make out of it is all on you from now on."

Discord listening to the words of this void traveled being reminded him of many things he experienced himself in this plain of existence or in another timeline when he explored them for their potencial.
Words have a magic all their own, he always was baffled how some of them are to be use to change some lives of mortals and immortals alike.

After having delivered, did the merchant had to ask for compensation for his service provided.
First he inspected Cynder rather clinical and by apparently do nothing more than waving his hands over Cynder in different positions seem to gain all the knowledge that he hoped to receive.

Unfortunately did Cynder was way to young and while her abilities indeed started to awaken, they would need at least about a decade to manifest sufficient to be even considered to be send out into the multiverse of the near countless displacement Equestrian versions.
As of now it would be idiotic to send her out, since even non displaced could rather easily end Cynder at her current statistics.

Apparently would he have to accept a incomplete Token, that he would not distribute and later exchange with a fully developed Token that would have her in a matured enough state to have a fighting chance.

The merchant was a bit unsure if this Equestrian 'Tree of Harmony' would not try to pull something, this rather exotic part of the multiverse reminded him of two displaced universes which turned out to have either instabile if not outright hostile mindsets to many unexpected things and individuals not fitting into their 'grand improvised plans'.

The death of a displaced was always regrettably a losing of good harvesting grounds for his customers consumption of entertainment. Why multiverse observing was so prominent with his 6 dimensional customers was beyond him, but as long he got his due rewards it was totally worth its inconveniences.

Cynder created a object that reminded her of the play card she had bought from the vendor that as she now know was apparently a dimensional hopping merchant with merchandise that changed the life's of their consumers beyond her wildest imagination.

Apparently would this 'incomplete Token' be enough to find her in roughly a decade in her universes time and allow him to meet again, when she actually was reasonably more mature to help others and vise versa.

The Merchant had than left business card behind for eatch immortal present and given them a gift in form of a potion.
Apparently one of his displaced give him access to things this universe had no means of obtaining it on its own materials and giving a new incentive to what was given freely already, to support Cynder hole heartfeltly for trading beyond their worlds limits.

He opened a gate with the new incomplete Token and it than kinda phase out of existence shortly after.

Discord used his potion on Cynder and her fatigue was undone, more like replaced by a dragon fire inside her that lit her tail metaphoricaly on fire.
It was amusing as it was concerning to see Cynder run on the walls in many circles by benefits of speed and g-forces alone.
Apparently she needed to burn of what ever the potion had given her to mutch off and after roughly impressive 15 minutes Cynder stopped wearing the walks of the round observation room walls out.

Discord further suggested a small visit to the Tree of Harmony cave with his entire family plus Cynder and her family within the Everfree Forest. He was reminded of something the Merchant had warned him of, he didn't want to see the tree to pull something iffy out of it branches.

If Discord had remembered to keep some chaos magic back... he probably would have wasted it on something else before remembering to keep some amount back for the tree pulling some order behind his back.

That crystal tree of unpredictable order was a necessity to be tolerated, occasionally even assisted. After all it had taken the part of its counter into consideration for the extended stoning.
At least that mutch would have the lord of unorderly things to give this opportunity chasing crystalline wanne be master chess player.

He also wondered why it wasn't already yapping at him about turning heads. Unless Harmony as unlikely as Celestia farting Breezy's out her ears giving Discord a compliment for revival of the Moon and its premature royal family reunion.

Bahhh... unlikely even if this overgrown mineral based air freshener wouldn't be Tarterus bend on knowing all and being ahead of any development.

A not to long time the same day later, did Discord unusually alongside the Alicorn mares and the Apple-Pear clan parents walked for hours through the Everfree Forest with Cynder, Cadance and Blueblood on their back toward their old castle of the three sisters. After all, Chrysalis has since her change done the best to be forgotten and rule with her family from the shadows.

Chrysalis disguised as a teenage Griffon riding Celestias back and entertaining Blueblood with chirping melodies, while her Swarm was clearing the patch of unwelcome opposition.

When they reached a purple sea serpent with a impressive orange face beard, did Celestia introduction was cut short and she acknowledged her next shipment of irredeemable ponies and non ponies alive for his nutritional supplements.
The sea serpent Steven thanked his generous business associate and thanked her for the nutritional support.

This was a darker side of Equestria that the Apple-Pear parents and Cynder could have done without knowing. Sometimes ignorance was bliss indeed.

Thanks to Steven many jails getting close to overfilling could free capacities. Unfortunately with soon changing policies would Steven have shortly need of hunting again, at least that in turn would help the regulation of the Predator population that had spiked over the years.

Steven jokingly asked if Celestia still was on occasion missing the doors and walking through solid walls where ever she needed to go, what Celestia with a wingpalm explained to have happened almost one century prior. It happend when she over indulge in the Minatour capital on bloodwine.
That plus fatigue after endless negotiation hours might have resulted in a few Celestia shaped new holes in walls, when she was making a straight line to her guest chambers.

A honest mistake, she usually as expected was polite enough to use doors or miss that a window, to pass obstructions inside a construction.
Also one reason why she was behind Discord, but before everypony else. Making a decent dent in the flora to give her sisters a lighter time to transport their valuable cargo without a scratch.

The Everfree is dangerous more than other places in Equestria, with exception of the Rainjungle of Equestria that is even more extrem than the Everfree Forest. Anyway it was a well known fact how many ponies and otherwise eatable prey traveld through the Everfree without ever leaving again.

After the royal sisters Queen Nightmare Moon & Princess Luna stopped caring for the Everfree Forest, because Princess Celestia send them to the moon, since she was seen as the lesser princess that was only good for paper work and talking the nobility politely down.

After only a decade of neglect the predators without sufficient food effort switched from pony defenders to their indiscriminately hunting nature.
In here over the centuries did many ponies found a telling end.

Stories about how somecreatures friend got gobbled up by a hydra or torn to shreds by a timberwolf, or snapped up by a cragadile, or even just sank into the marsh and drowned like one usually is doing in quicksand while traveling through uncharted Sattle Arabian established routes.
Death might happen less often in Equestria this days, but it still happens for the usual mortal.

When one predator or another, Timberwolves specifically slipped through Chrysalis Swarm defenses that take serious effort to keep the more daring wood spirits away, than Nightmare Moon giving it a death glare or Luna simply throw it away with telekinesis in the air, their lack of wings made sure they be busy reforming for a while.

Meanwhile the alicorns had fun walking through the usually very deadly Everfree Forest. To their surprise did a trio of Zebra siblings camp lay in their path through the forrest.

After a short talk did it turned out that they are on a self imposed journey to improve the Everfree Forest traveling paths, especially in this area and Discord convinced Celestia to use her Earthpony aspect to grow a conjured Haselnut into a full grown and sturdy tree, so the Zebras had a safe home to return after the Zebras had done their daily work .

Nightmare and Luna had fun using some spells on the tree to warp its inner space, while Celestia made sure the spells didn't harm the new treehouse.
As a result did the Zebras had now a hazelnut tree house with a unusual but working entrance, that resemble a sliding door that they had seen last time they been visiting neighpon mortal royalty inside their borders.
One of the few integrated yet self ruling city-states in Equestria.

Discord enjoyed this random encounter in their way to the tree of harmony. The act of kindness and generosity of his Alicorn family members was also nice to witness.
The adults honestly wished the Zebras good luck in their endeavors, further should they ever need help, than the Thestrals living in the forest would certainly help them with their troubles.
It would benefit them after all.

The youngest but still experienced Shaman and Alchemist Zecora thanked their royal benefactors, while her brothers already started to explore the treehouse in dream like disbelief.

The Zebra siblings had traveled a long way and they've been together around the clock, yet they really didn't think their timing would spare the time building a retreat for them anywhere this sturdy and spacious.

Since the royal family really lacked more time with a objective in mind, did they dissappeared into the Everfree Forest underbrush as fast as they had appeared.

It was a once in a lifetime opportunity that had resulted randomly in a lot of changes without to mutch effort.
Discord smirked how he pranked 'Harmony' with two elements of harmony displayed in deed. Aspects displayes and given to a siblings triplet that would now not find a tragic end with only one of three surviving.
Productive chaos was quite delicious for Discord to experience when others did it for him with little to no input of himself.

Would they ever think about them tomorrow?
Unlikely with them all having more important things to keep in mind.
And like that Discord had without big fuss saved Zecoras tragedy from occurring and he would make sure they would in exchange do good on their goals.

Zecora and her siblings would now play a bigger picture in the future unbeknownst to them and help to unmake Harmonys plan for the Equestrian and non Equestria creature alike of this world.
For better and for worse.

Meanwhile would Bright Mac and Pear Butter share the knowledge of the Zebras and how they royals give them a treehouse of their own making, leading several nobels to seek out the Zebras and build a work relationship for their Alchemist potions and their knowledge in general.

Zecora and her brothers become not to long after the main suppliers for medication made out of Everfree Forest grown herbs and roots.

Author's Note

Sorry for the long time with no updates, but I am rather busy in the last months.

Especially with one or two accidents that had me away from anything beside text to speech function use and typing occational comments.

Hope you enjoy the chapter and the occasional proofreading I did on other chapters and stories.

Stay snuggly :twilightsmile:

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22.02.2024

Chapter 28 - Meeting Harmony, face to Tree 1/3

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 28 - Meeting Harmony, face to Tree 1/3

The meeting with the merchant sure was something to remember him by. Discord seem to have made a new friend that was quite the mystery to him as he was to others, that sure would help keep the chaos god entertained every second monday, when they meet for tea and consumable dishes are supposed to happen in the future.

But more interesting to Cynder was the idea what Discord and the Merchant come up with to visit the 'Tree of Harmony' the eternal rival and friendlier nemesis of chaos and change that was Discord in all his mix of aspects.

Discord would guide the Alicorns and the Apple-Pear family with Cynder to the tree semi secret location by hoove.

He could collect chaos magic while they traveled to their destination, further would it be a good time to catch up with what happened over the last millenia.
Save to say he was rather miffed at least if not absolutely livid inside without showing it to mutch In his outside apperance, that his wife Nightmare and sister in law Luna got a 10.000 isolation banishment on the ash filled moon. With only one another to keep themself sane and entertained, so Discord new it was quite the madness inducing experience.
Unlike him, they would have suffered consequences very undesirable, therefore he would see the situation sufficiently mended in retrospect.

He vowed in the future when he had recovered to have already made their stay more bearable and less straining, back when they where banished on the Moon.
Nightmare and Luna shuddered as if a ice cold wind had blow right underneath their fur coat, seconds later they had a nose bleed for about 12 seconds before it stopped thanks to their Alicorn healing factor.
All of a sudden did Celestia notice how Luna and Nightmare body language showed a more open and outgoing personality, what had her wonder if he literally had changed the personal past without effecting the general future.

With so reality bending power did the Alicorn of the sun wondered why he never undone his defeat and imprisonment in the past?
Unless he did change his personal past like he did with her sisters past, but still keep the general present intact. It was frightening to know someone could play with time, yet due to precise and subtle manipulation and careful considerations managed to do it without anyone noticing.
Further how did she know he changed the past in the future, remembering both versions?
Making paradoxically thing happen seem so effortless for this reality bender.

All this power, yet he only used it for their family and its residing nations benefit? Her father/brother in law Discord was indeed a frightening entity, yet it was very assuring that her future would be a bright one, even if bad things would come to happen.
Or he could affect them sufficient enough to make even bad outcomes bearable.

As if to confirm that he would in the future do it or rather having already done it in the future past... these time manipulation sure messed around with ones time perception, while already having done it...
A visibly more recovered Draconequus that was noone else than Discord himself, give his past self a notebook and a bro talon through a spontaneous opening portal, though it would probably be a highly calculated and planned in advance portal placement... right beside the walking contradiction on legs leading their group through one of the most dangerous places in Equestria.

Celestia started to get a headache trying to make sense of it all. Though it was quite a different headache than for example dealing with the stupidity of Canterlots Nobel ponies.

The portal that could be seen through, allowed surprisingly a view into a background that showed Equus from a out of space orbit, to be looked down or up to, depending on the viewpoint.

Damn Discord was deliberately now messing things up to keep it complicated.

It give away a space station or space craft feeling, though he said it was on the moon?
Maybe it was like from that science fiction Subnautica novel she read currently?
A underwater base, but instead of being build as a trading station for Seaquestria, it was on the Moon and give her sister all the creature comforts and a lifestyle they usually would have lacked for 10.000 years of banishment on a to ash burned moon surface.

