The Dragoon

Twenty years ago in the village of Maneburrow a village much like Ponyville, it was blessed with cloudless and sunny day after a long harsh winter. Everypony was happy and enjoying the day that was given to them, fillies and colts were playing in the market chasing after each other while their parents did various deals with the traders.

The Beor Mountains surrounded the village, the mountains glycine with snow and ice from the winter that the town had suffered. The winter had lasted longer than attended but the Pegasi were not able to stop the clouds from snowing, the only thing that the village could do was wait indoors for the winter to end and use their extra supplies to survive.

The farmers bought and planted new seeds for crops and the schools returned to teach the colts and fillies about the world. Everything was perfect in the village, everpony was happy and nothing seemed to darken their mood.

That is until a dark cloud of death swooped over the city.

The black dragon Zergofk flew from his hoard in the Beor Mountains to the village for the town’s rumoured treasure. Zergofk was a most vile dragon, his scales blacker than night and his teeth the colour of snow. Upon his back laid spikes that went from his tail to his head. His eyes were the colour of blood, the same blood he craved ever since he was born.

He was the scourge of the village in the past and was defeated but not killed by the Princesses royal guards. But the guards had to leave for other places in their campaign to bring peace to Equestria leaving few behind to defend the town. Zergofk had healed from the wounds dealt to him and hungered for vengeance against those who opposed him. This time he swore he would take the treasure in the village.

The few guards in the village prepared to battle Zergofk while the rest of the citizens ran hoping to escape the dragon’s wrath. They were sadly wrong. Zergofk bathed the houses with his flame and destroyed anything within his way. The few that attacked him only made him stop for mere moments before he crushed them underneath his huge talons.

Nothing could stop Zergofk so the people ran, until there was nowhere left to run and Zergofk had corned them to the mountains which were too steep to climb. The pegasi would have flown away but none had the courage to try to fly away only to have Zergofk chase after them personally.

Zergofk demanded to know what the treasure the villagers hid but none would tell him, for the treasure was too important to them. He demanded, threatened and even killed the ponies until the cowardly Knight Shining Blade blurted out what the treasure was.

The treasure was more valuable and ancient than anything in the world, and was older than the princesses themselves. The treasure was a legendary spear said to be given by the ancient Lord Bahamut of the Beor Mountains millennia ago to the original founders of ManeBurrow.

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Bahamut was told to be a platinum dragon who was the creator of the Metallic Dragon race. He was the guardian to all races, but died and created the Metallic Dragons who carried on his job by defending all ponies against their evil counterparts the Chromatic Dragons.

Bahamut gave the spear as a gift to the twelve original founders of the village of Maneburrow for helping Bahamut defeat his sister Tiamat. The mother of the Chromatic Dragons whose only wish was to blacken the earth with her flame and torch the sky as a testament of her anger at all.

Bahamut and Tiamat were siblings born from the earth and the sky to keep peace over the land. Bahamut the Platinum Dragon was born first to be the keeper of ice, water, ground, and stone. While Tiamat the Dragon of Seven Heads, was born second and to be keeper of fire, wind, and storms. Together the two were able to create anything to help the ponies of Equestria.

Both were praised for their acts of peace and became heroes amongst the land, but were given little or nothing at all. Tiamat started to grow dark with greed and soon began to take instead of give to the ponies of Equestria. Tiamat would raid the towns she swore to protect and stole their treasures for her own hoard. Bahamut tried to see reason with Tiamat but his sister would not listen and only attack Bahamut and anypony else who was with him.

Bahamut seeing no alternative answer to end his sister’s raids fought against his sister for peace amongst the land.

Their battles were epic and are still told as ancient folk lore in the town, but each battle left the land more bare every time.  Bahamut tried to bring the land back to life with his powers, but his sister would only destroy it once more with her flame.

Nothing could end the battles for both Tiamat and Bahamut were of equal strength. Bahamut soon became tired of the battles and more worn from them, but his sister showed no sign of fatigue. He knew that she would eventually win, so he started to plan an attack that would once and for all end the war between himself and his sister.

