Record of chaos- The Better six

by Sofocles the Drake

"Baby steps"

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As for Crown, as to be expected. He was raised and trained to be the heir of the throne. Not only because the royal Sisters truly adopted him in a spiritual way but because for reasons yet unknown they were sterile, as in could not bear children. Not that they did not try of course, mainly moon, who like her sister, unbeknownst to the public fancied a dragon before the tragedy. It was state secret that in fact dragons as well as some other races could mate with most if not all races. In fact, it was rumored alicorns were born as byproduct of unicorn and dragon mating. This fact or myth however was not completely know by the princesses since they never met their parents, and were raised by a small town of unicorns at the time. The object of their interest, was suprisingly for Sol the brother of Crown's late father/diplomat. His uncle, Lance. Unlike her sister who fancied his dad, wich in both cases said love could never be. This because dragons albeit able be polygamus like ponies, usually settled with one mate for life. And both were already hooked. It was only latter discovered by other mediums that they were in fact sterile or so it seemed. And getting to Raise this child, was in a way a heaven sent to them.

Ever since he was born in this world in decadence, he was told how to talk, how to read, how to fight, how to behave, how to be a proper diplomat, ever since he was born he was always told by others HOW, but more importantly WHO to be.. He was under a very rigorus scrutiny even since he gained the ability to reason not only because of him being the heir of the throne despite a growing part of the population that while incredibly thankful for the Dragonic heroe's sacrifice, did not want to accept a Dragon as their king but also because the situation went from bad to worse as time went on, and they did not believe at all a growing child, soon to be adolescent, and eventually young adult could divert the country from ruin unlike their princesses that had hundreds of years of experience, however valid that statement was.

---7 years since The birth of the Prince----

In the department of his physical trainning he was instructed directly by Dawn's brother impenetrable fortress from the young age of 7, starting with muscle trainning and reaction time. For wich he gave him a diet of all muscle groups divided by all days of the weak in wich each important muscle group would be allowed to "relax" 2 days in between to stimulate strength and muscle hypertrophia without decreasing muscle mass or destroying the muscles.

In matters of combat and self defense he was taught Swordmanship and basic martial arts, similar to what we could call boxing and muay thay. This leassons while theorical, were practical too, and to say that he got a literal full body beating as a child, is obvious. However his scales tough as armour helped to lighten the blow a ton, the black bruises in his body were still there. Impenetrable, believed in respecting his oponent with all his might, no matter their age, and even more so, for the trainning of the future heir of a kingdom in war. He, despite hurting him inside to hurt his adoptive brother, could not go soft on him. However must be of note, that Impenetrable, just like everyone else aware got quite interested in the fact this Child had an apparent afinity with "fire magic" and the fact that he could "teleport" stuff even if small stuff as of now, him being a child. This make him decide to include magical arts training as well, tough in this case it Decided was handled by him too, the regime and days to practice was diferent.

As of now, the first experiments went "well" the fruits and bread while they appeared somewhat randomly, appeared close enough to the planned distance so he was getting progress. As time went on, they decided to try living objects. In this case cockroaches, for obvious reasons. Think about it, if say a pony was teleported by accident to a dangerous place, a high altittude fall or what have you due to the inexperience of the child, there would very likely be casualities. The first attempts were... not optimal. The color painted cockroaches wich were also magically marked (so they could be identified) appeared randomly at first. The idea was to place them on the hand of Fortress wich was 10 meters away, however the first one landed in the suburbs of lancelot near 2 kilometers away, the 10th in a nearby lake 1 kilometer away, the #20 in the mainstreet leading to the castle 500mts away , the #40 in the top of the castle 250 mts way and the #50 near the main door of the trainning arena 100 mts away. It was not only after his 60th attempt he got it in fortresses body... except it was on his head. Something that earned the child a mock anger bonk in the head. Thankfully on his 62th attempt he finally put it in his adoptive brother and self proclaimed hellish trainer's hand.

"fiu. These were some long 4 weeks huh little guy?" Exclaimed fortress to the 5year old laying on the floor, gasping for breath

"N-ne...never a-again" the boy was gasping, and of course he would. Even if he was hell of a gifted individual, he was a CHILD, doing nearly 70 teleports, in the matter of a week or 2, with focus on precision and of living being for that matter. For comparison, its like making a 6 year old (in this case just genetically gifted with good muscle density) get accostumed to doing 3 series 8 reps of a 20 kg dumbell leg, , bicep curl and abdominals every day, for 4 weeks. While for a fit adult (magically trained and adept adult) it would be relatively easy, as of now this number of teleports, with said requisits were taxing.

"no, cant do. Besides, stop complaining you already got the hang of it!, you can teleport living things with relative precision of 10mts, give or take 5mts, it will only get better from here as long as you dont slack , keep practicing, time passes and your magic pool (mana pool) gets bigger too"

"I h..h-ate you" he was gasping softer now.

"I love you too, give me 10 more teleports, this time to my left hand"

"UGHHH!"

"HAHAHAHAAH!" Fortress was having a blast. "No, seriously though".

"UUUGGHHHH!" exclaimed in frustration the young drake as the 6 fillies watched from the castle windows


In the matters of his knowledge and ettiquete, his teacher was his own mother, Princess sol wich gave him a regime consisting in attending her hearings of war tactics, negotiation, attentive hearing and such for 2 hours everyday, with daily 30 minutes of practice in wich he sat on his mother's lap as she assesed her duties and attended politics and the administration of the kingdom. That is, until he was older. In wich he could then start to participate in the matters of the crown.

For the matters of mental fortitude and values, his teacher was his dear aunt Moon. To wich he developed a innocent infatuation from little age due to her ways of strengthening his mental fortitude. Being the princess of the "night" one of her domains was the mind, more specifically dreams. As such, there was the idea of a regime in his sleep, for both using all his time without taking sleep time. So, it was decided he would get 5 days of nightmares based or not on reality, memories or imaginary scenarios and 2 days of happy dreams per week this to make his mind slowly more callous to despair among other things while leaving 2 days for rest and recovery, a similar principle as muscle training but with the mind. This had a catch however, she needed or rather wanted decided to sleep in his same bed. This because the distance to the subject of the dream played a key factor to the level of control moon had on the dreamers mind and decreased the risks of "problems". Or so moon said.

As for the matter of values, lots of expectations and "mantras" were this childs to be obliged by. A matter of "noblesse oblege" but moon did remark some key points, all the time.

"Do you know what makes a king? what makes a princess? a queen? a prince?. What makes them appart from ordinary nobles or any other people?" Moon asked.

"...."the young drake stay silent in thought.

"A king/Queen never hesitates,Never feels sorry forthemselves, Never betrays, never gives in, never gives up, never overtrusts, and always leads, FOR THE WELL OF THEIR PEOPLE"

"Do you understand what i am saying Crown?. While its a monumental task, and while not always you will be mentally, emotionally or phisically able to be faithful to these, as long you can, you shall follow these commandments." Moon asked.

After some moment of silence and thought he answered

"I think... yes"

"You think?" she insisted

"...I KNOW, yes." he answered with a trembling voice that showed his effort to be firm and push away doubt.

"Yes, what?" Moon concluded.

"Yes, princess!" answered Crown with a shacky yet firm voice with a salute of respect.

A sweet smile was drawn on the face of the princess.

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