Discord arrived back at Fluttershy’s Cottage, having been made bigger to accommodate the dragoness, Angel was helping the animals around the cottage, upon seeing Discord Angel hopped up to him and made gestures asking where Fluttershy was.

“Well she should be arriving in… three, two, one,” Discord said looking at a watch and he heard knocking on the door in his ‘pocket’ and he pulled it out, expanded, and then he opened the door.

And Fluttershy stepped out, somehow even bigger than before, not by much but she was closer in size in comparison to Rainbow and Applejack.

She gave a big stretch and a yawn before turning to Discord.

“Hello Discord,” Fluttershy said with a smile.

“Hello Fluttershy, you’ve grown a little,” Discord said.

“I have?,” Fluttershy looked around and sighed “I didn’t want to get bigger,” Fluttershy said.

“It’s no biggie, I supersized your animals and cottage in preparation for your return, so come along Shy, it’s been a hundred years since I’ve seen you,” Discord chuckled as he led her to the bigger cottage.

Twilight and Spike and Starlight wandered through Ponyville, their destination, Zecora’s, hopefully she’d been spared the transformation.

“Thanks to Discord things seem to have gone back to normal,” Spike said before avoiding another dragons foot “Mostly,” Spike said.

“Yes, we’re thinking of letting him terraform Equestria into a more dragon suited land for now,” Starlight said.

“While keeping the environment and managing the balance between the races?” Spike asked.

“Yes,” Twilight said as they entered the forest, upon entering they came upon a sight they partially expected to see.

Zecora’s as a black and white striped dragon watering her spice garden.

“Zecora!” Twilight called and Zecora turned to see them.

“Ah hello my now reptilian friends, what brings you around these ends?” Zecora asked with a smile.

“Spike is having an issue lately,” Twilight said.

“What is tha-” Zecora was cut off when Spike suddenly transformed into an adult dragon “...I see, come in,” Zecora said before heading inside with the two.

When they got in, Spike saw a series of new things, like vials full of liquid and various things from dragons.

“Where did you get these?” Spike asked.

“I simply collected my own saliva, scales or nails and with these, I will make more potent brews without fail,” Zecora said confidently.

“Eww,” Starlight said in response to that.

“Alright, alright well I was hoping we could pool our knowledge to get the prognosis on Spike’s condition?” Twilight asked.

“Let me see him,” Zecora said and she walked up to him.

“Stay still,” Zecora said with a pair of tweezers.

“What are you gonna-” Spike yelped a little when she plucked a large scale out of him and walked back over to a desk.

“Ow…” Spike said, rubbing his arm.

“Hmmm… I see,” Zecora and Starlight examined the scale and found strange magic all over it.

“This is odd,” Starlight added as she looked under a microscope.

“Well?” Spike asked.

Zecora wrote everything down and handed it to Twilight.

“I cannot help in this regard, but I would take it up with Celestia and the dragon guard,” Zecora said.

“I did, they didn’t do much,” Spike said and Twilight read the info and nodded.

“Ok, let’s go Spike,” Twilight said walking out.

“Huh? Wait!” Spike followed her out, as he walked beside her and Starlight he asked some questions.

“So what does the paper say?” Spike asked.

“That there is the possibility of a mutant spell on you affecting your growth patterns,” Starlight said.

“A mutant spell? What’s a mutant spell?” Spike asked.

“Two spells that become layered with one another too deeply make a new spell entirely, I need to research this, I don’t know if there will be any negative effects on you,” Twilight said.

“Good plan,” Spike said following her home.

Rarity found herself with much more materials than before, which was good, one of her concerns was that she would have to pay through the nose to afford to make one dress, but it seems Discord thought ahead.

Now came the issue, how does she make dragon based outfits? She’s never had to before, except for Spike, but his outfit was experimental at best.

Her thoughts wandered to Spike again, she remembered his adult form… and it made her excited thinking about decking that dragon out with a tuxedo and cufflinks and the way he’d wear it on a strong body like that…

Rarity shook her head.

“I have to stop thinking about his grown-up form,” Rarity chastised herself, she’d been doing that alot lately, was this some phase female dragons go through?

An apple tree fell over after Applejack had tried to buck it.

“Darn it! Not again,” Applejack griped, Discord had made the apples and the trees bigger but they still fell when she bucked them, She’ll have to work on a new way to get the fruit down.

“If only ah was a pony again,” AJ said as she pulled the tree back into a standing position and used her bigger hands to try and rebury the roots.