Something everycreature present was curious to learn about, before Discord waved it off as 'spoilers of the past future', for later.

Celestia facehoof at that, making sense of this literally reality and timeline bending entity was madness. As well knowing that a 'later' might meant never.

Discord directed everyone currently with him walking member of the party thoughts towards the offical past, since the future was yet to happen.

Cynder double face clawed at Discord not to subtle way of obviously being clever about leaving things as they are... now... until later?
Whatever...

She was interested to hear how the origin of this world and some of its history played out over the millenia.
Cynder did wonder what happened to Faust, when Discord had ended his oneshot recollect not bigger than a one chapter story.

What ever it was meaning to hint at.

Discord daughter with Faust in the past that happened somehow in the future, that Draconequus sure loved to mess with time and making it hard to follow his explanations about how easy thing could be if time wasn't as wibbly as it was wobbly.

Further that by no relation what so ever, if they see statues that moved in the blink of a eye, they better don't blink and if able take to the sky to safely put distance to them.
Though he was sure he fixed that problem in the future to save their past for the present safety of everyone.
Cynder realize that she probably had to intentionally ignore what made no sense to her and remember only the important bits of information that confusing godly entity was giving off verbally, assisted by occasionally weak illusions to illustrate what he mention.

Making sense of Discord sure was a mental hazard... probably something to ask the royals another time when she remembered to ask how they coped with him over the millenia.

But a long story with very complicated and partially contradictory details later... he just said that they are fine and unfortunately they would not meet in Cynders lifetime, unless something very unplanned happend.
As in world ending unplanned.
He seem to think about something after telling her that, pulled a thick book and a little booklet out of nowhere, skimmed through it, shaking his head and just muttered about that being a bad example for them.

Cynder started to get a headache from trying to make sense if and of Discords verbal diarrhea.

He apparently shortly tried to be specific in details, that had everyone trying to follow along, give up shortly after. How Nightmare Moon was coping with that guy in her life was a mystery to Cynder.

From what Discord at least 5 minutes tried to explain had drastic spoilers that could be used for everyone benefit, unfortunately noone payed to mutch attention to the details, due to him giving them headaches trying to follow him in detail or any understanding matter.

But what they take away from what they understand at all:
These kind of changes that even he would have to worry about would be avoided if possible by his direct intervention.
What happens so rarely that it almost counted as never happening, even if he was doing it all the time... stupid genius contradictory Draconequus.

Cynder was sure that trying to make sense out his non sense was just wasted time and effort.
The headaches even as mild as they are, would not be worth it for her to try it again for quite some time.

He was literally something to be ignored half of the time and simply accepted the rest of it, by simply nodding and agreeing.

Unlike the normal or not so normal mortal and immortal, did the Tree of Harmony noticed all the changes in the past and was really tempted to wipe that smug face of Discord through a mountain or three, but unlike him, it would do so with style... where did she misplaced the Crystal Empire for later use again?
The tree hoped that Sombra might be a nice way of paying back that infuriating chaos god with the Umbrum Kings existance.
If Discord was messing with the timeline, than she would show him how it is done right.

How mutch of the original timeline could be salvaged by the end? Harmony dreaded the uncertainty of free will and unbound by fate and destiny.

As they walked through the Everfree Forest, did the predators of flesh and blood had enough self preservation to behave themselves, when confronted with overwhelming telekinesis against them for the more aggressive specimens.

What was rather entertaining would be what the Alicorns did when predators like Manicores omegas of a pride and Parasprites in general come towards them.
The Apple-Pear family clan parents prepared intern for a fight when ever one approached them and wasn't stopping by one of the royals, while Luna just walked up to them and showed how these terrifyingly looking predators could be like attention needy house pets.

Nightmare Moon feeded the hybrid carnivores that look like a tamer version of Discord in variation, with fish and pork meat that she apparently had prepared before hoove, something that made her wonder if their spontaneous adventure into the Everfree was really not planned beforehoove by them.

While Luna was giving ear scritches and hugs to some of the usually deadly creatures of the forest, did Celestia apparently preferred giving belly rubs.
Cynder got to fear visual diabetic attacks more than the wildlife as it appeared.
With the Alicorns using obviously unknown magical to her means, to keep the usually deadly wildlife passiv in behavior.

Unfortunately did Cadance and the other didn't get to cuddle the wild animals, since the Alicorns and the Draconequus guaranteed that it wasn't really save to interact with Manticores even when they are playful.

There seem to be a magic spell the Alicorns used to passively keep them relaxed and in a playful mind set and they tried to give the predators insensitive to not see the ponies and Griffon that accompanied them as food, since their alphas would protect their smaller younglings.

Further did Discord collected in the time they walked through the deadly forrest enough chaos magic to very subtle change these primitive creatures mind set.
So Ponies and Griffons be their food providers, rather than being a food animal for them to hunt.

Harmony wouldn't like that change... but that was future Discord problems.

Somewhere in the future was Discord miffed at the stuff he changed in the past to cause him present problems and unwelcome challenges, but in the end he forgive his past self, because he probably had a reason to mess with himself and shovel negative outcomes towards him in the future present.
His past present sure was a complicated time, even for a Draconequus of his caliber.
Especially with how weak he was back than, being nowhere as powerful as he was at that time in history.

The most eventful Manticore beta pack member tried to wrestling playful Celestia to the ground, when the sun monarch overdid it with belly rubs.
Easily showing that even a playful Manticore had very sharp claws, something that Cynder was surprised to see being healed almost passively by Celestia herself.
Alicorns sure are something to behold, making the dragoness wonder why Twilight in the show had to pull all the major events for these powerful beings.

Than again, ruling over a nation certainly was a time consuming and very complicated matter, especially with other nations getting to make things even more complex.

This world was no children cartoon though, so she was rather giddy to think about how the few future events like the big red villainous main event in the kids show would play out in real... could a mortal like Twilight really earn immortality like in the show?
It was doubtful that these mighty beings would be created without historical events and trials, though Cadance as a Griffon cub seem to have somehow managed it.

But how could experienced and millenia of wisdom armed beings let things escalated so drastically that they could not cope and force a mostly untested hero to take national threat practically on her own.

Cynder hoped that everything would work out somehow, this god level clashing of titans would be nothing she could remotely help with.

Harmony noticed a disturbance in the Everfree Forest and sensed Discord warping her perception of the world with his presence alone, what was that desaster on legs up to this time?
Unfortunately did the Draconequus blinded her with his presence in a one mile radius.

At least he could only do so mutch coming closer to her own area of effect presence magic practically sealing his main bulk of abilities.

Maybe the abandoned Changeling Hive in the deserted sand area would make for a good rally point to meet and recruit her villainous pawns for the near and far future?

Harmony continued to harvest the scales of the dead dragon blocking her cave entry, since he refused to served its purpose, now it would make use of it in another way.
The dragon scales should make for a great entry wall with a gate before it.
Why noone had so far closed up the cave entry for the past millenia was beyond clear reasoning.

One would guess that their main defense origin would be better protected by default... or Celestia did more than assign a castle full of Thestral as caretaker of her cave.
At least they keep polishing her regularly and give her a fabulous extra layer of shining to her already glorious crystal nature.

While the Manticore prides and Timberwolves fruit packs that claimed the food dispersion stations had learned fast not to hurt the hooves that feed them, did the less fortunate predator didn't see it so clearly.
Fortunately did the ponies with a Everfree Forest assignment had not been relaying on the wild beasts favor to keep themself safe.
The Thestral soldiers had top of the line armor, weapons and repellent charms that could be activated if necessary and emergency evacuation teleported one time use glyph devices.
Expensive, but nothing wasn't as valuable as the safety of her subjects, especially the ones that take arms up for the protection of land and citizen.

The hungry and less fortunate prides of Manticores and Timberwolve packs of the Everfree Forest inside the chaotic forest are often only to be separated visually and through their body odor, something that often only helped to notice friendly from hostile carnivores way to late.
Giving the Thestral guards the most advanced survivel training of Equestria.

While they had some snacks for encountered wild life on them, did noone wanted to provide to mutch food for the animals to grow accustomed towards the Thestral patrols.

To keep every predator fed, would create future problems noone wanted to deal with.

To many predators breeding out of control due to food situations encourage breeding their prides to higher numbers, would cause food shortage eventually later down the line, while the bigger spread of new packs would eventually overpopulated the Everfree Forest and risk Ponyville and other villages next to it.

Animal misdirection glyph stones only could do so mutch, before the local guard force had to use force on the lethal wild life.

Celestia said that there was a predator training program to use some domestic packs raised from birth for Equestrian forces from the visually distinctive offshoot packs, reinforced the local guards neatly as their territorys since the villages are part of their prides feeding grounds.
A natural coexistence that provided food and medical support for protection.

The most visually and pleasant smelling Sakura Tree Timberwolves near Ponyville or the ones that had fruits growing out of their body, made great natural defensive forces, before glyph defense stones and finaly local guard forces had to become a deterrence for the threats to citizens of Equestria.

They trained them to be watch post support in more wild areas of Equestria as well and even managed to breed special breeds that had a big impact on food products, medical industry and general alchemy ingredients.

For example Timberwolves saliva was dependable on their physical health, useful for different things to boost ponies immune systems with weakend infections shots.
Sometimes preventing things like the 'Common Flu' or more specific illnesses like the 'Feather Flu, to grow out of control due to improved pony immune systems thanks to vaccine shots.

The more exotic breeds that standed visually out that provide fruit and liquids like hard Timberwolve cider, something that was harvested and than fermented to produce high value trading goods. As long someone don't care for how honey and similar products are made, they are a rich support to ones dietary needs, building many farming branches to keep ponies supplied with jobs and well received exotic additional products for countless markets.

Another example would be Manticore venom thinned out or magicaly changed. It was made for magnifying efficient hospital sedatives and other medications that helped creatures with injuries or illness to recover more easily.
Every race be it sapient or sentient could be used with research and investment of cultivation for one purpose or another.
There was always something to be gained after scientists had invested time and efforts to find a use of materials.

More extream useful but hard to obtain things could be thing like:

Minatour milk.
Very nutrition rich, but Minotaur heifers didn't part as easily as one would wish them to.
Ponies seed for artificial insemination.
When they run out of storage time they make surprisingly potent alchemy ingredients for binding certain chemical reactions.
Nothing wasted that can be used somehow in pony society markets.
Dragon baby teeth for mineral harvesting tools.
Their fallen out scales also had so many uses, often get utilized for stone carving among other things.
Griffon or other species feathers for fashion items and pillow stuffing.
Their deceased bodies like pony corpses harvested for meat and other things if the consent to it during their lifetime. Their designated clan or direct families get payed a impressive sum of bits or gems to reward their remaining living relatives, for their big contribution to the greater needs of the multi race society's all over the world.
Kirin chest fur.
It could be used as Firestarter or emergency warming blankets.
Just like their scales made for the best firefighter protective gear if made into heat protective armor.
Seapony body oil was very good to help prevent water damage to ones fur coat for divers, especially for Pegasus and Griffon feathers.
One of the few thing that could be magicaly harvested daily in small quantities, that made them over time rather secure in their financial structure.
Rather ideal for older population groups that are not as activ than they used to be in their younger ages. Able to afford decades of good food and lifestyle by making a living on land where there body need artificial moisturizing, but gives in turn higher body oil yields.

Many other things that probably waiting to be discovered in the future, if species like the reclusive Yak would trade more openly.
Their fur being a great winter gear insulation.

New markets often spring stuff like morality questionable but undeniable helpful to create placebo pellets with nutrition additions for the future to help uncurable thing like magic illnesses, that got effected or started because internal strife made them sick through so called 'hopeless magic'.

A rare occurrence that through mental negativity created magical waste production in a body and created many illnesses that unlike many other sicknesses, could be cured with literally living a happy and fullfilled life.

The power of belive could effect ponies and other creatures for better or for worse. Mental health worked in many unexpected ways, despite medical knowledge being rather advanced.
The body of eatch species had still a treasure dungeon of undiscovered knowledge, but that would be something to consider another time.

New medications and experimental treatments like that really give good plausible deniability with countless minor ingredients discovered in the last centuries to various ways to combine them.
Something to keep the other nations of Cynder and her family as long as possible, while they try replicate Equestrias success in smaller experiments for their own research of curing parasitic dark magic infections in lab conditions.

Cynder was in awe to learn how complex this world was, nothing nearly as complex was to be found in the canon show she watched back than with her granddaughter on TV.

