How to Train Your Dragon: The Pony Edition

"A  d, dragon? But, but!" Fluttershy screamed.

She feared full grown dragons and was hesitant to continue forward more than once when she and the others went on an expedition to deal with a sleeping dragon. In the end, she gained the courage to speak to the dragon, even confront it face-to-face when the others failed to negotiate with it. After humbling the dragon and causing it to cry, she immediately consoled it and advised it to look for a more suitable place to sleep. However, Fluttershy pointedly refused to watch the Dragon Migration with her friends, despite Twilight Sparkle's coaxing. It culminated in her pushing past Rainbow Dash and jumping out the window, fleeing the scene before any of them could follow her. The little dragon tried to put it all together.

"I'm a, a dragon? Well that exlains why I was in an egg."

The baby dragon looked at Fluttershy. His mother, another foreign term in vocabulary, had turned several shades paler. She was hiding her face in her hooves and trembling so bad it looked like she was having a seizure. He walked over to try and comfort her. "Hey are you ok? You look like you've seen a gho"

"Get away from me you dragon!" she yelled

"Hey." he said confused

"You may have huge teeth, and sharp scales, and snore smoke, and breathe fire." she continued

"Master." he tried to calm her down.

"But if you lay a claw on my animals or my friends, I'll, I'll"

"Listen!" he yelled

Fluttershy stopped her scared rambling. Very slowly, she looked up toward the dragon. She didn't even realize he was a baby dragon about the size of Spike. He had dark red scales, black stubs that would to be horns, and yellow eyes with red irises. The dragon looked pretty hurt at Fluttershy's rambling. He had no clue what a dragon even was and her fear had caused him to well up tears.

"Well it's, it's not like I asked to born a dragon!"

The baby dragon started crying. Fluttershy felt horrible. She took care of every animal that came through her door. Why should a dragon, even if they terrified her beyond reason, be any different?

"There, there. No need to cry. You're not a bad dragon, I made a bad decision in yelling at you. Now why don't we find you a  place to sleep?"

The baby dragon stopped crying and looked at her, his eyes puffy and bloodshot. He wiped a claw over his eys and smiled. "Ok."

Strangely the dragon was talking but his mouth never moved once. Putting the thought aside, Fluttershy took him up to the guest bedroom. Though this room was mainly for the Cutie Mark Crusaders whenever they wanted to sleep over, it wasn't in use now and the bed was really comfy. She turned to face the little dragon. She stepped aside, raised a hoof, and presented the dragon with his room. "You can sleep here little one. Now come now, time for bed."

The dragon was already on the bed. He balled himself up and closed his eyes. Fluttershy smiled again and walked over to the bed. She put the top blanket over him in case he got cold. Fluttershy turned and walked out the doorway going to her own bed. With all that happened to her in the past hour, she had to be ready tomorrow when she would take the dragon to Twilight and Spike. 'How did a dragon egg even end up in the middle of nowhere?' she thought. She had, timidly and sometimes without a choice, explored almost every inch of the forest and never once had she seen the egg he was in. Maybe her animal friends had and just didn't want to say anything to her. Putting these thoughts aside, sleep called for Fluttershy and she was happy to answer.

The next morning, Fluttershy made breakfast for each and every one of her animal friends. Angel, once again, ate the whole meal with out any problems. She heard footsteps coming down her stairs. She poked her head out. The baby dragon had woken up. Panic spread like wildfire over animal like wildfire. Bowls of food were kicked over. Droppings dropped. Cries of terror from every creature filled the house with more noise than Fluttershy thought was ever possible.

"I think they like you." she tried to joke.

"That's how you show you like someone?" asked the little dragon.

"Well no, but"

The baby dragon started waving his arms around and tried to copy the panic from moments ago. Fluttershy giggled at the adorable sight. "Come on little one. Let's get you something to eat."

"All right! I'm starving!"

