A dragon with an interesting friendship

Smaug’s first use of the necklace as well as it could have, having tea in Fluttershy’s house was a nice change of pace even if they both agreed they liked the mountain. So now every other week they swap between the mountain and Fluttershy’s house to have tea and read stories, even if sometimes they go out to town. Where more often then not leads to him having to lead her around because of her lack of social skills and general anxiety, but that does mean she can’t say no when he buys pastries to have with there tea. Something she brings up every time he does it, once they are out of town of course. He must also mention the odd walk and helping out with an animal here and there, which has been just as enjoyable. She did also mention she has another friend called Rainbow Dash, but he has jet to me the supposedly competitive pony.

Unfortunately though they did have to cut there meeting short this time, because of some sort of celebration. But he did not mind much and so she left in a hurry, he could also not afford to think on the topic for to long. This was because for whatever reason the night air had a weird scent upon it and it was no ordinary smell, it smelt of evil and darkness. In fact it wasn’t to dissimilar to that of the arkenstone, it had that same insidious scent which was all to distinct. But more pressing is that it was getting closer, in fact it was already in the mountain. So he prepared himself for what could be a dangerous interaction, with an enemy most foul.

So what made its way through the arches that are the entrance to his hoard gave him pause, for it was a collection of what seemed to be ethereal smoke. Then in front of his eyes it started to solidify into a pony, more specifically a Alicorn. It’s fur was a black with the smallest hints of blue and it’s mane seemed to be a piece of the night sky, it also wore various pieces of armour that’s colour could be described as light blue. They started at each other for a moment before it spoke, in a distinctly feminine manner.

“It’s seems fate is on my side, for it as bestowed upon me gold and jewels to reform my kingdom and a servant that should be of the upmost usefulness.” At those words my blood began to boil in anger at the audacity of this pony and the smugness in her voice.

“do not speak to me as if I was a common beast” At this she dared to laugh.

“How could I not, when compared to my Devine grace you are nothing more than a snarling beast”

“You dare mock me. I am Smaug th-

“You dragons and your pride, whether you like it or not I will be taking your gold.” She said with the upmost smugness.

“You can take it, over my cold dead body.” I could feel the fire gathering in my chest.

“That can be arranged.” As i reared my head back to breath out my fire she launched three curved blades of magic, even though these were obviously an attack my instincts said they were of no danger. I was correct, because they simply crashed against my scales harmlessly. so I retaliated in kind, breathing out a breath of fire engulfing her in burning flames. But as the fire cleared, she stood with out injuries inside a flickering dome of energy. We both seemed surprised at our opponents lack of damage, but carried on without pause. She summed a blade of the blackest night that floated beside her, while I prepared with my claws and fangs.

She flew forward at great speed and I responded in kind, changing forward sending piles of gold flying in my wake. We met in the middle, magic blade crashing against dragons claw. Each time our weapons made contact, a shockwave would send mountains of gold flying in all directions. This stalemate lasted for two minutes, then I made an obvious swipe with my right claw. She easily dodged backwards, coming in for a lunge to my chest. But it was a faint on my part, the back swing of my hand connected hard. She was sent flying into a pillar to my right, a cloud of rock dust bursting from her landing site. But the anger I felt did not diminish in the slightest, so I gave no reprieve. I lunged forward claws out stretched, a volley of magical projectiles detonating against my head. This stopped me, but only for a moment. My claws smashed against the rock, sending shudders reverberating through the cavern. But there was one thing missing, the severe lack of an impaled pony on my claws.

“Unfortunately my draconian friend, I have a group of ponies to attend to. Bye bye.” Her voice drifted on the wind like the faintest russell of leaves. The anger inside me reached a bursting point and I roared in anger, the sheer volume causing the mountain to rumble ominously. I could not allow this, I would not allow this insult to go unpunished. Her turning into smoke act would have been perfect, if I couldn’t smell the very evil her presence left behind. So without wasting any time I followed the trail to the gate where it continued through the battlements, I burst through the gate looking for any sign of the foul creature. There was no sign of here, but I could still could catch her sent. I launched into the sky, following the trail she so kindly left behind. I tracked it to what seemed to be a abandoned castle, where I could sense her presence.

Fluttershy POV

Fluttershy and what she hoped she could call friends, finally made it the ruins and got the elements of harmony. Then they stepped outside to let Twilight focus on her magic. She was waiting with the others when she thought she heard a roar and a distant rumbling, but none of the others looked like they heard it so it must just be her anxious mind playing tricks on her. She didn’t get much time to think on this though, because they heard Twilight shout something from inside the ruin. When they rushed in they couldn’t find her, but as they looked around they saw a tower glowing with light and rushed towards it. She couldn’t help but notice that the trees were being blown like a storm was forming, but she didn’t have time to care about it.

