Dragoon Legacy

Today was another fine day at Ponyville, ponies were roaming around the streets, filling them with the daily life. Yup everything seemed too normal and too boring for a certain purple unicorn in a certain library.

“Ugghhh!” she stretched her arms “I am soooo bored” she was sitting on one of her desks in front of the window looking to the few clouds in the sky. Her brain was already processing the reasons a cloud would be lingering there at this time of year only to be abruptly stopped by a blue pegasus raming inside her house

“Twilight!” she almost shouted, her voice was filled with excitement “You will not believe this!” the purple unicorn had jumped back from the chair falling on the floor.

“Uh…! Hi to you too… Dash...” she had a bit of an annoyed tone in her voice.

“Hm? Oh yeah… hi!” her excitement seemed to lower a bit but it only lasted for 2 seconds “Oh my gosh!!!! Twi!! you will not believe what me and Flutters found!!!!” her excitement was back online

“Well I might believe if you tell” she wasn’t very enthusiasm she could only guess so far what they found in their little adventure. Probably nothing too special, she thought until Rainbow Dash told her story, showing a purple crystal and a rock with a rune imprinted.

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Celestia was going on a small flight through this cold icy lands, she enjoyed flying now and then. It made her relax feeling the wind blowing on her wings and mane. It was this few ocasions that she could actually wander around with her mind far away from her duties.

Moments later she landed on a stone bridge. Close by, there were ponies skating in the ice while others were just sitting around on the benches near the frozen river. Lucky for her they were too busy in their little fun that they didn’t notice her landing there. Celestia was glad about it, she just wanted to be there like a normal pony, not a princess or a goddess… somehow today she felt closer to them than usual.

She decided to take a little stroll heading down to the lodge. She wandered around for a good while, taking different paths in and out of the nearby forest, always avoiding too much attention. Her mind was going in loop around the last night. Just thinking about the night sent shiver on her body and made her cheeks warmer by the second.

His touch, his embrace, his kisses trough her skin… she felt like one of those teenagers mares when they fall in love for the first time… well in a way this was her first time feeling this way but she was no teenager! But she couldn’t deny she had a smile every time she thought about him… and that was almost every minute since breakfast. Celestia knew she couldn’t deny that she was daydreaming too much but kept telling herself it was just going to be for just a few days more and then everything would return to normal… sort of…

Her happy face was slowly being replaced by another more emotionless. Like everything she knew in life, apart from Luna, things would eventually be gone, becoming another memory of past time… something that when brought to the present brought happiness at most… but longing and yearning were always lurking in those happy thoughts bringing sadness in their wake. Celestia knew this fact all too well… It took her some time to get used to this fact without having a major breakdown when her friends eventually perish. Her biggest support was Luna, always there for her, enduring the same and, in a way, stronger when dealing with this emotions

The white alicorn thoughts went around her “parents” in a matter of speaking. Nature and Time gave them so many things to cherish and love but never forever.

Nature in a way seemed like a mother to Celestia. Mostly because she could be as loving and caring like one but when enraged could make even a god feel just like a little foal. But eventually, like any mother, she would calm down and forgive them with another season of her embrace.

Time was just like a father, giving you something to cherish and learn but eventually took it away and asked you what you learn about it. Like a wise one he keeps giving you other things, teaching you every day about something. When he thinks you have learned enough, he takes you with him... Just like a father takes his children to the fair for their good work... something no child says no. Earning their eternal rest...

Yup… “father” would eventually take him away from her… even if he is something that lived long for more than a millennia, she knew he would eventually be taken away by him…

She felt anger at this fatherly figure she had… why she had to keep learning forever? Wasn’t she good enough for him to be taken with him like his other children? Did he not like her? Was he punishing her?

Tears of anger fell on her cheeks. Sobs could be heard. Her head was hanging in pure defeat. Was he punishing her now because she went against her “parents” will of not go out with him? Was she treated like a little teenager that didn’t knew nothing but pretended to know everything?
Right now her head was hurting of many thoughts trying to rush through her mind until a cold wind stroke her face, gently removing her mane from her face, trying to clear away the tears. This surprised Celestia to say the least.

Be fate or be “her” real, this wind was brushing her in a way that it seemed that it had life of its own, concentrated only on her face. It was cold but also was gentle. Celestia didn’t know if to believe in fate of this occurrence or that her “mother” was watching her and telling her something.

Celestia cleaned the tears, still sobbing lightly, but now her anger was replaced by a new feeling that imprinted a small smile on her face. She thought even if it is for just a few days, she would cherish her moments with him as long as she could and just like her apprentice, she would learn something from it. Either hate the fact she kept going on with her little misadventure or love the fact she felt what she felt when with him… only him.