Though she never read the comics that used to be sold alongside the show, so she might have missed things like deeper lore.

Thought they made good progress by hooves, while talking to one another verbally or via telepathy, thanks to being around redicules powerful magic users and good preparation even in short on time as they seem to be coming directly from the hospital and the Merchant first meeting.

But while the time was rather uneventful in the grand sense, they still needed to camp out in the middle of the 'Everfree Forest' one night to reach the 'old Castle of the Sisters'.

It was clear by now that the deitys clearly take their time with this journey to spend some time with one another.
Her siblings and parents being willing participants, while being introduced to the royal family more darker side without being put under stress due to one major negative event being on their mind and pressing them forward for a resolution.

The Everfree Forest was one of the biggest and difficult to travel Forests in all of Equestria, unless one wanted to try traveling unpredictable updrafts and downwinds by flight, one does not simply travel to the Everfree Forest or through it in a matter of hours.

At least not for mortals, while even the royals seem to have a certain respect for its wild, dangerous and yet exotic beauty.

When the group finally reached the castle of the Everfree Forest, formerly known as the castle of the royal sisters, did a big group of Thestral guards escorted them inside to rest their slightly tired unannounced guests.
Some Thestral got send out to restock their supplies, Celestia alone would probably require most of their baking ingridiants, before they would leave the castle eventually.

After a decently provided meal and three cakes for Celestia, did the Thestral celebrated the return of their rulers, even if it was just for a passing visit.

The next day after a few hours of celebration, did the royals finally moved on with their business.

Through a secret passage to the 'Everfree Forest Harmony Tree', did they ventured towards their goal.
It was a slight detour, since a dead dragon was currently blocking the natural entrance to the trees cave, somehow that overgrown lizard gotten stuck rather thoroughly on the cave only natural entry and exit.

Fortunately did the Tree if Harmony was undamaged upon inspection and Celestia made a mental note to block of the natural entry to it.

She shuddered to think how a lone nomadic dragon might have eaten this one of a kind tree for a snack.
It had saved them in the past from Discord, Celestia feel ashamed to have not already provided the best protection money could buy.
Something that needed to be fixed the moment she was back in Canterlot, probably diverting attention from it by calling it Everfree Castle renovation work or something like it.

The castle certainly needed a modernization, while it was a nice nostalgic thing to see the castles old kitchen be used to bake more traditional cakes, did she preferred not to wait hours on end for her cakes to be completed.

But she was again focusing on the wrong things.

The only way to access the 'Tree of Harmony' needed definitely better protection even with the Elements of Harmony being inactive and useless to any creature.
Even if Discord had changed for the better, they might need the Elements of Harmony in the future again.

With Discord and Harmony being so close to one another did the clashing of their magic even on a passive level send out ripples throughout the magic of the world in past, present and on occasion the future.
Even if Discord was not messing with the timeline in past, present and future, did Harmony future interactions with the timeline send out distortions that started to damage things that are supposed to hold until the end of the world itself.

And so did prematurely things got sent in motion that would change the world forever more... The in time and space displaced by Harmony Crystal Empire remnants shifted sooner than planned and with them the Umbrum prison, awakening the Umbrum far sooner than they should be.

While the Empire return was to come still many years in the future, did the Umbrum prison already started to shift into this world, with this did also the king of shadows started to free himself.

What would the former Wendigo race, mutated by pony magic to Umbrum do when they freed themselves, but the Empire would still not be within reach to take their vengeance upon the crystal creatures of the empire?

The Thestral ponies showed their superior night vision, as well as how it was not very compatible with bright light others might use.
The tunnels to the tree where surprisingly badly lighten up by magic stones and the occationaly torch on the wall.

Cynder suggested red light to have a middle ground between day and night time ponies.
It turned out to be a impressive good middle ground that surprised the ponies, when day and night ponies found it equally beneficial to use, when Discord used a illusions to demonstrate its effect on the previous very dark pathway to the cave of Harmony.

Cynder was happy that things she learned as human could be used to the ponies advantage on occasion.
The red light idea came from a documentation video about how to develop old style pictures in dark rooms and how submarines used red light to see in the dark interiors, yet protected their internal clock from fluctuations due to daylight conditions effecting their metabolism.

Cynder preferred her own alternative to night vision though. She discover by complet accident that she had some kind of heat vision, when she was on her second ever nom-nom raid for sweets during night raids.

Silver Tongue told her about it once she mentioned it the next day. After she had discovered how to use it reliable for herself, though it was mostly only useful in her opinion during night times when temperatures dropped and body warmth was easier to spot.
Further did she wonder if it wasn't causing problems with natural hot areas where fauna and flora would be more even in temperatures.
Though Silver Tongue insisted that even in the Rainjungle of Equestria a hot and wet region of Equestria showed clear distinction between a plant and a animals body heat.
Making heat vision indeed a major hunting tool.

Interesting to know was also that not every dragon had heat vision. Some had a special magic vision instead, a more valuable and rare trait that was unfortunately not in her arsenal of natural advantages given to her new body by birth.

Unless she had it and lost it, what wasn't to unlikely with all the changes her body had to endure even before her hatching.

But it would be useless to morn spilled milk, rather Cynder appreciated what she actually had access to currently. Especially since she mostly used her normal vision anyway.

Before they finally reached their travel target, did Discord seperated from the rest of the group, apparently had he suffered growing feelings of weakness the closer he came to the Tree of Harmony.
He would return to the Castle until their meeting with the Tree was over. Further would he take Applejack, Big Macintosh and Blueblood with him.
This meeting shouldn't have the foals as distraction in the cave, unlike Cadance and Cynder who needed to meet ith Harmony as well.

Nightmare give her husband a parting kiss, while Luna and Chrysalis in her true form parted with him after a heartfelt hug.

When Celestia finally stepped into the cave alone was she saddened to see it only glowing faintly, its magnificent shine nowhere near as when she was last here, to ask Harmony to undo the moon banishment her foolish self had forced upon her family.
Seeing how it had suffered over the millenia since the elements of harmony had fallen into disharmony, due to her actions hammered down how mutch she had failed.

Everyone was listening as a unisex voice spoke up to the sun alicorn:

"Hello Celestia, it has been quite a while that you visited me last. I was rather dissapointed that you didn't come more often to pay me a visit after all we have been through. Though I must say, your ponies in this castle are a delightful company to hold.

I hope you don't come here to ask me again to un-do the sealing spell you accidentally casted with my elements of harmony. While the spell is growing weaker with every year, will it still take at the very least a decade of not three until the spell wears out and they be returned.

Keep in mind that you promised me the Elements return, should you fail to find new bearing wielding creatures. As you can see I start to grow ever weaker and eventually I will need them back.
I don't think I have to remind you who keeps Discord at bay in his statue form, who works to un-do the shadow kings spell that keeps the Crystal Empire trapped and who keeps the land your nation stands on fertile.

Actually if I wasn't as busy to do that and more, I might had the time to tell you how difficult it is to be keeping it all going without as mutch the occational 'thank you' from anyone but your ponies working in the castle above me.
One would think keeping me motivated towards beneficial goal for your nation would be worth some of your time.

Though i am dissapointed in you personally, they have been keeping me company over the centuries, for that I have to thank you.
They are delightful company, despite how fleeting their lifespans are compared to being like you and me."

Celestia had the decency to look ashamed of herself at these words.
This conversation would be a long one, though she wondered how Harmony was unaware of Discords and her sisters return?
Perhaps was the Tree of Harmony in worse shape than she feared.

Harmony was playing dumb, while looking forward to see how mutch Celestia was about to tell her on her own accord. She know of Discord gaining freedom, the moment his presence started to warping her vision within the usual range of him moving around within this world.

She know of Nightmares & Lunas return, when Discord wasn't around to block her abilities to see what happend in the castle, clearing up quickly within hours, when he departed to places unknown.

Would she introduce her darling Blueblood to her? Who could be a better godparent than the god of harmony?

What would she tell about the Griffon deity still growing up. Why was Cadance a Griffon anyway?

Most importantly... What had she to say about that Dragon welp Cynder? That little outsider was quite the thorny deviant, a stone in the gears of her plans that needed removing.

Be it by sending her anywhere else than Equestria or the Dragonlands.
Better yet, perhaps 5 meter underground in a fresh grave. That little troublemaker was almost as bothersome as Discord himself, but unlike Discord the Tree of Harmony would not suffer its continued existence unless given a very VERY good reason... or 5, what would make its existance tolerated, not appreciated.

Author's Note

Enjoy the new chapter my der readers :pinkiesmile:

Next story I update, it will probably be my Necromancer story and than... who knows? The Fimfiction muse gives when it pleases her.

Stay snuggly everyony
:twilightsmile: ✌

At this point I have problems keeping the right time measurements the correct way, so I made it complicated enough to look less stupid about it :derpytongue2:

Happy new year :pinkiesmile: 👍

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10.04.2024

Chapter 29 - Meeting Harmony, face to Tree 2/3

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 29 - Meeting Harmony, face to Tree 2/3

Harmony showed patience and intrigue when Celestia announced Discord return, while leaving a auditable quiver in its voice to pretend to be showing uncertainty if not a fearful attitude toward the chaos bringer, since its strength was overtaxed as it was and the former mighty Tree might have to drop all her magic expanding actions.

Harmony wanted to make some puns, mortals often show coping of stress in dangerous situations with humor after all.
Harmony told Celestia she been together around the clock working on undoing one desaster after another, what wasn't even strictly a lie, despite her causing problems deliberately on purpose.
Deliberately because before Discord absence had to be compensated by some being, despite his absolutely infuriating nature in Harmonys metaphorical eyes, did the chaos bringer fostered change and growth.
Occationaly it even had something that didn't have to be reversed or fixed up by the Tree of Harmony and others associated with it.

With purposes always behind its actions, even if the Tree ~~had no idea what it was doing it for~~, had always a plan and sense behind its actions.

Unfortunately something of a nessesary evil thing to do, after Discord was banished and made the races of this world very stagnant in their development. Due to stagnation usually leading to ruine in one way or another, was a chance in order due to the wish of the Tree to help its little ponies to become greater than the total sum of its herds mass collection of individuals.
~~Occationaly it even worked out in the end.~~

Though her puns and joke really lacking timing for greater effect, did she informed Celestia about temporal anomalies all over the world, suggesting that Discord might be behind it all, now that she know he was free and was the most likely culprit.

Discord had a few itching tail scales, either someone had given him unearned praise, was insulting towards his efforts to make things work out in the end or ... actually that chaos sense had a few other unrelated combinations. He really needed to check his itching and twitching catalog.
With its 501 combinations and meaning it got even for him at times confusing... what was rather unusual, since he could make sense out of nonsense and made nonsense rather reasonable.

That accusation for once was a full truth for the most part, even if it was kinda cheap to guess if something was going south, it be Discord doing, especially if he was to busy recovering from his currently power drained state.

What might hold him now to busy to do some mischief, though it would in theory not stop him at all to come back from the future towards the past of Equestria or other nations for one reason or another.

On rare occasions even the Tree of Harmony had to give him credit to do a reasonable decent job, not screwing everything the chaos bringer touched to end up completely into unconstructive horseapples.
Especially if everything worked out in the end, having everyone surprised that constructive feedback was given by the usually distortion bringing avatar of eternal change and progression, even if it was something Harmony hated to admit towards itself.

Still... this violent reaction of the world was no joking matter, since it was so bad in some regions of the planet that it stopped time to flow entirely at a stable rate, designing perhaps truely monumental problems for the world and its safety.

Celestia thoughts seem to be distracted and Harmony made it known that she as sole Alicorn ruler now and ever needed to think about tomorrow!
If noone was caring for peaceful relationships today, tomorrow might call forth a war of conflicting priorities.
Today lack of enviromental friendly mining and production of machines for example, might cause them tomorrow to cough out their lungs, because air quality had finally fallen below healthy limits.

One does not simply damage the environment without suffering dear consequences that are often seen only decades later and are highly regretted, because noone had made a move to stop it and current generations cursed its ancestors for doing the same they themself currently attempted.
Ignoring the cause of the symptoms, until it becomes to late preventing further damage, rather than fixing it entirely, they making it slightly less urgent at best.

Silly mortals often due go for that option, since they are long dead before it became their generations pressing issue.