Suddenly Apple Bloom could be heard crying out in pain and Applejack turned to the animal barn.

“AB?!” Applejack ran to where the noise came from and she approached Apple Bloom who was lying on the ground next to a sheepish-looking cow who had apparently bucked her.

Granny Smith had run over too and they approached Apple Bloom who had a black eye.

“What happened?” AJ actually growled at the cow.

“I-I’m sorry, I turned and suddenly she was there, instincts just kicked in and… I kicked her…” The cow apologized.

“Ya’ll hit mah sister!? Ah have half a mind ta-” AJ snapped at the frightened cow but Granny Smith put her arm in front of Applejack.

“Ah get it, seein a dragon out of nowhere startled ya, jest don’t let it happen again,” Granny Smith said seriously.

“T-thank you…” The cow scurried off.

“Granny! What was that?” AJ asked.

“Ya gotta look at things from their perspective, living among a race that considers them prey, of course their gonna be jumpy, ah’ll give em a stern warnin about doin it again, but ah’m not gonna punish them for being scared,” Granny said helping Apple Bloom up and having her follow her away from there.

Applejack looked at the cows who were trying to look like they were intentionally staking out at the edge of the fence and she sighed some smoke.

“Ah guess…” Applejack then turned to go back to work.

Spike was attached to some devices and Twilight and Starlight examined him.

“Ok, with Zecora’s notes, we can allocate the spell wavelengths,” Twilight muttered.

“But without our magic it will be kind of hard to fix this affliction,” Starlight said.

“We’ll need to rely on our brewing capabilities and hope we can form a potion that will help,” Twilight added.

“Ready for anything,” Spike said.

“We’ve sent the message, we’re just waiting on a response so we know what to do,” Twilight responded as she went on to begin studying Spike.

“Hope this doesn’t take too long,” Spike said.

‘We just need to take some notes,” Starlight said.

“Ok,” Spike said, deciding to get some sleep in while they were doing their research.

Dragons throughout the Dragon Lands were woken abruptly from their sleep to head to a mountain where Ember was getting ready to make an announcement.

“This better not be another peace conference with the ponies,” A disgruntled grey dragon grumbled.

“Watch that be exactly it,” A brown dragon said.

“Gather around!” Ember ordered.

The dragons grumbled but did as their leader told them to, once everydragon was gathered Ember addressed them.

“I am sure you remember getting the announcement. If you didn’t, then it seems the banished dragoness Ignia has returned, and she triggered the runes of Magmus, and as a result Ponykind has been turned into a draconic state,” Ember said.

“That’s… great right? No more ponies?” A blue dragon said.

“NO! Think about resources, do you really think this new dragon population can survive the amount of resources and places to nest? It will be competitions left and right for mating rights as well, we need to find Ignia, so I will enlist most of you to aid the ponies in getting comfortable until things get better,” Ember said and the dragons groaned “Groan all you want, you have a duty to your fellow dragon, and more than that, it will give you a chance to keep an eye peeled for Ignia,” Ember said.

“What about our hoards?” A pink dragoness asked.

“I’ll make an order to not disturb any of the empty hoards, but we need to get moving,” Ember said and the dragons reluctantly went to get ready.

“What about my sleep? I still got a few seasons to go!” A red dragon called.

“You’ll get back to it when the search is over!” Ember called back before flying off.

“Dang it… and I finally found another mountain after that yellow pony drove me off…” The red dragon grumbled heading out with the other dragons.

Spike woke to a strange smell and he looked to see Twilight and Starlight making potions.

“Hey girls, how's things going with the cure?” Spike asked.

“We’re working on it,” Starlight said.

“How much longer?” Spike asked.

“As we’ve said due to a lack of unicorn magic we need to use less common methods, like potion craft,” Starlight said.

“Can I at least get off of this table?” Spike asked.

‘Sure,” Twilight walked over and untied him and Spike got up and hopped down.

“What’s the complication with it?” Spike asked.

“We’re unable to make a solution if we can’t figure out the mutant spells properties,” Twilight said.

“Mutant spell?” Spike asked.

“Yeah, based on observations and what Zecora has noted, we can detect a correlation with a draconic version of a mutant spell, basically when two spells become too layered and form a new spell, remember?” Starlight explained.

“Oh yeah,” Spike said, remembering that they talked about it earlier.