He devised to attack his sister once more with help from any other race he could find, but he had to act fast for he knew his sister would attack again soon.

He found a group of pegasi wondering around the land for food. Bahamut talked with them and they agreed to help Bahamut slay his wicked sister Tiamat on the condition that Bahamut would give the group the land within the Beor Mountains as their own.

With help from the Pegasi Bahamut was able to kill his sister, but he was mortally wounded and knew he would not survive for long. He gave his gratitude to the pegasi but soon found out that his sister was planning on his attack and with her essence created hundreds of dragon eggs of all different colours that would soon hatch to reach havoc upon society.

Tiamat had started the Chromatic race. Bahamut knew that if he did the same the hatchlings would not be out of their eggs before Tiamat’s so he gave the pegasi a weapon unlike any other.

He gave them the Dauthdarta, a green double ended spear with a blade that extended from one side of the spear marking its top. It a deadly weapon that was able to pierce any dragon’s scale and legend said to turn into the ultimate dragon slaying blade once wielded by its true master.

The pegasi took the spear on the one condition that they had to spread the eggs he would make with his life essence across Equestria so that the Metallic race of dragons can protect the ponies of Equestria.

The group of pegasi did so and slayed any dragon that dared attack a village, city, or town. The group became known as the original dragoons of Equestria and brought peace to many ponies.

The village of Maneburrow was founded afterwards and soon became one of the greatest villages known to pony kind and kept the Dauthdarta generation to generation waiting for the true master of the spear.

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Zergofk was pleased with this news, but that did not stop him from killing the villager’s after he learned of it. Nobody was left except one stallion. The stallion was a Pegaus who had a white coat and black mane that flowed loosely from his head. His cutie mark was of a black lightning cloud. He stood in front of Zergofk and demanding to know why he was attack the town.

Zergofk answered with a cruel smile upon his scaled lips and boomed towards the heavens, “FOR FUN!!!!!!”

Zergofk then set a jet of flame onto one of the houses he had not burned earlier, and from the house came a scream of a mother and child. Zergofk heard and turned his neck to see the house more clearly. He smashed the roof of the building clean off with his tail and looked inside to see a light blue Pegasus mare holding a little colt with a white coat and brown hair cut short upon the back of his neck with a blank flank.

Zergofk turned back towards the stallion and asked, “Your family I presume?”

The stallion seemed to be ready to bolt straight up at Zergofk and break his neck with a punch, but stood still for fear of what Zergofk might due to his family if he moved.

Zergofk laughed maniacally and picked up the light blue Pegasus. The colt screamed after his mother but did not move at all. Zergofk then took one of his massive talons towards the mare’s neck. The mare squirmed but could not free herself from the dragon’s grasp. Zergofk put pressure onto the mare’s neck and asked the stallion, “Where is the Dauthdarta?”

The stallion started to think of what to do, but before he could start Zergofk put more pressure onto the mare’s neck letting a little trickle of blood flow down the mare’s body.

“The Dauthdarta is in the-“ but before the stallion could finish the mare screamed “LightningStorm don’t!”

Zergofk started crushing the mare saying “Quite you! Or would you rather I have fun with your child?”

Both of the Pegasi stopped immediately, and the little colt inside the remnants of the house began to wimper and whine.

LightningStorm glared at Zergofk and said with a sly smile on his face, “I can’t remember.”

Zergofk lit up with hot white fury and threw the mare aside and bathed the stallion in fire leaving nothing but a black charred body of what use to be a Pegasus pony. Far away the scream of the mare echoed at the loss of her husband.

Zergofk was not satisfied yet so he trampled his way through the burning village towards the mare.

Before he could reach her a little yell came from above him and he looked to see the little colt flying directly at him with a green double ended spear.

Zergofk laughed at the colt and said “You really believe you can defeat me? How about you give me the spear and I let you have a quick death?”

This only made the colt fly faster than before. Zergofk roared towards the colt “TIME TO DIE THEN!!!”