Breakfast went fairly well. The dragon happily ate the meal Fluttershy provided. She made him coffee, assuming that dragons drank coffee, and cereal. Even with the dragon's help she got her work done a little more slowly because the animals were afraid of the little guy. Fluttershy wanted to introduce the little dragon to her friends, Twilight Sparkle, and another dragon, Spike. They lived in a tree in the middle of town. The baby dragon didn't realize was that Fluttershy lived at the edge of town so walking there took a little time. When they got into town, the little dragon couldn't believe his eyes. Ponies of every size and color were walking, talking, and doing things everywhere. There were even different ponies than Fluttershy. Some ponies had a horn growing out their head. Other ponies didn't have a horn like the others or wings like Fluttershy did. Every pony stared at him as he and Fluttershy walked into town. They knew one dragon lived there, now there were two dragons in Ponyville? Fluttershy was totally afraid of dragons, what was she doing with one?

They made their way to the middle of town. Sure enough there was a big tree there. A door opened and a little purple and green dragon walked out. He made it a few feet before stopping in front of the baby dragon. The baby dragon studied the other one carefully. This new dragon was a little taller than he was. He had horns bigger than his. And he could walk better on two legs. The other dragon then noticed he had come with his mother and confusion stretched over his face.

"Twilight! Come out here! You're not gonna believe this!" he said

A purple pony with a horn on her head came out the door. She saw Fluttershy first.

"Oh! Hello and good morning Fluttershy. What brings you here?"

"Hello and good morning to you to Twilight! I need to talk to you about him."Confusion stretched over Twilight's face. There was no 'him' anywhere around Fluttershy, which was a total shame considering her looks and caring nature.

"Him? Who are you talking about?" Fluttershy pointed to where Spike was at. Twilight's face went into scoding mode. "What? Did Spike do something? Spike what did you do?" Spike took offense at that.

"She means him Twilight." He stepped out of the way and revealed a red baby dragon. Twilight's mouth hit the ground. Her eyes diminished to the size of beads. Her facede somehow turned to Fluttershy.

"Fluttershy? Care to explain?" Fluttershy looked around to make sure noone else was listening in. She didn't to give anyone the wrong idea she took in just anypony on a whim.

"I found him as an egg yesterday. He hatched when I brought him home." Twilight looked at her friend with more confusion on her face. She got Spike when he was an egg and she almost failed her entrance exam because she couldn't hatch him. Ho did Fluttershy manage it?

"You found him as an egg? And you hatched him?" Twilight asked Fluttershy. She was about to answer but was cut off by the red dragon.

"Yeah, Fluttershy's taken good of me!" said the baby dragon but what was interesting about it was he never once opened his mouth. Twilight stared at him then Fluttershy.

"And he talks to?" Fluttershy tried to speak again but was cut off by the baby dragon

"Oh course I can talk. Doesn't everyone?"

"I think we better go inside Fluttershy"

"That's what I wanted to see you about Twilight. I don't anything about dragons and their language so I don't know what to name him"

"I think I have a book on dragons we can look at." All of them went inside. The building itself was a large, hollowed-out tree. Twilight said it was protected from lightning by a magical lightning rod, the main reading room was the ground floor, while an upper-story room served as living quarters for Twilight and Spike, additionally there was a basement where Twilight performed measurements on anything she wanted further research on. They all sat down in the reading room. Fluttershy told her story about yesterday. Twilight had Spike take notes on everything she said but he was unconvinced.

"Wait, wait, wait. You said he was an egg yesterday. How could you hear him talking if he was inside an egg?" Fluttershy hadn't thought about that at all.

"How did you talk to me when you were inside the egg, widdle guy?" Every eye was upon the baby dragon. Once agin his mouth was shut but words could be heard.

"That's easy. I learned how talk with my mind."

"Please. Everypony knows you can't talk with your mind." Spike retorted. Twilight and Fluttershy agreed with Spike. The little dragon shrugged and stood up. He closed his eyes. To the amazement of everypony and dragon in the room they heard him speak as clear as day.

"Told you."