She shook her head, taking all her conflicts away in that wind. It was a bright sunny day and it was no time for one to be sad. There was no reason for it.

Slowly she went back to the lodge now thinking of what to lunch. Thinking of food somehow reminded her of him. And thinking of him made her smile. She was… happy! she guessed…

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Unknow to Celestia, Sirus was also having a bit of troubles of himself… but they weren’t emotional. Nope, they were real and where giving him hell in form of custom made 120mm AA magic rocktes!

“FIRE!!!” three volleys were shoot against the blue one, which he dodged easily.

“You guys are worse than my grandma! And she couldn’t see straight” Sirus mocked the now remaining three pegasus.

“You little fuc-“ not surprisingly this one didn’t finish his sentence when a ball of energy smashed on his face.

“One down! Two to go!” the dragon kept going on with his escape, flying low around the trees

“Sir! We are taking heavy losses! We should retreat and regroup” one of them yelled at the other, trying to maintain the increasing speeds

“NO! We fight to our last pony” this guard was clearly stubborn and his own stubbornness cost him already six wing ponies

“But… si-“

“I said no and I mean NO! We fight till we can’t fly anymore” the leader of the guard pegasus was angry

“Sir you should consider…” the younger one tried to reason but all in vain

“Are you deaf son? I said no and in my country it means NO! I will consider it when I am unconscious” the leader shoot another two volleys against their target

“Unconscious you say? Well I can make it that happen. Eheh.” Sirus said with a playfull grin that became more like a devil smiling to that poor soul

“Uh oh…” was all that the leader Pegasus said before he was stroke by 3 balls of energy. First made contact to his face, second to his stomach and the last hit him square in the chest making a loud *boom*. Not long after, the leader was falling to the ground, rolling on the snow unconscious.

“Hey! Will you look at that!” exclaimed the dragon like he wasn’t expecting what just happened “I guess this mean he reconsiders don’t you think?” he asked to the last pegasus standing. The Pegasus gluped and didn’t think twice, retreating to the ground where the leader was. The guard took a good look to the path they passed to see a torn path made by their little skirmish… most damage made by the missing rockets. A sweat drop formed on his face

“I wonder how are we going to report this to the princess…” the thought alone was making him shiver in fear

“Don’t worry much about it, I am sure she is in a good mood today” Sirus winked at him, hovering nearby “Well got to go! Cya around… oh and by the way! Next time try to bring more of you ponies, ok?” with that he blasted to the skies, covering the pegasus and his unconscious leader with a layer of snow.

He kept flying towards the nearby mountains, he didn’t want to go too far from the lodge and that little skirmish already lasted for a few hours so he could only guess that it would take him some time to reach it. Flying low he landed near a frozen lake. Nopony or any other creature seemed to be around.

Taking a good look around it reminded him of the lake he encountered Celestia for the first time. Oh man she was going bad into his head and he knew it, but right now he didn’t care about it.

Felling a bit cold and hungry he needed to get something warm on his stomach. Once again he looked around to see if anything moving was around him. To be sure, he casted a small magic around him so he could feel other living creatures around. Only plant life was around him within a large area. He guessed that nopony would go this far without a reason and concluded that was safe to perform a little trick of his without using too much magic.

Sirus hovered in the center of the lake. He extended his wings and seemed to float in mid air while a blue aura formed around him just like a circle with several runes imprinted on it. Slowly the circle enlarged becoming more of a disk. At the lake an imprint of the aura was forming on the ice, glowing faint blue.

After a few seconds, the aura around him was gone and he landed on top of the circle on the ice and in a bright flash he was gone from the frozen lands. Looking around he could tell he was home. He took some time to adjust to the faint lights emitted on his home. Slowly sounds came to be, welcoming home, almost as they missed him for a while now.

Sirus was happy to be home again but he was feeling in a rush to fly and he didn’t know why. He guessed it was his free spirit saying he had spent too much time locked away with a beautiful, sexy hot… err with a lovely princess.

He made a quick hot meal with the few food supplies he had in store. He took a mental note that he really had to get some more or else he would be turning into a vegetarian very soon…

Just as he finished, Sirus went to the exit of his home and took fly to the sky. It was warm here, sunny with a few clouds. It was funny, how where he was this morning was a perfectly clear sky but at the same time it was cold and here was the opposite.

The blue dragon took direction to the nearest beach around, he knew it was summer and probably there were some ponies around but he didn’t care. He had to fly and free this immense energy he was feeling. And if everything went well, the royal guard would be more concentrated on a dragon that was lurking around a populated area than a frozen land with few ponies. Leaving him more at ease with the white alicorn.

