Hatching in Equestria as a Silver Dragon

The days after our small expedition were more relaxed, we dedicated ourselves to our daily lives, our friends and school, while mom and dad watched over the foals every day, my small punishment was to keep guard over their room during the night to help them if anything happened, I had to change diapers, bring them to Sylf for her to feed them, or anything the twins needed.

I suppose it's all part of being a big brother, but it was definitively not fun.

A few months passed, it was winter again not far from the end of the year, the last days of November.

The crops I tried planting had grown nicely, the coffee has grown well and the rice was harvested, it was a success, but the amount of rice you could get from this greenhouse was tiny, not even a full kilogram. Of course this made sense because it was a small gree house, but still it made me a bit sad that I couldn't get more, I love rice dishes.

I think by next summer the coffee plants will start producing the fruit.

Today I was at Shining's house with our friends, all were invited, there I got to see the tiny Twilight Sparkle, she was half a year older than my siblings.
We had lots of fun playing games with my friends, Twilight was a bit shy around the others but got excited to play when her brother told her join them in the next game, she could talk already, it wasn't unheard of, but still rare at her age.

"Silver, do you have any fours?" Calm Breeze asked the colt, who shook his head no.

"Go fish." At that Calm Breeze sighs and takes out a new card, then shakes her head and gestures to the next pony, Sweet Orange.

"Do you have any seven Aqua?" Sweet asks her friend, who nods and hands her 2 seven. Then Sweet smirks confidently and takes four cars out of her deck, placing them together on the table.

Now it was turn of Summer who took a look at his deck and asked Ruby Ray for a 5, I stopped paying attention as I felt a small tap on my side.

I turned my head and there was little Twilight, Shining a few steps behind her, he gave me a smile and a nod.

"E-excuse me? I'm Twilith Sparke, brother says you're a dwagon, can you really spit fire?" She asked me in a shy but curious tone, she was clearly still learning how to speak, but for a one year old she's pretty good, usually ponies learn to talk around 2 or even 3.

She must be really smart! I smile and lower myself to her level, laying down on my belly in a loafing position facing her, like a cat.

"Hello Twilight, my name is Onyx. And yes I'm a dragon but I can't spit fire." I answer her questions with a soft and polite tone, her eyes widen with wonder and curiosity.

"How do you know my name?" I gesture with my snout to Shining beside her.

"Your big brother told me, he really loves you and is proud of his little sister, aren't you Shiny?" I look over at him and smile, it's true, he loves to talk about her.

"Of course! I tell all my friends about how smart and adorable you are little sis." He says with a proud tone of voice, he clearly means it and has confidence in her.

Twilight smiles at this and gives his brother a big hug across his chest, it's adorable I have to admit. They hug for a while and show each other affection then she slowly moves away from the hug and turns to me, wanting to learn more.

"Your... Made of... meral?" She asked while her muzzle seemed to struggle to form those words, I shook my head, it was not technically false, my scales were made of many things, including metal, but the color and sheen came from many different things.

"No, not really, i eat gems and minerals. There is some metal in my scales but not much so they aren't made of metal." She had a thoughtful look, and didn't ask anything else for a few minutes, but just when I thought she was done asking, she seemed to remember something.

"You... Don't spit fire? Then... What you do?" Her curiosity was evident as she approached slowly and poked at my snout, which made me giggle.

"I am special, I spit cold and snow, do you want to see?" I asked her with a mischievous glint, her brother looks doubtful at me but she nods with a big smile, asking me to do it and moving away so I can show them.

"Yes! Show us! Yayyy!" She cheers while leaning against her brother and lifting one hoof.

"Of course, just watch!" I open my maw slightly and use my third lung to produce cooled air, which mixes with the moisture in my breath and slowly starts out of my maw in a stream of cold mist, I aim it towards the ground, creating a very cold area that looks like fog, I then aim up and make a small cloud of cold vapor that slowly falls towards the ground, being heavier than air.

