Hatching in Equestria as a Silver Dragon

I was left completely starving and tired after my visit from Celestia, I'll admit despite the issues, and there were a few, I was glad she came to visit, I'd rather have her treat me like dirt now and change her tune than have her chasing after me to force me to become a celibate later in life, sure now I didn't care about that, but I knew I would want it when I was older, I was not dumb, I know how an adult or teen thinks as I was one once, I suppose I was still a teenager when I died as a human, not a full adult.

But I still knew how desire feels.

After she left Sylf came back quickly and hugged me, she was concerned for me, specially after realizing I had been crying, she was furious but I told her to not worry and to calm down, things were okay now, she still was upset, but I did my best to reassure her.

"Mom, please calm down, the Princess didn't do anything to me, we just had an important talk and she understood my point of view, I think she has learned an important lesson, what I did was really important, if I didn't talk to her about this, if I didn't convince her to change her mind then we would have been much worse off than now, please dont hold that anger towards her, you said so yourself that kindness is the most important virtue, and showing it to those who don't treat you nicely is the only way to help them grow to be nicer too."

She calmed down at my words, starting to nuzzle me and I held her head close to my chest, rubbing behind her ears and her neck.

"I... I understand son, I just really hope the Princess changed, I will forgive her for making you cry if you say she has made a change, but I won't let her hurt you again, I won't be letting you two alone together anytime ever! Just keep that in mind my darling dragon." She meant that, I was glad she was not here during that conversation with Celestia or she may have gone into aggression and ruined my chances to talk the princess directly and privately, that was important, or she may not have been convinced, in a way, she being able to hurt me and me being alone and defenseless worked in my favor, it made her realize she had gone too far and she was hurting a defenseless foal, if mom had been here, she may have felt I was not defenseless and she wouldn't have been able to take her frustrations out on me.

When someone has too much frustration and is not allowed to let that emotion out, it becomes more and more toxic, contaminating the mind and causing other worse emotions to appear.

"Thank you, now let's go eat, im starving and I hadn't had food yet... I should go to school, I've missed days didn't I? The vacations are over until Hearts Warming the 25, I bet my friends miss me too, I haven't seen them in a long time." I headed towards the kitchen and started preparing some quick food, then I grabbed a large glass of apple juice and went to eat, making double portions as I was really starving, I ate quickly and went to wash my face and brush my teeth.

After I was ready I packed my backpack with a pencil and notebook and I headed to school, mom carried me on her back this time, i was pretty much late, not good but I still wanted to at least see my friends.

We reached the school in about fifteen minutes of mom's trotting along the street, she dropped me off and we went out separate ways with a quick nuzzle.

I headed inside the school building and went to my classroom, knocked the door and blushed in embarrassment when I realized everypony was already in, I had been over an hour late because of Celestia, oh well... The teacher gave me a look of disbelief.

"You're late Onyx, an hour late, any particular reason for that young colt?" Miss Chalkboard the math teacher asked indignant at my tardiness, I lowered my head knowing I could not tell the truth.

"I just had unexpected visitors and I had to entertain them for an extra hour until my mom came back, I'm sorry miss, I'll do my best to not bother anyone today." My voice came out a bit miserable, making everypony look at me with some concern, specially my friends and a new filly I didn't recognize, she was pink all over, before I had time to have a good look at her I got told to go seat in the empty chair, and I did.

I had missed History class, which was a bummer because I actually liked to learn about pony history, and maths I wasn't a big fan of, but it was important, even if all of this I already knew too well, I instead started to look around the class, looking for that new filly I had spotted before, I haven't seen her here until now, but I quickly found her again, she was one seat away from the middle of the class, and one seat to the side of Shining, I blinked for a minute, realizing something important, this filly...

She had wings and a horn?! She was an Alicorn! Wait... Cadence?! It was Cadence!!! Her cutie mark, it was there right for all to see, the crystal heart, in all it's glory, printed on her flanks like a very detailed talent mark ,cutie marks didn't look exactly like tattoos, but the comparison was the closest.

I caught myself from staring too long at her flank, not wanting her to see me doing that, shaking my head, this was good news! A fortunate coincidence.

The class progressed and went on and on about maths that I already knew, I was paying attention in case anything new came up, but this were topics I already knew from my old life.

Then finally, the recess bell came, ending math class for the day, we had no homework yet because It was elementary.

The teacher left and we all went outside to play, I was one of the last to leave the classroom, there were a few groups, among them my friends, who all waved and gestured me to come over, Cadence was with them, and a few other fillies were there too, maybe friends of Cadence.

As I approached shyly, feeling a bit embarrassed for having missed days of school specially near the end of the year, my friends smiled at me instead, all were happy to see me.

"Hey Onyx! Where have you been? It's been forever, were you sick or something? You missed 4 days of class!" Aquamarine approached me and hugged me while asking me, the others all joined in, questioning me.

"Are you feeling better now Onyx? I hope you are, I missed you..." Said Summer Sprout shyly, while joining the hug.

"You look fine to me, good thing you recovered, you also look more shiny than the last time I saw you, did your scales became brighter? You look good!" Ruby complimented me, using her telekinesis to pat me on the head and then joined in, I was already pinned down as the foals were trying to hug me all at once, I purposefully let myself fall on my belly, letting them all pile on top of me, giggling at their antics.

"Hahaha you're all so sweet everypony! I was just a bit sick but I'm all better now, how was your vacation? And yes I'm quite well now, just missed you all, you're the sweetest ponies!" I gave each of my friends a small nuzzle as best as I could while some laid on me, but then they slowly got up as we all didn't fit in the pile and there were some who still wanted to say hello, Calm Breeze, Silver and Sweet along with Shining, I went to each and gave them a hug, and rubbed their heads softly, ponies were very touchy and they loved having their heads caressed and massaged with more dexterous appendages like my paws, hooves were not as good for petting, they were harder and not good for caressing another, patting at most, that's why ponies used their muzzles more.

