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

Celestia be like:

Last time edited:
10.04.2024