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

Stay snuggly everycreature

Last time edited: 29.01.2024