//------------------------------// // Chapter One // Story: My Little Pony: Dawn of the Half-blood Dragon // by Crimson Sol //------------------------------// My Little Pony: Dawn of the Half blood Dragon Chapter One The location was a bar on the streets of Manehattan, and the time was evening. "Varshinder! More spishial stuuuuff! Trikshie needs ta drawn her… sparrows-yeah, dat's it.- in drink!" A certain unicorn mare slurred with bloodshot eyes half-closed. "Unicorn, you've had one drink too many. I think it's enough. You're also broke as buck. Drag yourself outta here; don't you have somewhere to be tomorrow?" The bartender, a dark brown unicorn stallion who was obviously irritated with her, asked as politely as he could. "I-I-I don't! Fhurst Trikshie git shhhhhuwn up by sum nooobbody ina ponyvilla, den Trikshie git m-mugged on da way h-here! Trikshie looost, bruke and h-humeless!" Trixie sobbed, snorting loudly as she did so. "Oh, brother. Pick yourself up and get away from the counter!" The bartender growled with his horn shining dangerously yellow with magic. Right before he could throw the drunk, broke and apparently homeless mare with his magic, he noticed a buff stallion glaring at him with dangerous red eyes. He had a light brown coat with a black mane and tail with red highlights. What was the scariest part about him was not the amount of nicks and scratches all over him, but his cutie mark; a crimson red dragon head that looked as if it was ready to sprout from the Earth Pony, develop a body and roast everyone around to death. . "What's wrong with her?" The stallion asked gruffly, his voice deep but also with a regal air to it. "She's just some unicorn that came here with a sack of bits to spend on RBS. Thought she was just here for a few, but she's been here for two buckin' hours, and I'm really starting to get annoyed." The bartender breezed, a bit wary of the other stallion. For a few seconds, he thought he was the mare's coltfriend, but a better look at the pony banished the thought. The weird stallion stared at Trixie for a while, and then decided to drop a sack of bits on the counter. They weren't much, but the bartender was just happy to have business moving on. "What's RBS?" The stallion asked, taking a quick side glance at Trixie, whose sobs had become sniffles as she shuffled slowly away. "Ah, a noob, I see. RBS means Rainbow Blast Shot. It's the strongest cocktail that's ever graced Equestria. Not illegal, but still frowned upon. Words of advice; you gotta sip it gradually in order to still retain your dignity. " "So she took how many to get wasted like that?" "Quite a lot, actually. So much that I actually lost count. She's gonna feel like she got crushed by a slab of gems and then squeezed out of a tube in the morning. I know because it happens to me sometimes. You want one?" "Yeah, just to check out how it tastes." "The first one's always on the house. You can have your bits back." The bartender informed, levitating the small purse-sack of coins to its owner, who nodded in gratitude. The bartender wasted no time in preparing the drink; the steps had become muscle memory to him. The end result was a cocktail which had what could only be described as a rainbow in a bowl. The colors strangely retained their individuality, even when the bartender swirled the bowl around. He said something about the ingredients being infused with a mix of alcohol and magic. "Damn… This stuff's pretty good…" The stallion said after taking a good long draught of the bowl, downing it at a go. The bartender was shocked that he was still standing after that, but was even more shocked when he dropped a few bits for a tip and walked away, totally fine. Ha! That drink's good, but it's nothing compared to my grandfather's stuff. One shot of that could set you up for a day! Now that was good stuff. The stallion hoight, walking away. He was surprised to find the blue unicorn mare from before cantering erratically towards him before sliding behind him to hide. "H-h-help Trikshie…" She whimpered, looking up at the cold eyes with tears in her own pair. Something about her pathetic situation softened the Earth Pony's glare, and he turned around to see what she was running from. "Hey! Does that buckin' dumb rock belong to you? I was talking to her!" A unicorn stallion with a yellow coat and orange mane growled. "Well, not exactly, but I don't think you should act out any of your sick dreams while you're drunk." The stallion with the dragon head cutie mark retorted after noticing the slight slur to the enraged unicorn's voice. "Hey, hero! You better gallop back home before I deal damage you can't walk away from!" The same unicorn stallion threatened, to which the stallion protecting Trixie smirked. These idiots have no idea what i am... The stallion thought to himself, helping Trixie up and turning shoving her in the direction of the door. "Looks like we've got a fighter, eh? Colts! Let's show our guest how we deal with heroes…" The unicorn stallion said, earning grunts of agreement from five other stallions in the bar. The leader of the group used his magic to hold the stallion in place while the rest of the gang, who were comprised of a unicorn, a Pegasus and three Earth ponies, moved in to bludgeon the red eyed stallion to death or something close. All action in the bar had stopped and a ring had formed around the combatants. Everyone gasped in surprise as the Earth pony shrugged through the magic that was holding him, causing it to collapse in on itself. He charged at the unicorn, who was so scared he pissed himself, before turning around and giving a hard double kick straight to his jaw, effectively sending him flying into the wall. An Earth pony stallion bucked his flank, earning just slight redness around the area and a grunt of pain. His return for the action was a headbutt in the face followed by a double hoof punch, knocking him out instantly. The light brown stallion did a backflip to dodge a buck from two of the remaining four ponies fighting him. He growled as a magical blast from the unicorn seared his side as he jumped out of the way, and returned the favor with a leaping double hoof punch. He was about to reach said unicorn's wide-eyed face, but received a hoof to the side of his head, knocking him out of the air and into a glass table, smashing it to smithereens and adding several new cuts to the stallion's body. The bruised stallion stood up to glare at the Pegasus that had punched him, and then muttered something under his breath. The Pegasus went in for a punch alongside the two Earth ponies, but was repelled when the stallion reared up and stamped his front hooves on the ground, producing a red shockwave that threw everyone close away. "B-but you have no horn… How can you use magic?" A bloody faced unicorn asked, clearly the one who had started all this. "That's for me to know, and you to feel." The stallion answered, dodging a beam from the other unicorn before blasting him away with a fireball from his mouth. While the unicorn rolled on the ground madly to put out the flames, the stallion with the dragon head cutie mark burst into flames before breaking through a wall and escaping into the night. The bartender had tried his best to understand what he had just seen; right before the stallion burst into flame, the dragon head cutie mark roared. He dismissed it as his imagination and went to work, trying to help anyone that was injured. The stallion made his way to the back of the building, where he saw the blue unicorn from before sobbing. He briskly turned around to walk away, but then she saw him. "Y-you shaved Trikshie…" She stammered through her tears. Don't get involved, don't get involved-screw it i'll get involved. Not like anything worse can happen.].. The stallion resolved, walking over to the mare and sitting down on his thankfully uninjured hindquarters. "Here, have these bits. Use them to get a place to sleep for the night. Do not go back for more drinks. Do you understand?" He ordered, giving Trixie some of the coins used as currency in Equestria. When she nodded, although slowly, he stood up and trotted away, feeling quite accomplished. His conscience, however, screamed at him to stop and make sure she got somewhere safe. He finally relented and turned around. What he saw made him facehoof. 'Trikshie' was dragging herself back towards the bar. "You have got to be bucking with me!" The black stallion snarled before cantering back to the drunk unicorn and hoisting her lengthwise onto his back. Some of his newly acquired injuries hurt, but he knew he had been through way worse, so he sucked it up and walked into the night.