“We’ll have to layer some notes with Celestia’s help, when she’s figured out calming the populace first, it may take a few more days Spike,” Twilight said.

“Darn it,” Spike said knowing this meant more random age shifting.

“Until then why not try to make a good thing out of this, maybe if you can learn how to control this you can stay in your younger form,” Starlight offered.

“Thanks but I think I’d like to stay in my older form,” Spike said as he hopped onto the ground and began going up the steps to the upstairs.

“I get the feeling he has a special reason for wanting to stay big, and her name is Rarity,” Twilight remarked.

“He’s growing up so fast isn’t he?” Starlight ramarked as well and the two dragons shared a laugh.

A couple of guard dragons made their way down a hallway and walked past another guard who was examining some keys.

“Afternoon,” The guard said.

“Afternoon," the other guard said as they walked away, as he made his way down to a room he didn’t notice he was being followed, the being was following him closely, it followed him into a room and snuck up on him, he spun and-

Saw a rat skittering on the ground nearby.

“Whew… thought it was Pike playing a prank on me again,” The guard said turning to resume packing away his keys.

Before the rat morphed into an orange and red dragoness who swiftly shut the door.

“Huh? Hey who are-”

“Devnak,” The dragoness fired a spell from her palm and it hit the guard and he passed out.

“A dragon you may be, but once being a pony still makes you distasteful to look at,” The dragoness said walking past him and collected the keys, she then shoved him into a cell to hide him and she turned into the guard before making her way into the hallways, as she made her way out to an opening and she dropped down into the streets and turned into a grey and blue dragoness to make her way into the city.

“Now to Tartarus, in a few days our dream is near Magmus,” Ignia said with a cackle.

A few days later

Discord has done some good work remaking Equestria into a dragon friendly place.

Already normalcy, or at least its equivalent, had been restored.

Discord was in the midst of discussing the changes with Celestia.

“Las Pegasus has been changed to accommodate dragons more, Appaloosa has been developed with firmer soil to account for dragon stampedes, and crystal production has gone way up so as to prevent resource loss,” Discord said, he looked tired, reconstructing a continent is tough work.

“And complaints from the dragons of Equestria have lessened as a result, this is good,” Celestia said.

“I would like a vacation when this is over,” Discord said.

“You’d have earned it,” Celestia replied.

“Now about the elephant in the room,” Discord made an elephant he conjured earlier for this joke disappear, “And to address a recent problem, has the one who assaulted that guard been found?” Discord asked.

“No, but we’re certain it was Ignia,” Celestia said.

“I can almost guarantee it, if it weren’t for the fact that she’s using draconic runic magic I would have found her by now, she’s a slippery one,” Discord said.

“We’ll find her, for now we finally got notice that the dragons in the dragonlands have been assembled and are being sent into Equestria to aid in the adjustment process, I have sent Luna to Ponyville to assess the process starting there,” Celestia said.

“And I have a clone looking into it as well,” Discord said as he flipped pages that he was reading onto the next one, “In regards to Trottingham,” Discord continued on as Celestia listened.

Elsewhere in Ponyville

Luna, Twilight, and Mayor Mare addressed the crowd on a big stage and they observed the many dragons watching, Rainbow and Applejack and Rarity were among them but the other elements were oddly absent.

“Thank you for coming over today, before I hand you off to Luna I wish to address the concerns you have all voiced lately have been noted and will be the main focus of today,” Mayor Mare said before stepping aside and Luna approached.

“My fair citizens, It is prudent to warn you that dragons are on their way and before you all panic, they are coming to teach us the dragon way,” Luna said.

“We breathe fire and smoke, eat gems and sleep long periods, what’s there to know?” a black drake in the back asked.

“There is much more to being a dragon than that, keep a broad perspective when talking to these dragons,” Luna said and the dragons nodded.

As the dragons flew over Equestria, each grumbling about having to do work like this they split into groups as per Ember’s instruction and they made their way to their individual cities to perform their duties, as the dragons who were going to Ponyville were going the dragons were making idle conversation.

“Heh, odd they're calling it Ponyville when they should start calling it Dragonville,” Garble said with a snort.

“Agreed, it’s stupid,” A green dragon said.

“None of that, come on!” Ember called and the drakes winced remembering Ember was coming with them to Ponyville.

“Psst, I gotta go,” The red drake said.

“Oh come on dude, just because you have some history here doesn’t mean you should-” The green dragon winced as the red dragon slapped his shoulder.

