Dragoon Legacy

The battle raged for almost a century now, neither side seeming to lose ground at first. On one side stood the Dragoons; each one as a seemingly unshakable fortress of power, might and sheer force. On the other side were the endless legions of Shadow, advancing even when they were obliterated by the thousands in each blast by the Dragoons.
They couldn´t falter. They wouldn’t stop. They kept coming.

Their world - which at one time had stymied with life in every corner - was dying. It had become more akin to a barren wasteland than the vibrant and lively planet it once was.
The Shadows used every resource available for their war, not caring if it would leave behind a dead planet. They neither knew nor cared about the consequences. If killing the planet would win the war, then it was their nature to so.

They would consume all.

The most fearsome thing about the Shadows was how little was understood of them. Their desires, their goals, all were a mystery to their enemies. The only aspect that could be clearly understood was their merciless indifference. To many, they were defined by one word: death. Emotionless, void of soul, mindless, and with only a single impulse: To feed.

Despite their strength, the Dragoons began to falter. Word of the first casualties among them sent waves of terror among their ranks. At first, only a few fell victim to the swarms of darkness. Soon, their losses measured to hundreds by the day. It was only a matter of time until they all met a certain end.

In desperation, they gathered together their last five great heroes. Each represented a sacred element of their race: might, power, valor, nobility and knowledge. Through their ancient magic, they executed one final ritual to summon a god into their midst to save them - and the world - from certain death. But alas, at the end of the ritual, five corpses lay cooling on the floor in front of the Queen. Their hope, their fate, their dreams all ended with the fading light of the fatal spell.
Or so it seemed.
On their last day, the Queen, her two sons, and the ten surviving Dragoons prepared for their last stand.
The fight lasted many hours, long into the day, and into their final hour. One by one they fell, Until all who remained was the Queen and her sons.

The Queen, the strongest of their kind, fought bravely. She fought to protect what was most precious to her. She would fight till her last breath to keep them safe, but it was not long until she also fell.

Mirrored in her eyes were despair, fear, and a knowledge of the certain death of her children.
Why was this happening to them? Her approaching end sent her into a panic of questions. Why didn’t the Gods hear their cries for help?
Why had they been forsaken like this?
With one last glance at her surroundings while she lay where she had fallen, a tear formed in her eye.
“We, our planet, our life… Gone forever... without a single trace.
No one will know about us...” the queen gave a final thought time about her ruined kingdom.
“Is this our legacy?” She gazed one last time upon her children, six conclusive words issued from her mouth.
And inevitable oblivion took her.

Their planet, now engulfed by the legions of Shadows, appeared only as a dark mist in space. Only those who had viewed these events from the surface would truly understand the extent of the legion.

That was... until a vast eruption of light suddenly radiated from within the depths of the dying planet.
The strange light became a beam, piercing the entire planet from pole to pole. With a radiant discharge of stellar proportions, the blue-hot geysers of light produced an equatorial shock that expanded at the speed of light, passing through the other planets in the solar system and fragmenting them into nothingness.

The star endured, intact for the slightest instant longer than the planets which once orbited before it too went nova.
Nothing remained, no planets, no star, not even a single shard of rock had been spared by the devastating energies released. The local space was slowly filled with dust and luminescent plasma which began to condense even then, directly after the cataclysm.

All vanished but two remnants of life.
Nearby, six multicolored orbs of light orbited them.

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A winged beast awoke from its nightmare, sweat all around its face, still quivering from the vivid dream.

“Light meals before bed, my ass!” the creature hissed.

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“Ughh! I will require some time of retreat after these events,” one particular Alicorn exclaimed while lying down on her sizable bed.

“He surely gave us a great deal of trouble this time,” another replied standing next to her.

“You know Luna, sometimes I wish I could understand him;
why does he love chaos so much?
One cannot rule that which is chaotic.
The nature of chaos isn’t something which one can grasp or control.”

“Discord isn’t something to be easily understood. Sometimes I have my doubts about him even being evil.” Luna confessed looking through the window, gazing upon the stars surrounding her moon.

“What are you implying by that?” The first asked nonchalantly.

“Oh dear sister, this doesn’t seem like you at all.” Luna giggled softly, “Losing your touch as the ruler of this world?” she teased.

“Ughh! Luna, just get to the point before I leave you alone to your blathering!” The apparent monarch groaned, as she turned over in discomfort. She was in quite an irate mood.

“Tsk Tsk, is it already that time of the month already?” she teased once again. Before her sister could answer, she continued, “Just think Celestia, he is a deity like us, but one that focuses on all manner of chaotic creation.”

“Isn’t that what he is doing?” Celestia replied almost asleep and a little annoyed, thinking that her sister was stating the obvious.