Celestia was a very busy pony, yet she needed to knock some hours off her working schedule filled clock of her nation wide duties, if a planet wide matter demanded her attention.
Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
In which case Chrysalis had ultimately fix everything up with her diligence and carefully working Changelings.

Something they are rewarded later for, being free to ling around like only Changelings managed to do. It sure had perks to be of a race that could shape shift and has spells to manipulate memories for emergencies.

For example when a mare woke up with a hangover and foundly remembered enjoying drunkenly a group of ~~Changelings~~ multi species males partying with her privately with thing one only dares to enjoy usually in ones mind, often when one was gossiping about remembering something so one of a kind moments in their life, like a nice multi species mating party.
It was in fact more often than not a group of Changelings having fun making every reasonable desired of their generous host a reality that was slightly hazy, but cherished remembered for the rest of their lifetime.

Mutual beneficial bounds, not to rarely resulting in multi species herds and perhaps soon flocks, once the Griffon race is integrated into the future Equestrian Empire.

So many little pieces that formed a greater hole, be it the two Pegasus floating citys. Like that of 'Las Pegasus' that stays stationary all year around or 'Cloudsdale' the mobil cloud city constantly building smaller extensions that will one day create small Pegasus villages to strengthening the Pegasus population alongside others.

Then there are the Unicorn and Bicorn citys of 'Canterlot' or 'Fillydelphia',
Than the Earthpony mixed day and night variante of their sub race main cities of 'Baltimare', 'Manehatten', 'Vanhoover' or the underground mining city of the 'Macintosh Hills'.

With other locations like the Thestral mainly populating 'Hollow Shades' and 'Smokey Mountains'.
Further there are the Kirin main locations of the 'White Tale Woods' and the 'Everfree Forest Kirin Grove' near the 'Rambling Rock Ridge'.

Not to forget the last descendant of the slowly dying out Crystal pony population of the 'Neighara Falls' or 'Tall Tale' the crystal grown little city.

With other locations being mixed in their populations with pony main population.

Though these days some non pony communities with low pony population have taken places for their own, while following the Alicorn rulership like:
'Dodge City' the Gemdog mining community or 'Trottingham' with Griffon heavy population even before the big refuge wave came, integrating hundred of thousands of the Catbirb population into Equestrias citizens pool.

With very mixed, but still pony scarcity locations like 'Seaward Shoals' that is mainly populated by Abesinian and Minotaur citizens of Equestria or 'Horseshoe Bay' that has a main population of Hypogriffons and Seaponys that migrated to Equestria for one reason or another.

Just to name a few examples.

But to return at the matter of importance...

Besides the very uncertainty growing situation that a freed Draconequus caused inevitably, did her sisters on the Moon surface had been going through a very disturbing change.
From what Harmony could say with her limited scrying spell towards Celestias sisters on the Moon surface, there existance had changed to pure dark magic, something that should be impossible, yet it happend anyway.

Making it more importantly to find elements of harmony bearing ponies to save the last remaining Alicorns beside Celestia herself to rule over the day and night cycles of the world, giving it a rather stable day and night cycle for everyone to flourish under.

Harmony really played up the conserned friend part up, maybe something to let the night Alicorns look over the fact that Harmony had been occupied mentally when Celestia banished her sisters, only to notice her blunder about blindly trusting Celestias judgment of the past to do the right thing and only use the elements as a last resort 'friendship laser to the face solution' towards enemies of Harmony and its charges she looked after.

They where allies since her creation, so long ago that they are like drinking buddies or sisters of war to the end of time.
Harmony trust in Celestia was shattered that day, never to be recovered fully since that fateless day.
Trust once lost is hard to regain, if at all possible.

Harmony told Celestia further that something very strange happened to the Moon, the scrying spell she used to 'see outside the cave' seem to be very inaccurate if not outright being actively prevented to give sensibel and good enough for interpretation informations back, unless somehow her sisters had turned to pure dark magic constructions, the Moon surface was from one night to another no longer a life devoided ash filled surface and instead is filled to the capacity limit of Harmonys scrying spell to detect life and wild magic, that usually are created from a active flora filled environment.

Harmony told Celestia that Discord obviously had found out that how weak it had become over time and now sabotaged all scrying spell activity the Tree used to keep Equestrians population as safe as possible, only living sapient lifeforms create harmonious charged magic.

Celestia had a amused smile on her muzzle, while and also showing a embarrassed body language that something wasn't adding up in Harmonys assumptions and she had failed to calm the Trees concerned mind sooner.

Celestia then revealed that Discord upon return had saved her sisters rumps from the Moon surface and somehow switch it up with puppet made out of dark magic constructed dummys to take their place.

Further that he had restored the Moon surface that as Harmony knew Celestia herself had accidentally once turned up after having moved the sun to close to the moons surface, igniting the flammable atmosphere and unfortunately everything and everyone on it at the time, before years later banishment was enforced upon her sisters when Celestia had foolishly used the elements of harmony not to banishing her opposing mindsets of her sisters, rather than banishing them body and soul towards the dead moon surface.

At that point did a Luna in her full empowered Alicorn state stepped from the stairs and trotted before Harmony.

Despite Harmony knowing of Lunas return, did the Tree squealed in delight of having her little Wona back despite her being in her adult Luna form.
The crystal vines shot out like arrows fired from a crossbow, wrapped around Luna legs and barrel, lifted her into the air and cuddled her shortly after on its crystal barks surface with a mix of:

"I missed you so mutch my little Wona."
Many excuses for letting Celestia use her elements, when she was busy pollinating Equestrias less fertile regions and a mix of praise how good she looked after all she had to endure about the countless millenia on the Moon.

Celestia was quite happy to see that the Tree of Harmony was as cuddle needy as in the past, Luna dream realm affinities allowed her somehow to bond more tightly with the Tree of Harmony, that unlike in the real world, could move freely in the dream realm and when not helping out in the dream realm out, come for some entertainment for Lunas dream avatar.

Harmony in the dream realm took from time to time different dream avatar shapes to meet with Luna up.
Alicorns Faust Stellar Galaxy or Solar Nova Exterminaty, the parents of the royal sisters.
Though if the Tree of Harmony was feeling silly also from time to time a rainbow colored and extreamly uber fluffy pony.

Harmony had even developed over the first centuries a root for dream pranks, like when Luna pulled Nightmare Moon and Celestia into a shared dream and than snuggeld the mares that are all of a sudden all plushy sized in her uber fluffy form until the night ended.

Or the other time where Harmony was with Lunas aid testing if someone could be tickeld so hard in their dream avatar state, that they are awoken from sleep.
Good times... good times...

Harmony and Lunas reunion cuddling was interrupted when Nightmare Moon giggling stepped forward at the sight of Luna being absolutely cuddle dominated by Harmonys magical crystal vines.

While Harmony was having the deepest bond towards Luna, with Celestias relationships to Harmony strained, was that to Nightmare Moon between a very close co-working relation and on occasion a fellow cuddle buddy.

The Tree of Harmony had with the passing of Solar Nova Exterminaty, the father of the royal sisters, that become Starswirl the Bearded when he was forced into becoming a mortal again, only a few selected individuals made it into the circel of friends for Harmony.

While even the closest mortal to Harmony was merely a very close acquaintance, at best.

Nightmare Moon give the Tree of Harmony and friend of the family a warm wing hug and than started to introduce her little riders.

Starting with Prince Blueblood of Equestria, the colt was fascinated by the pretty and colorful even if dull shining tree in a cave.
Harmony lifted the colt gently in her magicaly soften crystal vines and started to pet it generously.
Giving the colt subtile infusions if harmoniously charged magic, allowing the Tree to look through his eyes and watch over him, for the sake of keeping the potencial heir of Equestria safe.

If Harmony told the truth, the colt was her hope to bond Celestia to her and should it ever be needed, replacing her by ascending the colt to become the next Alicorn stallion.

Currently did 5 Alicorn stallions run around the world though only 1 was currently in Equestria where the Tree could observe the stallion 30 hours of the 7 days and nights of the week.

All ascending thanks to Harmony influence on the world, siphon wild magic to empowerment of their physical mortal body, until it got overloaded. This usually is killing the mortal and giving him a chance to ascending if their soul and willpower was sufficient.

So far Harmony had groomed 599 stallion from colt age and attempted to re-create the Alicorn species. Unfortunately did most ponies had dissapointed it by simply dying without coming back as Alicorns.

The ascending of any mortal was complicated, but reasonable easy in its first steps.
Depending on the race it had different requirements, but to make a example of pony Alicorn ascending:

First one needed to find and ideally over the years groom a natural stronger than average born pony.

Second did a artificial infusion of magic needed to happen, most reliable was wild magic collected and released in a magical explosiv release, causing forced adaptation, leading otherwise to instantaneous lethal magic mana poisoning.

If successful than the mortal will have the first ascending stage gained alongside a new random attribute of another sub race of the species.
A example would be a Unicorn gaining Earthpony physical additions or grow wings of Thestral or Pegasus.
And vise versa.

The third step after idealy a full year of stabilization and full assimilation of the body to its new magical composition, than needs to basically repeat the second step and once again survive the outcome.

With the born sub race and the two gained attributes of other races, will now the final step be required.

The previous steps are respectively with a 80% and than 60% success rate.
Unfortunately did the last step is what is making or breaking the most ponies.

The fifth step is what decide if a true new Alicorn is created, what its final attribute configuration will be.
As in what the primary, secondary, tertiary and finally its quarternary attributes will be in the end should the body be created successfully.

The final step is to accept eternity and its consequences. The body will be ripped apart and fused with its soul in the ascending realm of the gods.
As the past memories play before the applicant to godhood, did one or multible ascended being will feel a call towards the ascending realm and aid in its ascending or it return to the wheel of life.

The outcome is always either a new immortal that get body beyond any mortal limitations or the applicant might chose to be reborn as a mortal clean slate soul.
Giving birth to a over the average in magic strengthen individual that can procreate and bear or sire physical superior offspring with a 1/4 chance to have a far superior example of its birth species born or in 3/4 cases a slightly more than average strong child conceived.

The reason why most decline godhood is in its price, immortals have a hard existence. They have to endure the stupidity of mortals, have to suffer the passing of befriended and beloved mortals and most importantly... upon death they stop existing entirely.
A God is not reborn, for their soul was used to forge a body that used up every sliver of the soul. Leaving nothing behind once the body perished.
The body of a immortal usually over time dissolve into a major magical radiation that bonds to the planets magic, feeding the eternal magic cycle of renewing.

While Harmony was slowly infusing Bluebloods body and soul with harmoniously charged magic, did another triple of magical soften crystal vines take hold of the pink juvenile Griffon and mercilessly tickeld it into submission.

After a few minutes having successfully completed the subtle manipulation of the colts body and soul, did the Tree returned Celestias foal and focused on the Griffon goddess.
Very unexpectedly did nothing hinted at Discord having a Talon in her ascending, without harmony or disharmony siding the Griffon cub, was it most likely pure statistical chance that this Cadance came into existence.

This pink Griffon juvenile goddess was fully formed and was beyond subtle manipulation, it would have to be the old fashion way to befriend it.

All in due time... all in due time.

Once a tickeld into submission Griffon cub was returned to the Alicorns, namely Celestia since her colt seem to like snuggeling into a fellow aged being did Harmony noticed the last addition still sitting on Nightmare Moon, obscured by her magic waving mane.

When the Tree made contact with Cynder the dragon welp, did the situation from a friendly reunion changed into a desaster about to happen.

With a menacing howl did the Tree of Harmony squeezed down on the welp. Not more than necessarily that it would need, to ensure it didn't escape its grasping vines.

The Tree of Harmonys vine in contact of the dragoness turned dark gray before turning sickly dark purple with smoke like magical mist escaping its vines.

The Tree of Harmony was howling in pain and fury:

" ᛞᚨᚱᚴ᛫ᛗᚨᚷᛁᚳ? "
" ᛫ᛈᚱᛁᛗᚨᛚ᛫ᛞᚨᚱᚴ᛫ᛗᚨᚷᛁᚳ᛫ᛏᚩ᛫ᛁᛏᛋ᛫ᚡᛖᚱᚤ᛫ᛋᚩᚢᛚ?! "
("Dark magic?
Primal dark magic to its very soul?!")

" ᚨᛒᚩᛗᛁᚾᚨᛏᛁᚩᚾ "
("Abomination!")

" ᛋᛁᚳᚴ᛫ᚳᚱᛖᚨᛏᚢᚱᛖ᛫ᚩᚠ᛫ᛞᛖᚨᛏᚻ᛫ᚨᚾᛞ᛫ᛞᛖᛋᛏᚱᚢᚳᛏᛁᚩᚾ! "
("Sick creature of death and destruction!")

