Sons of Akatosh

Twilight sporadically got up from bed from the news she just received.  A letter, containing much information on the events within the past five hours, was sent to her from Princess Celestia.  Not know what to expect, Twilight swiftly got everything she thought she would need.  The most important piece to Celestia's puzzle, was Spike.  She told the Unicorn to bring the baby dragon along with her, not explaining why, but to just do so.

Twilight went up to her bedroom one last time, grabbing her crown and placing it atop her well groomed head.  "Come on Spike, we don't want to keep Princess Celestia and the special guest she has for you waiting, do we?"  The Unicorn went by her friend, checking to make sure the baby dragon was presentable to Royalty such as Celestia.

"I-I don't know..."  The baby dragon lost his train of thought while thinking about who the guest could be,  "What if the guest doesn't like me, I mean, we don't even know who, or what, they are."

"Well, Princess Celestia thinks it is important that you meet this guest, who has specifically asked for a dragon the Princess knew personally."  Twilight opened the door for the dragon, letting the little lizard go through first.  "And I'll be there for support."

"Well, who else is going?"  Spike curiously asked.

"Just Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash."  Twilight opened the front door of the library for the dragon, once more letting him through first.  "The others were too busy to come and see the guest."

"Alright, well, let's get this show on the road..."  Spike trailed off once more, now thinking of who would even want anything to do with a baby dragon in Ponyville.

......

Twilight's royal carriage arrived at Canterlot Castle's main carriage cells.  There, Twilight was to take Spike, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy to see the amazing new guest that wanted to see Spike.  According to Celestia, it was urgent, and that meant Twilight didn't want to disappoint.

As soon as they got there, it seemed the group instantly got to the throne room entrance, where Celestia was already waiting to see them.  She gave a polite smile and a small, but petite bow to her student.

"This way Spike."  The Princess was blunt and straight to the point.  She wanted to know why Spike was important.

"So, who is this guest that wanted to see..."  Spike stopped talking in aw of the dragon that sat before him.  "...me?"

"Drem Yol Lok.  Greetings."  The dragon greeted the guests that walked into his presence.  Paarthurnax leaned in closer to the young dragon, eyeing him with his old blue eyes.  "You, are Dovah, but, can you speak as a Dovah?"

"Um, what?"  Spike was confused.  Didn't he already speak like dragons do?  "What do you mean?"

"Can you use the blood within you to shout, to muster your energy into a thu'um?"

"I don't know what any of that means?"  Spike answered.

"A thu'um, is something that dragons from my realm can do.  Not only does it come to us as well as speaking, but it is the way we speak."  Paarthurnax turned to the gaping hole in the wall, "May I... demonstrate Kulaas?"

The Princess gave a simple nod in reply.

"Yol Toor Shul!"  As Paarthurnax yelled his thu'um, fire came out of his gaping maw, spreading far from the castle's wall and outside.  "That, in your language, is known as fire breath.  It, like all other thu'ums consist of three words.  These words are called words of power.  You say these, and you speak the dragon language."

"I can breath fire without your fancy words of power though."  Spike pointed out.

"Aw, but did you not catch that we are not from the same realms.  Where you can breath fire without using words, I need to say words to breath fire."

"Can I do any of that fancy stuff?"  Spike asked.

"Krosis, I do not know.  That is up to your predecessors whether or not I teach you the way of the voice.  There is however a more dangerous and important task at hand."  Paarthurnax turned to Celestia,  "Kulaas, my brother Alduin, do you know his name among the joore?"

"Sorry, I don't?"  The Princess admitted.

"Krosis, again, I am still unaware that none of you know the dragon language, or what anything from my realm is about."  Paarthurnax let out a sigh, "My older brother Alduin, is the world eater.  The Bane of Kings.  He, as the joore call it, has a hunger to swallow the world."

"So, Alduin is a bad guy, right."  Rainbow pointed out.

"Aye.  He has many problems, as do most firstborns.  Our father, the father of all dragons, made my brother, the second dragon to ever live.  Me being the third."

"Who was the father of all dragons?" Fluttershy asked.

"Akitosh.  He is one of the daedric gods in my realm, and chose the form of dragon during the first wars.  He modeled myself and Alduin, and all of the dragons after himself.  I, am the second born of Akatosh, Alduin's younger sibling."

"So, I was modeled after this Akatosh fella?"  Spike curiously asked.

"Yes, as am I."

"Wait, you said you're the third dragon to ever live.  How old does that make you?" Fluttershy asked.

"Thousands of years old.  I have lost track after a while."  The old dragon replied.

Celestia couldn't believe that a creature older than herself would be able to present itself to her, but her suspicions of other creatures being immortal have been confirmed.

"So, you fight your brother Alduin, but for what reason?"  Twilight inquired.

"Ah, the burdens of firstborn, were carried down to the younger sibling, in this case.  Alduin was the "King" of our era, thousands of years ago.  The people of the time, the Nords as they called themselves, were slaves to us dragons."

"Wait, you were part of this?"  Celestia asked, a hint of anger in her tone.

"Aye, tis a dragon's greed that drives him to do these things."  Paathurnax looked to Spike, seeing the dragon blush and look embarrassed.  "It appears, that you have that here as well."