“Well it is true but take a closer look at him: he only does things which involve you or somepony close to you.” Luna started to reorder the stars around the moon. Tonight was going to have a nice starry sky.

Celestia thought about what her sister had said. She had a valid point, right now she just wanted to sleep.
However, curiosity encroached upon her mind.

“Luna, like you said, he isn’t easy to understand. I believe the chaos he so desires to unleash has taken his mind already. Maybe he wants to take us out first... urghh... I don’t know.” Blinking twice, she hadn’t noticed that she was staring into the fireplace, her eyes neither flinching nor watering from the radiating heat

“It’s the first time since..." she paused, knowing that some things were best forgotten "Never mind that. But seeing you with those words, probably? Maybe? I don´t know?! Sister, I will take it that you are indeed tired and leave you to rest.” She took her leave, exiting her sister’s bedroom, leaving Celestia to her thoughts.

Celestia couldn’t leave her sister’s words out of her mind. She went back to her memories, when they finally reunited, after her sister’s millennia of exile. They were having a regular chat, just like two regular sisters catching up. They spoke about several themes until Luna came up with some curiosity about the issue with the research on friendship. They went on and on with several things related to friendship, but somehow, Luna felt there was a hole in it. The nocturnal princess said that she found interesting about having friends and all but what about love? That special one that could make you feel above anything else (not like they could feel above anything else since they were goddesses but at least make them feel they are worth so much more). Celestia answered, “Probably, we... Maybe later we... I don’t know...” she said, defeated.

Before she could think anything else, she fell asleep, having that dream. The one that would make her feel her spine tingle, her forbidden dream.

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“Again?” Celestia said with a surprised look on her face.

“Yes, my lady, even with a garrison of ten pegasi and five unicorns, we could not do anything. We are deeply sorry, my lady,” said the guard

“And what did the creature take?” she asked, almost knowing what would follow.

“The same as usual. A couple of chickens, eggs, some fruits and vegetables -- Oh, firewood has been accounted to the losses too.”

“Very well. I’ll look into this matter personally,” she said with a sigh.

“But my lady - we can take care of this ourselves. You must not do such things your highness!” the guard said a bit ashamed, the princess herself was going to resolve this issue personally and this would probably be a hard blow on the royal guards prestige.
“Do not worry. I have faith in your actions to prevent this from getting out of hand. I only seek to see this creature that you speak of in the report” she said with a smile to ease the guard “Take it as a matter of research”
The guard stood there trying to process the information as quickly as he could “Very well my lady”

“For now keep the same garrison, I will take personal action at the end of this week, you are dismissed.”

The guard made his way out of the room, while Celestia examined the reports of the creature. Something about a dragon like creature with feathered wings, one yellow horn that bent forward and two other horns that went to the back. It had blue greysh scales with some areas of the body that were covered in some sort of natural armor that, in the regions of its arms and legs, sprouted some sort of curved blades.

Another curious thing about the creature was that it had long brown fur sprouting from the sides of the chest, surrounding its shoulders and along the back of its long neck. They said it wasn’t as large as a fully grown dragon, just slightly bigger than an alicorn by one and an half times and its neck wasn’t also long like a normal dragon, in terms of proportion is was just a bit bigger than the princess.

Celestia finished reading the last notes on the report, no causalities and no pony was badly hurt on the raids so far. The creature was too fast for any pegasus to catch and even with all unicorns on garrison trying to restrain it with every spell know to them it seemed the beast was unstoppable by common and restrain magic. There were reports of mutual mocking between the creature and the guards. It seems it had the ability to speak.

On one positive note, the creature seemed to left behind some kind of rare jewel or something precious. If it was a dragon it wouldn't leave one single gem around, taking in account their nature around rare gems, but then again dragons were not very fond of chickens. Too much feathers for a meal they say.
“Hmm" she pondered on her thoughts "if i didn’t knew that Discord was turned into stone by my own hooves i would say that this was his work” she though.

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“hmmm~ hmmm~!” a grin formed on the creatures face ”Tonight i am going to make me some chicken!” its voice wasn´t as deep and profound as a dragon, just with a hint of it. Almost drooling himself thinking of a delicious roasted chicken with some sauce it realised something.
“Wait!" it stopped mid air, putting one of the claws below the chin "damn it!! I forgot to take the sauce.... ”
The creature roar the skies heading to an unknown region of the Everfree forest, landing in a old temple.

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A week had finally gone by and princess Celestia was waiting for the creature to appear so she could “analyze and study it”. That meant capture the beast and leave her sister to do the study. The sun goddess was still in a strange mood for the past week and she felt this creature was starting to get on her nerves. Celestia had a reputation to keep, one that could solve such minor thing swiftly and quickly. But after Discords last attempt to create chaos amidst her castle she was in need of a vacation from duty. The plan was to capture the creature and take a couple of days to rest after it.

