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
They come at night... Mostly...

Stay snuggly 👍

Last time edited:
17.04.2024

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.