Soon after, he was flying on the shore line, keeping really close to the sea, leaving a trail of water in his wake. Sirus took several dives and when flying out of the water he performed some air tricks that would make many pegasus jealous. This energy he felt seemed to power him to fly faster or to do something that kept him going.

At the beach several stallions and mares watched dumbstruck at this dragon performing like some kind of radical flying surfer while the fillies and foals were amazed by his tricks.

He kept doing his own tricks, diving deeper and jumping higher. He felt becoming tired but he didn’t want to stop. With one final jump he blasted into the skies leaving a sonic boom behind him, to the delight of the little fillies and foals.

Already in the skies, Sirus began to roam around with no sense to where he was going just following his own will. Slowly he began to imagine how it would be if they were here. Filling the skies, looking at him like he was some sort of lunatic. That made him smile, how he loved to see them now with dumbstruck faces while he roamed their sky gardens.

Sirus felt once again like he was back to his home land. A land filled with the likes of himself, soaring the skies with their majesty, living beneath and above the clouds. Oh… how would they laugh at him seeing crossing the skies at this speed… but he didn’t care. This blue dragon was feeling so much alive, he felt that even the skies weren’t big enough for him. He felt that he was going slow and needed to go faster and faster and… her… his mind went back at her, smashing a smile on his face. He knew now where this energy came from. How did she get him this bad? He didn’t know but he sure was enjoying this feeling…

This feeling… something they cherished so little…

Why were they so strict and only tried to be perfect? Why didn’t they want to enjoy their lives? For this questions he knew the answer… due to their very long life spam they acted more like gods that mortal beings. Always concentrated to their duties that took ages to complete… a simple guard duty would take several years. They wanted to feel one with their missions, bending their minds only to that purpose alone. For them no task was simple nor completed without a challenge of some sort. Sure they were a good race, looking always for peace and prosperity. Indeed a very noble race that the others worshiped them like gods… so away from things like feelings… so away from simple pleasures of life…

He could see both of their worlds. The one connected to their duties and the other they kept closing their eyes… well he and his brother… but her mother didn’t take this little vision of them so lightly as this vision had taken something very dear to her… something that had closed her to eyes to the other world completely.

Sirus didn’t knew much of this story since it was never an easy issue to bring around her mother. Only pieces and bits that formed the only thing he knew about his… father.

His mother was a strong and powerful being, sure she had beautiful traces of a pink body with yellow scales and a very feminine figure… but her wings were her signature of power. Huge orange crystal like wings with shades of purple. To top this up, she had six wings… one could only guess how much each wing weighted yet she crossed the skies in a very majestic way, almost effortlessly.

Who could guess that his mother would fall in love to begin with... and to top that up, with a guy like him! Whenever he could get some information from his father her mother kept telling he was a simple soul that cherished many things. This was an issue since it would make the others laugh at him, but somehow that was what made her fall in love with him. The other males, although stronger than his father, never tried to make a move on her. First because the others were purely afraid of her… no one would like to get her on her bad side… and secondly her wings were not a very attractive sight to the males that normally had bigger wings than the females. Taking out those things she was pretty normal and was starting to open up more to the other world… until a certain event took place.

The only thing Sirus could make from the bits of the rumors around was that his father was killed swiftly in front of mother in a small riot. Rumors spoke that some of them were going crazy from their “way of life” and went berserk with their duties, not able to come back to their original selves. They say that only mother returned that day… all of them were killed by her own hands… except for father. She once told that he might have been weak in terms of power but his heart compensated for it. While the others fell prey to their minds he was the only one to resist… only to be killed in front of her.

One day, long after Sirus and his brother were born, her mother was proclaimed to be one of their chosen heroes that would bear an element of their race…. She was given the element of Heart… the so called "weakest of elements"… in a certain way it was ironic how one of the strongest if not the strongest of their kind was given, by nature, the element of Heart…

When she returned home she looked to both Sirus and his brother and said that she loved them very much but she was going to find her a seclude place to put her memories to be long forgotten… that was the last time he remember his mother being a mother at all.

Funny how now he lived in that seclude place of those forgotten memories… and this little memory only made him remember what his promise was, the so called “duty”. His smile was long gone and his energy failed. He hovered in the skies. The sun was setting, sinking in the horizon, his silver eyes were staring blankly to the sky.

He had a promise to keep! The whole reason he was still alive was to fulfill their dying wish… but he also had a promise to his mother… one that was simple and tricky

“Never close yourself to the world” Sirus mumbled, remembering her last words. He breath out, it wasn’t his nature to feel bad or sad for long periods and somehow he could see the light at the end of this adventure… he just hoped he was for the best.

His smile came slow to his face when he went flying back to his home, knowing sooner or later he was going to be with her... his loving princess