"Oh that looks nice, Onyx right?" I heard a filly's voice and turned around, stopping providing petting to Sweet Orange who pouted a bit but moved on.

Behind me was the pony I had been thinking about, Cadence, she was my same height, it amazing news that she and Shiny have met, even seems like they hanged out together.

I offered her a paw to shake and she quickly understood and smiled warmly, accepting the gesture. "Nice to meet ya, I'm Onyx, and you? I've never seen a pony like you before." I smiled but also was curious as to what she would say she was.

"Yes right! I forgot to say, my name is a Cadence, it's nice to meet you Onyx, I'm an alicorn, but I was a pegasus only a week ago, I have moved here to Canterlot to study, I'm very surprised to see you as well, I have never seen somepony like you, you must be a dragon, I haven't seen a dragon before but I've been told they are scaly and have a tail, and sometimes wings, but I see you still don't have wings." She was an excitable filly from what I see, her honest curiosity and good disposition made me feel happy, she had not been taught to believe that dragons were evil or something, at least Celestia didn't have time yet and hopefully now she wouldn't, since our talk.

"Its because I'm still a hatchling, I'll get my wings when I grow more, I'm just starting to grow, but I agree, I can't wait to get wings and learn to fly!"

She giggled at my good demeanor approaching me "I am still learning to fly too, since my parents were earth ponies they couldn't teach me, but now I'm slowly learning, but magic I still have no idea about more than just basic telekinesis, I will start learning spells too in a few years." I was slightly envious of her, being able to fly was a dream come true for me, one I don't know when I will be able to grow wings but I wish it was soon.

"I am starting to learn magic from my mom, I know a few spells and I learn more as much as I can, I was planning to teach Shining, since he asked me so maybe you'd like to join us and learn too?" I asked her hopefully, she blushed slightly at the suggestion, but seemed to recover quickly, and nodded with a big smile.

"Yes I'd love to! I bet she would be happy that Im learning magic before she even started to teach me." She said the last part softly, more to herself but my sharp ears picked it up.

"Oh who's gonna be happy? I'm glad you want in on our little extracurricular activity, I promise it will be fun!" Truth is, I still haven't offered to teach Shining magic, but I bet he would like me to, at least would be intrigued by the idea.

"Well... My auntie, I moved in with her a week ago when I became an alicorn, she's very nice but often she's busy, she does care about me a lot so she would want me to learn magic and help ponies all over Equestria." Sounds like her aunt is a very nice mare.

"Sweet! She must be awesome! So you know this ponies by now right? I missed your first day, I wish we all had met that day, but it's still very nice to meet you now."

"Yes, they also told me about you, I didn't believe them at first that there was a dragon colt as our classmate, but you're here, Onyx you and your friends really share a wonderful relationship, I can feel the love you all have for each other, its my special talent, and... I want to be your friend too, friend of all of you, if you would let me?" Her eyes were full of hope as she looked expectantly in my eyes, and I of course knew right away that this was meant to be, we would be amazing friends, all of us, and I hope one day she and Shining find more than friendship between themselves, maybe... I could help that along sightly~

My idea to have both of them learn magic together is going to be my ultimate matchmaking weapon, I have so many ideas! I shook my head, Cadence was giving me an odd look, but I simply pulled her into a hug, gently caressing her neck.

"Of course we can be friends! The only reason I made friends was because I tried to, I included the ponies who didn't push me away into my games and always did my best to make them enjoy our time together."

She was slightly shocked by the hug but returned it quickly, trying to pet me back with her hooves, she was super adorable, my friends all giggled and joined in a group hug, Cadence on the other hand was almost overwhelmed by the amount of love covering her, she was literally glowing and specially her cutie mark, which made everypony stare at her in confusion when we ended the hug.

"Oh wow!" Summer was the first to say, his eyes full of wonder.

"She's so sparkly!" Commented Calm Breeze. I had to agree with her, Cadence definitively was looking very sparkly at the moment.

"She's is very pretty like this too..." Shining Armor said absent mindedly, staring at Cadence with sparkly eyes, then when everypony stared at him, he seemed to realize what he just said and covered his muzzle, going red faced, something that Cadence did as well once his words registered, but I could see they shared a look, this was good news! I didn't even do anything and they already seem to like each other.

"T-thank you Shining, that's very sweet of you." She smiled after seemingly calming down, then hugged the colt softly, patting him like I did with her, maybe she realized it felt great and wanted to show others.

Oh I wish I had a camera for moments like this, they were sooo cute hugging together! And our friends fully supported their foal love, I wasn't of course naive enough to think this was already a serious relationship, but in the future I hoped this would help get to that, one day, maybe soon.

The days after we got to know more about Cadence, we played and had fun outside, decided to do some okay fights with Shining so he would show off a bit, I had become much stronger since the last time we fought, but I was letting him win, of course not always, didn't want to make it obvious, so I randomly reversed the game and pinned him down, just to let myself be defeated after, it was just like the game we did in preschool, where I would play as the monster, but slightly more serious, using joint locks and different techniques to keep the opponent from getting on top and pinning the other down.

He honestly knew more than me about this, he trained actually, formally pony martial arts, but I learned from him too every time we fought, it is we extremely fun and it made for a fun show to give the other foals, we never got in trouble either because the teachers knew we were careful and we had explained to them it was a game, and there was no real force behind it, and they reluctantly agreed.

This games were specially fun for Cadence to watch, she always cheered for Shining, but to not make me feel bad, some of our other friends would cheer for me, it was pretty sweet of them and I will always appreciate this small things they did for me.