" ᚤᛟᚢ᛫-᛫ᚹᛁᛚᛚ᛫-᛫ᛒᛖ᛫-᛫ᛈᚢᚱᚷᛖᛞ! "
("YOU - WILL - BE - PURGED!"

Before the shocked Alicorns and now in fear crying Griffon and pony younglings could do anything, did the hole cave shook violently.

Everyone in the old Castle of the Everfree Forest and inside the cave could hear a pained, yet furious voice in their mind, giving a powerful impression in their minds internal eye.

The Alicorns froze staring at the Tree of Harmony gobsmacked, never in their existence did they hear Harmony speak in a rage like this, if it wasn't talking about Discord and his deeds.
Even than it was more a anger akin to someone who stole their favorite slice of Cake or the last slice of pizza on friday night.

Right now it was pure undiluted murderous anger, with full intention to kill the welp, until it was dead, no... until not even its very soul would be left behind, to prevent its rebirth into the wheel of life.

As the Alicorns backed away from their usually gentle friend, did Chrysalis moved from the staircase.

Chrysalis wanted to reintroduce herself to Harmony after long last, but this turn of events seem to force her hoove.

Chrysalis turned into her true form and charged two spells, a powerful cutting curse and a telekinesis grip on Cynder.

Harmony was blindsided by her vines around Cynder being cut off her main body and falling with pained motion on the ground, before they seconds later become motionless.

Chrysalis pulled the in fear shacking and tears crying Cynder to her forehooves, the Queen of Changelings would not let anything happen to the welp Cynder, savior of dark parasitic infection plaguing their world.

Even if she would have to go to war with the Harmony construct itself!!!

Author's Note

Well... that happened :rainbowderp:
Wow... That escalated quickly :unsuresweetie:

Don't forget to turn on when the next ~~episode of DBZ~~ chapter of
Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'
releases.

Next story updated will be my Necromancer story, probably.

Stay snuggly until than everyone :twilightsmile: ♡

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10.04.2024

Chapter 0 - The End of the old and the beginning of the new

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 0 - The End of the old and the beginning of the new

"Grandma hurry up or we will be late for all the fun stuff." Her granddaughter Alice said as she tried to pull her beloved Grandmother out of the car, chuckling over her Grandchild's endless energy she remembered having herself back in the day.

"Please don't rush me too much, my little one, we have more than enough time. You will get to see it all in time my dear."
The old woman told her grandchild, a beautiful little girl well worth waiting for. She sometimes lost faith that she see the day her son would give her the next generation, yet patients and nagging finally had delivered.

As her son helped her out of the car without stressing the old woman's body to much, she wasn't quite so athletic in her twilight years...

They walked to the convention event place where there was a construction ongoing at the top of the building, but it was said on the news it was completely safe with with a full security inspection the day before the opening. Yet one must wonder why they housed a huge event like this in an unfinished complex, even if it was mainly the final touches and a replacement XXL window or three for better heating efficiency.

The old woman loved spending time with her granddaughter, the joys of a fulfilling life in one's final years. One should value the time left, with family and good final memories.
Her Granddaughter didn't know it, but this would be the last time they would have happy memories together. If not for the incident later that day, she would have passed on in her sleep 3 days after new years. But someone would change her natural fate for good before natural death could take her away.

They all watched her Granddaughters favorite cartoons together like Skylanders Academy and My Little Pony - Friendship is magic.
A finished series with 10 seasons and a few movies.
She herself enjoyed the TV series on DVD with her Grandchild Alice and even bought the movies.
It was well worth it to see the joy of her little Grand angel to watch the show and talk about the lessons and even the occasional plot holes in it.
Her Granddaughter truly was a smart one for her age.

After hours of fun for her Son and Granddaughter, the old woman looked forward to a well earned rest of her old spine.
She was a surprisingly fit old woman. She could even keep up with the little one as long she didn't have to crouch too much.

With the first day nearly at its end and only 3 hours before closing of the first of three events days would the old Grandmother buy a few Souvenirs for her family to remember her by.
After all, who know how long that old body of hers would continue to last?

"Hey mister Merchant, how much is that ring?"
The old woman in her twilight years heard a fellow visitor to the event haggle with a shady looking merchant. Apparently did the strange looking Merchant was selling rather impressive looking goods to the visitors of the event.

The man buying was interested in a ring that seemed to have a well detailed My Little Pony Equestrian flag on it printed. While she was still thinking this Merchant was someone she would not want to meet alone in a dark alley, she had to give him credit for his high value looking merchandise.

The old Grandmother sent her son and her little angel to buy some ice cream, while she would buy there Souvenirs for her family members here.

While the man before her paid and got his wares handed out, she searched her well stuffed purse for her spending money.
When she looked up, the man before her was already gone.
She must have really searched long for her purse money bag, since humans don't just puff out of existence...

The convention event was massive and the themes it had were kid friendly up to mature rated. That He-Man cosplayer sure had a well toned ass, to be young again and go for the hunt. But her Cougars hunt had ended unfortunately 10 years ago with the death of her libido.

Anyway…

The Merchant sure had it all.
From 'My Little Pony' officially sold merchandise to even fan made stuff from the youtube videos of a fluffy pony named Fluffle Puff.
There was a wide selection to choose from, so many things here to spend one's money. She might return tomorrow morning to buy more when her spine had a nights rest.

The merchant had to her surprise offered a three for one price deal after she had told him she would buy Souvenirs for her whole family.
The merchant was very kind to this old woman and her wish to sell her whole family his wares.

As long the old customer would allow for a group picture with each family member holding one piece of his sales in hand hugging one another
Would she just pay one of three items.

The old woman had to change her mind about this Merchant, he might look a bit of a oddball but had a heart of gold. What could he otherwise get from a family picture with his sales in hand from one of his customers in a wholesome family hug?

The sale was completed and paid, all that remained as to finish the contract in full, was the family event picture for the nice Merchantman.

She walked to her family and guided them to the Merchant and explained the deal.
The son was a bit skeptical watching the merchandise, but when the Merchant explained a bet he had with three of his colleagues to buy the winner of the group with the most family pictures next Friday night party bill, all suspicions were off the table. What could be wrong with a mutual agreed upon sale without any hooks?

The Merchant waited patiently for father and daughter to finish their ice cream, sharing the grandmother's one since she declined to eat hers.
It was adorable how the Merchant appreciated the wholesome scene.

The old Woman made some smalltalk while her family tried not to suffer too much from brain freeze. Even the Merchant had to laugh at the adorable faces Alice was making after her third brain freeze attack.

"Hey Ma, remember when you used to take me to the Movie theme park?" Her son asked and she remembered.

"Yes I do and you whine on every ride." She said and everyone including the Merchant laughed.

"So what should we do tomorrow first?" The old woman asked them as they looked around.

"I don't know, but how about we buy things for Alice tomorrow morning at full price?" At that the Merchant had a little mischief hiding smile.
The old woman was a lot slower than in her youth physically, but not mentally. She expected the Merchant to spike the prices for them or make a lot of sales, to make up for the lost profit from this sale.

One had to put food on the table after all.

I'm sure Alice would love that." She said as he hugged his Mother.
Alice might have agreed, but a fourth brain freeze just hit her at that moment. Absolutely adorable how this smart little girl was a slave to her urge to devour her beloved treat.

The Merchant seemed to get a bit more giddy when the father and daughter had finished their original ice cream and the little one was almost done with her grandmother's ice cream.

"Profitable day outside the competition with family pictures i hope?" The old woman asked as her son helped a woman pick up her change money after it had spilled out her fallen money purse.

"Yes, a very profitable day actually.
The 'My Little Pony - Friendship is magic' & other unrelated wares got sold off to a very satisfying pace.
You are unfortunately my only family I send off with my wares, so I have to step up my game to see my competition pay the Friday night party bill."

The old woman give him a smile and answered: "Don't worry, good people like you often are favorably supported by lady luck. Tomorrow you probably get a lot more for your best success sold off."

The Merchant had a pleased smile on him after hearing that.

She continued their conversation: "Do you have some more from
'My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic' or Skylanders Academy?" She asked him.

The Merchant as response ducking under the counter rummaging through a few boxes pulling out what looked like the dark Cynders figurine with a Collar out and an Applejack figurine with an adorable Cowboy hat on her head out.

Without much words did she buy them full price and put them away with the other already sold items in her now rather overfill purse.

One final thing she ask him for was if he have anything from wizard 101, she remember playing that game a while ago with her Grandchild Alice, but she quite since it was a fucking pay to win and pay to play game as she learned later.
One was a sin for gamers, two was just a crime she would not support against consumers...

Even the Merchant had an annoyed facial expression when she told him about it.

"Yeah I think i have one thing from it let me get it." He said as he reached under the counter again pulling out a card.

He placed it on the counter and sold it to her.

The old woman would have scoffed at herself buying that much on one day and planning to do so for the remaining other two days, but her family's joy was worth far more than that.

Her son and daughter had still been at helping the woman that lost her money to pick up all the change money others just ignored and walked around them. Extremely rude...

Everyone in the congregation of nerds on this event looked up when they noticed a creaking noise but no one couldn't tell where it was coming from so everyone kept walking, ignoring it.

After a few minutes her son & Alice were done helping the woman. To her son's surprise, did the woman take his daugher in a hug and guide them away from the Merchant. The Merchant visibly frowned as he see his chance of the day walking away.

The old woman excused herself to get her family for the promised group picture.
That was when everyone in the hall heard a loud noise and looked up.

A large piece of the construction was collapsing right over many of them.

The woman called out to her familie, telling them to move to safety, but screaming all around her drained out her voice as she ran towards them.

Alice was confused by the screaming of everyone around her before she looked up and with fear looked right before her father spotted it as well.
A XXL window was coming down directly for the three of them.

The old woman's body was old, but still rather fit and adrenaline allowed her to manage for one last time to perform as if she was young once more.
She shoved the unknown woman holding Alice and her son out of the way. They landed far enough on their butt to be out of harm's way.

She herself was crushed by the falling window.

To her family's surprise there was no human pancake under all the glass that had cracked into countless pieces but had not shattered to become fragmented ballistic death incarnated.

"Ma?!" The Merchant heard his lost chance to make a family one way trip to adventure yelling as loud as he could.
Three figures rush to the place a pancakes old woman remains should be.
But nothing but a glint of muted rainbow colors vanished where the corpse's remains should have been displaying a gross incident victim.

"Well, this was unexpected, I guess I will have to settle with one when I want to send three people.
I can't really say I am disappointed too much, well played Faust... well played indeed..."
The Merchant said before his stand started to disappear as if it had never been there in the first place.

"Wake up old one, it is time to start the game and rebirth, don't wait for anyone too long..."
A voice said in the no longer old woman's head.
When she began to get feeling back in her body, did it feel very strange and she was restricted by something while apparently in a warm liquid encased round box.

She opened her eyes but it was still dark and it felt like she was inside something hard yet slightly giving.

"I have to get out of here" she thought out loud even when no sound escaped her.
The woman tried to lift her head up but it was met with resistance from whatever she was encased in.

She started banging her head against it, but no matter what she did, it didn't crack open and rays of light would not shine through her prison.

She continued pushing with all her body might until her strength was exhausted. She give in to sleepiness and the slowly cooling water she was encased in forced her into a deep slumber.

A day or maybe a night later, hard to tell on the surface of the moon...

Two figures closed in on the stone that wasn't a stone. Both examined the object emanating dark magic. Both frowned when they feel parasitic dark magic running through it.
This dragon egg has not just been transported to the Moon with a huge magical effort, it has been denied to hatch and to prove itself.
Luna and Nightmare Moon both debated who would have been possible responsible for the corrupted of the unborn dragon hatchling inside this egg.

Whoever did it, had apparently strong enemies to manage to send it to the Moon out of reach of anyone on the planet. They would do for the hatchling what they could, before they sent it back. Linking their magic to the egg to guide its young soul as to prevent it to suffer the dark fate it most likely would suffer in the end.

Seven cycles of day and night and Nightmare Moon managed to purge most of the dark magic and did what never anyone attempted. Make a dark creature with dark magic that wasn't parasitic or aggressively feeding around its user's environment.

Luna in the meantime infuse her own and her sister's magic into the hatchling. It's magical core would instead of spreading dark magic, devour it without going for any other magical aspects.
Kind of working like a water filtering system leaving behind clean water, just for Mana.