As she and her friends got there they saw Twilight and nightmare moon, with what looked like the elements of harmony lying at her hooves. Then something completely unexpected happened, the wall and window behind nightmare moon was torn open by massive claws. They all stared in shock as a massive dragons head that was revealed behind the cloud of dust, one that looked all too familiar to Fluttershy.

“Did you think you could hide from me in this ruin of times long past” That confirmed it, it was Smaug and at this realisation she couldn’t help but blurt out.

“Smaug?”

Smaug POV

I had just found the target of my rage once more when I heard an all too familiar voice.

“Smaug?” I looked in the direction the voice had came from and saw my dearest friend Fluttershy, along with five other ponies of various different colours and races. But as was so likely to happen to her, as all the eyes in the room landed on her she tried to hide behind her main and failed. So as a friend I decided to get the attention back to the big mean dragon, in a roundabout way.

“Fluttershy, I did not expect to find you here. It is a surprise, but a pleasant one. I have business with this Alicorn, how crossed a line that I will not let her go unpunished for.”

“So this is the company that you keep, this pathetic pony is what you consider a fri-“ the Alicorn was clearly trying to annoy me, to get under my skin. It worked, it worked well. So her insult was quickly cut off by my fist bursting through the wall and sending her through the opposite one, my anger now redoubled. I turned to follow her trajectory but was stopped buy one of the ponies by Fluttershy, it is the purple unicorn.

“Wait”

“What” I snap back, the anger for the Alicorn making my composure slip. This makes the pony step back and cower slightly, but responds anyway.

“If you hold her off for a minute we can banish her” I was about to refuse, but then I saw Fluttershy. She looked at me hopefully, she believed in the words that the unicorn spoke. If she trusted this unicorn so would I.

“I will buy you as much time as you need, call my name when you want me to bring her back.” with those final departing words I left to follow my pray.

She came charging at me and I came charging at her, I thrust my right claw out in a bid to impale her. She dodges and swings her reformed sword at my head, I shift my head out of the way and she can’t bleed enough momentum to stop. Now behind me she believes she has the advantage, she is wrong. I whip my tail up, sending her flying up into the sky. I follow after her, she regains her balance on her wings just in time for me to swing my fists down onto her. I hit her, but it didn’t feel right. I look down and see she flew with the blow, she is fine and chanting a spell. She didn’t need to do that with any of her other spells, I have made a fatal error. I try to turn and fly towards her, but it is already too late. A beam of blackest night, lances towards my chest. There is no time to dodge, it pierces my chest and an unimaginable pain descends on me. The pain is more than any wound should cause, I lose control of my flight and tumble through the sky. Pain wracking through my body every second.

I land hard, throwing dust and dirt into the air. The pain stops as the dust settles and I can feel my grasp on consciousness slipping, then I hear the sound of wings and then hooves walking on grass.

“So it seems that you weren’t as mighty as you thought and your confidence was severely misplaced.” Her voice is as smug as it could possibly be, I hate it.

“I shall leave you with some final parting words, your friend shall feel ten times more pain than you.” At those simple words I feel a fire start to burn in my chest and the cool night air becomes stiflingly hot, with strength I did not know I had left I roll to my feet.

“I am Smaug the terrible” I take a step forward. She is obviously surprised that I can stand, let alone walk.

“And I promise you that you shall not touch a hair on Fluttershy’s mane.” I take another step forward. I rise to my full height, the air is now burning. Trees begin to catch fire around me. I launch an attack with speed I did not have before, my fist sends her flying into the air. I follow her trail with my eyes and see her crash through the top of the ruin, panic grips me and I rush over. I rush over just in time to see a rainbow to crash into the Alicorn, how seemed to be getting up for round two.

After the rainbow disappears and I blink the spots out of my vision, I see Fluttershy and her friends all unconscious on the ground, this worries me for a time. But then they all get up and talk amongst each other, but I do notice they are all wearing forms of jewellery that they weren’t wearing before. At that moment the sun rises and Celestia appears in front of them, the purple unicorn runs over to her and does some form of a hug. They are clearly friends, speaking of which Fluttershy finally notices me spying on them. In her usual shy fashion she quietly makes her way over.

“Smaug are you okay?” She whispers

“I am fi-.” My voice is weak, but before I can finish my words. A coughing fit starts, blood comes up and splatters the ground in front of Fluttershy. I look down and see the hole in my chest is pouring blood, my legs collapse from under me. I fall to the ground, I can hear Fluttershy shout my name. But I can’t gather the strength to lift my head and cold embrace of unconsciousness finally claims me.

Until next time dear reader, it has been my pleasure.