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

Last time edited: 16.12.2024