They established a link between the unborn core and their own. This in turn would not just create an unbreakable bond between them, but would allow them to become one in mind if they ever wished to converse with one another.

On the 14 day/night did they heavily enchanted the egg to resist impact of any kind and protect the hatchling within for the next three days.

With a mighty alicorn strength supported *yeet* did they send the hatchling back to the planet's surface.

Author's Note

Hope you like it.
I try create a mirror verse of harlock5399 story:
Reborn as a dragon

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/445403/reborn-as-a-dragon

A lovely concept that hopefully will send you to his story.
He is trying his best despite obstacles in his way.
My second language in english isn't perfect either after all.

Give him some love from me.
He sure deserves all the likes coming his way for trying his best entertaining the Fimfiction community :twilightsmile:

Stay snuggly everyone ♡

Last time edited: 16.12.2024

Chapter 3 - Of Apples and science of Dragons 2/2

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 3 - Of Apples and science of Dragons 2/2

When Granny Smith a bit stiff legged entered the exermination/observation room the hatchling sleep in, did she not know that Nightmare Moon had been leading the hatchling main mind to the dream realm to research its origin and determining how it was far more advanced in thought pattern than a newborn was supposed to be. Maybe finding a stray memory about who was experimenting on her prior to her arrival on the Moon.

The pony elder of the Apple Clan lay down besides the dragon hatchling not knowing it was actually currently used by Princess Luna Dreemur Stellar via remote control, thanks to the linked cores of the hatchling and the two royals on the moon.

When the pony started lovingly hugging the dragon gently did the Lunar Princess had almost tears in her eyes, the hatchling had truly found a loving mare to help it being raise with love and care. Both were falling asleep in one another embrace.

Later the same day did the Luna controlled hatchling awakend to the feeling of the elderly mare cuddling next to it. It was a very comfortable feeling to have one of her subjects so close to her after the dreadful isolation that she and her eldest sister Nightmare Stellar Moon had to endure for almost now 10.000 years.

When she looked around and see the ponies in light green fur coat color continuance toward protectively snuggeling her, did the Wona in Luna form take hold and she snuggeld and nuzzeld the metaphorical stuffing out of the old mare.
What basically was as effective as a new born foal bear hugging a full grown pony.

Currently Luna occupied the mind scape of the hatchlings body, while Nightmare Moon was investigating the body owners mind...
It seem to progress surprisingly slowly.

After only a few hours did the hatchling mind got released back into control of its body and found she had made a cuddlebuddy in her sleep.

As the mare let out a cute yawn, did the former human escaped a audiable dawww.

She had always wanted a pony to snuggel, after so long did her old dream come finally true.

So she cuddle up to the soft pony, who in her sleep tighten her loving grip on her the formerly old woman that was giddy being embraced by the cutest pony she ever meet.

The wholesome snuggeling continued throughout the night when ever they wake up for a moment.

The next morning did more ponies arrived. To the woman become dragon surprise, did one huge horse with wide hips was accompanied with some of her foals apparently.

The voices in her head had to snicker at her first assumption and laugh about the second.

They all dressed up like cliche scientists with their lab coats and security googles and their hoovesies to covers there hooves would made her squeal in cuteness overload if her throat wasn't so sore from yesterday.

The three mares and one stallion surrounded her while she was chilling on her pony pillow. The former human had noticed how some of the ponies with their glowing horns running prickly things on her scaley body or inside it.

It reminded her of spa visits where the costumers got occasionally rubbed in with medical urbs to soothing acing spots or made her skin gently stimulated.

After yesterday with all the horrible things that had happened to her was this unexpected spa like experience almost lulling her to sleep again.

The two horned ponies walked around her occasionaly and seem to massage her with their horn magical touch more thoroughly for a moment they switched directions. Her tail got tingly, when they give it attention. It almost made her giggle.

"Never seen a tail like this before." One of them said, she didn't care mutch what they where saying. The relaxation she experienced was through the roof!

The scent and body warmth of the pony mare she was laying on made it the best day she had for a looong time.

The sounds of the feathered pens on paper was unexpectedly soothing.

One of the voices started wiggling her sword tipped tail around. She was to relaxed to care, so she let her guardian play around with it. Moving it around lazily from left to right, up and down.

Luna had unexpectedly mutch fun playing around with the hatchlings tail.

The surface of the pony that made a spectacular impression of a huge body pillow, was better than any bed she had enjoyed for years.
Her tail scratches over the ponies fur coat almost feel like she pet the pony with a displaced finger.

When one of the ponies played carefully around with her tail by using a hoove, did it feel like something was petting over a finger nail edge.

The stallion of the group was saying something about her tail, but she was to mellow to care what they tried to say.

Even the voices in her mind chilled into a state of
'I don't care, don't you dare stop petting me'.

When one of the ponies carefully started playing around with her snout, did she opened her mouth so they could get back to the petting part of her pony spa treatment.

When she get a meaty treat from one of the adorable ponies, did she got reminded how hungry she had become. The newly minted dragon was surprised that her teeth shoot out her gums to rip the treat apart, she would have get used to this feeling.

Pretty unexpected was the feeling like switching a set of teeth with a set of blunt tooth prosthetics to chew with.
It was quite the unique experience to chew her food so effortless without teeth.

When she got her tongue gently tugged on did the three mind linked females came out of their relaxed state and started once more to pay attention to their surroundings.

They sure take there time watching inside her mouth. Had she something stuck between her teeth?

"She seems to be a fire breather." The earth stallion said, the human now dragon had to mentally face palm when the ponies take that into their notes. What else should dragon use?
Than again she accidently actually used something else, so she mused.

When the double horned pony checked her mouth, did she accidentally tickeld her snout.
She had to really fight not to sneeze right in their faces.

One of the voices noticed to her that the double horned pony was a bicorn, but that wasn't helping to prevent her from sneezing at all...

She heard the huge horse shout:
"Everypony move out of the way, she is going to sneeze!"

She could not care why they were so afraid on getting sneezed on, but better to avoid getting it in their face. That was never a nice feeling...

With exception of her living body pillow, did everyone moved away as to not stay in the path of her incoming sneeze. It feel like she might actually accidentally might cough up a gunk ball.

A green firestream escaped her. To her surprise did she throw up some fireworks display, she really was lucky noone got hit by that.
The floor probably needed a new polishing though.

"As you deduced from its mouth attributes, she is a fire breather." The bicorn mare said to the wing and hornless pony stallion.

She briefly mused if normal ponies are handicapped in regards to the others, but the voices give her assurance that they had their own unique strengths and weaknesses.

When the stallion spoke about 'low Mana levels', did the voices in her head send her mental pictures of ponies from being in top condition up to being about to collapse.
While Mana wasn't stamina, it was fairly close to the, same outcome in the end. But to be precise:
- Low Stamina causes physical fatigue.
- Low Mana causes mental fatigue, that can effect the body performance.

After that they keep gently poking and prodding her body, the way they somehow managed to make her insides tingle was amusing and concerning at the same time.

At some point did one of the horned ponies levitated her from the living body pillow. It's only slightly anoy her to not longer have a cuddly pony pillow, but she would tolerate this crime against snuggels for a short time.

She was uncertain what the ponies had in mind floating her from one side of the room to another. Even the voices in her mind did watch on in puzzlement.

Occasionally with a questionable look did they try to find out what was going on.

When she got levitated in different heights around the room, did she get rather distracted by the new experience.
Being 'played with' was very amusing after all.

When the ponies with exception of her favorite pony pillow left the room while levitating her with them, did she started to call out to her favorite cuddlebuddy in this crazy world.

After two minutes with constant complaints about forgetting her pony pillow cuddlebuddy, did she repeatedly and insistently reminded them that they forget her friend in the exermination room.

Not 5 minutes after they had been separated from their most cuddly pony ever, did the voices in her mind started to get annoyed as well.

One got the idea to use it tail weapon, this would make their demands for more snuggeling impossible to overlook.

When they hit by accident one of the walls, did it cut through the wall like a hot butterknife trough already melting butter. It was rather disturbing how effective her tail weapon was. But she get assured by her guardian angels that they had it well in claw.

On the pony stallions insistance, did they finaly levitated her back into the room and towards its most snuggly pone embrace. Best pone ever!
The world was once more being cuddled into happiness.

After a short contemplation did the big flanked pony told the ponies that they be responsible for the food, cuddles and occasionally petting. At least did that her roommate in her head translated quickly.

The ponies that later turned out not to be the big flanked white horse with wings and a horn foals, than said something along the lines of:
"We have what we need, so we will leave now.
But they probably will return next week for more magical petting."

With that the horse and her herd of ponies left the hospital and dissappear.

Meanwhile did the family of her best friend in the world spending more time with her.
The voices really seem to even enjoy the attention and the nuzzeling more than she herself did.

Author's Note

As always i wish you a great day, even if I don't always mention it :duck:

You hopefully read the story of former harlock5399 now Silas5399 yet?
His story 'Reborn as a dragon'
inspired this nice story after all.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/445403/reborn-as-a-dragon

As i actually try to always mention:

Stay snuggly :pinkiesmile:

Last time edited: 09.03.2024

Chapter 11 - Duel of fates, Equestrian vs Minatorian 1/2

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 11 - Duel of fates,
Equestrian vs Minatorian 1/2

Bright Macintosh and Iron Faith stand after 10 minutes still in place. The sun was beating merciless down on them. In about 1 hour and 30 minutes would the sun be lowered and the moon would be raised.

The Minatour unlike Bright Mac had a dark fur coat, so night time was not on the ponies side.
But what was on his side was the solid, yet technicaly still dirt ground. While the Minatour Iron Faith was chewing imaginary straw, did Bright Mac used the silent stand off to draw magic from the ground to empower himself.

He did it carefully only through the frogs of his hooves, instead of doing it as one would expect through the hooves keratin foundation.
A neat trick a Black Hooves Earthpony had teached him and his wife.

While the Minatour would wonder what the pony was waiting for, did Bright Macintosh muscles standed relaxed as to hide how they keep expanding. Unfortunately the moment he would so mutch as move his neck, would he no longer be able to hide it.

Iron Faith was surprised how mutch the pony seem to relaxing at the moment. He didn't use magic to draw power from the Earth, since his hooves are not glowing like cheap nightlights.

Maybe he was waiting for the Night time?
Unlike the ponies bright fur coat, his was dark. The shadows would favor him.

Perhaps the pony was unsure how long the potion he drink needed to get into his blood? If he didn't know that it already was in full effect, than he would not correct his enemy.
Never interrupt your enemy to make mistakes, exploit them ruthlessly.

While the pony was waiting for the potion to take effect, did he used the time to surface scan the arena they are in. No stones to throw, no sand to blind his opponent, no trees to uproot and use as a club and no water to drown the pony in.
It was well stomped in hard earth or some earth covered stone.

The observing crowd enjoyed the stand off, it seem they enjoyed the show as stalled as it was currently.

He would wait for the Sun to set before he used the darkness to hide his movements better.
Just one good thrust with his horns and the fight would be over, when he leave his opposition to bleed out.

A clever bull never played the hero and the only goal he had was surviving, until he could try his luck in another nation.
With some luck, would he find a peaceful life with honest work somewhere else.
If the fates are with him, he might meet another dragon hatchling that he could kill for some coping.

Bright Macintosh was lucky, his opposition had given him all the time he needed.
35 minutes until the twilight was giving away to night time.
He had all he could hide and now it was his time to play his hoove cards.

This was for his family safety, for their happiness and peaceful foalhood. His princess had warned him... Celestia told him they would be coming for Cynder, it was only a matter of time.

Over - his - dead - fucking - cold - corpse!

So he spoke up:
"My name is Bright Macintosh of the apple family clan, you tried to murder my family.
Blood related or not.
Prepare to die."

Iron Faith was flinching in surprise when the Earthponys inhaled sharply and his bodys frame extend massively! What was going on? His hooves still didn't glow and noone would dare work any charms on Celestias and his Ambassadors watchful gaze.

Was he a fool to refuse the flask offered?
Did they spiked both and he declined a beserker potion or a hulking up potion?
Minatour are jacked by nature, he excercised so he was having a even more massive frame than others.

This farm pony just got from very well trained to absolutely fucking ridicules. He see that one white Pegasus foal with tiny wings and impressive muscle mass.

This pony just bench press two of them for morning breakfast!