Twilight worked herself towards insanity trying to disprove telepathy. Something that complex was something only the princesses could possibly know. She pointed a hoof at the dragon. "There is no way you're able to telepath when I haven't even heard of a way to prove against it." She went racing around the library looking for books. While this 'research' as Twilight rambled was happening, Fluttershy asked Spike what he knew about the Dragon language. Spike, being a dragon, knew the language pretty well and was able to explain it.

"The language is basically the same grammar as basic, with the exceptions that it doesn't have an equivalent to basic's apostrophes, it tends to place prepositional phrases earlier in sentences than basic does, and it doesn't have tense. To make a word plural, two letters are added to the end of the word, the first being the last letter in the singular form, and the second being an "e". Words are constructed in such a way that, when combined, form new words."

Fluttershy and the dragon were looking at Spike with looks of total confusion. Spike continued anyway trying a different approach.

"A known construction is 'Junnesejer' which mean 'the kings of the east'. 'Jun' being King and 'Jer' being East. Thus, combining words allows you to convey an idea or another word. For example: Moon and Eclipse are not part of the vocabulary, but Sun, 'Krein', and Night, 'Vulon', are. The word is based on which of the words come first, because the first word is prominent. If you were to say VulonKrien then the prominent word is Night while the secondary is Sun, and you would have Moon, a light in the night. Vice versa with KrienVulon, the sun is prominent and night is secondary so you would have Eclipse, darkness where the sun is. With Junnesejer, it means The kings of the east. But if you were to put it as Jersejun it would say East King. "se" is a conjunction between words that are combined to fill in the particles but its just as easily understood without it."

Both Fluttershy and the baby dragon, who was resting in Fluttershy's forelegs, were beyond lost. They thanked Twilight Sparkle, who had totalled her house looking for any book that disproved telepathy, for finding a book to help them out and Spike for explaining as best he could. The baby dragon climbed up onto Fluttershy and they left for home.

The evening went be quickly. They had dinner after feeding all the animals. Once agin, they overreacted to the sight of a dragon and left a huge mess. They both cleaned up the mess, and themselves, and had dinner afterward. It was a simple mix of salad and hay fries. They tried getting one animal to play with the dragon, but that attempt was unsuccessfull. The little dragon said he was tired and went upstairs. He got balled up again on top of the bed. Fluttershy told him the bed would be better if he went under the covers. He did as she said. She was right! This was better! Fluttershy sang a very special song for her special dragon.

'Hush-a-by, Don't you cry

Go to sleep, my little baby

When you wake you shall have

All the pretty little horses

Dapples and Grays, Pintos and Bays,

All the pretty little horses

Way down yonder, in the meadow,

poor little baby, crying mama,

Birds and the Butterflies

Flutter round his eyes

Poor little baby, crying mama

Hush-a-by, dont you cry

Go to sleep, my little baby

when you wake, you shall have

all the pretty little horses

Dapples and Grays, Pintos and Bays,

All the pretty little horses'

She leaned down to give him a hug.The baby dragon buried his head in her chest. "G'night." He went to sleep quickly. She tried to remember what Spike said about dragon talk. She thought of the perfect name for him, a name that would reflect the warmth in her heart about taking in this dragon and raising him as her son.

"Goodnight, Glendrel"

Once she made sure the dragon was asleep, Fluttershy went back down stairs. She got paper and a quill and started writing to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna for advice.

Dear Princess Celestia and Princess Luna,

I'm sure Twilight had Spike send you a letter already about me finding and hatching a dragon egg. I want you to hear it from me as well. I found him as an egg in the Everfree Forest. It's a strange and dangerous place especially for an egg. This is the part I know will suprise and confuse you. He actually spoke to me while he was an egg. He told me how his 'master' left him there one thousand years ago and he had been waiting for him to reclaim him. I found him and brought him to my home. It was here that he actually hatched. He is Spike's size but red with black markings all over him. He calls me his master and wants only to serve me.

I am terrified of dragons. I know nothing about them. I don't know how I will react when he gets larger than he is now. I am asking forany advice and for anything you have on dragons to help me out.

Your loyal subject,

Fluttershy