The Dragon Sword

by Dawn Bright

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure
Length: 968

An ancient sword, a forbidden prophcy, and 4 warrior ponies.

Rice Blade finds herself trapped in an ancient struggle as she and her 3 friends train to become Ponypan's greatest warriors. As they delve deeper into their training they make surprising discoveries and find that old legends might just be more than legends.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2012-10-01 21:22:37 UTC

Rice Buckets

10 thousand years ago three swords appeared in Ponypan's three kingdoms. Terro, the earth pony sword, Aero, the Pegasus sword, and Matrix, the unicorn sword. These swords were always wielded by great warriors who fought in the four thousand year war. This war was between the kingdoms was bloody and long. One day a great battle ensued at the base of Dragon mountain. All great swords were there and the destruction and power unleashed was unfathomable. Awoken by the noise of this battle, the great dragon Archain let out a mighty roar and fly down. Awe struck by the magnificent creature, the ponies ceased their battle. The mighty beast spoke of unity and peace. At the end of his grand speech the three swords rose and formed one blade. It was known as Drakion. So the three nations ended their war and made many treaties and promises. Anytime this peace was threatened Archain would take up Drakion and defeat any foe. All ponies loved and worshipped him but the wise dragon warned them of a great enemy that would defeat him but from the ashes of his defeat a bright flame of a hero would rise. Then, and only then, would Ponypan be safe.

This legend was far from the mind of the young mare Rice Blade. Rice Blade is silver coated with a white and grey mane. She had black eyes and at the moment was whereing a large fielder workers hat. She had a blue and ivory vest and she balanced a long pole with two buckets full of rice on her back. She was currently troubled with getting a rice delivery to a nearby village. She was humming a tune and didn't have care in the world. She past a sign announcing that she had entered Wanio village and nodded at the unicorn guard. He acknowledged her and went back to sharpening his sword. She was walking to the bamboo house of the costumer when she heard some yelling.

"Ha That's probably the biggest muzzle I've ever seen!"

"If you don't shut your..."

Out of curiosity, Rice Blade walks towards the noise and found an earth pony mare and a unicorn stallion arguing. The unicorn was lime green with steel gray mane. The mare was pale yellow with a light brown main. She wore two red,white, and blue sweatbands, one on her head and the other around the base of her tail. Also she a very large muzzle for a mare.

"Take that back or else!" the mare screamed.

"Or else, what." the stallion smirked.

The mare just narrowed her eyes and charged at the unicorn. With a smirk still on his face, the stallion charged. When the two were just about to clash, the mare swiveled and let out a kick which squarely hit his jaw. He fell to ground with a grunt. She looked at the mysterious mare with a mix of admiration and fear. In Unicorpia it was against the law for mares to fight. Rice Blade turned to run when two events happened. One was that the guard arrived on the scene and the other was that the stallion grabbed a sword from the blacksmith's. Rice blade yelped when the sword slice the pole that was supporting the buckets of rice when the stallion lost control and threw the sword. She narrowed her eyes. It was a good two hour walk back to the rice fields and the costumer would be mad about the long wait. She jumped up onto her hind hooves and grabbed the sword. Rice Blade then turned to discover that the stallion was already levitating a new sword and the guard holding his own with magic. She came at them and fought hard. Despite their magic and her lack of training, Rice Blade and the other mare were putting up a pretty good fight. Rice Blade couldn't help but find that the fight was enticing. She had never felt more alive in her life. After only a couple exchanges Rice Blade and the mare managed to slip under their opponents defenses and knock them out. Rice Blade dropped the sword and resumed a four legged stance.

"Hey thanks," the mare said to Rice Blade, "I can see your a pro at swords. I mean what a cutie mark!"

"Uh what cutie mark?" Rice Blade asked. Though she hated to admit it, she had a blank flank. No matter what she did it wouldn't appear. She closed her eyes as she didn't want the mare to see her cry after that simple statement but when Rice Blade looked at her rump there was a sword cutie mark. But before Rice Blade could say anything, a hard object hit both her and her companion's heads causing them to black out. Apparently the guard wasn't as out as they had believed.

Rice Blade groaned as she woke up. She discovered that she was shackled and tried to get her bearings. By the looks of it she decided that she was in a wagon and knocked out beside her was the mystery mare who she had helped. She tried to see over the wagon  but with no avail. Rice Blade sighed and contented herself with depressing daydreams of her fate. After what felt like a number of hours, the wagon stopped. Rice Blade heard voices and the clang of bits being exchanged. She looked up and witnessed the guard approaching her with a blindfold. When the world went dark, she felt somepony pick her up and drag her somewhere. They placed her on the ground and she heard the thump of her companion being placed uncerimouniously on the floor. When the blindfold was removed all she could say was, "Oh rice buckets."

Hey does anypony know a good editor?