Finally I make a small ring with the cold mist, it's nowhere as cold as a real frost breath, it's a mild version of what I use to cool my room and myself in summer when I want it to be cold inside.

The denser than air fog stays at ground level where Twilight starts to play with it, trying to splash it around like it was water, she lays down on it, submerging herself in it, but she gets up quickly.

"Wooow! Brrrr t-this is... c-cold!" She says when she gets up, but smiles wide and prances around a bit, she is up to her hooves in the cold mist, and decides to get up into a chair, once the novelty of having an almost freezing cold floor level becomes an annoyance.

"Want me to get rid of all this?" I asked my friend Shining, who nods and points to the door outside.

I go and open it, and quickly the cold air starts to escape outside, dissipating fast on the warmer streets of the city, good thing we are in a first floor, or this would have gotten down to more rooms.

After that Twilight went to play the card game, this time with me Shining and Cadence who had arrived a bit late to our friends meeting.

Twilight won one game and Cadence won the other, luck was not on my side today it seems, but I had fun. After that we talked about our daily lives, about our interests and more, Cadence is being homeschooled at the same time she goes to school, for some reason. Shining is more and more sure that he wants to become a Royal guard and I told them I plan on becoming a volunteer to help in other nations when I'm older, but I also want to study magic in Celestia's School of magic.

I told them im not sure what I should do, but I'll try to do both somehow.
I had other plans too, but I hoped I could somehow all fit in my life at the same time, the other plans weren't exactly too difficult, I just had to check on the future Elements of Harmony once in a while and make sure things were going okay, and if they didn't, I needed to nudge them towards the right path.

After that we had some food and then we played more games, turns out that Night Light and Shining are also fans of table tennis, or ping pong, something me and dad have in common with them so everypony ended up taking turns playing against another and we even made small bets with sweets and snacks for the winners, who unsurprisingly were Shining Armor and myself, him who his dad taught and myself who taught my dad so I could have an opponent.

I proceeded to demolish the unicorn colt at the game then, I didn't see a reason to hold back or lose on purpose, we aren't little babies anymore, we are almost in our teens, this was sort of my lesson to him about how unfair things were sometimes and you just had to deal with it. But he wasn't even upset, I won many snacks and shared with all of them, of course keeping the biggest pile for myself.

The next fun activity we did was to tell horror stories at night, it's a sleepover, we all stayed in his room, telling scary stories.

I kept it chill with the stories, just telling stories that were a little spooky, but no violence, monsters or death.

Little old story told by country folk from my old life was the light in the dark, a story of a light that appeared to those who were walking alone at night in the wilderness, the light seemed like a guide but it would transport you to some unknown place in the woods that you don't know, and you would have to spend the night outside in the forest because everything was unfamiliar and you could remain lost as long as it was nighttime.

I told them of course that everypony who ever got lost returned the next day, scared, hungry and thirsty but fine, in reality the story just says the person gets lost and is open to interpretation.

A mild story compared to other horror stories I knew but it gave everyone a sense of unease, as most ponies think of light in the darkness as something to follow and guidance, they prefer the light over the darkness, and I couldn't blame them, most humans do too.

The other told stories about silly things like haunted houses with ghost ponies and such. Normally those stories would not affect me but I had... Bad experiences with ghost like entities, the pain was still fresh in my mind and I was the one who looked more scared by the end, imagining being attacked by ghosts again, while the rest probably thought I was just scared of the story.

I still can't forget how those claws so easily ripped into my flesh, rotting away my scales into something akin to wet paper and how painful the blackened skin felt, countless needles, bright red hot stabbing into my neck, sides and tail. If there was any consolation was that I didn't get clawed in the eyes or the face.

I had to apologize and leave the last part, going to the bathroom where I waited until my mood improved, and then I returned, not shortly after we went to sleep, with not much room I laid on the wooden floor and left the mattresses for the ponies, I enjoyed sleeping on a hard surface once in a while.