O... by his mothers udders, he doubt that Night time was going to be a point of consideration... was his enemy really only a farmer?

Bright Mac was bursting, his muscles screaming with magic that begged to be released.
So he do approached his enemy.

His muscle already made the ground beneath him sink slightly in, his body was shaking with slightly stiff movements.

He would have less than 30 minutes time, before his body would collapse and he would not get up again. Everything or nothing.

"My name is Bright Macintosh of the apple family clan, you tried to murder my family.
Blood related or not.
Prepare to die."

Bright Macintosh was so coldly delivering this line, that he had just frightened himself.
His hate for the Minatour had unexpectedly vanished.
Only a cold certainty filled him, he would now move over to his enemy to murder him in ice cold blood.

The Minatour had to give it to the farm pony, his delivery left no uncertainty, that he was coming over to kill him. But this game could be played by two!

Time to earn his freedom and leave Equestria behind him.

This would blow up in Celestias face one way or another!

She observed how Bright Macintosh just used a extreamly effective, but outright suicidal Earthpony Black Hoove technique.
He had in a untrained state 10 minutes to end this fight or he would collapse on the spot.
Already she see through a spell him bleeding internally, his bodies muscles slowly started to come apart.

Even after getting out of the arena unharmed, he would be bed ridden for months!

This duel was about to be ended very brutally, one way or another. She give Bright Mac with his current expenditures of magic now 9 minutes and 10 seconds.

The Minatour Ambassador was in his office for 30 years and see a lot in his days, before he become a dedicated Ambassador for Equestrian and Minatorian matters. This was plainly the best and most comfortable position to ask for.

Ponies are peaceful and easy going outside nobility that he had to endure 4 days of the week.

Their military was geared towards defense and stalling the enemy, since Celestia was the one taking over the offensive parts.

Armys in historical documents reduced to ash and slag in minutes. Areas glassed and said glass was harvested for pony needs and wants.

Civilian population had no concept of military grade magic or training. Even self defense was very rudimentary at best.

How the bloody udder of Minatorian cows of old, did this Earthponys 'farmer' just used military grade techniques?

Unless the flasks both are spiked from the begin with, this was so far outside usual or unusual that this was almost Rockhoove levels of rare.

They be having someone laying in his own blood before twilight was over... so mutch was sure, blunt force attacks would cause bleeding, even if less than slash and stab wounds resulted it.

It was just good that he ask for the second flask to be levitated towards him, by noone less than his host high Princess Celestia. He would get that flask to his doctor the second he stepped into the ambassadorial building of Minatoria!

Because if the flask was not the cause of the physical changes, than even the least activ magic using subspecies of pony kind would be terrifyingly efficient in any magic usage in conflict to come.
When even a farmer was so proficient, how terrifyingly efficient would be dedicated soldiers?
Would royal guard or even the royal assassins of Equestria be within any of their own military capacity to be keeping them in a stalemate?

By the grassroots of his family farm, he would have one Tarterus off a story to tell his calves, once he returned in his next vacation window.

Naysay was watching the arena grounds from the beginning. The Minatour unfortunately had enough brain capacity to ask for possible 'foul play', his hired alchemist had not risk to use any obviously spiked potions. All he did include in the potions that possibility get used by both, was a pain suppressor and a nutrition supplement.

Nothing that would be unusually in blood pressure or bleeding suppressor potions.

When he noticed how the low nobelpony of the apple family clan started to gain magic without visible collecting them, did he suspected someone casting a spell on the earthpony farmer.

A spell to see mana flow showed how the apple patriarch actually was collecting magic, without showing any signs. He would have to use his black market connection to research this.
Probably a antic family member inherited spell, given from generation to generation in case war ever reared its ugly face once more.

Extremely rare and bloody valuable to sell to others!
No doubt was it going to have massive sledgehammer to the health consequences.
But in a fight to the death? When tomorrow was the only goal, next years heart attack or brain neurological failure was something cared for later.

This changed just about anything.
If Bright Macintosh of the apple family clan would survive this, than he would be a very rich pony for giving away his family secret war time battle magic technique to the Naysay family clan.

Of course would Naysay make it 10 times more profitable for himself to exclusively selling the knowledge in backdoor deals, but the apple clan would be bloody rich anyway.
So who should care?

Naysay hear the pony speak up:

"My name is Bright Macintosh of the apple family clan, you tried to murder my family.
Blood related or not.
Prepare to die."

Actually Naysay only 5 times the profit would be more fair. It was for the betterment of his fellow ponies after all... no profit is worth the risk to get that stallion aggravated against him or his clan.

The audience was truly seeing something only heard in legends and stories of old.
The nobels class usually could bearly wipe their own flanks clean with help, but this Rockhoove level stud just had every stallion feeling extremely inadequately and giving the mares wet seats.

If they didn't come to witness a duel to the death, the mares would be standing in line to get breed by this absolutely wingless and hornless Alicorn level alpha stud.

He confidently and slowly moved over to the beastly biped that tried killing defenseless minors!

By Celestias flaming teets, this was so unreasonable hot, that they might jump him after the duel was done.

Every mare in attendance hoped that Bright Macintosh of the apple family clan, was a national seed banks donating stallion.
This Rockhoove levels of absolutely flabbergasting stud was probably hung enough to be Princess Celestias secret foal daddy!

Bright Macintosh was always very gregarious and rough and tumble farm pony with a good sense of right and wrong. He is the type to wear his heart on his metaphorical sleeve. He give you the metaphorical shirt off his back or the last bit in his coin purse if he could spare some, he would be the type to throw himself into danger to rescue someone without a second thought.

But if you ever wrong his family or somecreature he cares about, you would made a very dangerous enemy for a very short life.

This Minatour has attempted to murder his family, insulted his foal with scales and had not even the decency to make more than a token effort to ask for forgiveness.

Today Bright Macintosh would take one life and if necessary lay down his life to...

No...
No...
No...

No he would not lay down his life, he would make sure that every singel motherbucking threat to his family would lay down their lifes!

Anyone could die and take the easy way out, he would do it the hard way, the apple way.
He would life with his actions today, so his family had a chance to escape the madness to come.

Let the enemy of his clan come forthright to him.
He be dealing with them hard and swiftly, until his time among the living was over.
When his time was up and he could meet his Ancestors and they cast him out of the fields of Elysium, because he had slaughtered those who had threatened the ones he loved and cared for.

He be only sorry to have not lifed longer to keep his clan safe and sound.
No rest for the wicked, no rest for the justifying of a stallion making peace of the fact that he was about to become a murderer, no matter what he told himself.
But in the end of the day...

He could life with it, he would life with it, until the end of his existance.

May he be drowning in guilt and a pool of his and the enemies blood, he would keep his beloved above it all. So they never would have to.

Because there was no price to high for the happiness of his clan.

As Bright Macintosh came out of his contemplations, did he standed infront of his over him towering enemy and he spoke loud and clear, yet with a coldness that made even Celestia suddenly shudder in appearedly potent fright:

"My name is Bright Macintosh of the apple family clan, you tried to murder my family.
Blood related or not.
Prepare to die."

Author's Note

Just in case you want to know the roughly shaped political/Nation situation. Minus the Synths that don't exist in this 'Displaced' story.

Inspired by me playing
'Civilizations V'
While i control 12 factions in the 'Hot-Seat' game mode.

Gore warning for the next chapter. You might want to skip it if you didn't like to read it.
The gore tag was selected for that and other 'to the death' combat chapters.

Stay snuggly :applejackunsure:

Last time edited:
10.04.2024

Chapter 30 - Meeting Harmony, face to Tree 3/3

Cynder is 'not Spikes special somedragon'

By: Black--Soul

Inspired by:
harlock5399 now Silas5399

From the story: Reborn as a dragon

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Chapter 30 - Meeting Harmony, face to Tree 3/3

The Alicorns backed away from the Tree of Harmony, what caused the Tree to send out it uncut vines to block the stairs, so they could not leave the cave by hoove.
Further did she made sure escape by magical means was not without danger by emanating magic distortion in the area. Noone could teleport or otherwise use magical means to leave or enter the cave without a threat to health and life.

Harmony demanded to have the dragon welp be given to her for extermination.
The shock of the Alicorn sister changed like Chrysalis to angered defiance.
Chrysalis narrowed her eyes and stepped back further using the bodies of her sister as additional cover, with them extending their wings in a aggressive posture.

Harmony repeated her demand and warned them that it will not ask again. They needed to put that threat down as soon as possible.

Celestias horn flared and a magical shield against any magical attacks flickered under difficulty into existence.
Nightmare Moon added a layer with her horn that would prevent physical dangers to pass through her shields layer.
With Luna using a anti magic teleportation or conjured area of effect, with Celestias shield a telekinesis grip would be prevented as well.

The Tree of Harmony was effectivly stopped in its tracks to gain the dragon welp by force for the near future.
Perhaps a verbal conflict would hold a resolution.
They are all reasonably towards one another in the past, reminding them of the threat of dark magic might change their uncooperative posture.

Harmony lifted its cut off vines into the air and remerged them with its main body. Just good its pain sensation works differently from fleshy individuals or this might become unnecessary personal.

Chrysalis tilted Cynder right side up with the vines having hold her upside down so she flailed reflexively as further distraction, until the dragon welp could have been dealt with.
Harmony would have liked to simply pluck that threat on four legs from the shape shifting queen hold, eventually crushing it in its grip after having destroyed it in magical means first, but it was not to be... yet.

Chrysalis bring the terrified dragonness closer to her face and inspected the young female body closer, to see if any damaged had been inflicted yet.

While Chrysalis was examine Cynder, did Celestia ask with a forced calm voice that Harmony needed to explain her actions from moments ago.

Harmonys metaphorical eyes widened in fear, how could Celestia have missed the matter at vines? That welp was a dark magic incarnation, something that had caused countless deaths for centuries. They had after all concluded together that dark magic infected individuals needed to be incarcerated into Tarterus if not killed on the spot or thrown into a vulcano to burn its physical remains.

Harmony had a strained voice like Celestia, a voice that told of supressed aggression for the goal of a comprehensive conversation.
Still did its intend boomed in their heads with all its murderous goal.

Meanwhile did the guard all over the Everfree Forest fall back to the old castle, this pure murderous intend briefly to feel all over the Forest had given them more than enough reasons to be on high alert and expected the unexpected troubles soon coming their way.

Harmony briefly ignored the Alicorn and shapeshifting equine insectoid to inform the whole castle stationed personal to be cordoned off with no one being allowed to get out of the Forrest.
It shared her want to every pony who has had any contact with the dragon welp or any member of the royal family in the last month.

This threat needed to be isolated from the rest of Equestria, otherwise it might cause the dark infection to be spread and causing more death and suffering for her protected charges.
Until further notice they all needed to be kept under lock down. They had managed to contain previous outbreaks and would do so in time again!

Harmony just was happy that they know by now not to do unnecessary things like halt all shipments to and from the effected area. Not anything could spread dark magic infections, only infected individuals and magic artefact purposefully made or manipulated to do so.
Everycreature within miles of the Forrest in the area needed to be scanned and put in contagion lock down if found out.
One could only hope no wildlife was effected.

That spread particular virulent in some cases.

The magic around the not so harmonious Tree flared less aggressive, when conversation started.
Though the immortals horn did still light up in blazing protective magic, with Chrysalis having joined them after Cynder was found out to be unharmed physically.

Chrysalis narrowed her eyes looking at the Tree, less brightly as she prepared to cast in case the entity had plans to catch them off guard.

The queen of the shapeshifting race turned her attention back to the Tree, after having Blueblood and Cadance reunited with Cynder on her back, having shaped her mane into a protective fluffy cocoon for the younglings convinients.

Harmony spoke up to the immortals, no longer projecting outside the cave:

"Dark magic is like a virus, a very difficult to contain or even healing illness." Harmony could be felt to focus on Luna & Nightmare Moon, "In your time in banishment did the world medicine and science have seen a progressive strong development, many illnesses could be cured these days unlike in the far past, were it was not possible and it merely could be contained, if not needed to be aggressive destroyed alongside the infected.”

Celestia shuddered when Harmony said it, with Chrysalis giving a mental hug to Celestia via the soul link they shared thanks to the magical core of Cynder.

Before giving time for unnecessary questions, did it not let itself get stop in its monolog to make a example or two:

“Non magical Flesh-eating sicknesses and dark magic infection, both results in lethal outcome for mortals afflicted by it.” Chrysalis nodded at the examples, even if she wasn't sure why Harmony mentioned them now, there seem to be a missing vital information that was misplaced, perhaps hearing the Tree out could shed light on the situation.