Zergofk released a pillar of flame towards the colt but the colt was faster than Zergofk had anticipated and evaded the fire and started diving towards Zergofk faster. Zergofk then whipped his tail towards the colt like lightning but the colt veered away from the attack and took a long cut down his left eye.

Again the colt did a battle cry and with it he yelled the words “BAHAMUT GIVE ME STRENGTH!” And with that the Dauthdarta began to glow, it began to glow like the sun until it all disappeared and where the spear had originally been a blade took its place. A blade with a blue hilt with a sapphire that adorned the center, and a blue strip of metal going up the inside of the blade leaving the rest to look like a normal part of the blade.

The colt seemed as surprised as Zergofk at the change but continued to dive at the dragon. Zergofk out of fear shot multiple jets of flame at the colt only burning some parts of his body but still the colt did not stop.

Zergofk started up knowing what was too happened and only said one thing. “The legends are true… Impossible...” With that the colt went down towards the neck area and changed his direction so he could sink the blade into the dragon’s neck. There the colt flew bringing his new blade across the dragons ebony neck where it cut through the scales as if they were made of butter.

Finally the colt flew away from the dragon and let it fall onto the burning building stone dead.

The colt flew until it found its mother and landed beside her. The mare had several burnt limbs and was bleeding from multiple wounds. The mare said “I am so proud of you son, but I’m sorry I can’t stay.”

The colt stood there shocked and curled up under his mother pleading for her not to go. However, it was the inevitable and the light blue mare died leaving the colt to lay there and cry for his mother and father.

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For nearly a day the colt stayed in the remnants of the village to bury his family properly. He then stood in front of the two graves and went on his haunches sobbing for them to come back.

Then from behind him there came the clatter of hooves hitting the sidewalk. The young colt turned to see Princess Celestia in her golden chariot with dozens of her royal guards landing in the area to search. The colt didn’t hide his presence nor did he show it to them. He just sat there on his haunches sobbing for his parents to come back.

Celestia came towards him and asked him a soothing voice “Are any other ponies alive?” The colt shook his head. The princess then gazed towards the tombs made by the colt and said “I’m sorry little one.”

This caused the colt to break out in tears crying for his family to come back. Celestia laid beside the colt and took him in an embrace with her wings soothing him with kind words.

When the colt stopped crying she asked him “Would you like some food?” The colt nodded his head and the Princess ordered one of the royal guards to bring the colt some food and drink. “What is your name little one?”

The colt looked at Celestia and said between sobs “M-my n-a-ame is … Drake H-Highwind.”

“Drake do you think you could tell me what happened in this village?” Celestia asked. Drake nodded and explained to Celestia what happened, but stopped several times when the death of his parents came up. Celestia still holding him said “That was an amazing feat, would you like to come to Canterlot with me? I could find you a place to stay there?”

Drake looked up at the Princess and said “Y-you could?” The princess replied saying “Yes little one.”

Drake looked at the Princess and nodded; both the Princess and colt stood up and walked. Drake stopped before getting into the chariot and went back to the graves to pick up the blade.

Drake walked back to the chariot and the Princess asked if she could see the sword. Drake gave the blade willingly and the Princess red aloud from the markings on the blade “Brisingr, Bahamut’s tongue.” The Princess gave the blade back and told the Pegasi at the front of the chariot to fly back to Canterlot.

On the chariot ride the Princess told Drake that he was the chosen warrior of Bahamut, and with this news he was to be the best warrior there. The Princess also told the young Drake that she would make sure he is taken care of personally at Canterlot.

The princess was interrupted by hearing Drake vow something under his breath.

Drake Highwind vowed that he would protect Equestria from dragons so nothing like this would ever happen again to anypony else. With that vow his flank began to shimmer and a cutie mark of a platinum dragon etched on a shield with two swords going through it appeared on his flank. Celestia smiled and told the colt to look at his flank. Once Drake did he saw that he had gained his Cutie Mark and knew what he was to do with his life. This made Drake’s mood brighten by knowing who he was and let him be able to continue on with his life wherever it shall take him.