As the night came and princess Luna moon rise in the horizon, the creature took off to the skies, it too was in a particular mood that night.

“i wonder why ponies have farms with cattle and stuff... i mean what are they going to do with chickens? pillows?” it kept going higher and higher in the sky so it could have a good look on the farm that he went around for the last two months. The air around was a bit chill, although it was in the middle of the summer it was a normal thing to be cold so high above the clouds. The dragon like creature took its direction to the farm and increased it speed. The ends of its wings began to leave a trail due the intense speed he was reaching.

Down at the farm near a small lake, princess Celestia was reading a book while she ate some dandelion salad. She decided to relax a bit and set herself close to the lake, sitting on top of a red cloth. The scenery was beautiful and with the moonlight partially hidden behind a few clouds it only boosted the sensation that nothing would ruin such peaceful night.
She continued to read the book and took a bite now and then on the salad. To give a bit more of flavour she seasoned it with some cream sauce. Before she could take another bite on the salad, a strong gust of wind threw the bowl of salad with its content on her face leaving her with a mask of cream and dandelions. She blinked twice before she could process what had happen.

“What in Eque...” she couldn´t end the sentence while she took a look at the creature on front of her. Just like described in the report it was really like a dragon but in a way different, the way the moon light stroke its scales made it like it had a blue glow while making shine the white armoured parts of the body. The wings, that flapped slowly and majestic, were made of feathers that also glowed while some parts were golden blade like feathers. But what took her breath was the eyes, at first they were glowing but after it blinked it showed silver eyes that could almost see trough her soul.

The Dragon like creature landed near her, legs first and then with a sound *thump* his arms touch the ground. Folding his wings back, it moved its head a just foot away from princess Celestia’s face. She froze, she didn’t know what to do, in front of her was a majestic creature that made her feel small and in some way helpless. But it wasn’t fear that she felt right there. Before she could ask anything the creature began to lick her face, taking small bits of the salad. After what it seemed like forever the only part the creature didn’t lick was her lips. She was still frozen, but mustered enough energy to her lips to speak.

“What are y-“ she was silenced when the creature actually went for her lips. At first it seemed like a sloppy kiss as the creature took what remains of the cream of her mouth, but in the middle of that “cleaning” it started to actually kiss her. The winged beast broke the kiss and stared to her eyes.

“hmmm that... that was... damm...” his voice made her jump in surprise. But she couldn’t speak after what happen “sorry sweetheart, I would love to stay here and lick you all night long, but i need to get me something I can actually eat” he chuckled “not to mention the sauce” he look at her with a sly grin “but i think i just found my favorite sauce”.

Celestia stood there, her brain trying to process all information. It was just too much information to process. His words were looping on her head. And by each loop made her cheeks warmer by the second.

“THERE IT IS!!! ITS HARMING THE PRINCESS!!!” one unicorn guard shouted

“CHARGE!!!” another guard said, this time it was a Pegasus followed by 3 other charging at high speed toward the creature

“GET IT!!! THE BEAST MUST NOT ESCAPE!!!” another unicorn guard shouted

“How many times i need to tell you i am not a BEAST! And i have a name for godsake! Sirus you hear? S. I. R. U. S. you stubborn goddammit ponies” he shouted while flapping its wing to get on the air. In on swift motion the aerial beast took flight and passed by all the guards not even filching to the magic done by unicorns.

The princess stood there watching the ruckus happening in front of her eyes. She saw her guards flying in the air every time they tried to stop him. She could hear them swearing each time they tried to take the chickens out of his grasp. Sometimes a cry of pain would be heard when either the ponies kicked him in the eyes or when he grabbed a few unfortunate souls and death hugged them to unconscious. This would be very funny indeed if this wouldn’t mean more work for the princess. Slowly and steadily she approach them. By that moment he had three ponies in his grasp and one hand was grabbing another, six laid down unconscious. Two of them were trying to strangle him, other two were trying to free the ones on his grasp and the last one was clearly ready himself to kick his eye at full speed

“BE QUIET!!!!!!” her rage was visible; they all stood still, frozen by her god like voice. The guards never witnessed such outburst and could tell that this wasn't going to end well. They were sure that any sudden move or foolish act would be rewarded by something they didn’t wish to their worst enemies. That is everypony, not him.

“Wo-o-ow! cream face is on a baaaaaaaaaad moo-“ terror filled the guards faces when they hear the beast call Celestia such words, they knew what was coming next as he never had the chance to finish his sentence. A huge blast erupted beneath him, sending everypony and him flying to the air.