“I’m going to literally make it rain if I don’t find my own bush, cover me!” The dragon said.

“Alright, fine Razer, hey Ember!” The green dragon called.

“What?” Ember asked.

“Um… what are we teaching them again?” He asked.

“Seriously? I told you like a dozen times!” Ember said, meanwhile the red dragon Razer skimmed his way from the group and made his way to a nearby lava pool.

“Odd, didn’t think Equestria had lava pools,” Razer said as he landed behind some trees and took a pee.

After finishing he made his way out to the lava pool.

“Well… nothing saying I can’t take a short dip,” Razer said before seeing bubbles in the lava nearby, sensing possible danger he hid again and watched.

And saw a slender beautiful yellow and pink dragoness emerge from the lava with a sweep of her head.

“Whoa… who is that?...” Razer asked.

Ten minutes ago

“Alright Shy, let’s get on with our training,” the Discord clone said.

“Discord? What are we doing here again?” Fluttershy asked.

“We’re training you on dragon habits, since you are uncomfortable around other dragons I thought of training you myself,” Discord said.

“I greatly appreciate it,” Fluttershy said with a smile “So what are we here for?”

“Lava training,” Discord said tapping the water with his finger and the water turned into lava.

“Discord! What if there were fish?” Fluttershy said worriedly.

“Oh don’t worry, I made sure there were no organisms in the lake, now climb in,” Discord said sitting on a rock.

“Um… I won’t get burned right?” Fluttershy asked.

“Of course not, you're a dragon now,” Discord said.

“O-ok,” Fluttershy said stepping forward and dipping her toe into the lava cautiously, ready to pull back the moment it hurt, instead, it felt incredibly warm, but in a good way, like a hot tub.

After a few instinctual flinches at touching the lava Fluttershy submerged her foot and then she leaned in and sank her leg into the pool as Discord patiently watched.

When she stuck her other leg into the lava she hummed happily as it truly felt like a relaxing hot tub instead of a pool of liquid death like back when she was a pony. She allowed herself to fully sink into the lava until her head was poking out and she sighed happily.

“Don’t stay in there too long or you’ll get dizzy,” Discord warned as he walked away.

“Where are you going?” Fluttershy asked.

“I am expected to make a brief showing at the meeting in Ponyville, but I’ll be back lickity split, so remember don’t hang out too long in the pool, like one or two hours tops,” Discord said as he left.

“Ok,” Fluttershy said laying back in the pool and eventually she sank beneath the surface.

Now

She climbed back onto the shore and shook herself off, flapping her big wings to dry them off.

“I liked that, I may visit the dragonlands one day to enjoy a real lava pool,” Fluttershy commented

Suddenly she heard shuffling in a nearby set of trees and turned to see a pair of eyes staring at her.

“Eeep!” Fluttershy jumped a little and backed up “Wh-who's there?” Fluttershy asked.

“Umm…” Razer seemed uncertain.

“Discord?” Fluttershy asked.

“Who is Discord?... Does she already have a mate?” Razer asked himself before he stood up out of the brush and he made his way into the open.

“Huh?! You?” Fluttershy said seeing a familiar red dragon.

“Uh… ahem… hello, I’m Razer and your… oh come on Razer you got this,” Razer said slapping himself before turning to see the yellow dragoness cowering behind a rock.

“Uh… you ok?” Razer asked.

“H-he’s back! Is he seeking vengeance for driving him away from his cave?” Fluttershy shivered out wondering what his motives are, when she felt a poke on her side she jumped with a yelp and jumped into the lava pool.

“...She must have been rejected by a previous mate for her to be this jumpy,” Razer assumed.

Ember and the other dragons arrived on the outskirts of Ponyville and Luna came out to greet them.

“Whoaahoa, Check out the babe,” Garble snickered to his friend before Ember slapped him.

“That’s Luna you dolt!” Ember said.

“Huh? Eww nevermind, she used to be a pony,” Garble said.

“Hello Ember, we are glad you came,” Luna said.

“Yeah, let’s get this moving, we got a lot of dragons impatient to get back to their hoards,” Ember said.

“We’ve gathered the town's dragons, so let us get started,” Luna said and she led the dragons back towards town.

Getting a mischievous idea Garble snuck up behind Luna and raised a hand-

“Do it and you die!” Ember snarled.

“Dang it…” Garble put his hand down.

Author's Note

Sorry for the hiatus

And yes Razer is the dragon from the episode Dragonshy.

I think you can see where this is going.