“A sickness be it non magical or magical in nature can spread very - very fast. It is in most cases very deadly as well. Unnecessary to mention that a sickness like that is very messy in its presentations, due to all the internal and external bleeding it causes.
In the past most have been very contagious without mutch option for anyone to stop its spread. That has not changed to drastically, though quarantine this day can buy time and mitigate the spread when enforced quickly.

Though at least medications have developed so far that it can be cured eventually and the consequences to the body in general can be reversed for the variations that can be healed, at least partially."

Chrysalis and Celestia started to suspect where Harmony was going with this, but they leave her to explain herself, after all one often started to slowly calm down from very strong emotional outbursts usually over time, especially if the satisfaction of getting a aknowledge for ones arguments is given. Something Luna & Nightmare would provide.

Harmony continued after a moment of letting it sink into its audience, already satisfied that Luna and Nightmare seem enthralled into the facts:
“Such a thing had in the past wiped out villages worth in population, to this day did some of them could only be contained, leaving only the options to let the victims die painfully in hopes they develop a cure within themself or deliver a mercy killing."

The Tree pointed with one of its vines at Celestia:

“Celestia had the last outbreaks before Tarterus was made the default answer to anyone infected with serious sickness like a flesh eating virus often under many day on watch, she kept the infected in solitary isolation for years if the victim managed to hold out that long, thanks to medication that supressed the viral progression and partial restoration of the body.

In some cases a cure was found while they lived, sometimes after they had died to the sickness.
But most time did only the extermination of afflicted was the only clear solution to something like it.

Before Celestia let cured individuals go to any sort of environment else than medical facilities,
did it was often a full year of on rotation working medical staff to ensure someone was truly healed and wasn't just a silent carrier of any disease, alongside the medical staff working on the patient.

There is to be made a strong distinction between physical and magical outbreaks, they effectively influence both aspects, but their origin makes the difference if it can be even attempted to be researched.
Physical manifestation of illness that has no magical origin is very hard to research and heal, but there is roughly a 50% chance.
But dark magic infections is impossible to heal to this day, all attempts stopped quite some time ago."

A feeling of melancholia came over the room, seemingly emanating from the Tree of Harmony.
After a short break did the harmony construct continued:

"I had Celestia crying to me for hours over 300 years ago, because healing dark magic infections was found out to be impossible to cure.
Unfortunately often even costing the brave researchers their lifes, when a single mistake lead to them becoming afflicted as well.

I am not to proud to admit that i failed to be anything but something to hold on in a situation like that... though i improved in that regard over the centuries, when i made good acquainted individuals here with the stationed ponies and soothed their pain verbally. For the day Celestia needed someone to lighten to her pains, one thing i learned over the years was that listening to someone to talk about their troubles in life often already had a healing element."

Celestia & Chrysalis are sure by now to know where the misunderstanding come from, but just to make sure, they had to let Harmonys monolog run out on is own.

Harmony continued:
"Celestia wiped whole blockes filled with population out of existence in village centers to spare others lifes, if she saw even a sign the infection could spread beyond conventional quarantined areas, that serious is that matter.
Ponies, Griffons, Minatours, Abesinian, all of them no matter of their respective races.
Because infection made them equally dangerous and made them targets of extermination with extreme precautions."

The Tree of Harmony stated with mimics of a shoulder/arm shrugs of her crystal vines and continued her monolog.

“They are all supposed to be dead and gone outside Tarterus, at least every Nation is trying it very best to keep it that way.
The ones in the Nations that gotten found out always was exterminated or imprisoned, because after the declaration that healing is impossible, there simply was no other option, no other choice to make.

Any of you should realize the danger of this dragon, Celestia your mortal colt unlike the young Griffon deity Cadance could be infected any moment, yet they are body to body hugging one another... have you gone mad?
We could lose your firstborn!
I would have been expecting that you of all creatures are ready to do the same i just attempted, destroying a threat to the world and its inhabitants!

At worst in needs seconds of exposure, at best hours. Lets hope it is not to late already!

But the only one i see injured was myself, who still showed the only indication to eliminate the imminent threat to prince Blueblood.
I can just hope that there will be no signs of infection once the welp is destroyed.
You cried for hours for the lost citizens and other sapient infected, i hate to imagen the idea that you lose your own flesh and blood born colt!"

Silence echoed throughout the Cave.

The Tree of Harmony was taken aback when all adults before her suddenly give her a deadpan look, when they all practical simultaneously wingpalmed themself, did the Tree of Harmony had the feeling she was missing a obvious punchline of a joke. The joke was most certainly on it.

But that would be silly, it was with exception of Discord and this dragon welps area of magical range able to see all that happened in Equestria if it focused herself on doing so, even if it needed hours to process everything experienced.

"My dear Tree of Harmony... you have it all wrong... Cynder is not a threat, she is the solution to the threat!"
Celestia smiled patronizing towards the Crystal being, a small encouraging smile that things are unlike they seem to be.

"You don't feel the same way a parasite dark magic infected individual does, there is no shame you acted prematurely before you actually read her magic right, your vines seem to always act out when in contact with dark magic on the past.
I will come with Cynder to you, please examine her dark magic properties properly this time, be gentle to her, she already is frightened."

The Tree of Harmony was extreamly confused about what Celestia told her, what was missed by getting into contact... wasn't all dark magic the same in general?

When Chrysalis floated the shaking Cynder to Celestia and Nightmare Moon. They both hold her gently together with telekinesis in the air, to the struggling dragonness displeasure, especially when a crystal vine come towards her.

Like instructed did Harmony slowly extend a crystal vines towards the welp.
Again did her vine was emanating smoke when contacting the dark magic being, but this time the discomfort was tolerated and the Tree in depth analyze the dragon welp magic, every layer of its magic.

It was fascinating!
So many unknown properties, many familiar, but changed beyond comprehensive experiences of the past.
Most importantly:
There was no parasite nature at all, no attempt to spread or feed on external magic mana.
This dragonness was unique, so alien was the realization that for a very - very - VERY long time... the Tree of Harmony had made a huge mistake in its judgment beyond the shadow of a doubt.

This little troublemaker was still a paining thorn in its carefully improvised plans, but with adjustments would its little scaled rump might become a major asset, if hold at range and away from the Dragonlands.

This might actually be a solution for the poisoning of the world she was fighting for millenia!
Perhaps she could even for once hope for a longer vacation and created a worthy offspring seedling, if she had no longer to suppressing the influence of the parasitic dark magic in the world...
o damn root rot...
she almost destroyed the solution to her parasitic dark magic problem plaguing the world.

Discord would never let her life it down.

Ssshhhiiiiittt!

Well... that happend so the Tree of Harmony facepalmed metaphorical speaking internally.

Luna brow narrowed when she hear the vines behind them move, but relaxed when the crystal vines no longer obstructed the staircase. She spoke up:
"You clearly had been fitting the evidence of the past to your assumed facts of the current situation, when in fact it was a wrong theory, rather than seeing if your facts fits the evidence before you, here right now.
Though with Cynder being the first and only exception to the rule it is somewhat understandable.
Still did you forget a simple fact of life, things change eventually. Keeping a open mind is never wrong. Suspicion is fine if warranted, but nothing should be dismissed in general.
Well... you know what i mean."

The Tree emanating feeling of shame answered:
"That is sure one way of putting it, just like Celestia's lack of judgment cost you a extended banishment, did i almost doomed us all.
Thank you for setting things right, apparently am i not as infallible as i always belive to be.
A truly humbling experience."
So Harmony honestly admitted.

Luna satisfied reply:
"You have not changed for a long time, in part to us keeping you busy with to many task at your vines, to distracted to keep up with the current developments of the last years. It is time we help you adapt to the modern age, Nightmare and myself know from experience that it is a time costly process, but together do we catch up eventually."

Luna moved over to hug her old friend, eventually joined by Celestia and the reluctant queens Chrysalis and Nightmare Moon.

"Nopony can look at you now and see the infallible immortal, who would close her eyes when she got into any sort of contradiction, you are willing to accept confrontation through differently running opinions. Yet you are willing to change your mind, if shown to be wrong.
It takes strength to admit mistakes, especially to beings like us. Though it begs the question what the others in the castle will think about it.
We did made quite a fuss about this situation."

After the group hug was over the Tree of Harmony significance misunderstanding was explained to the guards, visibly relaxing everypony.
Though Chrysalis was still slightly on edge, they needed to watch out for Cynder more thoroughly in the future.
She was to important for the world to die off before she could breed many hatchlings with her affinity for curing of parasitic dark magic.

With her becoming of age with her 30th birthday/hatchday in a few years decades, unless her dragon subspecies matured differently.

Harmony tried to mend the damaged bridge between it and the others:
"For the peace of your minds, i can try my best to help you out. I can not exactly observe the dragon welp in detail, but should she ever be obducted, than I will inform you where her distortion inside Equestrian territory is obstructing my field of vision."

With a understanding of mutual benefishal support did they parted ways in retreat into the castle to relax, while some castle staff pampered the crystal tree with extra layers of crystal polish shortly after.

The Tree sighed in relaxation while getting serviced by the Thestrals, perhaps the dragon would not be to hard to tolerate after all.

That inconvenience of a individual would pay it effort in time, perhaps fixing most of its problems eventually. That internal said to itself, if the dragon would ever find its end after the parasitic dark magic was removed world wide, is would only regret it gone because it probably grow accustomed to it, just like one could grow accustomed to some creature like Discord eventually.

The next day Bright Mac and Cynder come along the rulers to make a statement, after a hour or two of catching up and Cynder accepting the Tree of Harmony apologies, did Bright Mac insisted to have a short conversation with the entity that tried to kill his adopted daughter.

Bright Macintosh spoke up in his unbuffed state, with a nearly emotional empty voice.
"I am the father of Cynder, i hear what happened yesterday and let me tell you... you are lucky Cynder was physically unharmed, otherwise we would have no pleasant conversation, all we would have is a pile of crystal rubble."

The Tree of Harmony was radiating amusement, she answered the imputent pony:
"You don't know what your talking about mortal, i could kill you where you stand, no consequences would hit me. For Equestria fertility and healthy magic field is my doing. Would i to perish by anyone doing, Equestria would become what it was before my creation, a lifeless patch of dirt.
To strike me down, as impossible as it would be to somecreature like you, it would mean the end of Equestria as a hole."

A crystal vine moved to pat the pony admonishing on its head, only to be stopped by the stallion suddenly practically exploding in size, squeezing down hard enough to make the vine crack and splinter that got gripped by the fetlock of the stallion.

A very unamused farm pony spoke up to the mighty Harmony:
"My name is Bright Macintosh of the apple-pear family clan, you tried to murder my family adopted daughter.
Blood related or not, should anyone including you threatening her life again, than they are better prepare to die."

Harmony wasn't exactly intimidated, but her consequently followed answer had no mockery in it:

"Your life for your daughter well being? That can be arranged, you better pick fights you can actually win little pony. Otherwise it might cost you your mortal little life."

Bright Macintosh wasn't in the mood for ideal threats, so the pulled at the vine, ripping it of the Tree of Harmony trunk and crushing what he was holding in his fetlock to crystal powder, not flinching despite the blood his fetlock was losing slowly.

Bright Mac tossed the ripped of blooded crystal vine at its owner and said:
"Last time I was killed it didn't stop me from coming back to life in order to defend my clan and family, you better talk to Celestia about it.

Next time you will see that i do not make ideal threats, I am very proficient in bucking trees... have a nice day lady Harmony."

When Bright Mac had via the staircase left the cave, did Harmony tried to ignore what happened and reattach her blooded crushed crystal vine, only to find it impossible to re-attach and further starting to break apart.

Harmony throw away the afflicted vine and shuddered in real fright, when it started to hardening and splinter until it was crystal rubble without magic running through it anymore.

Maybe there was more behind Cynder than one magical perception could see, because her adopted fathers blood was saturated in magic harmony properties damaging elements.

Beyond expectations for the first time in millenia... Harmony learned to fear a little mortal it... she... feared with honest respect that previously insignificant looking pony.
Maybe Bright Macintosh of the apple-pear family was just like King Sombra, a mortal of exceptional danger.

Author's Note

Next chapter of this story will not come for some time, other storys need my attention.

Stay snuggly ♡ :twilightsmile: 👍